Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Promotion at Concorde, Shah Alam

Yesterday, I was at the hotel for a promotional activity by JTM. The event was put-together by PSMB, a KSM arm, and was quite a success, judging by the turn-out and response from participants.


in front of the JTM booth

The talk I love most was the Communication segment by Jackson Ng, one of the country's best speakers. Hm, he managed to put some fresh ideas into the participants, though I'm familiar with all of them (from jokes and self-help articles I read on the net), seeing them in action, and enjoyed by the participants was something else altogether.

The booth was manned by the HQ staff like Yati, Hazim n... hm, forgot his name... from ADTEC, there were Mira, Zura n me... We were in familiar territory, for right in front of our booth was ILPKL's, and right next to it was JTK. Behind us was PTPKN, next to it was CIAST, well.. pretty familiar people... even met Yati of JPK. It's booth was quite far away, but.. familiar faces...



That's Yati attending to some queries
visitors to JTM's booth


The best part was (of course!) the souvenir-huntingg from the other booths, and the best ones have to be the bright-orange umbrella from leanapplied, and the book mark from ILPKL. I was at leanapplied earlier, but didn't get any umb. so, when I saw Hazim n others came back with it, Mira, Zura n me dashed over quickly. Guess what? even En Zuraka was hot on our heels...

So, it was kinda happy day for ereyone. Mission accomplished, even managed to strike some friendship with Yati (hq), Amy n Yat (ilpkl) n even Keane from MIT. That reminds me, I have to email him!

other booths

Mira n Zura giving their best smiles


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Time to reflect

The month of November is almost halfway through... there seems a lack of activity on my blog, but, it does not mean that I've been idle- far from it! Be it personal or worklife, there's so much happening! It's just that I'm not in the mood to take pictures... hence, without the photogs, blogging is not that interesting...

Some weeks back, we had a hari raya gathering graced by none other than the Deputy Minister, Dato' Noraini. The food was quite ok (but many complained of diarrhea the day after). There was a really touching moment when the invited orphans rendered a thoroughly heart-tugging song. A lot of those in the audience were reduced to tears.
There were canopies for the event...

Here I was with Uji, Dila, Azua n Fadilah waiting for makan time...


Other colleagues...

The orphans singing their heart out... it still bring tears to my eyes when I recall their singing on that blessed afternoon...

Some hampers for the beautiful kids...

Dato' heading home... dang! I forgot to snap photos of her dashing PA again!

Then, last Saturday, I played a part in 'history', when 28 ADTEC students sat for the first ever MUET ever held on our campus. As pusat MB184, the candidates first sat for their speaking test on Tuesday, 4/11. The best part was, some students were lucky as a lot of what we discussed the previous day came out! For the 1st session, about 30% was there, while for the 2nd session, almost 80%! I can't imagine their excitement when they first laid their eyes on the question paper. Held at our library, most of them turned up in time, attired in what I told them to - collared Ts/shirt for the boys, and decent blouses for the girls - aren't I proud of them! The bad thing was, I forgot to take photos! and... one of them, Lim, could not make it. Called him like 7,8 x, but no answer!

Anyway, it started on time at 8, and ended at 12.30. The 3 invigilators were from SMK Sek 16 Shah Alam - Pn Hawa, Pn Liza and Pn Ng. Thanks a lot to them! We had a nice lunch afterwards... I also owe a lot of thanks to Pn Zuraidah n En Zainal from Jabatan Pelajaran Selangor (JPS - many of my colleagues thought it is Jab Parit & Saliran) who helped me make it possible.

I truly hope that more ADTEC students would sit for the exam next year!