Colonialism is not dead.

Am I becoming more important?

2009-03-30T03:35:00.001-07:00

Sebulan dua ni asyik jumpa orang kenamaan je..haih
Bulan lepas Ir Nizar, pastu Tuanku Mizan..
Hari ni Pak Lah.
Ok la salam je pon.

Tangan Pak Lah lembut gle.

Who else thinks Fabregas looks like Sylar?

2009-03-19T09:00:00.001-07:00

My step-dad was the one who pointed this out, can't really remember whether I thought so before he told me. So hey, who else thinks Fabregas looks like Sylar?

The footballer....

and the villian...

look like some kind of long lost twin brothers.

I googled 'fabregas looks like sylar' btw, and yeah, teh interwebs thinks the same..

Why don't they change places for a day, huh? I bet sylar could win the premiership single handedly.

Instead we have a guy who spits at assistant managers.

Murphy's Law is broken!

2009-03-15T07:49:00.000-07:00

I was in a bus when Murphy's Law was broken (refer to Murphy's Law: Reds chances at Old Trafford). Which now means Benitez doesn't have to buy Danny Murphy from Fulham.
It wasnt broken by a goal or two. 4-1! I think Benitez just said to his guys before the game; "Lads, just pretend you're against Real Madrid today, and you'll be fine".

What a game. Just that I did'nt watch it.

Murphy's law: Reds' chances at Old Trafford

2009-03-13T23:15:00.001-07:00

*Liverpool have struggled at Old Trafford in the Premier League era, winning just three of 17 league and cup games against Manchester United. All three victories came courtesy of a sole Danny Murphy strike, during a four-year purple patch.

*17 December 2000 Man United 0 Liverpool 1 (Murphy 43)

*22 January 2002 Man United 0 Liverpool 1 (Murphy 85)

*24 April 2004 Man United 0 Liverpool 1 (Murphy 63 pen)
source: Independent

PS: Keputusan SPM baru keluar. Aku ternampak newsline; "PPMSI (pengajaran math sains dalam Bahasa Inggeris) tak jejas prestasi spm". Dah berapa tahun line ni keluar.. Dan aku tak paham, macamana jabatan pendidikan boleh justify hal ni. Aku rasa semua dah maklum sistem penggredan SPM yang menggunakan graf tu. Kalau tahun tu soalan senang, ramai yang dapat markah tinggi, markah untuk dapat A naik. Kalau tahun tu susah, graf turun. Simple. Jadi kalau percentage yang dapat A tahun ni lebih kurang percentage masa sebelum polisi PPMSI, tak semestinya menunjukkan pelajar masih dapat menjawab soalan exam dengan baik. Jadi "PPMSI tak jejas prestasi spm"?

Sebab aku tinggal di kampung, aku tahu macamana budak sini jawab exam. Aku rasa korang pun boleh bayangkan. Sesiapa yang tak faham BI, takkan faham pengajaran math dan sains (terutamanya sains) dalam BI. Dianggarkan lebih setengah juta pelajar akan tercicir kerana polisi ini.

Maka nyatalah polisi ini polisi yang menjahanamkan.

Eddie the surfer, youre the man!

2009-03-08T05:37:00.000-07:00

Masa makan roti canai pagi ni, terserempak dengan Eddie dari pulau perhentian. Eddie ni tubuhnya agak tough, terus terang nampak sebab pakai sleeveless. Pakai shorts, ray bans, cap, macam clone beach bum aussie sial. Surfer pulak tu. Eddie sorang je kat perhentian yang surf. Perhentian tu ombak bukannya besar sangat, cukup-cukup tinggi lah..
Bergilir-gilir dia berbual ngan aku dan stepdad aku, sekejap loghat kelantan pekat, sekejap english yang slangnya boleh tahan. Terpikir jugak aku, dari kerajaan ajar math science in English, baik hantar budak belajar kat pulau je. Budak-budak kampung kat situ yang ambil inisiatif, memang english bole tabik ah.
Dan terpikir jugak aku, kalau si Eddie ni kat sydney sekarang, memang surfing siang malam ah aku rasa.
Eddie ni kerjanya agak murni. Selain bukak kedai kat pasir panjang tu, dia jugak lifeguard untuk noobs yang terperangkap dalam rip tide yang memang acap kali membawa ajal kepada sesiapa yang malang.
Ada dia cerita, sekali tu, 4 orang dia kena rescue. Lepas orang kedua, dah tak larat. Penat lawan ombak. Aku tak tanya pulak apa jadi kat dua orang tu. fuh.
FYI, kat pulau perhentian takde pun official lifeguard on duty. So tak dapat duit pun. Equipment pun semua Eddie yang beli sendiri. Kerajaan tak interested pun. Kata safety first..
Katanya, kalau kat tempat lain, siap dapat pingat lagi...
Orang yang dia dah save, dah tak terbilang. Alangkah banyaknya pahala, saving someones life.

Yang belajar kat sydney tu, kalau lepas 4 tahun tak reti surf lagi, ok lah bagi mudah; tak reti swimming lagi, tak yah ah weyh...setakat ambik gambar kat tepi Coogee beach.

Berbalik kepada pengajaran math dan sains dlm bahasa inggeris, 2 hari lepas 2000-8000 orang berarak dari Masjid Negara ke Istana Negara. Kena tear gas. Bayangkan, cikgu-cikgu, ahli akademik, sasterawan, dah orang ramai yang memperjuangkan bahasa melayu dan berdemo secara aman, KENA TEAR GAS.
This country is going to the dogs.

Funny court quotations

2009-02-23T07:24:00.000-08:00

Some courtroom quotations i found on the net.. its claimed that they are taken from real courtroom records. Maybe, maybe not, but they're funny nonetheless.

Lawyer: "Now, you have investigated other murders, have you not, where there was a victim?"

Lawyer: "Now, doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, in most cases he just passes quietly away and doesn't know anything about it until the next morning?"

Lawyer: "Did you blow your horn or anything?"
Witness: "After the accident?"
Lawyer: "Before the accident."
Witness: "Sure, I played for ten years. I even went to school for it."

Lawyer: "Trooper, when you stopped the defendant, were your red and blue lights flashing?"
Witness: "Yes."
Lawyer: "Did the defendant say anything when she got out of her car?"
Witness: "Yes, sir."
Lawyer: "What did she say?"
Witness: "'What disco am I at?'"

Lawyer: "Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for blood pressure?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "Did you check for breathing?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?"
Witness: "No."
Lawyer: "How can you be so sure, Doctor?"
Witness: "Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar."
Lawyer: "But could the patient have still been alive nevertheless?"
Witness: "Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law somewhere."

Lawyer: "You were there until the time you left, is that true?"

Lawyer: "So you were gone until you returned?"

Lawyer: "The youngest son, the 20 year old, how old is he?"

Lawyer: "Were you alone or by yourself?"

Lawyer: "Did you ever stay all night with this man in New York?"
Witness: "I refuse to answer that question.
Lawyer: "Did you ever stay all night with this man in Chicago?"
Witness: "I refuse to answer that question.
Lawyer: "Did you ever stay all night with this man in Miami?"
Witness: "No."

Lawyer: "Could you see him from where you were standing?"
Witness: "I could see his head."
Lawyer: "And where was his head?"
Witness: "Just above his shoulders."

Lawyer: "Any suggestions as to what prevented this from being a murder trial instead of an attempted murder trial?"
Witness: "The victim lived."

Lawyer: "Do you have any children or anything of that kind?"

Lawyer: "She had three children, right?"
Witness: "Yes."
Lawyer: "How many were boys?"
Witness: "None."
Lawyer: "Were there girls?"

Lawyer: "You don't know what it was, and you didn't know what it looked like, but can you describe it?"

Lawyer: "You say that the stairs went down to the basement?"
Witness: "Yes."
Lawyer: "And these stairs, did they go up also?"

Lawyer: "What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke that morning?"
Witness: "He said, 'Where am I, Cathy?'"
Lawyer: "And why did that upset you?"
Witness: "My name is Susan."

Lawyer: "This myasthenia gravis -- does it affect your memory at all?"
Witness: "Yes."
Lawyer: "And in what ways does it affect your memory?"
Witness: "I forget."
Lawyer: "You forget. Can you give us an example of something that you've forgotten?"

Lawyer: "And what did he do then?"
Witness: "He came home, and next morning he was dead."
Lawyer: "So when he woke up the next morning he was dead?"

source

the bourne supremacy iz teh r0x0r

2009-02-12T00:53:00.000-08:00

I watched bourne supremacy for the umpteenth time. The scene where bourne
asks for a taxi in moscow:

Taxi driver: Rubles?
Bourne: Dollars.

Driver agrees and bourne gets into the car.

If filming of the next bourne film is done in Malaysia, I
hope the dialogue doesn't go something like this:

Taxi driver: Meter or no meter?
Bourne: No meter.
Taxi driver: Get in.

Of course in the cab the driver will go on about Obama politics and Bourne is like "Yeah I voted democrat" while some extremely good-looking assasin just hijacked a kancil and is following 50 meters behind.

Then they get stuck in a traffic jam.

Top 10 bank slogans

2009-01-29T19:25:00.001-08:00

Time's 'The List' issue had this interesting list of slogans from ailing banks in the US:

1. Washington Mutual: "Whoo hoo!"

2. Lehman Brothers: "Where vision gets built"

3. AIG: "The strength to be there"

4. IndyMac: "You can count on us"

5. Capital One: "What's in your wallet?"

6. World Financial Group: "No family left behind"

7. Morgan Stanley: "World wise"

8. Security Pacific Bank: "Smarter Money"

9. Nationwide: "Protection"

10. T. Rowe Price: "Invest with confidence"

These slogans from some of the most hard-hit financial institutions are good for a little schadenfreude, but I'm bringing this up because of the news of what these really kurang ajar big boys on Wall Street are doing.
"Employees were paid more than $18 billion in bonuses last year while their crumbling financial sector received a bailout from taxpayers". This damning piece of news comes after Citigroup was to receive a new corporate jet even after receiving billions for a bailout. A corporate jet. What gall!

So I don't feel guilty at all making fun for their bank slogans. My favourite is probably IndyMac's "You can count on us", which was one of the first casualties of the credit crunch, and the second-largest bank failure in US history.

Obama is damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.

2009-01-21T06:52:00.000-08:00

I've been hearing quite a lot from people who are 'anti-obama' nowadays. I'm obviously talking about those riled up with his deafening silence on what is going on in Gaza. It's the exact opposite to the rest of the world - it's hip to love Obama and his speeches that seem to have a lot less grammatical errors than his predecessor. This pessimism towards him basically started with some pretty zionist comments he made during his campaign speeches.
"Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided". This is some real radical stuff man. Even Bush didn't go that far. Even israeli leaders don't go that far. But Obama is addressing one of the most powerful jewish lobbies in America, and says this in a campaign speech. Palestinians don't foot campaign bills, the big boys like AIPAC do. And palestinians don't vote a US president, american jews do. So his "more Likud than thou" comments should be taken into context. Remember that being black and having a muslim dad AND having 'Hussein' as a middle name isn't really an advantage when you're running for president.

Fast forward to now, the white supremacist-islamophobe's worst nightmare has materialised (remember, even late into the election 10% of Americans still thought Obama was a muslim). So should we hope for a better middle-east policy starting today? I think the answer really lies in what actual power Obama has as president. My feeling is that at heart Obama is a good guy. Family associations affect you in some way or a rather, and I truly think the fact that his father was muslim and his attachment to the east makes him a sympathiser by nature. But could he change things if he wanted to? Could he say tomorrow, "I am with the Palestinian people"?

I don't think so. Think about this - what on earth does America gain from being an ally of Israel? Eight million dollars of American tax-payers money goes to Israel every day. Israel is the main cause for anti-American sentiment in the Middle-east. Israel is why 911 happened. And 911 gave an excuse for Bush to start wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. And those wars cost taxpayers nearly as much as The Bailout (600 billion by pentagon estimates). So at all levels, Israel is the biggest liability America has ever had. Eliminating israeli protection and funding should have been a main issue in the elections. Instead, Obama must kiss Jewish arse in order to get his arse into the whitehouse.

If I had to be optimistic, I would believe that Obama played the game during the campaign and now that he's in the whitehouse, he could control the game. But the more likely scenario is, Obama can't do anything even if he wants to.

Kereta hybrid proton.

2009-01-05T22:31:00.000-08:00

Aku agak teruja tahun lepas bila Proton mengumumkan nak menghasilkan kereta hybrid dalam 2 atau 3 tahun. Walaupun automatic electric window pun Proton agak tak reti nak buat (semi-automatic sebenarnya sebab kena angkat tingkap dengan tangan sambil tekan switch), sekurang-kurangnya inisiatif tu ada. Better start now than never.
Setakat yang diketahui, bosch, lotus dan detroit electric sedang membantu Proton dalam hal ini.

Lets not kid ourselves lah, Proton masih terkial-kial di gelanggang sendiri. Yang last aku tahu untuk proton, average 6 defects per car. Toyota? 0.2.
Looooooong way to go, but at least it's in the right direction.
Anyway kita kaji satu persatu:

BOSCH

"...I can only say that we are looking at this possibility in two to three years time before we go into mass production,” he (managing director Datuk Syed Zainal Abidin) said. “To realise this, we have started collaborating with several foreign OEMs such as Bosch who are involved in producing hybrid components and system."

Bosch, a German auto parts maker, is the world’s largest supplier of automobile components. The company has business relationships with virtually every automobile manufacturer in the world. Syed Zainal also said that Proton was currently undertaking research and development to identify certain aspects of technology to reduce the cost of producing hybrid cars.
BERNAMA

Hmm... Syed Zainal Abidin memang dikatakan membawa Proton ke arah yang betul dengan meningkatkan QC nak sebagainya. Lepas announcement ni, lagilah aku respect dia ni.

LOTUS

"Compared to the baseline Proton Gen.2, tailpipe emissions are reduced from a competitive 172g/km to just 134g/km, a reduction of 22%, while fuel economy improves from 39.2mpg to 50.2mpg, a 28% improvement."
Source

DETROIT ELECTRIC

Image source

Yang ni aku musykil sikit sebab Detroit Electric ialah start-up company daripada some guy yang quit lotus cars. Kalau tengok website Detroit Electric pun macam template website kosong je.

Homemade rockets VS helicopter gunships

2008-12-28T20:27:00.000-08:00

296 Palestinian lives VS 1 Israeli life. Israel thinks one of their citizens lives equals 300 Palestinian ones. As far as their population is concerned, they're only stamping on cockroaches and rodents. Besides, the killing helps in the February elections. Meanwhile, arab leaders everywhere try to concentrate more on this weekend's English football. Not that CNN broadcasts the extent of the zoinist's brutality anyway.

Everyone should read this:
Johann Hari: The true story behind this war is not the one Israel is telling
Robert Fisk: Leaders lie, civilians die, and lessons of history are ignored
Also www.ifamericansknew.org

What can we in Malaysia do? The least we can do is solat hajat. Our own Aman Palestin also has a Skim Bantuan Gaza. Donations can be done through it's bank accounts BIMB 12029010047880 , MayBank 562263010787.

Laman web KMS islamic union

2008-12-22T18:09:00.000-08:00

Laman web kmsislamicunion.org akan expired pada 16 Januari 2009. Ayuh semua lawat laman web ini sebelum terkubur selama-lamanya. Boleh aje renew, tapi... sapa lah nak jaga dan bayar domain dan web space fees? Aku? oh tidak...
Anyway terima-kasih kepada semua budak 7.1 kerana berjaya melancarkan laman web ini...walaupun aku yang banyak wat kerja hahaha takde ah..
Juga kepada girls 7.1, aku hutang ngan korang 30sen seorang untuk domain dan webspace fees, harap korang halalkan yaa..
OK ciao

Inter-racial marriage

2008-12-18T20:09:00.000-08:00

I think Ill be writing a few posts on inter-racial marriage. Because I have a bit of experience in this field. Not just because I'm the product of one, but also because in Besut, there are loads of kampung kids getting hitched with foreigners. I believe Besut would probably score higher than average in an 'inter-racial index' if there ever was one. These kampung kids pwn those overseas student noobs in fact. Here's a list of the race of some of those married to locals i know or have heard of. Of course there are many more.

Race--------Number--------Sex
Japanese --------1---------1 Female
British-----------4---------1 Female, 3 Male
Italians----------1--------- 1 Female
Norwegians------1---------1 Female
Australians ------1 --------Can’t remember lolz
Chinese ---------2 ---------2 Male
Egyptians -------1 -------- 1 Male

Some interesting facts:
All the girls in the table met their spouses on Perhentian Island.
Two of the British guys have been here since the 1940’s – and have never been back to England since then. They’re more Malaysian than anybody!
Two marriages in the table have ended in divorce.
The two Chinese are local Chinese.
One of the British girls has been a Muslim for 2 years before she married the local.
Everyone in the table are Muslim reverts except the Egyptian.

A lot of these guys have some interesting stories to tell, especially the pre-merdeka ones. Some sad stories too. I might blog about those sometime!

Berbogel di jalanan

2008-12-13T16:37:00.000-08:00

Wah! Begitu kagum dengan persatuan reformis. Mereka ingin berbogel. Wah! Nudism sudah sampai di malaysia. progresif. Adakah ini permulaan bagi industri pornografi melayu? TV3 dan pelbagai badan kerajaan mestilah memainkan peranan yang lebih proaktif dalam hal ini, dengan menyediakan coverage media yang secukupnya. Mungkin semasa pertunjukan bogel mereka, kalau boleh disertakan pelbagai aktiviti yang menarik. Contohnya:
tarian naga bogel.
pertandingan melukis (bukan untuk kanak-kanak lah.)
pertandingan hula hoops paling lama

Mungkin mereka boleh membuat 'roadshow' di seluruh malaysia. Mengapa tak datang ke terengganu juga? Proteslah juga kepincangan kerajaan di sini yang membazirkan berjuta-juta duit rakyat untuk projek yang bodoh lagi bangang seperti masjid kristal (rm200 juta) dan monsoon cup yang duitnya masuk poket kroni, dan langsung tak memanfaatkan rakyat miskin yang dikatakan cuba dibela oleh reformis. malaysiakini

Biarlah disiarkan live supaya rakyat malaysia dapat berbangga dengan kehebatan dan kegagahan lelaki melayu. Malaysia akan gah di persada dunia dan ini juga boleh menjadi promosi yang baik.

PS: kalau yang tak tahu pasal reformis, baca: http://www.nst.com.my/Tuesday/National/2417404

Seorang nenek yang malang

2008-12-09T19:00:00.001-08:00

Pada suatu hari yang malang, seorang nenek bernama Mak Tejah sedang sakit tenat di hospital. Tiba-tiba, anaknya Nizam dan Amirah datang melawat. Mereka sangat sedih dengan keadaan perempuan tua tersebut, lalu mendekatinya sambil memberi kata-kata semangat. Nampaknya Mak Tejah ingin berkata sesuatu yang penting. Lalu dicapainya kertas dan pen 'kilometrico'. Selepas menulisnya, dia memberikannya kepada Nizam. Kata Nizam kepada dirinya, "Sungguh tidak sopan rasanya jika aku membaca wasiat ini depan mak", lalu melipatkan kertas itu dan memasukkannya ke dalam poket belakang. Tak lama selepas insiden terbabit, Mak Tejah meninggal dunia.
Selepas upacara pengebumian, Nizam menyeru semua adik-beradik supaya berkumpul dan membuat satu bulatan di dalam bilik. Dengan perasaan paling pilu dan sedih, Nizam mengeluarkan kertas dari poket belakang, yang sekarang sudah panas sedikit kerana pengaliran haba dari punggungnya. Suasana dalam bilik menjadi tegang. Nizam membaca isu kandungan surat terbabit. "Along, jangan lah pijak atas wayar oksigen tu..".

Besut VS Kemaman

2008-12-07T03:53:00.000-08:00

Perjalanan bas semalam dekat 15 jam sial. Traffic jam tengah hutan kat gua musang. Apa ni Ikram? Jawab cepat..haha
At last sampai besut. Pergi Jertih tadi. Tengok kemajuan kat besut sket... starbucks takde lagi. KFC, guardian ngan watson je la lambang kapitalis yang ada untuk menunjukkan besut lebih maju dari dulu.. Kemaman dah ada starbucks, big apple donuts, secret recipe ngan TGV kat Mesra Mall( Mesra mall adalah pasaraya moden bernilai rm100juta yang dikendali oleh suria klcc group). KT pon xde starbucks. gle ah kemaman.

Hmm. Menteri besar adalah ADUN kemaman. Adakah keputusan meletakkan mesra mall di kertih berbau politik? Sebenarnya dulu bila Idris Jusoh jadi MB, banyak 'kemajuan' berlaku di Besut (idris orang besut). Contohnya UDM, taman ilmu, masjid hadhari dan jerteh souq merupakan antaran projek mega idris. Adakah sekarang giliran kemaman 'menunjuk jari tengah' ke besut?

Jadi persoalannya, adakah kemaman, a land in the middle of no where, lokasi terbaik untuk sebuah pasaraya moden? Tejo nasir dan michik (dungun dekat ah tuh) mungkin berkata "ya!". Dan mereka kemungkinan sekarang sedang menghirup double frappocino sambil memerhati permandangan indah trafik kemaman. Impian menjadi realiti.
But ok la, alasan untuk buat kat kemaman logik gak ah. Engineer petroleum dan expatriates yang duk kat situ, sememangnya duit belambak. Kalau besut? Tokei sate dan keropok lekor je la mampu minum kat starbucks sambil menikmati wifi percuma yang slow nak mati tu.

Set kemamang jgn tak tegur lak aku pas ni. Mentang la breakfast stabak.
'Frapocino daba se bang. derah sket natang beruk. nok gi shopping giordano plok ning. Pahtu tengok quantum of sorleh'.
Hilir saing aku lening. Impian menjadi realiti.

Pisau dalam hutan

2008-11-30T23:52:00.000-08:00

Suatu hari di tengah hutan.. ketika para pelajar sebuah universiti sedang melakukan penyelidikan terhadap tumbuhan hutan… Seorang pelajar senior yang juga merupakan pemimpin kepada rombongan itu terjumpa dengan sebuah pisau lipat di atas tanah. Menurut peraturan yang telah ditetapkan semasa membuat penyelidikan di dalam hutan, sesiapa yang meninggalkan barang penyelidikan di dalam perjalanan akan dihukum.

Lalu pelajar senior itu mengambil pisau lipat dan mengumpulkan semua pelajar untuk tujuan menghukum mana-mana pelajar yang telah lalai dan meninggalkan pisau lipatnya.

“Siapa yang kehilangan pisau lipat di tengah perjalanan tadi?!!” tanya pelajar senior itu..
Tak ada seorang pun yang berani mengaku.. Kemudian pelajar senior itu menambah..

“Ayuh cepat!! mengaku aje la.. lagi pun sebenarnya aku dah tau siapa pemilik pisau lipat ni sebab namanya terukir kat sini.. Tapi aku nak kejujuran korang semua untuk mengaku!!!”
Masih tidak ada jawapan dari para pelajar lain..

“Kalau tak ada yang jujur nak mengaku salah, aku akan panggil nama pemilik!!!”

Pelajar-pelajar masih lagi diam. Akhirnya pelajar senior itu tidak dapat bersabar lagi.. lalu diambilnya pisau lipat tadi kemudian dengan lantang dia menyebut nama pemilik pisau itu…

“STAINLESS STEEL!!cepat keluar…!!!”

Perbezaan MATLAB dengan lain-lain high-level languages

2008-11-26T06:20:00.000-08:00

Aiza ada tanya aku pasal MATLAB (susah ke matlab ni?), so aku rasa bagus jugak kalau aku introduce kat korang language ni. takda la kekok sangat bila start guna tahun depan. Ini contoh perbezaan statement yang aku ambil dari buku ini, untuk memberi contoh kelebihan MATLAB berbanding high-level language yang lain untuk tujuan operasi matematik.

MATLAB:
area = pi* ((diameter/2)^2);

C:
area = 3.141593*(diameter/2)* (diameter/2);

Fotran:
area = 3.141593*(diameter/2.0)**2

Ada:
area: = 3.141593*(diameter/2)**2 ;

Pascal:
area: = 3.141593*(diameter/2)* (diameter/2)

BASIC:
let a = 3.141593*(d/2)*(d/2)

COBOL:
compute area = 3.141593*(diameter/2)* (diameter/2).

Aku tak tahu sebab apa author buku tu bandingkan matlab dengan language2 yang lapuk cam COBOL ngan Ada. Language2 kat atas ni (kecuali matlab) dah ada masa zaman sebelum merdeka lagi. PEr ah. OK ah first of all, kalo tengok operasi 'pi' hanya ada pada matlab. language lain, kena taip sendiri. Kedua, 'square' pon matlab je ada. Tu je ah kot beza dia dalam statement ni.

Jangan makan macam babi la, sayang

2008-11-24T16:29:00.000-08:00

Mak aku dulu pernah buat kelas tambahan bahasa inggeris masa aku sekolah rendah. Satu petang tu, pelajar diarah berlakon cerita "Three little pigs", yang aku rasa semua budak kecik di dunia barat tahu (lebih kurang cam citer sang kancil dengan buaya la..).
"Okey, sapa nak berlakon jadi babi?"

haha aku sampai skarang rasa nak tergelak bila teringat balik .
Last-last mak aku kena tukar jadi "Three little sheep".
Membesar dalam keluarga mixed, kadang-kadang perbezaan macam ni nampak begitu ketara. Mat salleh konpem tergelak kalau tahu dalam bahasa melayu 'babi' tu perkataan kesat. Kalau dalam keluarga melayu, konpem kena lempang kalo si isteri kata,

"Jangan makan macam babi la, sayang" (muka manja)
(don't eat like a pig, pig out, make a pig of yourself)

dan

"Wah abang! Abang berpeluh macam babi lah!"
(sweat like a pig)

Contoh idiom lain:

in a pig's eye (American, informal)

something that you say which means you think there is no chance that something is true or that something will happen. Me, in love with Sandra? In a pig's eye I am.

make a pig's ear of something/doing something (British, informal)

to do something very badly. Tim made a right pig's ear of putting those shelves up.

a pig in a poke

something that you buy or accept without first seeing it or knowing what it is like, with the result that it might not be what you want. Clothes from a catalogue are a pig in a poke. You can't feel the quality of the fabric or know if the clothes will fit.

squeal like a stuck pig (informal)

to make a long, high sound, usually because you are hurt. It was only a scratch, but he started squealing like a stuck pig.

sweat like a pig (informal)

to sweat a lot. I was so nervous, I was sweating like a pig.

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pig picture source

Dalam hidup aku, tak pernah lagi aku jumpa melayu yang kata anak babi tu comel, kecuali diri aku sendiri dan adik-beradik aku. Gambar anak babi paling gila babi comel aku pernah tengok, dalam nat geo magazine (babi liar). perrgh! kiut gle. Tapi citer dia sedih jgak la. mak dia kena buru. tinggal anak je. anak lak tak leh survive tanpa mak. anak tu tahan dalam 3 hari je pastu meninggal.

Apabila Helmi membeli D-SLR

2008-11-23T20:01:00.000-08:00

Helmi semacam je hari ni. Riang campur gelisah. Mana taknya, ni lah hari yang ditunggu-tunggu. Helmi akan membeli kamera Digital Single Lense Reflex Nikon D-80. Nama sungguh cantik lagilah harganya. Demi minat dan passion, apa-apa boleh jadi boss. Kat Lowyat, tinggal 1 model je lagi. Helmi bertindak pantas dan membeli model terakhir. Walaupun duit Mara tak masuk lagi, sikap collective responsibility rakan-rakan yang lain membolehkan Helmi mencapai cita-citanya yang pada satu waktu hanyalah impian tanpa disokong rationale yang jelas. Macam kata idris jusoh bekas menteri besar Terengganu, “impian menjadi reality”. Aku kagum dengan sikap Helmi yang tekad. And Im happy for him. Kerana sebagai room-matenya, aku juga akan menerima tempias faedah-faedah yang bakal diperoleh Helmi.

Assignment yg aku kena hantar hari ni

2008-11-21T01:38:00.000-08:00

My biggest criticism of McWhorter is that the book does not address the topic of spirituality at all. It is probably fair comment to say that most authors in the west shy away from discussing religion in their works. But spirituality in the context of a secular society need not exclusively focus on theology and religion. Ian Mitroff and Elizebeth Denton stated in their book on spirituality in corporate America, “Most executives defined spirituality in much the same way – not as religion, but as the basic desire to find purpose and meaning in one’s life”.

It is important to address spiritual intelligence especially when dealing with issues central to a student such as integrity, handling academic problems and stress, establishing goals, assessing priorities and realizing responsibilities. A high spiritual intelligence is the largest determining factor in realizing one’s true potential. Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall succinctly define the spiritual quotient (SQ) as “the intelligence to put our actions and our lives into a wider and richer meaning. It is the intelligence to judge whether ones actions or way of life is more meaningful than another’s is. SQ is the foundation required to make IQ and EQ function effectively. SQ is our highest intelligence”.

I believe that when somebody does something solely for God, and works hard at achieving his goal, then he or she is sure to succeed. In the case of a student, this happens when one has ‘inner principles’ that when combined and harnessed, make for an all rounded individual. The steps in handling academic problems as McWhorter suggests are all very rational and true, but are not accompanied by spiritual advice. Indeed, if one followed their spiritual voice, one would not experience academic problems in the first place.

Ary Ginanjar Agustian in his book The Islamic Guide to Developing ESQ says that a stereotypical image of the world and the Hereafter has developed in our society which has resulted in a polarization of the physical world and spirituality. So I can understand that McWhorter would have no incentive to include such material in her book, but I believe suggestions such as mine are timely in an age where young adults are observed to be more aggressive, depressed, and more prone to worry than previous generations.

Kau tak tahu apa perasaanku

2008-11-19T18:48:00.000-08:00

Di kala ini ramai di kalangan rakyat Malaysia yang membangkitkan isu kaum. Melayu ni, melayu tu, cina camni cina camtu. Melayu malas, cina tamak dan india tak boleh dipercayai. Pening kepala. Pening sebab tak paham. Tak paham sebab apa? Ni aku nak citer ni…

Sebenarnya ikhlas di hati, aku tak rasa macam aku ada race. Mak aku orang melayu. Bapak aku European. Bapak ak pon orang mixed. Mak dia orang france, bapak dia English. Maksudnya, komposisi gen DNA aku 50% melayu, 25% English 25% French. Yang mana dominant atau resesif, aku x tau (terbayang cikgu azmi ajar chem kejap).

Kalau nak tau apa perasaanku, cuba korang tutup mata kejap dan bayangkan semua benda2 tepi korang termasuk bilik, siling, computer dan kabel streamyx melayang jauh ke angkasa. Tinggal ruang putih kosong ala2 matrix (atau bilik sehari sama ngan setahun dlm dragon-ball). Walaupun nampak cam bodo tp buat la weyh, kalo ko nk tau caner jd aku. OK skarang bayangkan semua hubungan ko ngan dunia melayu lenyap. Maksudnya ko tak reti cakap melayu, ko tak kenal lagi ma and pa, UMNO tak wujud, songket dan songkok pun sekadar objek arbitrari sahaja. Kalau susah sangat, bayangkan ko dengar perbualan melayu dan tak dapat bezakannya dengan bahasa russia. jgn bayangkan maria sharapova suda la, kang tak jadi eksperimen ni (hambar). OK, sekarang fasa paling penting dalam eksperimen ni. Tanya diri kuat-kuat (kalau nak dramatis bayangkan hujan lebat dan rebut taufan);
APA BANGSAKU??!!
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Sekali lagi-
APA BANGSAKU??!! Blank.
Macam tu la perasaan aku sial.

Dah 3 tahun blogging..

2008-11-19T06:43:00.000-08:00

Dah hampir 3 tahun aku berblog, on dan off (maksudnya skejap ada blog skejap takde, selama 3 tahun). Selama 3 tahun ni blog ak berbahasa orang puntis. Tapi tak ramai yang tahu pada 2004, masa orang lain baru sampai akil baligh apatah lagi tau blog tu apa, aku dah tulis blog. Bahasa melayu plak tu. Bawah ni satu kenangan coretanku masa form 4, yang juga aku rasa satu cerminan api kenakalanku yang nampaknya dah malap.

Ponteng

Pergi sekolah seperti biasa. Cuma hari ni ada ‘adventure’ sikit. Aku tengok jadual waktu. Bagus. PQS disambung dengan 2 masa Sejarah, 2 subject yang tidak terlalu penting untuk SPM. So, aku ambil keputusan untuk ambil cuti skitt.. Lagipun kalau aku duk dalam kelas gerenti tido punya. Buat apa buat cikgu sakit hati, right? Dalam perjalanan ke tempat ponteng, surau sekolah, aku terserempak kawan2 aku. “Gi monteng ko Jamil?” Jawapan aku padat dan jitu. So berjalanlah aku ke surau. Kalau masa ni taun lepas, ada beberapa orang akan menemani. Mereka semua sudah chow dari SMKANI. Skolah ni civic sangat. And they hate Arabic; susah sangat. Asyik dapat E je, tak guna laa duk skolah Arab, kan? Anyway, surau sekolah sudah berpenghuni. Budak2 yang tak nak main PJ lepak kat sini. Tak guna. Takde peace aku nak tido. Nevermind. Aku membaringkan diriku dan memulakan proses peniduran. Alangkah bengangnya, suara sumbang budak2 sial tu memekak. No peace at all. Bising tu tak pe lagi, tapi tiap2 3-4 mnit aku dengar nama ‘Cik Ku Razak’ (pengetua) dan ‘Ustat Ya’ (Guru Disiplin) dipanggil.. Budak2 tu acah je, tapi kalau betul2 2 orang tu mari inspect surau, mati la aku. Pukul lebih kurang 9:07 pagi, dah tak dengar suara orang. Good. 20 minit agi boleh tido. Biologi lepas ni, tak leh miss. Aku bangun kejap nak tutup kipas, aku tak suka bazir elektrik. Tiba2, terdengar bunyi macam stampede. budak2 tengah save themselves from Ust. Ya. Shit. Kasut aku letak dekat tepi tempat Ust. Ya sedang berdiri. To hell with the shoes. Aku membuka langkah seribu dan a few seconds later bebas dari ancaman guru disiplin. Cuma satu je masalah; aku pakai stoking tanpa kasut. Aiyoo, kena ambik smula.. Aku ambik perlidungan dalam tandas (baru buka, so no smell whatsoever) untuk memikirkan strategi. Masa tu aku duk terpikir dah, kalau Ust Ya bijak dia akan ambik kasut aku buat evidence. Itu satu kemungkinan.. Last2, aku dapat jugak kasut aku. Syukur, dia tak ambik. Stokin aku pulak dah kotor dan basah sebab pengembaraan aku, so aku jemur je bawah cahaya suria yang menyengit. Balik kelas, just in time untuk Biologi, mata pelajaran feveret aku.

2:10 PM, time to chow. Di luar kawasan sekolah, aku tengok orang baring tengah jalan raya, but not to sleep. Eksiden. Budak pompuan skolah aku sendiri, jatuh motor sebab graze dengan kereta. Pak Cik2 berpusu2 mari menolong anak gadis. To my horror, aku nampak cecair kemerahan atas jalan raya. Damn, this chic got beaten up. Tapi sangkaan aku meleset sekali sebab tepi cecair tu rupa2nya air sirap yang jatuh bersama2nya. Mati2 ingat darah.. Jip ayah aku sampai so aku naik, dan pegi Jertih kejap, nak bayar kompaun. Fast-forward cerita, bill kompaun tu panjangnya lebih satu depa, dari yang taun 1999 sampai 2004. How much? RM1300. Gila.

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:06 PM

Kalau aku plot umur pada paksi x dan tahap skema pada paksi y, aku rasa mungkin dapat graf eksponensi. Atau mungkin definisi ‘nakal’ tu sendiri yang berubah. Contohnya dulu kalau aku suka ponteng, mungkin skarang dah tak ponteng tapi kejahatan tu terbias dan terrefract kearah lain. OKlah walaupun aku rindu zaman sekolah, namun the show must go on kata eminem. Kata lirik Billy Bragg, “The times they are a changing”. Mungkin tu lah tujuan aku berblog semula.