Learning smth new from different people everyday. That’s what I’ve been doing since day one in Seagate. First there was Pathy who guides me through the basics of EMI (which I’ve already taken a semester on that subject. And there there’s this Mohd. who brings me around the plant to show me around. Third day was this Wei Kiat guy who teach me about corrosion of the slider head.

I wasn’t the kinda person who can sit there for hours to read, read and read. Hence an apprenticeship is what I really need. When these people have some time to work on their stuffs, I’ll approach them to ask them for help. To guide me through what they know. The good part here is that I can know who is in charged of what, and what these individuals are doing. Secondly I can also get to know them in person, and make them know about my existence. I heard from my other friends having their internship at other places, but most of them are given thick manuals (which I’m also being given) to read through, so that they will not disturb their supervisor’s work. Same here, but as a part of the family, we also have the rights to ask when we are in doubt.

Today I’m being given a thick book related with Electrical Overstress (EOS)/ Electrostatic Discharge (ESD). It’s a compilation of papers written specifically on this subject. I’m thankful that my supervisor let me read through such an informative book.

Right after lunch, I went visiting Wei Kiat again to see how he query the defective images out from the oracle server using some SQL templates already available. After familiarize myself with the workflow, I have this fantasy of automating the system using what so knowledge I have. But turns out that the system they are expecting is far more complicated then what I have ever learnt. There is already a similar system like this available on the network, and I’m supposed to understand how to do the same thing.

It’s had much to do with SQL and ASP. One of my project for this internship is to work on a system to detect corrosion of the sliders by inserting certain query like the duration of query, the percentage of defects which we want to query and a list of other things. There are also various error codes, and things like that which I shouldn’t bore you with.

After looking at the SimOne (modified name), WeiKiat directs me to another guy who does the software – Ban Siong. He was rather busy lately, so I don’t really have much time learning from him. Eventhough he’s a bit frightening IMHO, but he is willing to spend time to explain those error codes to me. But I guess I’ll have to understand SimOne from him next week, as he’ll be going for training again on Friday.

My supervisor has high expectations for me and expects SimTwo to be up within my internship of a mere 3 months. Luckily he will assign me to a programmer who will help me to do the ASP and SQL link. What a relieve!