Girls Bonding Days

2014 brought with it significant bonding with my girlfriends – old and new.  My acquaintances become my close friends and I also made many new friends that are singles.

I made new friends at my apartment.  I have two new friends from my apartment and both of them are single.  One is a single mother like me and the other one has never been married.  Both ladies are very independent and powerful ladies.  One is an Entrepreneur and the other one is a Project Manager.  I now have companions to hang out at night with and we do morning walks together if time permits.  Of course, all three of us are also busy so time to hang-out together is really rare.  But at least we know where each other are and we can be of assistance to each other when needed.  I really want to ask them to go out to midnight movies one of these days.  Hope that opportunity will come soon.

My colleagues at the office who were once just acquaintances are not my close friends.  Although 3 of them are contractors and their contracts may not be renewed – for now we are having lots of fun.  Lunch time is the time we always look forward to.  We even have budget that we should not spend more than RM30 per day.  We explore new eating places, take turns to drive and share a lot of interesting stories together – from male/husband stories, cooking, baking, children, sightseeing, shopping, activities, etc.  One of my colleagues is also a single mom and both of us will go dinner or movies together when both of us have the time especially if we have to stay back at the office.

Did I tell you that I am the Social Committee President at the office? Well, with this added responsibility, I have to go to many meetings and have to meet-up my colleagues – both boys and girls frequently.  Many a time, we had to have meetings outside office hours as we are busy doing our office work during the day.  These meetings keep me busy and very entertained with the fun activities we are coordinating.

I still go for my Quran lessons.  I have my girlfriends at my Quran classes and we meet up every week and mingle with dinner together at times.  I definitely do jamaah prayers at least once a week – isn’t that a plus apart from reciting Al-Quran.

For now, I am quite happy to have my girlfriends with me and I hope our friendship will last forever.  I hope you single mom out there also have your Girls Bonding Days that keeps you happy and smiling all day long.

Till next time.  Have many awesome days ahead and keep smiling for that added tinge of happiness.  May Allah bless us in our daily activities and may Allah always keep us away from harm and sadness.

MyTeksi Smartphone Application

Assalamualaikum everyone,

Did anyone miss me yet?  Sorry my friends, have not been managing my time well enough.

Today I thought of talking about safety. As single and independent ladies, we often have to carry out many necessary errands by ourselves.  One of those errands is sending our car for service.  As a normal middle income earner, I am a user of our local car manufacturer therefore when the service for my car is due, I have to go to the service center to ensure my car will always be in working order to not just bring me around but to keep me safe.  I do feel safer when I am in my car, most of the time that is.

I found out about the MyTeksi application on smartphones some time back from a friend.  But it is only recently, I started using it.  Here is what I do when I need to service my car:

1. Drive my car to the service center and check it in for service
2. Leave my car at the service center. 
3. Execute MyTeksi application from my phone. The initial screen comes-out.  Specify my "From:" and "To:" location. I always select "Budget" teksi.  Then click <Next>. See picture1 below.
4. Another screen comes-out.  This screen confirms your destination, the estimated distance of travel in KM, Estimated amount you will need to pay for this journey, etc. Click on <Confirm Booking> if the details on this screen is per as what you wanted.  See picture2 below.
5. Another screen will comes-out after this to tell you the taxi driver's name and his/her taxi plate number.
6. Now I just wait for about 10 minutes or so for the taxi to come and to pick me up so that I can go back to office to do work.  Just wait at the waiting room until the taxi comes.
7. Once the taxi comes (you will know the taxi is for you because the taxi plate number is already displayed in the MyTeksi application just now), just hop-in and head to office.
8. Note: You can always re-launch the application again if you have left it idle for some time.  Another way to hold the information is by capturing the print screen.  For Android phones like mine, you press the <Power> button and the <Volume down> button simulataneously.  The print screen will be available either in your camera lists or your file/document folder in your phone.
9. Usually, my car is ready at noon if I sent it in the morning.  So when my car is ready to be picked up, I just book my taxi via MyTeksi application again from my phone.

 



MyTeksi Picture1

 

MyTeksi Picture2

One thing to note though, MyTeksi application is really new.  Most of the taxi drivers that use it are veterans/old timers who are not very Smartphone savvy. So they have problem to locate your location using their GPS that comes with the MyTeksi application.  I have experienced a taxi driver calling me to ask me where I am located.  He gives me some reasons which I thought is rather ridiculous but me being the nice me, of course, give him directions to reach me.  He was not entirely very late just additional 10 mins late.

What this shows is that when we confirm the booking, our information is transmitted to the selected taxi driver just as we also get the information about the taxi.

Another feature of MyTeksi that can be useful is that you can have additional information to your account on whom should be notified once you have reach your destination.  My friend put her husband's number for this.  So when she reaches her destination, an automatic message/sms is sent to her husband to notify him.  Although, I don't use this feature yet, I may want my children to use it in the future if MyTeksi application still exist then.

So if you want to use MyTeksi application, go to "Play Store" for Android or "App Store" for Apple, search for MyTeksi application, then install it on your smartphone.  Register an Account with MyTeksi and provide your details accordingly.

There you have it!  I hope you will find this application as useful as I do. May Allah always keep us safe from harm that we know of or from something that we do not know of.  Sesungguhnya Allah maha mengetahui dan kita tidak.  Thank you Allah, Thank you All.  Until next time, good night, sweet dreams....