Two days more to leave year 2010 as I leave current company...

After I have through alone as a Malay Muslim Woman in Chinese's company, it was very splendid experiences that I never imagine this before because my friends and colleague kept telling me that working with them is not fun and could pressurize myself. But they dont know about me that I like working 'under pressure'... Yeah, I feel sad to leave this company.. The freedom of bringing up ideas and learning, not like I had before... And I hope, in coming new year... I can do much better and learn much much more with excitement and fun! Then who said I cannot survive alone? This is Amalina... Continue into the journey of adventurous life...

After 8 months working with non-muslim...

There is a story I wanna tell to my friends... (Written on 23 Dec 2010 on Facebook) I am gonna leave this 2nd company to other new employment in less than 2 weeks. For me actually, it quite sad to leave this company because of the work satisfaction {push myself into the limit}. At the early stage, there is a team of 4 {1 PM, 1 web designer and 2 php programmer which included me}. That time, I was so blur about object-oriented but the project require that php code in the web development project. From that time, I forced myself to learn PHP OOP to make me adapt which the task. As time passed by, I was getting realize that I was so far to be a good programmer. Quite alot I dont know about the web technology in the real-time business {actually what I was doing last time just a 'procedural code' and so-internal-business}. Can you named it; CMS? E-learning? SCORM? Joomla? Payment Gateway?. Can you imagine how I suppose to understand these with in 8 months with 4 or 5 projects has to be done? But I dared to challenge myself to learn them for the sake of my employment. Here, working with non-Muslim especially Chinese is very, totally very, different than working with last time I had. My PM and Senior PHP programmer are Chinese and the web designer is a Malay guy but very silent person like you dont wanna disturb him during work but he had already moved to other employment also. But what I wanna tell is... during work, they are so dedicated on their work even they are so concentrate, so silent and less chit chat with each other {but they speak in their own language la and I just heard with very less understanding.. haha.. how I can work like that ya? But no prob to me.. } and they also very rare to hang-out for lunch at long period. They said.. "Janji kerja mesti siap on time!" Because of their dedication, it motivated me to be more passion on my career. Frankly speaking, I dont mind to work with them even they put pressure on me like last min complete the task because this is my work dream and philosophy, "Time work, work! Time rest, rest!". And I dont have to be offensive when they talk in their own language because I rather dont wanna know what they talk about unless when they talk about the task, then I paid attention what they were saying... Work at this company had truly make me 'brainstorming' a lot. A lot of idea made up in my mind during completing the task. I am programming PHP, jQuery codes which at the same time I am scritpting MySQL codes. Truly very fun and I am so honored to work with them. You know what? Within 8 months, I never been complained about my work here like I used to be... So that's y when we very happy to do things, it is hard for us to leave the happy things. But, why I leave this company when I am so like to this work and company? The reason is... life is short that need to be achieve and fulfill, and greater than life... not the money, but Power of Knowledge as being Software Engineer... Well friends, pepatah peribahasa, "Nak seribu daya, tak nak seribu dalih" dan "Melayu takkan hilang di dunia". Then be proud and pride what you are as long as in the blessed of Allah s.w.t for life of Duniawi and HereAfter. Till we meet again