Last 6th week

Due to the recent heavy rain. The water table had risen and low land area is starting to flood. Our resident that resides in the central district is experiencing leaks from the vent pipe, broken air con ledge, etc.

I had to arrange for our waterproofing specialist to investigate and solve the leaks asap as the raining season is expected to worsen according to NEA. Together with the specialist, we had went down to the resident unit to take photo and arrange for rectification work to begin. As such, coordination of timing is critical and hard to achieve as owners of the units are usually busy with their work and do not allow us to rectify without their supervision. These are some common request which makes life difficult for the coordinator;

1) Work can commence only in the afternoon

2) Work must stop at 12 as no one will be at home after that

3) We are only free on Sunday afternoon

4) Equipment and material had to be outside the unit

I had yet to find a good way to counter every one of the requests, especially (1) & (2). I keep telling myself, "it is not my unit hence don't be too involve". With this mindset i learnt to rephrase my sentence when i wanted to arrange a time for the rectification. I would tell them the scope of work and that it must be a full day work, after that i would ask them to provide me with dates instead of i giving them the dates.

From these experiences it further proves that there are all sorts of personality and with each personality we had to deal with it differently. Sometimes "Happy Go Lucky" attitude is useful but in order to give people a good perception of myself i would be serious most of the time. :P

First Medical Leave

Monday i was down with diarrhoea and was unable to go to work. I had not been sick for almost a year and now it is coming to find me... This incident also shows how Mr Chan care for his employee.

I reported to him through short-message-system (sms) in the morning. Knowing that i am at the polyclinic, he did not ask any questions but instead he asked me to see a family doctor as polyclinic had a long waiting time. I really appreciate this as i am feeling worse when i was waiting for my turn. For the jobs that i had work for previously, companies usually asked their employee to see their company doctor or polyclinic, and only approved the medical leave if the medical certificate is issued by the approved clinic.

I returned to work on Tuesday. I was tasked to do light duties to purchase a new CPU (Central Processing Unit) for Ms Lily's terminal. The current CPU is 3 years old and it is starting to slow down and the memory left is limited. I started going to hardware zone to get the latest price list from shops in Sim Lim and Funan mall. I had also visited Best Denki/Courts/Challenger to get the brochures for different brands. Using the knowledge i had learnt in FCIS (Fundamental of Computer & Information System) i was able to assemble a CPU using the parts from SimLim Square. Though the price is almost the same for custom or ready-made CPU, i still chose to customize as i wanted to test out my skills again. The CPU is put together this morning and it is running smoothly :D

Stay tuned for my next entry :P

Mechanical Parking System

This week i had finally finished the powerpoint that will be presented to Mr Chan and Ms Lily next week. I going to give you guys the privilege of seeing what i am going to present next week :P

There are 5 types of parking systems available in the market; Elevator, multi-floor, multi-circulation, rotary, and puzzle type.

I am going to talk about Elevator type parking system. Basically it is the most common and easiest type to implement. These are the reasons why elevator type parking system is better than the rest;

1) No underground evacuation is needed; since it is a non-gfa item having it above ground will not restrict the gfa that can be used

2) Can fit to any design of building; tower-like hence fit well with any buildings and external of the tower can be design to fit the building as well

3) Fast in retrieving cars; elevator is moving up/down motion only

4) Ease of maintenance; ease of access will decrease the maintenance cost incur on per lot basis

Hope that Mr Chan and Ms Lily will be pleased with my presentation :D