It's been a while..I know! And I feel guilty for not typing down my thoughts. I came into the working world fully prepared of its demands, but never did it cross my mind that sitting in the office makes me tired as hell! I barely can make it past 10:30 pm. but those who knew me in the uni days, might feel that Lina sleeping at 10:30 pm is nothing unusual. true, but I've been 'unusual' since I got back from Australia. sleeping at 12 is nothing! man, you'll be surprised to find me awake at 2 am or 3 am or even 4 am!(erm..let's not get to 5 am) It's either tennis, or watching online movies till the wee hours in the morning. Yes, I've been staying up late for the past what, 4 months? It was just because there's nothing else to do. sleep late, wake up late...u know the drill! Boy, am I glad I made the most of my leisure time! hehehe..now, I could only DREAM of my tennis matches and online movies. ;) Weekends on the other hand, are packed with family activities..I did mention that my nephew Umar takes up most of our attention during weekends right? haiyo..if only this period of tiredness ends soon, then I could blog more frequently.
I have been assigned to do various stuff. One of them is to read a text about International Roaming. Okay, it's not actually categorised as work. maybe it's just so that I get the whole picture of International Roaming. The view-from-the-plane kind of knowledge. Luckily, I have learnt some of the technical stuff during my degree (thank God!! and thank you Matthew Sorrell too!). So when the Maxis people talk about SCP or CAMEL or SS7 or VLR or even GGSN, I was not nodding the 'Joey way' (you know, the nod when you nod, but don't have a clue what the other person is saying? Friends lover should know the 'Joey nod'. Oh, you don't know? have you been on Earth for the past 10 years??? Kesian you...) Aaaanyway, I'm the new administrator of the Roaming Monitoring System(RMS). The name explains itself. I could trace calls if you are a Maxis customer roaming overseas. I could know who you are calling and from where you are calling from. i could know VIPs calls too..hihihi..well, the main purpose of the system is to analyse Maxis' roaming system and from then on, troubleshoot any problem that arises. and since I started during the middle of the month, I have to pull data from the system to analyse the monthly going-ons of international roamers in order to produce a monthly report. gee..do i make sense? I hope I did...oh and one more thing, as an administrator, I have to manage the database of the RMS. All in all, I like what I've been assigned to. Just one worry though, I hope I don't get tired of this monthly reports at the end of every month. For now, i still find it okay. but will i get bored of it? time will tell...
I have to say that I'm glad that I was interested by the whole telecomms technology. It IS interesting! Almost everyone on earth cannot live without a phone kan kan kan? and when you make a call, do you know what exactly happens? how the signalling is done? how a call is established? why you suddenly get cut off in the middle of a call?(besides the fact that you haven't top up your credit or haven't paid your phone bills lah!) well, all of these and a few other complicated stuff you don't wanna hear, i know! I find it exciting to be able to know what goes on with the connectivity of a phone. So, despite all, I'm happy with the industry i'm in now. I hope this happiness continues on and on..InsyaAllah..
The atmosphere at Maxis is very...how should i say it...vely the open waaan. here at Maxis Technology Centre Plaza Sentral, only 2 ppl have their own office room; the CTO and C-something-something. Every floor have open cubicles. you could see and hear what the others are doing at the other end. that's what i meant by 'open'. the people are friendly (so far lah..you never know...), especially my department RISS. my boss pun ok lah..:). My colleagues who came in the exact time as I did (there are 5 of us), are great too. I could not ask for a more better pack. we stick together. lunch together..gossip together..yes, we've gone to the gossiping part..hahaha! Although, the Matchlink topic is more of an attack!
oohh..oohh..this is the first time I blog as an Engineer :) Looks like my writing lives on...i just have to do it more often kan?
I have been assigned to do various stuff. One of them is to read a text about International Roaming. Okay, it's not actually categorised as work. maybe it's just so that I get the whole picture of International Roaming. The view-from-the-plane kind of knowledge. Luckily, I have learnt some of the technical stuff during my degree (thank God!! and thank you Matthew Sorrell too!). So when the Maxis people talk about SCP or CAMEL or SS7 or VLR or even GGSN, I was not nodding the 'Joey way' (you know, the nod when you nod, but don't have a clue what the other person is saying? Friends lover should know the 'Joey nod'. Oh, you don't know? have you been on Earth for the past 10 years??? Kesian you...) Aaaanyway, I'm the new administrator of the Roaming Monitoring System(RMS). The name explains itself. I could trace calls if you are a Maxis customer roaming overseas. I could know who you are calling and from where you are calling from. i could know VIPs calls too..hihihi..well, the main purpose of the system is to analyse Maxis' roaming system and from then on, troubleshoot any problem that arises. and since I started during the middle of the month, I have to pull data from the system to analyse the monthly going-ons of international roamers in order to produce a monthly report. gee..do i make sense? I hope I did...oh and one more thing, as an administrator, I have to manage the database of the RMS. All in all, I like what I've been assigned to. Just one worry though, I hope I don't get tired of this monthly reports at the end of every month. For now, i still find it okay. but will i get bored of it? time will tell...
I have to say that I'm glad that I was interested by the whole telecomms technology. It IS interesting! Almost everyone on earth cannot live without a phone kan kan kan? and when you make a call, do you know what exactly happens? how the signalling is done? how a call is established? why you suddenly get cut off in the middle of a call?(besides the fact that you haven't top up your credit or haven't paid your phone bills lah!) well, all of these and a few other complicated stuff you don't wanna hear, i know! I find it exciting to be able to know what goes on with the connectivity of a phone. So, despite all, I'm happy with the industry i'm in now. I hope this happiness continues on and on..InsyaAllah..
The atmosphere at Maxis is very...how should i say it...vely the open waaan. here at Maxis Technology Centre Plaza Sentral, only 2 ppl have their own office room; the CTO and C-something-something. Every floor have open cubicles. you could see and hear what the others are doing at the other end. that's what i meant by 'open'. the people are friendly (so far lah..you never know...), especially my department RISS. my boss pun ok lah..:). My colleagues who came in the exact time as I did (there are 5 of us), are great too. I could not ask for a more better pack. we stick together. lunch together..gossip together..yes, we've gone to the gossiping part..hahaha! Although, the Matchlink topic is more of an attack!
oohh..oohh..this is the first time I blog as an Engineer :) Looks like my writing lives on...i just have to do it more often kan?
