Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Sweeping Malaysian?

Apa sudah jadi? Sedang ramai dikalangan bangsa mereka di negara ini, meneguk kekayaan untuk dibawa pulang, kenapa perlu berlaku sedemikian kepada rakyat negara ini yang berkunjung ke negara mereka? Betapa ceteknya pemikiran.

Kenapa setiap kali ada issue yang berkaitan dengan adat budaya, mereka akan melenting sedemikian rupa? Bukankah sepatutnya mereka rasa berbangga kita mengenali adat mereka, dan mempraktikkannya juga? Mengapa perlu bersikap ganas? Jika memang orang asia itu melambangkan kelembutan dan kesopanan, maka adakah reaksi mereka itu adalah sepatutnya? Begitu sayangkah mereka pada kebudayaan mereka sehingga sanggup menjejaskan keharmonian perhubungan 2 negara? Mungkin hanya segelintir cuma, tetapi aku tetap terasa.

Aku ingin mengamalkan keterbukaan fikiran, tanpa prejudis... tetapi setelah diasak dengan satu demi satu konfrontasi mereka dengan apa yang berlaku di negara kita kononnya, aku menjadi skeptikal tentang niat mereka.

Mengapa ketika seorang demi seorang orang kita dibunuh ketika kejadian rompak dan samun, satu demi satu rumah dikosongkan isinya secara paksa, oleh warga mereka, tidak pun kita menjalankan kegiatan menghapus mereka di jalan-jalan? Mungkinkah kerana kita tahu bahawa hanya sebilangan sahaja yang begitu? Mungkinkah sebab kita sedar, bukan hanya mereka, malahan orang kita juga ada yang punya pekerjaan serupa? Entahlah...
Walau selalu juga aku melabelkan sesetengah orang sebagai typical Malay / Malaysian, namun aku bangga kerana ternyata kita masih ada kelembutan, masih mampu bertahan dengan kerenah kebudak-budakan ini. Benarkah? Bagaimana pula dengan isu memijak kepala lembu ya? Entahlah...


Semoga Malaysia kekal sebagai sebuah negara yang aman, sejahtera untuk diduduki oleh anak cucu kita nanti... Amin...

Tuesday, 19 May 2009

I found these weird:

1st Situation:

I was in a lift, and then a man came in.

Me: Hi (its our custom here to acknowledge everybody)
Him: Hi
After a while,
Him: You with which department?
Me: B1* Project
Him: owhhh… Project? As Engineer?
Me: No
Him: owhhh…
He stopped there, nothing more interesting things to talk about I guess. Or was it the trip in the lift was too short for him to continue on talking?

2nd Situation (happened to a friend of mine, we are on the same job description):

Engineer: CY, please come down and collect my Change Order request.
CY: Oh OK.

Why should CY go down to get the form? The requestor should come up and send the request form to CY. That’s the way it should be. We are colleagues.

CY: Sharifah, bla bla bla (telling me about what happened). I only realized now that I should have asked her to come up, and tell her, that I am also an engineer by background and experience, but now doing this SCM thing.
Me: Don’t lah CY… You don’t have to justify yourself to this kind of people. You know who you are. But if somebody ever asks you again, let him or her pass the form to you instead of the other way around.

Do I have to justify to people (especially here in SH*LL) that I am also an engineer by background and past experience but now doing SCM things. I don’t think I have to. Who makes Engineer so superior that SCM Executives are to be looked down to? I found this weird… I know that engineers have good pay. We have good pay as well, as per our qualifications and experiences.

Have I jumped into conclusion too quick here? Maybe the 1st person was really looking forward to get out from the lift that he lost words on what to say to me upon knowing that I was not an engineer. Or, was he interested in me, terkelu lidah untuk bicara? Ahahahahaha… erkssss :p

How about the 2nd person? Maybe she’s too tired to come up here? Only one level up? Who knows? She knows!

Monday, 16 February 2009

Say Thank You or atleast SMILE :)

Bought cake yesterday...

While waiting, helped one girl to put a big cake into a box (kepoh me, not my cake, but the box kept on moving... can't stand to just watch... so i helped her hold the box while she slide the cake in)... then, she closed the box and asked who's cake was that, and somebody else answered...

and POFFFF she's gone back to the kitchen... without even a smile on her face, without even acknowledging that i was there beside her... what was i hoping for by helping her? nothing i guess... errr NO... manners girl manners!!! A smile maybe? IDEALLY - That's just the way it should be - Smile and say thank you when people helped you (no matter whether you have asked for the favour or the person voluntered)...

Something to ponder... I will always teach Irdina to say thank you, small gesture may it be... but it matters... Irdina, please baby, please grow up as a girl who have good manners... amin!

Moral of the story? Don't Kepoh, no?