MOZAC In Memories...

Salam Ramadhan..

I just went through my emails, checked my friendster and now updating my blog. may be rezeki ramadhan, i do keep in touch with most of the lost friends, x-mozac & x-uniten esp. thanks friends, suddenly terasa muda pulak. sampai Azimin pun pening kepala tengok aku. kejap-kejap senyum & sengih seorang-seorang.

Just replied Buteck's comment @ friendster. terbaca jugak comments from others and ramai yang tanya about gambar lama kat MOZAC. So, since I've scaned some of the pics earlier and it still in my PC, aku pun dengan murah hatinya post gambar2 tu kat sini. aku tahu, most of us still keep the memories fresh in our mind, kan?

Nanti kalau rajin, aku sambung tulis lagi. la ni nak carik idea dulu... ada a few books (my own projects) yg pending sebab tak de idea, ilham & mood. Selalunya, time untuk aku start buat benda-benda semua nie lepas semua orang kat umah aku tido. At least lepas Alam tido. sebab once I start it, I can write till the next morning. Lepas tu, bila pukul 8 pagi, baru rasa ngantuk.

Sometimes, I do take leave (even emergency leave and MCs)sebab ilham & mood suddenly datang. so, early in the morning lepas selesaikan kerja2 kat rumah & lepas hantar Anggun & Alam, I will drive to a place that I can write... sometimes pegi park, lepak kat LCCT - Coffee Bean, KLIA - Burger King, etc. Petang, time orang balik office, aku pun balik la rumah. Bila Azimin tengok aku tak pakai baju office jer, dia tahu la mana aku pergi. bukan senang nak cari idea ni tau!!!

Dah melalut dah nie.. Promise, I'll write more soon. When is my SOON? Lets make it this weekend. Chow!

My Celebrities Look-alike

RAYA Coming Soon...

Wah... Cepatnya masa berlalu. Rasanya, macam baru ajer mula puasa, but when we really look into the calander carefully, raya just around the corner... Pening kepala dibuatnya...

RAYA PREPARATION - the kids shirts, pants, jeans etc mostly dah beli when I was in London last July. Masa tu tengah summer sales, apalagi, borong sakanlah. Habis semua kedai kat Oxford Street tu aku redah (thanks Vanee - from The One Academy coz agree temankan pergi shopping rather going for a tour). Their shoes dah beli before fasting month hari tu. Now, tinggal Anggun's baju kurung and our baju... Itu last minutes la... This year, we do not send the baju raya to my mum. Ha, gerenti tak siap punya. Bertimbun kat kedai tu. So, this year, we take an inisiative to buy it kat Jalan TAR masa dekat2 nak raya nanti.

OPEN HOUSE - Every year, dari first year kitaorang kahwin until now, tak pernah lagi miss buat open house. To us, that is the only time & chance for us to meet our buddies & relatives sambil makan2. Lagipun, kitaorang nie bukannya jenis ada rumah tiap2 hari. And kalau orang datang serang our house masa hari-hari yang bukan open house, berpeluh jugak memikirkan apa yang nak diservekan...

But for this year, tak sure lagi macam mana. Mula-mula, nak tumpang jer my parents punya open house since our maid pun tak tentu lagi bila sampainya. Jenuh nak berkemas nanti. But then, Azimin cakap, "my students ajer dah berapa ramai... segan pulak nak tumpang open house ayah". Betul jugak. What happened for the past few years, everytime open house rumah kitaorang, bebudak UKM nie la yang rajin datang tolong. Last year masa tengah sarat, dari A sampai Z, diaorang la yang tolong... Tambah pulak, last year yang paling ramai sekali guests datang.. Bebudak MOZAC tu memang dah confirm (but last year quite a number of unexpected x-MOZAC), x-UNITEN adalah beberapa kerat, bebudak x-INTI, friends from Limkokwing, member2 office, member2 Azimin, sedara-sedara lagi.. This year punya, still dalam perancangan lagi...

RAYA MOOD - Actually, this year tak la excited sangat nak raya nie. Just a little preparation for Anggun & Alam jer. Yelah, first time raya with Alam. This year balik Taiping sekejap since the 3rd raya Azimin dah nak fly pergi London. Seminggu lebih jugaklah dia kat sana. And for the whole days yg dia tak ada tu, of course aku & the kids akan melepak kat rumah my parents. senang. tak payah fikir nak makan apa for b/fast, lunch & dinner. So, I might take a short leave ajer. Bila Azimin tak ada tu, I will bring the kids to pergi raya rumah my aunties & uncle dekat KL and Seremban. Nak tunggu Azimin balik, habis anak2 aku tak dapat collect duit raya!!! hehehehe...

What else to write? WORK? Dammed tired. LAN is coming soon for the renewal of Finance Program. tu yang bagai nak mati tu... dengan puasa lagi. somemore, now tengah short semester... the best part is, we do not know when the will come either early october or next year!!! but as usual, the bosses always like to play with rumous. lantak pi la...

Oh ya! I received a message from my old friend in uniten thru friendster. actually, dah lama nampak dia nie punya pic dalam friendster and rasa memang familiar. nak add nama dia kang, buatnya dia tak ingat aku, buat malu jer. yelah, bila dipikirkan balik, masa kat uniten dulu, we all selalu senyum to each other jer. nak kata borak-borak tu, memanglah amat jarang sekali. selalunya, kalau bertegur pun masa makan kat dewan makan, nmasa beratur kat public phone (oii... masa tu handphone tu kira mahal sangat tu). What a co-incident, she did leave a message for me and i did add her as a friend. rupanya dia ingat lagi kat mukaku ini... hehehe thanks Rozie...

I was doing some cleaning last few days and I had a chance to look at the old albums. sempat la scan balik a few pics. and i download it for us to share the kenangan... Friends... Miss you guys.

Selamat Berpuasa...

Ramadhan datang lagi... Bulan puasa, bulan yang menduga kesabaran kita sebagai insan. Banyak kenangan yang datang menjelma tiba-tiba. Why? Sebab yang datang setahun sekali tulah yang buatkan ianya berkesan di hati kita. Betul tak? Oh! My wordings are more to article writting pulak... Actually, I have a bulk of dateline...

Too busy nowadays, since end of August until today... Esok rasanya baru boleh bernafas sikit. End of August started with the Pre-Board Meeting, enrolment for short semester, Subject Board Meeting, all the messy time-table clashing (I took almost 1 week plus to solve all the clashing! so sakit hati!), today & tomorrow, we have to attend the Principal Board Meeting. Hah, semua tu dah makan almost 1 month...

Everyday I keep tellin myself, 'I'll write something in my blog tonight,'. Everyday... and finally today... Thanks God, maybe sebab nak masuk bulan puasa nie, ada semangat baru sikit. I was too tired bila balik dari office tadi after attending one whole day meeting with the mat salleh. Somemore, it going to continue tomorrow. dah nak pengsan dah petang tadi. lepas habis today principal board session, straight away sambung with the faculty meeting. lepas habis tu, aku terus cabut balik...

After maghrib, I was thinking to straight go back to my house (I was in my mum house earlier) to take some rest and may be malam sikit baru nak ajak Azimin keluar makan / supper / sahur. But then, Azimin ajak pergi KFC pulak. On the way pergi KFC Nilai, both of the kids tido. So, we decided to take away. Tapi sampai la nie... dah habis terawih, siap iron baju, and on PC, seorang pun tak makan. Azimin tengah kusyuk buat kerja kat dia punya Mac, and me... lebih kurang sama jer kitaorang nie...

I believe my fasting month will be very pack. Hahaha... after 3 years plus tak payah sibuk2 nak jaga baby, now the time is back. Nasib baik rumah mama dekat. Tapi, mama pun bukannya masak. Tengok baju yang dia nak jahit ... fuh... bertimbun. that's why we have to import my grandma untuk tolong jaga ALAM... Apalah malang nasib, maid tak dapat2 lagi...

Azimin kena pergi London Hari Raya ke3. Rezeki dia. I was offered to go to London in July, on my birthday. And Azimin will be there on his birthday for some innovation exhibition with UKM team, together with his supervisor... Prof Dato' Dr. Ibrahim Komoo... He is Dato' Mazlan's husband (the spacewomen) Kesian Dato' Mazlan, she was appointed to the the director for some association (angkasa punya term aku tak sure) in vienna for 2-3 years. So, long distance married la kiranya depa... Those who came to my house during the last year raya open house got an opportunity to meet them... I think Jackop & wife dapat jumpa depa...

Bulan puasa nie, teringat zaman kat MOZAC. Fuh, seronoknya... Lepas kelas, prep, petang ada tadarus. Masa tu jugaklah Kak Bedah sibuk dengan bakul & tupperware dia datang aspuri depan tangga bilik tamu. Apalagi, kak bedah tu business minded tu... To be sincere, I love her kastard jagung... sedap woo... and lepas kuar MOZAC, everytime bulan puasa, i still looking for that kastard jagung but tak pernah jumpa yang as good as hers. Tak tahulah sebab masa tu makanan kat dewan makan pun tak sedap, tu yang rasa dia punya kuih sedap giller ke apa.. tak sure. tapi, tastenya memang tak sesedap kak bedah punya.

Tiap kali bulan puasa, mesti ada qiamullail kat dewan besar. punyalah malas nak pergi tapi tetap pergi. Semua takut dengan Jaapar (Cikgu Jaafar).. Manalah dia sekarang nie. If I got a chance to meet him, I will thank him for jadikan aku someone. Sebab takut dengan dia, sebab takut kena jerit and kena punnish, we become like what we are today.

Lepas tu, malam jumaat sebelum cuti raya, sebelum kita semua balik umah masing-masing, mesti ada salam-salam sambil nangis-nangis. If you guys still remember, this is the time yang bebudak Laksamana & Temenggung berbaik-baik... Hehehe... Ingat lagi pasal kipas?

What else? Actually a lot. Masa berbuka, masa sahur... Banyak sebenarnya...

Whan I was in Uniten, semuanya dah lain. Berbuka dengan member-member, tapi ramai yang berbuka dengan boyfriend & girlfriend masing-masing. Orang-orang yang tak de boyfriend macam aku nie, pandai-pandailah... 2 years in Uniten, aku tak ada boyfriend... hahahaha... In INTI, much more worse... First semester there.. we have to buy the food earlier and berbuka kat bilik dengan 6 orang student melayu... but, things become better sebab one of our friend lepas tu dapat pinjam 4WD ayah dia (pajero if i'm not mistaken). So, dia boleh angkut kitaorg semua pegi buka puasa...

The next fasting month (lepas INTI)was in Mid-Valley. Masa tu kerja.. Tuhan ajer yang tahu kalau kena stayback or masuk petang. Buka la dengan bebudak customer service and maintenance... kalau tak de member, buka la kat dalam bilik seorang. kalau tengah loaded, buka best sikit. kalau sengkek, beli jer la nasi kat carefour...

then, masa kat limkokwing dah lain. I met Azimin there and most of the time, we all buka puasa sesama. Sometimes tu, dia break fast in my house, siap pergi terawih dengan my dad lagi. And after that, dari our first year till now, we all selalu tumpang umah my parents... hehehe... Itulah gunanya parents duduk dekat dengan kita... Well, i tried to move quite far (my parents still in kajang when we move to ENSTEK) but then at the end, they are the one who wanted to be near with us. At the end, they bought a house with just 5 minutes drive from my house. before their house siap, lagilah... they wanted to find a house to rent. I tried to find for them tempat yang jauh sikit la (they still want somewhere in this area sebab senang my dad nak pergi kerja). Tup tup... ada ke patut dia sewa rumah yang deret belakang my house. Sabar jer la... Dan sejak hari tu, boleh dikira berapa kali sebulan aku masak... Selebihnya... pergi jalan sikit untuk makan...

Ah... Dah penat dah... banyak lagi sebenarnya tapi penat... Insyaallah, nanti sambung lagi...

SELAMAT MENJALANI IBADAH PUASA

Finally.....

Really busy this few weeks!!! God, help me. My schedule is so tight since my co-partner @ office is still under maternity leave. Yeah! We take turn, hehehehe!!! Now is the semester break for the students but then, we are under-going a non-stop meetings and going to continue with the short semester enrolment.

This week is already busy with the enrolment preparation + the Pre-Board Meetings. I just went one this morning. One more will be on Thursday. One more on Monday (next week). Next Wednesday is already the enrolment, so, the whole week is gone!!! After that, the Subject Board & Principal Board. So tight until end of September. September is a short semester, so memang penat. But the best things, the semester break will be longer... Masa tu la nak rehat...

I'm getting a new staff. She is not new, we just transfer her from the Dean's Office to our programme. Why? Dont ask me why. Sometimes, we need to change. Yes, the former staff was not satisfied when we transfer her but we have to.

How do you feel working with someone who always raise her voice to you? She was working under my supervision but, may be because I am younger than her, she take things easily.

I'm being in the education line for almost 8 years. I can say, I am very professional while dealing with people and situations. I always put aside all the personal things. I dont even care what people want to talk about me. Work is work. As long as the work is done and I'm not getting into trouble, its fine...

To be frank, its quite upset when I got to know that this people given us a 'nickname'. They keep talking bad about others in the office. And, what make me feel much more upset, they are Malay. Melayu... Berapa kerat sangat lah Melayu yang ada kat situ. Ok, I still can put it aside. Its personal matter. But then, when an email about WORK was sent to the staff by me, 'this people' emailed each other and talking bad about me. I still remember this sentence 'bilalah agaknya dia nak blah? marilah kita doa'kan dia cepat-cepat blah'.

Excuse me! I'm a permanent staff, getting a good point every year during my appraisal, I was given assignments by assignments due to my experience and qualification. And the people who doing all these nonsense are only contract staff. their contract need to be renewed every year, and every year, we need to discuss, go through a few meetings just to discuss on their performance and to decide TO RENEW or NOT TO RENEW...

God is great! What a co-insidence, we found out about this during their contract renewal time. Allah Maha Adil, kan? In time we need to decide either to renew or not, the evidences came across us. And, we did not need to peningkan our kepala... So, all the evidence (work related) were stappled together with their appraisal form.

We are too KEJAM? I dont think so. How about them? We only taking the evidence of work related, not all the bad things that they did (including talking bad things about our Dean... just imagine when your boss caught you on this?)

Looking at them, I feel so sakit hati actually. These are the people who always forwarded the email about Al-Quran, Perkara2 yang Dimurkai Tuhan (I just received it from one of them this morning) and all the religious things. After all this things happened, what do you think my impression to them?

Entahlah... After making the decision, I can feel my burden memang hilang. Thanks God. For the first time (after having the final meeting on their performance last 2 weeks), I feel so FREE, my mind is so free on the weekend. I dont need this type of people working with me. And for the new staff who just joined me for a week, I really need to handle her properly. Hopefully, pisang tak berbuah 2 kali.

Hey! I'm not that bad. I did promote a few staff who I think can go further. You can ask some of them. This is the first time I requested my bosses to think about MY walfare (hahaha!!) Even my big boss's PA did mentioned this to the bosses, "Herleena thinking of tranfer to other department. She got an offer from upstairs." Our Corporate Offices (President Office, Sr. Management Offices, etc) are located in 4th floor, that's why we called it 'upstairs'. Hahahaha... Thanks 'Jazz' (bukan nama sebenar)...

Ok guys, work smart!

Do I Really Do 'MUMMY's Job?

I always have this question in mind. Do I really do the MUMMY's job? Hahaha... I have to ask Azimin to answer it for me or is it much more better if I ask ANGGUN?

Being a mummy is not an easy job. Working wife + mother, oh my God! Just God know how do I feel... But then, it is a good gift, valuable experience that I will never change with something else. Plus, I'm proud to be a mother of 2 in this age. Not too young la but still not old yet... What I mean is, in the time that some of my friends are still not yet tie the knot.

My work become tough and tougher, busy and busier... In the contition that we are still waiting for the MAID to come over... Oh God, please help us. Azimin is also getting much more busy with his research & studies. We really can't handle our house condition. Sometimes (its actually most of the time), it doesn't look like a designer house. Hahahaha!!!

Azimin and me always want to have the good things for the kids. We want to give them good education, good education insurance plan, good school, good clothes, good shoes, etc... You know that my kids shoes are much more better & expensive than the one Azimin & me had during our childhood... So lucky of them.

We bough for Anggun a lot of pre-school books, CDs, etc... She can write her name, ALAM name, her mummy & daddy name. She can draw her imagination. She even paint on the canvas (I believe she has Azimin's blood & interest). Books? We bought for her ABC books, 123 books, colouring books, sticker books, etc. But then, we face a big huge problem when we have no time to sit down with her and teach her to do this and that.

ANGGUN will spend the day in my mum's house. She will watch TV, drawing, writting. Normally, my sister will coach her (Wieza is working by her own now, actually, she do a lot for Archiforce Invent). Azimin & me will reach there after office (earliest by 6.30pm... latest, you guess la. It doesn't look good if I mention it here). If my mum do cook for that day, that is our rezeki... Makan la kat sana. If not, normally after maghrib we are going for dinner with Anggun and left Alam there. In some occasioan, if you going Jusco (except watching movies), airport (my house just 10 minutes from KLIA and we do eat there quite often... burger king, food garden...) or mana-mana selain makan kat kedai mamak, Sunita Tomyam, Al-Salam Bistro, etc, we will bring Alam together. Selalunya, if we have our dinner quite early or quite late (not at 7pm) at Aunty Aini's, we will take Alam with us. Aunty Aini like to play with him... (Aunty Aini's is very famous in Nilai, kampung cafe with local & western food. Her masak lemak cili padi, fuh!! The cafe did came out in Channel 11 - Travel and Living)..

When we reach home, its already 9 something at night, sometimes, kalau lepak lama sikit at my mum's house, dah pukul 10pm. Sampai rumah, macam-macam kerja rumah nak kena buat. Iron clothes (I never iron all the clothes @ weekend... no, its not me!!!), kemas dapur sikit-sikit (actually more to basuh pinggan semalam), if rajin sikit, basuh baju (washing machine pun). When Alam sleeping, its the time for Azimin & me to start working on our Archiforce Invent matters. Sometimes, my sister, Wieza come over and our meeting & discussion can be hours... Anggun will watching cartoon and sometimes sitting in front of computer studying her pre-school CDs.

I always feel guilty when I cant afford to spend time with her, teach her how to do this and that, how to draw flower and other things (but she always refer her drawing & painting with her daddy... she did mentioned 'mummy lukis tak cantik'). Due to the time constraint, Azimin and me end up buying education CD for her to practice and learn. She can say, draw, count and even sing... She has her own PC (real PC tau). She took over my PC (I just bought last June) and I use Azimin's PC that he just brought from his office (the PC will be with me until he finished his PhD). Azimin, as usual, Mac loyal user. Since his G4 Apple dah berkecai and all the spare part dah masuk ebay, he still has his Mac Desktop. He bought it a few months before his G4 laptop rosak...

Azimin mentioned to me that he amaze with my capability and ability to be a wife, a mother, a worker and also an "amah". But I still feel so pitty to Anggun. I wish to spend more time, teaching her to do this and that before she's going to kindergarden.

Anggun still need to know that is good if we eat vegetables, bread & fruits... Anggun, Mummy will try my best to find a quality time to spend with you. Dont worry my dear, it will happen before you go for kindergarden. And Anggun, thanks for being a good daughter...

What Is My Work All About?

What is my work all about? 'Apa sebenarnya kerja si Herleena nie?', 'Apa kau buat kat office, asyik busy jer?'. That's the comments that I always receive from my surrounding people. Tak dinafikan, bila orang tanya, "Kau kerja kat mana?" and my answer will be, "INTI College," (now known as INTI International University College). And people will ask again, "Mengajar?" and my answer is, "Tak la. Admin."

What people have in mind? Admin? La, KERANI jer ke? Kesiannya semua orang yang kerja kat education institution nie kalau all the ADMIN means KERANI.

I believe that most of the people known the staff / worker of educational institutions as LECTURER. Kalau tak lecture, that's means they are doing all the rubbish work. Its not fair, right? So, I would like to take this oppurtunity to clear up the BAD images that we got for so long!!!

In educational institution (private sector), the ADMIN staff is a person who work starting from Tea Lady, Driver, Office Boy, Admin Assistant (normally with 2-3 grade), Officer (3-4 grade), Sr. Officer (3-4 grade), Executive (3-4 grade), Sr. Executive (3-4 grade), Manager (3-4 grade), Sr. Manager (3-4 grade), Director (3-4 grade), Sr. Director (3-4 grade), Associate Vice President, Vice President, President, Group President, Board Director, CEO, COO. Please slot the Managing Director & General Manager somewhere on the list...

And my position is one in the list. Which one, tekalah sendiri... The same goes to lecturer. the grade for lecturer pun normally ada 3-4 grade, sr. lecturer pun sama. associate professor to professor pun.

Lagi satu, gaji ADMIN staff nie tak la cikai sangat oii... and most of the times lagi banyak dari lecturer. so, be carefull when you try to look down at the ADMIN staff. When we mentioned 'taklah, bukan lecturer, I admin staff', it might be the director / head / etc.

May be orang ramai dah make use dengan local university punya structure. The same goes to Azimin when he joined UKM. So tension. Asal cakap pasal staff sokongan (they call it staff sokongan instead of admin staff), in their mind will be:

1. belajar setakat SPM jer
2. gaji tak sampai ribu
3. kerja lebih kurang macam kerani, data-entry, etc...

One of the incident happened somewhere during raya time. One of my relatives all this while rupanya under estimated me!!! Can you imagine that? Sampai hati dia. May be since Azimin is a lecturer, dia ingat all lecturer is so high position & got high pay.

I was in a long leave for raya (in 2005 if i'm not mistaken)and received a call from my staff. She was asking about the interview for 1 position in my department. And, my relatives (my husband relatives actually) heard my conversation and they straight away asked me after I finished my conversation on the phone.

"besar sangat ke kerja kau (they might mean 'position') sampai orang office kau asyik call aje? Takkan INTI tak boleh kerja sebab seorg pekerja dia tak de?"

I was very shocked but tried to be polite la kan... "tak de la besar sangat, tapi biasalah kan, kalau boss tak de. semua decision pending." sengaja jer I stressed the word BOSS tu but then, they didn't got it la...

May be it was my fault too. I never told people what is my position, how does my work look like? And until now, I still not yet apply the business card from INTI. Of course for my own business, I have it. And every time people do ask me kerja kat mana, my answer is INTI. "Teaching?" My answer is "No. Admin.". A friend of mine do tell me this, "sometimes, we need to show-off." Nampaknya, kalau tak show-off, macam nie la jadinya...

It was happened in some other function as well. And of course, in any kenduri, orang kawin, birthday celebration, Azimin will be the focus. They will ask this & that to him and I will only stand / sit next to him sambil senyum jer. And this is what happned:

"Wife you kerja mana?"
"INTI"
"Oh... sama-sama lecturer la nie."
"Bukanlah, dia admin staff."
"Oh! Kerani ke?"

And you guys know what happened after that? Dengan muka yang 3/4 inci, i just answered them, "tak semestinya admin staff tu kerani jer abang oii... director pun kira admin staff jugak." and that 'abang' sengih2 jer sebab suara aku satu hall boleh dengar... sorry la bang, salah orang kau nak kutuk...

Every year, Anggun punya birthday celebration memang we all buat kat luar. So far, belum pernah lagi buat kat rumah. selalunya, kalau tak A&W, Mc D lah... Ada sekali nie, bila we all buat b'day Anggun kat A&W Seremban, one my Azimin's uncle tanya:

"Banyak duit korang buat b'day anak kat sini? Siapa sponsor?"

Actually, I still didnt get it (until now) why do I need people to sponsor my kids b'day. The kids deserve to be happy! Azimin dah start bengang and jawab, "takkan nak kena tunggu orang sponsor jer baru nak buat b'day."

And his uncle still macam muka tak puas hati, "yelah, kan mahal. korang ada duit ker buat b'day macam nie?"

Azimin dengan muka toya, malas dah nak layan cakap, "Tanya Eleen. Dia yang bayar?"

"Banyak duit kau Leen?"
"Kenapa, abang _ _ _ _ _ ingat kitaorang nie tak mampu ker?"
"Berapa gaji kau sebenarnya?"
And my answer very simple, "Tak la sampai 7 ribu." (guys, dont ask me the actual figure. Even Azimin dont know the exact amount!)

I still remember when I was assigned to London for the UH Collaborative Partner Conference. My boss asked me to get approval from Azimin first before he sending my name to the top management. and Azimin was so shocked when I told him about it. His first impression was..

"Ha, why they sent you? You're not a teaching staff what?"

"Hey, you ingat I nie low-class sangat ke?" But then, dia kata ok...

Yelah, all this while, Azimin yang selalu out-station. And I will go with him if the date is fine with my schedule. And bila I asked my sister-in-law's husband (my biras) about some imigration matters, diaorang semua macam sibuk guessing why and what...

Bila sampai rumah (their house is just next door with mine), terus depa tanya aku,

"Azimin nak pergi out-station mana? Eleen ikut sekali ker?"

Oh my God! nobody pernah terfikir yang ELEEN pun ada potential to go far in her career. I have a good job (even sometimes I feel like I want to quit), I'm running my own small companies, and people are not event notice it.

After the London trip, I can see the changes. Most of the people around me started to respect me. Some of my neighbours start knowing that I'm not just a clerk. Masing-masing barulah.. "Ohhh, besar jugak pangkat dia yer. Kalau tak takkan sampai kena pergi London." All this while, they always commented on me sebab Azimin & me and also my sister-in-law & her husband bukan jenis yang nak lepak2 kat luar rumah sampai maghrib, yang malam2 duduk cerita2 pasal orang tu beli perabot baru, orang nie renovate rumah habis berapa ribu... We have our own commitment... kalau weekend, azimin & me will spent time with the kids if we have no function to attend, if azimin have no training, if I have no appointment & if I have no extra duty @ INTI. Some more with ALAM, we have no time for that lepak-lepak things. Azimin is busy with his research project @ Geopark Langkawi, MEST Toilet & also PhD paper. So, better for us to sort the things carefully.

Back to my job. I'm reporting to the Dean of Faculty Of Business & Accountancy and also Sr. Director of Institutional Development,handling around 10 staff under me + 45 lecturers (teaching my programmes) + more than 500 students for 2 programmes (Accounting & Finance).

Only 500 students? If local university lagi banyak... But please remember, students in local university just following the rules that set by the university, most of the fees is paid by goverment bodies, corporate companies & also with scholarship. In private institution, our salary is from the students fees. so, we take care of the students extra carefull but not over feeding. students has the right to suggest and even to complaint. when you tell them to do this, most of the times they will come to do other things... but, they are very independent...

Enough for now. Seems like I'm giving a lecture on my job... So my advice, be proud of yourself and sometimes please SHOW-OFF.