Triumph Of Life

Tahun Baru, Azam Baru?

2011-02-11T08:37:00.000-08:00

Another year passed by. As usual, people will take their reflection and renew their same oath to achieve something greater in the coming new year. The fact is, 90% of them are just dreaming. What they do is just renewing their dream every year. How can I agree with them saying to become more successful, more resilient, more wealthy and more faithfull every year but they remained the same at the end of each year, for the past 20 years. Yes, my words are strong but I can't tolerate those people who think they are better than everybody, keep on renewing their vows in effort to show off.
I have the same vows every year and I tried hard to fullfill it every year. Try to become better then yesterday. Sound simple? Try understand the meaning more. As a muslim, it is our responsibility to become the example to other ummah. That's mean to excel in most of our venture, in education, economy, maturity of thinking, faith, moral, family relationship, friend relationship, environmental relationship and much more. Only then we can understand how big is the vows we have signed with the Almighty. Forget childish oath such as "I will get my dream car this year", or "I will make sure that I become wealthier and prosperous than my neighbour". The target have no meaning at all.
A meaningfull target is target that benefit ummah as a whole. Thing like "I wanted to offer job opportunity to 5 unemployed people in my company", or "I will stop smoking immediately for the sake of my health and my family well being". We need to embrace high level thinking and moral. Don't become imbecile with authority, like what is happening right now all around the world. Enough said.

Ain't No Sunshine When They Gone

2010-10-17T18:17:00.000-07:00

Percaya atau tidak, sekarang Aisy selalu cari gaduh dengan Umi dan jugak Dad. Hehe, kalau sehari tak gaduh memang tak sah. Tak tahu kenapa, sampai satu peringkat umur, kanak-kanak memang suka carik gaduh dengan mak dan ayah mereka..Kekadang tu baru je buatkan susu untuk dia, dah suruh buat lagi. Air panas sikit mulalah menjerit pulak. Then, new habit tak mahu mandi. Logik ke bangun pepagi tak mahu mandi, petang pun tak nak mandi, bila orang nak mandikan menjerit macam kena pukul. Memang tak paham sangat. Tapi bila kat kampung ada Airy, nak pulak mandi sampai tak keluar bilik air 2-3 jam. Kan sengaja je tu, hehehe.
Paling best adalah keupayaan budak-budak untuk menyelepahkan kawasan rumah terutamanya ruang tamu. Sekarang 24 jam ruang tamu rumah nampak macam bowling alley. Aisy adalah seorang bowler yang tegar!! Bowling pin merata-rata dengan bolasepak yang diubahsuai menjadi bola bowling. Tak boleh kemas plak tu, kalau nak dengar jeritan silalah cuba-cuba kemaskan.
But I think this is what we called experience, and believe it or not, it will be sweet memories when the times comes. Yes, sometimes we do feel quite irritating with the boys activeness, but it's part of the package. They will be no sunshine when they're gone. :)

What a year!!

2010-10-14T19:01:00.000-07:00

Yes,what a year!! I can conclude that year 2010 present us with magnificent challenges and hurdles, from financial bit to personal career its all in one go. Until now, we are still in the midst of sorting things out, juggling between one risk to another. We have high hope in get through all of this, so that we can get back to our life. Its not so simple though. From clearing credit card debt to paying increased amount of utilities bill. One thing about living in capitalism, is that they eat you alive, slowly. Thus, we decided to go out from this jewish system and go back to simple and minimalist style of living. But it is not easy as we need to clear all our dirt when we are in the capitalism cycle.
Yes, CASH is KING. It took us a painful lesson to realize that and now, we only dealing with cash with no more credit card spend for 7 months now. We quite honoured to achieve that in current city lifestyle. We are now more than determine to take back our life that has been stolen by banks and capitalsm, so that we can have our own time, our own pace and the most important, our own lifestyle.

Dilemma Professional

2010-09-07T23:43:00.001-07:00

Saban hari, kehidupan didalam dunia korporat semakin membelenggu dan mencekik nadi-nadi professional. Keluar sebelum matahari terbit, pulang lewat matahari terbenam. Anak-anak dihantar ke rumah pengasuh seawal 6 pagi kerana ibu bapa mahu mengelak dari kesesakan lalulintas. Masih ramai dan angka mereka yang mengulangi fasa ini semakin bertambah dari setahun ke setahun kerana bertambahnya bilangan graduan universiti. Benar, negara ini mempunyai bilangan universiti dan institut pengajian tinggi yang besar, boleh dikatakan setiap negeri mempunyai university atau pusat pengajian tinggi sendiri. Namun persoalan besarnya, apakah kita mempunyai kapasiti industri kolar putih yang cukup besar untuk menampung tenaga kerja yang semakin bertambah ini?
Para graduan sudah tentu mengidamkan pekerjaan dan bayaran yang setaraf dengan pendidikan mereka, lantas menolak mentah-mentah pekerjaan kolar biru yang dahagakan pekerja tempatan. Ini sudah satu masalah, tambahan lagi, 90% peluang pekerjaan professional hanya ditawarkan kepada mereka yang hanya sanggup untuk bekerja di kawasan lembah kelang sahaja. Itupun dengan gaji permulaan yang kurang daripada RM 3000.00. Tetapi kebanyakkan graduan tidak dapat menolak kekurangan ini kerana mereka mempunyai pinjaman pelajaran yang perlu dibayar. Selepas tempoh percubaan, pekerja akan diberi tempat tetap didalam firma atau pejabat. Jadi, bermulalah zaman membuat hutang kereta, rumah dan pinjaman peribadi untuk perkahwinan. Harus diingat, bank adalah satu badan yang kita sebagai manusia tidak patut meletakkan kepercayaan dan menjadi rakan kepadanya. Insititusi riba' ini adalah pendukung kepada segala kesusahan apabila kita gagal menjelaskan hutang yang semakin meningkat kerana riba' yang tinggi.
Jadi, dengan bebanan hutang, kos sara hidup tinggi (toll sahaja sudah cukup untuk menghabiskan gaji sebulan ketua kampung dalam masa 2 minggu), risiko jenayah yang tinggi, stress level yang tinggi, kebanyakkan professional terpaksa bersusah payah untuk berebut-rebut jawatan yang lebih tinggi dalam syarikat tempat mereka bekerja. Kebanyakkan mereka menggelarkan ini sebagai career plan. Namun penyimpangan besar maksud pelan kerjaya ini adalah disebabkan mahu mendapatkan gaji dan pangkat yang lebih tinggi, bukan untuk mendukung tahap professionalism itu sendiri. Kebanyakkan professional juga amat fobia untuk bertukar kerjaya kerana zon selesa masing-masing serta sokongan idea dari kebudayaan makan gaji yang amat kental di Malaysia. Cari satu syarikat yang besar dan mari kita kerja beramai-ramai di situ. Itu adalah fenomena biasa dalam minda masyarakat Malaysia. Jadi, syarikat-syarikat besar mempunyai sangat ramai pekerja, secara langsung mewujudkan persaingan sengit untuk naik pangkat, terus sahaja meningkatkan tahap tekanan mental. Maka, jika stress level sudah sampai ubun-ubun, kita akan dapat saksikan perlumbaan F1 menggunakan kereta Civic, Accord, Vios dan Saga di LDP, Lebuhraya Persekutuan, dan PLUS. Polis pun menyaman lagi.
Professional di Malaysia seharusnya hidup dengan lebih tenang, stress level yang lebih rendah dan bayaran yang setimpal dengan apa yang mereka kerjakan. Jangan sampai nanti terjadi revolusi kelas pertengahan pula seperti di Perancis dahulu. "Saya study tinggi-tinggi supaya saya tidak perlu pergi kerja pepagi buta", kata sahabat saya. Tetapi apa yang terjadi sebaliknya. Pergi kerja 6 pagi pulang 8 malam dan dia hanya dapat menyimpan tak sampai RM 200 sebulan dengan perbelanjaan 2 buah kereta, 1 rumah dan anak 3 orang. Bukalah ruang pekerjaan di bandaraya lain. Keluarkanlah azab sengsara penduduk lembah kelang.

Hari Raya

2010-09-03T10:32:00.000-07:00

I like to see thing in different way compared to most of people. Sometimes it does me good but sometimes it really can stir up debate or to certain extent strong argument with other people.Ramadhan is coming to an end for this year and the most anticipated day of the year for all Malaysian is coming pretty soon. Again, I found myself in a corner of dilemma. Why we celebrating Hari Raya. True, it is compulsory to celebrate it to sign the end of successfull Ramadhan in Islam. But Hari Raya is just one day, not a month and certainly not meant to become a painful experience by stucking in heavily congested traffic. And the worse still, people started to stare at your balik kampung style, whether you bring your new car, new wife, new jewelery, new shoe and other materialistic new thing. If this is the scenario, then just forget about celebrating Hari Raya. You can go to your hometown in any other day and show off your asset.
I don't have a good mood this time around, so Selamat Hari Raya and please give it a thougt to what and how we celebrate our Hari Raya...

Pioneer or Follower?

2010-07-22T09:26:00.000-07:00

Sometimes, there will be a moment in your life where you need to choose your own path. The final destination resulted from your choice is not really important because the most crucial part in choosing it is why. There are lots of uncertainties curling around new path compared to your old cleared path. There is lots of effort demanded to clear the new path and that choice is rarely being taken by many people. Pioneer is people who are at the frontier, clearing the path for everybody else to take. Follower is people who are at the tail of the expedition, following what pioneer did. Now, you choose whether you want to become a pioneer or a follower. Again, there is no right or wrong answer to this. Also, there are no biases to both situations.

If you choose to become the frontier man of arms, you will be dealing with most of the uncertainties, a region where you being eaten alive by fear of failure. A road that is no certain destination at the end of it, but you will be alone in exploring new opportunity and you take chances without competitors and less procedures. If you choose to sit at the tail of expedition, you need to be prepared to hassle yourself with thousands of follower who are in the same state of mind wanted a certain destination presented in front. The competition is fierce, because even though followers do not have what it takes to become a pioneer; they are very competitive among them. Then you can expect some people being left behind at the side of the road. The aim will be the 2nd place behind the pioneer.

This metaphor is of course look embellish and overstated. Nevertheless, that is what really happened in our encased little world. Not all of us have the courage to be at the place where nobody wanted to be, not because the place is bad or wrong, not because they are not afford to be at that place, but just because of stigmatism that being programmed in their little head. Open sea strategy is a far cry in our social hierarchy, backed up by capitalism and semi demographic democracy. Labeling based on worldly gain becomes unchallenged priority. Bravery and honors become coward act. Sneaky and mischief become courageous. We of course see this as thing to be concerned, to be taking off in a careful and delicate way to protect what we believe a good lifestyle and living condition. Once more, the condition is vice versa. Nobody cares about the road to be taken, nobody cares about the experience you get while you are on the road, and nobody cares about which road you love to follow or pioneer. They all want the destination, the end of the road. Believe me my good friends, once you reach the destination, there are not much to do except sit and prepare to get back. Yet again, which road you want to take?

Otak yang di programkan

2010-07-20T09:29:00.000-07:00

28 tahun 10 bulan 9 hari. Itulah jumlah masa yang telah dihabiskan di bumi pinjaman Allah ini. Selama itu aku fikir aku berada dalam lengkuk pemikiran yang benar, ataupun yang separa benar, jika seluruhnya tidak dapat dimiliki. Ini kerana rata-rata manusia terkesan dengan 12 tahun kehidupan di sekolah yang tak henti-henti membasuh pemikiran dan merenjatkan keterlansungan kreativiti anak-anak kita. Sesak dengan jadual pembelajaran yang mementingkan kapitalism, tanpa memikirkan kegersangan jiwa yang dahagakan ilmu pengetahuan.
Benar, ini agak retorik. Namun hakikatnya tegar sekali. Dibuktikan dengan pengalaman dengkat 6 tahun di dalam dunia keji dunia korporat, manusia ku lihat telah hilang semangat setiakawan, mementingkan ringgit dan dollar. Anak di label hina jika tak dapat menghantar orang tuanya ke Mekah untuk menjalani ibadat umrah, anak di label teruk jika tak dapat membeli banglo mewah, anak di pandang lekeh jika menaiki Datsun 120 y tahun 1980, orang tua dipandang jijik jika tidak dapat menyediakan harta tinggalan bertimbun, orang tua dipandang busuk jika tidak tahu membawa diri di dalam majlis baju batik.
Aku bosan dengan dunia otak yang diprogramkan. Maka cuba lihat bagaimana Nabi Muhammad S.A.W mengajar kita bahawa dunia ini hanyalah tempat untuk kita beramal dan berbakti untuk akhirat. Aku bukan ustaz, jauh lagi penceramah bebas. Namun keadaan memaksa aku untuk berfikir selari dengan genre keagamaan, kerana hanya itu pembebasan kepada jiwa yang racau. Keadaan sekarang tak ubah seperti Pompeii sebelum di bekukan Allah, tak ubah seperti Tsamud selepas mereka menebuk istana dari gunung-ganang, tak ubah seperti A'ad ketika takbur menegakkan tembok-tembok besar mereka. Sombong, takbur, berlagak seperti tuhan. Orang berlumba-lumba menunjukkan siapa bagus siapa tidak. Kalau dia bagus jatuhkan dia, naikkan diri sendiri. Kalau dia pandai membuat kerja, jadikan dia bodoh dalam kehidupan. Kalau dia pandai mengampu, maka kau ampulah lebih lagi.
Ini virus kehidupan yang dicipta oleh sistem yang diberikan nama kapitalis. Di dukung oleh riba dan di halalkan oleh majlis perbankan demokrasi. Maka hapuslah kehidupan seimbang yang dibawakan dengan penat lelah kekasih Allah 1431 tahun lepas. Para kapitalis gelak besar melihat otak yang diprogramkan menjalankan kerja bagi mengisi perut mereka. Biarkan, mereka keluar 5 pagi balik 10 malam. Tak boleh berkata tak boleh mengadu. Kita sudah bayar gaji mereka. Kita sudah tanggung kos perubatan isteri mereka bersalin. Mereka adalah hamba yang kita cipta dari umur mereka 7 tahun. Mereka takkan tahu mereka di perhambakan. Takut mereka keluar dari kem hamba? Berilah mereka pinjaman bank, panjangkan lagi tahun pembayaran rumah mereka.
Aku harap kalian faham. Kerana aku sudah diperhambakan dan aku telah sedar. Sukar lagi berdarah jika hendak keluar dari kem hamba ini. Kerana mereka bagaikan tentera Israel mengepung Palestin. Boleh menembak kita di mana-mana. Namun jika prinsip teguh dipegang, tekad bulatkan, nafas di tahan dan gigi digertap, Insyaallah kita berjaya. Maka marilah kita keluar menjadi orang yang merdeka dari riba dan diperhambakan oleh kapitalis. Kerana diluar itu adalah lebih baik. Ambillah semula otak kalian, jangan jadi seperti komputer yang menunggu diberikan arahan.

A penny and a man

2010-07-01T06:07:00.000-07:00

I still remember when I went to my car detailing center few weeks ago. There were two cops washing their motorcycle. After greeting me, the senior officer which is corporal by rank endlessly talking about my car. It's not a brand new car, and surely not a Ferrari (I need to change my father to one of Sultans in order to buy it here). 5 minutes passed and that corporal still mumbling about my car. Well, maybe he is so interested in it, maybe he is obsessed with sport car or he just make it up to get my attention.

For whatever reason, I failed to change the topic of our discussion. Few minutes later, I need to excuse myself in order to help my wife loading our cloths to nearby laundry. The two cops started their motorcycle engine and vroom away. My back end brain was then reiterate back my discussion with the two cops. I can listed their question to me:
1 - What is this car?
2 - How much you bought it?
3 - You must be very rich, aren't you?
4 - How much detailing center you have?
5 - How much car do you have?
6 - How fast this car can go?

To be fair let list down my question to them:
1 - How are you sir?
2 - What do you think about my staff service and attitude?
3 - Where do you live?
4 - How many son/daughter do you have?
5 - Where do you come from?

See the obvious different? It's not about how much money do we have or how high our rank are, it is about our life. I am very concern to see our policemen behavior since the two officer only interested in money and worldly gain. I am not a millionaire and not a rich man. I just love my car and I cut my expenses at other place to pay the installment. It doesn't mean one drive a sport car, he/she is damn rich. In US you can buy my car for less than USD 10,000.00

Such a concern about the two officer attitude towards money translate into universe known bribery problem. It is rampant because our officer or those who hold authority want to be become rich using their authorization. It is as simple as eating cakes. No rocket science. It just King Midas all around our society. People never get enough and never cast away their attention from money and social status. Money and status is not everything, it's nothing. What matter most is our relationship with fellow human, our protection to environment, our love to our family and our purity to success.

How many times we've see the deeds, wealth and power of conquerors and commoners alike being taken by the wind of time, forgotten by the later people. What remains is the memories of people who cared about them. When a muslim die, he/she will leave everything behind except three things, prayer from a faithful son/daughter, the deed that they do without expecting worldly return and their "Ibadah". Which one spell for money? Or Wealth?

And by the way, no cops/authority bodies ever pay for our service to their vehicles. That's how much they loved their money.

Price List For Our CLearing House Campaign!!

2010-06-04T19:35:00.000-07:00

Preview for House Clearing Sales

2010-06-02T07:25:00.000-07:00

The everlasting quest to upgrade cubical

2010-05-31T09:26:00.000-07:00

Here I am. Sitting in a small cubical in a very big corporation. People are dying to get my cubical, but my eyes stay focus on the cubical adjacent to me. It’s not only bigger than mine; it comes with a very good looking ergonomic leather chair. So, I come to work early in the morning to avoid traffic jam, and to be the one who light up the floor. It’s an everyday routine. Sadly, even if I came to work early, I still need to sit at my small cubical since the desired cubical is reserved to the one who we all called boss. There are about 30 people in this floor who keep the same dream with me to own the golden cubical.

One day, I have opportunity to knock down one of them by putting bad remark in their performance appraisals. You know, every year people in any corporation will put their bluffing skills into test. They need to show to the management how good they are in performing task last year. Every year, this is the time where you can grab the chance to knock down your rival, to rub shoulder with your bosses and earn extra bonus. Do I feel guilty of doing it? No, everybody said that this is the way if you want to become successful. So, I just follow the crowd. We live in democracy country anyway.
Apart from fully utilizing your bluffing skills and put damaging blows to your peers in their review column, you also can become a reporter. Yes, thing like people taking MC without the cert, people come to work late, people go back early, people surfing internet while working hours, you can note down all the misconduct and remember to put down their name and give it to your superior. Surprisingly, this technique is so easy and can be done throughout the year and it will give you extra edge to it at the bigger cubical.

Another way to achieve my target of having a bigger cubical in office, is just plainly using other people effort. Similar to Judo, you use your opponent force to take them down. Got a risky project or task that is so daunting to take it by yourself? Invite a team member to do it. If the progress is going down, you can leave the project anytime and blame it on others. If the progress is well, remember to be the first to present it to management, so you can take all the lime light and be visible. Put your name first in the report and make sure you bold it so people will remember you. I can tell you that this is the best way to climb the ladder.

---> Many people do not aware that above scenario is happening all around in our corporate life. Not to mention in our own neighbor where people are competing to furnish their house, comparing their cars and size of their house. This is all pathetic. What happen when people get promoted? 90% of them become more aggressive, more demanding, more tense in their words, and sometime they are just over reacting against simple thing. Just to show that they are in charge.

Now, what does title and position bring? Dato’, Datuk, Tan Sri, Tun, Dato’ Seri and all sort of titles. It just brings shame to me. Take a look at how good their morale. Corruptions, misused of funds, scandals, you name it they got it all.
Remember friends, money is not everything. Position is nothing. Title does not worth a penny. Go back and get our mindset right. World is at the end of her time, we really need to make it better now. God do not look at who you are, but what you have done. <--

Bad time of my life

2010-05-19T06:57:00.000-07:00

Every year, I really hate April, May and June because I always at the bottom of my life within these three months. I do not know why and I do not know how it happened. This year is the worst in my lifetime. Shortage of financials, failed to meet month’s end, terrible health status, overstressed at office, you name it. It’s all negative to me now, and I know that I’m not a negative person. I tried to think in bigger perspective judging my condition this time around. I even planned to deal with this year’s April, May and June but somehow it turn out pretty bad. Much better when I’m not planning at all. What I can say is the first half of 2010 proved bad to me personally, really bad. I am down at the moment, at the bottom of deep murky lake. I know it sound sentimental but sometime even the toughest can break. I think I reach my limit for the time being.
I emptied my brain and push away all the unnecessary stuffs. Well, I devoted a whole year working in order to pay taxes and pleased the management but today I feel cheated by the system itself. I know that the system will eventually cheat me sooner or later but not when I’m giving 110% effort. Nevertheless, game over for me now. I just resigned myself from the competition. Yes, I ‘m still working (can’t afford to quit job now since I’m not a Sultan’s son), but I will always remember how foolish I am try to believe at the system. From now on, I will complete the entire task given to me without any complaint or stretch; if I feel stupid of doing it I will not do it. Period.
What matter now is the damage control mechanism that I need to put in motion. With just 2 weeks after grand launch of my wife’s own building (Wisma Bling Lustre) in Puchong, things are moving pretty slow. Same goes to cash flow. We hope in 2 to 3 months the new outlet will start to generate flows as what we expected.
As for me, loyalty to one company now is a thing of a past. But we need to remember, in Malaysia graduates are not equipped with any skills to live their life on their own. They need to work with somebody else, a corporation, and a company to pay their salary. The worst thing is the perception of our elders. Try saying you are a car wash crew to your future mother in law, you’ll lost your girl. Economy condition is not yet good. It is not. For a specialized people like me, it is very hard to find a suitable job that require my skills and knowledge and when you get one you need to stick with it. To make thing worst? I have my study loan with the company that hiring me now. That’s mean I am literally a slave until I pay all of it. Suck? That’s life according to some people. But according to me, capitalism and greed is the source. Like Jeremy Clarkson (Top Gear) said, “A car that being designed and manufactured by a corporation will lack all the joy and details because they just focus on money, but a car that being designed and manufactured by perfectionist, it is masterpiece”. You got the point.

The unknown competition.

2010-05-17T23:25:00.000-07:00

Total up of 5 years now since the first time I entered the corporate system in Malaysia. Well, to be fair, it is not a bad system actually (for those who created it). The government and corporate companies based on capitalism put in place a very good system to monitor and subdue every free mind in this world. To certain extent brainwashing us to think that we only can live our life if we stick to their methods. As a direct result of this, I see thousands of young people entering the system every year with only one mindset, to win the competition. Be it in their career, their cars, their house, their punch card time, and even their wives. Everything looks like a competition for most of people. Don't trust me? Just drive your car at Monday morning around 8 am to Kuala Lumpur from any part of suburbs and you can see how crazy the competitions are for most of the people.

Basically what is the competition that we are into? Frankly speaking I'm involved and already tried my very best to win the competition and I did it twice. I am awarded company's performer for 2 years in a row. What do I get? Just a bonus an huge amount of jealousy from my fellow team, waiting the right time to hit my spot. Well, it's a natural thing for human being to compete and that's what keep us alive and survive. But one thing is for sure in corporate life, do not overdid it! I'm not just write it out from my mind, I experienced it first hand.

I try to let it go now, bit by bit, slowly one step at a time. Last week I made my biggest sacrifice in corporate life. By surrendering my big executive car back to bank. You can say that I can't afford to pay the installment, or just plainly stupid but hey, it's my car and my loan. I gave away my smart phone to my dad and now using just a classic phone, I cut off my spending on luxurious thing which kill one of my passion that is luxurious watches. I appreciate nature and environment more. I look at people and try to understand their behavior. I play with my sons more and look back at my life when I am just at their ages.

Thank to the Almighty, I feel more content now and when you are content, you can easily define the purpose of life that God has gave us to live. Really, its not about winning the competition or getting the highest rank in family by buying a bungalow or sponsoring holidays for parents. It all about enjoying life in a good way. Appreciate what we have and never look down to other people just because they do not possessed worldly gain. At the end of the day, we are all in God's mercy.

~~~My wife and I got cursed by a tollbooth man when we handed out small changes for the toll. It took him few minutes to recount the amount which we already counted for him and he failed to count it all. It just RM 2.50 in 50 pieces of 5 cents. It's not that we want to make him difficult but that's what we have at the time. We forgive you tollbooth man for your harsh words. But remember, you just need to count it up to 50. It's not even you who paying the toll~~

The stress level of Malaysian people is astronomically high especially in the cities. Please, we need to change our way of life so that we will have better moral in human relationship in the future.

Online business = Spam?

2010-05-01T11:30:00.001-07:00

Ok, now I really feel irritated receiving ton of emails in my inbox everyday stating that

1: you want to become a millionaire?
2: jutawan segera!!!
3: secret to become millionaire!!!
4: RM 30,000 dalam masa 14 hari!!!
5: Bagaimana menjana RM 60,000 dalam masa 3 bulan tanpa bermodalkan apa-apa!!!

and the list goes on...

Face the reality boys and girls, if there is a way to become an instant millionaire why all the millionaire even bother to sell their secrets? Bottom line is they are already a MILLIONAIRE right? So what is the harm of a millionaire take a RM 30.00 (RM 30.00 is the cheapest ebook sold currently on the net) losses in their ebook and provide things for free? Does RM 30.00 mean a lot to a person who generating RM 30,000 in just 14 days? The answer is straight NONSENSE!! They are not a millionaire and they are not doing a genuine online business. They just gave a wrong impression and perception to the real online entrepreneur like our self and our fellow entrepreneur.

My wife and her friends are truly SOHO MOMs. It means that they do not work in 8-5 system. They work from the comfort of their laptops in the secured environment of their very home by selling their skills as consultants, manufacturers, teachers, artists, photographers and many more. They all have skills and educations, some of them is PHD holder. They are running their business well and getting profit out of it. But the question is, are they millionaire? Maybe, in 10 to 30 years from now depending on market trend, effort, solid business plan and lots of luck in doing investment. Internet is seriously a cutting edge tool in marketing your business but expecting it to generate thousands of dollars every second by yourself without any product and skills is just ridiculous. I can say that all the spammers and self claimed millionaire is doing unjust to people who are really burn their midnight oil, learn from experience, work around the clock, and invest big in online business to built a proper and legitimate cash flow.

Managing an online business is not as easy as it looks, but it is fulfilling for those who has the right mindset. Again you need to define yourself before taking the plunge in any business venture. There is NO SHORTCUT TO SUCCESS!!!! If you want good grade, study hard and study smart. If you want a lot of money, invest hard and invest smart. If you want reputable and profitable business, work hard and work hard some more. There is no rule of thumb in this field. You need to become adventurous and sometimes take the calculative risk. Do not expect by spending RM 30.00 on ebook which being plagiarized from other resources will get you millionaire status.

Problem with our people is we want to do thing fast and get the result even faster. We like to invest small and get the return BIG!! It doesn't work like that friend.. Stop thinking about Bill Gates and Michael Dell or Carlos Slim Helu. They are one in the billions. God give them opportunity and they grab it. For us who are average joe, we need to use our ultimate gift (BRAIN) to come up with our own genuine ideas, a marketable business plan together with the capital to start our own business venture. After that be resilient, work hard, think even harder and set your mind right.

However, they are books that you can buy. Something like Robert Kiyosaki, Napolean Hill and Trumph. This authors speak from their experience, NOT from their money and experience is something that is priceless. So you are paying them for that, NOT for their money.

Whoever say that you can set back, live you life like a king, generate thousands of dollar every single minutes after reading their book is a BIG FAT LIARS!!! Trust me on that because I already bought some of their ebook, and they are craps. I do not charge you for this information. Most of them ask you to become like them, spammers, involve in ponzi schemes and buying MLM goodies.

--The difference between entrepreneur and working 8-5 is the rate of work. The higher you get in your own company the simpler the work will be, the higher you get in other people's company the complicated your work will be --

I think I want to sell this...

2010-04-28T10:30:00.000-07:00

Why we shouldn’t become an entrepreneur?

2010-03-14T22:39:00.000-07:00

Well, most of us have dream to own our company, to run sales and marketing for our own profit and to become chairman in our own multimillion company. By right, who shouldn’t? However, there is very clear line between entrepreneurship and working 8-5. The first thing that I always said to my wife when she started her own online business is to forget about the profit. You need to do something you love to do, and you can hang on it. Not to say forever, but long enough to give you satisfactions in term of completing something that you really wanted to. You can't do business just focusing on profit, because business cannot guarantee your succeed. However, business can guarantee that you can do something that you like to do even though you need to eat instant noodles at dinner. On top of it, when you starting a business, there is no profit but only losses because you need to invest in various thing like your product, your rental, your web domain or even your website. It takes time, a lot of effort, strategy and failure to success. Not like 8-5 job where the monthly income is fixed and secured, business is full with up and down. It takes iron will and steel heart to ride the entrepreneur life.
Second thing you need to consider before you want to become entrepreneur is why you want to become one? If the answer is you are unemployed and you need a job, you better find one because entrepreneur is NOT a job! It’s a lifestyle. You can get flexibility, but you can’t hope you can reduce your working hours just because you have your own business, that’s ridiculous. Most of the time entrepreneur will work at double rate compared to 8-5 workers simply because they are not afford to fail their calculations. Remember, you do not have fixed income to pay your bills and that’s made failure is not an options (this made many successful entrepreneur very resilient and creative). So, if you are potato couch and can’t miss you favoriteTV series, you better continue your current job.
You want to become entrepreneur simply because you hate your boss? Well, in business life there are bunch of very-very irritating people that you just can’t shake them off your shoulder. For example stingy customer who want to buy diamond with sand, corrupted law enforcer that saying they cannot give you license because your shop located at the center of commercial row (I experienced this myself), stupid customer or agent that don’t want to read your terms and conditions, so you need to explain line by line (up to 120 lines) patiently to them. So you said you have problem with your boss? That’s only one fly in a landfill brother!
Entrepreneurship is truly not for people who love financial security and procedure, people who always want to be at the top of their league. It is for people who want to do something that they love to, something that is challenging and at the same time rewarding. Money is just a side effect of good product and service.  If you can’t get this straight in your brain, you are not yet an entrepreneur. Continue your work at that office.

Looking back at ourself

2010-02-21T07:55:00.000-08:00

It's been 8 years since the first time we've known each other. Yes I know it look like a long time but believe me, it just like a blink of an eye. Look at where we are now is just extraordinary. Aisy and Airy is the colors of our life. Having them is a bless from God, it gave us energy and extra edge for us to continue doing what we have in our small plan deep in our heart. Sometimes, we also 'hit the wall', term used by marathon athlete to describe times where they are exhausted and just want to stop the race. Yes, both of us hit the wall several times during the years but we kept on going believing we will achieve what we wanted to achieve and we got it, not all the time but we always trying.
One thing that we realize about life is it is beautiful. There are bunch of people that do not understand how God created this world for us to enjoy it. They'll see nothing but their career, money, reputation and their own eccentricity. We will face problem every day and every moment, we can solved some and we can't even think about exit plan for some problem. It is important for us to view it as a challenge, and try to deal with it. The last thing to do is run from your problem or do thing half a way. We did try to run from few of our problem and the outcome is not really pretty. The worse is when you try to fix it, but stopped in the middle. There will be answer to every problem, sometime we find it quick and sometimes it just came around the corner after a few while. Bottom line is, be positive and keep the spirit going.
Not all people will like us the way we are. By all means, we are human and we behave differently than other species. Our envy, lust and anger surpassed any other known species in this world, and for that reason God gave us the ultimate machine inside our skull, it called BRAIN. As long as we used this ultimate machine, we will see things more clearly and act in a good way. We do see peoples around us, sometimes older than us somehow failed to use their ultimate machine because they refused to used it. They become too negative and rigid thus making us very difficult to connect with them, and we still do not have any solutions on how to make they open up their mind, used their common sense and think logically. It's not all about money, your reputation, or even yourself. It's about putting things together and make this world a better place for the rest of us, for our children.
So, please save our environment, love our communities, bash those who give and take bribe, eliminate those with negative mind, and unplug those plugged mind. Life is short, so enjoy it in a good way with your family and love ones.

--for us, a lot more to achieve yet so little time and resources. But we doing good, that's the spirit!! :) --

Why we afraid of taking the plunge?

2010-02-14T09:33:00.000-08:00

2010 mark a tremendous effort from us to break from the ordinary system that has been put down generation by generation for 52 years now. New set of thinking, new set of comprehension, new set of team and effort is needed in order for us to success. We never said it going to be easy, but not trying to set yourself free from doing things that you don’t like seems like a sin to us. Nothing wrong with the daily routine of 8 am to 5 pm. Since it is routine, it will not push our capability to maximum. Search the internet and look for billionaire and millionaire list, more than 60% not doing routine work (of course our focus is not only at money).
Most of us in Malaysia are very, very afraid of failure. Blame them not, because it is forever embedded in our mental from day one. Anyone still remember what we’ve being told not to speak our mind freely doing our childhood, not to have discussion with elder people saying that they are always right, not to do things creatively, not to question the procedure or rules, not to do this, not to do that. Yes, the entire no’s took their toll in our development as a person. Take one example in form five classes, have we notice that most of our student did not dare to ask their teacher a question if they are not understood. Maybe cities school did not have this problem, but if you go to rural area, I can guarantee you that no one will ask a question during study time. Why? Because they always feel inferior to other people. Thanks to our culture.
This situation propagate in a negative way that most of young people feel bounded to their parent past ambitions. This is very true looking at most of our friends in professional’s world did not know why they become engineer, doctor or architect. The simple answer that they gave is their parent wanted them to become one. Take myself for example, I am a successful reliability engineer in a multinational company, and my position is a daydream for most people out there. But one question still lingers to my mind, why on earth I work as reliability engineer? How do I end up taking a very hard course during my college and now working on tight schedule with 1 ton pressure in my head plus four hours traffic jam every day? The last thing that I remember is my mom wants me to become a medical doctor, and if I can’t do it an engineer will be the last resort.
Yes, I love my mom very much and I am pretty sure that most of us love our moms if not more, as much as they love us. They are angel send by god as our guardians. But in real life being a doctor or other professional is really demanding. The pay here in Malaysia is not that much because we are still a young country with weak economy. Do not dream you can own a new three, six or five series with 5 years experience as an engineer. You can only fetch about RM 4000 to RM 6000 per month, I can seriously tell you that. A landed terrace house cost you about RM 2000 to RM 3000 as monthly installment (price at Klang Valley), toll is about RM 100 per month, fuel is about RM 400 per month (using car), and if you are using a good car (which mean not a car with “national” title) it will cost you about RM 1500 and above per month. Not to mention you daily meals, utilities bill, phone bill, kids at school and wife’s expenditure. You will not meet the month’s end. How we know this? We experienced it. That’s even excluding your study loan if you have it. So, professional career is not for people who want to have instant success. You need to wait for 10 to 20 years for your income to exceed RM 10,000 per month, that’s if you are lucky and your boss love you. Remember, career is not a career if you love it.
Our parent chooses our path to secure our life and well being, but nowadays the situation has changed a lot. Glamorous job like engineer and doctor is simply outrun by professional photographer, webmaster, SOHO owner, restaurateur, kiosk owner, internet web stores gallery and boutique owner. A distinguishes comparisons between these people with glamorous ‘title’ job is the main keyword of INTEREST. People who take the plunge into entrepreneurships are people who have deep interest in their undertakings, and this motivates them more than anything else to achieve their goal. They provide a wonderful service, impeccable design, meticulous art, and top class pictures for their customer and they get good paid. We always said “Money is just a side effect of good product and service”. Most of people in glamorous ‘title’ job do their work just to earn money. They jump into big company to get big fat salary and even admit knowing something that they do not know. At the end, money governs them, and they are too late to change or take any risk in their life because of their money commitment.
As for us, we are still doing career and entrepreneurship. I am still an engineer and my wife is a fulltime businesswoman. We are thankful that we can view things more clearly and identify why some people deliver good job, some doesn’t, why some people take the risk and why some doesn’t.
We would like to challenge all young generation of Malaysia to take the challenge, take the plunge and do whatever you like to do for your better future, for our communities and country so that we can excel in our special field, without compromising our economical balance. Remember, most of successful people do not see the world like ordinary people see it. Stop thinking outside the box, you need to be outside the box.

Huh!

2010-01-13T09:44:00.001-08:00

The day we were born is the last day we are free in this world. I can’t stop thinking about it. The more I opened my mind to my internal discussion with my own self, the more I got confused and sometimes sad by the fact that it is true. I mean look at us now, day in day out in a perfectly routine system created to forever imprison us in our own cycle. The system we are in is very rigid and powerful to the extent that most of us will sacrifice the most luxurious gift God has gave human being, FREEDOM. We are not talking about national independence here. We are talking about freedom to do what we like to do, to choose what we want, to be adventurous and curious like 2 years old kid and to be one with yourself. I observed and know many of professional brag about how successful they are, how many houses they owned, how many cars they have and sometimes how many wives they have. It’s all came in one simple conclusion or sometime question that I always posed back to them, “Do you do what you like to do? Or it just things or lifestyle that other people want and influence you to take? Or you just don’t know why you end up like this?” Yes, many of them answered with the highest confident, and throw “Yes!! If I don’t like my job/work I will not be successful like I am now!! “. And then in most of them, you can right away see their eyes looking downwards and their shoulders dropped. It’s not what they want, it’s what the world system has created to them.
I know, by writing this many of you would not agree with me. It’s ok. I don’t want to argue or debate about it. We can believe whatever we want. My statement is based from my observations and study in our society here in our beloved capitalist capital. Being a capitalist, which most of state or region or country practicing democracy is govern by capitalist system, we only interested in money. No money no talk is pretty true here. Rate of success, reputation, trust and popularity is easily gained if you have money. It doesn’t matter how you get all the money, being a drug dealer also count in. The bottom line is you have a capital to built or fun other ventures to gain profit. This is what capitalist all about, the ability to make money from money. Unfortunately, in our school educations, never in any student’s life he or she being told that the most important thing you need to survive out there is the ability to make money, and not the ability to get A for all your subjects. I’m not saying that we do not appreciate education, but we need to have the RIGHT education. Ever wonder how much books standard 1 kids need to bring to their school each day? Ask your son or daughter and you’ll be amazed. They don’t really need to know everything actually. Then, take example of a very successful student in SPM, like me, I’m the best student in my school during SPM. I’m being offered a scholarship with a multinational company to fund my education, and I was too glad to sign the agreement without handed it in to my lawyer for review and end up with a huge amount of debt once I got my degree. Yes, it WAS a scholarship. You see, the funder always put this clause or sort of it in every scholarship or loan agreement:
“ The xxxx (funder name) can withdraw or change the status of scholarship to loan without even notifying the student “.
There you go. After a full 5 years of hard study and get great results, some of us got Dean’s list, we do not even know that our scholarship has been withdrawn and change to loan. How much we need to pay? All of it!! See? You got your degree and you got your ass deep in pool of debt. You are not even go to interview for a job. This is a root problem for most of professional who stuck in their desk for 35 or 40 years. It is harsh word, but reality is we have been tailored to become a slave to the system from the first day we attending school.
The system then continues to making profit by introducing installment. How many of us have the capability or affordability to buy house or car in cash term? Only 10-25% of the populations and this 10-25% is sitting on the top of the system, which made them the system makers. Easily said they are bunch of people who sit in the building called PARLIAMENT. Other than them are friends of them. That’s made up 10-25%. For the rest of us, we are called middle class and we are do not afford to buy house or car in cash. However, house and car is two things necessary for us in life and we can’t afford not having either one. Yes, you can lose the car but try going to work in Kuala Lumpur and stay at Nilai. How about stay at Kuala Lumpur? Sorry, it only reserved for expatriate and that 10-25% people.
So, actually what is the problem? I would say the system in our government is the problem. Capitalist work best in a businessman world but it would not for working class citizens, which most of us are. It will slowly drain middle class pockets until it creates a FORCE so strong that people break their freedom to wake up 5 in the morning, drive to work at 6, stuck in traffic for 1-2 hours, reaching back home at 9. You are still ok if you are single, but it will be unforgiving for those who have families. The worst part is we don’t realize it happening; everybody views it as a norm in life. The moment we realize it is when we are old enough to receive our last salary, and we still have 5 years unsettled house installment. For me, that is truly a pathetic life to live in.

2009-10-26T08:15:00.000-07:00

6 Habits of Millionaire

* Learn From Your Mistakes - Don't dwell on the mistake, focus on the lesson. Many of the wealthiest Americans on this year's Forbes 400 list endured some tough obstacles in their careers, but they learned from those experiences to keep them on the right track later on.

* Look For Value - People who have money to spend don't skip the process of comparing prices and seeking out deals just because they can technically afford to pay for the most expensive item. They look for value.

* Find Your Niche - Think you'll hit the jackpot by doing something everyone else can do? Not likely. Most people who earn big bucks have found a niche that increases their demand and therefore, their paychecks. Not sure what your niche is just yet? That's OK, for now, work on becoming indispensable at your job.

* Be in Control of Your Money - If you're not paying attention to where your money is going, then you're not in total control of your money. People who accomplish their goals get there by understanding how their spending habits, debt, and assets play into the big financial picture. Educate yourself on money matters and be accountable for your personal finances.

* Avoid Frivolous Fees - People don't build their nest eggs by letting pointless fees slide. Familiarize yourself with the policies of anyone with the ability to charge extra — banks, credit card companies, your cell phone provider, you name it. Those fees add up to money in your pocket.

* Believe in Yourself - Of the wealthiest Americans on this year's Forbes 400 list, 274 of them are self-made. Luck may have played a small role here and there, but in most cases it was about taking calculated risks and standing behind ideas, even when others are critical.

So, how many did I already acquired? How about you?

Cameron Snapshot

2009-10-06T10:14:00.000-07:00

Cameron Highland Resort

2009-10-06T09:47:00.000-07:00

Yup, we are really in need of a good break!!!! With our business demand a full concentration and tight monetary budget, along with ridiculous and unnecessary work in office (since I am just a subordinate in 33,000 employees corporation, most of non-technical job for me is just rubbish!! heheh),2 days slip from city is really appreciated.
Fortunately, after spending a hefty amount of money to buy our self a pair of Frederique Constant watch, we are so lucky to get one night 2 days stay at Cameron Highland Resort on the top of Cameron Highland. We choose to drive there with an open top since we rarely have the opportunity to do it in city..people will stare or call you crazy to drive convertible in scotching sun and road full with haze and smokes..but, in Cameron Highland, the road is great, the air is clear and the temperature is perfect!!
We arrived for check in at the resort somewhere around 2.50 pm and was greet by a nice warm receptionist. The service is commendable and we must say one of the best that we experience in Malaysia. The resort was awarded 5 star diamond award (like the one in Ocean 13)..so we expected a very good room and service. We were then being toured around the hotel with our personal guide. After that we went to check our room. We are entitled to have a deluxe room with USD 200++ pernight excluding RM 300.00 for dinner deposit.
The room ambient is great with luxury furniture and nicely arranged bed. Since the temperature up there is quite low, there is no need of aircond in the room.
We also burn off our deposit to have a taste of their chef's diner creation. The food was fantastic with the right taste and portion. We really loved how they pampered the guest and treat us like king and queen. Yes, the rate is pretty much above average and expensive, but if we are to go to Cameron Highland again, we will surely stay there again.

I'm started to think to retire up there..maybe have a nice home up the hills and manning our business from the top of the Titiwangsa...hehehe...what a dream man!!

Endless Endevour

2009-07-23T19:43:00.000-07:00

Year 2009 indeed mark a new chapter in our life. We can proudly say that so far we managed to put all our energy and thought into entrepreneurship. With Bling Lustre (our main company) registered, we expand our wing into four core businesses which are food and drinks, accessories, gift boxes and automotive care. It is not easy to start it all using our own resources, and it still difficult until now since we are still underway to open our food stall and next car wash branch. Capital is the entire culprit. Being a middle class family with no upper class family ties, we do drain our pocket to start it all. However, we always believe in God in charting our progress. Sometimes thing will not go smoothly, and most of the time it won’t go smoothly, but God will have plan for us as long as we try our best. So here we are, busting into business life. We still working though and that made us extra busy. Here is some update on our ventures up until now..

Chanteks Food

We are now under process of acquiring food stall at UOA tower in Kuala Lumpur. We do not expect it to be cheap, but there is opportunity in this place and a lot of potential..so after intense discussion and brainstorm, we finally made up our mind and booked the place. The rental part is a problem now since we do not include the cost of rental deposit into our take over calculation cost.. so yes, we are short 2 months deposit before we can make our way to the food court (UOA tower is in front of KL Convention Center, so calculate the rental yourself). Anybody want to become investor? Hehehe… our next issue is cook..we do have our staff, Hadi and he can cook. However, the trick is the stall must sell Chinese style food (Halal of course, no pork here!!), and this mean he need to learn as fast as possible from the existing cook. We give him a month to do so since we target 1/9 as our launch date…and my birthday is 9/9, so this really meant a lot to me. Yes we still need to find 2 more helper to help in the kitchen and serve, but once we secure the deal, staff should not be a problem (We think)... we will make our haste to rejuvenate our capital so that we can pay up the deposit..but really, we do not know how…come on brain, think of something…..

3 Stooges Car Wash

Our car wash now operational for about 2 weeks..with 2 dedicated staffs, we can really count on this one to become one of our asset..we just refill our inventories, the first ordeal to be done since we get our hand into this business and end of next week will be the first rental to be paid.. hopefully we have enough..heheh..our car wash located at USJ Taipan, just behind Old Town Kopitiam..anyone from Subang should now already. We are open from 9 am to 9 pm every day, just come and have your car pampered at 3 Stooges Car Wash.. currently we have plan to expand the brand name, maybe opening 2nd branch at Puchong area or Putra Height, but we need investor..2-3 potential investor have raised their interest and proposals are send to them, we just pray they will venture with us..

www.chantek-chantek.com

Well, enough said. This is our first baby in entrepreneur world. We still remember how we start the business 3 years ago. Too boring in office, or fed up with office politics sometime can move you to do your own thing. That’s exactly what happens to us. And since that, we never stop. We need to thank www.malaysianbikers.com (I used to be a biker) on helping us met our first accessory supplier. We start up with a very small capital, RM 300.00 to buy brooches. We start to sell it online, through lelong and ebay but apparently accessory does not market well there. So, we made up our mind to pay 1 university student to code our first online store under www.kedaisaya.shop.com. Then, it happened. We start to get orders from customer as well as reseller. And we can say that we do supply brooch down to Singapore now. After 2 years, the original website is being hacked and some insolent hackers put a virus in it made it malfunction. So, my wife with all her effort took up a challenge to code herself a new website and our brand chantek-chantek was born. The new website is www.chantek-chantek.com and chantek become our main brand now for most of our ventures. Now, we plan to put our legs into famous shopping complex like IOI mall (new wing) or mid Valley..Pavillion is just too expensive..but knowing that accessory is a seasonal thing, we need to replan and rethink 2-3 times before really take one kiosk at those expensive place..We also started to venture out from online world as we are now following flea market around Puchong and Subang area.. We will be at Summit USJ flea market next month..

Chantek Gift's

This is our newest subsidiary. Taking care by our youngest brother, Uteq, (http://www.daysofdelirium.blogspot.com) we sell uniquely gift box with each box is fully custom made to meet customer’s need and design. Feel free to ask Uteq if you have your own design to made, or just tell him what kind of guy/girl you are and he’ll figure out type of box design to come up for you.

Honestly, doing business in Malaysia is not as simple as what we wrote above..it is more complicated and sometimes heartbreaking. Our people mindset especially Malay (don’t know why most Malay behave like this) always look down at businessman. Don’t they forget that Islam’s prophet Muhammad is a businessman himself? and he is very successful.. What we do is just following his footstep so that we can create chance to help other people. Yes, we are draining our resources in setting all this up, and until now we still bleeding chips, but that’s the sacrifice we need to take in order to have bright future. Stay and working in a big company is not bad, really, not bad at all. But think of this, you do not own that big corporate company. So they can reject you when you are not fit for work (happen to our cousin Abg Man who temporally paralyzed because of stroke), don’t matter who you are, a GM, SM, even MD, they will. And when it happened, you lost your big fat income..KWSP only can withdraw when 50 yrs old (this is stupid policy)..It is a totally different story if you have your own company/business that have run concurrent with your corporate life..you’ll have buoyancy..or emergency line when something happen to your professional career..

Another problem is funding..Most of our business is using boot strap method, meaning we are using our own money, saved from our small monthly paycheck. And this is what kill most of the beginners.. Being unable to generate enough capital will made they lost opportunity and strategic place, leaving only low potential place for their business.. Government keep on talking about stop borrowing from ah long, but try to borrow from bank or gov itself..You’ll cry seeing the document needed for that purpose..And every time they will ask for 3 months paycheck, so you need to have job too. People who are hardcore business man do not have 8-5 job, so they need to borrow from Ah Long laa..why are they so stupid to realize this..

However, we still can survive until now (without pinjam ah long)..And we are keen to improve and expand our business from day to day..We will try our best in every field we are venturing, so that we can help other people who are in need..

**Petikan dari Dr Fadzilah Kamsah “ Orang yang berjaya adalah orang yang dapat membuat orang lain bermanfaat daripada usaha mereka” **

2009-07-22T09:02:00.000-07:00

hi geng, for those who are wondering how much you need to pay at our car wash, picture above say it all..

:)

OUR NEW CAR WASH SHOP NOW OPERATIONAL!!!

2009-07-19T08:38:00.000-07:00

Alhamdulillah, after few glitch and hiccup, we managed to clinch it up!! We successfully open our car wash shop at USJ Taipan.. Map and how to get there is attached in the photo above..operational for about 5 days now and there are cars including luxury SUV and luxury sedan coming for for wash, polish and wax...good to have that kind of crowd flowing to get our service..and yes, before we allowed our staff to polish and wax, we personally test them with our Z3 beemer and you can see the results in above pictures..quiet impressive with all the shining combine with smooth surface after the treatment done.. the main activity in our car wash is yes, washing car...the charges are differ according to size and type of cars, but at the market rate of course..

memaner member yang nak basuh kereta kat sini pastu nak dapat diskaun, korang leh call dulu (datang off office hour laaa)..kalau kitaorang ada masa korang datang leh kasik discount punya..haahaha..bleh gak minum kat kopitiam depan tu...jom!!!!

Aisy cakap " keciiiikkkkk keta umi"......

2009-06-25T03:19:00.000-07:00

My wife got her new car, and for sure I am pretty much jealous over her right now...err..same as Aisy...

So, we have completed approximately 700 KM test drive the 2nd day we have our beemer roadster.. first, lets talk about the downside..roadster is not an average car or comfort car, let be frank about it..the cockpit is rather small, or micro compared to our family sedan, sylphy. with only 2 persons sitting on it, and the 2 persons must be quite slim like us, hehehe.. otherwise you'll start to feel uncomfortable or i can say claustrophobia..the 2nd downside is of course, fuel consumptions...try to hit 180 KM/Hr and you seriusly can see the fuel gauge start to move..we burn about RM 100.00 just for fuel...again compared to our family sedan, we just fork out RM 80.00 for the same journey, with four people and lots of goods in the trunk..the last one, is the maintainence cost..no need to discuss about it since it is a roadster.(pandai beli pandai jaga la kan)..the stiff suspension is really not meant for town driving with potholes everywhere, it really can hurt your back..well, that's about it for downside..

The upside is, the design of course..with long front nose and shark grills besides it, plus the Z3 was one of car featured in 007 series, this car definitely a head turner. For the first time people taking our car's picture when we stop at traffic light..how about that...the car is designed to bend corner, and that is what it did during our drive to Malaysia northern part..right after Menora tunnel, with engine roaring at 4500 RPM, and speedometer clock at 160 KM/HR, we seamlessly bend the downhill corner, flashing high beam to other vehicles in fast lane..well, we apologize for breaking speed limit and tailing a 535 beemer..it really hard to slow down in a car like this... however, on the way back to KL, we just drive it slowly, 140 KM/HR on average...because we already aware about it's capability..and surprisingly, the stiff suspension work quite well in long, smooth highway, leaving a comfort ride for both of us...overall, this is somewhat our dream car, and a private one for both of us...

***some people deemed a roadster owner as stupid, buy an expensive car but only fit for two..but wait until they drive one...hey! we already have our family car what...Jeremy Clarkson and The Stig (Schumacher) will definitely agree on this!!!***

Recent updates..pictures only...I'm too lazy to type..

2009-06-25T03:08:00.000-07:00

My proton SAGA

2009-06-22T02:30:00.001-07:00

Aduih, penat..

2009-06-12T07:32:00.000-07:00

Erm..dah lama tak update blog ni..bukannya malas tapi sekarang ni kitaorang sibuk sikit..aisy dah start jelous kat airy..semua adik punya barbag dia nak sapu..termasuklah cradle baby pun aisy masuk jugak sampai koyak..hehe..pastu dengar la judet marah..mana boleh tak marah kalau kejap-kejap aisy menangis sebab nak benda benda yg dilarang, err contohnya macam nak main hp umi & judet, nak main ipod judet...nak tekan skrin lcd ..uiyoo macam macam lagi ler..memang betul la biasanya budak budak sgt jelous kalau diorang ada adik baru, rasa macam diri diorang kena neglect plak..tapi sebenarnya attention mmg lebey kat si aisy ni..mana taknya kalau asyik dia je nak conquer semua..hehee..contohnya mcm kitaorang tgh tgk tv elok-elok, tetiba dia dengan selambanya tutup je tv tu..kita bukak, dia tutup balik, sampai kena marah pastu dia nangis la..kalau teruk sikit nangis tu muntah la plak.. Isk, macam- macam...
Airy plak sekarang gemuk betul..maybe sebab minum susu ibu kot..pastu airy agak tenang sikit compare dgn abang dia..yelah..kalau dedua laju semacam pengsan plak mak bapak dia ni..

Wan dan tok selamat pergi dan balik umrah..alhamdulillah semua ok..nanti ada rezeki lebey kitaorang plak nak pergi...lepas ni tok & wan nak pergi buat haji pulak,insyaallah...

KL jerebu giler sekarang, terima kasih kepada kerajaan dan rakyat Malaysia yang pandai menjaga alam sekitar!!! Apalagi DBKL dan majlis perbandaran yg lain, selagi ada pokok tebang la, lepas tu bakar plak.. Bagus sangat tuuu.. Mmg fed up betul...

Tradition vs Common Sense

2009-05-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

Past two months we have spend most our times on road and burnin rubber..especially me.the reason is solely because my sweetie just delivered our 2nd son,and still within berpantang period as what Malay people called.however, my wife did not look like person in pantang, thanks to her and her mother science education background..most of village peoples treat women at my wife's stage pretty bad in term of food ration..they only allowed food like dried salted fish with plain rice, along with very very minimal plain water intake. I dont want to comment on other practices which is from my point of view is definitely ridocolous! Mother who breastfeed their child need to gain a healthy diet with sufficient water intake. Protein, carbohidrate and vitamins are all very very essential for mother as well as infant. How on earth do they think by having such a concentrated camp menua can help mother and her child to recover and grow up? They need to be educated by kementerian kesihatan about this..otherwise they will stick to this bad tradition..
For this,i am very thankful and grateful of having mom and mom in law who are educated and know about science and have medical perspective..so that my wife wont suffer a lot during her pantang period..
The one who kinda suffer is clearly me, because i need to go back to taiping every weekend to visit my family there..luckily this week is the final one and really lucky that we managed to get that 2.0 Sylphy..otherwise i must be flat up every time i reach KL or Taiping..
Aisy jangan jeles ngan Airy!! Dua dua pun umi and judet sayang!!! Hahaha, Aisy dah start hijack Airy punya buai..apa daa, bukan muat pun..

Backdated postings..

2009-04-26T09:39:00.000-07:00

Started from 3 months ago, our life was so busy and in the same time misses few postings in our blog. Early this month, I went to Singapore for business purposes, an advanced training in structural and reliability. That was my first time being in Singapore. The city was indeed cleaner than Kuala Lumpur with better public transportations serving almost whole island. The best part is the taxi driver is so polite and the most important, they are using meter for the fees. Not like taxi driver in Malaysia, they are ignorance about using meter for their taxi. Another thing that is good in Singapore is their education facilities. None of Malaysia university have their own bowling alley, but Singapore's polytechnic have it! They also have a very good soccer field, too good to compare even with our bkt jalil stadium. Changi Airport on the other hand is heaven for shoppers, just flash your boarding pass and you can have discount up to 20% for your items. KLIA did not apply this. However, not all is green on this small Island, if we are muslim, i found it quite difficult to live here in the city heart. This is because I cant find any mosque or muslim food center. I've been told that muslim community is located at outcircuit of the city and I might find mosque and muslim food there. The fact is, city center is not for muslim folks. Apart from that Singapore indeed surpassed Malaysia in term of technology, public transportation, management system, and thinking. We seriously need a mind change as well as attitude shift to quickly catch up with out southern neighbour..

Sekarang ni dok umah sengsorang pasal umii,aisy and airy ada kat Taiping. Next week judet balik tgk korang semua!

Selamat datang Muhammad Airy

2009-04-14T17:40:00.000-07:00

Today we have good news to share. We just have our second baby boy and the good part of it is he share the same birthday with his elder brother Aisy. Currently both Airy and Umi still in SDMC and sceduled to be discharged sometime in the afternoon. Hopefully everything is fine and we can have the permission to leave the hospital. Since we are using our brand new ipod touch to log this, hehehe..we will upload baby picture when we go back to home, once we hook up with our laptop. However we would like to welcome our newest addition to Fadly's family!

--official pictures uploaded!!-- err, Aisy, tolong jgn kalut sangat boleh tak?

Work and Travel

2009-03-18T04:38:00.000-07:00

Recently, we've been travel aggressively for the past two months. In fact, this entry was written during my working trip to Kota Kinabalu and Miri..it's a one week trip. Before that, we spend every weekend being in other places, started from end of Feb where we spend weekend at Kuantan to visit Angah and Anum. well, angah is in UMP while Anum just enrolled in SBPi school at Kuantan. The SBPi school is quite big, not like my school or umi's Sri Kota (however later Umi got her place at TKC, that quite high rank school in Malaysia). Together with us is Ayah and Emak. we just went to kuantan on one car only lah..no need to waste fuel..heheh..after visiting Anum, we drop by at angah's UMP..no offend ngah, but your U is kinda lame..Pahang gov should put more money on developing the infrastructure and facilities there..what we saw was not up to standard for university..however, like angah said, UMP = Universiti Maner Pulok! hehehe..we also managed to pass him our desktop,since he wanted it..his laptop went to Ayah and I got my wife new net book for her as a present.. erm..at the end of the day everybody have their own personal pc except me..hahaha..nevermindlah, with Aisy and upcoming Airy around, I will not even be able to watch TV!!!
Then, next week after that, we spend weekend at Taiping and Ipoh, since Umi will not be able to go anywhere else after this (dah dekat nak bersalin dah), she wanted to makan at a lot of places..hehhe..we just ikut je laa..Aisy is the happiest during this trip since he got chance to play with his cousin Ajim.. banyak la project diorang buat, dari main paip air kat depan umah paklong sampai tolong orang basuh kereta kat depan umah wan dia.. heheh.. After that, I need to go to both KK and Miri for work trip and that's cost me one week.. next two week, I am expected to go to Kertih for meeting and to conduct analysis..erm..2009 indeed a very busy year for Fadly's family.. wait until April the 13th..we hopefully will have another addition to boys scout in our clan..hehehe.. :)

Sekarang Aisy ada hobi baru yang buat semua orang pun kena ikut dia, Main Bowling..tapi Aisy cakap THUM BALL!! mana dapat ntah, dia create sendiri je THUM BALL tu..ari ari pun nak kena main bowling, kalau tak kat umah, mesti dia ajak gi Alamanda tgk oran main bowling..tapi kekadang tu juded kena main jugaak bila boring..tapi juded ni memang bukan orang berbakat dalam bowling..buat abis duit jerk..siap belajar dalam you tube macam mana nak baling bola bowling tu, tapi camtu gak, satu game tak pernah lepas 140 pun jatuhan pin..hehehe...

Erm..peaceful and simple life..

2009-02-14T10:51:00.000-08:00

after entering workforce for about 4 years now, we started to think about what type of environment that people live nowadays..it seems like human has become more and more like robot, wake up at 5 am then sending their child to nanny house or day care center and then straight away hit the jam for 2 hours just to get to work. At workplace stress level keep on building up until 5 pm, and for those who are keen to please their bosses they will keep it up until 7-8 pm..then they all hit the road back and again take 2 hours sailing through KL notorious jam to pick up their child. they will ended up 8 pm at their houses. see the point? we've been in the loop but we are strongly keep up our fight to that regime. frankly speaking this is not a type of life that we been looking for when we further our study some 5 years ago. work? it can be done anywhere..trust us on that..you don't have to be at office to get your job done if you are at executive level, you got the laptops, internet connection and email right? just used that... however, some higher management did not recognize this way of doing job, we can't understand why until we realized that this is third world country, they still stuck in 1950's..wake up peoples!!! maintainence engineer for wastewater plant in UK did not need to go to their office everyday because they can monitor the plant from home!! why can't we have system like that? (maybe most of malaysians are too busy with politics?)
workaholic is not good for family life, seriously..many of our friends, most of them with phD and Master degree already migrate to Australia and UK not because they are not patriotic, but simple because they want a quality life, better salary, lower food prices, no extraterrestrial automobile taxes and more time for their family..they will get it from there..but not from their home country..we need to change that..otherwise our beloved Malaysia will only filled with "Mat Rempit" because all the educated people already migrated...

This is just one aspect of viewing thing...

Gambar kat Bukit Merah

2009-02-11T05:00:00.000-08:00

Ni la gambar kitaorang masa lepak kat Bukit Merah, Taiping bulan lepas..lambat sikit masuk sebab sibuk..ada banyak lagi gambar tapi semuanya dalam 2-3 MB, nak kena resize dulu, jadi upload la yang dah resize nih..nak resize sume makan masa panjang plak..

What is SHINGLES??

2009-02-09T09:51:00.000-08:00

Remember when I said that I've infected with shingles in the previous post? well, here is the complete information about that..the infections can't kill people, but when it related to nerve root, you know what i mean..

What is shingles?

Shingles (herpes zoster) is a viral infection of the nerve roots. It causes pain and often causes a rash on one side of the body, the left or right. The rash appears in a band, a strip, or a small area. Shingles is most common in older adults and people who have weak immune systems because of stress, injury, certain medicines, or other reasons. Most people who get shingles will get better and will not get it again.
What causes shingles?

Shingles occurs when the virus that causes chickenpox starts up again in your body. After you get better from chickenpox, the virus ”sleeps” (is dormant) in your nerve roots. In some people, it stays dormant forever. In others, the virus “wakes up” when disease, stress, or aging weakens the immune system. It is not clear why this happens. But after the virus becomes active again, it can only cause shingles, not chickenpox.

You can't catch shingles from someone else who has shingles.
What are the symptoms?

Shingles symptoms happen in stages. At first you may have a headache or be sensitive to light. You may also feel like you have the flu but not have a fever.

Later, you may feel itching, tingling, or pain in a certain area. That’s where a band, strip, or small area of rash may occur a few days later. The rash turns into clusters of blisters. The blisters fill with fluid and then crust over. It takes 2 to 4 weeks for the blisters to heal, and they may leave scars. Some people only get a mild rash, and some do not get a rash at all.

It’s possible that you could also feel dizzy or weak, or you could have long-term pain or a rash on your face, changes in your vision, changes in how well you can think, or a rash that spreads. If you have any of these problems from shingles, call your doctor right away.
How is shingles treated?

There is no cure for shingles, but treatment may help you get well sooner and prevent other problems. Call your doctor as soon as you think you may have shingles. The sooner you start treatment, the better it works. Treatment may include:

* Antiviral medicines, sometimes given with steroid medicines, to help you get well sooner and feel less pain.
* Medicines to help long-term pain. These include antidepressants, pain medicines, and skin creams.

Good home care can help you feel better faster. Take care of any skin sores, and keep them clean. Take your medicines as directed. And use over-the-counter pain medicines to relieve pain.

Avoid contact with people until the rash heals. While you have shingles, you can spread chickenpox to people who have never had chickenpox. Be extra careful to avoid people with weak immune systems and pregnant women and babies who have never had chickenpox.
Who gets shingles?

Anyone who has had chickenpox can get shingles. You have a greater chance of getting shingles if you:1

* Are older than 50. --->SHI*, I"M JUST LATE 20s....
* Have an autoimmune disease that causes your immune system to attack your body’s own tissues.
* Have another health problem or stress that weakens the immune system.

If you have never had chickenpox, avoid touching someone who has shingles or chickenpox. If you are at least 60 years old, you can get a vaccine that may prevent shingles or make it less painful if you do get it.

Hope that will add to your knowledge.. I got this from YAHOO Health..

Huh!!

2009-02-09T09:36:00.000-08:00

It's about time now to update this blog..this month just run like a fast bullet train..we hardly to catch up our breath.. it's all started with our trip to Bukit Merah Lake Town resort at the middle of January.. actually we went there because I have my company away day held there. the place was quite ok..however the hotel room is not the best compared to what we usually have for 4 or 5 star hotel, but it'll do. nevermind the hotel room, the surrounding is great for people who love nature with bukit merah lake as the center of attraction. orang utan island is just a 5 minutes boat trip to the center of the lake. there are also other attractions, such as eco park and water theme park which you can enter for quite a decent price. we spend 3 days there and when we went back to KL, I just find out that I've got shingles (scientifically known as herpes zoster). shingles came from the same virus that cause chicken pox. with a little brat and a pregnant wife, doctor advice me to be quarantine and i've got a week MC.. the shingles did hurt, but that's not much compared to high fever..now, after fully recovered, it leaves quite a scar on my right palm. :p

kitaorang ada gambar untuk bukit merah trip tuh, tapi ada tertinggal kat dalam hard disc plak..nanti update kat blog nih...

work is just unforgiving lately..

1:46 am, Miri Sarawak...

Snake in the garden..

2009-01-07T21:39:00.000-08:00

So, this is quite weird.. I do love fishing and I have extensively went to jungle to find a good river or lake to cast my rod, but it is very rarely that I encountered snakes.. To our surprise, last week there is one cute snake resting on the top of pine tree in our garden..heheh, it is a snake for real. So, don't know what to do, all of us just stood there looking at the snake from our home sliding door..it feel like visiting zoo. After 3 minutes of amusement and surprise, we decided to call BOMBA, and they do come with that BIG red truck complete with siren when they arrived..HEHE, all our neighbor went out to check out what happen.. Luckily, they got the snake and later on release it at wild..

So, don't think that you live in urban areas, the snake won't be there.. it's like Samuel L. Jackson movie, Snake On The Plane.. hehehe.. Sorry about the picture, I just snapped it using Nokia E71, not a very good camera..quite blurred..

Hari Raya Haji 2008 (Tahun Lepas punya daa)

2009-01-06T06:55:00.000-08:00

Sorry semua, hari raya haji punya gambar baru nak post..sibuk sket la ujung tahun lepas..awal tahun ni baru dapat bernapas..ni pun sebab Aisy tido awal malam ni..dapat la masukkan gambar pastu update blog ni sikit...

Raya haji bulan 12 tahun lepas kitaorang sambut kat Batu 6 Segamat..takder la meriah sangat pasal orang Johor tak macam orang Kelantan bila raya aidil adha ni..kitaorang sambut ala kadar tapi penuh pengertian laa..hehehe.. tgk ler gambor ni serba sedikit...ayah macam biasa la buat hobi dia iaitu memasak (pasal tu kot aku minat masak??) .. ayam masak kurma speacial!! ehehe..tq dedet... mak jadik co chef..eh silap..sous chef kata AFC channel..kami? dok kejar aisy keliling rumah pastu tolong makan..hehehe..

Anum ngan Fikhri plak kena jadik buruh paksa cat tembok rumah!!!!

Fooling Around

2008-12-22T09:07:00.000-08:00

Senator Aisius Cassius.

Democracy allows demonstration you moron, the word Demonstration - Democracy didn't sound fit to you? (you know who is it right? a person who is commanding one force in Malaysia but not quite there in his brain). Democrazy is when we are annoyed looking a Corporal with only SPM certificate and 5 years experience buying a Toyota Wish!!! -my blast to our fully trusted police force for being so excellence in "preserving" their democracy definition-

Lately, things are really pushing to the limit. Everything seems to be ok at one moment but it can turn the other way round just in matter of seconds. For instance, take what our Prime Minister said about economic slowdown back in October while US and other Europe country already in a financial mess, " our country will not effected by the plunge of oil price". Then his Deputy back him up by saying we are prepared should there is economic recession in South East Asian. Being just an average joe, I really can't understand why our so called "Great Leader" do not learn from history,in fact the purpose of teaching history in school is to get experience and acted based on what happened in the past. Economic recession will happen every 10-12 years period!! It will happen now, and it will recover again, happen again in the next cycle so to say. Just don't deny it because we are really tired of being cheated as a democratic citizen.
Oil prices went down. Many people said that this is a good thing. In one part, Yes..but in another side..NO!! it is NOT!. Why? Government staff should remember well their salary raise in mid 2008. Their salary is being calculated based on oil price at 120 USD per bbl. Now it can barely touch 50 USD per bbl. 40% from government income came from oil and gas industry. So, in a plain stupid word, if oil and gas suffer in their profit, government will surely lost their main source of income,and we are all fuc**d up!. I just pray that oil price will raise up to 100 USD per bbl since we need to get more than that to maintain our country economic state like 2007. We need to have more than 5% economic growth otherwise many will loose their jobs, and many who not will have to shut their mouth and see their wage's cut.
Government, doesn't matter BA or BN must work together to sort this situation. It is not about you all damn politicians, its about our Malaysian people and Malaysia itself that need to be addressed. Economy recession is a real problem and please deal with it CAREFULLY. We don't have people like Dr M anymore up there, I just pray that PM and TPM now will study economy and learn fast because they will be blaimed should we can't go through this critical situation.

Erm..enough about Malaysia..enough about overcrowded LRT, skyrocketing ticket of ERL, corrupt gov bodies and politicians..enough about people who can't queue while waiting to pay their meals, people who cut queue while paying toll..fuh, still a long way to Vision 2020...

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Dah lama tak tulis blog nih..yang atas tu sorry ler, luahan hati rakyat malaysia yang tak berapa puas hati dengan kerajaan sendiri..baik BA ataupun BN..sama je dedua bila dah dapat power sama lembab, sama tamak...

Bulan 12 ni kami agak sibuk..ada banyak hari raya, so ada banyak cuti..tu best duduk dalam negara berbilang kaum, orang cuti raya haji, semua cuti, cuti krismas pun kita cuti gak..hehehe..raya aji ari tu balik umah ayah kat batu 6..gambar semua ada tapi nanti la taruk kat blog nih..meriah la jugak..sebab semua ada..kitaorang siap cat pagar umah ayah lagi..heheh..ayah macam biasa la masak makanan best best..kitaorang keje melantak je la..Aisy pulak abis kena gigit nyamuk pasal exploring keliling rumah Tok Man..huhu...nanti upload gambar baru best sikit..kami balik umah atuk kat Sri Jaya jugak pasal saja nak lawat diorang..sambil tgk rumah baru atuk yang dah renovate..cantik dan besar..Ada sorang nama Aisy memang pantang tgk rumah camtu..terus dia buat marathon lari dari belakang sampai depan umah pastu patah balik..ntah berapa kali dia buat...sampai la penat terus tido bila masuk kereta nak balik semula ke bt 6..
Next week ni member baik En Asmadi nak kahwin..so kami bercadang nak pergi rumah dia la..sebab dia best man dad masa kawin dulu..huhuhu..memang wajib pergi la nih..cuma adiah je tatau nak beli apa kasik kat budak tu...To Mr Asmadi and future wife (ntah saper nama calon bini dia ni luper plak), SELAMAT PENGANTIN BARU SEMOGA PANJANG UMUR DAN RAMAI ANAK!!!!!!!... hehehhe...

Cuti sekolah...

2008-11-29T11:03:00.000-08:00

erm, bulan disember ni masuklah cuti sekolah..memang sesak nak pergi ngan balik kerje kalau naik public transportation masa cuti sekolah ni sebab ramai bebudak sekolah sekarang suka sangat pergi KL city center..biasanya kalau balik kerje naik lrt tu memang lapang je train, tapi sekarang memang penuh memanjang..tren plak memang tak tambah-tambah..nak buat camner cuti sekolah dan bebudak sekarang memang best pasal boleh jejalan dengan kengkawan..ingat lagi dulu masa zaman sekolah, jgn harap ler mak bapak masa tu kasik anak jejalan tanpa diorang..

pelik jugak sebab sekarang nih tengok kat bandar bebudak jalan tanpa orang tua diorang, bukan remaja pun, kanak-kanak lagi..sekolah rendah..orang tua sekarang nih dah jadi sangat open kot, tak macam awal tahun 90an dulu..tapi apapun, jalan boleh, jgn buat benda bodo dah la..tak payah la bebudak yang tengah cuti sekolah tu cuba nak tambah jumlah rakyat malaysia yang tak berapa ada otak ye..lepas jalan2 tu korang balik rumah toksah nak singat port memaner plak..

For my family, thing getting much more hectic.. Aisy dah pandai lompat dengan cakap sikit-sikit..boleh la dia cakap dad, umi, tok cik, tok ngan wan..kekadang tu ada jugak terkeluar "apa?".. hehehe..soon he will talk non stop...in the mean time, we have a good news to share...We are expecting our second son somewhere in April 2009..or maybe early May 2009..Currently Umi get herself check at SJMC monthly, but due to SJMC's extraordinary crowded every time we went there, we are suggested to change to Prince Court KL. Tapi kami tak buat lagi pun application tu..maybe kesesakan orang kat SJMC tu sementara jer..(tapi memang ramai betul orang kat situ sekarang, macam kat shopping complex)..however, next month we will still go to SJMC for Umi monthly check up and we think it will get better and we can go home early..we usually spend 3-4 hours just to see the doctor if the doctor have no emergency case, 15-20 minutes for check up, another 15 minutes for medicines..so, if you went out from home at 8 am, you should be able to arrive at home around 2-3 pm..imagine that for a routine check up..

Want to see an active kid?

2008-11-17T10:44:00.000-08:00

Above clip was recorded in Putrajaya Precinct 8 playground..He is active running here and there.

This clip was recorded during our dinner at Manhattan Fish Market some 2-3 months before. To be honest, we just ignored the little kid in order for us to eat. Otherwise we can't really eat. However, the dinner still belong to Aisy when he started to pull the restaurant chairs and use other table fork and spoon..hehehe...the speed has been increased to 2x normal speed for faster download..Aisy really move like superboy isn't it?

What a week!!

2008-11-05T17:45:00.000-08:00

We started this week by joining treasure hunt in FRIM somewhere in Kepong..even though UMI and Aisy were bored to death waiting for dad (apparently dad is the only person involved). we replaced the bored episode by hanging out in Pavillion the next day...saja pergi situ sebab nak beli J.CO punya donut..sedap giler donut tuh..after got the donut, we just exploring the building. the shops here are quite upscale. we would rather say that for average income earner in Malaysia, just stick to ordinary shopping complex like Jusco. You can spent your money here, but trust us, you won't be able to get much items. But wait till you go to Starhill, Adorn level..you wont be able to buy a thing!! frankly speaking, if you want to have a good lunch or dinner, maybe once over two or three months, you can treat yourself here in Pavillion or Starhill (just opposite it)..but to shopping for cloths, watches, or cellphone, go to other conventional shopping complex..hehe..you wont believe if we told you a Vertu Cellphone can cost you the minimum RM 19,800.00 Who would thought that a cellphone can be that costly nowadays..however, what we can say about Pavillion, it is a definitely a good shopping complex to hang out with your family..don't worry about Pun'k style kid or teenage with Mat Rempit's style, they are not here yet!! (but growing in Alamanda now..SH*T!!.)

I've opportunity to give presentation at national level in JW Marriot KL, which located in Starhill..I must say that this place is really luxurious..You can find brand like Vuitton, Givenchy, Vertu, Piguet, Mulberry and any other very upscale brands..just bring your platinum card..otherwise, shoooh..

Trip To KB

2008-10-29T07:53:00.000-07:00

Minggu lepas, kami sekeluarga pergi Kota Bharu Kelantan. Memula tu plan nak pergi dengan dua-dua belah family, tapi last-last family ayah ngan family kitaorang jerk yang jadik pergi..Apok and the jidus semua tak jadi pergi sebab masalah peribadi..(macam artis la plak).. tapi apa pun En Aisy adalah orang yang paling gumbira dan nakal sekali pada hari-hari trip ini dilaksanakan..duk dalam kereta dia menjerit, keluar dia berlari, hehe..macam biasa la Aisy punya perangai..

Kami start perjalanan pada pagi sabtu ikut laluan Grik potong banjaran titiwangsa..lupa plak nak snap gambar kat atas banjaran tu..memang cantik pemandangan tulang belakang malaysia tuh..kami jugak lalu tasik banding yang terkenal dengan hutan simpan belum tu..caaaannntiiikkk giler pemandangan dia..next time ada hajat nak tido kat tasik banding resort tu..memang menarik kalau disertakan dengan aktiviti memancing ikan..

cukup 4 jam lebih, sampai la Kota Bharu..bukannya apa lama tu, jalan macam siot sikit..bengkang bengkok, satu lane ajer.nak kata jauh takder la jauh, dalam 200 KM lebey jerk.so kalau ada lori atau kenderaan yang tak bertimbang rasa bawak 20 km/j, memang menangis la ikut belakang diorang..nak potong bukan senang..kalau tergesa-gesa nak pergi KB, baik carik flight la kalau dari pantai barat nih..(apa kerajaan persekutuan dan negeri buat takmo upgrade jalan ke kelantan nih???)

sampai je kat KB, calling ayah..diorang dah sampai lama dah sebab diorang dari Kuala Terengganu..yang mana jalan kat terengganu lebih baik dari jalan Gerik ke KB nih..Ayah, Mak, Anum ngan Fikhri semua dah tunggu kat Renaissance KB tu..kami sampai je terus parking valet kat depan pintu masuk hotel tu..rasa macam PM la plak.. hehehe..malas dah nak carik parking tempat lain..lagipun valet kat KB nih murah , RM 6 per entry..bilik kami dah reserve awal-awal lagi..2 deluxe room dengan rege RM 644.00...buleh tahan gak sebab hotel nih 5 bintang..

lepas borak-borak lebey kurang, kami pun masuk bilik masing-masing..cantik la bilik dia nih..meet expectation..petang tu , Aisy, Dad ngan Pak Ngah terus kecebom turun mandi kolam kat Renaissance tu..err, kalau ada orang nak pergi situ, kolam hotel ni kat tingkat 8..ok gak.besau..tapi tak la macam Awana Kijal punya kolam..yang tu boleh taruk submarine..kitaorang pun mandi la gegiler petang tu sampai Aisy menggigil nak naik..hehe..elok je masuk bilik, Aisy bantai main air lagi kat bathtub..sampai dia nampak penat giler, baru la bawak masuk lap badan semua, tau-tau dah tido..tak sempat nak pakaikan baju pun...huhuhu...

pagi esok tu, kami pun sesiap nak check out..balik KL nak ikut Kuala Terengganu..hohoh, so pusing Perak, Kelantan, Terengganu, Pahang dalam satu trip..dasat gak tu..sampai jerk kat Kuala Terenganu, oleh sebab jalan ok dan jugak 2 lane masa masuk Terengganu, cepat sikit la sampai, kami pun terus tunggu ayah..elok je ayah sampai kat tepi jambatan nak masuk KT tu, kami pun konvoi masuk KT..timing tak elok kali ni sebab masuk bandar masa tgh lunch hour..punya la banyak kereta..so kami lost ayah..cadang nak makan lunch sesama, last-last makan sendirik-sendirik jerk..hampes betul..kitaorang makan kat noodle station, diorang makan kat tepi pantai tuh..sebelum keluar KT, Umi sempat gak shopping sikit beli kaftan..hehehe..

dalam kol 5 lebey, kami keluar dari KT menuju ke Kuantan..dah set ngan ayah nak jumpa kat Geliga..tempat makan seafood.. dalam kol 7 gitu sempat sampai di Geliga tuh..minum ajer kat situ sebab tak lapar lagi..Fikhri plak cadangkan makan kat satu tempat kat area Kuantan..so lepas beli keropok lekor ngan tak lekor, kitaorang pun teruskan perjalanan pergi Kuantan..carik tempat makan yang fikhri cakap tu..tak susah pun, sebab dekat dengan sekolah lama dia, U dia pun area sini jugak..hehehe..budok Pahang la katakan...

sedap gak air gelas besor kuantan nih..layan gak aa... tgk jam dah pukul 10 lebey. kami pun berpisah la kat situ..ayah hantar fikhri ke UMP, pastu diorang balik rentam..kitaorang? balik KL ler aper lagi..Aisy pada masa ni dah out dah..tak sedar dunia sebab penat sangat..heheh, amacam ? ada seronok? tahun depan kita buat trip pergi satu semenangjung? ada brani?

Kitaorang gi Genting..

2008-10-20T07:40:00.000-07:00

Last weekend was a boring one..plus with stress and pressure in office all accumulated on Friday, I just said it is enough..we need to get out of KL..this city sometimes just kill our insanity with hectic and stresses..No wonder Malaysians die because of heart attack and other stress related problem, because IT IS OUR CULTURE TO PUT STRESS TO OUR WORKERS!!! hehehe, I might exaggerate it a little bit..but with high amount of job, and I meant technical job which requires a lot of thinking and analyzing, with pay that 1/4 from what people with the same job got in UK or US, it sometime push a stress button in my head..
to reduce the stresses, i always find a good road and a ride..furthermore i already promise my wife and son to go somewhere last weekend..the brainstorming session was quick..in a car during my way to SJMC to get me diagnose for sinus problem. after xray and check up by ENT specialist,it is good to know that i only got minor sinus problem..at 12.00 pm or so we went back to home before headed to Genting..just to take Aisy's stuffs, we are not planning to stay in Genting because it is peak session and you know how hotel rack their rate during this time.
The shortest way to go to Genting from our house is to take MRR2 and straight to Karak Highway..however, we are determined to use North South Expressway and exit at Jalan Duta, then Selayang, then Batu Caves, then Karak and up to Genting..yup, the traffics were quite bad, with rain and crawling vehicles..nonetheless, its Malaysian type of roads and drivers,i just don't have any more word to curse those cutting lines, speeding maniac, tailing drivers and guy who put on his sunglasses on very cloudy and rainy day (my auto light was on when he did it!!!)
We slowly drove our way up to Genting, the scenery is not that great compare to Cameron Highland, or Frazer Hills, but since it is raining, the temperature drop tremendously..roll down the mirror, you don't need it at this condition..i guess that it must be around 19 to 23 degree celcius.. it's considered very cool here in tropic country in the middle of global warming ages..hehe..
we reached the top at approximately 4 pm..parked at first world hotel..as we put our legs on the lobby, only god knows how big is the crowd waiting to check in..we were right on our decision not to stay here..normal rate is RM 110 and the peak rate is RM 180..nice huh!! we just take a walk at the indoor shopping mall..and ate at Burgers King..since Aisy is still under 3 years age, we are not allowed to enter most of the theme park.. so,we just kill the time wondering around the shopping mall..
we started to went down from Genting at 6.30 pm, as we don't want to bend those corners in the dark..especially with my sylphy..it's not made to grip the corner..we just watched 2-3 lancer GT burn their tires as they bend the corner pretty good..but for family car with family in it? Just stay at low speed like what we have done..it can save your life and at the same time appreciate the scenery and surrounding..
we managed to arrive at home quite early since the the traffics were better on the way back.. 9 pm we safely entered our home... a weekend well spend..

errr... if you want to go to Genting, bring a lot of money, go up in weekdays, get your Golf GTI or Mitsubishi Lancer GT and off you go!!!

Comparison...for our cars...

2008-10-13T21:07:00.000-07:00

please..don't take this as professional review since I am not Tiff Needle or Vicki Butler Henderson, or not even close to James May. However, I do have experience, I mean vast experience of driving Proton Saga and Perodua Kancil. That's doesn't mean that I'm work as a driver, that's because we owned those cars. Recently, we managed to squeezed our budget to get a new car, that's Nissan Sylphy 2.0 Xcvt, and giving away our Kancil to Mama. It is really unfair to compare Sylphy to Saga, but i will try to word it right. The new car is superior at almost everything compared to our national car, I've driven Perdana, but I don't think it can match up. The cabin is large, comparable to new Civic. but one feature stood up, that is huge trunk at the back of the car which is very practical to our family. Sylphy's sound proof is remarkable (but some people who has E200 might find it standard), you can hardly hear anything when you close the door, and the xtronic engine, really quite and made transition damn smooth until you can't notice the gear change. it's like electric car really. auto air conditions, auto head light, electric adjustable head light, foldable side mirror, 6 speakers including tweeters and leather seats really makes this car value of money. However, I noticed one downside of this car, the height and small wheel radius made it pretty wobbly when cornering. I wouldn't try to bent Sylphy at speed of 130 KM/H and above. It really unstable compared to my Proton Saga. Saga on the other hand, have a very good cornering thanks to its really down to earth center of gravity and big wheels. However, to get other Sylphy's advantages like EBD, ABS, and other features like mention above is a far cry for Saga..Generally, if you want to hear engine rumbling, sport kinda feeling, bend your corner, low seating position, Saga is good enough..(DO NOT MENTION EVO or LANCER HERE!!!) ..but, if you want to start a 300-400 KM journey like balik kampung or outstation, you might require very comfort and fuel efficient car, that's why we bought one..

Selamat Hari Raya 2008!!!!

2008-10-08T19:34:00.000-07:00

Puh, ari nih memang sibuk..banyak keje nak kena siapkan..tapi malangnya ada banyak pulak information tak lengkap nak siapkan kerja-kerja tertunggak kat opis nih..oleh itu, sebab sakit hati nak buat keje tak boleh sebab tak cukup information, apa kata kita tulis blog pasal hari raya minggu lepas...hehehe..

raya tahun ni kami sambut hari raya pertama di taiping, kampung Umi..sebab tahun lepas dah raya kat johor..balik kampung memalam jumaat sebelum raya, takder la malam...dah pagi dah..kol 1.30 kami berhenti dekat tapah rehat sekejap..ingatkan orang tak ramai balik malam tu, sesak jugak highway utara selatan dengan kereta orang nak balik kampung..drive pun drive, sampai jugak akhirnya kat taiping..terus boleh sahur la senang cakap. 4 lebey camtu baru sampai..

esoknya, kami pergi amik baju raya kat mat tailor..kena la dalam RM 240...tu baju raya dad je tu..dasyat jugak!! kalau tak hensem lagi tatau la..Aisy dah ada 2 baju raya tok syidah buatkan..so yang tu tak payah beli la..Umi punya baju raya tahun ni takmo buat, sebab Umi tak nak buat..heheh..pastu, terus gi Nissan punya dealer nak amik kereta yang ditempah sebelum puasa dulu..jeng jeng jeng..musim ekonomi dunia recession kami boleh beli kereta plak.. mampus la nak bayor bulan-bulan...hihihi..tapi apa buleh buat, memandangkan kami memang nak kereta yang selesa untuk di bawa dalam perjalan jauh, kami pun decide nak beli Nissan Sylphy 2.0 XCVT.. memang selesa kereta tu..bonet belakang pun besar daripada Saga kami nih..jadi boleh la angkut banyak barang sket balik kampung..lepas je ambik kereta tu, terus la balik umah tengok nak buka pose aper...

raya tahun ni jatuh pada hari Rabu 1 October 2008. elok betul jatuh tengah minggu, semua orang macam tak nak beraya jer..ahhaha..pepagi tu lepas solat hari raya, kami sekeluarga terus pergi beraya kat kampung saidin di simpang..start ngan rumah mak put dulu sebab dia ada buat open house, tapi dad takleh makan banyak sangat lepas bulan pose, perut nanti cramp..huhuhu..lepas tu terus la pergi rumah yong, pak uda, kak zan ngan mak unggai..last sekali gi umah opah kat matang..ok la, abis satu sedara mara semua kat taiping kami pergi.. (ala, bukan jauh pun, jalan kaki je sebab rumah diorang sebelah sebelah).. tengah raya kat umah orang tu, apok and the family pun sampai joint kitaorang raya sekali..aisy pun apa lagi suka aa ada gang...tak la asyik buli umi jer..

raya kedua umah tok buat rumah terbuka..ala, makan sikit adik beradik sedara mara jerk..start pukul 11 sampai pukul 4..ok jugak makanan kitaorang pesan, mee singapura, laksa, roti jala, nasi minyak ngan ayam masak merah..huhuhuhu....penat jugak la diorang layan tetamu sampai petang..malam raya kedua tu kami pun balik kl semula..nak balik segamat terus takut penat plak..jalan tak jam, sebab rakyat malaysia sekarang dah pandai atur perjalanan diorang..takder la macam tahun lepas...macam semut kat PLUS tu..

raya ketiga tu kami sampai Segamat..sampai dalam pukul 1 ptg..rumah mak dah kena serbu raya kedua ari tu, so ok la..malam tu je ader pak usu, mak munah ngan adik ayah 2-3 orang sampai nak beraya..esoknya raya ke empat tu kami pergi rumah atuk nasir plak kat sri jaya..sebelum tu dah singgah umah pak usu kat jementah..tengok rumah baru dia ok jugak..semi-D tapi rege murah jerk sebab luar KL..besar pun besar..untung ler orang duduk luar KL..hehehe..kat sini Aisy memang no hal punya sbb ada ramai kengkawan buleh layan dia..jadi memang tak nampak batang idung pun sebab dia sibuk main..last sekali kami pergi umah mak munah kat tepi sekolah lama dad..lepak lepak lebih kurang, sebelum maghrib kami pun balik semula ke segamat..
raya kelima kami start dengan breakfast makan murtabak daging kat segamat..sedap gak..abis dua keping kitaorang makan..Aisy macam biasa la, bila orang makan dia pun buat perangai takmo duduk sebab boring..so kena la gilir-gilir bawak dia jejalan..memula dad, pastu tok syidah pulak jadik mangsa..lepas je perut kenyang, kami pun pergi rumah mak jah..borak-borak ngan diorang...tengahari tu , semua pun nak balik umah masing-masing..ayah ngan mak balik pahang pastu hantar anum sekolah..angah naik jaguh dia balik UMP..kitaorang pun balik la KL..sebelum sampai umah, sempat lagi singah alamanda beli makanan..hehehe..

raya tahun ni jalan raya ok..maybe sebab orang ramai dah pandai mengatur perjalanan dan berkorban tido untuk jalan pepagi buta..hehehe...

Balik Batu Anam di bulan Puasa

2008-09-17T21:52:00.000-07:00

Last week kami semua balik rumah ayah kat batu anam, segamat.. lama jugak tak balik johor..saja la, sebab tahun ni raya kat taiping..so balik la sebelum raya untuk buka pose dengan mak & ayah. kitaorang sempat jugak bukak pose ngan atuk sekali kat sri jaya..dah alang-alang balik, jengah la sekali diorang.. seronok jugak dapat buka pose reramai, ni selalunya ada 2 orang je yang bukak pose..1 lagi dok selepahkan rumah..hehhe, tu aisy la tu.. masa balik kampung kali ni, tengok pak cik zul (adik ayah) sekali. tak tau sebab apa, dia pengsan masa sahur..gi check kat doktor cakap ok semua..dia pun tatau sebab apa.. tapi sekarang dah ok la sket..

bulan pose kali ni kami memang malas ultimate punya..macam ultimate strength jugak la..dah tahap tertinggi dah..masak pun tak, beli jerk..kuih raya pun satu haram tak buat lagi..rasanya memang beli la kot nanti..(hehe, sebenarnya tak pernah pun buat sendiri selama nih)..26 malam tak pun 27 malam pose nanti kami cadang nak balik taiping..malam la kot..lewat-lewat sket..musim raya nih yang malasnya nak travel tu la, dengan jem lagi atas jalan, duit lagi bayar tol ngan minyak..adui...tapi nak buat camner, dah takder cara lain nak balik kampung..naik la kereta keluaran nasional kami yang tersayang..huhuhuhu...sakit pinggang dah tentu la kalau stuck 4-5 jam atas highway tu sebab sesak.. (tahun lepas dah rasa dah)...

minta-minta tahun ni takder la sesak giler jalan..tapi macam tipis je harapan tu..
haaa, tahun ni tak buat rumah terbuka, sebab nak buat rumah terbuka di taiping..nanti kita post lagi pasal rumah terbuka tu bila dah buat..hahaha..(kalau takder aral melintang patah la)...

gambar tu, err..aisy tengah mengkagumi kereta tok man...siap tolong lap lagi ooo...

Ramadhan Muncul Kembali..

2008-09-04T23:59:00.000-07:00

Bulan 9 ni bulan yang penuh rahmat dan ditunggu-tunggu oleh umat Islam telah pun tiba. Sedar tak sedar dah masuk bulan ramadhan semula. Kami sekeluarga menyambut bulan ramadhan kali ini di Taiping. Disebabkan semua adik beradik balik, dan memang giliran keluarga kami menyambut satu ramadhan di sana, memang meriah jugak la suasana. Macam nak raya pun ada. Cuma kesian kat abah je la, kaki dia bengkak. Jadi takleh nak join banyak aktivit, dan kami pun takleh nak buat banyak aktiviti sebab tak cukup ahli lembaga pengarah. Hahah.. pada satu ramadhan tu, kami pergi ke pasar ramadhan di taiping, kat depan masjid. Orang punyalah ramai. Biasalah tu, memula ramadhan memang ramai orang beli kat pasar ramadhan , kena pulak kali ni ramadhan start awal bulan, gaji ada lagi. Tunggu dekat tengah ngan akhir ramadhan, memang kosong je orang. Masa tu baru la boleh pergi dengan aman untuk beli makanan.

Petang tu hujan pulak turun..ingatkan hujan takder la orang ramai keluar beli makanan kat pasar ramadhan tu, tapi jangkaan memang meleset. Lepas hujan la orang sekaligus keluar serbu pasar ramadhan tu. Jadi kami tak dapat la nak beli banyak juadah berbuka puasa, hanya beli dadih 5 cawan dengan murtabak 2 keping. Ok lah nak buat tambah-tambah je..lagipun mama memang masak kat rumah.

Balik Taiping kali ni pulak memang kena dengan besday Abah, 31 Ogos. Fuh, memang anak merdeka. Apok ada beli kek untuk celebrate, tapi yang memang bebetul celebrate cucu-cucu sekalian la.. hahaha…

Malam tu, lepas berbuka pose semua, kami pun start kereta balik la semula ke lembah kelang..Aisy tak ikut sebab tok ngan wan pun nak gi rumah kami dalam masa 3 ari.. jadik umi ngan dad je la balik memalam tu..kereta boleh tahan banyak jugak kat PLUS, sebab ramai orang balik kampung. Berhenti tido kejap kat mana ntah, lupa plak.. sampai rumah dalam pukul 2 pagi..esok dah nak gi keje plak..aiyooo…

Bulan pose ni pulak kami sambut dengan DEMAM... huhuhu..semua orang pun demam, dah seminggu tak baik-baik lagi..berbotol dah ubat batuk ditelan, tapi uhuk-uhuk jugak...ni semua jangkit dengan umi la nih...hehehe...

Uiyooo..apsal jadik tak teratur nih??

2008-08-16T07:46:00.000-07:00

Lama dah tak menulis kat blog nih..last pun akhir bulan 6 dulu..it not that I'm not committed, but it's more like I'm full of commitment for the last 2 months.. hidup agak hectic sikit 2-3 bulan ni dan dijangka akan terus kekal sehingga akhir tahun..mungkin awal tahun depan pun sama jugak keadaannya.. kerja? erm..my principal engineer already tendered his resignation letter, leaving only engineers that have most 3 years experience to run the show on their own..and guess what? it's not that easy for us to do it. that's why I'm out of phase for the time being. Well, what to do, it's just another cycle in our life..and we just can run like a mice in it, no matter whether you run it fast, or just walk, the statement is clear.. swim or sink.
From family perpective, things are getting chaotic from day to day. Aisy has grow up pretty fast in this 2 months, catching up many thing, generate thousand of ideas to test mom and dad nerves. Sometimes we just laugh it out when he did stupid things like playing with the water basin in front of our house, and then pretending to water the plants like mom did. there are times when we need to give him a lesson when he started to play with thing that he shouldn't messing with such as electric plug/socket, mom and dad cellphones, laptops and tv. but as we all know, children just can't understand the word STOP or NO.. we think now is the phase where he really want to discover new things, it just up to us to tell him which can and which can't.

Trip to Pulau Pinang July 2008

2008-07-18T23:23:00.001-07:00

Minggu lepas kami semua pergi Pulau Pinang sebab kena menghadiri seminar. 3 hari pulak tu..jadik umi pun ambil keputusan apply cuti ikut sekali la dengan dad gi penang..boleh jugak jadik holiday..siang hari umi memang kena duduk ngan aisy dalam bilik je la sebab dad kena masuk seminar..malam kami boleh keluar. hari pertama tu, kami 3 orang pergi makan subaidah nasi kandar kat area bukit jambul tu, on the way to USM. ok la..hari kedua kami keluar makan pelita nasi kandar. kalau dah kat penang tu makan nasi kandar je la yang paling senang nak dapat. layan jugak makan kari mamak hahahha.. eh, lupa plak nak mention, kami duduk kat Equatorial Penang, kat bukit Jambul.. hotel dia besar betul, tapi design lama la sebab hotel tu pun lama. Harga makanan kat situ standard hotel-hotel di semenanjung malaysia la, agak mahal. tapi swimming pool ok dan besar. Aisy sampai tak mahu naik dari swimming pool tu. dah mengigil sejuk pun tapi nak main air lagi.

Global ke Glokal warming?

2008-06-24T20:29:00.000-07:00

people sometimes just don't want to understand the reality of living in this world. fact that we can't leave it for other planet if earth is not suitable anymore to support our greedy attitude. oh, wait, how the hell this world become not suitable for us..it has been 4 billion years since this earth support us, and now we are ruining the equilibrium. ever wonder why temperature rise so much in this millinea? global warming..and why does it happened? the answer is pretty simple, we create CO2 to much using our unclean vehicles, war, bomb testing, energy starvation process like generation of electricity using coal and fossil fuel, war, deforestation and bla bla bla...the CO2 become concentrated around the atmosphere and created blanket for heat. therefore, it is more or less "preserve" heat around the world and prevent it from leaving the atmosphere, thus leaving us a warmer, hotter condition. for girls, hotter is better but for our planet that is not the case. this is the beginning when world started to become unsuitable for us.
other chain reactions can be simply figured out. warmer environment will certainly accelerate the melting of north and south pole. north pole will go first due to it receive more sun light compare to south pole. 20-50 years from now, if nothing has been done to reduce the CO2 emissions, north pole will be lost. when it melted, guess where the fresh water will flow? in our sea and it will start to disturb "great ocean conveyor". great ocean conveyor is a natural mechanism based on heat transfer equilibrium where warmer water from south will flow to colder region in north. simply imagine if the colder water from north is now triple the quantity of warmer water come from south due to addition of this fresh water, the warmer water will not be able to maintain the equilibrium, thus resulting in some scientist said "ice-age" since there is no more heat equilibrium. some place will experience extreme hot condition while place like europe will enter new ice age. look like horror movie? wait till the south pole melted too. now it's started to melt together with north pole but at slower rate. if south pole go from ice to water, simply imagine our coastline city turn to Atlantis..
So..any doubt about it? if you have it in your heart, just follow this advice..sit tight, don't do anything, keep burning the fuel, chopping the forest, nuke all middle east province and just forget about this CO2 crap. 50-70 years from now, your son and grandson will ask this "why is our grandfather so stupid and ignorence? they know about global warming but never take any action to deal with it. they should kill themselves!!!" hahaha...and yes, you can still laugh now..no problem with that.

erm, sekarang dah setengah tahun 2008..cepat giler masa berlalu..agak sibuk jugak 2-3 bulan lepas dan 1-2 bulan akan datang.. banyak pulak keje kat opis tahun nih..tahun lepas ok sket..nak buat macam mana, asal bukak mata, kerje-kerje-kerje...hhehe..kalau tak karang nak makan apa pulak zaman-zaman mahal cam sekarang nih..

For My Beloved Wife...

2008-06-18T20:35:00.000-07:00

Cintaku tak berdusta
Tak mengenal ingkar
Tak kenal nestapa
Cintaku hanya indah
Hanya bahagia
Untuk selamanya

Apa yang kurasakan ini
Persembahan untuk dirimu
Kau dengarkan kasihku
Mencintaimu tak mengenal waktu
Tak mengenal puitis
Hanya tulusnya hati

Mencintaimu tak mengenal ragu
Keyakinan hatiku hanya untuk dirimu
Selalu...

Cintaku tak berdusta
Tak mengenal ingkar
Tak kenal nestapa
Tak ada seribu janji
Hanya bahagia untuk selamanya

Apa yang kurasakan ini
Persembahan untuk dirimu
Kau dengarkan kasihku
Mencintaimu tak mengenal waktu
Tak mengenal puitis
Hanya tulusnya hati
Mencintaimu tak mengenal ragu
Keyakinan hatiku hanya untuk dirimu
Selalu...

yossshaaa!!

2008-06-17T22:16:00.000-07:00

lama dah tak tulis dalam blog kami nih...2-3 bulan ni memang agak sibuk + MALAS nak masuk blogger ni tulis..ari nih ada masa terluang masa lunch time, so tulis la sikit update kehidupan sehari-hari.. sekarang kat Malaysia kecoh pasal minyak..semua orang pun jadi sensitif bila sebut pasal hidrocarbon tuh...dah RM 2.70 dah sekarang nih, mana orang tak bising..ari tu, kami ada la pergi kat showroom Honda di Puchong, sebab berminat nak tahu pasal Honda Civic Hybrid..ada terbaca dan buat research sikit pasal hybrid car nih..yang paling bagus worldwide adalah Toyota Prius ngan Honda Civic Hybrid..kedua-dua kereta nih mempunyai rating tinggi dalam fuel consumptions, design, reliability dan juga price...so, memang elok sangat la kalau kita bertukar dari conventioanal car kepada new technology car..however, we are quite dissappointed after we found out the price of Honda Civic Hybrid in Malaysia...it cost you about RM 160,000++ OTR to own the car. In US, Honda sell it for USD 20,000++ only..just plain convert, it should be costing around RM 65,000++ only in Malaysia. However, everyone knows about our NAP where foreign car tax is one level above ridiculous. Kira punya kira, memang tak mampu sangat la nak pakai kereta tu..bukan sebab apa, sebab tax dia..Ramai jugak orang bertanyakan pasal kereta hybrid di Malaysia, tapi rata-rata mereka semua hampa bila mengetahui hanya Honda Civic Hybrid sahaja yang terdapat dalam pasaran di sini..terfikir jugak, apa negara kita tak suka teknologi baru ke? itu la , sibuk dengan politik je!!!! jadi, dad, umi ngan aisy pun tengok je la kereta tu kat dalam website..kat showroom Honda tu pun takder kereta nih..kena order dalam 1-2 bulan baru dapat kalau nak beli..
sekarang, kancil umi isi minyak penuh dalam RM 50.00!!! ingat lagi dulu masa student, dengan menggunakan kereta yang sama, isi penuh dalam RM 29 sahaja..5 tahun dulu laa..hahaha...kereta dad dalam RM 80.00 penuh!! giler tu..dah macam SUV... tu sebab kena tukar Honda Civic Hybrid..tapi mahal sangat la pulak...apa la.. kasik mansuhkan aje la tax tu...Proton bukan nak buat hybrid or fuel cell punya kereta pun nak protect diorang sangat.. marilah menggunakan kereta hybrid ataupun fuel cell ataupun electric car supaya kita berhenti mencemarkan alam sekitar dan menjimatkan duit sendiri.. kerajaan kena la amik initiative for this matter..minyak will depleted sooner or later..so LU PIKIRLAH SENDIRI!!!!
hehehe....lupa lagi nak amik gambar kitaorang pergi showroom Honda tu..cis..

Balik kampung..

2008-06-06T08:15:00.000-07:00

Minggu lepas kami semua balik kampung kat pahang..saja je balik, lagipun cuti sekolah..jadi semua ada. Fikhri memang cuti 2 bulan..so dia dapat la tgk Euro dari mula sampai abis. Anum pulak dapat anugerah jadi tokoh pelajar kepimpinan Pahang, dapat pergi Sabah seminggu jejalan sebagai hadiah daripada kerajaan Pahang..dia baru je balik masa kami sampai umah malam tu dalam pukul 12.30 malam. Dia dah tido pun, penat.. Yang baru bangun macam biasa aa, En. Aisy. Bangun bagi selepah umah atuk sampai pukul 3, pagi esoknya ingat la dia bangun lambat, tak jugak..pukul 7 dah bangun..nasib baik dia tido balik petang tu. huhuhu.. kami bertolak pulang ke KL agak awal ari Ahad tu, konon nak elak kesesakan lalulintas, maklum la cuti sekolah semua orang balik kampung..ikut jalan bukit putus then masuk highway ikut senawang, last-last sangkut kat jem dari bukit putus sampai la ke seremban..abis 2 jam kat strecth tu je..lepas ni memang tak nak dah gi memaner kalau cuti sekolah atau weekend yang ada cuti umum...memenatkan..kereta pulak tak selesa, sampai sakit pinggang brader....

Ayak, kali ni balik kampung lupa nak bawak kamera, so takder la gambor-gambor nak letak kat blog nih..next time ingat bawak kamera!!!!!

Adui..semua harga makin naik...

2008-06-06T08:09:00.001-07:00

Bulan 6 2008 kali ni memang agak menakutkan untuk kami sekeluarga.. Baru je balik kampung kat pahang minggu lepas, tiba-tiba kerajaan mengumumkan kenaikan harga minyak sebanyak 78 sen dari 1.92 kepada RM 2.70.. cantikk punya naik.. naik harga minyak,semua benda pun akan menyusul la naik..sehari lepas tu TNB naikkan harga tarif elektrik kepada 18%.. erm..elok la..nanti tak lama lagi semua rege makanan, susu budak, barangan berasaskan petrol..naik la semua..kos pengangkutan pun turut meningkat. Nak kena carik kereta hybrid nampaknya..kitaorang surf internet la, carik pasal kereta hybrid, malang orang yang duduk di south east asia, kereta hybrid kat sini mahal ya amat..memang tak terbeli la kalau orang pertengahan macam kami nih..teruk betul la...cis... apa la kiranya jika Malaysia embrace new technology at the dawn of petroleum crisis cam sekarang nih...hybrid, electric car, bagus apa.. suruh la proton buat satu..ni asyik-asyik kereta conventional..tak maju langsung...ces...

Tengah Tahun Kembali Lagi....

2008-05-24T00:56:00.000-07:00

Dah nak masuk bulan Jun 2008, sampai tengah tahun dah. Biasa la, sampai je tengah tahun, kebanyakan orang yang kerje makan gaji, duduk tengah bandar akan mempunyai permasalahan yang sama, duit poket semakin kering.. dan ia memang agak membebankan jika pada masa-masa ketika ini, cukai jalan kenderaan dan insurannya tamat tempoh. Menarik bukan? Itu adalah sebahagian daripada pahit manis hidup di dunia dan telah diterima pakai oleh kita semua. Namun adakah kita selesa dengan kehidupan yang sebegini rupa? Kehidupan di bandar sekarang memang agak menjerut leher kita semua, kecuali mereka yang berlatarbelakangkan keluarga yang kukuh sistem ekonominya. Pun terkadang mereka juga merasakan bahang kemerosotan kewangan saban hari. Jika dulu dengan berpasportkan sebuah ijazah dalam bidang kejuruteraan, kedoktoran ataupun bidang pengurusan, kita sudah boleh mendapat sebuah kehidupan yang selesa. Namun kini, jika ada ijazah doktor falsafah sekalipun sukar untuk kita mendapat kerja yang memberikan pendapatan lumayan. Ada dikalangan pekerja hanya memohon dengan menggunakan ijazah sarjana muda sahaja walhal mereka mempunyai doktor falsafah kerana tiada syarikat tempatan yang mahu membayar gaji setaraf doktor falsafah. Jadi, perkara ini membingungkan kami, dahulu semasa sekolah disuruh belajar dengan tekun sampai ke Universiti, jadi doktor dan sebagainya, tetapi ada sahabat yang memulakan perniagaan ketika kami di tahun satu Universiti sekarang mempunyai pendapatan lebih RM 20,000.00 sebulan. Di mana silapnya struktur pendidikan dan penggajian di Malaysia? Kerap juga terbaca di akhbar tentang bertambahnya kes golongan professional yang membunuh diri dan keluarga, terjun apartment, terjun jambatan dan pelbagai kes tragik lagi, semuanya disebabkan beban hutang dan permintaan keluarga yang melampau. Sistem kemasyarakatan sekarang yang hanya fokus kepada golongan elit dan berharta membuatkan struktur masyarakat menjadi kotor dan tidak bersih, di mana golongan muda hanya mahukan wang dan mereka sanggup berbuat apa sahaja untuk itu. Buat apa masuk Universiti belajar tinggi-tinggi, 4-5 tahun kerja makan gaji pun bukan boleh beli BMW 5 Series baru.. Mengapa mereka berfikiran sedemikian? Kerana pincangnya struktur kemasyarakatan. Perkara apa yang ditanya ketika ada orang masuk meminang anak kita? "Dia tu kerja apa? Gajinya berapa sebulan?" bukannya, "Akhlak dia tu bagus? Ada pelajaran budak tu?"... Kerap kita lihat mereka yang berkereta besar berperangai seperti kera keluar hutan.. Err, kekadang tu naik wira je pun, dah bawak macam ralli..Tak paham aku...

--penulisan yang agak kritik, agak tertekan kebelakangan ini--

Kesian Aisy..

2008-05-11T19:13:00.000-07:00

Malam tadi kami semua tido lewat.. Aisy sakit perut...2-3 ari ni memang Aisy ada problem nak buang air besar, sembelit. Bila nak buang air besar je mula la dia menangis, tak mahu duduk..kesian tengok dia..dah mengantuk sangat-sangat tapi tak boleh tido sebab sakit perut.. puas la Umi gan Dad pujuk tapi Aisy takmo tido gak, nak berdiri. Sampai terhuyung-hayang. Dah lama sangat, akhirnya paksa je dia tukar pampers..Melalak sampai satu taman dengar. Elok je tukar pampers, Dad pujuk dia tido, akhirnya Aisy nak jugak tido..tapi tido menonggeng la..hahaha...kelaka la plak.. Nak kena tukar susu lain kot, susu kacang soya ni dah ler mahal semacam, pastu Aisy susah plak nak buang air besar.. :p

Dad ngan Umi macam zombie ler pergi keje, ngantuk giler!!!

Erm...

2008-05-08T21:04:00.000-07:00

Lately I do feel quite unmotivated to carry on daily task. I try to rationalize the reason but still failed to do it until now. It started from 2 weeks ago when I first felt this uncomfortable symptom within my mind and myself. I can't blame the surrounding but it did contribute to some extent to my unmotivated behavior recently. It's not that I don't went to holiday or because of stress pile up in my head that turn me to become unmotivated, it just being irrational for me. Yup, maybe sometimes our body has it's own word and mind. I quite like my technical job, I do. But there are times that it really hit you bad. When your analysis went wrong and you need to start all over again. Or when you need to wake up early in the morning and catch a already full transit system to go to work. I'm not complaining. Complaining did not make me better in life. Improving what's wrong is the priority now. The biggest chunk that I can relate to this matter is financial state.The increased price of food and other things. Too many things to pay to get a decent life. Too many debt to settle, and the debt were crucial to start up life. To some this maybe not their problem, but for an average joe like me, it's hard to survive initially in big city. Even with good education level and yes, you are local. We try to work hard to achieve something, to accomplish certain goal in our life, but as time goes along, the work is getting heavier but the goal seems to slip away from our view. I don't want that to happen now. Certainly not. Thus, I hope this unmotivated curse will be lifted up soon enough so that I can get along on fast track in my life and reach my target before it slip away, or taken away from me.

Apa kami buat Labour Day 2008?

2008-05-07T17:42:00.000-07:00

Hehehe.. ada banyak aktiviti.. makan kat Restoran Cheng Ho Ipoh, best giler makanan dia..rege dia pun best jugak..pastu gi gunung Lang, cantik..tapi pergi tengah hari dibawah sinaran matahari yang panas berdenting..habis semua orang tersalai..rege naik bot mahal sangat..3 ringgit seorang, macam nak round Tasik Bera plak..tasik kat Gunung Lang tu kecik jer..apa daa..pastu petang tu pergi piknik kat Air Terjun Chepor..Aisy takmo mandi pulak , sejuuuuukkkkk... tengok Ajim ngan Kak Hana, releks jer.. hehehe...

Apapun yang terjadi cuti hari pekerja lepas, ianya di penuhi dengan aktiviti yang menarik dan tidak membosankan. Kami sekeluarga dapat meringankan kepala otak yang serabut memikirkan keterlangsungan hidup yang kian hari makin serabut di kota. Harap-harap dapat makan Restoran Cheng Ho lagi di waktu yang lain. Tok Wan jangan risau, next time dad belanja!!!! :p

Erm.. where's the motivation?

2008-04-28T23:27:00.000-07:00

Lately, I'm kind of bored getting pushed and shoved every morning when I'm trying to get into the LRT. Well, most of Malaysian know that our public transportation is indeed a joke. Hey, where the RM 4 Billion from fuel subsidy in 2007 that our PM said will be used to further upgrade our public transportation system? Until now, there's none public transportation project that is significant to people living in Klang Valley. I need to changed 4 type of transportation every morning just to get to my office that is about 45 KM from my house. Just ruled out KOMUTER ok..that's too lame!

First, the ERL. The most expensive train ever move in Tanah Melayu since its independence 50 years ago (it cost you RM 15.oo for return ticket from Putrajaya to Kuala Lumpur and RM 225 for monthly ticket for this string). Well, I need to admit ERL is not the one that Japanese people called "train" since it top speed never reach 200KM/hour..err, well, as far I'm in the ERL, I think ERL never surpass 140 KM/hour. Why? it just too simple for two reason:

1 - ERL railways are NOT STRAIGHT. It winding more or less like Karak Highways. So, for a fast trains, winding railways are just suicidal. Therefore, it moves according to hiccup rhythm, fast for 1 minutes, brakes, slow down, fast for 30 minutes, brakes, slow down........and it continues like that.
2- FLOOD!! During the monsoon season, the railway can be flooded by water from nearby catchment areas. I know, I know, what the heck the fast train railway track can be under the water when there are heavy rains? erm...can anybody justify why we built a halfway bridge to Singapore?

So, if a train moves at 200KM/hour in a winding tracks with risk of having flooded tracks during heavy raining (Malaysia is in tropical region ya'll!), it just plain stupid for the driver to push ERL to more than 140 or even 120 KM/h, that is if it can reach more than that. However, ERL is indeed fast enough, but the track is just too000 short... KLIA to KL Sentral only, and the elapse time from one ERL to another...30 minutes..it's killing.

The second Malaysia's public transportation that I used everyday after ERL is the most "favorite" among Malaysian, the only one, and I mean, the ONLY one that goes through KLCC from KL Sentral...The most formidable LRT. Try to catch one of this Low Reliability Transit during 7.30 am to 9.30 am and at 5.30 pm to 7.00 pm. You get the first one, you are indeed a miracle of God, you get the second one, chill out! But reality speaking, it just too dense in the LRT. The whole Kuala Lumpur come down to this thing. To get it worsen, the trains periods sometimes get distorted by technical problems. This is a serious situation where you can see one MakCik pull out their umbrella and get ready to push everyone else to get into the LRT when one come. Yes, they are queuing while waiting for the LRT, but take this from me, they will NOT adhere to the rules of queuing when they saw one empty train come. Believe me, it really sting your heart if you are at position one, then suddenly get pushed to position 5 or 6 from the door.
Then, after ERL and LRT, I need to walk about 5 minutes to my workplace. That's nothing. I've experienced hard time in those two.

Oh, I mentioned that I need to get on 4 transportation to get to my office.. hehehe, early in the morning, all Malaysian drove their luxury car to either ERL station or LRT station, or for some who don't give a damn about global warming and 3 hour road congestion, they drove to their workplace (or maybe they do not have access to any public transportation at all!!!). For them it cool to drove those big cars in KL, but nope. KL is NOT fit for vehicles. Maybe small cars, scooter and bikes can, but no for big cars (Estima, Hilux, Prado all of that, lorry and buses.) One more remarks, when you drive a car here in my beloved Klang Valley, prepare a change, tolls are everywhere. I mean it!

So, everyday is just the same routine if I'm not go to outstation or seminar, drive my car to ERL station, pay RM 1.60 toll (subject to increase every 3 years), stand in ERL all the way to KL, make a quick run from ERL station to LRT station (you need to RUN, it is prerequisite in KL Sentral), push a little bit here and there in LRT, and then walk to my office. Erm.. can I endure that pain every 5 days a week for the next 30 years???? I don't know...maybe yes... maybe no.. if I got no choice, yes..I will endure it.But if I have a choice, a sound and good one, perhaps I just grab the opportunity. It all come back to our responsibility to our family, kids and beloved ones.. I guess that the drive for everyone to involved in the hassle for LRT, ERL and tolls every morning. The drive that keep us going in the rat race until one moment when the rat is already exhausted.

Nothing political here, just my wondering thought of inconveniences..( takut kena ISA pulak karang).

AAArgHHh... STRESS????

2008-04-23T23:08:00.000-07:00

Workplace stress is the harmful physical and emotional response that occurs when there is a poor match between job demands and the capabilities, resources, or needs of the worker. Stress-related disorders encompass a broad array of conditions, including psychological disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder) and other types of emotional strain (e.g., dissatisfaction, fatigue, tension, etc.), maladaptive behaviors (e.g., aggression, substance abuse), and cognitive impairment (e.g., concentration and memory problems). In turn, these conditions may lead to poor work performance or even injury. Job stress is also associated with various biological reactions that may lead ultimately to compromised health, such as cardiovascular disease.

Problems at work are more strongly associated with health complaints than are any other life stressor-more so than even financial problems or family problems. Many studies suggest that psychologically demanding jobs that allow employees little control over the work process increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. On the basis of research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and many other organizations, it is widely believed that job stress increases the risk for development of back and upper-extremity musculoskeletal disorders. High levels of stress are associated with substantial increases in health service utilization. Workers who report experiencing stress at work also show excessive health care utilization. In a 1998 study of 46,000 workers, health care costs were nearly 50% greater for workers reporting high levels of stress in comparison to “low risk” workers. The increment rose to nearly 150%, an increase of more than $1,700 per person annually, for workers reporting high levels of both stress and depression. Additionally, periods of disability due to job stress tend to be much longer than disability periods for other occupational injuries and illnesses.

Job stress results from the interaction of the worker and the conditions of work. Views differ on the importance of worker characteristics versus working conditions as the primary cause of job stress. The differing viewpoints suggest different ways to prevent stress at work. According to one school of thought, differences in individual characteristics such as personality and coping style are most important in predicting whether certain job conditions will result in stress-in other words, what is stressful for one person may not be a problem for someone else. This viewpoint leads to prevention strategies that focus on workers and ways to help them cope with demanding job conditions. Although the importance of individual differences cannot be ignored, scientific evidence suggests that certain working conditions are stressful to most people. Such evidence argues for a greater emphasis on working conditions as the key source of job stress, and for job redesign as a primary prevention strategy. Personal interview surveys of working conditions, including conditions recognized as risk factors for job stress, were conducted in Member States of the European Union in 1990, 1995, and 2000. Results showed a trend across these periods suggestive of increasing work intensity. In 1990, the percentage of workers reporting that they worked at high speeds at least one-fourth of their working time was 48%, increasing to 54% in 1995 and to 56% in 2000. Similarly, 50% of workers reported they work against tight deadlines at least one-fourth of their working time in 1990, increasing to 56% in 1995 and 60 % in 2000. However, no change was noted in the period 1995–2000 (data not collected in 1990) in the percentage of workers reporting sufficient time to complete tasks. A substantial percentage of Americans work very long hours. By one estimate, more than 26% of men and more than 11% of women worked 50 hours per week or more in 2000. These figures represent a considerable increase over the previous three decades, especially for women. According to the Department of Labor, there has been an upward trend in hours worked among employed women, an increase in extended work weeks (>40 hours) by men, and a considerable increase in combined working hours among working couples, particularly couples with young children.

Mood and sleep disturbances, upset stomach and headache, and disturbed relationships with family, friends and girlfriends or boyfriends are examples of stress-related problems. The effects of job stress on chronic diseases are more difficult to see because chronic diseases take a long time to develop and can be influenced by many factors other than stress. Nonetheless, evidence is rapidly accumulating to suggest that stress plays an important role in several types of chronic health problems-especially cardiovascular disease, musculoskeletal disorders, and psychological disorders.

A combination of organizational change and stress management is often the most useful approach for preventing stress at work.

How to Change the Organization to Prevent Job Stress

Ensure that the workload is in line with workers' capabilities and resources.
Design jobs to provide meaning, stimulation, and opportunities for workers to use their skills.
Clearly define workers' roles and responsibilities.
Give workers opportunities to participate in decisions and actions affecting their jobs.
Improve communications-reduce uncertainty about career development and future employment prospects.
Provide opportunities for social interaction among workers.
Establish work schedules that are compatible with demands and responsibilities outside the job.

St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company conducted several studies on the effects of stress prevention programs in hospital settings. Program activities included
(1) employee and management education on job stress,
(2) changes in hospital policies and procedures to reduce organizational sources of stress, and
(3) establishment of employee assistance programs.
In one study, the frequency of medication errors declined by 50% after prevention activities were implemented in a 700-bed hospital. In a second study, there was a 70% reduction in malpractice claims in 22 hospitals that implemented stress prevention activities. In contrast, there was no reduction in claims in a matched group of 22 hospitals that did not implement stress prevention activities.

Credit to wikipedia.org

So, if you have stress at work and can't tolerate it anymore.. you know what to do..eheheh..QUIT your job and start you home based business.. if it's failed..than you might have what we call as, experience of entrepreneurship... for me..err..I work first...stress? go home and sleep..don't forget to shut off your cellphone first... :p

Trip to Cherating... 18 April 2008

2008-04-23T06:16:00.000-07:00

Huhuhu.. minggul lepas kami semua join ayah, emak ngan angah pergi holiday kat Cherating. Tak ambik cuti pun, just weekend holiday..drive ari Jumaat balik umah ayah kat Pahang, pastu ari Sabtu tu terus pergi Cherating reramai..rupa-rupanya hari keluarga opis ayah..jadi meriah jugak laa.. Aisy? Just tengok je la pictures tu..enjoy!!! lepas tu taknak balik...buat perangai tak nak tido walaupun dah penat..hehehe... Sampai umah KL, ingatkan dia penat..tak jugak..boleh lagi buli wan ngan tok kat umah...err..lupa plak Aisy tido dalam kereta..yang tak tido Umi ngan Dad... :p so siapa yang paling penat? huhuhuhu...

Marching and leaving March

2008-03-12T06:27:00.000-07:00

**Perhatian,artikel ini ditulis dengan gaya penulisan karangan SPM .. hahaha**

Bulan 3 menyaksikan kami membuat banyak perjalanan dan pelbagai aktiviti. Permulaannya ialah ketika kami mengambil keputusan untuk pulang ke kampung di Pahang pada awal bulan. Lama sudah tidak menjejakkan kaki di sana. Kami memulakan perjalanan sekitar pukul 8.30 malam pada hari Jumaat setelah kami berdua pulang dari kerja. Perjalanan mengambil masa kira-kira 2 jam setengah dengan menempuh lebuh raya MRR2, Karak dan lebuh raya Pantai Timur. Perjalanan agak lancar setelah keluar dari Lembah Kelang, tetapi kembali menjadi sedikit perlahan setelah keluar daripada lebuh raya Pantai Timur menuju ke Mentakab dan seterusnya ke Bera. Perjalanan yang perlahan itu disebabkan oleh kami terpaksa melalui jalan satu hala dari Temerloh hingga ke Bera. Meskipun kenderaan kurang banyak, namun pemanduan kereta tidak dapat melepasi halaju 70 KM/J kerana keadaan jalan raya yang kurang baik serta berliku-liku. Alhamdulillah, kami sampai juga di rumah ayah pada pukul 11.45 malam. Sesampai sahaja kami di sana, anak kami Aisy terus sahaja membuka mata, tersedar dari tidurnya.

**hahaha, boring giler corak penulisan cenggitu, macam mana aku buleh jawab SPM penulisan dulu camni aaa? giler ke aper.. okes, sambung dengan gaya penulisan pelajar gagal di bawah**

Bila Aisy bukak mata elok sampai umah ayah, abislah semua orang.. dia pun start enjin, round dalam umah ayah sampai ke dapur..heheh maklum la tempat baru..banyak la nak kena teroka..lepas borak-borak kejap ngan mak dan ayah, dalam pukul 2 lebey baru la semua orang masuk tido..angah pun ada, dia tak tido lagi laa..budak U memang buleh tahan tido kol 4-5 pagi..kitaorang laki bini masa bercinta dulu kat U pun selalu buat perangai camtu, chatting sampai kol 4-5 pagi..(hehehe, ye tak Umi? malu tersipu-sipu).. tapi sekarang kalau buat perangai camtu lagi, mau tak pergi keje esok pagi,..hahaha... Aisy pun kena paksa tido ngan Umi..ye la, kol 2 pagi dia nak ajak orang jejalan mana buleh..Masuk tido cepaaat!!!!

Esok pagi kitaorang start hari sabtu tu pukul 7.30.. Aisy pun bangun awal jugak..maybe sebab dah selalu pergi umah Tok Cik pepagi...Mak dah bangun dah, tgh buat sarapan.. aku turun la teman mak borak-borak.. elok lepas semua orang dah mandi ngan breakfast, ayah ajak keluar pergi Triang jap, ayah nak beli hadiah untuk majlis apa ntah, kami kurang periksa.. ke dah lupa...erm.. dah lupa kot.. apapun, kami pun masuk keta ayah bawak la Aisy jejalan kat Pahang nih..carik punya carik jumpa la tea set untuk dijadikan hadiah..ayah beli dalam 15 set cenggitu..terkejut giler member cashier tu tgh ayah borong abis dia punya tea set. lepas tu ayah singgah kedai ikan, beli cengkerik..heheh, petang nih kitaorang nak pergi memancing kat Tasik Bera..lama dowh aku tak gi mancing.. sampai je umah daripada Triang tuh, sesiap pastu terus shoot gi mancing 3 orang.. aku, ayah ngan en amin sebelah umah..angah tak nak ikut..nak ikut aper pukul 3 pagi tak bangun tido lagi.. cis!!

Esoknya dalam pukul 3 camtu kami pun start keta nak balik..angah tumpang sebab dia nak balik UMP naik bas dari Temerloh.. bas pukul 4.30 bas dia..elok pukul 4 kami sampai kat bus station Temerloh tu..heheh, sorry beb, ko kena naik bas, aku dah retire naik bas nih.. lepas drop angah, kami terus pulang ke KL..sampai la Lembah Kelang yang pening ni dalam pukul 6 camtu.. malam tu kami jejalan kat alamanda..on the way tu Umi dapat phone call dari Tok Cik..dia cakap dia takleh jaga Aisy untuk seminggu sampai tarikh yang akan diberitahu kelak..wak lu..selamba je buat camtu..ari tu cakap buleh jaga sampai Rabu, pastu baru nak cuti..wey, esok gua nak keje beb..Umi dah baran je dengar berita mengejut camtu..aku sebagai suami a.k.a lelaki macho pun membuat keputusan untuk pulang ke Taiping esoknya lepas keje dan mintak tolong mama jaga Aisy sampai Umi selesai buat pembedahan ari Jumaat minggu tuh.. peh, giler betul, balik keje esoknya, terus drive pergi taiping, lepak kat umah mama dalam sejam camtu pastu terpaksa tinggal Aisy dan kami balik semua ke KL..esok pagi laki bini demam..pergi keje pun semacam tension..lagi-lagi tengok orang macam sardin dalam LRT pagi tu..macam rasa nak bom je LRT tuh..hahaha...

**Alhamdulillah, Umi dah selesai pembedahan membuang ovarian cyst..sekarang dalam proses recovery, tapi sayangnya Dad kena pergi outstation kat Miri selama seminggu pulak..nasib baik ada mama ngan abah tolong teman Umi kat umah... Umi dun worry,nanti dad pulang beli cekelat kasik kat Umi.. **

**ayat ini ditulis dengan gaya ahadiat akasyah -- Isteriku,kau jangan risau, nanti hari Jumaat aku akan berjumpa denganmu..aku kira kau tahu betapa dalamnya cintaku padamu, seperti dalamnya cinta zulaikha kepada yusuf..aku tetap mencintaimu walau untuk seribu tahun lagi, sehingga matahari hilang cahayanya, cintaku tetap untukmu -- ** } kena karan baca ni bro...

Umi nak kena masuk SJMC balik.. hehehe..

2008-03-05T00:02:00.000-08:00

Last week we heard quite unpleasant response from our specialist doctor in SJMC, my wife need to to be hospitalized for about 3 days to remove her ovarian cyst. Well, to be truth, i don't know what the heck is cyst..ovary yup, I knew that. So, the day after tomorrow on 7th March 2008, my wife will check in at the hospital. That's mean I will spend my weekend at SJMC accompanying my wife. Last time we do that was last year when she gave birth to Aisy. Hehe, we guess we love SJMC's hotel so we decided to have holiday there once a year, and free of charge of course, paid by ING. Well, what is cyst anyway...I got this from Wikipedia, the source of knowledge in internet (just ignore the color different and links):

An ovarian cyst is any collection of fluid, surrounded by a very thin wall, within an ovary. Any ovarian follicle that is larger than about two centimeters is termed an ovarian cyst. An ovarian cyst can be as small as a pea, or as large as a cantaloupe.

Most ovarian cysts are functional in nature, and harmless (benign).[1] In the US, ovarian cysts are found in nearly all premenopausal women, and in up to 14.8% of postmenopausal women. The incidence of ovarian carcinoma is approximately 15 cases per 100,000 women per year.[2]

Ovarian cysts affect women of all ages. They occur most often, however, during a woman's childbearing years.

Some ovarian cysts cause problems, such as bleeding and pain. Surgery may be required to remove those cysts.

Some or all of the following symptoms may be present, though it is possible not to experience any symptoms:

Dull aching, or severe, sudden, and sharp pain or discomfort in the lower abdomen (one or both sides), pelvis, vagina, lower back, or thighs; pain may be constant or intermittent -- this is the most common symptom
Fullness, heaviness, pressure, swelling, or bloating in the abdomen
Breast tenderness
Pain during or shortly after beginning or end of menstrual period.
Irregular periods, or abnormal uterine bleeding or spotting
Change in frequency or ease of urination (such as inability to fully empty the bladder), or difficulty with bowel movements due to pressure on adjacent pelvic anatomy
Weight gain
Nausea or vomiting
Fatigue
Infertility
Increased level of hair growth
Increased facial hair or body hair

About 95% of ovarian cysts are benign, meaning they are not cancerous.^{[citation needed]}

Treatment for cysts depends on the size of the cyst and symptoms. For small, asymptomatic cysts, the wait and see approach with regular check-ups will most likely be recommended.

Pain caused by ovarian cysts may be treated with:

pain relievers, including nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil), acetaminophen (Tylenol), or narcotic pain medicine (by prescription) may help reduce pelvic pain.[31] NSAIDs usually work best when taken at the first signs of the pain.

a warm bath, or heating pad, or hot water bottle applied to the lower abdomen near the ovaries can relax tense muscles and relieve cramping, lessen discomfort, and stimulate circulation and healing in the ovaries.[32] Bags of ice covered with towels can be used alternately as cold treatments to increase local circulation.[33]

chamomile herbal tea (Matricaria recutita) can reduce ovarian cyst pain and soothe tense muscles.[34][35]

urinating as soon as the urge presents itself.[36]

avoiding constipation, which does not cause ovarian cysts but may further increase pelvic discomfort.[37]

in diet, eliminating caffeine and alcohol, reducing sugars, increasing foods rich in vitamin A and carotenoids (e.g., carrots, tomatoes, and salad greens) and B vitamins (e.g., whole grains).[38]

combined methods of hormonal contraception such as the combined oral contraceptive pill -- the hormones in the pills may regulate the menstrual cycle, prevent the formation of follicles that can turn into cysts, and possibly shrink an existing cyst. (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, 1999c; Mayo Clinic, 2002e)[39]

Also, limiting strenuous activity may reduce the risk of cyst rupture or torsion.

Cysts that persist beyond two or three menstrual cycles, or occur in post-menopausal women, may indicate more serious disease and should be investigated through ultrasonography and laparoscopy, especially in cases where family members have had ovarian cancer. Such cysts may require surgical biopsy. Additionally, a blood test may be taken before surgery to check for elevated CA-125, a tumor marker, which is often found in increased levels in ovarian cancer, although it can also be elevated by other conditions resulting in a large number of false positives.

For more serious cases where cysts are large and persisting, doctors may suggest surgery. Some surgeries can be performed to successfully remove the cyst(s) without hurting the ovaries, while others may require removal of one or both ovaries.

So, if you are not enrolled in medical school like me, this might be a good information for you or your spouse.

--Umi jangan risau,nanti dad teman kat wad--

New Year = Hectic

2008-02-24T21:51:00.000-08:00

it's been a long time since the last entry was posted in our blog. well, to be truth we started this 2008 year with many activities and outstationed. Busy as usual, we try to find ourself time to update this journal. with Aisy now get up on his feet, we experience unusual exhaustion every time we return home from office. Yup, this boy can really walk all over the places, not excluding the stairs to 1st floor, our small garden and garage. All places in our house now have Aisy's footstep. With his cheekiness and will to persuade people to bring him outside every moment, mom and dad raise a white flag. only grandpa can stand him. our son grow up to be an active and loud boy now. it is now a routine for us to bring him to Putrajaya's Mosque park every Sunday night for a walk. quite astonishing that there are many people there every Sunday night. the park serve its purpose to accommodate family recreational area for people in Putrajaya and its surrounding. some time, we find it hard to park our car due to the volume of people went there every Saturday night. therefore, we decided to hanging out at Alamanda first before went there around 10 PM. usually after 2-3 round of walking with dad, Aisy already tired and went to sleep in the way back to home. :)

Err, tak lama lagi mesti budak tu minta basikal, asyik nak hijacked basikal orang jerk..

Selamat Tahun Baru

2007-12-25T20:34:00.000-08:00

This coming 2008 is the year where we look up as a year to strengthen our family house literally. We hope the New Year will bring us more stable incomes, business opportunity and advance in career. We do not plan much for this 2007 year period. We as usual like to follow the flow, thus 2007 leaving us with many unforeseen problems and holes in our pockets. Yes, planning your everyday routine or monthly expenses are things that I really hate to do, but it is proven essentials to our day to day life. Year 2007 saw that we don’t go anywhere for holiday retreat, apart from join adventure with Apok’s family to Penang last week and other trips that we made due to business matters, but to call a holiday itself where we purposely pack our stuff and head on to a place we never been is far from that. One of the reasons is lack of time and of course money. We are hoping that next year will be a better year for us and we will start to plan to have our family holiday retreat somewhere we never visit, and yes, we need to save up chunks from our pockets too.

2007 also gave us a little present that made an impact to our lives, Muhammad Aisy. He came into our lives on 13^th April 2007 or easily remembered as Friday the 13^th. Now, he is gaining his first two teeth and learning to stand up unassisted. Aisy begin to develop a special bond with his mother whereby anytime he saw Umi leaving the area, he will surely start to cry. One thing that bind Umi and Aisy together, which of course made life a little bit difficult for my wife to do her households job. Aisy seems to be more independence despite of having tantrum when Umi is not around. He likes to explore our house and go to the area he never go by himself. As I wrote this, he has already climbed our stairs twice under my extreme supervision. Don’t try to help him, he cries for sure. That’s may give us some headache later on when Aisy is able to walk. He will love to try out the stairs up and down. Sleep is a problem for us now. Since November, he sleeps very late up to 12 midnight and it continues since then. This meant that we need to stay awake until his sleep. Since we need to go to work on the following day, went to bed at 11 am or later will drag us late. We try to play with him around 8.00 pm up to 10.00 pm hoping he will be tired enough and sleep at 11.00 pm. But as we all know, kids do have plenty of energy to go around.

In this break, we would like to wish everybody a very good new year!!!!

Damn it, someone just stole our cat Achilles in front of our house. Hope the perpetrator will burn in hell!! Why do people steal others pet? Ridiculous!

Hari Raya Aidil Adha

2007-12-25T01:00:00.000-08:00

Hari raya korban lepas kami sekeluarga balik kampung Umi kat Taiping sebab tahun ni giliran raya kat taiping pulak sebab raya puasa dah kat johor. Kami memang dah agak jalan akan jadi amat sesak dan penuh dengan kenderaan sebab kebanyakkan orang sambung cuti sampai krismas. Masa balik ke taiping tu ok jugak la perjalanan kami, takder la lambat sangat, tapi masa nak balik semula ke Kuala Lumpur pada malam tu, memang malas nak cerita sesaknya, sampai perhentian semua penuh. Perjalanan biasa Taipingà Kuala Lumpur dalam 4 jam je, tapi hari tu sampai jadi 7 jam sebab kesesakan lalulintas.

Raya ni memang best sebab semua orang ada. Apok and the family pun beraya kat taiping jugak. Jadi memang full house la. Raya pertama tu biasa je la, lepas solat hari raya dok melantak makanan. Mama pesan roti jala, kuah durian, kari ayam, kuih muih semua. Nak buat sendiri malas. Untuk raya korban nih ziarah menziarahi tu kurang sikit tak macam raya puasa. Lepas melantak sakan pagi tu, kitaorang pun duduk depan tv macam kat dalam hospital sebab takder keje. Dalam keadaan hening camtu, tetiba ntah dari mana ada pulak suara cakap “jom kita gi zoo!!”. Erk, apa hal pulak hari raya nak pergi zoo nih? Cadangan tu memang tak berapa nak logic, tapi sebab tak logic tu la kami semua satu family besar pergi zoo.. hehehe.. zoo taiping tak jauh pun, tak sampai 5 km dari rumah kami. Apok pun pinjam TATA wan, kami reramai 2 family naik TATA tu pergi zoo. Huhuhu, meriah bukan main lagi. Nanti raya tahun depan kita pergi visit muzium pulak nak? :p

Err, gambar tu semua masa hari raya korban ngan piknik kat batu feringgi Penang keesokan harinya..best ooo..sayang tok wan tak ikut..hahaha...

Kenduri Kahwin Enol dan Lin

2007-12-06T07:17:00.000-08:00

Sabtu lepas kami sekeluarga pergi ke majlis perkahwinan sepupu Zainol Asyikin dan isteri beliau Lin. Kami bertolak dari Kuala Lumpur pada Jumaat malam dan bermalam di rumah ayah di Segamat. Kami bertolak agak lewat kerana menunggu Abah pulang dari tempat kerja. Kami meninggalkan Kuala Lumpur kira-kira pukul 10.30 malam dan sampai di Segamat pada pukul 12.45 malam. Nasib baik kenderaan tidak banyak pada malam itu. Jadi, dapatlah kami bergerak dengan selesa dan agak laju. Sepanjang perjalanan Aisy tidur saja, jadi apabila sampai di rumah Ayah, dia tersedar. Bila sedar kat tempat lain je, Aisy pun menangis la. Hehe, kesian umi ngan tok kena pujuk Aisy.

Sampai Segamat je kami pun terus tanya apa perancangan untuk konvoi esok pagi. Ayah cakap pukul 7.00 kena berkumpul rumah Mak Jah kemudian sama-sama bertolak ke Pontian. Hehe, malam tu tido pukul 1 lebih, esok pagi buleh bangun pukul 6.30 ke?

Esok pagi seperti dijangka, semua orang pun bangun lambat. Jadi rancangan malam tadi tak boleh pakai. Kami bertolak keluar rumah dalam pukul 7.45 terus menghala ke Yong Peng sebab diorang semua kata nak tunggu kat tol Yong Peng. Perjalanan melalui jalan lama ke Yong Peng mengambil masa yang agak lama juga sebab keadaan jalan yang tidak lancar, penuh dengan lori-lori dan kereta yang bergerak di bawah paras logic (30-40 km/j). Apapun, kami sampai di tol Yong Peng dalam pukul 8.45. Tengok-tengok kat tol tu takder pulak diorang tunggu. Kosong je pemandangannya. Kami berhenti dan Ayah telefon rombongan pengantin, diorang cakap nak tunggu kat hentian seterusnya, hentian apa tak ingat la pulak nama dia. Kami teruskan perjalanan melalui lebuh raya utara selatan sampai ke hentian seterusnya. Takder jugak rombongan pengantin. Akhirnya, Ayah cakap kita terus pergi rumah pengantin perempuan aje la, senang tak payah terpinga-pinga cari orang. Keluar daripada lebuh raya menghala Pontian melalui jalan lama memang agak jauh. Kira-kira 45 baru la kami sampai di rumah pengantin perempuan. Disebabkan kami tak tahu apa susun atur acara majlis, bila sampai je kami pun terus lepak dengan keluarga besar. Tengah rancak sembang-sembang, tiba-tiba rombongan pengantin dah nak berarak pergi ke rumah pengantin perempuan. Kami ikut je la (walaupun sebenarnya tak tahu kat mana rumah pengantin perempuan dari situ).

Ikut punya ikut, sampai la rumah pengantin perempuan. Sambutan dari pihak perempuan sederhana sahaja tapi meriah. Pengantin lelaki pun terus masuk untuk acara akad nikah, hehehe. Teruk juga acara akad nikah di Johor, ada banyak khutbah nak kena dengar, khutbah nikah je dah 15 minit. Kami kahwin dulu nasib baik takder benda nih. (bukan ke dah ada cover dalam kursus perkahwinan?) Tengok pengantin lelaki dah cuak semacam je. Lepas semua khutbah dah abis, sampai la acara kemuncak iaitu akad nikah. Alhamdulillah sekali henjut je sepupu kami tu dah lepas. Jadi tak payah la nak suspen lagi. Heheh, lepas tu ada acara serah mas kahwin dan hantaran pulak. Acara ni pun masa kami kawin dulu takder buat secara formal, tetapi di Johor mereka mengambil perkara ini serius. Ada ucapan lagi la dari ketua rombongan dari kedua-dua belah pihak. Selepas selesai semua, kami pun dijemput makan di khemah yang disediakan. Masa ni la Aisy dah boring, sebab panas dan tak selesa, dia pun nangis la. Kena la kami makan bergilir-gilir, sorang makan, sorang bawak Aisy jejalan keliling khemah.

Lepas tu, kami pun balik ke rumah bertandang untuk menunggu masa bersanding. Elok la jugak, buleh kami berehat sekejap. Penat jugak aktiviti pagi tadi. pengantin bersanding pukul 2.15 petang. Kami pun selaku rombongan pengiring beratur la untuk mengiringi pengantin lelaki ke rumah pengantin perempuan. Siap dengan kompang semua la.. sampai je rumah pengantin perempuan, bukan main lagi diorang punya tol..macam Samy Vellu jugak. Harga tol diorang buleh tahan mahal. Banyak plak tu, dekat depan laman rumah ada satu, depan veranda ada satu, depan pintu masuk ada satu, dekat dalam rumah depan pelamin pun ada satu!! Jenuh la pengantin lelaki kena kasik rasuah kat mak andam dan konco-konconya selagi tak sampai ke pelamin tu.. hehe, tapi biasa la hari perkahwinan memang camtu kalau kat Johor atau Melaka. Kami dulu takder lama, sebab kenduri kami di Perak dan Pahang,walaupun aku orang Johor, jadi takder la tol-tol semua nih. Selamat je pengantin bersanding kami sekeluarga pun bersiap-siap la nak balik ke Kuala Lumpur. Minggu depan nak pergi Sungai Petani pulak, kawan lama En Azham nak kahwin..meriah betul bulan 12 tahun nih, semua orang nak kahwin. hehe, bagus..bagus...

Trip to Kuala Terengganu.

2007-11-12T04:00:00.000-08:00

Few weeks ago, my wife and I have a course held at Primula Hotel Kuala Terengganu.. since both of us going there, we need to leave Aisy at home with Atuk and Wan.. it would be nice if we can bring him along. however, our flight to K. Terengganu was from KLIA at 2.45 pm, Sunday.. since the day before it we held an open house to all of our friends and relatives, this outstation can be considered as a holiday for both of us. yup, there are no technical and complicated stuff presented during the course..even we hope for more advanced stuff. nevertheless, the flight to Terengganu was swift and pleasant, with MAS stewardess giving their full commitment to serve the passenger. we must say that they deserve the title No 1 in ASEAN. After arrived at Kuala Terengganu airport, my holiday mood is quite distorted by the condition of the airport..yeah, we know that new airport is under construction, but there's no reason to neglect the older one, since it still being used. we hooked up with our old friend since university, Izwan who happened to attend the same course as ours and stayed at the same hotel to. we decide to go there together and my wife booked a taxi for RM 20.00 to go to Primula Hotel. this is where i pissed off the most. we waited about 30 minutes for our taxi, and not just our taxi that late, about 10 persons who charted the same taxi (there is only one airport taxi there, so no other options) waited for 30-45 minutes.. i meant, this is really bad for tourist and businessman who really in hurry. the authority should look this matter more seriously since Kuala Terengganu is being promoted as primary destination for tourism in Malaysia with ECER (Eastern Coridor Economic Region) in line with it, lack of public transportation and its poor quality is really a drawback in government's plan.
We did arrived, even it is late, at Primula Hotel. The rooms are sold like hot cakes, since there are many events to be held later on in three days started from Monday. luckily my wife and i have arranged booking earlier, so that we don't need to worry about the availability anymore. the room was quite ok, 3-4 stars rated if you guys as us. it's not like Hyatt Regency in Kota Kinabalu, but it is up to common's hotel standard. the food was great, the price was relatively cheap than Awana Kijal Terengganu, and the scenary is beautiful.

HARI RAYA DI KAMPUNG

2007-10-23T02:45:00.000-07:00

Tahun ini kami semua beraya di umah ayah kat Batu 6, Segamat, Johor. Untuk mengelakkan kesesakan lalulintas,kami mengambil keputusan untuk pulang sehari sebelum raya iaitu pada hari Jumaat. Strategi kami berkesan apabila kami tidak berhadapan dengan kesesakan semasa melalui lebuhraya utara selatan. Selepas 2 jam lebih di dalam perjalanan,kami tiba dengan selamat di rumah ayah kira-kira jam 7.45 malam, elok-elok waktu berbuka puasa. Selepas buka puasa, kami menghabiskan masa bersembang dengan emak,ayah,angah dan anum. Memang banyak topik yang disembangkan, maklum la dah lama kami tidak berhimpun bersama. Aisy pun malam raya tu jadi tumpuan atuk ngan nenek la..puas main-main dia ngan umi terus tido.
Esoknya pepagi kami dah bgn. Lepas breakfast mkn nasi himpit,ayam masak merah,kuah kacang,lodeh semua,kami pun mandi cepat-cepat sebab solat Hari Raya Aidillfitri bermula pukul 8.30 pagi. Kami solat hari raya di masjid Batu 6, tak sampai 5 minit dari rumah. Selepas solat hari raya,balik rumah tgk semua orang dah siap pakai baju melayu ngan baju kurung raya masing-masing. Aisy pun tak ketinggalan pakai baju raya baru dia,tapi nak buat cemana,seluar baju melayu aisy panjang sgt,terpaksa umi gantikan dengan seluar lain. Bila semua org dah lawa pakai baju raya masing-masing sesi mengambil gambar pun bermula. Mula-mula kami bercadang nak ambil gambar di kedai,tapi akhirnya tak dapat sebab ayah sibuk pulak melayan tetamu datang umah. Dalam pukul 11.00 camtu,kami semua dengan saudara mara (adik-adik ayah) pergi melawat rumah arwah atuk, seterusnya ziarah rumah atuk saudara yang ada di sekeliling. Semuanya meriah tetapi kasihan juga bila kami melawat pakcik Taib yang lumpuh akibat terkena serangan stroke 2-3 minggu sebelum raya. Kami harap dengan lawatan kami semua pada hari raya ini dapatlah memeriahkan sedikit-sebanyak keluarga beliau. Selepas habis melawat rumah-rumah saudara-mara di sekeliling rumah arwah atuk, kami pun pulang ke rumah. Disebabkan kepenatan,kami semua tertido selepas sampai di rumah ayah. Selepas solat asar,kami sekeluargapergi melawat rumah atuk Nasir dan atuk Tumi (sebelah emak) di Felda Bukit Serampang. Di sana memang meriah kerana ramai sanak saudara yg telah sampai terlebih dahulu drp kami. Antara yang kami temui di rumah Bukit Serampang ialah keluarga besar mak long, pak usu dan pakcik dol. Disebabkan ramai orang membanjiri rumah atuk,keadaan menjadi sangat meriah dengan pelbagai topik dibincangkan aktiviti yg dilakukan. Terima kasih kpd abg nizam kerana menjadi hos utk semua acara pada malam itu. Ada pertunjukkan silap mata, teka bilangan kacang, macam-macam lagi la aktiviti merapu malam tu. Kami pulang semula ke rumah ayah kira2 dalam pukul 9.30. Sampai umah je terus semua org tido pasal penat sangat.
Hari raya kedua,kami hanya beraya kat umah mak Jah ngan pakcik Zul sahaja memandangkan semua adik-adik ayah memang sudah berkumpul di rumah mak Jah. Jadi dapatlah kami menjimatkan masa daripada melawat byk rumah,datang 2 buah rumah sudah dapat berjumpa dengan ramai saudara-mara. Malam tu kami sekeluarga pun bersiap-siap hendak pulang ke Kuala Lumpur kerana lusa kami sudah mula bekerja semula. Kami bertolak dari rumah ayah kira-kira pukul 8.45 malam dan sampai di rumah kami dalam 12.05 pagi. Penat memang penat,tapi Hari Raya punya pasal. Kami mengambil keputusan untuk berehat dahulu di rumah kami selama 2 hari sebelum pulang pula berhari raya di Taiping.
Kami mulakan perjalanan pulang ke Taiping kira-kira pukul 3.15 petang hari raya ke-6. Perjalanan kami agak selesa memandangkan warga kota masih ramai di kampung pada ketika itu. Oleh itu kami dapat sampai di Taiping kira-kira pukul 6.20 ptg. Tak ramai yang ada di rumah mama petang itu, apok dan keluarga akan pulang pada hari Jumaat. Jadi, tak banyaklah aktiviti yang boleh dibuat kalau tuan organizer (apok) tiada. Hari pertama kami di Taiping dihabiskan dengan berborak kosong bersama utek dan mama. Pagi esoknya, kami semua bersarapan di kedai mee kari Pak Aziz. Ramai betul orang sampai kena beratur untuk dapat tempat duduk. Dah dapat tempat duduk, kena tunggu dalam 10 minit baru boleh amik order, biasalah,orang ramai tapi kakitangan kedai tak cukup. Nasib baik Aisy berada dalam mood yang agak ok, jadi tenang jugalah kami makan mee kari Pak Aziz tu. Lepas makan, kami pun terus blk umah tunggu apok punya family tak sampai lagi. Tunggu punya tunggu,lepas solat Jumaat baru diorang sampai. Jadi lepas mkn, dalam pukul 5.00 ptg camtu, kami sekeluarga besar pun memulakan tour raya ke rumah sedara mara kat kampung Saidin. Cuma abah yang tak join sebab dia ada kerja di Ipoh. Kami mulakan dgn rumah Yong, kemudian rumah Mak Put, rumah Kak Zan,rumah Pak Unggai, rumah Pak Uda dan yang terakhir sekali umah Kak Zah. Memang banyak rumah sedara-mara tu,tapi rumah diorang semuanya sebelah menyebelah saja,jadi senang la kami pergi beraya. Tak perlu bawa kereta pun. Aisy pula, untuk setiap rumah cuma boleh duduk senyap selama 5 minit yg pertama, lepas tu dia pun nangis. Jadi kami memang tak boleh nak duduk lama satu-satu rumah yg kami pergi,kalau tak memang dgr Aisy melalak la jawabnya.
Esoknya, kami semua breakfast makan nasi lemak mama buat pepagi. Hari ni nak pergi ambil gambar sekeluarga sempena Hari Raya. Lepas semua orang dah siap,kami pun keluar cari kedai gambar yang bagus untuk ambil gambar kami sekeluarga. Pusing-pusing bandar Taiping akhirnya abah berhenti dekat satu kedai gambar,nama kedai tu lupa plak. Bila semua org dah sedia nak ambil gambar dengan baju raya masing2, Aisy pulak tiba-tiba tak nak beri kerjasama. Bila nak snap gambar je Aisy pun nangis. Jadi banyak kali snap baru la dapat satu dua gambar yang cantik. Siap semua kami pun pilih bingkai gambar yang besar supaya dapat di gantung di rumah mama. Nak ambil 3 bingkai yang besar-besar tu mahal sangat la pulak,jadi ambil satu sahaja. Selesai ambil gambar,jam dah pukul 12 lebih. Jadi kami pun buat cadangan makan di restoran Doli. Mana boleh balik Taiping tak makan kuey teow Doli. Sampai di restoran Doli, orang dah ramai,penuh satu restoran. Nasib baik ada 2 meja kosong untuk kami 3 keluarga. Abis makan (walaupun makanan lambat sampai pasal orang ramai tapi makanan tetap sedap!) baru nak bayar tgk Apok dah belanja. Arigato Apok san! Lepas makan di Doli, kami pun terus balik umah sebab petang tu nak pergi umah Pak Anjang pula.
Hari ke tiga kami di Taiping kami bermula dengan perjalanan ke Ipoh untuk pergi ke rumah Kak Ja (anak Pak Anjang yang sulung). Kak Ja buat mee bandung dengan nasi campur untuk rombongan keluarga kami. Lepas rumah Kak Ja/abg Syed, kami singgah rumah Apok di Taman Meru sebelum pulang ke Kuala Lumpur. Perjalanan ke Kuala Lumpur malam tu agak selesa dan tiada kesesakan lalulintas yang berat. Ada sikit-sikit berhenti tu adat la musim hari raya. Alhamdulillah, kami selamat sampai di rumah pada pukul 7.45 malam.

HOLIDAY AT AWANA KIJAL

2007-10-09T07:38:00.000-07:00

Last two weeks I have an assignment to be done at kertih,terengganu. My company booked a one day accommodation at Awana Kijal Golf and Country Resort. I seized this opportunity to bring my family together so that we could have a good holiday. I extended our stay there for another day (of course this we need to pay on our own) so that we could enjoy and explore more. In term of scenery, we would say that Awana has it. The strategic location near the beach is all what tourist looking for. Although we were not swimmer type of people,we were somehow enjoy a good view toward South China Sea. They also have a Balinese type of spa with focus on relaxation and detoxination. The resort is generally a good place to hang out and we would recommend it as a place for holiday retreat. They got good view,big pool,beautiful golf course,nice room and warm greetings from the staff,not to forget the delicious meal! One thing is lack though, in this era of technological advanced, they should provide the customers with free wireless connection . Forget about getting profit from wifi connection,just give it for free. Most of hotels in malaysia nowadays have free wifi for their customer and we just can't see the reason why big hotels such as Awana and Sofitel cannot provide it for free.

HARI RAYA IS NEAR

2007-10-09T07:37:00.000-07:00

This month is a gonna be a busy month for our family. With "hari raya" coming just around the corner, we already thinking about "balik kampung" routine and it's hassle during festive's season such as "hari raya". The expressway will be flooded with thousand of cars headed to their destination, and as we all known, drivers in malaysia can be very rude depending on certain circumstances. If there's cars queing up, there'll a bunch of cars using the left side road which is emergency space to overtake the queing car. Most of the time these law ignorance drivers will escape punishment due to the lack of enforcement. Hopefully in this year,the authority will strengthen their enforcement and punish whoever broke the law.

For us,we will celebrate "hari raya" first at segamat this year,and then we will go to taiping to celebrate it with my wife's family. Because of the distant between our families are quite significant,about 350 km apart,we decided to leave a week gap before we travel to taiping from segamat. That's meant we will not take a long holiday for this year "hari raya"..

Aisy and his walker.... hehehe...

2007-09-19T17:13:00.000-07:00

Ahh.. Ramadhan is just around the corner...

2007-09-11T07:57:00.000-07:00

it is amazing how time can locked us in one point while time itself have rotate so fast until we don't realize it, for example i just can't believe Ramadhan is about to appear once again in less than 2 days now. that is how fast and rapid time changing, with all last year thoughts remain vividly in our mind, we are about to enter the holy month in Islamic calendar once again this year. one thing for sure, we are about to experience it with our son, that's made three of us who will be sitting in front of the dining table for "berbuka puasa" or break fast... :) it is a new experience for us, since we don't have kids before to celebrate Hari Raya together, but we are keen to find out the hassle and the joy having Aisy with us. our routine will be scattered, even though we can go out an hour early within Ramadhan or fasting month, we are pretty sure that one hour time allowance will be used for searching meals for "berbuka puasa".. hey, nobody want to cook after 7 hours working without eating.. :) we just hope this Ramadhan will bring us bless and increase our motivation and internal energy to face the world's franticness and start our new chapter in our journey. :) Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan Al Mubarak...

CAK!!!!!

2007-09-10T08:01:00.000-07:00

Holiday for me and my son.. sorry dear, you need to work.

2007-08-28T08:26:00.000-07:00

I got a chance to have a good two days holiday when my wife had a job at one of platform’s fabrication yard here in Johor Bahru. Since she booked 2 days accommodations at Sofitel Palm Resort Hotel, I just chip in with Aisy to have a good away day as it is 5 star hotel. The road to Sofitel was quite simple actually, from Kuala Lumpur we just took PLUS highway and exited through Senai Utara. From the toll booth just follow the Senai Airport sign and Sofitel Plam Resort Hotel is just opposite the airport. Aisy was quite docile on that day thus enabling us to have a good journey to the resort.

On that night after check in, we went to have a good meal at Singgah Selalu Restaurant located directly in front Danga Bay of Johor Bahru. The meals were great and come with affordable price. I never been there before but my wife and her family have come here several time before so she was quite familiar with that place, and knows about the history of the restaurant before it established it’s name. One setback of Johor Bahru, as we can see in others capital or town in Malaysia is the lack of signage and confusing roads. I am pity for our tourist because as Malaysian who travels quite a lot, I can’t easily find my way to Danga Bay if I only rely on our road signage. Luckily I can guess where it is and my wife have an idea on how to get there (since both of us are Malaysian), just imagine tourist who never come and have zero knowledge. Our driver as usual, loves to display their Colin McRae and Valentino Rossi type of driving/riding skills without thinking about other’s safety. This situation really made me hate driving in Malaysia, can’t we be more considerate and less selfish when driving or riding? Apart from that, the first day here is quiet impressive and good.

We started our second day here by having a good breakfast at one of Sofitel’s restaurant. The foods are good, but not as good as Marriot Putrajaya or Awana Kijal Terengganu, lack of varieties if we are tend to compared it with other hotels at par with it status. For instance, we noticed that the hotel only provide choices of pineapple and mango juices, tea or coffee options for drinks. A few pastries like croissant and westerners style of bakery. Choices of honey dew, oranges and water melon for fruit, and as a local dish we have well known Nasi Lemak with Chicken Rendang, Char Kuey Teow (flat fried noodle), Nasi Goreng (Fried Rice) and in-situ made by chef, a good delicious omelet. Overall, we could say that the breakfast was good and serves the purpose well, of course to fill up our hungry tummy (it was buffet, so you can eat as much as you can). The breakfast will cause you RM 15.00 per person if I am not mistaken. After that, we walk around and hang out beside the pool before my wife needs to catch her taxi since she needs to be at MMHE office at 11.00 am. So, after she went to work, it’s all dad and little kiddo stuffs here at the resort.

Bintulu and KL in less than 36 hour

2007-08-23T18:46:00.000-07:00

Yesterday I set my own traveling record whereby I travel from KL to Bintulu and back to KL in less than 36 hours. Accordingly, I should stay in Bintulu for 2 days, but since my works there are all done within the first 12 hours, my staff engineer and I decided that we need to go back as soon as possible. Since all the good hotels are fully booked due to Borneo Kite Festivals, and we did overlook the situation, we settle on the one and only hotel available back there, Li Hua hotel. Sound pretty low isn’t it? The hotel is quite good with all the amenities are provided, but for muslim like us, it is too troublesome to get halal food. We even can’t find common bread brand like Gardenia or Hi5 within its parameter. Hence, on that night we just ate peanuts with chocolate and drink milk for dinner. The hotel cost us RM 101.20 per night and I consider it as cheap compared to other hotel that we usually accommodate during our outstation. Alas, the reception could provide us better services when we ask them about place to eat for muslim and the town whereabouts.

Our jobs there were quite simple actually, just reviewing other’s job and approved it. Well, at first it was a hiccup for me since this is onshore working environment and my background is in offshore structural. However, I got my staff engineer who is very experience in handling onshore projects and development. Therefore, I just refer back everything to him. Sadly, our stay there should be more fun and fruitful if we just book Regency or Park City hotel which located near to the town and food court. Never mind that, I just went there to get my work done!

And to my beloved wife, HAPPY 25th BIRTHDAY!!!!!! and I LOVE U SOOOO MUCH!!!!

Kucing

2007-08-20T00:19:00.000-07:00

Erm, minggu lepas kami terpaksa buat satu keputusan yang agak menyedihkan. Kami terpaksa beri 80% daripada kucing-kucing kami kat orang lain. Bukan apa, dah takder masa nak jaga diorang tuh. Balik keje je penat layan Aisy, langsung takder masa nak memain ngan kucing-kucing tu semua. Jadi ambil keputusan kasik je kat rakan-rakan yang memang minat bela kucing. Hera, Helen ngan satu kucing kecik anak Helen yang terbaru sekali kasik kat En Nizam dari pasar borong Selangor, Dymeter kasik kat Fadzly (Nyamuk) dari Seri Kembangan, Undervein 600 (ni nick je) ambik anak Helen yang kecik warna oren ngan hitam putih. Jadi tinggal kat kami Hector, Archilles ngan satu anak yang kecik warna putih. Itupun ada orang tempah dah nak amik 2-3 hari nih. Jadi Hector ngan Archilles terus lepak ngan kitaorang la. Hehehe. Mana bleh kasik semua, sayang oo. Elok jugak kasik kat orang sikit kucing tu, ada la masa nak urus takat 2-3 ekor je, jika nak dibandingkan dengan 9 ekor nak kena mandikan. Makanan pun jimat sikit. Kena plak sekarang Aisy dah asyik nak berdukung je, gi memana pun dalam umah takleh tinggal dalam buai, mesti nak ikut. Kalau tak dia jerit kaw-kaw punya, hehehe. Taruk dalam kereta tolak dia pun takmau jugak, tapi kalau kat tempat ada penghawa dingin sejuk, Aisy pun senyum jek. Tak dukung pun takper, asal ada susu.

New kitten

2007-08-15T21:58:00.001-07:00

Check out our new kitten...

Point to ponder?

2007-08-07T18:01:00.000-07:00

As we go along in this life, some of us might wonder why we are here at the first place. Segregation of thought, faith in religion and individual believe to degrade the ‘BIG’ question is something that people used to do. From the time where earth was a place of prosper and everything was in balance, to the turbulence time where war and famine crawl in every inch on our land and when time keep on repeat these cycle, human being back by their own knowledge, science and thought was unable to answer the basic question lie from the first human existence. Why do we here and what is our purpose? Even though there is a religion that provides an answer to this simple answer but yet unanswerable to our naked mind, it is not quite fair to discuss it with people who are not within the religion matrix. However, if the discussion and argument are to be made of science fact and human thought only, we will find ourselves entangled within looping and repetitive questions, by mean a question in a question, one after another. The best way to discuss and achieve a conclusion is to combine all relevant facts including science, logic, faith driven by religion and our pure curiosity to find the genuine answer. Some of argument made by scientists and scholars were not as correct as it is since much of the time the conclusions are made to favor certain party which they are in it.

Accept it or not, we as a human being just can live in this hemisphere planet only called earth. No other planet resembles the well being and magical ecosystem that we have here in earth. Everything in this world exist for the usage of it’s dwellers, and the one who have some control for the resource is creature that have ability to make a decision which is clearly point to us as human. Why do we have this ability and where did it come from? Please spare the theory about human as a hybrid of primate and some alien from outer space because it is out of reality. The theory of evolution that said human started from quadruped and slowly evolved to biped is interesting, but not convincing as we are clearly not from primate origin. To say that we evolve in our brain capacity and advancement of critical thinking, creativity and knowledge are much more justified in discussing about human evolution. With all the ability to think, we are able to set up complex system and run this world as it is now. After that, the “question” will get back to us, what is it for? We live, prosper the earth or exploit it richness, and then we die. It not sounds right. This is where the faith of religion comes in to offer the solution to our answer. Maybe some peoples are not comfort with the idea of having religion to offer an answer, but we need to accept one equation which stated that everything exist in this world are not for nothing. It just us that don’t have the capacity to figure it out.

Anak Sedara Baru!!

2007-08-06T21:17:00.001-07:00

Last week my wife had a meeting in UTP. I took a leave on Friday to send her to Tronoh, in Perak and take the opportunity to visit my brother in law house in Ipoh which is located just 30 KM from Tronoh. Since my brother’s in law wife is already 9 months pregnancy on that time, it is a good time to drop our feet there just in case we are lucky enough to see the new man in the family. We waited 2 days from Friday morning to Saturday, there was nothing happened although my brother in law’s wife has shown sign to deliver. Suddenly while we all woke up on Sunday morning, mama told us that they already went to hospital at 5 am. We took our breakfast and at 10.00 am my wife and I went to Ipoh Hospital to check out the situation. It took us from 10.00 am to 3.00 pm approximately to see our family new member. It seems to have more on his mother instead of his father. My brother in law was expecting a daughter because the result when they went to scan showed a daughter but it turns out the other way around. But for us, it doesn’t matter since all went well and Aisy will have a buddy in few years to come. Anyway, we are happy to say this, to Apok and Amut, congratulations on your newborn baby and good luck in your future!!!

Pengasuh Baru Aisy

2007-08-01T18:06:00.000-07:00

Lepas tok yan jaga Aisy, tok syidah pulak jaga. Bila dua-dua tok kena balik kampung, kami pun mulakan kerja mencari pengasuh. Mula-mula memang dah rancang nak hantar kat umah mak sedara di Dengkil, tapi lepas mengira jarak perjalanan dan masa umi nak hantar Aisy ke situ, macam tak berbaloi pulak. Pergi dari rumah dalam 25 KM lepas tu umi nak kena pergi keja pulak. Balik keje nanti lagi susah. Cari punya cari, akhirnya jumpa seorang kat kawasan rumah kami yang memang tgh cari bayi nak buat kawan sebab dia duduk sengsorang je kalau anak-anak dia pergi keje..

Minggu ni kami dah mula menghantar Aisy di rumah pengasuh baru.. kami panggil dia tok cik jer la, sebab semua orang panggil dia camtu. Nama dia Mak Cik Baliah. Nasib baik kawasan umah dia dekat je dengan umah kami jadi tak perlu la susah-susah hantar Aisy ke Dengkil (mengikut perancangan awal memang nak kena hantar ke Dengkil umah mak cik di situ). Hari pertama Aisy di rumah tok cik, Aisy dah nangis sepanjang hari. Mungkin sebab dia dah kenal umi ngan ayah pastu kawasan umah kot. Jadi bila sampai kat umah tok cik tu Aisy pun rasa lain, apa lagi nangis ler. Kami risau je kalau dia tak serasi ngan pengasuh tu, kat mana pulak kami nak hantar dia. Tapi nasib baik hari kedua Aisy dah baik. Dia tido ngan main je. Nasib baik la. Sekarang tgh tunggu keputusan hari ketiga. Kalau ok je insyaallah cantik ler tuh. Mintak-mintak ok la. Isk, internet connection ni memang lembab plak.. nak upload gambar pun susah. Nanti kalau internet connection dah ok kami upload gambar Aisy. :p

Kasihan Sungai Klang

2007-07-17T19:45:00.001-07:00

Everyday I passed Klang River as I walk to my office just opposite Central Market here in Kuala Lumpur. When I walked across the river, I usually stopped for a moment just to see the turbulence of Klang River as its current washed away the concrete besides it. The sheet piles and concrete purposely install along the river to avoid erosion that might effect the development along the river. With no soil and grass whatsoever beside the river, I am not sure whether Klang River is still a river or we just can call it drainage. The signboard should look something like this “THIS WAS KLANG RIVER”. To put it name to further shame, some of us even throw their rubbish into it. It happen one time in front of my naked eye that this middle age man wearing t-shirt and short pant throw his chocolate wrapper into that pity river when crossing it. Well, you might look cool with your big sunglass, hip hop style resembling J-Z or Ja-Rule, top notch Beckham’s hair style, but deep in your head, you just a pathetic Malaysian who feel like the world is kneeling in front of you but as a matter of fact, you are injecting poison to our civilization. Now is 2007, as Prime Minister said that he now visualizing how we celebrating our 100^th independent instead of 50^th now, but if this continue to happen, I am pretty sure that we will celebrate our 100^th independent somewhere in junkyard. I am sorry to say this but after 50 years of independent, most of us still failed to understand environmental concern. We need to clear our rivers as we do have among the finest river and ecosystem in this world, we need to put them back into their original state with crystal water and fishes swimming free in it. It just a simple idea and thing to understand but why don’t we do it? I saw on television one month ago about government approval on 1.5 million ringgit on conservation and rehabilitation for our polluted river and canal, but as usual until now there are no progressions. We should put ourselves to shame looking at how Korea and Japan manage to rehab their polluted river to some extend that they even can swim in their ex-polluted river. We can do it to, we have the resources, we have the money and we do have local expert in this thing. Stop calling expert from Australia, USA or UK because we do have our local expert. Put aside all self interest of making money from government project and thing more about what we need to do to make Malaysia fit for service for our next generation. One thing that we can’t compromise and take it lightly is our environment condition.

Balik Kampung Lagii...

2007-07-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

Minggu lepas kami berdua balik kampung (taiping) lagi. Sebab nak tengok Aisy la. Ingatkan nak bawak balik Aisy dengan Tok, tapi tetiba plak Wan tak kasik. Wan cakap kalau bawak balik Aisy nanti Wan boring, takder geng nak tengok tv. Jadi kami pun tak jadi la nak bawak balik Aisy. Kami sampai Taiping hari jumaat malam, sebab bertolak dari rumah tak la lewat sangat, tapi kenderaan cukup banyak menghala ke arah utara dari Kuala Lumpur. Jalan pulak sedang di baik pulih dan naik taraf, jadi paham-paham sajalah keadaan di Malaysia bila jalan sedang dalam proses pembinaan, 3 lorong tetiba jadi 1. Sampai je Taiping dah pukul 11 lebih. Jadi lepas main-main ngan Aisy kejap, kami pun tido la.

Esoknya hari Sabtu pagi-pagi lagi dah pergi makan kat mee kari Ajis. Peh, harga dah naik 2.70 semangkuk mee. Dahsyat betul kenaikan harga barang sekarang nih. Mengalahkan saham-saham yang di dagangkan kat BSKL. Tapi sebab sedap punya pasal, makan jugaklah kat situ. Pak Ajis nih ada masalah sikit kalau ada ramai orang kat kedai makan dia, sebab dia nih kategori agak kalut.. Kalau ramai orang, nak ditakdirkan tuhan pada masa kami pergi tu memang tengah ramai orang, jadi kekalutan dia pun terserlah. Abah minta tambah ayam goreng pun tak boleh. Apa daa, kedai makan minta tambah tak boleh, bukan orang tak bayar. Nasib baik isteri Pak Ajis ada, dia pun ikut la permintaan Abah untuk tambah ayam goreng siap 2 pinggan lagi. Lepas makan kat Ajis, kami terus balik rumah, sebab dah hampir pukul 11 lebih. Lepas Zohor kami berdua keluar kejap pergi bank masukkan duit untuk Apok, sebab isteri ada ambik bekalan kerongsang daripada dia 2 ari lepas. Lepas tu, kami pun pergi makan kat restoran kuew teow goreng yang memang terkenal gila-gila punya kat kawasan Taiping, Restoran Doli. Kami minta satu kuew teow goreng istimewa dan satu lagi biasa. Harga yang biasa RM 3.00 dan yang istimewa RM 6.00. Kena tunggu lambat sikit sebab kedai tu penuh. Lepas lebih kurang 15 minit tunggu, pesanan kami pun sampai. Memang tak menghampakan, kuew teow goreng istimewa penuh dengan udang dan kerang, puas hati. Yang kuew teow biasa pun tak kurang hebatnya. Kenyang kami berdua petang tu. Lepas tu terus balik umah. Malamnya tak pergi memana pun sebab dah puas jalan masa siang. Lagipun keadaan ekonomi tak berapa mengizinkan waktu tengah-tengah bulan sekarang (sebenarnya waktu ujung bulan, tengah atau akhir tiada perbezaan pun sekarang).

Hari Ahad bermula agak lembab untuk kami. Tiada aktiviti sangat untuk dibuat. Maklumlah, hari nak balik. Petang tu kami pun memulakan perjalanan pulang ke Kuala Lumpur, Aisy tak ikut balik sebab Tok Wan tak kasik. Sampai menangislah mak Aisy tu. J Tapi takper, nanti Tok Wan hantar Aisy ke rumah kami hari Ahad minggu hadapan. Dalam perjalanan pulang kami singgah di Kuala Kangsar untuk mengambil bekalan kerongsang daripada pembekal kami. Di sebabkan perniagaan kami baru nak dimulakan, kami cuma mengambil secara kecil-kecilan dahulu, lagipun bukan ada kedai nak simpan semua barang perniagaan kami ni. Lepas berhenti di Kuala Kangsar, kami singgah pula di Taman Meru Ipoh, rumah abang ipar a.k.a Apoks. Borak-borak lebih kurang, lepas solat maghrib kami pun teruskan perjalanan pulang ke Kuala Lumpur. Bermula di Ipoh, kami dapat lihat banyak kereta menuju arah yang sama dengan kami. Dari situ kami boleh meneka apa yang akan kami tempuhi apabila tiba di Rawang- Kuala Lumpur nanti, sesaknya tuhan saja yang tahu. Tekaan kami betul apabila kami mengambil masa lebih kurang 4 jam setengah untuk sampai ke Kuala Lumpur dari Ipoh yang selalunya mengambil masa tidak kurang dari 3 jam. Dengan menaiki kereta manual, kesesakan sebegitu memang menjerihkan. Kekadang tu memang tak berapa nak paham lebuhraya kat Malaysia nih, makin banyak kita bayar toll, makan lambat pulak kita sampai. Tapi, tahun depan toll lebuhraya utara selatan akan naik lagi sebanyak 10%, jadi makin teruklah kesesakannya nanti. Para menteri sekali kalau terbaca, jangan marah ye, sebab ini adalah realiti. Musim perayaan? Nanti kita tengok macam mana kami nak balik kampung pada musim perayaan nanti, sesaknya di luar tabii. :p

Kenduri Akikah Aisy

2007-07-05T17:59:00.000-07:00

Last week we went back to my parent house in Pahang for Aisy’s kenduri. It was a small ceremony according to my father but for us it was a medium size ceremony with more or less 70 guests present on that day. “Kenduri Akikah” basically meant a ceremony to exhibit our “kesyukuran” to Allah’s gracious and mercy by granting us a son/daughter. In Islam, the “Akikah” fall into “sunat Muakkad” category which meant it is heavily demanded for those who is afford to do so. The event started after 9 pm. There are some relatives from my father’s side arrived to our home late afternoon that day. The meals were quite simple but it surely delicious. There are lambs, chickens and vegetables cooked in Beriani style by my father. My wife can’t help much on the preparation because Aisy was uneasy on that day, might because of the noise and unventilated condition on the house when it was filled by guest. I started to help my father on his cooking. Because I have zero knowledge in cooking, I just follow what my father said and it looks like pretty simple (yes, wait till you done it yourself). My younger brother also joined me later on after he find out that he don’t have work to do. It was a pleasant condition and experience since we don’t get together as much as we did last 5 years due to other commitment. After finished cooking, my brother and I arrange the chairs and tables for the guest that night. On that night, we have small ‘tahlil’ and the feast begins. Organizing such an event was an energy drained activity, but we do have some laugh and joy to share together made this family event a good activity.

Kittens --> Cats

2007-06-26T19:17:00.000-07:00

Now after approximately 4 months old, all our kittens are more or less grown well. They surely can eat much. We just bought 5 Kg of Whiskas last 2 weeks for them. Surprisingly, they just take about a week to finish off 2.5 Kg of their food. That's a warning figure since they are still growing and a bag of 5 Kg Whiskas will cost you about Rm 60.00. Imagine what will happen you need to buy 10 Kg Whiskas per month.. :) however, those cats are really cute and cuddly. they made us laugh and sometimes angry when they started to behave vigorously against our furniture. Nevertheless, now all of them are part of our family. :)

Our Newborn Baby!!

2007-06-19T18:06:00.000-07:00

-Noted that this writings were made some time in April 2007-

It was such an adrenaline rush when I received news from my wife that she was going to be hospitalized because of our baby is not in the right position for normal delivery. Since I was away on that day, I tried to change my flight ticket to fasten my return to home but unfortunately I failed. All the ticket flight was fully booked and I need to pay as a penalty because of late notification. To avoid any negative consequences since my flight ticket was issued by the company, I just waited and managed to get back on Thursday evening. As soon as I landed on KLIA, my father and mother in law were waiting for me in front of the airport. We went straight away to Subang Jaya Medical Center to visit my wife. Her condition on that night was better than never, which relieve me from my bad perspective. The operation was scheduled on 8.30 am next morning.

The first thing that I’ve done after woke up on the Friday morning was to get a quick breakfast and then drive my car as soon as possible to SJMC to avoid traffic congested. The traffic can be such a punishment when you trying to enter Subang Jaya on weekdays morning. Luckily, God has granted me His mercy when the traffic was far away from congested. I arrived at SJMC approximately around 8.00 am. After waiting for about an hour because there are emergency case earlier that morning, our operation was rescheduled to 9.15 am. After all preparation was ready, 2 nurses came to our room and take my wife to the operation theater. I was not allowed to see the delivery process because this was an operation instead of natural delivery process. So I waited in the waiting room in front of the operation theater. It was about an hour pass before I could see my first son coming out from the operation theater room. After identified my son and accompany him to the nursery, I went back to the waiting room for my wife. 45 minutes later she came out. We thank God because with His will we do not encounter any mishap during the operation process. By that time, my father and mother in law has already arrived in the hospital. My mother called me to congratulate on my first son, and she told me that my family will be here tomorrow morning. It is such a relief and joy to get through that moment. We stayed in the hospital for 3days before my wife fully discharged.

Bad Weather, Unhealhty City

2007-06-06T22:54:00.000-07:00

Since I've been transfer to the Malaysia's city of pride, Kuala Lumpur, I seen the reality of Malaysian. They simply hate cleanliness. Many of them just throw away their chocolate wrappers, tin can, tissue and spitting on the pavement! What a shame since we are announcing Visit Malaysia 2007. I couldn't care less about it since it happen everyday in front of my eyes. I took ERL everyday to commute to work and then changed to LRT untill I reach Pasar Seni station. Having public transportation as my primary mode of transportation, I can forget all about congested traffic and insolent drivers, but new problem emerged out of it. It is hard to say that Malaysian didn't learn well how to queue during their school time. ERL = NO QUEUE whatsoever. So, you better tighten up your bags and attire and ready to rumble into that caterpillar. LRT = QUEUE at morning but after 10 AM, there you go, it's another physical activity to be carried out regardless you are a woman or a man. This city is great, but it could be even greater if we could learn how to queue, be less selfish, be more sympatic to elders and pregnant woman and adopt clean attitude. Singaporeans can and have done it, why shouldn't we?

It's Been A While

2007-05-24T00:05:00.000-07:00

Too many things to do, so little time left. That was precisely what happened to our family this month. On 13th April, our son was born in SJMC. We will post more on that later on. For the time being, I am busy with my weekend life since my wife and my son are at their hometown in Taiping. Therefore, every Friday I will drive for 2 hours to see them. However, started from next week forward, the trend will stop because I will pick them up and bring them back to our house. We will post our son's newborn picture and some details about it in a 2-3 weeks since I am too busy now with works and my routine life. Huh, life is getting challenging after I being transferred to KL. What a problematic city. Hehehe.. that's only from my point of view.

Hectic Week

2007-04-05T20:16:00.000-07:00

April is going to be the busiest month ever in our calendar. With my wife is entering the last phase of her maternity cycle, I need to do a lot of business travel in this month. We already asked my wife mother and father to accompany her during my away to Kerteh and Miri and fortunately they have agreed to do so. In this state of mind, I really don’t want to travel anywhere since this is our first baby but frankly speaking, this is the first project that being awarded to me since beginning of 2006. Yup, almost a year with no true engineering job that made my mind as hollow as it never was. I don’t expect much on my last year financial fiscal assessment since I don’t do anything much, just sit in the office and sometimes sleep, not even attending meeting because there are none. That’s was a peril when the company that you are used to work is being restructure and reorganize by the shareholders. Nevertheless, I just work for money, not much but sufficient to keep my family floating for the next month. There are some people who want to make a lot of money, but not for me I guess. This is proven when I took my company year end review to simple, I do miss out a few segment after I sent it to my supervisor. I like to focus more on my life and my family life rather than doing work and go home at 11 pm everyday. I might miss my first baby yet to be born due to my business trip, but as many people like to say, this is life, more than 60% that we planned aren’t going our way. But we can always try to shield the deviation of plan to just an mm skew.

Growing Up Fast!!

2007-04-02T21:10:00.000-07:00

It’s been a more than a month now since we celebrate the birth of our cat’s kitten. Four of them now are growing up fast and they slowly showed their individual attitude. Hector, we named him after the famous Trojan Prince is the most active of them all. Apart of being the biggest from the pack, Hector is the loudest, the fastest and the most stubborn. His character seems to us like he is the leader of the kittens, his siblings just followed where he goes, ate what he ate and sometimes chased around by him. Achilles seem to be more peaceful compared to Hector but sometimes could be annoyed too. Achilles likes to spend most of his time wondering around the litter box, and sometimes sleep beside it for particular reason that we do not know. Dymeter is the sparing partner for Hector. With dynamic attitude, she usually accompanies her brother to scout around our room. Hera is the most shy and subtle. Most of the time we could see Hera linger around her mother. We never saw Hera running around with her other siblings. She just likes to play lazy and lying on her back. Needless to say, Hera is the cutest kitten among them, Achilles is the bold one, Hector the bully and finally Dymeter is the follower. Hope they all will grow normally and stay healthy under our care.

New Workstation At Home

2007-03-26T17:38:00.000-07:00

It was our long ambition to have our own workstation at home. Yesterday the dream comes true when we managed to squeeze our budget to get a nice workstation set from Macy. The whole set consist of one bookshelf and an “L” shape working table. With this facility we finally can put all our work’s stuff in one place, all our books in one shelf and our multimedia equipment on the right desk. After putting all the furniture in place, we try to do our first paragraph on that table but finally realized that we forgot the Malaysia’s climate, it is tropic. With the global warming effect that world is experiencing for the last 20 years, the temperature could rise to 38-40 degree Celsius and we totally forgot to buy a standing fan. Since we are already out of budget, we need to hold the fan a little longer and just stand up against the heat. Nevertheless, the workstation is great for both of us even if we need to take turn to use it.

In line with the new workstation, we recently involved in online store. Since we got ourselves a good supplier of high and medium quality brooch, we decide to make our own online store selling brooch and other women’s accessories. We also planning to search for ICT product supplier to supply to us thumb drive, external HDD or Mp3 player at affordable prices so that we could resell it at our online store. Our store is still under construction but can be viewed at http://shop.kedaisaya.com . For the time being, we still don’t have many items except for brooch to display but we are keen to upgrade it from time to time. It is a great experience for both of us to have this online store under our name and we do hope that our “baby business” will grow steadily and strongly in future.

House Cleaning

2007-03-18T20:08:00.000-07:00

Last weekend we decide to clean up our dusty house. It’s been 2 weeks since our last clean up. Most of the time we just ignored the dust on the floor, I guess that’s because both of us are at the lazy state of our life. Nevertheless, we find ourselves full with energy last week and we clean the entire house, from the living room, entertainment corner, kitchen, bedrooms and even store room. It is a hell of a job to do in 4 hours and your staff is yourself and your 8 months pregnant wife. First we transferred all the furniture from the living room so that we can vacuum the entire floor and get rid of dust under the carpet. The new vacuum we bought last year was a stunner for us. It can suck dust like toll booth sucking your money. After we cleared the living room, we then move to clean the kitchen and installed the clock. Since we are using battery powered driller, I already charged the driller’s battery for 4 hours before I managed to drilled a nice hole at the wall and hang our clock. The first floor of our house was done in about 2 hours. The 1^st floor is where the energy most needed since we need to transfer all our stuff in the entertainment room to the guest room for temporary because we are waiting for a new set of office table to put there. The dust is much worse here since we never done any major cleaning here since we entered the house about 1 year ago. After cleaning and clearing the entertainment room, we are all exhausted. I took a bath and then watch TV, but ending with 30 minutes nap in front of TV. When I woke up, I saw my wife is still sleeping on the couch. Damn, we never thought that cleaning a house could be as tired as working at paddy field. Next time, we better clean it in a schedule period of time. We also managed to install the water filter for our aquarium and it works fine. Our aquarium now is next to crystal clear water with all the fished and plants are clearly visible. Before, it was like a swamp.

Fish Head Curry

2007-03-15T00:10:00.000-07:00

Fish head curry is one meal that we enjoyed eating. Personally, I am the bigger fan of this meal compared to my wife. After 4 to 6 times eating fish head curry at restaurant, we decided to make it ourselves at home. Hence, we bought a fish head from nearest Giant Hypermarket and started to cook it with Northern Curry recipe. The price of raw fish head is amazingly cheap compared to what we used to eat in the restaurant which can easily tap to RM 18.00 – RM 36.00 per meal. Well, we got our fish head (snapper type of fish) just for RM 12.00. Since most of the ingredient and process to cook the curry is not in my expertise, my wife took over all the work. I just help her doing the chopping and slicing, not to mention giving her moral support by fooling around in the kitchen. After 30 minutes, we successfully cooked our fish head curry for that day and to go along with it was rice and spinach. The taste was good and we hope that we will have more time to explore new recipe next time. Our family is good in eating but not quite excel in cooking, or we just plain lazy.

Scammed!!!!

2007-03-14T17:39:00.000-07:00

Last week, we bid for one item in www.ebay.com.my. the item was a laptop and the price was below average.as everybody knows, we need to deposit the money first before received the item.now, after a week the money deposited, we still don't received an item that we bid for and we felt cheated, by this seller.ebay in malaysia is not good as ebay international because many malaysian like to abuse internet usage for their own advantages. we already made a police report but pity that malaysian government still not have any rules or law that protect the buyer in this case.so we need to go to civil court and ask them to issue the warrant.and guess what, the magistrate is out of office for a week.by that time, the scammer has already gone! hope you all will be extra carefull when dealing with online transaction, because there are many cheater and scammer in this internet jungle. hope GOD will grant this criminal mercy at the judgement day.