Saturday, August 18, 2007

.:: Back ::.

Hello people I'm back from my Business Trip. It was very tiring. The weather is worst than Singapore. The traffic is so congested worst than Malaysia. Imagine a country who has about 100,000 motor vehicle sold monthly, now imagine the road fully congested with motor vehicles. Thus, the pollution. We should be grateful that we are not in a third world country. Singapore is always a better choice. Yeah, but i will be even happier if I am able to migrate to some other place where we are not chasing after time. Where I can stroll along the beach without worrying about my upcoming meeting events and etc. Where I can party all night without the need to rise and shine early to be punctual for my meetings.

As I had told you earlier, my flight was schedule to depart from Singapore at 1655hr but it was delayed till 1730hr. I had lunch with my colleagues while waiting for my parents. I thought Mr. F isn't going to send me off but he suddenly appear at my row. Im so touched indeed. Dad had a worried face, Mum seems so stressed out, Mr. F had a sad cum please don't leave me kind of face. The reason being I'm the only girl in this trip, I'm very much closer to dad compared to my mum and Mr. F is not used to the environment without me around. This is the best thing of being loved, everyone starts to care and I love this kind of feelings.

Reached Jakarta at about 1900hr (I mean after check out all those kind of immigration stops). Waited for them to finish smoking and off we go to our hotel (Tematik). The hotel is actually 20mins from the airport but the bloody congestion made our journey to the hotel almost an hour. After which, we checked in and had our late dinner. In the aeroplane we had sandwhich only. The food being serve in the aeroplane is marvelous suck!

Tuesday is packed with meetings and site visit. Our new project is Mandarin Oriental. Lunch was paid by one of the biggest firm in Jakarta at Fish & Co. They tends to speak to me in English but I spoke to them in Bahasa Indonesia. I have Indonesian blood remember. So their language is also my language. The whole thing ended at 1900hr Singapore time. We are also stucked in the traffic congestion after the site visits. No time to shop. At that moment in my head are filled with a very warm shower, pillows, mattresses and blankets.

Wednesday met one of our Indonesia contacts for breakfast at the hotel after which it was shopping time. I shop nothing for myself. I wanted to get something unique as a sovenier but nothing facinated me except the wayang kulit pencil which I gave to Mr. F. I bought Praying Shirt for Dad and Grandpa, 3 Ambon(Cakes) for Mr. F Family, My Family and Nenek Clementi, Sexy lingerie for my Mum and Sis, Sarong for Mr. F's Dad and games for my Bro.

We left the hotel and head to the airport at 1730hrs Singapore's time but we reached airport 1 hr later due to traffic congestion. Touched Singapore at 10.15pm. I wanted to shop for myself at DFS but nothing seems interesting.

In three weeks time I might be going to Indonesia again. They might want me to be incharge of Indonesia projects together with Andris but I prefer to handle it from Singapore. Qatar is my next place on the list. The most hardest thing in business is establishing a relationship with a foreign companies. There are too many things to do just to gain their trust and maintain the relationship. Here is where I think my CRM and Business Management modules came in handy.

Pics will be uploaded soon..

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