lyanne cafe and grounds- more photos

my personal assistant from zog - IHSAN

lyanne cafe -photos

lyanne cafe - prima donnas

merajuk- (sulking???). why is it that this most off-putting of human characteristic is so prevalent among women and old folks???. the drinksmaker at lyanne cafe threw a tantrum the other night because i had hired an additional waitress to smoothen the process of serving my clients. among speculated reasons are:-
1. she is having her period.
2. she is jealous of competition for the position of chief cafe officer(but there is no such position, i am the only chief, the BIG CHIEF)
3. she haven't got laid for a long time.
4. don't know.,

human resource is the biggest problem in running lyanne cafe, turnover is very high. i now have a very very accomodating supervisor, rini, a tireless worker in pak nur who reminds me of mohd noor mansor from RMC days, the new waitress, ziela and two school going boys who were always hanging around helping, and the husband and wife team of bunor/fera , thats 7 in total , except that fera is just lounging around in the evening and works mainly in daytime together with another indonesian helper, kak siti. this is my team, the lyanne team.

lyanne cafe - drained

old age sucks, yesterday, i was so physically drained that by 9pm. i could hardly open my eyes thus disabling my ability to have any decent conversation with my saturday night clients, saturday night being our busiest night as there is hardly any other entertainment venue within Kampung Pulau Meranti. hence . Lyanne Cafe is emerging as the premier, and perhaps, only entertainment outlet here, the population here enjoying a night out to unwind. it is perhaps not of the intensity of john travolta's SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER, just a quiet night out viewing and listening to young punks beltintg out mostly INDONESIAN DANGDUTS accompanied by some very very nice affordable dishes and a steaming hot coffee or tea, liquor definitely being a no,no. kampung herelah.a long long way from the ROYAL LAKE CLUB OR JALAN SULTAN ISMAIL. but for the folks here it still beats an early night under the"kelambu",just barely, i think.

elections

with the election looming, i must now position LYANNE CAFE to exploit the enormous election bounty that will surely come in this titanic fight between BN and PR for control of selangor.

conned by ?????

one of the landowners comically put on a show by extending his arm and pointedly referring to putrajaya or serdang. the implication being that if the developer does not buck-up, he will take matters in his hand and ensure that the developer ends up either in putrajaya or serdang hospital. mercifully, for the developer that is, it was this landowner who ended up in the ICU in a private hospital, having suffered some sort of health complications due to the anxiety and stresses of his exertions. what a world???. jaguh kampung at work again!!!!!1

lyanne cafe - drained

after almost 4 months of lyanne cafe opening , i am physically and mentally drained, the biggest culprit being human resources issues, the constant turf war between wannabes bosses and the meneggek (parasiting) characteristic of my target market, and internal sabotage from my other insignificant half.

i now have greater respect for the numerous pakciks and makciks who operates food shop(kedai makan) all over the country. it is hard work, damn hard, worthy of more respect as compared to all those arty-farty so-called entrepreneurs.however, i must stick to my fatwa(edict), that the harder the challenge, the bigger the reward will be. so just as my effort to recover from my stroke, onwards i shall plod in running the cafe.inshaallah, one day there will be a windfall.it is exciting to await and speculate the form that it will take. as the saying goes, god works in mysterious ways and behind every cloud, there is a silver lining, what a wonderful world !!!!!

conned by ?????

in 1996, 40 landowners here in kampung pulau meranti. were conned into entering into a joint venture agreement with a chinese developer to develop their land. acting for both parties in a legal capacity was a former UMNO YOUTh chief. talk about berjuang untuk bangsa, pleaase!!!!. with elections looming and UMNO's stated desire of wresting back selangor, various umno factions are now making noises to give the impression that they are very concerned of course about this manipulation by the chinese, poor guy, he was just following the letter of the jv agreement. how will all this end???. with PR activist here being a bunch of inactive bigots, looks to me that the only way this matter will be resolved is if UMNO wins. then the vested interests that have been lying low all this years, should suddenly spring into action. land office officers and bank officers will receive instructions from supposedly high authority to ensure that this project proceeds. therein lies the diference between UMNO AND PR. ONE IS A BUNCH OF OPPORTUNISTS WHILST THE OTHER ARE MERELY BUNGLING NATO(no action, talk only) warriors .poor malaysia, destined to remain in the third world, unless the current unrest in the middle east could somehow trigger the long ago domino theory. who knows???for me, just sit back and maybe there is money to be made here.