Human Trafficking

There's this news that the custom is high on catching foreigners that come in our country to work without any proper working permit or visa. And rumor that whenever the officers are suspicious of a visitor, he/she will be called in for questioning.

But how do they know which fella to call in? Is it based on the number of visits in a period of time?

Anyway, that I do not care. But there was a call of a few visitors for questioning a few days ago. And apparently this fella came from China and his laptop was confiscated by the custom officer before he was questioned. Then after about half an hour of questioning, he was let off to go as there was "no any suspicion" as to his frequent visits to our country. But the officers had conveniently 'forgotten' to return the laptop to this poor chap.

So this poor ol'Chinaman went to request for his machine. Upon questioning why he wants the laptop for when he's just visiting, he blurted out saying "I need it to work here!"

There it goes... Just a couple of minutes ago, he was walking out the room a free man without any suspicion but now he's brought back into the room for further questioning and this poor chap is waiting to be deported back to his lovely home.. hahaha

1st Week @ New Work

It was an anticipation just a week ago (last Sunday 5/10/2008) where I'll b reporting to work in my new company on 6/10/2008. The feeling was a mixture of eagerness and anxiety. And as usual, couldn't really sleep at nite thinking what will b installed for me on d next morning when i walk in d office... hmm..

So there came 6/10/08. Woke up pretty early though. Took a good warm shower. Get prepared n there i head off 2 work.

It was just before 9am when i reached the basement parking bay of the block when i got a call from one of d HR. "Hi... good morning, Daniel. May I know where r u? Are u coming over to work 2day?" "Oh... hi, good morning. Yes, im coming up now", i replied. Then there it goes. We (bcos there are 2 more newbies reporting 2 work wit me) were brought to d conference room to hv a brief introduction of d company n it's other achievements n stuff (brief huh... it took a blardy 2 hours mann...)

Then we were brought to each floor, departments and offices to be introduced to all d existing people there. I wonder how many times i hv said "Hi, I am Daniel. Nice meeting you" hahahaha

1st day at work is so damn boring!! Just sat there wit a computer in front of me. Nothing 2 do. Blur... Then my supervisor come 2 me n passed me some documents 2 read. "I wan u 2 read these documents n get urself familiarize wit it. We need 2 do testing in tis few days." N i was like, "huh!!! WTF??!! Just came in n gotto do testing oledi??" (but i din say it out ler.. heheh :p)

7/10/2008 continued wit d documents reading 4 d whole day. Booooorrrrriiiiiiiiiinnnnnnngggg....................... ~_~

8/10/2008 was a bit of excitement. TST (my supervisor in short,. hehe) gave me d access 2 their testing environment n ask me 2 try login n see whether i can play around wit d system... So ther were logging ins, clicking of buttons n oso continue reading documents 4 d whole day... not much chance 2 surf net, though, cos dat see-too-peed TST keep coming over n check wat im doing... sigh sigh..

9/10/2008. We were required to shift our computers down to d Seminar Room at d 2nd floor 2 start testing. N there goes my ever slim chance 2 surf net liow... =( So many people in d room. n everyone is like so hardworking... n me? trying 2 look hardworking lor... hahahahah ;p

10/10/2008. More testing 2day. "Daniel, can u go 2 tis module in d system? Try 2 test on it n let me know d result" said TST. Then again "Daniel, can u try do **** n tell me wat u get"

Then i thought d week is over until.... "Daniel, for d next 4 weeks, we r required 2 come n work on Saturday. So 2moro u gotto come in n do testing"

KaBoom!!! I just crashed... come in 1st week only n start gotto come in Saturday... waaaaaaaaaaaaa............ heeeeeeeeeelp!!!!! :,(

No choice lor... gotto drag my arse 2 work yesterday

So tis is my 1st week at my new work... Dunno wat's coming in coming weeks. But dun worry, i'll try 2 sneak in n update my blog as often as possible hehehehe ;p

Ciao for now. Have a nice week ahead.