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

Microsoft Project

This week had yet to end with one more day remaining. Yesterday was payday and today is just another working day.

I had started to revise my year two module, project management, as i am tasked to do a gantt chart for Le Marican project.

This is the gantt chart we had in school.

This is the gantt chart i had done at work.

See the difference? The one required of me at work is much more complex than the one taught in school but the concept is the same. The challenging part to this construction breakdown is that it has 52 tasks and quite a number of them are overlapping each other.

The purpose to doing this is for Miss Lily to pick out the relevant tasks which the contractor wanted to claim more days for the "extra" work that they had done. "Extra" is because some of it is true and some are not. Hence we as the developer must double check the claims handed to us. Although the architect supposed to do this, we are still doing it to make sure there is no errors.

I will try to bring this breakdown to the presentation after this 16 weeks internship for my presentation. I bet everyone will be amazed and shock :D That is all for tonight. Cheers :S