Bye Bye 2011

Annyeong~!


I think now is a good time for me to wrap up on what I have been doing and happened to me for the past 1 year. 2011 has been a very good, awesome yet a little bit regrettable year for me. Too many things happened this year. Things that mark the change of level of journey in my life.


I still remember, leaving UTP on 1st of January 2011. Yes, I'm proud to choose that date to leave my beloved university because I know for the rest of my life, I will remember the date I leave my university :)

My last UTP pic that time

After that, I started my life as unemployed guy, waiting for job offer to come. It is quite a fun period to me, well, I managed to spent more time with my family. Since I started my study, the longest I spent time with my family is around 2 months. And this time, we have 5 months! Living in Kelantan where I don't really have friend there, just some (can calculate using fingers from one hand), I spent almost all of the time staying at home and become my mom's best buddy. What I meant by staying at home is, really stay at home. I remember I really hangout one time, and it is a half day hangout where my friend visit me and in the same time having his vacation at Kota Bharu.


Somewhere around January or February, I went to a trip with my buddies to Kota Kinabalu. Just for your info, I lived at Kota Kinabalu for about 8 years before my family moved to Kelantan. So this will be my first visit after 2 years and half leaving that beautiful city. My buddies expectation is to explore the city while in my head that time is just hoping to meet some old friend and to catch up. Even tho I didn't managed to meet most of them, but I do meet my best friend Haizold.

Me with my buddies at Hot Spring Ranau

Staying at home is kind of heaven to me. Of course, having mom's  cook everyday, sleeping without any worries that I might late for class and keeping long hair without care whether security will summon me. But, the longer I stay there, the more I feel my self useless. Since I saw how hard my father's working days and night to support my family, I just spent my time in room chatting with my friend who already starter their work.

This is the only time I can grow my hair this long T_T

I think God knows what best for me. He didn't simply make me stay at home 5 months for nothing. Around May, I got my job offer from PETRONAS. I joined PIPE on 1st June 2011. And that answer the question why after 5 months only I got the offer. Because the PIPE that I joined, PIPE-77 is indeed a super awesome PIPE!!! We have awesome people there, hot stuff (ok I admit I try to mentioned Sofia here, what? she's hot okie, at least for me XP), won Mega Challenge (Syad, Abang Azri thx thx thx a lot for the info), having movie and bowling together, have a cool farewell montage, fashion show and sketch and much more!!

My offer letter :P

My cool PIPE-Lucky-77!! Owh btw I'm the project director for our CSR :P

15th June 2011, I reached Miri, Sarawak, where this place will be my working place, my life for the next, I don't know how many years. Still remember, I'm wearing a broken shoe with so-damn-much-damages on the first day here. I thought no one will know, at least until I buy a new one that night. But one of my colleague managed to catch a glimpse of my shoe. Damn you Zuhadi, what an eye you have there haha. This is the mark of my whole new life as an employee, not unemployed guy.

 Welcome Aliff Omar to PETRONAS Carigali Sdn Bhd, Sarawak Operations~!

My super awesome workstation~!!!!

To tell you the truth, I experienced a lot of new thing here. I remember on 17th of June 2011, my first department meeting. My senior manager ask me to sing infront of members of the floor. To tell your guys, my department meeting room is a small room where can fit around 30 people (by right) in one time. But the meeting is attended by around 50 - 60 people. So imagine, everyone cramp inside, only left front space for screen projector. I'm standing there performed one of  hits song created by my PIPE mates. Thank God everyone giving a supportive applause (where in the end I realized they just want me to end my "weird" song). It's not like I cannot sing. It just, it is my first time sing infront of many people (the best I have during karaoke session is around 7 people).


My first task is to become head of Visual Management (VM) team. I know it sounds cool but honestly the job is to make your office more . . . pretty? Beautiful? Organize? I can't find exact word to explain that, but more like "AJK Keceriaan" during our school time. They told me my department score a last place among all department in 2010. So they expect me to at least try not to get last place again for this year. I never lead this kind of thing before. I admit my event in university before managed to bring Estranged, BunkFace, The Times, you name it. But this kind of thing? "Keceriaan" supposed to be girls thing since they are as we all know better when it come to this. Well, it is a job given by boss  after all.  I can just say "yes" since I received salary now. Who knows? After done giving my office a whole new look (thanks for all the support and help given by my best team!!), we actually won a second place for the VM audit this year!! Not only second, our mark also entitled us to received Gold status!!

My pic with Voon during our visit to MCOT

Around August is a time for fasting month. I can't remember when is the last time I fasting in Borneo. It should be in year 2005. Again, for your info, break fast time here is one hour earlier compared to Semenanjung. Even tho I can eat early compared to my friend at KL, but it is kind of lonely because I don't really have lot of friend that time so most of time I end up buying the food and eat a lone at home :(

 My first department dinner. Reason for this dinner? Just to chill out (as what my boss said, very cool haha)

In the middle of the month, I remember that our company has the staff engagement where my department turn to host it. My boss assigned me to become MC for the event. I never become MC before and seriously I don't want to do it because of too-western-malayetern-watevertern-slang-pronouncation that I have. Not only that, I also have been instructed to create a super cool montage to introduce the member of our department. Well, the event went well, maybe a little bit freeze during my MC part, thanks a lot to my quite-profesional-co-MC Ms. Shira. I also did well for my montage! My General Manager really like it. My montage is based on Harry Potter theme where everyone is dressed up (photoshop actually) as Hogwarts student. I really hope I can share the montage here but I don't think my office will like it for me to post it on youtube. Lol.

I'm nervous that time, seriously. But Shira? So damn calm. Damn it.

I think this is the best montage I make so far.

Come raya at the end of August, I returned back to village as a working guy. Seriously the expectation there change 180 degrees! My cousin eye all filled up with the aura of "open table dude, your working now" and "we expect duit raya from you this time!". I'm having a lot of fun this raya, especially with my new nephew :) Oh by the way, it is also a first time for me to be celebrated at restaurant for my birthday!!

 With sibling during Raya 2011

This kid just never failed to impress me hahaha

  

Thx a lot to all who plan this (or accidentally or plan by force)

October is the time for my convocation. It is the time that I meet all of my old friend after we separate for almost a year. Thank God all of us working now, so no awkward moment when we all sharing story about our work and company. We having a super cool photo shoot with our graduation robe and everyone successfully received their graduation scroll without any disgrace moment happen when we walk to the stage.

Among one of our cool shoot. Check my FB to see the rest :P

 

My first family studio shoot

 

After my convocation, another big task is waiting for me on October, which is to conduct a team building for my department. With limited budget and time constraint, somehow Zuhadi team (I'm in the team, not a team leader) managed to conduct our department team building. One thing I like about is our dinner where the team is Rock 'N' Roll. To tell you, my department people really know how to follow the theme and to make the night went wild!

Rock N Roll babeh~! And seriously stop ask me who is this girl. Just find her FB k? :)

On November, my probation period end. My boss allowed me to pass the period and making me a permanent staff. I still remember how happy I am that day, hearing all the good compliment from him. I don't know he mean it or not but what I know, I pass my probation period!! Now waiting for KL to sent me the confirmation letter.

 

I conquered Gua Niah already~!

On December, I have been selected as one of the team member to give final performance for our beloved General Manager who will be transfer to Egypt. A fact, my department is very famous for our sketch performance. With a superb director Mr. Aman, all the play received high compliments. This time, Aman put me as one of the actor. Damn it! I never act before and now to act in our GM farewell event? Not only that, as one of main actor?!! But after giving a thought, than I decided to join as if not know, then when? Right? Somehow the act went well and our GM really pleased with our performance :)

Yerp, thats me with my cool sunglasses~!

That is my pic before the performance

 We also make a scrap book for our GM :D

After 10 months, I returned back to Kota Kinabalu for my best friend, Haizold's wedding!! Oh my God! He already married and I'm still playing with Lego? Oh man. But still I enjoy this trip a lot, Kota Kinabalu has just turned from cool to super-good-damn-awesome place!!!

 Even after taken this pic, I still said this to him "dude, I still don't believe you already married"

 Perdana Park Tanjung Aru. Seriously this park is damn cool, very fun to hangout here!

Actually there are more things that I wanted to share but I think some of it is better to keep it just for my self. New year is approaching and honestly no resolution made yet for it. I plan to just live again for next 1 year with out any resolution, just do what I want to do and avoid what I want to avoid.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year~!

 p/s: Why I post this on 1st January 2012? Because my colleague said wrap up should be done after the year end. Ok I don't understand the logic but somehow the post is done after 2011 :P


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Annyeong~!


It's been a long time since I write a long post! Warghh!! Working life is killin' me!! Ok I enjoy working, but sometime I do miss the old time where I can write 10 post in 1 day! How freakin crazy is that?!! Well, not really crazy but 10 post in a day sure means something tho hahaha.


Somewhere in 2009, I wrote a post about Lego. I still remember, it is my first time hangout as an internship student, thanks to my i'm-not-sure-he-still-my-friend-now Duke. He brought us to KLCC, and that time they are having Lego roadshow? I don't know what we called it but the you know the open spot inside KLCC, yeah it full with Lego!! (search the post by yourself, I lazy to put link here)


So~!

Before that, commercial break. Just want to show card for the gift that we bought for this one kid for Christmas.

Last 3 weeks, I have my self a Lego~!!! I know Lego is expensive, no its not, it is DAMN expensive!! But since now I work, I think I can afford a Lego for myself. So, after search for it (surprisingly it's easy to find Lego here!), my friend Shira bring me to this shop called Toys World (which our original intention went there is to buy Monopoly for our gang little game time). After checking, surveying, discussing, ying ying ying around, I came with conclusion that Lego is still DAMN expensive! OMG! Even I can afford it, but it still feel expensive to me! Damn ~!


So, I cancel the plan to buy it on that time. Before we leave the shop, we saw this ads where they paste outside their shop. "Merry Christmas bla bla bla thanks our customer bla bla bla discount 50% bla bla bla Sunday bla bla bla thank you bla bla . . " . . . . . . .



"huh? 50%?!!!".



The shop is having a big sale for Christmas where first 100 customers on that particulate sales day will get 50% discount for whatever product they purchase! And long story short, after having also a few discussions with friend, and my own self, with my imaginary friend who look just like me, I decided to go buy Lego on that sales day.

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On that day, I somehow woke up early. Why? Because I kept dreaming that I already in the shop and purchase it. I went there around 9am, because I thought going at 8.30am is a little bit too early since the shop open at 10.30am. Well, here it goes . . .

God knows how long this freakin Q~~!!

 Then suddenly come this thing where I don't what is this, what is this?

It look . . . ok whatever I guess kids must like it.

Wat the hello? A lot of people weyh. I mean, a LOT! I don't even know how many people there, and not too mentioned there is no proper line up, everyone simply gather there, with, well, not to really line up there. Some of them bring kids, friends, even baby! Why? Because one person can buy one item only, so to get more, you need to bring more army.



Long story short (again), at 10.30am sharp, the shop open. Know what? It is very SCARY!!! Everyone just rushed into the shop, and I don't want to mentioned those who bring baby there. Seriously, please don't do that again. When everyone rush there, they don't care of anything. Even those who look like 30 or 40 just rush there, without even care either person beside them is holding baby or not. Please for those who will be having this kind of line-up-wait-till-shop-open-so-I-can-be-first-one-to-buy-this-thing please don't bring baby or kids with you. It's not cool at all to have your child hurt for this kind of thing. Come on, Christmas is happy time for them, not for them to spent time at hospital (same reminder for those who let their kids playing fireworks during Raya)

Trust me your guys don't want to be here during that time

Back to the story, I somehow managed to grab the Lego that I want (seriously lucky that time), and going to pay, but the shop owner really know how to do arrangement inside his shop. They put rope where, ok, to make it easy, you need to line up to pay and they can exactly make sure only first 100 customers entitled for that 50% discounts.

 This is inside the shop. Yeah, kind of hot too (due to many people inside, 200 people I think?)

After waiting for almost hour, then its my turn to pay, where I found out that I'm number 127. God knows how freakin panic me that time because I bring money exactly the amount after discounted 50%. Plus minus around that number I mean. I ask the counter girls "no more 50%? Do I need to pay full now?". She said "Nope, the next 100 customers entitled for 40%". Thank God!! Praise to you o Allah. I still have enough money to pay for 40% discounted price.

But seriously this shop is damn awesome! Got lot of toys inside! I can spent lot of time here just by looking around :D

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So go back home, I straight build it. And tadaa~! Here's the result of my cool Lego, with theme Kingdoms!!

 Hehehehehe my own Lego babeh~!! (With my own money! Ok that is bit lame)

 Btw, I brought this with me that time. Well, better than just stand doing nothing right?

 Kingdom theme Lego~!!

 After complete the construction, put it above my cool subwoofer~!

 

  Believe me if I said this pic taken by iPhone? Hohoho~!

 Who knows iPhone quality can be this great? O yeah~!

Yeah, got one queen trapped inside the bad guy castle

Ok, not really iPhone camera. It is iPhone camera + nice cool app called "Camera +", seriously damn nice apps that can enhance the power of iPhone picture quality.

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Having a Lego is cool, despite my age now. Hahahaha~! I will, and will buy more and make it as my new collection! Btw, I do have few collections, I think I wrote about it somewhere in 2009, so search by yourself again, I lazy to put the link here :P

I still survey other Lego with theme Kingdoms after I bought that one. Picture credit to Abang The Lame Azri

p/s : I feel great writing all this, after so long didn't write a long post (I remember somewhere in 2010 where Chang Hua told me "I'm sorry, I will read the rest later, but your post is too long!", then I stop writing a long post). One of my new year resolution is to write more post despite how busy I am with my work!! Hooray!

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Oh you just fly without telling me~!

Annyeong~!


How I wish money will just drop by from the sky (which is I imagine someone rich up there with his super cool plane will accidentally drop his cash bag).


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Sorry, too much thing happening right now, I don't even know what actually I suppose to write here. How I miss last year, where I can just write without think and upload few posts in one day! Well, people grow after all I guess . . . .



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They called me ~!

Annyeong~!


So far as I remember, I had been called by numerous nickname. Aliff, Alep, Ayep, Neo (seriously got people call me like this for certain period of time, 2 years I think), John (connsider this my English name), Are Lep, Are Lift, AO . . . .


Because of my email name, people at office started to call me Aliffo . . .


Wonder what my nick will look like in the future.



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