Family holidays are great for bonding.
Every year with the hard earned bonus, I will treat members of my precious family to a holiday together.
The last few years we have been going on cruises: Libra, Virgo, Legend of the Seas. Cruises are fun as the children get to eat 5 meals a day, watch internationally acclaimed shows, play family bonding games, win prizes, hob-nob with the crew, buy duty free stuff etc.
But cruises are notorious for gambling as once the ship cruises out of territorial waters, the casinos and blackjacks open for business. I reckon it is not good for my children to be exposed to this kind of things thus for 2012 we decided to book 4 tickets to Gold Coast. As it turned out we met Pastor Sim and wife in Israel and he invited us over with promise of accommodation and Australian hospitality!
So it was with great excitement that we boarded Asia Asia for Gold Coast on Sunday July 29. Never mind if we had to walk on the tarmac at LCCT or climb the rickety staircase to the plane or sit in a plane without free-flow of drinks or juices or wine....we could buy mineral water for RM3 and Maggi Hot Cup if we were hungry.
Anyway the hungry guys in the family got their desired meals (nasi lemak and lasagne). As usual, mummy weight-watcher ate sandwiches and drank her favorite teh tarik. How come teh tarik taste so nice 30,000 feet up in the air? Try it....even the 3 in 1 tastes so different....!
We paid a total of RM7,700 in air tickets for 4 to Gold Coast airport. All inclusive. If we had flown by MAS, it would have been a hefty RM10,000!
We reached at about 10 pm Australian time. The ever smiling Pastor Sim, Siew Hong and his son greeted us at the airport. They had traveled over one hour plus from their place in Calamvale, Brisbane to pick us up.
They brought us straight to the church and we had a good night's rest. Mummy and Ai Ai took one room and the guys in the other room. The church accommodation was as good as a 4 star hotel! We had bread (not Gardenia but real healthy bread with lots of grains), eggs, ham, cheese, bacon and sorts of breakfast stuff for our picking all laid up for us in the church pantry and fridge. Later we will 'raid' the larder....
Thanks Pastor Sim and Siew Hong. Thank you Jesus for a safe journey! More later....
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Rolls Royce is not confirming me
Hi
Latest updates from my daughter. Call me biased but I support her comments. I know that where I work my boss is particular about me attending meetings without any purpose or agenda. She baulks at meetings that are unnecessary and time consuming. She prefers meetings with fixed agendas and purpose-accomplishing...otherwise better not meet at all!
"Just some updates:
(i) RR have chosen not to make me an offer. Reason being that they feel I am too quiet, shy and timid and will be a pushover in negotiations and in the company. I don't fit the mould of the ideal intern. I don't ask enough questions ( I did ask a lot but not enough apparently), and I didn't make enough comments in the meeting. All this while, I thought it was respectful to be quiet in meetings.
- Being in RR has made me realise the differences in culture between East and West. It's good to be quiet in the East. It shows respect. 'Diam diam ubi berisi' right? In the West, they like their people to be more talkative. Actually, I feel that all this talk just lessens productivity. Why are they talking so much? It doesn't actually achieve anything. Just go and do your jobs! Ask a question only when you have to. No wonder Asian countries are powering ahead. Seriously, so much time is wasted because people ask a lot of unnecessary questions and make comments that don't increase productivity. Also I realised that in a big corporation like RR, A LOT of time is wasted in meetings trying to 'improve process'.
-However, I wonder whether my quietness will be a problem for me in a legal career. I have been very quiet. But only because I don't like to talk nonsense. Also, I feel like I have to know something fairly well before I start to talk about it.
(ii) I hate cutthroat backbiting and office politics.
-I've had to work with some very competitive interns. Some have been quite bossy, shooting your ideas down in the meeting room but talking about them in the presentation as if it was their idea.
(iii) I'd be glad when this is over.
-I've had enough of the politicking and dealing with people who don't listen to you.
(iv) I hope there will be less politicking in Malaysia.
-Hope but don't dare to dream.
(v) I am good at what I do. I am not so good at playing the office game.
-Like I said, don't like politicking"
RR's loss, Malaysia's gain!
Latest updates from my daughter. Call me biased but I support her comments. I know that where I work my boss is particular about me attending meetings without any purpose or agenda. She baulks at meetings that are unnecessary and time consuming. She prefers meetings with fixed agendas and purpose-accomplishing...otherwise better not meet at all!
"Just some updates:
(i) RR have chosen not to make me an offer. Reason being that they feel I am too quiet, shy and timid and will be a pushover in negotiations and in the company. I don't fit the mould of the ideal intern. I don't ask enough questions ( I did ask a lot but not enough apparently), and I didn't make enough comments in the meeting. All this while, I thought it was respectful to be quiet in meetings.
- Being in RR has made me realise the differences in culture between East and West. It's good to be quiet in the East. It shows respect. 'Diam diam ubi berisi' right? In the West, they like their people to be more talkative. Actually, I feel that all this talk just lessens productivity. Why are they talking so much? It doesn't actually achieve anything. Just go and do your jobs! Ask a question only when you have to. No wonder Asian countries are powering ahead. Seriously, so much time is wasted because people ask a lot of unnecessary questions and make comments that don't increase productivity. Also I realised that in a big corporation like RR, A LOT of time is wasted in meetings trying to 'improve process'.
-However, I wonder whether my quietness will be a problem for me in a legal career. I have been very quiet. But only because I don't like to talk nonsense. Also, I feel like I have to know something fairly well before I start to talk about it.
(ii) I hate cutthroat backbiting and office politics.
-I've had to work with some very competitive interns. Some have been quite bossy, shooting your ideas down in the meeting room but talking about them in the presentation as if it was their idea.
(iii) I'd be glad when this is over.
-I've had enough of the politicking and dealing with people who don't listen to you.
(iv) I hope there will be less politicking in Malaysia.
-Hope but don't dare to dream.
(v) I am good at what I do. I am not so good at playing the office game.
-Like I said, don't like politicking"
RR's loss, Malaysia's gain!
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