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Awakening Call

Yesterday ( 5th September) was awakening call for me. It's supposed to be the day I was looking forward happily as I was promised to be given salary increment in September. Alas, what I got was the opposite.  I was disappointed and enraged because the management said to postpone the salary increment which was promised in the month of June. I knew it's a verbal agreement but for me it's a matter of principle to honour what they have been said. Yes, I ever made a mistake as well and tried to mitigate the damage however in this case, I felt that I was bullied and taken advantage of the timing, energy and resources that I had. I have spent so much time, energy and resources to make it happen and excel beyond what's expected and instead of the reward, they shifted the goal post. Despite all these disappointment feeling, I thank God as it's awakening call for me. Today, I took leave as I went for mini retreat for our second son's holy communion. During the mini retrea...

A short gateway to Desaru (1 - 3 September 2022)

Midterm holiday is coming and my parents are in town so we decided to have a short gateway to Desaru, JB. It's also our (my siblings and me ) birthday present to our parents. We stayed at Four Points Hotel for 3 days 2 nights. The room is pretty spacious but the hotel's facilities quite minimal at least they have gym and swimming pool. The location is pretty strategic, it's next to the mall and restaurant / cafe.  On the first day, we spent time to swim in the hotel and had dinner at Seafood bujang restaurant firefly. The seafood apparently is not fresh and over price, however we liked the way it cooked which was Thai inspired cuisine. On the second day, we exercised together at the gym and had hearty breakfast. At first, we planned to go to Desaru fruit farm and ostrich farm, unfortunately it's raining the whole day, thus we changed the plan to visit the nearby mall and the mall in the city. We had lunch at Sushi house, the food was delicious and the price is only 1/3 ...