January 27, 2008

alia, your nightmare career would be as a Telemarketer


Does the very though of an impromptu speech make you sweat? Avoid making calls to strangers at all costs? Then it's no surprise that telemarketing would be your absolute career nightmare. Harassing people while they eat dinner, selling things they don't need, and asking if they would mind "answering a couple of questions"? No, thanks. You'd rather be mute.

When it comes to the workplace, making a big scene isn't exactly your forte. Instead, your perfect job would be the kind that taps into your introverted brilliance. You enjoy the opportunity to figure things out on your own. And while you sometimes enjoy working as a team, you really thrive when your gears are grinding, your mind is working, and it's all done low-key. Being on stage isn't your ultimate goal — so step away from that call center — you've got better things in mind!


Oh yeah, I would so hate being a telemarketer.

January 26, 2008

I don't know why but my internet has been super SLOW.

Like, it-would-be-faster-if-i-use-dialup slow.

It got better today, but it's still only like 80% of the normal speed.

And because of that, I still haven't finished watching this Documentary called Zeitgeist that my cousin showed to me the other day. Basically the documentary looks at some touchy-touchy subjects like Christianity and September 11. The documentary claims that it was the US Government itself that initiated the September 11 tragedy. Dunno if it's true or not, but it is quite interesting. Personally, I'm not surprised if the US government were behind the attack. Stranger things has happened before.

Oh, the company is going to have their annual dinner next week in Kelab Darul Ehsan. Last time I had a function there was for my Standard 6 prom, which was so last milennium. Hahaha. Finally I got to use that line!

Oh My God, Alia, you are so LAME.

So anyways, apparently my uncle himself was the one who wanted the annual dinner to be held in KDE. And I'm actually quite happy la because it means that I don't have to drive into the jungle that is known as KL city.

What's incredible is that all of this was decided last Thursday, and the dinner is going to be on next Friday, which gives the committee around, let's see, a WEEK to plan everything.

Oh yeah.

And somehow, Anis and I were roped into being on duty on the day.

Anis and I are basically going to be "receptionists" and basically register everyone as they come and show them their seats, etc, etc.

Apparently they decided on that during their meeting. which Anis and I DID NOT attend, mind you, and so we had no say whatsoever in this matter.

Anis and I would love to think that we're put there because we're pretty, but we know that this is some sinister plot that they've concocted to bully us because we have not been bullied in the three weeks that we've been working because we have had the 'protection' of our aunt and uncle and only at this dinner Anis and I will be vulnerable.

OK, so I jest.

Now, not only will I have to find a dress and shoes to go with it, but I will be forced to put on a smile and look pretty the whole night. Blargh.

I don't like to smile and look pretty. Because I'm bad at both. Hahaha.

Dah la they might want to go karaoke-ing after that.

I like singing, but I don't like singing in public! The only time I sang during karaoke was when I was in PD. and that was with the family, so that doesn't count!

Oh well, I guess there's a first time for everything, right?

Here's to hoping that I don't screw up (majorly) on Friday!

January 23, 2008

HOW THE HELL DID ARSENAL MANAGE TO LOSE 5-1 TO SPURS?

IDIOTS.

And I can't believe Heath Ledger's dead. He was so young!

He had a small daughter some more! :(

We shared the same birthday, by the way.

R.I.P, Heath.

January 21, 2008

moi, incompetent?

I think my words have definitely came back to bite me in the butt.

My workload has increased by like 200% compared to the last time when I blogged.

Seriously, I really should learn to keep my mouth shut.

Anyways, since my uncle owns like 4 companies (if I'm not mistaken), he wants to standardise the forms that are going to be distributed to the companies so that it would be systematic.

These are forms for like medical leaves, interview evaluation, overtime claims and all sort of stuff la basically.

No prize for guessing who ended up working on the forms.

There are like 17 forms that Anis and I had to standardise. Oh yeah, SEVENTEEN.

And what was annoying is that the first task we had was to convert all the forms into Microsoft Word documents from Microsoft Excel.

And I ABSOLUTELY HATED, DETESTED AND LOATHED doing that.

Everything lari, okay? All the bloody forms that looked so freaking perfect in Excel ended up looking like a butchered-up mess when converted into Words.

I spent a WHOLE DAY just trying to make the forms presentable and fit into a page in Words.

SOOOOOOO ANNOYINGGGGGGGGGG.


And I only had 6 forms to work with.

Everytime I feel like my forms are good enough and perfect enough for me to actually stop working on them, there MUST be some changes to the forms. Confirm ada changes.

The header lari la, this column have to buang la, the margin not standardise la, the lines tak bold la, all sorts of nonsense.

Felt like a bloody incompetent and
like there is no end in sight.

And so I have been working on these forms for like 10 days non-stop.

And just when I thought that I could breathe, I had to start on doing the process flows for all 17 forms. The flows basically tell you how to get the forms and the processes involved in approving the application.

I had to work on the forms and process flows last weekend at my uncle's place so that my aunt can review everything before we gave it to my uncle because apparently my uncle wanted to review the forms while he was on a business trip to Kota Kinabalu.

Anis and I were frantic today because we had to finish the forms, process flows and guidelines so that my uncle could take it with him to KK.

In the end, he totally forgot about the forms and left for KK without them. Blargh.

So we have basically finished the forms and stuff.

BUT, my aunt is going through the forms tonight and she's going to tell us if there will be some more amendments coming.

I sure hope not.

But then again, the forms have not reached my uncle yet.

My aunt might say the forms are alright, but I am preparing myself to work on the forms over the weekend. (I'm praying that won't happen!!!)

Oh, good news is that I found out today that my gaji is coming out on Monday! Yay!

I still dunno how much I'm getting. My cousin said I would be "pleasantly surprised" with my salary.

Funny kan? I've been working for almost three weeks (fine, idling for the first week or so), yet I dunno how much I'm going to earn.

Okay, it's 11 o'clock and I'm sleepy.

I feel like such an old lady right now.

Night, people.

January 11, 2008

First week at work, and I am going nuts.

Not because I am bombarded with work, but because I've been idling and doing nothing most of the time at work.

I'm damn pissed.

I get to the office around 8.15 everyday and only go back at like 5.45, yet I'll only have like 3 hours worth of work to be done. When I ask if there's anything else that I could help them with, they're like "Ada, tapi the work's too technical la" and give me a sort of I'm-sorry-for-you smile. Blargh.

And so I start to wonder why I'm even in the office in the first place.

I hate being looked at as incompetent and I hate being useless.

I don't want to be paid for doing nothing.

Anis, meanwhile, has too much work, so since I got nothing to do, I went to help her out with some company forms that she had to update. And everyone knows that I'm sitting idly in the office, so next Monday my aunt said that I don't have to go into my office and just stay in Anis's office because my aunt has some work for me to do.

Oh, and in the week that we've been in the office, Anis and I have been quite spooked out.

Not by ghosts, but by men.

There's this engineer who kinda stares at Anis and I when we walk by him (and I'm not perasan, because Anis notices it too) and we're like "Whatever" because maybe he's like all those guys who think that girls don't notice that they are staring intently. And seriously, it was so obvious that the guy is looking at us.

You know what the scariest part was? We found out that this guy is actually MARRIED.

Oh yeah,
MARRIED.

And the way he stares at us is bloody scary. Hello mister, I'm not blind, okay?

We also found out that almost all of the male engineers there are married. And these are the guys that wanted Anis and I to play futsal with them (I think the offer is still open).

Oh, and I found out from a co-worker that apparently some of the married engineers are like "buayas". Dammit
. I can't help it if I'm not flat-chested.

I was am still thinking that I might have to resort to wearing baju kurung to work some days just to avoid the looks.

Stupid engineers.


Oh, by the way...

I refuse to play futsal with a bunch of horny, married guys.

I think I've made my point. I am so not looking forward to going to work right now. But I am still grateful for the job because it opened my eyes to what the real outside world is like.

And truthfully, I don't like what I'm seeing. Stupid engineers. You have contaminated my innocent (slight exaggeration...hihi) mind!

Oh, yesterday I got this Photoshop-ish program called GIMP and I went to some websites to learn how to use it.

The thing is, I am the type of person who would like to have all these beautiful, breath-taking pictures but I'm too lazy to actually learn how to make these nice pictures, so I've only learnt to do this one effect yesterday and here are some results:

The original pictures are on the left.

Roses
DSCF5492 roses wallpaper (credit)

Butterfly
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I think they look quite nice, for a lazy-ass beginner like me! =)

I should learn to master this thing, before I get tired of it.

OK, I'm off! Have a great weekend!

PS: I took out the name of the office because I don't want the engineers to end up here. But then the company's owner's daughter reads my posts anyways, so what difference does it make? Anyways, just to be on the safe side, the company's name has been omitted from this post and the previous one.

January 3, 2008

Busy week!

HAPPY 2008! =)

I feel old.


Especially since I only have like less than 4 months before I say bye-bye to my teenage years. Sigh.


And my siblings are not helping, either. They're like, "Eiiii, Kak Ya's OLD!"


Kurang asam punya budak-budak.

And I don't want to make any resolutions because I'm going to break them, anyways.

I have so, so, so much to talk about in this post. Like, really a lot.

In my previous post, I was complaining whining about being tired, right?
The reason was because I was so busy helping with my cousins at my cousin (from my mum's side), Amir's, farewell party last Saturday because he was headed towards the States on the 31st. I didn't know what I did that night, I knew I had to refill the food, dash out to the 7-11 twice and do some other jobs, but I can't remember why I was feeling tired. I guess it could be due to the fact that I was wearing a black-coloured shirt that night, and since I was sitting in the kitchen like practically 99% of the night with the rest of the girl cousins because there were so many of Amir's friends everywhere and so no place for us to sit, it got a little bit stuffy in the kitchen and I got really dehydrated. And thus this contributed to my tiredness.

Oh, I met some interesting guys that night. Amir had this friend, Ariff, who was nice la, but talks a lot. Like, can-rival-Zara a lot. And Zara's a girl. So, yeah. Oh, and one of Amir's friends looked really familiar to me, so I asked one of my girl cousin what his name was. And she said that the guy's name is Adam. I was like thinking, "I knew I've seen that face somewhere" but then I got busy with the food again, so I totally forgot about the guy.

Later, he went into the kitchen and he asked me, "Alia, kan?" and I'm like "Yeahhhhh" and then he was like, "I'm Adam. You were in Melawati 2 right?" and then in my head I realised why his face looks so familiar. Adam was my classmate back in standard 5, if I'm not mistaken. Oh yeah, the world is small. Too small, in fact. I wanted to ask him how he knew my cousin and stuff, but my defensive wall went up and I got too shy to ask. Oh yeah. My shyness has prevented me from knowing a lot of people. Sigh.

So anyways, that night I left my cousin's house around 12.30 am. It took me one hour to get back because they closed off the bloody flyover in front of Taman Sri Ukay (near Zaty's house) and I cursed like mad all the way back because it took me half an hour to reach home from Jalan Ampang when on a normal day it only takes me like 10 minutes, tops. Oh yeah, my language in the car was definitely colourful. Luckily everyone else in the car (Anis and Zara) were sleeping. So, I got home at like 1.30 in the morning and seriously, I can't wait for Anis to get her license so that she could drive me around because I am seriously getting sick of driving. And to think that I only got my license like less than 3 years ago.

On Sunday, I hung out with Kak Tish (my cousin from my dad's side) since it was her birthday and I had to go send some medicine to her house. So Sunday was a very quiet day. Which was nice, because at her house, we stayed in bed and slept. and read books. and chilled.

On Monday morning, I had to wake up at like 5 o'clock because we promised to send Amir off, so we had to meet up with my aunt and uncle and my cousins at the airport by 7 o'clock since Amir's flight was at 9 oclock. Surprisingly, both my parents didn't follow, but all of the kids woke up, so I had to drive the Estima to KLIA at 6 o'clock in the morning. The kids all stayed up on the way to KLIA, to teman me la supposedly but secretly I know they were scared that I might fall asleep at the wheel. Hahaha. So we saw our cousin off, and later in the day I had to do some shopping because we had a potluck dinner-firework show-birthday celebrations-new year's eve celebration thing at Kak Tish's house because our grandfather's birthday was on that day and Kak Tish's birthday was the day before that and it just so happened to be New Year's eve, so we jumbled everything up into one party.

That night we had fun, but I was a bit tired because well, I did wake up at 5 and I've been busy the whole day!
We didn't do much, and the kids found the Twister game that we played with the last time (pictures are in this post) so we ended up playing Twister. For some strange reason, every time it was my turn, I had to put one of my feet on the mat, so while everyone was crouching down with their hands and feet tangled, I was standing up comfortably (Mwahahahahahahahaha!!!!).

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We had our own supply of fireworks, leftovers from our raya celebration, so we fired those off like 5 minutes before midnight. SO much fun! Took videos of the fireworks, and will upload the videos later, if I'm not too lazy.

I slept at my cousin's house that night, and we drank some of these non-alcoholic sparkling juices that were like pink and blue and the ladies were all attracted to the pink one. Kak Tish taught us this game called Seven that was really interesting, and every time someone messes up, they have to drink the sparkling juice. It was like a drinking game, only without alcohol because I don't drink alcohol. Anis got sugar high and was laughing herself to sleep. So scary. After tiring ourselves out over playing the game, we slept at like 3 in the morning.

On New Year's Day, over breakfast brunch, my uncle suddenly offered both Anis and I jobs at his office because he knew that we were both on holiday and are kinda available for work. We were happy and totally accepted the offer and said that we would start on Monday, which gave us some time to actually go and buy some clothes for work and stuff. So Anis and I were happy that we got jobs and that finally, we can make some money even though we know we'll be doing mostly admin jobs anyways.

But then, yesterday Kak Tish called and said that her dad needed staff like ASAP and that we had to start today. I was whining to her that I don't have any work clothes and she was like, "Go buy la". I only had RM100 to spend for clothes, okay? So I had to buy some stuff at Alpha Angle because I couldn't go anywhere else since I didn't have that much money.

Today Anis and I woke up early so that we could be in the office early. The office was in Megan Avenue, which was a short walk from the Ampang Park LRT station. We took the train because I couldn't be bothered to pay the parking and to be stuck in jams. It's much more convenient anyways.

We were really early this morning because we were there by 8 and we were only suppose to be in by 8.30 to 9, so we went to sit at the mamak in the building. My uncle owns several companies, and as luck would have it, even though Anis and I are in the same building, we were assigned into different offices. I was put into P, which is basically a company dealing with engineering projects, and they are having like a shortage of engineers, while Anis is in another office. For some reason, every time I meet someone new, they will be asking "Are you the new engineer?" and I have to explain that no, I am not the new engineer, I'm here because my uncle says there's a vacancy and because I am waiting to start a new semester in Uni next month.
I was a bit pissed off la but I just kept on smiling.

And best part was, in the 9 hours that I was there, I only had like 2 hours of work because they were not sure of what job to give to me. I had such a productive day. Anis got a job as the receptionist, hehehe. At least she has some work to do. I have no idea what's waiting for me in the office tomorrow.

Oh, and apparently some of the guys in the office play futsal, and they have a shortage of players, so they asked whether Anis and I play futsal. To tell you the truth, I would love to play futsal. I mean, I seriously do, even if I lack the skills to play.

But then, while walking towards the LRT station on our way back, Anis and I started thinking whether it will be a good idea to play futsal with these men (and seriously, they're not that young). I mean, if the team is made out of mostly men, won't it mean that we would be playing against men, too? Say if I have the ball, don't you think that I might get molested by these men? I mean fine, they only want the ball, but the possibility of us girls getting touched is quite high.

I watch football almost every week, so I know how guys play football.

And futsal is still football.

And men are still men.

And so Alia is very scared.

I hope tomorrow will be better.

See, I told you this would be a long post!

Kay, I need to get some rest now because I have work in the morning!!!
 

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