IT Manager, IT Project Manager, and now Business Manager

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3 Management class for 3 consecutive semesters, although the role of the management topic I learn differs from the first sem until my masters, all 3 computes (very IT'ed now...) the same content. Now that's what you call "BORING"...

First year in Aus, first semester. IT manager from the subject IT Management. The roles IT Manager plays in the organisation that interacts with CIOs, CEOs, and IT subs under them. How flexible should they be when succumbing to changes that's on-going in the IT industry and how to interact with managers from the other departments. What I've learn in that subject is that IT Managers and Business Managers don't mix that well, due to the fact each party have different preferences in their culture and work content. Business Managers, for instance managers in the Marketing and Financial department can never comprehend the decision makings and the fundamentals of the IT department, and tend to be very linear in their approach, focusing only on profits and benefits for the board of directors (isn't that we're all interested in?) and vice versa (is that so?).

Then its IT Project Managers from IT Project Management during my second semester. Stuff dealing with IT Managers and their role in IT Projects (wtf crap?) . The content is almost similar to IT Management, except that it deals more in inter-personal skills of the IT Manager, on how to handle situations within the project and team management. Then we learn on the difference between projects and how to rate a successful project, such as delivering on time, within budget and something else. That is only project management success. We also have project success, a determinant that rates the success of the project as a whole, accomplishing its task. Then we have the success of the project for the organisation, on whether the organisation benefits from the project. Now that is a whole lot of crap.

Now this sem, for my masters, is moving into another direction. Intro to Management now brings me the role of a Business Manager. (Oh and I woke up late for that subject. Class was at 6pm, I got in by 7. Was sleeping the whole afternoon since my finance class because I was awake the entire night. Damn.) So far lectures brought to me a similar content to the above, such as the factors that managers face within the organisation, how decision making is being conducted from the top management level to lowest line managers of the organisation,and draws the attention of the business society. OMG! 2nd and 3rd assessment was discussed (disgust), and it covers the processes in the organisation, and in groups of 3, write a report of 2.5k words that studies the organisation of the real world. 1st assessment is based on the case study of Porsche (fancy!).

That's what you call flexibility. :P. But I'm really kinda sick of management subjects already. Not that I hate them or what, its just studying the same content over and over is...not right. Anyway Finance however, is a different story. I really enjoyed my Finance class this morning. All on calculation and formulas that computes the firm's present values and future values. Some parts in which is quite confusing, the rest are all, sweet! Its been a while since I've got exposed to some calculation and formulas (since add maths in high school that is) so it does take time to adjust into that environment. I'm really going to enjoy this subject with much to practice. (I certainly hope so)

Kay now to update on some blogs. Hanz changed his blog, so has SzeYin. Drie got his blog violated. Hmm.. thats bout it. Thats bout enough for today, gonna have a few rounds of WoW before I hit the sack. and SHIT! I missed this week's episode of Without A Trace. Damnit. Oh anybody got any nice Bit-torrent sites to recommend? Suprnova.org has been closed and some of my known sites have been deleted as well. Anybody?

Into My Second Week...

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WoW into weekly scheduled 4hour maintenance. Gets me off the game once a while to focus on what I needa do tomorrow. So its a good thing :p. Came back from Econs class just now. Another 'Lecturer-not-so-prepared-and-stuttering-throughout-without-us-understanding' class. I thought that'll only happen in the first class. Tutorial was bad. He seems to be talking to himself. Its gonna be bad. Some questions went unanswered, partly because he went into a different 'channel' for some of them. No use talking about them on the blog, it takes a long time to explain the terms and stuff.

Wanted to prepare for tomorrow morning's lecture and tut, only to realise that is not necessary. And with a 9am class tomorrow morning, I really should be going to bed at this instant. BUT~ as always, its just too early for me to sleep. Downloaded all assessments for the first half of this sem. Finance has 1 midterm exam, and 1 final exam for assessments. Not bad. Consumer Behaviour is all assignments based with 2 quizzes. Not too bad.

Hmmm ain't nothing to talk about these few days because, really, nothing much happened. Made a couple of frens, dinners and living on the healthy diet Oh and 1 more thing. Many of you eat TimTams rite? That chocolate biscuit thingy. Yeah now comes with all sorts of flavors. Caramel..bla bla bla. And recently, Chilli Flavour. Can you believe what it'll taste like? Chocolate biscuit with chilli flavour. Haven't tasted it though, Dylan bought it, you can ask him. Anyway enought babbling. I'm off. Nothing to crap about. I'm really getting very irritated with this stupid internet connection that is so blardy slow. Adios!

Sunset, Gerby's Farewell and Trade Secret, Okay!

12.01AM

Just finish unpacking my stuff that returned to me from Jane's place. Didn't realise I had so many leftovers. It was hell, but thanks to UMing, phew. Before that made a trip to the Airport to see Gerby off, whom I think just boarded the plane en route to Malaysia. She couldn't stay much longer cause she wasn't studying and the rest was history. Had dimsim (Aussie term for Dimsum) this morning as farewell for her departure. Had a couple of moments, okay. Daph then took us, well priority went to Gerby, to Trade Secret all the way in the suburb Alexandria Hills, okay. Ladies and Kids items were like 50% off the discounted price, meaning another 50% off. Lucky them. Wasn't too bad for mens' apparel, okay.

Went to Caesars in the city yesterday night, which Daph dubbed as Gerby last nite out. There was a foam party going on and we only knew bout it after paying the cover charge. Kids were like jumping up and down with bikinis and shorts. It was an eye opener for me! okay. Too bad no photos were taken. :p

Okay went for my Management and Consumer Behaviour class on wed nite and thurs nite. Management was particularly boring, but the lecturer made the class entertaining. CB was interesting, as some would say particularly easy. We'll see bout that. Entire class was swarmed with Azns, almost 70-80%, okay. And among them, were lots of Thais. Yeah They just went 'Kap Kap Kap Kap Kap Kap' during break and after class. Gotta look for a nice partner for assignment one for this subject. Hopefully can get a nice partner, if you know what I mean, okay. Its all about reports and research, and the entire subject is coursework based, no exams. How sweat, err I mean sweet. Kinda looking forward for my tutorials next week, especially for my finance class. How weird of me.

Anyway enough babbling bout 2nite, gonna get some rest. Been out the whole day, okay! LOL anyway this post getting way off hand. Oh photos will be coming in the next time. My grad photos and other photos taken at the airport today as well, thats if Rox sends the photos to me in time.

Adios....Okay!

Availability Reinserted

12:07PM

Sup Peps! Wow its been more than 3 months since my last post, well mostly due to my return to KL during the summer and my unsettling condition since my return to Bris. Everything is cool now and this blog will now resume function. No I've not forgotten bout this blog, as many would say I acted busy and bla bla bla (LOL), its mostly because of my laziness back in KL to update this blog and more importantly, WoW prevented me in doing so. Enough of that crap, now let me update YOU on my current situation.

Graduated from QUT already, which Bachelor of Information Technology majoring in Information Systems on the 15th of Feb, or known as 5th day in Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year in KL wasn't too bad, although ang pows were less cause I didn't do much visiting, still its not too bad. When I came back, lots of stuff got in the way. First was my application for my Masters, which they said that nobody received my faxed application, so I had to re-aply 3days before my return to Bris. Then when all my application was settled, I couldn't move into my place yet, which is Unilodge Brisbane right smack in the city because I'd no money to pay. Dad hadn't transfered the money therefore I'd to wait until the money got transfered before I can actually pay up my acceptance offer from QUT and my application in Unilodge. In the mean time I stayed in Hanz's place until last Thursday, where I moved in officially in my Room 1101 in Unilodge. The place is not too bad, although cookings have to be done in the common level, Level 4. Laundries as well, Aud2.20 per wash and per dry. By then I paid for my acceptance offer already and my CoE was generated. PHEW~! Finally a sigh of relief. I'm now officially a Masters Of Business student in QUT, majoring in Applied Finance. Even my student card was promoted to Masters Student. (Woooo...nothing to shout about...really...:p) So far meet only 1 fella who stays just opposite of my room, an exchange english student who is studying Law in QUT, Michael. Chances to meet others will come in the future. Then I got con'ed by Unilodge on Saturday where I realised that the internet connection I applied was actually 480kb....where KB stands for Kilo BITS...and not Bytes. And 480kBITs is actually equivalent to 60kBYTES. Can you believe that? No wonder my WoW latency rose all the way up to 700ms+ and I've been experiencing 1.3kms minimum for the past few days. How the hell will I be able to play smoothly that way? Came the complain mail to the Technical Support team and their reply was Unilodge Brisbane will be upgrading their bandwidth ETA 4th March. Okay thats not too bad. Hopefully speed smoothens. I definitely can't put up with the frequent disconnection. Kay, enought bout Unilodge.

Finally went for my first class yesterday night, Managerial Economics. Learn whole lot bout economics and the prospective of economics in the future, what is economics, micro/macroeconomics and the difference between positive and normative economics. Not bad. Kinda like that subject BUT I felt that the lecturer wasn't prepared for the lecture what so ever because he was stuttering all along the way. If this continues it'll be bad news. Then it was today, a 9am class of Managerial Finance. Guess what? I woke up late. My alarm was suppose to go off by 8am but when I saw the time, it was 9.38am. FARK! Made my way to class by 10am. Missed first half of the class which fortunately for me, was just introduction and definition of some financial terms. Learned bout equity and assets and debts and financial security and shares and Time Value Money and a whole lot of calculative stuff. More on calculation next week. I will definitely enjoy this subject. Needa get a calculator prepared.

Got another class to attend today, Intro To Management, a freaking 3 hour lecture which ends at 9pm. Hopefully its not a boring class. My timetable is not too bad, Tuesday night, Wednesday morning + night and Thursday night. So far more than half of the class is asian. Seen alot of Thai students. Hmmmm.

OMG!!! I just saw an ad on worms growing in bodies and emerging in odd places. Emerging Snatches on 9.30 thursday. EWWWW...gross. Gonna watch it.

Anyway thats bout it for today. Gonna settle some immigration stuff today and hopefully get a 2 year extenstion so that there will be less hassle bout it in the future. Blast my phone that got haywired since last month where the interface just goes off but its actually on. Gonna see if its actually worth fixing cause I'm gonna actually end that contract soon. I'll see what can be done. So no pictures for this blog until I get my camera mailed over or my phone fixed. Will post pics on my graduation on the next blog. Meeting NgaiYung up at Hungry Jacks.

There you go.