Damn, sorang kawan baik aku suspect kena H1N1. Sekarang dia tengah dikuarantin. Cuak doh.
A few weeks ago, dua tingkat bangunan tempat aku kerja kena kuarantin. Dua tingkat! That's easily 200 staff already. Sekolah-sekolah, kampus-kampus toksah kira la berapa ribu dah kena kuarantin.
Merebak teruk dah la wabak ni. Harap dapat didoakan kesihatan budak tu (boleh kan doakan kebaikan untuk orang kafir?).
Korang mesti biasa kena flash (atau beam) dari belakang waktu tengah drive kan? Ni adalah driver yang cas laju habis suruh kita ketepi bagi dia jalan. Ke, korang yang mem-flash kereta depan?
Aku sebenarnya cukup nyampah dengan orang-orang camni. Tapi camne aku lupa masukkan dalam list of annoying things aku ek? Lupa la.
Anyway, masa on the way balik ke KL dari Kerteh arini, aku tengah drive kat lane kanan around 130km/h. Sekali tu aku nampak kat rear view mirror ada kereta dari belakang flash aku suruh ketepi. From the speed it's approaching, maybe kereta tu bawak dalam 170km/h. Aku pun ketepi la.
Sekali tengok tu kereta polis. Boleh terima?
Serious aku cakap, aku takkan terkejut kalau 5km kat depan tu ada road block, polis yang sama yang saman orang speeding.
Aku sungguh tak boleh berhenti tersenyum baca fakta nombor 6 dalam list ni. I told you six is my new eight, right?
To you, it is no big deal. But to me, it means the whole world. I almost forgot the fact that, yes, she has been commenting my blog since my Mindsay blog (during which she used the nick BenLaden... ko ado?)
Pada masa yang sama, aku rasa bersalah jugak, tak tau pun birthday dia bila. Makcu, birthday ko bila?
Apa-apa pun, terima kasih la Makcu. Aku terharu sangat-sangat! Huwaaa, rasa macam nak belanja makan aje.
And to think I haven't even met her. Sekarang aku percaya, orang yang anda tak kenali mampu membuat anda tersenyum.
Dialog antara aku dengan pelayan di Cafe X (PCX) tengahari tadi. Aku sedang membelek menu.
Aku: Apa beza kopi Hong Kong Style ni dengan kopi biasa ye? PCX: Kopi Hong Kong ni kurang manis dari kopi biasa. Aku: Oh. Tapi kenapa kopi Hong Kong lagi mahal dari kopi biasa? PCX: (pause)... Sebab style dia lain sikit.
Aku pun menjerit dalam hati, bukan itu ke soklan aku tadi? Yakni, apa beza dia? Aku malas nak argue, lalu aku pun order kopi biasa aje.
Tapi korang selalu tak jadi kes macam ni, yakni pelayan tak tau apa yang kafe dia hidangkan? Ada yang mintak izin pegi dapur confirmkan, ada yang cakap dia pun tak tau, dan yang macam kes kat atas memandai-mandai pulak.
Aku sekeluarga pernah kena lagi teruk dari tu. Kita namakan kafe Y pulak.
Aku: Makanan yang nama XXX ni, macam mana yer?
PCY: Macam mana? Macam ni lah (tunjuk kat gambar kat menu).
Tu lagi la macam haram, rasa kelakar ada, rasa nak maki pun ada. Yang pasti memang malas nak argue. Kalu gambar tu very descriptive, rasanya kitorang akan tanya ke?
P/S - Tajuk entry ni macam contemplating nak beli tiket flight pegi Hong Kong je kan. Suka kontroversi tau Paksu. Bak kata artis, kontroversi itu pakej. Matila feeling artis.
This is not a complain la ek. More like a justification or explanation. But yeah, the mood is a bit grumpy hahaha!
Kebanyakan orang fikir kerja dengan PETRONAS ni gaji tinggi melangit. This is actually a HUGE, HUGE misconception. Antara operator-operator minyak kat Malaysia, PETRONAS sebenarnya paling rendah bayaran gaji dia. How do I know? Because I work in PETRONAS lah! And those who work in Oil and Gas business should know this.
Aku pernah dipelawa seseorang join company dia. Dia kata, "Join la company kitorang, besar sikit gaji. Gaji korang banyak ni aje."
Masa dia sebut 'banyak ni je', dia dekatkan jari ibu dengan jari telunjuk dia. Aku panaaas je, tapi I actually admit that what he said is relatively true.
Cuba pikir balik, kalau gaji kitorang tinggi la, kenapa ramai sangat yang resign dari PETRONAS dan join syarikat minyak luar negara? Yes, at times we do complain, but most of us bite the bullet and continued walking (working?).
Soalan favorite: Kenapa PETRONAS tak serap kenaikan harga minyak?
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Memang kerja PETRONAS adalah memastikan harga minyak kat Malaysia sentiasa rendah kan? Bila harga tepung naik, kenapa korang tak suruh kilang tepung serap harga tepung tu? BODOH.
Takde hubungan linear pun antara kenaikan harga minyak dunia dengan PETRONAS. Maksudnya, syarikat tak kawal harga minyak. Nor the government. PETRONAS secara amnya cuma operator yang membantu dan mengawal pengeluaran minyak dari perut bumi, among other businesses.
Tahun lepas harga minyak mentah turun dunia mendadak. Berapa banyak projek yang dah separuh jalan ditangguhkan, budget pun terpaksa kontrol (sila rujuk entry sebelum ni!), pelbagai langkah menjimatkan kos dibuat. And yet recently we paid annual tax larger than the year before to the government., as a part of contribution to ease the burden. So PETRONAS nak bagi apa lagi? Nak bagi dan terus bagi sampai kitorang makan pasir?
How the government use the tax money is not within PETRONAS's jurisdiction. If a portion can be used to absorb a fraction of the price hike, by all means use it. But if Najib decides to use it to buy Rosmah's handbags instead, then PETRONAS has no power to stop.
Tapi of course la, panjang lebar macam mana explain pun, korang tetap nak blame PETRONAS kalo harga minyak naik kan? Standard la manusia, tau nak menyalahkan orang lain aje.
P/S - I told you lately aku senang rasa annoyed hahaha. P/S/S - Satu lagi, jauh sekali aku tak bersyukur, cuma nak explain kepada manusia-manusia yang dengan seriusnya tembak aku dengan soklan-soklan di atas.
So, kau wajibkan kitorang pegi course sana sini, attend safety visit at least setahun sekali, dan segala macam lagi benda yang kau suruh kitorang buat untuk capai performance target...
... tapi bila kitorang mintak nak pegi, kau reject sebab nak kontrol budget?
Simon Pegg is a great comedy actor, isn't he? If you like Ricky Gervais (from The Office, and the museum curator in Night At The Museum) chances are you'll like Simon Pegg as well. Except maybe Pegg feels more relaxed than Gervais. Yeah, maybe it's their roles that make it as such.
Or, try comparing it with Jim Carrey. Or Azwan Ali.
That aside, Pegg is brilliant in Ice Age, serious or not. Yeah, I cannot imagine anyone else voicing Buck The One-Eyed Weasal. I also particularly like him in Shaun of The Dead. His role in the latest Star Trek is waaay too small.
Yeah, somehow I feel comedy in British accent is funnier than American. Two words: Little Britain.
P/S - Hmm aku tak sangka pulak ada dua tiga kedai kat Paka ni ada Wi-Fi. Pangsamurni kat Kuala Lumpur tu ado? Nan-ado ok.
Of late, I feel as if there are lots of things that I feel annoys the fuck out of me. My tolerance towards annoying things have declined steadily over the past few years. Beats me, even I don't know why. Here are a few:
Stepped on a chewing gum
………+2
Azwan Ali
………+4
Queue cutters (payment counters, on the road, etc)
………+2
Policemen pulling over to give way to YBs/ Menteri - During a traffic jam (this is a big fat WTF)
………+2
………+4
Indonesian soap opera
………+7
Using scratch-and-display parking coupons - Only staying in town for an hour - Not sold by piece, but by booklet
………+2
………+3
………+5
ASTRO's no-transmission due to rain (ten years, do something already!)
………+2
Eating with plastic cutlery in a restaurant - The meal is chicken or beef
………+4
………+16
People who are overly-preachy
………+4
Noisy people in cinemas - Narrating the story
………+5
………+15
People sitting behind kicking my seat (in cinema, bus, car, etc)
………+4
Cam whores - ANTM wannabes
………+3
………+8
Held on the phone for more than 2 minutes
………+4
PDA (that's public display affection, not Omnia or HTC)
………+3
Shopkeepers who bitches about me to her grandma, in their native language
………+5
People whose Facebook status is real-time. Like:
09:00: Good morning, just woke up
09:30: Breakfast with sweetheart.
10:00: At the cinema. Transformers or Ice Age?
11:00: Damn! Transformers is full house! Megan Fox's a hottie!
13:00: Ice Age is best! (notice the broken language here)
………+2
Deejay talking in the middle of a good song
………+2
Drivers who don't use their turn signal
………+3
Meetings that waste everyone's time (I actually have this every week)
………+2
Slow drivers on the fast lane
………+3
Smokers taking their own fucking sweet time
………+4
Bands that sings only emo songs
………+2
If you notice, yeah, most of them are ignorants. I have a very low tolerance for ignorants.
So, just add the values if you want to know the level of annoyance I'm experiencing. For instance, if I'm eating chicken using plastic cutlery while watching Indonesian soap opera, then:
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