Monday, November 30, 2009

Mari Bicara Dengan Suami Terchenta

Firstly, saya mahu ucap terima kasih. Terima kasih Amy, Husna. Kalian berjaya meraih mood saya kembali. Saya sudah kurang depressed. Life still perlu diteruskan.

Ahad lepas. Semalam lah. Kami sama-sama di dapur. Saya tengah chop bawang merah. Chop halus-halus, biar tak dak rasa dah. Bley gitu? Tapi hati masih kepingin tambah bawang. Owh, life is so complicated. En Suami Terchenta sedang memanaskan air. Di tangan beliau separuh bungkus spaghetti bersedia untuk direndam di dalam air panas yang menggelegak. Nasib la kau, spagetti. Pasti spagetti sedang mintak nyawa sebelum diterjunkan di dalam air panas menggelegak.

'Potpetpotpetpotpet...' Kami berborak2. Tentang kerja. Tentang projek side income beliau. Tentang saya dan perasaan meluat dengan kerja.

Sambil tangan saya menghidupkan api, memanaskan kuali, menuang minyak lantas menumis bawang. Tangan dan mulut sama-sama busy di dapur. Tangan mencapai meatball, lalu dicampak ke dalam kuali. Kemudian mencapai daging kisar.

'Kamu lihat ni, sayang? Ini barulah minced meat.' Saya berkata sambil menunjukkan label bungkusan cap Ramly's. Suami Terchenta senyum kambing. Ternyata beliau memang tak tau membezakan minced meat dengan minced chicken. Satu berwarna merah, satu berwarna putih. Malam Khamis, kami makan spagetti minced chicken uols. Lepas tu beliau komplen rasanya tak sama dengan spagetti bolognese. Haih! *tepuk dahi*

Mujurlah sekarang En Suami Terchenta sudah tau rebus spagetti. Sebelum rebus kena letak minyak zaitun sesudu dua, supaya spagetti tak melekat. Maklumlah, spagetti tu berkanji. Next time, saya akan ajar En Suami membuat kuah spagetti ala Italian.

Yes, mintak ampun sebab kami seboks bekerja sekarang, menambah pendapatan rumahtangga. Saya sedang menunggu download trial Microsoft Office 2007 supaya lepas ni saya boleh sambung buat kerja di rumah. En Suami pulak sedang bermeeting di luar tentang projek side income beliau. Tomorrow, lusa dan tulat, saya akan berjauhan dari Suami Terchenta, demi KERJA DAN TAK LAIN TAK BUKAN KERNA KERJA. Oh Tuhanku, bila boleh kami merasa hidup yang free dari beban kerja?

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Menang 4-3!

Ini bukan tipu. Ini betul-betul punya. Kami menang friendship match lawan Ma****** bukan setakat 2-1, tapi 4-3! Kawan-kawan, mari sama2 angkat tangan sambil jerit, 'HOYEEE!'

Sebelum aku story pasal game futsal malam ni, meh citer sket asal-usul penglibatan aku di dalam sukan futsal malam ni.

Minggu lepas, kami dapat email menyeru staff-staff untuk join futsal friendly match dengan satu kompeni ni. Demi ~~memenuhi KPI saya~~ menyahut saranan semangat berpasukan, aku pon sign up sekali. Pastu siap pujuk2 member satu dept join sekali. Huhu. Hiduplah ~~KPI~~ sukan untuk negara!

Oh my God! Aku rasa macam mimpi. Macam boleh tampar muka sendiri 10x. Walaupun kami prektis sekali je tapi kami menang. Walaupun kami baru nak decide siapa main position apa 10 minit before kami start game, tapi kami menang:

'Eh, siapa nak main position apa ni? Erk. Defend? Amende tuh?'

Dah la aku serius seorang kaki bangku. Sepak bola pun dengan kadar kelajuan 10km/j. Goalkeeper boleh jalan lenggang-kangkung nak tangkap bola aku ok! MUAHAHA! Aku gelak cover line nih. Therefore, aku rasa macam tak percaya pulak bila kami menang. Gambatte!

Ehem. Warm up dulu. Prektis tendang bola

Sebelum start game, kami beratur untuk bertukar-tukar cenderahati. Kami semua dapat diari. Erk. Hopefully itu ialah diari untuk tahun depan ye geng lawan. Hehe.

Mari-mari, kita tukar hadiah Krismas.

Aku main position defend, ambik kau! Yang bestnya, bila game nak start aku leh tanya, 'Eh, defend tu apa? Dia buat apa ha?' *ramai2 pengsan di court Ampang Sports Planet*

Game tu habis pukul 9pm dan kami semua pulang dengan gumbira (ini ialah ayat malas dari orang mengantok yang keletihan lepas menang futsal).

You're Happy Because You Want Yourself to Be Happy

Recently I have been experiencing a rough patch at work, which is nothing to do with work surprisingly. How I hold up emotionally, only God, Ainie and Jen know. Ok, Ainie & Jen are in the know because we used to share same office, faced same ~~dragons~~ characters, and came up with cute nicknames for them. Durian? However did Ainie manage to come up with that. Tsk.

Anyway, I wouldn't spill here because that wouldn't be professional, kan. Enough to say, my way of dealing with difficult characters is, I choose not to care. For me, life moves on in whatever ways I choose. If I choose to be happy, my life will be happy. Lesson to everybody - never lets other people dictate how you should feel. Happiness should come from within.

Lesson I learn from the whole experience. Whatever happens, there must be a hikmah. Maybe God just want to show me who are my real friends. People like Jen and Ainie, because we once quarreled and did not speak for months but the strength of our friendship lasted us through that and the bond became even stronger once we overcame our differences. People like Kak Za, who dared to point out my mistakes right in my face instead of talking behind my back to others. People like my dear friend Bib, who stand by me through thick or thin over the past 9 years, people like Agatha, who stood to defend me when someone tried to backstab me, and people like Eva, who never judged me and accepted me for me.

Of course, there are also people who boost up my morale like Msjbox buddies, and recently people I met over a game of futsal. The hikmah I see is, when one door closed, another door opens. More opportunities to meet more people. More experiences doing new things that enrich my life.

I believe in seeing a glass half full. I do not want to dwell on negative thoughts. Work is already so stressful, why stress myself even more thinking about people's behaviors and attitude? One thing I like about my old company - almost everybody back-stabbed everybody but in the office, professional facade is still maintained even though you hate that person's guts so bad. When you have to communicate to that person, you will do it in a professional way. You don't try to avoid communicating to them, you don't re-route the communication to a middle person and you certainly don't display your crude communication skill because that will show your weakness. In other words, you don't mix up your work and personal issues together.

So, best if I keep a respectful distance towards these characters in order not to be affected by their hostile attitude. Hanya Allah membalas dan Allah itu Maha Adil lagi Maha Mengetahui.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

3 Steps to Have Wallet-Friendly Holidays

When it comes to impulsive holidays, Suami Terchenta and I have this motto - carpe diem! (seize the day). If you think that it means we have loads of $$ to go on holiday, you are very far from the truth because seriously. We always have budget holiday wan!

Step #1: Marry an impulsive adventurer

Hold my hands tight - we are going on plenty of adventures!

#2: Exploit opportunities and follow your heart

Since we are already in Sabak Bernam for CSR site visit, let's hop over to Lumut and then Pangkor!

#3: Stay at places where early reservation is not required (a.k.a. budget hotel)

Why pay more, just walk and save your moolah on taxi charges!

So let's go cuti-cuti Malaysia, Mr & Mrs Junaidix's style!

p/s: I'll do a review on the resort later.

Friday, November 06, 2009

Weekend @ Canopy Walkway FRIM Kepong

Dua bulan kebelakangan ni, life sangat busy sampai aku jarang ada di rumah wiken. Kadang-kadang aku heret Suami Terchenta sekali temankan aku outstation. Kadang-kadang kami jadi weekdays couple (hahaha, orang lain jadi weekend couple, kami jadi weekdays couple) :p

Nak buat camane. Life as kuli korporat, berkorban demi negara, demi rumah baru yang perlu wang banyak, demi. WHATEVER. Akan aku perbanyakkan lagi doa supaya Suami Terchenta cepat-cepat kaya supaya aku boleh duduk di rumah macam wife2 yang normal.

Tapi weekend lepas, kehidupan gila as kuli korporat akhirnya semakin pulih dan slow down. Finally ada masa lapang untuk Suami Terchenta. Hooray! Therefore, tanpa membuang masa kami meneruskan aktiviti riadah hujung minggu secara sihat, walafiat dan sejahtera...

... iaitu jungle-trekking di FRIM.

Sebenarnya dah banyak kali jugak la kami ke sini, cuma this time kami dapat naik Canopy Walkway. Bayaran cuma RM5 sorang. Aku suka pergi ke FRIM pagi-pagi. Boleh nganga mulut besar-besar, makan angin yg segar. Cuaca pun tak panas sangat nak berjalan-jalan di dalam hutan simpan. Dan boleh jumpa pokok berbahaya (awas! pokok ini pembunuh!):

Suami Terchenta - pokok hazardous! Di manakah pokok itu?

Ini dia pokok bahaya!

Kalau korang ingat nak sampai Canopy Walkway tu kacang je, haruslah aku beritahu ni:

Memandangkan aku dah lama tak pegi gym / exercise, jungle-trekking kali ni sungguh mencabar iman. Percayalah. Yang peliknya, Suami Terchenta yg langsung tak penah masuk gym tu (tipu, dia penah masuk sekali, lepas tu dia taubat ok!) rilek je. Bahkan, beliau siap tolak aku ke depan sambil bagi kata-kata perangsang (owh, bahayanya...) supaya aku tak jatuh pengsan kat situ jugak!

Suami Terchenta, for that reason I love you! (yucks! pembaca blah dari blog)

Lepas 30 minit mendaki, akhirnya kami sampai ke Canopy Walkway tu. Sambil betulkan nafas yg tercungap-cungap, sambil beratur nak naik jambatan gantung. Finally, giliran kami:

Posing dulu, masih bersemangat waja.

Separuh jalan, aku dah cuak giler. Erk, boleh patah balik tak?

Tapi life perlu diteruskan jugak. No turning back! (no looking down either! Gayat!)

Suami Terchenta berjalan dengan cool je. Aku yang cuak, suruh dia pegang tali kuat2x..

Akhirnya sampai jugak. Aku still ketakutan seyh, sampai kena gelak tourist dari Belanda.

On the way balik, kami ternampak segerombolan semut tengah punggah rumah, nak pindah rumah baru jugak la tu.

Dan ni pemandangan yg paling cantik di FRIM: