When we were younger, I’m sure most of you have lots of friends. I do too. As we grow older, only a few remain friends. The others are mere kawan hi-hi bye-bye.

Sometimes you meet new friends, but you should not forget your old friends. This is a real story about someone in the office, I. I is in the IT department. She’s friends with two ladies from the Marketing Department. They used to go out to lunch together – the three of them. Sometimes they went shopping and accompany each other doing chores during lunch break. Sometimes they went swimming together after office hours and did other stuff like good friends always do.

Recently, a new colleague joined the IT department and she was so attached to this new colleague, A. She stopped contacting her colleagues in the Marketing Department. She goes out for lunch, shopping etc with this new colleague of hers. Her friends from the marketing department obviously terasa but never mentioned anything to her. One day, her newly found bestfriend went on leave for two weeks and out of the blue she started contacting her Marketing friends again.

She asked:

Her: “Ko pegi lunch mana hari ni?”

Old friend: “Aku bawak bekal je”

Her: “Ah, tak sudi nak lunch dengan aku”

WTF man? You totally ignored your friend for so long and on the day your new friend left you, you want to hangout with her again? Obviously her old friend would not just tell her off. But why do you have to make the last statement. Obviously she has her own plans. You know, even if she didn’t want to/couldn’t go out for lunch with you, why should you be such an ass and say things like that? It obviously hurts her more. Why are you putting the blame on her? Obviously you’re at wrong. Bangang ok orang macam ni. The conversation went on with the girl creating stories and blaming her old friend. Haisshh..

My advice is, if you like your new friend. Fine, be friends with her. But don’t totally ignore/forget your old friends. You can always go out for lunch with your new friend and old friends. Introduce your new friend to your old friends, you prolly can bring them out for lunch together. If you don’t want to, take turns. Let either of them know that today you wanna go out with your other group of friends. I’m sure your friends would understand.

Ada jugak orang macam ni…

(you’ll meet a lot of weird people when you start working)

Make new friends, but keep the old!

Make new friends, but keep the old! (source: http://fourstarters.com)

Sejak bila lah aku jadi headhunter ni. Here are some job vacancies. All are in multinational companies; pharmaceutical related jobs. Based in the Klang Valley, Malaysia. You need more info? Leave me a message.

1. Sales Representative, FMCG (preferably with Pharmaceutical sales experience)
2. Data Entry, will be based in hospitals but salary is being paid by the MNC (obviously because you will be an employee of the MNC)
3. Medical Advisor (Medical Doctors with 3 years experience)
4. Quality & Safety Manager

“awak tanya saya :

ape perancangan saya untuk 6 bulan pertama akan datang. dan 6 bulan kedua akan datang.

(kalau) saya boleh beri jawapan yang cukup mengujakan sampai awak rasa tak nak lepaskan saya dan akan hire sampai ke akhir hidup awak saya ada satu soalan untuk awak :

ape perancangan awak pulak untuk saya?

saya akan kekal seumur hidup saya sebagai RA kontrak dengan gaji cukup makan sedangkan saya ada yuran yang sangat mahal untuk dibayar untuk 3 trimester akan datang  yang mana keputusan scholarship saya belum tentu akan jamin saya boleh menmpung hidup selama saya menghabiskan pengajian saya di sini. ok ini bukan soal gaji ini soal masa depan saya. apa masa depan saya kalau saya kekal disini?”

Ka-ii’s original post here.

Ah.. the exact same thing I asked my boss.

Boss: Write here where do u foresee yourself in 2 years.

Me: Where do you think I’d be in 2 years?

Nak suruh kita buat perancangan masa depan, tapi dia sendiri tak boleh menjanjikan apa2. sigh.

I’m not sure what I’m getting myself into. Not even my other 13 coursemates I guess. This is sooooo not what I expected.

MBA was so much fun. I would visualize going for lecture when the stress at work became unbearable. I hardly ever skip the lectures unless if I had to leave the country for training/work. I would try my very best not to skip any lectures. I would arrange my flights nicely. A few times I had to go to Singapore, I’d still go to class and leave class slightly early say around 9pm, take the last flight to Singapore at 11pm, reach Changi at 12am. Took the cab to the hotel with extra 50% surcharge (which was paid for by the Company). I’d return back to KL by taking the 3pm flight from Singapore, and reach school just in time for class. Sweet kan?

Now, not anymore! I look forward to skipping every single class especially if the class is in the morning before 10am. This thing is eating my weekend. It’s killing me!!! I am socially deprived.

*macam mana nak pinjam gula dari jiran ni? *hakcipta Maz*

Hermit Monk (image source: http://www.worst-jobs.com)

Congratulations Dr. F and Dr. ME!

They were the 1st bunch of my batch yang graduated as doctors! Yayy!! Congratulations yaaa!

It was nice meeting Dr. F., N, Miss R, M, D and H for supper (my supper, their dinner kot) at Nirwana Bangsar (eh ke Nirvana? ngantukk weeii.. mata pun xley bukak ni). Bila nak jumpa Dr. ME ni??? dah 800 kali plan nak jumpa. tak jadi2. sigh…

Super Cute Doctors (source: storyboardtoys.com)

On another note, I no more report to Dr. V. I’m reporting to a new boss, Pharmacist Y. Hihi.. She got promoted from Assistant Manager to Manager, so all of us automatically report to her now. So yeah.. it’s cool. But I’ll definitely miss Dr. V as my boss. He’s sooooo cool. Sigh.

There’s a job opening for doctors in my office. Any doctors wanna apply? Send your resume to me. hihihi.. Only cute, single, male doctors ya.

I was at my desk when someone came at my place looking at my name plate.

Name Plate. Please replace with my name and say, CEO as the position. kihkihkihh (source: americantrophies.net)

Okey, so mine doesn’t really look like that, but most likely resembles a kids’ party place card.

Princesses' Party Place Card (source: smilingfaces.com.au)

Stranger: SJ ya?

Me: Huh? Yaa.. *thinking, is this the new girl from legal department? hmm.. what does she want from me? i didn’t request for any documents or what nots from the legal department*

Stranger: Hi! I’m Z. You were from company #9.

Me: Yes, I was from #9 *still looking a bit confused, quickly looked at her tag and saw the distributor’s company name. zas zas zaaasss.. light bulb blinking*

Stranger: *ah malu minah ni tak kenal aku*. I saw your name on this book bla bla blaa.. (not fair ahh.. she got my picture in the book, memang lah boleh cam kan. and we stopped communicating since 6 bloody months ago!)

Me: Ahh.. yes, Z, from Distributor Z. Nice meeting you. We always exchanged email, but we’ve never met in person huh.

Stranger: I’m here on training. I’m taking care of company #1 (my current company) now.

So yeah, we exchanged email almost every day when I was in #9. We chatted on the phone, she received tonnes of fax and email request from me but we’ve never met. So funny and embarrassing ahh..

Sacrifice?? My ASS!

versus

I’m off to Melaka for a 3-day meeting.

To minimize cost, both the Singapore and Malaysia teams will meet in the middle ie Melaka.

Blearrgghh…

Won’t be that bad as the hotel’s by the beach, kan? hmmm…

I watched The Biggest Loser on AXN and surprisingly cried when the contestants get to meet their family members. It’s not easy for me to cry and the last time I cried prolly was last 6 months, in October. I’m not sure if I did cry in October, well.. I prolly did. Tragedi Oktober.. :p.

Crying with Real Tears this Time (image source: vadi.ir)

But why did I cry?? Pelik gila.

Contract (Image source:weddingliason.com)

It’s already 6 months since I worked in #1. No more acting like a newbie. Well, I stopped acting like a baby ever since my 2nd month there kot. Semoga berjaya! FTE in a year, 6 more months to go! Semoga berjaya!

Thats a Handshake dgn Male Boss yg Baik lagi 6 bulan (Image source: jobfinderchicago.com)

*FTE = Full Time Employee