Keje, keje, keje...

I don't know why do I handle the pressure of work & study differently.

Maybe the keyword is 'drive'. I was busier during study, I did complaint & sigh but still I... I'd say that I worked on it at full throttle or at least almost full. Ringkasnya, belajar dengan semangat berkobar-kobar. I had the drive. Maybe because the goal was clear & it was a short term goal - to pass the MSc (with distinction) in 1 year. See, how clear the goal was. Not just the MSc, even during the undergraduate study, I was a good (*being humble*) student =P.

Talking about work, I don't have such drive. Fine, my current job is not my dream job. But that's not an excuse. I guess if I work like I study, I'd be excellent in my work. So I guess the option is mine since with or without interest I have proved to myself during study that the interest isn't as important as hard work.

So, it's time to work hard. One more thing, don't let the politic at the workplace demotivate you.

Ok, selesai sesi motivasi kepada diri sendiri =D. Not sure though whether it's effective or not ;-).

Selamat bekerja semua. Hey, it's Friday! =DDD

Last 2 weekends...

Me & my family gi sini...


On the way pegi, jalan agak jam. Dari jauh nampak macam truck... tapi macam kete kebal pun ye gak. Rupa-rupanya...


Kete kebal di atas truck. Ada lah beberapa biji, amik 2 lane belah kanan. Tu yang buat jam tu.

Tiba di hotel pukul 2:30pm. As usual, Fir mesti nak mandi kolam walaupun hampir setiap minggu mandi kolam. Nenek lah kene temankan.


Malam tu, dari rumah Pak Ngah kami ke sini. Dah cerita sikit dalam entry yang lepas. So here's the pics.

Waiting for the tram.

Giraffe in the dark.

Can you see the tigers?

Huge fake crocs.

Pas gi zoo, kami naik bot pulak...


I love cruising! But the cruise was a bit slow for my standard. Kalau laju sikit, lagi enjoy. The scenery was nice, dengan lampu-lampu yang berwarna-warni. RM10 for almost 1 hour. Berbaloi.

Esoknya, bersiap-siap untuk ke majlis pertunangan Ema & checked-out hotel.

At the hotel.

Sebelum makan di rumah kenduri sempat makan burger dulu.


Weekend ni weekend untuk berehat puas-puas!

Green grass

The grass always looks greener on the other side...

Random thoughts

Beres bayar bil-bil & hutang piutang untuk bulan ini.

Sakit hati dengan seseorang hari ini. Asalnya tak lah rasa sakit hati sangat sebab memang dah sedia maklum perangai sorang umat ni. Tapi bila rasa kene berdepan dengan umat ni esok sedangkan pada masa yang sama ada perkara yang lebih menarik & bermakna perlu dihadiri, terasa sakit hati & menyampah pulak. Perangai sungguh tak masuk akal. Oh umat yang dimaksudkan bukan seorang kawan. Kalau kawan, dah lama buat tak tau.

Cubaan mengambil gambar sendiri 2 hari yang lalu (& edit bagi hilang parut-parut jerawat) untuk diletak di dalam blog...

Bila lah muka nak bersih macam ni.

Hari ni rasa penat sangat. Adakah kerana dedahan ☢?

Bila-bila masa dari sekarang perlu keluar ke somewhere. Jadi ini adalah percubaan untuk segarkan mata dan minda.

Tertunggu-tunggu hujung minggu. Siapa tak kan? Sudah 3 minggu berturut-turut tidak dapat betul-betul menghabiskan masa di rumah & bangun selewat yang mungkin.

Ok lah. Berhenti setakat ini. Rasa macam nak pos cerita hujung 2 minggu yang lalu.

What's on your mind?

Sebaik pulang daripada Alamanda petang tadi, berSMS dengan JD. Tersentuh sedikit berkenaan FB on how some people are really crazy on updating the status. Kebetulan, pagi ni kat Hot bincang pasal status FB. It was interesting indeed since I also have my own opinion on the subject.

For me, life is complicated enough. So don't make it more complicated by making a restriction in a social website called FB. Chill. Just write anything that you can't keep to yourself & needs to be shared with other people. Tak perlu gaduh-gaduh nak create a guideline apa yang boleh & apa yang tak boleh.

But I guess we always have to remember that this is an era of reality shows. So, if you make it too personal, you'd become apart of the reality shows & be judged by your 'friends'. So, if you don't mind sharing with other people, I guess you don't mind as well letting other people judge you. I'm one of the fans of reality shows. Saje nak bagitau.

Nowadays, with the existence of internet, we don't have to be a celebrity & appear on a mainstream media to get famous. Everyone could have a taste of stardom. Some of us are very proud for having thousands 'friends' in FB. Seperti lihatlah dunia, aku mempunyai 'kawan' yang ramai, bakal tercalon dalam Bintang Popular & menang sebiji kereta. Ok, I'm being sarcastic now. Tak baik tau.

Ok, back to the FB status, I have to admit even though I believe in a freedom to update anything, I hate this kind of status & something like it...

Tak tau nak makan apa hari ni. Sila bagi cadangan.

Atau ringkasnya...

Nak makan apa ye hari ni?

I won't comment. But if I comment, it'd sound like this...

Kalau dah tak tau nak makan apa, tak yah lah makan!

Nabi Muhammad SAW berpuasa sunat kerana tiada makanan di pagi hari.

Daripada Aisyah r.a berkata, “Adalah Nabi SAW apabila masuk ke dapur baginda bertanya: Adakah di sisi kamu makanan? Sekiranya Aisyah menjawab tidak ada, lalu Nabi berkata: Aku berpuasa.” (Riwayat Muslim)

Kes ni pulak, bukan takde makanan, tapi terlebih makanan sampai tak tau nak makan apa. Ish, ish, ish...

Actually this isn't the reason why I hate the status. Saje nak tunjuk baik sedangkan diri sendiri yang bermasalah :P. The problem is...

Hello... I desperately need to lose weight but it's so though to be on a diet because I always crave for something. I always have something in mind that I'd love to eat. Like yesterday, I told my friends that I'm craving for this one specific meal. The problem with this meal is the quantity is so much. I'd need to run for miles or fast for at least 2 days in order to burn the calories. Jadi kepada sesiapa yang tak tau nak makan apa hari ini, bersyukur lah & tak payah makan. InsyaAllah, you'd survive since I believe that most of us already have extra unnecessary fat in our body.

I'm ok with it if the status owner is skinny or thin enough. But...
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Sorry, I don't think I have 'friends' in FB that matched the description. Hiks gurau ajer... :P

Besides closing the relationships with friends & families, for me FB is also a good medium to promote business. However, recently one of my friends update her status by making an announcement that she doesn't wanna be tagged with any selling products. My comment would be just remove it if you don't like it. Or if it really annoys you, why don't you remove the source. Yes, I mean remove the 'friend' who always tag her with those selling products. I doubt that 'friend' is really her friend anyway. Lagipun, it's much much better to be tagged than to be received calls frequently by 'friends' who are promoting their products, isn't it?

See, what's on my mind is too long to be shared in FB.

But I guess in FB...

What's on my mind remains on my mind.

Ok, chill :D.


- Anti-social

Zoo

Isk... why do I keep feeling hungry? Susah betul nak diet. I need to be distracted. So, baik update blog. The title of my post today is 'Zoo'.

Bukan nak cerita pasal filem ni. Tak tengok pun. Sekadar gambar hiasan to compliment the title of the post.

I'm gonna write about the visit to a night zoo last weekend. Actually, I've been interested to visit night zoo or night safari for quite some times. Saje, nak tau camna environment zoo di waktu malam. Ok it was quite dark. Fir yang muka ganas pun boleh tak jadi nak masuk. But of course we forced him to enter.

We were encouraged to ride a tram. Even if we weren't, I'd choose to ride it. Then, the tram stopped at one of the check point for us to walk & see the animals which were tigers (& their cousins), crocodiles etc closely. Since it was nite & my camera is compact type, the quality of the photos are mediocre.

Alah... gambar ada kat atas, saved in a thumb drive. Lain kali lah upload.
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Rewinding to a few years back (when I was considerably thin & my face was clear from acne scars)...

Here, we could get so near to the kangaroos. No barrier. So maybe the local zoos should consider of letting loose the deers to make the zoos more interesting.

Notice the baby kangaroo in the kangaroo's pouch? Comel kan...

Actually a day before we went to the zoo, we went to the wildlife park. The wildlife park was more interesting compare to the zoo. We were given an opportunity to touch the animals. The best part was, I could hug & take photos with a baby wombat (with no extra charge!).

Unfortunately, the koala bears were sleeping (I guess they always do). Could only touch them then.

Notice the henna on my fingers? Hehee.
Ok serious, the koala bears look so cuddly.

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Masih lapar lagi.

Random thoughts

Today, I'm fasting. So even though it's lunch break rite now, I'm staying in the office. InsyaAllah, minus today, will be 1 day left.

Sometimes I hate my job.
Sometimes I kinda like my job.
Rarely I'm in love with my job.

I do believe that the happiest person on earth is the one who's in love with his/her job & satisfies with the salary. Every morning he/she wakes up eagerly to go to work & doesn't mind at all working like a dog.

Oh yeah, I have to work this weekend. I mind. Sigh.

I think I'd only become the happiest person on earth if I don't have to do anything but still cash flows in. Too much to ask, I know.

Last nite I watched Eclipse. I'll review the movie later along with SaTC & KaD.

Last weekend I went to a night zoo. It was a new experience for me . Will write more about it in another post.

Ok lah, I better take a nap. Owh, it's raining. If I can take a half day off, I guess I'd take it. It'll be a pleasure if I could sleep on my bed rite now. But I'm not that sleepy actually. Just have a rest in the lazy afternoon would be good.

Last but not least... nothing, no matter how good or how bad it is, lasts forever. So, hang in there.
;-)

A simple yet an almost perfect holiday, continues...

Ok lah, sambung cerita...

Lepas jalan2, weols went to the convenient shop to buy the coupons for archery, horse riding & go-kart.

Luckily the weather was good. Not so hot. So, kita memanah dulu.

Memanah ni rasa macam buat weight training plak. Kene guna sepenuh tenaga untuk menarik panah tu ke belakang. It wasn't my 1st time playing archery though. Dulu tak pulak rasa macam kene guna sepenuh tenaga. Mungkin panahnya lain. Mula-mula tu memang rasa macam tak mampu je nak habiskan semua 15 anak panah. Tapi bila dah tinggal 4, rasa macam tak cukup pulak.

I got 28 points! Not bad what... :P

Then we moved to the horse riding arena. Nervous gak masa nak panjat naik atas kuda tu. Takut tetiba kuda tu mengamuk ke kan.

Pastu main go-kart pulak. Rasanya lagi syok main go-kart kat Genting. Kat sini, track macam kecik sikit. Nak memotong pun takut. But still fun.

Then weols balik bilik untuk berehat. Hujan pun turun. Lama gak. Tu yang sempat update blog. Dah bosan main internet, baca majalah di koridor pulak.

Nasib baik stok makanan boleh tahan banyak, so takde lah rasa lapar sangat walaupun terpaksa skip lunch. Yang penting, dapat gak luangkan masa bersantai macam ni.

Agak-agak hujan dah berhenti, weols gi restoran untuk mengisi perut. Makan petang + malam.

Aktiviti diteruskan dengan menunggang basikal. Kali terakhir menunggang basikal sewaktu di Jepun, tahun 2004. Nervous gak bila nak menunggang basikal semula ni. Tapi kerana excited, tetap teruskan jugak. Weols berbasikal sampai ke pantai.

Alhamdulillah, takde perkara yang tak diingini berlaku walaupun gear macam tak berfungsi & break tayar belakang memang tak berfungsi pun.

Esoknya, which is the last day of our stay, weols ke pantai untuk mandi laut. Actually, tempat ni tak sesuai untuk mandi laut sebab bahagian laut yang dalam sikit berselut. Tenggelam kaki bila pijak. So sekadar berendam saje lah di tepi pantai. Yang penting, basah gak satu badan.

Lepas mandi laut, balik bilik, siap-siap, apa lagi... breakfast lah! Pas breakfast, jalan-jalan lagi, then balik bilik, rehat, then checked out.

For me, the holiday would be acceptably perfect if there's bath tub & the TV works well. Still, I enjoy myself there.

Another sigh

Another holiday, yet I know it won't reduce my stress level especially when I have a huge pimple scar on my left cheek. Sob.

If cover up your face with a paper bag is considered normal, I would.

Neither I could cover up my face nor stay at home for a month. Ok, ok... stressing up over the acne problem won't do any good. So better learn to accept the imperfection.


But it's ugly! I heard a little voice inside my head said. Sigh.

Love at first sight

My mobile phone dah buruk. There were scratches here & there. Salah sendiri. Mula2 je semangat pakai a book type case. Lama2 rasa impractical - tebal & skrin tertutup. So, without any cover, the phone scratched easily.

Memang berangan nak beli handphone baru. Nak yang Windows Mobile gak since I'm already comfortable with the applications. Tapi tak mau dah HTC. No reason though. When I watched Samsung Omnia commercial on TV, I kinda like it. However, bila tengok life, kurang berkenan pulak. Lagipun berangan jer, tak bercadang pun nak beli dalam masa terdekat ni. Dah sampai Low Yat, saje tengok2.

Ok, to make the story short, when the amoi showed me this mobile phone, I was instantly attracted. It's Windows phone alrite. It comes with a stylus, 8.1Mp camera & sliding keyboard. Most importantly is I like the appearance. Love at first sight (for Windows phone), it is.

Btw, yesterday I received a parcel.

Since this model is not really a hotcake here, I had to order the silicone case (which I think the most practical way to cover my mobile phone) from eBay. It's cheap, just RM10 including shipping. However, I only paid RM3 since I've still got a credit in my Paypal account. Phone ni nak pakai lama, so tak mau calar-balar dah.

A simple yet an almost perfect holiday

Last weekend, I went to PD & stayed at this resort for 2 nights.

1st day, Saturday

We checked in at ~4:00pm. Lots of car since there were at least 2 companies/organizations held an event there. I was glad because the room that we booked was as expected - with a balcony facing the lake.

We took a rest, then went out for a dinner/stock of food. Weols gi pasar malam. I ended up buying lots of food - apam balik, karipap, kek, roti, rangka ayam goreng, kerepek & char kuey teow, sampai tak cukup tangan nak pegang. Luckily I kept a shopping bag in my sling bag. Tu belum air lagi tu.

People were queueing for putu piring. Rupanya, susah gak buat putu piring ni.

2nd day, Sunday

At 8am we went out for breakfast at the resort restaurant.

Not bad pilihan yang ada. Nasi goreng dia sedap. Ada rasa pedas, tak lah mild. Tambah plak ikan bilis yang rangup.

Pastu weols jalan2 sekitar resort.


Jalan2 sampai ke pantai.

Morning glories that grow wild on the ocean shore. My favorite flower!

After exploring the resort, we decided to try out archery, horse riding & go-kart.


To be continued (with more pictures!)...

An outburst

Right at this moment, I'm kinda stressed up with work. Sigh.
Fine, fine... it's my job. Macam tak biasa pulak.
Huhuu.. baru balik bercuti dah stress. Tapi cuti hari tu memang syiok. Thumbs up.
Ok, keje! Kalau dok melayan stress, mau keje pun tak siap. Nanti tambah stress!

Update: Today, I plan nak siapkan keje2 di ofis yang terbengkalai. But I just got a call, suruh turun ke bunker. Sabar je lah.

Through the rain

♫ I can make it through the rain
I can stand up once again
On my own and I know
That I’m strong enough to mend
And every time I feel afraid
I hold tighter to my faith
And I live one more day
And I make it through the rain ♪

Pagi tadi dah memanah, menunggang kuda dan memandu go-kart.
Masa untuk melayan hujan di bilik.
Luckily we have stocked up food in the room. =D

It's Friday...

It's 6:18pm, I'm still in the office, feeling exhausted.

Ok, tomorrow I'll be off for a little 2-nites holiday. I don't feel anything rite now. I just wanna have a good rest before continuing the 'hard' work next week, the week after next week & so on.

Tonite, if it's not raining, I'll go swimming. Ok, I'm looking forward for this activity. It just that I'm not a good swimmer & I'm still afraid to push myself to practice since I experienced a severe muscle pain before.

Ok, got to go now. Signing off from the office. Tata.