The true color of me!

I just had a huge fight with someone about an hour ago.  Tak penah rasa sebegini marah atau sebegini berani bergaduh dengan orang face-to-face.

Utk memendekkan cerita yang agak panjang, I went to collect the company’s rubber stamp daripada satu kedai ni.  Dah lama dah order/siap, tapi tak berkesempatan nak collect.  Samada kedai tu selalu tutup bila pergi (sebab keluar rumah lepas Subuh, balik rumah dah pukul 9 – 10 malam), atau pernah sekali pegi, kedai bukak tapi tak bawak cukup duit pulak.  Tapi most of the time singgah waktu sepatutnya bukak tapi berkunci, takde orang.

My mistake sebab serah duit dulu baru check rubber stamp tu.  Bila nak mintak balik duit, payahlah.  Ada ker patut simple formatting of address dia buat lintang pukang?  Bila mintak dia buat lain, macam2 alasan yang tak berkaitan dia ungkit!  Tah hapa2!  Kononnya:

1. I just sent him the address via sms, so dia tak pasti itu ini.  Abis tu?  Kalau tak pasti, call lah suruh datang verify.  Janganlah pepandai pi buat stamp tu sebelum verify the correct formatting!  Bila kita kata anak kita yang darjah 4 tu pun dah belajar cemana nak tulis alamat dengan betul…dia kata kita nak hina dia pulak!  Tapi memang betul pun tak cerdik.. kalau guna jugak company stamp tu, orang pulak kata kita tak sekolah, tak reti tulis alamat dgn betul.
2. Dia ada contact my hubby who first contacted him to come to the shop to place order, etc.  Pandai dia nak reka2 cerita, padahalnya that happened before he was told that an sms will be sent to him containing the address for the stamp.  Kalau dia tak terima order via sms, cakaplah.  Ni dia pi buat jugak.  And 3 days after, sms kata rubber stamp tu dah ready.  I thot “waaahhh.. terer gak orang ni.. takde call apa2 pun for verification, tup2 dah siap!”
3. Dia dah siap rubber stamp tu dah lama and i didn’t come to collect.  So, kononnya merugikan dia la tu.  Kalau nak kira rugi, dia hanya rugi if I didn’t collect it but there I was to collect it, siap dah bayar lagi baru perasan alamat tak betul.  So sapa yang akan kerugian sekarang?

Pastu dia boleh tanya sapa nak tanggung kos dia call/sms about the rubber stamp to counter my argument when I said duit RM15 tu tak halal kalau dia tak nak pulangkan.  Aikkkss… thot all those are the costs of doing business?  Apesal lak nak kaitkan mende tu dengan issue buat alamat salah ni?

I am still soo angry sebab dia biadab.  Boleh lepas dia pulangkan duit tu, dia kata dia tak perlukan customer macam ni.  Like I care!  And he has the nerve to say “Blah!” to me when I replied saying “sapa nak guna rubber stamp yang tak betul macam orang tak sekolah tu?!”  So freaking rude!  He said “Blah!” to me several times.  I was so mad, that I went back inside and tepis satu tray kat atas meja kat situ.  Am sooooooo very angry!  Dia kata nak repot polis.  Pegi lah.  Macam kita takut!  I have all the proofs.  Tak payah lah nak takut2kan orang!

Moral of the story… jangan lah pegi kedai ni – it’s located kat paya jaras (will update on the name of the kedai), a few doors from Klinik Sofia.  Memang biadab orangnya dan sanggup berkelakuan demikian semata2 kerana duit RM15!!  Kita pun tak nak duit RM15 tu.  Nak… ambik lah (walaupun takkan dihalalkan).   Yang buat tersangat marah ialah sebab dia amat biadab, dan pandai mereka2 cerita untuk menegakkan benang yang basah!!!

Primapersona Handcrafting Workshop Series

At last, the details of these workshops are finalized!  Do contact me if you are interested to participate to find out the dates of each module, fees, venue, etc.  Also, would appreciate if you could forward this piece of info to your own circles of friends and relatives whom might be interested to participate.  Thanks!

Iju’s wedding @ KB

Pada hari Jumaat (12 Jun 2009) telah berlangsung majlis menyambut menantu di rumah Che Nor di Kota Bharu, Kelantan. Berikut adalah sebahagian gambar2 yang telah sempat diambil (most of them by photographer Muhammad Shumayl Asmawi).

banner

abe in action

pengantin baru sampai

pengantin diarak ke rumah

posing jap utk sume cameramen … :)

3 of the 5 flower girls… 2 orang lagi tak nak amik gambar

take a break… makan kejap…

krew-krew pengsan kepenatan

mak pengantin lelaki tersandar kepenatan

aksi2 di belakang tabir

wordings pada kek ditulis sendiri oleh mak pengantin lelaki… *thumbs up!*

upacara memotong kek perkahwinan

sesi suap menyuap … :)

sesi suap menyuap lagi… hehe

Akhir kata… Selamat Pengantin Baru, Iju & Baiti!  Semoga sentiasa bahagia, tabah dan cekal menjalani kehidupan sebagai suami isteri.  One favourite advise always given by the experienced – Never scream at each other unless the house is on fire! 

Exams Over! Yeayy??

I just finished  my last exam this afternoon.  It’s “Accounting and Control for Islamic Financial Institutions”.  The questions were quite tough I might say.  But that’s already expected.  Our midterm exam for this paper wasn’t easy either.  The marks that we got made us shiver.  But alhamdulillah, the Prof was kind in his markings for our reports, evaluation of our presentations and even gave us bonus marks when we asked questions during those presentations.  As a result, our carry marks were not that bad.   Huhuhu… Anyway, now all exams are over and I’m a free woman!   Or I wish I am!

 

The school holidays will last for another week.  So, I hope to get some good break.  And I mean a REAL GOOD break. I can’t remember when’s the last time I had such a break.  Maybe before the kids were born?  I guess not even then coz we were just settling down and we don’t have the means to go for such a break.  Oh well.. whatever it is, I just want to enjoy the next couple of days relaxing and physically doing nothing.  But I really doubt that though.  There’s always laundry to do, always meals to prepare and always cleaning to do…. Oh dear… so much for a break! 

Coming to the end of the semester

This weekend is the last weekend for classes this semester.  Starting next weekend, we will be facing the much-dreaded exams.  I am feeling quite sad that the semester is coming to an end.  This semester and last’s are my batch’s specialization semesters, in other words, we are supposed to take up courses which we want to specialize in.  As for me, I’m specializing in Islamic Banking and Finance, so including the 2 courses that I’m taking this semester, I’ve taken 4 Islamic banking and finance courses.

Much to my surprise, I truly enjoyed these 2 semesters.  I’ve learnt so much about the issues and prospects of the Islamic economy and at the same time, I’ve been enlightened about many things relating to our daily life as Muslims.  Really… I am so glad that I decided to specialize in this area.  I would have continued to be ignorant about the do’s and don’ts in muamalah and ultimately about the Islamic economy.

For the next semester, which is our final semester, we are required to do 2 elective courses.  Somehow, I think I’ve made up my mind.  I will carry out a research instead and produce a research paper in the area of Islamic banking and finance. 

Quick update on stuff!

I’ve been so very, unbelievably busy for the past few weeks. And will continue to be indescribably busy for the next few weeks or so… so I thought, I’d just squeeze a few minutes of my time to update this blog of mine…

Anyway, my latest “life-update” is that my 3 kids have finally.. yup! FINALLY.. moved out of my room into their own room, which is just next to ours. I’ve made their room as comfy and nice as possible. And alhamdulillah, they are adjusting themselves pretty well yeay!

Hmm.. what else? Well.. I’m officially an employee now. Yup! But I’ve flexi hours and I don’t have to go to the office. I can work from home. How great is that? Hehehe….

Then, I’ve my final exam for this sem coming in 3 weeks’ time. And between now and then, I’ve 3 events to put together and 20 hantarans to complete…. yeehaaa!

So, to sum these all up… I’m going to be insane pretty soon!

Alhamdulillah… my praises to Allah…. :)

La la la la la…. don’t know why but I’m quiet stress-free today.  And it’s been quite a while since I last had this feeling.  Alhamdulillah….. praises to Allah.  Without his blessings we would’nt have the good health, great food, comfortable home, loving family, and all the wonderful things that we are enjoying today.  When we are sick, when we have less money, when we are faced with problems, we usually turn to Allah for help but when we are doing OK we tend to forget Him.  I want to change that attitude and I will make it appoint to thank Him always because no matter how bad our situation is, it is the BEST for us and there are many more people in this world who are in more unfortunate situations than the one we are in.

And alhamdulillah… the kids are also doing well in school.  In the recent first monthly test for Sekolah Agama, Shumayl got no. 2 in class, Syaima’ no. 3 and Syifa’ no. 1.  Couldn’t ask for more.  In the morning school’s first monthly test… Syifa’s got all A’s while Shumayl and Syaima’ all A’s except for 1 subject.  Okaylah.  For now.  But am going to see that they get all A’s for all subjects in future tests and exams because I’m quite sure they are capable to do so.  Just need some guidance and push! 

And in conjunction with the Maulidur Rasul recently, Shumayl was chosen to recite the Al-Quran in Tilawah at his school and he won first place for Year 4.  And as for Syifa’, she got first place in the coloring competition (for Year 1 in both Sek. Kebangsaan and Sek. Agama).  Syaima’… well… she didn’t participate in any competition but in Sek. Agama, her team won first place in Mencari Khazanah Nabi (treasure hunt).  I am so proud of them.  I think they have gone up the school stages more frequently than I did when I was their age (in fact, when I was their age… I didn’t go up any school stage!  hahahaha).  So, I am very proud of them.  And again… praises to Allah for allowing my kids to enjoy such nikmah!

The procession led by the Sek Agama's headmaster, Ustaz Othman

Shumayl leading the Year 4 students with his friend

Syaima' trailing behind her friends

Syifa' with her Year 1 friends

Shumayl receiving the Best Procession Award on behalf of the Year 4s

Syifa' receiving her prize for the coloring competition

Syaima'... running away.... hahaha... well, actually no. Couldn't snap the photo fast enough when she was receiving the prize on behalf of her team for winning first place in the treasure hunt game

My latest craze

Nope.  It’s not the iPhone.  And it’s not Facebook (though I do login twice or three times a day just to see what my friends are up to).  My latest craze is crafting!  I guess the passion to create stuffs has never really died.  I first started making my own greeting cards when I was, what… 9 years old?  or maybe 10.  I made birthday cards for my dad and my mom.  And I created my own notepad by punching holes on one side of a stack of blank papers.  And I would weave some knitting wool through the holes to hold the papers together.  I also remember making a soft-toy (if I’m not mistaken, it was a puppy) and I sew lots of cross-stitch designs.  And one of the designs was sewn to an apron which I made (of course with the help from my mom)! 

Until today I still love crafting.  I started a business in gubahan hantaran 6 years ago after I realized that I was getting more and more orders to do hantarans.  And I really enjoy doing it.  The satisfaction in creating something beautiful by blending and mixing flowers, ribbons, laces, beads, etc together to beautify the presentation of the hantarans, for me, is worth the time and efforts spent.  And for the past few months, my addiction (is it too strong a word?  hehe) to crafting has included a new stuff which I’ve never experimented before and that is scrapbooking.  Digital scrapbooking to be exact.  I started to learn how to use Photoshop.  And thanks to technology and the Internet, without much difficulty I began to create scrapbook pages.

Apart from scrapbooking, now I’m also into paper crafting.  Wanted to “import” some paper punches, but they are all so expensive (after converting to RM).  Lucky me, I found similar paper punches at a bookstore and I started to design greeting cards using them.  I experimented with foams and felts.  I began to make bookmarks and tags.  It is so much fun!!!  Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I finally realized what I truly enjoy doing, although it’d be great if I have realized this 27 years ago

p.s.:  do visit my craft blog at rekapersona.wordpress.com.  Don’t forget to leave your comments! 

no more Putih, Bib, Chitam, Junior, Kelabu, Tahi Lalat and all the baby rabbits

Jam dah pukul 12:01 pagi.  Dah lebih kurang 2 jam since arnab2 tu dibawa pergi.  Sebenarnya Chitam & Tahi Lalat dibawa pergi petang tadi lagi.. lebih kurang dalam pukul 7 malam.  Yang lelain tu, malam ni.. around 9:30 malam.  Terasa amat sedih.  I dreaded this moment because I knew I will be very sad.  True enough, I cried dan mata pun dah jadik bengkak.  The kids actually mintak continue bela seekor-dua and perhaps the 5 2-week-old baby rabbits.  Adik wanted her Junior but I insisted that we give all the rabbits away because it’s not easy to care for those rabbits when we are rarely at home.  So, there are no more rabbits out there.  Terasa kosong di belakang sana.  Dan rasa sedih ni masih belum hilang.  Petang tadi, sempat juga snap gambar budak2 bermain buat kali terakhir dgn arnab2 tu.  I, myself, bid farewell to each of those rabbits.  Sekarang ni yang tinggal hanyalah kenangan.  Semoga mereka mendapat tuan yang lebih baik, rumah yang lebih baik dan kehidupan yang lebih baik di tempat yang baru.  Will miss them very very very much!  :~|

this and that…

wahhh… dah lama betul tak blog.  Nasib baik masih ingat password untuk login!  Lately ni sibuk betul!  Tido pun tak menentu.  Kadang2 tidur pukul 4:30 pagi.  Kadang2 tidur pukul 8:30 malam, bangun pukul 2:30 pagi.  Kadang2 tidur pukul 1 pagi, bangun pukul 4:30 pagi.  During the day pulak, hectic dengan budak2.  Malam, bila dah balik rumah.. by the time budak2 tido and rumah sunyi senyap dan condusive untuk study, dah teramat letih dan mengantuk pulak!  waduuuhhh!!  sebegitu kucar-kacir 2-3 minggu kebelakangan ni!  Hence, tak sabar betul nak abis semester ni (next weekend will be my last exam for this semester).  Nak rehat puas-puas.

Anyway, sekarang ni budak2 tak ada.  Ikut pah & atok diorang pegi convoy kelab volkswagen ke cherating.  2 malam tido sana.  Petang ni baru balik semula ke KL.  Diorang takde tak sempat nak relax pun sebab dok menghabiskan masa kat U dengan group discussion lah.. kelas lah… so, pagi ni baru la dapat lepak2 sikit.  Pi tengok movie sorang2.  Best juga sekali-sekala lepak sorang2 ni.  Tengok movie “Bride wars”.  Saje nak dapatkan idea2 terkini yang boleh diguna-pakai bila plan wedding customers sendiri.  Tapi tu lah.  Khidmat wedding planners kat US tu memang exclusive and professional!  Kalau kat mesia ni, orang masih consider wedding planners as mak andam!  Hampeh!

Cakap pasal wedding planner ni… rasanya perlu buat some changes lah pada current service.  Rasanya dah malas dah nak plan wedding yang gempak2, yang canggih2 ni.  Sebabnya… tak jive dengan prinsip diri.  Mungkin sebab tu tak berapa beria nak promote biz ni kot?!  Rasanya lepas ni nak plan weddings yang simple2 jer.  Yang down-to-earth.  Yang takde elemen2 riak.  Tapi kalau weddings yang simple2 camtu, masih perlu ke khidmat wedding planner?  Mungkin dah tak perlu, ye dak?

Oh well… apa2 je lah.  Sekarang ni nak focus on 1 paper yang kena submit latest Jumaat ni and nak baca buku for “Shariah, Economics and Society” exam Sabtu ni.  Yang lelain tu, kena KIV dulu.  And as for now, nak pi lunch dulu.