H1N1 hits home..

my sister's school is lockdown and is now put under quarantine. apparently, H1N1 hits and four of the students were now hospitalized. another 20 plus students are suspected and under doctor's observation, my sister is cleared for now, but they are not letting them go home, bcoz usually, it took 72 hours for H1N1 to register and develop any simptoms..

ekin, age 17, now form five is number eight in the family. she was supposed to be home yesterday for the weekend. my father ordered some books for her SPM, we waited but she didnt come. it was usual though, bcoz usually, if she didnt make it home by friday, she usually popped in on saturday morning.

i waited for her all this morning, but she didnt arrive. she didnt have a cellphone with her bcoz the boarding school never allowed the kids to use mobile phone. stupid effing rules. my parents already left home for the weekend like usual, so im all alone pondering why she is not coming home. usually she will call if she change her plan or whatnots.. but i waited n waited.. she never call..

around 2pm today, ekin finally called. she told me she cant make it home bcoz the school admin are not letting any kids out yet due to H1N1 virus that spread in the school. masya Allah.. i told her to wait and im going to go n pick her n bring her home, but she said no visitors are allowed, the security are tightened, not even parents are allowed in. damn damn.. i told her to call me back, bcoz she was using the hostel public phone. im going to tell my parents, but i couldnt reach them. jane is also not at home, she got training or some sorts in kk..

im still waiting for her to call me back. maybe she ran out of coins..

i remembered when ekin was born.. she was so tiny and so small.. but she got this brilliant eyes. one of the geniuses and the best memory among us siblings..

masa ekin kecil, i was rarely home. bcoz at that time, i studied in boarding school as well. bila cuti skolah, i cant wait to go home. i always look forward to see ekin bcoz she was so special..

masa ekin kecik2, ekin boleh membaca sebelum dia boleh bercakap.. yep.. she is such a small genius, she reads before she even know how to talk properly.. i so loved giving her books to read. slalu, dia akan duduk atas perut bapak and bacakan bapak news paper.. masa tu umur dia dalam dua tahun lebih.. and she already read the newspaper..

ekin have this almost superb ability to memorize. contohnya, she only needs to listen to any songs and she can repeat and sing back all the lyrics correctly.. she can do malay, english, korean, japanese and watever language of the song, all she have to is listen to it once..kdg2, bila ada satu lagu that i really like, i always asked her to sing..

and our favorite is asking her to copy dancing.. she can dance really well.. all she needs is look at the step once and she can dance.. slalu, bila ada video klip kat tv that we really like, afterwards, kitorang akan suruh dia copy the step and ajar kitorang balik menari.. and i love watching her dance.. people call it photographic memory.. and probably, she is blessed with kinetic and spatial geniuses, one of the seventh branch of geniuses known to mankind..

our favorite is asking her to mimick the the 'papa n mama bear' dance from 'full house'..
n my favorite is 'low' from flo-rida and t-pain..

everytime i go to kk, i never miss the opportunty to sneak her out from the school. kalau jane, jane akan pusing2 carik warden nak mintak kebenaran bawak ekin kuar shopping. if me, i cant be bothered. i will just ask her to get into the car and menyorok bawah seat and we will cover her with bags or kain. and like me when she was my age, she is very prone to breaking school rules.. it runs in the family.. hehe...

i miss her so much. i hope she's gonna be ok.. ya Allah, pls keep my sister safe...

ekin pakai bj merah. lia baju kuning. pic during jane's wedding prep.

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fenomena air pasang paling tinggi: proxigean spring tide

beberapa hari ni heboh kat skolah tentang ancaman air pasang tertinggi mulai hari ni 21st-23rd of julai. fenomena ni dikenali dengan istilah fenomena proxigean spring tide.selalunya berlaku setiap 1.5 tahun. ia berlaku apabila kedudukan bulan berada paling hampir dengan bumi, dan menyebabkan air pasang sebanyak 10-20% lebih tinggi. for more, boleh baca sini.


so kalau sesiapa yg umah tepi laut, you might wanna be alert on the coastal condition. kat tempat den nih, paras air laut, compare dgn musim bulan penuh, naik almost 50%. dah la dr rumah nih boleh nampak laut. dkt sgt dengan laut. my main concern is all our cars will be submerge in the sea water come next morning. bangun subuh2, tgk keta dah tenggelam. hehehe..

untuk maklumat lanjut:
- nak tahu pasal weather updates dan ramalan cuaca serata malaysia? klik here : http://www.met.gov.my/

- nak tahu paras air pasang berdekatan anda? pls klik here

- nak tahu lebih lanjut tentang proxigean spring tide? klik sini : http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q809.html


so people (me included), sleep well and be alert.

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one safety tip specially 4 ladies.. serang balas!

lately, bnyk cerita tentang keganasan yang dilakukan terhadap wanita dan kanak-kanak. den nak share a little bit about staying safe. im sure banyak dah blog, email even talk shows kat tv yang cerita pasal safety tips for women. but den nak tekan kan satu perkara yg sgt penting.. this is very important....

the golden rule of maintaining personal safety during sudden attack...

[ do not hesitate - jangan teragak-agak ]

disini, den nak kongsi tentang bagaimana menghadapi serangan mengejut dari penyerang samada yang dikenali atau tidak dikenali. this is really important. this is the last resort. if you dah try to prevent being a victim, but somehow, you become the victim, please remember this golden rule. DO NOT HESITATE. JANGAN TERAGAK-AGAK.

maksudnya disini, jangan teragak-agak untuk menyerang balas. i know this sound really 'violent', tp ingat, you have the right to protect yourself.

ramai org gagal mempertahankan diri bila berhadapan dengan penyerang yang menyerang secara tiba-tiba sbb penyerang yang bertindak secara mengejut, ada elemen 'surprise', dan mangsa pula masih dalam keadaan tidak bersedia.

imagine this. seorang lelaki tiba2 menyerang anda dari belakang. usually, most women would try to see their attacker, try to recognise, try to ask what the attacker wants..

"eh.. ape nih.. eh eh.. ape awak nak.. arghh.. tolll.."

this is common sbb every human ada self preservation. maksudnya, kita ada perasaan belas kasihan, dan sikap teragak-agak apatah lagi bila berhadapan dengan org yang tidak dikenali. however, please remember this. jgn teragak-agak.. jgn asik ckp .. 'eh eh.. jgn lah.. eh eh sakit lah..' pls jgn buang masa. jgn teragak-agak untuk serang balik.

Do not hesitate.

if you think someone is following you, or suddenly attack you, react immediately. bertindakbalas dengan segera dan pantas. DO NOT ASK QUESTION. DO NOT TRY TO SEE OR ASK ANYTHING. JUST SCREAM AND ATTACK BACK.

this is really important ok ladies. DO NOT HESITATE TO ATTACK BACK. jgn berhenti satu saat pun. bila org yg tak dikenali tiba2 pegang you, terus serang balik ok? ingat nih. org yg tetiba pegang you atau attack you, IS EVIL. YOU DONT HAVE TO ASK ANYTHING. just attack back. just scream like crazy and attack back.

act crazy. serang balik mcm org gila ok? sepak, lempang, tumbuk, cakar, gigit. and jgn lupa, jerit kuat2 mcm org gila pun takpe. act crazy and be really mad, ok? jadi mcm harimau betina yang mengaum like crazy. bertindak ganas. gunakan kuku, pen, kunci kereta, sikat rambut (kalau sempat capai) and cakar atau lukakan muka atau apa sahaja bahagian badan penyerang sambil menjerit dgn kuat sekali.

sbbnya, penyerang selalunya memilih mangsa yg berprofil 'lemah'. penyerang selalunya sudah merancang setiap tindak tanduk mereka. apa yang mereka tidak jangkakan selalunya adalah mangsa yang sbnrnya boleh bertindak agresif. so ladies, if you are so unfortunate to be attack, pls be agresif. bertindak ganas akan mengejutkan penyerang anda dan kemungkinan besar mereka akan sedikit cemas dan bertindak melepaskan anda.

gambar kat atas tu mostly tempat strategik untuk dibelasah. tp be realistic ok? bukan senang nak belasah kat tempat2 strategik nih. so just attack any body parts that you can reach. be agresive. serang dan jerit. jgn lupa..

to be continue.. until then, stay safe.

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pasangan kekasih digantung sampai mati - cerita dari teman serumah.

semua org tgh sebok merayakan kemenangan manek urai. den terbaca balik kesah allahyarham juliana md fuzi, dak uiam yg dibunuh kejam 2 thn lepas. berita tentangnya boleh dibaca disini. dua orang pasangan kekasih dituduh membunuh arwah selepas arwah dirogol. so sad....

no one shud ever bear those kind of pain.. sgt kasihan pada keluarga mangsa dan rakan2..

kalau ada masa, leh baca entry crita penuh dr bekas teman serumah arwah di sini.

semoga arwah tenang disana.. AL-fatihah..

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jgn ragu2 beb, keraguan dtg dr setan!! ikut setan ke ikut sape!

selalunya, blog2 politik ni den speed reading je. tp nih ada satu komen sgt sgt kelakar dr blog at. korang klik sini. keh keh keh.. scroll ke bwh yg pengomen nama 'Malin'. tgk apo dia kata..

MaLin said...

keraguan dtg dari setan beb!! ikut setan ke ikut sape

Monday, July 13, 2009 8:11:00 PM MYT

hihi.. cik malin nih mungkin merujuk kepada komen bro lelaki_ini yg ada keraguan tentang proses pengiraan undi muktamar lepas. hahaha.. mmg kelakar beb.. tak boleh ragu2 sbb keraguan dtg dr setan!! jgn ragu2 tentang kiraan undi tu sbb kalau ragu2 ni setan petualangnya..

adui la.. mentaliti mcm ni pun ada ka... keraguan dtg dr setan tu kena ke pada konteks kiraan undi? hahahhaa.. den masih raso nak gelak nih..

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be humble, be passionate..

hah!! bro xenan dah tulis pasal threadless. and bro, thanks for the officesnapshots tidbits. its inspiring. really. online biz model, bak kata bro xenan nih, hanya bnyk sukses kat US. i slightly disagee with dat, bcoz, relatively, by size, we got lelong, mudah, n few local online stores. but i think, the growth are retarded due to the lackadaisical of internet usage among our people. ordeing shoes or tees from internet is not yet the 'ins' of our culture. but i guess, the trend now showing dat more people are going for online shopping these days. (dat will include me...)

ok since xenan dah berkesah tentang threadless, den nak share pasal zappo. err... actually, dah lama den simpan angan2 nak berbiznes o9 nih, tp asik bertangguh. ahh nanti lah. nak citer pasal zappos. zappos nih mulanya kedai yg jual kasut secara online. zappos was founded in 1999, but 2 bulan lepas tu, tony hsieh (the future ceo of zappos) joined zappos. ok tony lah orgnya yg bekerja keras menjana keuntungan zappos dr USD1.6M pada thn 2000 kepada USD1billion in 2008. woOOoOooOoohoooooOooooo... dats like wat, 1000% increased? aiyah. cannot kira oredi. but u get the picture.

yg menariknya, zappos is still really a small company dat was build on tradiitional values, by ordinary people with extraordinary passion n determination. and i kid you not. pertama kali den dengar pasal zappos nih masa tgk oprah last year. tony was so humble and down to earth ok. tony alone worth about 265millions sbb dia ada jual syarikat dia pada microsoft. and masa dia jual tu, dia baru berusia 22thn.

kat US je crita mcm ni wujud. or maybe den yg tak peka pd perkembangan semasa. ada tak usahawan muda yg jadi jutawan in their 20s? i mean, jutawan atas hasil titik peluh sendiri?

apa yg menarik minat den pada zappos is their working culture. masa tgk oprah, dia ada bg tgk how their offices looks like. ok its a company worth 1billion, tp opis dia sempoi jek. its an open space, ada bnyk2 cubicle and the ceo, which is tony, pun duduk dlm cubicle. bukan mcm ceo syarikat2 lain ada opis sendiri, but tony, who is worth 265million dollar alone, sits in a cubicle like the rest of them.

mcm mana nak bina sebuah company yg earning 1million to a company earning 1billion. these are wat these young people did. their zappos core values, which i think, with some minor adjustment, is what i would like my future company apply. hehehe..

zappos core values

1. Deliver WOW Through Service
2. Embrace and Drive Change
3. Create Fun and A Little Weirdness
4. Be Adventurous, Creative, and Open-Minded
5. Pursue Growth and Learning
6. Build Open and Honest Relationships With Communication
7. Build a Positive Team and Family Spirit
8. Do More With Less
9. Be Passionate and Determined
10. Be Humble

most company sgt rigid in their culture. hari2 pegi kerja masuk opis pakai suit. kalau yg pompuan, pakai bj kurung atau kebaya ngan tudung melilit atau melintang atau tudung sanggul menyanggul. urghhh.. atau pakai kemeja n biznes pants atau pencil skirt. yuckss.

DO WE REALLY HAVE TO WEAR THAT IF WE WORK IN AN OFFICE?? WHY CANT I WEAR WHAT I WANT AND BE HAPPY WEARING WHAT EVER I FELT LIKE WEARING FOR DAT DAY? whats wrong with shirt and jeans n slippers or sneakers?

i am so against dat biznes attire loads of craps. dats y zappos is really cool. or chillex (chill + relax). perhaps, its about our perception. hehe

ok.. online model biz? havent quite figured dat out yet. might be spending some time wondering about dat. i already spent the first 14hours of my day and night. i only got 10 hours left. and i slept for about 5 hours. so i really have only 5 hours daily. ok actually i only got 3 hours or less bcoz... well, even i have to eat, bath, day dreaming... hehehehe.. so come out people.. lets do biznes online!

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cerita lima ringgit

masa den gi jenjalan kat kk last weekend ngan my sis, kitorang sempat brekfes kat satu restoran nih. awal pg lg, takde org lain pun dm cafe tu. sebenarnya kitorang tak lapar pun, tp saja ngade2 nk makan. so kitorang order satu pinggan mi goreng ngan 2 kepak ayam goreng. kongsi je sbb takut bazir tak abis. sayang je. den pantang kalau org buang2 makanan nih.

tgh2 tunggu order tu, ada sorang pakcik ni masuk cafe. nampak mcm umur 50an, gempal2, pakai spek, separuh botak. ada gaya bisnesman. dia masuk trus gi kat tokeh cafe. den tak tahu apa diorang borakkan, tp pakcik tu asik ckp..

"takpa takpa.. kita serah ja pada Allah.."
"rahmat Allah ada dimana-mana.. kita tawakkal saja.."

ntah kenapa, bila tgk dan dgr pakcik tu, den ter'flash' back kesah akhir 2007.

masa tu, ada open tender utk supply makanan kat sebuah sekolah menengah nih. kira2 itu ini, den buat unjuran gross profit minima rm1000 a day. yup. untung kasar minima boleh dpt dlm rm1000 sehari. kazen den yg rekemen suh submit tender sbb kontraktor yg ada masa tu dah nak tamat kontrak.

den usha2 kat kazen den tu, kontraktor masa tu bayar sewa rm35 je per day. n i thot, giler ciput. 35 je sehari? so im being generous la. i put rm50 a day. which is sewa rm1000 sebulan. in fact, i wanted to put rm75 but its a bit far fetch ler. still, sikit je considering the fact that gross profit could amount to almost 20k per month. so den pon draw up my proposal, listing all dat was required.

pendekkan crita, tender tu kena submit kat ketua kerani sekolah tu. dia ni kira org kuat ahli jawatankuasa yg menentukan kontraktor mana yg akan dipilih. so jumpa dia dlm bilik dia la. dia selak2 proposal den, dan dia tekejut tgk den offer to pay as high as rm50 per day. dia sengih2 kat den. dan dia kata...

"ni dah banyak ni. mcm ni je. yg ni resit pembayaran u isi nanti. u bayar rm50 tp dlm resit ni u tulis rm45 tau.." dia sengih2..

"err.. kenapa plak mcm tu?" oh shit. another low life.

"hehe.. biasa lah tu.. kontrak yg dulu pon mcm ni jugak."

"oh macam tu.. saya akan fikirkan. terima kasih.."

wat the heck. rm5 sehari. a bribe of rm5 a day. asshole. oxymoron. if you wanted to ask for a duit kopi, could you use your brain and ask a bit more than a measly rm5? bigtime idiot dat looks like a jerk. i dont have to consider anything. its against my principle.

my kazen tu a bit angry actually. sbb dia kata, "5 ringgit je, kau takkan perasan pon 5 ringgit tu ko bg kat dia. kau dah sah sah masuk poket seribu sehari. ape yg kau berkira sgt? mcm ni la bisnes.. ingat senang ke nak dapat tender?"

den malas nak debat panjang2. altho at dat time, earning more money was my first priority and i was struggling with problems dat seems to come out of nowhere. but, i just couldnt bring myself to be dat low. rm5 je right? lets not focus on what im losing here, look at the 'bigger picture'.. or in my case, look at the 'bigger number'..

but it was nagging n tearing me inside.

can i live with myself knowing that im bribing someone to get what i want?

am i strong enough to resist the master of all tempatation?

its so easy to give in. senang je nak buat2 tak kesah. but i just couldnt do it. so den bgtahu kazen tu, suruh maklumkan kat kerani tu yang i have to retract my tender due to personal reason. den malas nak gi jumpa dia lg, in case the temptation become too great to resist.

tp bila mendengar kata2 pakcik dlm cafe tu, den teringat balik kesah 5ringgit tu. masa kesah tu berlaku, den men9olak bukan atas sebab pendirian agama. err how can i say this delicately.. it didnt occur to me to see it like the way dat pakcik mentioned it. den menolak unsur2 rasuah bukan sbb den ni seorang yg alim dan warak, tp den menolak sbb prinsip den yang menolak unsur2 demikian. i didnt associate it with anything of me being religious. it just happened..

ok. dats all for tonite. till then :)

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who am i

i will be very brief and straight to the point.

hari ni, ada seorang cikgu, offer me a teaching position. this is unlike any other offer that i always refused. this 'teaching position' offer actually made me wanted to laugh my butt off. and perhaps, after i laughed my butt off, i will most probably sit down and think very hard on the 'why on earth do they think that i fit to teach in a christian missionary private school.

yep. its a privately own christian missionary school run by the anglican church.

when she said that they will welcome me as one of the teacher, i was laughing and giggling hysterically inside. she said dat it was ok for a Muslim to teach there. i find that, it was so funny that i, miss Evelyn, had the quality to teach their christian children in a christian missionary school. and the pay is lucrative and big bucks are sure to roll in. btw, the school is own by anglican which is funded all the way from the US. gempak eh?

now, i had refused may job offers. dat will include, being a lecturer, being a finance executive (albeit that i have no finace background, this is really nepotism working at its finest), executives here n there, etc etc etc.. its all in government sectors, n everybody just thot i shud just grab any of those offer n settle for it. but i wont. more on this later.

but a teacher at an anglican christian missionary school?

now this is really something. i might consider this if i didnt think it was so astoundingly funny.
i mean, what kind of image am i projecting to the rest of the world, that people will think of me as a model for their christian kids? dat i can actually teach in a missionary school, owned by a church, funded all the way from the USA?

what am i to the rest of the population?
what do people see when they look at me?
who am i?


i dread the answers. but i wanted to know, altho, i can hazard few guesses already.

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melayu itu adalah bahasanya.

Melayu itu adalah bahasanya.

Sebenarnya, tadi saya berasakan sangat malas hendak pergi ke ruang tamu dan mengambil beg saya. Terkandung didalam beg saya ini adalah sebuah laptop yang saya miliki sejak beberapa bulan lepas. Saya berasa amat malas untuk melayari laman web kerana saya agak penat setelah bekerja sehari suntuk sejak pukul tiga pagi tadi.

Namun yang demikian, saya gagahi juga kerana saya ingin membuat tempahan telefon bimbit untuk beberapa pelanggan baru. Sempat kiranya saya melayari laman sesawang blog saya. Saya mendapati ada seorang tetamu yang tidak meninggalkan nama meletakkan komen ini dientry saya yang terdahulu bertajuk "am i blogger non melayu"

cik tanpa nama said :

puan bloger, kenapa di ruang senarai bloger ada perkataan 'beberapa'? contoh, 2 beberapa jam yang lalu. melayu itu adalah bahasanya.

Saya mencuba untuk menjadi lebih Melayu dengan berbahasa Melayu dan mematuhi serba serbi tutur cara bahasa yang benar. Ini adalah kerana, Melayu itu adalah bahasanya.

what say you? Oh, maafkan saya. Maksud saya, apa pendapat anda sekalian pembaca?

:)

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first weekend off

this weekend is probably the first weekend that chanced 'getaway' upon me for quite sometime. hehe.. tiap hari, bangun kul 3pagi n start buat kerja sampai dekat kul 8mlm. thats about 16hours a day, n from 3am till 1pm on every saturday. almost 100hours a week of pure physical labour. try to beat that, anyone? dun think any of you can top dat. hehe..

by 2pm on every saturday, sy akan berasa sgt gumbira kerana finally, i can forget about working even if it only lasts few hours. by sunday, i will start going around places to stock up, buying stuff, doing bits of paperworks, lots of cleaning n tidying up etc etc bla bla bla.. but, for some unknown reasons, ppl thot the time when i put two three lines of entry, they went beserk, as if im so free n i shud be doing something else, somethng beneficial perhaps... hehe.. well, for wat its worth, express ur thot freely.. :)

on friday, i called my sis, she said she got fever, but the fever dah tak teruk. she didn want to go to hospital, she said pergi klinik dah kira ok la. n i asked her to go check kat hospital bcoz she recently came back from KL.i was afraid she picked up some strain of H1N1. but she refused. she really didn wanna go so i told her i will be coming to drag her sweet butt off to the hospital. she insist i shudnt come, that raised more curiosity from my part. so wat the heck.. i was already looking forward for a nice quite saturday nite, instead, i found myself making 3 hours of driving in the rain to just go n see her.

i shud have known it was a trick to get me to come here. haha.. SHE TRICKED ME!! she was fine, she didnt have fever. *sigh..* thank god for dat, but realy, i was so tired i just wanted to sleep the nite. but obviously, wasnt part of the plan. i got here about 6pm yesterday, straight from work. we went for dinner then watch TRANSFORMERS: revenge of the fallen. haha.. i texted xenan coz dia sgt la belagak masa dia g tgk transformers ari tu. ye la.. the season oredi passed but what can i do, this is the only time when i really got a weekend off. hehe..

the movie was so cool ok.. xenan, bro u r right. i'd love to go n watch it again. the movie finished about1230am, i told to my sister we might as well watch ICE AGE 3, make it a movie marathon. but my sister don wat to, she said she wanna watch twilight. oh heck, rupanya dia tak tgk lg, n i thot dia dah tgk coz shes the one who recommended twilight to me. so nvmind, save it for later.

this morning, we start off by going to the sunday market. bapak asked me to buy a red palm tree, its like pokok pinang tp batang warna merah, for decoration purposes. we didnt find anything, so i bought him a pine needle tree, sort of like pokok krismas. so by the end of this year, we will have our own brand of pokok krismas.. hihi (just kidding of course). but the tree will look enormous in 3-5 years. i will plant it myself later.

then we went to my other sister school, n kidnapped he. so there are three of us now. we couldnt find the warden, so i sneaked her out from her hostel. haha.. well encik warden, you shud have stayed in ur ofis, otherwise, i wont waste my precious minutes n go looking for you. we had lunch, and thankfully, this food court ada wifi, bcoz i really hate windows shopping. i dunno why girls love going around the mall n do this window shopping thing. so i told them, please go wherever you girls wanted to, i will just sit here n surf the net. text me when you girls are done n we will meet at the car..

so here i am, at the city mall food parade, surfing away happily. thank god my laptop is so small it can fit in my purse. otherwise, kena ikut budak2 tu pusing2 aimlessly. btw, im going to the airport in a while bcoz i have to pick up jane, she's back from her wedding reception at kelantan today. i didnt go with the rest of the family bcoz obviously, work has kept me here. i wanted to post pics but never got the chance to really sit down n doing it.

ok its almos 12 now, i think im done for now. need to beat the traffic again. i missed home and work already. hehehe..

till then.. :)

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am i blogger non melayu?

hah! baru perasan.

am i blogger non melayu? darn.. i am melayu, at least almost 50%, but of course, if u strictly follows the malayan federal constitution by-definition, you could say, im non melayu..

which was rude btw. i always consider myself melayu. so what if i look slightly different. or even dress different or act really different from any other melayu? will that make me less melayu?

ok ok, wild imaginations aised pls..

lets look at one of my artwork..

urgh.. actually, i prepared three covers for lahanat jebat. one was blue black, one was grayish black and one is red black as above. originally, it didnt look like the one above. the one i created originally looks better actually. the font carried more weight, the writings look more prominent. and originally, i wanted to take out the 'red clouds' above but he insist that it looks nice. well, cant argue with the author.

the font actually need adjustment, but again, he wanted it that way. fine fine. the short 'poem' was mine. and if you zoom in, the 'red clouds' above got hidden caption. you need to wait till lahanat jebat available at book store to know whats written behind the clouds. hehe

the cover was done in a rush. you wouldnt believe how pushy some people can be. i admit, this wasnt one of my best work. it looks so amateurish. but of course, he told me thata frend told him that the cover looks every bit professional. gahhhhhhh.. the friend obviously dunno what he was talking about.

and there was this small logo, picture below. this looks simple eh? DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY HOURS I SPENT ON ADOBE FIREWORKS TO GET THIS IMAGE RIGHT?

hehe.. but this tiny image is my favorite. you see, AT was so intent on having his e-book looks exactly like this. the original image is another ebook as well. AT made me clear the original cover and asked for his cover to be inserted instead. fyi, i never do any course on graphics or photoshop. not until i was pushed to do crash course using the 'hep files' on fireworks. imagine the burden he puts me through. and he has the nerve to be picky and give orders. gahhhhhh!!

cheapskate.

oh, the flashy thing that scroll? the flash messages. did those too. but u cant see it at ATs blog. i think you can still view it at Bergs blogs. i thot making the small ecover above was tough, but wait til you try doing flashy images and scrolling text with masking here and there, with no experience beforehand. gahhhhhhh!!! and on top of your misery, you got someone like AT who kept ordering to change here, change that, make this bigger, change color etc.

im so glad its was finally over when the novel was published. hehe.. i didnt buy the ebook tho, for i have read it months before, back when i have to read word by words for every tiny spelling mistakes. and to realize that i sucks in bahasa melayu, to say the least.. gahhhh!

oh heck, back to work again i guess.

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reading frenzy

i used to red alot. i mean.. A LOT. n mostly old english literature. i used to marvel deep and fascinated by the way jane austen could write story that touches our life but delivering it with such simplicity that it was easy to understand the century that the story took place. i love jane austen. i think i've read most of her novels, sense n sensibility, mansfield park.. cant remember the rest.

i usually choose my novel based on the author. say, if i read one book, and i think i love the story, i will hunt all books by the same author. so its no surprise that i have read all books by sidney sheldon, john grisham, patricia cromwell, dan brown, stephenie meyer (still on going, the twilight thingy), anne rice, and many more which i cant remember.

i will let you in a little secret. he he.. my favorite love story in the world is well, not romeo and juliet (because i think romeo is stupid and juliet is another idiot, she should just be content with paris).. but my all-time fav love story is between elizabeth benneth and mr darcy in pride and prejudice (also by jane austen).

the story took place in the early 19th century. i like reading old stories, i mean stories that emanates old soul from some old century. if i get to choose the year i am to live, i probably wanted to live in some faraway land in england somewhere in the 19th century for life is always simple at that time.

why?

living life seemed less complicated then. people fell in love, get married and live happily ever after. simple, logical, and yet, so fulfilling. people rarely asked your social status, does not care for big cars, huge homes, some big fancy lands or nice carriage for that matter.

life is so much fun living when you have no expectations..

i always know what i want. i want a quite life. far away from urban modernisation. if its possible, i wanted to live in a jungle or in an estate, surrounded by woods, living a serene life day after day, being content of what i have not what i could have.. is it so much to ask for?

and by the way, im still reading the twilight series. im done with the first novel twilight, new moon, and eclipse. im on to the last installment of the series, 'breaking dawn'.. all in all, there are 4 novels altogether. i have to admit, the story is so plain, plot is so undramatic, i can almost always guess the next move by every character. its kinda boring after almost 1000pages..

one that i wasnt prepared for is the author interpretation and definition of 'love' itself. and the weight of emotions that linked and bond all characters in the story. it mirrorred what i felt almost a year ago, and i almost stop reading for it triggered all sorts of emotions that i rather not fond of recalling..

i tried hard to finish the books.. but at times, i almost wish that i never started watching the movie or even read the series.. *sigh*... it gets under my skin after a while too..

ah well, i gotta get back to work.

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