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I’m Drained!!!
Aug 22nd
I am missing a lot of actions out there!
But at the same time, I’m enjoying my time here.
So much I want to do, so many events I want to go, friends I want to hang out with and work that is piling up at The Office.
I am being drained out of my resources and energy here, but there is one thing that is keeping me up and running.
Making AIESEC International Congress 2009 happen!
Gotta go now.!! Meeting!
Finding Love…
May 19th
I am putting up this congratulatory post to both Simon and Michelle who recently got engaged late last month. If time permits, I would have flown down there to Melbourne! Seriously! 
Love couple eh?
Here is another one with them cutting the cake.
Happy Happy Joy Joy! Happy Happy Joy!
HAPPY ENGAGEMENT TO YOU BOTH!
(that if you two reads my blog lah)
Michelle is the sister of one of my buddy, Pat. We kinda have known each other for years now. More than 20 years I would say. She can nicely pass as my unofficial “jie jie” (sister)… 
So, she is planning her marriage back here next year and she emailed me asking me some questions being the “travel agent” me she needed some recommendations on beaches. You know, the kind of wedding that is held on the beach with beautiful sunset and all. (Now you can “ahhhhhhh“). Furthermore, I’m sorta like the Tan’s family official travel agent already. -_- hahaha
Anyways, yeah… I emailed back my reply and then next morning I check my mail again and voila, there is a reply to the topic of “hello businessman“.
The reply was:
“wei are you involved in AIESEC??
Simon and I met in AIESEC…..
good place to find a wife/husband….actually a lot of my friends met their love through AIESEC!!!!”
Now, that makes my involvement in AIESEC more meaningful. To find my love…
That if that that someone comes along lah. If I do seriously find anyone there among the 600 or more people coming, I will definitely let you all know. Oh, I can have a selection of varieties as well. 20 over different nationalities okay! Jap? Hongkie? Taiwanese? Thai? Aussie? I think I shall stick to Malaysian… 
I hope that one day when I tell my mom I decided to bring back my love and when she greets my family “Hallo.. Tai kar hou… Ngor hai ROWANDA from Rwanda” I seriously hope my Mom don’t start to faint. Hahaha. No me is not racist! There should be not racist in this world!!!
Or maybe I shall start a dating agency and promote AIESEC. “Join AIESEC, Find Your Love”
-_-
Okay, I guess the Monday toll is ticking higher… time to sleep while I shall resume my regular posting albeit my day is not jeapordized again.
But then, you will never know the possibilities right?
The Melting Pot of Cultural Diversities
May 14th
This is gonna be fun and colourful…
AIESEC International Congress 2009 is just 99 days away and I am very excited.
Just look at my logistics team member’s nationality below.
Team Leader:
Eldon (Canada)
Teamsters
1. Pratyush (UK)
2. Subhan (Pakistan)
3. Cindy (El Salvador)
4. Kong (Malaysia)
5. Carina (Austria)
You tell me, how can this congress not be colourful with my team members from different countries. I’m so gonna learn some new language from El Salvador. Maybe I can start with “I LOVE YOU?”
The congress committees are all made up of 60% Malaysian and 40% non-Malaysian from countries such as Hong Kong, Dubai, Germany, Thailand, Poland, Turkey, China, India, Brazil, Slovakia and Greece. Whoa! You many countries and we are anticipating more than 600 participants from over 100 countries.
This is gonna be a nice congress…
Log on to http://www.ic2009malaysia.org to read more about the congress.
Earth Hour Trial Run and Preparation
Mar 24th
I went back home yesterday with a big surprise!
Earth Hour has already started…!!
or… was it on trial run?? hahaha
My housemate lit up the house with this.
Now I know, all you need is Knight cooking oil, a bowl and facial tissue.
Pour the cooking oil into a bowl and take few facial tissue and roll them into a long length and dip it in just like the picture below. Now you are more than ready to have light during Earth Hour. Can last very long as well this ‘light’…
Not to worry. We can all save electricity this coming 28th March 2009 and many days too.
Just replenish these.
Support Earth Hour this coming Saturday!
The Right Choice
Mar 6th
It has been quite a while since I last talk about my work, mostly has been ranting about it.
Well, ranting about work is part and parcel of life in the working world. Isn’t it?
You just need to let it out and let them run as wild as they can.
Working in a corporate world is pretty much challenging and the stress, unimaginable.
It is a crazy rat race out there, and I’m smack in right in the middle of the race.
Furthermore, being in
Most of the time when one of my bosses is in town, we always meet up over dinner and we will have a good chat on how is The Office doing, what is in place of The Company, this and that. The last I had this kind of good chat is back in October 2008 with The Boss. This time, Junior Boss comes and we met up over dinner. The dinner environment for two was just nice for us to catch up on business, development and The Office.
See, Junior Boss just came into The Company and he has been learning the ropes of the business as well as the people with The Company. Coming from an international corporate company background, in my own opinion, he has what it takes to take the company to a greater height.
It is good to see how he has his plans for The Company and how much he would want the company to grow both internally and externally. I share the same vision as he does, which is to bring about a big change to The Company.
…
Looking back, I’ve felt that, maybe I’ve made the right choice to forgo my degree and take up this challenge with The Company. I’ve also made the right choice to let go the opportunity to work in other industry like pharmaceutical, airline and property sales. Not forgetting also to mention the right choice to forgo a recent employment opportunity with a US based company (even though I get better benefits).
This new job scope brings me to a whole new level. It is the kind of work scope where I thought a non-degree holder can only dream about holding it. It seriously gives me a second thought about how important education actually is. The real education is not paper education, but rather self education.
There are so much to learn in management and I guess, so far, I’ve made the right choice of decision in my working life after all. I would say, plus right choice with luck and opportunity given. Luck that I’ve got a great boss and mentor and the opportunity to take up new challenges and I’ve succeeded so far.
If I were to say back then, that I need more time.
Now, I need more than time.
Berbuka Puasa with Leaders for Tomorrow (L4T)
Oct 7th
This has gotta be a very overdue post which was left in the draft. Time to put it out before it goes way pass the spirit of Hari Raya. As Leaders for Tomorrow (L4T) is still new and the team are all new to each other, this “buka puasa” meal is to actually get to know one another.
The location was Nelayan Seafood at Tasik Titiwangsa…
This has gotta be my first time enjoying a Malay-type seafood. It is very different from the ones we usually have at the Chinese shop. Very different taste.
Bebola yang banyak…
The numerous types of food…
Food running out fast…
I’m very bad at names… Let’s see if I can remember all their names…
from Left: Adibah, —, —, Ziad, Nina and Nazrin.
From left again there is Dil, Izad, Rizal, Zuhri and IrMan
from left again: —, Izad, Afiah, Tengku Zaf and three other guys whom I don’t know..
from left again: Adli, Dil, Zuhri, Khai and myself…
Woot!!.. Not bad.. okaylah.. but I need to get to know then better lah…
When we are all done, we all have some chit chat…
See how happy Khai is.. haha
and we ended up with a group picture..
Impressive aint it..??
Read more about Leaders for Tomorrow.
Leaders for Tomorrow (L4T)
Aug 23rd
It was during Malaysian Student Leaders Summit 2008 where I got to know from Tengku Zafrul’s speech that he is starting up a new organization of youth leaders named Leaders for Tomorrow or better known as L4T amongst its exco-members.
I’ve been attending the meeting and I liked the whole agenda and focus of the group. The meeting is serious in a way that it is very formal and people who are in the exco-councils are leaders in their own capacity.
Recently, L4T has their official press conference to introduce L4T and it was attended by media members. This is one of L4T’s first outreach to the general public and to create awareness and interest.
Let me just quote a source of news release from Bernama for your understanding.
Date Posted: 20/08/2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 19 (Bernama) — A group of individuals from the corporate sector have come together to set up “Leaders for Tomorrow” (L4T), an organisation aimed at developing young leaders and entrepreneurs in Malaysia.
L4T chairman Tengku Zafrul Aziz said the organisation, backed by its board of trustees with notables like Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes and Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, will run a series of programmes within the next several months to create dynamic, passionate, motivated and values-based leaders.
“L4T is a non-profit organisation aimed at developing Malaysian youth into leaders who are able to compete globally. It also provides a platform for constructive engagement,” he said during the launch of L4T here Tuesday.
Tengku Zafrul is also chief executive officer of Tune Money Sdn Bhd, a company that provides affordable personal finance services.
L4T is open to working Malaysian aged between 21 and 40 with miniumum qualifications of SPM. Annual membership fee is RM100.
According to Tengku Zafrul, L4T will focus on globalisation and Malaysia, tertiary and community education, economic and industry development, media, culture and heritage, and leadership camps which encompass training, personal development and voluntary projects.
“We also intend to reach out to younger potential leaders, through the ‘Cilipadi’ programme which will identify those aged 16 to 17 from underprivileged families and assign them an L4T member as mentor,” he said.
Tengku Zafrul said L4T programmes, which included overseas leadership exchanges, seminars and workshops, will be sponsored by the Malaysian corporate sector.
Source: Bernama
The Cilipadi programme is one such of a programme which would focus towards the developments of deserving students who are in their secondary schools till College till graduation. This programme is pretty much like a mentorship programme where we have say for example, myself given three students to be my mentees and I shall be their mentor from where they are (upper secondary) till they graduate either from college or university.
There are other many fun, learning, networking as well as CSR type of programmes being planned by L4T and it will be implimented on stages.
All programmes and how L4T is going to be run relates pretty much to L4T’s Five Domain Areas :
- Globalization and Malaysia
- Tertiary and Community Education
- Economic and Industry Development
- Media, Culture and Heritage
- Leadership Camps – Training, Personal Development, L4T Voluntary Projects, etc.
Visit L4T’s WEBSITE to register yourself now and learn more about the organization.
Visit also L4T’s FACEBOOK GROUP and join yourself as a member there!
That’s all for now.. more questions.. leave them in the comments..
