Taking PMP Certification Course in Ghana

PMP - Project Management Professional accredited by the Project Management Institute of USA.

I underwent this course in Kuching twice and I didn't manage to register for the exam.

Now I am attending class again, here in Accra, Ghana. What makes you think I will sit for the exam this time?

In Malaysia, PMP is not so important considering the fact that we have IEM, ISM, PAM whereby the professional members can at any time become a Project Manager.

In my working life, I have dealt with Project Managers of different caliber and capability, and they produced different end results.

Here in other part of the world, you will come across young engineers studying for MBA in Project Management and when they see I have acquired the qualification they are now pursuing, they can't help but "WOW".

The learning attitude in Ghana is so much different from us in Kuching. At home, we enjoyed so much of the Anwar sodomy jokes, construction industries jokes, Malaysia scandals, so on and so forth, letting aside the proper thing we were there for. The Ghanaian are very participative and interactive during class, they ask questions and response to lecturer's question by giving their real life example. In the class, we have people from gold mining, Guinness Ghana, Electrical Company Ghana (ECG), so on.

And I am the only one with a much lighter skin colour in the class.

They don't encourage photo-copied books like us, everyone is buying original PMBOK @ USD100 and PMP Prep by Rita Mulcahy @ USD140. Well, I just do what we Malaysians do, ask my good friend P.C. to send me his copy of PMBOK, wonder if Alex be kind enough to let me have a copy of the PM Prep? Hehe...

In rememberance of a beloved old man

For those who don't know him, this may not mean anything at all...

I met him in 1977 when I was in KL for my studies.

Me and my dear old friend Hwa met last month in KL and we talk about him,
and she forwarded the newspaper cutting about him.
But we both didn't know is that the day she sent that email was the day this old man passed away,
peacefully I hope.

It's sad. Suddenly he brought back a lot of fond memories of the good old days...

Yao Lao, I save the newspaper cutting in my computer hard disk;
you will always be on my mind...

Rest in peace!