We are in 2020

We are in 2020. The year that expected to be like the normal years. Everyone goes to work, get paid every month, facing traffic jam every day, every week there are newly married couples and many other normal routines.

Today is the 1st of April 2020. Day 15 we are staying at home - Restricted Movement Order (RMO).

Early this year, Wuhan, China was attacked by a virus. This virus attacks the respiratory system, the lung - COVID19. This virus spread throughout the world including Malaysia. Due to safety reasons, the government have ordered the RMO. Only some businesses are allowed to operate physically. This includes hypermarket, market, mini market, hospitals, petrol stations and courier services. Others, you can still run your work but in online mode.

Initially, the RMO period is 14 days. Due to the increasing number of people affected, the government have decided to extend it for another 2 weeks.

In my university, we are still working as usual. All classes are conducted virtually. All materials are online from the beginning. But now we have to extend the deliverables into online, video recording - previously face-to-face.

I personally enjoy working from home. I don't have to face the traffic, I save a lot in my petrol and tolls. I have time to cook my meals at all time. This saves a lot of money.

But what comes to my concern is the groceries. People are queuing everywhere including Tesco and market. Whole online groceries are fully booked until the end of the month. We are not allowed to cross the district (without any valid reason) anymore. Just buy what we have in our area.

The front liners are doing their best. We just have to stay at home to break the virus chain. The front liners struggle to keep up with the number of patients and controlling the crowd. We are at home also keep up with our rationality. I admit, sometimes I do feel emotionally distracted and stress by just staying at home.

I keep on reminding myself, I am working from Monday-Friday, 8.00am - 5.15pm. Please allocate my working time well. Recently, I tend to overwork until night time - not good. At the end of the day, family matters. Spend more time with our family.

Well, it is time to survive.

Cadbury ada unsur khinzir?

Dah masuk news
dah tengok form yang di edarkan di media sosial dan blog.. banyak persoalan yang timbul sebenarnya.

This is the problem kalau jadi orang analytic. Hmmm..

1. Mana datang coklat tersebut? Adakah yang dibeli diluar negara? Balik dari bercuti.. beli coklat tu kat overseas?
2. Coklat yang di palsukan? atau coklat "cetak rompak"? Possible tak untuk dapat yang lebih murah tapi di jual pada harga sama dengan 'original'?
3. Memang benar disengajakan?
4. Adakah sumber stock dari luar negara kemudian dijual di sini?
5. dalam form yang disebarkan tu ejaan dia Cabbury.. bukan Cadbury. Jadi sahih kah form tu? Atau memang wujud coklat yang bernama Cabbury?

Banyak kemungkinan. Tapi kalau timbul perasaan ragu-ragu, baik tinggalkan lah. Makanlah coklat yang lain. Tapi kalau ada yang memang sengaja nak buat fitnah, hentikanlah tabur fitnah. Yang tak pasti pulak, janganlah sebarkan maklumat yg kita sendiri tak pasti.. nanti kita pulak jadi ejen fitnah.

Update 24 May 2014:

Jumaat dan barang basah... dan 1 talian hayat

Jumaat adalah hari yang dinantikan untuk membeli barangan basah. Restocking time. di mana shopping barang dapur yang best? mesti la pasar malam putrajaya. 

Makanan laut yang segar, sayur-sayuran yang berlambak-lambak. Of course ada gerai-gerai yang favorite. So today restock makanan laut such as ikan siakap (teringin sebab tengok masterchef professional masak hari tu), udang laut, dan ikan merah isi (my brother's all time favorite). Plan nak masak siakap untuk berbuka puasa ni.

Dah kata puasa, tekak ni lapar je rasa. singgah pulak di bahagian bazar ramadhan yang terletak seberang jalan je. Si abang teringin makan nasi tomato (tapi balik rumah rupanya pakcik tu bagi nasi briyani). Then nampak pulak kebab melawati (ke melewati??). teringin kebab daging. padahal lupa yang diri ni tak la boleh tahan sangat dengan daging kebab (allergy). dapat kebab daging. dengan happynya selebar senyuman pada kotak happy meal nak balik masak. tiba-tiba...

kereta tak boleh start! bateri habis. dah la tinggal 1 je kereta comel biru tu yang ada sebab si perkasa perak tengah warded. oh my... macam mana... macam mana... 

bing... si comel biru pakai insurance AXA. cuba cari dalam laci tak jumpa sticker auto assist diorang (lupa yang fon ada internet). Fine lah. call kurnia insurance (1-800-88-3833) since si perkasa perak pakai kurnia insurance. call centre kurnia memang tidak pernah mengecewakan. the operator will try their best to assist in any car break-down. tapi untuk this time kurnia cannot help to send their people to help us. BUT, the operator did asked where are we and they gave us the contact number untuk foreman yang mereka tahu within that area. may Allah bless you. they did gave me 2 numbers. one of them is Jackson Towing Service (Joey 016-3324616).

we called joey. with a very polite and fast service, she has arranged everything for us. she said the foreman will arrive in 1 hour. And Alhamdulillah, tepat satu jam lepas call, the foreman arrived.

nak jadikan cerita, naseb la ada some extra money masa tu. and that amount cukup-cukup tak lebih tak kurang daripada yang dicaj. Alhamdulillah.

While waiting for them to arrived, my brother yang demam dan suara serak ala ramli sarip, fulfil his time by playing a minion game on his iPad. Non-stop okay! 

What about me? Continue shopping makanan nak berbuka dalam kereta since we are just realised that we dont have any drinks to berbuka puasa. i have got myself air soya and sate. cukup la setakat syarat berbuka puasa. 

the foreman came tepat pada waktu azan. so we just berbuka dengan seteguk air while waiting kereta untuk siap. 5-10 minit and its done! the foreman, chen, and Low, were helpful and friendly.

Dalam perjalanan balik rumah, i said to my brother, we are lucky to live in Malaysia that has multiple races. Cuba bayangkan kalau malaysia ni ada malay or muslim saja, our car break-down masa nak berbuka puasa. For sure tak ada foreman yang willing to come masa nak berbuka puasa. kalau ada pun mesti charge more than usual. So, respect each other. masing-masing are surviving to live in this world and semua cari makan. 

Alhamdulillah, Allah always with us.

Sweet n sour deal by Malaysia Airlines (MAS)

Last 4 days, I have received a newsletter from MAS. I usually do not bother about what ever newsletter comes in. But on that day,  I was 'accidentally' clicked on that email and I saw "Penang from MYR238 (return)".

EH........ 238.... /2..... wow. (why /2? return flight) 

I clicked on the lovely purple BOOK NOW button with an excited-heart-beating rhythm. 

Let say if I select the following date...

Click on the image to enlarge

The best deal is from MYR51. How cheap is that for a trip with MAS air-plane! I was too excited enuf. But... how about the tax and fuel surcharges? It costs me just a little bit (2 to 3 ringgit) higher than my flight ticket. My brother did asked me to check with the other air-plane service... our favourite one, Firefly. I have selected the same date and time, and guess how much does this company is going to charge me... 2 times of the total cost of this (MAS) return flight sweet deal. That is not sweet at all!

Maybe some you've said... why don't I choose Air Asia? 

searching in my 'storage device'

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Just wait for another second

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No search result for 'Air Asia'

I proceed with the booking process with MAS. Everything went smoothly until....

Payment.

Declined.

Reason 1: Address of the credit card billing is not valid.

I have corrected and resubmit.

Reason 2: Credit card number field is empty

I have corrected and resubmit.

Reason 3: Address of the credit card billing is not valid. Attempted maximum ... .... Please contact our call centre 1300883000.

With my prepaid balance RM1.20, I make a call to the call center.

I have to wait for 2 minutes for their FOC advertisements (while I am paying for the phone bill), and another waiting time was for a few level of options list until I reach the option to talk with the operator (which is none until I key-in the invalid button). When I did managed to talk to the operator, the first thing that I have said, 

"Hi, I am Shakirah, I have a problem with my booking tix but my prepaid is about to finished. Boleh tak you call I semula?"

Mr. Operator: Sorry puan, kita tak ada service untuk call pelanggan.

Me: Ok fine. I ...... bla bla bla.....

Mr. Operator: Puan guna browser apa?

Me: Chrome

Mr. Operator: Ok, puan booking lagi sekali guna Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Me: Then nanti I kene charge 2 times.

Mr. Operator: Tidak puan. Sebab tadi payment declined.... *call ended*

What.....?! Not nowwwwwwww.

Using Internet Explorer, the process was not that fast. I have to repeat the same process again with this crawling-browser. A...ha! Inside the Payment page, fields displayed in Internet Explorer were slightly different from Chrome. With just one click (and correct input), the payment has successfully made!

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Unsupported web form... by using Chrome...

Maybe you should have take a look at the following figure.

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

My feeling is mixing between excited, happy for this great deal and also annoyed with system. What ever it is, bare in mind that there is no harm to subscribe newsletter from certain organisations. You will be updated if there is any promotion.

Plan your holiday now and fly with Malaysia Airlines with the best price.

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Masjid di China dirobohkan

I have just watching Buletin Utama (2.1.12) - eh.. what a nice number lah today.
1 word. Innalillah.

See... kat China, MASJID KENA ROBOH sebab dibina atas tanah yang tak dibenarkan untuk melakukan aktiviti agama. Ni berbaloi la untuk merusuh. Baru betul2 demi agama. Ingat, walaupun Malaysia bukanlah negara Islam yang sempurna, kita tetap bebas untuk melakukan ibadat spt SOLAT dan AZAN. Be thankful Muslims! Jangan biar sampai dah terlepas kuasa pemerintahan, jadi macam negara asing, baru nak bersatu. But selagi tak jadi mcm tu, selagi tu la Melayu tak sedar... kan?

BUKA MATA, BUKA HATI, BUKA MINDA!
Let's unite wahai MUSLIM!