Lifestyle Ventures

Advisor - Sales & Business Development

CnexionAtWork Sdn Bhd

- Partnering in start-ups:

1. FAACP Enterprise - Cattle rearing utilising feedlot technology. Partnering with FAACP who utilises the successful technology from a Malaysian university. FAACP also uses Napier grass as the main cattle feed to produce cattle with higher protein content in a shorter period.

2. ECM Oilfield Services Sdn Bhd. - farming and production of ruminant feed with Napier grass in pellet form. ECM had signed a long term contract to supply the Napier pellets to clients in the Middle East.

- Writing, Speaking & Training in the areas of:
1. Business Development & Sales.
2. Essentials of Leadership.
3. Essentials of Teamwork.
4. Essentials of Productivity.
5. Utilising Digital Technology for Business.

Director

Consulted with:

1. EISmartwork Sdn Bhd.
2. Sigma InfoAnalytics Data Sdn Bhd.
3. Aliogaz Kukuh Sdn Bhd

- for sales, business development & project management works.

Advisor & Trainer - Sales & Business Development

EISmartwork Sdn. Bhd.

- I help EIS to look into clients & projects within the oil & gas and energy, semiconductor industry of which we can help in the areas of:

1. Capture of unstructured facilities engineering data.
2. Clean up and digitizing of unstructured facilities engineering data.
3. Structuring and making facilities engineering data accessible & usable by other applications.
4. Capture & modelling of process plants via 3D laser scanning & smart 3D modelling.
5. Intelligent 3D modelling of process plants.

- Helped EIS to win a 3-year umbrella contract for data management work for PETRONAS Upstream. 
- Projected value RM1,000,000/year.

- Assisted an upstream client to put together a data management & data/document digitisation program for onshore & offshore assets.

Advisor - Business Development

CyberSecurity Malaysia

Review & put together the way forward for the CSM's certification group. It includes classroom training and advisory on sales/business/marketing plans.

Subject Matter Expert - Advisor on Sales & Business Development

Max Energy Group

- I train & coach Max Energy Group's salespeople. We also strategize and develop their business in the oil & gas and energy industries.

Trainer & Coach - Sales & Business Development

Sigma Info Analytics Data Sdn Bhd

- I help Sigma to capture work within the data science area:

1. Capture & cleaning up of unstructured data.
2. Archiving of data (surface facilities).
3. Data analytics.
4. Development of data science applications.
5. Produced data management documents:
     - Data Quality Management
     - Data Measurements.

- Helped Sigma to secure data management work for PETRONAS Upstream in two phases during the worst part of the pandemic/MCO while working from home. 
- Phase 1 was valued at RM850k and Phase 2 was valued at RM1.4m. 
- Prior year revenue for Sigma was <RM200k.

Business Development Consultant cum Project Manager

3I Consortium Sdn Bhd

Currently we train a group of 8 senior managers at a leading sugar producer in Indonesia, via online training. Areas of training:
1. Leadership Excellence
2. Operations Excellence
3. Digitisation
4. Human Asset Management

We have also completed training 4 groups of managers and assistant managers from the same group in the areas of:
1. Leadership Excellence
2. Effective Communications

Trained 6 groups of managers for PT Gunung Madu Plantations (GMP) & PT Pemukasakti Manis Indah (PSMI):
1. Group of 13 senior managers at GMP - 12 months program with 2 sessions per month. Transformation of efficient & effective managers/leaders, to the "next level".
2. 2 groups of 26 managers (upcoming leaders) - 2 months program with 2 sessions every 2 weeks. Communication & Leadership for Breakthrough Leadership.
3. 3 groups of 45 supervisors & assistant managers (upcoming managers/leaders) - 2 months program with 2 sessions every 2 weeks. Communication & Leadership for Breakthrough Leadership.

Consultant & Trainer

Integrus Global

I help entrepreneurs and business leaders to "Discover their WHY?", their strength and guiding them to sales success.

We successfully ran & completed 5 Integrus Academies & Integrus Development Circles (mastermind group) with a total of 20 students.

Inspirationalist (Trainer & Consultant)

Applus+ Velosi

- Helped customer keep up the integrity of their assets and facilities. 

- Won Asset Integrity Management work with Idemitsu Vietnam valued at RM1m/year for 2 years.
- Won Asset Integrity Management work Mubadala Malaysia valued at RM1m/year for 3 years.

Business Development

Intergraph

- Helped owner operators of process plants to make sense of their plants' information & data. 
- Helped PETRONAS Upstream business to set up & implement the PETRONAS Engineering Data Management System (P-EDMS) program - a system and project that would collect, digitise, update and manage data & documents of more than 350 upstream facilities/assets. Project/system was valued at RM500m. Realised RM20m of this before the oil price crashed in 2014.
- Won a contract to supply software, applications and services to PETRONAS valued at RM6m/year.

Sales Account Manager

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Hey! Business OWNERS & LEADERS! 

Ever had a salesperson hit you with the classic, "Lost the order boss; theirs was cheaper..."? 
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Many believe a salesperson's job is just to talk until the customer signs on the dotted line and they get their sales commission. 

Professional sales, it's like a strategic chess game. Multiple decision-makers, unexpected twists, and the occasional "I don't want to see that client's face again" challenge. 😅

Survival tip: Following through with each client and leaving them delighted is the secret sauce.

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The fascinating process of earthquake testing on a 10-storey building using a shake table to simulate the ground shaking.

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This maize variety is too beautiful.

I personally think it should not be eaten. 

It should be collected and hanged as ornaments. 

Anyways where can I get the seeds?

Got a surprise in the wee hour of morning, 25 years ago!

I came back home just after midnight, after meeting my business associates. By about 1am, my then wife gripped my hand, I was about to doze off. A vice like grip!


I asked, if everything was ok or anything was not? She said, something like a "tummy ache", nothing serious she guessed.

As I was about to doze off again, another grip! After the second grip, I could not tahan. I had to work the next day!

But then I looked at my phone, the time. Seemed like there's a "spaced" timing between the time I came home, n the 2nd time I was gripped. Being the son of a "sister nurse" who also taught/trained on maternity/babies, it crossed my mind that this could be a contraction!


Told her to get up n went to SJMC to check..At least so that I could get some sleep. Confirmed! Contractions, 3cm. A few more hours to go. There went my sleep!


Called my mom. She thought it was an April Fool's joke as she was keeping track on when her first grandson was due! 3 more weeks!

I told her, joke or no joke, it's 3am! Won't play a joke at 3am. If she didn't believe me, she'd miss the birth of her first grandson.

She got up! Forced my dad to wake up and drive her from to SJMC - from Taiping! It was a lightning fast (not exactly lightning but quite fast!) drive, just in time to get to SJMC just after Adam bin Faizal was safely delivered.


I was  super excited n slightly delirious. Ecstatic from seeing my son delivered n holding him in my hands. 

I was there throughout the birthing adventure! Which also saw the doctor holding up the scissors in the air, "snip! snip!" to fascilitate the baby's head's passage through the birth canal. I had almost fainted!


I am blessed to have a son. A handsome one too (don't tell him I said that, he will perasan!) who I can go riding motorbike with,and who knows how to make great coffee.


My only wish was to have more time with him after I split with his mom. But now, he's already a 25yo adult, I am blessed to have lots of time with him (as much as his working schedules allow him) n the great coffee he makes!

A good reminder for 2024. Trust, Loyalty works best when reciprocated. Once sided relationships, whether in business, work, friendships no longer work. 

I have been talking about DISC n COLOURS for a number of years. It’s a great tool/skill to not only get to know your own self, it also helps you Approach - Connect - Engage with people, n build relationships that matter.

I’m happy to share that I’ve obtained a new certification for this: ITOL Accredited Course Certificate from ITOL - Institute of Training and Occupational Learning!

SERASI SERASI SERASI…..

My brother Siva Seenivasan - Fellow CMI  said to one of the participants, and pointed to me, “This guy talks about my book, more than me”, yes, probably more than Siva himself, on LinkedIn, at least.


Why?


#1. We met at a nasi lemak place in USJ9 after being acquainted on LinkedIn, with some kuehs as well. I was glad that he liked the place and somehow, we quickly clicked! Feel like we are brothers!

Talk n tak n talk, we realised that we have another brother, Ikmal! 3 of us would lepak for hours n hours for superb tosai, idli n what not at Maalini Curry House in Puchong whenever Ikmal is back from Kuching. Siva lives there, errr, Puchong I mean, not Maalini’s.

#2. #DISC is something that for me is “life changing”! I learnt it earlier via an entrepreneurial class that I took with Arthur Lai, my sifu. Some years before I got to know Siva.

I learned it as “#COLOURS” and have been utilising it in my life n advisory/training work since then. Been talking, reading, been searching n “researching” on it since the. Amazing!


One of the things that got me n Siva to click is this! I grew more intrigued. Siva had a public session and face to face on becoming a DISC #Facilitator last year. The time was not right for me.

This time/round, he said, “Just come la!” Being a brother!


And I was there for 2 days, Thursday n Friday, n a few more wonderful people.

Hey! When you know DISC, I mean really know it, everyone IS wonderful!

From the way how Siva taught and shared DISC, we realised that EVERYONE IS WONDERFUL. 

We just need to understand them and how to work with them. A similar theme shared in the book “Surrounded By Idiots”. 


#SERASI is a book written by Siva, available in major bookstores and Shopee. It is written in Bahasa Melayu, in an easy to follow language. Siva’s Bahasa is easily more superb than mine! Being a former senior officer with Roya Malaysian Navy!


Buy and read the book! You will thank me for urging you to do so, n Siva for writing it.


Unfortunately, Siva doesn’t conduct his public sessions often. He is extremely tied up with his daughter n family. His devotion. Sometimes consulting/advising with the corporate world, in between his hiking n tosai sessions.

So, if n when he conducts his next session, grab it! Or, you can invite him to consult/advise with your organisation(s). Worse come to worse, try to grab him with a tosai session!

The participants were all on their phones....
.
.
.

But it was all good. 

It was an activity during our Certified DISC Professional Facilitator programme last week.

The objective of this energiser activity was to share that shooting and sharing a video just requires immediate action.

It is the same with everything in life.

How would you relate this to life?

Share a time when you delayed an action, but when you finally choose to do it, it gave you a great feeling.




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Want to master #DISC and gain an internationally recognised UK certification?
Connect and pm => Siva

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These recent few days had been a kind of disturbing, worrying n full of anxiety.

My MIL, Emily’s mom had been diagnosed with the nasty “C”. At any age, it is tough n it is bad. At 87yo though, that is on a wholly different level! The only “good” part is that she “redha”, ie accepts her fate.

As I was driving with Emily n Arif to dinner last night, we looked at the children she had born and had taken care of (2 god-children), they had all grown up to be good people. I guess, when she looked back upon her life, though it was frought with challenges, she has been blessed with good children.


Yesterday, she was discharged from hospital after discussion with hospice n palliative care doctors. Thus, the family is getting ourselves ready n preparing to make her end days as pleasant as we can.

Things had started to go back to as “normal” as they can be with schedules and assignments/responsibilities arranged. I was able to attend the DISC workshop with Siva Seenivasan - Fellow CMI as I am sure Emily has it under control. Though I am ready for anything at a drop of a hat!

As Emily is a very capable person, “drop of a hat” could just mean “get dinner for dad”. Nothing drastic nor dramatic in the past few days. Possibly that, my hospitalisation due to the accident, for a month was more traumatic n disturbing for her.


Emily’s mom is now back in her condo upstairs. We’ll take care of her as best as we can. For she’s a wonderful mother.

A wonderful woman.

Kinda cheezed off with this boy for these 2 days!!!


Yes, that’s my youngest son, 15yo Arif.

Don’t worry about his hair. He’s outside of the regular school system. I decided that I would let him grow his hair as long as he likes n let it be wild.

To be honest, this is kinda like allowing my kid to live my dreams…

I had a father who was a discipline teacher. He won’t even let me have “non-regulation hair” even during school holidays - a regular source of argument between him n my mom. My mom would say, “Let him grow his a hair a bit la. After school holidays is only for a few weeks”.


Yes, beginning this recent January, I allowed Arif to keep his hair, as long as it doesn’t smell. Told him I’d put a flame thrower to it if it smells n got “kutu” - lice, a scourge during my primary school days.


I was cheezed off with him because he just abandoned his math homework! He had a slightly different understanding when I told him not to worry so much about math, a subject that he’s week in. Told him if he can just get a C, I’m happy.

We got a call from his teacher that he simply abandoned the subject, the homework!

Unfortunately, math is one of the core subjects for I-GCSE. As much as I am helping him develop his artistic & linguistic sides, he needs to pass math!

Had a good talk with him yesterday evening about this.


Today, when he was done with his English homework, he let his imagination fly. He came out from his room to chat with me about a character he’s developing for his comic/graphic novel.

He was beaming! Became the “Cheeky Arif”. He’s always like that now when he has ideas or developing his sketches or comics. Really a fun dude to talk with!!!

We spent a good 30min chatting about this character and coming up with a suitable background and features. Really fun to let his imagination run wild, and mine too!


With his brother Adam, it’s about motorbikes! With my stepson Max, it’s about business.

I am blessed that I have things that I can talk about with my sons.


Looking at the millennials, Gen Y, Gen Z n whatever gen there is, how do we talk n connect with them?

I’m a Gen X dude, my wife too. Adam & Max are the Gen Y/millennials (do I get this right? 1999 & 1996) while Arif is a Gen Z (2009)?

How do you guys connect with your kids? And your staff at work?

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Leaders, KONON!...

I wonder, am I the only one with this observation?

Leaders vs Managers vs Office Bearers.


From my observation, only maybe about 20% (or probably even less) among those who are managers n office bearers, are actually leaders. ie performing n behaving as leaders. While the rest, really "syiok sendiri".

Be that in corporates or the administration. We often see this "macam bagus" or "perasan" people. But really a bunch of dimwits, when it comes to working with people n leading these people who they need to lead 


They maybe are/were good in their technical arena, whatever their fields maybe, before they were promoted to manage. Did the organisation not realis that there need to be a transition n development there? For example when a financial controller or chief finance officer to be promoted as the CEO. 

Some might say that a new skillset is required there.

Would you agree?


I've heard n had comments, something like, "He's been the CEO or CXO for donkey years. No development, no improvement etc."

Jave you heard something like that too?

What say you Siva Seenivasan - Fellow CMI, Johan Irwan Kamarozaman, Hanie Razaif-Bohlender?

Funny this “intermittent fasting” thingy.

On days I decide to fast, even a 24hr fasting with only water n coffee (black, no sugar), I don’t really feel hungry.

Even if I felt hungry, half a glass of cold water settles it.


But on days I “decided” to not fast like today (because my wife said, “let’s go dim sum”, which I didn’t go, heavy rain), after finishing 2 roti canai at 11:30am, I’m hungry again?!

Nasi kandaq next?!


Anyone? 

Kayu?

Q Bistro?

Hameediyah?

Kudu?

Saddam?

Pelita?

Yaseem?

"Umami"..... well, I know "u mamam....."

I first read this Japanese word some time ago. Probably in a thriller about the assassin, Nicholai Hel, a man of blurry origin - Chinese? Japanese? Russian? Western? Who was adopted/taken care of by a Japanese soldier, General Kishikawa.

Kishikawa introduced him to the Japanese concept of "shibumi" which is also the title of the thriller. I was introduced to a few Japanese concepts n words in that thriller. Yes, one of it could be "umami".


To Malaysians, it's nothing new actually. We can easily point out to Aji-No-Moto, which is really monosodium glutamate (MSG). Kinda "staple" flavouring at Chinese eateries.

For Malay food, the taste is known as "lemak". Not lemak as in fat.


It's interesting for me, that this is referred to as something "eastern", our culture in this region. Would the westerners have a clue to what "umami" is?

The Cambridge dictionary describes it as - "a strong taste that is not sweet, sour, salty, or bitter and that is often referred to as "the fifth taste".

Many words, compared to "umami" or "lemak".

While the French might call it, "je ne sais quoi" -  "I don't know what..."


Often, when we try to profile someone in an organisation, especially a person with "flair", closing deals here and there, we might say that "he or she has that 'something', don't know what or how to describe it!"

2 days learning DISC with Siva Seenivasan - Fellow CMI, taught us to find and define that "something". This something can be found via a test, and the test results being read and interpreted by a Certified DISC Facilitator.

I was highly surprised that in professions such as HR and account/finance, you can actually define person/persons with the right profile for the job description you have.

I was also surprised (and impressed!) how I made the adaptation from a salesperson, to an account manager and a business developer; branches of sales, though requiring different personality profiles!


Want to know more? Let's do coffee. You can later on, perhaps describe what is "umami" rather than "je ne sais quoi"...

It's Ramadan yes, but we can always do coffee after 7:30pm!



My brother said it's "acute gout".

I don't know what is so cute about the big toe of a 54yo man which had crystals of uric acid inside the joint!


Apologies to those who are offended by foot/feet picture.

But it's funny right when you here in figure of speech, phrases like:

"Your foot la!"

"My foot!"

or

"Kepala bapak kau!"

"Kepala but*h la!"

and worse things.


Why people don't say:

"Your hair la!"

or,

"Your nail la!"

or other lame things like that.....?


Luckily, I still keep some meds. The last time I was hit was probably almost 3 years ago. The meds that I got to drain water/fluid from my legs (due to the heart failure I had) brought with it the uric acid crystallisation effect!

So I had enjoyed the last 3 years almost "gout-free". 

My brother on the other hand, is a chronic sufferer! He'd been taking water boiled with this herb "ara tanah" for some time now. It helped him for a few years. Now, it brought his uric acid down. But, the gout popped up at unexpected places! His right knee is afflicted for the last few months and so does his left pointer finger in all the 3 joints!


But thankfully, I can still walk, as it is only a-cute one, not an-ugly one...

Some say it's something that you "get" as you age. Well, I've had a heart failure (which heart function dropped to <15%, almost kaput already!), kidney wise docs say "tak berapa cantik" and blood pressure at the border line (and shoots up every time checked at the hospital! doctors wonder why not pengsan!)


Maybe, I need to start to eat more salad. But look at the elephant, the rhino or the buffalo. Nowhere being slim!

And I do wonder ar, Eric Siew n Prema Mehrotra makan apa ar? So slim! n Selena K.  tak makan apa ar? Managed to slim down fast?!


For me, I need to restart my walking n cycling "regime". Maybe not call it regime anymore. I do shed about .25kg a week now with IF n sometimes a 24hr water/coffee only fast. Not shedding fast enough but I can now still wear my "slim fit" jeans I got from Uniqlo.

Siapa yg dh baca buku ni?

Maaf, salah soalan!

Siapa yang BELUM baca buku ni? Tentu ramai yg menjawab “YA!” dengan sebulat, dua bulat atau beberapa bulat suara!

Soalan seterusnya, siapa yang “terserempak” dengan posting ni, dan adalah seorang CEO, COO, CSO, CFO apa2 je CXO, Vice Presidents, Head of Departments dan sebagainya? Pendek kata, ada la orang yang kena lapor kepada anda? Tak kira la walaupun hanga seorang, atau pun secara “ad hoc”?

Kalau jawapan anda “YA!”, soalan saya yang seterusnya, “Apa tunggu lagi?!” Sekarang juga, jangan tunggu lepas raya (bohong! korang tak kan buat punya!), hubungi Johan Irwan Kamarozaman atau Atikah Razali dan dapatkan buku ini!


Soalan yang seterusnya, “Kenapa la si Faizal ni beria2 bebenor rekomen buku Johan ni? Berapa sen gamaknya Johan bayor ke dia?”…

Jawapan saya, “Ye, saya dah makan, tapi bukan ‘ter’, nasi lemak bungkus yang Johan beli dan hidangkan di opis beliau beberapa bulan sudah.” Kami di sana untuk follow up program “Rock Star Speaker” anjuran Johan yang saya ikuti. Tapi dia tak suap saya. Saya makan sendiri, jadi bukan “makan suap”…


Buku ini saya mahu beli tetapi Johan hadiahkan kepada saya sebagai peserta program. Saya hendak belajar dan meniru cara Johan menulis dan terbitkan buku ini sebab saya pun sedang menulis buku, “Jom Kita Joget”, ya, Faizal Sohaimi menulis di dalam Bahasa Melayu. Sebab tu saya minta panduan dari Johan.

Mulanya saya imbas, belek2 gaya penulisannya, jumlah perkataannya di setiap bab, berapa mukasurat untuk satu bab dan bagaimana Johan menulis untuk membuatkan pembaca terus menyelak mukasurat demi mukasurat.

Dan saya sedar, bahaya buku ni!!! Di satu malam, saya sudah baca sepertiga buku ni! Hampir 50 mukasurat! Tak boleh jadi!

Lalu saya tinggalkan di atas laci tepi katil saya. Agak lama. Tadi saya ambil semula. Zass! 30 mukasurat, walaupun saya perlahankan pembacaan saya, untuk saya fahami dan saya hayati cerita2 dan penulisan Johan ni. Itu baru pagi ini!

Dan saya sedar, sepanjang saya berkerja dan punyai bos, dan melihat bagaimana kelakuan bos2 yang pernah saya jumpa, maaf kasar perkataan saya, saya terfikir, “Bengong jugak korang ni kan? Macam mana la boleh jadi bos?”

Ya, kasar perkataan saya, “bengong”. Saya hanya dapat fikirkan perkataan yang lebih kasar, “bangang!”

Benar2 saya kasar.


Tapi saya mahu pohon, pinta, atau mungkin merayu; kasihanlah kepada diri anda yang sepatutnya “memimpin” dan ahli2 kerja yg “dipimpin”, beli dan baca buku Johan ini. Amati dan fikirkan di mana yang anda boleh perbaiki cara anda supaya anda dapat pimpin tenaga kerja anda dengan lebih baik.

Di mukasurat 106, Johan tampilkan kajian dari Gallup, yg hanya 13% daripada tenaga kerja anda “engaged” di tempat kerja dan sewaktu berkerja. Tidakkah itu suatu pembaziran?

Di mukasurat 104 pula, Johan memetik daripada tulisan/kajian Aubrey Daniels, “If employees are not engaged, it is a LEADERSHIP problem. Nothing more, nothing less.”


So, apa tunggu lagi?

Maaf, kalau tersentap…

Saya bagi tau siap2 naa… Benda dalam gambaq ni, sangat bermasalah!

Adik saya, Rizal, dapat mana pun saya tak tau! Tapi sedap gilers!

Dah la dia jual benda ni setahun sekali saja. Bila nak raya!


Tu yang jadi masalah tu!


Rizal Mohammad Sohaimi kata, serunding ni laku macam hot cakes setiap kali dapat stock! Jadi, siapa yang nak, boleh call dia terus. HP number tertera di foto.


Kami dua beradik selalu sembang2 hal bisnes. Jadi saya cadangkan kat dia, walaupun permintaan tinggi hanya waktu raya, kenapa tidak dipromosikan melalui FB, IG, TikTok sepanjang tahun? 

Serunding yg dijualnya bukan setakat sedap, ianya tahan lama. Selepas sebulan dua, kerana ianya dimasak dengan baik, kering dan kurang minyak, ia tidak akan berbau “perat” atau “tengik”. Kekal segar.


Banyak juga tempat yg Rizal boleh letak secara “consignment” sepanjang tahun.


Cuma masalahnya satu - modal permulaan. Jadi kami masih berbincang untuk mencari modal, dan memastikan pulangan modal dengan untung yang berpatutan.


Anda nak serunding? Berapa kg? Atau berapa ekor lembu terus? Jeng jeng jeng…

Dang!!! I’m so out of tune! But not yet in the Twilight Zone!


Mohamad Azmi Bin Pilus shared with me a link about salaries in the #oilngas industry. As the particular posting on LinkedIn had many responses, I looked at the people who responded.

Dang! Not a single person was my 1st connection. Only a few 2nd connections n the rests are 3+…

Am I out of touch? 

Probably.


I was last seriously active in the Malaysia’s oil & gas scene in 2019. A year prior to the pandemic in 2020, I was playing one foot in #OnG and another foot in #LnD (#training), planning to make a transition into a full time #trainer/#advisor/#speaker.

As the markets picked up again for “face to face” work, I realised that I had moved only probably a year if you are to measure it on Malcolm Gladwell’s theory/proposition that it would take 10 years/10,000 hours for you to #master anything n be known for it.


Come to think of it, I agree(d). When the MCO was lifted, I had appointment/meetings n people requesting for appointment, to see if they can tap into my 20+ years exposure and experience in the O&G n Energy industries. Almost at  a ratio of 30:1!

Lamenting this fact to my wife. She said she observed that while I enjoyed doing some training activities, it was not very consistent - the #enjoyment. However, she said when I came back home after doing what she call “#TheConnector” work, I was always beaming, though I was really tired.

Thus she said, why not focus on my activities based on that ratio too, more as #TheConnector. She knows I enjoy #sharing my #experience in being a #salesperson n #businessdeveloper, she realised too that it was only with some or certain clients.


These would be clients who are serious about wanting to dig in and work on their #improvement a for their #team. Spend some time on it. Realy bring about a #business #turnaround. 

It’s not just about a 1-2 days training. It’s about understanding their market, business, #people n crafting a solution for their #improvement n #wayforward.


So my wife said - go do that! Do the 1 or 2 day training to have a feel of where the company is, n how I can possibly help them.

Damn! #Smart woman!


A week or 2 ago, I sat down with a successful fish farmer. Immediately my thought went, “Heck! How can I help this person, who’s already successful?”

How wrong I was!

Sure, successful. With certain successes though, there come other #challenges. That’s where my crazy head comes in!

Had a good chat with my brother yesterday. We came up with a potential solution which we’ll present n discuss next Monday. Yes, just before Hari Raya.


Thus I realised that I am not limited or constrained only to one industry.

I am blessed.


How do you share your capabilities with industries you are not familiar with? Share with us, please?

Engkau tu "boss" ke, "leader" ke?

Ke cuma "pak turut" yang terlebih kuat mengipas?


Dalam sessi MKK minggu sudah, Eric Siew dan Sim Ling KU ada kupaskan cara2 mengipas, supaya tidak terlebih kipas!

Di mukasurat 115 bukunya "Kompas Kepimpinan", Johan Irwan Kamarozaman ajukan tajuk "Boss atau Leader"?


Kalau dikirakan jadi "leader" memerlukan "team" yg agak ramai, saya memang tak pernah jadi leader. Tapi kalau mengikut panduan Elon Musk di mana "a good team can be fed by no more than 2 large pizzas", saya pernah la jadi team leader semasa saya menjadi field engineer dulu, dan juga menyiapkan project EDMS dengan syarikat minyak negara sebagai klien saya 

Saya tidak pernah dilatih sebagai leader, ataupun termimpi nak jadi leader. Di sekolah SLB dulu pun, di bootcamp kami, tiada latihan sebagai "leader". Cuma kita diasak dan digasak selama 16 1/2 minggu dengan latihan teknikal. Sehingga kami mengetahui selok belok luar dalam SEMUA peralatan kami di lapangan. Kami dilatih menjadi "kompeten" sehinggakan kalau ada peralatan baru yg sampai, dan kami tidak pernah melihatnya sebelum itu, jika diberikan manual, boleh kami guna-kendali di dalam operasi.

Kata kunci - KOMPETEN.


Untuk memastikan kami mencapai tahap kompetensi yang sewajarnya, itulah kami diasak dan digasak selama 16 1/2 minggu, dan dibayar gaji yg tinggi. Bukan sahaja gaji yg tinggi, pakej yg kami dapat pada umur sebegitu, tidak dapat dibandingkan dengan apa yg ditawarkan oleh syarikat2 pesaing, atau pun industri lain.

Keperluan2 kami berkenaan keluarga, perumahan, pengangkutan dan apa sahaja yg kami perlukan, ianya semua disedia dan dijaga.  Hampir lengkap semuanya. Ingat lagi sewaktu di Medan, emping belinjo saya dan nenas manis, stok di atas meja makan tidak pernah putus. Apa yg SLB mahukan dari kami?

Kata kunci - KOMITMEN.

Pendek kata, "we take care of you, you take care of the company."


Kenapa KOMPETEN & KOMITMEN?

Untuk autonomi.


Sebagai wireline field engineer, kami diberi autonomi untuk memimpin team kami, yg biasanya ada 2 orang. "Senior operator" atau "crew chief" yg berkelulusan SPM (atau hanya boleh membaca) dengan lebih 5 tahun pengalaman, dan seorang "junior operator" yg mungkin baru tamat persekolahan. Seorang field engineer harus memimpin team ini dan memastikan kejayaan operasi yg menggunakan peralatan mungkin bernilai ratusan ribu US$.

Adakalanya, untuk operasi yg agak rumit, mungkin ada seorang "specialist technician" yg membantu. Tetapi, berjaya atau gagal, di tangan, atau mungkin lebih tepat, di kepala field engineer.


Saya pernah gagal besar sebanyak 2 kali. "Tool" saya terputus dari "wireline cable" dan jatuh dengan hampir secara "freefall" ke dalam telaga minyak. 

Bila siasatan "post-mortem" dijalankan, memang jelas "rig crew" tidak mengikut SOP dan lagi satu kes, "crew chief" tidak melakukan apa yg sudah ditugaskan. Tetapi tetap tanggungjawab dipikul oleh engineer.


Itulah pengalaman saya bila mana autonomi, kompeten dan komitmen disebut. 

Today I scolded ChatGPT4!

Then rasa macam bodoh pulak marah AI!


My wife, Emily Cheong, is selling the nyonya rojak buah paste/sauce. Under the brand “WARUNG NYONYA”. While the company has been registered, looking at registering the brand soon.


While I lie on my bed before I go pick up my son from school, I played with ChatGPT4 to generate the logo. The one I shared below is the one that I like most.

Below the nyonya, there’s supposed to have “WARUNG NYONYA” written. ChatGPT however wrote “Warnung NYONYA”!


I asked it to correct the spelling, only. I even included the previously generated pic/logo. It corrected the spelling, but keep generating different nyonya!

Sheesh!!!

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