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and this here is the article i wrote for our monthly news letter. its about the teambuilding we had recently. i prefer 'lifestyle' style of writing, hence the relaxed feel of it. and i hate reading stuffy articles.

IST Team Building at Allson Kelana- by Janna Mohd Zaki

Waking up way before the crack of dawn is nobody’s cup of tea, especially not on the verge of weekend, a Friday. However for the IST family, 14th of May 2010 held promises of what would be a memorable day. We all converged silently from our respective homes, diligently according to the stated time we were asked to meet, at daybreak, 6.45am.
 Excitement was definitely in the air as waves and greetings were exchanged among the blue people in the lobby that morning. Everyone was required to wear the t-shirts given out days before, blue in color, and bearing our beloved company’s logo. Soon we were on our way.

 We arrived at Allson Kelana, Seremban at around 8.45am and were given breakfast to fuel us what has been promised to be an exciting morning. After speeches by the management of RayGuide and our respected Lauge Sorensen and Ainul of Manpower, the ice breaking ceremony started.


We were asked to run around the room and when the facilitator shouted ‘two by two’ or ‘three by three’, we had to find a partner or two, depending on the digit he bellowed. The running around sure did get our blood pumping, by the end of the session I was panting and reaching for my inhaler. Running and laughing certainly weren’t meant to go hand in hand.


The lot of us were then divided into our respective groups and we had to come up with a flag (of which ours got stolen), a war cry and slogan that we would perform on stage. It was rather unnerving to be shouting and making (dance?) moves in front of a room full of people- that you would actually have to see again the next week!


So it was with our war cries that we parted ways and went to our respective activities that the management had lined up for us.


First up was repelling. I must say a lot of us were rather nervous about climbing down backwards at a 90 degree angle out a 5 storey high window- with good reason don’t you think!? But a few of us were eager to go, voluntarily opting to go first. In the end, we realized that it was just a matter of overcoming our fear and it wasn’t as scary as we thought it would be, that and the fact that the five storey stairs were the most challenging part of it all.


Next up was the ropewalk. At hindsight it looked pretty easy, you’re basically just walking, albeit almost ten feet in the air. But 5 minutes into the activity, we were sweating buckets, both from the humid hot air and from sheer nervousness as we realized we were standing so high up in the air with nothing to hold us save for a shaky rope under our feet. The occasional gust of wind made us shake like leaves, literally. Doing this activity thought us to trust our buddies, to listen to their cries of encouragement (at that height u really needed it to go on!) and that you really need your team mates to get through difficult times.


Lastly was the obstacle course that many deemed to be the hardest of all. It required a lot of getting down and dirty and we truly would not have succeeded without all our team mates, and not forgetting the ever so important IBM (wink!). ok mase ni i was dis close *pinches thumb n index finger togather* to dying so i skipped it hence d short para on dis activity.


At the end, we were honored with a certificate from RayGuide Getting the certificates were our last fun activity they had for us. Having to look for the names on the certificates given to us was funny to say the least. There were people standing on the stage holding up papers bearing their names, and there were those who shouted out names like they were selling fish at the market, and then there were hugs abound as people were matched with their certificates. It was a wonderful ending to a great day.


We left Allson Kelana Seremban exhausted in physical but rejuvenated in mind. This experience has brought us closer as a team and we hope to be able to participate in such a spirited program again in the future.

Will upload pics soon-est!

get dat needle awak from me u freak!!

im sick! feels like thr are 17 rats clawing their way up the back of my throat.. clawing clawing and clawing. beads of blood forming with evry scratch their tiny nails make. eeewwww!! ape morbid pagi2 nih!! gross!

but my throat does hurt. promise. so im all alone at work today. well not exactly alone la. but la has gone on maternity (adams finally here!!) and mari's on 'mc' :(

my head hurts.

so la gave birth last week. on d same day that he got sick and was forced by yours truly to go to d hosp. wat w all d crazy bugs flying around, im not gonna jeapordize my health ok- eh mine eh.

so he was hospitalized coz jeng jeng jeng he had dengue! ok thank u syg sbb suro i pg hospital or i wud have died by now n wud nvr get to grow old with u n watch our grandkids go to college- janna is the best gf ever. i know!!

so he was warded for 5 days n seemed like forever!!

he was poked n proded n had blood sucked out of him twice a day. ksian. im deathly afraid of needles ok. id b giving him words o encouragement while i hide behind d curtain. creepy. boleh x sape2 yg genius create machine yg can like scan ur body using sum infrared thingy or wateva instead of draining us of blood?? pretty pls? thank u

so he's ok now. tp dpt mc mcm 30 tahun yg best gile- ok fine 2 weeks. but wen im working n he's resting 2 weeks does seem like 30 years. no fair.

on another note

nazila n zaidi are proud new parents to baby Mohd Aaron Adam!! geramm!! nk gigit! he's bald now n along- la's super noisy sis reckons he looks a bit like austin power's mini me. agak la kn?? hehe aunty jane luffs uu!!

anddd im going to sabah w mama nx year. awal giler kn book. but a fren of hers has a travel agency n we got the airasia free ticket thingy. n ive always wanted to go to sabah coz i was born thr but ive never been back since we moved here wen i was a year old. so yeayy!!

p/s: sabrina tried to bite my lips as i tried to kiss her d oth day. makin hari makin mcm monster ok. haih

Radom pics

luff this pic

I made bread somtime back. This big one in the back is tomato bread

tomato bread egg sandwich. pretty colours kn?

and last weekend i made hot milk sponge cake from a recipe i got form here

substituted vanilla beans for essence coz the only beans i can find here are so dried up n doesnt yield much taste nor aroma

sheepish shoe show

did u know that fear of clothing is called vestiphobia??

no kn! c u learned smtin new just by reading my blog today!! woohoo!!

i was looking up sumtin else but found dat instead.

ive got a fear of wearing the wrong pairs of shoes.

as in one kasut merah n one kasut gold.

diff shoes on both ur feet.

coz i went into a meeting last week with diff shoes on my feet.

i almost died.

but i didnt.

i just hid my feet under the seat praying for the meeting to be over quick.

den swished my pashmina low so it covers my feet when i walked back to my desk

and that is not even my first time

once i left the house wearing one of my bright pink flip flops a sampan sized slipper warne blue belonging to my adik. n didnt realize it smpai dah nk turun kereta.

apakah??

xrase ke slipper tu besar and floppy n dont even get me started on d colour xprasan keee??

apparently not.

so now i am constantly checking on my feet to make sure ive got the same pair of shoes on.

kindda like this girl

green eggs and ham

was diligently doing my job when i started thinking of this:-

my most favourite bfast in the world is eggs benedict with smoked salmon. m so craving it rite now...

please feel free to drool

kalau pg la bodega pls jgn balik until u have this ok

what a morning!

good morning all!

i dont kno wats so good abt it~ this morning has been crap.

i got up late coz my new phone's alram didnt go off, or maybe it did but i dont kno how it sounds coz i didnt bangun! well until papa knocked on my door at 7 wondering y my lights r still off. i got ready thanking god for making me so rajin siap kn my lunch n all lastnite so i xpayah rush. went down buat milo n dgn smangat bye bye papa.

meredah d jam in kj is not exactly fun but i survived and was still cheery. till i discovered i left my TP (think pad) aka laptop at home. wats d point o goin to work klu xde laptop!! nk buat ape kot? jd mak guard bole??

n i saw d oth side o d road was crazy jammed. ldp heading towards damansara is forever jammed up. tots raced thru my mind~ should i turn back n get it n b an hour late, but then ive gotta leave early today sbb tuition, or i cud call up my manager n tell her im working from home, but it seemed a little petty to me, mcm mengade, orrrrr i cud call papa up n ask him to send it over to kj!

so i called papa who panicked along w me. kelam kabut ok ok ok  i come noww!! n hung up b4 i even got to tell him whr my laptop was. called back to sort it out n 15 mins later tadaaaaa!! my knight in shining kereta!!! i luff uu!!

n theeeeeennn!! i was supp to isi minyak my car last nite but i forgot so lastnite i made a mental reminder to do it b4 i head for work. but of course lupe kn. n anyone who knows me knows that my tank is hardly ever empty. i get freaked out if its at half tank! im anal about things like dat coz i cannot stand (read: creeps me out) seeing the fuel thingy blinking!! ill cover it w a paper or sumtin if it blinks coz its just scary. i have a longstanding phobia of being stuck by the roadside on a hot hot hot morning sbb xde minyak n u get creepy strangers who come up to u trying to sell u super overpriced fuel in mineral water bottles. or so i heard..

i stopped by d station kt sunway toll. nk isi full n bole pulak thr was sumtin wrong w d nozzle or sumtin it kept jerking n id have to tekan again n again n again. im secretly afraid of d isi minyak thingy. i always think its gonna blow up in my face. i kno its silly but i am. pastu lambat giler nk pg keje! n all d kure kure in d world decided that today was d day dey wanna drive in front of me!! its called a FAST lane for a reason!! *treasure*

now im in d ofc ranting n fuming still pastu cam byk keje. buttt!! coming into d ofc td i bumped into letchumy my favourite cleaning lady who was transfered to another building but now she's back!! so hopefully this bad luck thing is turning arnd..

in an effort to loose weight im now bringing food from home either for bfast or lunch. today its  steamed brocolli and carrot w salad leaves n bit o smoked chicken n boiled eggs- yolk will be given away to vultures :)

tlg la kurus

have a great monday darlings!