Roundtable Rendezvous
Mood:  hungry
Topic: Office
Around teatime, if you happen to be by the office corridor, you may be invited to sit by the roundtable by those offering you goodies from pink plastic bags. Yes, they would contain yummies from the local canteen and are best munched with a few colleages while sipping coffee.

Spiral Staircase
Mood:  suave
Topic: Office
At the top of our main HQ building are spiral staircases that lead you to the boardroom and theatreatte.



It's been designed somewhat lavishly with an eye-catchy and posh feel.

This level is where exclusive events are held and where the directors meet regularly.

Presentations at Work
Mood:  bright
Topic: Office
Giving live presentations is a common thing in our meeting room. By live, I mean talking about and displaying an actual application, such as a web portal, via the network. It's crucial that everything is tested before the presentation begins, so that you're not caught with your pants down.

Flowered Fountain
Mood:  cheeky
Topic: Office
We have a water fountain in front of our main HQ office. There are pretty flowers lined up around the fountain area. On a hot day, it's nice and cooling to be standing beside the fountain.

Halls of Lift
Mood:  loud
Topic: Office
To arrive at my office, you need to travel via these lifts that are situated in a marble-walled hall. There are eight lifts (i think), and there are two sets of these! Even then, it can take some time to wait for them. But once in a lift, it moves pretty quickly.

Hotel Hopping
Mood:  lucky
Topic: Office
On a holiday on the east coast, one would do island hopping, but in the capital, one would do hotel hopping. I get to visit hotels once in a while to attend conferences or seminars. Sometimes our office has meeting sessions at hotels. Nice things are the glorious settings and delicious food available at these expensive venues.

More Raya Celebrations
Mood:  a-ok
Topic: Office
With the festive season chugging along at a good pace, almost every department is trying to outdo another with their open house events. For me, it would be just an opportunity to savour the delicious servings of satay, lemang and rendang topped off with whatever desserts on offer.

Pencil-Shaped Library
Mood:  sharp
Topic: Office
Had a meeting at our company's university and took a picture of the library building while I was there. The library has a pencil-shaped roof, to signify the centre of knowledge and resource. I think it's the largest university library in Malaysia.

Stairways of Knowledge
Mood:  sharp
Topic: Office
This winding stairways can be found in one of our office libraries. It was interesting to view it and it accessed the meeting and presentation rooms upstairs. The library is a resource centre of compiled information and should be used regularly as a warehouse of knowledge.

Extranet Mania
Mood:  rushed
Topic: Office
It's my last working day before a long stretch of Raya holidays. Yet, I have been asked to create by today a special secure, encryped extranet website for use by the Chief Financial Officer and his team. So, I did, in lightning time. This entailed a server configuration and hence my work here in the data centre. That's our Security Officer assisting me in the firewall setting. Well, I'll be on leave till 22 Nov 2004!