Donne Ray's Night

A date with Donne Ray, "The Platters"

Is a long belated post. I supposed to upload this like few weeks back but despite the busyness in work, I gotta delayed it. All this happened on 24th November 2011. It was a night to be remembered, a night of entertainment and definitely a night where I had prepared for it. It was truly a day where the whole management of the hotel had been waiting and running here and there just for it. I had been organizing so many events before, but I dare to say this is the hardest ones as we need to please so many parties as well as gotta handle well all the pressure from the bosses. Never EASY!

It was a great night for all the secretaries and guests where they pampered themselves with a night of entertainment which highlights singing sensation of Donne Ray Radford from The Platters fame. Besides Radford, other entertainment in store is a fashion show featuring the latest collection of Mico and Roman Collections and energetic dance performances from Dynamix Dance Academy. While enjoying the performance, secretaries and guests can enjoy themselves with an 8-course Chinese sit-down dinner.

For those who do not know who is Donne Ray, do click on the link and get to know him if you interested; http://www.donnerayradford.com/. For those who is lazy, I just gotta summarized that Donne Ray was popular back then in the 80s, where he was invited to join "The Platters" by the owner, writer and producer, Mr. Buck Ram. Donne currently performs worldwide as "The Sound of The Platters".

Now, let the pictures do the talking....


The Sale's team..


Debbie and I...


PY, Me and Debbie with Donne Ray.. We look super exhausted due to the late night working for this event... At the end of the day, its still worth the pain...


Us again... Still smile despite we are so freaking tired the whole day...


Energetic dance performance by Dynamix Dance Academy.. They were a superb dancer.


Models parading caftan dress..


Elaine as the emcees of the night~~


Donne Ray performing live on the stage~

A Hectic Life~~

Till then I realized that it has been a long time since my last post. Eventually, I got lot of things to blog on but I just do not have time for it. And to my next extend, today is a SUNDAY and I am blogging at work. Great..

Life has been different to me now. I am facing lots of challenges and I ought to say that each of that make and shape me to another level of knowledge in life. I used to complain last time when I got no work to do and when I need to work full days on certain Saturday but now, I am even working when Sunday arrive. So, what's life am I having?? I got real tired at times, but the next thing I know is that I still need to work my ass out of it. That's work and that's LIFE!

I am trying to find time for myself too, or at least indulge myself with nice foods and pamper myself to a nice gateway with family and friends. Lots more of work loads to arrive, as the Festive season is arriving around the corner. Christmas, the season to be joy and merry and NEW YEAR the day we usher in another great year ahead. Well, let's us walk the way and the distance together.. Till then~~ With love.

"Deepavali" angpow..

I had a super cranky and wacky boss. Look at what he gave us for Deepavali angpow. When he gave us that time, we were all super excited and pretty of excitement as we are guessing how much inside it or maybe what type of surprised my boss is giving us; maybe a piece of paper with motivational note?

Deng Deng Deng.... *music play* The moment you opened the red packet only, you will burst out laughing.

20 RUPEES...



I really go into speechless mode when I saw it. The first action that we did was quickly go into online currency converter and see how much it cost. To my surprised, it was only RM1.26. *bang to the wall and smash forehead* hahah..

And a little conversation between me and my boss will make you even irritate..
Boss: Eh, how much I give you arh?
Me: 20 rupees, boss..
Boss: Then had you counted, how much was it?
Me: Is only RM 1.26 only..
Boss: Wah, I give you so much arh... *turn and walkaway*
Me: Boss, can't even eat a plate of mee la..
Boss: Aiyah, you never know my hardship. I purposely go all the money changer counter to make it small change and not all money changer got small change.

Do not even wanna to answer him after that...

Just look on how cranky and wacky my boss can be. But is the heart that really count and not the amount of money.

Hereby, I am taking this opportunity to wish all Hindus a Happy Deepavali...

Hotel Equatorial Melaka Annual Dinner

My first ever annual dinner at EQ Malacca on the 14.10.2011. Since it was first, so it was really my first time attending it. It was really a night full with entertainment and program. From beauty pageant, to dance performance, to singing competition and all you can name it... Is really a night when all the staff gets the partay started! The theme for this year dinner is "Glamorous Night"; therefore, you can see all the pretty ladies doll up themselves with nice evening gown while the guys, sorry to say do not have any handsome ones..haha.. *to no offence* is just my personal perception. The ballroom itself also decorated with very nice backdrop and deco. So, let the pictures do the talking.


The ladies...

Two "handsome guys; Vincent and Daniel" with the ladies (from left: Me, Zoe, Michelle, Linda and Tafline)




The 3 that click together most of the time. Zoe and Michelle but sad to say, Zoe will be leaving soon to become teacher. I will had lesser friend in EQ already.

The ladies from sales & marketing team...

PR department rulez! Debbie, me and PY..

The guys from T&G academy. Make up and hair do sponsored by them. From left: Top model -Kelly, Andy - the choreographer, ME, Zoe, Langfrey - the cranky and wacky CEO of T&G Academy, and lastly Alvin - the cool and steady Director of T&G Academy. They are a nice bunch of peoples that I enjoyed working with them.

Vincent, our Catering and Convention Manager who never fails to disturb and tease me always... And he and his never ending lame jokes.

Unknown and My boss, Mr. Mario..

Ladies from different department join in the beauty pageant competition with their first round of traditional costumes.

The top 3 beauties...

EQ Malacca GM - Dato' Syed.

It is Monday today for a brand new month, a brand new day and a brand new Monday morning. When I drove to work this morning, I felt so weird and unusual because the road that normally I used to work is always jammed with cars in the morning and you will see a long queue of cars but today the road seems to be so clear and there is no congestion at all. Till then, I realized that is a public holiday for Malacca today. Damn, and the next thing I realized.. Hey, I am driving to work. I need to work on a public holiday. How cool it was and what a company I am working with.

Well, no matter what's the outcome I still gotta take it and here I was in office blogging and wasting some of my time. For peoples who had tones of work load today will be grateful if they had been given few minutes of time to spare but for people like me can't wait to waste my few minutes. I knew I am bad for saying this but I got no choice but to say so. Kind of regret to have accepted this job offered and stay here working. But is a bit too late to regret. I had lost my passion to work everyday. At here, is not that we are working in a team or what but is a very clear cut that you are working on your own ass and while for the bosses is not like we are working together but is more like you are working for me. So, there is this thing called office politcs came alive because people tend to be less of office communication. No doubt, up till today I am still having culture shock. Surprisingly to say~~ Maybe it is because it was a chinese company and what's more it is a family business. Therefore, everything seems so different compared to the last time company I am working with.

Every blog post of mine had been an entry of my work on how disatisfied I am towards my job and so on. Even though, I tried my very best to complain less and just work it out but I felt it was so hard. Seriously hard. I can stop complaining on others things but just not on my work. In addition, I will just say; "I will try to complain less". haha.. And that's show how epic my sentence can be. I will try...

Is a LAZY day~~

As I woke up this morning, the weather seems so nice to me. I can still see the rain drops from the leaves and trees, and definitely a cooling nice sense of the morning mist. As I walked down to the garden of my house to the praying house, I was like thinking in my mind...How nice if I could on the bed now instead of waking up and looking so no enthusiastic to work. Even my dog was sleeping under the car...pheww~~~ What a morning Tuesday!

Then, as I was taking my breakfast and there it comes a heavy downpour of rain. GOSH, that's the moment I told my mum I hope I was on my bed now. The sudden urge of just ignoring my work and continue back to sleep with Bruno Mars; Lazy song playing on my mind. With that, I really got the lazy nerve of doing anything. I just want to sleep and sleep and just enjoy my time on the bed rather than back to office and blog. Hell ya, I can just blog at home instead of wasting my time blogging at office here just to get sure that I had waste at least a minimum of 10 mins. I hope I do waste more than that.

Before my boss arrived, I just not in the urge to do any office stuff. I would just waste my 3 hours early in the morning, checking my own mails, using facebook, blogging, browsing through the webpage and waiting for my boss to arrive and till then I will only start my work.

Now, you see...the life of a secretary. It can be busy at times, but it can be superb free. But most of the time I am free especially when my boss was away to outstation or overseas. Here he is, flying off to Hong Kong on a week trip starting on 28th June. I will have my own time all by then and making sure that I back home sharp on time despite need to wait for my boss until so late everyday. Here, you see the reason why I do not start work early in the morning cause I knew that I will still had to be here even though office hours end. So, I just keep my works till the last. Basically, my work is just see see, look look, check check, chop chop, sign sign and once in awhile doing some correspondence and reservation.

And it was really true that once you start working, ones will seems tired all the time and you seems like not enough time to rest only. But all this is a sign on we are adult already. Last time, when I worked as event organizer even though the work is like super tiring without resting, working late at night but I am happy working on it. I am happy doing this job and seeing the satisfaction I got after each event succesfully organize. But now, I do not have any satisfaction from my work. I am here just to take salary...but I can foresee, I won't be here long. My bro can says that he is giving me 5 months to work over here and he can predict that I am leaving soon. haha...I believe what he says seems right too.... Well, let's us see how it goes by now.

Saturday~~

I hate the fact that I need to wake up blardy early to work. I hate the fact that I am waking up where my whole family are still sleeping including my dog. I hate the fact that SATURDAY is a working day for me. My Oh My... Argh~~ I am so reluctant to wake up. And now you see, I am in my office now, doing nothing but blogging. Is such a waste of resources and electricity to work on Saturday.

I had a very old and conservative minded boss. He still die die wanna work on Saturday even though his son had proposed to him not to work on SAT for the office peoples. I damn agree with his son but I am super not agree with my boss who says: NO!

I am getting tired of waking up as early as 6.45am everyday, having heavy head and mind and basically I am lazy to work. Everyday coming to work with sleepy eyes and heavy hearted. This is a sign that I am showing no more interest on my job already. I can foresee that I will not have any prospect in here and I am leaving soon. SOON! haha.. No doubt, this job do give me lots of benefits and some advantages where not everywhere I can get but still..it is a boring job where I am doing the same old routine every day.

Seeing those aunties does not ease away my working life and I am super boring working with this bunce of aunties witht their yack-a-LOT mouths. Sometimes I am just wondering can they shut for a moment? Once they open their mouth only, the words keep coming out like machine gun...GOSH! I thank GOD that I do not need to sit same area with them, if not I think I will not be able to stand it. NO matter there is work or without work, they still talk, gossips and yack non stop. Wonder again, will their mouth be tired??

I am not so sure, how long some more I am going to be here but I forecast and wish to leave here as soon as possible...Wonder will it be years, months, or days? All this yet to perplexed in my mind.

Office Politics..

Well, every office or company or organizations will definitely had conflict. And I think the place that I worked over here are not exceptional for this reason too. Everyday you can see those aunties grouping together and here they are start to gossips non-stop. From the time they start to break till the time the break end. GOSH, I wonder what so nice to talk about others peoples. What worst was that there are few of them who are back-stabbers..Herm, I just started to work here for like 4 days and those true colors are finally revealed. And I seriously do not understand why they need to back-stab on peoples. What benefits could they get?? I would just give you a not so proud title - "Apple Polisher". We are only human and no one should claim herself a perfection, so what is the used of back-stabbing and keep complaining about others people. Just mind your business and shut the mouth will do. This is what I consider as office politic is always ahead the office communication!

Sometimes, it can be very sick to look at their face. I wanna puke when I look on them. I thank GOD that I do not need to face them all the time if not I gotta be a professional poker face too. I just do not understand for those who like to involve herself or create such a practice, I hereby think that she did not think about the matter seriously. Will she happy after seeing others suffer because of her creation or will she feel miserable after people found out the truth of saying? I wonder do they ask themselves what kind of human they are that they should hurt someone else just because of jealousy and hatreds or shall I call this as a revenge?

They are all adult and mature young ladies which I consider them as aunties, but I wonder why their brain and mind are so narrow. Can't they think properly. Finally, I please and I hope that they make good use of their tongue that given as a precious gift by GOD, not just talking somebody bad's and advertising their good's, and first of all they themselves should weigh the bad's and good's of themselves before telling somebody... I hope they have their mind and brain on the right side and not on their ass. They never know that words of mouth from them can actually create havoc.

And aunties are forever and still being aunties. They and their never ending stories to talk on. Even 28-30 years old ladies are behaving themselves like 40 years old aunty already when they join in and yack along....

My workplace...

Yeah, finally my worries are gone for the current moment. My working days for 3 days wasn't that bad after all beside boring everything just seems alright to me and the not so good idea of waking up early and going to work. But what is the worst thing to come is that 1st day of work - down with little sickness, 2nd day - fever during working hours and I gotta bare with it until go back, 3rd day - flu and head trembling..Guess this was a great idea to welcome me to working life. The first 3 days is like orientation week to me. Nothing much beside seeing back those files and get myself familiar with the place and people. I got little problem with remembering those colleagues @ Aunty names... is like Miss this, Miss that, and Miss those...so hard for me to remember and so many of them some more. Ops, do I mentioned, aunty?? Yeah, basically my work place is full of aunties and there is only 3 men who is working. So during lunch hour, you can hear those aunties gossiping inside the pantry and their topic can range from market to delivering babies to deities and so on. But I amjust a little bit lucky than the rest of them as I got my own room to work. I got my own computer, I got my own table, I got my own printer and everything is mine. Now, you see I am like the boss but by name just a small little secretary who enjoys all it takes to work..haha..Outsiders who do not know will start wondering, what is the pose this gal is holding..she can have her own room where others people gotta share in a big space outside.

My room, my table, my computer, my printer and etc...Proudly present the place where I work. However, not much of privacy as my room rather strategic and if you see, is mirror around me...

Basically, this 3 days are rather boring to me. I got not much work to do beside seeing those files and therefore, you can see files are everywhere on my table. *Eventually I just wanna show my hardworking am I only*..the truth was, it was just there for display..haha.. The first day, I do not dare to use the computer to online as I am afraid they can checked through the IP or any CCTV around me and I used my hp to online the whole day. Luckily got my hp to online, IF not, I wonder will the time tick-tock or not. Thanks to someone too who has accompanied me the whole day to chat. However, the 2nd day onwards I do not give a damn anymore and start using that to facebook and online..haha... What is life gotta be without online?

And this is non other than my boss room. Super big. He got his own toilet, a place to chill, a place to eat, a place to entertain customer, and definitely a work place. SUPER DAMN BIG. What I am snapping is just part of it only...

This is the sample of cakes, keropok and swiss roll. Everyday, they will have peoples sending all this over to my place for quality checking by my boss. After my boss checked, then all this foods will be in my room to entertain people who wanna eat and some will be put in pantry for other colleagues to eat. One day there will be 3 times where people will send all this over. Whoever wanna eat, let me know ya..I can get it for u..hahaha...

Swiss roll..

Under quality control check..

And this is how the smart me, minimize my fb chat until THIS SMALL so that no one else can see it..haha..this is also the way how I survive my 9 hours in office.. =)

This is how I survive my first 3 days of my working days. And I thank GOD, tomorrow is a public holiday....Can't imagine that I gotta work there on Sat. Make me depressed..hahaha.. My daily routines is to check faxes, check emails and read each emails before I forward it to the department in charge, checking those keropok thingy and the list continues..... Till then, will continue...

Life as a slave..

That is how my title is being explained. "LIFE as A SLAVE"...not a slave of what but a slave for money or work. All this while I have been very confusing whether or not I should continue to work for this company right after I graduate but after yesterday night I had made up my mind that everything should come to an end already. I QUIT!




I am damn sure now. My mind are clear now. No more doubtful or putting in too many personal emotions already. Is seriously more than enough.

I was suddenly awoke that I need a break on all this, all thanks to yesterday GIANT Hypermarket annual dinner at Emperor's hotel Malacca. That damn event started damn late all because of their NEVER early VIPs'. The event supposed to start at 7.30pm but then it was delayed until 8.15pm. All the tentative for that night is being delayed and upside down because whatever plan was not make through due to some of their missing VIPs'. GOD DAMN!..

Is ok to start late but then their activities is like so pack with lots of performances from their own staffs. That's makes the whole condition even worst. I can't wait for the whole event to end and it ended at about 1am. After dismantling and everything is about 2.30am already. Then I headed for my lunch, dinner and supper and upon arrival back home is already 4am. GOD knows how tired I was. I was at the place since 1pm and started to prepare. Rather to say I was being there for almost 12 hours.

When I was on my way driving back home in the wee hours of morning, many things came to my mind that moment and yet to perplexed in this. Seeing the road in 2 images, eyes are closing down and I do not know how long I can hang on for this. When I involved myself in this, I was super stress and tension regardless it was before the event or after the event. Before the event, many preparation work and in the midst of working I must be 24 hours awake because anytime things can go wrong and you need to settle it fast. THAT IS ONLY YOU HAVE A DAMN DEMANDING BOSS who will demand you to do this and that but she herself will never be bothered. She do not even give a damn on you. YOU DIE OR YOU CRAWL OR YOU SHIT also you have to make sure you settle everything for her. That makes me super crazy.

After all this havoc, I told myself this is the end and I am sure I HAD MY DECISION in my hand already. It shall come to an end by end of this month @ year. I AM DONE WITH IT AND IS OVER!

Now, I can't wait for all my holiday with my friends...Seriously can't wait for this breakfree moments and enjoy every stint of time with them. That is life precious gift and the moment I do not want to miss out.