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Been waiting for this since October. Finally received the invitation for the ceremony that will be held on Friday 31/1 on Thursday morning, London time. So of course I couldn't attend the ceremony since I was  in London.

Takpe lah, tak penting pun majlis penyampaian ke apa. Yang penting, alhamdulillah dah sah. Tarikh surat 14/1... Tengok how backdated it is. Pun tak pe. Yang penting, alhamdulillah dah sah. 😁💃🏻.

By the way, baru ambil surat ni Selasa lepas. Tu pun nasib baik teringat. ☺️

Actually kalau dapat bulan 12 tahun lepas ke, boleh lah termasuk dalam 2019 highlights. Walaupun dah 2020, kira aci lah ya sebab backdated.

Hello 2020

Let's recap what had happened in 2019.

Alhamdulillah, as I mentioned in my previous post, 2019 has been good to me.

Ok kita mulakan yang tak best dulu.

I had been criticised badly by the top management & students, for 2 different reasons of course.

On my defend, I believe I had delivered a pretty good job. Not excellent maybe, but at least OK. To be honest the criticisms kinda demoralising.

Well I guess it's part of Allah's test to see how patient & positive I am. Cakap memang senang kan... Now it's actually the time to practice what I believe. Always be positive. Tak kisah apa pun orang kata. Be patient. Just do anything for the sake of Allah. Bukan untuk dapatkan penghargaan manusia. So it's ok. Teruskan je buat kerja bersungguh-sungguh & try to deliver the best lillahita'ala. InshaaAllah 💪😁. Most importantly, Allah knows your effort & that's what counts.

Ok lah, tu je nak highlight pasal yang tak best. Both actually regarding to work.

Pasal yang best plak, sambung next post.

Almost end of The Month

Alhamdulillah October is almost over. Not that I'm looking forward for the coming November though.

As I said in the previous post, October is a crazy month, be it personally & work wise. Work-wise, alhamdulillah, the innovation day has over & tomorrow, I need to send my SKT. Talking about the innovation day, we didn't win gold medal. Just managed to win silver, alhamdulillah. The thing is we were only 1 mark behind to win the gold medal 😪. Blame it on the system hardware failed to work during judging session 😖. Everything happens with Allah's will. InshaaAllah, just like one of my project members said, there'll be bigger rezqi for us 😊.

Actually I want to talk about personal stuff that contributes to this month's craziness not work related stuff. I guess I'll continue in the next post. 

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Eh i wrote the above last nite, but forgot to publish it.

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Fierce

Phew lega. It was a fierce competition. I'd say far more different than the last time I entered this competition, which was maybe 3 years ago. Everybody seems confident, every project seems has potential to win gold medal.

Alhamdulillah, I think I have presented quite well. I was not nervous, I managed to delivered as I planned... at the beginning 😬. But then, I think after that, it was not so bad, but not so good either. I wasn't really prepared with all the answers to the judges' questions. I managed to answer, but if I have prepared, I might do better. Might. The worst thing was our system didn't work as we desired 😖😣 even though we have tested it beforehand. Anyway, it's all happen with Allah's will. I'm in a way still kinda positive. I believe in Allah's plan 😊.

I hope after the judging session, I'd feel less tiring. But I guess not. Still I feel so exhausted 😵. I long to sleep earlier but with so many house chores to do, I can't. Rite now, still waiting for the laundry to be finished washing. Then I need to hang all the clothes 😞. Tuesday is a laundry day indeed, nothing I can do about it or else the kids don't have a clean uniform to school. So, maybe l can sleep earlier tomorrow. Or maybe I should just take an emergency leave tomorrow 🤓 & spend the day sleeping 😴💤. 

Tragedi Oktober

It's a very busy month for me. My calendar is full with meetings, courses, due dates & events. Fortunately, the course that has been scheduled on the last week of the month is postponed to December. Fuhh. Lega.

Next week, there'll be Innovation Day at work & I'm the project leader. Got to work harder to ensure the success 💪🏻. Seriously, I'm kinda afraid if I might dissappoint my project members if we lose even though they don't put the pressure on me. But still, as the project leader, I feel responsibled. InshaaAllah. The gold medal will be ours 🏆.

Since, I'll be free on the last week of the month due to the postponed course, if possible I'd like to take a long holiday. I guess cos I'm so tired rite now, but can't even take a day off, I feel that way. Well we'll see. Most importantly, hope I can survive next week. 😌😁

Oh What A Day!

Esok keje. Actually I already planned to take a leave but have to cancel it due to lotsa work at office rite now.

Teringat hari Jumaat yang lalu. I had 3 meetings. The 1st meeting started at 9am & scheduled to be finished at 10:00am. But until 10:30am it still hadn't finish that I had to remind the chairman to adjourn the meeting because we were supposed to have another meeting at 10:30am.

Basically the attendance for the 2nd meeting was the same with the additional of 4 persons & I was the chairman of the 2nd meeting. I though it'd be a simple meeting, just went thru a contract that had been drafted by me. It was Friday where lunch break started at 12:15pm. But my meeting was finished at 1pm! Huhuu... the contract really takes my time & I hate taking other people's time as well. Glad that I have colleagues that are very supportive.

The lunch break was until 2:45pm. Then at 3:30pm, I had another meeting which finished at 5pm.

Before the meetings, I managed to do some works & pump. Thanks to Freestyle ;-).

Those who say that civil servants are not busy are totally wrong. At least me & my colleagues are busy.

Later, at around 5:30pm, I went home, picked up Honey & Iman, & changed to mommy's sleeve.

Tomorrow will be another day. InshaAllah. Semoga dipermudahkan.

Sembang Kerja

Tinggal lebih kurang 1 1/2 bulan lg aku dijangka akan bersalin. Tak sabarnya... pada masa yang sama macam ada kupu2 dalam perut memikirkan kerja2 ofis yang beratur untuk diselesaikan. Tapi eh sempat lagi tulis blog.

Masih menunggu 2 L.O untuk diselesaikan & 1 L.O dalam proses permohonan. Rasanya memang tak sempat diselesaikan sehingga pembayaran. Jadi kene lah handover nanti.

I'm supposed to attend a 1-week meeting at Vienna, Austria on Dec, but since I'll be on maternity leave, I pass the meeting to Saira. Of course Saira has to present the progress of the project so I have to ensure the progress is clear.

Currently I have 1 practical student. His last day of 10-week practical will be this Friday. What a relief. I have no intention to hire a practical student this year but I guess it's no harm to have 1. But still it's a bit time consuming to monitor his work while I have many other things in my mind.

Early October, I'll attend a conference at KL. Initially, I dont want to submit any paper since I don't feel like commuting from here to KL for 3 days. But since I have money to spend on the fee, so I guess I have to. So now I have to write a paper.

Most importantly it's time to work now. It's time to complete all the works as best as I can. For sure I don't want anybody calling me during my maternity leave to discuss about work.

Errr... apasal masih tak semangat nak buat kerja ni???


My current not so messy desk.

~RM130,000 To Spend

Kalau boleh nak kene spend this year jugak or else I might have to wait until March next year to be able to spend the money or more precisely the fund. Hmm but how to spend when the time is very limited. Tinggal ~2 bulan je lagi ni... supplier pun takut barang tak sempat sampai.

Kalau duit sendiri, tak yah nak pening kepala... Hari ni pun boleh habiskan & dapat barangnya.

What's On My Mind?

I guess having 2 courses back to back for 2 weeks which is unrelated to my current projects really affects my working mood. Huh sungguh rasa jammed otak ni.

I should organize a meeting but before that I should be ready with the information that I wanna deliver in the meeting. I know how time is precious... tak mau meeting meleret-leret without clear objectives. Tapi tak tau lah kenapa, otak ni macam beku je. Dalam beku2 tu boleh gak terfikir nak propose a new project tahun depan. Actually I just need money to buy a few stuff. Dah lupakan. I should focus on the current projects.

Tomorrow is Honey's birthday yo! Dah plan tak mau buat apa2 untuk kat taska. But somehow, petang semalam masa amik Honey, boleh plak cikgu Honey mentioned about Honey's birthday. Dah rasa macam tak kene plak kalau takde buat apa2. Tengok lah camna nanti. Sama ada beli kek, prepare goodies or do nothing.

As for us, me & JD we don't plan anything. I kinda busy these days that if possible I just wanna have extra rest. Certainly there'll be no party for Honey.

Takpe nanti bila Honey dah besar, dah pandai mintak, baru mama buat party ok.

Bermimpi

Kan best kalau tak yah gi keje esok, lusa, tulat (tak tau lah betul ke tak perkataan ni...), tulat esok, tulat lusa, tulat tulat... & hari-hari seterusnya. Cuti ada lagi, tapi keje banyak. Acik stressed.

Tetiba teringat budak yang sewakan payung kat Jakarta tempoh hari. Sanggup berhujan untuk mencari rezeki.

Alhamdulillah, aku ada pekerjaan yang tetap, pendapatan pun memuaskan. Semoga aku dapat melaksanakan amanah kerja dengan baik. Aaminn...


Pemandangan waktu pagi di luar hotel ketika di Jakarta minggu lalu.

Hmm... but there's no harm if I take 1 day leave... cuma cuti lah makin susut... huhuu.

Last Day @ Jakarta

Yay! Can't wait to go home. Harap2 flight tak delay.

Besides learning from the workshop, here I also learn other thing... they might be poor, their value of money compare to ours are low but they are rich with hospitalities. If there is evaluation, I'll give the organiser full mark. Basically while I was here, I didn't need to spend any money. They provide everything. Even when we went out for visit/sight-seeing they provided us with mineral water. Or I might be just lucky with the organiser. But I like to think +ve. So they are indeed nice people.


At one of the entrances of the workshop venue.
Mereka juga kreatif mencari rezeki. When I arrived at the airport I felt like I was being bugged by them when they offered help to carry the bag etc. Of course their assistance are not free. But think about it again now, they don't ask much actually. I think 5k rupiah will do which is ~RM1.50. Last night I went to a shopping mall nearby with the Myanmar lady (Cho) accompanied by an Indo girl (Tanty). It was raining by the time we wanted to go back so we needed an umbrella to find a mini bus. Tanty brought her own. Suddenly there was a boy which was already wet carry an umbrealla, so Tanty called the boy & the boy gave the umbrella to me. Me & Cho shared the umbrella while the young boy followed us in the rain. Tanty gave him 4k rupiah. I wanted to give more but Tanty didn't allow me. Poor that young boy. Hope he'll be in good health. It makes me think how rich we are. We would spent so much to eat, but for some even they stayed whole night in the rain, they couldn't afford the single meal that we had. Sekurang-kurangnya mereka ini mencari rezeki yang halal dengan membantu orang lain.

Ok, sampai ketemu lagi...

@Jakarta

Ini je wang Rupiah yang dibawa ke Jakarta...


Even JD says it's so little but since I dont know whether I have the opportunity to shopping, I don't wanna change so much. I hope I have the opportunity but the schedule is packed. Absolutely, there's no way I'll go to Tanah~Abang. The organizer already said that it's far (I'm at the south of Jakarta) & the traffic is bad. So far I haven't go anywhere. To be honest I'm afraid to survey the area on my own.

The hotel...


Here I share the room with a Myanmar lady. Of course I didn't like the idea at 1st. But turns out it's not bad at all. She's nice & not like we have to chat all the time. We just do our own business.

This is the reason why I'm in Jakarta rite now...


This is one of the activities during the workshop...


Basically we learn how to program the microcontroller, the power supply options which one of them is solar energy, the wireless communication & how to integrate all of these into a radiation~monitoring system. The instructors are warm, easy going & they actually expert in their fields. The foods are good. I have to say, Indonesia has been a very good organizer. They even provide dinners even though I.C.T.P has informed us in email that dinners are not provided. They even provide us a bus even though the hotel is very near to the workshop place due to the construction along side of the road. By the way, me & the Myanmar lady are the only female participants.

Last but not least, me!!!



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Hal Keje

Kalau ikutkan mata yang nak terlelap je, memang aku EL hari ini. Sungguh rasa tak larat nak pergi keje. Tapi kugagahi juga.

Hampir pukul 8:30 baru teringat ada kursus. Baru lah nak sapu bedak kat muka. Turned out, rupa2nya kursus tu tangguh 2 minggu lagi.

Dalam mengantuk tu ntah macam mana tetiba datang semangat nak set meeting Rabu ni. Semua ahli kata boleh datang, so meeting on. Baru lah sibuk nak siapkan presentation untuk meeting. Terasa gak sedikit sengal. Sendiri yang set meeting, pastu sendiri yang risau takut tak sempat prepare slide. Patutnya siapkan presentation dulu baru set meeting. Memang dasar suka sangat buat keje last minute.

I just received an email. Nampaknya bulan depan aku akan tinggal Honey lagi. Berat hati sebenarnya tapi nak buat camna, it's an opportunity to learn new things & gain new experience. Kalau last 2 weeks aku tinggalkan Honey for 8 nights... bulan depan 6 malam aje, insyaAllah.

@Delft

I didn't take many pictures... except for the pictures of equipments.

Presentation by Russian on Tuesday...


Each country had to present. Mine was on Monday. There were 17 countries altogether. There were supposed to be 19 but participants from Syria & China couldn't make it. Among the 17 countries, there were 5 other Muslims which were from Algeria, Egypt, Bangladesh, Indonesia & Morocco. Only 2 ladies including me, the other was Canadian.

The hotel...


The rate is ~€80 for a single bedroom. There's no mini bar & aircond. Quite expensive actually. It's summer. Luckily it's not hot. The temperature is ~19°C. So I just keep the window open. It takes 30 minutes (power) walk to the meeting place, yet it's the nearest I think. So all the participants stayes here except the one from Netherlands of course.

The city...



Not so busy & not so many famous label stores. ~15 minutes walk from the hotel. There are canals of course as Netherlands is famous with the canals. It has so many indeed.

Mood Raya: Off

Makin nak raya, makin kurang plak mood beraya. Apa taknya, dalam kepala dok fikir persiapan meeting pada minggu ke2 raya nanti. So kene pastikan semua cukup sebelum cuti raya. Benda yang nak kene print, kene print siap2. Camna nak gi hotel daripada airport, kene kaji. Tetiba boleh terasa sayu plak bila dengar lagu raya sebab semua orang dah takde mood keje, mood raya dah on, aku masih bekerja bersungguh2. Ok, tak baik merungut. Dah ni lah mata pencarian, redha je lah.

Pastu rumah nak kene kemas. Haihhh kalau tak memikirkan my PIL nak datang tolong jaga Honey semasa ketiadaan aku nanti, memang tak ingin kemas rumah. Sib baik ruang tamu JD dah settlekan. But still baju belum berlipat, meja belum dilap & yang paling utama sekali dapur belum dibersihkan. Sounds like a lot of works to me. Langsir pun belum cuci. Macam tak sempat je rasanya nak buat semua tu.

Dah tau keje banyak, sibuk tulis blog. Err tapi kalau dah malam gini baik beribadat lagi2 malam2 terakhir Ramadhan ni. Tak pun, tido :P

Basic...

Apart of my messy office...

Durian Frenzy

Pesta buah kembali lagi. Just like last year...


Tapi tahun ni macam tak berapa sedap duriannya. Aku pun la ni kurang lalu makan kesan dari diarrhea kelmarin.

10 Years!

Just a short entry.

Hari ni genap 10 tahun aku telah bekerja di sini. Even it's basically not my dream job, but still bearable ;-). Most of the time I'd say it's a challenging job since I have to keep up with the current & advanced technology, be innovative & read a lot of papers! This job requires me to never stop learning... have I mention that I need to read a lot of papers? Not just papers, whether technical or fundamental... the reading materials include books, articles & anything related to the projects. Maybe I should use the word 'studying' instead of 'learning' since I actually open the books in order to gain more knowledge & understanding on some topics.

Eh, kata short entry tadi.

*Typing fastly* It can be fun too especially when I got the chance to travel & stay at other countries. However, now since I have Honey, going oversea isn't the thing that I'm looking forward to. Kalau terpaksa, baru apply & pergi unless the period of stay is less than 1 month.

Ok nak sambung study keje...

Crave For A Rainbow

2:50pm, I'm in a conference right now.


As seen in the pic above, so many empty chairs in the hall. It makes me feel obligated to occupy at least one of the chairs. Today is the last day anyway. Tomorrow my routine will be back to normal. Punch in, punch out... 8 to 5.

As usual, meals are provided. So I'm already full now after having free lunch. However somehow tetiba teringin nak makan kek. Not just any cake, but a rainbow-like cake! Terus email the person yang buat birthday cake JD hari tu.


Rainbow~buttercream~cake
Nampak sedap & ceria kan... tak sabar2 nak makan. But insyaAllah next week baru dapat merasa sebab it takes a week to prepare the cake after placing the order.

Haihhhhh, macam2 nak makan. Typically me. Since being on a diet ni, nafsu makan makin meluap2.