汕头,中国

Thursday 9 August 2007

LAST WEEK

Last week can mean two things here. Firstly, it can be 'the week before this' and 'the final week'. Let me explain it to you further...

Last Week (The Week Before This)

Last week was a hair-pulling week. I will go in brief and explain later. Monday and Tuesday I helped Miss Huang translated loads of documents and letters. Tuesday and ThursdayI had to draw my PCB board. Then as y'all know, Wednesday there was no work due to stoppage of electricity. Friday I was searching for Satellite Receiver Dealers. Finally, Saturday I was doing routing.

Now let me explain why it is a hair-pulling week especially on Tuesday. I got like a pile of work from Miss Huang (bare in mind, I'm not complaining. Just reporting.), ranging from documents, letters etc. I can tell you, I translated like 10 to 15 over of such documents. Whenever I think it would be over, more came in like a waterfall. I may be exaggerating. Hee. But when I thought I can finally concentrate on my PCB board, more work came in and I know that translating for them is the top priority as anytime, they need it for a client.

I still got this one whole long chunk of letter that I have not translated. Y'all should see the letter, once you see the letter, you wouldn't even wanna touch it. HAHA. It's freaking long!!! At least I managed to have a time aside to do my PCB, but it wasn't enough time. Continued on Thursday.

Monday was still alright, doing only some translations for Miss Huang. Then Friday I set aside to do my search for Satellite Receiver Dealers and all. Thursday, redraw the PCB board. Initially I wanted 16cm by 4cm but when I place a protype into our metal chassis, it doesn't seem right so I changed it to 25cm by 4cm. I tell you, drawing the board itself is not easy at all. Remember I told you that it's like EAGLES? I take back those words. It's EVEN HARDER than EAGLES!!!!

Saturday I started on the routing. I don't even want to start talking about the routing part. I thought it is the easiest to route, you know having the lines to guide you and all. But I was wrong. There's no routing lines at all. YES, YOU HAVE TO MANUALLY TO THE ROUTING!!! Meaning to say, I have to flip over the board many many times to route. Using a DMM to see which lines is to which lines. Mr. Chen said that when you come into the 'working world', you can't fully depend on the routing lines, it wouldn't get the best routing. So they usually route according to the schematic. Not easy yar? I think so too. But Mr. Chen is really really helpful in helping me though seriously he's very very busy!!!

Last Week (The Final Week)

Dearest friends, guess what? In two days time, I'm leaving Shantou. YEAH-ness. Mr Tan had informed Wendy and I that we can come back early. I'm seriously excited. I will be coming back to school to see all of you on the 20th August yar! Mark it in your calender. Don't come hugging me as I will cry. Having to separate from everyone for this long is mentally challenging and I'm glad it's going to be over really soon!

Loves.

Thursday 2 August 2007

Stoppage of Electricity

Due to now being the peak of Summer, every industrial park are taking turns to stop work to 'share' the electricity. Every summer, the electricity consumes here is very high. So our company's turn is on Wednesday. For the past two weeks, we are permitted not to come to work on Wednesday. Do not know whether this thing is permanent for every Wednesday. But if we do not come to work on Wednesday, we have to on Sunday.

They are seriously workaholics here man! I can never imagine my Sunday being burnt!!! My saturday has already been burnt so let it be. Now even my Sunday! Sigh... We'll see about it man. Anyway, it's another 29 more days to go. I'm finally coming home soon after so many days! I seriously can't wait!!! =)