Having been in Kuala Lumpur 1 month & 10 days

Errrr

Sorry that I've been lazy in updating this blog in the past two weeks.... =p

Okieeee

Updates on work

After 1 month & 10 days,
finally I got a breakthrough in my job tasks.
I was asked to do a Balanced scorecard for the plan of setting up a new office in Thailand in 5 days including the weekends.
Well.. I heard BSC a lot during my time in AIESEC, but I never need to do it.
(1st thought came to my mind is...........
gosh..... even outside AIESEC, I couldn't get rid of BSC.........)

Well....... so it comes as a big challenge. @@

Luckily I got a result-oriented supervisor who made sure I'm clear of everything before I started the job task, he led me through briefly how to fill in the BSC.
Though I still have to figure out exactly how to do it,
www.myaiesec.net has therefore become an excellent source for me to have a look on how people do BSC and how they work on the BSC. =))))))))))))



Discussion

Usually, when it comes to fund raising and donation,
will you tend to donate to NGOs showing you materials with sad faces of the suffering people?
If yes, here comes the question,

Supposingly, if the NGO is helping its suffering target group effectively,
there should be more happy faces than sad faces.
I mean, it will be more difficult for them to shoot sad faces to place on fund raising materials.

For example, my NGO is working to help cancer patients,
if it's running effectively,
there should be less sad cancer patients they found.
This is the true situation.

However, to raise more fund,
they have to find sad faces in the beneficiary group which is extremely difficult.

Isn't it a self-contradicting action?
Are donors tend to donate to see the ineffectiveness of the NGOs?
Or this phenomenon is a way to prompt the NGO to work more harder?



Funny thing

As two of my Bangladeshi colleagues are going back to visit their family,
and it will be the time I needa flee away from Malaysia again,
I was planning a trip to Bangladesh with my two collegaues.
So I was trying to get a VISA fr. the Bangladesh high commission in Malaysia.
My colleague insisted that he will go with me.....
at that time I was feeling strange ( why so insist to go with me?! juz VISA application? )


When we arrived at the Bangladesh high commission,
it looks more like a public washroom in Hong Kong
( Sorry! no offence to Banglas, but I couldn't think of other things more similar than this ............................)
& When I arrived there, I understood my colleague's insistence.

The guy at the entrance for enquiry just put on the poker face,
& keep saying,
"No, you're just travelling, why don't you apply fr. Bangladesh consulate in HK..."
Luckily my colleague is with me,
he said in Bangla to the guy and strived a chance to see a higher grade consular officer.....

Luckily the consular officer is a women, and more humane.
But she still doubt why I want to go Bangaldesh.
( Simply travelling. Why bother?! =.=)
She asked my colleague in Bangla something,
then asked me in English why I want to go Bangladesh.
How I knew my colleague .......
( of coz I could only tell her he's my friend and I met him in Malaysia,
As I'm not with a working VISA, and don't want to involve my NGO for sure)

She questioned me why I only knew him for 2 months and follow him back to Bangladesh .
[ Com'on!
I just want to go Bangladesh for travelling,
I'm not really "following him", OK?! ]

Then I heard my colleague, in quick response telling her that
" no no~ She already has a boyfriend, no way, we are really only friends. "
Gosh..............................................
Until then I kind of got the idea what she's worrying.


Finally, after using Bangla to ask my colleague , and using Eng. to ask me,
both of us giving her the same answer.
She agreed that I could apply the VISA with several documents.
( other than normal documents, e.g. Photocopy of passport, photos,
They still need bank statements ......
and invitation letters fr. a local even for tourist!!!!!!!!!!!! =.= )

On our way back to the office,
my colleague is telling me,
because there are lots of cases Chinese girls go to Bangladesh,
marry a guy, and stay there forever.
So the consular officer is worrying we are going to do the same.
No offence,
but 1st thought is,
OMG.
WHY ON EARTH WOULD A HONG KONG GIRL WANT TO MARRY A BANGLADESH GUY WITH THE INTENTION OF STAYING IN BANGLADESH?!????!?!?!?!?!
well, I'm not the ethnocentric type of person,
but com'on, is this too unbelievable?!
& even after 2 days, when I typed this,
I still feel it's unbelievable @@

Anywayz.
I'm great that my nice Bangladesh colleague has gone there with me.
and we gonna go there tomorrow again for submitting the documents..........
Fingers crossed. =p


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Best wishes for CM for your VP election!!!!!!!!
Try your best and with no regret! =)
and all the best for other VP candidates. =)