Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan

Sms from my friends wishing Selamat Menyambut Ramadhan:

Jadikan Al-Quran penawar hati.. Zikrullah sbg penghibur hati.. Solat sbg pelindng diri.. takwa sbg baja dlm taman hati & RAMADHAN tahun ini penuh bererti. Slmt bpuasa - An

Ahlan Wasahlan wa Marhaban ya Ramadhan… Ya Allah di bulan yang penuh Barakah, Rahmat & Maghfirah, kau berkatilah dirinya, Limpahkn Rezki-Mu kpdnya, Bahagiakn ia & keluarganya. Mudahkn urusanya. Trimalah Ibadahnya serta Ampuni segala dosanya. Amin.
SELAMAT MENYEMPURNAKAN IBADAH PUASA - Nhidayah

Di dalam kerendahan HATI, ada ketinggian BUDI, dlm kemiskinan HARTA, ada kekayaan JIWA. dlm PENYUDAH SYAABAN ada PENYERI RAMADHAN, Salam Ramadhan Almubarak - Mali

‘Jika doamu dmakbulkn, tnda Allah menyayangimu, jika doamu lmbt dimkbulkn tnda Allah ingin mengujimu, jika doamu tidak dmkbulkn tnda Allah mrancang yg terbaik utkmu..’ Mohon maaf sekiranya ada kesilapan & perkara yg menguris hati. Salam ramadhan.. Slmt menunaikan ibadah puasa dan tarawikh. -Fara

Selamat menyambut Ramadhan kepada semua… jgn lupa puasa… dan bayar zakat kerana kedua2nya rukun Islam.

uitm visit 4 August 08

uitm visit 4 August 08

visit my photostream at flickr.

jadi host kepada rombongan pelajar.

kadangkala dakwat idea tidak menitis, cuma…

Awan-awan yang terapung - ia menjanjikan hujan yang baik, tapi tidak pernah tumpah di bumi yang kemarau  

kata A. Samad Said.  

Well sometimes we have have this situation where the great ideas floating in our mind are not the immediate choice and gets translated to texted words. Instead anger and hate dominates and aggregates into bursts of rants overcoming the greatness of the intellectual mind.

The cognitive process is although simple in concept but in life it is difficult to be realized. To make intangible clouds into solid words is quite a deterrent factor for me right now.

Ada banyak bual bicara rancak yang boleh ditulis seperti politik merapu sekarang, harga minyak yang menyebabkan poketku kempis tetapi aku tak punya titisan dakwat idea yang berterusan untuk menjadikannya bahan tatapan berguna disini. 

Semuanya tak cukup hangat ditulis pada waktu sekarang melainkan the urge to share my frustration of work. 

I have this shitty environment in the office where old habits is passed on to generations and became a bad mould for the attitude and professionalism of public service. To cut short It deteriorates the workers productivity. At some point I think i was wrongly informed that the best talent is chosen during the intake process of the so called public servants. In reality sometimes the chosen apple is the best among the worst.

I say a-t-t-i-t-u-d-e is among the biggest hurdle for good governance of public service  administration. Bukan sahaja untuk satu kelompok kumpulan pekerja tapi hingga beberapa lapisan kumpulan. There are people who have this attitude thinking they are great but in reality they are a bunch of katak bawah tempurung. bak kata orang its Bodoh sombong dan benarlah bahawa ignorence is bliss.

I say it is becoz some never experienced a challenging environment, spoiled and sheltered under the comfortable zone of public service. Habis belajar terus apply keja gomen lepas tu dah dapat ikut perangai orang2 sekeliling yang tak elok2 belaka.

Thats why people label this line of work as a a low risk and low reward job. Low risk sebab tidak perlu buat pembaharuan, cuma biasakan dengan amalan kerja yang lama dan tidak wujud ingin menambah nilai dalam setiap tugasan yang diberi. Low reward sebab takde produktiviti maka tidak lah ada reward yang sepatutnya.

Kadang2 aku terfikir buat apa datang kerja dan in the end of the day tak buat apa2 melainkan jadi ahli mesyuarat tingkap, baca bhn bercetak tak berkaitan dengan kerja (majalah/katalog etc),  melepak di cubicle orang lain/kafe dan cukup masa punch berambus balik. It is a waste of resource. Kalaupun takde kerja bos bagi ada pelbagai perkara boleh dibuat cthnya. seperti self development. Kalau ada kerja bos bagi pun buatnya macam pakai kaki dan boleh lihat hasilnya dari pemikiran yang pikir pakai kepala lutut.

Untuk yang berusaha, kegigihan berusaha itu mudah untuk diperhatikan, dan ruang untuk memperbaiki hasil kerja sentiasa ada.  Empayar Rom tidak dibina dalam masa sehari tetapi dibangunkan dengan keazaman dan kegigihan. Untuk yang malas baik berenti ramai lagi yang takde kerja kat luar sana.

Sesungguhnya Allah suka kepada orang yang bila bekerja, dia bekerja dengan bersungguh-sungguh.

Itulah kadangkala dakwat idea tidak menitis, cuma yang ada hanya lontaran protes lantang tentang perkara remeh di pejabat. Nak mengkritik adalah sesuatu yang senang (macam apa aku tulis hari ini) tetapi it is a good therapy.

Better to air your thoughts than live miserable swallowing reality to oneself.

sudden increase of visitors

This couple of month i notice a sudden surge of traffic to this blog. Looking at the log i found out that there are a lot of people searching for my name but not for me. Thank god.

Thanks to the Malaysia politics fiasco especially to the 2 persons whose names i won’t mention (coz it will draw unnecessary attention to this space).

For those looking for Mr. you know who… this is not the place. Please check your spelling twice when typing the search field at google or yahoo coz the perpetrator’s name differs from mine.

Your truly,

Iklan tidak berbayar - Aleenn’s Cake

Iklan skit.

Kepada sesiapa yang berminat untuk mendapatkan kek dan pastry moden dan sedap banget, boleh la dapatkan daripada Aleenn.

Untuk sampel kek, silalah kunjungi http://www.flickr.com/photos/aleenns. Untuk tempah sila hubungi 019-3366285 or 03-27138725.

Kek perkahwinan, kek bertingkat-tingkat, muffins, kek majlis harijadi, semua ada. Majlis anda akan jadi perbualan tetamu dan kawan-kawan. 

cek mek molek singers

Here’s a pic of ijam. We went for a night out. Karaoke. Lagu rasmi cek mek molek by M. Daud Kilau. For the record we went to a decent place, where friends and families hangout and sing their heart out.

Singing is a good way of releasing stress. I got bitten by the singing bug while working at NIOSH. Waktu tu, semua orang kena tahu nyanyi, even waktu interview pun panel tanya boleh nyanyi tak. Hehehe, i find ability to sing is a common denominator for public relations to all working people. You have to have the guts to hold the mic and sing to the public. The cold feet type will simply avoid the limelight. Thus, singing is a simple indicator on how the person will perform when facing customers.

Sepi The Movie

 Watched Sepi the movie yesterday. 1220pm show at Alamanda. Got the best seats @ F15 and F16. Fara temankan pegi tgk. As expected it was a great movie. Good selection of casts. Great filmography. Amazing soundtracks. Yang tak best tgh2 movie tetiba screen gelap. Dengar bunyi jer. Bodoh betul GSC Alamanda.  Ada laa dlm 3 minit gelap. Watched Cinta and since then got hooked to khabir’s movies. I heard there will be a third movie from him. Looking forward to that.

aku hampir langgar orang

750pm on PLUS highway balik daripada pejabat, ada sebuah motosikal tetiba berenti kat lorong paling kanan (fastlane). Nasib baik aku sempat elak. Terasa keta macam nak terbalik tadi nasib baik la tak terbabas. Tak tahu laa nasib budak tu dengan kenderaan dari belakang yang lain. Umur panjang kut.

series of unfortunate events thanks to ‘first class work culture’

Last week when i was attending a retreat in Subang, i was called upon to attend a seminar on behalf of someone who couldn’t give the commitment to attend on time. The seminar was scheduled on the last day of our retreat programme. Being thankful of the offer, i agreed. But i clearly said that i will participate after my programme had ended, in other words i will be missing the first 4 hours of the seminar.

On the last day of the retreat, as i was rushing to go back to my office in jalan Damansara to send-in a few things and then straight to Bukit Bintang to attend the short notice event, i received a call informing that my place was already taken by a higher ranked officer whom i supposed to fill in after she had failed to confirm her attendance the day before. They apologized for the inconvenience.

I was not disappointed, but felt tired (coz i did rush to get all things settled before i can join the so called seminar invitation). I went straight back home. After all, me and my colleague went to bed late every night during the retreat just to finish the work and presented the material we made the next day.

Today, the same event happened. My 4 days course was cancelled at the very last minute; while i am already at the reception to check-in. What a waste of time and money.

Although the venue is in Bukit Bintang, the same place as the previous cancelled seminar, i had to spend my sunday afternoon traveling into the city center, not to mention cancelling a few plan for next week only to find out i was there for nothing.

I’m currently pissed irritated of the so called professional behaviour of the organizer (i swear i will do everything in my power to black list this training provider) and of course seek an explanation from the ‘high authorities’ who planned this course. They of course, apologizes for the inconvenience caused. Yeah apologize my ass.

Reached home somewhere around 4pm.

The bottomline is i’m not giving in to these people who cause me all the troubles twice. Sekali bleh la maaf, dua kali tu baik hati sangat. Cuma aku tak la naik angin dalam telefon tadi. I’m not the type who will easily blow my top off. Just that i’m not the forgiving type. Dalam kehidupan ni, beruntung kalau sekali buat silap orang maafkan, untuk dapat peluang kali kedua tu jarang-jarang…

Almost a year now

This is one of my favorite picture. Haven’t got time to actually print and frame it. Hmm almost a year now…