I must said, I am quite disturbed by this video. Also, it is my part to educate fellow mobileofficers and co-workers on to be more secure.

From the video, what we can see is a robbery cases at  Restoran Subur Seksyen 15 Shah Alam at Date / Time : 28th August 2011 @ 0355hrs to 0405hrs. 28th August, is when most of Malaysian citizens back to their hometown to celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri therefore you could explain why the robbery took cases where there’s only few people at Mamak. (Popular mamak always crowded even in early morning). Few people in helmets and raincoats storming the mamak, robbing everything that they can get including two laptops and they get away pretty fast.

While i believe the blame is on those thief, but we, on our part, have to know, understand the risk, and do our part.

This is one of the reason I don’t quite like to work at Mamak. Primary reason would be the chairs and the noise level, their security isn’t that tight. Mamak has a lot of exit due to open air. You can see the thief storming, rushing inside to rob. But it is good that people can escape easily so the trick here is be nimble. To be honest, i’ve never been into that situation so i’m unsure if I can be as nimble as I said, i would be escaping with my laptop only.

The second thing is the time. It is at wee in the morning 0355-0405. People are sleeping during that time so there’s no reason for you to work on that time. (while I know the couple maybe just do some light surfing, can’t they do it at home? )

If you really need to work outside at night, I recommend areas that alive at night and areas that you think have more police, such as Bangsar.

I still remember the day, bunch of people, in suspicious way, staring at me and my MacBook Pro at mamak. Ever since then, I no longer working at Mamak stall unless just for 30 minutes.

The blame is on the thief but let us do our part, know the risk, and stay alert.

Often people ask me: How do you handle meetings if you don’t have an office? or, if you kept travelling. A pretty straightforward answer is- do the meetings at mobileoffice.

However, in doing a meeting at mobileoffice, we have to take few concern over about the places itself before our client, or potential client walks in.

So here are few do & dont

Do’s

• Prepare everything of your related material before going to meet (portfolios, file, etc)
• Ask if the meeting need computer, or other stuff (like projectors)
• Make sure the place you’re agreed to meet have a decent internet connection
• Also, meet the client at an are that have an alternative internet connection, or you can tether your internet to laptop via smartphone
• Preferably, meet at place with plenty parking spaces, accessible to both parties (via LRT or so on)
• If you’re a women/girl meeting a man, meet them at a mobileoffice that are not secluded

That’s about Do’s. Now let’s see what the Dont’s

• Do the meeting at Mamak. That will reflect your image (unless your client who ask for it, or both parties agree with it. )
• Do the meeting at noisy place
• Do the meeting during lunch time- because some places will be really jampacked.
• Do anything that you think is wrong. In other words, how do you expect to be treated if you come to other, same you should do to your visiting client.

Once my wife asked me: How could you meet at Burger King, or meet at Burger Cart (like famous Ramly SS19), and call that a meeting?

One reason: client was hungry and wanted to have a meeting over burger :p

End of note, I’m sure few of you have your opinions or tips. Kindly share with us. And yes, lastly, it’s up to mutual agreement on both parties on where to meet. If they wanna have Teh Tarik & Roti Canai, go ahead, choice is yours.

How many times have you been in a tight situation? How many times you need to improvise with what you have?

Last week, I have to pick up my medical check-up result, and I got X-Ray films to carry.

Problem: I’m riding motorcycle. You can’t fold the X-Ray films.

So I empty the water from my Rubbermaid chug bottle, and filled it with curled X-Ray films, like this

Since the film is inside the plastic, I had no problem and also, the orange cloth is the shock-dampener + water-absorption material inside the bottle should there still left a bit of water that might contact with my X-Ray films.

And i was able to carry this document on a motorcycle that speeds at 100KM/h

If you have mobileoffice tips and tricks, do share with us yea. Use the contact form too or mail at ikhwan[dot]nazri[at]flavert[dot]com

Hello mobilewarriors and visitors. Quite some time I didn’t write any articles. World’s been busy, and same as me.

So here goes article. A quick article I’ve wrote, Tissue Tips.

If you realize, if you come to every cafes or even fast food chains, they will give tissues. Tissues being served for your convenience. Aside from wiping our mouth and hand, tissue can be most useful to one mobile warriors. Usually, the shops will give you at least 2-3 piece of 2 ply (helaian) tissues. From my observation, unused/extra tissues will be left untouched by customer and those unused tissues, usually, following the restaurant code of conduct ( I was a Shakey’s Pizza service crew before so I know ) will be thrown away.

I’m serious. It is same as leftovers. Untouched tissues will be thrown away. ( I didn’t know if there’s restaurant keeping it )

How to fix this?

While it maybe hard for us to change the code of conduct of restaurant, unless we are the one in control, I would suggest we, mobile warriors, do something. That is not to left any tissues behind, even if we don’t need it. This is why you should keep unused tissue in your backpack

• Use it for ideation and sketches (as pictured above). Maybe in dire need you just need to jot down important number so yeah. Tissue ftw.
• Use it to wipe dirty tables at food court, cafes, or when you want to put your laptop to work.
• Use it to wipe anything that in the situation there’s no cleaner can wipe it for you
• Best replacement for whiteboard duster.
• And women best friend too :p
• And if you’re scouts/ first aid expert, tissue is one of important thing, If i’m not mistaken.
• Lastly since I’m motorcyclist, sometimes I wipe my wet

So yeah,let’s reduce unused tissue wastage. Let’s take our part  :)

End of article

Sidenote: I’m quite glad that ever since I talk more about Officekami this year, more and more people coming in to give support. While this is a non-profit movement, support is all I need to elevate it and yeah, you can see a lot of submissions; almost every weekday one place being published. And there be no updates on Saturday and Sunday because it’s weekend. And every Wednesday, I allocate like a special day to wrote articles.

Ahoy fellas. If you’re on twitter and following famous fellas on Social Media or foursquare junkie, best bet is that you heard this a day before KLSpecial

In a nutshell the idea is to get shops signed up as “owners” on foursquare and have them make specials available for the rest of us. We seek support of other 4squarers out there along with some of the bloggerati and twitterati of KL.  If you want to help just drop us your contact details and we will touch base with you on how you can get involved. – taken from their site.

Officekami is a proud supporter of this movement. Every location submitted and shall their owner want to promote it as one of #mobileoffice destination, it will be automatically listed in the Officekami Locations. So it will definitely help mobilewarriors in finding best locations + discounts, if they’re frequent visitors or mayor.

So dear mobilewarriors, if you have extra 10 minutes at your locations, or you’re feeling burnout from working, go to the respective contact person of that shop, and educate them. It is for their benefit afterall The resources to educate them on #KLspecials is here.

And if you’re asking benefit on your part, what you get is special itself. Imagine if you’re frequent visitor to The Bee, check in X5 will reward you a cappucino. Doesn’t that sounds nice? Or maybe some other locations give you X% discount. It is all that we want. And we need more and more shops to join.

Lastly, you can help to promote #KLSpecial by clicking the link below

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Let’s make Malaysia a more happening place to be!

Hi All, I guess by now you may figure out Wednesday is the day I gave review, App Showdown, rants, articles and many more. So for today, an achievement for this project is to get featured in one of mainstream papers in Malaysia

If you click the picture, it will lead you to the news excerpt online, in Malay language. For English readers, it is about

• The evolution of how human works ( E-Mail, file sharing.. )
• The technology nowadays enabling human to work from distance + multiple location
• A lot of people working mobile in public areas
• The Officekami project is about providing crucial info required by mobile workers
• Such as WiFi, plugs, toilets, stationery shops
• Everyone can submit the recommended Mobileoffices. Submitters such as @victorliew, @fiona, @iwani, @shamsuljafni
• There’s also a mobile-app in development, thanks to @nazroll from Redboot Solutions
• Last March there’s Co-Working event celebrating Earth Hour sponsored by San Francisco Coffee
• Social Media Expert @thechannelc also involved in that day
• Mobileoffice is the growing working trend.

I’m quite glad to be featured. After all, featured in mainstream papers mean I can spread the idea of telecommuting and maybe in next 5-10 years, at least you don’t get that weird look when you said you work everywhere, your office is mobileoffice.

And in next 20 years, a bill of Telecommuting enacted in Malaysia.

Boy I’m such a dreamer. Thanks to the submitters of Officekami. And by the way, if you’re new here. Consider share your location with us. There will be others be thankful of it

Aha. Now that I guess most of you benefitted from the last Officekami Discount Meal Sheet last week, I believe you find this useful too, Discount Card Comparison.

Clicking on the page will view the bigger version of the picture. Alternatively, you can also download Officekami Discount Card Comparison PDF version and stick it on your partition wall, if you still not practicing #mobileoffice :p (because if you mobileoffice, you’ll miss that partition wall )

The resource of that Old Town White Coffee Citizen Card promotion was taken from Longlibra here. And the card picture is from Mietos. Since I don’t have Old Town Card.

Looking forward to hear your feedback, and spread the news fellas!

Apparently I have much time to kill so I created this based on my experience

Click on the image above to see bigger version, And you may download PDF version (A4) so you could stick it on your office space.Now download > Officekami Discount Meal Sheet.

Few things to take account to

KFC & McDonalds = Non-ergonomic chairs. Noise, and may only have few plugs ( but certain McDonalds have a lot of plug )

Secret Recipe = Their WiFi is protected by Streamyx Zone. Lately, they open a connection. Kindly ask the server first.

Old Town = Non-ergonomic chairs. Few exclusive oldtown do have comfy chairs. One of it is Bangsar South.

Coffee Bean = their Breakfast meal only coffee/tea-refillable before 11AM.

San Francisco Coffee = Non-uniformed rules on ‘Buy One Free One’ (BOFO). In Menara UOA Bangsar, you can buy BOFO after lunch. In Ampang Point, BOFO only available during weekends.

Above all, kindly ask the waiter if there’s WiFi available at the outlet.

If you’re a great graphic designer, then feel free to redesign this cheat sheet. It is under attributions/share-alike. Just credit back us okay And feel free to reblog this

The second App Showdown is Teambox. I myself tried few Team collaboration tools. Namely Bantam Live. Then last two weeks I remember fellow Mobilewarriors Arzumy/Hakim Albsrawy twitted about Teambox. Since Flavert/Weddingkami work remotely in every own spaces, we need few stuff like virtual whiteboards or service to share project updates.

Since I’m a fan of desktop apps, most of screenshot is desktop app version. Don’t worry, still the same with webview.

Let me start with an Overview Panel when you login to your Teambox

When you login, you can see the overview of your Projects. Definition: Projects in Teambox is a project that being run in a company. However, since we want to use the apps for free, I decided that Weddingkami is a Project. And all projects received by clients will be defined as Tasks.

Read more yea

And now this is task. I have one task not completed. That’s why 10 May is in red.

Now let’s proceed to Project View. Currently I only have Weddingkami, but with many task inside.

The Overview is the first view that you’ll see once you go into Projects. It is much alike Yammer window. You can paste attachment and all. You can see some attachment below the long post I blurred.

This is All Conversation. Conversation: Threaded topic/ discussion. And you can paste attachment and all too. The diffierence with the overview is I see Overview is kinda like announcement, and Conversation is much more topic oriented. Let’s go deeper into one of the Conversation

In this ‘Online Advertisement’ Conversation, as you can see, there’s a list of people following that conversation. Here it can be more oriented without roaming to other topics rather than Overview.

This is All Task List. Since most of our Task List using clients name, we decide to blue-ed it. Every main task have a sub-task. As you can see, Weddingkami Template Design is empty. And all below are our clients. So the Ideation has left behind is my assigned task, and there’s remaining two site assigned to Faisal Arba’in for Publishing task.

Now this is inside specific task. This task is assigned to Faisal Arbain and the status is still open. I can also view completed task to keep track with.

Now this is Pages. For me, this is can be a single repository to everything. Here I kept all details/notes/everything about the project and also future plannings. It is a directory that serve as references. Let see inside one of the Pages.

Now this is one of the Pages. Here I put all related info about this particular client. I can put inside Task list too but again as I said, for better maintenance, refer everything and every details inside Pages.

And lastly, this is Files. It simply list all files that you’ve uploaded. Now this is neat.

I skipped Time Tracking since we’ve yet to use it. It’s only one month we’ve been using it, and love it when we paired with Yammer. This video below is to show you how we make Teambox, originally a web-apps to become Desktop apps.

So get your Teambox now. Pair it with Fluid and you got a nice desktop apps

Stay tune for more App Showdown!