Firstly, I hope everyone who celebrates the Eid Ul Adha have a really good one. The festival also known as Celebration of Sacrifice. (Apologies for the whole direct translation, I'm just translating as I write.)
This year my wickedness knows no bounds. I asked everyone who celebrate Eidul Adha (I have so many different spelling...) a simple question, "So, you intend to celebrate Eid Ul Adha, what will you sacrifice this year??" That question seem to be a curve ball to all. One said, "My love. I'm letting that man go." And I go, "..."
The concept of sacrifice in Islam, in my humble opinion is not about giving up something that you really like/love, its about giving something of value to the poor or those in need to show your gratitude. To thank God for all his blessings.
Am I lucid?? Did I manage to convay the message across?
Well, today we opened a bottle of chilled sparkling grape juice at the office. Its late afternoon, the work is slacking due to tomorrow's holiday. So we got the glasses and went, "Yam...... Seng.....!" Ok, so no one got married, but heck we are just happy with the whole new pantry thing. No more food theft :P
Heck, GTG. Troubleshooting calls.
Love,
Julie
Lately my work has been piling. Although I really, really enjoy my work (up to a point of becoming a workaholic occasionally), I want a break. Work invigorates me. That's pretty lame, in a sense, since I usually suffer from symptoms of exhaustion when its down time at work. Pile the work and I'm ready to go. I really need to find balance between work and play.
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Yeah, it would be heaven if anyone actually answer that advert. God, last weekend was heaven. I try to go on a technology gizmo fest at least once a year when I get my bonus. I love working, its a source of income for my gadget insanity. I get more excited buying my combo drive then I am buying shoes.
Last Saturday, my brother and I decided to go and get the stuff that we wanted for this year. He wanted a printer and a new PDA (I got his ancient one). I wanted a DVD player/CD burner. Yey!! Got them and spent a bomb celebrating the buy. I bought lots and lots of Anime DVDs. Now I am broke, with a smile on my face:D Joy, joy. Nerd fest is good.....
Growing up or Grown up
Last week a close uni friend called. I attended her wedding and I was her confidente. For the past 4 months or so, she has kept silent. I last saw her at her husband's Masters Graduation ceremony. I knew that she was a new wife and that she might be busy adjusting to her new life.
She quietly confessed that she had suffered from a miscarrige almost 3 months back. My first reaction was to strangle that stupid idiot. Why didn't she call me when she needed someone to talk to? I would have gone and visit her so that we could have our girl talk. Then I realise that she can't. In her society such confidence is somewhat unheard of for fear of gossip. Plus now that she is living with her in-laws, its more difficult to meet up.
True that I was never married nor am I trying to have a baby, but I would have understood. She is living the life that I wanted. She has a loving husband and sporting in-laws. She choose to be a homemaker, a choice I respect. We both love kids and we both agreed that it would be wonderful to have babies when we are ready. In her shoes, the miscarriage would be devastating. She was the eldest of her sibiling and so is her husband. They really wanted the baby.
For once, I was at loss on what to say. I'm sorry hardly covers it. Kya kehna? Instead she told me what the doctor said. And have me agree to everything the doctor said. But I could still hear the sorrow in her voice. It makes me feel bad, that I could not make things better. In a perfect world, all my friends are happy people who has no worried. But we don't live in a perfect world. All I could do is to sooth the pain that comes my way. Share some words of wisdom and occasionally kick some complacent a$$. *sigh*
I've got to go. Work calls.
Love,
Julie
It has been a long and tiring week mentally, emotionally and physically. It goes like this, when I am emotionally sapped, then I block them out by working. Madly working. When I work and try to do a lot of things while trying to keep up with my current game, I sleep late. Hence the physical tiredness. When I am tired and lack of sleep, my morning allergy acts up. Hence the numbness of the brain. When that happens, I am very reluctant to work on the server/database.
Right now my brain is slow and sluggish. I have to make some complicated changes to the data in the database. Have to be very careful because this is my first solo database work. My baby, so to speak. So far, my baby has saved me during evaluation cause it works smoothly once all the kinks has been worked out. I am rambling because my brain is so.... sleepy, I want to sleep under the table.
Need....to...wake...up. Darn, old man has arrived.
So I plan to write up the things step by step, instead of relaying on my sleepy brain. T__________T
Later, maybe I'll sound more awake.
It's 5.15 p.m.
It was 10 minutes ago when I signed my death warrant. I am currently busy with the sorting of all my assignments, projects and write ups. Five minutes ago I heard a knock on the door of the office. Take note that people not of my department are technically and literally locked out of the new office area.
Today work ends at 4.30 p.m. As I am still sorting, managing and typing, the knock was somewhat annoying because I don't have an access to the survaillance camera (Clerical staff do so they can open the door). I occasionally open the door because my place is the nearest to the door. By now all the clerical staff is gone.
Typical harried me, lost my temper and yelled, "Who is that?! Does anyone know who is at the door?!" I grumbled and slipped on my heels and hurried to the door. Only to discover....... the company version of COO. Argh!!!!!!!!! He is a very nice man with nice manners. I have talk to him a time or two. We usually talk about work and all since he's new here. I have always tried to maintain proper manners for the upper echelon. *dies a thousand death*
He said, "I apologise for interrupting your work. I am here to see your boss." It made me feel worse. I contritely showed him to the server room and keyed him in. Niza and Wi laughed at my expression of horror. I wanted to die on the spot. Unfortuately there was no knives anywhere, not even in the pantry. Hara-kiri is done when someone lose face right?? I want to cry, but I still have so much to do!!!!!
Talked to my assistant manager about my faux pas. He soothingly said that no same person would or should have come to our office off office hours. I still want to jump off this building but I figure that I should finish all my work before doing that. GTG, work pending, Have a nice long weekend. Later.
Love,
Julie
Will have to write this post later. Work pending makes me antsy. Later...!
*It's 3 p.m. and my work is done for now*
I read The Mad, Mad World of God’s People on Earth and shook my head. The ultimate question to me is the reason you worship God. Do you really believe in God? What define your faith in God?
Do you see God as this benovelant being that takes care of you? A big brother that look out for you? Listen to your problems? Solve them? A power that will bring justice if not in life, after death? So what is God?
I remember a website that was dedicated to murtad (ppl who converts from Islam to whatever else) in Malaysia. The saddest comment/story I read was when a woman explained the reason why she converted. She said that Allah doesn't exist because he didn't hear nor respond to her prayer, when her husband fell very sick. That is the value of God to her. As a being that must save her husband because they were 'pious'. Ironic? You bet.
Tsunami was not a test from God. Not really. It serves as a reminder that humans are not all powerfull. Not even the most wealthiest country can stop a natural disaster. Witness the hurricanes in Florida. Humans for all its creativity and brain cannot control it's environment. In fact, we can't even predict the events that is bound to change the world.
Whether or not you believe in God, it doesn't change the events of the past nor will it change the events in the future. Accept the fact that humans have free will hence some with power have the free will to opress and therefore some of the weak are opressed. To accept that the earth, the planets and the universe has its own order and system of which they follow. This are given facts. It has nothing to do with faith.
I wish people who profess to be religious or to have religion understand that. In Islam there is a word for this, redha and the faith in Qadar and Qadha ( faith in fate and the reaction to action-something like this). If God has fated for the tsunami to occur, then do the God we worship cruel? Perhaps the tsunami that occured were the reaction to many action or that its the way the ecosystem works.
Bottomline, $hit happens and it has nothing to do with the worship or lack of worship in God. Don't you believe in universal order? Karma? What goes around, comes around? Murphy Law? If you believe in God, fine. If you don't, that's fine too. It's your choice. Don't you love it? The power of choice.
GTG, later.
Love,
Julie.
