Puncak with Citibank MF Team - 22nd April 2011

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Hello viewers,since I'm in my time off before i start my master class,i got a lot of time to update my blog,soo here we go..

I used to work with Citibank under the Mutual Fund team for about 4 months until at February I resigned from the job to continue my study. In my farewell speech i told my colleagues that working with Citibank is one of my dreams,and its true,until now..even when the MD case and also the violence case that happened last month, I still think that these case cannot be taken as a conclusion of what Citibank is all about. In my 4 months experience,I understand that in my division we are running with a strict policies and procedures,no compromise or shortcut,because we understand that we have become one of the best multinational banks in the world so we have to maintain a high degree of security and policies in order to become a better faster stronger bank in the future.

Okey..huah..I'm sorry if I seemed like I try to defense citibank..
lets get back to the topic,shall we..
Ever since I resigned from Citibank,I am still keeping my relationship with my friends there in Plaza Bapindo, They've been very supportive with what I am doing,and I really appreciate the lessons that they gave to me even when I am no longer an employee there. The story goes when in one afternoon Mba Zara text me on my blackberry, "Hey Ji, We are having a short trip to Puncak on April,do you want to come and join?",I asked "When would it be mba?,I have to check it with my campus calendar","It will be on 22nd of April,and we are only staying for one night", after i checked my campus calendar, end of April is holiday,so I answered "YES! I'm in mba,just tell me what i can do to help.". As usual i get the task to become the photographer for the event,and plus i will drive my car too,so I guess its gonna be an interesting ride.

*press fast forward to 22nd of April 08.00 am

I went to the checkpoint numero uno which was Plaza Bapindo,I was told to not to be late and when i showed up...its only 2 person there Mas Hie and Shinta (Shiru). As we joking around then one by one people started to showed up..until I met new friend Vina who replace my position and also Mas Kiki a former citi employer and now he's working as finance consultant specialized in Transfer Pricing for Ernst and Young,and he's the one who owned the villa (wohoo)..

Okay,time to go,but even when we gonna took off,a confusion came along,we were thinking about using three cars only,leaving Mas Hie's car at the office,when we already fixed with 3 cars,suddenly we misscalculated the participants,so after long minutes of discussion,Mas Hie straight grabbed his key and brought his car back..and finally we took off from Bapindo around 09.10 am.

We went by having convoy with three cars,and we entered the highway,it went messed up,hahaha...
by the way,I got 2 persons in my car which are Mba Eni and Shinta,and none of us knew about how to get to puncak, and in front of us is Mas Hie. The first car was Mas Kiki's car,and I guess his driver Mas Maman just overlooked me and Hie's cars and just went left right through the traffic..this was the start of the roller coaster ride..I have to keep up with Hie's car until I almost hit the car in front of me..Shinta and Mba Eni was shocked "AJIII!!!!" they both scream,and I just can't breath at that time..Shinta was about to get some sleep,and after that her eyes were wide open!,sorry ya shinta :)

As the convoy leader,Mba Yuyun told us to stop by in the rest area,and none of the people in my car were read this message,hehehe..so I just straight up went to the Puncak highway,Mas Hie called me,"Jie,dont we supposed to stop by?,don't you got the message?", I am like,"Waah,I forgot to read the message,but we can stop by at Safari Hotel later", and we continued our journey up there. During the traffic, there were a lot of locals that gave me this hand signs that the road to puncak was closed and they can showed us the way to went there. Just to let y'all know,they try to play us! hahaha got ya!,earlier on the highway road,the police had this poster said that "THERE WILL BE NO CLOSE OR OPEN TIME FOR THE ROAD TO AND FROM PUNCAK".

To make the story short,we arrived at the Checkpoint 2, Safari Hotel.

(Vina,Leony,Hie,Eny,Shinta)

We arrived there and we look around the hotel, its actually a big size resorts,they got everything there from waterpark,to meeting rooms,basketball court,you name it they got it. Not long after that,we have to left again to the villa. Not far from the villa,the road was getting harder to passed,its like a multi-hard-level game,I guess I earned 2 Gold Star on my driving skills from this journey,so did Hie and Hakeem. I cannot show you the picture since I was handling my car like a pro to conquer the road (my car is Toyota Yaris with racing rims,not the mountain type of car). After we passed the test..we finally arrived in the villa..

The VILLA! (with choir voice and birds chipping)

Mas Kiki (left) and Tante Rey,relieved after rescuing Mas Hakeem and Hie :D

The logistics

Hokben for lunch,after a tiring travel

enjoying the view

After we had the time off after lunch,Mba Maya and Mba Leony announced that we will doing some games during the afternoon,the 1st game was an individual game. We were given a paper with our name in it at it would stick on our back,and each participants got a pen with them,the game is to write down your opinion about a person on that person's back but you have to run and catch them so that you can write down your answer.

the point of this game is to know what people think about your character and also to make participants feel closer to another. 2nd Game,was a team game,I was in Team #3 together with Zara,Tante Rey and Shinta. The game is called "Straw House", the game is simple, each team just have to built the most unique and strongest house,and at the end the house will be tested by other teams by blowing winds using newspaper.

Team #1

Move on to next game,this was called LINE IT UP! (just made that up),so each team have to make a random line,then the MC will give you this instruction to arrange line based on some categories,for example birthday date,and other categories. The highlight of the game was when Mas Pendi tried to play us with his birthday month,hahaha and then he got caught up! hiaha.my team won this game wohoo!

this is when mas Pendi got caught up!

Finished game number 2,we continued to the game #4,this is where each team have to lined up and far from the line,there were these clothing accessories from glasses,hats,shades and sleeves. The last person from the team then have to perform the clothing through the "runway". In the middle of the game,Shinta slipped and fell on the steps. It just stopped raining at that time,which made the grass wet and the steps slippery. Thanks God she's okey.. :D,and my team won the first place for this game.

The last game was this obstacles game,the rule is each group will be represented by one of their member,the person's eyes will be closed,and the other members will help this person to passed the obstacles ahead. BUT! at the end,none of the participants played,we asked for the MCs to play haha..so Maya and Mba Leony played the game and we just cheering from the sideline..

soo,that's for the first part..I'll continue to post it later for the afternoon and night part..its wild!

thanks for reading,and see you again for the next part :D