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Working From Home

It has been almost a year of living with the COVID-19 pandemic and the end is far away. The pandemic had changed many ways how we live our lives, where working and schooling from home have now become the new normal. I have been working from home since March 2020 and the transition was not too difficult as I had initially anticipated. However, things changed when I decided to join a new organisation in December 2020. I will tell you that joining a new organisation under a 100% working-from-home setting is not easy. I guess it is human nature to have face-to-face connections with another human being. Joining a new organisation with new colleagues behind the computer screen is definitely not the same with the usual physical reporting to duty. And settling down is not easy too because there are a lot of stuff that need to be arranged for example, the staff access card, office laptop, setting up the virtual private network, etc. It is day 40 at the new workplace and I don't think I have...

Angkara Cinta

I don't typically watch a Malay television series on my own. If I do, it is because my wife or colleagues influenced me to watch them. I don't pay attention too much on Malay television series because I usually pay more attention to the US or the UK television series. More so now, with Netflix, Malay television series just simply fall off my radar. However, it is a bit different with Angkara Cinta. For your information, the series was originally slated for 70 episodes and they just screened Episode 60 last Friday. And now, the production had decided to extend the series to 90 episodes. I guess the series is a hit now? Angkara Cinta is a story about two boys (later men) who have the same name, Luqmanul Haqeem Bin Razlan, but lived in two different worlds. As you can probably imagine, one of them was born with a silver spoon and one of them was not. In a very predictable plot, they met and their lives intertwined in ways that none of them could have imagined. Why do I continue to...