Tak Tahu Bahasa...

Demi utk capai matlamat menghabiskan audit Permit To Work , maka hari Ahad pun kena kerja - hence take the opportunity to audit in Kedah last Sunday + Monday. My visit to Kedah this time around taught me a thing or two about Kedah dialect / language.

1st photo was taken on the first floor of Pekan Rabu & the word is Peneram - you have to pronouce the ..ram in Peneram hard to sound like org Kedah. What is peneram? in Johor it's normally called denderam or telinga keling. The later is a bit sensitive & rarely use unless you are indoor - arwah atuk suka kuih ni. So this is the word you have to use to find this kind of delacy in Kedah.

2nd photo was taken when Afandi and I was looking for a place to have our dinner - At first we were taken back by the name of the place - Tat Nasi Ayam. We thought it is run by non-muslim for Tat is normally a Chinese name eg. Wong Tat Ming. But we were wrong! The restaurant belongs to a person with the name...Mokhtar. How on earth Mokhtar can be changed to Tat? Well...Kedahan is used to calling Mokthar with Mokhtat (without the 'r') or pasar become pasaq etc. Hence the place is Muslim's & we ate there.

Moral of the story -
1. ask if you don't know or else sesat jalan.
2. Mari belajar bahasa agar tidak menjadi orang yang tak tahu bahasa (more specific...dialect).
3.Bahasa Arab yg paling utama - bahasa ke 5 di dunia.

Maulid or Mau Lead!

Did not get the chance to share the experience in Masjid Kg Raja a day after rumah Tok Busu Wedding's. Sambutan Maulid Nabi in Masjid Kg Raja was organized by Pemuda UMNO Bhg Pagoh - attended and officiated by ADUN Bkt Serampang, YB Tahir Taat (friend of arwah ayah - i saw his photo in the album) and speech delivered by Ustaz Shahrin. Well for a start, no many people turn up coz i gues it was confined towards members only!

The irony is that, content of the sermont/kuliah by Shahrin not focusing on our beloved Prophet p.b.u.h. but instead talking about the use of Allah word by other religion. No doubt it's important but the platform is incorrect and it focused more on getting the Islam (more the Malay) to support them! Very sad indeed. Some even create sub-sermont session at the back.

Staying Alive

Congrats to Kak Long for getting the green light from Conference Organizer in Ireland (which part of Ireland? I don't know yet) to present her thesis paper. Quite interesting to know that you have to present the paper which have yet to be presented before in other conference. And if possible the topic of the paper must be extra-ordinary!

Well, i experienced the same thing in the recent TNB Safety Symposium where i was asked to present a paper. It was more like experience sharing and not so much of presenting new researh ideas etc. hence i tried to use catchy topic for my presentation - why? because i would be presenting the last paper on the last day. You could imagine the focus of the audience by then.

Then come the topic 'Staying Alive in Distribution' to reflect the activities / programs to be carried out in order to survive while working in TNB Distribution. If possible give a topic which is long and out of this world! The lesser the understanding of audience, the better otherwise the audience would say 'Alah! ini aku pun tau, tak perlu dengar presentation ni'. Nontheless, you would receive such comment in 'tabligh' others. Patient is the word!

-Written in Hotel Royale, Alor Setar-

April Full

My schedule for April is really tight & from the look of it, the number of hours spending the night at the hotel is far greater in number than at home. This is due to Cross Audit that need to be conducted thru out peninsular M'sia starting with Kedah/Perlis in Alor Star on 4&5th Apr 2010. On top of that, NIOSH requests me to give training in 2 occasions - it's going to be tiring!

Actually i look forward to carry out the audit & training for i have the opportunity to meet a lot of people - be it TNB staff or the contractors. And the best but part is i got to 'tabligh' them a bit along the way to fullfill our task as caliph ' amar makruf & nahi mungkar'. Abdullah ibnu Masud said 'Those who don't practice amar makruf & nahi mungkar is like 'bangkai bernyawa'.

p/s: 8th April - birthday of Allahyarham Ayah. Same date as Almarhum Sultan Johor

Condong ke Teluk Intan

Got the opportunity once again to deliver a safety talk to school teacher in Sungai Besar on 27th Mar 2010. Since it falls on Saturday, i brought along my fmly with. We stayed at D'Muara Marince Park Sungai Dorani-located by the sea. Did not have the time to wonder around Sungai Besar hence after the talk off we went (condong) to Teluk Intan (approx. 50km from Sungai Besar) to take a glimpse of the Menara Condong since i myself have yet to visit Teluk Intan.

Above photos, everybody seemed to be 'condong' just like the Menara Condong but the most interesting part is that Kakak Balqis got to buy her tudung at RM5 tag price!

Cuti-cuti Malaysia & Condong ke Teluk Intan!

Menara TM

Semasa perjalanan balik dari Ipoh bersama mak melalui Kerinchi Link, berkesempatan utk cerita pada mak tentang Menara TM - at certain floor ada balcony sebagai tempat rehat. I had the opportunity to go up this Menara TM - 35th floor. (foto kat atas tu adalah dalam lif - indicator kedudukan tingkat yg kita lalui). For upper bridge & lower bridge, ada different set of lift utk elakkan congestion.

Ntah bila pulak TNB nak buat menara?

Competency & Compliance

21-03-2010 UIA Gombak baru-baru ni, ada friendly match taekwando dgn kelab Taekwando UIA. Balqis, Ibrahim & Yusuf (for the first time masuk utk berlawan). Alhamdullilah semua ok & tunjukkan sedikit peningkatan kesan dr latihan sepanjang cuti sekolah ni, walaupun Ibrahim masih lg ada rasa takut-takut pada peringkat awal tp towards the end, ok. To my surprise, Yusuf did not show any sign of nervousness nor afraid even though it was his first fight.

Ada rakan yg tanya apa tujuan masukkan anak Taekwando - penat aje budak2 berlatih nanti tak tumpu pelajaran pulak? Jawapannya mudah ajer iaitu utk dpt ilmu pertahankan diri agar boleh tolong diri & org lain yg dlm kesusahan + to instill the discipline into the heart. Hence time mgt & small sacrification needed. Tak akan dapat sagu jika tidak dipecahkan ruyungnya.

p/s: Gigi Yusuf yg hampir patah kat depan tak patah jugak masa berlawan!