Sahur with my dad...

4.50 am: I was woken up not by my dad but by kids on motorcycles yelling Sahur!! Sahur!!
For the first time in days I  woke up by myself. Well mostly I got up to pee. Then I will monitor my dad reheat my mom's cooking for sahur.... while I wait (I'm so helpful ... I know)

It has been a while since I write or read anything worth reading.. I always wanted to write but usually would succumb to kesibukan atau laziness. Nampaknya I decided to write dalam bulan ramadhan...  I forgot It was like to do what I like to do.. to write what I like to write, to read what I like to read... I guess that is the price being a final year student...tapi lepas ni dah tak jadi final year student dah once I've submitted my dissertation (which I am still procrastinating to finish up). Is it weird that I want to finish this as quickly as possible.. tapi rasa sedikit sedih that I'm finishing my degree?

" Tu budak2 je tu kacau tu. Dah lah banyak kaum"
I didn't think they are hooligans at first.. tapi I guess what he said kind of make sense. I wish my dad would said a lot more to me.. bukan mase sahur je but like on a daily basis... because when my mom is at school.. there's really nothing to talk about. It feels kind of awkward...

my cat at 5.20 am

That sahur ends with my cat mengada with my dad and have a "sahur" session of his own

menulis pasal Tetra-amelia syndrome

my definition: bila org tu lahir tanpa kedua-dua tangan dan kedua-dua kaki...
                cause: mutation inWNT3 gene
    what's left: the torso and the head

Antara those yg dilahirkan sedimikian: Nick Vujicic a Serbian Australian, a motivational speaker.... now married, and expecting his first child.

 

He has no arms and no legs tapi masih boleh swim, cook, pick up the phone, shave, type and do things normal people can do. Heck I have all four limbs, sampai hari ni I still can't swim. He's optimism  to be able to live an independent life  has become an inspiration  to a lot of  people to go through life.

Tapi, he didn't always use to be so positive and optimistic, in fact when he was a kid he did try to kill himself because of all the taunting he had to endure. And then as he got  older, he started his non-profit organization 'Life without limbs' founded to motivate people who fell when facing challenges and obstacles to get up again, just like he does every time he falls.

So in this piece I would like to emphasize I am extremely in awe, of his positivity, instead of complaining not to be able to do stuff, he will find new ways to do it. Which is the opposite of what I'll always do....He also that you can't blame the way you are born, because simply that is how you are born, you have to live with it one way or another.

The reason for this piece is because: I temporarily lost the use of my right hand, due to my own recklessness (my dad  kept saying I slipped on a banana peel, which is so not true) last two weeks, and it became a struggle. everything needs  a strategy: to open the door, to unzip my bag (which I successfully did using my teeth), to undo my clothes,till today I still can't hook/unhook my bra.  The first time I put on my pj's that night I yelled out a 'YEAY' after I succesfully pull my arm out of the arm hole.

And then I realized, I take so many things for granted. It's human I supposed, bila benda dah hilang baru rasa how much we need it...

It's not the big things that is hard I supposed, its the littlest things like masa nak potong kuku (that was difficult) and when I try to put on the seat belt too,  that was almost impossible...

So the lesson here is not to take things for granted, do what you have to do NOW (it is kind of like sembahyang sebelum disembahyangkan,  wah poyonya eden) sebab you never know when God wants to take something away  from you... plus if a person without limbs can do what he loves to do what's stopping you from doing what YOU love to do?

bila different generations collide?

Yesterday, I went to my dad's kebun getah... its new, so this is the first time I visited it.
So there was my nenek,
my dad,
me
and my cousin. she's like a younger clone of myself but chubbier and much more stubborn than I was during her age. Simply put, she is like a 4  year old resurrected me..

So there's like 3 or 4 generations there.My cousin is young enough,  she's so young that I am old enough to be her (very hot and young) mother.
While, we were walking I wish my dad  would do a lot more activities together, like watching tv for example (btw he watches tv dalam bilik)... tak payah tunggu gi kebun...

But, of course I'll never say it out loud, I guess I'll take what I have.
Instead I was teaching my cousin this:
do not say 'aku' or' oii', dekat nenek, or anyone older, say SAYA instead
'kamu' is not a kata ganti diri pertama again say SA-YYY-AAA......
really... what is becoming of Malaysian younger generations?
(I am sounding more and more like a 50- year old )

Thing I learned from granny yesterday: she showed me a tapak kaki babi hutan yesterday. Now I know, babi hutan ade two toes...

pic sekadar hiasan semata-semata (but a true pic of wild boar foot print nonetheless)

I Bid you farewell 2012, Selamat Datang 2013

Takde yg heavy-heavy just nak share video fireworks 2013, pemandangan dari Kolej Mawar UiTM Shah Alam.  Kalo notice ade sound of college girls in awe of the colorful scenery. 

(pemandangan sikit terhalang oleh tangki air UiTM)

lend me a hand??? people 101 (2)

The train is  my favourite mode of public transport ever untuk balik Tampin.

Jadi there will be times that I spend dekat KL Sentral,waiting for my train to depart. And I like it there. Mcm shopping mall pun ade KL sentral tu.

As you know there are like tons of people there.Tourists, workers,  foreigners, locals  and macam-macam lagi kan?

I guess what I am trying to bring up in these post is Courteous Malaysians... where are you?

Sebab there  were a few incidences where I hope my fellow Malaysians would help, tapi usually those who would offer me assistance are the non Malaysians.

1)Masa tgh angkat beg berat gila nak naik KLsentral tu foreigner yg offer untuk tolong angkat beg tu (masa tu tgh revision week, nak balik study konon...jadi banyak buku)

2) The same masa nak balik KL, foreigner yg angkatkan beg.

3) Just recently, masa nak letak bag kat overhead compartment kat dalam train, a caucasian guy helped me to push my bag up.

4) When I asked a Malaysian guy for assistance to do the same thing, siap boleh cakap lagi "Batu ke apa dalam bag ni?" (laptop antik kan berat lah sikit)

 

I think this is what I see a lot in Malaysia, dalam buses contohnya, those yg offer seats kat  elderly women, will be foreigners.

Tapi I guess, bukan salah Malaysians agaknya, mungkin takut dianiaya bila tolong org... mcm yg kita selalu dengar kat berita tu... dadah ada dalam beg and such.

Tapi kalau org Malaysia takut ditipu, foreigners pun must feel the same way kan sebab diorg pun manusia jugak kan?
Tapi foreigners  boleh pulak tolong org di Malaysia  kan biarpun ini bukan negara mereka ? dan org yg ditolong bukan rakyat mereka sendiri?

Jadi kalau  foreigners boleh tolong org Malaysia apa yg menghalang rakyat Malaysia dari menolong org Malaysia sendiri?

 I guess, I am asking where are the Courteous Malaysians? yg  Like those yg disiarkan kat tv. Yg I see are a lot of  Malaysians yg cepat menghakimi org berdasarkan org punya pakaian and physical appearances.

I am not saying I am better human being, I am just seorang anak muda yg sedang belajar everyday in hope to be a better person in many years to come.

Man, susahnya menulis pasal a serious issue...

life lessons 2012: feedbacks, cara terima

Salam semua, moga dalam keadaan sihat sejahtera hendaknya. Dalam beberapa hari lagi kita akan masuk tahun baru, that is the year 2013. Hence, the new look... (chewah!!!)

I gotta say, tahun ni I have gathered  a lot of knowledge about people and life. Hopefully, bila dah banyak buat kerja dan belajar ni my face takdelah macam baby sgt. Because that is what I  have gathered from the people I worked with, I look too naive and my behaviour agak jujur (dalam kata lain agak lurus bendul). You know kata-kata tu doa if they keep saying I look naive, I will forever look naive kan?

mcm ni ke rupa saya? Comelnya...

But then again,I like my look, tapi I want my look to be accompanied by  level of maturity  yg org tak sangka ada kat she who looks  'jujur' ni.

So regarding feedbacks, I've got lots of them regarding my event. Well these feedbacks I guess I can call them constructive criticisms.

1) Dari paksu
Dari gaya Paksu cakap, I thought he was going to complement the emcee but this is what he mentioned instead:
- emcee seksi, (she was bidan terjun at the time)
-dia patut tahu how to introduce speaker (since she is a student of mescomm faculty) but I guess she didn't know how to do that
masa tu I wasn't there (sebab nak ambik cawan)
-jgn buat event selepas tiga event berturut-turut (had no choice, that was the only date available) sebab tulah semua org nampak lemau, (I am myself surprise that I didn't get sick)

that was certainly unexpected... :|

2) Dari president
-again emcee seksi, pretty much it (dia laki kan so...)

3)Dari mantan setiausaha
-best program!!!!, buat lagi boleh?
sayang bee, ;)

4) Dari bendahari program
'RAD,jangan sesekali ko tunjuk dekat caterer budget kita lagi ok?!!!'

So what to do with these feedbacks? Well mula-mula rasa pelik dan sedikit stress org komplen banyak-banyak (rasa mcm kena kutuk) I guess now I'm quite okay with it and belajar supaya x buat these mistakes and buat event yg lebih baik lagi di masa hadapan

terasa statement aku sendiri sungguh cliche...

So bagi seseorang yg kosong  terus jadi event manager rasanya I did alright with a few flaws here and there kan ? I sure hope so... Aminnnn and thank you  God.

life lessons 2012: people 101

I've been watching a lot of videos on you tube  lately that I haven't been reading or writing a lot, so having a  a really difficult time to start off this post.

Today is the 28th of December , I carried out my event on the 18th of November. Although it was small and the event name indicated it was going to be boring (although I can assure you it wasn't) it turned out to be pretty well.

some othose attended the event

One thing I did learn was that, event management walaupun dalam sekecik-kecik event, there are a lot things that goes on dekat belakang tabir. That was a very important lesson. Which reminded me not to ever  mengumpat, mengomplen (wujudkah perkataan tersebut)  pasal org punya event sesuka hati.

I guess this taught me untuk  lebih respect event management business ( dah buat, baru tau bukan senang) dan lebih menghargai  events yg UiTM set up kan

The second would be, is I have learnt  to WORK  with people ( selama ni aku kerja dengan monkeys kah). When you work with PEOPLE, it mengajar kau how to be a part of your subordinates and still conduct them. This a skill I yet have to master, sebab hari tu ade my KEFAJAR peers yg agak garang, I felt like disagreeing, tapi didn't, sebab takut dengan dia. Sedangkan I was project manager KAN?

I also learn to be thankful for those yg AJK dan bukan  AJK  who have helped me out. Either sebab kesian nampak project manager tengah angkat kotak air yg sgt berat @ bertujuan mengusya, apa-apa pun Thank you, you guys, couldn't have done it without you.

All and all what I can say is event that  I would regard as my training wheel, dah selesai. So now I can move on to larger and more meaningful things: trip to THAILAND anyone?