Tuesday, April 26, 2011

A Picture which really i love the most...

20th May 1993... A day all of us were excited as tadika kids due to photography session that the tadika organized. I was basically in my own world due to my speech was slow and all i could utter was basically simple words... Used to dream alot i say =P. Most students were trying their best to give the best smile... I used to remember there was a girl wanted to make up that time.... lol!!! Memories....
At 1st, We were told to stand and some of them to be squat down... I as usual was standing beside a guy name Rajiv *SEE I STILL REMEMBER MY TADIKA MATES!!!* and the guy just stand few feet away and said "Okie students, I'm gonna take a shot... Don't close ur eyes kaayyyy!!!"
Most of the students were smiling and giving their best pose during the class pic except for me... i was like... Okie i'm under the sun and the sun is glaring at me... how am i suppose to give the best of me.... The Photographer snapped and the pic turned out well...
Next session was like a student with the class teacher. I remember i was almost the last one to take a pic and then came to my turn to take a picture... I still remember her(teacher) name... Her name was Ms Tina. That time i would say she was around 20+ i say due to her young age.. and we took a shot.
When the pictures were washed and being given out, my classmates were excited and i dunno how many pictures did the teach wrote a note behind each picture being taken...
I'm sure not many of you have actually know my childhood stories... My tadika hood was a lil sad as my parents thought i couldn't sing... couldn't talk... and they thought i couldn't hear.... went for so many speech therapy... But the beauty is that... this teacher knew i could do it... She really took the effort to spend more time understanding about my psychology and stuff. She kept on observing me to make me to improve in terms of speech. She pampered me so much as i always remember... Her smile was the thing i always love.
I was able to sing some nursery rhymes and was able to catch up some stuff in that particular year but my parents didn't knew wat was actually happening in school and on concert day, my teacher gave them a shock whereby she told them that i will be doing a solo singing on stage.. I still remember that moments as my mom was damn worried cuz she thinks that teacher is joking but my teacher told my mom one thing " your son has improve much from the 1st day i knew him". Then came to a time where they brought me out... I was asked to perform twinkle twinkle infront of estimated crowd of 700 people.... When i sang, there is where my mom, dad and brother was shocked of their lives... I knew my mom was crying for real.... and after the performance... hahahahah!!!! the amount of hugs and kisses i got from my family was awesome lah.... All my parents knew was... i used to play with this car and i won't say anything until i'm hungry or something else...
Oh yeah... that ran off track!!!! Back to the photography thing... She wrote a lil note behind the pic which i knew all this time but won't be bothered to read it... Until today when i was driving around and i suddenly thought about her... I went to my old pic albums and looked for the pic... There i found it and man!!!!! i was freaking small!!!! Turned the photo and read the note which stated as below
"Kallen,
Work hard and always tell yourself that you can do it! There is nothing a man cannot do if he puts his mind to it. Take Care of yourself....
Love Cikgu Tina"
When i read those words... I cried!!! Honestly i cried!!! I'm not ashamed of that statement... she knew who i was...and what i was capable off... She knew that i could do the same things as other kids just that she knew i was a lil slow.. But today.. i look at myself, as a person who is currently having a degree and also working as a supervisor in a hotel. Leading other staff to be a better staff.
I seriously wanna meet her once more to cry on her shoulders that i'm the student which you didn't give up on... and you knew i had something in me.... but the question is????? Where is she now lord!!!! I wanna see her once again and talk to her... All i wish is that... CikguTina (Syamswiatina Hj Ishak) i wanna see you real bad!!!!

Saturday, March 19, 2011

7 Months and that's it i could push myself!

Greetings once again!!!!

It's been a while i've updated here and always been updating on facebook =) So, I'm sure some peepz may not know what's happening with me...

Last month, i tendered a 30 days notifications which actually the company sees that they were happy... got no idea why were they happy about but as they say life goes on.... Even the company secretary asking me why am i leaving and i had to reply like Godfather style "It's nothing personal Teh... It's Strictly business" I kid u not... She was freaking puzzled from what i said ( I was like laughing to my self) and i explained to her.. it's nothing about i hate people in the company, it's just that i got a better offer and i have to move till i can do so...

News started spreading all over until Ex staffs were asking me through facebook. There are certain things that made me leave there...

  • Money Talks!!!! My Salary wasn't that good enough for me to sustain my self...
  • Certain people made full swing use of me and i don't mind doing it... increase my salary and i don't mind doing it...
  • None of my photography hardwork being paid AT ALL!!!!!! and now most of my shots being used in the calender
And yeah there were certain cases i wasn't kinda happy with them in terms of throwing me in Sales and then to Front office and so on.... I don't mind doing it... but do it in a proper way lah!!!!

But one thing i realized that i was more motivated to work in Front Office than to work in Sales cuz one thing i realized... What's the point called ur self as sales person but outside they disrespect you... Got that thinking for a moment =)

And i'm too used to the Shift hours which eventually i really had a good time at Front office and with the upselling thing...oh yeah.. lagi lah it motivate us!

Tomorrow i will be joining a new Hotel named "MY Hotel" as front office supervisor which the task is kinda similar to Duty manager =).. Hopefully i can prove Starpoints wrong and they have to regret for the things that they have done on me =)

Adios!

Thursday, January 27, 2011

5 months... and it still goes on...

It seems to be like August 5th was yesterday and now months being in the hotel line ain't easy i can tell ya...

Some think that it's easiest thing to do these day compared to Law, Medic and etc etc... But they failed to realized that handling with human beings are much more pain in the ass... I seriously thought front office was bad until i came into Sales.. My oh my... i see weird type of people... weirder than college lecturers... Some are really nice clients... some are not nice... NOT NICE AT ALL!!!!

Well let me share with you some recent unpleasant experience i had during this month. The story goes....

"AH the Credit Meeting!!!!!!!(This is where all the Sales people hates the most)... The meeting between the Chief Accountant(C.A) with Sales and General Manager sits at the round table with secretary sitting beside me( My latest bestie)... Then... the C.A distributes the list of companies which still hasn't paid towards the hotel for payments of stay, functions, seminars and so on. Then the C.A slowly takes out his reading glasses and reads each company's list... and i was pretty happy cuz none of my accounts have any payment problem as they go under pax acc. (Which is they settle there and then it self)....

It was going all well till there's this account name by Hawa Ghazali.. I was like.. okie... this company owes us RM660 Nett and it was under my General Manager's account. Outta no where, my GM suddenly said.. Kallen!!!!! I need you to follow up this payment... well, i was in the state of like saying no but u know the rules.. listen to GM!!!!! Got her number and stuff like that it was going fine.. The person i had to call is a Datin status... so yeah, had to handle her with care cuz of my GM's guest!!!!! (all this happened 2 weeks ago)


On January 12, a day i will never forget... My GM asked me to head down to her house and personally invite her. Thinking that he would have called her and informed her about my arrival i went to her house. It was beside US embassy and it looks nice. Old White Bungalow house with some porsh cars were parked there... As i slowy closed my door, the area was so silent as church. Hearing my foots steps, i approached her front door and was looking for some signs of human beings. Suddenly a voice being heard " Who's there!"

As i looked around and saw a pregnant lady from the top balcony inside her house and i gently replied " I'm looking for Datin Linda . May i see her?"

As the lady looked at me and replied me " I'm the one" " who asked you to come here!!!!" she shouted from the balcony as she walked down the stairs.

I was like oh crap! and replied " Mr Melvin sent me here... He asked me to personally invite you for the corporate night event which is held on the 13th January"

As she was walking down with her nighty not knowing she was sick and pregnant and she was shouting " Didn't Mr Melvin asked you to make an appointment?" "No one comes here without an appointment!!!"

I was like.. Oh F***!!! I'm screwed!!!! and i apologized so many times to her for not making any appointment..She eventually said can you lower down your voice... U're making me get a headache!!!! I was speechless... seriously...DAMN SPEECHLESS!!!!!

She asked me what was in my hands... One hand was the invitation and another was all her bills that she owes the hotel as she grab it from my hand as i was shaken up by her harsh words. She got even frustrated when the invitation card was only written her name and her husband's name not there. There she goes again shouting at me... "Huh!!! How can u invite me but not Datuk!!!!" I was like oh great... My day has gone bad to worst!!!!! For nothing i had to apologized for nothing!!!!!

While she was seeing all her bills, she still was shouting at me... " I've paid these bills!!!!!! What else you need!!!!" I was just speechless...Speechless enough to put me to silence where i used not to speak at all..... And i slowly said, "These are the bills from the hotel, i'm not sure which you have paid and not paid as they claimed that you have not paid Datin" in soft spoken tone...

Then, she saw those bills and kept on repeating, "Anthony!!! Next time you should have done an appointment with me" . " Now i'm sick and none of my guest have seen me in this condition"

All i could do is sit there in silence, waiting when she would chase me out from there. Suddenly she called her Male maids to attend to me as she gave the invitation card on my hand and she walked away from the hall to the top balcony she was .. I was puzzled as he maid approach me and gave eye signal which meant i should leave soon or else more disasters to happen. She told the maid to actually photocopy the invitation and giving me the original copy.

The maid gave her the photocopy version and she said "The invitation card has too much of the nice fragrant smell until i can't take it... i was like HUH!!!!!!!

As then i told her that i had to go back to the office to get some job done and i told her to get well soon.

As in the car, i was alone... Normally i'm the type of person who actually listen to loud music but this time i didn't switch on the radio but just in that state of shock.... I drive out from there and was like... Oh my... Did i went through some dreams???

And suddenly when i reached at Jalan Ampang, a messaged appeared on my phone and it was from her. I was like... "Aiyoo!!! what lah she wants!!!!" and i read that message. " Dear Anthony, You're good guy but came at the wrong time"

I was like.. forget it and just reply a sincere apology message.

When i reached at the office, there i met my GM and his secretary smiling and laughing so loudly as i got down from the car as if i was like from the Corleone family (watch godfather then you would know) with those clipons and slowly walked towards them and GM asked me

"So, got the cash????"

"Nope, and please don't ask me to see her again...EVER" with that high tone as the secretary knew i was pissed and something really bad has happened. Without any more actions, i just walked away and head down to Hannifa to get some drinks as Kickapoo...

Seriously i was too tensed to even think about health and also my so called diet until i had to drink 4 cans of it...

My secretary was messaging me and asking how it went. That also i didn't replied to her and i went into the office. Then my GM came into the office and asked "what happened"

As i replied "Never in my life have been insulted so bad" Not even my parents has done that nor my friends!!!!! and to make things worst she was pregnant and cursing me..."

Gm replied: "it's okie, it ain't you're day" and he smile and he walked away... My heart was saying " what the fuck!!!" You made me a fool down there!!!! and i got cursed by ur shit!!!"

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Life has Change

Hmm... Finally i got some spare time to blog actually.. but this time, i'm bloggin from my office!!! Haahaha!

Just a small thing i would like to share with you guys today about life and so on. Sometimes i really wished i was a student at times where things in working life is too matured i say... matured in sense that i'm not ready to actually face nor even advise people in certain things...

Weird but true to me... cuz i'm just goin into 22 this year and my colleagues are more elder than me by the average of 3-4 years gap and some are married and having kids as if the world has no kids at all... There are even times that i wanted to stop working and just go for a different line... Maybe i was brought up in such where i must be concern about other people's feelings at times especially ladies feelings... And the scenarios that they ask advise for me it's not a simple thing but it involves so many people that i know... i ain't a super hero in advising people.... i just give my opinion and voila!!! That's is about working life only... Not yet personal one =P

Hmm... About friends, at times i feel that i let them climb over my head until some best friends of mine actually unfold some things which aren't meant to be told... Yes i know it hurts at times but what to do... Life's a bitch tho!!! And some people just say lies to me even though i know the truth.. Doesn't it make your wound go bigger at times??? I even tell my friends to be independent but yet they still want me around.. but once they get someone special.. that's it!!! goes vanish in the thin air!!!! and months later you can expect that person to be talking with you just to say i'm no more in relationship... It's not that i can help or so whatever.. as people say.. "never forget those who did good deeds to you"

Not to say i want to brag about myself but i've helped so many people at times but they gave me all heart aches and so on... even now i'm typing this blog with heartache and i wished that person actually reads this blog at times to know how much i cared for her at times, the times i had to be with her through sleepless nights.. Well.. Learn from the past but until today.. i will never think bad about her... even she ask for advises also i will give her the best.. cuz i ain't cruel to destroy a woman's life or so whatever... I can't be mean at times... I'm just like that.. =( or maybe i just don't want karma to come back knocking at my door step...

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Hmm work life starts now on....

Ah Fiiinnnaaaallly!!!!!!

Got some spare time to Blog again!!!!!!

Oh yes...it's been like going to be a month where i started off my career as a hotelier... hmm i know lot of them wanna work cuz of the money.. believe me!!! U don't want to work...

Come to the point where i 1st started at Carlton Holiday at Shah Alam *i know it's far but wat to do... no job offer mah* So i started learning here they way of front office and doing some reports..man i really had great time there but the only thing that puts me off from working is that the hygiene of that hotel.... IT"S FREAKING DIRTY!!!!!!! The rooms, the restaurant... the kitchen as well!!!!! I think i also can manage my house kitchen more better at times...lol!!!

Ah yes... u think i'm joking???? Not really when u can see some best friends like cockroach walking here and there as a family... ONE BIG FAMILY!!!!!!! and yeah... the staff meal.. I dunno the chef prepared food for the animals or even human being.. it's so damn fucked up!!!! (that's show how bad is it)

It's like at times when u get hungry real bad and all u see is food that can really put ur mood off and get back to work....

The work i was doing... wow!!! i didn't know i had the talent to multi task.. i was an operator... reservation person...front office person and also house keeper (those u know me very well will LOL at this statement)


Before i resign from there...I had a lil chat with my General Manager.. not a lil chat but a one full hour solid chat and i had to tell him off what are the things are really happening in the hotel while is he gone cuz GM comes in like chipsmore... Suddenly he will go missing at times... So yeah.. had to tell him off and i even like explain what are the things to do.. cuz the staff knows that the GM is not around... all can relax aje!!! Oh btw.. this job only lasted me for 2 weeks only.. =P


Then i joined another hotel named by Star Point Hotel (which is beside the Hannifa Textile company).. It was like so damn good for a 3star!!!! I seriously fell in love with the place...Even though it's in Masjid India but the hotel rooms are freaking nice!!!!! And yeah i love the tag line of the company which says " We don't sell rooms... Only home"

The 1st thing that really scared me was the food... but when i went up to the cafeteria for lunch.. MATHER!!!!!!!!! It was like.. damn!!!!! It's so damn nice and tasty... i really thank god for that...even though my pay is less nevertheless the food was so tasty and it's more to Pakistan food.. which i don't mind also... janji got something like indian food a bit!

But about the new place... I love the front office.. just that.. the reservation people gets into my nerves at times.. simply won't key in the reservations!!!!! damn lazy bitches!

But over all.. i'm glad i've learnt so much of things in this short period of time and yet... i'm still learning!!!!

Adios!!!!

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Get Freaky


Oh well... At times Malaysian people tend to think twice whether is it the worth of money to dump in to buy an Original Cd at times... Well I had it too!!! Until this album came up which is called "Get Freaky" by Haze Freaky G....

At 1st i honestly gotta say i didn't fancy his hit song 70's penne or known as 70's girl.. But my aunty drag 3 of us for his album launch and i was like what the hell is wrong with you!!!!

And yeah..When i got his Cd.. It was like a norm thing to check out the Cd casing and stuff like that and i was like... " aiayah!!! 9 songs only ah" But as Haze was like explaining about his album i kinda like the way he portrayed his album...He was like telling that some songs were meant for his wife...

But there was this song name " You Should Really KNow" Attracted me in some way by me saying.. it will be a good song.. and yeah.. When he sang it live, I was really in tears...No joke... they way he sang it.. the lyrics were so damn freaking meaning ful until i was like... Never a man in my life have seen a guy express his heart and soul work into music and there is where i said.. Haze is a heck of a singer....His wife was so amazed with his work and she also was in tears...

But one thing for sure... I know many people still dunno about Haze, but once they know him and the way he express himself in music... You will be saluting him all the way...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Pulau Tioman

Oh yeah... Just got back from Pulau Tioman... And it was great though.. Just that my expectations for this island was too high when people told me that tioman was better....

I still prefer Pulau Redang whereby it was cleaner than Tioman and the water.. OH YEAH!!! Redang was better and i'm planning to go there again cuz it has nvr let me down at all!

1st Up Tioman should consider changing the name to Pulau Kucing... All i see is just "CATS" all around the island and from no where i see cow-dang... I was like... where on earth is that damn bladdy cow!!!!!

Over all the vacation was good lah... just somethings were like unexpected like the rooms were sucky and the best joke is that.... they nvr cleaned the room for that 3 days of my stay!!!!!

The pics are on facebook already...So feel free to see it then...