Traveling for 9 days: sales training in KL

On November 23-27, I was in KL, Malaysia for training and followed by kick off meeting in Hua Hin, Thailand in Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2009.

I was already sick before I departed to KL. I saw my doctor but not my physiotherapist. I had medicine with me for my coughing.

DAY 1, Nov 23, 2009

With three of my colleagues, I flew Malaysia Airlines MH 710, departed at 11.10 from Jakarta.
From KLIA to our hotel (Boulevard Hotel) we used two Airport Limos, cost RM 74.30.
Boulevard Hotel is located in Mid Valley City, Lingkaran Syed Putra.
The room rate was RM 295, no bath tub in the bath room, no internet connection.
Hotel provide internet connection in several packages:
RM 30 per day, and RM 150 for a week.

The hotel is connected to Megamall. It's a big mall. I could spend hours there just to see stuffs that are not available in Jakarta, i.e. make ups!
I bought lots of make up stuffs.....
We had dinner at the mall at Little Penang Cafe.

Hotel building from Pool view

My room, the bed is narrow!

Pool from my room (23rd floor)

DAY 2, Nov 24, 2009
The training started today.
We had lots of group tasks and presentations.

Dinner at Madam Kwan's: Nasi Lemak, Tea Tarik, Ice Kachang

DAY 3, Nov 25, 2009

Training for Consultative Selling Skill continued. We had a great time today when we did the "paper clip" game. Each of group must come up with a list of things we can do with paper clip.
Groups that have same paper clip function must cross it out and there's no score counted for that.
We were so crazy argueing about it, we laughed outloud.

Dinner at Secret Recipe.
I noticed, somehow, the service in restaurants where we have had our dinner for three nights was not good.
We were attended slow. Most of the waiter/waitress didn't pay attention to us. The dirty dishes were not cleared up as soon as possible.
We tried to be back in the hotel as soon as possible because we had a homework for tomorrow class.
I ended up sleeping at 3 AM!

DAY 4, Nov 26, 2009
Last day of training. Today's topic was about planning for key account. Very interesting.
Group dinner was held in a seafood restaurant (I forgot the name). During that night, we also had farewell dinner for the Sales Manager who is resigning.
The Malaysia office has the tradition to shout outloud when they cheer for the beer.
We sang karaoke and danced madly.
At the same time, I felt so mellow. That night was Takbiran Night, I was supposed to be with family, rejoicing the moment.

DAY 5, Nov 27, 2009
Today was Eid Adha. We were far away from family, right now we only had each other.
A Malaysian colleague offered to accompany us to do Eid pray in Mesjid. He picked us up at 7 AM (which was quite early for us, because Shubuh pray starts at 6 AM in KL).
He brought us to his grandma-in-law. We greeted his family members and introduced ourselves, then we went to the mesjid on foot.
Quite interesting experience, people just went to their houses right after the pray. In Indonesia, we usually sit and listen to the preach after pray until it's over, but here I only found around 10% of people still stayed.

The colleague was a great host. During breakfast, we had wonderful dishes: Lemang, Rendang, bumbu satay, and Popia. For dessert, we had Coconut Jelly, chocolate cake, hot tea and hot coffee. We were full, and suddenly his wife said they will serve Briyani Rice. Alamak! Where in our stomach we can have empty space for the rice?
We just needed to pass that opportunity. It was almost 11 AM, and we'd have our short meeting in the office (What? meeting on holiday??? Yeahh.....) so we asked for permission to went home.

Yummy breakfast

The short meeting was held for a short briefing of 2010 plan. There were Philippines and Vietnam team there. Lunch in the office with Pizzahut. We went to the hotel early. I was so tired, I and my room mate took 2 hours of nap. The plan for tonight was to go to KLCC, but we just exhausted. We spent the last night in Megamall (again!) and to The Gardens, a new mall accross Megamall, more luxurious. Dinner was in the basement, at Nyonya's color. I had Laksa.
I bought additional make up stuffs, hehe....