First Day at MSI-ECS

Today was my first day at MSI-ECS, I was very and I mean VERY nervous at the same time excited. Its like a newly acquired fish from your favorite pet store and you place him in a new aquarium, do you notice the fish's behavoir? I'm sure you do..... I feel like I was a fish being placed in a new aquarium literally hahaahahahahahaha.

Arrived at the office at around 8:15am, waited for Ms. Kel, the recruitment specialist, to give us our introduction orientation. There were 4 of us. One is a product support specialist, another is a marketing assistant/secretary and retail business group officer. Ms. Kel also routed us at the company and introduced us to the employees and the managers. The orientation lasted until 12nn. We had lunch and afterwards we were endorsed to our respective designation and work areas.

I am under Ms. Princess Chua, a welcoming, kind and hospitable manager for the consumer division and at the same time she is the Vice President of the organization. She is an ICAN and a La Sallian so more or less we grew up in the same community because I'm a Xaverian and a Benildean. get the connection? I HOPE hahahahahahaha.

My work area has its own telephone. I have a direct line hahahaha! I have my own local number as well. I am also entitled to a cellphone and a sim which will be provided by the company. I have my own computer with an internet connection and logging on yahoo messenger is legal, YESSS!!! also an email address as well jlim@msi-ecs.com.ph =)

I also met my collegues, Product Managers of other brands of MSI-ECS. They are very supportive, warm, welcoming and accomodating. Thank you so much guys for the help and for more help that I will be asking tomorrow and in the future hahahahahaha.

My main objective is to be a mini-ceo of the brand Targus. I am responsible for its inventory, pricing, sales, promotions and etc. I have to satisfy my superior, the president and the vendor of Targus who happens to be a Malaysian Indian and is based in Singapore. I heard they will come over next week, so I will be pretty swamped. The job description and the job responsibility is challenging but I know I will really learn a lot and grow more.

Wish me luck guys.... I need all your prayers and support!!!! I hope I can contribute and be able to share my abilities and capabilities with MSI-ECS.

New Job at MSI-ECS

After 4 months of being a professional bum, tomorrow, April 08, 2008, I will be working again for MSI-ECS as one of its Product Officers. I was granted employment at this company last March 27, 2008. Located at # 3 Economia St., Libis, Quezon City. My work starts at 8:30am and ends at 6:30pm Mondays to Fridays only, whooopeee!

Looking for a job here in Manila is hard.. and I mean HARDDD. Going to interviews again and again and waiting for their feedback is really nerve-wrecking. The competition is very tough plus the processing of your application takes an awful long time for almost all companies. I would like to commend MSI-ECS for its speedy processing. Thank you also for giving me a chance to be part of this company.

For starters, I will be a Product Officer under the Sales & Marketing - Consumer Goods Division and I will be handling Targus, a leading manufacturer of laptop bags. It was given to me primarily because of my past experience which was heavily concentrated on consumer goods. Hopefully, when I learned the ropes and gained enough experience, become a product manager of an IT component and/or peripheral. That is my aim in this company and maybe be a division manager if I'm lucky... pray for me! hahahaha

Again, thank you MSI-ECS!

For more information regarding the company, please visit http://www.msi-ecs.com.ph/

Gadgets: Life's Addiction

These awesome innovations are really really addicting. Yup, I am a gadget freak... trust me!! I'm also an avid reader of gadget magazines such as T3, Speed and HWM, I like HWM the most though. Every turn of the magazine's page I always utter three words, which are, WOAH! COOL! & I WANT ONE!!

I will give you different scenarios to prove gadgets are vital:

1.) Picture yourself at the middle of the road and in the middle of the night, maybe around 3am??? Heading home from a party and your car just gave up on you. What is your first reaction? Is it to SHOUT HELP??? or search for your little friend located inside your pocket? -- CELLPHONE http://www.nokia-asia.com

2.) You are waiting for something or someone and then you realized that it will take a few more hours before you get a hold on that something or before that someone can meet up with you. You are bored to death to the point of pulling your hair already. Who do you depend on? -- PSP http://www.us.playstation.com/psp_interactive

3.) Alone in a coffee shop, studying, working or whatever it may be. It is a bit noisy and it is irritating. Do you tell everyone to SHUT UP just because you are there?!! Our you simply rely on a little rectangular machine that holds 15,000 songs? -- MP3 PLAYER http://www.creative.com

4.) You need to have a presentation and your superiors and bosses doesn't want it inside the office? Do you bring in your whole desktop computer? Do you ask them to go inside an internet cafe? OR you are rushing a report that your professor insanely imposed that the deadline is on the day it was being announced? Do you queue at the computer labs knowing that it will take 10000 years before you can have your turn? -- LAPTOP http://www.acer.com.ph

5.) You went to a place wherein you want to treasure that experience. Relive its memories after a few days, months or years. Want to document something. Do you take out a pen and a paper and write its description??? -- DIGITAL CAMERA http://www.canon.com

I don't sport the latest gadget or the coolest phone in town. I don't rush to the nearest friendly computer store to be able to buy whatever comes out in the market asap. Simply because there's a price tag attached to every gadget and it isn't cheap... IT ISNT CHEAP hahahaha. For me, I buy it because it is sort of like an award for something I did, I achieved, I gained for myself or for other people. But the biggest reason of all is that I am addicted to it =)

If you are going to ask me if I am contended with the gadgets I own? I will simply answer you by giving you months and months of issues of HWM and tell you to BUY ME EVERYTHING YOU SEE IN THERE! hahahahahahahaahahaha.... yup.... totally... im a gadget freak.

Here are 5 vital gadgets that I myself can't life without:

Nokia 6300 for my Globe Sim
Nokia 6101 for my Sun Sim
Sony PSP Slim Edition
Creative Zen: Vision M (30 gig)
Canon Ixus 750
Acer Aspire 5583WXMi Laptop

Touch My Body Hits #1 in Billboard

CONGRATULATIONS MARIAH!!!!

Mariah Carey's 18th #1 hit in the Billboard charts. She surpassed Elvis Presley's record of having 17 #1's. She now holds the title of having the MOST NUMBER ONES in the BILLBOARD CHARTS for a SOLO ARTIST. Touch My Body is her carrier single from her much anticipated album which is due on the 15th of this month entitled E=MC2.





Related Links:
http://www.mariahcarey.com
http://www.billboard.com

Perfect Trousers in TOPMAN

I went to Trinoma today with mom to shop for business-office clothes in preparation for my first day this coming Tuesday 4/08/08 at MCI-ECS in Libis. WOHOOOOO!!! Hahahahahahahaha! It is really hard to shop considering I am on a very very tight budget....

UNTIL.....

I saw this pair of trousers in TOPMAN. It is a dark brown stripe slim trousers. Woaaahhh!!! hahahahaha! I looked at the price and then said to myself: "This is definitely way over my budget!!! But what the heck, it wont hurt if I just try it on right? So I went inside the fitting room and tried it on. It fits perfectly. With this trousers, I didn't have any 2nd thoughts. Everything with the trousers is perfect; material, design and fit. I know it is expensive and it is way over my budget but I simply can't let go. There is this unexplainable connection between me and the trousers! Hahahahaha!! So yeah, you guessed it, I bought it! =) It definitely shaved a huge amount of money from my alloted shopping budget. It is true, sometimes you have to pay for quality!

Here 's the picture: (Available at any Topman branches in Metro Manila)

BROWN STRIPE SLIM TROUSERS