Culture Overload.

The first working Friday in AirAsia and the topic of the day was - CULTURE! The Corporate Culture team of AirAsia, consists of Renuka, Yvonne, Jason and Dharsini came in to give NGLers a dose of the practice and beliefs in the organization.

To start of the day, it was the usual introduction session with a twist. Each NGLer has to go to the front and tell 3 things that other NGLers does not know about him/her. I definitely learnt a lot of things about my fellow NGLers - when they were young, the dreams, their hopes, their kinky imaginations and some other censored stuff! As for me, I disclosed the following about myself to the rest:

1. I'm a Straight Edge follower - strictly no drugs, no tobacco, no alcohol
2. I'm not good in Tamil - started to learn the language when I was in university
3. I love exotic food - have eaten bison, crocodile, kangaroo, wild boar, monitor lizard
4. I used to follow my uncles to do illegal stuffs *censorship required*

Started of with short a video presentation and then Yvonne proceeded with the presentation of AirAsia core culture, which consists of the following 6 important elements:

1. Safety conscious
2. Fun
3. Full of integrity
4. Friendly
5. Hardworking
6. Caring 

The tagline of the company also says it all - "All For One, One For All".

We also had a quiz in between and I managed to answer the question correctly and I won a prize for that! It was a Lotus F1 ballpen, yeah!

After the Friday prayer break, Jason took over the stage and presented about all the different departments within the company and their roles/job functions. There were a lot of questions thrown at him since most of the NGLers were curious about their job scope in their respective teams once the 6 months training is over and we are deployed to the teams.

Once Jason was with his presentation, the group was broken to 2 groups and a game was held. It was a guessing game, whereby each team needs to send a representative to the front and the representative must pick up a piece of paper available and try to act out what's written on the paper to their teammates for them to guess it correctly. All I can say is I had an epic failure... cause how do you act out the word "Anthony Francis Fernandes"? Damn! Oh yeah, by the way, my team lost!

The day ended with more video presentations - Mr. Tony's closing speech and a short clip from AirAsia's 10th Anniversary celebration.

On my way back on the Aerobus to Brickfields with the boys, we discussed what should we do during the weekend ahead, since this is the first weekend we are spending time together in Kuala Lumpur. We decided to hit the road tomorrow, not with a set plan but just a guideline and see where the journey takes us to. Oh yeah, keep on rolling babyyy!