Story of Appreciation

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim….

I got this from my colleague. Enjoy reading!! ^_^

One young academically excellent person went to apply for a managerial position in a big company.

He passed the first interview, the director did the last interview, made the last decision.

The director discovered from the CV, that the youth's academic result is excellent all the way, from the secondary school until the postgraduate research, never has a year he did not score.

The director asked, "Did you obtain any scholarship in school?" and the youth answered "none".

The director asked, "Is it your father pay for your school fees?" the youth answered, "my father passed away when I was one year old, it is my mother who paid for my school fees."

The director asked, "Where did your mother worked?" the youth answered, my mother worked as cloth cleaner.

The director requested the youth to show his hand, the youth showed a pair of hand that is smooth and perfect to the director.

The director asked, "Did you ever help your mother washed the cloth before?" The youth answered, "never, my mother always wanted me to study and read more books, furthermore, my mother can wash cloths faster than me."

The director said, I had a request, when you go back today, go and help to clean your mother's hand, and then see me tomorrow morning.

The youth felt that its chance of landing the job is high, when he went back, he happily wanted to clean his mother's hand, his mother feel strange, happy but mixed with fear, she showed her hand to the kid.

The youth cleaned his mother's hand slowly, his tear drop down as he did that. It is first time he found his mother's hand is so wrinkled, and there are so many bruises in her hand. Some bruises incites pains so strong that shiver her mother's body when cleaned with water.

This is the first time the youth realized and experienced that it is this pair of hand that washed the cloth everyday to earn him the school fees, the bruises in the mother's hand is the price that the mother paid for his graduation and academic excellence and probably his future.

After finishing the cleaning of his mother hand, the youth quietly cleaned all remaining clothes for his mother.

That night, mother and sons talked for a very long time.

Next morning, the youth went to the director's office.

The director noticed the tear in the youth's eye, asked: "Can you tell you what have you done and learned yesterday in your house?"

The youth answered, "I cleaned my mother's hand, and also finished cleaning all the remaining clothes"

The director asked, "please tell me your feeling."

The youth said;

Number 1, I knew what is appreciation, without my mother, there would not the successful me today.

Number 2, I knew how to work together with my mother, then only I can realize how difficult and tough to get something done.

Number 3, I knew the importance and value of family relationship.

The director said, "This is what I am asking. I want to recruit a person that can appreciate the help of other, a person that knew the suffering of others to get thing done, and a person that would not put money as his only goal in life to be my manager. You are hired."

Later on, this young person worked very hard, and received the respect of his subordinates, every employees worked diligently and in a team, the company's result improved tremendously.

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A child who has been protected and habitually given whatever he did, he developed "entitlement mentality" and always put himself first. He is ignorance of his parent's effort. When he started work, he assumed every people must listen to him, and when he became a manager, he would never know how suffering his employee and always blame others. For this kind of people, he can have good result, may be successful for a while, but eventually would not feel sense of achievement, he will grumble and full of hatred and fight for more. If we are this kind of protective parent, did we love the kid or destroy the kid?

You can let your kid lived in a big house, eat a good meal, learn piano, watch a big screen TV. But when you are cutting grass, please let them experienced it. After a meal, let them washed their plate and bowl together with their brothers and sisters. It is not because you do not have money to hire a maid, but it is because you want to love them in a right way. You want them to understand, no matter how rich their parent are, one day their hair will grow gray, same as the mother of that young person. The most important thing is your kid learn how to appreciate the effort and experience the difficulty and learn the ability to work with others to get thing done.

Review filem: Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa

Bismillahirrahmanirrahim....

Weuwww..... Korang mesti tau kan citer nih? Dah tengok? Kalau dah, bagus. Belum? Tunggu apa lagi? cepat2 pergi pawagam berhampiran. Seronok weh. aku jarang update citer terbaru, sebab aku ni jarang berminat dengan citer2 kat pawagam tuh. kalau tengok pun, takdela fanatik sangat. biasa-biasa jela. tapi yang ni, memang citer pertama yang ditunggu-tunggu kehadirannya. first time tau citer ni nak kuar masa tahun lepas, time tu tengok iklan dia je. terus rasa teruja. terus rasa, "wow! bila citer ni nak keluar? wajib tengok kalau dah keluar". hah, camtula kiranya.

So, malam tadi dah tengok citer ni dengan housemate kat Sunway Carnival. dan.... ia sangat hebat! kenapa ia hebat? sebab ianya filem epik yang bukan semata-mata epik. ianya epik yang jarang orang ambil tau. korang pernah denar hikayat Merong Mahawangsa sebelum ni? kalau pernah, ada korang ambik tau cerita tu? paling-paling pun orang tau cerita Hang Tuah 5 bersaudara, legenda Mahsuri kena tikam keluar darah putih. itupun kalau suruh cerita balik, ada yang rongak sana sini cerita tu sebab dah tak ingat semua. jadi, dengan adanya hikayat-hikayat yang difilemkan macam ni, sedikit sebanyak dapat membantu meningkatkan tahap kesedaran rakyat malaysia untuk bukak balik lembaran sejarah lama. biar sedar diri sikit. takdela nak bertelagah sesama sendiri je kojenye.

dan yang bagusnya cerita ni, ianya filem keluaran anak tempatan.

tak lain tak bukan, anak-anak pakcik halim ni la... kalau korang pengguna barangan buatan malaysia, maka patut pergi tonton cerita ni hari ni jugak. takyah tunggu esok, sebab harini cuti. esok kerja la, kelas la, so tak sempat.

dan lagi, dia punya jalan penceritaan, teknik CGI, scene-scene mendebarkan, watak-watak yang dimainkan, semuanya nampak hebat pada mata aku. (mata aku jela, mata orang lain tak tau pulak). walau macam mana pun, kadang-kadang ada jugak rasa pelik terutama bila dengar puteri cina tu cakap melayu. wondering, 'eh, dia ke yang cakap? ke orang lain?' kekeke...

dan lagi, ni bukan sekadar filem epik perang-perang yang serius. ada jugak dialog yang mempunyai unsur-unsur jenaka. contoh:

1. Owh, that must be my uncle, Merong Mahasuasa.

2. Ying Ying: .... tall, and muscular.. *with shining and bright face* (referring to Merong)

younger, and less muscles *dengan mimik muka kecewa* (referring to prince Marcus)

3. Ying Ying: Princess!! I know his weakness!

Princess Meng Li Hua: What weakness?

Ying Ying: The weakness of the big, bald man; the 'mawas' man....

keh keh keh....

Oh. ada lagi. ada beberapa perkara yang jadi persoalan pada aku sampai sekarang.

1. Kenapa Pak Kesum terlalu percayakan amanat yang mengatakan akan ada raja dari kalangan orang luar untuk memimpin suku diorang? kenapa diorang tak cari raja dari kalangan sendiri? seolah-seolah terlalu mudah nak percayakan orang luar untuk jadi pemimpin tanah air sendiri.

2. Kenapa banyak sangat darah memancut masa perang tu? kalau citer omputih takde pulak darah memancut-mancut banyak camtu. soalan ni housemate aku yang tanya. dan aku jawab, mungkin sebab orang melayu perang guna parang dan keris, so sekali tikam darah memancut-mancut. omputih bunuh pakai pistol. sekali tembak terus senyap. agak-agak betul ke jawapan aku ni?

3. Macam mana Puteri dengan Ying Ying tu boleh berlari selamatkan diri masa tengah-tengah perang tu? lepas tu tak kena anak panah pulak tu.

4. At the end of the story, narrator (Raja Muzaffar Shah) bagitau yang dia merupakan keturunan ketujuh Embok dengan Merong. tapi bila Embok kawen dengan Merong?

lagi satu, ada benda baru yang aku dapat dari movie ni. teknik perang menggunakan teori Archimedes. korang tau? kalau tau takpe. kalau tak tau, kelik sini. "the burning mirror" nama dia. mengikut prinsip ni, kita perlu siapkan cermin besar dan hadapkan cermin tu ke arah pihak yang nak 'dibakar' dengan cara memantulkan cahaya matahari ke arah pihak lawan. nak senang paham, tengok gambar bawah ni.

aku tak tau pun sebelum ni, sebab kalau sebut Archimedes mesti terbayang prinsip "daya tujah ke atas yang dialami oleh jasad yang direndam adalah sama dengan berat cecair yang tersesar."

Aku dan housemate apa lagi, pakat gelak la. dah grad, dah kerja pun still tak tau benda alah burning mirror ni. time Merong cakap nak guna teknik Archimedes dalam perang menentang puak Geruda, pastu dia pegang pecahan cermin yang dicantum membentuk bulatan, kami saling berbisik. "dia nak kasi puak Geruda tu silau ke?" "atau, dia nak bagi puak Geruda tu nampak pantulan diorang sendiri kat cermin tu, so Geruda akan anggap puak Merong tu ramai." dengan cara tu, mungkin puak Geruda akan mengalah. heh. teori di sebalik teori.

Actually, banyak lagi benda yang boleh dipelajari dalam cerita ni. nak tau lebih, sila la pergi tengok. kalau nak tau serba sedikit jalan cerita dia, boleh tengok sini. aku nak ulas jalan cerita dari awal sampai habis karang, tu macam menggalakkan korang untuk tak tengok cerita ni. keh keh keh.

So, tunggu apa lagi, cepat-cepat ajak kawan-kawan atau adik beradik pergi tonton cerita ni. aku pun ingat nak tengok lagi sekali. mungkin rabu ni. atau khamis? jumaat tak mungkin sebab kedah cuti. takut ramai orang. ingat nak pergi sorang je. yela, dah yang lain koje. terpaksa la jadik lone ranger. heh.

sampai sini dulu. jumpa lagi lain kali.

^_^

overtime

bismillahirrahmanirrahmanirrahim....

baru kejap tadi akak opis aku tepon mintak tlg ganti dia malam ni. actually memang ada sorg budak (partner shift) dia mlm ni, tapi sebabkan budak tu baru lagi, so nak taknak kena ada orang jugak yg cover. walhal aku pun kategori budak baru gak.

ok, itu rasanya takpe lagi kot kalau setakat kena datang OT sebab aku boleh datang bila2 masa dan balik pun bila2 masa. cuma kalau rasa nak claim duit lebih, buat la OT lama sikit. keh3.. tapi yg aku agak tak puas kati kat sini ialah bila orang yang meminta dicover tu bagitau lambat. macam ni la. masuk keje kul 7 malam, kul 6 ptg baru bagitau aku. ngantuk tau tak. plus dengan tak ready lagi. macam2 la. nak keje malam bukan senang. perlukan persediaan mental dan fizikal yg rapi. tak boleh main terjah ikut suka camni. ni kali kedua aku kena. cuma yg kalini ok sikit pasal aku dapat tau pukul 6. kes sebelum ni, kul 7 baru aku dapat tau yg aku kena ganti orang. jenuh aku paksa mata suruh tido biar boleh berjaga time malam tu.

sekarang pukul 6.08 PM. budget nak tido lepas maghrib. pastu nak masuk kul 10 malam. haishh... malas sungguh la...

pagi-pagi dah dapat berita pasal nih...

bismillahirrahmanirrahim....

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guwa taknak cakap banyak. ni antara kawan-kawan guwa daripada yg ramai-ramai yg dah kawen, dah dapat anak, dan nak berkahwin. suma ni buat guwa rasa nak kawen cepat. keh3...

tapi bak kata ayah:

"kau tu duduk jauh. kawan ko tu duduk dekat-dekat sini je. kalau nak kawen cepat tukar tempat keje. takkan nak duduk jauh lepas kawen?"

terus aku tutup mulut. hahah..

jangan nak mengata aku gatal. korang pun sama. ye tak??

^_^