icybergs

Biz trip vs biz trip

I started my biz trip journey ALONE to Jakarta by end Feb. It was a real scary trip as before I go I keep on getting horror stories from brother, collueage and the worst thing is on the day before i departure my boss drop me a greeting "have a safe trip" before he left office. I was like...... omg.... u make me scared....

Well, luckily someone from the office in Jakarta pick me up from airport but I didn't enjoy myself too much for the remaining of few days in Jakarta. Because I dun enjoy the food. I can say that for the whole trip, the total food intake is even lesser than my daily total food intake in Malaysia. Most of the time I only take some rice or something plain so i don't feel hungry. The meal that I enjoy the most is the western breakfast that the hotel provide because i enjoy cereals a lot. On the other hand, that was the first and only trip that I carry mineral water in my luggage and fly all the way from KL to Jakarta. I bring total for 3 big bottles of mineral water and 1 small bottle of mineral water.(I was thinking whether I'm the only one doing that and will the custom think that I'm crazy)

End of March, I've been called to SG immediately due to a major issue happen in client place. I was pretty ok with SG because i have friends and relatives there but the bad news was the country manager told me that he can't find a hotel for me because all hotels are fully booked. On the day of departure, he send me a email saying that he managed to book a room for me somewhere in a nice resort place. Ends up, i was staying in a hotel which has no shops around and very far away from town. Therefore i didn't get to shop for anything.

After i flew back to malaysia i tot that i can stay for a while before i need to travel again but once i step into office the next day, i got a mail frm Sg which asking me to fly down for a meeting the next day. OMG!!! Even the admin staff was shocked when i ask her to buy air ticket again.

After rounds of biz trip, I really feel it is very tiring and wasting time to travel like this. But one thing i like to fly to sg again is because i love to shop in changi airport!!! It is really a shopping paradise as the things are cheap compare to those selling in malaysia (same brand, same items after convert to RM) and more varieties!!!

posted by icybergs @ 2:40 pm