This is What I call True Feeling

This is what I called true feeling.
A 9 years old girl (classmate) sent this note to my daughter Aesya Lutfiah Dhabitah.
Have a look.

"You are my true friend! But you tend to make boys, crazy about you".

I don't know what to say.
Maybe this is joke of the year.

Ayam Tandoori, From Hero to Zero

Tiba-tiba jer semangat aku berkobar-kobar untuk menulis dalam bahasa melayu (rojak)

Puas dan lancar he he he.

Esok aku kena pergi training "Best Practice in Warehouse Management" kat E&O Hotel.

Ya lah, yang 6 bintang tu. (Jangan jealous!)

Mahal siot, 2 hari training, RM 900.00

Nanti aku nak buat food review sikit.

Lunch time makan buffet kot.

Aku dah roger F&B manager, pasal nak buat review.

By the way, Executive Chef kat situ is my ex colleague at one of the 5 stars hotel.

(Anak sulung aku pun kerja kat situ)

It was long time ago, tetapi pengalaman aku sebagai food taster untuk Royal dan VIP guest, cukup untuk buat modal bagi chef-chef ketaq lutut. (aku perasan!)

Baru-baru ni aku menteke kat salah satu restoran nasi kandar yang terkenal di Pulau Pinang.

Kalau kategori rempah ratus yang garang, restoran ni kira Top 3 lah.

Aku dan anak bongsu, Aesya suka makan Ayam Tandoori kat situ.

Awek aku tak order, kami share 2 set, makan 3 orang, sep tul! 

So, kami pun orderlah dua set.

Macam kenal jer, restoran mana ni ya?

Setibanya pesanan, aku dapati ayam itu ayam yang recycle.

Maksudnya, ayam yang dah lama dipanggang.

Dagingnya dah kering.

Aku makan jugaklah sebab dah order.

(Memang sah, kureng sedap.)

Lagipun aku tak ada mood nak komplen.

Boring-boring.

Hai Tandooriku, indah rupa dari rasa. 

Lain kali aku nak makan Ayam Tandoori kat Restoran Kapitan lah.

Setakat ni, belum pernah aku dikecewakan oleh Tandoori Kapitan.

Walaubagaimanapun, esok aku ada motivasi yang tinggi sebab nak review 6 bintang punya.

Tak sabar ni...!!!

Top 3 Perangai Buruk yang Menjengkelkan Aku

Aku bukan nak berleter kerana aku pun tak suka kena leter.
Tapi aku kena share jugak perangai buruk orang kita yang menjengkelkan aku.
Inilah top 3 perangai buruk yang menjengkelkan aku yang selalu aku jumpa selama aku hidup 40 tahun.

1. PHD (Perangai hasad dengki)
Yang buruk:
Bila nampak kawan pakai kereta besar (lebih kaya dari kita), mulalah buat cerita kata dia tu jual dadah, bapak ayam, geng mamak, pecah amanah, rasuah dan sebagainya.
Sepatutnya:
Berbangga dengan kejayaan kawan.
Kalau tak puji pun, janganlah buat gosip liar, berdosa tu.

2. Tak tepat masa.
Yang buruk:
Bila buat temujanji tak pernah tepat.
Selalu lewat sampai dan tidak menghormati masa orang lain.
Macamlah orang tak ada kerja lain, selain dari menunggu dia sorang.
Sepatutnya:
Kalau selalu lambat setengah jam, bertolaklah awal setengah jam dari kebiasaan.
Kalau susah bangun pagi, buat temujanji sebelah petang.

3. Tak hormat orang yang lebih tua.
Yang buruk:
Tidak menunjukkan tanda hormat kepada orang yang lebih tua, cakap kasar, cakap secara sama level.
Walaupun belajar tinggi, orang tetap akan cakap, dia tu kurang ajar sebab tak hormat kepada orang yang lebih tua.
Lagi satu orang akan cakap, mak bapak kita tak ajar, sedangkan mak bapak kita dah ajar tapi kita tak nak ikut.
Sepatutnya:
Budi bahasa dan adat ketimuran dah ada asas yang kukuh dalam menghormati orang yang lebih tua, so ikutlah.
Jangan sesekali leveling dengan orang yang lebih tua dari kita walaupun kita lebih kaya atau lebih educated kerana sebenarnya kita tetap kurang dari segi lamanya hidup di dunia.

Orang cakap, dalam hidup kita sentiasa belajar untuk memperbaiki diri.
Tapi jika kita asyik ulang kesilapan yang sama, itu tandanya kita degil, bukan tak belajar.
Belajarlah dari kesilapan orang lain kerana kosnya lebih murah dan tidak akan melukakan diri sendiri.
Aku pun masih belajar, walaupun umur dah hampir separuh abad.

Pakej Pertolongan Cemas

Dah lama tak post dalam bahasa melayu rojak.
Bukan terer sangat pon omputeh, saja jer nak improve penulisan bahasa Inggeris.
Tu dia, tajuk post aku kali ni ialah Pakej Pertolongan Cemas.
Ambik kau!!

Kisah benar ni, berlaku kepada anak sulung aku.
Kesian mamat tu.
Dia berumur 19 tahun tapi dah kerja (sebab sekolah tak nakkan dia, bukan dia tak nak sekolah).
Dia kerja di sebuah hotel yang agak banyak bintangnya di Pulau Pinang.

Pada malam Chinese New Year yang lepas, dia buat Overtime dan balik dalam pukul 4 pagi.
Dia pakai kapcai buruk aku la.
Yang baru bapak dia pakai. hahaha.
Agaknya dia terlelap sekejap, motor terbabas dan terlanggar divider jalan.
Dia pun tergolek dan pengsan sebab helmet terkeluar dan kepala terhantuk ke entah apa.

Ada orang tolong tarik dia ke tepi jalan, kalau tak mungkin lebih bahaya.
Orang tu tolong panggil kawan sekerja dengan menggunakan handphone anak aku yang tengah pengsan.
Setelah yang pengsan tersedar, didapati handphone (baru beli seminggu), wallet yang berisi kad pengenalan, kad atm dan duit telah dirembat oleh orang yang menolongnya tadi.

Haa..! tu dia, perompak tu tolong semua sekali.
Inilah yang dinamakan pakej pertolongan cemas.
Siap tolong rompak sekali barang-barang orang yang kemalangan.
Hmmm..macamana nak kategorikan perompak jenis ni hah?
Perompak baik kut.

Motor lingkup, kepala kena jahit 8 jarum dan kena rompak.
Kesian kat mamat tu.
Tapi Alhamdulillah dia selamat.
Anak aku lelaki sorang jer.
Macamana pun, dia tetap satu-satunya anak lelaki aku.

Opposite Gender Sexual Harassment Victim Experience (For Men)

Normally women will face this problem.
For men, we seldom hear complaints.
Is this because of no issue or they actually like being sexually harassed.
Have you ever been harassed sexualy?
If you do, please share by commenting. (ada beran?)
As told by Wikipedia harassment can only be considered a crime if there is no concensus regarding sexual advances (moves) by both parties.

What if, at first I agreed on those sexual moves but later think otherwise?
Sexual harassment is too broad issue, sometimes too subjective.
Once I went to a training with lawyer, he said if a man eat a banana in a way that showing a sex-like act, it is consider sexual harassment.
Aiyahh!! annekuan na..see liau!!
You tell me how to eat a banana without some sort of sexual act visualisation.
The answer is, you need to cut your banana in pieces before you actually eat them!
Haa..there you go, from now onwards men, you guys need to practice this.

How women eat banana?
Now the question is what about women side?
They are eating banana same like us men did maa.
How come we never complain?
Furthermore it's visualises our "things" kan?
Men, please comment.

Once when I was younger, I have been sexually harrased.
It happened in a factory where I worked.
I worked in a all ladies production line at that time.
There were no men around except me and myself alone.
Jeng jeng jeng!!

Suddenly the power went off.
No Electricity, black out.
Then, I felt a soft hands grabbing me from my back.
(You know la what she grabbed, no need explain in detail)
I was shocked and paralyzed for few minutes.
When the electrical power resume, I saw around 20 girls there.
I don't know which one harassed me. (I would like to know)
I also didn't ask.
How to ask?
Report?
Do you think HR manager will belief me?

Guys it's your turn to tell your side of story.

Marrying An Engineer (True Story)

The Engineer and The Frog by Si Nelayan
This story pop up after I read the above story.
Don't try this at home. (Just for sharing fun story)

Sometime we have to tell white lies.

Sometimes things are not better in their true form.
Sometimes, in order to reduce damage, we had to tell lies.
Have you got this kind of experience?


Let me tell about my friend’s story.
This is true story happened in early 90’s.
Jamal (not real name) was the ever charming and chubby guy.
Jamal met a girl, Nita (not real name also).
I didn’t asked how they met, but surely not through facebook!
She was a medic student.
Jamal was madly in love with this girl.
So did the girl.


Nita came from well to do family.
Jamal was a normal guy working in Gambling Arcade in an Elite Golf Course in Selangor.
So, you see where I am coming from?
It was not easy for Jamal to actually win Nita’s family.
It’s going to be like typical Hindi or Malay movie.
Jamal had to do something to salvage his love.


Jamal was a very good strategist, even he studied until form 5 only.
How he outsmart the rest of people make me salute him.
His strategy was so daring, others would fear to even think of it.
So, one day they went out for the first date.
Nita asked him about his job.
Jamal said he was in his final year doing some engineering degree in a local university.
There you go, future engineer, not bad at all for a future doctor to be.


It went on until Nita graduated and they got married.
Nobody knew that he wasn’t an engineer.
Nita got posting in Penang and he followed and worked in the same hotel with me.
Nita had no clue that Jamal was actually working in a hotel.
She thought her husband was working in a factory somewhere in Bayan Lepas.


During working as a waiter in coffee house, he was on habitual sick leave.
So, I checked out of curiosity, where he bought the MCs.
Later he told me that his wife was a GP at government hospital.
Wahh! Interesting, how on earth that this ordinary guy could marry a doctor?
Then, the above story came out.


He was “kantoi” big time after Nita pregnant (first baby), what to do?
I asked him how he got away with the engineering bluff for so long.
He told me that he actually studied basic engineering terms on his own.
The last time I met him, he was an Inbound Tour Manager with big tour company.
I wonder, how slumber he was during job interview!


Lesson Learnt:
1. Nak tipu pon, do it in style. Ilmu mesti penuh di dada.
2. Si Nelayan, check betoi2, adakah your future husband really an engineer.
3. Kalau tipu berdosa, nanti kat akhirat jawab sendiri.

Tips to Reduce 'Shivering' During Job Interview or Public Speaking

This is a response to Sya rina . Hopefully this can also benefit others. During job interview or any public speaking, normal human being will face certain level of shivering problem. So, it’s normal to shiver! Some people shiver on their feet, hand or voice. Some have a combination of two or all. Whichever it is, we don’t want it to affect our presentation.

Basically we shiver due to below reasons:
1. Stage fright
2. Fear of making mistake
3. Too shy
4. Language barrier

How to reduce shiver:
1. Stage fright – If you have a packed audience, focus your eye contact to the front row only. By doing this, you will see fewer people hence your shiver become less.

2. Fear of making mistake - Be prepared. Do your homework. Memorize important points.

3. Too shy - Imagination makes a different. You need to imagine that your interviewer or audience are those who you used to speak to.

4. Language barrier - Never start to use high level language. We must use normal, day to day conversation style language. This way, you won’t get stuck finding the right vocabulary.

Tips to reduce shiver:
1. Phase your speech. Do not speed until you are off-track.

2. Drink water. If no water, drink your own saliva. This will help to clear your throat. (When we shiver, our throat will become dry and our speech will be worst)

3. Hold on something, table, chair, rostrum, microphone stand. This will support your body and reduce shivering.

4. Say some prayers, trust me you need it.

5. For Muslims, my late father taught me this and it has proven effective in making me less shivering during public speaking. Read, "Surah Quraisy" as much as you can. If possible make it your “zikir”.

There you go, back to basic again, the concept of 'tawakkal'. "Berusaha & berdoa"

My Unforgettable 1st Time

Almost everyone has their own story, it's a matter of whether or not they want to share it with others. (apa jenis English ni?)
Mine were either funny or cool, I won't share sad story here.
Sad story can be shared at: Catatan Seni Ibnu Din Assingkiri (Cehh.. promote nampak!)
My aim here is for light reading, no heavy thinking involved.


My first time crush for a woman - 1983 (form 1)
She was my English teacher.
Those days teachers were allowed to wear mini skirt and low cut blouse. (fuhh sweating!)
She was drop dead sexy.


My 1st wet dream - 1983 (form 1)
This content was censored by FINAS.


My 1st pair of Nike shoes - 1985 (form 3)
It was a pair of running shoes I bought with my hard earned money from soft shell crab fishing.
It was rare to see nike shoes in my village at that time.
Damn proud (and show off).


My 1st stage performance in public -1985 (form 3)
School talentime.
Lost to a Hindi song singer.
So mainstream!
Mine was English song.


My first love - 1986 (form 4)
When I saw my wife for the 1st time crossing school's soccer field to the Electronic Workshop.
Kuch-kuch hota hei!!


My first Hand phone -1996
Motorola 1500 flip phone.
Ala walkie talkie size.
So huge and thick it could cause safety hazard.


My first nuffnang pay - 2010 (????)

Job Interview Tips for Fresh Grads-Part 3

Tricky Questions

Some interviewers in bigger MNC like to ask tricky questions.

Tricky questions are those seen okay to answer without deep thinking. (ha ha ha. I hate this deep thinking things, but they are vitals for recruiting capable leaders)

 

Q: Are you trainable and willing to learn new things?. Your background is in Electrical, what if we give you Mechanical job?

(Real Meaning: Are you adaptable to changes or you are a stagnant kind of person?)

A: Yes, I am willing to learn whatever new skills required to perform better in organization.

(Wrong Answer: I prefer to work in Electrical field because I applied for that position.)

 

Q: How  do you feel about cultural diversity? (WTH!!)

(Real Meaning: How do feel about working in a multi-ethnics organization?)

A: I feel that diversity make us stronger and harmonized. A good balance of ethnics groups, is useful when its come to doing overtime during annual celebrations, Hari Raya, Chinese New Year, Deepavali etc.

(Wrong Answer: I don't prefer to work with "tuttttt" people. They are lazy bumps.

 

Q: Are you comfortable working with lady boss?

(Real meaning: Are you practicing gender discrimination?)

A: Ladies are more detail and thorough in their work. I can learn from them.

(Wrong Answer: I prefer men as my boss. Ladies are too fussy.)

 

Q: How would you react if you have been scolded for the mistake done by your subordinate?

(Real Meaning: Do you take full responsibility for mistake done by your subordinate?)

A: I will check actual place, actual parts and actual problem to analyse and determine root cause. Then, with the help from my team, I will come up with proper PDCA. (Deming Cycle, plan, do, check, act)

(Wrong answer: I will punish those responsible for the mistake.)

 

There you go. Good luck, have a pleasant and confident interview sessions ahead. After all efforts on preparation part has completed, you guys must also say your prayer. Thats the true meaning of 'tawakkal'. "Berusaha & Berdoa"

Faces of Desperate Men

I have not enough money for the petrol, my slippers also "putus" at this time. What a mess!!

Who the hell unzipped my pants while I'm sleeping. We could talk it over for consensus, at least do it when I am awake larr.

Don't worry boss, go ahead and sleep. I am guarding your bag and belongings now.

I am so pale nowadays. Opps!! no wonder larr so cold. Why the girls keep staring at me?