It's a long weekend with nothing.

It's the 3rd (and last) day of the long weekend... I have nothing special to post here.. just dropping by after being silent for some time. I did not go anywhere after I cancelled the trip to Johor Bharu last Friday. Although, I planned to go out for shopping at iSetan, KLCC this evening.. I was at home the whole day yesterday, doing work until late night... so it's time to turn the town red!

Yet, I'm not currently feeling good inside ... don't know why this uncomfortable feeling came across suddenly.. is it due to the work load which I have been facing/carrying these days? I hope not. I need to be strong for at least the next 4 days ahead, then I'll be leaving for my hometown for 3 day holiday this Thursday..(Friday June 4 is a replacement holiday for the company where I'm working with).

Well, no. Actually it is only 2 days which I call "holiday" that I can effectively spend with my family, coz I'll be spending half of Sunday, June 6 on the road. Traveling from Kelantan to Kuala Lumpur takes 8-9 hours journey by bus; departing at 8.30am and arriving at 5.30pm. Taking plane is not an option to me due to the expensive flight ticket price. RM 150-180 one way journey including tax is crazy. Wait until 9 years of working, then the ticket price will not be a matter to me anymore. Perhaps.

-Sigh-

Miss.

It's painful . To miss somebody whom is away from us.

And at this moment, I do, really-really do miss some people...that I really feel soooo down... oh,God...

Update..

Oh yes, I have moved to Kampung Baru, now nearer to my workplace which takes about 30 minutes to arrive my office from the time I leave my home every morning. 10 minutes walks to the LRT station, 3 minutes journey by LRT, and another 15 minutes to walk from the KLCC LRT station to my office. Happy.... =)

My daily schedule has also changed... but the obvious thing is, I am willing to stay back at the office everyday. It's not about work, but it's about exercising in the evening. Hehe.

ExxonMobil has free gym (which I really like it, that I don't have to find paid gym outside) and is just next to the KLCC Park where people can do exercising there. My exercise starts from 6pm till 7pm, then I'll have shower in the showeroom available in the office gym, then praying, having light dinner in the office and then only I'll go back home after praying Isyak. I reach home around 9pm most of the days during the weekdays...

Well, it's not bad to come back home at night, since Kampung Baru is always crowded with people coming to many famous restaurants here. That makes Kampung Baru happening every night, and safe to me too to walk home. I always make do'a (prayer) so that He protects me on my way to and back from work everyday,and, InshaAllah, may Allah always protect me from any harm..

Ok, time to sleep now. Work tomorrow from 8am-5pm.

Until we meet again, inshaAllah.. =)

Eid and Flu

Happy Eid everyone.... ^_^ Today is the 7th day of Eid, yet, the Eid songs are still played on the radio. I like…~ =))

I’m having flu at the moment, and hopefully it is not swine flu. Huhu. This is the first illness for this year. I am very difficult to get sick, and very hard too to recover. InshaAllah (With Allah’s will) this gonna be very short time illness only (I hope!). To make my heart strong and not become weak with this pain, I always tell myself, "This is only very little pain, sweety... " InshaAllah....

Sorry for those who are always dropping by with the hope of reading some new posts… Indeed, it has been very long time ago since my last entry …. seriously occupied (working) life lately.. not to mention the work load, but the life schedule I have since I started working. Just to share, here you go:

In Ramadhan ( 1 Sept 09- 18 Sept 09)

4.50am : Wake up & shower

5.10am: Sahur

5.50am: Fajr prayer & prepare to work

6.25am: Started off to work

7.45am: Arrive at office

Flexible working hours: 7.30am-4.30am or 8am-5pm

5.00pm: Leave office

6:30pm: Arrive home

7.15pm: Iftar

7.45pm-9.00pm: Maghrib, Isyak, Tarawih

10pm: Sleeping time.

After Ramadhan

5.50am: Wake up & shower

6.00am: Fajr prayer & preparing to go to work

6.45am: Started off to work

8.00am: Arrive at office

5.00pm: Leave office

6.15pm: Arrive home

One friend of mine was shocked that I spent 1 hour and 15 minutes on my journey to work. Well, that’s gonna be temporary only since now I’m living with my sister at Bandar Sunway. Next weekend, I’m moving to a nearer place to my office… at Kampung Baru.. =))..

“How is work?”

Hmm.. so far so good.. only that, I am a bit unsatisfied that I don’t really apply what I learnt in the university. Totally not related at all. Hmm… will see how long I can stay.. if only they knew, I wanna be a technician. Huh.

What is about 31st August?

Happy 52nd Independence Day to Malaysia..!

I once thought of what this independence means:

- The independence of having our own way of life without having to follow the Occupier's way.

- The independence of having our own way of economic growth leaded by our own choices of leaders.

- The independence of having our own way of thinking and freedom of speech.

- The independence from wars.

- The high majesty of our government to be heard as one of the world's voices.

- Many more as you can think as an independent folk.

All in all, I like this term which is related to the meaning of Independence : FREEDOM.

Alhamdulillah, all praise to Allah for this independence that we got 52 years back. May Allah always nourish the integrity amongst all races in Malaysia, put away from any transgression, protect us all from any bad influences be it in morality, economic, social, etc; as well as bless all of us and guide us to the right path to be a truly Islamic country.

Ameen!

Internet... Internet...

My laptop crashed several times yesterday afternoon without me knowing the true reason behind that. The blue screen suddenly appeared and the system rebooted by itself without any prior notice.

After trying several attempts to open Control Panel in my effort to delete suspected sources of the problem but I failed, I decided to just re-format my laptop on my own. That's my first time doing this by myself. Gamble.

It isn't difficult to re-format laptop actually, just follow the instructions you see from the screen. I still remember my friends said, re-format PC is kind of you enter a house from the back door.

As everyone already knew, re-format will cause all the data in first partition (C:) to be erased. Consequently, I need to install all important software back now such as anti-virus and anti-spyware, the latest web browsers, iTunes, etc. The main problem that made me sooo fade up with this task was that, the extremely slow Internet speed in Malaysia.

Gosh, it's only 400Kbps for the one I'm using now and to download iTunes from the Apple website, for example, it takes 6 hours to complete! It was super duper fast back in the UK with 10Mbps broadband speed; downloading, uploading, streaming, buffering, and everything went soooo smooth. But now, it is 24 times slower compared to the UK. Can you imagine that? Even the most expensive package has downloading speed of only 2.4Mbps, still 4 times slower than the broadband speed in Britain. No wonder everyone in Malaysia is complaining. Arrggh! I want to go back to Manchester!

Lucky =)

Oh, oh... What a lucky day for me today... =)

Guess what?

I got a discount voucher of RM 999 today from a random pick! Even the salesboys didn't believe when I opened it and said to him, "Ohhh... wow. I got thousand off".

One of the guys said, "No. It cannot be. The highest voucher is only RM 300." while he smiled.

"Oh, really? So what is this?" and I gave the voucher that I just tore off in front of them.

"Haaaa??" both of them were really puzzled and then looked to each other.

"Our boss never told us about this RM 999 voucher maaa. Hold on. Let me call my boss." the guy said while dialing his phone.

The Chinese guy then talked to his boss (also Chinese) in Malay language. He then passed the phone to me, "My boss wanna talk to you."

" Ok girl, so you just won a voucher. What is the value on the card?" the lady over the phone asked me to confirm.

"It's RM 999." I answered her.

"Do you have anybody in your family or friends who works with our company?", the lady asked me again.

"No, I don't. In fact, this is my first time hearing about your product." I explained.

"Ok. So could you please read the VIP number overleft of the card so that I can check it's validity?" she requested further.

I then read the number as she asked for. Then she said, "Yep. The voucher is valid for you to use on the spot. It doesn't have long validity as another voucher has which is 3 months, so it is only valid now. We don't tell our workers about this voucher because we are afraid that they will take it and give it to their family or friends. You are lucky enough today to get this very limited voucher."

Wow...I was overjoyed to hear that. =))

The voucher that I won.

"Alhamdulillah" the Chinese salesboy said to me while smiling, which means all praise be to Allah, although he is not a Muslim. Sweet. =)

"Did you recite something before opening it?" he joked.

"Hehe. No, I didn't. " replied me while grinning.

"You are so lucky. So which product you wanna buy today?" he continued.

After getting consultation from my sister through the phone and also from the salesboys, so I made up my mind to buy a multi-functional convection, grill & microwave oven which worths of RM 2,999. My sister actually didn't agree for me to buy that product hearing of the price. But, why I chose to buy this (expensive) microwave oven which you can get another brand of similar product for less than RM 500?

Here are the reasons why:

Arezzon Convection Microwave Oven with large turntable and space saving design for total convenience! 10 types of cooking are provided in microwave cooking function, the highest is 100% and the lowest is 10%.

- Heater function.
- Less radiation.
- Multi-stage Cooking.
- Automatic Cooking Sequences.
- Lock Function Key.

(Copied from Arezzo's brochure)

Although I know it is (indeed) expensive, but for long-term life investment, I think it's worth it. The guy showed me enough how this 6-in-1 system microwave oven is different from a conventional (and cheap) microwave oven which uses high frequency microwave radiation for heating which is bad to our health. With an innovation integrated in the internal side of the oven, it's not only safe-because it focuses on the heat from a heating coil on top of it's heating space, not from the dangerous wave with high frequency; but also is efficient in doing its job very well.

To add more, you can't deny this fact, that you can't put your metal pot or plate and some certain types of plastic wares in a conventional microwave oven because it is inefficient to heat the food, right? This is due to the fact that the radiation will be reflected back from the metal or will melt the plastic layer. But with this innovative Arezzo product, that is not a problem anymore. What is more interesting is that, the food is well heated, yet the metal pot doesn't heat itself, making it safe to touch it with your bare hands while taking it out from your oven once the heating process is finished. Nice, isn't it? =)



What I had in mind is that, with a busy working life in the next couple of months ahead, I will probably have no time to cook properly as I used to do. (I got this scary pictures of my future life- go to work at 6.50am, come back home at 9 or 10pm everyday. Wuwu~) So, with this oven, it will save my time and my food can be ready in a minute; just put the fish in a plate, put the plate in this oven, set the time, press "Start" button, then leave it. In 3 minutes, my dinner is ready! Hehe.

All in all, it's half price saving for a really smart and intelligent digital microwave oven. Can't believe it, yet, that's the truth. A bless in Ramadhan.. =)

So peeps, if you go to supermarket Giant in Kelana Jaya (or anywhere else I believe there must be this promotion too), do not hesitate to give your time to the Arezzo promoters. Who knows, you'll get what I get too.. or else, better deal.. =)

Click here to visit its homepage: http://www.arezzo.com.my/index.html

Am so happy~ Alhamdulillah.. (",)