Junshafie’s EarthBlogz

warning: entry panjang yang takde sumber2 ilmiah pun. saja aku rasa nak membebel sebab dah lama tak buat blog-entry.

i’ve a confession to make. shh… meh dok dekat2 sket, jgn bagi orang lain dengar… i was actually dreading the day we had to sent our maid back to her kg.  halaman, and  kept saying: mcmana la budak-budak ni, especially syifa, nak ditinggal bibik ni (maksud tersirat: mcmana la aku nak cope kena buat semua benda sendiri nih!). said to en.somi, apart from taking care of the kids (the major jobscope), who’s going to do all the laundries, house cleaning, other blablabla in their jobscopes? he said: ala… mcm tak pernah buat, macam biasa je, you la buat!

buat aku terfikir, boleh ke badan aku yang ‘tua’ ni melakukan semua kerja-kerja berat itu? eh, bkn maid lama tu lagi tua ke? aku sebenarnya masa tu, after 2 years of not having to do all of the above since telah menggajikan orang to do all of the above, rasa macam semua all of the above adalah kerja yang maha berat. aku rasa macam aku telah melupakan tatacara menyapu-mengemop-lantai, membasuh-sidai-lipat-gosok-simpan-kain bajus, blablabla-lah. giler poyo-pemalas punya statement. tetapi! aku buat juga, kalo tak aku sapa lagi pun kan? i started small and slow. haha, giler ayat tak boleh blah! i swept the floor, though not daily, whenever i noticed a speck here and there, or after the kids finished their makan, the whatever foods that they were trying to feed the kitchen/ hall floor. twice already, 11 days after bibikku tiada, i mopped the floor. tak susah, tak kekok, sama mcm yg aku pernah buat satu masa dulu. once damia asked, mama buat apa tu? me: mama jadi cinderella. haha! and i thought i’m gonna be all kekok and tak reti buat kerja, but no, i took everything in stride. (sekali-sekala puji diri sendiri)

but, not without the help of en.somi especially, my sibs (brother and sisters) and also my parents, will i survive. en.somi banyak tolong tang laundry tu, especially lipat baju. my sibs helped in taking care of the kids while i’m at work, even ayah pun ada tolong mandikan budak-budak tu. tima kasey ayah! :)

kesimpulannya, and i’m telling this to me, housework skills sama je macam driving skill. dah memang ada. tunggu masa untuk digunakan. heheh. dan tak susah pun. rajin & tak rajin je. aku admit, aku memang pemalas sket. sebab tu la Allah jodohkan aku dengan en.somi yang rajin, kan ayg kan? kan? kan?

being maidless for 11 days have made me realize one thing. what they (the maids) are receiveing now is a lot compared to the jobscopes. the jobscopes that i made. i don’t know about other households. they received nett! we still have to provide shelter, clothes, foods, etc for them. kalau di-imposekan wajib bayar lapanratus, aku pun nak tukar profesion jadi maid.

 Happy November!!!

This month is gonna be a busy one:

1. The babies’ birthdays!!! Damia is turning FOUR this 20th and Syifa is turning TWO on the 28th!!! And I’ve been a mother for almost 4 years 9 months already!! Am planning a kenduri doa selamat to celebrate their birthdays, InsyaAllah. – In progress

2.  The maid who has been menatang Syifa bagai minyak yang penuh since the day she was brought back from the hospital is leaving on the 30th. Jiwaku kacau. I’m going to miss her, especially her patience when handling the kids and the way she took over the kids whenever I’m starting to sprout horns of impatience. And I know the kids will be missing her like crazy, especially Syifa. My heart goes out to them as they are very attached to her, she’s almost like a mother already to them and I don’t think the new maid will be able to replace her. With her leaving, there are a few things that need to be checked off:

• plane tickets (for her and daughter who is also working here in Msia) checked
• luggage to be bought (dgn kunci mangganya sekali)
• the salary to be converted from rm to idr
• some immigration’s procedures to be settled checked
• shopping sket (I think she wants to buy some souvenirs for her children & grandchildren) checked
• pictures of the kids to be printed (utk kenang-kenangan katanya)

3. With the current maid leaving, I have to find a new one asap. We’ve decided not to use the agent’s service this time, instead we want do everything ourselves, with the help of a good friend who have done so herself. Things that need to be checked off:

• to find THE PERSON checked (org Surabaya kali ni, harap orgnya ok, pray that we won’t encounter any problems with this one)
• arrange for her passport/ visa, etc- sedang dlm proses, a friend in Surabaya is helping
• plane tickets
• immigration procedures

4. I’ve to make myself appear at the court. Something to do with an agreement I signed during my previous employment. Suspens wei nak kena gi court nih. – Turned out that I didn’t have to go, only the lawyer. Next 24.12.09 to file defence.

5. The dept.’s monthly report. – done!

Received an ‘assignment’ from mdm silentscribbler. Sorry madam sbb lambat siapkan assignment, jgn tolak markah tau!

Nyatakan 5 fakta menarik tentang pemberi tag ini

1. pengantin tak berapa nak baru, tak berapa nak lama… heheh
2. in the US now, continuing her pursuit for knowledge
3. a university mate yang sama-sama dok kat asma’ (kan?)
4. an educator- from what I gathered from her blog, she loves teaching and very good at it too
5. I like reading her blog

Nyatakan 5 fakta diri sendiri sebelum memilih penerima tag seterusnya.

1. I have this ‘perasan-kurus’ thing on my mind. When people (friends, relatives) remarked on how I have ‘grown’, I would agree with them but in my mind I would be like ‘tapi… cam kurus je aku rasa, sama je mcm dulu, takde papelah!’
2. I like reading/ watching paranormal stories. Stories of people with extraordinary powers eg pyschic, witches & wizards (sudah semestinya la harry potter!), vampires, werewolves, back-to-the-future, etc
3. I like grocery-shopping. I can stand/ walk for hours checking out product after product, reading whatever it is on the product such as the ingredients, the how to use, macam-macam lagi lah. I am also easily drawn to products with colorful and attractive packaging, though there was no need for the product to be bought at that time. Recent purchases were 3-in-1 boh-caramel teacino and boh ice peach & blackcurrant tea, semata-mata kerana packaging yang cantik.
4. Lately, I’m like obsessed with handbags and I don’t know why. I think I need some help. They have AA for alcoholics, SA for shopaholics, etc. Ada tak HA for handbag-holics?
5. I’ve no idea to write anymore (hey, this is also fakta diri sendiri! The fact that I’ve no idea kan?)

Nyatakan 5 hobi diri sendiri sebelum memilih penerima tag seterusnya.

1. Reading!!!
2. Baring-baring bermalas-malasan di atas katil with a good book
3. Watching movies (I hardly go to the movies, most of the time en.somi will buy the pirated dvds and we’ll watch those at home)
4. Jalan-jalan
5. Duduk diam-diam kat rumah (contradicts the above pulak kan?)

5 orang penerima tag yang seterusnya

1. Pn. Azita
2. Maz
3. Senah (awat lama tak update nih?)
4. Wan Izyani
5. Wawa the digital crayon

Akak tgh suspens ni.

Adakah budget 2010 yang sdg dibentangkan membawa berita yang dinanti-nantikan?

Boleh jugak topup downpayment ‘ehem…ehem’.

Ataupun…

Boleh tak saya tambah koleksi bag, yang? *kelip-kelip mata*

My office is in Bukit Bintang, the segitiga emas, where all the famous shopping places are. When working in DsaraHeights, it was always MidValley during Friday’s lunch. Now, most of the time, my lunch breaks will be filled with ‘educational’ trips to Pavillion. The outcome? A sick bank balance. So today, I’d like to share a few personal tips on how to avoid spending on unnecessary things when you go for this kind of trip:

1. Do not bring your purse with you. Tapi… kang kalau kena tahan dgn pak polisi, dia ingat kita PATI lak? Ok, you can bring your purse, but leave behind all the credit/ debit cards, duit berkepuk-kepuk inside and leave only 20rm for lunch or to satisfy your occasional cravings for dome’s twister *occasional la sgt eh? Heheh.
2. Before you step out of the office/ home for this so-called trip, recite ayat Kursi minimum 3x, and tell to yourself I AM NOT GOING TO BUY ANYTHING (times forty). Kan orang tua kata cakap sampai 40x nanti jadi nyata.
3. Dressed as selebet-ly as you can. Why? Because… selebet people will be ignored especially in those posh-posh boutiqes. You get to check everything out without the SA hovering irritatingly behind you, and if you decide not to buy anything, you get to leave the shop/ boutiqe without the guilty feelings (this will only arise if the SA is super-nice, answered all your queries nicely, arranged the same design of handbags in various colors so that you can make better decision, etc, etc). Hmm… come to think of it, most SA’s nowadays, especially butik yang mula dgn huruf C tu, are all super-nice, regardless of how you are dressed. Hmm… pandai-pandaila korang nak tepis cobaan. Kiranya tip yang ni 50-50 la, boleh pakai ikut keadaan.

I think that’s it for now. Mati idea dah. Bolehlah cuba, kalau tak jadi gak jangan salahkan akak lak tau.

My SMS: Jemput beraya ke rumah esok di dotdotdot dari zohor- lewat petang.

A good friend’s SMS: Sapa ni?

My SMS: Junida

That was the end of our SMS to each other. She didn’t come to my house. No reply after I told her who I was. This someone was a best friend (or so I thought!). When she asked who I was, I was a bit surprised and also a bit hurt. She was one of many good friends from uni-time. We were even roommates for a semester. I thought we were good friends. And yet, she didn’t keep my number.

To give her the benefit of the doubt, I said to myself, maybe she lost her handphone, and with it, all of her friends’ number too. Or maybe while playing with her phone, her kid accidentally deleted my number. Or maybe, she got herself a new phone and had not yet finished transferring/ updating her friends’ number.

Tapi… why was there no response after I’ve introduced myself? Penat la weh… when I was the only one in this friendship yang beria-ia wanted to keep it alive. Aku jemput beraya, hangpa tak respon, aku ajak buat gathering, hangpa sibuk manjang, aku ajak itu, hangpa jawab ini, aku ajak sini, hangpa nak pi sinun. I even called from time to time, but most of the time the calls were never answered. The missed calls were never returned. Bosan ah!!