WORKING ABROAD.
Now at least one member from the family is surely seen either preparing to move abroad or has already settled there. Oppsss. No offense about our upcoming general election soon LOL!
TBH, it may sounds cool. Some makcik bawang gonna say, "Kau tahu jah, anak Pe'ah tu dapat koje di luar negeri! Mesti gaji besar!"
Oh c'mon people. Working outside of your country may sounds cool (sometimes) but not all the time cool lah. YES, I have been working with this one of the government agencies and they offered (cum promoted) me to be part of the group project in Kazakhstan called Astana Expo 2017.
Let me share with you what are the pros of working in abroad.
1. Experience different cultures.
YASS! Of course by working in abroad, you will need to adapt the environment and sekaligus you may able to learn the local cultures. Fortunate for us, we are working in Kazakhstan, a liberal Muslim country. A challenge for us is to get the raw materials food such as fish and chicken. Orang Kazakhstan hanya makan horse meat and beef patplohjam.
Sultan Khazret Mosque in Astana, Kazakhstan.
One of my colleague wore a Baju Melayu during Friday prayer and everybody wants to take a photo with him LOL!
Geographically speaking, Kazakhstan is the northernmost Muslim-majority country in the world.
Culture in Kazakhstan? More or less they are just like us. But tbh they party and drink a lot compared to us. Just so you know in KZ, a Muslim women can enter the masjid with a skirts and sleeveless, while a man can solat with short pants (coz they are Muslim Sunni from Mazhab Hanafi). So, these are the things that we have to manage and adapt when we were there.
Group photo with some of my adorably volunteers. We represented as Malaysia Pavilion in Astana Expo 2017.
2. Learning local Languages
It gave us an advantage back then cause there was an international world expo. That means the whole world berkampung over there as an exhibitors, visitors and workers like us. By moving from one country to another, it helps us to learn diverse lingo.
This is horse meat and it's very popular in Kazakhstan. Almost every cafe ada menu ni.
3. Improve communication skills
By working in abroad, you are able to improve your communication skills as you come across language barriers and many cultural differences. By dealing with all such barriers one learns the skills of communication with people of different cultures and languages. Unfortunately when we were there, most of local people does not speak in English. Their main lingo is Kazakhstani or Russia. It was a hassle for us. Even to buy a simcard may took about 1 hour to explain to them.
I would suggest to download translator apps in your device. It helps you a lot trust me!
Actually i have a lot of things to be shared with you about the advantage working in abroad but since i skip my lunch time to write this post (and my tasks are queuing back there), i shall continue in my next post.
Till then, a million thanks to you my readers for keep supporting my blog eventhough it's not a [dot]com anymore, LOL!
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