The Firm

my company In-kei sponsoring this local version of 'The Apprentice' - it's call 'The Firm' , every sunday 9 pm @ ntv7 ... check it out , u get to see the in-kei latest 'multiply' C2D commercials .... It's interesting to compare the US and the local version. Local version - at the first 'fire' session, 3 out of 4 team members already cried, and when they had to nominate who to be fired , they didn't maintain eye-contacts - so pai sek to give the name , and said 'sorry here, sorry there' .....whereas the US version - most of the players were strong, muka tebal, argued and fight till the end. Difference in culture eh .... Tonight 's episode, I strongly think that Anrie was a good creative team leader, she's good. It's nice of her to take the blame and volunteered to be fired...yet , I also agree with the GM comment - she should have admitted her lack of experience, learned the lessons, and continue the battle to prove her ability. As a team leader, I think she knows well who is the weaker player or non performer lor ( the audiences can tell easily). In this corporate game, she shouldn't gave up so easily, at least not this round - I am sad to see her gone, wasted ...remember - check this show next sunday yea

07-07-07

Last year 06-06-06 around 6 am, Bahija had a little accident at my office's carpark :) , I've fixed my sweety, given her a new paint & new bodyworks - she's looking cool now. 07-07-07 is Ronnie wedding day, he's my american brother ( my american host family) . Hey Ronnie - Congratulations - it's a nice date. 07-07-07 also known as Live Earth day -to create global warming awareness. 07-07-07 , the new 7 wonders of the world will be named - hope Bahija completed 50% of the new 7 wonders list eh .... for me - I want to make a difference on someone's life , and decided 07-07-07 - to sponsor a child .... Hope one day, I get to visit the child personally .....ciao

July 2 ....

Bahija has 3 friends who celebrate birthday today ... it's easy to ingat dee
just want to briefly describe them ....
one is goin thru a change thingy and starting the next chapter of life
one went thru challanges but still rock solid, enabled her to do things she has never thought of ..
one got her wish granted, found the treasure ....

Happy Birthday friends !

Las Carretas...

Bahija's guest sudah balik, he's a hispanic - on 2 mths sabatical, and he finally decided to visit Msia. Bahija has done a good job for my country, as a ambassador - shared with him a lot of our culture and history. Likewise, I also learned many things from him too , especially the hispanic culture - wait la, one of these day, I will visit Mexico City :) 4D3N - we did Melaka, Genting, KL city tours....at KLIA, he gave me a few hundreds - all his remaining RM and asked me to bring my mummy to a restaurant for food ... my mummy is very pandai, she said she has not try mexican ...viola - we went to Las Carretas at Taipan USJ - nice ambience , food quite tasty , slightly pricy. Bahija and Docker's pant ate quite a few times of mexican food - yum yum yum ...
Bahija is off to phuket today with TaiPoh - hippie :) ciao & cheers

5th yr anniversary ......

Hooray, Bahija made it - solid 5 years of service with In-kei :) June 17, 2002 was the 1st day at In-Kei @ PG, never thought that I could survived this long, it's amazing how time flies ....geeeeee , 5 years are long time leh. I had 6 yrs with I-Kei, learned a lot of things, went thru a lot of various stages, met many many people and friends .... now 5 yrs here at In-kei - is very different, I've met a couple good buddies, worked with folks from various regions, on biz trips to a few places, trained in a few new areas ...I'm so blessed, so lucky to have the chance to experience the differences .... Today, I also celebrated this special day with a colleague of mine, who came all the way from FM :) , we did our toss @ chinatown , learned the mexican way of drinking beer - pour beer into a glass full of ice, and add some salt and lemon juices - not a bad idea

it's time to go home ....

Sayonara .... it's been a really really really busy wonderful trip. Every trip is special. Someone once told me, a place , a trip is memorable because it is surrounded with friends, people - that make the whole thing special ... this trip I met most of my friends, and spent a lot of time with Dockers' Pant, plus her family too :) Dockers' Pant is like a guardian angel , out of a sudden, she would said something - and those were exactly the things i needed to do , or places i needed to go ....We both gave thanks many times - as we truly 'received the blessings' ... one thing i failed to do , was to call my friends ....hmmm, bad bad girl. Tonight my team went to this nice japanese restaurant - Mikuni's - yummy - check out the sushi boat :)

it's time ....

The news asked consumers to mark calenders and get out the sleeping bags ....for what leh ? for camping ker ? June 29 - US start selling iphone ...no pre-order allowed, and expecting sales to be super laku, hot cake ..my kawan-kawan kat US already made plans, hit talk in the market , guess the scenario like Msians camping at developer office during the launch of a good housing project, will happen here on June 29 at 1800 AT&T and nearly 200 Apple stores , first come first served...usd499 and usd599, consumers must commit 2-yrs contract with AT&T , with mthly charges. Asia region - we kena tunggu lagi. Hope it's worth the wait eh :)

hello ...

Howdeee, Bahija been MIA for a while :) , very very busy at this moment .....currently, Bahija is enjoying her cruises around town with this 2007 TC sweety - leather seats, sun-roof - good enough to keep me happy ...my other sweety ( the one which has been serving me > 11 yrs old - got a new facelift - bodyworks and repainted, plus interior wash ), I'll see her when I get back pretty soon .....

fake guava-apple ....

During my teambuilding session at Cameron Highland ( CH) , we visited the market near hotel EQ ...Bahija and friends saw bags of big bright red or bright green color apples, the skin looks smooth too, all of them pre-packed in plastic bags ....we were very curious of this kind of fruits. One of the stall owner happily opened a bag and cut out some for us to test, it's RM9 per bag for 2 pieces ...the minute I tasted it , I quickly told my friends that it's not genuine, tasted like the fruits been soaked in sugar - it's artifical - tipu punya .... The owner somemore told us that a lot of foreigners came back and bought many bags from her ..... aiyuh, today Star newspaper , there is an article on ' fake guava-apple ' - BINGO - that's the one - take a read la ... it's really true lor - tourists or visitors will think that CH produces this special hybrids , padahal - kena tipu nia ..

Last weekend, went to Chinatown, I also saw these fruits there - so beware friends, JANGAN MAKAN , JANGAN BELI ... however, no harm do a sample testing - see if you can differentiate the artificial taste tak ?

a wonderful person....

Sometimes people asked Bahija 'what's your favourite food ?' - hmmm, Bahija sometimes pun tak tahu , sometimes also need to think hard , think high , think low to come out with an answer .... last thursday - someone came to my house - this person brought along a few dishes...when I reached home and open the containers - WOW - amazing lor - all the 4 dishes were my favourite food. At that moment, I felt so great, so blessed , and also guilty for what I've done ....there is this someone who knows me so well , and so caring to me - she's none other than my dearest mummy lor - Bahija really need to control her tongue and should appreciate her :) thanks , mummy - for all the yummy food , most important - for all the loves .....Happy Mother's Day

all done in (30+ 5) mins

Here is a blog by Patrick Teoh on the Jabatan Imigresen, Cawangan Wangsa Maju which started operation since Jan 2007, the pertama complex punya sudah tutup kedai , so kawan-kawan, don't go there liow yea... Today , Bahija brought mum to another cawangan, it's the Shah Alam , Komplex PKNS branch. We arrived at 10:30 , photocopied IC , took photos - 5 mins. Went to queue for number, surprisingly super duper fast. By 11 am, application form, thumb print and payment completed , wow - Bahija impressed. Then officer asked me to go back collect the passport at 3:30 pm same day .... so we went home, balik at 3:30 , spent 5 mins to collect the new passport. Those officers I met were polite & friendly too. One happy customer here. A wish list - it would be wonderful if can collect passport within 2 hours ...macam tu , we go lepak , minum teh tarik, sembang sikit - 2 jams easy to kill :)

5/5 - 6/5 team building

Last weekend, Bahija attended a team building at Cameron Highland. My last visit to CH was when I was at Form Five .....it's been a while :) . I enjoyed this trip very much, we stayed in an isolated hostel in the middle of the huge tea plantation , nice green view , quiet , we had the whole complex by ourselves. It's a wonderful neat super cheap place , only RM 10 per head nia. Why I enjoyed this trip ? well, in the office - everyone busy, focused on their own jobs or tasks, we hardly have time to cross-chat....in this offsite event, each of us just got to spend time and we got to know the personal side of the others .... well done to the organizer committee who did this donkey jobs - bravo !!

This is the view from the hostel ..... surrounded with tea !

Spent RM5 on these whole thing ....cheap eh :) ...The crystal vase was a precious gift from my last manager in i-kei. It's a good quality heavy-duty crystal vase :)

April 30 and May 1

April 30 - Bahija was tested on my integrity , my tongue , my obedient and my dicipline ...... all the 3 personal events happened on this date ......

May 1 - Reading the book of James - the 3 events I encoutered the day before was brought up ....plus a few more points too

If Bahija doesn't cleanse her heart, control her tongue , gain wisdom - disaster will come ... choice is on my hand

sweets sweets sweets .....

Heeeeee - a few of my friends will be smiling at me when they see these , thanks to all the angels who brought them over here .... enjoy !!!

one of my fav ....

For unknown reason, Bahija likes batik :) , i like the hand drawn nice creative drawings or patterns...today, visited a Batik factory, and ternampak batik table cloth - wow - can't resist the temptation, and bought a batik hand-drawn 100% cotton table cloth - which was told will not fade in color when washed, and the patterns are available on both sides. Bahija visited Yunnan Province last year, I almost spent the same amount of money on one similar table cloth, luckily I didn't - as that one the color will fade , plus it's from China... today, I'm happy to put on this piece of batik cloth on my dining table ...when I host foreign visitors for meals at my home sweet home, they'll be able to see the beautiful handicrafts from my country .... plus this piece of cloth shall be passed over to the next generation ( provided it can last long la - hee ) , so to me, it's money well spent :) , it's an inheritage item in my dictionary

snack ...

A relative of Fish enjoys this 'great' snack from gurney drive .... only available at night --> take a look .... do u know what is it ???? ...... crispy fried chicken skin wor. She bought me this whole pack - and I only tasted 2 pieces .... the rest buang - haaaa. it's crispy like eating KFC chicken lah, but hor - this one only skins and the fats , plus lots of bulu ... i can see the bulu bulu everywhere - so tak ada selera liow
Folks like to eat this with beer ....those who like this, try kat PG Gurney drive la

Good Friday @ BM MCC

Rushed to cross the PG bridge, heavy traffic after office hours , late for Good Friday service, no dinner .... Bahija visited Bkt Mertajam chinese church last year December...it's a very neat, nice small community chinese methodist church. (I like the red color long big cross ). BM is a small town, yet when Bahija walked into this church, I'm amazed with the crowd, the community that this church has :) - it's a family church, active with a lot of good activities for various groups. Tonight - i was invited to listen to a choir from Taiwan. They sang very well & shared great testimonies - and one of the singer is called 'black pearl' as she's an african lady who speaks some chinese ... at 52 yrs old, she's looking great , young and sings well, I like to imagine her as Whitney Houston (WH) .... is it wonderful that a small town like BM, the community can enjoy one peaceful evening listening to WH look and sound alike songs ? To the believers, it's time to reflect what we've done, how we should move forward daily, remembering Him, His sacrificies, His commandments, be humble, be thankful, be loving, to share love, to have faith ..... and to the non-believers - they can take this time to remind themselves that material world is not that important, learn to reset the priorities in life, or simply just sit and relax, just unwind and listen to songs :)

TQ ...

Bahija had a request with Him, if I get more than a certain amount in increment, I shall give that as offering to my church Dialysis Center building fund ( the fund drive has been setup for years, until today , we still haven't collected enough fund to build the center to serve the community)...My wish was granted, I'm glad and thankful, pleased that I'm able to contribute. I think I will also sponsor a child this year (guilty as I spent on a luxury anniversary gift). Perhaps sponsor a Cambodian child , as I can get AA ticket easily and fly to meet him/her in future - heee

Swap topic , a friend of mine adopted 6 cats , 9 cats died earlier termakan by her 5 dogs , whenever she saw any abandoned cats or dogs, she'll adopt them....she just has the passion for the animals, her mthly expenses on the animals are high too, includes medication, food, cleanliness care, dog care when she's out of town....I like the animals, some are cute adorable, some can be bodyguard eg dogs for the blind..nothing against them. But given a choice, I'll rather help a human being than animal - it's just me , my style ...SPCA is not the place Bahija will visit

April 1 .....

Last year this time, Bahija treated herself a trip to Cambodia...This year, Bahija rewarded herself an expensive item, something that YaYa already did years back with her first paycheck ....it's my 11th yr anniversary gift, I think I'll treasure this little gift ... April 3 - meeting boss to receive my performance evaluation, hope to get good news lah , most important hope I can perform the promise I made with Him la .... will see :)

March 23 ...

2 of my friends celebrate birthday today .... Wau Bulan and Big Brother A. Both of them have left in-kei liow. Now, added baby N into today's list, he's born around 2 pm i think, I'll be seeing him and his proud parent in 2 weeks time. hippieeeee