A Special Day @ Casablanca

Finally left Algiers on December 20, back at where I first started my North African journey - Casablanca, Morocco.

Once again, we're back at Hotel Barcelo. I tried to request for the same room I stayed in back in Nov - Room 504. Too bad it was occupied. But I managed to get a room with the same layout on a different floor. *aces*



December 21 - A special day for a special SOMETHING.
It's a pity Casablanca couldn't offer us much, but we tried to make the best out of it.

SOMETHING started off his day by calling his family to say hi.
And I, I was screaming "HELLO ! 嗨！你们好 ! " into his phone while snapping pictures of us the whole time. *ha ha ha*



We then walked over to Casablanca Twin Centre to do some money exchange before making our way to La Cote where we had our lunch and a nice hot cuppa cappuccino along the beach.

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By night fall, we were back at Barcelo for drinks & dinner. And since we didn't have a birthday cake or any candles .....
We improvised!

How I Started My Day

Since this is gonna be my last working day in Algeria (...FOR NOW), I decided to get myself a nice, hearty breakfast!

So... I requested for breakfast to be served to the room @ around 08:15hrs. I ordered omelette w/ cheese, ham & mushrooms, accompanied with a nice hot cuppa nescafe. *yum yum*

Oh! I simply love the vase-like thingy which holds the little bottles of jams! Sweet!

Rookie Lecturer

Last week, I had my first go at training a new batch of freshmen for my company’s Algerian Distributor. The group we were supposed to train was rather small, and my part of the training was merely a day’s lecture out of the one week long training.

However, since this is my first time to stand in front of a group of students who are mostly around or above my age, it was inevitable for me to feel a little nervy. It also didn’t help to notice that most of them, regardless of age, somehow manage to LOOK very mature and TALK like they “know-a-lot”.

But once I started lecturing, I realised it wasn’t all that intimidating. There was a lot of classroom participation; the students were responsive to questions posed, and were very serious when it came to doing exercises & workshops. I would have to say, I’m not sure if the same training had took place in Asia, would have received similar enthusiasm.

SOMETHING was also one of the lecturers for this training. He was previously involved in a freshmen training last summer, back in Casablanca with 40+ students. Hence, he was able to give me lotsa useful advices on how to respond to difficult questions and how to react when being challenged. Thanx SOMETHING!!! (^_^)

All in all, it was an interesting and refreshing experience for me. Shall strive to perform better next time! Meanwhile, I’ll be training up on my presentation and lecturing skills for the next freshmen training.

~THE BUNCH OF US @ THE TRAINING~

Google Is King!

A show of hands now; how many of you have ever tried to Google yourself?

Well, I did!
People don’t label me Nonsense for no reason.

I was in the office the other day, tons of assignments to complete but absolutely no mood whatsoever to even attempt to start on them. So, out of boredom & bits of curiosity, I opened up Google search engine, and decided to see what kinda of stuffs I’ll be able to find.

* I found out that there were in fact people carrying the same name as moi in other parts of the world. I managed to find a couple in LA, some in Alabama, some in Mexico, and some in other parts of Europe.

* To my pleasant surprise, I chanced upon a webpage which Alicia created, probably while she was back in the university. She posted this picture we took together in school while we were 16… ahh… the good old days.

* Then, I stumbled across something really interesting. A post by Someone which was dated back in 4th November 2004. Back when I was working in Thailand. This Someone has been gossiping about me on her blog. This Someone was neither a friend of mine, nor was she a colleague of mine. This Someone barely knows who I am. But gosh did she sound like she knew what my “true self” was?! Mmm… naughty naughty!

Burst of Boredom!!!

It's 09:17hrs in Algiers on a Thursday morning.
Today's half-day work in Algiers cos' it's a Muslim country and weekends are on Thursdays & Fridays.

SOMETHING & I were so frustrated wtih work & filthy loos that we decided to take silly pix of ourselves ... in a BURST OF BOREDOM!!!