Tuesday, 31 July 2012

End of MSIG, Beginning of MMU

I've ended my 11-months of service as an Assistant Executive in MSIG. I remembered, when the first day I joined MSIG I am so determined to outdo myself and keen to be in the industry. Nevertheless I left the industry after 11-months of living in it and might never ever stepped into the industry again. It was rather a precious moments and knowledge I learnt form these 11-months. I should have learn more and have some achievements before leaving the industry. I have not complete the AMII certification. It was a regret. I hope to complete the certification, but I have to put this back because I should not let this certification messed up my studies. I shall complete the AMII certification after I complete my studies, to keep my fingers crossed, hopefully I'm able to complete it.

1 August, I will begin another stage of life which is to be a graduate research assistant (GRA). To be a GRA, I must enroll Master of Philosophy. Hence, I am a GRA and also student of research master. Further, 1 August, I declare myself to be in research industry and no longer in general insurance industry. With this sponsorship, I might not stepped in to corporate world and continue to live in research and education industry. Based on my personality, I'm not suitable to be in corporate world but to be in corporate world and to have a high position in corporate world is always my dream. And now, I should say, dream will always be dream. Dreams are hard to achieved and need tonnes and millions or even billions of courage and effort to make them true.

Thus, I should be determined to complete my master within a year, put back any unhealthy thought and move forward to a new place and environment!



Sunday, 29 July 2012

Bangkok shopping spree 2012

It has been a month since I'm back from Bangkok and I hadn't blog for a month!
Oh boy! What had I been doing all these days? Gross, let's just share something happy and enjoyable.

June 24th, the departure day to Bangkok! It was a 4 days 3 nights trip to Bangkok. It is not my first trip to Bangkok and I've been there last year. This trip gives me a feeling of 'return to hometown' because I'm staying the same hotel and went to the exactly same place as my previous trip. It is an indeed comfortable and yet familiar vacation.

I'd return to the stall who sell tasty tomyam kung. The tomyam might not be the most tasty tomyam but the cook should be a humourous and kind person. He enjoyed cooking tomyam very much as he would sing and move along with the music rhythm while cooking. I went to the place where supply cloth and clothes. It is called Pratanum. It is a small area with people depending on cloth for living. Therefore this area slowly evolved to be a clothes wholesale market. Two main spots to spree are Pratanum market and Platinum Mall. There are several wholesale malls around that area but Platinum Mall is the largest mall and it has extended to the third zone from the former two zones. The third zone is another building located right next to the former building and whole-selling clothes, bags and shoes targeted for higher-end.

It was a shopping spree trip thus I do not have much photo shots as I was too obsessed with buying and searching the 'right' clothes for me. After I'm back, I think that it was a waste that I did not manage to grab more shots and clothes. There's area of improvements which I should look into; those are:

1) To outline a plan on what I need to buy
2) To snap more photo on people's lifestyle in that area
3) To observe more and fuss less

I'll definitely return there someday!

Flight to Suvarnabhumi Airport from LCCT

Sweetened pancake with red bean paste filling

In line with the release of Spiderman 3

Main entrance of JJ mall

A noodle shop by the road side

Delicious noodle!

Spices to enlightened the dishes 

My favourite fruit in Thailand!

A beverage to refresh the sunny day

Simply shot while waiting

Mixed-fruit salad!