-StiLL iN LoVe-

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God "bless" America
Coz Obama is just another puppet without actual power
That came in a slightly different color

Why should a baby die?
Why should a widow cry?
Why should a mother shed tears?
Why should a child live in fears?



I couldnt imagine my life,
If the child was mine,
If my country was torn by strife,
If my future was in their hand to be defined...

RISE O PALESTINE..
CURSE ON THE CHILD KILLERS..

Instead of the more well-known title of maid, I prefer to call her my house assistant and address her by her name; after all, I myself hate people calling me by puan or cik. Macam bagus..

So basically, her main job was to look after little Aisyah if I were to go out working. Other work is to help me take care of this small and humble house.
So kerjanya,
Pepagi
-basuh baju mama n aisyah
-kemas memainan aisyah yang ditabur2 sesuka hati
-sapu sampah
-potong bebawang etc utk masak
-masak sup n goreng anything for Aisyah

Then, habis kija, around kul 10 tu, I let her watch the tv dari pagi sampai kul 2pm. Dia pegang remote n suka atilah nk tengok cerita dari seberang ker 2 berang ker.. kul2 sampai kul 5, still tengok tv tapi kali ni Aisyah (n mama) nak tengok wonderpets n katun2 nick di 9. Somewhere in the middle of this, Cik S akan bawa Aisyah g tido, n of coz dia tido sekali la. Kul5 saya start masak. Kul7 camtu2 dia tengok drama apa2 ntah kt tb3, pastu malam pun saya still tolerate klu dia nk tgk apa2, provided that sy takder mender nk tengok sangat.

I didn’t allow her to
-cook for my husband (saya jeles ok? kot2 husband puji dia masak sedap..hehe)
-to wash/iron my husband’s work shirts (no way, don’t touch)
-to bathe or feed or play with Aisyah, etc, if I’m around (possessive gilerr…I admit)
-to clean our bedroom (private territory, right?)

And she has the right to choose whether she would like to stay at home or follow us if we were to go out. Selalunya klu ke rumah member, dia malas/malu nak ikut, tapi klu ker shopping complex, dia akan ikut.

Best tak jadi pembantu kat umah saya?…Ngehehe…

Dengan gaji rm400++ (termasuk tambang pergi balik untuk dia balik kampong tiap2 bulan, sebulan sekali), husband saya kata tak sepatutnya kita menzalimi anak orang dengan bagi gaji yang tak setimpal dengan workload. Saya pula sentiasa merasakan saya bagi workload yang tak setimpal dengan gaji. …tapi being me, saya malas nk suruh2, paham2 sendirila…kalau saya suruh pun, saya make sure saya akan tengah buat kija juga, baru entitled to boss around.

I met someone yang bagi pembantunya rm200 sebulan, untuk jaga 3 anaknya, mandi, tidorkan, masak, bawak jejalan, dsb…seorang dah sekolah, seorang lagi baby…duhh, tak termasuk jaga rumah seharian. n the girl wanted to quit (of coz la kan, sapa yang tahan) but persuaded to stay by her ‘boss’…Isskk, saya rasa cam zalim jerr…

To be honest, I felt a little bit sad when my house isn’t in tip top condition like few of those who have someone else paid to do the ‘housekeeping’. Clean and tidy, yes, but not tip-top..To have some stranger around in your house also mean to have less privacy. It wasn’t her fault after all; it was mine since the end result would still be the same regardless of who my house assistant is.

Umpama menarik rambut di dalam tepung,
- I want her to enjoy working with us (she said she like it here) but I wanted every single penny paid is worth it
- since she isn’t burdened with house chores that much, I want her to be nice, very2 nice to my daughter while I wasn’t around, but less works for her means quite some works for me, I don’t want to end up looking like a maid in my own house
- I want her to love my only daughter honestly, dengan seikhlasnya di depan mahupun di belakang kami, but I don’t want my only child to be close to her, susah nak jaga kalau dia takder nanti, plus, im jealous, ok, I admit it

Susahnya..

The perfect ideas of having maid is to have them around only when you want them, so that you would have more privacy, and to have them do what you wanted them to do, without being ordered to do so. Hahaha, I wish.

So, memandangkan saya sangat2 tidak suka playing the boss, saya akan menyiapkan senarai kija2 yang perlu dibuat within one week/day..ala2 milestone or duty roster..tampal kat dinding. So kat milestones tu, saya akan tick kija yang saya dah buat and she will tick hers. Ok tak?

Cik S takder nih, dia bercuti sebulan sejak raya tempohari. To be honest, I kinda like it this way. Sometimes, we need to have our own time jugak. I missed the moments of us, only three of us, together. Im afraid if i sound so sombong and arrogant now, He knows I didnt mean it (if i did) but I need some other opinion from third parties.
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Oh ya, walaupun rumah kami betul2 di tepi/belakang kubur, saya tiada masalah untuk tinggal seorang ever since pregnant lagi (sebab dia banyak berkursus). Tapi semenjak cik S ada nih, tiba2 pintu cam kena sentap dari luar la, pastu rumah sebelah ada something la. Ada bekas garam kt luar rumah sebelah la (sebelah kiri). Kononnya, kata cik S, klu ada bekas garam kat umah kosong, itu menandakan sesuatu cuba dihalau…
Macam2…
So saya fikir2, nak letak sebekas lagi garam kt umah sebelah kanan pulak (kosong jugak)…ngehehe, agak2 dia takut tak?

Saya terpaksa-rela menginstall semula laptop sbb masalah yg ...tak dapat dielakkan. So, benda2 berikut adalah perlu untuk diisikan semula supaya laptop sy tidak jadi alat untuk berblog atau surf internet semata-mata...
-kaspersky
-microsoft office
-adobe photoshop cs2 (+ imageready)
-adobe acrobat 8 profesional
-frontpage (optional)
-vlc player
-ccleaner
-google desktop
-hangaroo..ehehe, lain dah ni
-microsoft project (kunun nk guna la tu)
-visual basic (not needed now...kiv)

saya catatkan siap2 kat sini, just in case kena install lagi sekali, so i wont be too panick stressed n i'll know what to do then.So please allow a few kb for me to write this note to myself.
dan juga terpaksa betulkan semula tempat charging tepon. Masuk air...rephrased, kena gigit. This time, the culprit is


Arissa, my niece

The silhouettes...



And us...



Tanjung Agas, Muar.
December 20, 2008. 6.45pm

Some people go to fengshui master to check the compatibility of their love life. Some people vote for some nonsense astrologers. Some others listen to what people around them have to say. The do's and the dont's...

Us? We kinda rush into marriage. Thats all. Happen to be lucky to survive, maybe..We got married at very young age, blame him :P

The cutest thing was that, all my fellow girlfrens assured me that he would certainly receive severe punishments, nonstoppable mental harassment and ruthless physical tortures, would he dare to cheat on me. Ngehehehe...thank you, gals! I hope that promises still valid, arr...:P



Then, few years had passed and here we are, still fine, still doing good. Alhamdulillah.. I dont really believe the dos and the donts. I do take them them into considerations but I strongly believe that for a marriage to stand strong (and monogami? hehehe)...it really takes a strong and good man to do it. A man! A real man! 99% of the failing marriages consisted of the other xy partner happen to be an exceptionally weak man (unable to control his wife's desire/nafs), nonbeliever male, a temper tantrum partner or a lustful husband. either one or the combination of any of these. The other 1% are the exceptional cases such as in the stories of prophet Luth as and his wife. Women factor? We are just part of you, after all, we are weak and bended rib bone. Ngehehe
Sighh... Am being feminist? Let me be, coz by saying that you are already a racist yourself (feminin = race? since when?)

All married couples have their own secret recipes. And Im not gonna go on telling these are what you have to do and those are the taboos...etc etc. Im not good at advising other people. Im a good listener, yes, but i prefer to keep my advice all to myself, thank you. Dont ask me for my opinion coz i'll be very frank and honest that you might have regretted it that youve ever asked for one from me.

-Some couples believe that they need to share many things and similarities and stick as a couple wherever whenever forever.
-Some don't even bother to please each other but yet, they find their own sanctuary when they're together.
-Some other couples believe that they should take their own paths, but yet they walk in parallel and provide unconditional support to each other.

Love carries such a subjective definition to be written in a single sentence. When you are happy together, what else matters?

As long as you are being true to yourself and your partner, even before you got to know him/her, and that you surrender your marriage fully to Allah, He would definitely help you. Insya-Allah. That's the only do that Ive ever want to share . And the only donts that I would love to share is 'dont ever live a lie'. Lie once and you cant be true at any other time.
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And I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate my dear friend,Yin, and his husband, on their seventh anniversary.
May Allah bless you and your family. Good health and good luck here and thereafter.

OWh.. Im so stressed. I feel like screaming, shouting, rolling on the floor, banging my head on the door tsskk..
Okey..
Tarik nafas...lepassss...tarriiikkk...

I just couldnt hear any sounds from my laptop. I restarted my lappy and suddenly the sound went off during the windows logon. You know, the default sound when we start the computer...-it's in the middle of that!

I did few simple things, -restart, restore, recover and to no avail. Ive checked the device manager, it says that the hardware (realtek) are functioning well. And I ran dxdiag, it shows that the device manager for audio system is(supposedly) functioning well, ran some tests (where i suppose to hear the sounds being played) but still i hear nothing.. DEAD END. I might have to take 'my precious' (borrowed from gollum, lotr) to service center, klcc tuh,takperla. ujung minggu nih balik kl (lagi..)

Owh..This aint funny. Anybody please help me *wink *wink.. Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee
Rm10 to those who manage to solve the problem...ok, make it rm30 (provided that it's software/setting problem). If any of you really want to help me, i really really really appreciate it..
Laptop: Vaio VGN S46GP
OS: Windows XP Version 2002, SP 2
Intel Pentium 1.73GHz 798MHz
RAM 2.0GB
Audio devices: Realtek HD
Graphics: NVidia

What else? I cant think..
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While I have to bear living in this muted world, my frens sent this ->
If any of you know her, Sis Fatimah Bunyarit,my ex roommate in IIUM, she just gave birth to a healthy baby, named Rifal (I love the name)





What could be cuter than a sleeping baby? *love *love
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Okay, the following is not the latest but beautiful things need to be shared, rite?
This baby girl belongs to Raihan Ismail, another ex-roommate of mine.hihi, named Laila (another classic name, i love). Just in case if you wonder how a quarter malay, quarter arab and half aussie looks like, this is how




Babies are cute!

While we were reading/ discussing the rubbish-not-so-rubbish in the mag, we came upon an article about how this woman, a wife to somebody (whose monthly paycheck presumably is 6 figures digit) says that she simply return to work because she loves to do so. And suddenly, my fren said

Ms S: (In a very low tone) If it were me, If my future husband were damn rich, I wouldnt want to go out working. I would rather stay at home.
Ms F: (Another fren) Hehe... Dont worry. Its not just you, not just you...
Me: Me neither! Of coz la. Who do?
Ms S: I thought everybody else would say something like that 'I want to be independant. I simply love working..' kind of
Me and Ms F: No no...

There we were laughing hard at ourselves. Just what were we doing now, Master degrees for nothing?

While i am one stay-at-home-mom(SAHM) now, there is more than a great urge for me to go out and express myself in my own way, make my own cycles of friends and most of all, have all the power to spend :P.

Women, we would never stop from asking for more. Of that I must admit.

I wanted to write something that is nice, that would console my own heart and calm my own desire. For I wasnt actually serious of wanting to go out working and exposing myself to the cruelty of the money-making industry, its just that I wanted to do something that Im good (or better) at, and obviously doing house chores wasnt one of them. (Hopefully all that is to be listed below would not offend anyone, these are just for fun.)

The advantages of being a -->

CAREER MOM
1. My own money - all for myself! Could just buy anything without any guilty feeling
2. Something to give my parents from my own pocket! Wow..
3. Can buy a new ride for my daughter...and lottts of new and fancy dresses for her
4. Can change my old boring wardrobe without asking his permission and hear him says "Tak payahla, kita dah nak fly dah tahun depan" (translate-tahun depan = next year = 12 months = 365 days, counting down)
5. Salon.. I need a real treatment and a very good back massage...
6. Can travel to anywhere or at least to my workplace alone! Repeat- alone! No one to tag along
7. Make a bigger cycle of friends
8. Improve my poor general knowledge, Im so bad in living skills and geography
9. A wider point of view, ability to discuss many things and not being fooled
10. Improve my communication skills, im so bad at meeting new faces these days, i didnt even sure for myself if I was actually shaking upon attending a wedding ceremony
11. Being responsible and trusted for some tasks, the feeling would be priceless
12. Being able to accomplish any given tasks, the feeling would be even more wonderful
13. Can dress to kill :D without people blaming me for spending too much on it
14. Can say to pakcik taxi, "pakcik, KLCC please" ngehehe...
15. Can be excused from doing the never ending house chores
16. If my cook isnt so tasty, i can simply excuse myself "Hey, im working, rite?"
okay...
making less and less points here


STAYING AT HOME MOM

1. "Abang, barang dapur dah nak habis la." Then, off we went to shop some groceries,and add the sentence "Oopss, saya tak bawak purse." when arrived.
2. "Kat mak ngan ayah dah put aside?", says me, wearing the look im-not-working-and-youre-my-everything
3. "Saya rasa elok kita beli basikal kat Ecah. Sian diaa..." He would buy, definitely.
4. A lot of compliments received from him, "Elok lagi baju tu." or "Sayang pakai nih comel la. Kalau jumpa sekali lagi pun abang still jatuh hati lagi.." sort of
5. Lagi besh, boleh panggil makcik ngurut datang rumah. Salon bergerak lagi.
6. Someone to tag along, a bodyguard aka driver aka bags carrier
7. His friends' wives are almost automatically my frens, thus, the network are expanding
8. Still lack of general info, hence, he would take all the pleasures of being blamed if anything goes wrong
9. I dont have to meet new people, can be very selective and stick to my comfortable zone, coz some other people can be very annoying and rude
10. Can improve my writing skills..haha
11. No responsible means no dateline
12. No datelines means no/less pressure
13. Save money and time and energy from unnecessary make-up session
14. Can say to him, "Abang, KLCC pleaseee" (please add some glitters to the eyes)
15. Can be excused if I forgot to do some house chores, after all, I did all the other houseworks, right? Oowh, tired so tired. You would never imagined :P
16. If my cook isnt so tasty, I can simply accuse of the lack of ingredients or "it wasnt me, the assistant cut the onion in the different direction." Naa...just kidding

To be honest, i didnt apply for any job (permanent one) upon persuaded by him. And gradually, the feeling come naturally where now, I myself, feel a bit reluctant to leave her alone, away from my eyes



How could i?

Kata samy vellu, "Kita akan mesyuarat atas itu jambatan esok."
dalam buletin utama dulu, bila ditanya tentang keretakan mrr2 yang berulang.

Saya dan ayah n famili gelak terkekeh2 mendengar ayatnya, directly translated daripada english. habisla semua kena bermesyuarat kat atas jambatan tuh esok. Tapi satu yang saya kagum dengan dia ni, sekurang-kurangnya dia bercakap dlm bahasa melayu. Uhh, anak pejuang bahasa Prof Ungku Aziz tu terbalik pula situasinya.

Saya tau banyak istilah yang diserap dari bahasa asing, termasuklah istilah sains, ekonomi, politik mahupun agama. Walaupun ramai yang terkonpius sekejap, istilah2 ini sebenarnya bukan pinjaman dari bahasa inggeris semata-mata. (Saya harap semua yang membaca cukup bijak tanpa saya perlu berjela2 dalam hal ini)

Sudahnya, yang menteri2 duk bertelagah ialah perihal nak guna istilah 'bahasa melayu' atau 'bahasa malaysia' dan nak ajar subjek sains dalam bahasa apa? bm or english?
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saya bukan nak bersikap ageist tapi saya sesungguhnya amat membenci orang yang berkulit melayu bercakap dalam accent english yang dibuat2, atau men'worship'kan bahasa itu lebih daripada bahasa asalnya (ni utk melayu macam sayalah). Ok, lets say anda lebih mahir berbahasa inggeris daripada melayu, so what? Tahukah anda, seorang pemidato bahasa inggeris peringkat dunia yang namanya tertera kt guinness book of record malaysia pun bercakap dalam bahasa melayu dengan baik? Tanpa mengada2 dan impression yang "Owhh, i sound stupid if i speak.." ehehe..tak payah teruskanla.walaupun saya tau apa pelakon tuh nak cakap sebenarnya, dan bukan niat dia nk merendahkan martabat bahasa melayu, tapi ayat tersebut tak sepatutnya terucap, at the first place.
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Adakah saya tidak suka anda berbahasa Inggeris? Tidak!
Adakah saya tidak akan berbahasa Inggeris selepas ini? Tidak juga.
Tapi, pentingkah bahasa inggeris sebagai bahasa antarabangsa, sampai semua benda dan subjek (di Malaysia) perlu di Inggeriskan? betulkah bahasa inggeris mampu membawa kita ke peringkat global?
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Cerita satu,
lokasi: Jepun

Saya akan menggunakan bahasa Inggeris di Jepun dulu, untuk "menghalau" 'orang yang menjual suratkhabar aka salesman' kunun2 saya tak faham bahasa jepun. Bahasa inggeris adalah bahasa terbaik untuk menghalau anasir2 yang tidak diingini di jepun.
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Cerita dua,
lokasi: Jerman

"Achtung!Polizei!"
Faham? Sangat bahaya jika anda tidak faham dua perkataan di atas. Nak tunggu mereka translate ke English?




Ada nampak bahasa inggeris di atas?
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Cerita tiga,
lokasi: Paris

Setelah seharian dan semalaman tak makan nasi atau makanan berat, saya dan suami berjaya jumpa sebuah restoran makanan halal milik orang turki. Nampak orang kat meja sebelah makan nasi, rasa macam nak menitik air mata, lapar duh~(Ravensburg-Frankfurt-Paris dan masih tak makan)...
Menu tertulis, satu apa pun tak boleh nak baca...macam budak2 saja2 test abc n suka hati jer tulis, macam... tak boleh nak sebut

Me: I want that one... (dengan tak malunya tunjuk kat orang meja sebelah)
Tuan kedai: Vruvsxos (apa ntah dia cakap, tapi dia angguk maksudnya ok la tu)
Me: I want some rice, as well
(sebab orang turki ni kalau kita tak minta nasi, takut dia bagi kentang goreng yang penuh satu pinggan tu.

Tuan kedai: .... (macam blur)rsuvispagidub (apa ntah dia cakap)
Me: Rice, rice
Tuan kedai: ...
Me: Gohang?
Tuan kedai:....

Dan saya dengan tak malunya bangun n tunjuk kat gambar nasi kat signboard, atas kaunter yang tinggi itu.

Me: Kore! Kore! Rice...
Tuan kedai: (senyum2 gelak) A~ ries! ries! Ok.

Baru saya tahu nasi tu "reis" dan sebutannya, "ghisz"... lebih kurangla.
Saya mula merasa segan sebab orang dah pandang2 dan senyum2. Mesti diorang dah boleh agak tahap kelaparan kami.

Pastu minuman lak, (saya agak jer, sebab dah kami order makan, mesti dia tanya nak minum apa, kan? standard la tu..)
Me: Saya nak "orange" "orange"...(ulang dua kali takut tak faham)
Tuan kedai: (senyum)
Nasib baik dia faham.Tak perlula saya berlakon minum pastu kenyut-kenyut muka nak bagitau,kunun2 tgh minum air orange.

...Owhh...kami tidak lagi menggunakan bahasa Inggeris untuk order makanan. Kalau anda perasan, kami juga telah menggunakan bahasa jepun dan bahasa melayu utk order makanan di paris, sebab dah sama taraf dengan bahasa inggeris. Semua mereka tak faham!

Masihkah ada orang yang mendewa-dewakan bahasa Inggeris selepas ini? ...

English is a tool, not an idol (to be worshipped) - me

Klik di sini jika anda masih degil, untuk artikel yang sangat menarik tentang bahasa ---> link disini

credit pics: the owner (pic properties)

Rumah kami memang almost kosong, takder sofa takder apa, nothing. Yang ada cuma tv n rak tv, rak buku n meja. Barang2 lain, semua yang pasang-siap-mudah-alih. Malas nk membeli, thn depan pindah lagi.
Makcik yang mengurut dulu datang dan tengok sekeliling kamar tidur,dan dengan sayunya dan ikhlasnya berkata,

"Iskk..makcik tengok rumah Z* nih teringat dulu2, waktu makcik pindah randah ikut suami, baru-baru kawen, memang takde apa lagi. Suami makcik dulu tentera. Tu la, memang macam ni... tidur bawah (ada tilam jer, katil takder..hehe) jer, almari pun almari kain ni lah..."

Saya sengih-sengih dengar :D
Rumahku syurgaku...:)

Benda-benda perabot nih kami tak ambil peduli sgt, lagipun asik berpindah-randah jer. Tapi betul tak, klu saya cakap, tiap2 orang ada taste dan demandnya sendiri. Atau Japanese cakap kodawari.. Mmm, ada tak? tak baik tipuuu...

Macam kakak saya, baju2nya sehelai rm5 pun ada, zaman2 macam nih mana dia carik ntah. Kain pasang 3 set rm50 la...pandai jek cari. Dia memang tak berbrand langsung ttg aksesori n baju2nya. Tapi bab renovate rumah n perabot2 segala...jgn tanyala.. Abg ipar? Keretanya la kut, n makan... mesti kena sedap, tak kesah kt mana pun.

Kami, huhu..bukan kami, tapi dia, him... rasanya kodawari kt benda2 elektronik la kut, mesti dari brand tertentu. Dan barang2 kami memang semua ada sepasang, sapa yg kenal saya taula kenapa... sbb kami tinggal asing2 dulu. totalled up,5 laptop (satu dh rosak-toshiba dynabook, lelain vaio, acer-murah tp sgtt bykkk jasa, acer- uthm bagi pinjam, n fujitsu-siemen) n 3 digicam (sony). lelain, kami tak ada apa2..tak payahla datang curi, 2 dh disedeqah kt adik2...

Lepas tgk drama tv satu malam tuh, suami saya bertanya satu soklan yg sungguh 'cute',
"Apasal sayang tak macam kt drama tuh, selalunya orang berebut2 dgn jiran nk beli perabot mahalla, langsir baru la, tv besarla..."
Saya sengih2 jer, dia nk cari penyakit ker, kang saya mintak kangg... :P
Jiran kami dulu sangat low profile orangnya, dan ngam jer..Sayangnya dia pindah sbb hubby jadi fellow. Rasanya mungkin sebab dikelilingi oleh kejiranan lecturers dan students, maka tidak ada langsung perasaan nk berlebih dari orang lain. Itu bagusnya dalam kejiranan orang akademik nih, masing2 orientasi kurang kepada kebendaan.

Tak salah kan? Mampu, belilah..tapi jangan smpi ada hati yg terguris klu kita berlebih-lebihan.
Btw, jiran sekarang? Dia pun ok jer, tapi kurang beshnya sbb bukan family. Dia dtg sorang jer kerja. Dia ada merz..ngan sebijik lg kereta... takper dia mampu. Kami tak.
Khalas :)

Aisyah suka bergolek. Suka berleter! Jangan harap nak tidor kalau dia dah bangun. Nanti dia akan berleter sambil tudung2 jari. Kalau mama marah Aisyah, terus dia pandang Cik S, dan dia akan berleter pulak kat cik S. Cik S akan cakap, "Apa plak marah mak lang nih, Aisyah yg kena marah!"
Hehe..cik s memang suka ngusik aisyah.. kelakar tengok mereka "bertengkar". Once, Aisyah actually chased Ms S and poke her behind :P

She's also very good with spoon and fork,so Aisyah suka makan sendiri, ada cup sendiri, spoon n/or fork sendiri.
Aisyah suka suap makanan sendiri, dan suka suap mama...
Aisyah suka menyanyi.
Aisyah suka menari.
Owhhh... ini adalah video Aisyah ber'head banging'..
Warning: Ini adalah head banging yang sungguh teruk! Her self invention :P




This little girl suka merengek! Manja!
Dia tak suka makan! She will scream upon offered anything.

Mama hadiahkan budak kecik nih tricycle..hehe.
Papa hadiahkn bucik nih laptop lama, Toshiba Dynabook- antara laptop tercanggih 9 tahun lalu...ringan sket jer dari desktop.Hehe...besar leh buat iron board.

Mama tak boleh sentuh langsung keyboard tu! Dia sorang jer boleh tekan! Siap tepis2 tangan orang. Isskk.. baru mama perasan, I did the same thing waktu dia kaco keyboard vaio mama...
Insaf!

Fuh~
Siap sudah satu karangan tentang Aisyah.
1 tahun 6 bulan...

Cik S tanya, "Buku yang banyak2 ni nak buat apa? Tak mau buang ka?"
Me, (terkedu).. "buku memang banyak, Kak* punya dari Jepun, UIA ngan abg Z* punya dari Jepun sampai jerman, tu tak masuk buku sendiri lagi. Tapi... JANGAN BUANG!" *sob*

My Iraqi friend commented on my looks (black abaya and not so matching black shawl),
"You know Z*, in Iraq, only old women would wear all black like this. You see, there's an old proverb saying 'You eat what your stomach want to eat, but you dress, what other people's eyes want to see'.."
Huhu..
I thought all black is the modest choice, no? Who cares, btw.

Me, wearing my blue-almost-black sneakers, small Adidas bag, brown shirt and yellow tracks, was making my way to the IIUM library when I stumbled upon my friend, who had never forget to quote that she was the most gorgeous living diva in the university, or Malaysia, in every conversations that we had.
She, "Iskk, kalau saya pakai macam akak ni, saya mesti segan."
Me, I played deaf. What's her problem, anyway?
She, "Isk, saya tak bolehla kalau saya jalan orang tak pandang saya. Tak tengok. Rasa macamm..tak best."
Me, "Kalau akak pakai macam Fasha Sandha then you wouldnt get the slightest chance of getting married any sooner. Owh, Look at your face, I hope that's not what u call pretty"
Kataku dalam hati..Hehe...

But I got her point. Their points.
I acknowledge their perceptions. Their values of life are somewhat different from mine. I respect theirs but DONT cross the border.

Sebenarnya, saya tidak memberikan sebarang jawapan kepada pendapat2 yang diajukan kepada saya, yang saya anggap rendah tarafnya atau sangat tidak bijak! Kalau orang lain anggap itu adalah 'kesabaran', sebenarnya tidak. Ia lebih kepada 'malas nak layan'...
Apa salahnya jika kita mempunyai persepsi yang berbeza tentang sesuatu perkara? Life shouldnt be monotone, rite? Jangan buat dosa, dah..
Lalala..la

Talking about different perception of life, the more you get in touch with different people from different races/ nations/ colors etc, the more you'll get to know that the thing we call 'class' is sometimes made-believe.

Tak percaya?

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Di Germany, IKEA merupakan brand items yang dihampiri hanya oleh orang2 dengan limited budget to spend on furnitures, says, foreigners, foreign students, etc etc. Ia dikelaskan sebagai 'low-budget brands'. Kualiti perabotnya agak mendukacitakan, walaupun 'accessories'nya boleh tahan. Bagi rakyat Germany yang mementingkan kualiti dalam semua aspek kehidupan harian, this Sweden-born trademark memang tak menepati piawai mereka. Barangan IKEA yang kami ada ialah 2 buah almari pakaian dan tilam angin segera... tak besh!

-sources: (German graduates)

8 hari lalu, saya baru tahu bahawa di Malaysia nih, IKEA ni adalah brand yang agak mewah. Memang...dan masih... susah nak percaya

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Bata adalah kasut yang anda tidak akan bawa ke function hi-tea untuk dipadankan dengan baju yang glam habis..di Malaysia
Tapi di hauptbahnhof straße di Zurich, di mana saya menjadi saksi seorang makcik yang nampak paling tak mewah kat sini pun (pakai singlet n seluar pendek) bawak anjing jalan2 dengan kolar anjing brand LV.Kasut makcik tu juga! Owh..skarfnya Burberry... okay, back to the point, kat sini di mana hanya jutawan2 yang mampu bershopping sakan, yang cuma ada emporium LV, Coach, Tiffany, Rolex etc, juga ada gedung Bata!

Harganya?
Tengok sendiri - Harga asal CHF 69.90, after discount you can get a pair of Bata for only CHF39.90, that was... RM120 only !
:P

Aidil Fitri di Johor nih khabarnya agak meriah. Rumah terbuka pun anytime within sebulan Syawal tuh masih meriah.

Kumpulan marhaban akan melawat satu rumah pada satu malam, sehingga habis satu syawal. Dan tuan rumah pula akan menjamu kumpulan tersebut dan orang yang bertandang apa2 hidangan, ringan atau berat. Malangnya malangnya...saya tak berpeluang merasa meriahnya marhaban datang ke rumah, sebab qari kt perumahan nih khabarnya belum set up lagi. Lagipun di sini kebanyakannya orang perantau (lecturers, students, foreign workers) yang tidak begitu sempat (?) berqariah, agak sayalah..

Err, lepas tu bebudak kutip duit raya pun sebulan juga! Saya sudah terkena... maluunya, kuih raya dah habis:) Huhu.. memalukan. Sooo embarassing! Err..Tahun depan auntie buat kek coklat, air coklat ais dan cookies coklat, datangla yer:)

Btw, saya tidak pasti sambutan aidiladha nya bagaimana, dan saya tanak amik risiko. Sebab...Aidil Fitri di Kedah sangat meriah. Minus the one month fasting period, ziarah-menziarah, kunjungan kanak2, bunga api,duit raya dsb tetap sama seperti Aidil Fitri. In addition to all these, ada qurban di sana-sini :) Huhu...beshnya. Makan daging sampai mabuk..

Atas sebab2 di ataslah, saya agak hangin bila baru 30 Nov, carrefour dah berhias macam north pole. Pathetic, ok? FCFS, right?

Beshnya kali ni, nak jumpa niece baru, Aneesa. Plus, the other niece, 9months old Arissa dah sihat selepas warded dulu (jangkitan paru2). Alhamdulillah.

Tak beshnya, my sis akan balik Kelate. Nak buat macamana, dah AidilFitri memang confirm balik Kedah. Ugghhh... Bila my sis takder, agak awkward sket suasana di dapur. Hehehe..


Saya suka gambar ini, kerana semua orang macam tak besedia, kecuali saya. *evil*


Owh, anak2 Pak Mat tak cukup 5 orang. Tak besh!
Tak jumpa niece, Atilia. Tak besh!
(Arwah) Cik Ad tak balik. Double tak besh!
Jumpa niece baru, Aneesa. Besh!
Boleh makan2 seafood yang way cheaper. Besh!
Jumpa mak ayah. Double besh!

SeLaMaT HaRi RaYa AiDiL AdHa! MaaF ZaHiR BaTin!

Owwhh..btw btw, if any of you still remember the project startsinme, the magazine that i (with my friends) would like to produce?
Huhu.. Someone out there seemed to go to the top 10 finalists with the almost-the-same idea of publishing the magazine book- for girls.Ive submitted it on October while theirs on november something..
Well, how do i conclude this?
Takperla, concept sama- kebetulan jer tu! Isi kandungannya lain (kut)
After all, mine is meant for charity

Akhir2 ni saya banyak melompat dari satu blog ke blog yang lain. Pelbagai manusia pelbagai ragam..
Blog masing2 dilukis mengikut citarasa masing2, bergantung kepada apa yang dirasakannya sangat penting dan menjadi keutamaan dalam hidupnya
1. Orang yang terlalu terdesak untuk dianggap cantik menawan, akan cuba sedaya upaya meletakkan imaginasi pembacanya agar berfikir yang sedemikian
2. Orang yang mengharap dirinya digolongkan dalam golongan berada, sedaya upaya menampilkan dirinya sebagai seorang yang berada dalam golongan 'atasan'
3. Orang yang merasanya dirinya bukan melayu dan lebih tinggi tarafnya, atau bahasa Inggerisnya, cuba sedaya upaya menggambarkan hebatnya dirinya yang entah mana kacuknya
4. Orang yang ingin dianggap lucu, ada yang sanggup pula membuka pekung sendiri dan keluarga, atau sesiapa sahaja
Salah atau tidak, bergantunglah kepada niat asal si penulis, bukan? Dan niat juga tidak menghalalkan cara, kata ustazah saya.

Saya sangkakan orang yang berblog ni adalah untuk
1. mengeratkan silaturrahim
2. mencatatkan memori indah (untuk anak-anaknya barangkali)
3. berkongsi perasaan duka dan bertukar2 pendapat
4. menambahkan ilmu dan berkongsi sama

Rupa2nya ada juga pembenci yang menikam sesama sendiri...membuka pekung sesama mereka..bercerita tentang hebatnya dan tingginya taraf mereka kerana mampu melakukan dosa yang termasuk dalam 75 perkara...Ughhh..
Kini saya baru faham apa yang dikatakan oleh Umie dulu, dunia blogging itu memang menakutkan.

Namun saya bersyukur, blog saya hanya dibaca oleh rakan-rakan terdekat. Dan rakan2 saya pula bukanlah orang yang cepat membenci atau iri hati, kerana mereka adalah sekumpulan ahli2 akademik, atau sekumpulan wanita yang sangat hebat dalam bidang masing2. Ada ahli agama, ada jurutera di syarikat terkemuka, ada surirumah yang pakar segala, ada wanita yang mulia akhlaknya dan tinggi pekertinya, ada yang nampak rendah diri sahaja tetapi bila disampingnya kita rasa selesa dan gembira...
hebat kan?
Saya beruntung kerana dikelilingi orang yang sebegini. Mereka ceria, mereka menerima saya seadanya..Membetulkan yang tak kena, berjenaka tentang yang tak jadi, bergembira sama dengan perkara yg berjaya.
Alhamdulillah..

Pun begitu saya bersyukur, bukan semua orang yang berblog itu berfikiran pendek.. Saya masih suka baca blog2 yang
1. Tulis tentang dirinya dan keluarganya tanpa unsur2 riak atau buka pekung di dada,
2. Blog yang lucu tanpa mengenakan sesiapa
3. Blog yang pelajar tulis, yang menggambarkan cara hidupnya yang memang benar
4. Blog yang ditulis oleh golongan cendekiawan atau profesional, pensyarah, jurutera etc (Err, bilalah kawan saya yang pensyarah undang2 itu akan mula berblog?)
5. Blog yang ditulis oleh lelaki, terutamanya seorang ayah... Memang istimewa!
6. Blog oleh golongan agama yang kurang jargonnya (memang agak bermasalah untuk memahami istilah2 yang terlalu berat, Bahasa Arab pun sampai Tingkatan dua sahaja)
7. Blog yang ada gambar2 cantik
8. Blog resipi bergambar...hehehe...Sedaapp jer tengok. Nak tiru pun semangat sikit

Ehehe.. sikit2 sudahlaa.
Owhh..Dalam pada itu, sedar atau tidak, saya telah berjaya menyiapkan satu karangan di dalam bahasa Melayu sepenuhnya..Agak-agak berapa markah saya, ya, Ida? kehehe
Tapi, err, blog itu apa terjemahan Melayunya? Belog? Belok? Blok?

Tonight, three brightest celestial objects on the sky have unusually created an awesome triumvirate, to form a spectacular smiling face.


Hubby yang baru balik solat kat masjid bagitau yang bulan dan dua 'bintang' membentuk wajah yang tersenyum. Very nicee...My sony cant capture those spectacular scene, predictably.. and sadly enough..

Well, it turned out that those 2 stars were actually jupiter and venus, being just 2degree apart from each other.


Kalau kat real sky, cuma part bulan yang terang (bahagian bawah) jer yang nampak, thus, memang cantik dan membentuk a perfect smile, i may say.
More news here .

Cepat2 call ayah, waktu kecik2 ayah memang selalu bawak saya kuar ke tengah halaman tengok langit, n bintang, n buruj... Bukan senang nak dapat pemandangan langit yang awesome. So everytime ada spectacular sight kat langit, saya mesti ingat ayah.
Ayah sanggup keluar dari mesyuarat kecil kampung semata2 nak tengok that particular sight.Well, some things never changed, never should. kan kan? Malangnya, ayah cakap langit kat kampung terlalu mendung dan gelap. Maka bulan dilindungi awan...

Takpa, ada rezki kita g Alaska, tengok aurora..heheh..

Kat umah FIL and MIL haritu, I begged him nak pegi somewhere...

Pastu somebody yang mendengar tetiba menyampuk: Naper orang perempuan sesibuk nak cantik2 jer, nanti tua jugak.

"Iyolah tu. Nak cari member study pun penat bertanya 'cute tak, akak' ?" kataku dalam hati.

"Ala..akak tak kisah. Tua memang akan tua. Fine. Tapi kalau boleh biarlah gracefully old." kataku dalam tone nada budak2 sekolah yang tanak kalah.

As for me, gracefully old refers to

1. A woman who knows how to enhance healty beauty in natural ways

Julie Andrews, at 68 years old


2. A woman who is strong and unbreakable in the inside


Aung San Suu Kyi, at 62 years old


3. A woman who has every right to be on hilltop but choose to stay low


Tun Dr Siti Hasmah, at 80 years old


4. A wise and passionate mother


Any woman, at any age


This is my definition of "gracefully old"...

Your Blogging Type is Confident and Insightful

You've got a ton of brain power, and you leverage it into brilliant blog. Both creative and logical, you come up with amazing ideas and insights. A total perfectionist, you find yourself revising and rewriting posts a lot of the time. You blog for yourself - and you don't care how popular (or unpopular) your blog is!

Well, I dun mind this :)
But then...

Your Surfing Habits are 70% Male, 30% Female

If we had to guess, we would guess that you are a man. You use the internet to make your life more efficient - and to make you smarter. For you, the internet is like a vast encyclopedia. You search and surf extensively. You look up everything online.

Man? A man? Just...how am I suppose to react to this? Can't a woman use internet for the same purposes?Err...let's try another test




Okay, dont believe everything you read or see on the net.

"Kak*, pasport boleh buat cepat ka?" tanya my house assistant suddenly.
Cik S memang suka tanya mengejut, kadang2 tengah tengok naruto kat tv, dia boleh tanya, "yang tu nak potong berapa?"
Terkejut tak?
Err..
Nak potong Naruto?
Ker nak potong tivi?
Rupa-rupanya dia mentioned tentang ayam kat sinki dapur, yang dah siap dibasuh.:D

Kali ni dia dah bagitau tajuk dalam ayat pertanyaan tu siap2,ok la. Selalunya dia guna 'yang tu' atau 'yang ni' jer... Penat tau, kalau tetiba dalam telefon "Yang tu nak buat yang macam tadi ka?" Hehee...

Me: Passport buat sehari ja siap. Kalau buat pagi, petang tu boleh amik...
Cik S: Cepattnya?!
Me: Ya la. Skang ni dah cepat. Yang lambat tu visa, lambat la.
Cik S: ...
Me:...
Cik S: Tak la...nih...passport...nak buat passport.
Me: Nak buat passport nak p mana?
Cik S: ...
Me: Argghh... Nak buat IC ka nak buat passport?
Cik S: (Gelak-gelak)Passport.
Me: Owh, dun tell me.. passport ngan IC tu sama ka? (tanyaku dengan innoncentnya?)
Cik S: Sama.. (Gelak2 lagi)
Me: Arrggghhh

Huhu...macamana la boleh lupa, orang tua-tua kat kedah kadang2 guna perkataan 'passport' untuk ganti 'IC'... fuh~ ingatkan cik S merajuk sampai nak lari g obersee..

Cik S: Si kecik nih (Aisyah) dah buat pasport ka?
Me: Dahh... Baby kan memang kalau g daftar terus dapat passport.
Cik S: Oo..senang arr...
Me: Yer la, baby kan dah ada passport ngan surat beranak masing2
Cik S: Nanti kalau pi sana, sambung belajar nanti, tak payahla buat kat dia dah
Me: Err..

Pening!

"SURPRISEEE!!" said Aisyah.

A surprise visit to Papa's Office!

"Salah ni...tengok saya buat yer"



"Since shear strain is proportional to twist and radius..."



"Given that the outer radius of the shaft is..."



"Err...kat mana tadi?"



"Aa...the maximum shear stress dia zero la papa!"



"Tak percaya papa cuba reverse math nih."



"Selow-nya internet nih, betul ker setup nih?"




Yerrla tu...
Sebenarnya, this was a surprise visit to Papa's office, kasi semangat untuk papa yang sibuk2 study untuk IELTS.

Lamanya tak outing sorang2. So last Saturday, I begged him to let me go for an outing- alone! First, he insisted me to go with the house assisstant. Arggh... But the next morning, he said 'okayla'...Thus I went out as soon as I could, b4 he changed his mind again :P
Memang best travel sorang2, makan sorang2, shopping sorang2. Call me freak tapi bagus tau untuk meregangkan tension2 dalam minda. Kat UIA pun selalu kuar sorang2 g jusco, klcc, kinokuninya, pwtc etc2... Ehehe...kat jepun pun. g jerman sorang2 pun biasa. bukanla isolate diri sampai 24jam, just take few hours a day for youself.
mak called me "berani sangat!", he said "berani sangat".. Eh, sama lak.Diorang allied kut.

Part One
I decided to take LRT. I hate bus. Hahaha.. Trauma. I was walking alone when an XY started to tease me. "Hai, awak dari mana? Tinggal blok mana?..." Agaknya pemuda itu rabun dekat, atau sudah give up dengan rutin hidupnya yang membosankan. So me buat2 bisu.Tapi dia cam tak percaya jer. Terus ikut sampai half way ke LRT. Ok. Buat bisu tak jadi, so buat tak reti? Mungkin lama2, dek segan orang asik tengok dia cakap sorang2, terus dia jerit "Bye awak! Cantikla bertudung pula tuh!"
Sah! Dia nih rabun dekat.

Part Two
Sampai kat Titiwangsa, transit amik monorel. Lama benor tak naik monorel. Ramainya pakai LV. Ada yang authentic ada yang fake! Juga nampak restoran Jepun, China dan Korea. Kedai minyak wangi Egypt dsb. Now, that's what I call 'Kuala Lumpur'. You can find anything, everything here. Dari makcik yang try to look datin sehinggalah tabligh yang berlelucon dalam kumpulan masing2... Ooh, this city is so wonderful :) Melihat KL dari atas monorel membuatkan saya rasa seperti wonderpets.
"Sebut terbang!"
"Sebut...terbangg!"
...
...
Okay, Im exaggerating.

Part Three
Sesampai jer kat area yang nak shopping tuh, rasa macam masuk ghost town. Kedai tuh tutup. Kedai sebelahnya pun tutup. Kedai depannya juga. Kedai yang dibelakangnya, di kiri, kanan dan seberang jalan, semua tutup. Huhu...penatnya. Dahlaa bukan senang tau nak jenjalan sensorang nih.. Uwaa! Kenapala tutup hari Ahad?!Ughh,penatnya.
Nak wat camner, patah balik jerla. Rupa-rupanya ada LRT Star direct ke rumah! tak payah tukor2 monorel. Uhuhu.. Double penat.

Part Four
So untuk menghilangkan penat tu, terpaksala singgah Sogo. Tengah pilih2 baju and handed the sales person for billing, tiba2 Ah So tu cakap, "You aa, kitorang service you baik2, you cakapla elok2."
..
Errk? Apahal ni?
Dengan malasnya saya tanya, "Kenapa? I ada cakap tak elok dengan you ker?"
That makcik, "Ya la, you diam-diam sajaa..."

Kehehe...sah makcik ni pun rabun dekat. Sebenarnya waktu tu saya rasa nak tergelak, takkanla saya pilih baju kena nyanyi2 ker cakap sengsorang ker?
"I want to teach you, so you pergi department lain tak ler you diam2..."

Whatever. Sebenarnya saya memang malas nak melayan orang yang low mentality cam tu. So saya biarkan dia "merasa menang"... Alaa... people like that, they wanted to feel as if they are taking control of the situation. Ugly. Pathetic. So I play dumb, let her do the talking.

I went to the register, bayar pakai duit plastic. Dibuatnya kad tu tak boleh read, kehehe, tak pasal2 kena pulang semula. I had only RM50 in my pocket, plus foreign money yang memang tak laku kat mesia. Lap lantai sogo? hehe..
Okey, khalas! Items paid!
"Kita raikan dengan daun saderi!"

Part Five
Cadangnya nak lepak2 kat Secret Recipe, tapi risau lak. Karang diam2 orang cakap sombong. Tapi...takkan nak nyanyi lagu "Wonderpet" sengsorang kut. Owhh.. mimpi ngeri. Terpaksala balik.
On the way g stesen, kat jejantas tu, lepak jap tengok construction bawah jalan, tepi sogo. Wow! Tengok banyak kali pun still kagum.
Pergila tengok sendiri. Awesome engineering work in progress. Four layers under the road.
Whilst the left (Sogo) and the right side are packed and crowded with tall buildings. There was this new skyscrapper on the opposite site of Sogo which wasnt there last year.


Fuu~ KL.. Sampai mana lagi ia akan berubah?

Part Six
Sampai jer LRT Sentul, saya turun n senget2kan sikit tudung. Motif? Entahlaa...nampak garang sikit kut. On the way, buat video conference dengan my little sweetheart.
"Aisyah rindu mama?"
"Yayaya.."
"Aisyah nak pesan mama beli apa?"
"Gya gya gyaa.."
Kehehe...
I bought 12 keping apam balik!

Part Seven
Sampai rumah, tak lambat selepas makan2, Aisyah tido. And my hubby ajak tengok datuk main badminton, final china. Huhu..dah namanya datuk, mestila tak larat kan? Saya nih kalau main badminton, kadang2 serve badminton tak lepas, jarak court (out atau tak) pun tak boleh agak, shuttlecock tu jatuh kiri kanan pun tak leh teka, and kalau boleh return pun direct ke raket pemain lawan. Ingatkan saya sorang jer camtu, rupa-rupanya pemain number dua dunia pun camtu. So adakah ini menaiktarafkan daku menjadi pemain nombor satu?
tensen...
tukar channel tengok sejarah mogul "The Maghuls"... lagi best!

Part Eight
Penat tengok datuk ber'bad'minton n baru nak terlelap, tetiba adik ipar n family datang, plus anaknya yang cute itu. Kelakar, bergilir2 babysit 3 orang babies (termasuk cucu MIL yang baru dibawa ke KL) dan ambil giliran memandikan baby.

Part Nine
Lepas tu hantar adik ipar ke uia nilai, n met my brother kt situ.Err, didnt i mention anything about them studying in the same course, law? Hehe, kinda funny.
Baliknya singgah Kajang.
Aisyah asik jalan dan jalan dan jalan, seolah2 kalau dia stop berjalan, dunia akan terbalik. Non-stoppable.Penatnya menjadi bodyguard. Kan ker dia tu tinggi2 Shin Chan jer. Bahaya betul, takut orang tak nampak.

Yummy!!
Opps, btw, jangan pesan air suam kat samuri tu. Dah dua kali order tak dapat2. Err, order tahun lepas (ngan kakak) pun tak antar lagi tau!

Part Ten
Tengah elok2 main, Aisyah menjerit-jerit sakit perut. Rasanya tak makan apa2 pun tadi, satay tu pun dia gigit2 luah jer. Siann...
Bila dah okey, dia sambung semula main2, sampai lebih kul 1 am.My house assistant tolong main n tidorkan Aisyah...
Uwh...

It's been a long day.

Before resign dari Stanchart tempohari, saya terpaksa jadi interviewer utk hire pengganti saya, utk jawatan yg bakal dikosongkan. Sebenarnya, antara tugas saya yang terpenting sebenarnya adalah utk menilai kemampuan bahasa Jepun interviewee. So basically, antara soklan yang saya tanya
(Dalam bahasa Jepun, tentunya)
Me: "Boleh ceritakan tentang kos awak di Jepun dan apa yang awak belajar di sana?"
Him: Blablabla...
(Jawapannya okla, rasanya dia pun dah boleh agak soklan ni keluar.)
Me: "Ok. Sekarang saya letakkan awak dalam situasi yang mana VVIP yang sememangnya melakukan business yang penting, tiba2 mendapati dia tak boleh login ke PCnya, kt workstationla. Malahan bukan setakat tu jer, PCnya cuma tunjuk blue screen. Apa awak nak buat?"

Dengan soklan kedua nih, saya bukanlah nak dapatkan tahap ketererannya dlm komputer, tapi sebagai org bank, cara menjaga hati kastemer sangatlah penting. Setiap VVIP calls kena pick up within 10 seconds, dan panggilan dari jepun mestilah diangkat tidak kurang dari 7seconds. Dah tu, tak bolehla nak layan VVIP atau customer macam orang Streamyx atau frontiers gomen layan orang. Everything needs "answer".. takpun "action".

Tapi saya agak kecewa dengan jawapan yang diberikan oleh si interviewee. Berbelit-belit-belit. Kita kenalah tau PC tu macamana keadaannya, kena tau situasinya, kena tau itu ini... Ok, 3minit terbuang.

Pastu saya tanya sekali lagi, (dalam bahasa jepun jugala) "So apa tindakan yang akan awak ambil? kastemer nih tak boleh langsung login pc. skrin tak keluar apa2, cuma 'blue screen'"
Pastu dia ulang benda yang sama, dalam 5minit lagi.

To be honest, saya cuma mengharapkan satu dari dua jawapan shj!
Kalau dia celik komputer, dia boleh jawab, "Restart je la PC tu."
Kalau dia kurang savvy sket, saya cuma harapkan dia jawab "Maaf, saya tak familiar sgt dengan problem2 yg biasa berlaku di bank. So saya akan tanya colleague dulu..." atau yang seumpamanya dengannya. So saya cuma nak dengar kata kuncinya "tanya orang" atau "darekani kiitemimasu"

Huhu...
Keciwa saya.
Sebenarnya dari segi penampilan, saya memang dah nak recommend him, kemas, very neat n polite. Sebenarnya dia senior dari segi umur, tapi harap2nya dia tak perasan. Ecece.. Lagipun dia cakap dia dh kawin, so for sure dia akan bekerja sungguh2 nnti.
Tapi...

Bila diberi giliran dia pula bertanya, dia boleh cakap,
Him: "Saya sebenarnya dapat dua offer dengan gaji yang sama. So boleh tak bagitau saya samada saya dapat atau tak job nih?"
My manager: "Well, we need some time to process your application."
Him: "Tapi saya perlukan jawapan segera sebab kalau dapat, saya tak perlu attend kija yang satu lagi."
My managers (two of them) and me,we were loking at each other, stunned by his boldness
Manager: Kija awak tu bila start?
Him: Blabla.. So bila saya boleh tau kija nih dapat ker tak? Hari ni tak boleh tau ker agak2 dapat ker tak?
Manager: We really need some time to process. Because to be honest, we also have other interviewees coming later.
Him: tapi tempat tu jauh. Sebab tu kalau boleh saya prefer kija di sini. Cuma, klu saya daftar di sana, sy akan bonded dan klu lepas tu...blabla
Manager: Well, we really need some time to process and all we can ask from you is to be fair to us, by giving us some sufficient time to go through all the applications.
(Huhu, tak pernah dengar orang cakap sepolite itu dengan interviewee)

Sebaik saja session interview tu habis, kami bertiga berpandangan dan tergelak sendiri. Hasil discussion (tak lama pun), kami sebulat suara berpakat untuk tidak memilihnya. Senang! Kan dia nak jawapan yang pantas?

So basically, lepas tu, saya tak rasa takut dah nak menghadapi interview kija. Kihihi, kalau interview utk scholarship rasanya masih cuak kut.

Tapi tu lah, bila dah berada di posisi yang bertentangan, kita dapat 'melihat' sesuatu itu dengan lebih jelas. Bila berada di tempat interviewer, saya dapat merumuskan yang actually, interviewer nak seseorang yang dapat bekerja dengannya, bersamanya dan mengikut caranya. Dan semakin seseorang itu cuba nak menipu, atau nak berbelit-belit, walaupun interviewer tu tak sure betul atau tak apa yg dicakapkannya, interviewer akan merasa ragu2. Hence, semakin banyak cakap orang itu, semakin 'annoying' pula rasanya.

Interviewer juga manusia, semakin kita bersungguh2 menjawab soklan, semakin dia kesian dengan kita. So, dia takkan reject terus, habis2 KIV jer (melainkan a very highly competitive job, then resume, skill is everything). So
1. Appearance. Kemas tapi berpada2lah.
2. Jawablah secara jujur.
3. Ambil masa sekejap untuk menjawab. Ini bukan acara tekan buzzer. Imbas kembali apa yang dah diajar jika perlu.
4. Jangan melenggang. Bawak something especially resume, of coz. Takla nampak malas sgt kan
5. Be wise and be honest.
6. Rilex. Kalau tak boleh confident pun tak per, asalkan cool down, sebab confident came naturally klu kita dah fully prepared.
7. Anggap jer interviewer tu tak sebijak anda.. ehehehe. Jahat kan, me? Yer la, manusia ni kan kelebihannya lain2, jadi mesti awak ada satu kelebihan yang awak ada tapi tiada pada interviewer tu. Mesti ada. So bring him there!


Tapi nasihat yang paling berguna yang saya pernah terima untuk interview ni ialah "jadilah diri sendiri. Kalau kita tak dapat kija tu bererti kita memang tak sesuai kija di situ, sebab management tu tak dapat nak terima kita. Dan tentunya kita juga tak akan dapat terima cara management di situ dan bos tempat tu"
dan
"interview does not mean you are being interviewed solely. It also implies that you are also interviewing them, whether they suit to be your boss/colleagues or not!"


siapala saya utk memberi nasihat... Ini cuma pengalaman untuk dikongsi. Yang baik jadikan teladan.
So..
Good luck semua graduan!

I have had bad days.
But I know, I would be good, i'll be ok, all in a blink.


Thou art thyself that doth dispense.

Rumah kami kat johor takder astro. Memadailah tv. Lagipun boleh dapat jelas 4 channel Singapore, rancangan2 Singapore memang menarik dan informative. Real tv pun ada bahas antara sekolah yg spontan, ada cipta software, treasure hunt guna gprs, etc. Sib baik tak dapat channel indonesia macam kt umah lama dulu, iklan2 dan drama tv nya tak sesuai utk tontonan kanak2 dari pelbagai segi. kalau harini ada harimau jadian, esoknya ada ular jadian, lusanya buaya jelmaan. huhu..cukuplah yer, tanak elaborate. (lagu-lagunya saya suka, tapi sinetronnya mungkin bukan taste saya)

kalau balik kampung memang pasang astro. Tapi selalunya kena amik number.

"Fuh~ jenis nih susah nak dapat nih. Skill tinggi dowh. Tu, besar dari peha tuh"
...err
Tu kalau adik no 1, konpem dia akan tengok yg memancing2 tuh.

"Giloo lawa. Dapat sebijik nih. Gilooo"
Kalau adik no 2, segala2 yg berkaitan dengan motor n kereta
...errkk..patutla tidorku berbunyi vroom vroom


"Mak sat la, ni nak tengok dia dah nak masuk last stage dh nih. Orang tunggu dari minggu lepas lagi nih"
(Waktu tengok Ueki no hosoku)
Kalau adik no 3, kompem tengok anime


"Cepat, nak tengok farhan nih nyanyi plak."
Hehe, rasa-rasa mak saya suka tengok apa?

Tapi tak tahannya kalau time ayah tengok rancangan kegemarannya. Kalau setakat pagi tengok gajah, tengah hari harimau, malam monyet, tu kira okla, ilmiah jugak. No problem. Tapi kalau tengah makan malam kena tengok katak dimakan ular,
errrkkk....

"Hah tu, jahat tuh... pijak ja, biar lenyek!"
My MIL and FIL tercinta... tengok gusti rupanya

Too slow!!

This is stream-yx


And this...


is SCREAMYX!

Papa bought something for her last night. And seeing that, she immediately begged us to let her sit inside it. We'd never used a tub to bath her, hihi, i opted for the conventional way of laying her on my lap until she was around 3months old.
Thus, when she woke up this morning, this was what she did... err...been doing.Didnt even 'mandi' yet!
Huhu..
She's been refusing to come out of it, until this very second!

Me: Comotnya anak mama... Mandi dulu jom.
Her: (Geleng2)

I consider myself as a very politic illiterate.Hence, I prefer to keep my points of view from a different angle..
The whole world are talking about Obama's countdown to the white house. Out of the blue, he managed to draw an enormous attention from Muslims, economists, middle-class citizens, the blacks and the colors and and... This attention (and curiosity) is translated as HOPE!

Im not the right person to predict what he has to offer us in the future, however, this madness that is being celebrated by the whole world at this very moment kind of reminds me to something similar, very similar indeed. It was way back in 2001 while I was in japan.

CHAPTER ONE: The Koizumi mania!

Yea, you heard it right. 2001- that was when Japan's economy were in alarm. Koizumi was described as "someone whom interacted with, not merely reacted to, his political environment". Everybody was talking about how he used to smile a lot more than the previous PMs and how his white and tousled hair resembles 'lion', thus honoured him with the name, "Lion heart"...
Then came food, okashii etc named after him or shaped to resemble him. People rushed to the stores to get their own and limited stocks of tshirts, hand phone straps, dolls, caps, etc etc). Many study papers (master thesis, journals etc) were published regarding his political views and security politics transformation.


In short, every single things he did attracted thousands interpretations and speculations. His hair, his shirts, his shoes, his neckties! Suddenly the world seemed to revolve around him.




On the other hand,a woman stabbed herself in the neck and stomach in a suicide attempt after trying to drive a car into the Japanese prime minister's official residence. Whilst, a Japanese man has slashed his throat with a knife in an apparent suicide bid at a rally where Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi was launching his party's parliamentary election campaign.

Scary huh! Just to let you know the huge impact he had on Japan and its people.

CHAPTER TWO: OBAMANIA



"A man who jumped 60 feet to his death from the Spaghetti Bowl on Thursday left a note with a message for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama. "

Found similarities? Coincidence, maybe..
Let's not put hope aside.