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Awesome.

Mana lah Mak Lijah nak sangka dapat datang ke sini. Masa winter plak tu. Gigil...

Lawatan ke sini telah menyedarkan bahawa Mak Lijah dah ditipu bulat-bulat selama ini oleh propaganda Amarika... Ceh.. Tipah tertipu sungguh!

Dulu memang Mak Lijah ingat Moscow ni sebuah pekan yang sepi. No cars, gloomy, cold, boring, dark, no people on the road... dan macam-macam lagi lah yg tak best tentang nya.

Rupa-rupanya... Waaaaa....leeehhhh.....!!! Except for the temperature, yang lain semuanya opposite. The city was extremely busy...busy...busy...!!! Plenty of cars e-ve-ry-where.. I repeat.. e-ve-ry-where... And they were all faassssttt... and furious.... Seriau betul dengan cara diorang drive. Pandu laju-laju.. and then break suddenly.. Hey..!!!! Lomah jantung den... There are six lanes on each side. So if you want to cross to the other side, you have to walk across 12 lanes. So how are you going to do that? Lupakanlah...

Bangunan-bangunan di sana pun canggih-canggih belaka. Not only were they huge.. the architecture were just superb. Sungguh...! Hotel-hotelnya besar-besar belaka. They would probably have 1,000 rooms. Kalau nak bergerak from the ballroom to the restaurant, kenalah berjalan dekat 2 km kut, sebab rasa berjalan sangat jauh dan lama... Tu dia...

Jadi selama ni, Mak Lijah memanglah termakan dengan propaganda depa tu. Cisss...

Apa-apapun, pengalaman Mak Lijah ke Moscow was so amazing. Amat berharga sekali. Lupakanlah cerita 007 yang banyak memesongkan tu..

360 degrees

My oh my... Dah dekat setahun rupanya tak jenguk ke sini. Asyik maksyuk dengan facebook, hah akhirnya blog pun ditinggalkan. Memang facebook sungguh mengasyikkan tapi facebook juga membawa padah. Mak Lijah pun pernah terkena tempiasnya. Syukur segalanya pulih seperti sediakala.

But that was like one and a half years ago. My life turned 180 degrees on 1 October 2009 when I changed my 'work station'. Bukan sekadar bertukar work station, benda-benda lain pun terikut juga bertukar... Daripada lokasi kerja ke tempat hangout, ke baju kerja ke segala-galanya lah. Baru tau langit tinggi rendah. Macamlah sebelum ni tak tau langit tu tinggi mana, kan? Daripada a hectic working life, terus bertukar to a 'paid holiday'. Hari-hari drive 38 km away dengan hati yang berat sebab tak der motivasi.

Nevertheless, dalam pada tu Mak Lijah dapat gak pi satu business trip ke Norwich, UK in January last year. What do you know? Boring punya boring pun majikan masih nak hantar ke sana. Kira best lah juga. Balik jer dari trip tu, Mak Lijah pun pulun lah buat report, siap dengan calculation, proposal, bagai... Lepas seminggu, diam. Dua minggu pun, diam. Sebulan? Dua bulan? Aleh..aleh.. senyap gitu jer. There goes my spirit.

It got worst later on. Dengan Danisy asyik sakit perut and I had to drive back home sebab he was crying... hidup sungguh tension, I have lost the motivation inside me and always thinking that the attachment to the new place was a punishment. I was counting by the days when this whole thing would be over. Always taking leave sebab I felt that the time with family at home was more rewarding than being at work.

At last, the 'news' came just before the Raya leave, about 11 months later. The news that I will finally be sent back to 'normal', 'original' working life came as a pleasant surprise. Alhamdulillah. So I reported duty at this new place on 15 September 2010.

Since then, another 180 degrees turned, completing the 360 turn. My life has totally changed. I am back on the jet, hopping from one country to another, sleeping from hotel to another hotel, landing in one airport to another, chairing heaps of meetings, oh gosh...!! Such a challenging job! But you know what? I am enjoying every single bit of it. My spirit has returned since, I am now highly motivated and best of all.. I have work to do! There's always something waiting for me at the office each day..

All I can say is that since leaving my old office where I have served for 14 years, my life has completely turned 360 degrees to a better phase although I had to go through a year of hardship. Alhamdulillah..