China Bowl

Nice to see, nice to hold
Once broken considered sold

Fakta mengenai China Bowl ni. Sekali dah terpecah, boleh digam semua. Namun, bekas retakan itu akan masih jelas kelihatan.

Ramai yang mengaitkan fakta ini dengan persahabatan. Malah ramai juga mengaitkannya dengan hubungan sesama keluarga.

Nota kali ni adalah mengenai keperluan menjaga hubungan kekeluargaan.

Ianya juga mengulas mengenai tindak tanduk yang di buat oleh ahli keluarga di dalam akaun sosial masing-masing yang boleh mencetuskan rasa tidak puas hati di kalangan keluarga.

Baru-baru ini saya membuat tindakan yang drastik. Yang selama ini tidak pernah saya lakukan.

Saya akui, sebagai manusia dan wanita, saya gak tersinggung dengan tindakan mereka yang 'merahsiakan' segala aktiviti mereka yang terkini mahupun status mereka dari saya. Mengapa perlu di reka sekuriti seperti itu? Nampak sangat mereka tidak ikhlas malah merahsiakan sesuatu.

Malas melayan karenah mereka, saya lantas membuat keputusan untuk turut merahsiakan segala aktiviti mahupun status saya dari mereka. Saya pasti mereka hangat memperkatakan tentang saya. Katalah, cercalah. Saya langsung tidak kisah malah saya merasa lega kerana sekurang-kurangnya saya, mahupun mereka tidak perlu membuang masa bercakap sembrono mengenai saya.

Kepada mereka yang terasa, maaflah, to be honest with, you've started it.

Procrastinate

Do you procrastinate in life?

But before I go on with today's topic, what is procrastinate?

For those whose not familiar with this term, procrastinate in my definition is a disease. In fact, it's very dangerous as it could corrupt a person, business or even an organisation.

Procrastinate is also a habit. It's a human behaviour whereby the human will tend to do less productive work such as their everyday job descriptions but concentrates on less productive thing such as attending a meeting without a specified goals and deadlines.

Other example of procrastinate is reading your emails, news and for some their social network page before starting their daily tasks.

In another words, procrastinate is a habit of putting less important things in life before the most important ones.

Well, one might be thinking or perhaps giving this reasons, "I read news, checked my emails early in the morning to know what's happening around me and hence I know what's going on around the globe and also keeping oneself up to date".

I know, I know. As this too is my explanations when I found out that doing the 2 tasks I mentioned earlier falls under the procrastination category.

But, according to Dr. Gina Hiatt (PhD), reading emails and reading news is procrastinating. She suggested that the 2 (reading emails & news) can be done later in the day perhaps before noon. That way, people will be more focus and thus perform tasks better.

I procrastinate. I have this disease. And I'm trying very hard to 'heal' it. On my defends, I said I read emails and news so that I'm warming up to do more challenging tasks later on. But sadly, no matter how hard I tried to defense my reasoning, I still fail to defend it. As deep down my heart, I'm slowly agreeing to the fact that reading emails and news and even the checking my social networks page did falls under the category of procrastinating.

Dr. Gina said, we can warm up by doing simple tasks such as opening the files we're working on. Let our brain flow with ideas and capture all the ideas as much as we can. We can also try to time ourselves by setting a target. Be it, 10 minutes, 30 minutes or 45 minutes. During this time, try to discipline ourselves by ignoring all emails, phone or even people. Fuh, this a lot easier said than done.

InsyaAllah, I will try my best to be a better person. I write this topic simply because I like to share useful info with others. Because I believe sharing is caring.

To those who have similar 'disease' as mine, all the best. Let's try to improve our lifestyle and become a better person.

Fara da Diva. ahaks

Yang remeh dan yang temeh

As me and husband drove to work this morning, the DJ of the Sinar FM played this song by Pak Pandir. It's been ages since we last heard of it. The melody of the song although seems to be so simple and repetitious, the meaning however is very powerful.

I said to my husband, hunny, this bit of the lyrics meant those who accept bribery. He nodded, agreeing to what I've said. And if you listen carefully, at certain bit of the song's lyrics, it highlighted the needs for us people to use your own judgment and not based on only your knowledge but also your faith and life principle.

It touches my soul and I suddenly feel so ashamed that I do not have a principle in life. I was soo bogged down with everyday routines that I forget to reflect on the importance of 'enjoying life responsibly'.

Additionally, just last night I came across a talk show by Prof Dr Muhaya at Astro Oasis. She inspires me about the need to think about positive things as it made the body more energetic and thus making one a healthy person. She also made me think about my life and the needs to contemplate and reflects on my principle and beliefs.

The 2 incidents stirs my soul and I am surprised that I tend to be more positive and I look at thing from another perspective starting from last night. I hope this emotions and energy stays and I hope to be a better person that manage to simplify challenges in life and respond positively towards negative things in life.

Enough said, here is the lyrics of Yang Remeh dan Yang Temeh by Pak Pandir. I certainly hope that this song could 'touch' your soul as how it has managed to 'touch' mine.

Fara

Ada mata pandang
Ada telinga dengar
Ada mulut diam
Ada tangan garu
Ada kaki goyang

Ada otak pandai
Ada akal pakai
Ada bijak gadai
Ada mata pejam
Ada mulut kunyah

Yang remeh dan yang temeh
Berlegar di sekelilingmu
Yang remeh dan yang temeh
Berlegar di sekelilingmu
Buatlah..(buatlah..)
Buatlah tak tahu
Buatlah..(buatlah..)
Buatlah tak tahu

Rela jadi tunggul
Rela jadi patung
Tunggu dilelong
Suruh angguk-angguk
Suruh geleng-geleng

Oh puji lah aku
Ampu lah aku
Senang hidupmu
Ada tangan tadah
Ada maruah campak

Yang remeh dan yang temeh
Berlegar di sekelilingmu
Yang remeh dan yang temeh
Berlegar di sekelilingmu
Biarkan..(biarkan..)
Biarkan berlaku
Biarkan..(biarkan..)
Biarkan berlaku

lyrics courtesy from Lirikami

Useful info on Labour Act 1955

As I was reading about the Labour Act 1955, I came across this Sec 60D (1B) EA 1955.

This act is about Medical Leave on Public Holiday. I am sure many of us does not aware about your rights. In this section, it stated that should you fall sick on a declared public holiday and have attained a genuine Medical Leave Certificate from you panel clinic, you could claim your public holiday the following day.

Consequently, should your employer denies your right, you can claim this and they (your employer) could be penalized up to RM10,000.00 should he/she fail to comply under Sec 99A EA 1955.

I hope this info is useful, but don't misused it.

key board

mencuba untuk mengerti

memandang waktu yang berlalu
sayu, keluh, kesah, gundah
memikir hal yang belum sudah
tangan mengapai, kaki tak sampai
termangu jua dalam beleku
ujian tiba meniti liku
waktu menjadi seteru
hendak berpaling hati melenting
maka naluri menjadi benteng
muhasabah jadi kaabah
kerna diri ini pasti
di hujung sabar itu hikmah
tidak disini disana pasti

What January means to me

Another year gone by, new chapter opening. 2010 is here.

One of the busiest months in my life is January. In this month, I have several occasions that involves the close ones in my life. It starts with the opening of new chapter. Which is of course the new year's resolution. Which up until now, is still very difficult to achieve thoroughly. enough said, my new year's resolution is to be able to concentrate on something regarding my career for more than 45 mins. Last year was 40 mins, but believe me, it's very difficult to achieve that it seems.

Other than the new year's resolution are birthday celebrations. I'm very busy in January up to February. Do you want to why?

It starts with my close friends' birthday. Mazrah & Dino, this couple celebrates their birthdays on the exact date! I know, i know, its amazing isn't it?

Then it's my birthday on the 10th followed by ayah's birthday on the 13th. But now, as my circle of friends is growing, Min's (Aminah) birthday falls on the 11th which is the same as my brother-in-law to be Alang and the well famous Malaysian artist, Dato' Siti Nurhaliza.

And then, in February, my mama was born 63 years ago on the 2nd. Mama, Ayah and Abah were all born in 1947. Abah (which is my father in law) was born on the 23rd February.

Me and the clique (my hubby, fizan, maya & abg long) managed to throw a surprise birthday party for Maz & Dino. We managed to make it a surprise as we've decided to celebrate their birthday 2 days earlier, reason being it was weekend.

So, we gathered that night at my house and invite Mazrah over to discuss something. When they came in, Fizan sprayed water to both of them while Maya throws paper cuttings all over them. But Dino managed to escape from it.

Well, here are some photos of the surprise party.

Love you guys, alwiz.

Mummy Zara

Boxing Day @ UK 09

Salam all,

After a few days away from home, I've finally back at Lufbra, home sweet home.... Well, at least for a few more months. And back to reality
where dozens of tasks awaits to be completed. *tsk* Not much of bargain this year, blame it to the recession.

Well, it's not the shopping or the boxing I like to mention, but the experience of shopping this year where I met lots of malays out there. The numbers almost doubled this year. It maybe because the location wise (this year we went South) or perhaps, thanks to AirAsia that everyone can fly...

From my observation, some of the malays I've met are quite snobbish. I don't see any reason why they choose to ignore the smiles given. Hey, I don't expect to have a lengthy conversation or a cup of coffee. All I ask was to smile back when I smiled at you. I did remember once, that a frined of mine tole me that smile is infectious, once you smile to a person the person will definately smile back at you. But this never happen to me when I met this family back at Bicester Village. Ironically, this malaysian malay family sat near our tables at a coffee house while waiting for the shops to be open.

Or perhaps, it the place I went (clearly, Bicester Village is not my standard as the price range of the items sold are very expensive, or must I say it's totally a different league to me).

Not long after this rich malaysian family enters the coffee house and sat literally just behind us, an english lady came with a small baby boy and another two of her family members. She asked if she could sit next to me and park her stroller next to mine. I of course allow her to sit as it is a public area. This lady later asked some questions and not long after we're having a nice conversations. You know, it's about the weather, basically the default topic when you're talking to a stranger.

Ironically, while we're having the conversation, this rich malay family were listening intensively to our conversation. There you go, you (this rich malaysian family) should be really ashamed of yourself. Even a total stranger from a different nationalities aren't snobbish.

The thing is, I later on went to London Malaysian Hall for a meeting. There, I've met many other malay Malaysians who were there for many reasons. Some even came from Malaysia to do their shoppings and on their holidays. And again, from my observations, some of them are filthy rich but they aren't proud of themselves. I respect this kind of people, they are humble and down to earth. Put simply, I don't like people who judge other people by how they're dress or what they wear (believe me this person mentioned branded names like Gucci etc and yet ended up at Clarks shopping). Why can't ypu treat people equally? Hhhmm, I forgot, that's human nature.

Enough said, I feel really proud knowing that our malays are getting better economic wise where we can afford to travel overseas just to do some shoppings. I remember sometime in the eighties where there hardly any malays who could afford a domestic flight tickets but now, pheww, people are travelling overseas. Way to go malaysians. ;)