Last fortnight

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I started the day delivering these blue notes to all my colleagues.

Last August when we had our family day, I took a slot for a short team building session
consist of activities including revisiting our sector's vision, mission & core values,
grouping ourselves by our personality trait which relates to how we function based on what is important to us (information, perspective, execution & harmony - guess which group I'm in!)
and this magic blue paper!
*Everybody enjoyed the session so much they requested for a longer one next time!

Everyone was given a piece of the blue paper and each was required to anonymously write up special messages in the small space for everybody (with the name indicated). The rule is
'It has to be something positive' coz it is so easy to write up a negative one (don't you agree?!)!!

And I spent a few hours on the weekend prior to that special delivery
(just realised it took me half a year to actually do that)
cutting out each messages and compiling them based on the names,
put an aircraft-shape paper clip on them (they look like they are flying in the blue sky!)
and started my delivery service early in the morning.

And again, everybody enjoyed it (some had forgotten about it, so it came as a bit of a surprise!). The special messages really made their day & evidently those little blue thing had erased
the blues on their Monday (bad pun huh?).

This was our internal informal emails that day - most of the time really. Read from bottom up.
WARNING : Never argue with me... :P 
As I had it strategised, I had set the mood right - I asked them a small favour later that day
(...so licik!). Since I had to film a one-minute video as a part of the submission for an application for #maxiswhatsnext postgraduate scholarship (check-out this scholarship offer from Maxis!),
I requested them to be the mannequins in my video!! And some of them gladly obliged.
I was all ready with the script memorised over the weekend and intentionally wore the only baju kurung that is closest to Maxis theme colour that I have (told you I had it all strategised!)!!
Here watch me make my debut. I was soooo grateful for these wonderful & awesome colleagues, Alhamdulillah Ya Allah.
It is an amateur video thus some glitches.
Video was captured using cameraman's iPhone 6, in our office (DCA Airworthiness Sector) corridor. Edited using Adobe Premium Pro, with the help of Wanie & Asyraf.
And minor editing using YouTube Video Editor (why didn't I know about it earlier??)
The soundtrack is my current favourite song - All We Know
by The Chainsmokers Ft. Phoebe Ryan. Minus one by DF Karaoke.

But it was my colleagues involvement that made it special! Maxis please pick me!

And I belanja everyone with a dellish durian cheesecakes as a token of appreciation
(how come they have not tasted this masterpiece??
It's like eating the real creamy durian in a form of a cake, with some cookie crust!).
And oh, did I mentioned it was my birthday?
(most of them didn't know it, well, I intentionally hide it because I hate all the attentions that come with it - typical INTJ, I guess - with exclusion for important people BTW :P
TBH, it was great having to celebrate others on your own birthday!)

Anddddd it all made the best presents for my birthday!
Well, I know I should really grow up, but it all can wait until next year!
  • Monday, February 20, 2017

Renew our perspective

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It started with a clip of a moving train
when I was reminded of how powerful our brain is.

We can change the direction of the train going in or out of the tunnel
just by telling ourselves whether it is going in or going out.
How amazing.

This morning, when I was driving to work - in the most beautiful and blessed district in the country - I was again reminded of how I used to tease my brain to imagine the places I am at.

It was more than half a decade ago, when I was weary of my surrounding - workplace, the to and fro congestion (though it was less than half an hour) - I started imagining I was not where I was.

You know how our brain tied up our feelings and emotion to the places we have been,
whereby when you return to the place - you will have the same feeling that it is 'the' place.
Let me simplify that.
Say if you go to Melaka, your feelings will be different than your feelings when you are in Johor. Or Tesco and Giant. Something in you know it is not the same place.

That is the game I play with my brain. 
I tried telling myself I am somewhere else.

Back to more than half a decade ago, desperate of a new surrounding -
I had to condition my brain that I was in one; in occasions.
I remember seeing a couple of leafless bare trees by the side of Federal Highway
and imagining I was somewhere else (with four seasons) and it was autumn.

It didn't stop at leafless trees, you see. It became a routine whenever I see things
and tell my brain I was somewhere else. It made my day.
I was happy with the feelings it entailed. 

Eg. When I'm in Teluk Intan, I'd tell myself I'm in Rembau.
If I was in Mid Valley, I'd tell myself I'm in KLCC. 
See how different it feels.

And then the good things happened, where I have completely forgotten of my own brain game, when things turn into reality and I don't have to keep imagining.

The power of imagination.

This morning, I was not weary of my surrounding.
However, I have became so used to my surrounding that it is hard for me to be grateful for it.
And I started telling myself I am somewhere else.
Manhattan, Stockholm, Mumbai.

And it was beautiful.


p/s: Well, I could have said - Alor Setar, Kluang, Dengkil.
But I'm sure y'all would get the gist, wouldn't you? ;D
  • Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Thank you

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Despite the animosity I’m feeling towards our current environmental condition
(and political and economical and … the list goes on) with regards to the ones accountable
and the ones effected, I was finding ways to let things go as easily (to be grateful with what is
and to be more appreciative when thing gets better – which I totally believe in).
Having said that, I’d like to emphasis that feelings and actions are fully autonomous.

After all, this is how winter looks like. I sometimes intentionally turn on my car air-condition
to the max and pretend it is so (though I despise low temperature).

I know it is a topic very sensitive to some
especially those with health conditions, but anyways…

I'd like to sincerely thank Indonesia.
No, not for this haze. You as a country - should not be hold accountable
for the action of few unscrupulous people or corporations. You as a country - should not
be blamed for the misconduct of your citizen.

I know how it feels because we hate it just as much when the global community blames
our nation for some foolish individuals. Similar to your second man.

I'd like to thank Indonesia for reminding us how we love our hot scorching sun
and heavy downpour and clean air. I'd like to thank you for reminding us how luxurious we have been living in this piece of land full of bliss. Screw all the deceptions of our living condition.
We had it all and we surely will have it all again.

And I'd like to thank you for this lovely vid and wonderful hearty song.
I've fallen in love.

Float - Songs of Seasons

We belong, we belong, we belong here
where the vibes from our old songs returning
With the force of a longing heart we’re here again
Timeless seasons calling
Rain of reasons falling
We belong, we belong, we belong to you
And the memories yet to come soon
will lead us back to you again
Songs of seasons calling


Good job Tourism Indonesia.

p/s: Noticed a sweet shortest love story unfolds in merely one minute?  Watch again.
  • Friday, October 02, 2015

As she gets older...

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...it will get harder, I presume.
I'm not anticipating the 'hard' part but it gets harder each day now that she's able to
speak her mind and express her feelings; outwardly or subtly.

Her 1st question each and every morning when she wakes up...
Her 1st question each and everytime we enter our house...
"Mama, abah mana?"
...never failed to break my heart a little.

It isn't like she doesn't know.
And I would then throw the question back to her
and she would have a descriptive answer that follows.
She knows and she keeps asking.

Maybe it is me she's trying to convince?


One night, I was crying over a romantic movie and she came, wiped away my tears and said,
"Dah... dah... eh? Nanti abah balik..."
I wonder where that came from??!!

He texted me this short movie the other day and I cried a river.
*TEARS ALERT!!!*
  • Wednesday, March 05, 2014