Percutian Berbayar Di Pulau Besi

Aku sedang duduk di bangku di kawasan menunggu di bawah helideck. Dah 3 minggu aku di pelantar F6. F6 terletak di Laut China Selatan di satu kawasan yang di kenali sebagai Central Luconia - kawasan tu diuruskan dan dikendalikan oleh Sarawak Shell Berhad. Ia kira-kira 200 kilometer dari Miri dan kira-kira 80 minit perjalanan dengan helikopter. Kalau dengan fast crew boat, mungkin dalam 8 jam atau lebih. Memang muntah hijau kalau dengan boat.

After More Than 15 Years With Maxis and 5 Months With Celcom

I was Maxis user for more than 15 years. Sejak dari zaman universiti gua dah guna Maxis ni. Sejak dari tahun 2000 atau 1999..Tak ingat! Bila kes Maxis kencing pelanggan jadi viral, maka berduyun-duyun Maxis user port out and port in other telco operator seperti Celcom, Digi, U-mobile dan sebagainya. 

Log Kerja: Best trip ever

I was in Al-Jubail As-Syarqiyah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for a job assignment in October 2015. It was a memorable trip because I was able to perform my first ever umrah, a few weeks after Eiduladha. So Mekah was not so crowded with people due to umrah visa has not been released yet by saudi government to people outside Saudi. I was lucky! 

Lexis Hibiscus Adhoc Getaway

Last week cuti sekolah tapi tak bawak budak-budak ke mana pun sebab gua pun baru balik rumah hari Selasa malam. Khamis dah raya haji, so tiba-tiba terfikir apa nak buat weekend tu. Gua pun bagi idea kat orang umah, apa kata kita pegi tidur satu malam dekat PD. Takde la jauh sangat, setakat 60km je dari rumah gua. Orang rumah terus bersetuju. So misi mencari hotel bermula seawal Jumaat tu..mula-mula nak pilih Avilion tapi terasa nak ada private pool, teringat ke Grand Lexis tapi pernah stay situ dulu masa dia dikenali dengan The Legend Water homes, then teringat pulak Lexis hibiscus baru bukak. Terus book through Agoda. MYR856 untuk Premium Pool Villa. Price agak mahal sebab peak season and last minute booking. Kalau weekdays maybe murah lagi dari ni. 

Adhoc Trip To London and Paris

Gua patut ada family day pada 28 November 2014. Tak pernah gua dapat join family day kat mana-mana company gua join selama ni. So quite excited bila management allowed me to join because one of the requirements was I need to be a confirmed employee. 26 November patutnya cukup 6 bulan gua kat sini, tapi registration has to be made few weeks prior. So gua email bos gua yang kat Florence whether he will confirm me as employee by that date and he replied 'OK'!. Terus gua forward email tu kat HR, then HR pun proceed dengan gua punya registration. Tup tup, 3 weeks before nak pegi, wife gua dapat assignment/meeting kat Switzerland. Hancur family day plan nak pegi ke Pulai Resort and Legoland. Terpaksa di cancel. Frust!

Log Jalan-Jalan ke Rome

Dalam entri yang lepas gua dah cerite macam mana gua abeskan the first weekend during my travel to Italy. The second weekend pulak, gua abeskan dengan pergi ke Rome. Rome ni terletak di selatan Firenze, kalau naik train dalam 2 hingga 3 jam (train biasa-biasa). Kalau naik train laju amik masa dalam 1 jam je. Disebabkan trip bajet, kami amik train biasa-biasa. Actually 26hb Sept (friday) tu, kami masih lagi teragak-agak samada nak meneruskan trip ni ke tak, sebab kawan gua si Sultan tu dah tercicir duit masa trip kami last week sebanyak Eur450. Banyak tu beb! So Jumaat malam tu tengah kami bersiar-siar kat train station sambil memikirkan hala tuju, akhirnya kami pun terbeli jugak tiket train ke Rome, dan malam tu jugak kami godek-godek booking.com cari hotel murah untuk one night stand. Natijahnya kami dapat book Hotel Marisa, just next door to Roma Termini. 

Log Sambil Menyelam Minum Air: From Florence to Pisa to La Spezia

Almost 2 weeks dah since gua pulang dari Italy, in Florence to be exact. Actually gua ke sana atas urusan kerja. Bos gua hantar training dan sambil tu untuk berkenalan dengan engineering team dekat sana di samping bertemu dengan bos/hiring manager gua sebab dia memang based situ and orang Italy. 

Buku Islam Dan Buku Kafir

Gua ni jarang sangat shopping untuk buku-buku. Time dekat U dulu pun seingat gua, first semester je yang gua betul-betul beli buku, yang lain-lain semua buku photostat takpun buku pinjam. Sebab tu belajar tak pandai sangat tu.

House Furnishing: The Beginning

Last two years or exactly 28 months ago, gua signed S&P dengan pemaju untuk satu unit intermediate house di Nilai Impian. Ini adalah rumah pertama gua.

Log Percutian: Redang Holiday Beach Villa

Bile: 2 May to 4 May 2014 (peak hour gile2)
Lokasi: Pulau Redang laa..
Participants: 8pax adults, 2 children

Another Career Change

This was the hardest decision I ever made in my career life! 

Selalunya kalau gua nak job hopping, memang tak pikir panjang dah..gua terus resign and decline terus sume counter offer (if any). Gua resign last week guna email memandangkan gua dekat site, hence the email.

Log Double Trouble: Training dan Berhibur di Tokyo

Lama dah gua tak mengarut dalam blog ni. Gua tengok ramai yang baca pasal percutian je, so gua rasa galak pulak nak menulis pasal percutian.

Gua agak busy 2 ke 3 bulan ni lepas balik dari Russia. Busy dengan travel ke Chiang Mai untuk regional meeting and team building selama seminggu dan lepas tu dipaksa ke Crailshem, Germany untuk penatkan otak dengan FAT, jugak seminggu. Tengah bulan Feb pulak gua menuju ke Tokyo untuk menuntut ilmu dengan orang Jepun. Dekat company ni kalau travel macam ni, meaning unchargeable travel - takde elaun ape ke jadah sume, cume lu makan, laundry dan hotel boleh claim je la. Tak untung orang kata! Mengabihkan duit lagi ado la. Tapi skang ade dekat Mangalore India untuk paid job. Probably my last assignment in this company...ngeeeee~~. Yes, gua bercadang nak resign.

Log Percutian: Hard Rock Hotel Penang

Macam biasa, lepas pegi kerja lama-lama kat negara orang..kita kene spend time pulak dengan family terchenta. Tanpa membuang banyak masa, touchdown je Malaysia zass terus ke Penang untuk berjimba. Booking terus dilakukan di Hard Rock Hotel Batu Feringgi, Penang!

Log Kerja: From Russia To Singapore

"Hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik negeri sendiri"

Gua rasa pepatah kat atas tu dah bole pegi jahanam and boleh buang dari dewan bahasa dan pustaka. Pepatah tu dah tak relevant dengan keadaan kat Malaysia skang. Atau boleh tuka ayat yang last sekali tu "lebih baik negeri orang".

Log Kerja: Journey To The North

Lama gua tak ber-blogging. Too occupied with never ending thing call work. At this moment I am in squalid little room hotel in Nizhnekamsk, Russia Federation. Ground temperature is 15°C below zero. I like the 'green winter' more than the 'white winter', it's warmer. I flew from Singapore to Moscow for almost 11 hours and connecting flight to Nizhnekamsk for another 2 hours.

Another Dumb Proposal

Reported earlier in Business Times, a board member for the Federal Department of Town and Country Planning suggested a parking charges of up to RM40 per hour should be imposed to reduce the traffic in major city here in Malaysia. 

Picture courtesy of Paultan.org. Click the picture to direct to its article.

Have Problem?

When executing a task let it be either specific like commissioning, installation, troubleshooting etc or daily routine task in your workplace, you are prone to mess with it. Below diagram illustrates how you should react when you are doing your job. 

Normally this is actually our guideline but we never realize it until you see this. Thinking back for the last 9 years of my career I actually did exactly as describes in the diagram above. 

It was taken from the world's no 1 oildfield service company.

Men Are Just Happier People

Log Percutian: Langkawi Retreats - Hole In The Wall and Wan Thai

Not so many eateries we went during this retreats. The Loaf gua dah cover dalam post 'The Journey'. So tinggal dua restoran ni je. So I have to this in bulk instead of separate them between posts. Jimat! Actually masa gua survey-survey Langkawi time dekat ofis, gua banyak survey tempat makan. Tapi 3 tempat ni je yang gua sempat pegi. 

My Travel Tips

As an avid traveller (most of the travels were business trip), I often get into the jet plane and heading to place my company asked me to. Being in the various airports anywhere in the world sometimes could be a major headache, full of human, hassle of airport workers, immigration and anything you can think of. 

I feel like to share what I usually do when I get in the jet plane for travel..It's more like a common sense solution to speed things up during boarding and less disturbance while on the road.