Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Too Many Things

Tee..hee..heee... Bengong sungguh aku malam tadi. Akupack kan baju sarah untuk sekolah malam semalam. Tapi, semalam sarah cuti, so, takpe la... Harini aku hantar dia gi skolah macam biasa. Harini cikgu dia pagi2 tepon. Diaper takde. Hukhuk... Macam mana laaa aku boleh lupa letak diaper dia dalam kotak tu... Iskkkhhhh... Sah-sah dia belum potty trained lagi. Heh. Bila la agaknya aku akan bersedia untuk membiarkan dia tanpa diaper. Sigh!~

Berbalik kepada citer tadi, so, aku tergocoh2 ler mencarik diaper pagi-pagi. Nasibbaik kat dalam keter memang ada standby. Cukupla untuk satu hari. Aku pun bergegas la ke sekolah... Line panjang pulak orang drop off budak. Aku dah terbayang anak aku diaper dah penuh tak tukar. Kelam kabut la aku kuar kete (kete aku kat belakang sekali of the trailing line of vehicles), dan terus cepat2 pass kat cikgu dia diapers. By the time aku kuar, kereta aku telah memblok trafik untuk keluar pagar sekolah tersebut. Hahahahaa.. Ngokkkkkkk!!! Adeyy.. Mesti driver kelima-lima kereta tersebut marah dan menyumpah seranah kat aku. Heh. I know i would. Huh.. Malu sungguh aku. Tak sanggup angkat muka pun, sbb memang aku tau, aku salah. Huhu.. Sorila ye puan-puan. I got up on the wrong side of the bed.. I know, i know, it's the least of your problems, but.. heck.. everybody have their bad days, right? We're all human after all.. Hehe.. Ayat nak sedapkan hati. Apa pun, i am truly sorry (walaupun aku tak cakap kat u all the 5 drivers).


Rest In Peace

A colleague of mine lost his mother, 2 sisters and a niece in a fatal car accident in Putrajaya yesterday. Dalam berita malam semalam ada keluar, cerita yang first sekali. Tak sangka sungguh, benda tak elok timpa kawan sendiri. Kesian kat dia. Harap Allah kurniakan dia ketabahan. Al-Fatihah buat kaum keluarga beliau yang terkorban di dalam kemalangan tersebut.


Concert

Sabtu lepas, sarah's school concert went smoothly. Gambar dan video belum transfer. Tunggguuuuu... :)

Thursday, October 22, 2009

Busy Bee

Penat. Baru balik from 2-day workshop. In the process of coming up with impact study on existing programs. I am hooked on economics. *Starry eyed* Gonna start reading materials on economics fundamentals/basics to enhance my nearly zilch knowledge on economy.

Walaupun penat, i enjoyed the workshop entirely. The ambience was very relaxed (except on the several occasions that my big boss was there in a bad mood), and everybody had the momentum to keep on going with data cleaning and analysis. I guess, we learned a lot from the workshop, at least, i can speak of it on my end. I learned a lot on data cleaning, and how to relate it to major economic indicators. Before this, memang la aku blur. Huh. Menguatkan lagi perasaanku nak amek masters in economics. By course. Coursework pulak nak buat something on franchising. "Partner in crime"/pemangkin pun dah ada. Nanti nak discuss lagi dengan dia bila nak start. :)

Glad to have found my new passion. Econs 101, here i come!!


Excited!!

hubby's coming home tomorrow!! After 3 weeks of being away! So very excited (not to mention sexcited, hehe) to have him back in my arms tmrw. Yeayyyyy!!!

And then, on saturday, sarah's going to have her first concert! She's going to take part in a dance with her classmates, and the teachers said that they're letting her sing, and recently they said that they're letting her to give the welcoming address to all the guests! Sooooo super duper excited. She received her costume today, making my excitement more intense. Tomorrow, it's gonna be even more intense.

So proud of you my little darling!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Crazy Week

Urghh.. you know when it's gonna be a crazy week when you don't have much time to open up fb. Heh. Tak sempat! And, you get several meeting invitations on the same time, at different places. Huh. Crazy!!

Tomorrow, 3 meetings. Two concurrent meetings in the morning, 1 in ministry, 1 in KL. Petang, another one to score. The following day, 1.5 day workshop, and, concurrently ada presentation for proposal. The best thing about all this is, everything needs my presence!! Cheehhhh.. akur asa macam Pengarah Bhg dah ni. Hahahahaa.. Mengong. Sebenarnya, short handed sangat nih. Huhu. Program lak, nak end of the year ni, mula la mencanak-canak. Huhhh... bizinyer.

Malam pun kena bawak keje balik umah ni. memang banyak keje sangat dah la nih. Huh.

Layan je laaa...


Sandpaper!

Another urrghhhh... Had facial disaster last week. Huh. Teruk betul. Used a facial scrub, lepas tu terus muka jadik macam sandpaper! Dahla the next day nak pergi wedding kan.. Huhu. Nasib baik ada foundation. Nampak jugakla muka macam sandpaper, tapi kurang la.

Huh. Been in denial for so long. Dari awal sejak pakai this product memang macam naik bintik, and kurang selesa la kadang-kadang. Tapi sebab dah invest banyak on this product, buat dekk je dulu. Tapi, last week tak boleh tahan dah. Last-last, aku beli cleanser yang aku pakai sejak dolu-dolu, L'oreal Whitening. Tak sampai 30 hengget. Alhamdulilah, skin feels better. Kurang dah la rasa macam sandpaper. Pakai cream moisture surge, and eye cream je from the previous brand. (tak payah la mention kot?) Toner, tak pakai, day cream pun pakai L'oreal XL Block. So far, takde masalah. Agaknya, kulit aku ni memang tak biasa nak manja2 pakai skincare mahal-mahal kot. Hehe. Takpela. Elok jugak. Save on skincare, boleh invest lebih for other things, kan? kan?

Okla.. back to work. Sigh!~ Good nite kawan-kawan. Saya takleh tidur lagi. Kena keje! HuhuHuhuhuhuuuuuuuu...

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Banyak Kerja

Saya memang tengah banyak kerja. Tapi saya kena menulis benda yang kurang kaitan dengan kerja. After all, all work and no play would drive you up the wall, won't it? Bila stress, bukan kepala je sakit. Urat2 pun sakit, maka pinggang sakit, belikat sakit, belakang sakit, leher sakit... Huhu... Nak carik tukang urut yang best kat sini belum jumpaaa... Lalalala...

Semalam, sekali lagi episod berulang ke Kuching in one day. Pagi flight pukul 8, balik flight pukul 5. Hehe. Macam pergi ofis di Putrajaya tiap2 hari. :) (Cuma belanja yang berkali2 ganda la besarnya.) Sigh!~ Penat. Tapi, nak buat macam mana? Kerja kena buat, anak pun kena ingat jugak, kan? Kesian ke dia kalau aku tak balik. Dua-dua parents jauh. (Tapi, bila aku balik, penat dan dia sibuk nak attention, aku hangin, kesian jugak. Sigh!~)

Tapi aku notice la, sejak anak aku makin besar ni, aku rasa aku lagi cepat hilang sabar dengan dia. Cepat je aku nak marah. Puas aku fikir kenapa. Aku rasa mungkin sebab aku anggap dia dah boleh faham apa aku cakap, tapi dia tak buat seperti yang aku nak dia buat, kot? Kalau dulu masa dia baby, memang aku tau dia tak boleh comprehend apa aku cakap, so aku lebih forgiving. Ke? macam tu ke? Sigh!~ Isk.. macam mana nih. nak kena ubah ni. Budak sekarang tak jalan dengan marah-marah. Macam mana nak didik anak dengan berhemah ni....

Anyways, back to work. Hadey.. NKRA la, KRA la Halatuju strategik la.... semua planning on paper je.. Implementation, follow through?? Haiyooo.. pining gua punya kepalaaa....

On a lighter note, aku rasa aku nak sambung belajar. Aku ingat nak buat ekonomi. Tapi at the same time, aku berminat dengan franchising. Kat sini, belum banyak lagi tesis on franchising, tapi skop tu sangat luas lagi untuk diteroka. Hmmm... macam mana ni..? Baut double masters ke? Hehehe... *Berangan*

Tadi aku jumpa sorang orang yang sedang nak buat phD in franchising. So, api keminatan aku untuk sambung belajar dalam bidang itu semakin marak... Heheh.. Tapi, tak bermakna minat aku untukbuat ekonomi dah makin kurang... haa.. no, no, noooo... Aku teringin nak dok kat EPU, tolong buat dasar ekonomi negara.. dalam masa yang sama, jadi pakar rujuk untuk francais. *sambil berangan* (banyak betul aku berangan ye). Chewahh... hehe.. tingginya cita-cita. Hehehe.. aku nak citer dengan siapa lagi kan? Citer dengan budak2 kat sini, kang kena gelak pulak.. aku citer la dalam blog aku, kat kawan-kawan aku yang tau betapa besarnya imaginasi aku... Heheh..

Bear with me, please. Sesunggunya kepala aku tengah pening nak buat KRA... Miting esok... tapi aku cuti... tapi aku nak masuk miting tu. Huhu.......

Monday, October 12, 2009

Surprise, surprise

Semalam, before bersiap2 untuk pergi ifah's wedding, sempat jugak online sambil tunggu hubby on skype. Sesambil tu, masuk fb.. Tiba-tiba nampak friend request.. Ada la beberapa, tapi satu tu macam menarik pandangan, sebab dia pakai uniform, siap dengan epaulette. Dari jauh nampak macam 3 bar.. Ingatkan one of hubby's crew.. Tapi, apa kejadahnye pulak diorang nak add aku, kan? Bukannya diorang kenal aku. Bila tengok nama, macam tak perasan sangat... aku pun click la gambarnye supaya besauuu.... Loohhh.... What a surprise!! A.A rupanya!! Heheh... Jadik orang laut sekarang... Teringat zaman dolu-dolu... (teringat jugak that text he sent me).. Now, how many years ago was that? 6? 7 years now?

Ohh.. now i remember... Our platoon's captain way back during DPA dulu, muka macam A.A ni laa..... hehehe... patutla macam familiar sangattt....

Now, talking about mengimbau kenangan lalu, semalam, masa aku unpack barang-barang balik dari PAC, it occured to me that aku dah duduk dalam servis 4 tahun dah.. Handbag yang aku bawa masa PAC jumaat lepas, sama je dengan handbag yang aku bawa untuk PAC/PTD Unggul 4 tahun lepas. Hehe. Kasut je tukar, sebab kasut dulu tu dah haus, ye lah, kasut tu la belasah masa DPA, ke polis, ke tentera, ke bomba... Handbag dan kasut itu la yang hubby (then boyfriend) beli kat aku dulu. Hadnbag tu sampai sekarang aku masih guna, sebab elok lagi. Cuma koyak sikit kat buckle dengan insert dalam dia. Tak obvious pun. Tapi memang aku suka beg tu. Memori sunggung. :)

I guess, i'm still the old me, if not ermmm.. fatter? Demmmmmmmm...

Hahah... fat or not, masih musim raya.. dan harini, office buat rumah terbuka. Aku ditugaskan bawak bolognese sauce. Semalam aku buat satu batch. Kena buat berperingkat, sbb periuk kat rumah i comel aje. Malam tadi pergi wedding, balik dah pukul dua belas. Gagah jugak la bangun awal pagi tadi nak masak sauce tu lagi satu batch. Alhamdulillah.. pukul 10 baru masuk office. Heehehe.. Nasib baik bos i baik..

Okla.. nak pergi tengok2 semula apa yang berlaku kat pantry tu. Haritu rasanya kata nak mula pukul 11... ni dah nak pukul 12 ni, takde sape pun lagi. Sigh!~ Wokey..have a good and cheerful day peeps.. Luv u, luv u!n (Gedik tak?hehehe...)

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Assessed

Alhamdulillah, tamat sudah PAC. Later this afternoon, i'll be on my way back home! Yeay!!

Verdict? Well.. i think everything went fine. My panels were alright. I had two activities with a familiar panel, and my interview session was also with him. So, kurang la sikit butterfly-in-the-tummy syndrom.

Awal-awal lagi, dah kena public speaking. Walaupun only among 13 familiar participants (all batch mates) it was as nerve wrecking as speaking in front of a larger crowd. My topic, thankfully was on Vandalisme. A classic public speaking topic. I was the second last of the lot to speak, and i managed to somehow associate Vandalisme with one of the 6 NKRAs. Yeay! The English public speaking session was followed by a Malay pengucapan awam, and topik aku Taraf Kesihatan kot kalau tak silap. Masa ni, baru la anggota group yang lain sentuh pasal NKRA. Hehehe.. Bangga sikit-sikit sebab aku yang start citer NKRA. Not that it made any difference anyway. :p

Lepas tu, biasala, sesi bincang2, buat paper dalam masa yang singkat, buat project planning, present project planning, dan yang paling menggetarkan lutut, kena lari 2.4km. Perrhh.. memang menggeletar lutut, literally. Seriously unfit!!! Huhu. Lari satu per lima kot dari keseluruhan track. Yang lain, lenggang kangkung adanya. :)

Poco-poco pun ada jugak. Tapi basic step aje. Kecewa. :(

Semalam urusetia bagi kitorang bola untuk buat main-main. Jadi, kitorang main la bola itu dengan girangnya. Huhu.. Letih jugak.. Memangla sangat tidak fit. Sigh!~ Patutla berat tak turun, ye?

Pagi tadi, aku baru sahaja selesai sesi temuduga. Keputusannya, wallhualam.. Entahlah, ye? Kalau ada rezeki dapat pemangkuan, dapatlah... Kalau dapat KUP, KUP lah. Kalau gagal, terimalah adanya. Kan? masuk untuk temuduga in pairs. Nak kata kurang berdebor, entahlah. Aku rasa aku kurang berdebar tadi, bukan sebab aku tak gabra, tapi sebab aku tengah tahan nak pi toilet (tiba-tiba sakit perut la pulakkkk), aku mengantuk (dah dua hari bangun pukul 4.45, tidur pukul 1) dan sangat teruja nak balik.

Rindunya kat si kecik. Malam pertama tu, aku telefon dia nangis teresak-esak. Sedih aku. Tapi malam-malam seterusnya, dia ok. Tapi dia tak mau tidur dalam bilik. Tidur kat depan, tunggu mommy or daddy balik kot. Kesian dia. :(

Ok la... Dalam pukul 12 ni, ada closing ceremony pulak. Nak kemas-kemas semua barang, dan kalau sempat, tidur kejap. Nak drive balik jauh ni. :)

Terima kasih atas all the well wishes. :) Hehe.. aku selamat sampai Nura.. tak pakai GPS!! :) (Tapi aku ada 2 org kawan lain la dlm kereta).

Wednesday, October 07, 2009

On The Road Again...

Will be leaving for Kluang in this afternoon. Heh.. Torture session starts tomorrow, all the way til Saturday. Sebenarnya, god knows what there is to be nervous about anyway. It's just another course kinda-thing, with a big plus as we get to reunite with long-lost batch mates. As long as we participate, i guess we'll be ok, since dengar-dengar khabar bertiup, banyak kosong for post 48. Somehow or rather, mesti dinaikkan jugak, kan? kan?

Hmm.. Pangkat dan tanggungjawab. Ramai orang nak pangkat, tapi terlupa tanggungjawab yang datang sekali dengan pangkat tersebut. Sesungguhnya, aku amat takut menjadi salah seorang dari mereka itu. Lindungilah hambamu ini ya Allah. Dulu, as my bosses always said, people take years (more than 5, obviously) to get promoted to a higher grade. Sekarang, within 4 years dah boleh naik 48. Kalau di federal agency, rasanya mungkin tak rasa tanggungjawab 48 yang tinggi. But, if you're at a state seat, 48 level dah jaga projects. Bayangkan, someone yang baru 4 tahun dalam servis, kena pegang tanggungjawab jaga projek di negeri. Pekeliling2 pun tak khatam lagi. Kalau orang yang pernah duduk kewangan / handle program pembangunan, ada jugak la basic on perlantikan perunding and things like that. Kalau orang tu dulu buat benda lain, say HR ke? Tak menggagau? Yes... we're expected to be Jack of All Trades. To know everything under the sky. But the drawback is that, you only know things on a superficial level. To solve a problem, you need to get to the root of it. If you just know something on the surface, it's difficult for you to tackle the underlying issues.

Heh.. meraban pulak.

Anyways, i'm driving a thirteen year old car all the way to Kluang, with another 2 colleagues. Do pray for our safety and wish us luck, ok. I'm sure gonna need that.

Uhh.. sedih nak tinggal sarah. Kesian dia, both parents are away, working. Feel bad about it. Rasa macam workaholic yang neglect anak pulak. I don't want to be that. I know i'm not one. My heart is at home, i'm not career driven.

But, this is something that mommy has to do. I hope you understand, sayang-girl. I know, the timing isn't right since daddy is away too. I wish i could change that, but i don't have the power to. I'm so sorry. :(

Sigh!~ Ok.. away to read english educational/informative blogs. Erm.. that's my preparation. Heh.

Saturday, October 03, 2009

Hibernation

Two weeks of posting absence. Kira hibernating la tu. Ye la, juadah raya yang masuk ke perut macam-macam, hibernating mode je la kerjanya. :)Idea untuk posting pun jadi tak ada. Huh.

Anyways, alhamdulillah, dah masuk minggu kedua kita beraya kan? Beraya? Hmm... aku rasa this year rayaku tidak banyak kemana-mana. Rasanya satu rumah je yang aku beraya, minus rumah mama and MIL's la. Huh.. teruknya... Tapi, yang best, this year alhamdulillah, ramai yang sudi menjenguk kami di rumah ni. :) Happy kami semua di Nine's ni. :)

First week of raya, aznor datang with hubby and faiq hensem. :) Pastu diikuti dengan my cousins sebelah arwah babah. This weekend pulak, pakcik-makcik sebelah arwah datang rumah, pastu esok, kawan-kawan dari ofis. :) Huh.. Huru-hara gak tadi. Ye lah, pakcik-pakcik ku itu, bagi notis sejam je lebih kurang. I dah plan nak keluar beli groceries. Hubby pulak kena tidur sebab nak fly malam ni. Huh.. so, hidang pizza je ler tadi. Lols. :)

Hmm.. tadi tengok Grey's anatomy. Huhu.. episod Izzie kawen dengan Karev. So sweet! :) Rindu kat hubby sendiri.. Uhuk.. Hubby had to go for two weeks detachment. Kinda difficult sebab dah terbiasa hubby ada kat rumah for the past one month. Dah la Manila tengah dilanda typhoon teruk. huh.. risau wooo. Semoga Allah selamatkan dia, mudahkan pekerjaannya, Amin!~

Dah la hubby's away. Aku pulak kena pergi PAC (assessment) hujung minggu depan. Lama-tak-lama, ada la jugak tiga hari, tiga malam aku kena berjauhan dari anak aku. Huh. Kalau bukan PAC ni penting untuk kemajuan kerjaya, silap la aku nak pergi. Kesian sarah, 3 malam parents dia tak ada nak teman tidur. Terpaksa aku tinggalkan dia dengan my MIL and FIL, berserta maid aku. Risau jugak, sebab MIL and FIL bukannya sihat sangat nak menjaga budak yang tengah lasak tu (even though they insist that they're fine). Tapi, considering that sarah will be away at school most of the time, and i expect to be home by saturday afternoon, i pray to Allah that all will be well. I do hope that sarah will be ok and at her best behavior when i'm away, both MIL and FIL will be ok and my assessment will see me through with flying colors. Amin!~

Hehe.. semalam cikgu sarah told me something that made me jumped. Dia kata, "she wanted to sing, so, we're letting her." Ermm.. no, she wasn't talking about her singing in front of her little toddler friends. She's talking about my 31-months kiddo performing solo for her concert! They're going to have this talentime cum concert thingy at the end of this month, to see the graduation of the older kids, and to see some shows that they're putting up. The ECP class(Early Childhood Program for 3 y.os) that my little girl is attending is going to perform a dance, which i've been told earlier. We're very excited about it and can't wait for the big day. Tapi, when the teacher told me that she's gonna perform solo..... Mak aiii... i was terkejut + flabbergasted + overwhelmed + amazed + excited + elated.... you name whatever feeling, i can tell you that i feel each and every one of it (the positive feelings la). When asked what song she's going to sing. Cikgu dia cakap, "you ask her yourself" sambil tersengih-sengih. Isk.. Bila aku tanya anak aku, macam-macam lagu dia cakap.. Adeyyyy... Terpaksa la wait and see hujung bulan ni. :)

Makin besar, makin panjang je akalnya. Ada je benda yang dia nak jawab. Haritu, lepas kitorang makan tengah hari, we were persuading her to finish up her cup of water. Agaknya dia dah boring with our persuasion, dia boleh cakap kat kitorang, "I'm fasting"... Aku dengan Dan terkelip-kelip... Geraaammmmm... tapi cam.. sabar je la budak kecik ni.. Heheheh... (Aznor.. ulang siaran untuk ko..hihi..)

Hmm... ok la tu kot... random thoughts on a lonely night without my hubby around. Sigh!~ Mulanya nak cari materials untuk assessment nanti. Isk.. tak prepare apa pun... Newspaper pun tak baca... Camne nanti kalau kena public speaking ni.. Uhuhuhhuuu... Lantok le... Malas teman nak mikio nye...

Nity nite amigos... Oh.. kasi gambar raya satu....