Hello Again!

I know I have not been posting anything here for almost three months now... Whether you want to know the reasons (or rather, my excuses) or not, I hereby am listing them down anyway:

1. I was too occupied with work... so many things to accomplish and so many deadlines to meet.

2. I was in a confused state of mind, thinking so much of some personal matters, especially those that touched my heart.

3. I was assigned an additional task, as Project Manager for the Corporate Annual Report 2007 and was given two (2) months to accomplish... thus, becoming more occupied. (The printed copies of the Annual Report was delivered as scheduled - 18 June 2008. The next day, five copies were delivered to MOF. Phew! On time la!)

4. I was waiting for the right mood... it just did not come! (ya right?!)

5. I had so many ideas, and pictures captured for blogging purposes... but too tired to write creatively. (forever tired maa!)

6. I keep procrastinating... tonight... no, tomorrow night... and so on... all due to my mental tiredness after hard day's work.

7. Matters of the heart affected my brain... making me a lazy thinker...

8. Matters of the heart ... again... made me staring wide-eyed at the ceiling, for so many nights... till I fell asleep. (pure laziness, actually eh?)

9. Busy at work, implementing all the planned activities, ensuring that the centre is up and running smooth and efficiently.

10. So many meetings attended, day after day, that the only time to really work was at night, either at home or at the office.

11. My planned vacation to Bali... was great and forgotten about everything else.

12. Busy browsing, doing research for my PhD proposal, keep changing the topic before finally endorsing one and agreed by supervisor. Alas, submitted last month..(am now waiting for August's review session - dgn penuh debaran). (Honestly, with the workload and all, it was a miracle to accomplish even a proposal. I donno how, in the coming years, with the research to be done...citations to be compiled, etc... I will definitely become bonkers, if not zombie!)

13. The Sirim ISMS Audit... phew...another meticulous departmental tasks to accomplish and to be prepared, mental and physical.

14. Another vacation, with family, to Cherating/Kemaman... but was bombarded with a zillion calls, sms and emails from office (especially the COO himself...aarrrgggghhh!!!)

15. Again... no mood to write...though many ideas triggered my mind... (Plain malas le!)

16. Procrastinate, procrastinate and procrastinate... sampai dah jadi habit till now... (baru sedar konon!)

17. Mid Year KPI Review Session and target setting... (another headache, another rush!)

18. Doing extra work for extra income i.e proofread a book for the National Department for Culture and Arts, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage entitled "Joget Pahang Gamelan Melayu - The Classical Essemble of the Pahang Royal Court) (Like I do not have enough work to do eh? But, hey, got extra income maa...thank God that I let go lecturing this year...)

Well... the list can go on... merely excuses kan? Hmmm... today somehow or rather... I feel the urge to write... especially when the ISMS Audit Closing Meeting was over at 5.00 pm today. Me, felt so contented and proud of the company as well. Was so happy when the Lead Auditor announced in the boardroom as below:

"Ladies and gentlemen, With no NCR recorded, we, representing SIRIM QAS International, hereby recommend CyberSecurity Malaysia be awarded with the ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Certification..."

The announcement was followed by a big applause from all of us, members of the management. We are happy. It was tough. In fact, though we were the second company in the country to be awarded with this certification, we actually beat the first company if compared by the number of staffing that we have.

Frankly, adhering to ISMS (Information Security Management System) is not an easy task but we managed, though with some rooms for improvement. So, till next year's surveillance audit, we will try our best to maintain and improve all our processes, policies and uphold our dignity in our quest to 'secure our cyberspace'.

Bravo to all, especially to the SMBP (Security Management and Best Practices) team for making it happened. Also to my team, for all the hardwork and effort put, keep it up KRCians!

Enough for now... Kalambicara is signing off smilingly...over and out.