non-computer

This morning some of my colleagues were heading to the bank nearby to bank in their pay checks. When they're approaching the counter, they noticed almost every bank tellers are looking at them with a smiley face. Puzzled, it's pretty much different than usual. When they're asking for the service, they got this reply: "Sorry, the system is down".

Perhaps the only time that employee would feel happy is when they are not blamed for not doing work.

My colleague was just playing Jacky Cheung's popular love song, "Perhaps Love" and he told me that he likes the song very much. For the sake of making him love the song more, I volunteered to sing the song for him next time we go Karaoke box. But he said: "No No, I want to sing".

I wonder if he would still insist if he has listened to my singing before.

Just read a job recommendation from my classmate of computer science studies years ago, the requirement section is as below:

Requirements:

• working experience in customer support or call center is preferred
• must be fluent in English. If you know other language like Japanese, Korean or Mandarin is an advantage
• little knowledge on IT
• willing to work on shift
• pleasant personality with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• good telephone ethics

If you are interested, please send me your resume. Thank you!

I'm truly glad that I have a friend working at IBM, but apparently, she doesn't know me well.

It's actually insipred by kokwai which I can publish the items I wish to own. For those who knows me and wants to buy me something for my birthday, check out this list. There are only three items (so far): a book, a DVD and a CD, al of them are relatively cheap.

Feel bored viewing the same style everytime visit my Weblog? Now you can change it as you wish, do you notice the little dropdown at the right sidebar? Choose the one suits your mood best. But personally I'd stick to the default one. Besides that, just added a "Sites I visit" column (required by a friend of mine), they are all good sites to me, hope you like them too.

It costs two ringgit for interbank fund transfer when using online banking service provided by local banks. But there is a bank charges you ten rinngit if you cancelled the transaction. Is it weird? Here is the story:
Initially there was no such use case specified for cancelling transaction of online fund transfer, it might due to the software vendor of the bank wasn't professional enough and it's fine, neither the customer (the bank) requested for it. As you can guess, when came to user acceptance test, they happened to realize that cancellation of transaction is critical as there are too many data entry errors. But the problem then was timeline, it was too late to implement that feature unless the bank would willing to pay extra. Finally, the bank has decided to pay additionally to the software vendor for that change request and they also decided to let the consumers (me and you) to bear the extra cost. That's where the ten ringgit comes from. This ridiculous amount of charge will be soon reduced or waived totally right after the extra cost of the "cancel transation" change request is paid off.

Yesterday evening I was asked to conduct an interview with a job candidate in a very ad-hoc basis. I didn't even have time to think about what should I be asking. When I got into the room, the only thing in my mind which I wanted to find out was how well he could work with the existing team members in the company. But, very embarrassed to say that I failed to get the answer.
That wasn't my first time interviewing programmer, but it was indeed the first time I know what kind of programmer the company is looking for. Due to the time constraint, I asked a lot of questions which don't help much in the decision making. In short: I've ruined a good chance of helping the company to recruit good people.

I came to realize that I do need to know a fair bit of psychology in order to figure out the quality of job candidate without doing a technical test.