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Just a very random missing on KL working life, food, people and place!

Baomily gathering! ^^

The western food at Plan B, Midvalley. 

The yummylicious food which make every one of us full to the max!

Ex-housemate Stephyn's  Birthday celebration.

All in all, when you move to a new environment, you will start to miss every little bits and piece of your old nostalgic environment, people and everything!

Life still have to move on, be strong to face everything!

Restaurant Murni @ SS2

Nowadays, we would often heard of people lamenting about the cost of food skyrocketing in KL. You would hardly find food which the portion is matched to its price.

I myself, a big eater, though I know it is not proportional to the my weight . xD
Hence, it is quite normal that I will definitely look for food which is of large portion to satisfy my extreme hunger (only applies when I am EXTREMELY hungry!)

However, there is this one place which I find the food serving portion really matches its price and more importantly taste delicious! The restaurant is Murni located at SS2!

If u are going there at night, it is a normal situation where you would see a series of tables are setting up to cater for the crowds of customers patronizing the restaurant to tantalize their taste bud and satisfy their hunger!

 Let the photos below to have a louder say:

Mee Raja! A must try dish! Cost RM8

Cantonese Fried Yee Mee. Cost RM6

Chicken Chop. Cost RM8

The customer service is good because:

• The waiter who served us is people with excellent memory. She just nodded her head as a sign of getting our order without having to jot the order down in a paper and the food served is perfectly correct!
• The food served come on time. I don't think it is on time actually, but way beyond on time, it came as early as we are not expecting it to be so fast-served. I believe there are many chef in the kitchen to cater for the large order!
• The plates are as obviously big according to the portion served. The waiter crews working there must have been trained professionally to hold 5-6 BIG plates at once serving! 

There is this saying: If you are UM-ers, it is impossible for you to miss out from patronizing this restaurant! I am glad I didn't miss out this restaurant. In fact I have been there twice! xD

Living life as it is! =)

The following inspirational quotes will always serve as a good point for me to ponder about living my life. I share it here so that everyone will be inspired too as what I do!=)

Stop the unnecessary worrying. One friend remind me greatly of LIFE! Since we only live life once, why not we think and make it a happy one instead of regretting everyday?! Have more faith that things will work out. Whatever we plan may not turn out what we want it to be, but it is meant to be that, so experience the process is what matter the most!

Being yourself is the best way to live your life. Being who you are not what you are. Living in this universe has it's harshness and deceiving. You make YOU, your surrounding will do its roles, that is when mind comes in hand. Choose to be right, choose not to regret, choose to be smart!

I am all here for 2013

I have not been blogging for ages and this is the first post of the year 2013.

Well, life is so far so good and I am all for the brand new year 2013. The year 2012 has been a challenging one but I have made it through for my final year thesis and managed to graduate in the month of October. It has also been a fruitful one for I have the opportunity to land in Korea for a leaderships program and meet many fantastic friends around Asia Pacific.

Stepping into the working world has been a tough process in my life. The transition is great and so full of challenges. It is not the same as the time we spent in school or university. But knowing our career development and focus are what matter the most.

Most fresh graduate will agree with me that one needs a time to discover our career interest, if you apply a job through Jobstreet by just looking at the job descriptions and confirm that this is a job that you want, then you might be dead wrong. Of course, I am talking about majority and most of the time, we need to really experience the the job ourselves then only can we make such a confirmation that it is not just a job but a career for us. Do not lose focus in career as it is the major part of our stages of life!

Working world has taught me to be:

•  firm and confident, 
•  humble to learn, 
•  focus on what I am doing, 
•  vocal in voicing out constructive opinions, 
•  realize different people have different pattern/attitudes/styles of doing work, 
•  know different styles and techniques of dealing with different colleague and clients, 
• focus on complete the tasks assigned instead of giving excuses,
• make some research/ do homework before asking,
• if you don't know/ not sure about your tasks, do ask for clarification,
• do not afraid of making mistakes because mistakes make your learn and grow.

So, the journey of managing people and be the leader is a long one. From the beginning, you must be a good follower and listener before you start to give instructions and be the leader!=)

Hopefully, I can learn and survive in the industry that I am preparing to take on the challenges!=)

Education Fair - Of Educate or Money Making ?

 What would you think when someone told you he or she is going to pay a visit to an education fair? You would then think ' Oh, you want to further study.' Then you would ask ' what are you going to study and which colleges or universities do you plan to head to? These are all common questions asked in which these common answer will be given:' Oh, I am blurred and don't know what am I going to study after my SPM!'

Is that the purpose of most people who are not sure of their future plan going for an education fair, in the HOPE that the staffs from different institutions who set up booths at the education fair can help solve their questions/doubts?

More often than not, you would bump into an education fair occasionally somewhere and sometime. It is burgeoning so rapidly to the extent of the access frequency of bumping into an education fair is much comparable to bumping into a PC fair. What I am going to say is, nowadays , the purpose of organizing an education fair no longer serves its very main objective, that is to help every students to get a clear direction for choosing and landing their desired course. It seems to me with that education industry has tuned into a business-minded industry with profit-making being the main objective.

Most students who are going for an education fair, have little to no directions as to what and where they are going to further their study. Armed with a heart of curiosity, they go to pay a visit to education fair in the hope to get their doubts cleared. They are not hoping for every institutions to furnish them with all information about the course the insititutions offered nor the course fees and course prospects etc. These are not what they really want to know seeing that they have no idea about what they really want to do.

Can the institutions guarantee that the course which students makes an enquiry is what they want to do? How sure they are? based on what judgement they know the students are really interested to do the courses they asked?

Of course ,we can't expect every students to have their direction clear as to what and where they are going to further their study. Most if not all of them, at such a young age, do not have the 'clear direction' yet. Perhaps they are not yet exposed to the real industry where they see themselves to embark on. We may then think, perhaps we should provide them with info they need, or perhaps a personality test to help them know best who they are and which career suit them best.

Well, as what Mr Seng has appropriately pointed out, personality test should be done not only once, but more than one. The reason is  we human have many other emotions under different circumstances. Let's put in this way:
Today I am happy because I have a wonderful family vacation.
A week later I am disappointed because I did not expect to flank my Maths test.
After a month later, I am down because my best friend has stolen my wallet.

And so, these different circumstances will definitely reflect your mood swinging from time to time as in the case of while you are doing your personality test. These could very well affect your result due to these different circumstances and your mode of emotions.

Not only do we human have mood swing, but also peer pressure.

Today you may say I want to be entrepreneur because I wanted to be like Donald Trumph after reading his book 'Why We Want You To Be Rich'. A week later, you may see your brother earning a big buck and travel around the world for being a business development manager and then this could be very well affect you in a way that you think you want to be like him!
A months after, you heard from your best friend that he is now on his job assignment of being a tour guide, travelling in an International 6 start cruise in Alaska and heading to European countries soon. You may then say: 'Wow, how I wish I could be a tour guide, because travelling has always been my dream!'

You see, it is undeniable that human will be influenced by different circumstances, peer pressure and all other major life events. Thus, personality test should be done more than one to reflect its accuracy.

So, you may have known what an ideal education would be.=)

Life of Pi- Of its essence and extraction

Yesterday was Selangor public holiday, thus it comes as a good news to all working folks from Selangor area that they can enjoy a day break free from works! I have no exception to that, having a day break from works really ease me down from the hectic of office works.

Since it s a day free from work, why not  heading to town for a movie? Hence, without any hesitation, I make a move with best buddy, Vyian for a movie named.....

Life of Pi is a movie directed by famous director Ang Lee! The plot is exactly the same as what was written by Yam Martel in his novel in 2001. 

'Moral value' which I have learnt from this movie:

1) Life is about exploring the truth. In this story, Pi was exposed to 3 different religions- Hindu, Islam and Christianity and he tried to understand God through the lens of each religion and comes to recognize benefits in each one.

2) Life is about learning how to survive. Pi was able to survive in the ship wreck in the middle of a big sea with of course luckily enough supply of canned food and sea water. Armed with a 'survival book' in hand, he is able to utilize it for building a small raft and survive a huge storm.What more staying close with ' Richard Parker'!

3) Life is about competition. Those who are strong will be the one who survive and the weaker one will be wiped off by the strong one. During the ship wreck,  the hyena kills the zebra, then the orangutan, much to Pi's distress. At this point, it is discovered that a bengel tiger named Richard Parker had been hiding under the boat's tarp; it kills and eats the hyena

4) Life is full of miracles. Do not ever lose hope in life, even in the most dire condition, living with the most intimidated animal and stranded in the middle of a big ocean, always believe the existence of MIRACLE. Pi is never ever lose hope and he still keep his prayer and communicate with God for guidance and light.

5) Life is about story telling. Two officials from the Japanese Ministry of Transport speak to Pi to ascertain why the ship sank. When they do not believe his story, he tells an alternate story of human brutality .Since the officials cannot prove which story is true and neither is relevant to the reasons behind the shipwreck, they choose the story with the animals. In life, you will face with different version of stories, in which it is upon you who choose to believe which one.

The movie is great to the extent that I can extract some 'moral' value out of it, isn't it?=p

Charity Car Wash

Yeah, It has been a while since I last updated my blog.

Life has been hectic all this while, with ' no works and plays make Jack a dull boy'.

In fact, striking a work life balance is what I really want to achieve.

Well, charity is always a good thing to do, if you consider about taking care of the welfare of others, especially those who are really in need of our help.

It is tough especially the cars which come for car wash were all big luxurious cars. How we wish we could wash kancil or kelisa cars which will make our life easy! LOL, but 'unfortunately', because of the good strategic of the location, rich people with big cars make up the large customers! 

Well, a weekend off for this charity car wash has taught me some lessons:

1) Appreciate the hard work by people washing your car even though they are paid. This work is never easy.

2) Charity is indeed a noble job but it takes times, efforts and strategies for making it a fruitful one. In car wash charity, what we look for is the money we gained to be channeled to old folk home at the end of the day. Marketing strategies are important in this aspect to make sure our target is achieved.

Yes, indeed, this car wash charity has proven to be a fruitful one as more than 6k target is hit for the 2 days efforts!=)