He's Just Funny!!!!
I always tease Nabeel about Arab for being terrorist. They are NOT!!!! It just jokes between us.
Whatever Peter's saying are all so true. The Arab language is so nice to hear. Especially when they started teaching me the local accent or linggo. Sounds really nice. And now I've started to talk English in their accent as well.. Adding up to various accent I already captured. Shall I put these accents in the Resume???
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!!!!
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!!!!
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| 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..
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..
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| Martella reading our 'card' |
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| Mont Blanc Pen |
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| Sunglasses in the RAIN |
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| Abu Dhabi Team -at the back is our soon to be office |
Gerun 2
Remember this post? Well that's the main reason I decided to take the company car. Then skang ni around my office building dah ada Mawaqif. Which means we have to pay for the parking. Since I live across the street, I decided to walk to office until we move to the new office. Minggu ni je pun last.
So I walked. This morning. To work. Something yang dah lamaaaa tak berlaku since I have Winey happened. I cross behind a Pajero. Then I heard the honking sound from the Pajero. I turned. Manala tau kot2 aku ada buat silap. Skali I saw the guy inside the Pajero was making a phone sign. I presumed he was asking for my phone number. WTH!!!
So I kept walking. I walked pass through a bank and still hearing those honking sound. OMG!!! He actually followed me with the car!!! I kept on walking in front of the shops and he did actually tried to stop me by mocking that he was about to crush me with the Pajero when I wanted to cross the street.
I keep ignoring his honking which was very annoying. And cross the main street. Hoping that the signal for pedestarian will keep on green. Alhamdulillah...
But he did get out of his Pajero and started to cross the street as well. I saw one of my colleague at the other end of the street. I walked very quickly to him. When I turned the Pajero guy turned back to his car.
Alhamdulillah nothing happened.
Starting tomorrow, I'm going to pay that 15Dhs per day for the parking.
So I walked. This morning. To work. Something yang dah lamaaaa tak berlaku since I have Winey happened. I cross behind a Pajero. Then I heard the honking sound from the Pajero. I turned. Manala tau kot2 aku ada buat silap. Skali I saw the guy inside the Pajero was making a phone sign. I presumed he was asking for my phone number. WTH!!!
So I kept walking. I walked pass through a bank and still hearing those honking sound. OMG!!! He actually followed me with the car!!! I kept on walking in front of the shops and he did actually tried to stop me by mocking that he was about to crush me with the Pajero when I wanted to cross the street.
I keep ignoring his honking which was very annoying. And cross the main street. Hoping that the signal for pedestarian will keep on green. Alhamdulillah...
But he did get out of his Pajero and started to cross the street as well. I saw one of my colleague at the other end of the street. I walked very quickly to him. When I turned the Pajero guy turned back to his car.
Alhamdulillah nothing happened.
Starting tomorrow, I'm going to pay that 15Dhs per day for the parking.
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