In Him, everything is possible.

Yesterday I went for an interview at Novotel Balikpapan.
I was pretty excited to go for it, and honestly speaking, I was optimist too. :D

So there I went, first, I met up with the HRM, Mr. Agus. I thought he was a nice person. The interview with him went very well. And then I had to meet up with the GM as the final process of interview. One word to describe how I felt when I was having a conversation with him: WOW!
He is really a wise man, someone whom I hardly found anywhere on earth.
Well, basically, he's interested in hiring me, very much interested perhaps. But.. there's one question from him that I found really hard to answer..
Due to his previous experiences dealing with high turnover in the hotel, he was asking me if I could commit working with him for at least a year orelse, I'd have to pay him back all the salary I've gotten.. It would have been way easier if I weren't applying for any schools or etc.. BUT, I've already applied for one school and I am still hoping to go overseas next year, which means that, if I really get accepted by the school, I'll have to quit the job in less than a year.

He asked me when will I know about the result. Then he said "You wait for March/April, whenever the result comes out, if you get accepted, you go, if not, you come back here and I promise you to get you in a job, even in 2 weeks". The way he said things was really wise. And he appreciated it for my honesty (hehe.. couldn't lie anymore).

He said quite a lot of positive and motivational things which made me impressed. He mentioned that now almost 50% of the GM in Novotel/Accor group are locals (Indonesians). Hmm... Well, I am not aiming that high at this moment since I am not really familiar with hotel in details.

I believe that Novotel is one of the fine hotels that will excel and open the gate for its employees in their professional career.
Nevertheless, I am now still striving for my future studies and at least I know that I am secured. When Plan A doesn't work, I have Plan B in my hand. (But Plan A is really important for me, I am 99.9% hoping for it).

Thank you so much for your supports and prayers dear friends. I wouldn't make it all without Him and you by my side. ;)

With Love,
and God bless.

11.11.2010

What's been happening here??
I feel that I find myself hardly write anything anymore here. :|

Anyway, tomorrow I am leaving for Malang, to see my Grandma and to celebrate her birthday! Thank You Lord for the Grace You've given to her and all of us.
And then on Sunday, I am gonna have the TOEFL test. Olala! I am not nervous yet, but I am sure I will by Saturday! especially that I prepare nothing!

But overall, I am excited for the things to come! ;)

Ah, let me share something that made my day yesterday :)
It's about my work. I finally had the chance to really SPEAK OUT about whatever I feel towards my work. Well, not entirely I SPOKE about all, but things related to the work, I did share, except for the feelings that came along, NOPE. (My so-called manager was there too.)

So I had like 8 points that I shared. I am glad I did it and hopefully, something good will come up soon.
Something that makes me surprised is always whenever I feel really bad about my job and I bring it into prayer, it always turns out to be something I don't expect but for some reason, it's good.
I remember that I wanted to quit this job so bad, and I prayed about it. In the end, I still find myself here working!
As terrible as it seems, my working hours are really bad. I have to work from 1PM to 9PM (officially) but I usually only go home at 9.30pm earliest and 11pm latest everyday. And I only have a day off, plus, I work on WEEKENDs.
I've had to let go my social life and church activities.

When people go back home after work, i am still at work. And when people are on their day off, again, I am still at work.
For the first few months I was working, my family complained so much. But I told them that this is my job and it's part of the consequences, so let me continue this til at least for a period of 6 months. But now, I think it turns to be the other way around, I've always wanted to quit, but my mom keeps on saying, not now, keep holding on while u're trying to look for a new one.

And so here it is now, I've made a choice for my future, to continue my studies to Master. But only by His Grace and Will that I can make it.
Please keep me in your prayer.

Terima Kasih.
Love you all.

God bless.

Hotel guests

- Me, Pauline and Sandrine-

They're French who are working with TOTAL Indonesie for a project..
Here, I took them to a local Chinese restaurant for un petit dejeuner..

- Mr. Kooiman and Madame Elizabeth -
(Remember that Mr. Kooiman was on my blog before? And yes, he was back here 2 days a go! Really surprising, but I was indeed so glad to meet him again.)

- Las Tasardos -
They're really great performers!

The job and the whole thing about it.

Last 2 weeks I was terribly disappointed at my working environment. The people were just hopeless.
At that point of time, I was totally in bad mood, not feeling like working anymore. This is most probably due to the amount of emotions that have amounted to the max capacity. Until I decided to quit this job by end of this month, just asap.
But I prayed again about it.. So happened that that week was a 9-days Novena prayer together with the whole community of 'Bunda Perawan Maria'. Few days before it happened, we started the prayer and I sent to them my intentions as well as to some friends with whom I prayed with.

One of my intentions was for my future, and especially to be able to further my studies..

And this happened.. and when I told to my parents that I was going to quit, my dad gave me some suggestions on a few things that I could do after I quit the job..
(My dad doesn't like the working hours of my job, but he questioned me when I told him that I wanted to quit the job.. )
Anyways, the ideas were so attracting. Yet, as much as I love his idea, I still have my own plan and concern on my financial. I've grown up and worked, obviously if that's possible, I don't want to get a whole financial support from my parents.. But looking at my salary at this point of time, this is not going to work for me..
I was thinking if this is something related to my prayer all this while.. (I've witnessed myself that Novena prayer never fails, btw).

Having finished the 9-days Novena, my friend and I decided to continue the prayer.. I agreed and I continued praying until today, but with a different Novena (Novena Hati Kudus Yesus). After praying about the job, I decided to quit by end of next month..

Nevertheless, it is not my will be done, but Yours be done (Luke 22:42). Until last weekend, things changed. All of the sudden, I felt like I should stay here longer..
1. It's not good for my CV
2. The people could actually be nice. They perhaps are just 'like that' (if you know what I mean) - politics at work.
3. I am weak when it comes to music! We're having this singing performance and I joined them once, and honestly I enjoyed it. I do enjoy singing anyway. haha.. Can't wait for Christmas carolling though. Lol.

However, if there's a better choice, I'd still go for it. =D

God can really make your day perfect, as perfect as your downs turned to be your Ups!

God bless.

Un Déception

You know how frustrated I am with a few people here right now??

You think it's easy to do what I HAVE to do here? You think what I earn is too good to be true?
- Talking to new people is never as easy as you think it is
- Getting closer with them is even harder
- Earning what I earn now is actually not compatible for me

No matter how hard I try to cope with these issues, I am still weak.

J'ai besoin quelqu'un a qui parler.

Disappointment

Please allow me to express my disappointment with some people at my workplace..



Ouchhh, I can't wait to write it all down here, so I'll just write the last moment happened..
Which was just half an hour ago!
Can't believe it!
My work should be finished at 9PM. I know as usual, have to extend for some time, depends on the situation. But tonight, I was really happy that I could go home earlier than usual time. I was asked to distribute the flyers when the event is done and the people are leaving... BUT, by 9.30PM, it wasn't finished, so I thought I could pass it to my colleague and the doorman. So I passed the flyers to the doorman, and he was so nice to help me to give it out to people later on. And so I told my colleague that I am going home and she said okay and she'll help me with the flyers.
So I went downstairs to sign out.
HOWEVER,
on my way there, I got a call, I thought that was from my colleague. And yes it was, but not from the one I thought of. That was from another colleague (who I think gets jealous of me often, ask me why!). So here's the conversation:
Me: Hallo..
A : Where are you Frida?
Me: I am downstairs, on the way to sign out and go home.
A : Huh? Why are you going home? Where are the flyers then?
Me: I passed it to "B"..
A : Why did you give it to him? It's your job as a GRO!!!!
Me: Err, but my work hour has ended... (that is 9.30PM already fyi..)
A : Yea, but why can't you extend for just another half an hour!
Me: (in my heart.. - this is already half past 9..-)
Okay, I'll go back there and do it.

Arghhhhh... Can't you be nicer??!!!! Can't you smile to people? Your smile is so FAKE! I so realise about it! Not only to me, but to the guests as well.
Not my fault if I am better than you.
Don't get me wrong! I am just doing what I am supposed to do,
But excluding the GIVING OUT FLYERS!!!!
A 4-star hotel giving out flyers at the door?
Maybe there are some hotels who do that. But that doesn't look good for me, really.
Especially when it comes to me as a GRO - equivalent to Supervisor, doing that.
And that Supervisor asking me with rudeness?!
When it's within my working hours and you ask me with SMILE, I am really okay with that. But this one.. arghhh. You know that I am new here and you've worked here whole life, then you can treat me like that!
I don't see 'giving out flyers' is part of my SOP/JD anyway.

Thank God, I still can hold on. I wanted to come back and did the thing and SMIle to people, in such situation.

Pardon me if I am kinda rude here.. -Emosi sedang menggebu-gebu- But, I will say goodbye to her anyway and tell her that I have done 'my' job.

It's about work, again ;)

I've been working in the hotel for 3 weeks already! Time really flies.. (well, in certain case, like work, am glad it flies fast. hehe)

So far everything is alright, I got to meet some Managers, which somehow will be good for my future reference :). The last one, he was Malaysian, and while we were talking on the way from airport to the hotel, he was kinda offering me a job.. he said like "oh, you should have asked me, I can give you a job".. Then in my heart I was like "oh please, you can give me one now, too!" hehee... Then I can work in Malaysia and meet my friends there again! hehe.. (I miss living in Malaysia..)

Anyway, 2010 is set to be the 'working year', save money! if possible I wanna start up my own business (I wish.., but no time to work on it..) Well then, we'll see what's going on next month, the following month, etc..

I need to manage my daily schedule, between work, study, social life, prayer life & community.

Jiayou! :)

God bless.

2 Weeks working

It's already been 2 weeks since I started my new job.
It is indeed an interesting job as a Guest Relation Officer (GRO). I get to meet people, talk to them, etc. I also get to go around in the hotel to check out if everything is alright (See if the guests are happy enough and no complaints and stuff). However, my working hour isn't that good. It starts from 12PM - 8 PM. Although I get to wake up late, but I have no life outside work, cos when I leave my house, it is 11AM, when a lot of thing starts happening and working in hotel doesn't mean 8PM straight you can leave. I usually can only leave at 9PM. So you see, 9PM, here in this quiet city, who's still alive and going out? :p No such thing as Yamcha here. What exist is late dinner or movie maybe.

I got one day off/week. This week I changed my off-day to Saturday cos I am having 'La Petangue' competition with my Classmates from Alliance Francaise. So gotta wake up early tomorrow. But I am happy to get a chance to miggle around with some french people and practise my french. Next week having an exam. OMG! Totally not prepared for that cos I am stuck with work.

Other things about my workplace.. I guess just like any companies, when you just join, you'll be very new to it and you might get some 'special' treatments from your colleagues.. But I am thankful that not many of them do that to me. Just a few, which happens to be my co-worker. People get jealous of who you are and what you have.. biasa itu.. I am trying my best to still be calm and treat them nice. I don't wanna have negative thoughts on them. Hopefully this Love will continuosly fill my heart..

I'd like to thank my friends who have supported me and told me things that usually happen when working in hotel. So now when I am really doing it, I am not surprised, yet I feel I am already well prepared. :)

Thank God for always being there for me and not letting me go.

I am blessed. ^^, and so are YOU!

My working environment.

1 December marks a week since I started working. So far, works have been alright, in fact, i have been taskless despite a few basic things I've learnt. My co-workers have been good to me. The only thing bothering me is about the so-called sharing toilet. Since 99% of the employees here are men, there's only one toilet and it's really meant for men! You know what I mean.. Worse, the water is terribly dirty.. Like yellowish. So then I decided not to drink so much water or else, I got to go to 'their' toilet. :-( hopefully things will get better as time passes by. Cos I heard that the management office,that is my office, is going to move to the second floor, and there's a toilet there,which I expect to be much better than the first floor here. I am also hoping for a better water condition.
Fyi, I am actually working at the hangar, just next to the airport. And basically I am not dealing with the ticket directly and I don't get a discounted price. Most of the time, except my co-workers and a few management staff, I only see technicians and engineers. Sadness.. Hehe.

That's about my working environment so far.. :-)

I got a job!

Praise God! Alleluia!

Friends! Thanks a lot for your prayers all the while. I am finally getting to work for real soon!
As I posted before that I was going through interview and test. Yesterday, the company [Batavia Air] called me and confirmed my eligibility to work with them. Although the salary is comparatively low, but I take this as my first experience. (much better than me being jobless).
I still can't stop thanking God and mostly Mother Mary. Friends, tell ya, Novena really works! No matter how bad/difficult your situation is, always pray! and I recommend you to pray Novena. Mother Mary does listen to every prayer we ask her to intercede for us. Such an amazing Mother, isn't she? :) Why am I so sure about that? Cos this isn't the first time my prayer through Novena is answered. I believe it, do you? ^^

I was praying what should I be doing and where, to God, cos I know, no matter how I plan it, only His will that will happen. I was also praying if I could go to France with some scholarship, or if I could get accepted in VOA to work in the US for some time. But now I think He wants me to stay, and so I will. But more than that, of course, I still have long term plans after. Keep on praying ^^.

Oiala, I feel much relieved now, I will have some income to save for 2011 Plan :)
I hope to see some of you in Madrid 2011! hehe.. If I do go there :)

That's all for now.
Take care all!
God bless!

Job interview

I just had a job interview day before yesterday [Thursday]. I so happened saw the vacancy on newspaper a week before. The interview went well and yesterday I indeed had a Psychology Test as the next step of the job interview process. My first time for such test! hehe.. It was okay though. And I have 2 weeks to know if I get accepted to the job.
Wondering what job is that? :p
It's an Admin position at a Local Airline company. ^^,

"If it is Your will, let it be done according to Yours.." Amen.