
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Catedral (La)

Sabah
Sabah, the second largest state in Malaysia, is situated at the northern part of the island of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. It covers an area of 72,500 sq. kilometres with a coastline of 1,440 kilometres long washed by the South China Sea in the West, the Sulu Sea in the Northeast and the Celebes Sea in the East.
Known to the world as "THE LAND BELOW THE WIND", Sabah is rich not only in natural beauty and resources, but also in the cultural heritage of its people.
Sabah is very much a holiday destination to the avid traveler and anyone in search of total relaxation. With its abundance of parks, beaches and resorts, there is always something to see and experience. Sabah’s grandeur stretches from the depths of the vibrant ocean until the highest peak in Southeast Asia and the spaces in between is nothing less than amazing. While most of the world is getting predictable and dull, Sabah on the other hand is still as flamboyant and relatively unexplored. Its untainted rainforest is home to a plethora of organisms living in a chaotic harmony with each other. The thick jungle provides residency to the unique Proboscis Monkey and the famous man of the forest, the Orang Utan. These captivating creatures are a rarity and have specifically chosen this paradise as their home.
Other wildlife roaming free, the Sumatran rhino, Asian elephant, gibbon, civet, lemur, Malaysian sun bear, including large species of insects and plants, topped with many species of birds which color the forest canopies. The world’s biggest flower, the Rafflesia can also be spotted among the other treasures of the rainforest even if the smell isn’t most fragrantly appealing.
Among all the beauty and splendor, there is a peaceful and refreshing cultural integration between the many ethnicities that are living in Sabah. Officially, there are about 32 different ethnic groups living and striving together. The largest non-indigenous group is the Chinese, which make up 30% of the whole population.
The largest indigenous group is the Kadazan-Dusun which contributes 25%, followed by Bajau and Murut respectively contributing 15% and 3%. The English language is widely spoken and understood and Bahasa Malaysia being the national language and means of communication.
A number of Chinese dialects are also spoken and each indigenous group has their own language. Unlike most of Malaysia, cultural integration is far more plentiful and apparent in Sabah while maintaining their traditions. The people are as vibrant as the land itself and energy is spread wide and unconditional.
Both mystical and magical, there is adventure for those seeking it and will enchant anyone who sets foot on the land. It is uniquely exciting, yet calming but never dull.
What Is Motivation
Motivation is a call to action. Motivation inspires change, movement, and focus; it is what makes the world turn. The Art of Motivation is a must for Master Persuaders. How do you motivate in such a way that prompts people to take the actions you want them to take? How can you plant the seeds to encourage motivation? As a persuader, one of the keys to success is to motivate yourself and others. We have all had days when we did not feel like doing the things we knew we needed to do. It is useless to persuade and have others agree with your point of view if you can't get them to take action.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Always Be My Baby
Customer & Customer Care
Customers mean someone who pays for the good or service. Customers are very important in the every industry especially for the hospitality and the tourism industry because customer may will be caring on the income and affect to the economy in a country. If a country’s hospitality and tourism industry without the customers then this country will be fall to the economy problem. That’s why a country can’t ever been improve or well-off without the hospitality and tourism industry.
Customer care involves putting systems in place to fill your customers' satisfaction. It should be a prime consideration for sales and profitability depends on keeping your customers happy. Customer care is more directly important in some roles than others. The moment we accept that our role as customer support professionals is actually about caring for clients, amazing things can start to happen. No longer do we have to think of ways to motivate ourselves and others to serve well, we now have the perfect reason to go the extra mile. By showing that you care and you have given your customer the opportunity to open up. A trusting relationship can now begin. If we can do it well then in the future we must can be attract more customers to pays for the good or service and will be success in the own industry.
In short, customers are the king. They will be always right too because they are the one who pays for the good and service. Whatever how we can’t ever try to fight with them because it’s doesn’t worth for us. We must be kind with customers.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Social Responsibility
Social responsibility is an ethical or ideological theory that an entity whether it is a government, corporation, organization or individual has a responsibility to society at large. This responsibility can be "negative", meaning there is exemption from blame or liability, or it can be "positive," meaning there is a responsibility to act beneficently (proactive stance). It’s a voluntarily assumed obligation toward the good of a larger social unit as opposed to the self alone. It’s also can be defined as accepting responsibility for others and taking action against social injustice. It includes meeting the needs of others through charitable giving.
As a Sabah citizen, we should take action to be more responsible to care about the island because it will be affect to the tourists were traveled to Sabah or interested travel to Sabah. If we didn't take action to care about the island at all, this will be caring on the bad image about island and Sabah to the tourists. Tourists may Ignore it won’t be travel to Sabah again and tell to their family or friends about what happened in Sabah when traveling. Of course, this will be serious because it’s affect to the economics of Sabah. That’s why as a Sabah citizen we should be more responsible to create a great image to the tourists for improve the economics and the reputation of Sabah.
For the future of Sabah, everyone of Sabah must be more responsible to care about the island and Sabah. This will lead Sabah to be improved and create the way to be successful state in tourism and other industry.
Music
Sapi Island Trip
I had learned many after the trip to Sapi Island with the classmate of Pendidikan Moral.
I learn about teamwork because I can’t clean the island without the help of my friends and team. We clean up the beach so that other people or citizen will also follow and keep the beach clean because the first impression is the most important for everyone especially for tourists. If they do have a great first impression, then they will come back to travel again and promote to the other friends this action may will attract more people to the attraction.
After the trip, I know about the important of friendship and how is it caring on the happiness because I enjoyed my time when after the cleaning with friends. First I went to jungle trekking with Eunice and Marilyn whatever we didn’t finished the adventure, but I do felt that I’m a men because I’m take care of them in the adventure. After that, I invited my friends to ride banana boat. Every one of us paid RM20 for 20 minutes whatever it is quiet expensive. But we still want to play because of the experience. When falling from the banana boat I can felt that I do hit my friends. No wonder they will complain and mention me to care about the hands and legs. Hopefully, they will be fine for what I did to them.
I realize that island was the one of the attraction of Sabah because I saw many tourists were there for diving, snorkeling, and water sport. Island will be one of the way to caring on the economics of the Sabah. No wonder, Sabah Tourism Board keeping develop in island facilities and promote the island to the world.
At the last, I would like to thank Mrs. Christina for given me the chance to join the trip and learned from the trip. It’s let me know more deeply about the island and how it’s important for the tourism of Sabah.