I have had a VERY GOOD START for my weeks yesterday. Yes! I have a VERY GOOD MONDAY and to have a good kick start for your week is very blissful.
I woke up on time, I wore my head scarf in a new style and people compliment me for that (I took it as compliment though; Daud said I look chubby; Kak Ani said….hmmm…I can’t remember; but overall I am happy with my so-call new appearance). My work when smoothly. I got to eat my ‘Grilled Chicken Caesar Salad’ from Nandos for my lunch (that I craved after). I arrived home early. And I end my day with 2 episodes of Season 6- So You Think You Can Dance.
Oh, I’ve fallen asleep immediately after a phone call to my husband. And guess what? I had a very good night sleep, a sound sleep (which I rarely got nowadays) and I woke up all smiling, a good greeting for my Tuesday.
So this morning, I called one of my friends from primary school day. The intention is another but we end up chatting about my pregnancy and her baby (her experiences and her advise is so refreshing to me, at least to the ignorance mum-to-be me). *Hugs* to her for that. (Iryani, if you are reading this, thanks for a good chat this morning. I will definitely contact you after this for your advice. Muahhhh!!!)
I had my usual nasi lemak, I bough ‘jambu air manis giler tak hengat’ from Pasar Tani at MARA. And guess what, Daud found for me the Metallica CD’s that I’ve been searching for. GREAT!!! A VERY SUPRISING FINDING AND DEFINITELY A GREAT GIFT FOR MY MUM!!!!! Double yeay for that.
Oh, works have been treating me find nowadays, not much project, no Document Contract to attend too, though is not very challenging and not up to my expectation and satisfaction, work wise, but I can’t expect to do too much during this time that I look more like a hypo than a Quantity Surveyor. Bless my workplace for that.
Gosh! I’ve run out of my Calcium supplement today, better make some mental note to buy one or I’ll end up with osteoporosis at 29 years of age. Baby Izz is doing fine I think. The Braxton hicks come and go whenever it wants to. So there is not much I can do. Oh, almost forgot, yesterday, Baby Izz has successfully make my stomach looks square. Yes, not round or oval or tilting to any side, but SQUARE. Hehehehehhe. It did hurt, but it was ok. I’ll deal with it.
So, I guess, enough for today. I WISH for a VERY VERY HAPPY AND GOOD AND PLEASING WEEK THIS WEEK. *all smiling while typing*
WHat is this Job that I claimed is currently a hot stuff in the Malaysian market? (bukan pasau malam or pasau tani yer)
Shall I say Quantity Surveyor? Yes, I shall say, Quantity Surveyor is one of the sought after vacancy available nowadays. Don’t believe me? Go get yourself ‘The Star’ newspaper and look under Recruitment section. You will see many advertisers looking for Quantity Surveyor/Contract Administrator/Contract Executive/Estimator and the like.
What is this Quantity Surveyor job is all about? Read this loud;
CONSTRUCTION + DRAWING + QUANTITY AND COST MEASURING + SIMPLE ARITHMETIC + CONSTRUCTION SITE = QUANTITY SURVEYOR
What you need to have in order to be one:
1) Technician to Quantity Surveyor
- Sijil Ukur Bahan dari Politeknik.
2) Technical Assistant to Quantity Surveyor
- Diploma Ukur Bahan dari Politeknik, UiTM, Kolej TAR, UTM, etc.
3) Quantity Surveyor
- Sarjana Muda Ukur Bahan dari Politeknik, UiTM, Kolej TAR, UTM, etc.
The job placement possibility;
1) Government namely JKR, Kementerian2.
2) Semi-Government namely PKNS, etc.
3) Developer
4) Contractor Organization
5) Consultant firms
6) Oil & Gas (the scope of works may be different but the basic knowledge require is still there)
7) Manufacturers, namely that manufacturing construction product.
Actually, the name Quantity Surveyor is applicable once you pass the professional certification examination and qualifies as certified Quantity Surveyor. Without the certification, you will only entitle to be called Contract Executive, Contract Administrator, Estimator but not Quantity Surveyor. But, the market, most of the time will ignore this fact thus you can see a fresh graduate been offered the post Quantity Surveyor. But no worry because whatever name that this job is called, the same basic principle applies as above and your experiences will distinguish you from other newbie.
What you need to understand if you are interested to become one?
1) If you work with contractor organizations or consultant firms, be prepared to work overtime. This is when you will enjoy a handsome salary (basic + overtime payment).
2) Be prepared to be posted according to the site of the project you are handling or in another word, if the site is in Sabah, the possibility of you having to move to Sabah is high.
3) If you been offered to work as Site Quantity Surveyor, and you are not ok or comfortable with the fact of the nature of a construction site (dusty, definitely not clean, 90% male population, heavy machineries everywhere, Indon & Bangla residency, hectic, safety boots, safety helmet and safety vest rules, and many more), better find other job.
4) Like any other profession, if you graduated with flying colours, the chances for you to venture and works with established organization is very high, namely; PETRONAS, PORT TANJUNG PELEPAS, BINAPURI, RANHILL, MRCB, etc. But if your result is so-so, you can still get the job but either you have to compete with the high-flyers or start will smaller organization first. But I guarantee you, once you acquire your diploma or degree, and if you are not overly-picky, overly-fussy and willing to learn and gain as many experiences as you can at the early stage of your career, there is no such thing as being out-of-work for more than 2 months.
So, this is something for you to ponder upon.
Office politic sucks!
Office politic; usually it happens in a big company/organization. But believe it or not, in a small company but with a few numbers of bosses, office politic does happen to. Seriously, this is another ground people used as their resignation reason (tp tak arr tulis dlm surat berenti tu. Simpan dlm hati je. Atas surat tu ckp arr dapat peluang keje lebih baik).
The issues now are;
i) Are you tough enough to endure office politic when you happen to be one of the targets?
ii) How long do you think u can resist the temptation to fight back or are you going to surrender to the situation?
iii) What are you action? Will you sit there and un-willingly let them bully you, or are you going to revert whatever they are doing to them and join their club of bullies; or are you going to confront them and demand for your right as human being to be treated nicely?
Yes, these sound a bit too serious, I know I know. But it happens to me twice.
Situation 1
There were 4 of us in a team; – 1 Project Director, 1 Project Manager, 1 Project Engineer and 1 Quantity Surveyor (for the fact that there was only 1 technical and operation team in the company). BUT we have five bosses. The bosses outnumbered the staff. So by now you can at least imagine the problem we were facing at that time. 5 kepala bos besau yg belagak giler mcm bos yg semestinya ada lain2 pendapat, huh!!!! But still I remained with the company for over 2 years. WHY? U may ask. Because I love the people I was working with. I have a very good project director. He was my mentor and he was a very good (damn good actually) leader. I learned a lot from him. Seriously, if he happens to form one small construction company, I want to be the first person to apply working there. I learned an awfully lot of knowledge and throughout the 2 year (I started from scratch, nil, zero) my project director managed to guide me to be a good quantity surveyor (in my league arr…).
So revert back to the actual problem, the bosses were all politikus…heheh.dato’, datok dan atuk. All of them hold a position in Selangor state government or district. No wonder all their project was direct nego project. So, org politik yg jd bos utk satu syarikat construction, pemikiran mereka is to serve their politic party to whom they are member with so that they can be promoted to a higher level of their party, dgn pantasnya ( kipas bontot bos utk naik cepat). This is a REAL POLITIK opis. Heheh..sbb org yg menjadi onar politik opis ini adalah ORG POLITIK. Seriously, if you unable to manage your business and tend to involve to much POLITIK in your business, your business sooner or later, akan kapushhhh, hancur, gagal, bankrap. Mana tidak, dpt je duit, duit tuh ko guna utk peribadi ko, utk kempen politik ko, utk kawin lain, utk beli merc baru, etc etc….In the end, org yg sengsara adalah staff2 kau, sub-kon kecik yg buat kije utk ko dan org2 bawahan yg keje bermati2an utk dptkan duit utk ko.
Arghhh!! The peak of the whole situation was, after my project director and I managed to win the company another construction project, datok dato’ dan atuk yg pandai lg bijaksana tu pergi total sub projek tuh kat org lain. Huh!!!!….sgt sedey ok masa tu..Then I decided to leave. Sbnrnya sblm saya berenti, my project manager and project engineer dah berenti dulu. I stay for the sake of my project director. I respect him too much, and I try to bear the problem because I understand his situation at that moment. Encik (you know who you are), if you read this, I want you to know that I will be forever thankful to you for everything that you have taught me. Believe me, U are one good bos. I Miss YOU Encik Bos.
Situation 2
I joined this company after two months of being un-employed. Hehehehe. This company is a well known company in Malaysia. Very establish I tell u (kononnya arr). I joined as their site team. I am on contract basis, for two years. Sbnrnya sblm start kije kat sini, I received quite a number of offers (which I regret of turned the offer down. Kalo ku tau begini jdnya, jgn harap aku nak kije sini). I received my appointment letter quite late, after one week of joining. Masa tuh tawaran2 kije lain sudah ku tolak, dgn konfidennya sbb harap apa yg saya mintak sblm kije sini akan di fulfill laa. Tapi it turn out to be BAD (Worse lg sesuai rasanya). When I first received the appointment letter, hati mmg rasa tak best. So I decided to show the letter to my ayah. And my ayah strongly disagrees with the contents of the letter. He is the one who discourage me from accepting the offer, bg ayah, dia kata melihat pada appointment letter itu, kompeni tmpt keje saya skrg ‘pemeras’. Tp being me, saya degil. Saya pikir, I should give this job a try. Mana tau, lama2 nanti ok keje sini.
So, I immediately embark with my journey with the new company. I am with the contract department. Majority staf kat situ lelaki. Masa tuh ada sorang je married staff perempuan. The clerks and me lom kawin lg. I make new friends. Saya belajar byk benda baru since this is the first time saya buat projek hiway. Dulu sblm saya kije sini, way back masa kompeni lama, my wise projek director pernah pesan kat saya, “annur, working with big organization is totally different from working with ****. U r going to meet with a lot of people with a lot of personality. There will be people yg envy you. So beware with office politic because the situation u r about to face is nothing similar to what u have experienced in ****”. And I should agree with you now encik. U R Totally RIGHT. Totally 100% right.
My main problem working here adalah; *tuuuttttttt*. yes masalahnya dtg dr *ttuuuuuuttttt*. and they are *tuuuutttttttt*. Yes. Seriously. You know who you are. Saya tak pernah dengki2 pd kamu dan kamu. Saya tak pernah nak masuk campur dan jaga tepi kain dan seluar kamu. Saya hanya mau keje dlm suasana aman dan harmoni. Saya tak de buat salah pd kamu dan kamu. Saya tak pernah nak amik tau atau pertikaikan apa jua tindakan kamu. Saya peduli apa kalo kamu dtg lewat, or kalau kamu ‘ilang’ sekejap time opis hour. Saya takmau tau dan tak ingin tau. Saya tak pernah pertikaikan ketidakhadiran kamu. Bukan annuryani namanya utk amik tau sebab musabab kenapa kamu nak cuti atau mc. I trust that whatever action u r taking, It has nothing to do with me. IT IS NONE OF MY BUSINESS. Tp kenapakah kamu kamu semua sibuk dgn hal dan kehidupan saya. SUKA HATI SAYA LA BILA SAYA NAK CUTI, BILA SAYA NAK ‘ILANGKAN DIRI DR OPIS’, DGN SAPA SAYA NAK BAIK OR BUAT BAIK, BRAPA LAMA SAYA NAK CUTI, APA SEBAB SAYA TAK DTG OPIS. SEMUA TUH TAKDE KAITAN DGN HIDUP KAMU DAN KAMU. Jd kenapa kah kamu semua membuang masa dan tenaga utk sibuk2kan diri kamu ttg hal saya. Saya rasa byk lg benda kamu nak kena jaga your family for instance. Tolong arrrr…SAYA TAK PERNAH MENYUSAHKAN HIDUP KAMu. SAYA TAK PERNAH DENGKI DGN KAMU KAMU ITUUUU. KENAPAKAH KAMU SUKA CKP2 DIBELAKANG (padahal opis tuh bukan besau sgt…) KETAHUILAH KAMU DAN KAMU, APA JE YG KAMU KAMU CKP DI BELAKANG SAYA, SAYA TAU. Aiyooooo. Saya bukan bodo. Saya bukan pekak. Saya bukan tak Nampak. CUMANYA, being me, SAYA CUBA NAK TOLERATE DGN KAMU. MUNGKIN KAMU KAMU ADA BYK MASALAH. Tolong arrr…….tolong jgn dengki dgn saya. Kalo tak puas hati sila ckp depan2. Dlm korang sedar atau tak, korang tak porak perandakan suasana harmoni kat opis ni. DAN SERIOUSLY, RAMAI ORG TAK SUKA DGN KAMU DAN KAMU ITU. SEMUANYA SBB PERANGAI KAMU. For god sake, we r all trying to work here. Mau kije cari rezeki halal. Kitaorg dah cukup sengsara dgn gaji ciput dan waktu keje yg tak masuk akal. TOLONG JGN TAMBAH KEPADA PERMASALAHAN INI.
Huh!!!!….ini adalah cara utk saya meluahkan perasaan ketikpuasan hati saya. Being annuryani, saya tak sampai hati nak bgtau kamu depan2. Sbbnya, saya masih ada rasa hormat pd kamu dan kamu.
Ok laa…memandangkan saya mc hari ni..or for your info, saya mmg sgt suka hati bila dpt sakit. Saya suka mc. Apak ngan mak saya ada share kat klinik yg bg saya mc. Well u know me. Saya suka ampu bos. Saya mmg suka ponteng keje. Mmg tujuan utama saya nak menyusahkan hidup kamu dan sekalian di opis. Saya dah ada perancangan jangka masa pjg dlm diari ttg bila waktu saya rasa nak mc or sakit. Jadi sila arr kamu bergosip2 sesama kamu.
Sekian. TerimaKasih
~love and hate, annur~
as promised, i’ll update the whereabout of my SPA’s interview which took place this morning. And my comment…only comment..the one and only….I SCREWED UP!!! bigtime…this picture shall explain everything..
The first picture…is somewhat of me after getting out from the interview room. huhu…
The second picture…imagine me laying on top of all those nailbed..and the interviewer is the fat lady…HUAAAAAAAA (cry out loud)
All that i can say is…i totally screwed up the interview….huh!!!
~annur~
i work in construction line…so girls, if you work with construction-related-company, bear in mind that your work attire shall exclude those cute girly skirts and blouses (shirts or whatever flowery tops)…baju kurung pun kadang2 depending whether you kena turun site ke tidak on that day…
so when i received a call for interview from a government link organization, i’ve calculated that my attire for that day shall consists of one nice tailored pants, a smart shirts (hehe n cool vest i just bought), and a pair of lewre shoes (bought during one of their warehouse sale). Tapi……alangkah terkejutnya saya, when one of my colleague told me that…jeng jeng jeng, “akak, tak pernah saya dgr org gi interview keje government pakai baju ngan seluar. Setahu saya kena pakai baju kurung ngan kasut hitam tertutup”.
duh…i was like…duh! for god sake, throughout the 3++ yrs me working in this field, I never attend interview wearing baju kurung (agaknya sbb tuh la saya tak dpt kije kat itm itewww). I always..and I mean ALWAYS wear my lucky red (as to really2 red..) shirts or any other kemeja kerja saya. And….believe it or not, i didn’t have any ‘kasut itam tertutup di depan’….arghhhhhh!!!..
lalu dgn tidak semena2nya saya terpaksa ‘membeli’ kasut itam..hahahahahah..(i loike it bery mash..)…now, I’ve changed my lucky red shirts to one shiny black pointed heels..HAHAHAHAHAHA..Armed with my new shiny bling bling shoe..I am going to march into those Putrajaya Hall..with confident higher than those staircases at batu caves…..demand for my right for that post..hAHAHAHHA…(nih kes terlebih konfiden ni)…
ok laa….i’ll let you know of the outcome later later ok….
p.s: how i wish i can paste the photo of my shiny black heels….hahahahahhaah
~muahs muahs~