Thursday, August 18, 2005

Those Bloody Vendor

Every time I meet our vendor, I always ask myself why it’s so hard for them to finish this project. Is it a matter of time consuming or just you guys have a bad programmer. It’s already 5 days I’m waiting for them to solve live issue. I remember last week I meet them and told them about those error that happen inside the system, it seems that they cannot accept the problem and try to avoid it. And for me it cannot be accept because user spotted the mistake, and if the programmer cannot find it, so who is the programmer actually. When I just join this company, one of staff here told me that, always check for the vendor code, because they might not doing it correctly, and I even experienced it when one of this module already tested by my supervisor and already sign out, but suddenly when we want to deploy that module didn’t work. So we have to chase the programmer and sit beside him and make sure he’s doing it correctly. In one more cases, I have called the vendor, and asked him either can we extend the module capability from just printing receipt that has been key-in by user but also receipt generated by system, guess what? He said, he needs to create a new module for that so we have to pay for that simple problem, Bollywood vendor. I think it is bad to deal with this kind of vendor.

We already facing a problem with the system although it’s already on production, this is worse because we dealing with money. Luckily vendor still here, if the vendor left, I guess maybe we have to solve it by our own. If you want to know why our IT graduate is so hard to find a job, here is the problem. Actually there is a lot of project that involve with IT in our country, but most of them a using outside vendor, from India, and of course the programmer also from India. Its not to say their programmer is not good, but is it our Malaysian is so bad their knowledge. Issue of graduate cannot speak well in English, or lack of communication is an old issue; the Japanese not even can speak a single line of word. Still they believe they can do it, and they have done it, just see the electronic product. If we didn’t believe on our own people who is going to do it? Hmmm…..it just so pathetic to see our IT graduate being dump, of course fresh graduate is lack of knowledge and skill but please we can give them a chance. Anak kera disusukan, anak dirumah mati kelaparan.

* Thanks to my former boss for gave a chance to show my talent and improve my knowledge and skills.
* Ni mana jubah Yahudi mabuk kau kutip? Kat sini- nih mana programmer mabuk korang kutip nih?
* Kesian gak aku tengok graduate nak cari kerja, termasuklah aku sendiri walau dah ada experience, kerja memang banyak kat malaysia tapi kalau hang ada degree takkan hang nak pi kerja buruh binaan ye tak?

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Another Wave Coming

Without noticed it's already 6 month I been retrenched, and it’s already 6 month I joined this company. It was a pathetic time for me, for the first 3 month in this company, I was a looser in every aspect and nobody guide me through, only my ‘mandur’ gave some explanation what happened here. Overall here is OK, previous company was better, here I got a few friend from other department mine only the senior people sometimes say hi! Anyway it is a luck actually for me to joined here a day after the bad news. I never expected to be retrench, I hope I left it by say good bye to the HR, but things didn’t happen like that they dumped us together like rubbish. At the end we all lined up to received our last payment, ‘macam ambik gaji buruh’. Luckily Allah has prepared another place for me. That what was happened 6 month ago, now? Now there is rumors that another wave coming towards me, if last time I got my team mate to share the burden now I didn’t know how to share it, here I feel lonely and these rumors just make me nervous and always thinking the fate of my family and my son.

Rumors of VSS is okay, but retrenchment will make people like me suffer for a couple of month or a year or forever. The management decision of shared services is a good idea, but the bad is for us to accept it. Maybe for this moment they say, “we will utilized all of our manpower, and nobody is going anywhere”, what happened at the end is make me nervous. Insurance company the said is stable, but from my point of view, if there to many people on it somebody has to get out, so they can maximum their profit. Here they are trying to share IT from three Insurance company under this group into one, its not only IT but also finance, and HR. That’s mean 3 company will have one HR, IT and finance, that what I know.

I hope I can find job as soon as possible because I can feel the wave but yet didn’t see it. And if it comes I just can make a hope that some one can hold me; otherwise I will end up at home. With the problem of the vendor at here and all bugs inside the system developed by the vendor I feel more to move out from this place rather than stay for another couple of year. Just imagine how can you pay for a couple of million, to get a system just make more problems for you, and now these vendor using that bugs to gets more money from you. And sometimes they even try to “kelentong” you.

Since this company has end up their contract workers, a lot of pending job to be settle, plus more, there are also a high volume of sign off including the HR Asst Manager. I just pray to get another job, better pay or anything is better, can arrr?


* Korang ader kerja kosong tak?
* Aku rasa lagi baik jaga lembu la, dari kerja ngan org nih, makan gaji nih kerja tak menetu, ikut dan ja nak buang org.

Friday, August 12, 2005

What They Talked

Why in this world we have to compare what we have with others, and especially women, huh now women will may not like me. But this is true, I guess!!! It seems that most of us will make comparison with others, although we know that would never bring anything to us, but maybe give some inspired idea how to improve ourselves. But sometimes comparison just bring out an enemy instead of an idol. In my office..pssst….now a group of lady start talking about their friend behavior, and they just don like her because she is ‘suka menunjuk-nunjuk’. After a few minutes of waste some of their times (I hope they can sit down at their place and play solitaire) and they gone. Now maybe you guys say that I’m “curi-curi dengar”, hey come on they talk it in front of my place, actually it was my Project Manager place. Sometimes I enjoyed too, hihiihii….every time they talk I can heard that they relieve their anger, good anger management. They covered almost every material topic from car till underwear (I guess).

I just don’t talk too much in my office, except with guys. Today no conversation yet, maybe after this afternoon they will come have another. Yesterday converstion a little bit hot, “ala baru beli kereta waja dah nak menunjuk-nunjuk, yang kiter nih ader unser tak cakap pon” . Ya Allah selamatkanlah aku dari api neraka mu, aku terpaksa mendengar semua ini. Now see, sometimes we think that person is so menunjuk-nunjuk, but what happen when we said it too it show that we are more than that. Ader lagi ayat power org pompuan nih kalau korang nak tau contoh: “Zaman kiter pakai kat kredit dah habih dah, biarlah dia pulak nak pakai kad kredit”. There some more “ala bayar itu pon nak guna kat kredit”. Sometimes it infected my wife too “Ain dah lepas bertunang, sikit-sikit my fiancee”. Hahhaha…beware pizli, almost women have this habit. Hafezh ok kot, but not to say that it was to bad, but it just irritating when they say it in front of me, for me what ever they say or do it, it was their own business, but sometimes it infect me too “duduk rumah kecik, pakai kereta sikit punya besaq” but it not always.

Women love to do that more than men, men when they do it they do it inside, keep it and they blow it when it become trouble. Just don’t make it as a weapon to insult our own friend although we may don’t like her but she still human, human its natural to make a mistake. We love to do it, because so we can show that we have something that they don’t have. Like this, “ko dah beli ps3, aku baru beli semalam”, it just not correct its better like this “aku semalam dah beli ps3, ko nak try dak” hahahahha 2x5. Anyway human is human, arrogant. There is another style menunjuk-nunjuk, pakai seluar jeans lowcut nampak spender brand apa, especially girls, hhahaha tak boleh diterima akal. Kalau pakai brand scuba taknak pulak dia tunjuk.

Huhu let we all left it first and go for solat Jumaat. Aku bukan nak menunjuk ha ini memang kenyataan hari Jumaaat memang kita kena pergi solat Jumaat. Mintak ampun bebanyak. And then those conversation come again. Women, forgive me it not all of you like that but sometimes obviously it was made it from a group of you. Dah la aku nak sembahyang pulak.

* Aku skrg malas nak layan kalau ader org cakap menunjuk-nunjuk, mampos ko la.

Wednesday, August 10, 2005

Cuaca Oh Cuaca

Makin hari makin teruk aku tengok keadaan cuaca la. La nih pula kurang hujan, ditambah dengan jerebu nih, aduh sakit mata memandang berat lagi hidung nak bernyawa. Aku baru saja balik dari kampung, terus jadi macam culture shock pulak tengok. Sebab masa dekat Kedah keadaan tak teruk macam KL nih. Bila balik mai rasa macam pi Cameroon Highland pulak, cuma beza dia, tak sejuk. Dulu masa aku kecik-kecik aku nak pi sekolah kayuh "gerek", sampai kat sekolah aku pegang muka aku ada wap-wap air, sejuk oooo, itu kabus ok tapi la nih. Tapi la nih aku rasa kalau kayuh "gerek" mau dapat selsema, lepas tuh tekak mesti rasa kasar sikit.

Minggu lepas aku pi tukaq aku punya aircon, kedai melayu, ok la dia buat. Tengah tukaq tu aku ada sembang sikit dengan mamat nih. Aku cakap, dulu org naik kereta tak payah aircon pon , pasang kipas pon dah ok, lepas tuh dia kata dulu banyak pokok, la nih semua tebang nak buat perumahan. La nih org dah tak gunakan kedinginan pokok-pokok dah untuk sejukkan suasana, tapi ramai yang pilih pakai air-con, pelikkan, dari yang tak kena bayaq terus kena bayaq. Kalau rumah kat taman tak pasang aircon siap la, kalau rumah tuh atas bukit ok la sikit sebab ada angin lalu. Lagi satu aku heran arkitek mana yang design rumah kat malaysia nih, kalau rumah teres tuh, dia punya pengudaraan, masyaallah, kambing pon tak tahan kalau tak pasang kipas atau aircon. Kalau musim panas mau masak daging. Kalau rumah flet ok sikit sebab tinggi ada la sikit angin masyuk.

Tapi itu lah kenyataan dunia hari ini, cuaca tak menentu, ditambahkan pulak dengan rumah yang panas. Kat opis satu hal, kalau sejuk, sejuk sangat macam peti ais. Tapi kes jerebu nih memang dah kronik, mau-mau kalau hujan lebat sekali baru ok sikit. Pagi tadi aku tengok kat luaq pukul 8 pun rasa macam pukul 7, matahari jangan cakap la, dah dua hari aku tak tengok. Nih kalau tak ok jugak maunya perintah berkurung nih. Klinik swasta la nih tengah naik sikit la income sebab ramai sakit, hehehe duit lebih la sikit.

* Aku tak berapa suka sangat aircon, takut nanti bibir aku kering dan merekah.
* Sekarang rumah design lebih kurang ja, kalau teres 2 tingkat, lebih kurang sama macam rumah panjang Sarawak. Agaknya arkitek tuh dpt idea dar i Sarawak kot.


Friday, August 05, 2005

Balik Kampung

Balik kampung, uish best nih..yg nih memang best. Dah sebulan lebih tak balik kampung. Aku kalau bab balik kampung paling best bila tiba hari yg nak balik tuh mesti rasa best semacam. Paling best kalau aku balik kampung aku suka bangun awal pepagi lepas tu termenung sat tengok bukit dekat dengan rumah aku. Fuhh…kalau semalam tuh baru lepas hujan, pagi tu rasa best ja…berkabus. Rumah aku nih rumah felda so taklah best macam banglo, tapi bestnya dekat sini udara memang best, angin jangan cakap, sekali datang macam sepoi-sepoi tuh.

Dulu kalau masa belum kahwin aku balik kampung aku sorang ja, la nih kenalah balik rumah mak mertua aku. Rumah mak mertua aku nih rumah taman, so kuranglah sikit dia punya feel tuh. Dulu rumah mak aku rumah papan, la nih dah jadi batu. Duduk kat felda nih feeling dia lain dari duduk kampung, kalau kampung rasa sunyi sikit(kampung aku la), lainla kalau Kampung Baru. Kat felda ramai penduduk so macam duduk kat taman jugak tapi rumah sebijik-bijik, tak main aaa rumah semi-d sapa nak kongsi dinding.

Aku kalau nak balik kampung nih, bab yg paling aku tak puas hati tol dengan minyak. Tol dah la mahal, minyak lagi. Selalu kalau aku balik, confirm RM 200 untuk kos pergi balik termasuk minyak, itu belum perut2 meragam lagi, dan buah tangan. Kira balik kampung nih perlu dimasukkan dalam bajet family jugak la. So tak boleh la nak balik tiap2 bulan. Tapi kalau dah rasa takdak arah sangat duduk kat KL nih memang aku cau balik kampung. Perjalanan memangla jauh, dahtu pakai 1 driver pulak,aku la tunggu wife aku buleh drive ja kalau buleh terus aku bagi dia drive. Pemandangan masa balik tak boleh nak cerita sebab aku jalan malam so nampak gelap jerla, tapi ader jugak hari yang aku balik pagi, pagi memang best kalau nak start perjalanan, selalunya time pukul 6 dan kebawah dan masa tuh dah dekat area Gua Tempurung, pemandangan memang best. Aku kalau balik memang jarang berenti, memang one shot sampai rumah terus, tapi dah ada baby nih aku berenti la jugak. So hujung minggu nih kat kg ler aku.


* Kalau kampung kat Bdr Tun Hussein Onn, tiap2 hari aku balik. kihkihkih...
* Minyak naik lagi nih, taktau la berapa pulak minyak untuk balik kampung.


Thursday, August 04, 2005

Malaysian Football

This will be a controversy if we talk it at café or with our friend everybody have their own idea and their own team that they can refer or choose. Well when I try to write about this matter, it’s not more than just a hard feeling from me. I’m not a football player or far away a sportsman. But I like sport like others do, and I’m enjoyed doing it and if I didn’t do it for a month I felt like my body is weak.

Well football has been in Malaysia for a long time, and still we haven’t mastered it. And even we seem like not moving anywhere. We play the same style and even training using the same method and not having a good foundation of it. But when we talk café we talk like we have the skill and know about it. I always follow Malaysian football news, and of course Malaysian outside there also doing the same. While we moving step by step changing our league name and put up a shining on it, we forgot that we a loosing a skill on the field. I still remember when I was in secondary school, there is not much training for football player at school, at primary school also we only have some set of simple training. And all the player for school came from a people who really have talent on it, and not build from a training. Here in Malaysia we don’t have a good foundation of football, most of our national footballer also seem can’t mastered a base skill that a football player should have.

I like to see Japanese and Korean; they are discipline, and even have a good skill of football, if 10 to 15 years ago we beat them now anytime they will beat us. Now even the Thai also have shown improvement, their discipline has put them as a good football player. In Malaysia discipline are number 2 but skill come first, even that also we can’t have a good skill player. Poor Malaysian we cannot even sent our team to Asian tournament. We change everything still our footballer not improve, if they win today tomorrow the will loose. I think maybe we have forgot one thing, our youngster. We are lack on training the youngster, that’s why our footballer cannot have a good base skill. Football training should start from a young age. 7-12 is a good time to give them time to enjoy play, and teach them all then basic skill. When I was in primary school none of this being taught, I also don’t know how I can kick a ball, maybe because I learned it from kung fu movie, Jackie Chan. I don’t know if we already have it in our primary school right now. What I know is currently there are a few academy that teach football for kids, this one we have to pay for it.

Hope one day we could really enjoy watching our own league. Nothing to say anymore, this just what I see and follow, maybe you guys have another good reason for this.

* Korang rasa org malaysia main bola macam mana?Ke org malaysia ni takat main kat kg jer kut.
* Tak pernah ada org ajaq aku main bola betui2, dulu main bola, asal boleh lari sambil tendang bola dah kira ok la.


Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Am I Guilty ?

It was all my fault, I don't know how this flu get into my house. Actually I got a feeling to get flu a few days before. But I still can control it, so I didn’t take any medicine. So yesterday this flu has infected my son. For medical history, I am having a sinus problem, and it has been inherit by my son. And last night everybody cannot sleep well. He keep crying when he cough.

So this morning I took a half-day leave to send him to clinic. Actually I cannot see my son crying like that, it’s like he was trying to say something to us and it’s so pity. Luckily the medicine has made him fall asleep, and I can go to work. But still my wife has to take care of him. Just now my wife call and say that the temperature has fall, from 38 degrees to 37. Hmmm….he should be okay. It’s not our first time facing this, this is second time, first is two month ago when my wife stay at my mother in-law house. That time my father came and took him to Klinik Pakar Kanak-Kanak, and all was okay, but this time its only us taking care of him, I want to make sure at least he can smile tonight. Today he’s not smile yet, because every morning he will wake up 6.30 am and start playing, that is the time I will play with my son. This because everyday when we back from work, take him from nursery he will fall asleep.


Tonight I hope we can keep him comfortable enough to sleep. Last night was not so good but still better than when he had a stomach problem. Now I can feel how hard is to be a parent, To my mak and ayah thank you so much. Last night my mom was at my home so everything is under control, but tonight, wah….only me, my wife and my sister.


* Masuk nih dah kali ketiga ada kes besar kat Haziq.Demam Selsema, Sakit Perut, Demam Selsema.
* Lebih baik korang jgn melawat bebudak kecik kalau ada selsema, kesian aku tengok kalau bebudak terutama anak sendiri.
* Oklah Haziq, nanti ayah makan ubat. Puas aku nak bagi nak aku makan ubat, berbagai helah aku guna, selalu fail.

Monday, August 01, 2005

Beli Rumah

Aku bukak topik nih sebab aku nak beli rumah. Dan dah dekat setahun aku cari rumah yang sesuai tapi tak jumpa. Ada yang aku jumpa tapi jauh sangat, ada pulak yang aku jumpa rumah retak, ada lagi rumah tinggi (kondo) takut gempabumi, nanti goyang. Sampai sekarang aku ngan bini aku dalam dilema nak cari rumah. Dan aku dah naik segan nak pi Bukit Mahkota cari rumah, sebab dah dua tiga kali pi tapi satu rumah pon aku tak beli. Aku dah naik geram duduk rumah sekarang, sebab rumah ni banyak masalah, lepas tuh sewa pulak tuh. Tapi aku suka suasana kat sini sebab tempat letak kereta besaq sangat. Kalau aku pi beli rumah dua tingkat, salesman tuh mesti cakap "ini rumah you boleh park dua keleta ooo, side by side". Rumah aku la aku boleh buat parking lot. Tapi, rumah flet dua bilik, kalau tiga bilik dan luas dah lama aku beli rumah nih. Aku pulak, jenis kalau nak membeli nih cukup memilih. Bayangkanlah aku nak beli kasut aku pilih samapai dua tiga hari. Ni rumah mesti mau dua tiga tahun nih. Hafezh tau lah bertapa sempitnya rumah aku!! Sekarang pulak adik aku duduk sekali, so ruang tamu akau dah jadi, bilik tidoq dia la. Lagi satu bilik aku buat ampaian...malas aku nak sidai baju kat luar.

Tempat-tempat yang aku dah pergi tengok showhowse; Bukit Mahkota, Bangi, Kajang, Bandar Mahkota Cheras, Bandar Tun Hussein Onn, Taman Midah ( dekat dengan rumah aku sekarang). So aku nih kira dah jadi macam broker rumah pulak. Lepas tu tiap kali ada MAPEX mesti ada muka aku ngan bini aku kat situ cari rumah, dan seperti kebiasaan, kitaorang kumpul brochure, kalau korang nak boleh datang amik kat aku. Aku pulak kalau dah ada brochure mulalah layan berangan tengok brochure, padahal belum beli lagik. Hari tuh aku dapat satu rumah 2 tingkat di Bandar Tun Husseim Onn harga dlm 230K, kira murah la jugak. Tapi keadaan rumah, tak berapa nak menyenangkan. So sekarang kami masih lagi dok berangan nak beli rumah. Agak korang la rumah yang macam mana korang pilih:


Bukit Mahkota
Luas: 45x60 SemiD
Harga: 216k

Bandar Mahkota Cheras
Intermediate
Luas:20x65
Harga:190k

Corner
Luas:40x65
Harga:245k


Prisma Midah (Kondo)
Luas : 1500sft
Harga: 233k

Bandar TunHusseinOnn
Luas:22x75
Harga:230k


Pening kepala aku nak pilih semua yg di atas. Sebab dekat Bukit Mahkota tu jauh dari tempat kerja aku, tapi rumah luas, Prisma Midah, Kondo tak larat aku nak bayaq maintenance. Bandar Tun Hussein Onn pulak rumah ad buruk sikit jugak la. Bandar Mahkota Cheras kira dekat la tapi hmmm aku takut la pulak kena bagun awal bagi meredah jem dekat Plaza Pheonix. Pikir punya pikir sampai sekarang aku belum boleh buat keputusan. Silap-silap aku duduk dekat sini lagi 5 tahun, argggh rumah sempit.


* Aku kalau buleh nak duduk felda jugak sebab kawasan rumah sangat lapang.
* Pizli rumah felda best kan!!!