Culture shock in Jakarta

Short notice meeting, lucky I always have my passport with me. Traveling from KUL>JKT>KUL in 24 hrs, is damn tiring! Not to forget the traffic in Jakarta, KL is too little to compare.

I did enjoy much in the Hotel for my own home spa since the masseurs were fully booked till 12am! damn….

No shopping and nothing in such a short period of time! Fine…watch tv and access the considered expensive broadband in room.

The breakfast buffet was awesome. yummy.

The cosmopolitan city with modern shopping malls and dressy working ladies impressed me much.

I was in dilemma, whether ornot to call my uncle, and I had no idea where he is in Jakarta. So I did not make it. I’d like to meet him if I have enough time!

Pissed me off you bitch!

This morning, I felt like giving a full strength kick to some one like Matos did to the referee in Olympic game.

I am not the kind who like to complain about work or something. Whatever I can take it, I will swallow deeply, till certain time I would just take a day off and sleep at home for peace.

Some times it’s too much! I hate listening to the voice the whole day, it’s annoying, I would say not only today….it’s everyday! With her slang, is even worse for me to understand her! I don’t judge people by their slang, as I do know I have my slang too. One word, ANNOYED!

Just a click to dig out an email on her own, or just adding a subject whenever she open her mouth it’s pretty fine for me.

For some one who does not tell the subject before starting elaborate the whole queries, please shut up.
Hey, I am not the worm in your stomach , how the hell I know what you want to talk about as so many things happen in a day at work?

For some one who does not know how to manage their time well, do not ever hold me back and waste my time.

I sit down on to my chair, close my eyes, and curse from my heart. You bitch, shut up!

Not forget to say, my trip is postponed just because she is having days leave at the same time! I got to cancel all my booked hotel & tours and who the hell gonna pay me the cancellation fee? F.O !

The fenshui saying was right, rabbit and roaster will never get to work together.
Damn it! How long more could I suffer from this? A FULL calendar of a year!

—— after all, I feel better now.

Please SELECT …….. the options given

Doing a lot of “Please select country” , “please select traveller sex”, ” Please select….”, “please select ….” and so on.

People are asked to select given options when they intend to do something. But in life, not much options are given for us to select.

For example,

Why can’t I select the family/dad/mum/brother/sisters I’m with.

I used to think about this when I was so mad about my family, well that was my problem, such a childish mind I had when I was young! I was asking myself how could I have such a brother always fight with me. How could I have a sister always scold me? Why my dad was so fierce and cool? Why my mum always nag? Why am I not the only daugther [as usual-la, when I did not get attention from parents]. Why was I born in this family that I have to help the business at my free time (yeah, helping dad business wasn’t my favourite thing to do at that time! Imagine that serving customer after school, making few thousands mini egg tarts manually every weekend for the restaurants order and go home late everyday). And It took most of my study life of doing so and till the year of ecomomy crisis, dad sold the business and we were back to normal life like everybody has. From then I miss those time when helping in the shop. At least, all the family members are busy under one roof cuz afther that time, mum went to NYC, sis work in KL, another sis went on with her degree, left me, dad and my brother at home. It was sad that everyone since then seldom communicate with each other.

Why can’t I select the gender I want to be?

Yeah I mean it. Being a male, I can do so many things alone. Like go backpack alone by not afraid of bringing trouble to myself. Having few gfs at one time **grins**. I don’t need to worry if I was driving home at late night. I don’t have to wear bra~ and suffer for at least a week once in a month, yeah I wish.

Why can’t I select the Nationality?

I may not be proud of being a Malaysian sometimes, opps due to some reasons and that’s why most my relatives migrated. I rarely support local made products except the food, in fact most of the stuffs I use are made in China…lol. Somehow, it’s still the place I have to survive for time being.

Why can’t I select my friend?

I wish that I could select the friend I will be with before I get hurt. But would I know that they will betray me? Would I know they will take advantage on me? Would I know they will just dig a hole and let me step in and laugh at me? No, If I have known it earlier… I wouldn’t have hurt feeling now, yeah and thing learnt when it happened.

Why can’t I select the boss and must the boss choose me?

Yeah, back at the time before year 2000, most employees select the companies they wanna go for as they have too many options. As for now, there are too many candidates for one position. So, you got to have more luck sometimes.

Why can’t I select this , why can’t I select that……. counting on… yeah, most of the time is not what we can choose nor there are options given.

Translator

Have been doing some translation works for booking engine recently.

Translate those meals / locations/ airports/ countries into Chinese are still fine for me, translate the whole booking engine, yeah still fine.

And hell of it…the [error message] that makes my brain twist like aunty Anne. Thank god with help of my HK collegue, we could finally done 50% of it….. haha…way long to complete. 504 lines to be completed. Damn !

In the middle of doing so, we came across with this line of error message : Please select the person type. First though, man what the hell is it person type? Tall, short, fat, thin, handsome, good, evil, alien, half human?? How do you say the person type in chinese? 人的种类？At the end we found out that the situation will be, you need to select if you’re travel as an adult / children / infant. So that’s the person type. Eventually, we got it as 人的类别…. hope it sounds okay, while waitinf for CN collegue to give feedback

1st Day @ work

Reported to HR @ 8.30am – the web developer (unfamiliar with alien codes)

Went for a drink in the cafe with another newbie, Radilah (and actually the HR personel suggested that). So I just thought of reporting to the department after a cup of tea while Radilah wanted to have some food. So I just couldn’t leave earlier.

Guess what, suddenly Mike (my boss) & Dinesh (superior) stepped into the cafeteria and I was like in the situation of “ponteng kerja” ——-oh man! that’s my first day, and thanks to Dinesh for saying that !!!!! so embarassing

Usually nothing much to do on the firstday. I was sitting the whole day browsing through thePulse (intranet) and other airlines websites.

Mike brifely told us (there’s another new web designer) in a discussion about the projects that are on going stimultane0usly and expected to be launched very soon. Expectations are high from Dr. Amin ( the big boss). As qouted from him, ” everything to be like an iphone – one click and all things will be done.” (for the check-in system) —– urh~

Was trying to pick up my javascript programming skills and learnsome other the new [at least are new to me] prog. languages like Ajax and some other related reading in last few weeks (pretty hard though). It’s really a challenge for me (exactly mentioned by the Tarots cards reader)