Any suggestions needed at your Office??

I laughed and laughed non-stop reading this at my cubicle in my office!

If only my boss knows this!

Regards

Innocent Integrity

Talking about 1Malaysia, it has been the hottest agenda covered by the mass media lately. Implication of this campaign brought a lot of speculation of how far it’s going to be effective in this current circumstance. With the most up-to-date news of holy-places been burnt or stoned, this plan is at the edge of being ruined. Me being the guy that politics seems to be far-fetched still thinks that the idea of 1Malaysia is noble and also very much Malaysian-lah!

Being brought up in a very harmony sort of neighbourhood has been a great teacher for me. I still miss my old neighbourhood where all the races sit together under the mango tree just to eat unripe mango with ‘kuah-cecah’ (local delight which is similar to mayonnaise-dip) is a norm scenario. I grew up in a very ‘muhibbah’ condition where my neighbours were mostly Malays. I have learnt and adapted myself with loads of Malay’s culture. For your dismay, I even went to a Surau/Madrasah for my kindergarten. I learnt how to write in Jawi and also said ‘doa makan’ before getting my hands on the mouth-watering nasi lemak!

Growing up in my neighbourhood was a great experience where I cherish and rejoice all the moments till now. During Chinese New Year I use to follow the Lion Dance Troop around my neighbourhood as well as I light up loads of ‘Tanglongs’ (lanterns) during the Moon Cake Festival. Additional to the above scenario, I used to light up ‘Aagal Vilakku’ (oil lamp) during the Deepavali Festival. All this has been a common picture in my neighbourhood.

But recently since I started my alma-mater years and continue my stay here at Metropolitan city, I hardly see this kind of togetherness. I do see some so called togetherness of people coming together for some other reason which doesn’t seems to be holding up with the urge of government for the plan of 1Malaysia. Everything seems to be online nowadays! Kids nowadays seems to be spending more time playing online games rather than keeping up the old traditional games such as ‘batu sambut’, ‘congkak’, ‘aci-ligan/kejar-kejar’, ‘sepak takraw’ and ‘toi’. Teenagers at the present time seem to be hooked up with online applications and deal everything online. For instance, if you go to any Old Town White Coffee near your area, you can see adolescence surfing online for facebook, application games and online dating. So how can we achieve the togetherness with such scenario’s existence? I am not asking for a full-stop for all this but let’s reminisce about past games, and make it a habit at least to attempt those games. You might be surprised that you may hook up with those games!

Government have done a lot to bring the togetherness in our life as Malaysian! Right from day one, we all are thought of living in a harmony life of many races staying together at one neighbourhood. Let’s not make the small issue to be the ‘firewall’ for break of 1Malaysia’s target! Think twice before executing any actions! Live life to the fullest! Befriend more people from all races and you can see difference in you! Love all Serve All!

~Nothing-to-saY~

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No ideas are pouring into the worksheet!

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The only thing running in my mind is WORK…and more WORK!!

Need a perfect getaway soon!!

Jonker Fame!

For those who need a thrifty gateway, I found the place already!

So who is up to this plan? Please raise your hand!!

LOL

p/s: Anil Vincent showed us this, and Rajanen was about to go in, when I knock some senses on him and persuaded them to mamaks!=p

Safety down the Drain!

As I compose this entry for my blog, I am still baffled with the most important aspect of our life, the affirmation of the safety in our daily routine or chores! I just came back from my favourite mamak stall near my place, to have my meal. (Some place with the weirdest yet delicious roti canai varieties) My visit to the mamak’s always filled with hoaxes and laughter but this time it was sombre and rather quiet. Puzzled came unfold when my favourite waiter there; Bro Sharabuddin, with ‘pail-full’ of tears held on eyes, said to me that few minutes before, his room was broken into by some unscrupulous people who manage to fleet with his cash that he kept to send back to his family in India.

Where is the justice? Where is the so-called safety? Everything seems to be down the drain and only sounds Greek. For all I know, I grew up in a closely-tied neighbourhood that I never came across this sort of incidents. *touchwood* To my dismay, he said the incident happened when the mamak’s was in service and during the sardine-packed-hour. The place of incident was just few metres away from the stall! How inconsiderate these buggers can be?

For what I know, I am scared to even wait at traffic lights nowadays regardless whatever time I am in. Everything has to be extra-carefully-given-attention-to! Feels like the crime rate is choking us day by day! Where is the justice?

Where would you consider save in this day and age? NO where!! The law is taken granted for! Even air-split-unit for air conditioners needs grill to safeguard its position! Sigh! I pray for some peace and no-more cases of snatch-theft, house break-in or even daylight robbery!

But is this possible?

I am keeping my fingers crossed! And people out there, be extra vigilant, not towards H1N1 only but extra chary with the happenings around you! God bless everyone!

Perfect Strangers with Perfect Love Story!

Do you believe in destiny? You may have come across many circumstances you yourself questioning regarding the existence of destiny. Well I am convinced more this time that destiny really does happen in life and I have two real-life incidents regarding this story! Friendship and love is inexorable occurrence in our life.

Earlier today, I thought it would be just another lame and quiet visit to my launderette like usual, but I was totally wrong. Happens to be, when I arrived at the place, there was another young woman waiting for her laundry. So I loaded two of the machines there with my cloths and was inserting the coins to kick-start the cycle, when there was this impulsive urge for me to just start the conversation with the lady by jesting about the ‘efficiency’ of the machine. (Thanks to Leil Lowndes for her book which inspired me to be more people’s person).

And there you go, being quite the chatterbox, I started talking with her. Little that I know, a small mockery would lead to know two good souls. This Ms. R came with Mr. A to the launderette together and I was happy to actually know this two wonderful people to talk with at the quite a boring place to be at. There you go, time flies so fast and without realising we spoke fairly vast topics covering from studies till love life. (And due to some royalty issue I am running off from paying, I’m not disclosing the real name of the person! Lol)

So talking about the love story, I wish I meet someone in life, since the story was very nice to listen, and I am darn sure that it will be more vital to endure! They were a very loving couple and I had fun time knowing them both. Let me brief through the love story of this handsome-couple. Being an independent and extrovert person, Ms. R was at a club one fine evening dancing with her perfect hangout-buddies; her cousins. While happily showing her moves on the dance floor she notices a bald guy looking at her which in this case its Mr. A. Probably he was awed and mesmerized with glow of love in his heart looking at the dancing-queen on the dance floor . (Love at first sight I presume)

With some good fortitude kept, both of them manage to exchange numbers at the end of the day. Guess what made Mr. A bagged the number, his chivalrousness. (Lesson #1: To make a woman respects you and like you, treat them with full respect). So after few meet up, the love oath was taken. And she explained why she likes him. He was being who he is and she could easily be herself, and there was no hypocrisy. No faking-it-up attitude. (Lesson #2: Be yourself when you are with a woman) Devotion happened in this story when Mr. A manages to comment on Ms. R’s flaw and they laughed together during one of their rendezvous. (Lesson #3: Love is a situation where couples can exchange comments on each other and laugh about it together).

Destiny does exist! First, I became friend to them with just a minor hoax to kick-up the conversation and second when I got to know their perfect love story, I knew, they were ‘destined’ to fall in love. Indeed, a good time spent at the launderette. And my saviour of the day is my good buddy, Zati Hanani, who managed to find the way to the launderette at the correct time to accompany me. (Thanks Zati, I know you will read this) I manage to laugh and talk a lot the whole day.

I hope that these new found friends of mine will be staying happy always while I keep my finger crossed that I would end up in a good relationship when the right time comes. Still pondering on the love story that I heard today, well explained by both of them. Kudos to both of you!

Green Light or It’s Just a False Alarm??

Many times I came across of love stories of my friend and how their fantasy-world started just with a stare then a mere smile to start a conversation which will lead to a great date and a happily ever after marriage. In my case, it happened but always gets stuck in the midst of blossoming. Funny is the perfect word to describe how people can mistake infatuation with love and friendship with flirts.

Today, I was taken aback when my good buddy suddenly out of blues gave me two situations to answer. The scenario to answer was like a déjà-vu for me due to my experience on this matter. So let me walk you through the scenario and the answer I gave!

Beep... beep! My phone’s message tone went on, and there it was a message from my close buddy.

1st SMS/ Scenario 1: Can I ask you something, just wanted to know what a guy things la. You see this girl that you like down the hallway. She is walking in the opposite direction towards you la. You then make an eye contact and smile at her. She smiles back at you. After both of you pass-by each other, would you turn and look? And why do you do that? If that girl does not turn and look, what impression would you have?

After asking the permission to answer this question a bit later, I ponder what actually I would do (in this case what I did before once upon a time). So I replied as what I did and what should a guy do.

My reply: I would definitely turn and look at her, only after I shout mutely. I would turn because she is THE girl that I like. Then if she didn’t turn back I would still be happy for the moments that she smiled and tell myself two possible rationales of the happening.

1. She smiles because I smiled at her. She isn’t egoistic after all!
2. Damn, the guy that going to end up with the girl, going to be lucky!

After minutes passed by, another message came from my buddy, giving me a tricky and tough situation to handle!

2nd SMS/ Scenario 2: Okay. So if that girl turns and looks? How would you take it? As a green light to approach her?

Being the vigilant person, I replied promptly.

My reply again: Probably not approach her yet. Just the next ‘pass-by moment’ I would chip in ‘hi there...’ Green light is only presumed is she greets back and stops to talk to me. After all Rome wasn’t built in one day, so do relationship!

She was convinced and I am still sceptical who is actually giving her the hints! All the lucks for her and the flirting process! Anyways, if you were at that circumstances what would you do, to tackle this situation? At least my friend will get some guidelines on what she should think and so on so forth!

Reminiscing the Times of Yore!

‘Walking-down-memory-lane’ is always been a habit of mine since young age. I indulge in my past and thank God for every moment I spend on this humanity. Life stages have been walked appropriately and I could not be more gratitude from what I am now. There have been few folks who have always been my backbone in my achievements and standings now. Indirectly this entry is meant for you all; absolutely this is the wonders in my life which I treasure always as days pass by. You all have been God given reward for me, which surely I will never ever forget in life! Thanks for all those wonderful moments that will be rejoiced and cherished!

The Perfect Love Factory; My Family

The Mirror-Image-of-Me; Harnesh Gill

The shoulder to cry on; Nirmala Devi Vengadasalam

The No-Problem Guy; Rajanen Jeya Balan

No-Claptrap Man; Harresh Kasivisvanathan

Happy Bunch; School-Mates

Straightforward Woman; Rowathy Kandasamy

Frenzy-Horde; College-Mates

Gorgeous Ladies; Gurmin Pander & Sheetal Walia

Fabulous Four, Miss you all a lot!

Mr. All-Is-Well; Prajindra Sankar

The Great Buddy; Rajpal Sandhu

Blissful Juniors of mine; Miss them all! Thanesh, Thayabaran & Sujendran

The Perfect Strangers; Anil Vincent Joseph & Sutharshanan

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A wide smile for all the days I went through.

P/s: There is another bunch of people who I didn’t enclose here but have done tremendous job in being in the part and parcel of my life. ‘Thank you’ is just a small word for the assistance and guidance handed on.

Contemplating the Resolution!

It’s coming to year end now, and everyone is busy preparing for the countdown and also welcoming of the New Year! And in the midst of this particular process, I realise that almost all and sundry complaints on the resolution for the fresh year ahead. I see many of them cracking their head for the perfect resolution.

Why it’s so important?

I wonder and wonder. For not being so old fashioned, I used to follow the trend of ‘MUST’ have a resolution for the new year, but this year I am knocking some sense and forbid myself from having one dim-witted resolution that I know I won’t follow. I strongly think that this act of having a decree for the bright months ahead can be like a speed-breaker in life! Why a need for that when we can follow the flow of life? Take a chill pill and enjoy every bit of life the way it is.
I still grin and laugh at times looking at facebook status updates that relates to New Year resolution.

Will they follow what they say??

As the saying goes, practise what you preach, so for those who have talked the talk, make sure you walk the walk. As for me, I walk carefree and enjoy every bit of my time and space I have for myself!

Anyways, for those who had some spare time to read this entry, I wish you guys a blessed year ahead. Many more success will bestowed you by the Almighty! For those I know personally, I would take this opportunity to ask for forgiveness for the past year and I hope I hope histories are not repeated! God bless us all.

Sure or Not??

I was walking like one innocent kid in Little India of Perak, while enjoying looking at wonders of Textiles and admiring the gaudily dressed mannequins where all of a sudden a bunting caught my attention! First glance on this streamer, you won’t notice anything wrong with it.

Now look at it again!

So if you wanted to feel bright, go to this launderette since ‘they will launder you bright’!

*laughing out loud*

Regards

Do You Need an Answer??

Recollecting the past incident all of us go through, makes me wonder again and again on the possibilities of two souls meet by chance, become friends by destiny and clad hands together and walk down the years ecstatically. Indeed it’s an unexplainable phenomenon, but sometimes people just pause and gaze, thinking on the rough potential cause of the being.

The word ‘how’ seems to be hard to answer in this case. The best thing we could do is that just enjoys the moment and endures it without hassling on how it happened. Friendship is just another ship that you should sail with loads of care and handle it properly to avoid it from sinking.

When two souls become friends, it’s actually a step closer to be in the loop of trust and this TRUST is a vital component in determining the lasting of the relationship regardless of the type of relationship that you are in. From what I am going through, I never thought I could draw this far in life with the amount of good friends I have.

Shifting from a student’s life to working world was tough job to juggle, and I think with the amount of good souls I meet over at workplace I am happy to endure my working world. Thanks to Him for giving me good souls to accompany me in this phase of life. Undeniably everything happened unexplainably fine. I have already put some of them in the circle of trust and I hope I am not forgotten in the process of the other party discovering their verve.

Regards

Do you know….Who??

Busy days at SONY makes me a little caught with up with work loads where I seldom be at my workstation, instead I am a little dynamic, moving from suppliers and also warehouses! But this never stops me from my social activity after work. Especially with my newly profound good friends and work colleagues; Sutharshanan, Anil Vincent and my buddy Rajanen, indeed great companion after work, added with a ‘special appearance’ from my comical friend Mekala and also Shivani the witty girl.

Couple of days ago, me and the earlier mentioned great soul resorted for bowling game for de-stressing from work. After a great lunch, we manage to settle down for two games of bowling. After such a fun and outgoing session of ball rolling and pin shattering, we settled at a Chinese shop for supper. Being the fun people as always, we cracked into jokes and also jested about each other aimlessly, while this whole process I found myself at the midst of gawking at my friends asking the similar question to each other. Let me give a simple gesture of the scenario I was amused and laughing at.

Shivani to Anil, “Eh you should know Shalini since you studied in MMU?”. While staring pointlessly Anil answered “Oh, she is like a good friend of mine.” This followed by me coming in and asking another analogous question to Anil, “Then you should know Malarasi and Uthaya?”. This time onwards, Anil looks like the ‘walking-database’ of MMU since he nodded affirmatively.

Did you see the content of the speech could possibly be if two different people from different colleges become friend? It’s always the same question!

“DO YOU KNOW….??”

No matter how many times you try to avoid this sort of conversation, you will still end up with the same question regardless asking about your college friends or work colleagues. Even I myself, when I got to know Anil and Sutharshanan, I uttered the same, lame and vague question! Just observe it the next you talk to your friend, I am sure you will come across this exact question asked! Enjoy noticing the conversation and you will be amazed how life is astoundingly funny and fun!

Regards

p/s: I know Anil, Sutha, Raj, Meg and Shivani would curse me for putting their name here! Don’t mind me ok? Love you guys!

Less Time for Long Hours??

Sitting at office, gazing left and right with no proper vision ahead makes me wonder. And when I conjecture, I can smell loads of questions will be appearing in my head. Apparently I am attracted to write and entry about how an incident has really made me reflect about how it’s applicable in bona fide life. One vital question before I move further into blurt of the mind; How would you feel if your hard work is being tormented in front of your eyes?

Rhetorically, I know, almost similar answers will be uttered vividly. Of course we would feel very appalling and underappreciated. Let me give a real life situation of how a more than two hours hard work is being demolished in just less than 2 minutes. Me and a bunch of my colleague was actually helping out in the decoration for a birthday party which almost took us close to 3 hours to be done with the good output. At end of the day, it only took less than 2 minutes to bring it all down with the same amount of manpower. This is ironic example, where everyone know, we can’t let the whole decoration item to be on for the rest of the life!

But can you get the gist of the scenario spoken? No matter what you endure in life, it takes only fewer periods to bulldoze one’s hard work which was built for many years. The only way to safeguard the long kept reputation is by not making any mistakes. I still can recall my friend’s father told me at the end of the birthday party that I decorated. He said to me, “Sanjay, your long hour hard work is being tarnished in just few minutes!” I answered jokingly with a loud cry of disapproval.

A mere incident rang the alarm for me. I was riding bike earlier this morning when I evoked the incident and made me think, every incident in our life is quite inter-related. So what I learnt was, no matter how tough you have taken to reach the top, one dark spot will smudge your reputation and you will be down and disrespected. So start safeguarding your steps and make sure you don’t anguish your own name in the process of walking up the ladder!

Regards

Office Politics and Scandals!

Finally after I have settled down, I could find a little sufficient time for me to keep my blog page active. For the moment I could say that the ideas and blurt of the mind is flowing in a superior surge! Involve in a corporate world with so scores of people functioning, makes me learn about life and pattern of its current. Yes, I am involved in many scenarios of office politics and scandals.

When I was in my studentship life, all I know is I watch movies and soap-operas that show this similar motive circumstances in their production. But now, I know for real how it works exceptionally fine. This is what I rate the best first-hand-experience. What I do is I stop, look on how stuff works and I learn before I finally practice it. So let me explain the meaning of office affairs in my own words and my own understanding.

What do I mean by office politics?

This word itself explains that in an organization there is an affair that will guide us through out our service. To get good reviews you should be a hypocrite. I always wanted to be true to my way of working, but since I have been working, I learn that I should be hypocrite half of the time. Eulogize rules here! If you don’t know how to praise, then you stay at the bottom. Is this way is acceptable? For what I know, this no place for being a follower of ‘Dalai-Lama’; Truth only prevails. The formula to climb the corporate ladder is that you extol more on your supervisor on their toil. I observed, I learn and I utilize.

Now how about office scandals?

Alright, this is a word which is not only a phenomenon in corporate world but its becoming more communal. Dominos of life is not complete without scandals. And in this office set-up gossips will never dry out. I have observed a few on my own that it’s a routine fad. Explanation sought for but all in vain. Life scenario I went through, Ms. A goes out with Mr. B when Ms. A is married and the husband Mr. C is working in the same organization. Mr. B is a single man, and Mr. C is courting out with another girl. It’s complicated isn’t it? For all I know, this is only like 2% of the scandal that I am looking at on first hand. Why such an infidelity happens? Baffled as always!

As for now, I have learnt that nothing will stop from continuity. Scandals and office politics is inter-related element in part and parcel of career world. When it will stop? It’s still a big question mark! Deduction of the day, acclaim the person above you and you will secure hassle free career advancement, and ignore those scandals at workplace, instead enjoying listening and looking at one.

Regards

p/s: This is from my past working experience. Now, its all different!

Thanks for the Day!

I technically jumped off from my seat and I cry out loud after getting to see my long-lost-best-pal! It’s been years I haven spoke to her and today every puzzle came into a piece after meeting her online! Missing her much though, because she was my shoulder to cry on and she was the one I used to hang out with the most! Cherish all the moments I went through with her. Life moves very fast and now we are like waiting who going to get married first! Pal, all the luck, since I am sure you will be the first one! My super busy day, ended with two events which made my day to be perfect. First, it was dinner with my great buddies; Anil, Rajanen and Mekala, this is followed by a cam to cam chat with my best pal, ‘Aishah@ Ms. Vogue, who is in Kursk! Love you guys much!

p/s: Pal, I still have the Givenchy perfume you gave me! Parcel me more soon! *falls on my knees*