Wednesday, June 13, 2007

Kelas Encik Din

Before you start any bisnes, you've got to have the knowledge. Nanti bile ada masalah takde la terkebil-kebil. To start a business before you make any preparation is suicidal (tapi kalau lingkup jangan le "menyucidekan" diri plak), So i took this class with Encik Din. He is an expert in mushroom cultivation. I've got to know him from a forum called BJ.

Dah beberapa hari dah pergi kelas ni tapi baru harini nak post. I've learn a lot from Encik Khairuddin. Walaupun im not a talkative person, banyak info-info yang dapat melalui soalan Abang Zul. Who is Abang Zul? He's my only classmate in that class. Abang Zul ni dah kerja, kerja kat Maybank. Banyak soalan yang tak tertanya oleh ku di tanya oleh Abang Zul. So banyak input yang saya dapat melalui soalan-soalan Abang Zul nih.

The class was held in Rawang. I woke up unusually early that day. Terpaksalah bertolak awal skit takut sesat pulak. Im not good with directions and lebih-lebih lagi area Rawang. Menurut instruction yang telah diberi oleh Encik Din kena tunggu kat kawasan bertanda "X" iaitu dekat-dekat dengan sekolah, tapi cari-cari tak jumpa pun. So i called him and he told me to wait at one point so he can pick me up. Around 9.55 he arrived (lewat drp yang dijanjikan. Tapi Sifoo punyer pasal takpe) and lead me to his brother's house.

His brother's house in rawang is almost empty. Encik Din cakap abang dia tak sanggup nak duduk kat situ sebab jauh sangat dari tempat kerja (yelah.. jalan daripada rumah ke guard house je dah 10km! Sama jauh dari jarak rumah aku ke UiTM!!). Jadi abang dia bagi kebenaran untuk Encik Din guna sebagai tempat untuk dia mengajar kelas cendawan nih.

Kelas mcm biasalah, mula-mula teori dulu. After few minutes of penerangan, tibalah masa yang dinanti-nanti. praktikal. Actually it's quite enjoyable to prepare medium for mushroom cultivation... hanya kalau nak buat sikit-sikit. Tapi kalau nak buat banyak, masyaallah, patah tulang aku.

Lupa nak tulis, kelas dia dua hari. Hari pertama buat medium, pastu kena kukus beberapa jam. Nak tunggu dia sejuk plak makan mase dekat setengah hari jgak. So lepas siapkan bantal, kitorang kukus and then balik. Kelas sambung esok pulak.

The next day Encik Din bring Abang Zul and me to a mushroom farm dekat bukit beruntung. Diorang ni buat mushroom farm dekat dalam kedai. Im so excited, actually i was planning to do the same thing. Nak buat dalam bangunan jugak. So bila tengok orang buat, makin tinggi plak semangat nih. Lepas habis lawatan ke ladang cendawan kitorang balik ke rumah/kelas untuk meneruskan misi pembelajaran.

Kelas habis around kul 4 and sementara tunggu my mother to pick me up we chit-chat about alot of things relating to mushroom. He told me to start small. There are lot of people who gets too excited and ivested all their money without calculating the risk involved. Yes, theres nothing wrong with investing a big money, people said if you want big profit you have to invest big, but kalau buat membabi buta je memang cari nahas la. You have to learn first and then, and only then, you will earn.

Hehe.. dapatlah bawak balik sorang 21 bantal madium cendawan ni. Mula-mula Encik Din bagi 20 jer tapi dia kasi lagi lebih satu. Nak bagi berkat biar nombor ganjil katanya.

 
Figure 1: Ginilah rupenye bantal



Figure 2: Sekumpulan bantal tengah lepak