LIFE : OUT OF HOME DINNER

Even though I had been writing this article so many times regarding comparison between eating at the Fast-food restaurant and a normal middle class restaurant but I still couldn’t understands why my kids still like to go to Fast-food restaurant instead of a eating at the normal restaurant. Yesterday, I drove to Taiping with my kids and my main intention to have a family dinner at one of my favorite restaurant in Taiping. After stop a while at the Lake garden to have a fresh air than  I proceed to my favorite Restaurant specialize in warung style cooking, unfortunately the restaurant was closed. I read at the restaurant main entrance and notice that open from Saturday to Thursday Close on Friday. I drove about 90kms just to have a good dinner at the restaurant but end up at McDonald restaurant. I didn’t keen to have dinner at such place but influence from the kids was so strong than my wills. I bought a dinner set that  cost me RM 40.10 consist of Four carbonated drinks, four Chicken Burgers, France fries, six pieces of chicken nugget , two cups of sundae and a piece of boneless chicken in the bun. After the dinner I told my kids that “Do you know how much foods you can eat at the same amount of dinner set that I paid at McDonald? A lot of foods you can eat until your stomach full but less than what I have to pay compare to the McDonald.  Papa please doesn’t repeat the same sentence.” I just managed to keep quiet and end up finished all the foods that left  by my kids. No wonder I gained weight every time had a dinner with my Kids.

LIFE : OUT OF OFFICE

I took two days off from Thursday to Friday just to have a good rest from my daily hectic work load and I wrote this in my facebook so that I could get an instant respond from my facebook friends. I wrote “There is no guarantee that I can free myself from thinking about work”. Some of my friends responded to my facebook and told me try to forget all about the workload and go somewhere that you think can make your mind free and peaceful. When I read all the comments I just managed to smile and told to myself I will try but no guarantee. On Thursday at 8.15am, my an official working hour started, I patiently wait and believed that for sure someone from my office would call me up to ask something that related to my work, at 8.45am I received my first call  but not from my office it was from my mother in law to inform me that my wife cousin passed away and invited me to attend the funeral.  The place that totally call quiet and peacefully. Unfortunately at such peaceful place my Hand phone starts to ringging unstops and I had to answer all the phone call one by one until I noticed someone was putting one of his fingers near to his mouth to show a symbol of Keep Quiet. I knew that it was a bad habit answering the phone call inside the funeral house so I walk off and off my hand phone. When I reached home after the funeral  I found that I had 15 missed calls and answered only those were important. In reality, that what I call  life. Officially  on the paper, I'm on leave but in reality I still need to work away out of the office.

LIFE : LIBRARY

Last Saturday, I was at the Seberang Jaya Public Library to do my office work that need to be submitted by Monday. Since I came late and most of the seat had been occupied by the student. I managed to get one empty chair and in front of me there were two young students doing their study revision. I took all my paper and started doing my own stuff. The two young couple keeps on talking from one topic to another topic, from study to personal matter. Actually I didn’t tend to listen but they were sitting closed to me and I can listen every single word by word , their conversation really not disturbing my work so I just keep on listen while doing my work. Once a while the young students couple throwing their smile to me and I did a same thing to them as a courtesy. From my observation both of them a smart student and the way they express their self and the confident level of expressing the opinion. My thinking start to browsing in my head and it was totally reminded me 24 years ago when I was a student in ITM Shah Alam. I also did a same thing when I was a student. It supposed to study but most of the time taking this opportunity to express my love toward my  girl friend……………………………So I can’t blame them when come into this situation. It means that library is the best safe place to express love among young students. In reality their parent might think that they are really study for their exam.