Its November 23rd AGAIN????

How fast time flies....its my birthday today, yes again!

I'm spending it quietly at home, having ME time, eating junkfood and watching DVDs.

Feeling pretty OLD.

Good to be Back

that picture is of me at 11pm last nite after i landed from sibu.

i dont have to spell out how tired i am...pretty obvious

i need to rest, unpack, unwind

i will try to update soon stories from Sibu

(THANKS to all who left wishes for me for the Sibu trip)

Doing it all over again

Flying off again today. Alone.

Holiday? I wish.....

Remember the KK training programme? 'The Ministry' called me up to do a rerun. This time in Sibu, Sarawak.

Will be back on Thursday.

With good stories to tell i hope.

Memperkenalkan........

Cuba teka buah apa ni??? Cempedak...? Bukan, bukan......
Ni la Buah TARAP.
Takde tau kat semenanjung ni. Kalau ada pun, maybe wild,...orang tak makan.
Masa kat KK haritu, bila time makan je, mesti depa dok promote buah tarap ni suruh i try. Ada
yg bersungguh2 nak suruh i rasa sampai suruh kawan dia pegi beli kat Pasar Tamparuli hantar kat Hotel. Malangnya tak dapat. Tapi masa last day on the way pegi airport, sempat jugak rasa.

Kata diaorang, memang sedap dari durian. Kat luar nampak macam cempedak...tapi size and shape macam durian. Kulit dia lembut. Boleh kopek dengan tangan je.



Ini isi kat dalam, macam spesis nangka & cempedak tapi tak bergetah. Katanya yang muda dan belum terlalu masak (like in the picture) - the best type untuk dimakan mentah. Bila terlalu masak, bau kuat sangat- they sd kalau first time jumpa, mesti lari atau pun tekak tak boleh terima. Jadi mula mula nak rasa, kena cari yg muda. Yg masak, biasanya digoreng buat cucur...macam goreng cempedak kat sini.

Rasanya????



Hehehe....tengok tu muka i macam takut2 nak rasa. Tapi lepas tu 3 ke 4 ulas i makan. Sedapppppppp! not as strong as durian. Lain texture. Tak tau nak explain. Creamy dan manis dia lite lite je.

Kalau you all pergi Sabah, try tau. Dekat area filipino market pun ada jual.




Ni Puan Lee, yang baik sangat bawak jalan2, belikan buah tarap dan hantar i pegi airport.

The Breakfast Meeting

Pagi ni pukul 7.30 dah keluar rumah. Normal untuk orang lain, tapi luar biasa untuk I. Dah lama tak keluar pagi-pagi. Join the traffic jam.

Ada meeting pukul 9, tapi takut terlambat. Tak suka orang tunggu...lagipun first time nak jumpa.

Ada project opportunity, kira cari business la. I la buat kerja, i la cari bisnes...hmmm, takpe takpe. Rezeki tak datang without effort kan.

Anyway, meeting was set at McDonalds Mutiara D'sara. Best tempat ni. Besar, boleh duduk luar, ada wifi, ample parking space. First time datang sini.

I cant even remember the last time makan McD breakfast. A few years ago, memang weekend ritual dgn missQQ.

Dah la keluar awal, tak jam pulak jalan. Pukul 8 dah sampai...hahaha. one hour to kill. So makan breakfast la dulu.

Ish, muka mcm baru bangun...heheh. sumpah dah mandi okay.!

The meeting was a good one. Interesting project - not easy, tapi macam best je. Kalau dapat, i will be very happy.

Ya Allah, murahkanlah rezeki.

...of dissapointments

I think i try hard not to dissapoint people

I hate it when people dissapoint me

...what to do....hmmmmm.

biarkan, biarkan.....

Hugs

Comelkan....2 dolphins Hugging. Sape nak hug Anne...meh sini cepat...hahahahaha.



Actually, itu souvenier from MissQQ who just got back from Phuket. Thanks dear!!! Salt & pepper dispensers sebenarnya.

We met up last nite semata2 sebab i teringin Ayam Penyet. Rindu banget....before puasa kot last time makan sini. Semua MissQQ punya pasal sebab dia mention masa kita tengah chatting in the morning. Lepastu, dah sampai sana - rupanya dia dah makan nasi mak dia masak....so i je makan, tapi ada ku kesah....hahahah. Makan tak hengat.

Kat Waroeng Ayam Penyet dekat The Curve ni kadang2 tak berapa nak sedap. But last nite memang best. The tauhu n tempe memang rasa fresh. Tengok la ni.....

Before



After

The KK Update

Sorry sgt2 kalau ada yang jenguk2 blog yg tak berupdate ni.

I got back from KK late Thursday (23 October). Penat, sakit badan, sakit kaki semua ada. Friday sempat kemas-kemas barang sikit and pergi hantar invoice and barang2 training to the organiser. Sabtu terus sakit. Then Monday, i took a flight balik kampung sebab my mom & sis risau i sakit sorang2 kat rumah. Itu pasal la lambat nak update. Monday baru balik sini.

Ni nak cerita pasal what happened during the KK program.

THANKS to semua yg tinggal komen and best wishes. Semangat dari kawan2 helped a lot.

Alhamdullilah, the training went on better than i expected. Kan i was expecting the worst sebelum pergi. Challenging jugak nak handle group ni, tapi at least i discover my strenght & weaknesses....mcm self discovery la sikit2, a test for me as a trainer yang agak baru ni.

Here are some notes and pics on what happened in KK. Gambar I sendiri takde sangat sebab i yg ambik gambar.

Cik Penceramah

Since i tak pernah buat program gomen, banyak pengalaman baru i dapat. All the formalities i had to get used to. For example, all the protokol, Taklimat lah, Ucapan Pembukaan lah, all the salutations. Despite insisting that they just call me by my first name, through out the programme i was called "Cik Penceramah"...hehe, how weird is that.

Muda....(muda ke??)

The participants majority are almost "warga-warga emas" from the state and disctrict offices. Nak buat joke-joke bodoh pun macam tak kena je. Most of them have adult children and ada cucu dah. Dari mula lagi dah nampak one thing that caught their attention is "how young" the penceramah is. Takde la muda mana pun sebenarnya, nampak je muda. So i had to remain serious and professional most of the time to be convincing and to be taken seriously. Cuma masa last day, and night workshops i let loose sikit. (susah tau awet muda ni u'olls;-D)

Wrong Expectations

Haritu masa jumpa orang gomen kat Putrajaya tu....siap warning i group ni "high level". Setakat nak mention strategy itu ini tak payah la...semua dah tau.

Lagi satu pasal bahasa. I tanya juga materials in English ok ke. No problem also...."peserta kursus" as they call them level tinggi tinggi.

I pun prepare la apa yang patut, sesuai dengan 'pangkat' dan 'kebijaksanaan'.....hmmm. Nan Ado! Dont get me wrong, i am not putting down atau memandang rendah the group. They are professionals in their field and i respect them for that.

Cuma the people in charge dah kasi wrong impression. I prepared myself accordingly. First day one of the participants dah tanya kenapa materials semua in English. So i had to deliver the training dalam BM unprepared. Sambil bercakap otak kena terus translate....bukan la i tak pandai cakap melayu, tapi bahasa untuk formal ni lain...lepas tu some strategic/ management terminologies tu bukan instantly i dapat translate.

And for most of them, ini pendedahan pertama on management concepts. Dah kata tahu semua, i dah prepare macam advance sikit....kena la adjust apa yg patut time tu jugak. Kalau "Change Management" pun ada yg ingat tukar pengurusan, as in the mgt team change.....lu pikirla sendiri!

In the End

Overall, i would say the program was successful. Takde la The Best, tapi they took away some new knowledge that they can use back at work. I nampak they all excited bila buat all the activities and group work. Siap make copies of the flipcharts and presentations so that boleh buat contoh untuk pakai nanti. Anyway, yang penting at the end of the day, the learned something. Masa group work and their final projects, i can see them applying what i shared. They were really committed. Cuma slow sikit, kena work with them in small groups.

Paling suspense masa nak tengok feedback forms. Tak tau la kalau they are generous with their compliments tapi majority kasi very good ratings. What more can i ask kan, sebab i tak expect much. Ada yang jumpa personally kasi compliment. Ada juga yg kasi feedback for improvement.

Latest, the people at Putrajaya ada cakap nak kasi i buat another session of the same program. Puas hati la agaknya. Alhamdulillah, tapi tak nak fikir lagilah.....letih haritu pun tak habis lagi. hehe.

Now, tunggu payment la apa lagi.....

Special Credit:

To Jill yg make time on that Saturday to help me design all the group work & activities. It made all the difference.

To Miss QQ yang buatkan slides for one module within a crazy deadline.