ode to the soapbox

last month pagi2 time aku drive gi keje along the PIE, tengah lalok2 drive (drive kat singapore ni very stress free, jalan tersusun, tak jam, boleh berangan laa gituw while on the road), bila lalu Eunos, tiba2 aku passed satu gantry...

huh??

aku siap toleh belakang okee nak menyiasat gerangan apakah yg tiba2 jer dah tersergam merentasi highway dekat Eunos exit tuh.

hah terpampang sebesar2 alam.

ERP.

cheh..

ERP stands for Electronic Road Pricing. it's singapore punya sistem tol laa, instead of pakai orang macam kat malaysia dan kereta kena berenti dekat tol plaza, kat singapore just guna sensor kat ERP gantry nih. kereta lalu jer, dia akan deduct amount dari kereta punya ICU (in car units) yg kita letak kita punya cash card kat dalam. selalu ERP ni cuma beroperasi waktu2 tertentu jek, macam time peak hours. bukan cam malaysia laa kan, ko lalu kol 2 pagi pon nak collect duit.

elok2 time breakfast kat opis aku belek2 paper, hah sah, 'New ERP grantry in PIE near Eunos Link exit operates from Nov 3'. Mahal pulak tuh ngkau! kalau time aku gi keje pagi2 kena $1, kalau lambat (eeekk!!) $2. terbang macam tu jek duit hasil penat lelah titik peluh aku...

aku punya perasaan? macam Hitler dalam clip youtube nih..




...adie

this is beyond ridiculuous. i mean, kalau kita chanting mantra2 hindu time stretching tuh maybe laa akan rosakkan akidah. but just by doing strech poses akan menyebabkan.. apa nama.. deviation of our beliefs?

i mean, how fragile is our belief until benda2 macam ni pon kita takut buat kita terpesong??



Malaysia to impose fatwa on yoga

Yoga is becoming very popular in recent times and its followers are increasing all over the world. The soaring popularity of yoga could be gauged by the skyrocketing sales of yoga books, classes and equipment all over the world.

Yoga is a traditional exercise devised by the sagea and hermits of Hindu religion but now it is spread across all religion with big followers in Islam and Christanity.

Fearing the growing popularity of yoga the National Fatwa Council of Malaysia has decided to ban yoga exercise soon. They feel that Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it for fear that it could deviate their belief.


Yoga may soon be outlawed in Malaysia, if a prominent body of clerics which is planning to issue a fatwa on the practice, has its way.

Malaysia's National Fatwa Council is going to impose Fatwa on Yoga after Zakaria Stapa, a lecturer of University of Kebangsaan's Islamic Studies Centre, yesterday advised Muslims who have taken up yoga to stop practising it fearing that it could deviate their belief, local news reports said.

"A ruling would be made by the council's Chairman, Abdul Shukor Husin, in this regard," Deputy Director-General of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia, Othman Mustapha, quoted as saying by New Straits Times online edition.



...adie

meh sini cikgu nak ajar geography pasal where is virginia in USA. if everything goes well, base will be at m@nassas city (the star in map below). kalau nak senang ingat, ingat 'man asses' hahahaha... uppss!!






... adie

ari ni aku pakai baju t-shirt merah nike dengan tulisan sebesar2 alam kat depan

'just do it'

semalam aku baru call KL rumah parents aku. as usual, adik aku angkat so aku suruh panggil bapak aku. selalunya kalau aku call untuk chatting, aku selalu cakap ngan mak aku sebab for some reason, it's more comfortable. kalau ngan bapak tu, ala2 tak tau nak converse gituh.

so malam tadi bila aku panggil bapak aku nak cakap kat tepon, dia sure tahu yg aku ada news nak bagitau.

bila aku cakap jek aku akan transfer ke US, dia punya first reaction..

'alhamdullilah. ingatkan tadi kena retrenched..'

bolley?? aku terkesima okee...

agaknya sebab last week bila dia call aku dari kota tinggi, aku kata ekonomi teruk kat singapore, even ada our branch yg lay off people etc etc.

anyway, most important thing is, aku dengar they all macam ok jer. which is a relief. yelah, buatnya tak dapat restu, tak pasal2 nanti aku sampai US kena sumpah jadi batu, tersergam pulak sebelah lady liberty.

plus, i cannot take it lah orang sedih2 nie, nanti aku pon sedih. cakap2 pasal farewell party pon sedih okee.. after all, these are all part of my life, macam nak tinggal part of my heart here gituh when i go.

seperti aku selalu kata, aku terpaksa merantau demi mencarik sesuap nasik....

wish me luck guys!



...adie

waa susahnyer nak carik masa nak update. aku rasa macam barrack obama pulak, sibuk takde masa. except instead of berkempen, aku sibuk dengan my sports routine, and ta-daaah - reunion versi johor.

ok bukan versi johor ok. aku banyak kali nak betulkan. aku dari singapore apa? so should be reunion versi selatan.

or as dolly says, dousoukai versi selatan.

apa2 pun reunion is reunion. jumpa orang yg dah lama tak jumpa. biasanya sebelum jumpa tu kita akan melawa2 sikit. kalau sikat rambut tu biasa 5 minit, this time 10 minit. haa.. nak impresskan orang. ntah kenapa aku pon tak tau ok jangan tanya. lepas tu time jalan nak masuk restoran tu akan debar2 sikit, macam nak jumpa mak mertua for the first time.

biler dah jumpa pulak, nanti komen kau akan di antara dua nih

1) eh ko tak berubah laa. sama macam dulu
2) waa subur nampak...

kalau ikut statistic, option nombor (2) lebih banyak laa digunapakai. at least for our reunioin last saturday kat pizza hut plaza angsana johor bahru.

kalau ikut kata dolly, pempuan2 kat malaysia ni sumer ada mission. membesarkan dan menuakan suami agar suami2 tu takde can laa kan nak ngorat pempuan lain. betul gak ok. cuba tengok jer my friends yg dah kawin. semua melebar horizontally eventhough tak semua nampak tua laa. cuba maintain macam datuk k, sure dapat siti nurhaliza (even though dalam kes datuk k nie, datuk k yg on a mission melebarkan siti).

physical appearance aside, seronok gak dengar what each one of us has achived since the last time we met. ada tu 12 tahun tak jumpa. waaah kalau budak baru lahir tu, sampai habis sekolah rendah masuk sekolah menengah ok.

biasa kalau dengar tu, kita dengar yg bagus2 jer, aku tak tau orang lain kan, tapi aku jeless. ada yg dah ada pharmacy sendiri, ada yg dah join company itu ini, start business bagaii.. wah succesful ok aku rasa macam nak hantar polong jek. even though of course laa aku tak buat benda2 tuh, just expression ok.

couldn't help to compare laa. dulu kita sumer blaja sama2, mula2 kenal huruf sama2 (huruf2 jepun laa), kiranya macam kita berada di garisan permulaan pada masa yg sama. so reunioin ni secara tak langsung akan beri ko peluang tengok ko ada kat mana, berbanding ngan kawan2 ko yg lain.

aku? hmm nothing much to say for the last 8 years working. aku punya line, something like, after graduate, join this company polan si polan, until now. full stop. mana ada business ker, jaga alam sekitar ke. takde. so rasa macam boring jek, kalau life orang lain boleh buat movie, aku punya setakat iklan. macam iklan adibah noor, cuma aku tak mampu mengubahnyer...

until yesterday lah.. hehehehe

overall, good reunion and hopefully boleh jumpa again. and i really mean it.






...adie

...imported from ~unsent


yesterday i got this mail from the company HR which goes...

'let's touch base. i got important news to tell you.'

full stop.

can you believe it? i scanned the bottom of that sentence like 20 times hoping to find some hidden messages or secret codes that could tell me more but none.

as i stared at the blank screen, i even hoped this was like that mail which had a ghost or something suddenly cropped out from the static picture as you were staring to freak you out but nada.

what news????

some people are just plain vain. this HR guy is just like those tv series writers that always like to have someone opening up the door expecting the killer inside the room, saying 'oh it's you!' without showing the killer face and then abruptly ended the scene with 'to be continued'...

except this one, i couldn't download the sequence off the net or read the next episode spoilers from wikipedia.

fortunately, my ex-colleague who was transfered to the branch where i'm applying for few years back spoiled it for me. he sent me mail which goes...

'congratulations! i heard you got the transfer'.

see? plain and simple and nobody died from this short statement. nobody i know anyway, but oh my god oh my god oh my god my god...

I GOT THE TRANSFER???

apparently i am. later that night at about 10.30pm i got a call from the new HR and i had to play surprise. ok this is so confirmed.

wow i was so ecstatic. i felt surreal, like my spirit just jumped out of my body saying banzaiiii and then came back in a second.

this is so classic example of how things turn out when you least expect it. this is like when you thought the causeway would have heavy traffics but ended up with a smooth ride, or the time when you thought nothing worth checking out the cheap sale but ended up buying lots of ripped-off discounts.

i mean, when i got a mail saying this another branch was laying off people, i kinda put my hope off. after all, when everything went mute after you asked about the result, in normal world that was never a good sign.

but i guess, good things do come for boys who wait.

at least i hope it would be good. mind you it was not easy making this decision. this is not like deciding what movie to watch for a night out, or whether my car would be white or black. this is like jumping off the ship and hope there is no shark in the water.

and i have not even told my parents yet. i told my friend this just now and she said, what a fillial son you are. i know she meant to be sarcastic, but if this sudden move could cause heart-attack, then maybe i am being fillial.

i'm just afraid how things could turn out, like people would get sad and stuff. i just like the way things are, at least for the next 2 months or so before i make my move. i felt just like becky bloomwood when she was having secrets about her 2 weddings from her parents, and look at how did that turn out.

ok maybe i should give my father a call. or maybe an e-mail saying...

'let's touch base. i got important news to tell you.'




...ed

aku baru sampai rumah nie.. sampai malam gigih berkerja mencarik rezeki. though.. pikir2, mana ada aku carik rezeki? rezeki tu dah kompem datang akhir bulan, aku cuma buat kerja supaya rezeki tu tak berhenti immaturely jek..

macam kengkawan aku yg dari out-branch company yg layoff 95% workforce tuh. they all now memang tengah carik rezeki, tengah carik keje. tapi kan, nak tau they all dapat layoff benefit 3 bulan gaji, plus one month extra for every year they all keje kat company aku tau. so maknanya kalau dah keje 4 tahun, maka dapat laa duit bedebuk 7 bulan gaji.

wahh jeless okey.... time one of our friend jumpa they all yg kena layoff nie tadi, siap kata, eh i heard your news, congratulations!

bolehh??

aku ari ni at work, bz bz bz.. nak tau apa aku buat? sepanjang ari kat lab buat X-ray. isk.. sampai ari ni patut ada appointment ngan condo management nak inspect leakage kat rumah aku pon aku kansel. hajat di hati tu kengkononnyer nak balik cepat kol 4.30pm.. haa ambik kau, pukul 8pm aku sampai rumah.

bapak aku call lunch tadi, nak tanya apa nak buat pasal komputer rumah yg kena sambar petir tu. aku time tu tengah on the way ke plaza singapura celebrate a friend's birthday, tak sempat aku nak call dia balik.

even e-mail pasal plan ujung minggu ni pon tak tulis lagi. huh.. actually apa plan aku pon masih blur2. mula2 aku ingat nak buat makan2 kat rumah ari ahad, sajer jer suka2 tawar nak menyusahkan diri. aku ingat nak masak nasik beriyani hiks! tapi kan.. ada reunion laa pulak sabtu tghari kat jb, lepas tu they all nak terus lepak2 jb malam tuh.. maka kesahnyer, sessi makan2 kat rumah aku ari ahad tengahari tu nampak macam tak kesampaian laa kan... sebab orang jb tak kuasa nak masuk singapore ari ahad sebab isnin cuti. lagipon, ntah2 malam sabtu tu they all nak ronggeng terusssss...

aku pon ok jer laaa.. dari masak to takyah masak.. apa nak komplen? senang jek.. lain laa dari tak mencangkul, ko suruh aku cangkul sawah. haa yg ni baru aku komplen.

penat. badan pon sengal2, semalam main tennis, esok ada badminton, lengan aku pon iras2 sakit lagi ni.. aku nak terus mandi then later relax2 tengok Heroes. esok nak kena carik rezeki lagi... upss.. meneruskan rezeki..

lagipon, takde saper aku nak lazer dalam blog ni haa.. lain laa miss felda universe blogger famesss tuh wakakakakaka...





...adie