Been a while

Salam and greetings everyone,

It has been a while since I last wrote. As usual, don't feel like it's worth writing but the past fews months have not been so smooth. So, I think this is an avenue to ease up a bit.

The latest test was some modification to the house. I engaged a friend to do the renovation and being a friend, I thought that friendship matters but God has decided otherwise. I thought I'm not that fussy and quite lenient when dealing with dates and payment but true to nowaday's style, money IS everything.. Although I was ahead in terms of payment, the work done was not. Things start to go haywire and before things get worse, my wife and I confronted him. Casually he apologised for the delay and promised that he would complete the work within 1 week. Well, that was 2 WEEKS ago!!

In the meantime, I asked his two workers to work for me, thinking that I would do them a favour because they were complaining about not getting paid. Again, I was fooled. 1 of the worker started to play around and the deposit I gave to him was not being distributed fairly among the four workers. some tools were missing from the house and when I asked, he denied having any knowledge about it. The last straw came when today I realised that a few more items were missing. Damned! I was contemplating of calling him and asked him to own up but I guess with some Modern Muslim nowadays, integrity is not in their vocabulary. Huh, looks like I have to engage another set of workers then because the work is about 30% away from completion.

I don't know whether it's a blessing in disguise or a punishment for my previous wrongdoing from God. The good things are; I can further cut the cost from the project and secondly I got to know (technically) how construction should ideally progressed. The downside is the completion date has to be re-time and I could not concentrate on my core business and I'm perpetually rushing home when the last bell rings..

Insya Allah, this headache will soon be over. Till then, I faithfully hope that 'pisang takkan berbuah banyak kali'...