A Whole New Story

Repost from Wani Ardy’s blog:

An good article by an Indonesian student in Malaysia, Wening Gemi Nastiti.

Thank you.

And to Malaysians, please stop all the racism nonsense.

All of us want to live in peace.

Repost from Mur’s blog. For all of us, HERE.

What’s the definition of wealth (or mewah in Malay) for you?

Have you had dreams of becoming wealthy? I mean, filthy-rich where buying a Maserati (ehem!) as your daily car.

I had seen the richest of the rich, and I never have any desire or dream to become filthy rich or wealthy.

I came from a well-to-do family, but because I am an only child, I tend to get the best things that my parents can get for me. My dad likes buying stuffs that have quality and does not mind paying high prices as long as it is in good quality. I inherit this trait from my dad it seems. Where else my mom is just the opposite, she will choose things carefully and does not like wasting her money. Many times that she complained that she never taught me to buy stuffs with labels or brands.

I answered “Yes ma, I know you never taught me all those stuffs, I learned it myself.” So no, my parents does not influence me at all in this matter.

I admit that being an only child has it advantages. I used to request from my parents to buy clothes from brands, but never designer labels because it is way out of the league. At that point, I never realized the value of my parents’ money. During those years (2000-2005) Padini, East India, Esprit, Roxy & Quiksilver were my favourites. I know a lot of my friends seem to think that my parents are rich to buy me those stuffs and it gave me the ‘high-maintenance’ impression.

And of course, it costs me until now. Some people still seem to think of me as that kinda of girl, but my closest friends know that I am not like that. I am a flexible person who you can bring anywhere, eat at a stall or mamak, tepi longkang punya gerai ke apa, aku tak kisah as long as the food is delicious. I don’t really fancy to eat at hotels, because of the prim and proper protocol, and my favourite food is tomyam, so bring me to any good tomyam restaurant or stall and I’ll eat, A LOT.

And owh yes, because of the way I was back then, I had influenced 2 persons to change. One of them had pissed me off at the end of the relationship because of this sentence, “I’m done being middle class. I’m done buying rm10 t-shirts from pasar malam. I want to buy at least Padini,”.

You know what happened. I left him. He was doing a MLM thing at that time and I was against the “quick-money-scheme”.

No, I don’t go for kemewahan but I like my life to be satisfactory, well-to-do.

I started to value my money and my parents’ after I started my industrial training in 2006. 2007, I started working and that’s where I start budgeting and try not to waste on unnecessary stuffs like expensive food and clothes. Thank God for technology, online boutiques came up and the prices are way cheaper than the retail outlets.

It annoys the hell out of me when people ask their friends to go to expensive outlets without considering the other party financial condition. At least, think and try to suit it in your situation. Go somewhere inexpensive if you cannot treat your friend or just get takeout and eat at home. Do some activities that does not involve spending any money like walking in the park, short roadtrip (without buying anything), things like that.

Why must you spend so much? This is the time where you can save for your future. I am not a good saver myself, I am still struggling because of the financial mistakes I made few years back.

Aku tak nak mewah, sebab aku tak nak lupa aku siapa.

UNTUK KAU

Tolong jangan… Gunakan ayat2 tak sepatutnya sebab payah aku nak lupa kau.

Tolong jangan… Anggap aku boleh terima segalanya sebab walaupun aku nampak very accepting tapi aku tak selesa.

Tolong jangan… Ingat aku. Rindu aku segala bagai. Tak perlu.

UNTUK AKU

Tolong jangan… Ingat dia. Rindu dia. Memang tak perlu.

Tolong jangan… Terlalu accepting. Kau tahu kawan2 kau cakap kau terlalu accepting. Be fussy for a bit.

Tolong jangan… Tenggelam sebab melayan ayat2 dia.

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Semuanya tak perlu.

Sebab kau cakap kau dah press the ESC button, and we are starting over.

But like always, starting over does not mean every single thing will be the same.

Please be aware of the line raised between us.

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OMG i wanna watch this. Not because of Zac Efron, but because of the story itself.

Stress. nope, this is not unnecessary stress, this is real stress.

stress sebab:

1. Term paper that has to be submitted on 31st July. Tak pernah segila ini, baru 2 weeks masuk dah kene submit term paper. Apakahhhhh???

2. Some argument between me and my mum early in the morning, today. I’m still sad

3. Finance matters.

Speaking of unnecessary stress, i’m tired the never ending episodes. Do something already.

Lesu – the most suitable word to describe my day.

Overall, my new office is okay. Everyone is friendly and helpful enough. I was given the task to help my colleagues to revamp the organization’s website, assist in administrating the webmail server and coming up with a paperwork on using the e-Complaint system. The last task is challenging since I need to come up on a proposal on how to promote the usage of e-Complaint system (internally and externally) and to organize an awareness workshop on the system itself.

Wow.

On the other note, I have to seriously start house/room hunting. I know I need my own space and privacy to work and study at the same time.

From above:

ICT/JKT/KPKT colleagues with boss (the only guy in the pic)

MDLG staffs with SU

2 years and 7 months. Ups and downs, a memorable one.

Please pray for my success and comfort at the new place starting next Tuesday.