A srong and dedicated team

I'm lucky i'm heading the economics and international division (BEA). I consider this division is the heart of treasury. Though the division doesn't deal with public or handle so-called glamorous stuff like contracts, privatisation, budgeting or loans but it deals with crucial stuff like the formulating of national budget speech, the economic report, monitoring of the economy, international negotiations and meetings. It sort of pull together what the other divisions are doing. I told my officers if they have served in BEA then they can survive anywhere in the civil service and even in the private sector companies. The officers are dedicated and often work late hours. English is the main language in the division both for communication and paper works.

I said I lucky earlier because i have officers who are knowledgeable, hard working, high caliber, with team spirit and helpful. i'm not saying this because my officers read my blog but it is from my sincere feelings from the bottom of my heart. Its difficult to have this kind of high quality officers. Some of them i call "world class officers" because if you put them anywhere in the world they can work and survive.

Thanks for all of your support and without which i won't be where I am now. Mind you one day those of you who have contributed to my success and BEA excellence will be rewarded.

You don't have to proof, put ice or jack me. Sincerity and your hard work will automatically reward you.

Presentations by KEs and PEs

Every year we in economics and international division (BEA) organize presentations by Principal assistant secretaries (KEs) and assistant secretaries ((PEs.) The topics covers a wide range usually pertaining to current economic development in the country. The presentations are tailored to the issues to be addressed in the upcoming budget.

This year's presentations ( the third one since it started in 2008) showed great improvements. especially in terms of confidence level and communication ability. of course, the new officers were a bit nervous and some old ones still didnt show any improvement.

I would like to suggest that BEA officers should communicate in english. ENGLISH should be the language of comunication in BEA.

so touched

When I broke the news that i was not going to MOE and stay put in MOF. There was a big clap by most of BEA officers instantaneously. The sincerity really touched my heart. Thank my fellow officers. I wont be where I am today without all of your support and ideas.

I love all of you