Jejak Rasul ker...? :)

Sempena dah dapat bisness dari Ethiopian Telecommunications Company nih, maka kenalah pegi jumpa depa from time to time.... Sebenonya, pegi nih kira macam suicide mission ler... sebab masa tender nego, mati2 kata everything can do...! Sagem Orga boleyyyy...!!! Tapi bila dah dapat PO, baru pecah rahsia that we actually can't really deliver the goods as per the requested dates... Memang akan kena denda lah nanti... But before that happens, customer dah jumping up and down dah sebab menanyakan bila masanya Sagem Orga akan anto kad2 SIM tuh... Siap dah tuduh menuduh yang Sagem Orga is purposely delaying the delivery of the cards....

So, sebagai orang yg bertanggungjawab menjaga customer nih, kenalah pegi jumpa customer menghulurkan tengkuk utk disembelih dgn machete afrika (parang afrika).

Keluar rumah jam 6.00pagi

Kat airport Dubai, flight jam 8h30 pagi.... Suasana gelappppp jer kat boarding room tuh... abih tuh, 80% of the passengers are all black... :)


Bila dah sampai, terus pegi makan dgn local partner. Interesting enough, the Ethiopian food is very spicy... I like...!! :D

Appetizer dia, makan roti bun cicah sambal. Ada 2 jenih sambal... dua2 memang kaw2 pedas... and sedap... ala2 makan sambal belacan la...

Ini roti depa... not made of rice, wheat neither. Di buat drpd sejenih bijiran tempatan... dunno what's the name of that cereal... Spongie texture, rasanya biasa2 jer... Tawar no taste like most bread...

Roti yg kat atas tuh, dicecah makan dgn daging lembu pedas nih...!! really sedap, rasa kari ada, rasa tomato pun ada... daging masak tomato & cili agaknya... hehe....

This is how Addis Ababa looks like (outskirts of Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia).. Ethiopia is big, so the climate changes from one city to another... Kat Addis Ababa, average temperature is 27degre C... Pleasant... Masa kat Addis Ababa hari tuh, a storm was brewing... Nampak awan camtu, torengat eden kat kampung eden nun....!! :)

Above photo is in front of "African Union" Hq.

Mtg went well, dan eden tak disembelih, malah dgn skill communication eden, customer dari marah, boley terus jadi tak marah... at the end of the mtg, boley siap ketawa2 lagi....!! (Depa tak tau, depa dah kena goreng lagi sekali....!! ahaks...!!).

Lepas mtg, pegi kat satu shopping centre nih. Local partner/agent bawak pegi minum kopi a la Ethiopienne... at one corner of the shopping centre, ada makcik nih tengah brewing coffee... dia masak air, dan buat kopi utk customers yang duduk in a circle on stools... Kira ala2 style kampung la, masak air kat tengah, and serve coffee to everybody surrounding the "bonfire"... boley...? At the same time, dia bakar kemenyan arab utk mewangikan the surrounding area... nice, I like...!! Very the local experience

Ethiopia is one of the main producers of coffee in the world... dan kopi yg eden minum kat sini, memang sodap...!!! One hepi customer....

Depa serve kopi tuh dalam cawan mangkuk macam minum teh jepun.... Malaun dlm gambo ateh nih, is the partner/agent of Sagem Orga kat Ethiopia... dah jadik kawan daaaa....

Sampai rumah balik jam 2h30pagi the following day... Koyak badan dibuatnya....!! (flight time was 4hours going, 4 hours coming back).

Interesting things to know about Ethiopia :

• what was once known as Habshah is now Ethiopia, Eritrea and south of Sudan (remember that Nabi Mohammed S.A.W asked some of the early Muslims to seek refuge in Habshah when the Quraish where chasing to kill them...? These people were asked to go to Habshah because the Christian King of Habshah was known to be a fair King then).
• 60% of Ethiopians are Christian (Orthodox Christian), and 38% Muslim
• Ethiopians speak Amharic (in general...., but there are also some other local dialects), and they write in Ge'ez (or also known as Ethiopic)... It's their own Ge'ez alphabets..., and they have their own Coptic calendar (with 13 months, not 12...!!)
• They also have their own clock system, and careful...!! their clock is 6hours late/in advance. 12midnite normal clock is 6 o'clock for Ethiopians. so basically, in Ethiopian clock, they start work at 2 o'clock (8am), and finish work at 11 o'clock (5pm)... boley camtu...? pusing kepala memikiokannyer... :D
• Eritrea & Ethiopia were one country before, until Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia

anyhow, these people are very very friendly and wonderful people... No wonder Nabi Muhammad S.A.W sent the early Muslims to Habshah last time.... Err.. going there again end Jan 2010... and planning to stay back one day to jalan2 a bit... :D

almost forgot another thing, the Emirates flight flew from Dubai, to Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), and continued its journey to Entebbe... The return flight came of course from Entebbe, stopped in Addis Ababa, before continuing its journey to Dubai... Tertanyo2 eden... kat mano tompatnyo Entebbe nih (pronounced as N-te-be)... sampai rumah terus Google... laaaa... Capital city of Uganda la "ngok"...!!! Haaa... sekarang dah tak "ngok" daaa....!! :D