KanWork Stay @Home: Cerita Kami (Versi Bahasa) - Siri 55b

Siri 55b: AN EXPERINCE OF A LIFETIME

Rabu, 18 Mac 2020, bermula satu hari yang malap di Kuala Lumpur, tanda bermulanya Perintah Kawalan Pergerkan (PKP)

Lalulintas dari utara dan selatan telah disekat memasuki bandaraya KL. Pasukan Polis telah berada di pelbagai lokasi membendung pergerakan kenderaan.

Dari Menara Berkembar Petronas, jalanraya luar biasa legang. Kebanyakan restoran dan kedai ditutup. Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman kelihatan kelam-kabut dari biasa. Ada penjaja enggan mematuhi PKP. Para penguatkuasa mengarahkan semua untuk ditutup.

Sebulan kemudian, pelanggan di pasar raya menunggu dalam barisan panjang untuk masuk dengan mematuhi jarak sosial. Mereka secara paksa menulis pengenalan dan butiran telefon. Membeli barangan runcit jadi satu cabaran.

Di rumah, pada suatu petang Baba santai di sofa melayan musik instrumental orkestra yang menenangkan 'On a Clear Day' oleh Lamen dan Lane. Untuk mengalih kebimbangan, dia tenggelam dalam autobiografi Nelson Mandela ‘Long Walk to Freedom’.

Sambil memisah sejambak bunga, kemudian diatur dan diletakkan ke dalam pasu kaca, Mama melekokkan sedikit kerawat yang membalut supaya setiap batang akan berdiri tegak seperti bunga sebenar. Sebagai suri rumah, kehidupan berjalan seperti biasa walaupun di tengah-kancah pandemik.

Apabila loceng rumah berbunyi, Hana ke pintu mengutip bungkusan yang dihantar kurier. Dia membersihkan bungkusan dengan sapuan cecair pembasmi kuman. Cardigan cantik berwarna mustard dari ‘Çalacara’ telah menyerikan hari Hana.

Memang sukar memutuskan cadangan mengenai pendedahan ekuiti yang sebahagian besarnya dari Amerika Syarikat, atau gabungan China, Korea, dan Taiwan. Bersandarkan kepakaran pasaran semasa, pendapatan musim akan datang boleh membawa saham tinggi merudung. Huda membincang dan menghasilkan pembentangan impak tinggi kepada pelanggan penting.

Melihatnya sebagai satu alat yang perlu diterokai dan bukannya diikuti, telah memberi motivasi kepada Haikal untuk berjaya dalam kalkulus. Dia secara gigih melatihtubi kertas peperiksaan kalkulus ditalian.

Ini merupakan satu masa yang menakutkan. Oleh itu adalah sangat penting untuk kekal tenang dan bersiap sedia hadapi yang mendatang. Samada anda Baba atau Mama, Hana atau Huda, Haikal atau lain-lain, ia hadir siang dan malam; ketidaktentuan berterusan yang ngeri tentang masa depan.

Semoga yang Maha Kuasa memberkati dan melindungi kita semua.

Hatarmizi Hassan (KanWork Supporter/Volunteer)

11 July 2020

KanWork Stay @Home: CERITA KAMI (OUR STORY) - Siri 55a

Siri 55a: AN EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME

Wednesday, 18 March 2020 began as a grey day in Kuala Lumpur. Marking a grey time, the Movement Control Order (MCO). North and south bounds traffic were stopped from advancing into the city. Police troops were deliberately positioned in various locations curbing vehicles movement.

From Petronas Twin Towers, the street was extraordinarily quiet. Most restaurants and shops were closed. Lorong Tuanku Abdul Rahman was abnormally chaotic. Some hawkers refused to obey the MCO. Enforcement personnel ordered all to close.

Fast forward a month, customers at a hypermarket wait in long lines to enter obliging the social distance. Shoppers grudgingly scrawled their identification and phone details. Buying grocery was an ordeal.

At home, on a mid-afternoon Baba lay tranquilly on a couch with soothing instrumental orchestra ‘On a Clear Day’ by Lament and Lane. To conquer anxiety, he engrossed in the ‘Long Walk to Freedom’, an autobiography of Nelson Mandela.

Separated the bouquet into individual stems, arranged and placed the flowers in a glass vase, Mama bent the wired stems a bit so they would stand more like real flowers. As a homemaker, life went on as usual amidst the calamity.

When the home bell rang, Hana walked to the door for a parcel left by delivery. She cleaned it using disinfecting wipes. Beautiful mustard cardigan from ‘Calacara’ undoubtedly made her day.

It was hard to determine a proposition between an equity exposure largely from USA, or a combination of China, Korea, and Taiwan. Leveraged from present market expertise, the coming earnings season could bring lofty stock down to earth. Huda deliberated and produced a high impact presentation to an important client.

Thought of it as a set of tools to be explored rather than followed, motivated Haikal to succeed in Calculus. He tirelessly practised for his online Calculus examination.

It was a frightening time. It was vital to stay calm and braced for what may come. Whether you were Baba or Mama, Hana or Huda, Haikal or others, it was with you night and day; a terrible unrelenting uncertainty about the future.

May the Almighty bless and protect us all.

Hatarmizi Hassan

KanWork Supporter/Volunteer

11 July 2020