SHAH-AZZ, INCORPORATED

After the completion of my 2-months classroom training, GREEN programme now continues with the practical session for about 10 months. I am currently assigned at Malaysian Resources Corporation Berhad (MRCB) at Shah Alam, just beside Plaza Alam Sentral. I am under the Prasarana (Infrastructure) Department.

Originally, I thought that I was located at the HQ somewhere at KL Sentral (specifically, the One Sentral tower), as written in the offer letter, so I didn't bother to find any rental home. My plan was simply to stay with my family, and I would only need to take the Komuter from Serdang to KL Sentral, one shot. A couple of days before I started my 1^st day, I got a call from Khazanah to check in at Shah Alam. So basically, this is my longest journey ever from my home to my workplace. There are many options, of course. The most important thing is that I have to get up really early, as abah will send me from home around 6:45 am and will reach Serdang around 7:00 am. By schedule, the train should arrive around 7:11 am. I can either go directly to Shah Alam station (RM4.00) and take a cab to MRCB (another RM4.00), or stop at KL Sentral, and take the U80 RapidKL bus (RM2.00) which will bring me to PKNS building, near to MRCB (obviously better, and for the fact that I could reuse the ticket on my way back). Timing is crucial, and I also need some luck for the bus to come at certain time so I could arrive at my office before 9.00 pm. (Actually, I’d already late once, but more on that later).

About 16 GREEN trainees are sent at MRCB, with various departments, mostly at KL Sentral, like Admin, HR, Building etc. 4 of them are located at Shah Alam, the Prasarana’s (me, Fety & Mid) and the 1 and only Environmental Dept, Ery. Mid had been transferred to KL Sentral recently, so there are only 3 of us now. So far, we haven’t been getting some real task just yet. Maybe this is what we call ‘belum panas lagi nih’, and to get used with the surroundings. But really, so far, I am virtually doing ‘nothing’, and without a PC at my desk it didn’t help the situation. So I am doing some reading on the company profiles and their projects involvement. I don’t want to mention all of it here as you can read it yourself at their website. Currently at Prasarana, we are handling the Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) at Johor, so sometime next week they said that they will send me there to look at the site. In fact, I might have to stay there for the whole time of my training starting from this mid-September. Hmm…

On Wednesday, we had a briefing at the HQ at One Sentral. We’d got the chance to eat at almost the peak of the building with the outside surroundings of Kuala Lumpur, together with MRCB’s General Managing Director. After some detour at the KL Sentral itself in the evening, the Shah Alam-based trainee were given an early leave, so I took this chance to go to my previous working company, GRB, to (finally) take my final month salary. So I’ve got a bit of lifeline here, huhu.

I was very late on Thursday (minggu 1^st dah buat perangai?). It was only 15 minutes, so I arrived to Serdang at 7:15 am. But I missed the crucial train of 7:11 am before all mankind ‘reincarnated’ themselves to a pack of ‘sardines’. Yes, you know what I am talking about. People had seized the station, and the train itself also been hijacked. I could not get in TWICE, so the 15 minutes late had been extended to about an hour. There was a surprise that morning. If you read the Friday’s newspaper (I noticed this at the Star), the headlines was about our PM, Pak Lah went to the Serdang station himself to taste the fresh sardines, err I mean, to feel the congestion of people, waiting in agony. I was there at the time he came, but unluckily I was standing at the furthest of the platform while he was near the ‘jejantas’ with some bodyguards and cameramen, and a few people. If not, you could see my face in the newspaper. :p The astonishing part was while we all wait for about 30 minutes each and every time for the next train since the early morning that day, only for a pack of sardines to arrive, Pak Lah, who came around 8:10 am, took less than 10 minutes after he missed his 1^st (the one I finally got in. The newspaper said it was 15 minutes). I knew this as when I arrived at KL Sentral, just as soon as I crossed to the next platform to wait for the Klang train, I heard the announcement that ‘train to Rawang will arrive in 5 minutes’, with Pak Lah inside. That was really fast. I thought that those Komuter guys were really ‘clever’ and well-prepared, even though Pak Lah visit was supposedly a sudden one. In fact, between 8:30 am to 9:00 am, most of the sardines had dispersed a bit. Hopefully, in another time, if/when the PM is doing another spot check, it should be even earlier in the morning, say, 7:30 am, and see the ‘real’ sardines in action. Nevertheless, since Pak Lah himself had felt the ‘suffering’ of the people, hopefully there will be a drastic improvement of the Komuter service. It’s already tiresome to curse them all the time.

Where was I? I was supposedly talked about my late-comings to the office, right? Nothing more, just that I arrived at around 10 am. So there you go, another boring entry of mine. Wassalam.

This poster designed by Kak Umi. Nice!

The rest of the night was simply awesome. All those dancing, P.Ramlee gimmick by Warcreavers (led by Safarudin of Protocol unit), Vespa gimmick, Nur Salam children performance, Synergy Green’s “Mr Grasshopper” show(*), Choir speaking by Ms. Sabarina of Amphibous (article wrote by Raifudin of Paradigm), Ardi’s singing etc. was done brilliantly.

(*) – Supposedly, it should be Greenity to perform as they were the winners of the Musical Day. However, the GREEN secretariats and Khazanah’s representative felt it was too…emm, kiddy?

You could see ‘rainbows’ that night. I mean, it was very colorful, with the guests wore all those striking colors and various patterns, stripes and polka dots, fancy glasses, bell-bottoms, hats etc. The performers also wore the Afro ala Alleycats. Possibly our CEO had the most outstanding outfit, he deservedly so after all those ‘kusut’ moments. Me? I only put on Abah’s 80’s shirt. Abah said he used to wear it at the functions during ‘his’ days, so I guessed this shirt qualified as a Retro shirt. I did not have any additional stuffs, just that I changed my hairstyle a bit.

Junita Jumadil of Sigma Corporation was the winner of Best Female Participant. IMHO, she deserved it as she had this curiosity and need-to-know attitude, and she ALWAYS ask a lot of questions to the facilitators, and she will try to improve herself by frequently giving speeches and presentation in a group activity.

Rahimie A Rahim of Greenity. Emm, I think Greenitians could tell his merits of getting the prize.

Greenity won the Best Group award. I always thought that they were the favorites to win it, so it wasn’t surprising to see them getting it. They made their very early impression since the Tele-match when they were the only group with a cheer songs and gimmicks, which caught the eyes of the secretariats and Khazanah’s ‘up there’ person.

Sigma Corporation, with the VIPs. Notice my conservative style compared to others.

Well that’s it for now. I would say that it was the perfect ending and closing for the GREEN programme.

PS – I still feel obligated to complete the GREEN DVD. In fact, when I’m extremely free, I would continue doing all the menus and drafting some transition videos using After Effects. On the main menu, it will look something like this:

However, I still do not have enough materials, like photos and activity videos, and more importantly, the full profile of each and every GREENians. Hopefully, I get to contact those who have it. My target is to finish it by the end of this year the earliest, or before our supposedly upcoming GREEN reunion, something like that.