Kelantan Trip

I arrived in KL from Machang, Kelantan about 4.45 pm today. We departed from Machang at about 10.00 am. We stopped only twice, one at the Gua Musang R&R where we have our nice lunch - Sup Tulang with rice and the last stopped is at Masjid somewhere near Raub I think.

The charity program organized by Bank Muamalat is known as Masih Ada Yang Sayang (MAYS). The destination that we went is Asrama Bakti Machang.
We arrived in Machang on Thursday at about 6.30pm. We departed a bit late from the Head Office at around 10.45am on Thursday. Once we arrived, we checked in at a resthouse just a few steps away from the Asrama Bakti. Since that its already late, nothing can be done that day. After the maghrib prayer, we had our dinner.

In the next morning, we have been invited by the Principal of the Rumah Bakti to have a breakfast at his house. He served us with nasi kerabu and it was really nice.
Then only we went back to the Asrama Bakti to start our job. We start with painting the building with our corporate color - orange. At the same time, some of my colleagues are changing the lights with a new one.
We also make contributed a signboard for the house. It was specially designed in KL and brought all way long to here. Here's the signboard.
Next, we paint the Surau , the gate as well as the main entrance. We also repaint again the background for the signboard. Hahahaha.

On Saturday, the actual event start. I forgot to tell you that this event will be officiated by the MB of Kelantan - Tuan Guru Dato' Hj Nik Aziz Hj Nik Mat. He arrived in his Proton Perdana at around 11.30 am.It was a great opportunity for us to shake hand with him and I'm one of it. This is something that quite hard to be done to other MB. He took his time to shake hand with all the person, one by one even without any umbrella covering him. I managed to snap up some close up pictures of him while waiting for my turn.
Once he finished with his speech he was accompanied by our CEO to plant some tree at the field around the house. We prepared a glove and a shovel for him, but he choosed to do it on his bare hands.Overall, it was a great trip. I would love to join again with this program if given chances to do so. Just before we went back, we went to Rantau Panjang for some shopping.

Outstation

Today, I was told that I might need to go to Kelantan this Thursday till Sunday.
The Bank will be organizing a charity program with one of the orphanage house there. From the IT department, we're bringing PC for them as a gift. That's why I'm in the picture of the event.
However, I'll get the confirmation on it tomorrow.

Its a great thing to travel around. But on the same day, the Bank's are organizing an event with Microsoft. It is called Microsoft Office Day. Microsoft will be promoting their Office 2007 and we can get the Home Premium edition for just RM50. On top of that, Sophos Anti Virus will be giving away their anti virus software for free. Better ask my colleague to get one for me in case I really need to go to Kelantan.

Besides all the excitement, I'm feeling a bit sad since I have to leave my little baby and my wife. Hope that my wife can handle the situation well. Even though it just 3 to 4 days, definitely I'll be missing the voice of my baby. Right now, every day I always spend some time talking to my baby since she's already started to talk even it is just a mumbling sound. Hahahaha.

My Precious

My 27th Birthday

Today is my 27th birthday. This year I'm celebrating it with 2 person - my wife and my daughter. Last year it was only two of us.
Early in the morning I received a lot of birthday wishes from my brother Abdah, my auntie Umi Pah, my mother, my insurance agent, my friends - Dilla, Wynn, Niza, Shazmi, Azie, A'an, Akram, Pesot, Daniel and some other friends that I can't recall their names. Not to forget some of my officemate. But the most romantic one comes from my lovely wife. She sends and e card for me. Thanx guys.

The cake

My wife planned for a dinner with me. She bought a cake and a present for me. and it was a 2GB MP3 player. Thank you so much sayang. Really appreciate it. Luckily during our dinner, my baby was in a good mood. Here are some of the pictures. I need to upload using photobucket since blogger got problem uploading it.

My birthday present


With my daughter


My wife holding our daughter


My happy family

There are actually lot of pictures. Unfortunately its already late.
Maybe I'll upload again later. See ya

My New PC

Today, I received my new PC. Comparing to my last job, this one definitely the best. I'm not condemning EON, but its the truth. I only received pentium 4 pc but with 256mb ram and a tft 15" monitor. Likewise, in Muamalat I received a brand new HP pc. The spec is totally awesome.

Pentium Duo Core @ 3.00 ghz
1.97ghz speed
2Gb RAM
250Gb HDD
DVD/RW
17" Plasma LCD monitor

Here are the pictures, but the quality is quite bad since I just snap it using my 2.0 megapixel phone without using the flash.
Okay, enough of it. Yesterday my boss sent me for a seminar at Boulevard Hotel Midvalley. The seminar is about Data Leakage and Protection conducted by ABS.
They are the distributor for Checkpoint, Lumension, Crossbeam and Sophos. I also met my ex SCAN colleague Nik there. Basically, the seminar is quite good and in fact we planned to arrange for a meeting for their Websense product (web filtering).

There is one interesting thing that I found out today. Unlike other bank where their officer are bound under the NUBE and ABOM category. Don't ask me the full name of that acronym. In Muamalat we have a union as well named as KEPAK. Some of the best part that i noticed, the increment is fixed every year for those grade 10 and below. Therefore, every year I can expect a 200 increment. On top of that there are other benefits that I don't think I can disclose it here. But, I think that I have made the right decision by joining this bank. Alhamdulillah.

First Two Days

It's already two days since I joined Bank Muamalat.
Let me share some of my experience there.

When I reached the bank on Monday about 8.15 am, I'm having my breakfast with my old colleague Zahar. Then, I went to HR to submit the offer letter together with all the documents. One thing that really impressed me is when i need to sign the Baiah. This reminds me with the Baiah that I used to take during Matriculation and Degree time. On top of that, the HR personnel recite the doa before i sign the Baiah.

Then I went to the IT department. There, I was briefed about the entire IT structure. I was assigned under the IT Support which focus on the Security. Among the task that my boss assigned to me are Rentas E Pki which was the same with what I've done in EON Bank, Internet Gateway and the Proxy implementation.Then I've been introduced to all the the IT staff. I think the total IT staff is just about 20++.

I'm also doing some research on all the tasks given to me and I managed to arrange a POC with the vendor for the proxy. We'll have a meeting on Thursday about it. I received the Bank official necktie together with the code of conduct handbook for my reference. One thing that I really like is when all the male staff went for Asar prayer for jemaah. That's something I didn't found in my last employment.

Conventional to Islamic

Last 7 months I've been working in a conventional banking (EON Bank) but starting tomorrow I'll be working in an islamic banking. I believe some of my friends still didn't know where I'm up to. There are quite a number of islamic banking in Malaysia. Easily we can name it. KFH, Bank Islam, Bank Muamalat and Arrajhi Bank. Well, I'm heading to Bank Muamalat.
I'm not sure yet about my jobscope. Wish me luck for my first day tomorrow. Also hope for a better future where I can build up my long term career there.

Last Day

Well....today is my last day working in EON Bank. Today as well the oil price no longer RM1.92 per liter. Its now RM2.70 per liter.

I start my day as usual. But before I came to the office I drop by to the panel clinic for EON Bank nearby my house to take some cough medicine. I'm enjoying the medical benefit up to the last day of my employment.

I'm having a lunch retreat with all my team from security administration. We went to Pizza Hut. Only Salleh , Ee Ling and Cheah missing from the retreat. However, I would like to thank all of you for the retreat.

Just after having my lunch, I browse through ITTUTOR website. The hottest topic definitely the price of the petrol. I also posted my comments and opinion on it. Everyone was in angry mood. In fact, me myself already angry with the government decision since yesterday. The reason:

1. Last few days PM said that don't believed all the rumors saying that the petrol price will rise. The government only planned to do it somewhere in August. Then all the sudden, the price go up. And to make things worst, it went up by 78 cents. The highest ever in Malaysia history. The situation is almost the same when the PM said about the general election. First he said that the parliament will continue, but he changed his mind the next day.

2. The traffic was really bad yesterday since my house is located near 4 petrol stations. I went back home first and around 8.00 pm I went out to fill up the fuel. Unfortunately, the road in front of my house the car not moving at all. The traffic goes from bad to worst. As a conclusion, I failed to fill up the petrol with the RM1.92 price.

3. Eventhough I will get extra money for my new jobs, looks like it will not make any much different.

Another interesting story inside ITTUTOR is about the Prime Minister Office official website being hacked. I thought it was true. But the fact, they just point it to other website by using the PMO officical website as the header. Here is the screen.

http://www.pmo.gov.my/website/webdbase.nsf/w_4?openForm&url=http://www.geocities.com/nmapx/manifesto.txt

If I point it like this, http://www.pmo.gov.my/website/webdbase.nsf/w_4?openForm&url=http://www.wanrulez.blogspot.com

it will also have the same header as the PMO official website. So don't get confused on it.

Last but not least, I have also terminated the credit card that I received as a staff for EON Bank. So, no more 10k credit limit. So, for now no more 10k credit limit. To all my friends who read this blog, wish me luck for the better future.

The moment......

This morning, when I arrived at the office straight away I went to see my boss about my resignation. I was supposed to informed her yesterday (Monday), but unfortunately I need to take emergency leave yesterday since my mother in law admitted to the hospital and nobody to take care of my baby.

Alright back to the point. I've told her that I'm leaving the bank soon. She was quite shocked by asking whether I have tender my resignation. I've told her that I have submit it last Friday and my last day will be on Thursday.
She asked me whether I'm receiving a better offer or just because I want to leave. I told her that I got a better offer. Then she started telling me that, she already discussed it with our big boss about my situation. And they planned to look at my confirmation letter first whether I received any adjustment upon my confirmation. If I didn't received any adjustment upon my confirmation, they planned to query HR about it (not sure whether its true or not......or just to make me feel better). But looks like its too late already. I've made up my mind and its time to move on. By the way, she planned to arrange for a farewell lunch this Thursday.

Then I've been told to delegate all the jobs and brief my colleague about the CTCS project status.
At the same time I went to Branch Processing Centre (BPC) and met with Head. He already knew that I'm leaving. We have a bit chit chat and he said its a loss for the bank. Wahhhhh....I felt really appreciated.

Around 3.00 pm I went to our Disaster Recovery Centre in Puchong. All the way, I have a chat with my colleague Tan. He told me that, my boss really hope that I can stay. And she also plan to try to counter the offer that I already received. I'm totally speechless . But I know that it is impossible since my big boss is on leave this whole week and considering the confirmation that I received from the HR one month after I got confirmed, I don't think HR can come up with the new offer in just 2 days to go. It's a miracle if that happens.

So that's how the story for today. Another story is that starting from today, I've sent my baby to a babysitter new Taman Melati. I'm so glad to found someone to take care of my baby. Actually my friends Hisham from EPF recommended me to send my baby to her since he sent his child to her last time.

Counting My Days

I have submit my resignation letter to the HR and Head of IT this evening.
So with that, my last day will be on Thursday (5th june 2008), exactly 7 months I've been here.
One thing that really make a difference between a one week notice and one month notice is the confirmation letter. Just after I submit the letter then I received my confirmation letter. Too bad that, HR already agreed with my one week notice. I'll tell my boss next week about this.

This morning, my boss called me up. We have some chit chat. First she told me that the EUC team will be deploying a new software to all 100++ branches somewhere in June. And the EUC team request someone from security to assist them. My boss assigned my for this task, meaning I have to travel to all branches. Nice one...But looks like she needs to find someone else.

Then, my boss asked about my current salary. Looks like she already smells something. Hahahaha.
She's pity with me since I didn't received any adjustment last time. The reason might be because I took some time for joining the bank about 2 months delay. Well, last time I'm waiting for the bonus and increment from SCAN first, then only I joined the bank. She also noticed that fresh graduates for the bank are earning RM2500 as the starting pay. Once they are confirmed they will get around RM2800 if I'm not mistake. Even my grade is the same with the fresh grads only that my salary is slightly higher.

Lastly, she asked me whether I have any friends interested to join the bank under the security team. She would prefer someone to have some skills on AS400 if possible. Our team really need more people to cope with all the projects. Talking about that, EON Bank will advertise all the vacancies in tomorrow The Star newspaper. Or you can just check the bank's official website.

Bon Voyage

Yes. I'm leaving. heheheheh.
I have agreed to accept the offer that i received. In fact I've done the medical checkup as well.
The offer is too good for me turn it down.
I received the salary exactly as what I'm expected of. Thank god.

So, tomorrow (Friday) I'll submit my resignation letter. But until now i haven't received the rest of my salary. Arghhhhh...RM900++ is a big amount of money.
I'm sure that tomorrow my boss will be shocked with the letter that I will pass to her.
Well....it's also your fault. Maybe this can be a good lesson for you. Next time, please give some respect to your staff and never questioning anything relating to religious issue.

If everything goes according to plan...I should start at the bank on 9th June 2008. That if my one week resignation is accepted. If not, then I've to wait for one month.

Good News

While waiting for my missing salary, which until today I haven't received it, I received a call on Saturday from one company calling for an interview session on Thursday (tomorrow). On Monday, I've already apply for leave. Today, I just received a call from one bank which I attended the first and second interview last month saying that I got the job. Since joining EON Bank, I have went to three interview plus another one tomorrow. Alhamdulillah. Thank GOD for all the blessings. Maybe this is rezeki for my new baby.

I'm yet to know how much they offer, but I will know it tomorrow. I'll collect the offer tomorrow and if I agree with all the terms, I need to do my medical checkup before I can join them.

By right, I need to give one month notice to EON Bank. However, even though I'm already a confirmed staff, I've yet to receive the confirmation letter. So, I can leave the Bank by giving one week notice. Hehehehehe.....I'll update later whether I accept or reject the offer. I'm sure if I tender my resignation, my boss will get angry and shocked with it. Hahahahha.....Don't care lah (this is the word that has always been used by my supervisor).

Salary

In EON Bank, we're supposed to receive our salary on the 25th every month.
Since this month, 25th fall on Sunday I have received my salary yesterday on the 23rd.
However, I was really shocked when I checked my account through internet banking that my salary short a few amounts.
If it just a few bucks I won't mind, but it was RM900++.
This is crazy.
This Monday I definitely will ask the HR and the payroll unit to check for it.
Argghhhh........
Can't wait for Monday, eventhough I usually hate Monday. But this time I have no choice.

The Double

Glory Glory Man United.

Yes. That was the song surrounding the Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow. Not Chelsea Chelsea.
Poor Chelsea. Again they get second best behind the almighty United.
With the triumph of the Champions League, meaning United have completed a double joy for this season – The Premiership and now the European Champions League.

A quick recap. Ronaldo open the score for United in 28^th minute with a superb header from a cross from Wes Brown, even though using his left foot. Just before half time, Chelsea equalized through Frank Lampard thanks to a cheeky deflection from Vidic and Ferdinand. Overall, in the first half United were in total control even Tevez missed a couple of chances.

Second half Chelsea control the game and Drogba and Lampard both had a shot that hit the woodwork and the bar. Only in the last 10 minutes United had a glorious opportunity but Giggs shot was cleared on the line by Terry.

Extra time the game quite balance until Drogba was sent off for touching Vidic face. Then it went to penalty shootout. Just before the shootout start, I received sms from Nik Apis saying that now its up to the luck. I replied saying, just pray for it lah.

Tevez - Score

Ballack - Score

Carrick - Score

Balletti - Score

Ronaldo - Miss

Lampard - Score

Hargreaves - Score

A. Cole - Score

Nani - Score

Terry - Miss

Anderson - Score

Kalou - Score

Giggs - Score

Anelka - Miss

So John Terry, from hero to zero.

We have won it for the third time in United history. I received quite a number of sms from all my United Fan colleague. Not to forget, I did send some sms to the Chelsea fan. Again.....GLORY GLORY MAN UNITED.

HITB SecConf 2008 Malaysia

The Call for Papers (CFP) for the 6th Hack In The Box Security
Conference in Malaysia (27th - 30th October 2008) is now open.

We've got some really cool stuff lined up this year including an
open-hack competition for charity, a third track in the conference
(hitb-labs), 4 keynote speakers + 30 international experts, the usual
team based capture the flag competition, a new wireless (bluetooth,
rfid, 802.11) village and lock picking village!

Summaries not exceeding 1250 words should be submitted (in plain text
format) to cfp -at- hackinthebox.org for review and possible inclusion
in the programme.

Submissions are due no later than 30th of June 2008

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

# 3G/4G Cellular Networks
# Apple / OS X security vulnerabilities
# SS7/Backbone telephony networks
# Analysis of network and security vulnerabilities
# Firewall technologies
# Intrusion detection
# Data Recovery, Forensics and Incident Response
# HSDPA and CDMA Security
# Identification and Entity Authentication
# Network Protocol and Analysis
# Smart Card and Physical Security
# Virus and Worms
# WLAN, RFID and Bluetooth Security
# Analysis of malicious code
# Applications of cryptographic techniques
# Analysis of attacks against networks and machines
# File system security

PLEASE NOTE:

We do not accept product or vendor related pitches. If your talk
involves an advertisement for a new product or service your company is
offering, please do not submit.

Your submission should include:

# Name, title, address, email and phone/contact number
# Short biography, qualification, occupation, achievement and
affiliations (limit 250 words).
# Summary or abstract for your presentation (limit 1250 words)
# Technical requirements (video, internet, wireless, audio, etc.)

Each non-resident speaker will receive accommodation for 2 nights/3
days. For each non-resident speaker, HITB will cover travel expenses up
to USD 1,000.00.

HITBSecConf2008 - Malaysia - Sponsorship Options

For an opportunity to position your company as a major supporter of this
event, we have several sponsorship packages which offers an extensive
variety of direct and exclusive mechanisms for pre-event exposure and
direct business generation during the event. If you are interested in
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please contact us.

===

On a related note, the keynote presentation videos from HITBSecConf2008
- Dubai is also now available for download from here:

Day 1 Keynote:
http://materials.hitbsecconf.org/hitbsecconf2008dubai/videos/Keynote-1.mov
Day 2 Keynote:
http://materials.hitbsecconf.org/hitbsecconf2008dubai/videos/Keynote-2.mov

See you guys in October!

Reply From ASTRO

Beside sending the complaint to The Sun newspaper, I also send it to the ASTRO itself.
And this is the respond i received today.

Dear Encik Wan Azhar,

We refer to your email below.

Please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused.

Please be advised that we have agreed to waive your subscription fee amounting to RM5.99 due to the technical problem from 10 May 2008 to 12 May 2008. This adjustment will be reflected on your forthcoming statement.

We trust the above clarifications are in order. Should you have further queries, kindly contact our Call Centre at 1300-82-3838 which is operational from 8.00 am to 12.00 midnight daily or email to wecare@astro.com.my.

It is our pleasure to be of service to you.

Yours Sincerely,

Even though my phone bills cost much higher than this, but I'm still glad that they do give some waive.

Growing Up

By the time i write this post, my baby Wan Nur Adriana already 4.2kg on weight.
She's growing so fast....considering she was born with only 2kg and when she was discharged from the hospital with just 1.7kg. Here's some of the picture i took last night.

Pray to Allah the Almighty

Today, is the third day for one of my good friend doing his Chemotherapy.
All of us was shocked when we heard about the news when he was diagnosed with this

Embryonal carcinoma:

This type of nonseminoma germ cell cancer is present in about 40% of testicular tumors. Pure embryonal carcinomas occur only 3% to 4% of the time. When seen under a microscope, these tumors can look like tissues of very early embryos. This type of nonseminoma tends to grow rapidly and spread outside the testicle.


Since being admitted to the hospital and now for the chemotherapy, he has been writing his own blogs. And since then I've never missed reading his blog.
To you my friend Mohd Zairy Mohd Tamam or also known as Ciki, I'll pray for your health. Then you can start thinking of having futsal session together again.

HIS BLOG

We are the champion

One down and one to go.
We have successfully defended the English Premier League trophy again this year.
Now all sets for the European Champions League final against Chelsea in Moscow in 10 days time.
It will be a double heartbreak for Chelsea if they lost to us in the final.
In fact, there are some good news to the United camp. John Terry might be out for the final with dislocated shoulder injury.

Glory Glory Man United.

ASTRO from BAD to WORST

I've submitted this email to the sun newspaper.

Last Friday, when I came back from the office, I switched my ASTRO to channel 812 ESPN. Unfortunately is says that the channel is not in my subscription. Immediately I call ASTRO customer service and the customer service officer told me that they cannot access the system temporarily and promised to return my call once the system is OK. I keep on waiting but I haven't received any return call from them.

The next morning as early 8.00 am I gave them a call again. And this time they promised that my ASTRO should be OK in half an hour. After half an hour the problem yet to be solved and it started to pissed me off. I called them again and this time, they said I need to wait another one hour and they guarantee that the service will be OK. One hour later, the problem is yet to be solved. Again I called them, and this time they said I need to wait 24 hours for the service to be OK. What a stupid service provided by this ASTRO. They keep on promising and yet my ASTRO still facing the problem.

On Sunday, I call them again and this this they said they will try to solved it immediately but until now I still can't view my ASTRO. Even last night I need to watched my football match at mamak stall. Then what's the purpose of having ASTRO if I can't watch it at my own house? This ASTRO is now much terrible than before. Since receiving the new smartcard, I'm facing a lot of problem. First, my new smartcard got problem and I need to wait for one week to received the replacement card. Now, I can't even watched the channel that I subscribed to. And I've spent lot of my phone bills just to call them. What a stupid and terrible customer service.

Just that you are the only company that provide satellite service doesn't mean that you can treat your customer lightly. The government should take further action about it. What's the purpose of paying the bills if I can't watch it. And every time I need to call them with the problem yet to be solved and just to get speak with the customer service officer it took almost half an hour to get through the line.

Confirmation

Today 5 May 2008 means I've been working here in EON Bank for six months. Unofficially, I'm now a confirmed staff and just waiting for the official letter from HR. I've done the appraisal for confirmation last week and my score isn't too bad.
Now, I'm already entitled for the staff car loan at 4% monthly reduced. But I'm only looking forward for a staff housing loan at a rate of 3% per annum. Not bad huh.

Even though I'm already a confirmed staff, something still bothering me. After the bank announced the salary adjustment, the fresh graduates who joined the bank earning now earning almost the same salary with me who already have 4 years of experience. This is totally unfair and I would like to seek explanation from the HR today. Better that I rejoined again the bank. Hahahaha. If I managed to get some adjustment as well, then it would be a bonus for me. I pray for God on that and hope you guys pray for me as well.