Light and Easy

I have been enjoying the light traffic and the easy workload for the last two weeks. The traffic started to ease off with the start of the end-of-year school holiday. The peak is the last two weeks -- especially when the expatriates go home for two weeks, the locals take extra days off for celebrations, and the rest just use up their remaining annual leaves.

The road is a lot clearer than normal. I take about half an hour to arrive at work. That is half of the normal time.
The office is half empty: shorter queue at the cafe, shorter wait at the elevators, calmer and quieter surau.
The helpdesk is not busy at all. I get only a few tasks this whole week. And I get to take my time completing them.
A lot less pressure.. not that it is so much demanding in the first place anyway.

YEAH!

:-)

New Home

Alhamdulillah, we moved into a new home last weekend.

This would be our own home soon, inshaAllah.

The bank has also approved the home loan.

Hopefully the whole purchasing process would progress faster after this.

Alhamdulillah.

Just When We Need It

It is almost always.. we get the money at the very last minute.. when, in my husband's words, I almost lost my faith in Allah's help

ALZA

We finally brought Alza home tonight. Alhamdulillah.

After a few days delay at the excise duty process, the Perodua salesman finally made call to invite me to pick up the new car.

It is kind of bittersweet to let go of my dear WaHaB. That was my first new car. It has served me well for 10 years.. although the past few months alone costed me over RM2,000 for maintenance. It definitely has passed its prime.. haha..

We are also desperately in need of a bigger car to fit at least 6 people. We have two adults, two children, one toddler, and one baby. It is safer for Umar to sit in a baby car seat than to sit on someone's lap while we travel as a family in WaHaB. Alza is almost perfect for us because it is not too big for me to drive to work in KL everyday - easy to drive and cheaper on gas. And we can afford the price too.

Alhamdulillah..

I would like take Mak around in the new car too. InshaAllah.

Clinging on to Lotus Notes

My section head hinted the other day that I should think about learning new skills, be a team player, and help with the upcoming project.

It is not bad, except that I did not apply for this job to do that. If I agree with her plan (whole- or half-heartedly), I see myself suffering doing a development work in something I am not really interested in - MS SQL (eww) and Timesheet (messy). The technology is OK and the application is understandably trying to do a lot, and I give them credit for that.. but I think I want to utilize my existing skills in something I expected to do when taking this job - EDMS in Lotus Notes.

I might lose the chance to "diversify" my skills, and to add another project in my portfolio. It may let me keep this job.

It bothered me. I started wondering if I would have to work in Sunway, leaving this nice company...

Then yesterday she said "Puteri, good news! We'll have Sofi do the Timesheet and you can do Lotus Notes." I said good.

Just before 5pm my boss asked to discuss about the plan next year. He gave me two options: MS SQL Timesheet and MS Sharepoint. I asked about supporting EDMS for other, future projects. So he mentioned the third option: EDMS support. Yes yes yes. I told him that I am most interested in this third option but not ruling out the other two. He said if I want to do EDMS, I am most welcome to do so.

YESSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

ALHAMDULILLAH.

We ended the discussion both happy.

Hopefully this is a good career decision that would be beneficial to me in the long run too. InshaAllah

Thank You Allah

Say Alhamdulillah
Thank you Allah
Thank you Allah
For my mother

Amira would say "Miya sing, Mama talk, OK?" so that she would sing and I would complete it by saying "my...?" and she would add the last word.. bike, food, soy milk, car seat, baju, bed, pillow, dolly, etc etc.

Thank you Allah for my Amira