when I last posted anything here. I guess I have just recollected the thought of writing something here again.
Life has been hard but motivating for me all these months. It's not easy especially when you are gonna graduate and throw yourself in the working world. Fear? I couldn't resist that coming, but intrinsic motivation is much more crucial for me to sustain the excitement of moving on to a whole new phase of my life.
Things change, so do people. Deal with it, and move on, and be grateful about what you're having and love the people around you as much as how they love you.
I've been going through photo of mine in Facebook. And I just love myself.
These are a few pictures of what I did in the past half year in 2012. Unforgettable events and people.
Been to Melaka for twice this month. I feel my skin is getting healthier because of the long exposure under the sun but of course getting darker, and fat maybe?
durian baba cendol, chicken rice ball, nadeje mill crepes, satay celup, etc. #yummy
Yay ! Went penang with my friends and family. It is different going with them even-though I've been there for like many times already.
I'm expected to bring them around and to tell them what they have in Penang due to the fact that my school is near to it. And without disappointment plus the fact that I don't own a smartphone which could navigate the direction to the places we wanted to visit, I had my brother and a friend who own that to navigate the road to visit around Penang under the exposure of HOT SUN.
Despite that, I must say I'm a good navigator provided with instructions and directions. Teehee.
I ate a lot in Penang, no doubt. And I'm so full all the time. #satisfied #food
I will show you pictures, not about food,
Having holidays. but-no-time-to-blog-about-my-life
Came back from Penang, I will tell more about it. *crossed fingers
Member Committee Manager result is yet to be announced. i'm not either anticipating or scared. i think it's getting normal although i'm being nervous throughout the whole interview period.
reading plain truth - jodi picoult. quite an interesting book to read, having an attorney defending a girl who is suspected to commit a first degree murder on an infant.
i will always find it very excited and resourceful when you're exchanging opinions with your friends. i will find myself evaluating more and step back to grab and link it to the whole story. By listening to people, meaning that you're paying respect to that person who actually gives his/her thoughts to you.
I like and I'm pretty good at observing people around. I dislike being questioned over and over again. I might look i-am-okay-with-anything people, people can ask me anything. But bare in mind, ask me only if you will believe whatever answer I gave. One means one, two means two. I will not go lying with what I'm gonna say. In the end of the day, I don't get anything out of it.
Everyone is not flawless, I make mistakes too.
it is always easy to judge a book by it's cover, whether you're interested to pick it out to continue reading, in the end you will learn a lesson.
Madagascar 3 taught me you wouldn't know how amazing the world is if you did not step out from your comfort place.
I talked to my marketing management tutor yesterday.
Problems will come, it depends on how calm enough you are to solve it.
So, equip yourself well enough it face it.
- In this cruel world, keep your eyes open, to fight yourself a better life -
please refer to the title. I'm having exam fever over here after transition camp.
But still, chilling out in my university's new library is just so cold and mind relaxing. We got everything there, plug, comfortable seats, silence and air-conditioner etc.
I'll stop here before I start telling story.
Good Luck and all the best to you or whoever is having any kind of test and exam out there.
I'm going back home within a month time. Yay.
It's so late at night. As shown on my screen, 0432 GMT +8.
I couldn't sleep in this point of time. There are very limited space for me to go to bed. Therefore, I decided to blog something here.
Did I mention I'm going Korea? I have to tell you that I'M GOING SOUTH KOREA IN JAN'13!
So excited.
My department did Performance Appraisal yesterday. It's always good to reflect yourself and receive feedback from your teammate, people who work with you, people who knows you, people who makes you hold on for so long. I'm glad and touched when I heard 'you're a good leader for me', 'you're good in assigning tasks', 'we're happy to have you as a leader', 'I will support you always'. This is one of my achievement. Although I will never be the ideal leader that all of you intended to follow, but I'm happy in at least I met your expectations and managed to bring the team together to achieve a common goal and established the relationship between us.
You will now know how much I'm truly proud of my teammates, as I said, this is one of the best moment happened to my AIESEC Journey. I will never forget anyone of them, or us as a Buaya Family.
No matter how will we be in the future, I will still keep all of your trust and faith towards me within myself.
I have my Buaya family tree as
... Finally, I left a few more assignments to be done. Hectic weeks passed.
Gonna concentrate more on my studies. I-disallow-any-mistakes
Guys, I'm so busy recently. Owh My Gawd.
I got no time to blog about my experience in Japan. I will talk about it in one of the coming posts *finger crossed.
Finals coming, and you know this is the time when you have to submit everything especially your assignments and having presentations with quizzes coming along the way. This is insane.
One. Let's talk something about what I did recently apart from being insane doing the workload above.
I get the chance to participate in drama performance with a bunch of great friends for Eon Spring Festival - The Unforgettable Night. And you know what, the amazing thing is when you can laugh everything out and really relax by enjoying what you're doing. Sometimes you may see yourself inside the characters. We were really glad when people say : you guys did a great job. The performance was really nice. This is a quality drama performance.
Two. I attended the Annual General Meeting 2012 and presented everything about my department, the achievements and non-achievements. It was so great and memorable by seeing what have my teammates and I'd done for Outgoing Exchange Department 2011/2012. Although challenges and obstacles came along the way, but we managed to beat it down and moved on. Eventhough we did not achieve everything, but to me, moving together with all of my teammates till now is already an extra achievement for me. At least I've see all of your development, how much effort you paid for the department and how much you wish not to end the term. As a Vice President, these are what I'm really proud of all of you. I love my teammates. I wish all the best for your future undertakings.
*Signing off as Vice President of Outgoing Exchange Department for term 2011/2011 *cry
*I'm listening to Don't Stop Believing when I'm writing this. Such a good feeling
Life always starts with one word, 'Opportunity'. I don't get used to this word until I joined AIESEC, when everyone is telling me to grab the opportunity whenever you can, don't miss out the chances.
One year ago, I grab the opportunity and I ran for Local Committee Vice President position. I told myself, I just wanted to go through the process to see whether can I step out from my comfort zone. Finally, I got elected, but it is not the functional area I wanted. I got Outgoing Exchange instead of Talent Management or Incoming Exchange. By then, I got tonnes of doubts in my head. Questioning whether should I accept this role and move on to lead a team in achieving exchange goals and numbers for Local Committee Universiti Utara Malaysia.
What I did : I Made Myself Clear
Without a clue on my mind what is Outgoing Exchange Department is about and in the mean time I wanted to challenge myself in taking up the position, I accepted to be the Vice President of Outgoing Exchange, one of the Management Team member. Sooner, I got my 3 team managers and we started planning for the whole coming term. I started to learn as much as I could about stuffs in Outgoing Exchange Department.
What I did : I Learnt
Of course, I admit that I didn't start my term very well. I had no clue on my department and yet I have to lead my team of 3 more which they were in Outgoing Exchange team before this. Plans are not well planned enough, knowledge are not good enough to handle tough circumstances, couldn't make decision due to much restriction. This is how we start our term. We did off campus recruitment, we're happy as this is the first off campus recruitment we did in few years, but yet the numbers is still not good. We did in campus recruitment during on September 2011 to recruit Exchange Participant, but still not much turned up. My department considered under performing. It was devastating, but as a Vice President, I know I couldn't show my team how worried and how clueless I feel about hyping up the numbers and results after the work we've done. When it comes to reality, people will only look at your result. Only that.
What I did : Reflection and Self Motivation
I got my 9 Junior Executives after that. I wanted to ensure their learning in my department and have them to discover more about their own capabilities. My managers and I started to give education and transit as much knowledge as we could to have them to achieve the result and goal, even we had simulations. But things still doesn't work out, we had another recruitment drive, but it doesn't seems to show good result as well. And still there are not much signed up to go for Exchange. We were still considered under performing in December, although I manage to get 2 person to Realize in the next February which is the lowest peak in our timeline, but it doesn't feel good moving towards the goal alone.
What I did : I Asked Myself What The Team Need
Quarter 3 started, my whole team planned for another Recruitment Drive, Information Session and Review Board for March. I delegated tasks for everyone in my team to enable them to apply what they'd learn in the educations we has been trying to deliver. I've been making sure they are well prepared with their own tasks and work before I depart to Japan for Asia Pacific Exchange Leadership Development Seminar. I see their hard work, how much they wanted to achieve the goals as a team.
What I did : I Monitor and Motivate
Now, April 5th, we've managed to Raised 43 Forms from the term start, Realized 16 Experiences. All of us are happy and glad being in the team. We gave, failed, believed, hold on, and performed. We have less than 2 months before our term ends. I promised myself and the team to do whatever best I can. I'm proud and I believe we can do more than how much we've achieved now in the remaining less than 2 months.
What We did : We Performed
As for me, I decided - I failed - I Overcomes - I Succeed. The only reason I hold on to now is to watch the development and achievements my team and I could do and achieve. We did it and now we are on our way to the final achievement. As a management team member, this is what I faced. The reason I mention management team instead of executive board is because I'm going through it with my managers. Maybe it will seem normal for any position you get even you got the experience, but trust me, every role has it's toughness and difficulties. If you are applying for management team or going for a position, please be prepared enough to face the challenges and obstacles you will not know sometimes what to do when it comes to you. You will not know how demotivation will hunt you down. I expect you to put effort in what you're doing or you will be doing. If you don't expect to commit or to face all these, do not apply for anything until you're ready, because you will end up quitting your job.
What you should do : Ask Yourself
Have you asked yourself? If the answer is 'yes, I will go for it'. I will put all my trust and believe on you to do your best. Constant reflect on yourself to know what you want and need. It's two different thing.
I will tell you about my AIJE - Awesome-Indescribable-Japan-Experience during my semester break which is from 5th April to 13th April. Because right now I have to settle my academic stuffs, deal with lecturers. =)
Stay Tuned.
Have a nice day guys.
Every Local Committee is having election now. I'm really happy and proud of those who actually took up the step and run for Vice President and President position. My manager - Monique and one of my JE - Yi You passed their Vote of Confident. I'm really excited for them despite how the result will be after interview. No matter how, I still feel very glad of myself running for President position even though I failed. =)
- what doesn't kill you makes you stronger -
