ONCE...Gubra

Hari Sabtu lepas aku baru berpeluang utk menonton Gubra bersama isteri tercinta. Asalnya aku nih buleh kata amatla teruja utk menonton Gubra selepas menonton Sepet satu ketika dahulu. Namun, setelah suku pertama cerita tersebut, aku terasa mual2 dan meloya utk meneruskan pertontonan.

Mana mungkin seorg rakyat Malaysia (tak kira bangsa ! cuma dlm Gubra, ia adalah lelaki Cina) berjalan sesuka hati tanpa baju di hospital (melainkan dia pesakit mental). Apatah lagi, dia bukannya pesakit ! Dan mana mungkin seorg gadis/wanita Melayu akan dengan selamba badaknya membuangkan bulu didada seorang lelaki yg baru saja dikenalinya beberapa minit yg lalu. Sementalah filem ini digembar-gemburkan sebagai mencerminkan budaya Malaysia ! Maka itulah yg membuatkan saya mesti memblog mengenai Gubra.

Penceritaan hubungan berlainan kaum tidak menjadi masalah pada saya. Tetapi adegan memualkan di hospital dimana Orked membuang bulu di dada Alan itu yg tidak manis. Itu bukan budaya rakyat Malaysia dan semestinya bukan budaya MELAYU !!! Itu mungkin budaya Yasmin, atau dia terpandang sekali atau dua dan saya percaya kalau adapun cume dibandar besar yg rakyat Melayunya telah diperbaratkan. Akan tetapi, ianya tidak mungkin menggambarkan walau 0.01% budaya rakyat Malaysia.

Cerita dlm Gubra tidak menggambarkan budaya Malaysia seluruhnya. Maka tidak wajar ianya diwar2kan sbg perintis filem yg mempamer/mencemarkan budaya Malaysia. Tidak dinafikan terdapat pengajaran di penghujung cerita. Cuma jika org yg mual dan loya di pertengahan cerita tidak sanggup meneruskannya, rugilah org itu dan rugi jugalah Yasmin dlm menyampaikan ceritanya secara menyeluruh.

Apakah dlm kita ingin mengglobalkan wayang kita, kita perlu membudayakan apa yg ada dibarat atau dinegara lain? Apakah kerana rasa kekitaan pada masyarakat asinglah yg membolehkan filem2 Yasmin mendapat pengiktirafan diluar negara ? Dlm mematangkan pemikiran rakyat Malaysia dlm filem melayu, apakah kita perlu melihat maksud tersirat dlm filem tersebut walaupun yg tersuratnya cukup menjijikkan, terpesong jauh dari budaya biasa masyarakat setempat ? Atau mungkin cara penggembar-gemburan filem itu yg mengundang kemarahan (talking about market positioning) ?

Aku hampir memboikot filem2 Yasmin selepas Gubra, tetapi rasanya elok dinilai filem2 yg akan datang sebelum membuat kesimpulan tentang pemikiran dan budaya Yasmin. Mokhsen...nantikanlah...

7 Lessons From Japanese Business Culture

This article was posted in Promuda's Discussion Group.

After reading it, I can say that the culture is not too far from the Malay. Not the modern one though (i.e. city-type Malay culture), but the traditional one. The one that we can still see in villages, old folks..away from the cities.

Malacca was once, known throughout the world. Malay merchants were prosperous. The thing is, is there any research done on their business traits and culture that we as Malay especially can be proud of and use it profusely instead of looking for others to adapt ? It's not that I'm against the article. It's good that we learn from others, take and adapt the good part of it for our benefits..but my curiousity is how about ours ?

ONCE...pasal berkawan

Bila lepak kat lab, antara salah satu topik yg hangat dibincangkan adalah pasal berkawan. Perbezaan antara kawan dan sahabat. Bagaimana utk mengenal kawan/sahabat. Dan setelah kenal sikap, sifat dan perangai kawan dan masing2 boleh terima kekurangan dan kelemahan yg lain, maka insya-Allah lamalah persahabatan itu.

Aku teringatkan ayat2 yg aku selalu terlepas bila sembang ngan foo. Mungkin sebab dia mmg tak penah amik ati (atau dia mmg terer simpan dari aku) yg membuatkan aku pun tak tahu dimana batasnya. Perkara ni mmg selalu aku alami dan semacam aku tak pernah belajar.

Setiap kali aku berkawan rapat, pastinya akan ada insiden yg mencemarkan persahabatan tersebut. Sepatutnya, disitulah yg akan membuatkan kita lebih kenal kawan/sahabat kita. Tetapi selalunya yg terjadi, aku dikeluarkan terus dari database mereka. Mana yg tidak, terus menjadi sahabat hingga kini.

Aku cuba belajar. Dgn client, long-lost junior, kawan2 baru yg lain. Hatiku berdetik "..jaga2 sikit cakap tu..kita tak tau diorang buleh terima ke tidak..". Tapi kalu tidak diuji, kita takkan tahu. Jadi kalu mahu menjadikan sahabat, harus tau dimana batas2nya. Perlu tau dimana marahnya, dimana sukanya, dimana dukanya, dimana halusnya, dimana warasnya dan dimana sanggupnya. Dan pastinya utk mengenal kawan, perlukan masa yg lama. Tidak mungkin sehari dua ataupun 3-4 bulan. Mungkin makan tahun.

Dlm keadaan aku sekarang, bolehlah utk dikenalpasti dgn lebih dlm lagi. Siapa kawan masa senang, siapa kawan masa susah, siapa kawan masa suka, siapa kawan masa duka, siapa kawan boleh berahsia, siapa kawan utk berseloka, siapa kawan utk berbicara, siapa kawan utk meluah rasa, siapa kawan utk didengar jua, siapa kawan utk dikenang saje.

Pada rakan taulan, kawan-kawan dan sahabat, Selamat Hari Raya dan mohon maaf atas tersalah kata, terkasar bahasa, terkurang ajar dan terlanjur perbuatan. Serta halalkan mana yg termakan dan terminum. Semoga bahgia di Hari Lebaran.

ONCE...5 hari nak raya !

Raya kali ini sungguh bermakna buat aku dan keluarga. Emm...lebih2 lagi buat aku la. Raya kali ini cukup sederhana. Terharu jugak bila mama bagi baju raya..dan tak kurang jugak terpikir cam nak rasa terhina atau rendah diri bila baba cakap pasal fakir miskin. Tapi, aku rasa tak perlulah. Selama ni pun aku makan minum kat umah tu, dia gak yg bayar. Satu sen pun aku tak kuar. Dan mmg betul pun, redha je lah.

Namun aku bersyukur. Ujian ini harapnya membuatkan aku lebih berhati2 berbelanja. Ujian ini juga membolehkan aku menilai nilai RM vs rakan/kawan/sahabat. Mmg perit ujian ni, tapi Allah takkan menurunkan sesuatu ujian itu kepada hambaNya melainkan Dia tahu hambaNya itu mampu menghadapinya. Dan semestinya Dia Maha Mengetahui ! Cuma kita jgn mudah putus asa dan putus harapan. Usaha mesti diteruskan.

Berkat usaha dan doa, dan juga barakah bulan Ramadhan, aku temui beberapa jalan yg dgn izinNya jua, boleh merungkai permasalahan ekonomi dan kewangan yg aku hadapi sekarang. Untuk memastikan aku mendapatkannya, aku akan berusaha lebih lagi..dan kemudian, serahkan segala-galanya atas ketentuan Dia yg Maha Esa.

Salam Aidilfitri untuk semua. Maaf zahir dan batin. Selamat beraya di rantauan Joe (maaf aku tak dpt antar kuih raya).

ONCE...an opportunity

A friend of mine sent me this 20 Smart Companies to Start Now. As I scroll down the article, something made my eyes gleaned as I read this:

Text Ads on the Fly
The Investor: Charles Moldow, venture partner, Foundation Capital
What his firm's backed: CarsDirect.com, Netflix, Simply Hired
What he wants now:: Text-messaging software that allows local merchants to send offers to mobile phones. Some companies already do this in basic form; Moldow's idea would give merchants more control. "This is bringing the blue-light special to your phone," he says. Five or so people could write the code; a sales demon is also needed to enlist merchants. Prove that you can pull this off in one city and Moldow will listen to an expansion plan.
What he'll invest: $5 million for working technology

Just sent him desktopSMS BC's brochure and user manual as well as my sales pitch (so-to-speak). Well, we'll never know what would happen. Has mixed feeling currently. Anyhow, efforts made..now continue prayers (and more efforts of course).

ONCE...1st interview

This morning was my first interview session. 1st in 7 years ! Hahaha...kinda nervous also. But, I guess it went smooth. If any hickups maybe because of min salary expected. Post for IT Exec for PMO. There's 7 candidates, one of them is internal people. Promotion la kirenya. So, 6 ppl for potentially another vacancy (or perhaps it's formality for the internal people only). But, I think there's 2 potential candidate (that can be a threat to me); one from PNB and another from Time. Well, just hope (and pray of course).

After prayer, got an email from Brunei. Said that they're processing my application and asking for testimonials and my expected package. Have asked few close friends to send their testimonials to them. Well, wait and see how it goes.

ONCE...my old camp diaries

Weekend in my hometown, browsing through the bookshelf I saw my 2 camp diaries. "How did they get here ?". I think I kept it somewhere else. So, I took it out and flipping thru the pages. I found a sheet of paper (maybe one of those camp assignment or something)..and best of all, my 15 years old passport sized photo. Hahahaa...can't really imagine that I was..errmm..that young and slim (and naive also).

These diaries are not the normal ordinary diaries. It started with my first mountain, Ledang in 1993. As my wife said, "too detail !"..hehehe...she must be bored to death with the details inside them. Well, every stop i put it there. So, some it may be hours difference, or by minutes.

The diaries extended from Ledang to every single camping that I went until my time in Kembara. But, not sure whether ITM's camps were in those diaries or different one. However, I've stopped writing the diaries towards my seniority in Kembara. And suddenly, my memory flashed back to the Nuang scene. Nuang has 2 most memorable incidents to me.

No 1 when I took my coursemate and junior, that's where I really find out who's who my real friend. Friend that can reason or not. No doubt I have my part on it, but there's so many better ways to solve it. In a more gentleman style I would say.

The second was with juniors. Before that, the first one got my gf-to-be (who's my dearie wife now) and the second got my gf-wanna-be. (it does make me wonder, in my naive look, same boots everyday, simple dress code, yet attract so many girls..well..many that I know..many that I don't then..which I know now..hehehe..). The juniors exp was a bit dark. It almost cost a few lifes. Alhamdulillah, they survived.

How I missed the greens. Smell of the jungle, the leaves, grass, mud, river..sound of crickets, mosquitos and river flow. It has been almost 6 years since my last camp or hike. Wonder when can I hike again...hmm...