2021 is my year

 Salam 2021,

This year I am going to make it my most memorable year ever as I want to have a family, home and other alternative opportunities for my own life and values. Insha-allah I am going to make it along the way.

Billie Jean

Salam semua,

Hari ni aku rasa aku nak cakap campur-campur. Sorry for my language but after some time, I feel better at using both languages to express myself better. 

This week, I have a 3-day weekend. Sebab hari Ahad adalah hari keputeraan Sultan Kedah. Ramai orang kata best cuti panjang, but I prove myself wrong. Bosang weyh kalau duduk rumah sebab cuti and with the current situation, what is the excuse to go outside more often than ever? It is quite precarious and I know that my immunity is not as strong as other people. Sebab tu, aku sentiasa ambil vitamin C to boost my immunity.

This week, I just spent some quality time with family and on this day, I just tried learning every new thing as much as possible; new languages (Japan,Korean,Mandarin,French), new living skills (gardening, plumbing and electrical wiring etc) and home skills (cooking simple recipes-ini macam belajar secara tak langsung). To keep myself busy, I also tried to make it habit to blog at least twice a month. Nampaknya kena aktif balik berblog ni.

Sedar tak sedar sudah 6 bulan berlalu since 2020. It has not been a pleasant year I have to say, if you consider this Covid thingy. Nevertheless, I use this time frame to learn things from the past, macam sejarah dunia dan sejarah politik lampau dan evolusi muzik sepanjang zaman. Sangat banyak sebenarnya yang boleh diketahui dan dipelajari just by Googling and surfing on Youtube. Itu belum kira lambakan social media posts yang penuh dengan kisah-kisah sensasi dalam dan luar negara. So much to learn sepanjang masa free ni.

P/s: I will blog more and more eventhough I will get busier than ever sebab ini sahaja cara untuk aku aktifkan otak kreaktif aku supaya tidak luput dari ingatan kelak. I also started using a physical diary to write on random topics when I feel I do not need to put it on the blog yet. Yang penting, eat well, sleep well and exercise well, insya-Allah semua akan ok. Tajuk blog tak ada kena mengena dengan content post but I just feel kind of addicted to listen to Mj's songs lately and this 1983 hit is definitely one of them.

Challenges in Today's Business Environment (Part 1)

It has been another great month in the year of 2019. So far so good. Everything seems to be on track despite all the hurdles and challenges that has been thrown into. Cuma saya nak cakap sikit berkenaan persaingan perniagaan sekarang.

This is clearly evident when I was at a mall few weeks back with my colleagues where we decided to buy some stuff for our fieldwork. From what I could see and observe, the mall had lots of empty shops and not to mention the one that is about to close real soon, since they had this moving-out sale to its customers.

Sad but true, more people are turning their backs to e-commerce aka Lazada, Shoppee, 11th Street and lots more. People are getting conscious about how and where to spend their money, thus they tend to but stuff online because they are relatively cheaper and more convenient that going to stores to buy the same things. 

This is how "disruptive technology" are shaping our future because it basically makes our lives easier to manage. Sebab itu, kedai yang tak laku akan tutup tapi kedai yang masih ramai pelanggan akan tetap ada pelanggan kerana kedai tersebut masih ada something yang other platforms x offer.

Sebagai contoh, kedai makan korea yang sentiasa ada ramai orang x akan kekurangan pelanggan kerana mereka still ada fan base yang akan tetap datang untuk makan makanan Korea because you cannot easily get it online (as for now). Sebab itulah, faktor permintaan juga memainkan perana yang sangat penting apabila kita ingin membuka sesuatu perniagaan. Jika tidak, memang boleh bangkrap perniagaan tu dan akhirnya tak boleh "sustain".

The only few shops that I think that has the potential to attract customers would be It shops that sell smartphones, Korean/Japanese restaurants that have their massive fanbase and apparels shops that have customers craving to buy their brands (like H&M, Padini and Uniqlo) because they are apparent in our lives no matter where we go, well at least, in Malaysia. Pergilah mana-mana mesti ada kedai macam tu. 

That is clearly the case.

Bersambung lagi dalam part 2...

p/s: Even America suffers losses from malls that had to be closed due to under-performing sales and visitors and all of this could be attributed to the influence of Amazon and other e-commerce websites that change the customers' behaviors to buy things online rather than going to the shop.

It is the end of the year

I cannot write that much due to time constrain, but I will try to amend my blogpost from time to time. To sum it up, my family and I went for umrah in November. It was quite interesting and heart-touching at the same time, and insya-allah, we hope to come again in the future (hopefully, by that time, I am already married). More pictures will be followed.

At the same time, SPM has started. So I guess, all candidates should focus solely on their papers and after completing their exams, they should search all possible scholarships that are available online. I am pretty sure this batch competition in getting scholarships is tougher than ever.

I have also made another websites, catered solely for the purpose of scholarships information. Hoefully, it will be rolled out by February next year.

And obviously, I make it a habit to have as many social medias and apps as possible so that I will not miss out on important things and events, be it family or friends-related or career-wise or even current global and local events happening worldwide.

I hope I can enter more essays in the future so that I can explore more things that I never expected before and obviously the rewards that you can gain later on in life.

Also, I make it habit to read during my leisure and work times so that I will not waste any single moment of my life.

Lastly, to a brighter future in 2019 !!!

P/s: I also watch Netflix and listen to music playlists in Spotify and Joox so that I will be inspired and aspire to be better in the future.

Worst Encounter and Rude Awakening

Readers.

Hari Raya Haji was few days ago and as usual, I went to my hometown in Kelantan. However, there was one particular thing that really put me off the mood. A photography shop in Kelantan was just pure rude and its staff had no manners at all. You marked up a price that is beyond reasonable for a piece of photograph that doesn't hold such value due to many glitches in the said photo.

Huh, I am hoping that more people realize that these kind of sellers are actually making fool of the customers prodding enough money from their wallets. I know that you are the sole official photographer for the royal family, but don't simply presume that you can put a price that are not worth at all with such quality.

As a result, I had posted a review on the shop, hoping the people realize that, in these days, there are still people who are not doing their business with etiquette and honor, instead they only focus on money, money, money.

Please, do improve your service in the future.

p/s: You will which shop is this in Kelantan.