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Got Promoted..BUT

N33d — Thu, 23 May 2019 00:12:38 +0800

I have been working in a company for like 6-7years, as temp worker......
The reason I stayed is that I could see myself grow a lot. From a backend team that handles data entry to front end team where I directly deal with customers to become a programmer that develops macro/scripts/SQL/website etc to help dept to improve overall efficiency. Basically, I play 70% of the role that helping my dept to transform from a lot of manual paperwork into a more autonomous environment. Then get promoted to become one of the functional lead among the team.
since I took up the lead role, I carry the team hard i glued to my desk working my ass off to meet deadline and help to solve/giving advice to customers. Slowly, those internal customers dont even bother to look for them and i become the department go-to person. As time goes by, the workload of the team becomes unbalanced. I am cool with it and treat is an opportunity to learn as much as I can.

All these with <3% salary growth each year(avg performer rate) even with huge role change and finishing/supporting dept projects. When i asked boss why, he just giving excuses like company revenue no good la, for sure when good will reward...etc
basically, i am just working for free for those additional roles. I keep on being optimistic and told myself no harm learning and one day I would be rewarded fairly and my hard work and perseverance will be paid off.

Finally just before the end of the day, Got a call from HR that congratulate me with a cheerful tone that I earned myself a conversion to a permanent position with promotion. 2 in 1! I was like 'Ini kali lah!'
Everything sounds normal(This and that benefits remain, entitled to profit sharing, etc..) until the HR announced my new salary, I stopped for a sec and almost believe that call was a prank from my colleague. I was offered something lower than my current take-home pay! Basically a pay cut as 'token of appreciation'. what kind of world I am living in?! A promotion with pay cut?! What an insult to me.. I literally feel that my boss just force me to trade job security with my salary...

I broke down after I hung up the phone... it's a sad ending to me. i have been waiting for 7 years.. I tried hard to hold my manly eye sweat back at my desk,man.. that was tough

what should I do? Should i tell HR that the offer is hard to swallow and hope for adjustment to at least match current salary?

i have not signed the new contract and I got 2 months left before my temporary contract lapse..
If my writing looks incomprehensible, sorry. I could not compose my thought properly now... good night

Painting cost..3K for 1100sqft condo

N33d — Tue, 14 May 2019 18:10:19 +0800

Hi,
Just got quote to paint whole condo for rm3k
include paint by the painter
they said using ICI paint, which i not sure whether good or no
They also said they will paint a layer of white first before putting on the final layer

[WTS] CANON M50 + KIT & 22MM LENS

N33d — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 20:50:44 +0800

Item(s): CANON M50 + Kit Lens + EF-M 22mm + Adapter + YN 50mm F1.8

Package includes: Camera Body, Kit lens, Original Box, 1 Ori batt & charger, 1x EF-M 22mm F2.0, 1x Viltrox EF-EFM Adapter, 1x Yongnuo 50mm F1.8

Price: RM2600 Everything. Prefer to let go all

Warranty: 2 years left for the body, bought last March/April 18.

Dealing method: Prefer COD, Postage also can but buyer bear the risk lo.

Location: Penang island

Contact method/details: PM
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Item(s) conditions: Excellent. 9.5/10 i would say. I baby my gadget, you can see and touch to believe. It was kept in DRY BOX at 45% RH when not use. ShutterCount 8k+-

Picture:

Reason for sale: I am going to switch/upgrade to another system. This is just a little basic for me. If you are looking for first cam to start a 1080p vlog or learn photography.. etc.., this is the one!!

booked a 20 years condo

N33d — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:41:56 +0800

//sorry if this is the same thread posted elsewhere as I urgently seeking pieces of advice from lyn

Hi lyn, really need you guys advice
depressing

just booked a 20 years old condo
after first and second viewing very satisfied as first glance, the unit is in move-in condition although identified some part of the unit that needs to tackle, <5k can settle, everything else is good as the unit is well maintained
so decided to place a deposit of 4k

But after sharing that news with my friend, he poured cold water on me saying that at 20 years old, saying that usually need to consider about redo the wiring and piping. many wear and tear. ask me to reconsider and treat that deposit lost as a lesson

I remember when viewing the unit, the owner has no issue running 3 aircon simultaneously, just that many switches have worn out badly, leaky taps and some bad reno taste.
Replacing those things should not dent my wallet but I know re-do those wiring would cause a lot as that considered as major and that easily add up a few 10k
might as well go for empty developer unit and furnish it slowly with a peace of mind
I am safety first kind of guy, I do not want both my family and I ended up to become some ashes due to those old wiring

Basically, no money left to reno after paying those subsale upfront payments. that is why me and my wife are looking for move in condition

any advice? forfeit the deposit and treat it as a lesson? or i am worrying too much? really lost now

booked a 20 years condo

N33d — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 00:39:19 +0800

Hi lyn, really need you guys advice
depressing

just booked a 20 years old condo
after first and second viewing very satisfied as first glance, the unit is in move-in condition although identified some part of the unit that needs to tackle, <5k can settle, everything else is good as the unit is well maintained
so decided to place a deposit of 4k

But after sharing that news with my friend, he poured cold water on me saying that at 20 years old, saying that usually need to consider about redo the wiring and piping. many wear and tear. ask me to reconsider and treat that deposit lost as a lesson

I remember when viewing the unit, the owner has no issue running 3 aircon simultaneously, just that many switches have worn out badly, leaky taps and some bad reno taste.
Replacing those things should not dent my wallet but I know re-do those wiring would cause a lot as that considered as major and that easily add up a few 10k
might as well go for empty developer unit and furnish it slowly with a peace of mind
I am safety first kind of guy, I do not want both my family and I ended up to become some ashes due to those old wiring

Basically, no money left to reno after paying those subsale upfront payments. that is why me and my wife are looking for move in condition

any advice? forfeit the deposit and treat it as a lesson? or i am worrying too much? really lost now

To buy or not to buy this condo

N33d — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 20:31:34 +0800

I just viewed a 2 yrs old original, unfurnished new condo unit

nego the price with the owner until slightly under market price and decided to view the unit

everything is okay until the owner accidentally talked about new paint. That is when I started to smell something is fishy
So i started to look carefully at every corner and then discovered that a corner of the bedroom ceiling and wall is moldy. An obvious sign of water leaking from the unit above for sometime dy
I was very disappointed..

After some discussion with my wife, we both now 50-50 whether to take the risk
we have nego to slightly below market price and owner promised to rectify the issue before selling to us

on the other hand
We afraid that the unit is a 'lemon' unit( he did mentioned some leakage already fixed, just the current one popped out recently) and the owner wanna let go asap. More surprises are waiting for us once we move in. Forsee more headache and money, time wasted to fix this
and we do not trust the owner's word
Over warranty period according to the developer but owner insist still under warranty till Jan (such a coincidence huh?)

so I would like to seek advice on whether worth to take the risk due to below market price or just let it go?

Dry box humidity went up when off

N33d — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:21:05 +0800

Just got myself a new electrical dry cabinet to protect my small investment

I did notice once the humidity started to drop to let say 55%, it takes ages to drop another 1% with 75% power. out of curiosity, I went and switch off the power source, I noticed the humidity straight climb 1% within a few minutes.

I know that dry box required to be air tight in order for the small dehumidifier to be useful.

So does this mean that my dry box is faulty cos leaky? Or it is expected behavior once the dehumidifier is off?

Best Practice to reduce chance of rear collision?

N33d — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 12:16:59 +0800

Since a kopi-O lesen guy with his new myvi rammed into the back of my iriz,
I could not help but keep on thinking what more i could do to prevent/minimize this kind of unfortunate event in future

It was a normal Friday night, me and my wife were heading to our fave place for a good dinner after work
We arrived at a busy road with moderate traffic jam. Everyone is waiting for their turn to cross the junction which is controlled by a traffic light
I could recall we stopped and have a good chat, for something like 5-10 seconds.. nothing interesting happened until I felt a violent jolt and BANG! I was furious! Our car did not do any emergency brake at all. What the f is the person behind doing?! Who the hell could not see that we have already been stopped for 5-10 seconds?!

I went down and saw an arrogant young 23 year old driver, who did not even apologize or feel remorse. I asked him did not you see that I am already stopping for a period of time?! He started to bluff and blame that the road is slippy
i tested the road with my shoes and replied "hey! It did not even rain and you did not even brake" and I just said I want to claim his insurance, no discussion/nego. Took pic and vid and just went to balai.. I suspected his had his eyes all on his phone

Luckily both I and my wife are fine thanks to tough HPF steel. His new myvi radiator got damaged while my car only need to replace bumper and reverse sensors
The police report also went smoothly despite the driver lied to the sergeant that we did emergency brake in his report.
Investigation report says that the stupid driver has been summoned RM300, that was a relief. We are now waiting for insurance approval

Thinking back, I have
1) stepped on my brake whole the time even fully stopped the whole time.. to purposely signal to the driver coming from behind
2) Maintained safe distance from the front car to avoid a chance of emergency braking (therefore I did not cause some chain of reaction)
3) Ensure all brake light are working within OEM spec (Proton IRIZ)

anything i did not aware that could reduce shit like this happened in future?
until now i still feel uneasy when I was the last person stopped at a traffic..

TLDR
what else could i do to avoid ppl bang into my car from behind.. despite having 1,2,3 point above

help choosing swimwear style

N33d — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 15:37:43 +0800

I recently decided to get back into swimming and get myself a knee-length jammer to start with
But when I look at myself in the mirror, I feel like something is not right. the jammers make my legs seem shorter and I feel like a hobbit wearing that, wife gave the same input
Yes, I am totally not proud of my height. just around 166cm, 57-59kg guy

any advice which swimsuit style that does not make a short guy like me looks out of proportion?
Looking for something practical and universal like I could wear to any water a local and condo pool, pool, beaches, waterpark slides without issue here.
Example, those boardshorts looks like a safe/universal option but I could not even use it at my condo pool and local pool.

basically, a practical Jack of all trades style for guy like me

dont wanna like 1 for beaches, 1 for pools, etc..

B segment car charging voltage

N33d — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:51:28 +0800

hi
anyone know what is the charging voltage for iriz 1.6 or similar b seg car?

i have gone thru 2 batteries and currently on the 3rd one.. car is only 3.5 years old. imagine 1 battery per year.. 1 OEM battery, 1 century marathoner.. lifespan almost mirror each others

upon checking, found out that the alternator does not provide sufficient charge.. like 13.4v-13.5v loaded..suspect cannot fully charge the battery under normal driving condition. causing the battery to die prematurely

sent to SC, SC said charging voltage is within spec.wtf.... play blame game that Century battery NS60 CCA not enough, OEM spec CCA >400.. century CCA <400 causing battery not able to fully charged(sound like BS to me).. how true is it?
is it the truth? yeah I know the alternator is not cheap, they are trying to avoid me claim that warranty

Planning to go Lost World of Tambun

N33d — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:44:44 +0800

planned to visit the park but when asked around my friends they said no gooding.. better save the money.. so confuse now..

how is the park now? worth the ticket price ka?
how about dress code, strict? what do ppl generally wear over there?
I saw their policy is wearing swimming attire but google shows me the otherwise.. everyone is like in their street clothes

which site to browse for room/unit to rent/sale?

N33d — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 22:00:53 +0800

Hi there
can someone tell me which site has most private owner post their ads to let/sell their unit? penang area

I need to move out urgently as owner wanna sell my current unit but all of the ad that I googled are posted by agents.
(Where are those private owner hidding ah??? )

I do not want to deal with agents as most of them are not sincere or even trying to cheat by posting fake photo from others condo(like mcd mix and match).

help please
thanks in advance

WTB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (2x8) 16gb

N33d — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 14:08:38 +0800

Item(s): Corsair Vengeance DDR3 (2x8) 16gb or Kingston equivalent 16GB

Dealing method: Prefer COD, postage will consider

Location: Penang

Contact method/details: PM

Item(s) conditions: USED/NEW BUT MUST BE WORKING

take up part time CS/IT course?

N33d — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 01:19:38 +0800

Hi fellow sifu
i am now in a dilemma where i am deciding whether to take up part time CS/IT degree at the age of 30. A very big decision for me, might be a turning point in my life. For better or worse.

I started to develop interest in so called 'programming' when i got my first job(currently still having it) when my boss tasked me to do some boring manual task(most of them done in MS excel) in the back end which i hate back then. on the bright side, this has motivated me to seek for automation and this is where i started exposed me to simple programming and I am able to teach myself some VBA and wrote a few excel tools that helped me tremendously in my task. My boss saw my potential and get me involved in a few dept projects which included some web maintenance and new excel tools development to support dept automation. So now after working at a few small dept projects, i started to ask myself whether i should go and take another degree in cs/it too. Which i think might make myself more valuable in future as i could automate a biz process in a company with my CS/IT skill. I could also foresee myself doing some IT/programming freelance job as part time income in future to support the rising cost of living

I would like to hear your advice on this whether i should proceed or not. what is the prospect of IT/CS degree? or should i just forget about it and self-learning all the way. Thanks in advance

Shipping bulky item from US to Malaysia

N33d — Wed, 10 Aug 2016 23:37:24 +0800

Hi
I want to ship some bulky item such as 2 gallon of liquid(around 10kgs) products from US to MY. The problem is the seller does not want to ship internationally. What is the option that I could have? I do not mind 3-4 weeks of transit time, focus on getting the shipping cost as low as possible.

Please help

Hypptv configuration DDWRT?

N33d — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:53:00 +0800

Broadband provider
ISP/package: Unifi 30 adv

Personal equipment
Modem: TM BTU
Router: WR841ND v8.2 w/ ddwrt

Problem details
I managed to get my internet fully working but not hypptv
Both central connectivity and NTP connectivity failed while doing connection testing inside hypptv, Multicast and others passed.
My setup is tagging both 500 and 600 in one LAN port from the BTU and connect it to my router WAN port (eth0)
tag both Vlan 500 and 600 at eth0 in ddwrt
Then bridge eth1, ath0, eth0.600
then connect hypptv at my router lan1. my computer to lan2.

any sifu can point out anything wrong here? i afraid TM did something that prevent us to use 3rd party router

Insurance claimed, but shoddy paint job

N33d — Sun, 21 Sep 2014 19:21:13 +0800

Hi

another problem facing and dont know what to do as this is my first car.

I just get back my car from perodua SC yesterday and found out that shoddy workmanship from the SC. Runs everywhere at the painted bumper and just today, discovered that my car has different tone when i go pump petrol WTF . The painted bumper has darker tone compared to the metal body and my car is just one year old. At first i thought maybe my paint has aged but compared to my neighbour new myvi(same color) and my car inside door paint, the darker tone is obviously wrong! I suspect the color is painted thin(the new bumper is black color without paint).

I have just wrote to my insurance to ask them to hold the payment( hopefully could be done) and request for repaint as I think this shitty paint job has gone beyond salvage . Am i doing this right? Any advice regarding this so that I could handle this correctly and force them to solve it?

Myvi auto tranny question

N33d — Sun, 07 Sep 2014 19:47:50 +0800

Hi sifu
I wanna ask,
is it normal to expect auto myvi rpm to go down twice when it just shifted to the 4th gear. For example, on 4k rpm in 3rd gear, shifted to 4th, rpm dropped to 3k, then after 1 sec, dropped to 2.5k rpm while throttle input remain the same. is this due to the overdrive or sign of tranny prob?

Problematic new car

N33d — Wed, 11 Jun 2014 18:46:02 +0800

Hi

I got a problematic new car (9 month old myvi 1.3se)

1) jumpy RPM, is it caused by engine misfire? I encountering this when the engine is high load (aircon blower turn to full) while I stepped on the brake pedal. Worse if I am in reverse gear. It is getting annoying especially during parking. Already went to perodua service center a few times to make noise but they said is normal after they could not settle the problem.. WTF, i dont think it is normal at all as my old wira and my mom previous gen MYVI do not have this kind of issue at all.

2) Starting problem, heard some 'klakk' grinding sound after the engine has started and I've just released the ignition key. What caused this?

After some complaint to HQ, they asked me to drop the car at SC for a few days to check but I need the car for work.

Any advise on this?

CPU OC with ivy 1155

N33d — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:36:25 +0800

Hi,
long time did not update myself with the mobo

last time during sandy bridge, i know that CPU can only be fully OC with the unlocked paired with higher end mobo like p67 and z68

now for the ivy bridge budget mobo that came with chipset such s b75, do i still need to have an unlocked cpu to fully OC?