Friday, April 18, 2014

#126 - Of This and That

Assalamualaikum.

It's lunch time now and since I had a heavy breakfast, I decided to skip lunch and update my blog instead.

I am almost entering my second month here. Alhamdulillah, so far everything is still great. Of course, there are a few hiccups here and there especially dealing Expats and Academicians. Need a lot of mental strength and will power.

Dealing with them would require you to be tactful. You can be humble but with limits. They tend to push you around thinking that you are there only to serve them.

I wish to rant more about this tapi malaslah. 

Anyway, one of my social groups is planning for an event in August to commemorate our 10 years anniversary. I am actually excited to plan for the event as it has been a while since our last event. Been checking out a few places and hopefully we managed to shortlist one or two soon. There are a lot of other things that we need to consider for this event. Hopefully, the 4 months time that we have now would be sufficient.

 That'll be my updates for now.

Till then. Toodles.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

#125 - Pet Peeve

Assalamualaikum.

Things were quite mundane at the office on the last few days of last week. Both my colleague and I, we were taking our own sweet time to do our work. Mainly because our Manager was not around so we lepak a bit lah. Thought of updating my blog last Friday but of course, my writing mojo was not really cooperating.

Anyhow, since am not going out for lunch today as I just finished with an interview session with a candidate, I shall take the opportunity to write down my thoughts.

Ok, I have a question. When a person ask you "Hey, we want to go this place this year at this time. Do you want to join?"

What would be your answer or how do you answer the question?

It seems that whenever I posed that question to certain people, they would ask me with this question "Kenapa?"

I would normally answer the question with "Saja nak bercuti". Then, they'll be offended because they thought I am being sarcastic which am not. I am basically answering your question.

They would be like "tahulah nak bercuti. Ada kawan ke kat sana?"

Again, I don't find the logic. Why would I need to have somebody in certain places or countries for me to go there? I want to visit a place because I want to.

If it so happen I have a friend staying or living in certain countries, it would be a bonus. That's all.

As for me, whenever people ask me do I want to join them for a trip I would be "oh bestnya. Berapa lama nak pergi. How's your itinerary like or where do you plan of going?" You know that sort of questions.

One more thing, people's reaction when I want to go to certain places. "Nak pergi Adelaide? Tempat tu boring kan. Takde apa2?" "Oh ye ke. Pernah pegi sana?" "Tak pernah tapi tengok macam boring je?"

Penampar aku pernah kena?