Bali - Day 1

I was in Bali from 12 June – 17 June. Below is my story.

• Landed 20 minutes earlier than scheduled via AirAsia. I am surprised.
• “Sabuk Pengaman” means seat belt. "Kartu" means card.
• AirAsia Indonesian air stewardess are hot!
• Came out of the airport thru a maze and saw a guy holding a card with my name on it. First time ever!
• Drove to my villa – Samaya. This is best villa ever. I was greeted with the frangipani and the manager there knew my name. Due to some mistake, I was upgraded to Royal Courtyard. Its huge!
• I was assigned a butler, however he went missing after the first day.

My Villa number 300

My bedroom comes with a 40” Plasma TV, Ipod with Bose sound system and Internet wireless.

My Jacuzzi with lovely decoration

My 11 meter pool outside my bedroom

My outdoor

My toilet which doesn’t have a door. Shit!

Decided to have lunch in the hotel, check out the view. Indian ocean. Waves are really big!

At night, we decided to visit the famous Ku De Ta Plaza. It turned out to be a very posh and hyped up place. After looking at the menu, there was nothing that we could eat. We called our driver from the hotel to pick us up and sent us to another place. We ended up at Made’s Warung.

Made’s Warung, I regret eating here..

After dinner, we decided to go back. Only take BlueBird taxis guys. The rest are just leaches. However, my nightmare was just about to begin. Wait for Day 2.

Minyak ... ohh Minyak...

Fuel is up by RM 0.78 which makes it RM 2.70 per litre. I am actually all for no subsidy for petrol, that way the government can save the billions of dollar and spend wisely on good and efficient public transportation.

Half empty or half full?: Azhan Sharom showing the difference of how much petrol one can buy with RM1 Wednesday and today at a petrol station in Kuala Terengganu. - Taken From The Star Online

Sadly this is Malaysia. Our planning is grand but our execution is certainly poor. I have some questions for the government of today on fuel:-

• Why there is no tax cut for hybrid cars?
• Why Proton is not working on alternative fuel engine cars? Do you know in Brazil, cars run on ethanol and its mass produced by Ford and Honda?
• Why Thailand can have proper public transport integration between their SkyTrain, underground Metros, Bus Rapid Transit and even the river boats? And we can't even connect our monorail with KL Sentral? What more of Masjid Jamek station?
• People are complaining about KTM Komuter for ages, why no immediate action and contingency plan?
• UK and Japan Prime Minister emphasis on alternative fuel development, we?

Change lifestyle to curb inflation

Petrol price up by 78 sen - and will be reviewed monthly

Pak Lah, you said we need to change our lifestyle. How lah? We are only drawing salary and every month we budget for our necessities? What more you want us to cut down? We don't live in mansions and we drive Protons. You want us to take the bus to work? Why not you start first? Heard of leadership by example?

Ministers might not realise since they live in huge mansions and fuel is practically free for them. They get chauffeured around Perdana (2.0 ni..) or X5s with Police outriders (Lagi bazir minyak ini...). You guys isi minyak pakai duit rakyat, I don't think you understand the situation of the rakyat out there. Economy is struggling, and what more can we want cut down? Anymore, we might as well we stop breathing.

A New Career Path

2nd of June, 2008. On this date, I have officially decided to launch my own company. It's called Green Cube Solutions Sdn. Bhd.

Green Cube will be focusing on Microsoft range of product. Following is my services:-

• Web development based on ASP.Net platform
• Microsoft SharePoint, Dynamics and CRM
• SMS / Mobile development
• SAP

My ambition for this company is to deliver quality product and more importantly, it must makes sense to our customers. Its been always client vs vendor, but very rarely we can see vendor doing what will make sense for the client. I hope to change this. It must makes sense! Hey looks like I have an unofficial motto.

 

 

 

I face a lot of resistance in this endeavour, many said "Don't do it, bad economy, its not a good time.. etc"

I have only 2 dreams in my life. One was shattered a long time ago and 2nd is business. I decided not to wait to long to carry on my 2nd dream, thus Green Cube was born. I lost one dream, should I wait and lose another?

If I don't do this, then I will regret the rest of my life. One mistake was costly enough.

Right now, sleepless night is nothing new. The amount of stress is incredible. Being a CEO of a company is no walk in the park. Not a day goes by without thinking, have I closed a deal today? Do I have enough to sustain? What new technology that I can sell?

Its exciting but terribly stressful. However, if you want to be a entrepreneur, these are all part of it. Nobody said it was easy. Wish me luck guys!

ganee@greencube.my
www.greencube.my