1st Day at Work

Hi Darling, I miss you so much.

The flight to Dubai wasn't very interesting. I didn't like it, plus it was 7 hours. Don't expect too much from MAS, unless you fly 1st Class where there is MORE leg room and BIGGER seats, and with it comes friendlier air-hostesses and not-too-scruffy looking people if you know what I mean. Yes, things back in M'sia are definately cheaper. Food here is extremely costly. Dubai is 4 hours behind M'sian time.

Uncle Alan and Aunty Rosalind are extremely nice to me and really making feel quite at home (but home is still the best). They tend to my every need! Yesterday, they took me around to almost ALL the Dubai shopping centres to look for Normal Saline water for rinsing my contact lenses. Its a silly thing that Dubai, which is supposed to have the best of this and the best of that, doesn't have SALINE WATER!!! I didn't bring any saline water because it was heavy and I thought I could get it just as easily as in KL, but who knew? All that we could find was saline solution for dripping! (used for in-bed patients at hospitals)

I learned Aunty Rosalind's spaghetti receipe and learned some microwave cooking as well on how to make potatoes in their jackets. Something new for me. Their house is SO clean. They clean as they go along. Uncle Alan drives a light brown Toyota Fortuner 4.0 V6 or a grey Fiat 1.8 Coupe, and Aunty Rosalind drives a nice dark green Jaguar X-type 2.5 to work. For now, I'm following Aunty Rosalind to her office to accomapny the construction manager, Mr. Mohammad Jameel, my boss, a very friendly Arab man, I didn't know he had so much power (since he was very humble) until I followed him to my first site meeting at one of the construction site offices, where he put his foot on everyone there. He and his colleagues wish all the best for me, they provided me a UNIQUE training structure for the 3 months I'm here. Normally, my friends who are doing their training back in KL just do ONE particular job, if its watching piles being driven into the ground everyday, that is what they will be doing for the next 3 months. For me, the site and construction engineers here want to expose me to almost EVERYTHING, from constructing bridges, to asphalt roads, buildings/structures, earthwork, design, etc etc... This really shows that they are very dedicated and sincere in a very professional way. So every 2 weeks I will be sent to different projects and get my hands dirty, e.g. bridges the first 2 weeks, then roads the next and so on. I will be here for 3 months = 4wk x 3 = 12 weeks. The people in the offices at this company are so friendly, which is one of the Code Of Conducts while working in this company. And it seems that most people in the office are aware that I'm Aunty Rosalind's nephew. I get a few peopleI never met whom are working there come up to me and say: "You're Roz's nephew right?".

This is the photo of the site meeting. My biggest boss (Mr. Mohammad Jameel) is wearing a yellow shirt sitting beside the ang mo in light blue. I have a few bosses or superiors.

There aren't many chinese around here. So far, I haven't any besides Aunty Rosalind and myself! But there are a lot of Indians, Sudanese, Pakistanis, Americans and lots of British and Phillipinos. Porsches, Range Rovers and Bentleys are suprisingly very common here. Honda Accords and Toyota Camry's here are like Proton Wiras and Perodua Myvy's.

Well dear, I will update you some more on the next blog. Love you, muackks...