~ Lecturer's Visit ~

On my right, it is Mr.Kannan M. Munisanry, Senior lecturer in Mechanical Engineering, my internship visiting supervisor; On my left, it is Mr.Yeoh Lai Seng, ( they actually try to start addressing him Dr.Yeoh ..Hehe ), Failure Analysis & Reliability Engineer, my supervisor in Fairchild Semiconductor Penang. And lastly, the little girl in the centre, obviously IT’S ME, the trainee !!

14th May 2010, 9.30am, it’s my lecturer’s visit to Fairchild Semiconductor Penang ( FSPM ). Yup, it was a week ago. This blog entry is only posted today because I was waiting for the pictures from the human resource person in charge because these pictures was taken using Fairchild’s digital camera.

Lecturer visit on Friday.. I knew it only on Wednesday night.. Ooh ooh.. On Thursday, I was thinking what am I suppose to do during the visit? I was planning on the explaination and tour around my work place, the Q&R lab. What am I suppose to present? What questions will he ask me?.. Until in the afternoon, I was told that the meeting will be in one of the meeting room in Learning Centre because we are not allowed to bring in non-employee into the production area. Ooo, so that be just a casual meet up between me, my lecturer and my supervisor.

Mr.Kannan is a very friendly and nice person. Mr.Kannan is a lectuer under the Department of Mechanical Engineering. At first, when I thought students are suppose to present about their internship project to their lecturer during the visit, I was so nervous and wondering who is Mr.Kannan. Non my friends knows who he is. The visit and the conversation went on smooth. We had a nice talk about what I do in my internship, my supervisor and my lecturer had a good time giving opinions and exchanging information.

Lecturer’s visit indicating that the internship we trainee undergoing is almost towards the end… Its week 7 now.. 5 more weeks to go… I feel like finishing internship quickly went I first started internship here. But now I feel..I must appreciate the remaining weeks enjoying my internship with my colleagues here and gaining knowledge and exposures…

~ Bit of Journal..journal? ~

All these weeks, I hardly update the progress of what I do in my internship beside the introduction part of my project at the beginning. This was because I basically repeat the same process on the same unit package of different stress.

But today I have a different feeling about doing what I do everyday... FINALLY today its the last unit I'll be doing Cross Section .. Not that I do not enjoy doing it, but it challenge my patience so much.. After this, I'll be doing on Curve Tracer, getting the I-V graph plot which I do not know much about this equipment yet as I am not taught on it yet.

Normally, I spend 30mins on polishing the unit.. but today.. I spend 3 hours !! I got the surface of the unit smooth but got scratched at the final stage.. Fine, I redo the previous step.... Then I see contamination on the unit again.. I tried to polish it to be cleaner... but I got it scratched again... again n again.. I got fed up ... But I chill myself down... Til 3hours later, I finally got a satisfied result.. and I stop to polish for a better result.. afraid that I might scratched it and redo all the steps again...

INTERSHIP PROJECT PART 1
ACCOMPLISHED!
YEAH !

~ RUN FOR YOUR LIFE ~

RUN ! RUN ! RUN !
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE !
Leave your things behind,
Run to the assembly area,
Everyone gather there immediately ! ...

LOL.. that's exaggerated by me..
We had Fire Drill Practice last week..

I was informed by my trainer to get ready.. fire drill practice at 850am. Everyone got ready 5minutes before but when the emergency bell rang at 850am, it didn't alert me because it more like a tea break melody bell than an emergency siren.

We were told not to take off our smock and booties...just wear what you are wearing out to the assembly area... BUT.. me n other 2 trainees from my dept realize that we are the only 3 people wearing smock n booties... although we are not doing anything wrong.. but somehow I felt myself so embarrassing at that moment and quickly took off my smock n booties...

I was expecting it too be a long assembly... but it only lasted for 5mins and everyone went back to own work place. Maybe my thinking was a little bit influenced by Uniten's system.. Hehe.. Where electricity supply is cut off, then we "Murnians" slowly go down to the car park to gather, then everyone stand there chit chating, then the floor leader take our attendee, then the residence n the Hostel committees check the percentage of attendance for each Block. All in all roughly 45mins? Hehe...

~ Changing Paradigms To Improve ~

Today, I attended a two hours training session with the title “ Changing Paradigms to Improve Results” facilitated by Debra Schuler under Fairchild Corporate Learning and Development. I find it beneficial and would like to share with everyone. Its very meaningful, hope you will continue to read this post....

This training’s learning objectives is to understand how mindset directly affects behavior and outcomes. Looking at ‘The Chain Reaction” , also called as the “ SEE, DO, GET” model. To ‘SEE’ its our paradigm, it’s the way we see, understand and interpret the world, its our mental map. To ‘DO’, is our behavior, how we react or what action we take after we understand and interpret the world. Last but not least, to ‘GET’ which is the result, the outcome.

We are actually free to choose and at the same time responsible for the choice we made. Actually to interpret a incident or message that a person wanted to convey is also very important. In this training, they called it “ Mastering Our Stories”, its about how you tell yourself a more accurate story.

One good example is
“ In a meeting, the boss said to his employee “ I shall agree with any decision
you guys decided, that’s all for today’s meeting.” All the employee stand up
and walk out the meeting room but having different interpret of their own in
their mind. Employee A thought “ GREAT, we can do anything we think is best,
and the boss will agree with anything, COOL ! We better give in

our best effort." Employee B thought “YEAH, we make the decision, and if there’s
anything to be wrong, we be the person to be blame for any damage and loss”

On top of that, we are also encourage to be a PROACTIVE person rather than a REACTIVE person. A reactive person will say “ I HAVE TO…. ELSE I WILL BE…..” BUT on the other hand, A proactive person will always tell themselve “ I AM GOING TO…….” Or “ I CHOOSE TO…..”. A reactive person response based on outside influence, they focus on things which they cannot control while a proactive person response based on principles and desired results which they are able to control. From here we can see that language also plays a vital role. For an example of an reactive statement : ‘I am the product of my circumstances.” & a proactive statement : ‘ I am the product of my choice.’

From this training, I learn that mindset is very important to step into success. Of course, to have this practice its not something we can achieve in a day but it needs a prolong period. I am working on this… What a beneficial training we had today….

~ Welcome Welcome AMIGO ~

Today there are another two trainee from USM doing their internship in Fairchild. One name Hui Zhen and another name Yu Xuan. Next week there will be another guy joing my department too. Q&R lab getting merrier...but at the same time.. where are ALL of us suppose to sit.. limited space in here... hehe..
One month ago, I came in Fairchild ALONE.. I always been waiting for these trainee from USM to come... So that I have companion during my training. These two new trainee are very friendly and nice.. Its Thursday tomorrow.. it towards the weekends..

DEAR FRIENDS..

Whats your plan for MOTHER"S DAY ?

Hope no one is on called for OVER TIME...

ENJOY !!

~ Labour's Day ~

It was LABOUR”S DAY yesterday…. Huge crowd EVERYWHERE…
It’s HOT..
It’s CROWDED..
Happy Hour is ON;
Entertainment Mode is ON;
SALES is ON;
ONLY
WORKING MODE is OFF ;
Labour’s Day was simply just a public holiday to me for the pass 21years..
But THIS year…
YEAH>> ITS LABOUR”S DAY !!! (^-^)
Replacement on Monday.. Long weekend…
BUT
SADLY
NOOooo plans…. (T-T)