A sincere apology for the 4+ months of inactivity! But hey, it is now back and revamped! Hope you like the new look'n'feel! : )
Since starting out on my OE in April this year, I could hardly find much spare time to do my own stuffs. So when I do have the time, of course I have to prioritize and unfortunately blogging must be put aside.
The other thing that was bugging me was the organisation of my blog's template. Initially after the first month of my OE, of course I would have loved to blog about my experience. I was actually debating whether to open a new blog for the OE or to just keep posting onto this blog. Ideally I would like to keep everything together, with links at the top to separate posts belonging to different topics. This means I can have one just for OE. Unfortunately I could not find any blogger gadgets for this. So in the end, this kind of helped to demotivate me to get back to blogging anytime soon.
Until....TODAY!!! : D I guess deep inside me, the problem I described above just subconsciously bugs me! (lol yes, truly showing my true developer colour isn't it!). So somehow, for no reason at all, I got onto blogger and clicked into the new 'template designer'. Initially I was just clicking around playing with the themes. I then noticed the word 'tab'! Ah ha! Just the thing I was wishing for! @.@ After a few more clicks and experimenting, YES, it's achievable!!! I was sooooo happy! : ) Seriously! I was so happy with the tab, so happy with the new templates, I ended up just sitting there playing with the CSS for a good couple of hours, to get it working and looking correctly! (N.B. - this is the first time I explored blogger designer and CSS customization. So pretty happy and satisfied!)
As you can see now the tab list is located above, just below the heading! I will be picking the 'main' labels that identifiy the separate topics and add it to the tab list above. I hope you will find the new look, cleaner, slicker and easier to found things too! : D
p.s. - Apologies to my dear blog, but I hope you like your new look and that the wait was worth it! Shall now be updating you a bit more often! : ) I have loads and loads to write....until the next time!
Friday, 12 November 2010
Monday, 5 July 2010
Quote: Something Simple...
Due to my new role at work, I have recently been doing some mentoring work to others. Throughout the different questions I've answered on various days....suddenly one day at work, my wonderful pea brain reminded me of the following:
"Sometimes only simple questions need to be asked to get things solved!"Really...seriously....it works and saved a lot of time! haha and I was so glad! I only needed to ask one simple question to my 'student' and viola (!) in just a min or two, he realised what he has done wrong himself and answered his own question! heh! Go 'simplicity'! : D
Monday, 5 April 2010
The Start of My Big OE.....
After more than a year of perseverance and waiting after waiting after more waiting.....I finally finally finally (!) get to do my OE in UK! : )
Of course things are never as smooth or as ideal as one hopes. In order to make this OE to happen, it certainly didn’t come without some pain and agony. The story I’ll leave it to another blog post. But one thing for sure is that I certainly would not have made it, if it wasn’t for ALL THE HELP I received from some really really awesome and rocking allies! : ) Thank you all indeed.
My departure from NZ truned out to be extremely rush. The reason is because once I get to UK, I will be working for the same company that I have worked for in NZ (although it'll be a different position). So the date of my departure is dependent upon my employer. However, the dilemma was that just 4 weeks before my departure, work suddenly asked if I can leave 2 weeks earlier!!! Apparently they urgently require resources for a project in Norway (which at the same time, it means I suddenly found out that they are planning to send me over there straight away too!!!). : O A double (shocking) surprise!
So all of a sudden I had to rethink about plans and organise and pack my luggage in a very very rush manner. Unfortunately farewell activities with friends had to be trimmed as well. : ( To be honest, I never felt so unprepared for a trip (or plans) in my life before!!! But nonetheless, I made it and fortunately still in one piece too (a big thanks to mummy and daddy for making things so much easier)! : )
Anyway back to my actual OE. On the night of 5th April 2010 I left NZ on a midnight flight, sitting in the Premium Economy class (which I managed to score from work : D). At the Auckland airport, there’s actually a special check-in counters and areas for Premium Economy / First class (see above pic). You can even go to the NZ custom via its special lift as well (but you lose seeing the big gate where you can bid farewell to Aoteaora). Anyway too bad I knew about this too late, so I actually check-in at the normal counter…but I did use the special way, through their lounge to go through to customs tho. : P (coz who knows when I'll have the next chance to fly Prem Econ in NZ! hehe)
Once I aboarded the plane, I found that I was actually placed on the first row in the Premium Economy class. Which means i have extra-extra-extra leg room, as the Air NZ Premieum Economy seats already has more leg room than the normal Economy seats. However one observation is that the seats are not as wide as the ones on Qantas tho. So it is still a 3 seats row on the side. Apparently the food are the same as Business class. You get a 4-course meal and they are all served individually by the air hostess and in ceramic, not filmsy plastic! So let me show you what I had here! : D
Of course things are never as smooth or as ideal as one hopes. In order to make this OE to happen, it certainly didn’t come without some pain and agony. The story I’ll leave it to another blog post. But one thing for sure is that I certainly would not have made it, if it wasn’t for ALL THE HELP I received from some really really awesome and rocking allies! : ) Thank you all indeed.
My departure from NZ truned out to be extremely rush. The reason is because once I get to UK, I will be working for the same company that I have worked for in NZ (although it'll be a different position). So the date of my departure is dependent upon my employer. However, the dilemma was that just 4 weeks before my departure, work suddenly asked if I can leave 2 weeks earlier!!! Apparently they urgently require resources for a project in Norway (which at the same time, it means I suddenly found out that they are planning to send me over there straight away too!!!). : O A double (shocking) surprise!
So all of a sudden I had to rethink about plans and organise and pack my luggage in a very very rush manner. Unfortunately farewell activities with friends had to be trimmed as well. : ( To be honest, I never felt so unprepared for a trip (or plans) in my life before!!! But nonetheless, I made it and fortunately still in one piece too (a big thanks to mummy and daddy for making things so much easier)! : )
Air NZ Premium Econmy / First class spcial area
Anyway back to my actual OE. On the night of 5th April 2010 I left NZ on a midnight flight, sitting in the Premium Economy class (which I managed to score from work : D). At the Auckland airport, there’s actually a special check-in counters and areas for Premium Economy / First class (see above pic). You can even go to the NZ custom via its special lift as well (but you lose seeing the big gate where you can bid farewell to Aoteaora). Anyway too bad I knew about this too late, so I actually check-in at the normal counter…but I did use the special way, through their lounge to go through to customs tho. : P (coz who knows when I'll have the next chance to fly Prem Econ in NZ! hehe)
Once I aboarded the plane, I found that I was actually placed on the first row in the Premium Economy class. Which means i have extra-extra-extra leg room, as the Air NZ Premieum Economy seats already has more leg room than the normal Economy seats. However one observation is that the seats are not as wide as the ones on Qantas tho. So it is still a 3 seats row on the side. Apparently the food are the same as Business class. You get a 4-course meal and they are all served individually by the air hostess and in ceramic, not filmsy plastic! So let me show you what I had here! : D
Left: Dinner (we had Opera Cake too!)
Center: Evening coffee with choc mint
Right: Breakfast, blueberry sauce on french toast kind of thing
My first destionation is Hong Kong. My original home! : ) This is the perfect excuse for me to stop by there for a couple of days before I really fly to UK to start my OE. To see friends, to buy some 'essential' stuffs before I fly off to leave on my own! : \ hehe And also a 2 days real holiday break (well at home, a place I'm familiar with) before I fly to the much estranged UK and start work straight away!
Destination HK here I come....
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