Rasulullah, beliau pernah berpesan, "Menuntut ilmu biar sampai ke negeri cina". Well, al least I've fulfilled that already. Skang aku dah takyah sibuk2 nak sambung master ke phD ke. Aku dah sampai ke cina! Hehe... Was there for the MPC-ERS Meeting. We have partnership with MPC for the last 26 years old. Even got an award for that, really. Some recognition eh? And annually they will have this Asia Pacific distributor meeting for in-house training and award presentations. And this year's meeting was held in Sanya, China which was also where they held last year's Miss World! (I'm thrilled!).

I must say that Guangzhou International is the most busiest airport I've ever been. This is like the gateway to all of the parts in China where you have to get connecting flights to Beijing, Hong Kong, Hainan and all. Imagine China's population for crying out loud!

There's even an electric carts handy for those people chasing for their late check-ins, those with excessive luggages, old people and those who don't mind spending RMB20 for a ride. About RM10 here in Malaysia. That's not too bad eh?

The temperature was 22 degrees centigrade when I arrived. But when I left it was a freezing degrees centigrade due to the heavy snow in Beijing and all. And it's even chillier with the wind. Some abrupt temperature changes you have here in China.

This is one of the shop in Guangzhou International which caught my eyes. Reminds me how my dudes back home during my study time would pronounce 'bengong', as in idiot. AND there's a shop right here in the airport selling fruits and chocs called by that name. Let's have a closer look...

Here is one of the photos I took at a place called Border Of Heaven, End Of the Sky, forgot how they pronounce it in chinese though. They say that this place is where heaven would be after the hereafter.

And here is the rock which they believe is the great pillar of the sky which holds the sky all this while. Nice scenaries here I must say.

Aside from Hainan Chicken (which apparently was my daily menu there, being a muslim. NO MORE NASI AYAM FOR ME!) Hainan and even China as a whole is well known for their pearls and crystals especially in Sanya which is pretty much sold there as souvenirs.

You can find a lot of local muslims here selling stuffs. There's almost 80% of the women and ladies in the bazaar itself wearing scarfs. But a word of caution about those bazaar women. They will follow you from the entry of the bazaar, promoting their pearls, crystals or anything until you walk out of the bazaar. Some would even follow you up to your bus! And I guess Steve was one of their victim that day.

Sanya not being the right place to buy many made-in-Chinas, is also well known for its green tea and damn hot pepper! Pedas gila wa cakap lu. Berasapppp...

Overall, the meeting went on fine with lots of new innovations and latest technology for solution provider and all. The schedule was a bit tight though considering you have to get up at least 7.30am for breakfast and then rush to get ready to be seated in the meeting by 8.30 until 6.00pm. Then, go up to your room, take a shower and wait at the lobby before 7pm for dinner. In China, Maghrib prayer is at 6.10pm. The first day of the meeting lps lunch ingat nak naik bilik jap smayang jamak zohor-asar. Tapi since perut dah boyot sangat, rasa maleh la plak. Karang lps smayang karang, 'selamat' terus kang. So tunggu la smpai meeting habis at 6, minum jap baru naik atas. Masa tu dah 6.30 smtg. So konfiden je masuk bilik and then amik air smayang. Tetiba handphone bunyik, ada msg masuk. Mesti dari EASY ACCESS ni. Dari tghari tadi aku request utk waktu solat kat china ni. Skang baru nak dapat. Skali tengok2, dah ponn masuk Maghrib! So, kira burn je la. Instead I prayed jamak for maghrib-asar. Abeh citer. Kul 6 lebih kat sana dah cam nak masuk senja kalau tempat kita.

The last night was the award presentations. Our office got an award for sales & service for Malaysia's distributor. Other countries who got the awards as well includes representatives from Korea, Hong Kong, Thailand, Filipina, Singapore, Manila and China itself.

On the last night after dinner we went to one of the China shop in town to get some ole-ole to take back home. There were this two chinese girls who are very keen on knowing which country am I from. Consulting a chinese friend, it happen that those two girls are willing to change their money for our RM. Since there was hardly any big RM cash in my wallet, I could only find two RM1 notes. And they like it very, very much as I handed over those notes to them.

Just see the photo here. Cool eh? I must say, I have made Malaysia very proud!
Cheers!

Posted by Wan Mohd Fahimi @ 1:36 PM

Yeah, can't wait to see this upcoming movie by our dude Afdlin. Well, Baik Punya Cilok was great. Gelak guling aku & Zaki dalam GSC tu sampai terpaksa ke WC skali tu. Memang tak tahan especially part yg mamat kelate tu cakap omputeh. Hampeh Afdlin, terasa den. But yeah, I can see how Riezman did at his acting, been given a more appealing and strong character. Aku dapat tengok how well brader Afdlin did at polishing these peoples' acting gift that they always had inside but wasn't been given the opportunity to show it all this while walaupon dah bertahun2 dok berlakon. Pity them. Apapon, aku tak sabar nak tunggu VCD BPC and Buli Balik so that I can share some pecah perut laughter with my wife at home. I don't think they would allow Danish to go in the cinema and steal the show, so Honey couldn't join to watch the movie although she's dying to. So, me had to be selfish and go with Zaki instead; being an old time BIG AFDLIN FAN! Mana tahan beb nak tunggu kuar VCD baru nak tengok! Sorry dear. Kerna Terpaksa...

I just bought myself an MP3 transmitter for my car. Now I can hear any songs that I like, lots of em too! And I don't have to give a damn about burning those songs in cds anymore! Download everything in my 1 gig pendrive and I'll have a damn long playlist and turn it on whenever I like. Cool eh?

Man, I'm really looking for the CNY break this weekend. Plan nak balik kampung and jumpa my mum yg baru balik haji last 2 days. And yeah, I almost forgot. I promised Suri that I'll give him a free add for his wedding announcement on my blog yesterday or so-called publisiti murahan! ( Nak lagi publisiti, email over gambar ek cik nani?! Free, takde charge! ) Hehe, kengkawan punye pasal tarak hal. The long awaited wedding. Finally, our dude Suri akan mendirikan masjid terapung dua tingat beliau dengan anak pak azami. Majlis Shamsuri & Hanani ni pada ari selasa 31hb Januari bersempena dengar Awal Muharam. Harapnya akan berkekalan hingga ke akhir hayat, Amin.

Anyway, the trip to China was great though I must say that I was damn exhausted due to the jam-packed training schedule. I'll be uploading some photos in here later. Till then, asta la vista!

Posted by Wan Mohd Fahimi @ 11:17 AM

Hi again people! Long time no see. I must admit that it's not a nice thing to do to have people reading to your daily rumbling (ye ker pon?) and all of a sudden, you just lost in the air and stopped; having people out there cursing you for not updating. It's not that people are THAT excited to read your blog or those kinda poyo stuffs but it just helps them getting rid of their boredoom during those pain-in-the-neck office hours. And yeah, it can get really amusing, really.

DON'T BOTHER WITH EXCUSES, I know. So, I'm not. Well, I AM and WILL actually. Depends on how you see it. My trusty laptop has failed me misserably since the last day I updated my blog. This one day I was browsing through the net when suddenly Danish came and pulled the AC power cable from the laptop. The battery was already kong so, the laptop just went off. BLANK! Frustrated but at the same time not wanting to be mean with the little kid, I just amik my laptop and simpan. Tetiba the next day I received an sms from my boss.

"WAN(my officemates call me by my first name), FWD ME UR MPC PRESENTATION, NEED TO COMPILE IT BY TONITE! URGENT."

So, I just ON my laptop and waited. Not wanting to wait for it to load, I went to the kitchen and made myself a nice, hot Milo. BUT the moment I came back, the screen was still blank although the laptop was running alright. Damn! So, I waited and waited. Suddenly I've realized that the screen was out of order as if the fuse is burnt or something as all I could see everything blur and blank. I glanced at the clock on the wall. Big boss need it tonight huh? This is great... boy, this is gonna be a long night...

The next day I sent the laptop to JM. She said that she has to sent it back to HP to check the problem. After a couple of days, HP sent her an email with a quotation to fix the matter - a cruel RM2890.00 to replace the screen!!! The battery is also RM500 plus. (Shit, there goes my pay for the month!) JM called me one fine morning and told me that she will take back the laptop from HP since the cost was too expensive and will give me another laptop while waiting for mine. She said maybe HP is finding the easy way out and gave full charge to replace the screen instead of fixing the problem. I dunno. The next thing I know, JM had sent it to a freelancer; dealing with faulty PC and notebooks and guess what, the guy has asked for an RM580 to get the screen fixed! Can you believe that? Wowww...

And yeah, we celebrated raya haji yesterday. Selamat Hari Raya Haji! Didn't went back to Kelantan for raya since I got to attend the Kickoff Meeting on Friday. Got to preppare and get ready for the China trip as well for the MPC Distributor Meeting next week. So I guess Chinese New Year break baru balik kot since mum pon should be home from haji during that time, Insya Allah. Hakim also has just started his industrial training and won't be back to celebrate raya as well. And yeah, the news in Mekah the other day really left us at home shivering. Apparently, the building involved in the sad incident is the hostel that accommodate orang2 India dan Zimbabwe yg bersebelahan dgn penempatan rakyat2 Malaysia. Harap2nya, bonda selamat pergi dan selamat kembali, insya Allah. And yeah, it's Kickoff tomorrow. Wish me luck!

Posted by Wan Mohd Fahimi @ 12:27 PM