It's friday friday friday (sing it!)

My column's not working. (sorry chemistry stuff, and no I can't make another one cause I won't be able to finish it by 6pm)

So there goes my day well spent.

At 10 am in the morning.

Bored@work....

Blogging at work..danger danger.

I don't normally do this. Blogging at work I mean. But hey, there's only 4 of us, in the whooolee building. There's like ..I don't know, 3 or 4 companies working under the same building but somehow mine is the only one running.Boo..

Look at those empty parking spaces! I can park whichever way I like, tadakk dah nak scratch keta langgar sapa2, god knows how loser i am at parking my car.

So to keep my spirit up and stay optimistic (see, I'm making an effort), let me tell you 10 cool things bout my job. Scratch that.(I'm a noob, I don't know how to scratch a word in blogger? How do you do that? literally put a line on top of a word?). Let be modest and make it 5 instead (actually, I don't think I'll be able to list more than 5).

No. 1 :
No dress code...wohoo...pakai kain pelikat pun boley...You see, I always have this image of Msia where we have to wear formal clothes to work (except probably in those companies where they have casual fridays)...but here, it's friday everyday!. So no slacks, no blouse, no baju batik necessary (u can even wear 'clothes that poke eyes'...eheh..xbaik xbaik..). Come as you may..huhu...

No. 2 : I have no exact number of annual leaves. Ok emm, how's that a cool thing? I'm the only one with this weird position where I'm not an employee yet I'm somehow required to do some employee stuffs (and be exempted from other stuffs as well). The cool thing about it is that, it also means my holidays are unlimited (or limited depending on how you see it). So it's like I would inform my boss of my leaves rather than actually applying for leaves. Cause it seems like I don't have anyone to apply my leaves from. My boss is not exactly my boss. I call her my boss but she's not exactly entitled to give me any leave. (I avoid thinking bout it cause it's rather complicated to explain)

No. 3 : We're away from the city. Again, how's that supposed to be a cool thing? I think I like working in a less crowded place. It gives me a piece of mind while I work. The sound of cricket (actually there's a machine in our lab that sounds like cricket) and the slow hum of fume hood, they're music to my ears (ok I still wish there's a radio though).... You can't even hear the traffic outside, or the loud music blasting off from shopping complexes. We're pretty much isolated but hey the city is just 10 min away (by car of course).

No. 4 : I'm greeted by tiny zebra fishes everyday. They're our pet. And we love them..mMUahhHA..Seriously, it's cool to have aquariums..those would be the first thing you see when you enter our lab.

Meet bedah, eton, maimon, salehah, zakaria, ali baba...etc etc

No. 5 : The people here are cool. That's the least I could say because I've only been working for a month (almost!). They could be categorized as easy-going peeps. There was one time at a restaurant where we usually eat, a colleague asked the cashier if he wouldn't give us anything for free. The cashier said "Alright, it's friday, go ahead and take the watermelon (sliced ones of course)." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, yeah, go ahead"....When the rest of us reached the car, he (as in my colleague) gave each one of us a slice of papaya.


Huh??? How could he mistaken watermelon and papaya?? *Slap heads* We couldn't stop laughing until we got back to work.

Poor guy, the joke was on him till today...

No money no life?

Do you have any idea on what kind of activities that you can do with your friends that don't require any money? I mean even stepping out need money ; transport money (contoh naik keta kena minyak, pastu nak parking kena bayar tiket), food, movie, etc etc. My friends are so...erm, money saver that I think I'm turning into them as well. Who knew I'm poorer working than when I was a student.


Okay, if you suggest going to the park, err...kalau dengan laki, nanti org ingat dating pulak..mulalah fitnah situ fitnah sini kan? pompuan2 sekarang pun sama jek...semua takmo gi park, apa park takde klas ke? hangout sorang2 takut, byk pickpockets...simbah asid sana, simbah asid sini..dia bawak acid org bawak alkali baru tahu..kat lab tu byk jek..(sorry, no translation given, google on your own)

karaoke? money
Skating? money
movie? money
art class? language class? money money


i mean seriously, why is it so hard to just walk out and hangout somewhere? I remembered back then in Bradford,  I used to just walk to the city centre and talk for hours with my friend in front of the city hall, watching people play skate boardings, parents walking with their children and dogs, even youngsters just lie down on the green grass building castles in the sky.


Here?


What's up malaysians??


ok, dok umah, muhasabah diri...tgk rancangan agama lagi baik kan? amin amin amin

Unclutter your life

Months and months ago, I begged and pleaded my mom to buy me a shelf. Told her I needed a place to keep my books and files. She said "Nak beli nanti kena pasang sendiri.Sapa lagi yang nak pasangkan?" (Translation : If you want to buy a shelf, you'll need to install it yourself. Who else is going to do it?).

I told her I don't care, I'll do it myself if I have to.

So after much struggle in putting the heavy woods in the car and me carrying the wooden shelf piece by piece up the stairs, I started on 'building' my shelf.

You've got to admit, it's a big ambition for such a tiny lady. In my head I felt like I'm rebelling and it felt good cause they (as in my parents) always think such things are a hassle in life. Keja apa yang senang kat dunia nih? Haih...(What kind of work is easy in this world?)

So without a single help from my old ones (except for their money.hehe), I build my shelf from scratch. I nailed piece by piece together and even turn the heavy shelf upside down (cause apparently I build it downside up) all on my own.

 

 

 

 

Ehem, mind the messiness...

 

One block for lomo display...hooyeahhh...

Who says a small lady can't do a big man's job?

Uncle chot

20th of January 2012, my dearest uncle passed away.


Dengan wajah yang tenang, seolah-olah sedang tidur, kami meratapi pemergiannya. Dialah penghibur dan dialah nadi kami sekeluarga. Semoga Allah merahmati rohnya...

'.....Selamat tinggal saudaraku untuk selama-lamanya. Ingatlah wahai saudaraku, apabila ditanya malaikat, siapa tuhanmu  dan siapa nabimu, jawablah tanpa getar kerana malaikat juga makhluk Allah. Jawabla Allah tuhanku, Muhammad nabiku, Baitullah kiblatku dan Islam agama ku....'

Al-fatihah.

It's better ignored

When no one knows and no one cares, sometimes (despite everything) it's a good thing.

It saves u from a whole lot of embarassement.

Now the only thing I have to focus on, is stop being embarrassed to ......no one (cause no one knows.duh).

Pfft.

Everything happens for a reason

About 4 months ago, I went for an overnight trip to Edinburgh with a french friend. At the Edinburgh castle, there was a photo exhibition exhibiting photos (duh?) of poor souls, starving children, and wars victims.

Then I said to my friend "if I were to be behind the camera, I would never be able to take these photos. I'll be too sad and too stunned to even do anything."

And then she answered "That's why they are the photographers..because they capture moments and immortalized them so that we would feel what they feel."

I fell silent.She was right.I could never be like these amazing photographers.

Ok, I don't know why I was thinking bout it.

Erm, jumping to another subject. Yesterday night my grandfather's sister passed away. I went to the same school as her daughters and even though we might not be super close to each other, I would still like to extend my deepest condolence to their family.

I was holding back my tears when my grandfather started crying looking at her motionless sister. Two loss in 6 months were a lot to handle for him. He must stay strong. He must.

I skipped work today and luckily I get to visit my grandmother's grave as well. Silently I told her "I'm back mama and I miss u".

Al-fatihah.

Ishh

IIIIShhh, benci gile org yg x reply message. Don lar leave ppl hanging like that.


Even if you refuse to answer, say la u're bz ke, u can't reply at the moment ke or worst come to worst, say u don't want to talk to me anymore. At least that clear things up.


Don't lah senyap jep...Have some manners and don't give other ppl a reason to hate u.


Sorry, nak melepaskan ketidakpuasan hati. Sapa kan lagi nak dgr kalau bukan u bloggie?