telekom bills

coming to tm point before 12pm on a weekday allows us all to escape the crowds. instead waiting for an hour to check the bills and make payment, it becomes only 10 mins... thank u tm

bills.... bills.... bills

after the payment @ mpkj... now i am in syabas to settle the water bill. not to many people so it is a comfortable wait.

waiting till the last minute....

i think it is the same for all malaysians, we love to wait till the last minute to pay our bills and we end up waiting in queues which are so long that we regret waiting. but i know for a fact, next year when the same bill is due we will still take our time and again we visit the same queues.

at mpkj... wow look at the humanity.

another week .....

time is now calculated by the tasks which gets done on a daily basis. as an owner of a business i would have to accept the fact that is not all fun and games. together with team we have been hard at work to finish the specifications for our extension request. i had worked on the proposal till 130am after which my brain needed to sleep.

I have to say it was extremely satisfying when i typed the final figure in the proposal. so off goes another proposal with the hope that we embark on the next phase of this project.

From Monday to Friday....

What a week !!!  From Monday to Friday, there was non-stop activity and we have more to look forward to in the next 4 - 6 weeks.  As usual, for the last 4 years or so, there are massive amounts of preparations being done for the upcoming works that we is being envisioned for us for the next 2 years.  All the preparations would be done, and after that there is only hope and doa for us to get the projects that we need. 

As mentioned in the previous post, on Monday I had gone to the land in Damansara to settle some hopefully minor issues.  The contractor was supposed to have sent out a quotation, but till today we have not received it.  I am sure that he is looking and sourcing for the cheapest material to meet the budget that was given.  Hopefully he would be able to achieve what is needed. 

There are still no news or advancement for the permits that we had applied for the new office construction, and the contractor is running out of things to do and keep busy.  Now the inside of the office is starting to take shape but the large roof slab that is planned for the rear of the factory is still not done.  That is the key to make sure that we get the office ready for this year.  But as usual when one depends on the application and approval of governing bodies, it does take time, since these bodies has "SO MUCH WORK TO DO". 

On Tuesday, 19.2.2013, we had received news that the simulator project that we have been waiting for is now out on tender.  We had quickly registered and picked up the tender to see what is the work scope.  On paper it seems quite complicated with lots of equipment and systems to maintain but we will learn a lot more during the site visit which was done on Thursday 21.2.2013.  Surprisingly after the site visit, the technical teams told me that it is quite an easy job to maintain the system and we are now fully committed to produce the best tender that we can produce.  My goal is if we were to lose this project, it should not be due to the lack of trying.  

On Wednesday, 20.2.2013, we had gone ahead to separate the tender into chewable parts so that each person is able to process the information and start getting the proposal ready.  Monday, 25th of February would be the day that we get together for the official allocation of work.  

Whilst all this is going on, we are in the midst of preparing the extension proposal for our main system, so hopefully this would go without a hitch. 

Today, was a disappointing day, today I learned that letting go of someone from our company was the best decision made in a long time.  I had received an email from a customer requesting for a quotation, and after responding to the customer who usually deals with the recently departed sales guy from our office, he mentioned to me that there is an outstanding issue with the servers that he had bought from us in 2009.  

I was completely taken aback and shocked to hear that mostly because we had allowed the customer to struggle and correspond with IBM.  This is not the policy of this company, any issues would be tackled by our sales guy and it would be solved by us.  Finding out about this, really took me for a loop.  I can't believe it was not told to our technical team since 2009 till now.  So now, we are going to solve this for the customer.  It is very lucky that they still allow for us to be of service to them.  Un bloody believable.  Good Riddance for the garbage that we had for so many years.  

I wonder if there are any other accounts that might have issues? 

Now I am in the preparation mode for my daughter's 1st birthday party.  So hopefully it would be nice and I am actually looking forward to it.  Happy Birthday Soon Little Girlie.   

What a Monday....

Imagine coming into Monday, the plate is so full that I am already feeling tired.  Had to go settle some land matters for my wife and a full day in the office.  My day started at 6:30am waking up the children for school, then it was on to Damansara to look at the cost to fence in about 7,800 sq feet of land that belongs to my wife.  It is part of a 39,000 sq feet of land that is shared amongst five different family members.  In trying to do this project, I have learned that we have to develop only in the area that is allocated to us and not encroach in other people's areas.  

But as in any culture, religion, race or country; when it comes to land and money usually common sense flies out of the window.  The excuses and justification given with people's actions on these 2 issues are just crazy and most of the time ridiculous.  I guess it would be up to us who are sane and thinking clearly to look at the situation and do what is correct in the eyes of the law.  At times it would be against what others think, but at the end of the day, we only have the law to fall back on.  So today starts this extremely challenging process with the hope that everyone remains calm, cool and reasonable.

After the land visit, I was back in the office and surprisingly I had found a 9.1mb word document that was received from our partner.  Imagine that a 9.1mb document which had no pictures, just words.  I saw that it was 1300 pages.  I have to read this today and have it ready for discussion with our teams tomorrow at 10am.  What a day and what a monday !!!

I guess it is just another day which happens to set your whole week.  Have fun everyone. 

 

The Passing of the Pool Test

The whole family (with exception to the baby) had passed our pool tests for our scuba license.  Now with the theory section passed and now the pool section passed, we are heading towards our next step which is the open water section.  And for this, we are going to Tioman in mid March for the test. 

The family is extremely excited and we are really looking forward to looking at the underwater creatures that we will see.  Ohh this would be great.  I just hope that it would go without a hitch.  So lets scuba on.....