farah’s corner

hmmm

perhaps this is my shortest entry ever kot… dont be so assured
last sunday i stopped at 7eleven at precinct 8 to buy something for me to munch on because i kena ke office after that… kiranya i dah jangkit dgn penyakit ferocious eating monster diyana huhu…

so
first i gi kedai mamak order nasik then i head straight 4 7e… as i
was walking., i passed 2 senior citizen, one malay and one chinese…
the chinese man is trying to get some direction from the malay man….

as i passed them i heard:

chinese man: sorry i tak clear la, mana u cakap itu tempat?
malay man  : very easy, all you do is just cross the london bridge that we are looking at  bla bla bla bla….

i
was astounded to hear the man uses the phrase london bridge when the
bridge that he referred to is jambatan seri wawasan… the bridge has a
name and it’s not LONDON BRIDGE!!! for the love of God!

and i
thought it’s our 50th year of independence? and yet…. dah la senior
citizen yg cakap tu. i thought these group of people yg pantang benda2
camni kan??? bilalah kita ni betul2 nak merdeka???

anyway…
later when i arrived at the menara PjH compound, parked my car in front
of the building, i saw the chinese man again, got lost and ended up at
my office building… he came straight towards me… now i know he
looking for floria which is a walking distance from my office so i
showed him the way… i reckon that he’s outsider from the way he’s
impressed with putrajaya…

but itula…. we stand on our own.. we have our own identity… why nak samakan dgn penjajah kita….???? mana jatidiri kita sbg Malaysians? huhuuh

SELAMAT MENYAMBUT KEMERDEKAAN YG KE 50!!!!

p/s: pendek tak blog i this time?

hmmm….

people often get shocked when then know the real me…
upon not knowing me, one might think i’m unfriendly, serious, not the
one to joke with, too religious, dull… and many others…

1. Unfriendly?
   seriously u do not know me… when i first landed here (this company),
   i was really bound to my workstation (aka partition la)… hardly talk
   to anyone… but however once i start to open up… abesh la… the
   only secret to my silence is i takde suara time tu… kalau dah sakit
   tekak tu buat apa nak bising2 kan? huhu
2. Serious?
   surely kalau official matters mmg la kena serious kan? i mmg serious
   bila ngadap keje… time keje jela… that’s why dont distract me while
   i’m at work
3. Not the one to joke with? ini lagi lah… hahaha… by now people should know better…
4. Too religious?
   hahaha… i pun tak tau why people get that kind of impression when
   they first saw me… i pun ngarut gak kengkadang tuh.. however, now in
   my office they call me farah who looks holly, but looks only… it’s
   all because of our senior manager almost choked upon listening to my
   sick joke, he was the one who expressed his disbelief in listening to
   such thing as he thought i am supposed to look so holly… so that’s
   how this thing come to surface. i take it as a joke of course… i’m an
   ordinary human being…
5. Dull?
   Am i? ye lah… i hardly go out… balik office pun tgh malam, cuti2
   pun masuk office… but that’s not the question is how can one says i’m
   dull when i’m always wired…
   if u look at me properly u’ll see an mp3 device will be there hanging
   behind my work pass… all day… telinga i sentiasa tersumbat…. till
   i can categorize myself as trying to be pekak…

so finally i’ve come to my actual purpose of blogging today… about mp3…
i
know now they have all the ipod nano, mp4 devices blabla… for me, i
have no time to view such miracles or play games bla bla…. so the
best way is with having an mp3 player… just plug ur ear with it and
resume doing ur work, or driving… huhuu…

even my boss Mr. Z
noticed that device that had been hanging there since i first work
here… he was shocked that i layan benda2 macam ni… i’m not that old
that being engaged to such tech is really weird… pierre andre
(a manager in my office which was liken to pierre andre becuase of his
looks) was also caught trying to figure out what the hell was hanging
there…

after i graduate or completed my studies early last
year, i started teaching but not in schools but rather teaching the
youngsters in my hometown. then i bought my very own mp3 player as
replacement of the inconvenient walkman (yeah, kinda late catching
up).. i bought this creative mp3 player during pcfair last year in PISA
penang. With the capacity of 512MB, i got it at RM185. At that time,
it’s considered cheap. Below is my creative mp3:

However,
last Tuesday, my workstation neighbour aka colleague syed came to
office showing off his new mp3 plus voice recorder. sony. very nice.
plus voice recording. so happens that that tuesday we had a meeting
with MPOB’s DG (not dade ghost aa, but director general huhu) at KL
Convention Center. so syed asked me to go to Sony at klcc suria while
waiting for the meeting which will start in 2 hours’ time. so we headed
to sony klcc and straight to the mp3 section…
i asked a lot of
questions regarding the mp3 + voice recorder and before i knew it i was
already at the counter paying for the ne.w mp3 player…

So
there u go… the above sony mp3player+voice recorder is being bought
at RM199. Got sony walkman strap with it. And it’s 1GB!!! very nice
features…. i sangat heart akan mp3 device ini!
however, i still
use my old creative earphones although sony provided their earphones
with device. but somehow i feel sound quality tu creative lagi best.
maklumlah, creative a great speaker brand after all…….

so
now i end up with 2 mp3 players… creative (MuVOxx), although direct
usb, but still uses AAA battery. Sony on the other hand is direct usb
and chargers via USB… so convenient kan?

Next on my list…

1. digital camera (the one i have now sangat poyo) look at the quality… KNO, i envy u!
2. upgrade my handphone (KNO, u tlh pengaruhi i)
3. PDA…

The list will expend… trust me…

well…

yesterday i
had to rush to Tech Park M’sia at sungai besi during our ministry’s
post-cab meeting. no problem encountered when going but nak balik tu me
and my colleagues experienced an adventure, u can also take that we’re
volunteering on behalf of LLM utk buat banci from TPM to Putrajaya via
LDP ada berapa banyak tol… huhuhu…
since i’m not from here this
is what i’ll be repeatedly experiencing….kesesatan di siang hari…
how to gear up my sense of direction ha???

it really pays when u
do not know the way… here in kl… my colleague syed yg tumpang keta
i ended up feeling dizzy and by the time we reached the office the
colour run out of his face huhu…
is it because of me? my car? or my rempiting? huhuhu

demo…
itu siang….

these
days i’m back to my busy schedule… since i was not in the office
earlier so i had to stay back to do some homework for my interview with
a Director General of 1 of the dept. in a ministry that i’m familiar
with… so means… i decided to stay back…

however as the clock hit 9pm
i really feel the urge to take a bath since i byk merantau that day.
Maka, dgn penuh semangat, azam, dan kegemilangan i packed my bags and
decided to continue my work at home….

i was already dead tired
yesterday, but not dade ghost huhu (ada selingan plaks). maka slowly i
placed my 2metric tonnes of laptop bag on my right shoulder and my
other hand is occupied with my documents bag (yg blh tahan jugaklah
beratnya) and my handbag (comparatively heavy as well…)…

my car is parked at the space outside menara Putrajaya Holding, quite a walk la jugak with the bags and the high heels…  Please take note ok…

By
the time i hit my car it’s already 9.50pm. and as i looked up, the
clear dark sky above me is somehow being brightened by small fire works
(i was later being told the actual thing was at 10… that was only
testing)…

when i looked around, the main roads along my office
building and MoF… there’s not much of cars so i thought no harm of me
watching. so i drove out of the PjH compound towards the side of
Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) and i parked and enjoyed the beautiful
and spell-binding firework shows up in the air… only at that area do
i see rows of cars pulled over the pavement of all the roads to enjoy
the show. time2 macam ni la baru nampak putrajaya ni alive… jalan2 ke
arah where the firework show is being made tu usually gelap…. yes,
jln nak ke rumah i tu…

to see the magnificent view please go to:   http://www.flickr.com/photos/shamshahrin/sets/72157601580369870/

so… cantik kan…???
i heard that this saturday ada lagi, this time it’s from UK. Yesterday was from Australia…

back to my story…
remember
i was at the side of MOA. so bila i tgk dah takde apa2 and seeing
people begin to move away i quickly drive off towards PICC (what a
stupid move really)…

at MOA (yg tiba2 ada patung2 lembu how
curious) traffic junction, i took right ( if i go straight towards
Wisma Putra and tmn warisan, it’ll save me alot of trouble just to turn
back and no reason to blog today) and i no longer can move after less
200m from the junction…

DAMN!!!
last sunday i did see the
massive jam where more than half an hour the cars are all stagnant. i
was that time up in my office, looking out as we heard honkings and
irritating wisels from traffic police wannabees…

i dont know
how long i was there… stuck in the jam… what i know, i almost the
bridge towards PICC only did i know that the bridge was closed to make
way for the show…

i wanted to shout!!! my kaki is already
sakit… my car (ingat kan…???) is manual and we barely crawl….
before i knew it all of us had to turn back at the bridge junction and
i’m now going back towards MOA and my office…

so look at the
map below and see how far need to travel… pardon me for poor
creativity and tidiness.. but the black arrow represents my journey…

"GGGGrrrrppprrfhaddxjhvc…..!!!!!"
do
u know what’s that? that’s the thunderstorms in my stomach…
destroying all the butterflies in it!… so instead of going to the
right towards wisma putra i head straight to precint 8 to kedai mamak
for a breakfast+lunch+dinner…. in order to reach there i need to
endure the massive traffic jam… especially on jambatan seri wawasan
(which i called penang bridge wannabe hehehe) by the time i reached
there it’s almost mdnight!!!!

and kedai mamak yg slalunya
lengang tu is surprisingly stuffed with famillies, youngsters… rasa
cam kat ukm dulu pulak… more people means wait longer la….

so by the time i reached my house it’s already nearly 1am…
there goes keazaman nak buat keje kat rumah… went out from office say 10pm, reach 1am….
see how a 10 minutes journey can be so long…???

all because of fireworks….

p/s: sorry for poor language… i am in a rush…

Sorry la dah lama tak update, bukannya apa lots and piles of work need urgent attention…
but then cukuplah pasal kerja kan? tak bosan ke? but then guess where i am now… in my office huhu…

Because of work i’m now the citizen of Putrajaya…
it has been nearly 9 months now.
Actually
seriously it’s nice working here… there are times when u cant help
but 2 feel damn proud when telling ur friends out there that ur working
in putrajaya…

back then, when i was in ukm, whenever i have
the opportunity, i’ll drag my juniors to enjoy the marvellous view of
Putrajaya, lepak2, inhaling the ever-so-fresh air and the tranquility
unlike kl or even my hometown penang, dah la pollution tahap dewa, not
to mention the ever so noisy people on the streets and rude road users,
huh…

but here it’s nice, the serenity and breath-taking landscapes are just inspiring…
seriously
it’s really magnificent… it’s really a brilliant idea to shift the
federal administrative complex here in putrajaya… semua ada di
sini… macam2 ada..

scenic
lakes, wetlands, unique architectural buildings, unique bridges… and
currently ada fun fair pulak around Putrajaya International Convention
Center (PICC) so…..
lucky to be here…
but i live somewhere else… not here neither there…
my
house is in Desa Pinggiran Putra, near PICC but alamat Kajang… pelik
tak? and the most hampeh part is that for the past 7 months all the
roads to the area either from Alamanda or PICC are always dark. I
wonder what are those lamp posts for??? can u imagine how i’m going
back from work every night… terkenang cerita jgn pandang belakang….
only since last month i see half way ada lampu…. not all the way pun… cheap sake…
for
God sake, there’s housing areas here, awatla tak mau bukak lampu tu…
u know why? because ada issue tanah between putrajaya and kajang…

so residents kat situ jadi mangsa…

itu satu hal…

putrajaya yg dikagumi ni….
mmg la dikelilingi kuarters..
and yes, during working days u cn see the big shots in black perdanas driving away in putrajaya pavillions….
do u know what happen in the weekends?
isolated. except for outsiders yg datang ke sini…
but 4 those who live here, we can just say there’s no life..

below are what u r not able 2 do in putrajaya:

• watch a movie—> have 2 go to Mines (paling dekatla)
• car wash —–> Bangi (some says in Balakong and sri kembangan but i’m not familiar with these areas)
• Repair car —-> Bangi also
• find
  an actual cheap, quality furniture shop (the only choice is in
  carrefour alamanda) –> go balakong, bangi, or anywhere else…
• find actual electrical shops—> also to Bangi, Balakong or SK

because of the reasons above:

• my car dah lebih 2 bulan tak bercuci (apart from being busy)
• my
  car remote ctrl is broken and since i malas turun bangi so now i have
  to open my car via the unpractical conventional way- the key.
• from
  a movie addict i have become the very left behind person. the last
  movie i watched was harry potter & order of the pheonix, tu pun
  masa balik penang.. i missed transformer, sympsons bls blsbls…..

dont assume that i’m giving excuses pulak…
but still i like putrajaya huhu…
hopefully after this someone proposed alamanda will have TGV or GSC huhu…

    
       
          historical as it is but do i deserve it?
       
    
      

this
historic event inauguration took place on the 16th July 2007 during our
Penang Governor’s birthday. viewing the above photo little did i know
that i’ll be receiving a medal for my years of tenure in Puteri UMNO!..

i’m
pretty sure many of u r kind of surprised upon hearing that… i know
and i do realize that many would have questioned what have i done for
the medal…
i guess involvement of Puteri’s in my area (back in penang) is just… pathetic…

i must say i’ve always been very passionate when it comes to the word politics. But
that was before… i got my political exposure since i was very2 young
as my parents, grandparents, uncles are all very much involved in this
field.. it flows in my blood…

but again, that was before…
as i grow older i began 2 understand how the crude politics work.. at least where i’m involved…
it’s a long wait but as soon as i reach 18 i quickly signed 2 be part of the UMNO family…

and
not long after that when puteri UMNO is being officiated, i soon become
a proud member of it! the pink power (so to speak)…
although i was
in the middle of my studies, i really take chances being involved
directly but hey, i said 2 myself, i was just involved in the name of
charity… no harm done kan… that’s how i become strong and not long
to realize that only a few in the team actually bother to do all the
hard work to approach the community…

from where i came from,
tahap melayu sgt menyedihkan… all the charity programs that Pu3 UMNO
bhg kami buat mendapati bahwa there lots of poverties of the malays
even within the very urban areas…

sedihkan…
how 2 help our people? how 2 change the mentality and the culture of our people? be knowledge conscious..
to curb the notorious corruption??
How 2 bring our people to the higher level of the economic value chain?
still studying that….

however i agree that everything should start from home…
so develop beautiful culture… knowledge basis of course…
my lecturer used 2 say this:
"
tgkla anak2 melayu kita ni… bila dah reti cakap sikit, mak bapak
suruh menari dan menyanyi… anak2 cina tu, dah reti sikit, mak bapak
diorang bagi sifir suruh hafal, dgn rotan di tangan…"

my lecturer is a malay and what he said is true…
more
aggresive approach need to be undertaken before this scenario no longer
take place in malay homes… unless we r happy being stagnant and left
behind…

of course… without denying the presence of others here
TAKKAN MELAYU HILANG DI DUNIA…

Let’s realize that!! Jgn setakat tak hilang tapi melarat…
p/s: looking at the photo above certain i look so bloated…. obviously fabric keras is just not for me… huhuh

Last
weekend i went back to my brother’s place but just a while as that
saturday i returned to putrajaya to menara PjH to continue my absurd
routine of work fetish…

below is my schedule for last week…
saturday    : 5.30pm - 1.30am
sunday       : 5.30pm - 4.30am
monday      : 7.30am - 8.30pm
tuesday      : 8.15am - 8.25pm
wed                : on Emergency Leave but came at 3.30pm - 8++pm
Thurs            : 7.25am - 9.30pm
Friday            : MC.. but came at 4.15pm -7.00pm

what do u think?
i
told u i’m the faintest health lately, but work is work. as the matter
of fact i felt bad for falling sick and being away a while… usually i
will go back after midnight during my stronger days.. gila kan…?

that
saturday i felt bad bout my health but since i had a deadline on
monday, i sacrificed my weekend rests to fullfill that. so i ended up
being the office with rising temperature. my ‘acting’ boss pun cakap i
macam lalok je that monday… but he dont know i was in high
temperature that i almost denatured (yalah tu). i forced myself to come
on tuesday as my monday’s work is not yet settled… by this day (tues)
i felt dizzy and had chesty cough… (sign of attack)…

so i
disappeared the following day. however, i just cant get rest as non
stop calls coming in (itulah bahana bila divert line office ke hp)…
but the thing that made me come is when special officer of Dato KSU of
toooot ministry starts calling me over some stupid confusion resulted
from their inefficiency…

and later learnt that there will be a
series of meetings with our foreign consultants on thursday so need 2
show up early that day. during one the meetings with consultants i
accidently let out a teeny wheezing sound from my chest. and i wonder
did anybody noticed which i hope not… but later that day i felt as
though my chest is about to explode!!!

this time i’m really
down… cant work properly… so after 1month of disappearance i showed
up again before my faithful dr… after a free lecture from her, i
finally stayput at home (tapi still show up at the office later). later
i decided 2 go back 2 wangsa maju as my brother bought a ticket back 2
penang on saturday at 7.30am pulak tu…… before i knew it i was in
the bus, soundly sleepy as the bus roars 2 penang…

and the following day which ahad baru2 ni i came back 2 kl…
yes….
but ….

i was not alone,
i was with my mom…
mmm…
what do u expect? going back like that. i’m pretty sure that many would
think y bother going back in da first place. u see, actually previously
i did seat 4 PTD exam and i got thru and went 2 the hampeh assessment
program but i was disappointed with what i discovered.but that happened
last year, before i was in putrajaya.

so actually saturday the
4th , i was being called again to seat for the same exam… but
seriously, after being where i am now, i dah tak lalu nak stuff myself
within the gov sector… but my parents insists… so that saturday
instead of heading straight to exam hall, i make time to explain 2 my
parents, rationalize why i’m no longer interested (to think i was really disillutionalized after having had to work closely with some ministries made me this way kot)….

when
i came back last sunday from penang, i was expecting to head straight
to putrajaya and had a good rest before going 2 work on monday(long
distant journey can be tiring especially in bad health) but instead my
sis-inlaw brought us 2 her bro’s place way in puncak alam (jauh tu).
but however in the company of this loving family and my kawaii (cute)
4months’ old nephew, gasakla… letih pon letih la…

so, monday
moved from kl after subuh with my mom in kl and i was terribly tired
and in no condition to do work… in vain trying to recover from my
illness without the aid of those steroids… medication.

on
tuesday(yesterdayla), i’m still down… no motivation to work… came
in late since gotta go to ministry. at the office i was quiet, but
donno why out of sudden i felt like standingup and as i do that i’d
naturally glance at my boss place (my boss was away 4 nearly 2 months
in Boston) and to my surprise i saw my boss also standing at his place
and he was also looking at my place (spotcheck ke) and i shouted sebab
terkejut. and he bought harvard shirt for me (ini kiriman berbayar ye).
so somehow, dah ade semangat balik sikit… but i’m still tired..
but
then my mom called and urged for me to come to kl after work since
she’s now at my aunt’s place in keramat—>my 2nd home… got no
choice, after maghrib head straight to kl after droppedby at my house
to pick up my small lugagge since i’m sleeping over.

so today,
after i sent my mom to KTM kl i head straight to putrajaya… managed
to catch my boss, had him to check my work and now it’s 9.30pm and i’m
all by myself at the office catching up all the days i’ve been lazy….
so… again…

Gambatte farah!!! walaupun otakku jam and lack of motivation…

kakiku sakit