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Hey, it's my wife's birthday! And she's over 10 weeks pregnant! So, what else is new? I left the Concierge profession and started working at Malaysian Association of Hotels (MAH) as an Admin Assistant - Finance. Well who would've thought I'd get a job like this one? I hate numbers, I hate to count, I hate memorizing things and I sure hate anything related to math. Yet, here I am working on finance and accounting. It was tough to start with, still is, but I take it as a challenge. If I don't test my limits and my capabilities, I may never know how good I am at anything at all. Through this job, I had an interesting experience joining the company organize an event called Culinaire Malaysia 2013. I get to stay at an executive suite at some fancy hotel in the heart of Kuala Lumpur for five nights. Throughout the event, we had to start working at 6.30am and wrap it up late at night around 10pm. Though as exhausting as it may be, it was definitely fun. As one of the Finance/Accounting personnel, I was assigned to handle the ticketing counter. Counting and closing almost RM25,000 cash at the end of each day, I'd began to like numbers instead. Me and Ms. Mages, the Executive Finance lady, we counted the hell out of those cash repeatedly until our hands were sore. She is my finance 'sifu'. A very nice lady. So we all just finished managing the whole 4-day event as a team last week with flying colours if you will.
So, in this new job, I get my own namecard. I get some outdoor jobs delivering/collecting cheques and documents from time to time. We organize numerous events like Culinaire Malaysia, Charity Jam and Charity Treasure Hunt to name a few. In fact, the 14th Charity Jam is coming up this 5th of October which will be held at Rum Jungle. This one is going to be very interesting for me because when it comes to music, especially live bands, count me in! And guess what? When that is all over I get to follow them to Hanoi, Vietnam later in that month! It's a company trip which I am lucky enough to tag along with. I think I'm going to be happy here. I finally get a chance to work in an office and get the day off on weekends just like everybody else. No more odd jobs with odd hours and shifts and whatnot. Only, it is much further from home and I have to put up with an hour and a half of traffic jam, daily in the morning, and an hour or so in the evening just to get home. Other than that, I am quite happy so far. I thank God for giving me this much needed opportunity. I also thank my sister-in-law and her friend for introducing me to this job. I meet new, wonderful people here and this will be a very good experience for me. So cheers to me and all the good news I bring. Alhamdulillah. I feel so blessed.

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