Money money money...

semlm pergi ke 'your local bank' sebab nak tanya samada blh tak activate akaun di sini bagi pembayaran gaji kat sana nanti... senang lah kalau blh tak perlu lah buka akaun kat sana... senang jugak nanti bila balik sini nak keluar duit... tp mmg lah 'your local bank' ni mmg utk local jer.. tak blh lah nak buat sepertimana yang diharap... penat berjalan.. dan naik monorel ajer... i think ada cara nya yg boleh.... mungkin buka Foreign Currency Account (FCA)... tapi tak der lah pulak personal financial adviser tu bagi cadangan buka FCA account. mungkin pada pendapat dia tak bagus FCA account tu kot... tak sesuai ngan org miskin nih...

selain berkenaan akaun, ada beberapa lagi yg perlu disettle... like insurance... selalunyer akan dibayar melalui akaun (direct debit) tapi memandangkan gaji masuk mungkin dari akaun di Qat*r nanti... and few other commitments like rumah dan kereta... but all these blh settle provided i can tranfer some amount of money to my Meibank account... using Meibank2u blh lah bayar semua nih...

hmm... harap2 dgn kerja kat sana nih blh lah memperbaiki taraf ekonomi... buat saving sikit sbb saving yg dulu2 semua dah habis kan dgn berjalan... hehehe.... insyaAllah... and kat sana nanti kena lah jadi kedekut skit... asalnyer nak beli kereta best masa di Qat*r.. but bila fikir2 balik... hmm.. rasa nyer nak beli kereta termurah jer kot.. janji dpt berjalan... tak banyak pakai minyak... muat lah lagi 3 org, kalau2 lah ada sesapa dr M'sia nih nak ke sana... blh jugak ler bawak berjalan... as told, kata nya kat sana tak perlu bawak international licence.. kat sana br buat... itu nanti bila sampai sana kita check...

but... kadang2 terfikir jugak... money is not everything... not all thing money can buy.... ermmm.. apa-apa je lah...
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malas nak buat entry baru.... hmm.. saja jer nak citer... lately nih buat preparation pelbagai sampai tak sempat nak lunch... dah 3 hari dah... hari selasa g ke qatar airways ambil tiket... hari semlm g ke 'your local bank' tanya pasal akaun... tadi g ke L0w Ya++ plak nak betulkan laptop, sbb sebelum nih tak leh detect recording device. So lepas nih dah taruh recording device blh lah nak buat voice call thru Skype atau YM... leh laj update citer ngan org2 tersayang back home.

Hujan ke???

Sedang fikir2 persiapan nak berangkat tetiba terfikir pasal nasib, pasal qada' dan qadar, pasal rezeki... Memang semuanyer ditentukan Allah... sapa tahu tetiba aku ada peluang plak nak menjelajah bumi Arab dan mencari rezeki di negara orang dan melihat dunia luar jauh dari tanah air... Namun sejauh mana kita bersyukur dalam sudut hati insan tak sempurna seperti aku nih ada jugak nak mempertikaikan itu ini... sigh

Dulu selalu terfikir berapa beruntungnya org2 seperti abg aku and beberapa kenalan lain yang berpeluang belajar di luar negara... dibayar perjalanan dan hidup nya di negara orang. Suatu pengalaman yang aku kejar masa habis belajar dulu. Namun usaha yang dibuat tidak lah melampau atau bersungguh... akhirnya belajar jer lah kat Bangi. Terasa jugak cemburu sebab org2 yg berpeluang belajar di luar negara beroleh pendedahan kepada dunia luar... dapat menikmati apa yg dikatakan cuaca 4 musim... lihat kehidupan 'orang putih' lebih dekat. bagi yang lebih adventorous, beroleh peluang melihat negara2 sekitar... menjelajah eropah... inilah diriku yang selalu jugak tak bersyukur (Astaghafirullah)

La nih tetiba pulak aku dapat rezeki ke luar negara, walaupun bukan negara 4 musim, tapi dengar kata orang ramai jugak orang2 yang lahir di negara 4 musim hidup di negara panas nih... hmmm... kadangkala terfikir jugak mampu ke nak harungi semua pancaroba hidup di negara orang nih sendirian. apa jadi kalau tiba2 apa yang diharap berlaku sebaliknya... apa nak buat kalau kerinduan perkara2 yang selalu dibuat saban hari... manalah pernah diri ini keluar negara lebih dari satu bulan.... ntah lah... rasa nya ok kot...

Harap-harap semua nyer lancar lah... syukur jer lah dengan apa yang dapat insyaAllah blh lah kot at least mengharungi dua tahun. Ada kawan2 bertanya apa nak buat selepas dua tahun nanti, nak balik keje kat sini ker? ntah lah... rasanya malas jugak nak fikir apa akan jadi lagi dua tahun. Walaupun diri ini mmg selalu berangan tapi... biar lah apa yang terjadi lagi dua tahun berlaku dengan sendiri.. take things one at a time.. sekarang nih... masa utk buat preparation nak pergi...

org ada kata.... hujan emas di negeri org, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, lebih baik negeri sendiri. Rasanyer belum layak kiranya aku ungkapkan kata2 ini sbb belum merasa lagi hujan emas kat negara org... apa kata kita kutip segala emas yg dihujani dinegeri org itu dan bawak ke neger sendiri... mungkin lebih baik kot... kurang2 blh buat rumah yg kukuh bagi mengelakkan diri dari kena hujan batu.... hehehehe

The ticket...

I collected my tickets yesterday.... Yippeee.... now i'm getting more excited!!!


Dalam usaha mendapatkan tiket nih... ada lah berutus2 email dgn pihak HR di AJI... dan ada satu email nih yg memberikan gambaran suasana keje kat sana....

From Me (simplified):

Dear Maniz (HR Assistant),

I would like to know abt several things...
1. Transportation arrangement on my first week in Qat*r
2. What are the equipment provided in the apartment (my accomodation)

actually, i'm not so sure to whom i should address the question, therefore i asked the HR la....

so once Maniz received it.... this was her response, oops not response but she fwd to somebody else:

Hi He***,

Could you please reply him.

Regards

and He*** fwd to someone else...

HOs** Ja**ri,

Would you respond to him?

then at last HOs** responded:

Maniz,

Can you please forward this to the above mentioned gentleman…?? On arrival kindly drop by on arrival and I will explain everything to you, We at AJI are very helpful and supportive of our new employees,

Cheers,

Hopefully everything will be fine bila sampai sana (some ppl say... welcome to Arab world hehehe....)

Packing List...

First time living oversea... hmm.. what should i pack???

dah suruh mak sediakan makanan... meaning... segala keperluan bekalan makanan mak yang akan pack kan dalam kotak... termasuk sos cili, kicap, rempah ratus (org kata rempah kari kat sana tak sama rasa ngan Malaysia), maggi etc (mengikut budi bicara dia lah)

then... pakaian... dah beli beg 28" utk taruh semua barang... rasanya muat kot... bawak lah semua pakaian yg ada sekarang... dan termasuk 2 suit dan 2 pasang baju melayu (songkok dan butang tak der lagi) Bendera Malaysia tak beli lagi (sempena sukan Asia Doha december nih), kasut and sandals, and sehelai (or 2) baju utk musim sejuk hujung tahun nih...

Laptop dah beli dah... its the most important equipment nak bawak ke sana... ni lah punca nak berkomunikasi ngan org2 kat malaysia dan serata dunia... n nak update blog nih...

apa lagi ek???

The Starter...

Sejak balik dari Itali backpacking tahun 2004 i've been dreaming to visit all the places in the world. Some might say that there's a 'travel bug' melekat behind my back. From there on mulalah berangan2 pergi to many places... and even prepare a budget to see those places... and also for my own round the world trip.

Then, bila mula buat budget tu, setelah fikir2 semula, mcm tak logik jer i mampu utk menggapai impian tu... dgn gaji yg tak seberapa nih, dgn segala hutang yg ada (umah n kereta) byk pulak penghalang nyer... so i ask around and ask to myself how will i ever fulfill my ambition... i've sent a post to thorntree.lonely planet... i asked the whole world to give me ideas how can i work on it... (in fact, my question has become the thread of the day... mcm soalan paling menarik hari ini... and diletakkan kat frontpage of the website...)

many ppl from the whole world gave out ideas to me and most of them ask me to save and save and save.... and memberi semangat... but from there, ada a few yg bg suggestion to work while travelling... and to work abroad... which i found as brilliant ideas... but where and how??? i can't be a bartender at the light district in London or New York, i don't think i'm good enough to become an english teacher in south korea, i don't have a licence to become diving instructor in Egypt, or should i be a cherry pickers in the farm in New Zealand hmmm.....how abt working professionally oversea, hmm i don't have recognisable educational background lah... i studied locally and i take local professional papers instead of those world renown examinations... i give a try thru few online applications.. but none responded... ok, then i tried to search for jobs in Malaysia which will need me to go overseas extensively... but my fieldwork mmg kebanyakannyer hanya desktop job i.e. setiap hari duduk lah depan computer nih.

At the same time while searching for the jobs to improve my life... i kind of settled with what i had in hand... i travelled to various places... I almost covered the whole ASEAN, I went to bali, bangkok, siem reap, singapore and jakarta (to name a few)... and the furthest to Turkey.... then i decided that this is how i should travel the whole world... still working in Malaysia... try to earn more.. save a bit and spend on these short trips... I'm happy with it... and therefore i've spent the past 1 1/2 years doing all that.

But still hiding in me was my ambition to see the whole world... whenever i got to know that any of my friends got attachment for couple of weeks in somewhere out of Malaysia... tetiba jer i rasa jealous... whenever my fren got secondment to oversea i asked myself, why my job doesnt require me to do the same... this little fellow inside me keep bugging again and again... find a job out there.... anyway, i still have my resume in the online jobseeker website. but i've decided to stay...

masa tgh cari keje lain... (because i think its time for me to change job lah) i come accross one job advertisement, an MNC company based in Qatar which just set up their asia pacific branch in KL... no harm trying, i apply for the job without knowing that i'll be based in Qatar. after 1 month plus gone... there's no news from the company.. so i assumed they've got their man... and me fortunately secured a new job in a huge conglomerate in Malaysia.. ok... settled... but to my surprise, the Qatar company reply my email n call me... and i went for interview and now they offer me a job plus they said i'll be based in Qatar and not in Malaysia.... and it came so sudden...

it came when i've decided to work in Malaysia, when i've feel comfortable with current life, when
i dont want that offer... Again, it's not just an offer.. but an offer that i cant resist.. the package that i wanted... the thing that i've been thinking for the past 2 years or more... it's an opportunity for me to open up a new book in my life... another phase of me.... hmmm... and i think i've decided that i have to take it.....

So this will be my first step to 'conquer' the world.