BEING NICE MATTERS

 

I still remember it was on a sunny Friday noon. The males were having their Friday prayers, thus, the lunch hour during Friday is longer compared to the other working days. So i decided to go to 1 Mont Kiara, the mall across the road for window shopping and get myself something to eat. Unluckily, suddenly it was raining cats and dogs and i didn't bring any umbrella with me. Obviously i can't cross the road without getting very wet. Along with other pedestrians that have no umbrella, i just waited for the rain to stop at the outside of the mall.

All of a sudden, there's this one lady came to me, and gave me her brand new umbrella. I was like; It's okay because how are you going to cross the road later on? And how am i going to give this umbrella back to you? Calmly she replied; Don't mind me. Just take the umbrella. You need it more than me at this moment. I almost cried with the rain because seriously, what did i do to deserve this act of kindness? There were many pedestrians she can pick to give her umbrella but she picked me. Alhamdulillah. May Allah shower the lady with abundant blessings and may she gets the best in life and the hereafter. Amen! I still have the umbrella with me until today. Hehe one good deed remains.

I accept as true that what the lady did was actually not in the norm for our society. Even if i was in her shoes, i might not just giving away my umbrella to random people because i know that i will be using the same umbrella over and and over again in the future like, how it is all about me and not about others. It's a shame though. I own that.

But what i want to highlight is, being nice is matters. Being nice is important but seems very hard to do in current times. Yet, people long for niceness. I'm not only saying about giving your umbrella for free to the other person but look around us. People are quick to express their outrage and disdain for others. Everybody seems to have strong opinions about everything and are not shy at all to express them with vigor doesn't matter whether the opinions are good or bad. We are so used with being mean, rude and arrogant that we think it is okay (sadly even feel cool and great about ourselves) to do it on daily basis. Like, let me give you few situations:

1. We feel okay to look down to other people and feel superior to those who are not as rich as we are, as clever as we are or as good standard as we think we are. We often do this to the janitors, the banglas or immigrants that are here to earn money because their countries are not as fortunate as ours. And sometimes to the McDonalds employees because we are fed with mentality that those who are working as such are actually not as good as us who working in the so called 'better' industry. And we are living with the mentality of "customers is always right". While if it's us who are in the wrong situation, doens't matter if we are the best, loyal customers, this slogan never applies like for real. Grow up.

2. You are working at the luxury or high-end retail stores as a sales assistant. Someone is coming to the store. Since you are paid for 'only' assisting the rich that wear good looking outfits and seems to have such amount of money, and this particular person entering the store looks just so so and you think that person could never afford such brand (might be poor or lost or something). So you give that person such an arrogant look and sometimes to be easy, just be rude to this kind of people because you think that he/she didn't worth being around the store. I mean, are you seriously doing this? Should i remind you that you are just a sales assistant, not the owner of the brand. Those people that you looked down might having more money in their bank account compared to yours. Come back to earth. Just do your damn job evenly.

3. You are driving a brand new let say, BMW. So you automatically expecting other people on the road especially those who just driving the local car brands to respect and prioritize you as you are because come on, it's BMW guys! Not Perodua nor Proton ew. Everybody needs to give ways to you first in whatever condition. Sometimes, no signals from you is needed because it is you, BMW (okay we got it). And oh, during traffic jam, you don't care about others since the priority is always yours since your car is one of the most expensive on the road so others, please back off! Even when accidents happen because of you sometimes, since the other car or person that got hit is just nah, so whatever, the fault is theirs. Lol. I seriously never understand these kind of people like, why are those who have bigger and better car always have the least common sense on the road? Is it a curse or something? And you know what's worse? When you are not even driving a luxury car at all but pretend like one by being the road dumpsters. Smh.

However, please don't get me wrong. I believe and i know that these three situations does not apply to everyone. But these situations are really the ones that's happening everyday in our lives. Honestly it is not okay at all, especially if we are the cause or that kind of jerk. It is also not something for us to be proud of. Ever. Being nice is such a good vibe that not only will you be more liked but trusted and respected, too. So let's bring it back in fashion. Give niceness a chance. Be nice. It's easy.

FLUFFY BABY

 

It was a long Saturday. Me and my sister had our grading at SK Sri Hartamas. I didn't memorize the steps and all, worrying to not pass the stage. We spent the morning doing the steps and the grading occurred at 2pm. Alhamdulillah i guess it went well for both of us. And then, I asked my sister to accompany me to buy things at the (hands down) best store ever, MR.DIY! Just to buy few things to fill my needs to move out to another place at the end of this month. We had the roasted chicken rice with mushroom at the food court for late lunch and the taste was delicious like i'm so going there again to eat the exact same dish. We even had our first ever mochi in life. It smells sweet and squishy and yeah we can eat that thing and looking forward to eat more in the future as well hahaha.

And then my sister sent me home before she went back to our kampung at Seliau alone. I didn't tag along since on Monday, I went to KL Bird Park with my brown sugar. Oh, KL Bird Park is also one of the good places to visit. I mean, for someone who has soft spot for animals like me, normally i get quite sad at zoo type places since i don't believe that animals should be caged up that i can feel the sadness in their eyes which ended up making me sad for days. But KL Bird Park is clearly for a good cause. The birds are all free to fly, the place also help to protect and breed the endangered species. Everything was good to me except for the ostrich. For me they should give the ostrich more and bigger space for them to run and do their stuff. It's just not fair for them. But overall, the place is definitely worth a visit.

Okay back to the story (such distraction). So after my sister sent me home, as usual, i took the lift to level 17 where my unit is. When i reached level 17, while walking to my unit, suddenly i saw this fluffy fat cat at the corridor like, how on earth she is here and who own this munchkin?! And i saw all of the doors in the neighbourhood are closed. It's kinda weird cause afaik, usually my neighbours always let their doors open that i can see them having dinner together and all. So i guess this cat might be lost or something. I decided to stay and play with her for as long as i can. And if nobody claims the cat, i'm so gonna call my sister to come back and bring the cat home. Sebab kalau curi and kita jaga baik baik, HALAL. Hahaha. Such theory.

I swear she is the cutest and so manja like i suddenly forgot how tired i was and all, just by seeing her. Her present already makes me so happy. That's when i realized that i was actually at the wrong floor which at level 15 instead of level 17. No wonder some of the things are not familiar to me like the closed doors and especially the cat. Haha. Few minutes later, one door was open, and she ran inside to her owner, her home. Literally one the cutest 5 seconds ever.

Generally, i knew that the only hikmah for me going to the wrong level was to meeting the fluffy baby. So that i forgot about the long day. God's plan is always the best.

SELFIE MUSEUM KL

 

To begin, here is a selfie of myself behind the curtain. Isn't she beautiful? Aww ikr! Thank you.

 I swear me and my sister have like 6 months supply of Instagram photos just from this place. But let's save it for the other day.

Tbh, i don't have much to say about this. But since the place was so photo worthy, therefore, i need to have a post about it here to save some in my blog. Hehe. I wonder why they called the place as a museum since i didn't see it as a museum. No written nor printed details about what it is about with the giant gummy bears, floating marshmallow and etc. They do have staff to tell us that this room is sponsored by Benefit Cosmetics, dUCk and whatnot. But mostly, the staff were there as timekeepers to remind us the visitors like "Miss are you done here? We shall move to another room now" since they do have interval sessions to make sure that they are not so many people in one place. To make us easier and more comfortable in term of taking on-point photos. 

And in my point of view, Selfie Museum is also not really an accurate name to represent the place. They should name the place as something else. Because i believe that 90% of the good photos are not selfies but the photos of us taken by another person. Like, it is not sufficient for us to be there to only taking selfies. But i do believe that selfie is a strong word. Therefore, if they named the place as, let say, Desserts Thematic Rooms, it is not going to give an impact as much as Selfie Museum did. But whatever, just my random thoughts hahaha.

So the Selfie Museum is located at Fahrenheit 88, KL near to Pavilion. The entrance ticket is RM45 per person. But since we bought it online at their website, so it's RM40 for one. You can read all of the details here at their website. You will also get cupcakes, marshmallows, Baskin Robbins ice cream, Tealive and mini tarts inside there. I swear the mini tarts were so good and to die for. The tart flavors were coconut and banana like omg where did you guys get these mini tarts?! I want to order one big box damn!

If you are a good-photo freaks aka Instagram freaks like me, i swear the Selfie Museum is a happy place for you. Don't go alone! Bring your photographer friends as well. As for my case, i thank God for the existence of my sister to take good photos of mine. Needless to mention, it is me who set the angles and stuff every time. All my sister has to do was holding the camera, and press the snap button (1 million times). But still, what are Fiqazizi's Instagram photos without her sister behind the camera. And vice versa.