A long holiday is what i really need

Alhamdulillah I have just finished my last meeting with telco friends after a long itw week. I started to get busy when the entourage of the Malaysian premier got here on Friday, where both my Saturday and Sunday were filled up.

I had to wake up at 500 am on Monday and Tuesday in order to get to the conference place early, and decided to stay with a buddy of mine at the conference place on Tuesday night to avoid the early morning commute.

The meetings ran until 700pm on Wednesday and I had to wake up early again on Thursday for golf with Tata. It paid off when my group tied for the 1st place.

I still had another important meeting on Friday, which went very well. I hope everything will go as planned from there.

Alhamdulillah I've got to make new friends as well. They are staying at my house since last night till Sunday. I'll bring them to Leesburg tomorrow to do some shopping before going back to Malaysia, all 4 of them.

There are still a few more obstacles to overcome in another business that I'm working on. A lot of headache in that one but I hope Allah will make it easy inshaallah..

Sleep

I could not sleep. Hence, I check my emails and replied to a few.

Suddenly my CIO replied to my email. I was like..."wow he's still up too."
Done with emails, I updated my FB status. Then decided to go to sleep.
As usual, i'll check my email again before going to sleep... and I saw my CEO replied to the email too!

Does anyone ever sleeps at all in this business?

A look back

Found this chart while doing some extra readings
Wanna guess which bar shows my starting salary on 2007?
And which bar shows my salary after 4 years working?
Clue: Don't try ;)

Kudengar ketukan di pintu

Ingatkan orang Fedex datang
Rupanya ada missionary dari Korean Church
Datang iklan gathering mereka di universiti dekat dengan rumah
Yang datang seorang local (pakcik) dan seorang anak muda, student yg datang dari South Korea jauhnya (bukan bintang k-pop)

Mula-mula terdetik aku nak cakap, "sorry I'm a Muslim and I'm not interested"
Tapi kemudian aku terfikir.. orang Islam juga ada usaha yang sama
Ketuk pintu-ke-pintu untuk memberi intro tentang Islam
Apa perasaan kalau aku yang di depan pintu itu, dan orang yang buka pintu tu kata, "sorry I'm a christian and I'm not interested"
Jadi aku pun senyum dan dengar apa yang dia nak katakan
Boleh juga belajar macam mana orang agama lain sebar agama mereka

Maklumlah kita dok kondem bila orang agama lain dok sebar ajaran agama mereka di Malaysia
Tapi kita bukan nak belajar macam mana mereka buat..
Rupanya sama saja dengan kaedah jemaah tabligh buat
Ketuk pintu, senyum, ajak ke perhimpunan jemaah mereka, kalau orang menolak pun tak apa, senyum lagi.. lepas tu bagi pamphlet or booklet ada segala info untuk menarik org ke program mereka

Oh ya, lepas aku tolak ajakan ke church mereka, dia ajak pula ke perhimpunan besar-besaran di NY yang mereka panggil World Assembly.
Baru aku teringat ini juga konsep yang sama dalam jemaah tabligh, mula-mula ajak ke masjid utk solat jemaah (dan bayan), lepas tu kalau tolak, ajak ke kongregasi yang lebih besar.. alamak aku dah lupa term dia.. ijtima' kot rasanya
Hampir sama lah kaedah dia.

Well, pandangan aku, kalau tak suka macam mana sekalipun dengan jemaah tabligh ni, kalau ada orang ketuk pintu dan nak bercerita, kita senyum dan dengar dulu lah. Bukan diorang paksa join pun dan bukan diorang nak kutuk ke ape kalau tak nak join. Orang agama lain dok pakat buat benda yang sama untuk menarik orang ke agama mereka. Paling tak pun kita kena bangga sebab ada orang lain yang berusaha memperkenalkan agama Islam kepada orang lain, kalaupun itu bukan cara pilihan kita. Islam ni kan ke luas?

Satu perkara je aku menyesal tak buat tadi.
Patutnya before diorang beredar tadi aku bgtau diorang I'm actually a Muslim and that's why I'm not going to your congregation nor to your curch, but I think you are doing a good job.
Eh tapi boleh ke kita puji usaha diorang ni? Ke salah cakap macam tu?