Bingo - Finally I Got Placed In LTA!!

Yes, I got finally placed in Land Transportation Authority of Singapore (http://www.lta.gov.sg/) to work as an Engineer under the Division of Engineering for the Road Projects. More than to get a new job, it was a like a long awaited curiosity to know whether Am I fit enough for that position? And now it is a green signal. I was almost waiting to know the results more than a month. They have a very long procedure to take me in, which includes medical and security clearances. To my surprise they even went to the extent of checking the whereabouts of my father back at India and analyze the complete history of me before offering me a job.

The instant feeling that I am going to work for the first time in my career for a Government Organization which involves lot of engineering inputs makes me a bit more excited as well as cautious. I am hoping for the best and I believe I will put in my more than 100% effort to excel in the given job. Happiest part is, Net salary package is also in my expected range. But still I feel a bit heavy to make a shift from my present employer - JEL; it would be a heave of relief if everything goes well from now on and I make my shift very swiftly from JEL to LTA!

~~Confused~~

Every time and all the while, I have a very strong intentions thinking that only sky is the limit to all my imagination, expectation and ideas in the future. For some reason, I am feeling totally confused for the last couple of weeks.. I am always thinking about the future, the next year, the next month, the next week or at least the next minute rather than enjoying the beautiful present. I feel like I am being a biggest looser and cheating myself on many occasion doing wrong things knowingly with my fullest intention. I also feel that I am being overseen by almost all, as if I get no importance, as if there is no body in this world to really listen to me! Is it my mistake to be a don't care masters with all lovely smiles and enjoyment all the while? Does that make people to give a damn about me??? Afterall, it is my character! I have been like this all the while.. All this now had made me to put up a fake mask and act as a serious person, not representing my trueself to show the scoiety and the people, count on me too!! I know it not the right attitude, but only drastic changes like this will make people to realize the facts and understand others feeling, I guess it that way.. Normally I don't open up things very easily, even to my parents whatever difficulties I may face. But I broke out this time to my mom and she did consoled and backed up me as much as she could. She has always been my source of inspiration.. All in all, this is not "me" and having said all this I definitely don't want to continue anymore like this. Hope at least now I realize the truth, the present and be obliged to it!

Masters!

So far, I had applied for my Masters program only once in my life time. It was during my 8th semester (1st half of 2006) for the course in International Construction management at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore with all the hope that I will get an admission. But unfortunately I failed to secure a place to do my masters at that point of time. When I intended to know the reason for the rejection, I understood that the course warrants for some work experience prior to getting admission for the particular course.

It was in fact my long time ambition also do a Masters program. One of my reasons to come to Singapore and stay here for sometime also stems from the fact of my intension to do my Masters as a Part-time student here. Believe me, it is very difficult to even think about doing masters in full time, resigning my present job, considering the present financial crisis and amount of money which I will have to spend on my Masters program.

I had heard from quite many people that it is difficult to do a Masters or any studies for that matter after working for some time. But the truth is if you have the fullest interest and willingness to do the course nothing could stop you from learning. It would even be more convenient if you will do it as a part time course! Here I am trying my second attempt to pursue my master program in part time.

Last time I made a mistake by applying for just one course. Lately I understood from my experience here that we can almost apply for 8 courses at a time. It doesn’t mean that I want to try all the 8 chances; I am focused to what I want to do. Still as a step of caution I am applying for MS in Civil Engineering along with my most favourite course of MS in Construction Management.

So it my suggestion to all the students who aspire to do Masters in foreign universities to apply for at least 2 or more courses rather than deeply sticking to your only one most liked course. It is just to avoid disappointments. Because many times if it is the case you will be unknowingly missing the chances like me!!

Hero's Bull Shits!

I like watching almost all kind of movies. Either it be an action, comedy or an romance preferable in english, tamil and hindi. But now-a-days watching certain tamil films (which I prefer most being it my mother tongue), I really become mad by the un-imaginable heroic scenes.
Right from hero introduction songs, punch dialogue, fight sequences (where our hero bashes some 20 to 25 guys at a time) it is all utter crap scenes without any logic which is nothing but bull-shit. Even every other actor who had only acted in 2 or 3 films thinks himself as a Super-star of the industry and obviously kills us with their so called acting talents! They are really going overboard!
At-least wont the director or any one for this reason has a true idea of what they are actually filming? or do they think audience will like whatever non-sense they take? I don’t know how these producers, who invest crores and crores of rupees on these films, believe the crew so blindly!
They are literally trying to fool out everyone who pays hundreds of rupees and sit inside the theatre to watch their movies! And the worst thing is even after clearly knowing that their movie is a biggest flop after release, the actor and the complete crew go to every other TV channels, magazines, FM stations, talk shows to boast BIG about their films! what a poor marketing strategy??!! I feel like slapping all this guys right on their face when I come across these ultimate crap stuffs.
Of course there are a few class movies being released every year but they become negligible comparing to the number of hero centric films. I wish this trend in the industry changes soon..

Job Hunts!!

Completing my graduation in the Civil Engineering discipline I was lucky enough to start my career with Jurong Engineering Ltd (JEL), Singapore as a Planning Engineer. It has been two and half years since I joined JEL as a contract staff.

The first two years of my career went on very well at the Oman project site and looking back at it makes me feel all really good.. To sum up it is mixture of all kind of exposure; basically it was a very good platform to start my work life. I learned so much and had a wonderful experience all through out the days I stayed their.. Oman as a country will always be in my list of options to reside on a long term, I feel to write so much about the place, people, environment to work, will do it shortly.. I will try to blog sometime cherishing my wonderful time I had at Oman sooner..

Oh ya, somewhere around the middle of September I did completed One Project fully & successfully in my work life and I was back my Head Office at Singapore. Here I am in the position to co-ordinate with all the overseas project, bid for the future projects, attend client meetings, clarification with the contractors and it is all kind of back office work.. Work starts at 8.00Am in the morning and finishes at 5.30PM in the evening, five days a week and all in all it looks like a sophisticated kind of job, but it is all not my cup of tea. I would really need this only when I am 35+..

Now its time for me to go around the world.. Work closely with the project group, if not at least have a construction site to visit, sweat in the hot sun, practically see & involve in the execution job. But right now, what I am just doing is - all in papers. Another thing which really bugs me is, am I being paid enough for the kind of experience I have? Is my company talking the advantage of my plans to stay in Singapore for the next 2 years do my Masters here in Part-time?

All this questions gave me an answer to go for a Job Hunt. After some serious tries I got a call from Land transportation Authority (LTA) of Singapore for an interview for the post of Engineering Officer. Although I wanted to have a change, I was not very keen in materializing it as I had a greater affection and a soft corner to JEL in my heart. It was like a mind and heart game. Finally the mind won and I did attend the technical interview with LTA which was about a half-an-hour of screwing session. Believe me, Interview standards in Singapore are really high than what I had seen/ heard from my previous experiences. Also I will try to write in detail standards/thing which could be asked in an Interview session if possible.

Finally after my curious waiting time of an week, I did got call from LTA saying that I was shortlisted for the next round.. and they asked me fill in a form, rather I would say quote for my salary!! I gave them the quote for which I thought I am worth off and again I am in the waiting seats for further directions from LTA about the recruitment process..

If everything goes well, I should be in LTA in a few months.. but it is still really hard to think about leaving JEL for some reason, the place which gave me the start, the place which thought me so many things, so on and so forth.. only things which had prompted me for a change is
1.) My current job profile which I will have to maintain for another 2 years &
2.) My intension to rise up my pay level based on the experience level which I have..

I am a person who strongly believes on the saying "Whatever happens, happens for a reason" so I am convinced with whatever the outcome is, still wish me luck people!

The First Mile Starts With A Single Step

It has been since a long time that I wanted to jump in to the world of Blogging. Almost for more than two years I have been closely following some of the blogs which had really captured my attention and made me spend a lot of time. If not writting at least I had the pleasure of reading all my favourite blogs, to start with. So I am not all new to Blogging in tat way..

The main thing which made me to skip from start writing were the real fact, that many people who blog has exceptional high vocabulary knowledge and their way of presenting things influence people to ultimately become their followers! where as I presume I dont have all these talents.. Ya, may it is true that I had this inferiority complex all these days at least to expose myself here.. But whatever it is I finally came up with an mind-set to start writing what-so-ever the crap it is going to be! So pls bear with me people..

This blog will me more about me and my own interpretations of the social things which I see in the day-to-day life, to sum up I wanted to have an random space where I can pour in all my views..

Hope to come up with more stuffs..

P.S.: I lost my brand new, 7 day old, bicyle here today at Singapore. Intensionaly I wanted to start blogging on this same day so that I have one good thing and 1 bad thing to happen on the same day! weird is it? So AM I!!