LIFE : OUTDATED

Since my laptop was corupted for april and sent for repair, i was un able to update my blog. It's almost 9 month and my laptop is still with the computer repair shop and i not even interested to collect it back due to outdated OS. I paid for the repair deposit and as a rule stated on the repair form, if not collected after 6 months the computer will belong to the computer shop. Now. I don't see people carry laptop to any fastfood outlet that provide free wifi. They are using Ipad or smartphone to surf internet, so eventhough i'm in the 50ties, no choice i have to follow the trend. I post this blog by using my daughter Ipad and she is still sleeping. My daughter is 13 years old.........do i did a right things using my daughter gadget without her permission. I'm the boss.

LIFE : NEIGHBOUR

I always feel curious to a people who don't like to mixed around with other neighbours by isolating their self just because they are living in a comfort zone. As a Muslim, money can't buy everything we still need a neighbour to carry our coffin to the mosque when time come to meet Almighty God. As a neighbour, I always believe work  hand to hand to build a better neighbourhood.

LIFE : I LOVE MALAYSIA

When I'm grown older and older......specially when my age is became nearest to the expire date. Only God knows the secret date so that as a slave to the Almighty God  I will  keep on hoping that my life to be extended day by day.  The remaining of life will get better and better while  looking at my kids  grow up. The memories of old days are more  much stronger than what was happen yesterday. Time is moving so fast and date to the retirement day become closer and closer. One by one our beloved friends left us to meet the Almighty God and I always believe the only true old friends can cheer up my life by flashing back all the happy moment stories that I have been gone thru......even though time is not permitted to meet all of you, only one word that I can say.... I  really love and miss  all of you,  my dear old friends wherever you are.........................Selamat Menyambut Hari Kemerdekaan to Malaysia.

LIFE : AN ATHEIST

I read a blog from an atheist who don't believe in God in Jakarta Globe. I gave him a simple comment with a stupid answer. I wrote " If you walk alone in a jungle then you see a small old hut, do you believe someone have built and stay here? " He reply yes then you walk alone again in the desert and you see a cow dung, do you believe cow was here even though you don't see any cow on the desert. He reply common sense and logic. Then I reply back if you can believe a cow dung story why can't you believe that the existence of God by looking at the universe. There must be a very big power who create the universe. Can it be created by itself.....He reply back by using English word that I almost forget but in translation" Penafian Dalam Kejahilan." I reply Ok, let we look on the science view the theory of the Big Bang. Every creation started with a small dot, what we call it an Atom. Can an Atom create by it self? You answer for me............No reply from him till today.

LIFE : FUTURE DREAM

I'm taking 11 days from my annual leave to celebrate Aidil Fitri. This is the longest annual leave in the past of 16 years my service in Nestle. Normally I will use it to take my family for holiday but this time around I have to forget about it due to my daughter final years primary examination. She told me that she will not going anywhere until her exam is completed. My wife agreed with her since she close with her mother. The exam is on September and she need to study hard to pursue her dream to further studies at any best boarding school. As usual I just let her to choose what she want to be in the future. From my side I prefer she pursue her study at any Islamic boarding school before she enter any Universities just to make sure the knowledge of Islamic studies in her to defence her from any  bad influence. Time have change, world that I live now is not as same as what in past 50 years ago. Where I don't have to worry about the safety then but now every step toward future need to be observed closely and wisely to avoid confuse which one is bad or good. The future is in our hand to create a better world to live and it have to start today will the help of Allah Swt.......Nobody can guess or predict what is going to happen tomorrow, just keep on pray and pray for a better life here and hereafter.........

LIFE : DRIVING IN FESTIVE MOOD

Driving in a long hours could be a most tiring event specially when there was a long festive season holiday. Aidil Fitri fell on  last Thursday and Friday plus two days weekend holiday. So it was a perfect day for Malaysian to go for inbound holiday. The traffic flow was horrible and the road was jammed at any Conner of Federal road and highway. Long queue specially when there was a traffic light. It could be jammed as far as a few kilometer just to pass thru the traffic light. The most worst part when drivers started to jump queue and  make the traffic flow become narrow and narrow to the bottle neck. Everybody were rushing to reach their destination as fast as they could to celebrate the big day but they didn't realise that they were the one who make the traffic flow slower and stuck in the traffic jammed hour by hour. A normal driving  to the destination could be reached by two hours but it took six hours to reach a same destination. Just imagine how exhausted driving in a such condition. By the time we reached our destination the mood of celebration was lost.......Anyway the excitement to meet the family members on the big days would make us forgot all the pain and agony we faced during all along the way drove to our destination. Selamat Aidil Fitri.

LIFE : MY HARI RAYA AIDIL FITRI STORY...................

Yesterday after visited my elder sister in Sik, we all ate a lots of Lemang then we decided to have a KFC for dinner on the way back to Kepala Batas. I told my kids everybody had to contribute part of their duit raya to have a good dinner at KFC in Sungai Petani.....let start a spirit of sharing in the early stage of age.

 

When I was a kid same age with my little daughter, Hari Raya Aidil Fitri was really a big days for me, where I would wore a new dress and tour the whole kampung to visit all houses to collect ang pau. 20 cent was a big deal at that time and enough to buy a cinema ticket to watch a black and white movie.........what a such wonderful life without worry to be kidnapped by the stranger. We prefer our kids stay at home rather than hang around for a safety reason.

 

Sending an electronic media greeting cards by sms is a norm today but the problem is forward a same sms without delete the sender name is something common done by us....include me. Anyway Selamat Hari Raya Aidil Fitri to all my Muslim and non Muslim FB friends wherever you are...Happy Long Holiday and enjoy this festive season.

 

Copy and paste from my Facebook post.

LIFE : MANAGEMENT

Different bosses with different style of doing things in management, aggressive and with a crazy idea. Some ideas are beyond human capacity to be implemented. Some people are saying it's a good idea to move forward when they are in front of the bosses but at the back they are saying a different things. Are we born to be a robot or we are paid to do so without question whether it right or wrong? Nobody dare to challenge specially the idea come from the top management and just afraid to be label as a negative minded. Do we have a choice to choose to do it or to ignore it? As long as we are being paid ,we have to do it. Success or failure is out of question. Do it and no try......or the choice is your and with a famous word among the management " The door is always open "  you know what I mean.......

LIFE : RAMADAN

Dear Friends and Reader

Today is a fifth days of Ramadan but I thinks it's still not too late to wish all my Muslim friends happy Ramadan. Hopefully whatever a good deed we do in the holy month will be accepted by Allah Swt. Do a lot of Sadaqah, fed to the needy and keep on praying for a better hereafter. Insyallah I will posting more on Fadillat Of Sadaqah, so that it will boost our spirit to be more on giving rather than asking...................May Allah Swt bless us.

Regards,
Zainal Talib [ Putra Bertam ]

KEHIDUPAN : TAUBAT

Masa berjalan dengan pantas, hari berganti hari, minggu berganti minggu dan bulan berganti bulan berjalan dengan begitu cepat sekali. Adakah ini menandakan akan berakhirnya dunia ini?Baru terasa ramadan yang lepas tiba-tiba ramadan menjelma kembali seolah-olah tahun berganti tahun seperti hari semalam. Apakah ini disebabkan kesibuk manusia yang berjalan dengan pantas atau inilah ketentuan Allah Swt apabila untuk menandakan penghujung dunia ini akan berakhir..........Ah, biarkan lah masa itu berlalu tetapi persoalannya kita, kita manusia ini yang dicipta oleh Allah Swt. Apakah bersedia untuk menghadapi kepantasan masa berlalu? Apakah sudah cukup amal yang baik kita lakukan atau apakah dosa yang kita lakukan dapat ditinggalkan? Beribu-ribu persoalan yang bermain didalam fikiran kita, selagi nafas masih keluar masuk dengan percuma, selagi itu lah pintu taubat akan terbuka.

 

Besar atau kecilnya dosa yang kita lakukan, yang paling menakutkan kita adalah dosa yang sama dilakukan berulang-ulang kali sehingga merasakan, ah, tidak apa, pintu taubat masih terbuka. Malangnya maut tidak kita lihat dan ketahui,bila datang menjelma...........Kita ketagih melakukan dosa seperti ketagihnya manusia kepada candu. Walaupun kita ketahui akan keburukannya tetapi nafsu mengatasi segala-galanya. Semoga keberkatan Ramadan Al Mubarak ini Allah Swt akan terima penyesalan kita terhadap dosa-dosa yang kita lakukan dengan sengaja atau terlajak. Allah Swt Maha pengampun lagi Maha pengasihani.........................

KEHIDUPAN : SIBUK

Lantas kesibukan kerja membuatkan saya tidak mengemaskinikan sebarang aktiviti dalam blog. Tidak tahu bagaimana untuk meluahkan perasaan yang tertekan dengan kerja-kerja yang semakin hari semakin mencabar. Walaupun pun tempoh persaraan dilanjutkan kepada 60 tahun tetapi tekanan kerja membuatkan saya terfikir, adakah berbaloi untuk berkerja pada umur tersebut? Apa yang saya mahukan persaraan itu ditempoh dengan baik dan mengunakan saat itu untuk menumpukan kepada ibadat kepada Yang Maha Pencipta Alam Ia Itu Allah Swt. Perkataan ibadat itu sangat luas termasuk berjalan mengeliling bumi untuk melihat ciptaan Allah Swt setiap negara,negeri,adat,budaya,makanan dan pandangan untuk mendekatkan diri kepada Sang Pencipta. Masih banyak perkara yang harus dilalui dalam tempoh untuk sampai ke umur 60 tahun.........................

KEHIDUPAN : FITNAH AKHIR ZAMAN

 Sebahagian tanda-tanda akhir zaman adalah umat Islam akan dilanda fitnah yang datang dari kiri and kanan. Apakah manusia sudah mula hilang pertimbangan akal dalam menjalani kehidupan ini? Antara halal and haram tidak diambil kira lagi asalkan dapat meneruskan kehidupan yang semakin mencabar. Wang and kuasa dianggap pekara pokok dalam kehidupan, kehidupan beragama dibelakangkan dan keseronokan dunia menjadi ukuran ketenangan hidup sehinggakan manusia sanggup melakukan sesuatu yang terkeluar dari norma-norma kemanusian itu sendiri. Sebenarnya kehidupan ini hanyalah tipu daya sebagaimana yang di peringatkan oleh Allah swt dalam Al quran. Bagaimana syaitan menakut-nakut manusia dengan kehidupan yang susah, kebimbangan kekurangan harta, melarat dan berbagai-bagai muslihat dipertontonkan dihadapan mata manusia supaya terkeluar dari mengingati Allah Swt. Padahal kematian itu hanya sekelip mata perpindahan dari dunia fana kepada alam akhirat yang kekal. Setiap kematian orang lain merupakan aktibar bagi manusia lain bahawa kita akan pasti meyusul, benda yang pasti berlaku dan diakui oleh setiap manusia ciptaan Allah Swt.

 

Fitnah yang datang menyebabkan manusia itu terkeliru diantara benar and salah, sehingga benda yang salah dianggap benar dan begitulah sebaliknya. Dalam tempoh mendatang kita akan melihat sebagaimana fitnah-fitnah akan lebih besar lagi apabila manusia yang rakus kuasa akan menfitnahkan satu sama lain dalam mengekalkan kuasa. Mengakibatkan manusia yang kerdil seperti kita terkeliru dan terus terkeliru dengan fitnah-fitnah diantara yang benar dan yang salah. Hanya pada Allah Swt jualah tempat kembali dan pada firmannya dan sunnah Rasulullah Saw menjadi panduan walaupun bertentangan dengan keinginan hawa nafsu manusia. Ya Allah lindunglah kami dan Engkau jua yang boleh menjauhi fitnah ini dari diri ku yang daif.........Amin.

LIFE : GOOD LUCK TO YOU

Yesterday I went to EON to do my monthly service. As usual the service advisor will greet me with a smiling face but yesterday it look so quiet and everybody doing their own work without talking to each other. I asked him what really happen? He told me that today the company is going to decide our fate in this company due to take over by proton edar. I though that DRB bought all the proton share so EON which was under DRB was taking over the Proton Edar. That what we all thought. By 12.00pm we all will know our fate whether we all still have a job or to be transferred to Proton Edar in other place or the company will offer us VSS. He told me that he could not sleep for the past two days when thinking about it. After completed my car service I took my car key from the service advisor and told him hope that I still can meet him at new place for my next car service maintainence. Nothing much I can say except good luck...................

LIFE : 3 D

Today I learned something that very useful method's to make our life easier in our daily routine work. It's called 3 D. I mean not the 3 D that stand for a movie. It mean by Duduk [ Sit ] Diam [  keep quiet] and Dengar [ Listen ]. I got it from someone during my market visit in one of supermarket in Seberang Jaya. He taught me how to survive to avoid victimise by our superior or top level management. Even though in generally it will work but to me I still believe that as long as we do our part according the rule, We will survive.  I always believe work honestly and trust our self and avoid argument with our superior to make our life  much much easier. No point of arguing with our superior except we have a strong point to counter back. To play safe always be prepared. Right is right and wrong is wrong.............be humble.

LIFE : BYE BYE AWANA

Walked along the beach after breakfast just to forget the hectic and work load in the office. At Least I can make my mind peaceful. Sometime we need to be alone, far away from city. Today is going to be my last day in Awana and after this I will proceed to Negeri Sembilan to visit my father hometown. Thanks god who give me time with my family to have a good vacation in Awana Kijal. So next week I'm going to start my normal life again......lots of work is waiting for me and my sale target need to be monitored closely because end year is just around the Conner. Good start in begining of the year with good closing  of 2012...............

LIFE : GPS

Sometime it look so stupid when life is too depend on GPS. A device that it suppose to make our life easier. Unfortunately sometime it make us look so stupid. This what happen to me today. After took.
 my breakfast at the hotel I decided to take my family to kemaman. Since this  was my first visit and

 decided to use my GPS to guide me to the place. According to the receptionist it will only take about half and hour from the Awana Kijal. I set my GPS to Kemaman and just follow the instruction given by the GPS. After driving more then one hour I felt something was not right. My wife told me" are we using a right road to Kemaman?" She said something is not right because we are using a road that bring us to a remote kampung. We decided to turn back and went to the nearest town name Chukai. Then only I realised that I cannot totally depend on my outdated GPS. I drove to the federal road and noticed that I had been driving more that 50km in actual distant of 11km from my Awana kijal. I feel been stupid by the GPS that supposed to be a hi-tech gadget....Grrrrrrrrrr.........................

LIFE : A LESSON

I don't have any fix holiday in my life. I just ask my family to pack and just drive to the destination without any plan. Yesterday it a big lesson to me. I reached Kuala Terengganu at 8.00pm and tried to check in to the hotel but all hotel were fully booked. It was almost 10 .00pm , I still had no room to stay. I drove from one hotel to another by hoping that there were still room available in Kuala Terengganu but none from 5 Star to no Star hotel. I told my wife my last hope is in Marang half an hour drive from Kuala Terengganu. Small town but lots of budget hotel. I managed to check in at Hotel Seri  Malaysia.  I took this as a lesson to me and I call Awana Kijal to book for two night stay for my next stop . Since this is a peak season I have to pay more for the room rate..................

LIFE: BODY LANGUAGE

Today, I realize that not everybody can be a management team. Why? beside you can talk fluently , you also have to know how to twist a fact when someone ask you a question by pretending you know everything. It not easy to convince people specially when you have lack of confident when dealing with a customer. Buyers are trained to squeeze you for a better deal. The sale personnel are trained to counter back the buyers for win win situation. Anyway I always believe that body language is playing an important role when to close a deal by watching the buyer body reaction. Stop talking when buyers start hold his or her nose. It show that the buyers are not prepared to listen to you and want the deal to be cancelled off. walk off and ask  the buyer when they are ready for the next meeting?

LIFE : FROM MY HEART

Lately I seldom update my blog due to hectic work load specially working under  new boss. New boss with new style of doing things. Even though in some occasion  I  don't agree with him but do  I have any choice to say no. As long as I'm working with someone , I still have to follow the intruction given by my new boss. Like it or not I have to follow as long as it not againt company law code of ethic and my religious obligation. Sometime I feel that I'm forcing my self to follow that something againt my will or just ignore it or I have to say to myself just follow or quit. Quit  is out of the topic but it really hurt me in silence. There is a big rumour that the company have to follow the goverment policy to extent the retirement service to 60. I don't thinks  in such working condition that full of pressure I can work until 60 but who know things can change. If I'm given a choice to choose,I prefer to end my job career at 55 and go  some where  to relax and full fill my obligation on my religious duty to perform Hajj before I close my eye to meet Allah Swt...........anyway  nobody can predict what is going to happen tomorrow, just wait and see. For the time being just work day by day.

LIFE : FREE FROM CORRUPTION

Someone asked me yesterday about my stand toward politic party. I just smile and told him that I didn’t have any specific party to join in. I always believe in fair election plus honest in election system. I love my country but there still have a room to improve the way that government runs the country. No matter who is running the country the most important part is to fight again corruption in all level from the top to the bottom. The root of failure on one country is depend how serious the corruption level. I always believe that no countries in this world are free from corruption. It’s just a matter of how small or big the corruption is. When we talk about corruption, we always thinks that it only involve of money but actual fact that misuse of power that trust given by people to run this country is  the most vital part of big corruption . Abuse of power, life style that not tally with the income, favor of sex and rich in over night when be elected as a congress man.