Officially a full time housewife.

Last day with Maxis - July 1st, 2011, Aseana Cafe, KLCC

Spot the not?

No, please don't let your resumes reach the HR desk like this.

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I believe that I am enthusiastic, energetic, optimistic, sarcastic, dynamic and charismatic.

My works have always been precious and reliable.

Position title: Junior Admin Exec

Date joined: Aug 2010

Date left: Nov 2011

DOB: 25 Nov 1986

Age: 23 yrs old

Reason for living: Seek for better career advancement opportunities and exposure.

Reason left: Enhance carriers and gain new working experiences.

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FAIL.

Things that (telco) promoters won't tell you.

1. When you stand while bending your body forward at a counter or sit on a bareback chair while wearing a low cut pants and an inch of your upper ass shows.
2. When you come with your partner/lover and you cling so tight to them while they are doing all the talking as if we're gonna snatch them away -.-"
3. When you say that our plan is expensive and the rivals have better offer yada yada to our face and expect us to agree. Depa bukan bayaq gaji aku, hang ingat aku nak cakap “Ye bang, abang buat pilihan terbaik subscribe dengan [insert rival name here] ” tak dapat la jepp.
4. When you come and ask about the latest most expensive phone available then you settle down with the lowest plan, itu pun still bising3 “Plan you all ni mahal la bla bla”.
5. When you come to the centre and straightaway have a seat at the waiting area and no one attends to you and you make a big fuss of it – I dah tunggu lama, takde orang attend pun. Yelah bro, yang datang3 masuk centre terus duduk tu kenapa. At least pergi la kaunter dulu cakap nak apa.
6. When you puji us cantik, cute, tanya background segala, trying to make the conversation longer but in the end, “Erm, takpelah, I fikir dulu, boleh mintak phone no, nanti kalau I dah decide, I call, senang.” You decide, you datang centre okay. Dah la takde sale, pickup line pun basi. FAIL.
7. When you just waited for 10 minutes and already go kecoh3 like “I dah tunggu lama, satu number pun tak gerak lagi!”
8. When you let your kids run around the centre langgar customer lain kerusi terbalik segala. GRRRR. Tak comel okay.
9. When you gedik3 asking us to install/download applications on your iPhone at the iPhone Activation counter, and the queue behind is like pfft. It’s ACTIVATION, for god sake.
10. When you expect us to freaking answer all your freaking questions especially regarding your freaking high monthly bill when we are only freaking PROMOTERS, and our job, in fact, is just to freaking sell handphones and freaking broadbands!

Ps. You can make our day simply by asking our names (bukan untuk hantar complaint letter okay) and how are we doing (eg. penat ek?). Ha, kan senang. Bukan mintak tip pun.

Twenty one and iPhone-less. A perfect example of Mac epic fail.

I thought an eight year old with an iPhone can already make the headline of a newspaper, no, this one even better.

SPOILT SIX-YEAR-OLD USING iPHONE 4 WITH 1GB DATA PACKAGE AND A MONTHLY COMMITMENT OF RM100 FOR 24 MONTHS

At the iPhone Activation counter.

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Me              : Is this your first iPhone, Miss?

Customer  : No, I used to have one before my daughter said she wanted to have it.

Me              : Oh, she must be very lucky to have such a generous Mom to grant her an iPhone just like that. (chuckles)

Customer  : Yeah, see, she already changed the phone cover with the one she chose. (pointing at a little girl on the sofa holding an iPhone 4 with Hello Kitty cover)

Me              : … (in complete awe)

Customer  : I know I know. She’s only six, but she’s the only daughter, what else can we say.. (laughing nervously)

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Kids nowadays --- do they even know the meaning of childhood anymore?

When you have nothing to talk about, you talk about others. And create rumours.

"Weh berani lah kau ajak Bella keluar lunch kat KLCC. Kau tau, boyfriend dia some Executive kat atas. Orang besar dow. Kau kacau girlfriend dia, tak sayang kerja ke? Silap haribulan kena terminate, baru tau."

Reaksi spontan Bella: Jadahnya boyfriend aku Exec kat atas. Oh, so boyfriend aku orang besar, kerja office, makan gaji, public holiday cuti, dapat bonus plus staff price on device siap. Lepas tu takkan nak tengok je aku kat bawah kerja Promoter hari3 gelabah jual broadband simpan duit nak beli iPhone pun tak lepas? Kau balik pukul 6, aku kerja sampai shift malam. Cakap orang besar, Exec lagi tu, takkan takleh adjust girlfriend sendiri masuk staff kot.




Sumpah ini lawak terhebat sepanjang kerja Promoter kat Telco HijauBiru ni. Adoi. Manusia oh manusia. Baru dua minggu. Lepas ni entah apa lagi lah..

Random Title: Mermaid Theory by Shahir (who's striving hard next semester to come back during summer)

It’s been only a week since I started working at the Centre, instead of the office, but I already ignored many many many important people in my life.

Part of it because of the shift work time, but mostly because I’ve been too lazy to pay my broadband bill, that I don’t have Internet connection, and I can no longer enjoy the privilege of having free Internet access like I did when I was at Level 16.

Baru seminggu dalam Customer Service, dah rasa macam3, kena macam3, semua pun macam3.

***

Situation 1: Kau ingat aku kerja sini cari suami ke apa?

“You ni kan, I yang taknak beli phone, tengok you, terus rasa nak beli. Boleh la, bagi Torch sebijik. Eh silap, dua, satu untuk I, satu untuk hantaran kita.”

“Sorry la bang, kalau setakat Torch I tak layan. I tak main lah cukup3, I main lebih. Mintak IC bang, dengan phone number.”

“Eh, dah mintak IC dengan phone number, dalam brochure takde plak cakap nak beli phone kena bagi IC.”

“Kalau semua nak letak dalam brochure, nanti Promoter nak buat apa, takde la pulak I kerja kat sini.”

Situasi 2: Saya respect anak Auntie belajar kat UK, tapi kawan3 saya pun ramai kat sana.

AuntieStylo1: “Dah ada boyfriend belum ni? Kalau takde Auntie boleh carikan.”

AuntieStylo2: “Haah, anak Auntie ni handsome tau, belajar kat Southampton, buat Engineering.”

“Alah, belajar lagi ke? Saya kalau boleh nak yang monthly income agak3 saya boleh berhenti kerja.”

Situasi 3: Setahu saya Telco hijau biru takde modeling service.

“Eh, anak I suka tengok you, amik gambar sket.” (sambil angkat Curve yang baru beli kat kaunter nak amek gambar)

Sumpah cuak bai. Psycho gila Makcik.

Situasi 4: I appreciate you cakap I pandai buat marketing, tapi I memang kena sambung belajar.

“Bella, ni business card I, kalau you rasa nak buat RM3k per week, call I. Training semua kita bagi, don’t worry.”

***

Entah lah. Kalau orang yang dah lama dalam Customer Service, semua ni tak pandang sebelah mata pun. Tapi honestly speaking, I tak pernah kerja. I diajar untuk belajar all this time. Yelah, habis sekolah rendah, masuk sekolah asrama, lepas tu tukar sekolah yang ada nama sikit time Form 4, lepas SPM, masuk kolej, dapat scholar. Kalau kerja pun time lepas SPM dulu, itu pun dengan family punya business, mana nak berkembang. Sekali lepas IB kerja Telco biru hijau, dengan EPF SOCSO segala, excited.

Tiga bulan kerja office, mengada3 nak turun bawah, jadi Promoter. Huyoh, memang mengada3 habis lah. Baru seminggu rasa macam dah semput. Mana tak nya, sikit3 kena marah. Kalau tak dengan staff lain, dengan customer. Through phone siap. Yelah, I kan budak baru, itu taktau, ini taktau. Lambat sikit, marah lah.

Tapi an, serious, rasa macam, WAAAHHH SO INI LAH DUNIA LUAR EK? Selama ni kawan dengan orang3 pandai, dak3 overseas, boleh kira dengan jari berapa kawan yang habis SPM terus kerja. Full time, siap.

Bella ni pulak jenis yang tak share kalau tak kenal, so bila staff lain tanya background, cakap je la ada Diploma, and sekarang tengah cuti sebelum sambung belajar. Dorang tanya belajar mana, harapan la nak jawab, sampai dorang assume Bella ni some college drop-out yang malas belajar, so kerja dulu sebelum gain momentum belajar balik.

I tak kisah. Kalau dorang nak cakap I stop sampai SPM pun so what? Ini bukan dunia I, it’s their world. I’m trying to fit in. I tak pernah cakap pasal my future plan. Buat apa kecoh3 kau nak blah September ni?

But again, honestly, walaupun rasa memang lonely gila lepas kawan3 semua fly last year, I rasa I banyak belajar lepas TOK case ni. Kalau dulu mindset I semua pasal belajar belajar belajar sampai grad, sekarang ni I sedar yang tak semua orang macam I, ada privilege financially, academically, semua lah, untuk belajar.

And kalau korang rasa kerja ni lagi seronok dari belajar sebab dapat duit, silap besar la bro. Dulu belajar under scholar, dapat duit jugak apa? Sekarang kerja, shift entah apa3, silap haribulan pukul 11 baru sampai rumah, kena maki dengan customer, gaji masuk half je, segala lah. Lepas tu ingat pergi kerja boleh terbang apa? LRT dengan rumah one way RM2++, so pergi balik dah RM4++, belum masuk cab lagi. Tolak duit makan, top up, gaji pulak bukan nett, ada EPF SOCSO segala, berapa sen sangat lah sebulan yang tinggal.

Ni baru sikit, rumah Ayah bagi, bill air elektrik Ayah bayar , duit dapur kadang3 dapat lah jugak, status pun single, takde tanggungjawab segala, tapi duit dah rasa macam desperate. Nafsu duniawi melimpah ruah takyah cakap, pantang tengok itu ini, semua nak.

Entah lah, kadang3 rasa macam, apa lah yang I buat kat KL ni. Baik ikut Umi balik Terengganu, at least duduk dengan family, Umi masak. Takpayah gelabah3 fikir balik rumah nak makan apa. Tak pun cabut ikut Ayah kat Miri, boleh tengok tempat orang.

KN cakap, sebelum fly, baik duduk dengan family, spend time dengan dorang, nanti dah fly, menangis3 kau nak balik.

Betul ke? Kena hantar surat resign lah macam ni.

Tak pernah dapat 'Unsuccessful' banyak gila camni, tapi sebab ada satu 'Unconditional', syukurrrr. *mata berkaca3*

Dah nama lagi Random Title, sebarang ketidaksemena3an tajuk dengan kandungan entry amat tidak dikesali.

You can find her glued to the PC with both ears plugged with earphones and both legs on the chair at Level 16.

Just in case anyone ever wonder what the hell she's doing now..

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(I couldn't help myself but stare at this when I first found out about its existence, seriously)

Sorry lah, jakun sikit. Sebelum ni mana pernah kerja. Ada akaun KWSP pun macam excited gila.

Kesian.

Fix her. She's broken.

She's not sure how to feel right now. She took half the day off at work since she was having a terrible flu. Her head has been pounding hard, her vision was blurring. Both eyes couldn’t get any redder than they were, and the nose kept on pouring clear warm fluid without any reasons.

And at only 12-something noon, it was raining hard outside.

It was painful. Not only was the flu, the whole body reacting to the sickness was just awful. For the first time in 20 years, she cried in public, in front of total strangers. With no one beside her. Found an isolated spot in the LRT heading home, and the tears kept streaming down her face, just like the heavy rain outside.

Everything was mixed up. She was in pain, her head felt dizzy, her breathe was unsteady that she found herself wheezing all the time, her heart was aching. She was missing someone so terribly. Best said, she was a complete miserable mess.

Just yesterday she got a proposition from Maxis to work permanently for them. And that was not some kind of contract extension or what, it’s for permanent, means that she actually works for them, instead of the work agency she is currently with.

Just yesterday she found out that her very first salary was approved, that she would have to check her bank account if it is already there. She started late, she didn’t even work for the full month, but the pay was really good.

Just yesterday she was involved in a training session for Maxis staff from different Maxis centres nationwide, and everyone thought she did a wonderful job despite she looked like a high school student amongst them all.

Just yesterday she met a familiar face whom she has been missing so much, though they just met about a month ago, and had fun laughing hard til their stomachs hurt.

Just yesterday her family arrived from Miri, proudly signifying that they are now a complete happy family.

And today she suffers from this real bad flu that she could barely woke up in the morning, and her heart just wouldn’t stop longing for someone at the other side of the world.

Life is never fair.

Unless when there were tears, of course.