LifeLong Sharing

I am going to Port Dickson for teambuilding tomorrow. It is a three-day-two-night event. The main purpose of this teambuilding is to setup better teamwork among our department’s members. This is an idea from our boss since last year after she took over to become as the department head.

I read the itinerary this morning, most of the activities are related to our work routine. There are few motivation and stress management talks during the teambuilding. I heard that the speaker is an Ang Moh (foreigner), and our company spent a lot of money in this.

As I know, there also will have few outdoor activities as. Our HR is so thoughtful; they sent a list of things that want us to bring along for teambuilding. There are simple stationary, personal toiletry, sport wear, casual wear, torch light and outdoor clothing! The last two items make us shock! What are they going to do during teambuilding?

It seems like some extreme hard outdoor activities are going to take place. Jungle tracking? Mountain hiking? All of us are worrying about this. Just for your information, we need to wake up early of the morning for these two days. As I know, the breakfast is at 7:00AM, and the last activity for the day is at 12PM! I can foresee that I will not get enough sleep in this teambuilding! This teambuilding will end on Sunday 4PM. So, my whole weekend is totally gone. I still need to wake up on Monday early morning to continue my work.

I hope my teambuilding is not as worst as I think. I wish it could be a relaxing trip, let me eat there, rest more… haha!

Initially, I am planning to have dinner with chubby-boy in TGI Friday at Section 14. I like the interior design there compared others in the shopping mall. However, ChubbyBoy ruined my plan because he is tired.

So, I just went to PuduRaya meet him again. I suggested having Portuguese bbq fish in Petaling Street. I have long time didn’t go there for it. Then, we just go to have Long Gan, then Gong Wo Tong for Guai Leng Kou~.

It was a simple date. Something that is better than nothing. But, I just don’t know when he will be here again.

I have to attend a team building tomorrow at Port Dickson. The teambuilding will be take place at Avillion resort. I heard it is an expensive resort. However, I am not excited with it.

When I received the email about the itinerary of this teambuilding, half of my mood is gone already. There are a lot of activities which are working related. Especially we need to set our KPT for this year.

So, do you join any teambuilding before? Do you enjoy it?

I just came back from Penang few days ago. I drove there to visit someone, as part of my work, that I will not clearly stated here. I am not familiar with Penang’s road, and I am really poor in direction. When I reached Penang, I drove slowly to find my way because I was lost!

Perhaps my plate number is start with W, so they know I am an outsider. Then, they horn me while I drove slowly. Besides, I found that they are also quite rude on the road. I thought KL driver behave badly, but Penang drivers even worst! I have a colleague, he lived in Penang for few years before, and he has the same thought! This makes me think of La Queen, who is from Penang, and I don’t want to comment about her driving “skill”…

Do you have any experience driving in Penang?

I have so many years didn’t change my handphone. I don’t have much desire on mobile phone as I only need it to make call and SMS. I am not into those extra functions such as MP3 player or better phone camera.

But, there is one phone that I hope to buy it this year. I wanted to get a PDA phone for myself~! However, there are so many PDA phones available in the market, and the most important thing is all are so expensive!

Anyway, it is my target gadget of the year. A second-hand PDA phone will do.

Recently, I saw an interesting advertisement from a billboard. It is placed at the roadside I have to pass thru everyday. It is a local telco advertisement with some eye-catchy graphic design. I believe it can attract most of the road users.

I used to think of taking art and design courses after my high-school study. But, due to the expensive fees and location-wise, I abandon my dream. If I were study in this subject, will I be able to compete with all these talents? If not, how could I be? Anyway, my worry is unnecessary. I can see there are a lot of opportunities available from graphics and art designer.

As I know, there is a website offering freelancer jobs for all the graphic designers. The website address is www.creative.gd, and the name for this website is Creative Graphic Design. There are a lot of creative artwork project available in this website. All the freelancers can participate in these artwork projects which design the artwork for their client. Then, the client will select the best design which suit to their needs and the freelancer win money from it. I believe it could bring a lot of income if you have a creative thought.

You are not required to be a top designer to participate this program. So, take this opportunity to create some designs and make money from it!

First Weekend: I was on duty. I have to back to company on Saturday to cast my duty.

Second Weekend: I was assigned to go to Penang for a visitation. I scheduled it in Friday and then I can go back to my hometown during weekend.

Third Weekend: Team building at Port Dickson, 3D2N!

Forth Weekend: Chinese New Year. I like CNY! I will back to hometown for one week holiday.

So, my weekend on January is totally full. Want to date me? Have to schedule it to other month lor~ HAHA~

I am not good in investment. I see most of my friends invested their money in share market or buying properties. I tried to invest my money in mutual fund as well, but, the economy crisis just hit to our country. As the consequences, my invested value is getting lesser and lesser. At the end, I stopped to invest more money into it.

Since I have no place to invest, so I put a big portion of my money into bank. At least I can see the interest growth, and bring some profits. But, the government wanted to stimulate our market cash flow, so they decided to decrease the interest rate. I am confused with the bank rate which offered by the different bankers.

Luckily, I found a website which could help you to monitor bank’s rate. At monitorbankrates.com, I can get five financial calculators including a Certificate of Deposit (CD) calculator! It could help me to calculate how much of the interest that I will earn on a CD.

It is very easy to use calculator. I just need to enter the CD deposit amount, and then select term and CD Rates; I could easily monitor my money in the bank!

So, where do you put your money?

We went to Sunway Pyramid for New Year shopping “last year”. It is a place that we rarely go. Since now it is quite near with the place that I work, so, I took my housemates there for shopping.

Then, we went to Gasoline for dinner. It is located at the upper level of the mall. The first thing that attracts our attention was the outlook. It is like a corsair, with Christmas decoration. Then, the food selling there is affordable. It is like RM6.90 – RM10.90. We ordered few single meal, mainly rice, taste OK. Don’t put too high expectation with the food in that price range.

Anyway, we spent RM50++ for 3-pax. Mainly is because we ordered expensive drinks. Perhaps it is a good choice in cheaper meal in Sunway Pyramid~!