Good Intention + Good Relationship = Great Result!

"Good things happened after we set a good intention."

Being a journalism student where you have to meet deadline to accomplish your assignment, set a suitable date to interview for your assignment given by lecturers is not an easy task and it stressed you out sometimes. However, whining is not the way you express yourself as I always try to enjoy every single thing that I do even though it's impossible for me to do it. It's not easy to achieve your goal. All you need to do are put on more efforts and try to enjoy it.

I love to meet various people, exploring new things and places, share experiences regardless who they are. I am truly believe that as a journalism student, I could learn so many things not just from an educated people but also from someone who is less educated.

This semester, I had given an assignment from my lecturer which need me to interview an icon which I was so sure it would be a famous person. The first thing came on my mind was, we (my friends and I) are just students. Most well-known people won't entertained students. And it's not easy to get in touch with them.

I was right for my first attempt. It was very disappointing as I never thought I would get negative answer from someone who is less-known.

I almost gave up, and wondering why I didn't get what I want as easy as my other friends? Then, I made a list people that I think I like and interested to get to know and write about them. I prefer to write about someone that I admire, not just famous with gossip and controversy. Quality is the keyword. 

So, there you go..

Today, I learned a lot for someone that I adore since I was a kid. She's a well-known person and I never thought I get motivated by her.

I just realized that everything we do must begin with a good intention. Why? Some says being good is boring and bad is the new trend? Why not we are the one start to do something nice? I could say that it is the key to bring what you aimed for.

When you start to believe what God could do the best for you and start your day with a good intention, to share what you have; experiences, advises with others, everything will run smoothly.

In the end, happiness is what you get. 

Insurans Untuk Mulut

Aku memang suka ikut mak aku pergi beli barang-barang dapur. Tak kisahlah, pergi pasar tani ke, Tesco ke, Mydin ke, atau pun Carrefour. Dulu aku dengan mak aku ni memang pelanggan tetap Tesco la kiranya. Tapi sejak akhir-akhir ni aku pujuk mak aku supaya bertukar kepada Carafour or Mydin. And definitely not Giant because I had bad experience with their management. Tesco as well. Too crowd and less cashier.

So, nak jadikan cerita satu hari aku pun pergi ke satu pasaraya yang terkenal dengan barangan harga rendah ni. Staff supermarket tu memang sangat helpful. Bukan nak kata apalah, yang aku perasan kalau pekerja bangsa asing ni kalau kerja memang bersungguh-sungguh sikit berbanding pekerja tempatan. Nak-nak kalau pekerja perempuan. Sorry to say this, but not all of them just most of them.

Hari tu lepas dah shopping barang-barang dapur, aku and mak aku decided to go somewhere nearby the supermarket. So, sebab barang-barang tu berat, kitaorang letak sekejap kat tempat simpan barang yang kitaorang pun tak tau it's not allowed for us to do that. Sebab loker tu untuk barang-barang luar bukan barang dari pasaraya tu.

And nobody inform us about that.

So, masa nak ambik balik barang kitaorang (oang lain yang jaga kat loker tu) ada mak cik tunggu and pandang aku macam gangster and bebel-bebel nak marah pak cik yang jaga loker tu sebelum ni, cashier yang suruh aku letak barang kat situ, dan tak ketinggalan aku. aku pun kena maki juga. Sebab? Aku letak barang yang dibeli dari pasaraya tu kat dalam loker tu. Masa mak cik tu pusing belakang aku sempat jeling kat mak cik tu tapi aku terperasan cctv.

Aku memang terkejut and spechless sekejap and terus blah. Bila mak aku find out mak aku complaint to customer service HQ supermarket tu. And the next day mak cik tu dapat warning letter.

The conclusion is, customer is not always right. Memang aku admit yang aku buat salah. But please, please, please susun sikit ayat tu dan bukan maki-maki customer. Frankly speaking, aku pun tak ada niat pun nak tutup periuk nasi mak cik tu. But she's almost 50's and buat kerja yang kena deal with customers. Sangat tak sesuai. 

Aku harap kalau mak cik yang dah berumur tu janganlah kerja yang deal with customers sebab bila dah tua akan cepat jadi tension. At the same time kesian pun ada.

Tips To Be Discipline

Hello my blog! I skipped to blog on August and I felt so bad for myself as I already promised myself to keep on writing either on my diary or blog no matter how busy I am, so that I could improve my writing skills.

Today, I finally managed to blog after having a long semester break and a non-stop celebrating 'Hari Raya', visiting relatives and friends.

I skipped blogging for a month! And I even forgot how do my blog look like. My huge problem is I keep postponed so many things, like every single task that I need to do in my daily life. And it makes me feel like I'm a lazy person and useless. No matter it involves my studies, chores, managing myself, read newspaper daily, and etc I keep postpone it; even if it took only 10 minutes to be done.

Hence, I googled this for myself  :)

How to be disciplines:

1. Do it now
Instead of relaxing and dreaming almost the whole day after back from my class, I will force myself to do everything that I need to do IMMEDIATELY! So that I don't feel susah hati and menyusahkan diri sendiri later on.

2. Prioritize My To-Do-List
I'm the type of girl who really love to buy those fancy diaries so that I could encourage myself to write more on it. One of them is a to-do-list diary. Or nowadays maybe to be easier and portable is to make a to-do-list in my phone. I will make sure the most important thing will be the first thing I've done followed by others.

3. Plan To Arrive Early
Yes, I used to arrive early to class and when I arrived early, I automatically tend to be a diligent student and I could do more things during my free time in class or library. Unfortunately, since the classes for this semester are mostly started at 0800, how early I could be?

Hopefully these simple 3 tips could help me out to change my bad behaviour.

Whatever it is, by hook or by crook I really need to change and I will update my improvement in two weeks from now. Wish me luck!
Byebye! :)

Bersusah-susah Dahulu, Bersenang-senang Kemudian

Belajar. Waktu sekolah dulu memang aku paling tak suka bab-bab nak pergi ke sekolah, apatah lagi kelas tambahan semua tu. Kalau mak aku daftarkan aku tusyen pun aku banyak berangan je dalam kelas. Maklumlah, masa tu gatal. Zaman-zaman baru nak naiklah katakan. Cikgu yang mengajar pun bengang je tengok aku. Setiap kali dia tanya, "Yasmin, faham tak?" Aku akan jawab, "bolehlah sikit-sikit".

Jadi, keputusan SPM aku pun bolehlah sikit-sikit (kalau budak zaman sekarang cakap cikit-cikit/ shikit-shikit jew). Lepaslah untuk aku sambung diploma kat UiTM ambil diploma pengurusan perniagaan.
Waktu masuk universiti la, aku betul-betul fokus untuk belajar. Semua benda kena berdikari buat sendiri dari A-Z.

Akhirnya, grad juga aku...on time.

Kawan-kawan aku mostly sambung buat degree in business related. Manakala aku pula nak sambung belajar jurusan yang aku idam-idamkan selama ini. Journalism. Ya, dalam bahasa melayu nya kewartawanan.

Tapi bila aku lihat kesenangan hidup beberapa kawan aku yang selepas diploma terus kerja, aku macam rasa penat betul nak buat degree. Memang aku sangat seronok belajar kewartawanan, tapi tipulah tak rasa tak sabar nak habiskan. Kalau nak diikutkan hati aku yang sedang melonjak nak pegang duit ni, memang lepas diploma aku rasa nak je pergi temuduga untuk pramugari. Dapat, tak dapat belakang kira.

"Min, work hard first, relax later". Itulah yang mak aku selalu pesan kat aku. Mak aku paksa aku habiskan degree sebab paling cikai kalau nak selamat sekarang dan nak apply kerja kat dalam atau luar negara mesti ada degree. PALING CIKAI.

Bukan nak merendahkan sesiapa, tapi dunia sekarang sangat demanding. Kalau sekarang perlukan degree, zaman anak aku; master? Ph.D?

P/S : Baru-baru ni aku saja buka salah satu oil and gas company punya website. Career opportunity for fresh graduate paling cikai nak degree in any field of study with cgpa at least 3.0. 

Only Body Language Needed

I love to travel either inside or outside of Malaysia. One of my 'must go list' destination is Italy. Yes, Italy. But before I go travel, I used to Google the do's and don'ts in the country (even though in some states in Malaysia).

When I was watching 'eat, pray, love' movie, I learned that in Italy we should learn the body language in order to be entertained by the locals, such as while ordering coffee at the cafe or to express your feeling.

So, I found this video on Youtube. Enjoy watching! :)

Seks Tu Apa?

Kejadian : Dalam kereta.

Aku  : Ma, seks tu apa?

Ma   : Apa kamu ni tanya soalan mcam ni?

Aku  : Ayah, seks tu apa?

Ayah : Mana kau belajar ni?

Aku  : Mimin baca kat dalam magazine Wanita :(

Ma   : Entah apa-apa yang kamu baca, benda tak senonoh la tu.

Itulah soalan yang aku tanya semasa aku berumur 7 atau 8 tahun. Tak berapa nak ingat sangat sebab masa tu budak kecik lagi. Tapi yang pastinya time tu aku memang dah boleh membaca. 

Sebab itulah aku tanya soalan tu lepas baca magazine Wanita kat rumah arwah opah aku. Aku baca pun sebab masa tu mak aku sedang berbual dengan arwah opah aku dan dia tak bagi aku ganggu orang tua-tua sedang berbual. At last, bila terjumpa ayat 18SX, dah tak faham. Rasa tersangatlah stress apabila sesuatu perkataan menjadi penghalang untuk kita fahamkan maksud ayat yang kita baca.

So, aku memang tak puas hati sangat-sangat. Biasalah kan, budak kecik memang penuh dengan curiosity. Apabila kami sekeluarga berhenti untuk makan malam, aku pun plan untuk melontarkan soalan yang dah terbuku di hati itu lagi.

Kejadian : Restoran (untuk makan malam).

Aku : MA, SEKS TU APA?? (aku bertanya dalam muka yang sangat innocent tetapi dengan nada yang tinggi)

Ma  : Eh, kamu ni! Kenapa tanya soalan tu kuat-kuat? (Sambil pandang keadaan sekeliling, takut-takut ada orang dengar walaupun sebenarnya tak ada sesiapa pun yang dengar).

Aku : Jawablah.. Mimin nak tahu apa benda tu.

Ma  : Perkataan tu tak elok untuk budak kecik. Itu benda tak elok.

Aku : O.K.

Finally, mak aku 'jelaskan' juga apa maksud seks walaupun sebenarnya tak adalah sejelas mana pun explanation dia.

still cover line juga. 

Apa-apa pun, aku masih tak puas hati. Kenapa mak aku tak jelaskan scientifically maksud seks itu walaupun aku tak akan faham. Tapi tak ada lah samar-samar sangat dengan memberi jawapan : "Itu perkataan tak elok untuk budak kecik".

Liar, Liar, Pants On Fire !

Headache, headache, headache. Why? For a student like me, I usually have this problem usually if it is related with my studies or financial constraint.

studies: no problemo.
money: problemossss

Yes, for a student like me who were born in an average family, money sometimes would be the main problem. It is not easy to rely everything to my parents; especially my mum. My mum play a big big role to ensure everything regarding my study and health are taking care of.

So, in order not to burden my mum, I ALWAYS plan to work. Unfortunately, nobody wants to employ me as I usually have semester break for only 3 weeks! :(

My friends used to tell me that I'm too honest to tell the truth that I'm gonna work for about a month (3 weeks I mean). But who knows that I should lie for something like that.

Then I tried my plan B (just now is plan A) which I planned to work at home, so that I can still  focus on my study and classes. Plus, I could save money and time by working at home.

As a result I found this ads : UPAH MENAIP DARI RUMAH! RAMAI YANG TELAH MENCUBA  
                                          DAH HASILNYA, PENDAPATAN  MEREKA MENCAPAI EMPAT
                                          ANGKA!

The picture of ads I can't show it here but i think it is ridiculous as I read the terms and conditions where they (the advertisement owner) request to bank in RM20 to their account before start the job. At that time, I was thinking that I should just forget about it.

P/S: Better be careful to trust these kind of ads because you should be paid by the company not the vice versa.

At last botak macam ni sebab banyak sangat fikirkan duit je. 

Pantun Sinis

pergi ke pasar mencari kerang,
mencari kerang bersama adik,
lelaki itu suami orang,
janganlah awak tergedik-gedik. (yasminramlan)

#perempuangatal

Pantun Malam Ini

aduh-aduh badanku sakit,
kejap sejuk kejap panas,
aduh-aduh kepalaku sakit,
kerana cuaca yang amatlah panas. (yasminramlan)

#pantunorangsakit

Pengorbanan dan Kebahagiaan

Kalau kawan baik anda ataupun salah seorang daripada ahli keluarga anda nak pinjam duit, tapi hakikatnya dalam purse anda sebenarnya ada ciput je, bagi pinjamkan ke tak?

Kalau nak fikirkan logik mungkin tak lah kan. Pertama, sebab kita at the same time memang perlukan duit tu juga. Kedua, mungkin anda memang seorang yang kedekut.

Tapi at the same time mesti ada sedikit rasa serba salah sebab tak pinjamkan duit tu kan? Tak pun apa-apa jenis bantuan yang anda memang tak dapat berikan.

Semalam baru habis baca buku John Norafizan, 'Odisi Bulan Biru', saya sangat kagum dengan watak bernama Emre iaitu seorang anak kecil yang buta dan miskin tapi sanggup meminjamkan Akira (watak utama) sejumlah wang yang besar daripada simpanannya berniaga roti selama lebih dari 5 tahun, semata-mata untuk membayar wang ikat jamin Akira di penjara. Dan wang yang dipinjamkan itu adalah simpanannya untuk pergi ke tanah suci Mekah bersama dua lagi ahli keluarganya.

Agak-agak kalau in real life berapa ramai umat manusia kat dalam dunia ni sanggup berkorban sampai macam tu sekali?

Mungkin satu dalam sejuta. Adakah kita dalam golongan seperti Emre? 

p/s : "Kegembiraan yang sebenar akan datang apabila kita sanggup berkorban untuk kebahagiaan orang lain."

 -John Norafizan, 'Odisi Bulan Biru'-.

A Perfect Day.....(in my dream)

How you define a perfect day? Having an extremely luxurious holiday and spoiled yourself at beauty parlour? Or maybe just sit at home watching dvd and doing nothing because you were having a hectic day everyday? Too much question marks huh? For me, a perfect day is having all day relaxing and hibernating myself. 

I've been  super busy for this whole semester especially this past few weeks and up to now. And it seems like everyone try to test my anger which it works, by disappoint me in various ways. 

Just now, I just ordered for my dinner - bihun basah , and I was so excited to eat it because I haven't had my lunch yet and had a very light breakfast. Unfortunately, I got the most driest (dry) bihun in my life. I just ate a bit and keep it in microwave.

Not to be fussy but fyi, I got a different food from my original order for two days in a row. Yes, and I did not complain about it but still buying my dinner there. And keep complaining and cursing the cook. Am I so Malaysian? Maybe. We usually tend not to complain too much about it for some reasons. 

For me, I choose not to complain because my mum always told me that if you complain too much to the cook, sometimes they will put something else in your food or it's something like 'santau' . 

Could be true I guess but for how long I need to just keep my mouth shut? If I acted emotionally, I will threw away the food to the cook, but if I acted rationally, maybe I will just express my disappointment to the cook straight to his face and will not go to the restaurant anymore. Which I think a bit difficult as it is the nearest restaurant from my house. 

But ya, again, who dare to speak up and tell the truth? I mean I'm referring to the situation in Malaysia because I knew that in western countries, this situation is rarely happened in their country. Which I mean they always stand for their customer's rights no matter whatever happened. How about us? When and how we will  change? We need to change!   

Hidup Kalau...

Hidup ni hanyalah sementara. Hidup kalau fikir hal keduniaan memang kacau. Hidup kalau asyik fikir nak bersaing dengan semua orang memang susah. Kita memang tak akan jadi sama macam orang lain. Sampai bila-bila pun. Tak ada sesiapa pun dalam dunia ni yang sama nasib dan rezekinya. Sedangkan kembar seiras pun cap jari berbeza. Setiap orang tu berbeza-beza, kalau kita duk fikir nak bersaing siapa lagi bagus, siapa lagi kaya, memang kita takkan puas hati. Memang lumrah hidup manausia tak akan puas dengan apa yang dia ada. Nasib kita takkan sama macam orang lain. Kita mungkin kurang bernasib baik daripada orang lain dan mungkin jauh lebih baik daripada mereka.

Hidup ni kalau nak senang dengan jalan mudah je memang makan diri sendiri. Tuhan memang suruh kita berdoa kalau nak kan sesuatu tapi diikuti dengan usaha. Kalau nak dapat sesuatu dengan senang atau dengan cara kotor memang akan tercapai tapi ianya takkan kekal sampai bila-bila. Ingat! benda yang senang dapat selalunya akan senang hilang. Jadi, bersusah-susah dahulu, bersenang-senang kemudian.

Mungkin kena bersabar sikit. Sabar. Cakap memang senang tapi nak buat tu payah sangat. Tapi kalau sabar sikit je, Tuhan akan bagi reward kat kita. Memang payah nak telan ubat yang pahit. Tapi sooner or later kita akan get used to it.

So tak perlulah nak rasa sakit hati dengan orang lain atau tikam belakang kawan sebab kita tak sehebat mereka. Instead of buat macam tu, better kita aim apa yang kita nak dalam hidup ni. Hidup ni bukan untuk puaskan hati orang lain, bukan untuk buat dajal kat orang tapi hargai apa yang kita ada. Kalau kita tak terima seadanya, kita takkan bahagia.

"when you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have"

Sedih

Telefon hilang. Hari ni hari yang sedih. Dari pukul 1 petang lepas habis menonton 'Songlap' kat wayang Sunway Pyramid sampai la sekarang ni. Hari ni rasa sangat kosong. Telefon hilang rasa macam separuh dari hidup ni hilang. Telefon tu pun bukannya mahal dan canggih mana tapi sangat selesa guna telefon tu. Bukan la nak tuduh sesiapa yang mencuri, memang yang mengambilnya tidak pasti siapa tapi yang pastinya orang mencuri tak akan mengaku pencuri.

Hello, What's Your Name?

Name. It is the first thing you mention when you introduce yourself to others. Some people have a very long name, some have very short name. Name of a person usually will be given by our parents at the time we were born. Every name given has its meaning. Good meaning mostly. But sometimes we don't realise that how important for us to bring the name in a respectful way.

I do believe that name sometimes can influence your behaviour. This is because name is like a 'doa' (pray) for the owner's name. For instance, when I was watching a drama at TV3 few weeks ago, 'Yang Terpuji'. It's about a very mischievous kid name Ahmad Muhammad. But his dad call him Mamat. So, his teacher advise his father to call Ahmad Muhammad with his actual name not the nickname. Why? Muhammad means 'the praiseworthy' unlike Mamat, which means 'dead'.

So we can see that name bring the big impact on ourselves. Some of the nickname will change the whole meaning from our actual name. I think if it is so difficult to call your own children their actual name, why not just give them a very short name with a good meaning. Good example : Yasmin (Jasmine). She will always smell good.

WORDS HAVE MEANING AND NAMES HAVE POWER.

The Biggest Book Sale In The World!

It's Big Bad Wolf Book Sale! 
Reading is part of my hobby that I love to do in my free time. When I read I will be in it. Sometimes it really makes me feel that I'm not in actual world when I was reading a book. Unfortunately, books in Malaysia are not as cheap as what I heard in many western countries. If I want to read English books, most probably I need to have higher budget compare buying Malay books. In order to save more money, my sister and I will buy second-hand books at pay less book in Subang Jaya. But when I heard about the biggest book sale here, I was so excited to go there.

Surprisingly, most of the books there are sold at the price RM8. Even the hard cover one. I was telling to myself : "This is awesome! HIP HIP HOORAY!"

Finally I bought 14 books + another 2 books with my sister.

Black or White

So which one is the best? Vanilla or Chocolate? It doesn't matter as long as it taste good. Same goes to the colour skin. Which one is the prettiest? It doesn't matter as long as the person itself has their own best quality.

Believe it or not, Asian people are so admire anyone who has fairer skin colour. Having a drop dead gorgeous looks always related with having fair skin as well. That is why we find that lots of Asian are so fond using bleaching whitening product in order to have more noticeable look.

However, there is different viewpoint from the west where the western people are so eager to tan their skin and sometimes they even go to tanning salons to get their best tanned skin. For them, having a tanned skin colour will make them sexier. In short, for them tanned skin = SEXY.

Why is this thing happened? Firstly, some of them are not thankful. Cannot accept themselves as the way they should be. As we know that human always want what they don't have it. Secondly, they being so superficial. Finally, we are actually so influenced by the media which always define being pretty is like this and like that. The definition of beauty itself has been limited in certain angle and being standardized by the media. For instance, if you want to be a model you need to have fair skin colour. WTF is this shit? Laundry is the only thing that should be separated by colour, not the colour skin.What happened to the quotes by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, "beauty is in the eye of it's beholder" ?     It's outdated?

Again and again, which one is the best? The best part of the beauty is which there is no picture can express it.

$$$ Is Everything!

Really? Some of us will think that way especially in searching the right one to spend their life with. Think again. Money makes you happy and everything to you? For me, money isn't everything  but almost everything to me.

I have some of my friends who really demanding in finding their life partner which I think it is normal because marriage is a serious matter and it is something that you should accept the positive and negative side of your partner. Even if they have bad breath when he/she wake up in the morning, that is the person you should be with entire of your life.

So, while we were discussing and talking about what the main criteria that a man should have in order to marry you (my girlfriends), most of them respond by saying, "first of all he should have deep pocket". Surprisingly, one of them told us that she don't mind if she's not happy as long as she marry a tycoon and be a lady with leisure.

Yes, I do believe that money is important when you get married. For instance, a man should have enough money to support his wife and the kids in future. Furthermore, I also believe that financial constraint sometimes can leads an argument in a marriage. But think again, you should be in charge of money, not the other way around.

"It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good too to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven't lost the things that money can't buy." - George Lorimer

You Are What You Read

                            

           

We all know that reading is a good habit. There are a lot of reading material at the bookstore currently such as comics, magazines, novels, education books, newspapers and etc. The more you read the more knowledge you gained? I think it's not about how many books you read, it's about what you read. The contents are more important as I do believe that what we read will reflect our personalities. As what Ralph Waldo Emerson who was an American essayist, lecturers, poet quoted that "a man is known by the books he reads".  For examples, a person who reads comics usually has crazy ideas, a bit childish and it usually relates with a boy's life. A person who reads magazines are usually into fashion and up-to-date about it. Whereas person who reads novels are usually will automatically categorized as emotional, love to fantasize and mostly they are women readers. In short, the most important thing is what the benefits that you gained from what you read. "You're the same today as you will be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read " - Charlie 'Tremendous' Jones.