Saigon Vs Selangor

It is sound like football game but it is not. It may sound biased but it is about reality. I've been staying in Petaling Jaya for about more than 9 years and Petaling Jaya is one of the district in Selangor while Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City) is a part of Vietnam. It is not about comparison but  it just my point of view being in 2 cities.
Petaling Jaya has been developed since 1990's and still growing rapidly with a lot more development of residential as well as business commercial area. It has become the 2nd business commercial attraction after Kuala Lumpur. Petaling Jaya has developed earlier than Cyberjaya but yet Cyberjaya has been the focus of the government to become the Malaysia's silicon valley. However, Petaling Jaya has more attraction to become more successful than Cyberjaya when the government change its MSC status policy. I am proud to see it's growth yet a bit disappointing with the authorities and the community itself.
They didn't seems proud to be a part of Petaling Jaya development. Why I said that is because I observed that many facilities are not been taken care off, rubbish all over the places even at the commercial or business spots like Mutiara Damansara and Damansara Perdana. The business owner did really what's in front of their shop. Even if there is pile of rubbish in front of their shop, they did not really bother to clean them up.
 Every Saturday morning, when I'm sending my daughter to her Kumon class, I used to see rat carcass on the road and the crow were happily eating the carcass and pieces of its flesh were spread all over places. Wasn't it disgusting to you? For me it was so disgusting. Day time its hard for me to see the cleaner staff cleaning the road side or even the pavement of the shop lots. What I observed are rubbish left in front of the shop, roadside as well as the pavement at the commercial area. It is hardly to see a man or a women in a uniform sweeping the road or pavement. Once a while I saw the landscape man do his job and leave behind leaves and whatever he cut from the tree.
Vietnam is growing, developing and well known as a poor country by many Malaysian. Here in Saigon, people live in a very simple and basic life. I like that actually.  The business and traffic jammed maybe worst than Petaling Jaya, but I'm impressed with the business owner who keep clean their premises all the time and you can see the cleaner, I believed the cleaner appointed by the authorities, keep clean the road side and the area most of the time non stop. Even the small business operator like hawkers will ensure the place surrounding their business area are always clean. It may not very clean but when you observed you can see what I mean. But one thing that many Malaysian not comfortable with, may the urine smell. This is because that they still have many undeveloped place and bushes as well as very less public toilet found here in Saigon. That's may one of the reason they urinated wherever whenever they feel required ..he..he..
Well for me its all about attitude. I believed most people in Petaling Jaya are now high standard, and thought they should not do cleaning and care about cleanliness as they thought only low standard or poor people are supposed to do the cleaning. While here in Saigon, they thought they are all the same and cleaning is everybody's responsibility. To keep their place clean is a part of their duty to upgrade and to show people they are developing.

We Are In Saigon Again

Here we are again in Saigon. This is the third time we came to Saigon for this year. I never expect that Saigon will be our second home now. But I am happy as it will give new environment and new dimension of life to me.
This time our flight was in the morning of Saturday. Actually it was a Public Holiday in celebration of our king's birthday. Since it was a public holiday, I expected many people will go for a holiday and the check in counter would be crowded with people. I decided to check in early to avoid long queue. My sister Suria and my mother sent us to KLIA. However, when we reached KLIA, the queue was short and smooth.
After checked in we walked around at the bookstore and then had drinks at our normal café prior boarding. It was a little bit too early for us, but it's okay as we could seat , relax and reading while waiting for boarding. After 15 minutes, we had drinks at the café I proceeded to the immigration counter and we went straight to gate H10. It was quite a distance and was the last gate in a row. We were waited there for about one and half hour before the gate was open at about 1.45p.m.
While waiting for the gate to be opened, I saw a group of old ladies with range of ages between 50's to 60's who went for ravel and shopping I believed. And I suspected they were all from Penang. From the conversation I heard they are a group of ladies who used to travel. One of them even suggested the group to go to Khatmandu for a holiday and heard that she had traveled to many places like Cape town, Wellington, Beijing and few others places that quite familiar as tourist spots. I was impressed on how they can explained in details for each places they've been to.
When the crew announced that the door was open for boarding, we were amongst the earliest who boarded first as we were travelers with kids. Like any other trip, I always choose to be seated at the center of the aircraft near to the  emergency door and the plane's wing. And it always besides the window. After seated, Shakira will always started searched for her favorite movie or cartoon from the small screen of the head rest of the front seat. This time she choose the Toy Story. As an adult , I will definitely  choose the lasts movie. Seconds after we started our movie the cabin crew came to confirmed that we had ordered special kid's meal for Shakira. This time the kid's meal was not as what we expected as they only served sandwiches for both kids and adults. it was maybe tea time as the flight was in the afternoon. Pity Shakira as she expected for a spaghetti like our previous flight to Saigon. Nevertheless, she ate the biscuits and chocolate provided in the box. After about 1hr 45 mins we landed at HCMC international airport. We went through the immigration counter and straight away to the café we used to wait for daddy.
Less in 10mins Shakira was waving to somebody and screamed daddy, daddy...here we are daddy and the driver is here. Alhamdulillah we didn't wait for too long. Straight away to the car and went  to our condo , Emperia Anh Phu in district 2.
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Coklat Oh Coklat

Baru baru ni Malaysia dikejutkan isu coklat Cadbury dicemari DNA babi. Well, for me it was negligence by the manufacturer and authorities and to be blamed was the manufacturer in particular. The manufacturer seems insensitive about the HALAL issue to Muslims. I believed they are aware but just being ignorance as long as they could make good money. While in the other hand the authorities has less integration amongst the respective Jabatan. For example how can MOH which did the lab research or lab test on the chocolate aware on the existence of the non HALAL ingredients while on the other hand, JAKIM who responsible on the issuance of HALAL certification  said otherwise. It was really confusing. Does the HALAL certification issued before the lab test was done or was it due to undeclared ingredient on reproduction of certified HALAL product?. The question is how does the monitoring and inspection was done over the certified HALAL product upon reproduction?. I believed the respective jabatans should have a clear guidelines and processes to monitor the HALAL certification , for example periodic inspection at the factory by the respective jabatans e.g MOH and JAKIM. The application of ISO practice may resolve the issue as by practicing ISO everyone involve with the issuance of the certification are required to follow the integrated processes.

Another issue that catched my attention was where some people who claimed they are religious were insensitive about how to keep good image of a real Muslims when they throw their opinion like they have never read books or never learn from the religious teacher.  They thought others have no brain to think or they just want to show how shallow are their knowledge about Islam. I wish to call upon all our Muslims brothers and sisters to think before you say something. it may your personal opinion but it may reflects and affects to the whole community.

Islam is a beautiful way of  life, full of positive action, energy and spirits. But human with all negativities has destroyed the beauty of Islam.

Did you realize how chocolate has brought different perspective of Muslims to the eyes of the world?

Another Day....

Life is colourful and today is another day...another day without my husband around and me with my daughter going through the day for just two of us. we begin the day with a morning greetings to each other, screaming of going for shower, get dress, a little bit of watching tv and off we go to school for my daughter and work for myself.
Life is normal and nothing challenging at work. Just a bit sour, salty , sweet of an average office routine. Nothing to be impressed with my work, nothing to talk about of work challenge, just twist of human attitude towards work and responsibility.
I wish we will be together again soon, I missed the naughty ticklish little finger tickling me before sleep, missed the kiss before go to work and miss the hug when I need it.
"Ya Allah permudahkan kami untuk bersama semula, beri kami kekuatan untuk menghadapi ujian Mu dan kau berkatilah segala perbuatan kami". Ameen.

Be Positive

I wrote this to encourage myself to be positive. Remember our life, our body and soul are belongs to Allah. We are borrowing it from Allah. As such we as person who borrow it from Allah should use it, enjoy it and make use of it in the right way as what Allah wants it.

If what we do or did ends with failure it does not mean we have failed. It may be because we did not do it hard enough or maybe Allah has some reason behind it. But we must be positive that whatever we did Allah has mapped it and only He knows. We as a normal person should strive, tawakkal and"redha as well as believing in whatever happened must have a reason behind it.

Masa Berubah, Ketentuan Allah, Peta Allah, Kita hanya Tawakkal & Redha

Tanggal 1 March 2014, merupakan bermulanya fasa baru dalam kehidupan keluarga kami. Suamiku telah mula bertugas jauh di Ho Chi Minh dan terpaksalah berpisah untuk sementara waktu. Minggu pertama berjauhan merupakan perubahan baru yang agak mencabar. Mulai minggu pertama berjauhan saya terpaksa belajar untuk menguruskan hal hal rumah sendirian, selain hal hal rumah , saya juga perlu meguruskan hal hal suami di sini, hal hal anak juga hal diri sendiri.

Mulanya rasa sangat mencabar. Namun dengan mendengar perkara perkara positif dari ustaz ustaz serta ustazah ustazah di tv dan internet, Alhamdulillah ianya membuka minda dan menjadikan saya lebih positif. Saya bersyukur kerana telah diberikan ujian Allah, berjauhan sementara dengan suami saya. Keadaan ini membuatkan saya lebih kuat untuk menghadapi kesukaran, kerana bila susah, saya akan berdoa kepada Allah memohon pertolonganNya agar dipermudahkan perjalanan kehidupan harian kami. Teringat saya pada kata kata seorang pakar motivasi wanita, kita hanya bergantung kepada Allah sahaja, bukan pada manusia atau pada sesiapa. Hidup kita ini telah ditetapkan oleh Allah, maka segala perbuatan kita, segala tindakan kita, serta segala usaha kita hendaklah kita bertawakkal kepada Allah kerana kehidupan kita telah dipetakan oleh Allah. Maka dengan itu saya percaya, walau susah macam mana cabaran yang saya terima, saya pasti allah akan mendengar saya bila saya meminta padaNya.

"Ya Allah, aku memohon kepada mu agar dipermudahkan kehidupan kami di sini dan suamiku di sana, sesungguhnya hanya Engkau yang maha mengetahui dan maha memakbulkan permohonan hambamu"...Ameen Yarabbal'alamin...

DREAM AND HOPE

I always dream to have a medium size home that I can decorate as what I want. I always dream to have  home where there are few sections that can be used as family room, working room and guest room as well as prayer room. I always wish to have a proper store room with an organizer for easy trace. I wish I could have a rack in my working room so that I could organize my filing.

I missed to be creative.  When I was a kid I like to decorate my room. I still remember  I turned my baby bed  into a day sofa with pillow storage where I could sit on it. I remember that I used to transformed my room every 2 months just to have new ambiance of my room. I couldn't care whether my sister like t or not, as long as I like the changes I've made in my room.

Current? Is not that I am not happy with the current home. It just too messy, small and crowded. A situation where you feel suffocated . I just can't have "ketenangan" that I expect when I get a home. I get more stress with the mess I saw everyday. I'd rather stay outside.....I could get more "ketenangan" on the road by driving actually. That's why I am so happy with my current job as I could get my driving teraphy while driving to work.

By having my dream home I didn't say that I could get 100% happiness but at least there are some section that could give me some ketenangan. I used to live in an in order home, but now when I am not, I am redha, but praying so hard to be blessed been given a high level of patiens. and I feel so bersyukur because Allah gave me a lovely husband and daughter who has been very supportive. and because of them I am still here in my happy home. It is not their fault it just fate.

Sesungguhnya aku redha dengan pemberianMu tapi aku takut keredhaan ini akan menghilangkan keikhlasan di hati ini yang kemudiannya menjauhkan keberkatan yang Engkau berikan. Ya Allah tunjukkan aku jalan untuk aku mencapai impianku demi mengejar keberkatanMu ya Allah.