Tuesday, May 02, 2006

I Nyoman Wija - Treasure



I Nyoman Wija.Wija is coordinator of Tuban Area and now also is appointed to be our New Treasure. He currently works as Executive Housekeeper in Risata Hotel. He is married man with one son and one daughter. Love to play Badminton in his free time.His career was started in Puri Santrian Sanur from 1988 – 1990. He started from rank and file staff as a Houseman, Room Boy and then was promoted to Room Supervisor. In 1990 he took position of Assistant Executive Housekeeper in Risata Hotel. Because there was no Executive Housekeeper he has to fully in charge for daily operation of Housekeeping Department. In 1992 he was promoted to Executive Housekeeper.In 1999 he moved to Jimbaran Hills Resort to take the position of Room Division Manager. This hotel was managed by Aston for period 1999 – 2004. Aston decided to not longer manage this property because of Bali Recovery program was not as fast as expected. Because of this situation he then moved to Barong Cottage as Duty Manager.“First love never die”. Have you ever seen this movie? It is a beautiful movie with gorgeous scene from start to the end. But I am not talking about movie now. I am talking about Nyoman Wija and his love to the first department where he work when first time step into hotel. Because of love he decided to come back to Housekeeping by taking the position of Housekeeper in Wina Cottage before taking position of Executive Housekeeper in Karma Resort Jimbaran, a member of the small leading hotel of the world.In 2006 He decided to come back to Risata Hotel as Executive Housekeeper.
Ida Ketut MuditaMudita is Coordinator for Legian Area. He currently works in Bali Padma Hotel as Assistant Housekeeping Manager. He loves dangdut but not Rhoma. Swimming is his favorite sport.Actually his education background is not hotel or tourism. In 1988, when he graduated his study in PGAH he decided to leave Bali and went to Lombok to step into tourism industry as a Laundry Attendant. One year later he decided to come back to Bali and joined Bali Intan Cottages as a trainee in laundry department. From Bali Intan he moved to Kuta Jaya for one year as Steward. In 1990 Bali Padma Hotel hired him as full time employee. He started his career in this hotel from the bottom as Laundry Helper. His dedication and strong motivation drive him to creeping up his position to be Laundry crew, Supervisor and Assistant Laundry Manager. At the end he was given challenge to be Housekeeping team as Assistant Housekeeping Manager.His motto? Life is beautiful, success is a result of big effort and Balinese philosophy “ ede ngaden awak bisa, depang anake ngadanin. (Don’t be snobby, let people judge how you are)Fishing is what he normally does in his free time. But when you ask him to choose restaurant he will never go to Chinese Restaurant as he doesn’t know how to eat using chop stick.