Big Baby Danish presented us with a wonderful surprise this week. The second good news in two weeks. Lucky number two.
A lot of good things are falling on to us lately, actually. Alhamdulillah...
Danish announced on Wednesday that dia dapat nombor satu di tadikanya, on the same day I was informed of my promotion. Wah.. not bad, eh, Danish? Dengan mulutnya tak henti-henti pot-pet pot-pet bercerita gitu gini dan tak sudah-sudah asyik mengunyah makanan jer, sambil jari-jemarinya menekan-nekan button PS2 lah, PS3 lah... berjaya juga dia dalam pelajaran. Berbaloi juga Mak Lijah pot-pet kan dia setiap malam masa minggu exam haritu.
Bukanlah Mak Lijah desperate sangat nakkan Danish ni jadi super duper brillant student whatsoever, memadailah dia tidak gagal dalam matapelajaran. Tak sangka pula dia terus dapat cemerlang. Tahniah, Danish.. semoga boleh maintain di alam sebenar persekolahan yang lebih mencabar di tahun 2009 nanti.
Good luck to you (and to me too...!!!!)
Sunday, November 16, 2008
No. 1
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Moving on
Sometimes women are discriminated against in workplace. Is that still true in Malaysia?
One of the primary rights of every employee is the right to be treated fairly, and women are not exception of this one. This discrimination has various forms such as wage-gap and preventing to gain key position.
Another aspect of discriminating is preventing women from further job promotion, for many instances, the governmental Assistant Director, Director etc. Is this true?
But I think employees are highly discriminated based on the "I-know-you" factor while the gender issue is only relevant to male-chauvinistic bosses who to me remain a minor in our society.
Where I work, the "I-know-you" factor prevails above and over any so-called merit policy. Don't talk about the quality of work, the sacrifices or the commitments. If they don't know you because you don't 'see' them or they don't 'hear' you, then that's it! They don't see your work or see you working, so you are being discriminated whether you like it or not. So strategy is an important tool here.
People like me would have to work triple hard because the "I-know-you" factor just do not work with me. The formula is way out of my principle, so I deserved this treatment.
Nevertheless, after having to suffer one miserable year with one moronic person, I have to say congratulations to myself and syukur Alhamdulillah for all the good things bestowed onto me, recently. I am now moving on to another quite-familiar field within a very welcoming environment.
As Pak Lijah had said, there would always be good things waiting for you after whatever bad things that you have gone through. Thank you Pak Lijah for all your support and kind words.
Again, I thank Allah for all this. Semua yang baik hanyalah dari Dia.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Dah lama rupanya tak update. Tak payahlah nak bagi alasan, kan? Sebab alasan tu boleh di copy paste jer dari postings yang lalu. Standard je alasan tu.
Selepas "dilepaskan" untuk pergi berkursus di Langkawi, Mak Lijah pergi pulak ke Pulau Temasik seisi keluarga. Tak sangka boleh "island hop" within seven days. Seronok juga.
Flying back to KL from Langkawi was calmer sebab tak hujan. Kalau tak... nak minum pun susah. Alhamdulillah... Dengan cuaca yang tak menentu, hujan lebat dan ribut petir hari-hari, gusar juga setiap kali nak take-off, akhirnya selamat juga landing...
Sampai-sampai saja di KLIA, ada kezutan. Jeng...jeng..jeng... I don't know whether I liked it or not but it actually spoilt my anxiety.
Sampai kat rumah, mandi, solat, dinner, terus jer packing baju anak-anak.
Tidur dalam keletihan dan rasa kurang sedap badan.
Esoknya, tepat pukul 7.30 pagi.. berderumlah MPV kami menuju ke PLUS. Trafik tak sibuk. Perjalanan atas highway sangat lancar. Budak-budak sempat jugalah breakfast sikit-sikit tadi tapi by 9.00, diorang dah complain lapar. He..he..he...
So we stopped at one of the R&Rs (tak ingat kat mana). Puuu...nyalah ramai orang.. sampai tak ada tempat duduk. So we decided to go to one of the cafes yang hanya ada sandwiches saja. Tak apalah, asalkan perut beralas.
By 11.20, kami dah sampai tol Sedenak. Budak-budak dah excited sebab nak tinggalkan Malaysia, macamlah nak pergi to another planet. We had a wonderful lunch kat one Indonesian restaurant in JB before we went off accross the tambak. Proses imigresen pun tak lama and the journey took only about 40 minutes, all in, from JB to the hotel. Not bad, eh? Sebenarnya masa orang imigresen to nak check kami tadi tu, Mak Lijah tertidur with the sunglasses on. And this guy didnt know that. He thought I was being stubborn or something. Mak Lijah sedar bila Kakak kejutkan, "Mama, buka spek lah.." Oh, termalu sekejap.
By 2.00 pm we checked in-to Hyatt Singapore kat Scotts Road. Letaknya 20 meter dari Stamford Road. Hmm... Ring a bell, anyone?
Walaupun it looked cloudy dan ada potensi untuk hujan, Mak Lijah ajak juga budak-budak tu pergi ke Zoo sebab it would not be too hot since it was a bit cloudy that day. Sampai jer di Zoo, bought the tickets dan bermulalah our adventure. It was really interesting. Malas nak buat comparison. Rasa sangat tidak adil. The white 'cats' looked so healthy unlike...aahh.. malas nak cakap.
We hopped-onto the zoo car and moved around very comfortably. Seronok tengok budak-budak tu seronok. Kebetulan masa tu, ada marine show pulak. Walaupun we considered ourselves sampai early kat amphiteater tu, orang dah penuh yang amat. We had to actually sit kat tangga je but we had a nice view. Danisy was extremely excited watching the sea lion putting up the show.
Aduh laaa... Letih sungguh.
So the outdoor activity of the day habis di situ. We went back to the hotel, showered and had this marvellous dinner kat restaurant dia. FYI, Hyatt Singapore has a majority shareholder of one rich Islamic country in ASEAN, so the food is halal. Mak Lijah makan mee udang, nasi ayam, pohpiah while kakak had tandoori, Danisy had roti canai and Abang had almost everything, including satay. They even have teh-tarik. Pak Lijah pula 'attacked' the seafood. Risaulah pulak kut-kut kena attack dengan gout. Habislah program kita..
End of day one and here are some of the pics:
