Malam Yang Pantas

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Aku Hampa

Dah kol 11.30 malam. Aku masih lom tido. Kecewa sgt sebab aku tunggu punya tunggu punya tunggu, last2 software yg aku download tu tak bole guna plak. Huhu.

Tapi pada masa yg sama sempat jugak aku kacau wife aku yg tengah nyenyak tido. Hehe. Sempak la kitorg borak2 kejap. Pastu dier sambung tido. Aku pon tanak la ganggu dier sgt. Lagipon skrg ni dier agak busy kat opis. Aku pon camtu gak. Minggu ni je ada 3 kali meeting dgn vendor. Penat tul. Petang tadi aku balik agak lewat. Dalam kol 7.30 malam baru kuar opis. Pastu aku terus gi McD. Dah taktau nak makan apa. Kebab dah tak lalu. Nak masak tak larat plak. Last2 aku gi McD jela. Hmm. OK la. Aku nak relax2 jap sambil makan keropok & minum air teh. Sok kene gi opis awal. Byk plak keje aku sebelum nak bercuti ni. Hmm.

Adeh...Raya

I have never thought that internet can influence so many things in my life. Since the internet connection has not been improved till now, I was a bit depressed. Coming from Malaysia, a place where I was born surrounded by joyful families and relatives and always kept busy by numbers of social and outdoor activities with my friends, I am totally lost here especially when the internet connection is not working as supposedly. I thought it will take only the last weekend due to maintenance jobs but my prediction was completely wrong. I am still unable to connect to the internet in my room and fortunately it is not just happened to me. So, this is not really my problem. I just found out that there is a notice posted next to the lift which highlights on this internet failure and the bad news is the hotel management didn’t know till when this problem may be resolved. Hmm.

OK. Maybe it’s not too late for me to wish you all “SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILADHA”. When I called my wife this morning, she was back from her friend’s open house. Sort of. She told me that her friend has prepared a lot of most favorite dishes during this celebration. I listened to her imaginatively. Later, I informed her that internet connection in my room still remains badly and then I went straight to my office. Yeah, I am working today!

When I checked my mails, there were only few mails sent by my Manager concerning some vendor documents that need to be commented. There were no mails from my friends in Malaysia which normally makes my mailbox full every day with their continuous “reply to all” jokes. Sometimes, their mails really make my day after all nerve-racking day. I am sure my mailbox will get back to its maximum capacity tomorrow.

I think internet really makes me a different person in the sense of my social interaction with friends. In other words, it makes me always take things for granted. Kind of. For example, one of my old friends is happen to get married recently and I knew about it from the e-community. Actually, he has sent an invitation card to my parent’s house but since I am still stuck here, so I just leave him a message via email and congratulate him for approaching a new and blissful phase of his life without checking whether the message has been delivered properly or not (may happen due to bad internet connection). By mistake, he didn’t received my message and few days later he called and invited me personally to his wedding reception which will take place a week later. After few minutes of laughing and talking with him since years we left our high school, finally he knows that I am not able to be part of his big day.

*This post was published yesterday when wireless connection was temporarily available in my room

Internet Dah OK =)

Adeh. Penatnye. Actually, pagi ni masa aku bangun, internet connection sgt2 teruk. Kebetulan plak masa tu wife aku baru balik dari opis, pastu dier call aku tanye aku kat mana. Time tu aku baru bgn tido. Pastu nak online, tak bole plak. Kecewa tul. Lama gak aku try. Last2 aku call receptionist. Dier bagitau memang ada problem. Isnin ni baru OK. Hmm. So, tak dpt la aku chat dgn wife aku.

Lepas tu, aku masak air and buat cucur ikan bilis. Lapar. Padahal malam semalam aku dah bedal nasi beriyani udang & roti nan ngan kuah dhal. Memang puas ati makan semalam. Sebab semalam aku tak makan masa lunch. Sebab ari jumaat biasa nya memang tak sempat nak makan lunch. Biasa nya akan sampai opis lebih kul 2 petang pas semayang jumaat. Cafeteria pon dah tutup. So, tak kisah la tak makan lunch. Tapi dinner memang aku bantai habis2an.

Pagi tadi pas makan cucur ikan bilis ngan roti, aku terus siap2 kuar. Maklum la takde apa nak buat kalu internet takde. Memang boring gile. TV sume cite ngarut2. Boring plak aku. Lagipon aku dah lama tak main2 dgn kamera aku tu. Kebetulan plak skrg ni “musim raya”. Maksud aku Christmas la. Aidiladha yg tinggal lagi 2 ari ni memang takde sambutan kat sini. Best la kat Malaysia cuti. Tapi takpe, Christmas nanti aku plak cuti. Panjang plak tu. Haha.

OK. Memula aku jalan2 area tempat aku ni. Ada Christmas market. Meriah sgt. Mcm2 ada. Market ni ala2 bazaar raya macam kat Jalan TAR la tapi lebih bersih, selesa dan besar. Walaupon penuh dgn org, tapi tetap tak rase sesak. So, bole la nak stop kat sume kedai tu. Aku tgk2 je. Taktau nak beli apa. Hehe.

Lepas penat pusing2 kat market tu, aku gi McD plak. Masa untuk lunch. Memang penuh gile dgn org. selamat la aku ni sebatang kara je time tu. Senang sket nak cari tempat duduk. Lepas makan, aku pusing2 dalam shopping mall tu. Saje tgk2 sebab kat berita skrg ni kecoh pasal Christmas sale. Tapi bile aku survey2, takde la sale pon. Biasa je. Tak macam Malaysia. Kalu sale tak ingat. Sampai nak parking pon kat tepi jalan. Punye dasyat org Malaysia shopping. Hehe. Tapi kebanyakan kedai2 yg aku pegi dalam mall tu, sume harga lebih kurang mcm biasa je. So, aku tak beli la apa2. Ingat nak jugak beli. Tapi nanti la. Hehe.

OK. Lepas aku penat pusing2 dalam mall tu, aku terus balik bilik aku. Sebelum tu aku singgah beli kebab dulu untuk makan malam. Hehe. Sampai kat bilik, aku rest kejap & try online. Sama jugak. Takleh nak online. Hish. Geram gile. Lepas maghrib, aku kuar lagi. Memula aku ajak kawan aku sorg. Tapi dier tak larat nak kuar. So takpe la. Aku tak kisah. Lagipon aku dah biasa jalan sorg2 kat sini. Kat Malaysia dulu2 pon aku camtu gak. Hehe.

Memandangkan sambutan Christmas kat sini sgt2 meriah, so waktu malam memang penuh dengan lampu2 yg menarik. Ada pokok Christmas, ada patung salji tu dan macam2 lagi la. Masa aku sampai kat Champs de Elysees, memang penuh gile dengan org. Biasa la tempat tu memang tempat shopping. Memang cantik sgt tempat tu waktu malam sempena sambutan Christmas ni. Pokok2 sepanjang jalan dihias dengan lampu liplap2 yg menarik dan cantik. Suasana time tu sgt2 meriah. Cuaca pon ok. Tak sejuk sgt.

Memang penat sgt aku jalan arini. Bukan penat jalan je, tapi penat bawak kamera aku yg berat ni ditambah plak dengan tripod yg kejap nak pasang, kejap nak simpan, hmmm, memang penat la. Tapi nak buat camne, dah sorg2. Tapi aku sgt2 puas ati sebab dapat main2 dgn kamera aku & yg paling penting aku dapat exercise sket sebab aku jalan byk sgt arini. Hehe. Tapi sekarang ni mula la kaki rase lenguh2. Adeh. OK la. Aku mau buat air.

I can't sleep =(

Adeh. I can’t sleep. This morning around 3.30 am, someone has called me. I am not really sure what the conversation was all about but she called me from Midvalley, Kuala Lumpur. And she knows that I am still in Paris. Hmm. She said, “Oh you are still in Paris, hmm ok” and later hang up the phone. After a while, I get off the bed and check some updates from my family, then lay back to the bed. Poor me. My eyes won’t allow me to fall asleep again. OK, since a lot of things need to be done this week, so I think I will go to the office a little bit early today. Actually, I need to find a balance between what I want out of life and what I know I can get right now. There are tremendous and big opportunity waiting for me out there but I need to be more realistic about what I can accomplish. My lead used to tell me that “there are no problems, just difficulties.” What a good quotes that still playing around in my head. If I can be adaptable with my expectations, I hope I will start finding more successes coming in my way. InsyaAllah.

I Hate..................................................

I hate meetings. I hate latecomers. I hate being limited. I HATE LAST-MINUTE ACTION!

The latter really pissed me off. But as I always said to myself, please be gentled and act calmly in such situation, the more disturbances feeling has polluted my mind. My schedule at work is packed and everyone has the same thing also. I have to admit that. There are no notable differences from me to others. Is that means I am not a well-organized person or I am not well-prepared to be part of this business? OK, let me release out my awful thoughts.

My desk is always hidden by load of files and documents. Sometimes, I find difficulties to locate my mouse which trapped and buried under the paper works. But, is it because of too much work? Yes, in general. So, is that a tolerable excuse? Hmm. Just forget about it. What I really need to do now is to change my attitude towards this small issue. We were given 24 hours per day. No complaint about that. I have to find a way and free time to re-organize everything and tidy up the mess at my workstation. Anyway, what the heck about the I HATE LAST-MINUTE ACTION?

OK, in fact, I am really lack of time in the office. Most of the time (recently) I spent in the meeting room. A lot of discussions need to be performed either with internal or external party. I hate meetings because sometimes I feel it is not really necessary especially when dealing with team mate. In the meeting room, everyone looked outspoken and passionate with their role but when it comes to the responsibility, somehow, they turn silently looked to each other and make a cute smiley face hoping that all the loads will not punching their head. It doesn’t mean that I am swallowing every single mess fed but if you were assigned with pile of works while the other has only little tiny small work to do, what do you feel? Personally, I am glad about it since I love my job but when I am forced and pressured to perform and finish all the works within limited time or the same timing with the one has less workload, it can be so annoying.

Once you feel annoyed with such experience, it may turn out terribly when you are the only person who attends the meeting on time with other external party. It looks like a small issue but I really hate latecomers. Sorry to say that. But, what do you feel when you attend a meeting on time expecting everyone is there, but after 20 minutes of the discussion, the latecomer just walk-in and join the meeting. It will not only disturb the talk, but sometimes the chairman politely recalls back every minute and “re-starts” again the meeting. 1 hour meeting turns to 2 hours. Argghhh! With the time delayed and struggling with the remaining hours in the office, I feel unhappy if I didn’t contribute anything to the meeting. Having to say that, I feel very irritating if the meeting is conducted in other “don’t know” language. With limited time and limited of understanding, I am about to burst my patience limit. Post meeting, I need to spend some time to get some explanations before I leave the room. Again, I am really running out of time.

While continuing to finish up some works, at all of sudden, my manager approached me and said “There will be a meeting at 2 pm today and you have to attend it.” I was so surprised and shocked with the spontaneous news. At the time I was just back from my lunch and it was 1.30 pm. So, I have another 30 minutes to get ready and rearrange all my works again. I am very obsessive about getting work done, and for each minute or each hour I spend in a useless meeting, that's one minute or one hour where my very necessary work doesn't get done. Damn, I HATE LAST-MINUTE ACTION!

In Memories - 1st Dec 2007

Oh. Tomorrow is 1st of December. What’s the matter? Actually, it was a date of my wedding reception at my parent’s residence last year. Alhamdulillah, everything was completely fine. When I recalled back those sweet memories, I know this meaningful day will not happen without tireless help from my families and relatives. The day really makes me busy to meet every attendance and I deeply ask for the forgiveness if I have indirectly not pleased everyone for all the deficiency.

OK. This coming school holidays will be an abundance of wedding events. Many couples took this opportunity to end up their engagement or friendship with a blessed and blissfully bond. I took about 9 months in advance to plan everything about the ceremony and here I make an action list that may be elaborated further for your own wedding event.

- engaging “mak andam” and the caterer
- buying the hantaran
- booking a decorator for the hantaran
- booking a wedding photographer
- booking an MC for the event
- buying souvenirs and gifts for the attendance
- searching for kompang team somewhere around the residence area.
- surveying wedding cards available in market for good design and value.
- preparing a name list for the invitation and releasing the cards a month before the ceremony
- preparing a signboard and place them along the road side at reasonable spot
- planning and booking for honeymoon package
- reconfirm and check every single action that has been made

Further to the actions, here I would remind you all for some critical issues that I think is very crucial and some people just take it for a granted and somehow it can spoil our big plan.

- Always keep the receipt for whatever expenditure that you have made. This can be very useful for estimating your total expenditure and how to re-plan your spending.
- Always clear and understand about everything that you have booked. For example, you might need to know the breakdown of the expenses that mak andam has offered. If possible, write it somewhere so you can retrieve back if the mak andam try to manipulate you.
- Always keep every contact person in your handphone. You may need them at anytime. For example, while you are shopping for the souvenirs and gifts, you accidentally look at a bunch of beautiful fake flowers. Then, you can get some feedback from your mak andam for which design or colors you should avoided making it consistent with the wedding theme.
- Always make a research before make any attempt to buy something.
- Always know your economy limit so that you will not over spent for minor things especially with current economy turmoil. So, spend wisely.
- Always keep in mind the wedding event will be your first and last experience in your life. So, try to make it a little bit special compared to the others. For example, one would prefer to spend thousands for her/his car but very stingy about the wedding ceremony.
- And finally, Always enjoy and happy with your wedding otherwise everything stated above are meaningless.

In memories. Kajang. 1st December 2007.