Ultraman Chan....

Was going thru the old photos when I realized Chan just love ultraman...

The proofs...... from Sedim & round island trip....

The sweetness of working in private sector....

Of course the 'sweetest' thing while working in private is the fact that when you don't like it where you are.... you are always allowed to resign and look for another opportunity... most importantly you won't disturb others.... and just hope for a better new workplace.... should it be otherwise, try again, hoping for more luck this time.... hahaha....

In public, we can asked to be transferred.... or being transferred involuntarily.... but... will the new place be better???... hope so... but how about others who are happy where they are, yet became the victims just to fill up the vacant seats...??? And so... the requests for transferred will be a continuing process.... without end....

And here I am right now... being stuck... balancing the need, the consequences and the benefits...
Maybe I just need to look on how to transfer the problems so that it is no longer mine... !!
Just kidding..... InsyaAllah, there'll be some lights at the end of the tunnel....

The two-week trip....

Watching Gulliver's Travel last Friday plus being reminded again and again of the two-week trip...

It is already more than a year.... the two-week trip to Germany.... Hildesheim to be exact...

The trip for work... while with my previous company... there was a joke there that says once you got a chance for business trip, you are then qualify to resign.... that was what I did...!!!!
Just to prove them right!!!

When I was told that I was required to go there, I was initially excited.... then I learnt that I will be traveling alone... and there the worries started... and so the net traveling started... finding more about the place I'll be going... asking around from those who have been there... what to bring... how to travel around....

Then the journey started... the flights.... penang - singapore - frankfurt - hanover......All in all including the transits it took 24 hours to reach the hotel from bayan lepas airport....

When I landed in frankfurt, I actually cried.... part of me glad that I finally landed in germany, part of me sad for being there alone.... who am I to talk to??... hey, it was the first time I'm at that side of the world.. don't I deserve some company to be excited about???...

Hildesheim is around 40 minutes drive from hanover airport... i actually saw some rabbits hopping around at the airport, while the plane is landing..... and it was cool... at that time, it was supposed the summer time... but I guess the summer that year started a bit late.... ;)

This was where I stayed... Burgermeisterkapelle....Translated as 'the mayor chapel' if i'm not mistaken... A small family-business hotel... with small, limited rooms at reasonable price....50 euro per nite... equivalent to around rm250 at that time.... the rate is better now, I think... It was run by a couple, the wife at the front desk and the husband was the chef... they are friendly but our conversation was limited due to language barrier... I remember their 6-years old son asking whether I speak Deutsch... and he doesn't speak English... and so, the end...

They have all the nice tv series.... csi, grey's anatomy etc... except that everything is in germany, translated... nothing in english with subtitles... left me with no choice to watch... CNN channel... anyway, at that time it was the bird flu outbreak... maybe CNN is just the right channel to watch...!!!

Enough I think... before everyone gets bored....

Getting a new gadget.....

Remember Inspector Gadget????
"Next time, gadget..... next time..." Always at the end....

It's different now in what people look for when getting new handphone... explaining why it's more of a gadget now instead of serving its original purpose of invention...!!!!

Accompanying a friend getting his new one recently, opened me up to all other features of current latest models... Things people put special interest in a handphone....
Keyboard aka papan kekunci.... for updating blogs, fb, twitter via mobile....
Touch screen display... for searching for the 'look for' icon from the many on the screen...
Speaker, sound... for listening to the music...

And the fact is... ringing of incoming calls is no longer a feature people are interested in....!!!!
Hmm....

Complete and Finished....

People say there is no difference between
COMPLETE & FINISHED.
But there is.....
When you marry the right one, you are COMPLETE.....
And when you marry the wrong one, you are FINISHED.....
And when the right one catches you with the wrong one, you are…………
....COMPLETELY FINISHED....


... from the morning mails....

Are you a conservative or liberal..???

Another courtesy from 'morning mails'....

If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one.
If a liberal doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat.
If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly leads his life.
If a liberal is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation.
A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.
Liberals demand that those they don't like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church.
A liberal non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced. (Unless it's a foreign religion, of course!)

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or may choose a job that provides it.
A liberal demands that the rest of us pay for his.

If a conservative reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a good laugh.
A liberal will delete it because he's "offended."

So... where do you belong???

Nice songs....

I have always like songs with deep lyrics... Nice and meaningful words arranged perfectly, describing the special bonding... listening to the lyrics is just comforting, blending you with the stories told... although most of the time it was trying to guess the words before looking for the correct words in the net.. and the next time you listen to the song, it was time to sing along...

Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle is always my favourite.... Especially the part where it says...
"With all that i've done wrong, i must have done something right....
To deserve her love every morning and butterfly kisses at nite...."
And it was sang deep from his heart.... so touching.... any daughter hearing her father singing this song will have tears in the eyes.... kalau pitching tak lari la.... ;)
Thanks for putting this song in fb ya..!!! (You know who you are....)

Another one that I like is "Just the two of us"... Will Smith version.... from a father to his son...
And for that, he actually invested a full Karate Kid movie.... just for jaden... nice song, nice lyrics sang with a more relax way but still without fail touch your heart... mine yes, others not so sure...!!!

Well.... my father...
Sometimes there are simple things he did and i just feel his love... especially since he is not easy with words...
when he held me close walking under umbrella on rainy days, while another hand holding the umbrella...
when he went out early in the morning to get breakfast because his daughter was supposed to go out earlier then other days...
when he willingly accompany his daughter for istiqara, when the daughter needed some signs...

and yet... this daughter knows that somehow in some way she is yet to make him happy...... hmmm......

Flu flu go away.....

It's flu time..... since sunday and still fluing, without sign of going away...
Hurix for flu, allerpid tablet, a green small pill given by my brother, not forgetting my amway vitamin c.... but to no avail....
A friend recommended Zyrtec.... to be tried later before bed....
Hopefully will recover soon....

Another one.... from my 'good morning' messages...

There are some interesting and nice messages I recently received....
Here's one of it.... a story, for reading pleasure and deep thinking.....

A blind boy sat on the steps of a building with a hat by his feet. He held up a sign which said...
"I'm blind. Please help."... And there were few coins in the hat...

A man was walking by. He took a few coins and from his pocket and dropped them into the hat.
He then took the sign, turned it around, and wrote some words. He put the sign back so that everyone who walk by would see the new words....

Soon the hat began to fill up. A lot more people were giving money to the blind boy. That afternoon the man who had changed the sign came to see how things were. The boy recognized his footsteps and asked, "Were you the one who changed my sign this morning? What did you write?"

The man said, " I only wrote the truth. I said what you said but in different way."
What he has written was: "Today is a beautiful day and I cannot see it...."

The power of correct words... at the correct moment.... to the correct audience....
And the effect.... it does wonders...!!!!

And the time continues to run.... (to some it flies....)

In more or less another 20 days, december will be gone... and then comes another january... another year ahead... another resolution maybe, to some... hmm... time runs fast isn't it???

This month is going to be another busy month, i guess... different kind of busy of course... kenduri(s), inclusive of wedding, newborn, engagement to attend ... and attended... (lina, don't laugh at me ya!!!!...)... a small family gathering planned with aunts and cousins.... and other stuff.... and I may again need to be in putrajaya some time this month.... the last two trips, I ended up with new baju kurung, new tudung and new handbag... hahaha.... hope i'll be able to restrain myself in the next trip, should there be any....!!!!

Yesterday was filled with the book review assignment (a compulsory assignment from the recent course attended)... A book review I completed without actually having the physical book on hand.... Bottom line, I finished it... Yessss...!!! And going thru the book, my attention was caught to one of the topic discussed by the author....

Well... according to him, in developing your career, there is a need to show off , to promote yourself to your boss.... to be recognized.... But then, there is a risk of being envied and disliked by others.. Made me think a while there... Why must you introduce a certain idea and then at the same time show it bad side???.. Then, I got it.... (slow of me...).. he was just showing us the choices... Of course, the decision is up to us....

For me.... I guess I'm fine just to follow the flow....
If something is meant for us, then it will be ours, right??? InsyaAllah.....