Beautiful.Mind.Life

A team will never be a team, until you’re involved in a teambuilding activity. At least, that’s what I always believe in.

My department managed to arrange a teambuilding activity and got it approved happily by the boss, thanks to the brilliant proposal which was made by the team ourselves. It was crazy, as we were short in time, and everything had to be done at the very last minute. But still, it was a great success, which made us believe even more that a teamwork will surely produce the results.

We started on Friday, having left from Kemaman at about 10oo hours and reached the magnificent Bukit Gambang Resort City around 1100 hours. Straight away, the instructors (Active Academy people) started the program with ice-breaking session. We were not ice at that time as we’re already getting along well with each other, but we had fun.

It’s still in my mind. “Tan & Hisham menang hadiah dari Proton. 4 tayar Dunlop, 10 minyak pelincir, 5 pasang speaker, 2 lampu hiasan dan wang tunai RM28888.00″. Haha.

After the quick ice-breaking session, we had lunch, which was pretty good. Then, we checked into our rooms, had a good rest and part of us went for Friday prayer. Surprisingly, there were suddenly many ‘musaffirs’. =)

The room was ok, though I still think that at almost RM400 (apartment for 4), it’s actually quite pricey. Oh well, shouldn’t be too demanding, should I? It’s completely free after all. Kompeni tanggung…

That weird looking uncooked mushrooms. I do not know whether it was for serving or not.

At about 3 o’clock in the evening, we were asked by the instructors to get ourselves back into the classroom. We were divided into 3 pre-created teams of 7, and had assignments of creating our own flag, team name as well as a war cry. I was in the third team, and we did a pretty good job in fulfilling the tasks, but I had to give credit to Team 2, with a brilliantly, unexpected war cry. Hilarious, guys!

Team 2 (top left), preparing their ritual war cry, based on the funny “Brrrrrrrr…” ads by Coca-cola. Perfect 10!

That wrapped up our classroom session. We had tea break, and proceeded to the Active Academy yard, for jungle trekking. We enjoyed ourselves so much with the trekking, abseiling, obstacles challenges and flying fox, though none of these activities have ever been my favorite.

Seriously, guys, it was energy consuming!

Ever seen a flying turtle? Here’s your chance! =D

None of these were easy enough for us, especially for Team 1.

And with the flying fox, we ended our day. Exhausted, but fun. Sweaty,but with smiles. No boss, no employee, just a group of friends having good times together. Can’t get any better than that, can we?

At night, we had poolside BBQ  dinner. I really thought that we gonna burn chicken and meat and fishes ’til they turned completely black, but to my surprise, there was already a cook to take care of that. A slight fun part was missing, but it was still ok. We had great dinner, and started our wet activities at about 2100 hours. Have you ever heard of a game called ‘Banana & Potato Polo’? Bet you haven’t, and will never at all. An impressively vulgar game that shouldn’t be played if you’re in a group with females around. The instructor asked for team leaders to do this, so I had no option but to go on with it, and felt stupid right after finishing it. Hahaha. Enjoy the pictures!

Notice the boss’ plate (bottom right). Bape ekor ayam tumbang tu, bang?

I just realized that you can actually see this one particular guy who likes to show more skin than the rest. Our own DEIC. Hahahahaha…..

This is the nasty game I was talking about! Dare not to explain further on how to play this, or this blog will be rated for adults. =) Enough with the images of bananas between the legs.

To be continued…

For a stupid reason, I lost my Blackberry Storm.

In the middle of personal financial crisis, this is the last thing I’d expect to happen.

Now I’m in a grave need of a new phone. Surely, a Blackberry. Possibly, the new Bold II. Unfortunately, I’m broke.

Arghhhhhhhh!

This is weird. I thought it came to park himself on it or having a nap. I chased it away several times, but it kept coming back, which made me think that probably, it’s having lunch on my breakfast.

Rezeki kau la hari ni, abang nyamuk. I know that it’s a male, because female feeds on blood.

The past few days have been hell for me. I had terrible headache (still, until today), bloated tummy, filled with God-knows-where-it-came-from air, weakening muscular system, and everything in between.

Unfortunately, medical leave is not an option, as I’m in the middle of a very important training, which I can’t afford to miss. Yesterday was an unsuccessful training day for me, as I slept 2/3 of the 8 office hours under my desk. Luckily, there’s nothing important as that Scottish guy who came for the training was still trying to figure out all the connections for the read-out system.

Today is much better. But it came at a very costly price. Last night was the worst ever. I threw up three times, with the last was the horrible one. Felt like there was a flying kick from Van Damme landed right on my belly. It was terrible, but I was glad it happened.

Now, not hundred per cent fit, but feels much better. So, so much better.

Thanks to the whole big bowl of vomit. Tapi perut still berangin.

I spent a bloody six hours today at work, just to get that bloody sensitive pressure sensor activates at the bloody 50 Pascal mark on the differential gauge. I guess we can’t expect easy things when it comes to conventional mechanical technologies, especially when pneumatic is involved.

Now, friends, let’s develop our technologies. Use wires. Use signals. Use voltages, alternating or direct, your choice. Use binary, so that all you have to set is a YES and NO command, in digital.

That will surely allow me to use that six hours for something else. Too bad, I always hate electrical and electronics during school days, because it was boring. You see wires, resistors, capacitors, batteries, IC, PLC blah..blah.., but you can’t actually see anything moving. Those voltages and currents and frequencies, are not visible to human eyes.

Now I genuinely regret that.