{"id":228,"date":"2008-08-22T23:40:12","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/?p=228"},"modified":"2008-08-22T23:40:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T15:40:12","slug":"off-for-a-trip-to-perth-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/off-for-a-trip-to-perth-australia.html","title":{"rendered":"Off for a trip to Perth Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was one trip that was almost naught. Malaysian Airlines in all its apparent cost cutting measure decided to cancel my returning flight. Since I managed to apply for 4 days leave, I now have to apply for a full week. But the problem was, boss was not very pleased about his staff taking a whole long week for vacation. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Some people tend to be workaholic, but that didn&#8217;t mean they should impose it on their staff as well. I am me, you are who you are, and nobody has the same preference. Besides I know where my duties lie and I can still access my office email using my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/palm-centro-smartphone-pda.html\">Palm Centro&#8217;s Versa Mail<\/a> to access the mail server provided of course there is EDGE\/GPRS access in Perth, Australia. But this does seem to make me somewhat like a workaholic too? Some of my other colleague in the other branch would frown on doing work during their off time. For me, if there was a situation that requires remedy I would have a quick look at it. But other than that, the vacation would have my full attention.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, my leave was approved but that did left my colleagues weary about applying for long leave for a holiday vacation trip. I met a guy who was trying to recruit me to start a franchise business of some sort. I still couldn&#8217;t figure out what he was trying to propose to me and kept its detail intriguing. Well, will see what it is all about. At this moment I&#8217;m in no hurry to try out any new business start up yet.<\/p>\n<p>One thing about last minute packing, there is always the risk of forgetting to pack something. Well let&#8217;s see, I brought sufficient clothing, toiletries, brought along my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/digital-dslr-camera-photography.html\">Canon EOS 30D DSLR<\/a>, battery charger, enough compact flash cards to take pictures, passport, Aussie dollars, e-ticket and resort check in slip, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/canon-powershot-a720is-digital-camera.html\">Canon PwerShot A720IS<\/a> for Lena to take her family shots, brought along the camera-TV cable for reviewing on the TV, chargers for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/palm-centro-smartphone-pda.html\">Palm Centro smart phones<\/a>, <a href=\"\">Palm Tungsten T3<\/a>, etc.. , phew\u2026 the list goes on and on. Yeah that&#8217;s how it goes for a supposedly relaxing trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was one trip that was almost naught. Malaysian Airlines in all its apparent cost cutting measure decided to cancel my returning flight. Since I managed to apply for 4 days leave, I now have to apply for a full week. But the problem was, boss was not very pleased about his staff taking a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/off-for-a-trip-to-perth-australia.html\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Off for a trip to Perth Australia<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[144],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1bS5F-3G","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":245,"url":"https:\/\/www.janleow.com\/life\/perth-western-australia.html","url_meta":{"origin":228,"position":0},"title":"Perth, Western Australia","author":"Jan","date":"4 September 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"We had a great time in Perth, Western Australia for vacation! 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