Memoirs of ASE~

As I looked back on my previous job in ASE, I really missed all my colleagues back there when I was working there with them. You know why?Have you ever worked in a company where all your colleagues are of the same age group as yourself?Have you ever had a bunch of friends marching out together to have your breakfast and lunch together everyday in a large group?Have you ever ran out of common topics to talk to your colleagues?Well, not with this bunch.Most of them plays DotA and even a production section head stops by at our place for gaming discussion.The discussion can last for hours and most of us will be sitting down giving our inputs about our gaming experiences and tactics.

Below are my friends whom I've met and known in my working life in ASE.It is a great honor and privilege in meeting this bunch of friends while working here.They had given me a lot of fun time working together and I really enjoyed working together with them. Besides working, we do organize a lot of makan gatherings together and we explored quite a number of places to look for good food together when Friday lunch kicks by.

This fella's name is Chau Fun and he's the youngest among all of us to get married! Sorry, but I had to announce that you are married so that most single girls should putus harapan on you so that we single ones would only have chance if not he will sapu all the single ladies that comes in his way.So now everyone knows that he's married already, no more hope lah for him. hehe. He's a nice guy who will always speaks his heart out regarding any matter without going around the bushes. He's a very direct man and has a loud voice. Whenever he gets excited while talking to the users, the whole office will be filled with his voice and everyone would get to hear what he's talking about without eavesdropping.



This lady(Hazlina) here works side by side with me and we support each other's systems whenever she or myself is not around. She's particularly very hardworking and always stays back quite late to finish up her work making us look bad because all of us likes to go home on time! Haha, just kidding. She's a great person to poke around with as in making fun with because she will not just sit there while you poke her but she'll retaliate and poke you back. Don't siao siao with her, she can bring her gang and gang poke you when she's under powered.




This jelly man(Wong Siew Ik) is my partner ever since I started working in ASE. We were assigned to help each other in supporting the eSIP system, a system-in-package system that generally takes care of the camera module process. We used to come on saturdays every month to do inventory count for them, just the two of us. He's a sarawakian thus he doesn't understand hokkien so our only way of communication is through Cantonese! haha. He's been a very supportive friend that is always willing to help me in my troubles during troubleshooting problems that I faced on the system.Not only that, he's a very analytical person and able to come up solutions for any problems quickly.No wonder he can spend so much time reading html.help. Hehe only those in MIS ASE would understand that term.



This guy(Timothy) has been my good gaming buddy as most of the time, we talked about games all the time.Most of the time, we can talk about DotA (our favorite game) whenever we go for breakfast, lunch and sometimes even working half way. We will ping each other when there's a new version update on the web.We have worked together in a project together and stayed late nights together trying to finish our project despite of our busy working schedules but in the end the whole system was not used because the users gave the wrong set of requirements.It was a sad case as well as disappointing one but working together with him has been a real pleasure and experience as both of us learn ASP.net together without any proper training given to us. We had to korek the Internet and then developed a system from scratch.I will never forget those times we used to slog our ways to complete that wretched project.It has been fun.



This cute girl(Jing Yen) is our Astro channel in our office. She can do that because she possess two sharp ears that can hear gossips from miles away and then spreads to us during our lunch breaks.She's our informant and also possess a cute voice not forgetting she has a very kwai giat face as we can see there.She can be quite lazy sometimes as she will skip breakfast when that happens and will rather sleep on her desk.We like to call each other's name twice like Yen Yen!! Bing Bing!! (must have that exclamation mark there cuz we will be shouting at each other!) Alas, she did join me for Jay's concert that day and she was such a hardcore fan of Jay's that she brought all the huan yin pin yin lyrics on Jay's song to sing along when Jay sings!She asked me where to get the big hand so that she can wave at Jay and also wants to collect Jay's bags that they sold there.Such a huge fan, much more gila than myself.Next concert, I will ask her to go again. hehehe



This blur girl(Viviance Lim) is Wong's girlfriend and she plays DotA as well!! Bad Wong.. He influenced and brought her to the dark side by teaching her DotA. Now she's got addicted to it and calls people to play together with her! Can you imagine that?Have any of you ever tried to convince your partner in playing games as most girls don't like to play games at all.Wong did a great job and now she can own people in most public games!She's quite quiet at first when I get to know her but when I really get to know her, she can really talk a lot and knows a lot just like Jing Yen. She is a very chatty person so if you know her quite well, you can really have a good time chatting with her.




This girl (Karen) is our latest hire in MIS before I left and at the first glance, she looked really familiar as if I've met her somewhere else. Mana tau, she is from TAR College, same year as me but different course. I was in Computer Science and she was in Information System Engineering but we saw each other before, just that we didn't know each other then.Maybe she too hao lian.Haha, just kidding.She has a very kwai giat personality (matches her face) and she can really mix around anyone because of her bubbly personality. In just a few weeks at work, we have already become good friends. We can tease around and joke with one another non stop.Too bad I had to leave so soon.Hehe Or maybe was it a good thing to leave so soon before she starts to get over my head. kekeke



As for this girl (Joyce), I just got to know her because there was not much communication among us ever since she joined in. She was very quiet at first and we were all afraid to approach her and talk.We thought that she was a very serious type of girl and would not tolerate nonsense from our side.After I leave ASE, I started to talk to her in MSN and found out that she's quite responsive over the net.Haha, she can really talk and able to relate quite somethings with me as she knows some of my friends in Friendster too.Well, it was nice to meet her so hopefully I will be able to mix around more with her in a near future.



Last but not least, this is my successor (Sharizan) of my left behind and leftover work which I let go on the day I left ASE.He's a very proactive person that is very into exploring new stuff in the programming world.He created and maintain a private website by himself due to his interest in programming.He's a very sporty person too as he is into sepak takraw and jogging.He's my training partner for Penang Bridge Run last year and last 2 years ago and he can really run! He finished the race in 2hours plus when I finished mine 3 hours plus.Last year, he got so bored,he tried to run barefooted on the Penang Bridge.Well that was not a good idea.He barely got back in time as his legs was almost all swollen and then it pains for him to keep on running that way.Lastly I wish him all the best in taking care of two major MES systems lah.Hope no problems or issues too big that he can't solve.




Finally, this was what Jing Yen drew for me while Karen added those words in there.It was really sad to leave you all but it is a must.I had to get out there because of the workload and not because of you guys.I really missed you guys and girls.Hopefully we will be able to meet once again in the near future! Miss you guys! Thanks for the friendship! :)