Presentation Skills - Day 2.

So here's my "upgraded" presentation after the feedback of our trainer from yesterday.

Still the same topic... I personally feel that I could have done better, dragged the speech at a few places. Still need to improve my posture/stance, body language and movement.

Hopefully I'll do better the next time around... if I get a chance.

I Hate Indecisive People!

I HATE INDECISIVE PEOPLE!!!

AKPK & RedFort Alpha.

All of us face financial issues at one point or another - with that in mind, AirAsia invited Agensi Kaunseling & Pengurusan Kredit (AKPK) to give a talk to it's employees regarding financial planning and related issues. NGLers were incorporated into the talk since we are all young working adults.

Nothing much during the second half of the day, except for NGLers bombarded AirAsia's office in LCCT to get our Internet connection sorted. After spending about 4 hours at the office with the ICT guys, all of us can access to the RedFort Alpha network when we come to work! Yeay! That makes it easier for me, I don't have to get a broadband for now... yes!

Competitive Edge - Day 2.

So here's the continuation on Day 2. Still has the same energy and power due to the way the trainer conducts the training.

The training started off with Lena playing a background music and we were required to draw down on the paper the thoughts we have on a paper with a movie plot-line with a  $50 million dollar budget. Once we have drawn the picture, we have to present it our fellow colleagues who'll be acting as venture capitalists. The venture capitalists will then decide on which movie to fund.

And here's what I thought when the music was played on the background. On my side, I felt the music connected to the 3 things which I always have on my mind - death, the end of the world and the purpose of us, humans on Earth.

                         

Next, we played a game which required half of us to act out as psychiatry doctors and the other half as patients. And the doctors were given stickers based on their feedback and assessment - 2 stickers for great, 1 for good and 0 if the patient feels the doctor was not good enough. The stickers were sticked on the doctor's face and eventually all of us looked like we have leprosy.

The 2 days were one the most unique training we have ever gone through in NGL and kudos to the trainer for making it such a interesting and exciting.

Competitive Edge - Day 1.

Another Performance Development Consultant, this time for Competitive Edge. Lenaghaz, that was the trainer's name and I thought it will be just another training but... the training started off with a BANG! 

Her trick was to get everyone pay attention to the training by giving out fake "cash" to voice out our opinions and ideas. And everyone just started going off in voicing out their ideas instantly! Awesome way to get everyone to contribute in a class!

On top of that, she also requested all the groups to get a name (ours was Humble Yet Greedy - HYG) and come out with a cheer. And we came out with our cheer with a fusion of martial arts and cartoon moves.

The class was full of crazy activities and exercises, with the most memorable one being an activity whereby we had to look for 20 items in 20 mins - and that was crazyyy!

Here's the list.

    

And here's the end product!

My group managed to get 13 out of the 20 items, not bad actually for impromptu exercise.

Towards the end of the class, we were asked to fold paper into 6 hats representing the 6 groups of people who normally take part in a discussion or negotiation  - Neutral, Emotional, Pessimist, Creative, Control and Optimist. 

We were put into different situation, which means different hats and represent our thoughts in discussion. One word to describe today: FUN!

Happily Ever After, Flashers & Alexis.

Yeah, another crazy Saturday!

Started off the day with the wedding ceremony at Rubber Research Institute, Sungai Buloh for our fellow NGLer, Mr. Fatah and his bride, Ms. Farah a.k.a Mrs. Fatah now! Congratulations, selamat pengantin baru and God bless! I'm pretty sure there will be many more to come, since most of the NGLers are in our 20s and still single (... I mean our marital status, not availability!).

After that, Tian, Najib and I rushed to KL Sentral, Brickfields to catch the #KeretapiSarong flash mob/gag organized by RandomAlphabets. We even saw Azhan taking part in the flash mob... and once we knew their plan, we went to KLCC to wait for the final meeting point. For strangers who come together to do something without much pre-planning, I have to admit, it was really, really impressive how they moved and did the whole sequence.

So after the flash mob ended, the three of us just lepak-ed at the KLCC pool area, discussing about NGL and everything in between. And then we were hungry... so we messaged all the other NGLers to see who's free to join us and Millie replied. She suggested Alexis, Bangsar and that's where we ended next.

Once we reached Alexis, it was munching time... Millie and the waiter recommended their signature tiramisu cake, so I said "Why not?" Hands down, one of the best piece of cake I've tasted, props to Millie for that!

Bo Lingam & EGM 2012.

Friday started with a discussion on how we can make our current room, Chiang Rai into a NGL fortress - both individually and as a group. We had tons of ideas on the board from the group and we have a week to finalize the details and work plan for this.

We also had the beloved yet humble COO, Bo Lingam, who kindly accommodated 2 hours of his time to speak to NGLers on what it takes to be AirAsia's Allstar. His speech was simple but something which had substance – “be respectful of experience, be humble, appreciate people and culture and be yourself” He also advised NGLers to be hungry and to believe that change starts from/within us. The whole session with Bo was quite laidback back, compared to other HODs and Chiefs, yet the message was powerful and clear. We were also reassured that we have should not compromise on our beliefs or stand, while learning and having fun at the same time.