there's this place i go..

last week i took a day off just to run some really-dah-lama-pending errands. dulu i could actually just lari keluar jap from office or do them before masuk office, my boss dont mind me masuk lambat cos he knows being in operations, ive been on call 24 hrs anyway.

but now in this company, adalah sangat susah to do that. first the location, the new office being in damansara, when all my bankings and saloon (eh, gi saloon masuk category errands hehe) and mechanics and wat nots are all in kl. second, this company adalah sedikit skema (but sometimes its a good thing) where most people are the 9 to 5 lots (i get to go home at 5, so dats a good thing :p). so concept lari2 kejap ni is just not something they do. what they usually do is "work from home" and then run their errands. but me being a nerd and all, if im "working from home" i wud literally work at home, nak kuar beli lunch pun fikir sepuluh kali in case my boss IM me and i couldnt answer cos tgh sebok membeli belah di one utama :p plus nanti ada perasaan berdebar2 and guilty if im out running errands and salah guna kepercayaan company (chewah) when i do that. so, i had to take leave.

i digress.

wat i wanted to write about was actually my stop at mara office to inquire about the skim pelajar cemerlang (spc) offer that shud have been out by this time. so there i was, in front of the biasiswa counter trying to get a decent answer out of the officers.

me : cik, borang untuk spc and other mara scholarship dah keluar ke?

her : belum lagi. (while writing something furiously in the guest book)

me : bila ya?

her : kami pun tak tau, bila-bila dia keluar nanti, tau lah. (ape punye answer ni?)

me : tapi macamana saya nak tau bila dah keluar and nak amik borang. takkan takde tentative dates ke? mesti ada dateline untuk submission nanti kan?

her : dik (dik???!!), itu bukan tugas saya nak ambil tahu tarikh borang ni keluar, bila org atasan bagi tahu baru lah kami tahu. kalau dik nak, call lah sini tiap2 hari tanye, ok?

and she passed a piece of paper with a number on it and gestured for the next person, guess i was unceremoniously dismissed. she wasnt rude or anything, she was just, um, wats the word, ape eh, cant find the word to describe her. this is my first time actually in the mara bahagian biasiswa office and i discovered that whether yr at jpa or at mara, the officers there are really one of a kind. some are super duper nice and will get out of their way to assist you, genuinely concern officers passionate about the education of the young, while the rest, are like "i can never go overseas to study so wat do i care if u get yr loan or not" kinda attitude.

for me, im always ever so grateful and thankful that i get loans and scholarships both for my degree and masters. for my masters for eg, its like, "you're giving me this money, this almost quarter of a million so that i can get a masters? really? any university i want in uk? and yr paying my tuition and giving me pocket money? to study wat i love and in a country i adore? no catch? and i dont have to pay u back or anything? really? waddahell, are u crazy??" hehehehehe. dats how i always felt :p

anyway, digressing again. bottom line is, i dont know when the offers/borang will be out. so i still have time to fine tune my phd proposal. but what if i missed it? takkan nak call office mara tiap2 hari?

footnote : i have a degree in chemical engineering and a masters in international logistics and what did i do today? kena jadi delivery girl sending company diaries to petronas and chevron cos boss dearie forgot to courier them out before he went for two weeks outstation and i cant ask the admin girl to do it due to "compliances". its middle of january already for goodness sake, i doubt by now anyone wants a diary anyhows wats with the iphones and blackberries and wat nots... sigh..