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London Trip

Masa mula mula keje ada buat janji kat diri sendiri nak travel to a new place once a year. So far berjaya buat.. First year keje travel dlm negara ke Kuching. The next year kitorg g Bangkok. Lepas tu Bali. Then aku g Hong Kong dengan bebudak GE. Travel yang agak mahal ke Beijing. Tahun lepas g Istanbul dari sini. Tahun ni malangnya aku tak jejakkan kaki ke tempat baru selain dari urusan keje.
Sungguhpun begitu,tahun ni ada dua tiga tempat yang aku pegi atas urusan keje tapi tempat ni memang baru bagi aku. Kalau tak baru pun place that I haven't visited for 20years. Aku dah blog kan Jordan n Paris lom? Kalau belum nanti aku tulis.
Kali ni aku g London. What makes it different is that I was staying separately from the team. So mmg senang la nak roam around sendirian berhad. Hari bekerja aku hang out dengan Fira,kawan satu maktab dulu yg skang dia dh mcm mastautin kat London dah. Over the weekend aku visit Kak Ija,org kampung paya datuk. Kira waris la.. Yang tak berapa nak best ialah london hujan je tetiap hari sampaikan aku demam teruk.
Anyhow I had a good visit in the city. Tak banyak gambar yg ambik sebab jalan sendiri. Ada a few je bila aku keluar dengan Fira.
On my own,aku visit Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park n London Bridge. Sambil tu ada la lalu Downton Abbey. Bought my first Pandora bracelet at Oxford Street. Dengan Fira I visited Picadilly Circus n Bayswater. Mostly sebab nak dinner kat that area. Had a great lobster experience at Burger&Lobster just around the corner of my hotel. Memang kelas la itu Lobster! Dengan Kak Ija just pegi ke Chinatown for lunch then lepak umah dia for one night. Bought my lovely Burberry at Heathrow airport... hehehe..




You Ni Artis Ke?

Tak salah kan kalau x kenal artis? Artis pun suka jgk kot kalau kita x kenal atau buat buat x kenal dia sebab kalau sume org dok kerumun dia camne dia nak bergerak kan..
Anyway..benda jadi sebulan dah kot..mmg byk nk kema update ni..Ill yry slowly..
Aku nak naik flight balik ke AD bila aku nampak ada 2-3 melayu sibuk ambik gambar dgn dia ni.. Tapi serius aku x register sapa dia.. Then dlm flight tgk2 dia dok sebelah aku. Masa dok bersiap nak menselesakan diri dlm flight tu aku tanya la "you ni artis ke?" Dengan tenang dia angguk sambil berkata "A'ah.." Selamba jugak aku bertanya "Siapa ek?" Dengan muka malu malu dia jawab "Nealofa" Serius aku terkejut which came to my expression "Serius?!" Well mesti la dia angguk..dah mmg dia Nealofa..
The thing is.. she is being mentioned a lot in my GE Alumni whatssapp group.. The actress where the guys collectively selected as their sexy icon. Aku boleh agak this is mindblowing for the guys if they know. So aku mintak la nak amik gambar dgn Nealofa..
Sure dalam kepala otak Nealofa, 'Aku ko x kenal..tapi bergambar nak..' Heheheheh...


Jebel Ali Golf & Beach Resort

Ni kali pertama MENAT ITO Team wat teambuilding. Buat kat Jebel Ali Golf & Beach Resort, Dubai.


Cara nak pegi, dari Sheikh Zayed Road, tak kisah la dari Dubai atau AD, amik exit no 13, Dubai Road No 53. Kalau tgk sign board dia tulis Port Jebel Ali. Terus je ke arah Port Jebel Ali tu and follow je sign board. Senang je sbnrnye...

Sume org dapat bilik sorg satu. View mmg tip top. Lawa gila. And rasa tenang jek... Ni view dari dalam bilik.


Malangnya kitorg tak dapat nak enjoy the beauty or the beach or the pool or the zoo or the golf course sebab nya activiti sangat pack. Bos aku ni mmg tak nak kasi org berpecah2 or berpuak puak. sume kena wat sesama. takde nak balik2 awal ke apa ke...

1st day and 2nd day morning session presentation je keje. Setiap org kene perkenalkan diri based on presentation slide yg sendiri dah buat. Pastu comops ada la wat presentation pasal 2013 nye projection. Then AE leaders buat presentation pasal product. Aku pun kena present gak walaupun aku bukan leader..



Dinner 1st day tu on a cruise. Takde makna la ko nak naik bilik awal. Ko duduk la atas kapal tu dendiam sampai abis dinner. Since dah takde mende nak buat kat situ terpaksa la bergambar sakan...




Then esok petang pas lunch start activiti lasak. dimulakan dengan paintball...ko ingat senang main paintball dgn arab? mmg menguji kesabaran betul. ni baru nampak sapa boleh keje dalam team and sapa yg nak dia je jadi bos..


Lepas paintball g desert safari plak. ni dah kali keberapa pun aku tak tau la.. so takde la nak enjoy beria sangat. relek2 sudahh...





 bebudak AD ramai yg balik malam tu jugak. rasanya semua kot.. kecuali aku.. hahahha... penat seyy... dah la dah tgh malam.. mau pengsan makcik kat tetengah jalan nanti.. drive sorg lak tu.. huhu.. so, aku stay lagi sampai esoknya. tapi since takde geng.. tak gak merasa beach pool segala...




Down The Memory Lane

1st time jejak kaki ke Milan was about 5 years ago. Together with the super duper KL team. After that I keep coming for meetings but never had time to revisit the city. Thanks to my fav meeting buddy who forced me to go with her walaupun x sempat mandi.. I revisitted after 5 years..


Firework Birthday

Not mine. We were celebrating our colleague's birthday. It was Sari's birthday. Shinhab and I went out to buy the cake at SeaSide Patisserie nearby my house. Hid it in the fridge. Then set it up in the meeting room. Called everybody else up to gather in the room. Then bring Sari in. Typical birthday surprise...

Royal Chocolate Cake 

Sari came in and found all of us inside

His surprise look

Shinhab lighted up the candle

Omer: Hey, there's a smoke detector there!

Sari! Quick! Blow it!

It's a firework candle! How to blow??!!!

Let's blow it together!

Cake cutting

Happy Birthday!

Sari handed over the task to Imad

Imad cut the cake

All of us still laughing at the firework-smoke detector thing

I had to travel on business on my birthday. I'll be in the 10 hours plane. It's for Sari's project. I told him, I want a cake with the firework candle inside the plane. Make it happen bro!

Office baru!

Saya tak tukar keje. Belum lagi..hehhee.. cuma tukar ofis je.. Location nya tak jauh dari ofis lama. Maknanya tak jauh jugak dari rumah aku ni ha.. Kalau drive, 5 minit sampai la. Itu pun sebab traffic light yg tak berapa nak bijak tu. Kalau nasib baik dapat sume traffic light ijau, 3 minit dh leh sampai dah.

My Office at night
I'm very excited about the new office. I got my permanent workstation. Complete pantry with GE fridge, microwave, coffee machine, water filter, etc. Lots and lots and lots of parking (for now). Big surau lengkap dgn  tempat wuduk and cermin yg besar utk reapply make up. Happy faces!!! Tapi kat situ takde restoren lagi except for Jones The Grocer yang boleh mengopakkan purseku kalau dimakan setiap hari. Tapi since pantry ni cantik, semangat la makcik bawak bekal hari2....


Owh.... saya lupa nak bagitau satu berita penting... Sheikh Khalifa decided to change the name of the island from Sowwah Island to Maryah Island in order to blend the authenticity and modernity of the island.. Wakakakkakka... Ini pulau... saya yang punya!!!


View from our window. Nice one. Blue water. Tenang giller...


That's my workstation. In between Hema and Shinhab. In front of Imran who sits in between Ejaz n Mubashir. Ini workstation sebelum aku arrange it to be more comfy. Skang dah jadi sangat cosy..


Satu benda pelik kat ofis baru ni. Ada satu bilik dipanggil phone booth. Dalam tu ada sofa, phone, and LAN port. Lampu dia boleh dim. Kalau tutup pintu bilik ni jadi kalis bunyi. Perfect for a quick nap!


Toilet pun sophisticated ok.. Takde la aku nak ambik nmbr utk kencing lagi lepas ni...


Meeting room paling canggih pernah aku tgk. Controlled by an Ipad. Nak book meeting room pun kat panel kat luar tu. Just put in the date and time, then swipe ID, siap. Nak control curtain, projector, video conf, conf call bagai sume pakai Ipad. Gillerr arrr...


Coffee Machine, fridge and microwave. Lawa arrangement dia. Macam kat umah dah ha...


Ni pantry kat floor kitorg. Ada lagi satu pantry kat tingkat 29. Ni pantry umum for the whole building. Kalau agak2 nak jumpa mamat2 lain boleh la take lunch kat atas tu. huhu...

Pape pun, I'm happy. Hope yang lelain pun happy gak!


Cultural Lunch

My 1st GEWN activity in Abu Dhabi!
Was so excited about it!!!!

It's obviously not the first event being held, but the first for me to join as the first one happened when I was seriously sick. The event is Cultural Lunch. Being in AD office, we have a lot of nationalities working together. So it really make sense to have this kind of lunch.

Each one of us has to bring a delicacy from our home country. Also the country flag. Then we have to teach the others to say something useful in home country language and tell something interesting that not many people knows.

I decided to bring........ NASI LEMAK!!!!! Yummy...
I printed out the flag but it was in the moving box and we're not able to unpack it. So no flag. But I explained that our flag is similar to USA except that we have 14 lines, and one star with 14 points and a half moon. That would work, right?
I taught them to say 'Terima Kasih'.
The interesting fact was Malaysian has a lot of races,ethnicity, and religion believers. We celebrate all kind of festivals. Eid, Chinese New Year, Deepavali, Christmas, and many more which end up of us having like 30 days of public holiday. They started going 'Waaaaahhhhhhhhh' at this point.. hehhehe.. And when you fill in any form, you will be asked Malaysian-Non Malaysian, Bumiputera-Non Bumiputera, Malay-Chinese-Indian-Others, Islam-Buddha-Hindu-Others, etc.. They started laughing at this point.

Others bringing:
Australian - Meat Pie
Egyptian - Kind of Murtabak (seriously murtabak)
American - New York Cheese Cake
Indian - Kind of putu mayam
South African - Kind of dessert (I LOVE THIS ONE. Am eating it while writing this post)
Emiratis - Chicken Khabsa

Can't wait for the next event to come!!!!

No pictures of the food since it was so yummy
and we just can't wait to dig in

Memorable Farewell

Not mine. At least this time it's not mine. Some other time maybe.... ahhhehehhe...
It's for our boss, Martella. According to the organization he's actually the boss of my boss's boss. Haaaa... Can figure out or not???
We chose Prego's at Beach Rotana simply because he's Italian and he only likes Italian food. Not that he doesn't eat anything else but that's his favorite. And since we're in the desert, we decided to sit outside with the view of our soon to be office.
We ordered our food and drinks. Drink arrived together with the first cloud of RAIN!!!! Being Malaysian I should not be afraid of rain right... But the fact that I know what rain can do to you and that I just recovered from the worst sick time ever... This is not good. But that first cloud was really like one drop every 10 seconds or so. So I figured that it's not gonna last long. So we stayed.
The food arrived together with THUNDER!!!! Oh my..... Again, being Malaysian I know what will come after this kind of thunder. We ate really quick. Like super quick. Some of us manage to finish up the food right before the HEAVY cloud of rain came. I couldn't. I just picked up the plate and the drink brought it to safety. Pull the chair to there as well and finished it there.
Really, a farewell in Abu Dhabi with RAIN. And lots of it to spice it up a bit..

Martella reading our 'card'

Mont Blanc Pen

Sunglasses in the RAIN

Abu Dhabi Team
-at the back is our soon to be office

Want To Be Me??

17th Oct - Meeting with BIG Boss
19th Oct - Meeting with Customer A (Morning)
                 Fly off to Korea (Night)
20th Oct - Be a zombie in Korea
21st Oct - Meeting with Customer B
22nd Oct - Fly back to AD
23rd Oct - Struggle to complete Customer C's request
24th Oct - Fly to Beijing
25th to 29th Oct - Try not to be zombie in Beijing
30th Oct to 3rd Nov - Struggle to complete Customer D, E and F's request
3rd (Night) to 11th Nov - Fly to Malaysia
12th to 23rd Nov - Hoping nothing will come (Finger cross all the way)
24th Nov to 10th Dec - Back to Malaysia for 3 weddings
11th Dec - Bernafas......


Atlantis The Palm Jumeirah Dubai


Ini lah sebabnya kenapa aku takleh attend Handbag Auction For Charity semalam.

Eh! Salah. Sebabnya ialah ini...


Middle East, North Africa and Turkey Regional Leadership Meeting.
There're a few sessions and the session that I was involved in was Women in Leadership Role held by the Women Network.

Kebetulan session ni dianjurkan di The Palm Jumeirah Dubai or better known as Atlantis. Cantik tempatnya. Since aku sampai awal tadi, dapat la jalan2 tengok2 keadaan sekeliling. Kat sini kalau not a guest there takleh jalan suka2 hati.

I drove from AD and sampai kat Atlantis konpius mana nak park. Rupanya valet park. Nasib baik company bayo. Kalau  tak haru gak tgk rate nye 150AED. Masuk hotel hilang bayangan yang saya sebenarnye berada di Middle East (if you know what I meant). Beach dia lawa. Tapi tempat main main air tak sempat nk g checkout. Nak amik gambar byk sgt tak berani pasal mana2 pegi pun mesti ada ikan duyung (dugong pun ada gak).

Me checking out the fish (kali ni real fish)

The session is about what should the company do to encourage women to become leader. Apparently, in this region, there're only 15% women population in the company. So, they're saying that, out of 15% brapa je yg berpotensi nak jadi leader. They're afraid that the pipeline is not enough for future growth.

Berperah otak la kami mencari idea and action plan mcm mana nak encourage women to take the leadership role. Mcm2 benda gak keluar tadi. Tapi mostly cakap nak longer maternity leave (yg mana I personally think should not be there), company sponsored nursery (this one is brilliant), part time worker (also not a very good idea), training (common), mandatory quota in each team (well.... ), start having business lunch rather than dinner (can't agree more. single pun malas nak g dinner tau) and many more.

Personally, I think that the women here are lack of self confidence and skills. Compared to what I've been through in Malaysia, women in Malaysia is much more aggressive. Maybe because we have the channel (Women Network there is quite strong) that provide all these opportunity for us to shine and be known. Here, they think too much of work/life balance. I know it's important. Of course you would want to see you kids grow up. But if that is more important to you, than you have to let go your career as a leader. If a company is willing to let you work as part timer, they won't pay you as much. And how can you be a leader if you only work 6 months out of 12? Doesn't make sense isn't it?

What I think they need are opportunities. They need to have the opportunity to understand what the company needs in a leader. They need to know if they have the leadership quality that the company is looking for. And from company perspective, they need to give the opportunity to the women to show that they can do it. Give the women small projects to work on. Get to know these women. Get them involve in your conversation. Women are naturally shy. It's our nature. But that doesn't mean we don't have great ideas. Just give us a chance. Shut up and listen to what we have to say. You'll be surprise.

Last skali, saje2 g amik gambar bengong kat bawah ni. Company bayo kan... belasah je la...

Shaimaa, Me and Hema - Iron Ladies in GEONG MENAT






Nickname Baru

Skang kat ofis aku ada nickname baru. Bebudak ni panggil aku Ju-on. Asalnya di suatu pagi yang damai, ofis tu penuh. Selalunya tak penuh sebab Shinhab slalu tak datang. Masa tu ntah kenapa dalam pada aku dok pikir nak tulis email kat sapa ntah aku terbuat satu bunyi. Bunyi nye lebih kurang macam dalam video kat bawah ni, minit 0.25. (PERHATIAN: Kalau korang tak berani tengok cerita hantu, tak yah le dengor bunyi ni ye..)



Terkuat plak aku buat bunyi tu. Sekali Shinhab tegur "Do u need oil for ur throat?". Habis satu ofis aku gelak. Maka aku plak pi bercerita pasal bunyi tu macam cite Ju-on. Being non-Asian, none of them tau cite tu. Punya lah beria aku explain bagai.

Since then, sebut la pasal apa pun mesti diorg ungkit pasal Ju-on tu. Dari kira bape kepala yang nak attend Gorla nye farewell sehingga la siapa yang habiskan biskut kat ofis tu. Sume Ju-on. And kadang2 tersasul sebut Jungmin jugak.

Wakakakakka....

Sanggup ke tak?

Jumaat yang damai (sini Jumaat is a weekend).
Kenyang lepas makan Mee Bandung (Alhamdulillah).
Baru nak merehatkan minda (a.k.a tido)

dedetdedet... (Bunyi sms)

Check your inbox today. This is urgent

Why?! Why?! Why is this happening???!

Coz u work for tuttt...

 Takleh nak kata apa dah la. Next time kalau ada org mntk aku recommend aku nak tanya dia, 'Sangguo ke tak?'
Ini tahap kalau tgh dating kene balik rumah bukak laptop tau..


Tersalah Langkah

Apa la nak jadi ni....

Sekembali dari cuti raya, mmg aku dah tau aku akan byk keje walaupun sebelum cuti keje aku boleh dikatakan zero. Aku dah clearkan akunye list. Tak sempat balik ofis kemas beg dah bertimbun balik. Sempat cuti 4 hari je.

Aku mengejar 2 dateline yang sangat penting. 12th and 15th of September. Dateline lain ada lagi tapi ni dua yang paling penting. Seperti biasa aku plan dah. Aku kene buat bahagian control je. Bahagian instrument biarlah yang lebih arif melaksanakannya.

Tiba tiba dalam kesibukan kota, datang satu mesej dari PakCik. Dia mintak aku buatkan bahagian instrument jugak. Aku mintak maaf baik2, aku terpaksa tolak. Bukan suka suka nak tolak tapi sebab panggilan tugas yang terlalu banyak. Dia mintak extension. Aku contact tuan punya tanah boleh ke tak nak bagi extension. Tuan tanah kata tak boleh. So aku conve the msg to PakCik. Aku cakap jgk kalau betul2 tak boleh meet dateline hantar la email. Boleh kitorg take action from that email kan.PakCik tak nak plak hantar email tu.

Tiba tiba jugak PakCik kuarkan satu kenyataan "I don't know what C&I AE do". Errkkk... Apakah ini??? Aku sabar lagi. Then dia start kata kalau dia buat commentnye patutnya dia jugak yang buat follow up and attend meeting. I was like "huh??!" So dengan baiknya aku cakap la yang I'm not in the position to agree to that. Let's park this issue and discuss it with my manager and tuan tuan tanah yang lain.Yelah.. kalau dia datang meeting bukan aku yang bayar. Tapi dia akan sedut dari akunye allocation jugak kan... PakCik kata tak payah la nak libatkan tuan tanah yg lain. Tapi kalau aku diskas dgn manager aku dia nak join the call. He sounded serious.

Dengan penuh diplomatik aku cakap dgn dia ok.. let's discuss later coz what's more important now is this project has to meet its dateline. Kalau dia takleh nak meet email la tuan tanah. Dia tak nak. Dia nak Webex je. Takmo email..

Aku ingat dah takde apa la. Hari yang damai hari ni, bos aku telefon. Tanya khabar and all. Aku jawab je la macam biasa. Then bos tanya "Thank God you are still alive after all this issues" I was like 'whatt??!!'. Rupanya dah panjang dah. Tuan tanah nak raise compliance issue pasal PakCik kata nak attend meeting tu. Aduiiaiii... Skang aku dah jadi serba salah jugak. PakCik tak henti2 'ping' aku sampai aku kene cakap kat dia "Let's focus on completing Z. I give you my word that this issue will stop here"

PakCik habiskan masa lebih dari 2 jam bergaduh pasal benda ni. Kalau dia start buat keje tu dah siap kottt...


Terjadi lagi

With reference to this post, here's the continuity.

Apa maknanya kalau dia tanya aku soalan yang dia dah tanya @ndy sebelum @ndy g bercuti? Masa dia tanya tu dia tak bagitau yang dia dah tanya @ndy. Lepas aku bagi jawapan baru dia bagitau. Lepas tu dia takleh terima jawapan aku. Sebab tak sama 100% word by word dengan jawapan yang @ndy bagi. Konsep nye still sama, cuma approach berlainan.

A dear friend advised, jangan sampai dia claim kat @ndy yang aku tak perform and subsequently comment dia tu akan effect akunye performance rating.

Apa patut aku buat?

A. Buat bodoh
B. Bagitau kat @ndy
C. Confront dia
D. Backstab dia balik (oohh yesss... I am capable of doing that...)

Am I Being Sensitive Or What???

Banyak dah case. Tapi minggu ni agak ketara sebab semuanya berlaku dalam satu minggu n berturut turut.
Sebelum ni aku ingat he was being nice trying to take the load off my shoulder. Tapi sejak akhir akhir ni mcm makin menjadi jadi plak.

Aku mula perasan masa @ndy assigned aku suh ajar @$h.Immediately after @ndy assigned tu dia terus webek aku ckp yg @$h mmg susah nak diajar. susah nak terima. kene sabar n all. I actually thanked him for that reminder. But in the end I find it fun to teach @$h. He accepted everything well. And he understand why I teach him that way. The best thing is, he never asked the same question twice.

So things went on.. I never cared actually. Banyak jugak berselisih pendapat tapi aku just take it as he's trying to remind me. Then one fine day @ndy webek aku tanya leh tak sub @ndy while he's going on vacation for 3 weeks. That 3 weeks will be on Ramadhan. I said yes and I told @ndy in case I need to travel or something I'll pass it over to 3ric.

The next day I talked to 3ric telling him that @ndy asked me to sub and I'll pass to him if I'm loaded. He said ok. Suddenly he went webek'ing' @ndy telling @ndy that it's going to be Ramadhan so Mariah will be tired so HE SHOULD BE THE SUB. I was like WHAT??!!!

Case 2: H0ngyu was in a customer meeting and sent a desperate email to @ndy. @ndy fwd that email to me to take care of it. The problem was I read that mail only the day after. Knowing that H0ngyu n 3ric are in the same time zone, I figure out H0ngyu might have called 3ric for help. Since H0ngyu is not picking up the I called 3ric up and ask. 3ric bagitau yg dia dah bagi apa yg H0ngyu nak. So I emailed H0ngyu saying that I heard that 3ric has helped and I guess the issue settled.

Tapi H0ngyu replied kata he actually needed another doc and still hoping me to help. So I made my research with the little information that H0ngyu bagi and sent that docs yg H0ngyu mintak. I also sent to the other 2 guys so that they will keep it for future reference. Soon after that 3ric replied to all mcm ckp kat H0ngyu
"apsal ko tak ckp ni doc yg ko nk. aku leh bagi ko la doc ni. x pyh nk hrp mariah. btw, doc yg mariah bg tu ko takleh pakai sbb ada 5 instrument tak sama dgn ko nye skop" (Nota kaki: bukan ayat sebenar tapi camni la aku baca dia)


How bout that? Aku malas nak reply pape. Biar je. H0ngyu pun senyap jek. So aku expect dia tau apa yg dia kena buat.

3rd incident: @ndy sent email mntk tolong sesapa yg free utk buatkan keje dia sket sbb dia tak menang tangan. @ minit lepas @ndy bagi email tu 3ric nye reply dah sampai bagitau yang dia ada submission due 3 haribulan but whatever.. he can still help.. throw me the jobs... Me? I realized that mail after 15 minutes. Then think for a while. Susun all my jobs and reply personally to @ndy "Sure.. My pleasure". No crap thing about when is my due date bla bla bla...

Really.. what is he trying to do? Kenapa sume benda aku buat dia nak pangkah? Aku yang sensitive sangat ke? 

Go Home

We had to go to Dubai for a customer meeting. This is my first meeting in Dubai since I have Whiney. I need the mileage as Whiney did not go out on the road that often. Plus, the other two guys are living in the desert which is already halfway to Dubai. It doesn't make sense for them to come to AD, pick me up, and then drive to Dubai.

So, I asked this guy, how do I go to his house. He was thinking on the best direction to give. Suddenly

"I'll give you my GPS. Tomorrow morning, you switch it on and press 'Go Home'"

Smart isn't it....

And in two days time we have to go to another meeting which is 'around the corner' of the desert. Again today, during lunch I asked another guy, how do I go there.

"All of us will 'Go Home' and we'll go from there"

Stress!!!

Amat jarang. Rasanya tak pernah aku menangis masa customer meeting. Tapi kali ni amat gila. N aku actually menangis bukan sebab customer. Sebab our own guy.

Aku spent one full week buat preparation untuk meeting ni. Aku stop semua keje lain. Bila org tanya aku just kata 'No, I have to complete this. I don't have time for any other things'. Sampaikan Andrea sendiri call aku personally mintak aku 'curi' one hour untuk reply email dia. Itu pun aku kata aku takde one hour nak bagi kat dia.

Dalam meeting mana yang aku pegi semua extra cost dah siap dalam tangan. Dalam meeting mana yang aku pegi dah siap approval untuk supply native file dalam tangan. Dalam meeting mana yang aku actually went through line by line and siapkan reply sebelum meeting. TAK PERNAH! Tapi for this meeting aku actually buat semua.

The customer was tough. I agree. But they are customer. Diorg tak paham macam mana kita kerja. U asked me to understand that the customer is dealing with 5 vendors. Then what about me?? How many customer do u think i have to handle for G@$C0? 23! And is that the only project? HELL NO! Aku ada 5 lagi projek lain aku kene handle. Yes. Customer tak tau. Tapi KO PATUT PAHAM!

Handling tough customer is ok. I canhandle. I have no issue. I'm fully capable of that. I've done that. Customer komplen pasal kitorg terlalu agresif? Ko tau kenapa kitorg agresif. Kalau aku bisik2 ingat customer nak dengar? Ko kata ko just nak convey the message. Ko ingat aku tak leh baca body language customer n know this by myself?

 I KNEW THAT BEFORE YOU TOLD ME. BUT DON"T ACCUSE THAT I"M NOT PREPARED FOR THIS MEETING. WHO ARE YOU TO SAY SUCH THING? YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO BACK US UP. KEEP THAT COMMENT WITH YOU. ABSORB IT. WE'RE ALREADY IN A STRESSFUL MEETING AND YOU WANT US TO FEEL MORE MISERABLE??!!!

Lepas ni jangan harap aku nak datang sini lagi. Jangan harap aku nak tolong close kan project ko lagi. Kalau ko panggil aku datang sini untuk say 'Yes' to everything baik tak payah. Ko boleh jumpa customer sorg2 n say that 'Yes'. Banyak lagi sales lain yang perlukan khidmat aku.

Sekian.

Meluaskan Pemandangan

Bulan ni mmg aku bekerja keras. Sampaikan aku tak berusaha nak membaiki jet lag aku lagi dah.

1st trip -> Abu Dhabi - Fano - Abu Dhabi
Take up Etihad to Milan. Pastu tunggu sales guy dekat 4 jam. Drive lagi 4 jam. N aku terperuk kat belakang Audi A4 hatchback nye selama itu. Sampaikan aku n Sari siap berdoa yg balik nanti mntk2 dia ada hal and kitorg leh naik tren je. Alhmadulillah, doa kami termakbul. Thanks to Nabeel jugak sbb tak siapkan proposal menyebabkan dia terpaksa tunda meeting ke hari berikutnya. hehe..
Malangnya masa balik tu ada kelam kabut sket. Hampir tersilap naik tren. Tak jadi silap sbb minah jual tiket tu terprint tiket utk hari esoknya. Jadi kitorg kene g tukar tiket n akhirnya naiklah kami ke tren yg betul.
Sampai Milan tido satu malam kat Crowne Plaza Malpensa n the next morning off to Abu Dhabi.

2nd trip-> Abu Dhabi - Dubai-Madrid-Dubai-Abu Dhabi
After 'rehat' for 2 days, the journey to Madrid began. Kol 3 pagi naik teksi g Emirates Office kat Corniche for the shuttle bus. Dalam sedar tak sedar bas itu membawa aku ke Dubai International Airport. Check in. Solat subuh. Naik flight ke madrid. Lepak Madrid 2 malam, chow balik Dubai.
Journey balik memang menyeronokkan. Plane kitorg parking sebatu jauhnya. Turun plane kene naik bas selama 20 minit utk sampai ke terminal. Sampai terminal beratur utk imigresen SEJAM. Sian kat Murad. Dia ada e-gate (which btw I now have one too) tapi dia terpaksa tunggu aku jugak. Sebabnya aku kene sampai Abu Dhabi secepat mungkin. Pagi tu kol 7.30 ada driving test. So we took one cab from Dubai Airport to Abu Dhabi. Sampai rumah kol 5. Tido setengah jam. Bangun siap2. 6.30 naik teksi ke Musaffah. (Cerita selanjutnya pasal driving test ni di post yg lain). Siap test kol 11 bergegas ke Beach Rotana for a meeting. Petang tu mata dah macam burung hantu.

3rd trip -> Abu Dhabi - Milan - Florence
Masih di Florence. So perjalanan balik masih belum tau mcm mana. Walaubagaimanapun, perjalanan ke sini dah pun berlaku. Off to AD Airport after rehat from Madrid Trip for 2 days. G airport awal sebab nak buat e-gate card (yeay!) Off on the plane. As usual on Milan flight.. zZzZzZzZ....
Sampai Milan kol 6 pagi. Get through imigresen. Tunggu beg punya lama. Out and about... Tunggu train plak. From Milan Malpensa to Milano Centrale. 7 Euro. Depart at 7.43am. Arrive 8.40am. Cari tiket ke Florence, got one at 9.15am. Terus loncat naik train. Sampai Firenze 11am. Hujan!!!! Menarik beg la aku dalam hujan ke Residence La Contessina...

So here I am..4 weeks to go. After that.. tak tau la ke mana aku nanti..

Fariwell Version 2

This one takde big bosses. Tukang bayar is Boh. I was already on leave that day. The guys yg plan. N turned out to be quite good place to eat. Souled out at Desa Sri Hartamas. What shocked me was the fact that Jason picked out the place. Scary. How can they trusted him (biar pun tempat tu cool pun). You are jeopardizing MY farewell. HELLO!!!

I didn't took any pictures at all. Memang g, sampai, duduk, makan kind of night for me. After all the eating they ask me to give out some speech. Well, I gave a super short one and quickly asked THEM to give specch to ME. Smart huh?


Anyhow, here's the speech that i could never say it out loud in front of you guys.

It's been a SUPERB 3 years for me. The best team eva (so far). It's not easy for me to make this decision and most of it because of you guys. You have been not only colleagues, but friends and more like brothers to me. I will always remember the times (good and bad) we had together. Be it the fun time during our training in Italy (or Manila) or the stress time (where in the end we turned it to fun) during all those scary meetings.

TJ, I spent the most time with you for meeting with customers. We understand each other so well. I hope you don't break anything anymore. I will not be there to supply you with spare parts anymore. Laptop bag, mouse, handphone.. Don't break anything and please be done with that mirror.

Anip, you were always there to help me especially when I'm in need of a personal driver. I always feel needed when I'm around you.  Don't get to attached to work. Get loose a bit and enjoy the time while you can. Just remember where you put the keys.

Jason, I enjoyed your jokes even though most of the time it just doesn't make any sense. You made it easy for us to laugh. All the tense can go away by just listening to you calls which you always takes using the loudspeaker. Remember, we've been given the cool gadgets for a reason. Use it well.

KK, I know you are enjoying married life more than bachelor life. It really shows all the time. I'm going to miss the posh talks about the baby stuffs (before was marriage stuffs). Your opinion are always valued for the quality of it.

Mie, the big brother. I might miss you the most. Especially you little reminder to yourself when you're trying to complete your work. And all the 'almost real' things you always says. And the new 'in' phrases you always started. Don't bully Anip k..

All in all. I really gonna miss you. I will always love you as it is. Do pray that we can all be in one team again.

Official Farewell

I love this moment. (days actually..)

Monday. Got the email saying that there will be a welcome/farewell lunch at Alexis. So ok la. I know it's my farewell. And welcoming my replacement guy. How nice is that. I was not expecting more than that especially when Mie said that G asked him to handle the farewell. Lagi la aku tak expect something nice.
So, later that afternoon I was 'teaching' the new guy. I saw that Mie, KK, Anip n even G at Mie's cubicle gelak2 and all.. I though they were just laughing at the pictures during the volleyball match. Takpela...
I went for praying. Coming back to my cubicle I stopped by Mie's. And I saw this.


And suddenly he cepat2 tutup the Picasa application. HAH! GOTCHA! So I am going to get some present....



Tuesday. Nothing much. Just suddenly Mie and Anip was missing for few HOURS. When they came back i just asked, "G beli hadiah aku ke? Lawa tak kad aku?". Senyum senyum je Mie jawab, "Eh, takde la.." with his usual tone that I'm going to miss. Ye la tu. Tau dah ada...


Wednesday.
Round one.

We had an early workload review. Finish at 11am. Went up to level 7 and went to the toilet. I was coming in from the side door coz i want to get some water from the pantry. They was Mie at the other side of the glass door. Holding a huge picture frame covered with white paper and ribbons. I straight away menjerit and melompat at the door. Mie was also jerit terkejut. G was there. He started to tepuk kepala Mie.

Round two.

We were suppose to go to Alexis at 12pm. I didn't want to drive. I ran to Boh's room to ask for a spot in his car. The answer i get "er... kete aku dah penuh la". I went back to my cubicle frustrated and told the guys, "kete boh dah penuh". Sume macam, "penuh?". Boh came, "Mie, ko naik kete aku ek. KK pun. Anip n TJ pun". Aik, kata penuh. Ni baru nak arrange kete... Fishy... AHAH!
"Kete ko penuh dengan hadiah aku ye....."

Round three.

The lunch...











THANK YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!
I love it!!!
But really. Next time please hire a person who can also do these organizing things ok...