My Family My Luv (Part 4)

On that Thursday morning, I was kinda glum a little bit. What wif the tiredness of being the spokesperson the day before, and I was working alone at my desk, I cudn’t hope better than to really have an excuse to get out at that very moment for more lie in, seriously. Suddenly,

(moto’s message tune)

Huh! It better be good. I really hated people messaging or calling thru my hand phone during office hour if it’s not deadly important (now I really understand how my parents felt).

It was my middle brother

‘Assalamu‘alaikum. I’m officially within the mechatronics department. Alhamdulillah’

I was over the moon. My puffy eyes suddenly wide opened and I became strangely fresh. No more sleepy head or gloomy face.

‘Wslm warahmatullah. This is my first good news for today. Alhamdulillah. Let mak and ayah know straightaway. I hope you’ll do better and be much happier wif your new course ya’

Honestly, when I grad months ago, I was so determined to go for what I aimed years ago. Be an engineer, join oil and gas company and be an expertise in that field. But then, not all our plan went smoothly as we wish don’t they? So do mine. I ended up doing the least favourite thing in my electrical world, which is ‘playing’ wif electronics (I haven’t register wif BEM yet..huhu). I’m not lying by telling you that I was highly devastated that time. Because, I am the one and only in the family furthering and getting involve in engineering field. Most of my cousins are teachers, ustaz and lecturers, and they were greatly prized by my whole family. Me, being an engineering student, perempuan pulak tu.. haiihhh..sapelah kita ni kan? No one bother to understand. But that make me determinedly want to prove that I can.

Akira Sky and Aihara Miki (My two Mechatronics people)

As I was so sure, none of my siblings will follow my lead, I quietly persuaded my closest cousin (now studying mechatronics at UTM KL) to take engineering too. She was the only one who robot geek like me (my middle brother too actually). Cuba la korang fikir, punya tahyulnya kami berdua ini, sampai time pagi raya Aidilfitri pun masih boleh get together and discuss about PIC programming for line follower (she was one of the programmer for her school’s robotic team). Until one of our ‘ammi (uncle) teased us for talking about something which none can understand a thing.

When my middle brother got his letter to further at JMTI, I was so thankful. But I am much happier now, because he finally in that department (he was in Computer Engineering before, but he change his course after a long discussion wif me..eheheheh). I was there before, even though I was majoring in Control System, still it was part of robotic department. My younger sister is furthering in Material Engineering (she had to endure a week of the same ‘irritating’ lecture from my father, which I had also received when I first got my letter from my college years ago). What wif my MAHA’s spirit last week, I think I wud consider about my aim again. I already had my apprentices. Maybe afterwards I never go back to my ambition. I already am fallin in this field, maybe I just get on wif what I do now.

You know what? I think I do sound quite like my father. People must follow my lead. People must be like what I want them to be.. huuuu.. Now that scary.. I wish all the best to my brothers and sisters. To my two niece and nephew who are furthering in medics, be a good doctors ya? For the rest of you guys, be something else. We had enuf engineers and doctors. Tanah kebun, dusun dan sawah bendang arwah tokwan yang berelung-relung itu, siapa pula yang nak usahakan kalau semua nak kerja makan gaji? Siapa nak jawab tu?

Can’t wait to be home next weekend.

p(^_^)q

gambaru!

p/s:ehem.. That Mr. clock in today. *blushing*

Tidak pernah ku tahu…

My work life is quite so-so, though I am so not happy wif the laziness which struck me lately. Nak kata aku ni demotivated..well, kinda, because of too many to be done but only me and my senior running everything. Geez, when the two of you come back, both of us will take a long and good rest for exchange. And Mr., I noe your annual leave oredi negative, so I hear no complain here ;-p Oh ya, almost forgot, shortly after you guys come back, both of you will go for a training at Boston for a week rite? (hey, I am still smiling here,ok) hurm, I think I’ll have to search for overseas training too, well, before I haf to hand over my staff tag.

Ah well, kind a haf mood to write in Malay eh..Ok..ehem ehem (clearing throat).. Jumaat lepas ketika aku menggelabah mencari isi untuk melengkapkan pengenalan untuk ‘paper’ku yang sudah sebulan lebih tidak siap-siap (jangan kata kamu, aku sendiri naik bosan dengan kerja yang satu itu), sempat pulak disambar oleh Kak Farah Product Development, konon menemankannya untuk melakukan ‘pembelaian wajah’ (ehem..facial dalam bahasa mudahnya). Aah ye, temanlah sangat. Pembelaian wajah itu dilakukan di rumah Kak Humairah (akak ini dealer jubah sebenarnya, tapi jangan kamu pandai-pandai mengaku kamu masih single depannya, kalau single pun, cepat-cepat mengaku yang kamu sudah ada calon, sebab dia tidak menyempat-nyempat untuk carikan kamu calon). Seperti yang telah aku duga, aku juga turut ‘diheret’ untuk membelai wajah..(aku ni nak cuci muka pun malas, lagi disuruh buat ‘complete facial’..alahai..nasib baik percuma).

face massage

Sesampainya aku dan Kak Farah di rumah Kak Humairah, macam biasa selepas bersalaman, peluk cium sikit, soalan pertama yang aku sangat ‘nanti-nantikan’,

‘kamu sudah ada calon Firdaus?’

(tersengih dan bermuka comel)

’belum kak, tak sempat nak fikir’

(err..ayat yang kedua tu aku mengaku, aku tipu ehehe)

Mula-mula memang aku buat muka tak faham, blur, konon-konon tidak mahu terlibat untuk ‘pembelaian wajah’, tetapi biasalah kalau sudah di rumah Kak Humaira (sejak bila pula akak sorang ni menjadi beauty consultant, bisnes minded betul housewife seorang ni), jangan harapla nak terlepas, terpaksalah aku menghadap semua produk-produk wajah yang di’display’kan depan aku. Nak nak pulak, beauty director produk itu pun ada kat situ, apa lagi, memang selamatla aku. Tapi sebenarnya, aku ini sangat kebal kalau produk-produk kecantikan ini, bukan sebab kulit aku tidak bermasalah, tapi aku lebih yakin dalam menjaga pemakanan dan pemikiran positif. Kamu makan makanan yang seimbang, kamu tidak semakkan kepala dengan fikiran yang bukan-bukan, kamu tidak perlu hendak habiskan duit untuk produk-produk kimia yang mahal tu.

Tetapi iyelah, aku ini pun budak sangat kalau nak luahkan semua-semua itu depan Kak Humaira, dengan adanya director dia lagi, maka aku pun kuncikan mulut, duduk senyap-senyap, tadah telinga dan layankan aje. Part paling best, dari mula cuci muka tiada apa-apa sangat, tapi bila sampai pakai foundation, kulit muka aku sudah mula terasa panas. Ini yang bukan main-main punya panas, betul-betul punya panas, nasib baik muka aku tidak memerah sangat, itupun dah cukup untuk buat Kak Humairah dan director dia gelabah sesaat. Aku pula macam nak cepat-cepat balik pejabat dan cuci muka.

Rupa-rupanya, kulit aku ini diklasifikasikan sebagai kulit sensitive (setelah didiagnos oleh kedua kakak tersebut). Huu…tidak pernah ku sedar sebenarnya. Tapi aku memang tidak boleh pakai produk kulit muka dari semurah-murahnya sehinggalah semahal-mahalnya. Kempenlah produk Sendayu Tinggi sampaila Mary Kay (ehem..beauty cosultantnya Kak Humaira), iklanlah Fair and Lovely sampai SK II, ‘anda akan sentiasa kekal muda’ whatever, jangan harapla aku nak termakan.. Aku buat badak je. Bila balik rumah aku terus cuci muka aku dengan masker buatan sendiri (tomato dari MAHA mini green house campur susu Dutch Lady). Sejuk sikit.

Kasihan pula pada dua orang kakak berdua tu, manalah aku tau aku ini berkulit sensitive. :-p Eehehehe

p(^_^)q

gambaru!

Weekend wif them, My Pengarang Jantung

August 1^st to 3^rd,

Spend the whole weekend wif my cousin’s family (from now on, I’m gonna address her as my sister) at Melaka. I asked my young sister (Anis) who studied at UTM KL to come along wif me as she never set her foot there before. Furthermore, I cud do wif a company during the supposed two hours’ journey and while waiting my sister to come and pick me at Melaka Sentral. I wanted to spent as much time as I can wif them, so I planned to go there after my office hour. Thank God that my junior helped me to get the ticket the day before, as somehow tickets for weekend’s travel nowadays always sold out (to every destinations, north, east, south…mark my word). I can no longer just gamble and went to Pudu just like that without buying ticket earlier, it was nitemare.

I forgot to buy the return ticket, and I can vividly imagine what my sister wud say about that. I was thinking of departing as earlier as I can, because I didn’t want to trouble my sister to pick us late at nite and her three ‘little power rangers’ (although her hubby oredi come back from Manchester) cannot be left at home alone. Still, I asked for 7.30pm on Friday’s ticket and lucky I did so as me n Anis arrived sharp on time. The bus was about to depart. Me wif the traffic jams on my way from Bukit Jalil to Puduraya (that time I really wish if I can make the car fly, no need to follow the traffic), while Anis haf to be patient wif the LRT. That time I really don’t want to think how my sister wud react if we missed the bus!

That was my first time using Delima’s service. I usually took Transnansional if I was to travel south. I was so nervous becoz even when the clock stroke 9.30pm, we still didn’t reach Melaka Sentral, which was really weird as the journey only took two hours normally. Even my sister was getting quite worried. But as they were doing their shopping at Mydin nearby, so our lateness was not a big deal. We only arrived at 10.30 pm and I was dead beat. Ok, I got out from the office at 6++pm, what wif last minute this and that, God knows how much glad I was seeing my sister’s black Chevrolet coming.

Husna and Huda wif Mak Long Anis

As usual, when we entered into the car, my three pengarang jantung were curiously looking at me n Anis. Well, they don’t see us everyday, so what more welcomes do I aspect? Never mind, I knew well how to tackle those three then. When we woke up in the morning, my sister and her hubby laden us wif so many food for breakfast. But what I luv much, was their English tea, smell so different yet very nice (I always appreciate the aroma of tea and coffee). Surely, it was her hubby who brought that back from Manchester. Starting that breakfast, my nieces and nephew already in to me and Anis. At first, I didn’t have a clue where to start my morning task, whether to look after the kids or tidy up the kitchen. Since Anis woke up late, so I let her to play wif the kids, and my youngest niece had began making tantrum as she want to be outside doing the gardening wif her father and her brother.

Syukri wif another Mak Long

Honestly, my mum keep asking me to go to my sis house to help her organized her house. Although she came back from Manchester for months already, but wif young kids, there’s not much thing to be done either. So I tried my best to clear her kitchen and arrange her various sets of cutleries. I even jokingly asked her to present me one set of hers when I get married. She really posses too much and I don’t know when on earth she will use them. I envied her many mugs, completed sets of everything (spoons, forks, tea sets, dinner sets..). I can’t imagine when I will haf so much money to buy things like that (since when I am crazy about plates and jugs?erkk). As I did the ‘clearing’, while Anis watched over the kids, my sis managed to do the laundry, cleaning the whole house, everything she felt like doing without the kids present, upstairs and downstairs. I successfully managed to clear everything (Anis came and helped me afterwards) that day.

We had a very joyful and delicious lunch that Saturday. My sis cooked ayam kampong’s curry wif our own family version of sambal belacan and ikan gelama kering, yummy.. The least favourite part, was when we were forced to have more helpings.. Gosh, it had been years that I ate without helpings. But in order to make my sis felt better, I tried to finish my second’s plate, hardly (the curry was really good, but I can’t eat more than a plate of rice at a time). There was so much to eat there. I think I’ll get bigger if I really stayed wif them. But I think I’ll never care, because I was so happy every single time I spend wif them. My sis promised to take us at Pengkalan Balak for dinner that nite. After dinner, we have some moment taking sometime at the beach. It was so peaceful.

That Sunday morning, after quick breakfast, we hurriedly went to Melaka Central to catch bus going back to KL. While my sis, after dropped us, she went to MYDIN nearby to do some shopping. I was so angry when we weren’t allowed to get into the bus. Become angrier, when I found out that our tickets were for nite journey! WHAT! Fine, it was my ruddy fault also, didn’t check the ticket before leaving the counter the day before. I quickly informed my Mr. Green Spot Jr, n have to ask his help to pick us up that nite. I’ll never use that bus again, never ever.

Lucky my sis still doing at MYDIN, so we went back wif her. I was become suddenly deaf wif my sis words afterwards. By the way, she took us to textile store and bought us cloth each ehehe, thanx. I will never forget what my nephew said after saw us entering the house, ‘aik, tadi bukan Mak Long nak balik ke?’. Then, during afternoon my sis took us to their orchard to pick rambutan (haih..again?). We have so much fun picking the rambutan, fighting the mosquitoes (only me) and playing around. We took bus at 9pm that nite heading back to KL. After sending Anis back to her college, I arrived home, dead beat. Feeling really not enuf energy to face my desk tomorrow morning.. huwargghhhh!!!

p(^_^)q

gambaru!

MAHA 2008 (The Story)

I am searching more ideas in order to make my paper writing is surely completed today. Description of sensor, done. Theory, done. Simulation and discussion, satisfied. Conclusion, well explained (I guess). References, only three (oklah). One thing I dunt fancy of being in this field, is this, write a paper. Writing a weekly report, it’s a must, but writing a detailed technical paper… huii..I am fully understood what u really meant now Mr. (when will you come back huh?! Lucky, only a few really notice that you were not here, for three weeks! Mind )

aku tak kerja kat sini, aku amazed dengan pokok tomato diorang je ;-p

I just want to update about my duty as my lab’s representative at MAHA 2008 last Wednesday. It was a really exhausting day, yet very exciting and informative. During the first couple hours, me and Azera keep nudging each other to do the talking if there were any visitors looking for someone to ask about our sensor’s technology, or else we kept our distance far away from the mini green house, or pretend to be really busy looking at the data displayed, or made innocent face like we were visitors ourselves and also looking for someone to ask.. eheheh.. But then, when the secondary school students keep coming to amaze at our tomato plants (not our sensor, haiihhh), I hurriedly went to entertain them, so that if there were VIP and such came at that time, someone else will haf to entertain those people (don’t you dare ask me to, didn’t you see that I am occupied?). For the rest of the day, students were my favourite visitors. Although well, some of them were taller than I am, they even hardly believe that I know about the sensor, let alone to accept the fact that I am among the designers of the sensor itself. Never mind, it was a very thrill experience anyway.

So, to be a representative or the spokesperson of the product, one must:

• Knew well about the product……….hurm, although I just understand moisture sensor, but, I also aware of pH and NPK sensor….check
• Posses dazzling smile……I always smile what…check
• Posses good communication skill………it always go back to first point, once you have the knowledge abt the product, you surely can talk well…..check
• A very patient person………..I try ok, I love my work, so I wud never let my company’s name in mud…..check
• Posses good looks……..what the heck? I am not that fat ok.. huh! Go back to the first point.

There were some tense situation when quite important people (read:the potential customer) came and I was free at that precise moment, so they approached me straightaway. Positively, I was left wif no option, but to entertain them. Of course, even they, like the students, hardly believe I am among the team (becoz they said I look like the trainee, and worst, student! Hey, which company will jeopardize their business by using trainees as spokesperson? You tell me). I did my best to keep the information accurate, becoz giving inaccurate information means I am lying, and it worth my position to do that. Honestly, not everything went smooth as planned, there were some questions which being answered by the questioner, and one situation I haf to call my senior to explain becoz I hardly understand the question itself. Ok, I only understand the sensor and the system, while you ask me about agriculture thing, how the hell I am to know everything? Severely, they assumed us to know everything and I don’t blame them either. The best part was, even my senior repeated back what I told them before. Ehehe.. actually, it was no laughing matter, as we were upholding our company’s ‘good looks’ and our potential customers were judging the whole company through us. Bad impression, not good for the business, and no better for us either.

Forgot to mention, our booth is located at ICT Cluster booth (those under MOSTI located there) in Hall A (for government and non-government agencies). If you see the mini greenhouse with pots of very fresh tomato plants, completed wif sensors and surveillances camera, that’s ours. We are dressed in black and grey, or maybe for this week, there will be those who wear green and black too. I took some time to explore all the four halls (A, B, C and D) whenever I felt tired of too much standing and during Zohor. Hall D is where the AgroBazzar located, wif the food court. In order to go to Hall A, you have to walk through Hall D first. While Hall B and C are on the rite and left hand side.

There so many things displayed there. From the technologies to the IKS product. There are so much to learn like rice varieties from MARDI and I even didn’t know that there already exist ‘mesin penanam padi’. Being in the company, not in govern agency, I stupidly ask how much the farmers have to pay if they want to buy it. And the spokesperson (I didn’t really remember, maybe MADA or KEDA) was hugely surprised and felt the question is ridiculous. How on earth the farmers wud able to buy the RM 40 thousand machine? He said, they wud let the farmers to rent for RM250 each. How wud I notice? I never even thought about renting in the first place! However, the machine is really awesome. I think it is more awesome than our own sensors. eheheh…

Another kelakar part too, when I was at MARDI’s booth. Also thinking profitable like, I was amazed knowing a veteran staff alone produce all the seedlings that being used by the farmers now. Again, I ask another stupid question, whether the inventor (@ for our terms is researcher) patented all his findings, the spokesperson just laugh and I thought she too felt my question was absurd. She just answered, “we think this way, we used people’s money, so we must give it back to people, because we serve for people, rite? No profit mind ever across us”. I was speechless. As, if the veteran staff patented his inventions, he will surely become damn rich! Everyone, the whole country is using n eating his invention! In our side, we surely have to patent everything. I was touched whenever her words cross my mind. It seems like the noble job after being govern doc or a lecturer at govern Universities. Hurmmm.. Another words of advice I got there.

Try not to go during weekend, because you’ll never get the chance to wander and have a better look at everything. I will be on duty there next Thursday. So maybe I can c you there

p(^_^)q

gambaru!

MAHA 2008

MAHA 2008

(Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture & Agrotourism Show)

Date : 11 - 23 August 2008

Venue : Ekspo Pertanian Malaysia, Serdang (MAEP),

Malaysia

Organizer : Ministry of Agriculture & Agro-Based

Industry, Malaysia (MOA) Federal Agricultural Marketing

Authority (FAMA)

I am assigned to incharge at Malaysia Institute of Microelectronic System’s booth tomorrow. Do come and visit if you want to know what exactly I am doing these past few months. Also, if you want to taste the agro products, don’t forget to take me along ar, as I am finding the reasons not to spend too much time answering question either..ehehe…

p(^_^)q

gambaru!