2010年12月18日 星期六

Exam was over

Yeah! The exam of this semester was completed in yesterday! The previous three weeks were really hard and I had to work hard for both work and study. Anyway, it is over now.

The working environment is getting suck. A project is planned to be launched on 23rd December but it seems that it is impossible to achieve this goal. Poor project management from my direct supervisor, poor communication among users, vendor and my team and bad project planning are major factors for delay. Users always changed their mind and the vendor had to take extra time to follow the changes. Thus the time consumed was much longer than what we expected. Moreover, my current direct supervisor is just a replacement for my previous direct supervisor who was pregnant at that time. My current supervisor spent too much time for documentation and I had to follow his tasks such as updating schedule and reporting to manager. I was a primary staff and I had no power to influence the other parties.

It was hard to study for exam under such working environment as I often needed to work overtime for catching up the schedule. The timing of project launch is not the "right" time to me. Luckily, I do not need to work during Xmas.

Time flies fast and the year end is coming. I hope we have a better life in 2011.

2010年12月1日 星期三

Recommended Reading

Today, I would like to recommend two books to every bloggers. Their name are Loveliness of Twinge (愈痛愈美麗) and Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong (地產霸權).

Loveliness of Twinge: It is about a girl aged 22 suffering Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (鼻咽癌) and how she recovered from it. This girl always smoked before getting cancer and what she did were just playing, drinking alcohol all days. After having chemotherapy and electrotherapy, she found the meaning of living. She loves drawing and she drew her feeling during treatment. I believe every reader can feel her feeling and find the meaning of life too.

Land and the Ruling Class in Hong Kong: Do you know who is the real rulers of Hong Kong? Hong Kong SAR government? Mainland China government? NO!!! The real rulers are land property companies! That is not just a feeling but you can find all data and information from this book. The author was the secretary to Kwok Tak-Seng, the founder of Sun Hung Kai Properties, for 8 years.Therefore she knows a lot about Hong Kong land property industry. If you want to know more about the truth, you must read this book!

I am so busy for both work and study. The exams are coming and so I will spend more time for revision. Good luck to me!