Job Interview

I went for a job interview on Monday. At a QS firm. It went quite well. Tapi interviewer taklah buat forensic analysis on my accounting skills. I did make some preparations - from accounting entries, adjusting entries and to the preparation of financial statements. Thank God banyak yang masih ingat walaupun dah lama tak practise (since 2002).

About the interviewer - yeah he looked like a younger version of Jackie Chan. Boleh plak time tu teringat citer Shanghai Noon (recently ada tengok lagi kat HBO), and it was really hard to keep a straight face during the interview. Asyik terbayang, cemanalah kalau aku kata "Howdy, partner?" stail koboi macam dalam citer tu hehehehe..

In the beginning, facial expression dia memang serious. Kira kecut gak la aku tengok muka interviewer tu. Sentap! Dah boleh agak, dia ni jenis professional and direct to the point. "Please sit down" dia cakap. Takde senyum-senyum bagai (jahanam betul.)

Lepas tu, I buat seperti biasalah - tidaklah I nampak takut atau cuak tapi taklah macam over-confident. As the interview progressed, dia makin lama makin friendly. At one point, dia tanya " Are you single or married?" Dengan muka innocent kancil aku jawab "Not married, single" Then he said "Boyfriend?" Laju je aku jawab "Not here, overseas". "Any plan to get married soon?" Aku kata "I really don't know, Sir". Mungkin selalu kena kerja long hours agaknya, sebab itu dia tanya.

I really like that firm punya style. It's totally professional and nampak sangat diaorang semua serious and job-oriented. I mean, dead serious. Interviewer siap kata, in the event of our QSs needing help in technical work, are you willing to learn and assist? I kata la, yes I am, no problem at all. I like to learn new things. Hahahahaha.. yang sebenarnya I memang suka buat benda yang tak ada bersangkut-paut dengan diri I ni i.e. not in my field of training. Kata orang tua-tua sepatah, kalau yang bukan-bukan tu cepat aje dapat.

Kemudian interviewer explain lah tentang firm dia tu.. and after he was finished dia tanya if I have questions about the firm. Lastly dia kata perlu notice ke sebelum mula kerja.. I said I don't need to serve notice but I hope to be given one week before starting my job. Dia kata no problem, sebab mula pun January 2nd. (Masalahnya tuan-tuan sebelum tu dia kata by next week baru tau results dapat ke tak, so I taklah consider yang I dapat).

Sebelum keluar tu, sempat la dia cerita, yang paling penting sekali is not qualification in hiring a candidate. But ATTITUDE. Which is exactly like what Jedi Knight told me. "Attitude comes first. If the attitude sucks, then it will be a big time loss". And I am in complete agreement with that. 100%.

Note : On the way back, seperti biasa hujan mencurah-curah turun. Sempat lagi singgah Bumbu nak beli Laksam sebab tengok Yati makan sangat sedap, dan dah cukai sikit pun. Tapi petang tu Laksam dah habis, hanya tinggal Laksa Johor. Tapi beli je, sebab dah terlalu lapar. Hujan katakan! Apa Bumbu? Nantilah kita citer kemudian... err tapi esok pagi rasanya nak beli Meehoon Goreng kat Bumbu. Nampak macam sedap...

SHAME ON YOU

The funniest thing happened on Sunday. Some of you may know about this one so-called relative of mine, yang dulu dah buat pasal dengan I and kononnya nak fish for influence from other relatives to pulaukan I and ended up being a social outcast-their entire family. And busily using black magic pulak tu....

anyways, these lowest form of life people , they came to my house on Sunday, the cover story being to visit my grandmother yang sedang sakit. (read : diaorang tu sebenarnya dah bosan dan mati kutu hidup dalam buangan, so mulalah nak piggy-back semula on my parents, resources pun dah berkurangan, high time lah nak renew the "family ties" kan)

Lucky for them, I did not get the opportunity to meet them, otherwise I would tell them exactly like what I write in the above bracket. I laughed out loud when I was told of their visit. Datanglah menyerupa wajah apa-apa pun, sekali-kali I tak akan terpedaya, not one split second. NEVER EVER. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Jawapnya Shame On You lah...

Usah Bertinggung Tengah Halaman

Duri Semalu Liar Tumbuhnya
Usah Sekali Salah Tembakan
Iri Cemburu Buruk Padahnya

Anak Seluang Terenang-renang
Teratai Di Kolam Harum Mewangi

Mengadu Domba Sewenang-wenang

Salah Tembakan Diri Terkeji

Usah Berani Bertikam Bicara
Jikalau Lisan Bersulam Dusta
Usah Diri Mereka Cerita
Tiba Masanya Diri Merana

Apa Di Telek Emas Dan Intan
Bukanlah Ia Jadi Ukuran
Apalah Gila Dirimu Tuan

Ludahan Sendiri Jadi Jilatan?

No Idea

tak tahulah apa benda yang dia nak, keeps calling me all the time. there's this one night i nearly burst out laughing. what he did was he actually TRIED to outsmart him. dream on, man. like i said, you can only TRY. on an additional note, be very careful so as not to make yourself look like an idiot in trying to do so.

tak payahlah nak tiru-tiru dia, bukan tandingan! buang masa aje.. i tak hairan sikit pun.

and by the way, just because i entertain your calls, tak bermakna i feel the same. also, stop criticizing him. accept the fact that he is beyond comparison, alright.

I have no idea apa benda juga yang you nak. I'm just playing along. Be very careful.

Baju Raya

Belumpun masuk bulan Ramadhan, Cik Suraya dah sibuk cerita pasal baju raya. Eh mestilah, sebab... orang lain punya dah pun siap, I punya masih dalam bentuk asal seperti di atas. Belum hantar ke tailor pun.

Yang warna merah tu entahlah silk apa entah... yang putih silver tu kononnya I was told it is a Songket Pakistan. Sebelum ni tak tau pun about the existence of Songket Pakistan. Selain daripada Songket Terengganu I pernah dengar Songket Palembang. But not Pakistan. Sebenarnya kan, I nak yang warna pink campur oren tau.. cantik sangat! Walaupun shade dia lembut tapi dia shiny, so sangatlah elegant looking. Tapi tak cukup, kain dia tinggal sikit. So konon nak light yellow lah kan.. PUN DAH HABIS JUGAK! Then adalah this dark blue and turqoise, tapi belek punya belek rasa cam uh-uh gelap sangat (but actually the color was very classy-looking). Akhirnya hentam ambil yang white-silverish tu.

Close-up on the pattern of my Songket Pakistan

I pun tak tahu macamana boleh terfikir nak beli songket. Like I said, I dah confused to the max. My Mom suggested that I get the sutera yang ada batu-batu tu. Tak mau lah. Leceh lagi pun nak jaga. Jalan sana jalan sini itu yang terjumpa songket. Hentamlah hai... Tapi sebenarnya what will happen is, I akan hantar ke tailor kain yang warna merah tu saja. And maybe sepasang kain lain.

Yang songket tu.. uh.. nanti-nantilah hehehe. Tak tergamak nak buat kebaya selagi tak mencapai weight reduction target! That's me, biarlah I pakai baju kurung simple, daripada berkebaya tapi nampak macam orang pakai bush-jacket. Hahahahahahaha... biarlah tak nampak bergaya daripada serabai mabai nak bergaya tak jadi. Fussy? Well, yes. Very, in this sense.

Kerana sebab yang sama jugalah I ada banyak sangat kain ela yang belum menjelma menjadi baju kurung atau kebaya. Kebanyakannya adalah gift from my Dad and Mom. Yang dulu-dulu pun ada lagi. Sayang ooo nak buat baju takut bila dah jadi baju nanti, sakit hati sendiri bila tengok cermin. Hahahahahahahaaha!

Kain Songket Dan Kain Kosong yang masih belum jadi apa-apa...

Kain Songket and my new Songket :)

Yang ni semua tak ingat kain jenis apa, tapi
mesti ada lining sebab jarang..

Some of my batik.. ada batik Indonesia dan
ada batik Terengganu.. pun belum jadi baju.

So, you guys macam mana? Tentu semua dah siap baju raya, kan? Dan mesti banyak dan berwarna warni. Hm, I wonder apa agaknya warna baju raya my Jedi Knight? Dark Red? *wink*

I Think She Is Sick...

Earlier today I was so angry with a longtime friend. Extremely angry was more accurate, indeed. I told her repeatedly, for years, that I do not like to receive emails with horrifying content. Is that so difficult for her to comprehend?

Well, some of you may say this : "apa yang susah sangat, delete ajelah kalau tak nak baca. cakap dengan dia u tak suka". Simple enough. The problem is, this woman is either always that stupid or she did that just to annoy me.

Like today, my YM Mail Notification showed an email from her, so since I was chatting with her via YM, so I asked her directly what the content was. See, I've got this feeling from looking at the title that the content wasn't a pleasant one. She said "tak ada apa tu, tengok aje la.. don't worry la". She sounded so convincing. And I asked her again "betul, tak ada accident or cruelty to animal photos?" (sebab I memang pantang besar tengok benda-benda tu. Bukan takut, but it is such a sickness if you want to watch it deliberately). And she said "takde, bukak je la".Me, thinking that this, coming from a longtime friend, went ahead and read the mail. After taking a glance, I was really angry and annoyed beyond words. WHY?

Because.. the email was about people slaughtering cats.. and cooked them into various dishes. You tell me, how sickly that is.. complete with photos and all. Kemudian dia gelak gelak suka sebab berjaya kenakan I and I did view the photos. And this is not the first time she did this. What a sick thing to do. I love cats. I wouldn't dream to do any harm to cats. Or dogs. Or rabbits. Even as I was driving around the cities, if I pass a narrow road, or any village road, if I see any cats or dogs sitting right in the middle of the road, I will stop my car and either wait for it to move or I will get out of my car to shoo it away.

Last year, my brother accidentally hit my kitten as he was trying to reverse the car. I cried like hell, and felt upset for about a week. You see, I am not a crybaby. It is very, very difficult for anyone to see me shed a tear. Not even when there's someone passing. Never ever.

But I cannot stand to see animals suffer. Or babies. Or the elder citizens.

I am VERY angry with that woman now. So angry that I included her Yahoo ID in my ignore list and banned her email add from my Yahoo Mail. That's what happened if I am really angry at someone. I want NOTHING to do with that person.

I even told her that she was not even a woman, let alone a lady. Sorry to say that, even though she just gave birth to her first child. A woman, by nature, has fine feelings and high level of sensitivity. Especially a woman who has children. And please do not confuse independence with having a psychopatic nature.

Ya, memang I tak takut lah kalau ternampak real life accidents or anything. But that is ternampak. Lain cerita. Tapi, to actually deliberately viewing such emails repeatedly and then forward pula ke orang lain, I think that is a sign of a very disturbed mind. Do you know that if you have the tendency to watch such e-mails.. you know, the kind yang ada gambar accident ngeri.. or cruelty to animals.. if you memang tunggu-tunggu such emails kemudian suka pula nak share dan tunjuk pada orang lain solely for excitement, then you are indeed a very sick person. Because, if the sight of a tragedy excites you, if you love watching human or animals torn apart, then something is realy not right with you. You are sick. You really need help.


Don't get me wrong. I tak marah if it serves as a reminder ke apa. Like emails with photos of accidents.. as a reminder to the road users. Tapi, dia ni memang SENGAJA nak kenakan orang. And what's more, I have warned her so many times, do not do such things to me.

If she's really my friend, she would understand. So now, too late. I don't have to tolerate all those things, herself included.

yang satu itu yang jiwa mahu

"jikalau jiwa inginkan satu, yang satu itu yang jiwa mahu"

I 'borrowed' this lovely phrase from my regal sis a long time ago. This was said by a certain regal someone in a very regal place wholly and exclusively owned by my regal sis. I borrowed this with permission and hereby declare that this be my personal tagline. Meaning to say, someone created this lovely phrase and I borrow it. This is not my original phrase.

But in my case, this phrase is every inch applicable. This is to say that when I do want something, then that thing is the only thing that I want, not more not less. Contrary to some people who said they wanted something and yet 'acquired' another thing. Or creature. Or livestock. See, I am not twisted. I am true to my words.

very meaningful, isn't it? those who know, knows. *wink*

The Body Exchange : Part II

I asked my friend regarding The Body Exchange concept.. well, discussed was more like it.. a wonderful man, aged 45 (not my ex-boyfriend). He admitted that he used to 'play the field' too. But slowed down when he found a steady. Yes, I am certain that he was quite a player in his days. How I envy the girls... hehehe kidding...

So I asked him whether he had an 'occasional sliding' after marriage. He said, that's quite normal, plus it would be accompanied with guilt afterwards. I told him that, in my case, of course, I am prepared to make allowances for 'occasional sliding'. Old habit dies hard, after all (see, i am very cool and understanding). Just that it is difficult for me to comprehend the act of men who keep on doing it even after marriage and children, not to mention collecting sluts. I guess the only possible and plausible explanation would be that it is done as a hobby, a favourite pastime, a habit.

He told me, "There is no such thing as 'hobby' in this matter. If one does it too often, then it is not a hobby, it is a sickness. It could also mean he is having a mid-life crisis "

I was all smiling. I said "but in my case he hasn't even reached the middle age yet. So it must be a whole-life crisis".

Independence Day

" If it makes any difference, I never stop loving you"

Star Movies is currently playing the movie Independence Day - one of my favourites. One of my fav scenes is the last moment of the First Lady at the hospital. Very touching.

Of course, one of the reasons I love this movie so much is because of the President. He resembles that certain someone in many things. *grins* But... I fell in love with this movie long before I met him.

The Body Exchange

as I was driving back home this evening.. i thought of this concept : The Body Exchange. Why, we used to have the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (now Bursa Malaysia), a place for trading shares. So let's talk about another form of exchange here, shall we?

The Body Exchange : Men, especially married men, who are playing the field in full throttle, sleeping around religiously, accumulating mistresses relentlessly, cruising from one girlfriend to another, exposing their wives to STDs. In short, their bodies are like a 'trading' exchange for an endless succession of women (or sluts, depending on the case).These men are not that different from them sex workers (alternate word for h**kers). Ah, but even sex workers do quote a price. They get paid for services rendered. These men, however, along with trading their bodies FOC, they will be the one generously compensating the sluts they are sleeping with. Money, property, gifts - all acceptable.

Appealing, isn't it? Freely available plus money and property and gifts. Verry irresistible package.

Many, many blissful years ago, the higher the education of the bride-to-be, the larger the figures of the hantaran for her. But hello, these days the going trend is : the richer the man, the more obscene the amount of hantaran will be charged (not to mention the acquiring expenses (or shall i say courting?), irrespective of the nature and character of the bride-to-be, whether she is educated, or slutty, or scheming, or of a perampas nature. Love is really blind, yes. *wink*

imagine when one wants to buy a magazine : it's most natural if he or she chooses the brand new, fresh-looking ones, and not the dog-eared ones. Rasa macam tak best kalau beli yang orang dah buka-buka, dah terlipat here and there. Macam beli 2nd hand mags. Now, consider this: how if one of you ladies is unfortunate enough to be married to a man who carries The Body Exchange label. Bukan satu, bukan dua, bukan sepuluh... berpuluh-puluh perempuan have been 'traded' at the body exchange. EYIKESSSS!

but when it comes to choosing a lifelong partner, these men opt for the untouched, the holy virgin, the noble ones. So let us remind them of something which they have conveniently forgotten:

"The fornicator shall not marry any but a fornicatoress or a mushrikah, and none marries her (fornicatoress) except a fornicator or a mushrik : such are forbidden to the believers".

[An-Nur : 3]

I Am So Sorry

You may hurt me as many times as you can.

Your cut may be the deepest.

You can make any assumptions or predictions you like about me.

You may openly critise me.

But I am so sorry. If you want to see me walking with my face down, slouching, sulking, then you are about to get very disappointed.

Nothing you do could ever lessen my enthusiasm for life. Or my happiness.

Like any other human being, I do feel upset. Only that it is short-lived. I am so sorry.

And I know, as long as I put myself entirely in His care, I should fear nothing.