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Minum Petang Eksklusif Hari Bonda bersama Datuk Sharifah Aini yang akan diraikan pada hari ini 11 Mei jam 2.30 petang di Hotel Legend, Kuala Lumpur. Biarpun hanya sebuah majlis minum petang, Kak Pah menjanjikan persembahan bertaraf konsert. Kak Pah bakal menghiburkan tetamunya selama satu jam setengah dengan lebih 22 rangkaian lagu.
Kata Kak Pah, jika peminat mengharapkan kelainan daripadanya. Mungkin dia tidak mampu menunaikannya, dia tidak mampu menari di dalam usia yang bakal mencecah 55 tahun pada 2 Julai nanti. Kelainan yang dapat dijanjikan hanyalah pada pilihan lagu dan dia juga mahu menumpukan pada vokal serta interaksi bersama peminat.
“Kelainan yang dapat Kak Pah janjikan adalah dari segi repertoire. Kak Pah akan menyanyikan lagu yang ada kaitan dengan Hari Ibu seperti Mawar Putih Untuk Mama, Ibu, Ummi, You Light Up My Life dan banyak lagi. Kak Pah tidak suka persembahan kelam kabut diiringi penari latar, sebaliknya Kak Pah mahukan sebuah persembahan yang relaks dan santai,” katanya yang berasa bertuah dan gembira kerana berjaya bertahan dalam industri ini sehingga 40 tahun.”
Kak Pah juga akan berduet dengan pelawak Dee untuk tiga buah lagu dan juga penyanyi Syed Sobri pada persembahan itu nanti.

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Correct, it's Fairuz. Shaila Koshy had a major scoop in today's The Star. Quoting sources, she wrote that former Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz had been identified by the Royal Commission into the VK Lingam Video Clip as the person on the other side of the call with the lawyer.
Her sources also said the report included:The commission submitted its report to the Agong yesterday. PM Badawi had said, also yesterday, that he hadn't read the report. I hope he has read The Star's report, h e r e.
- Findings that the content of the conversation between Lingam and Ahmad Fairuz, which touched on the brokering of judicial appointments, was substantially true;
- A recommendation that legal action be taken against those breaking certain laws.

I came across a site that put up WaMu as their site name. In malay, Wa means “saya” (I or me) meanwhile Mu means “kamu” (you). So, in this context, they have chosen a right name for a website that provides many savings services to their customer and yes, this done online. What this website trying to do? They want you to open savings accounts with them. Now, before you continue reading, this post is intended especially for American citizen. So, let us continue.
What kind of savings accounts? Well for start, they have the ordinary online savings. This mean you open an online savings to manage it through internet or as it is normally known, online banking. Another savings account you can open with WaMu is statement savings which is the WaMu’s basic savings account.
The third kind of ties you can have with WaMu is Traditional CD. What is CD? CD is Certificate of Deposit. You can save a lot with Traditional CD because it is lock with high CD interest rate. And then, you have this so called Online CD. What is the advantages of Online CD? First and foremost, you don’t need to line-up in bank. Second, you can have your personal online banking and online account statements. Last but not the least, is the Liquid CD. What is the difference between the Traditional CD and Liquid CD? With Liquid CD make unlimited add-on deposits and you get fluid access to your money.
So, it is up to you to open savings accounts at WaMu. There are five accounts to choose from and you can do all of this online.
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Chot is presently working with Aquarius Hotel in Kuala Lumpur as a Customer Service Executive and is now seeking for other employment opportunities and boost her career to new height.
She has been invited to attend an interview with TIME Logistics, a shipping and freight forwarding company based in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. Chot is applying for a position as Senior Customer Service Officer and the interviewer, John Kapoor is the Customer Service Manager for TIME Logistics.
Below is the excerpt of the interview. More questions and answers will be added from time to time as to reflect the real interview situation, hence you may want to bookmark this page.
Interviewer: Thanks for coming for the interview. Let’s start with my first question. Can you tell me something about yourself?
Chot: Thanks for the invitation too. I was born and raised in Kuantan, Pahang, and am now staying in Ampang, KL for the past 5 years, since completing my studies. I am the youngest of the family, with 6 other older siblings.
I graduated in the field of Mass Communication from Monash University in 2002 and upon graduation I was hired as Customer Service Assistant with Aquarius Hotel, in Jalan Tun Razak, KL, the company I am working until today. I was promoted to Customer Service Executive after 2 and a half years, serving until now.
Interviewer: When you chose Mass Communication as your field of study in your Degree, what specific career that you had in mind?
Chot: I have looked into the career prospect and talked to a few people, including my parents, the university advisor and some senior friends before signing up for the course. Because of the nature of the course itself, the career prospect it offers is quite broad, in the sense that graduates in Mass Communication have more than 1 option of industry, niche and specialization to choose upon graduation.
To make my point, generally, if you study law, then you become a lawyer. And if you study medicine, you become a medical practitioner. The case is not the same with Mass Communication. While, in a nutshell the course taught the students to understand more of media and communication, it also exposed students with other important elements such as presentation & public speaking, research, documentation and people interaction.
I did not set specific profession to go with when choosing the course. However, keeping in mind that I consider myself as a people-oriented person, my career will have to do a lot with interacting with other people. And I was not disappointed with my decision to choose Customer Service as my line.
Interviewer: Tell me what are the most important criteria for someone to be a success in the customer service field.
Chot: First of all, like I have mentioned before, to start with, you need to be a people person. You must like working with people. Customer service is all about people, people and people. This may sound easy and perhaps typical to most, but I have seen for the past 5 years or so, people destroying their career because they do not have this important element that will form the backbone of their career.
A people oriented individual will have all the important elements to flourish his or her career further and these elements include compassion, empathy, the drive to make things happen, strengthening the relationship and ultimately make people feel good and happy.
A Customer Service personnel must also have a lot of patience. This line of work requires a high degree of perseverance you cannot risk employing short-fused people that might ruin relationship between you and the customers.
Interviewer: How do you handle negative feedback or complain from customers?
Chot: All remarks by the customers, be it positive or negative are treated as a closed loop feedback that will be utilized to improve the system, processes and service delivery. We make it a practice for the negative feedback to be attended on speedy basis to understand more about the circumstances that have led to customers voicing their unhappiness and dissatisfaction.
Handling and responding to customer’s negative feedback varies according to the types and circumstances. For example, a hotel guest may call the reception and angrily complain about the non-working air condition in his room. This is the type of situation needing an immediate attention.
As a Customer Service Executive, my job is to be alerted about the situation, rope in the technical assistant who will go and check the problem, resolve it and keep me informed of updated situation. Additionally I will need to ensure that the customer is happy with the solution, or otherwise implement alternative measures.
Interviewer: What do you mean by alternative measures?
Chot: We need to understand that sometimes, even after solving the customer’s problem, he or she might still not be entirely happy. In that case, we need to go the extra mile. In the circumstances we have discussed before, if the guest is still upset, I would offer a switch to a larger room, with better facilities, at no extra cost. I might also issue some generous voucher or highly discounted spa service to keep the customer happy.
Interviewer: How do you evaluate the existing system, procedure and processes in your current job? Are the systems effective and versatile enough, or did you discover any shortcoming that will improve the overall governance and processes?
Chot: I believe no system is perfect, and even if it is, it needs change and evolution to accommodate the changing world and shift in life style. And that includes the system in our company now. In fact, we have implemented a number of changes for the past few years. For instance, before the beginning of 2004, the customer service personnel only worked the normal working hours, which was from 9am to 6pm.
Beyond the 9am-6pm time frame, guest’s problem would need to be attended by ad-hoc staff working around the clock. It worked ok but it was far from perfect. Over the time, we realized the need of proper Customer Service personnel to be present due to increasing number of complaints. As such, we restructured the work schedule to have the department’s personnel working around the clock.
Interviewer: Do you believe with the notion ‘the customer is always right?’
Chot: In ideal world, this is what we want to believe. In practical world, this does not happen all the time but rather a myth. Today, we have zero accident and zero inflation campaigns which are both impossible to achieve. What I am saying here is that while we can’t 100% believe or achieve our target, it is not wrong for us to put such target or live with the principle.
This is aligned to the essence of goal setting. To achieve a certain goal, we must set a target which is one step ahead of what we can achieve so that we work harder towards our goal.
Interviewer: Nicely said. Are you overseeing or supervising any subordinate at the moment?
Chot: Yes. At the moment, I have one Junior Customer Service Officer reporting directly to me. Additionally, I have one Administrator who assists me with my daily routine such as report preparation and documentation, scheduling, consolidation of customer’s feedback and so on. This administrator also reports to me.
Interviewer: Currently you are working in the hotel industry, while our company is in logistics, shipping and freight forwarding. The two are quite distinguished sectors and industries, you know. How do you feel the suitability of you jumping from one industry to another? In other words, what makes you think you can be a success here?
Chot: I would look at this as an opportunity rather than a problem or issue. I mean when you stay in a particular industry and look at matters from the same perspective over and over, chances are you may miss one particular point that could change the entire landscape as well as results. It’s kind of situation “looking but failing to see”.
This also explains why I do not put hotel industry as part of my requirement when I move on with my career, for as long as I can stay in customer service line. After all, the customer service can also be considered an industry by itself. This works both ways, which means that it benefits both me and you. By keeping my options open, I know I open up more opportunities to grow myself.
Interviewer: Commuting from Ampang to Jalan Tun Razak is not much of a problem, as the places are not very far from each other. If you work here, it means you have to drive all the way from your place to PJ every day. This sounds like a pretty much a big deal, don’t you think?
Chot: If I were to work here, I can assure you that traveling is the least I and you should worry about. Living in the city for many years has taught me well how to assimilate my life here with traveling and traffic part - it is part and parcel of life here. I believe the real challenge starts when you arrive at work, and not during the journey.
Interviewer: Fair enough. Ok, I think that should be all of my questions now. Before we wrap up, do you have any question for me?
Chot: Yes, I do. Can you explain to me a little bit about the structure of the Customer Service department here?
Interviewer: Sure. Overall, the department itself is quite big, with more than 40 Customer Service personnel employed to date, but when we consider that our branches are scattered around the country, each branch has an approximately equal number, between 3-4 people, with the exception to this office here, which is our country HQ. Here we have 7 people making up the department, including me.
The department is also undergoing growth and expansion, just like our business as we are opening more and more offices. Earlier this year, we only have about 25 executives, and now over 40. I am currently overseeing this 40 personnel and I will need a senior executive to assist me with the operation.
Chot: So the position has been vacant for how long?
Interviewer: This is a newly created position, which gained approval sometime a month back.
Chot: I see. Thank you. So what would be the immediate task that this new person would do upon coming on board?
Interviewer: Firstly, what I would like to do when the person is on board is to bring him or her to visit all the branches, meeting the junior executives and other team members. The person will be also be tasked to look at the current system and procedures that we have, study, evaluate and assess and then present the finding to me.
Your main challenge here, I mean, if you do work here, is to optimize the resources that we have, maintain the current headcount and institute a set of measurable Key Performance Indicators or KPIs for the staff to work on. We currently work based on certain KPIs but still, they need some review and I will do that together with the new person who come on board for this position.
Additionally, you will be partnered with the Training personnel to go through our current training materials and develop and improve our training which can produce more competent staff.
Chot: Thank you. I think that’s all my questions for now.
Interviewer: In this case, thank you very much. Just to let you know the recruitment drive for this position may take up to 2 weeks. If we would like to offer you with the job, I will contact you within this period, or hopefully earlier. Otherwise, you can keep in touch with me through my contact number. Here is my business card.
Chot: Thank you very much. Yes, I do hope to talk to you again in the future. Let’s keep in touch.
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Bersempena dengan sambutan Hari Ibu sedunia ni, saya ingin mengucapkan Selamat Hari Ibu kepada semua ibu, umi, mak or whatever panggilan pun kerana ianya tetap satu, kecuali “ibu ayam” ler..
Sesungguhnya jasa seorang yang bergelar ibu itu terlalu besar dan tidak ternilai jasanya. Tak mampu untuk dibalas dengan apa jua cara sekalipun.
Yang termampu hanyalah doa dan kasih sayang sepenuhnya dari seorang yang bergelar anak.
Ibu.. ibu… engkaulah ratu hatiku,
bila ku berduka engkau hiburkan selalu,
ibu…
Mak, i love u forever and ever.
Happy mother’s day from danbytes.com
It’s been a while I posted a video in my blog. Now, I find a perfect reason to do so. I just want you to laugh. Believe me, when you see this video, you wish you can see more of it (I do..). WARNING: The youtube video maybe a little slow to show up. I love the metacafe video. They show up instantly.
If that’s not enough, take a look at this.
So, what do think of this guy? Thanks…I’m very funny!
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Pelakon dan penyanyi Ahmad Azhar Othman atau Awie ada melakonkan watak ‘lelaki lembut’ dan pereka fesyen bernama Sophie dalam filem “Apa Kata Hati” yang bakal ditayangkan pada 29 Mei ini.

Kalau tahun lalu, pelakon utama filem Waris Jari Hantu Rusdi Ramli turut melakonkan watak Mak Nyah sehingga berjaya menerima Anugerah Pelakon Lelaki Terbaik dalam Festival Filem Malaysia ke 20. Selain Ahmad Tarmimi Sarigar pernah mencuba bawa watak yang sama dalam drama Wali, pelakon Dato’ Jalaluddin Hassan juga ada melakonkan watak pondan dalam Teater Muzikal Patung Kertas.
Adakah percubaan Awie ini akan berjaya merangkul sebarang anugerah?
Untuk pengetahuan peminat Wings, Awie dan kumpulan Wings akan mengadakan showcase di Planet Hollywood pada 18 & 25 Mei ini jam 10.30 malam.


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BARISAN FILEM MENARIK MENGHIASI SLOT ‘CINEMA ON 2′ MEI INI
Sepanjang bulan Mei ini RTM2, Saluran Famili Anda menerusi slot ‘Cinema On 2′ telah membariskan filem-filem menarik lagi menghiburkan buat tatapan semua penonton setianya. Diharap ia dapat membantu anda mengisi keindahan malam anda seisi keluarga.
Slot ‘Cinema On 2′ yang kebiasaannya bersiaran pada setiap hari Rabu, jam 10.00 malam telah membariskan tiga filem hebat buat tatapan anda semua. Antaranya, ‘16 Blocks’, ‘Bewitched’ dan juga ‘The Longest Yard’.

Tirai akan dibuka pada 7 Mei 2008 dengan menampilkan sebuah filem yang sarat dengan aksi menarik bertajuk ‘16 Blocks’. Filem ini mengisahkan tentang Jack Mosley lakonan Bruce Willis, seorang anggota polis yang bermasalah dan lanjut usianya. Mosley bertugas di sebuah balai polis yang terletak di kota metropolitan, New York. Pada suatu hari seperti kebiasaannya dia ditugaskan untuk mengiringi seorang saksi yang petah berkata-kata, Eddie Bunker (Mos Def) dari balai polis ke sebuah mahkamah. Walau bagaimanapun, dalam perjalanan terdapat usaha jahat cuba menghalang mereka berdua dari sampai ke destinasi mereka.
Barisan pelakon hebat yang terlibat dalam filem ini adalah Bruce Willis, Mos Def, David Moss, Jenna Stern, Casey Sander, Cylk Cozart dan David Zayas.

Menyusul pada 14 Mei 2008 sebuah filem berjudul ‘Bewitched‘. Filem ini menyenaraikan barisan pelakon terkenal seperti Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Shirley MacLaine, Kristin Chenoweth dan juga Jason Schwartzman.

Dalam filem ini Will Ferrell mendukung watak sebagai Jack Wyatt seorang bintang Hollywood yang cuba membuat penampilan semula ke layar perak menerusi sebuah filem yang diadaptasikan daripada sebuah drama bersiri klasik. Apabila Jack terlihat seorang gadis cantik bernama Isabel Bigelow (Nicole Kidman), dia merasakan Isabel adalah calon terbaik memegang watak Samantha iaitu watak isterinya di dalam filem tersebut.
Sebaliknya, Jack tidak mengetahui bahawa Isabel sebenarnya adalah seorang ahli sihir, yang mana ia adalah satu pilihan yang amat tepat untuk filem itu. Bapa Isabel, Nigel (Michael Caine) mengambil berat terhadap minat anak gadisnya itu. Tetapi, dia mulai merasa terganggu dengan kehadiran Iris Smythson (Shirley MacLaine), pelakon yang menjadi ibu Isabel dalam filem lakonannya.

Sementara itu, ‘The Longest Yard’ akan disajikan pada 21 Mei 2008. ‘The Longest Yard’ merupakan sebuah penerbitan sebuah filem komedi yang pernah diterbitkan pada tahun 1974. Filem ini mengekalkan tajuk yang sama seperti filem yang asal. Mengisahkan tentang seorang pemain bola lisut professional, Paul Crewe (Adam Sandler) dan jurulatih Nate Scarboro (Burt Reynolds) yang sama-sama menjalani hukuman penjara di sebuah penjara yang sama. Pada suatu ketika mereka suatu ketika mereka dicabar oleh warden penjara yang kejam (James Cromwell) untuk membentuk sebuah pasukan bagi menentang pasukal pengawal penjara.

Hasil kerjasama yang padu di antara mereka berdua akhirnya membuahkan hasil apabila pasukan penghuni penjara beroleh kemenangan dalam perlawanan tersebut. Saksikanlah lakonan hebat daripada pelakon popular seperti Adam Sandler, James Cromwell, Chris Rock, Burt Reynolds, Cloris Leachman, William Fichtner, Bill Romanowski, Brian Bosworth, Michael Irvin, Kevin Nash, Nelly, ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, Coutney Cox-Arquette, Bill Goldberg dan Tracy Morgan.
Pastikan anda tidak akan melepaskan peluang keemasan ini bagi menonton semua filem menarik dan menghiburkan yang disajikan khas untuk anda semua menerusi RTM2, Saluran Famili Anda.
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The S-I-L. I'm always a supporter of the National Union of Journalists, so when its president Norela asked me last week to become a panelist at its World Press Freedom Day forum at the NST this morning, I said yes. The NUJ forgot to inform me that Khairy Jamaluddin agreed to officiate at the forum.
But what surprised me was to hear him call for greater Press Freedom, the repeal of draconian laws governing the Media and for "best reporting"practices, where only professional editors (as against politically-appointed ones, I later stressed during the panel discussion) lead the media.
Will he walk the talk? Let's see.
During the panel discussion, Citizen Nades of the Sun called for laws to bar political parties from holding a stake in newspapers and the other media. The other panelists were YB Tien Chua and Hanafiah Man from Agenda Daily.
The forum was held at the Balai Berita. I found it a little odd that none of the senior editors or executives from the NSTP group (NST, Berita Harian and Harian Metro) was there.




The chalets are a bit pricey though...
We enjoyed having fun in the water for 3 full days.





My lovely Mama and young-at-heart Papa
My never-know-tired MIL.

Though some might argue that Serial port are things in the past, it is still the most popular port for those who are into electronic DIY. Building electronic device with serial port interface is cheaper than buiding one that uses USB. That is the reason why people still sell USB-Serial adapter to those electronic DIY enthusiast.
Here’s how to enable USB-Serial port adapter in Ubuntu Linux (with credit to Freeman from RepRap forum)

First plug in the USB-Serial Port adaptor to one of your USB port. Wait for a couple of second, then run “dmesg”. You should see these message at the end of dmesg output.
usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_and address 2
usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
After that, unplug the device and type “lsusb”. You will see a list of output similar to this.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33
Plug in the USB-Serial Port converter back, and run “lsusb” again, and you shall see an additional line, like this.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 007: ID 03f0:4f11 Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 4348:5523 — — — (notice the additional line!)
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 05e3:1205 Genesys Logic, Inc. Afilias Optical Mouse H3003
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 15d9:0a33
Now we know the vendor id and the product id of the USB-Serial Port converter, this will enable us to load the linux kernel module “usbserial” to activate the device, like this :
sudo modprobe usbserial vendor=0×4348 product=0×5523
Run “dmesg” again and you shall see lines similar like this :
usbserial_generic 1-1:1.0: generic converter detected
usb 1-1: generic converter now attached to ttyUSB0
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
As you can see, the new serial port device is mapped to /dev/ttyUSB0. You can instruct Ubuntu to load this module automatically by include the line : “usbserial vendor=0×4348 product=0×5523″ inside “/etc/modules” file.
Bonus: What application benefits from usb-serial port adaptor?
For starters, there are modems which uses RS-232 serial port. Some home-made devices includes Infrared remote control which uses LIRC which also depends on the serial port.
I use the adaptor to hook up my morse keyer in order to send morse code through the internet using Xchat CWIRC plugin. The site has an excellent circuit diagram to build such interface.
You can see my home-made morse code oscillator here : My Homemade Morse Code Practice Oscillator
There are times when you want to print multiple presentation slides in one page, especially when you are making handouts to give away to your audiences. Here’s how you can do that easily using OpenOffice.org Impress.
First click at the “Handouts” tab.
Then you will see the slides arranged on a single page. Typical number of slides is usually between 4-6 on a single page. You can select layouts option to determined the number of slides.
Alternatively, you can change the page layout to to Landspace to give it a “wider” feeling to your handouts. Just right click and select Page Layout.
Finally you can print your handouts by selecting File->Print, and clicking Options at the bottom of the Print Dialog. Select Handouts, and print the documents as usual.
That’s all, hope it will help you in your daily works.
I never meant to share this but here goes 1. Why do I want to remove this? Because they don’t fit in my current theme and because they look ugly. I do this by customizing the CSS. You can change your CSS in your theme folder, called ’style.css’.
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Ajis memang kaki pancing, mana saja lubuk sungai semua dia pergi, kalau ada yg cakap kat sungai tu ada ikan, ajis mesti pi try mancing kat situ. Satu hari masa minum kat kedai kopi Pak Ngah Jiman, Ajis terdengar rakan2 sekampungnya bercerita tentang satu lubuk baru yg banyak ikan ditemui kat sungai di kampung seberang, kampung tu agak jauh pedalaman sungai tu lebih kurang 5 km dr kampung tu, dekat tepi pinggir hutan.
Tengahari tu, Ajis dah bersiap nak pegi memancing kat lubuk yg diceritakan, siap pakai helmet, Ajis masukkan bekalan minum petang dan pancingnya dlm raga motor. Sepanjang perjalanan Ajis bernyanyi riang, jauh jugak nak kekampung seberang tu, dah hampir masuk waktu Asar baru Ajis sampai, teringat pulak dia tak sempat solat Zohor tadi dia terpikir, karang kalau terus pi sungai tu, tak sempat plak solat Asar. tak lama kemudian Ajis nampak sebuah surau yg agak uzur kat tepi jalan sunyi kampung tu. bergegas dia berhenti, ditengoknya keliling tak ada orang, sunyi saja surau tu. Ajis segera mengambil wuduk dgn tergesa2 sbb waktu Zohor dah hampir nak habis.
Masa Ajis di rakaat yg kedua, Ajis tiba-tiba terdengar bunyi suara orang ketawa. Bulu romanya tiba2 meremang, Hish, sapa pulak yg gelak2 tu? bisik hati Ajis, setiap kali Ajis sujud, Ajis terasa kepala tengkuknya berat dr biasa, Ajis tak sedap hati, ni surau tinggal ker, sbb dah uzur sangat dan alahai, sapa pulak duduk kat tengkuk dia ni. Sedaya-upaya Ajis tenangkan hati, selesaikan solat dgn segera, dia nak tinggalkan cepat surau tu. Bulu romanya semakin meremang-remang sbb suara org ketawa semakin ramai, ada yg sampai terbatuk-batuk.
Syukur, Ajis dah berada di tahiyat terakhir, selesai memberi salam ke kanan dan ke kiri, Ajis meraup mukanya dgn tangan dr atas ubun2 kepala sampai ke dagu, then tiba-tiba Ajis tersedar. hehehe...rupa-rupanya dia terlupa nak tanggalkan helmet masa nak sembahyang tadi, sbb terlampau nak cepat, bila dia toleh belakang, patutlah dengar orang ketawa, rupa-rupanya tok imam, bilal dan orang2 kampung yg dtg nak sembahyang Asar duk gelakkan dia sebab Ajis sembahyang pakai helmet, patut ler kepala dia rasa berat semacam. Terus Ajis blah macam tu ajer, tak jadi pi memancing, dia pusing balik, sembahyang Asar kat rumah sendiri sajalah jawabnya..