我知足

2011，我很幸福。
我想要得都实现了。

2012,农历新年才开始，
工作好，感情ok，赌钱赢钱（嘻嘻），
爸妈健康，朋友爱护我，
热爱戏剧的我，也有人肯定我的热衷了。
感恩。

又要开始排戏咯！

小妹祝贺大家，龙年万事如意，身体健康，心想事成，财源广进！恭喜发大财！

What motivates you at work?

Stepping into my mid-late 20s hood, I've actually been working for 8 years now oh my gawd"
I stumbled across many scenario where friends always complain about their employer/ company/ colleagues etc.

With the transformation of the society today, HR has became such an important role in big company or some even categorised HR as "professional" as we realised the importance of having the right people for the company.

But when you have these talented people in place, they're very easily being notice by other great organisation like yours. The more important topic is how to hold them tight, make them loyal to you is what I'm interested to share with you today.

Below are some essential points that I would like to share with you. 10 killers method to hold them tight. Feel free to input yours too!

1. Lead by example - If you're unhappy about you staff get to work late by 10mins, make sure you get there punctual
2. Devote your time to nurture - Invest your time to have one-on-one conversation with your staff and ask about their feelings
3. Recognise - Complement when they have done something right, applaud if they did well, pat on their shoulder and put a smile on your face
4. Career opportunity - Let your employees know what are the options within the organisation, find out and remember what do they really want
5. Support - Be there to listen, give advices, help them with their work.... make them feel "touched", It's better than a 15% pay rise
6. Involve - Share with them on company exciting expansion plans, tell them the "big pictures", and involve employees in decision making process (eg. what brand to buy for office fridge, which location is better to relocate your office etc)
7. Genuine - If you want your employees to be real to you about their thoughts, feeling etc... You have to be genuine 1st
8. Strong culture - This is K.E.Y to organisational success! Invest time, money, constant effort in improving the office culture. (Eg. Having a little competition at work, theme dress day, office outing, seminars for the employees)
9. Reward - When they go beyond the line, reward them, either monetary or small little gift
10. Clear direction - You need to set clear and distinct direction for each of your employee, so they know what they need to do to get to where they want to. (Eg. weekly task, company expectation, KPI)

How's that? I would like some idea on how you would like your employers to do to keep you happy at work too! Share with me pleassssseeee <3

A note on the side, I've created a new record today. 2 deals in a day, bring me to 113% on the official 7th business day in 2012.
I can do it!
2012, I can do better!

 

What have I been doing?

In the recent months, the most common question friends asked me is :

"What have you been doing?"

You are right, what have I been doing?

I can't quite answer to that question to myself.

I felt like I'm so busy that I hardly know what I did in the last 24 hours!

I have to say that, I devote almost 80% of my 'awake moment" to work related matters.

The 20% goes to time to myself, family, love ones, selected friends, adhoc activities.

Then the next question is, so what's my typical Friday night or weekend like?

Honestly, I'm getting more and more homey these days.

I spend a lot of time for myself, thinking over work mostly, 

or do nothing so I will be recharge for the challenging week ahead.

Of course, occasionally I have some quality time with friends too!

So I was at this fabulous place called "Gecko Bar" at PJ Trade Center to celebrate Meiz Birthday. That's right, I'm looking very un-glam here as I went straight from work on a Friday night. Event like this is the best way to kickstart the weekend, thanks to Johnnie Walker. 

I 'try' to cook/bake twice a month, best time for me to get some inner peace

On a weekend night, I enjoy going out to dine with a small group of friends, catching up with each others. I ensure that I stay intact with the society and people that I care the most.

Of course not forgetting my little bubble :)




















My favourite Sunday Brunch is "DIM SUM", Where? = Imbi Palace has the best!

On a weekday night, I enjoy having one-on-one dinner to catch up with people that I miss

One of my favourite activities is house party! It will be even better if I can make some new friends too

Lastly, I enjoy having high tea on weekend too... Nothing is better than having a cup of camomile, slice of cake and talk about anything at all on a Sunday evening. Next week I would like to try LDG in Bangsar, heard is realllllyyyyyy good!

What's your typical weekend like? Share some ideas with me!

Free your soul

I was inspired to write this post while I was on the plane going home from BKK.
The girl sat next to me is from Holland, she was writing through out the journey.
I was very curious and asked what was she writing.

She is on her 5 destination in Asia backpacking around this part of the world.
She left home 3 months ago and started her journey at India, then China then Mongolia....
I met her while she was on her journey from Thailand to Malaysia.
She said she will take all her time in the bus, plane, car...writing about her discovery everyday.




I couldn't control myself to snap a photo of her.
She inspired me to free my soul, let loose and go for what you want to do.
It takes a lot of courage.
To leave everything behind and go around the world for a year. Can you?

Sometime I told myself not to think too much, time flies and without knowing..
it's another year but you achieved nothing in the end.
in 2012, waste no time, be successful, be happy, be attractive, be respectable.

2012, my aim to attain my goals simply need to execute it with one word : F.O.C.U.S.
I need to be very clear on what I want and drive towards that direction.
I have got my blue print for 2012 plan, and I'm very excited what's in front of me.

How about you?

Happy New Year!

English Proficiency

I grow up in a typical Malaysian Chinese family, went to a local chinese school, and ended up in a local Malay government school which is not far from my house. As most of you know, education system in Malaysia is fairly poor, there's no emphasise on quality and standards. Undoubtedly, the importance of English in the eyes of Malay schools had been badly neglected.

I remember when I started this blog, the main reason is to force myself to write so I can improve my English written skill. I have to say, I've improved a lot over the past few years but without a solid foundation, I still have problem with grammar, tenses, and etc. (as you can see in my posts)

Many people that I've come across in the environment I'm at, 80% can barely speak proper English, I've dealt with clients which don't even bother to converse in English, most government staff which hardly understand you in English, and grammatical error advertisements are everywhere. I'm sure everybody knows it's important to be able to speak fluently and write professionally, but how many can actually do that...probably 1 in 10?

I realised those who were born during the time of 1970s-1980s really struggle with that, but it's really sad to know that very few actually care to make an initiative to improve or learn.

Today, I've started my 1st English lesson after some research to find a qualified and good Professional English Tutor. I admit that I still have some work needs to be done to achieve what I aimed for, but at least I made an initiative to learn and have the courage to admit my weakness.

One of my goal for 2011 is to improve my English writing, and I'm confident that by Q1 2012 I would have get that out of my way and able to write confidently.

Cheers!!

It's the last month of 2011

Good Morning Everybody!!!

It's 5th of December,

26days to 2012

Let's kick start a fabulous month!

& wrap up the fantastic year with some yummy food, good wine, laughter & celebration!!

Before that happens, we need some serious work done.... 

人，是奇怪的动物

最近与几个朋友见个面，喝个茶，
感到莫名的陌生，

好像自己又长大了，

还是改变了，

好多话题都说不再有兴趣说了，

感到她们很奇怪，

为什么好像原地踏步，

一个为了爱情放弃自己真正的梦想，

被男人伤了那么多次，还是一样，

另一人原本很谦虚的好友，

变了，变得很高傲，

说话没经过大脑。

我在想，只是大家有不同的看法，
还是有些人就是学不巧呢？

终于了解了这句话，

“人长大真的越来越少朋友”，

因为时间很宝贵，

你不会花时间在不值得你时间的人，

有时真的情愿自己一个人，看看书，

不用看别人的眼色，

不用在乎别人的感受，

因为有的时间真的越来越少了。

我感到朋友真的少了，

有时在想是我奇怪，

变的是我，

还是他们变了呢？

人，是奇怪的动物。

第一次，出国公干

又去了新加坡一趟，
这是我第一次为了公干出国，
其实还蛮期待的。
我也带了妈妈一起，
非常谢谢妈妈，没有她，
我不会有现在的小成功。
这次是要好好的跟妈妈相处，
以后也要陪她多一些。
家人，是这世上对我最诚恳的人。

除了好好的陪妈妈，我也给他最好的，
吃好，睡好，shopping，
希望她好好享受女儿为他准备的。
说到shopping，这回我的真的shop到乱！
哈哈！一年不用shopping了吧！
大家都问我去那里shopping，我都说出国咯，
是真的，在kl很少逛街的。
下面有几张照片与你分享。

还蛮漂亮的boutique hotel，
妈妈说，她睡得特别好。
就因为这句话，
我觉得那一千元一晚，
是值得的。