Competition & I

I am not a very competitive person.

Pado akak, sapo-sapo nak compete, bleh pi compete, tapi akak kalau buleh memang tak nak join apo-apo competition pun. Akak tak suko pressure dan yang paling ponting, akak takut taknak kalah. Kot tak masuk, takdo la can nak kalah yo tak?

Masalah eh, kek company akak kojo ni, suka na buek competition. Baik competition mencipto tag line, cipto logo, cipto t-shirt design, cipto nama function room baru, pertandingan koborsihan, competition jua voucher, competition kurangkan borat badan dan macam-macam laie. Malah competition sapo-tangkap-lipeh-paling-banyak-dio lah terer pun ponah gak buek.

Tu bolum laie competition tahunan ala-ala explorace sobolum annual dinner, pertandingan buek kek, game-game sukan dan pertandingan semasa acaro annual dinner. (Ni nanti akak kono buek entry lain. Tungguuuu).

Sobab akak ponyogan, kalau open competition memang akak buek dekkkk je. Lantak dek kau la. Akak tukang tengok, tukang golak an jo. Tapi kekadang tu ado gak competition yang certain-certain staffs wajib masok. Ni yang akak lomah ni. Main pakso-pakso la pulak. Nak tak nak kono join gak la kan. Kalau tak nak join, kono baya RM50 lak tu.

Iyooo… botooooo…..akak tak tipu do. Sapo maleh take part, kono ‘derma’ RM50 untuk staff fund.

Bebaru ni akak submitted satu essay. Dah namo eh essay writing competition. Kono lah akak anta sebijik essay untuk tajuk yang management bagi. Cam maleh memulo tu. Tapi memandang an dongan RM50 akak leh boli 8 pirated DVDs, akak pun bosongkang mato lah menaip essay tu malam sobolum tarikh tutup pertandingan. Omputeh kato; last minute submission. Tigo-puloh lapan orang kono buek bondo yang samo.

Nak jadik cito, maso management meeting lopeh, tah mato kero mano yang baco, essay akak shortlisted la pulak. Bekecupeh akak kono buek ulasan essay dalam meeting tu. Tah apo la akak ghapek an pun akak tak tau. Balun jo. Ada la dalam 4 orang shortlisted. Peh tu, memasing kono pandang ngadap dinding sobab yang 40 orang yang lain kono undi dongan mengangkek tangan. Yo lah… takkan nak undi cagho sms lak kan? Maun sumo pakat hp takdo credit nanti. Sikt la orang yang AFundi Nomee.

Akak dapat tompek ke-duo…… dapek la cash sikit tongah-tongah bulan ni. Peh tu ghamai lak yang mintak belanjo. Paloyah korang aaaa…. Korang mano tau akak tosongguk-songguk dopan laptop malam tu nak nyudah an essay tu ? Ayat adalah sedikit belagak.

Buleh la simpan buek boli beberapa bijik lampu I.kea untuk umah baru nanti. Alhamdulillah.

Baghu tadi lopeh satu meeting, ada announcement pasal 5S competition. Punya la ghisau hati akak. Nasib baik group akak dapek 4 markah lobeh daripada sebolum ni. Walau kedudukan group akak agak jauh kebelakang, tapi markah totap tinggi daripado sobolum ni. Akak bukan apo. Kok kono yang paling last, akak sebagai ketua kumpulan tercorot kono panggey kek dopan meeting room, ambik piala tikus nko……. Mati lah akak kemalu-an. Result surprise lak tu. Mano nak lotak muko? Bawah kusi? Jobo pulak Cik Ti kalau dapek tau nanti.

Sekarang tongah pikir camno nak ngelak this one competition. This competition is still in discussion. It should be the biggest competition in the hotel this year. Lobeh kurang few groups kono create satu product, peh tu create own marketing strategy. Bottom line, sapo jua dan dapek untung paling banyak, kumpulan dio monang. Ala-ala apprentice gitu.

Korang doa lah supayo nama akak tak tersonarai. Kok adiah eh sorang sebijik keto pun, akak totap tak ndak. Timo kasih yo lah.

KOSA KATO:

Buek = buat
Jua = jual
Laie = lagi
Ponah = pernah
Kono = kena
Ponyogan = pemalas
Iyo = Iye (yes)
Boto = Betul
Bosongkang = bersengkang
Lopeh = lepas
Berkecupeh = aski kelam kabut
Ghapek = merepek
Cagho = cara
Maun = mau (mahu)
Tompek = tempat
Dapek = dapat
Ghamai = ramai
Paloyah = kepala ayah (kepala otak)
Tosongguk = tersengguk (gaya kepala ketika menahan ngantuk)
Nyudah = sudah
Ghisau = risau
Panggey = panggil
Tontu = tentu
Adiah = hadiah
Keto = kereta
Jobo = berlagak / eksyen

Simple Weekend

Last weekend was nice.

There were so many past weekends that we spent visited people in hospital, kenduri-kendara, balik kampung, etc. We were never home. Habuk dalam rumah pun dah bertingkat-tingkat, rumput pun tebal, fridge empty, pintu feezer takleh nak buka coz ice sungguh tebal, dapur pun tak berasap – things like that.

But last weekend, we spent time with just the three of us. Even though, it was a little bit spoiled coz I had to spend half day at work, but I managed to sort and clear many papers from my table. Since I had the car all for my self that afternoon, I took the opportunity to finally go and cut my hair. Dah berzaman okeyyy tak potong rambut. Niat hati nak potong rambut saja, tapi bila tengok tukang cuci rambut tu dok urut-urut bahu masa cuci rambut orang sebelah, tarusss……

“… cuci sekali dik ye….”. heaven.

My nieces complained said my face look tembam,

after I cut my hair short. Takpe la... nasik dah jadi bubur....

Ingat nak ambik Aiman pastu gi groceries shopping, balik rumah dan prepare minum petang. Tapi Aiman was sleeping when I arrived at MIL’s. Kena tunggu until about 4 something baru boleh balik. Aiman hates to sit in his car seat. All the way to Bukit Raja I had to calm him down. He managed to free half of his body when we reached the groceries shop near my house.

Berpeluh-peluh aku dukung dia sambil pilih ikan, sayur and some other things. By the time we reached home, it was nearly 5pm. Since I needed to pick up Che Man at 6.00pm, I had to skip tea time and straight away prepared dinner, did one load of laundry and gave Aiman his evening bath.

After we got home, we had home cooked dinner and I did some house chores (so that I don’t have to do to many things the next day).

The planned was to prepare breakfast for them on Sunday. Tapi bangun tido je teringat roti arab from nearby restaurant. So Che Man went and tapau breakfast and after that just lepak till afternoon.

Afternoon mission started a bit late. After so many weekends, I finally found my self at Summit USJ. Got myself 6 DVDs, 3 books, few shorts and t-shirts. We had Japanese food for lunch. Chasing Aiman around made us felt tired. So we decided to leave the mall earlier than planned.

Aiman slept all the way to Bukit Raja. But we didn’t go home straight. We went and checked our still-in-progress house. This time around we managed to see our actual unit because jalan semua dah siap. But the door was locked of course. We took a look from the back of the house also and that was when I got shocked – the size of the kitchen is only about half of my current kitchen's size!

*pengsan*

Well, I already know it is not going to be as big as current ones, but THAT small? Bertenang… bertenang….. Nomi. I’ll wait till I got my keys and see what I can do about it. Of course there are still rooms for renovation but looking at our financial forecast till end of this year, I doubt it that I can do many things with the house before we move in.

If we can pay overdue payment interest, deposit for water & electricity, pasang grills, lampu, kipas (hopefully air-cond too) and most importantly my kitchen cabinet (which is now I know it won’t cost so much anymore due to the ciput-size kitchen) and tempah langsir - dah cukup bagus dah. To break the wall so to extend the kitchen till the dry area, change the tiles, put up wall tiles, build additional wall and change the door location is too ambitious at this point of time.

*sigh*

Biasa la. Tuan rumah dengan anak tuan rumah

mesti nak ambik gambar depan rumah....

Sambung balik pasal weekend.

We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening cleaning bathrooms, trimming grass, angkat kain, lipat kain, another load of laundry, gosok baju, mengelap sana situ, preparing dinner and layan Aiman. When Aiman finally tido and Che Man started doing his office works, I spent two and half hours watching Slumdog Millionaire. (Ye… baru sekarang dapat tengok, berhenti menjuih bibir tu ye.) I even managed to read few pages from the newly purchased book.

I love this type of weekend where I did my house chores tanpa tergesa-gesa. Enjoyed breakfast with two special ‘men’ in my life while watching TV and read weekend newspapers. Watched my husband trimming our laman semak with Aiman tried to ‘help’ him around. Realized Che Man menghabiskan dua pinggan nasi with my mediocre lauks - macam la sedap sangat. Peluk and cium each other sambil menunjuk-nunjuk kat Aiman simply because we know that he will tergelak-gelak malu. (I wonder why).

Spent time with Aiman dari pagi sampai petang. I love it when he suddenly appeared in the kitchen and bodek me so that I’ll make him his susu. Tetiba dia datang berlari and hugged my legs and said "yea yea… ibu… ibu.." and asked me to dukung him so that he can see what was in my kuali. Gave him bath and struggled to brush his teeth. Bergumpal-gumpal atas katil sambil bergelak ketawa, sorted out his no-longer-fit clothes which reminded me kisah dia dolu-dolu when he was still muat in those baju(s).

Berlari-lari anak kat shopping mall sambil terjerit-jerit kat Aiman. Threatened him that we won’t bring him to mall again – knowing it won’t happen ;) Forced Che Man to eat Japanese food just for the sake of trying. Finally got my DVDs and books, walaupun only God knows when I’ll watch or read them!

I didn’t do some other things that I wanted to do last weekend. Mostly something to do with cleaning, arranging, sorting, storing, etc. But it’s ok. Weekend does not always equal to hari mengemas rumah.

It is also about spending quality time with your little family.

Things To Do Today

In no particular order or category…..

1. To update windows, antivirus and scan PC & thumb drives

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2. Attend morning briefing. Brief boss. Follow-up on matters that related to my office.

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3. Check with purchasing department on pending matters (especially matters raised during morning briefing)

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4. Prepare documents for ISO & OHSAS internal audit. Get the updated versions of QM & QMSP. Get rid of the old versions.

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5. Issue petty cash to some requestors & update the cash book accordingly.

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6. Check HRDF claim report from HR. Brief Boos.

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7. Make list on new F&B performance target for financial year 2009/2010; based on 20% increase of revenue for each F&B outlets. To format GOP based on target percentage given by 8. Group GM during last meeting. Brief Boss.

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8. Check & update tender progress report. Draft format for tender of transport service.

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9. Prepare meeting minutes for last week’s Info Exchange Meeting. To get chairman to confirm the minutes. Remind him to draft new agenda to be distributed together with the minutes.

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10. To complete & confirm monthly business report for the month of March ’09 and e-mail to Hong Kong & Japan before 4.00pm today.

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11. Force To ensure boss sign all documents today.

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12. Check updates on land title issue. Has the other signatory came back from 2 bukitw yang diaorang kalah hari tu? Nothing else can be done there now, balik la… sign cheque tu. Brief boss on any updates (kalau takde update.. diam je).

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13. Follow-up and discuss with Accounts & Revenue Management on presentation materials for annual business strategy meeting with HQ next week.

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14. Is the Deputy Prime Minister coming tonight? Get a confirmation and copy of EO. Brief boss.

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15. Buffet lunch with ‘the girls’.

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16. GM’s cocktail door gift. Brief boss on status (mati la.. tak cukup info)

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17. New Cabinet. Borak-borak with boss.

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18. Follow-up on memorandums received from HR & Housekeeping. Brief boss.

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19. Check FORBES subscription details. Update subscription list.
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20. Check with Izan on other pending office matters. Release some documents to her for filing purpose. Jadi ke dia take leave next week?

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21. Discuss with GM’s secretary on schedule of GM’s luncheons and compilation quality objectives from all departments. Ayo… bila mau siap ni?

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22. Check company website. Ensure new changes on company logotype and packages are made. Brief boss. Close file.

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23. Remind Exec. Housekeeper on boss’s request for amended P&Ps. Baca e-mail tak semalam?

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24. Check yahoo e-mail for buddies update on this weekend plan, check fesbuk and blogs (ngeh.. ngeh… ngeh..).

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25. Transfer annual dinner photos from sharing file to ‘C’, so that can be uploaded for blog / fesbuk / etc. lalalalalala….

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26. Check boss’ snail mails / e-mail and do the necessary accordingly.

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27. Secretary Week’s Luncheon – joint promotion. Letters for sponsorship. Liaise with PR & GM’s secretary.

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28. Call Che Man – Nak makan kat Shah Alam ke kat Nilai malam ni?

La...... ingatkan takde kerja hari ni......
Eh... makan time.

Bye bye.

Remember Cik Ti?

Terlupa lak nak update pasal character yang satu ni.

This happened about one week after my first entry on Cik Ti.

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Sebelum.....

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....... Selepas

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I bought glue boards and put at few supposedly strategic places. But Cik Ti buat dekkkkkk je. So, aku redah hardware and bought perangkap tikus ni. Siap letak coklat kegemaran Cik Ti lagi. Two days after that; Cik Ti yang buruk lantak pun masuk.

Dah tangkap tak tau pulak nak buat camna kat Ci Ti tu. Che Man kata, biasanya orang akan letak dalam longkang (dengan perangkap-nya sekali) biar Cik Ti lemas dan k.o! Tapi aku tak sampai hati pulak. Nasib baik Longkang besar depan rumah malam tu kering.

Sudahnya Che Man bawak Cik Ti naik kereta gi jauh-jauh dan lepaskan somewhere far. Aku suh Che man buang je perangkap tu sebab geli la tengok, tapi Che Man tetap nak simpan.

Bye bye Cik Ti. Moga kita tidak berjumpa lagi.