Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Extremely High Imagination Englis Essei
PLEASE BE ADVISED TO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Mercu Tanda Malaysia Landmark
For many, whenever any foreigner(s) especially tourist(s) ask "What is the landmark of Malaysia?" dengan segala bangganya dengan kembang kempis hidung kebanyakan kita akan cakap "KLCC", "Petronas Twin Tower". Betul tak? Don't deny it. Don't bull shitting me by saying "tak lah..." or "mana ada..." because I will (sometimes) tell the same thing. Yeay! KLCC!

But I am no longer proud of KLCC since it become tempat melepak hujung minggu berkumpul ramai-ramai Abang Lah (Bangladeshi), Encik Nam (Vietnamese), Mr. Pal (Nepalese), Ya-a-aw (Blacks), Mutu sammy (India dari India), dan sekutu-sekutu pendatang yang lain. Tak kira lah yang datang secara halal ataupun secara haram. Aku bukan imegresen nak cek passport diorang =P

So, now, when any of my foreigner friends, or tourists or whoever-lah ask me "What is the landmark of Malaysia?", I have new answer but not-so-new landmark(s) of Malaysia (but most of them will never get it till the day they arrive in Malaysia). So what is the answer lah? Look at the picture below...

Ya betul!!! TOLL!!!

Malaysia kaya dengan TOLL!!! Dari Utara ke Selatan, tak terkira berapa banyak PLUS ada toll dari Utara ke Selatan, dari Selatan ke Utara. Itu baru lebuhraya PLUS. Belum masuk lagi lebuhraya Pantai Timur. KESAS lagi? NKVE lagi? Waaaa....

Let me try to list down major Malaysia Exressway link... so imagine jugalah berapa banyak toll yang wujud dalam Malaysia ni kalau compare dengan KLCC yang 2 biji tu..

  • PLUS - North-South Expressway
  • LINKEDUA - Malaysia-Singapore Second Crossing
  • KESAS - Shah Alam Expressway
  • NKVE - New Klang Valley Expressway
  • Lebuhraya Cheras
  • Lebuhraya Kuala Lumpur -Karak
  • NPE - New Pantai Expressway
  • LDP - Lebuhraya Damansara-Puchong
  • AKLEH - Ampang-Kuala Lumpur Elevated Highway
  • KLIA Dedicated Expressway
  • Lebuhraya Kajang-Seremban
  • Lebuhraya Pantai Timur
  • SPRINT
Wiewww... meriah!
 
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Monday, November 16, 2009
UMNO 63 TAHUN?
Aku bukanlah penulis politik. Jauh sekali sebagai pengkritik politik. Apatah lagi penganalisis politik. Dan aku bukanlah ahli politik. Namun aku adalah rakyat biasa yang memerhatikan situasi politik negara dari dada-dada akhbar, kaca televisyen, corong radio dan internet.

Mak kata jangan tulis atau komen apa-apa saja tentang politik kalau tak nak masuk ISA. Jangan kata masuk ISA, masuk jail biasa pun tak nak sebab mak ayah bukannya ada duit nak jamin keluar kalau-kalau kena cekup oleh "mereka yang berkenaan".

Aku bukanlah penyokong BN (UMNO, MCA, MIC dan sekutunya) ataupun PK (PKR, PAS, DAP) tapi sebagai rakyat aku BERHAK untuk bertanyakan soalan yang berkaitan dengan politik negara ini. Tidak kiralah ianya persoalan tentang sejarah lampau, yang terkini mahupun hari depan. Bak slogan UMNO - dahulu, kini dan selamanya. Hahaha.. cam haram...

Hari ini aku nak potpet-potpet fasal UMNO terlebih dahulu.

Dah banyak kali aku tengok kat TV masa Perhimpunan Agong UMNO, makcik-makcik, pakcik-pakcik, abang-abang, kakak-kakak, adik-adik, putera-puteri UMNO sibuk menyibukkan diri melepak ramai-ramai kat PWTC sambil menjadi pengikut ("Yes Boss!) setia ketua-ketua mereka, sesekali bersorak ria dan bertepuk tangan (dan ketawa juga) dengan sekadar mendengar ceramah berkobar-kobar dari atas pentas ataupun penghibur dalaman yang menjual/menerima pantun 2 kerat, 4 kerat, 6 kerat ataupun berkerat-kerat. Hooray!!! Terasa macam zaman Hitler pulak. Adolf Hitler dok ngomel kat depan, yang lain kena setuju dan bersorak.

Tak silap aku, recently masa Perhimpunan Agong UMNO, ada mention UMNO sekarang berusia 63 tahun usianya. Boleh tak aku cakap "pundek wak lu 63 tahun?!" Siapa yang bodoh dalam UMNO ni sekarang? Pemimpin-pemimpinnya yang claimed UMNO dah berusia 63 tahun atau pengikut-pengikutnya yang menurut mengiyakan saja UMNO sudah 63 tahun? *garu kepala*

UMNO memang lah kalau ikutkan sudah 63 tahun sejak ditubukan pada 11 Mei 1946 tapi itu tidak terjadi sebenarnya. Pada 4 Februari 1988 (masa tu aku baru darjah 5, tapi aku ingat lagi peristiwa ini!) UMNO telah menerima tamparan hebat akibat diharamkan oleh Mahkahmah Tinggi. So kiranya UMNO yang original sempat hidup 42 tahun saja.

UMNO (baru) ditubuhkan pada 13 Februari 1988 dan diterima masuk dalam BN 3 hari selepas itu. So basically dari tahun 1988 hingga tahun ini 2009, UMNO (baru) seharusnya tidak riak bongkak takbur mengdakwa mereka berusia 63 tahun apabila mereka cuma 21 tahun sahaja. Tak malu betul. Nak juga jadi OTAI walaupun baru 21 tahun. Hahaha... Dah gitu, nak juga letak UMNO "UMNO" gak. Tak reti-reti nak letak UMNO BARU? UMNO LAMA dah lama masuk kubur wooo... Oh lupa, diorang OTAI, sukatilah diorang nak letak apa pun, nak claim apa pun...
 
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Methamphetamine : STOP BEING JUNKIE!!!

What are the street name/slang terms for methamphetamine for locals (Malaysians)?
Meth, Crystal, Ice, Syabu, Glass, Tweek, Crank, Crypto, Batu.

What is Methamphetamine?
Methamphetamine is an addictive stimulant that strongly activates certain systems in the brain.

What does it look like?
Methamphetamine is a crystal-like powdered substance that sometimes comes in large rock-like chunks. When the powder flakes off the rock, the shards look like glass, which is another nickname for meth. Meth is usually white or slightly yellow, depending on the purity.

How is it used?
Methamphetamine can be taken orally, injected, snorted, or smoked.


What are its short-term effects?
Immediately after smoking or injection, the user experiences an intense sensation, called a "rush" or "flash," that lasts only a few minutes and is described as extremely pleasurable.

Snorting or swallowing meth produces euphoria - a high, but not a rush. After the initial "rush," there is typically a state of high agitation that in some individuals can lead to violent behavior. Other possible immediate effects include increased wakefulness and insomnia, decreased appetite, irritability/aggression, anxiety, nervousness, convulsions and heart attack.

What are its long-term effects?
Methamphetamine is addictive, and users can develop a tolerance quickly, needing larger amounts to get high. In some cases, users forego food and sleep and take more meth every few hours for days, 'binging' until they run out of the drug or become too disorganized to continue. Chronic use can cause paranoia, hallucinations, repetitive behavior (such as compulsively cleaning, grooming or disassembling and assembling objects), and delusions of parasites or insects crawling under the skin. Users can obsessively scratch their skin to get rid of these imagined insects. Long-term use, high dosages, or both can bring on full-blown toxic psychosis (often exhibited as violent, aggressive behavior). This violent, aggressive behavior is usually coupled with extreme paranoia. Methamphetamine use can also cause strokes and death.
 
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Tanning Matters
 
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Karangan berHANTU pula...
Hahahahaha!!! Enough said... (aku dah bantai ketawa sampai terguling-guling masa baru terima gambar karangan murid sekolah ni dari kawan aku, seorang guru sekolah). Hahahahahaha!!!

Nota kaki: Catatan guru di hujung karangan tersebut - "Hantu itu gembira juga kah?". LOL!
 
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Karangan seorang murid...
**Sebelum aku memulakan, aku terlebih dahulu meminta maaf kepada kawan-kawan dari Labuan atau Sabah atau Brunei kerana mungkin penulisan kali ini seakan-akan mengejek dialek mereka tapi itu bukanlah niat aku dan aku tak perlu untuk memperolok dialek mereka sebab aku sendiri membesar di sana dari sekolah tadika (5 tahun) hinggalah umur aku 18 tahun. Penulisan kali ini hanyalah sekadar suka-suka dan untuk ketawa - penawar duka!

Aku rasa karangan di bawah ini adalah karangan seorang murid dari Labuan atau mungkin Labuan kerana cara "penyampaian"nya adalah lebih berbunyi kepada dialek Kedayan iaitu dialek orang Labuan/Brunei, bukannya dialek orang Sabah.


Di sebelah Timur Malaysia terutama Labuan/Sabah (dan Brunei - bukan Malaysia), "E" selalunya disebut sebagai "A" (i.e kerbau = karbau/karabau, beri = bari, terkejut = terkajut) dan "O" jadi "U" (i.e boleh = bulih, bodoh = buduh, bola = bula). Makanya kadang-kadang kita yang dari Semenanjung kalau ke sana dan sebutan "A" kita jadi "E" (i.e mereka = mereke, saya = saye, kerana = kerane), maka jangan bingit lah kalau kita diperolok-olokkan.

Oh tentang karangan murid di atas, BUBUT adalah kejar/mengejar. LOL! Banyak lagi dialek dari sana yang boleh di kongsi. Dah lebih 10 tahun aku tinggalkan tapi Insya-Allah aku masih lagi boleh bertutur dalam dialek sana dengan lancar.

Dialek Labuan/Brunei = Dialek Semenanjung
Tapok = Sembunyi
Usin = Duit
Paloi = Bodoh
Palau = Mabuk
Marati = Mengerti
Batah = Lama
Mulih = Balik
Ngalih = Penat
Balusir = Berlari
Bubut = Kejar
Tagar = Karat
Karau = Keras
Kina = Cina
Kuyuk = Anjing
Kamih = Kencing
Beria = Berak

Nanti aku sambung lagi kalau aku boleh ingat, ya? Agak susah kalau tak bercakap tapi nak tulis/taip macam tu saja. Memang susah nak recall.

 
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Monday, November 9, 2009
Reasons on why I HATE Manchester United

  1. Fans are Glory Hunters... Bila menang perangai macam pukimak.
  2. Bad losers... Bila kalah perangai lebih sial mengalahkan pukimak.
  3. Sir Alex Ferguson ... that uncle Lobster!!!
  4. Ronaldo crying after getting a red card ... PONDAN!!! (nasib baik mamat ni dah tak ada dalam Manchester United and I am not a fan of Real Madrid either). And remember when he was with Manchester United - his face when he dives & when he scores. Urghhhh!!!
  5. None of their fans even come from Manchester - Survey yang dijalankan pada tahun 2002, menunjukkan warga Manchester lebih ramai menyokong Manchester City dari Manchester United dan kebanyakan yang memegang pass bermusim untuk Manchester United yang benar-benar datang dari Manchester hanyalah 24% (approx.) manakala 64% untuk Manchester City. - And it is STILL the same thing right now.
  6. Defenders who dive - kepakaran Manchester United yang tidak boleh dinafikan.
  7. Manchester United fans thinking Ferguson discovered Ronaldo
  8. Consider themselves as the best team ever in England with some use of Manchester-based newspapers to spread crap when they are not even close of Arsenal!
  9. Proud with 18 cups when it was pretty clear and obvious they won those cups with NO clean sleeves.
  10. Keep saying they are the best in England and the best club in the world. Huh? They never get their name stamped in Guinness World Book of Record at all!!! N.E.V.E.R
  11. Think they’ll win all competitions every season - over confident, arrogant, douche, scumbag.
  12. Losing games & titles at Old Trafford and their fans walked away before the game finished. (Can't em be just as cool as other team supporters who stay still and keep supporting although they know that they are losing?)
  13. Saying they have the best academy, despite the fact they have no decent young English players.
  14. Van Der Sar acting like he gets shot every time he attempts to make a save
  15. They say they have the best support in the world and yet, most of the time, their stadium is quiet. ADMIT IT MANCHESTER UNITED FANS!!!
  16. Most of the united fans have NEVER been to old trafford. MOST.
  17. You will never get a penalty at Old Trafford although sometimes its clear it was Manchester United's fault for bringing down opponent in penalty box. Asshole.
  18. At Old Trafford, when Man Utd is winning, injury time is 1-2 minutes.. if they’re losing.. its bout 3-4 minutes. Fucking unfair.
  19. The FA will bend over backwards to help them, but no one else.
  20. Most females support them because Ronaldo plays for them. … Too bad they don’t know that he was caught with 2 transvestite hookers… Before, it was Beckham. Urghhh!!!
  21. What is so special about Shrek a.k.a Wayne Rooney? When compared to Lampard, Terry, Gerrard, Fabregas, Xabi Alonso, Fernando Torres, etc., who the hell is he?
  22. Alex Ferguson ‘Bum Loves’ all the refs, he is a moaning twat who thinks every decision should go there way!
  23. Fergie, stop chewing you fucking idiot!
  24. They only have a fan base because all their supporters are from Asia (including MALAYSIANS yang bodoh-bodoh), not England.
  25. Football Focus with John Dykes: they were talking about how Manchester United are the most hated team in England itself.
  26. Their academy doesn’t produce any players for quite a loooooong time. LOSER!
  27. Give no credit to the defenders… it’s just Van Der Sar aka without him, Manchester United is nothing. Seriously.
  28. Even Beckham left them =) ...Oh don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of Mr. Victoria Adams. LOL!
  29. Is there anyone with even a little bit of self-respect playing for them?
 
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Sunday, November 8, 2009
Pembangunan
**This article was written by me and published in thecicak.com back in 2007. That was more than 2 years ago. It just my honest point of view.

Kalau tengok dari luar tingkap Menara Celcom tempat aku kerja ni, banyak bangunan tinggi yang boleh aku nampak. Petronas Twin Tower-lah, Suria KLCC-lah, Menara Public Bank-lah, Megan Phileo Avenue-lah, Menara TA-lah dan macam-macam bangunan lagi.

Kenapa orang bina bangunan tinggi? Tempat yang aku tinggal dengan abang aku sekarang ni pun tinggi - tingkat 18. Kalau terjun, mati!

**I stayed at Menara GM in the middle of KL town before.

Semalam aku naik teksi pergi kerja, aku borak dengan driver teksi itu masa lalu di kawasan Kampung Baru. Teksi itu mengeluh kerana kecewa dengan keputusan Datuk Bandar Kuala Lumpur untuk “menghapuskan” satu-satunya pusat penempatan orang Melayu di bandar KL ini (Kampung Baru) dan menafikan status tanah rizab bagi orang Melayu hanya kerana untuk memberi laluan bagi pembangunan mega.

Kalau difikirkan, betul juga. Tidak cukup lagi kah Kuala Lumpur ini dengan bangunan-bangunan pencakar langit yang sudah sememangnya cukup MEGA? Tidakkah Datuk Bandar KL memikirkan impak yang akan wujud hasil dari pembangunan yang tidak (atau terlebih) dirancang? Apa lagi yang cuba KL hendak buktikan kepada bandar-bandar (atau luar bandar) lain di negara kita ini?

Sudahlah Flat Pekeliling (yang merupakan salah satu penempatan urban awal di KL) nak dirobohkan hujung tahun ini. Sekarang, nak take-over Kampung Baru pula? Lepas ni mana pula? Mestikah semua orang yang “berumah bawah” hendak diletak di “rumah tinggi”? Mestikah semua tanah yang ada disimenkan? Mestikah semua rumah papan yang ada disaluti kaca?

Memanglah pembangunan adalah sesuatu yang elok untuk sesebuah wilayah penempatan tetapi bagi aku cukuplah apa yang wujud di Kuala Lumpur buat masa sekarang ini. Sedangkan apa yang ada pun tidak dapat di- “layan” apa lagi kalau ditambah-tambah lagi.

Sepatutnya pihak kabinet mengalihkan peruntukan bagi meranapkan Kampung Baru atau mana-mana lagi kawasan di Lembah Kelang ini kepada kawasan-kawasan yang lebih memerlukannya seperti sub-urban, kampung-kampung, pendalaman, pekan-pekan kecil dan banyak lagi.

Sudahlah cukup KL ini dipenuhi dengan orang ramai dari negeri-negeri lain dan negara-negara lain kerana KL ini terlalu complete pada tanggapan mereka sehinggakan anak-anak muda tidak lagi mahu tinggal di kampung halaman mereka (macam aku!). Aku percaya kalau tempat asal mereka membangun dengan baik, pasti mereka (dan aku) akan balik!

 
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Easy As in SPM!
**This article wrote by me somewhere in 2007. Once published in thecicak.com. Take note, this article is not a tip(s) on how to be the best student and this article was written wayyy before the MoE decided to restricted student to take maximum of what? 11-12 subjects?

It has been a week since SPM 2006 results dikeluarkan oleh Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. Walaupun dah hampir 13 tahun usia sijil SPM aku pegang, topik pendidikan takkan pernah basi sebenarnya.

**I sat for my SPM examination in year 1994. It has been 15 years now... I still remember :-)

Sejak akhir-akhir ini terlalu ramai pelajar yang memperolehi “A” yang melampau-lampau banyaknya di dalam peperiksaan SPM yang mereka duduki. Bermula dari era Amalina yang memperolehi 14A bagi SPM 2005, maka muncul pula pelajar yang entah dari mana-mana yang memperolehi 20A, 18A, 16A, 12A, 10A… seolah-olah “A” yang diperolehi itu adalah terlalu mudah.

Seingat aku, zaman aku lah… nak obtain banyak “A” tu memanglah bukanlah perkara yang mustahil. Bukan tak ada, ada… tapi ianya mengambil banyak perahan otak dan masa. Kiranya, dulu, seseorang itu boleh dikategorikan sebagai “ulat buku” a.k.a NERD kiranya akademiknya begitu cemerlang.

Teori aku? Graf kelulusan adalah sangat rendah sekarang ni. Macam score 80% jer dah boleh dapat “A”! (Tak kisah lah A1 atau A2, asal A). Masa aku ambil SPM in year 1994 dulu, graf kelulusan untuk dapatkan A1, you gotta minimun 90%, A2 pula 82%. C3 75%, C4 70%, C5 64%, C6 60%, P7 54%, P8 46%, F9 below 45%. Macam tu lah lingkungannya.

Kalau betullah teori aku untuk dapatkan A1 cuma perlu score 80%, hmmm… no wonder lah ramai student yang boleh dapat berbelas-belas “A” in their SPM! But then… bila dah masuk IPTA/IPTS, tengoklah, berapa ramai sangat yang “lepas” dengan flying colours?

Ini menjadikan our educational system here in Malaysia tak ada value langsung. I bet you lah… suruh lah bebudak cina yang score A1 cakap BM, sah masih tunggang terbalik. Suruh bebudak Melayu dari ceruk kampung mana yang score A1 in BI, sah masih gagap! Dalam erti kata, “A” sahaja banyak tapi “A” yang tidak berkualiti….

This is just my 2 cents…

 
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Monday, November 2, 2009
Program Latihan Khidmat Negara (PLKN) vs. National Service negara lain...
A joke. Total joke. At least, in my opinion.

Lagi joke bila budak-budak yang nak di hantar pergi for PLKN ni menangis-nangis. Lebih joke bila mak-bapak bebudak yang nak kena hantar pergi for PLKN ni campur tangan melampau-lampau. Bodoh lah!

I wonder how kalau Malaysia buat PLKN macam yang diwajibkan oleh Singapura? Kat Malaysia baru kena pergi 3 bulan, dah kecoh. Padahal macam pergi summer camp ataupun buat community service yang mudah-mudah sahaja. Eh, cukup tak faham lah! Dalam 3 bulan pun entah berapa kali peserta dapat pegang senjata api M16 yang ada tu? Semua dapat pegang dan menggunakannya ke atau seroang saja pegang yang lain perhatikan? Hahahaha...

Peserta PLKN beramai-ramai bergotong-royong. Nanti kalau Malaysia kena rempuh, ajak musuh-musuh bergotong-royong bersama-sama OK? Mesti mereka rasa terharu... Ye lah, guna pendekatan bijak kan? LOL!

I wonder if those parents know National Service (NS) in Singapore mengambil masa 2 tahun? Malah, latihan yang digunakan di dalam NS mereka adalah lebih aggresive, more towards latihan ketenteraan sebagai persediaan membantu negara sekiranya berlaku perkara-perkara yang tidak diingini. I mean, bukanlah NS mereka 100% military, ada gak macam community service but mereka lebih serius dalam menekankan perkataan “NATIONAL SERVICE” itu.

Para kadet National Service dari Republik Singapura (sedang berehat) lepas dikerah. Mereka dikerah bukan 3 bulan tapi 24 bulan! Apa agaknya bebudak kita mengomel kalau kena suruh NS untuk 2 tahun?

Dah tu, kat Malaysia ni, PLKN@NS boleh pulak main kena random pick-up. Main pilih-pilih. Siapa yang kena pergi tu ala-ala bernasib malang. Kalau yang tak kena pergi tu pulak boleh berfoya-foya? Cehhhh… Menderrrr lah! Kalau lah otak semua berfikiran macam ni, sakitlah! Kalau kat Singapura, habis sekolah, ready jer lah nak kena sumbat dalam camp! Tak ada alasan diterima melainkan kalau ada surat doktor kata yang diorang tu dah nazak, sakit nak mati.

Do they know that if in Singapore pelatih NS kalau tidak berjaya datang melapor diri untuk NS, they will not be allowed to keluar dari negara mereka? International passport mereka akan di tahan dan nama mereka akan disenaraikan di semua jabatan kerajaan?

Do they know kalau kat tempat lain, kalau lari dari NS kena masuk penjara? Kalau aku, rela lagi aku buat NS dari masuk jail. Ingat best masuk jail? Coihhhh! Sisih malaikat simpang 44!

So, in another word, budak-budak Malaysia ni manja-manja. Semua spoilt. Baru kena “kerah” sikit dah nak complaint. And salah siapa? Salah mak bapak, salah goverment jugak sebab tak implement-kan disiplin pada anak-anak mereka!!!

 
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
AMERICA'S Next Top Model Cycle 13 - SHORT MODELS!
Some of my friends surprise to know (from me) that ANTM is now running the Cycle 13 because most of them who watches ANTM via our national TV - 8TV only know up to Cycle 8 (or 9?). Even our cable TV - ASTRO is not up-to-date enough as they only aired-up up to Cycle 9 (or 10?). Thank you for what we call as INTERNET and of course YOUTUBE :-)

Nah... I am not trying to tell the whole world that I am up-to-date kindda person. No. I just want to tell how LAME is our national TV and the cable TV are! Grrrr....

 
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Harper's Bazaar Malaysia
I am LATE. I know. But I still wanna put it up in here.

This is the cover of Harper's Bazaar Malaysia for the month of October 2009.


What so special about having Stephanie Chai as a cover girl? Well, I'd say "nothing"! Of course it is not a big deal to having a normal pretty girl as a cover girl in any magazines, right?

So what am I trying to show here? It is the pullout of Harper's Bazaar Malaysia October 2009 - it's MAN pullout!

Why? Because... take a good look...


Yes! It is Khairy Jamaluddin!

The richest unemployed man in Malaysia. The douche bag of UMNO Youth regime. The mastermind of all decisions (hmmm?) when Pak Lah was a Prime Minister of Malaysia. The arrogant dickhead that acted in 15Malaysia's Meter (oh, he is pretty good as an actor tho!).

So what do you think?

For me, Harper's Bazaar tried to hard to turn Khairy Jamaluddin into Metrosexual guy but unfortunately turn out a lil bit too gay-ish with that top and even the pants.
 
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Sunday, October 25, 2009
Pictures speak louder than thousands of words...
What's that?
Too small?
Can't really see?

CLICK
HERE
 
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Monday, October 19, 2009
More than two, but it's still khalwat.
Vice raid by 'officers' from residents' association allegedly leaves man with black eye

Teoh El Sen

Monday, October 19th, 2009 07:47:00
IF you think that you can’t be nabbed for khalwat (close proximity) just because you are found together with more than one other member of the opposite sex, think again.

Aqmal (not his real name) and four of his friends found this out the hard way when their durian-eating session at their condominium unit in Block F of Indah Condominium at Prima Damansara came to a halt when several men from the local residents’ association came knocking on their door.

He claimed that the men were not only aggressive and thuggish, but also hurled insults at him and his friends.

To compound his misery, two of the men also punched him three times, leaving him with a black eye.

But the worse part for Aqmal is not about whether he was beaten or not; it was that the men who knocked on his friends’ home did not even identify themselves.

“I had just sat down to watch a DVD while my friends (three female and a male) were preparing food, others were in their rooms and one was on the computer when there were loud knocks and rattling of the grilles,” said Aqmal.

When his female friend opened the door, the shouting men, numbering about eight to 10, barged in and demanded their identification...

Click Here For Full Story

 
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Saturday, October 17, 2009
Close Proximity a.k.a Khalwat
This happened recently. Below is the police report...






 
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Friday, October 16, 2009
Average Citizen vs. PDRM/MACC
This is not originally mine. I copied and paste it here. A voice from an average Malaysians citizen, showing his/her dissatisfaction towards or should I say against PDRM/MACC.















For an average Malaysian, our voices are nothing but a sweet silence to the authorities. Only when things happens to a VVIP, then only some action will be taken with the help of the press. When my car was broken in, made a police report and the police ask me back, what do I want them to do? Really wanted to tell him to sit back and relax, no need to do anything. But then again, I might be killed/beaten in lockup by saying so..

Checklist before making police report:-
  • are you a VVIP / public figure, a real one please?
  • anyone got hurt, hospitalized and near death type? (exclude if assault inflicted by MACC, PDRM, Royalties (relative included) and other governmental bodies)
  • Is your case unique? (snatch thief, car/house broken into, mugged, robed, rapped, vandalism, etc. are considered common)
  • are you a rich foreigner?
  • do you have a police (medium to high ranking type) friends or relative?

If you answer no to all of these questions, please do not waste the police's valuable time by making a report unless made compulsory by other governmental departments, ie, lost MyKad, passport, license etc. *Credit card is bonus as it usually goes with MyKad or license.

Note if you still insist to proceed on reporting your case. Just need to speak to them with reverence and address them tuanku/datuk and yourself as hamba, they will be more helpful. . try it, somehow it works. Plea with them and be a pitiful victim. DO NOT make demands without any press presence / help. If all fails, just say sorry for wasting their valuable time. Hope this helps in making police report in Malaysia.

Welcome and hope you enjoy your time.
 
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Are we different?


credit to Jo Qusary for this cartoon sketch :-)
 
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Thursday, October 15, 2009
Women & Rape - this must END!
RAPE

- Noun
1. The unlawful compelling of a woman through physical force or duress to have sexual intercourse.
2. Any act of sexual intercourse that is forced upon a person.
3. Statutory rape.
4. An act of plunder, violent seizure, or abuse; despoliation; violation: the rape of the countryside
5. Archaic. The act of seizing and carrying off by force.

- Verb (used with object)
6. To force to have sexual intercourse
7. To plunder (a place); dispoil.
8. To seize, take, or carry off by force.

- Verb (used without object)
9. To commit rape.

In Bahasa Malaysia - ROGOL


I am basically pretty upset when majority women blame it on men.

Well, true enough the way one's dress up shouldn't be an excuse why women being raped. Ah-ah, NO! Because some very decent-dressed women also became a victim. But me as a woman myself not gonna deny sometimes, some women dressed-up pretty "inviting" - micro-mini skirts, see-through tops, hot-pants, low-cut neckline t-shirts, super-skimpy-micro bikinis and such. Hmmmm... Sexy? Yeah, and you're more sexier after got raped, eh? Your skimpy micro sexy clothes "gone" and you're crying? One word - S.T.U.P.I.D

Some women, especially young ladies are (quite) daring enough; and turned out to be another rape victim. How on earth, you could follow someone that you just met, you barely know to anywhere i.e clubs, cinema, parks, etc eh? How the hell on earth you'd agreed to meet someone that you just had a chat over the internet? Oh God, you are so S.T.U.P.I.D. Seriously! Where did you put your brain during that time? On your feet? Or you are actually BRAINLESS?

Right... some women are STUPID and some men are totally JERK.

And when everything (rape) happened you put on blame 100% to "that" man? Oh please... Well, I am not gonna say anything about any "real" rape cases - it was very unfortunate for those women to be a victim of itchy-penis men. I feel for 'em. But cases like above said, I don't feel sorry at all for those because it was their fault for being STUPID or STUPIDed? LOL!

So... Ladies, it is OK to be STUPID sometimes but I would like to suggest one thing. If you girls could spent hours and hours, let say 4 to 5 hours a day at malls, window-shopping, having such a nice evening with your fellow STUPID girlfriends gossiping about anything and everything... Why don't you reduce it to just 2 to 3 hours of that time and the balance (of that free time), enroll yourselves in to any martial arts classes? OK, if you think martial arts is not suite your girlish image, again, I gonna call you STUPID! Learning martial arts not gonna make you less feminine. Think on the positive sides of learning martial arts beside it'll help you to protect yourselves... You'll have well-toned body, well-shaped body, more energy for whole-weekends shopping spree, right?!

So, which martial arts suites you better? It is for you to google now! Below are few list of martial arts that might match your liking.

Aikido. Capoeira. Judo. Karate. Kendo. Taekwando. Muay Thai. Silat. Kickboxing. Jukendo. Gatka. Jujutsu. Sambo. Savate. (and many more!) But the most popular martial arts among women especially models are Capoeira and Kickboxing. Maybe you could check on it and start protect yourselves LADIES!!!

Good luck. Use your brain and don't fall become next victim of rape. This must END.


 
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Open Water Scuba Diving Course

Price per person in Ringgit Malaysia (RM)

Single (with breakfast) Weekdays RM1,520.00/Weekends RM1550.00
Single (full board meals) WeekdaysRM1,685.00/Weekends RM1,715.00

Twin (with breakfast) Weekdays RM1,295.00/Weekends RM1,325.00
Twin (full board meals) Weekdays RM1,460.00/Weekends RM1490.00

Triple (with breakfast) Weekdays RM1,270.00/Weekends RM1,300.00
Triple (full board meals) Weekdays RM1,435.00/Weekends RM1,465.00
  • It will be at Perhentian Island, Terengganu, Malaysia.
  • 4-days/3-nights (sea facing air-con room)
  • Meals as specified
  • Open water course includes diving equipments & instructional materials
For more information, please e-mail me at nooranita.mohdtahir@gmail.com or call me at +60166136596.
 
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
What's your favourite QUOTE?

I hold onto this quote not because Kurt Cobain is my all-time favorite rock star but really, I rather to be hated for me being me rather than being loved for me to be another pain-in-ass pretender. Some says its pathetic but this is me.

Other (4) favorite quotes are:-

  • "Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;" - Beecher, Henry Ward on Death & Dying.
  • "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." - Dr. Who
  • "Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." - Sidney J. Harris
  • "There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • “Doesn’t matter whether you call it the Tao, Allah, or God, God is One. Be open to this Higher Power, and each one of us can be a channel.” - Yasmin Ahmad (a day before she died)
  • "We are born to die; so why bother living? Because we have tasks to be done before we die" - Myself :-)
 
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Sunday, October 11, 2009
Sex Education

Sometimes I wonder how are we going to educate the younger generation about sex? Science studies? Biology studies? Some brains are not belong to complicated studies of such. Some parents are not open on sex matters although it is for education purposes. Some parents don't even know how to tell their kids how a man and a woman can make a baby (or babies), where the baby come (out) from and such. Sad, eh?

When I was a kid (around 11 years old), one of my classmate run crying hysterically. She said she gonna die because she's bleeding. The teacher come to her "rescue" and she was actually OK. She just had her first period! So the teacher came back to the class, telling us what just happened but she didn't tell us what "period" actually is. So I went back home and asked my mom lots of question regarding menstrual. I am pretty lucky that my mom not hesitate to tell me in details about menstrual. By the way, I got my period when I was 13 and well-prepared.

Lack of sex education leads to many social problems. Sex education is very important in a way to teaches boys and girls on how and why in need to keep a distance between two sexes. Religious value. Morale value. Culture value. Social value. Don't scares them but educate them in rational ways. We should realize by now, the more "NO" and "DON'T" it'll turn another way around in action by our youngsters. Out of curiosity, they'll make it OK for something they are not suppose to do. At the end of the day, when the girls got pregnant, the boys don't know what to do... and the social ill goes on. Curiosity kills.

So what do you think of SEX EDUCATION? When is the right time to teach our kids about sex? Primary school? High school? Higher Learning Institutional?
 
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Mencari KELUARGA dalam PERSAHABATAN
Bagi yang masih tinggal dengan ibu bapa atau berhampiran dengan ibu bapa, mungkin tidak mengerti maksud tajuk blog ini… tapi mungkin ada juga yang faham, lebih-lebih lagi kalau dia tidak begitu akrab dengan keluarganya…

(me & my family - my dad, my mom and the one and only sibling, my elder brother)

Tapi bagi mereka yang sudah berdikari, tinggal sendiri, tinggal bujang dengan kawan-kawan malah yang tinggal di asrama sekalipun, pasti akan faham akan maksud disebalik "mencari keluarga dalam persahabatan".
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang berpaling pada keluarga, terutama ibu-bapa jika kita mempunyai masalah? Kebanyakan antara kita akan menuju terus kepada kawan-kawan terlebih dahulu untuk meluahkan perasaan kita, permasalahan kita… kan?
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang akan terus meminta duit daripada mak ayah kalau poket kita kering? Kebanyakan antara kita pastinya akan cuba mendapatkan bantuan kewangan dari kawan-kawan terlebih dahulu sebelum berpaling pada mak ayah jika tak dapat pinjam langsung dari kawan-kawan… kan?
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang menyerahkan soal jodoh, minta kenenkan girlfriend/boyfriend daripada ibu bapa sekarang ni? Kebanyakan antara kita pasti sekali dua kali akan buka mulut pada kawan untuk mereka introduce perempuan/lelaki kepada diri sebelum (mungkin) surrender minta mak ayah yang carikan jodoh… kan?
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang sanggup tunjukkan kesengkekan kita pada ibu bapa dan ahli keluarga bila terpaksa makan sebungkus meggi ramai-ramai? makan nasik putih ngan sardin setin ramai-ramai? pancung sebatang rokok utk disedut ramai-ramai? Pastinya ini tidak malu dilakukan dengan kawan-kawan… kan?
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang tak malu nak berbicara tentang pendidikan sex, bersoal jawab mengenei siplis, herpes, VD, AIDS, HIV, STD, period, keputihan dan yang sewaktu dengannya dengan ibu bapa kita? Kebanyakan akan lebih selesa berkongsi pengetahuan mengenai pendidikan sex dengan kawan-kawan… kan?
  • Berapa ramaikah antara kita yang boleh bicara soal memantat, mengote (ada ke perkataan ni?), melancap, buat pompuan mengadung, termengandung dengan mak ayah? Kalau rasa nak kena libasan parang, silalah buat! Tapi kita tak segan nak story benda-benda ni semua dengan kawan-kawan especially yang sekepala… kan?
  • Berapa ramai pula antara kita yang tergamak cerita pasal kita pi clubbing (bukan semua pi clubbing), kita pi pasal minum arak sampai mabuk (bukan semua minum arak dan mabuk-mabuk), pasal ambil drugs (bukan semua kaki dadah), pasal berzina (bukan semua berzina), pasal main judi main ekor (bukan semua main judi, main ekor) dengan mak bapak masing-masing kalau nak dibandingkan bermegah-megah cerita pasal tu semua dengan kawan-kawan… kan?

(me & my friends)

Itulah antara contoh-contoh perkara yang kita "lebihkan" kawan-kawan berbanding dengan keluarga terdekat. Bila berjauhan dari keluarga, kawan-kawan ni lah yang akan menjadi keluarga kita cuma dalam berkawan ni kena berhati-hati lebih-lebih lagi sekarang ni banyak kawan yang makan kawan…

Namun begitu, walaupun kita tidak berkongsi banyak perkara dengan ahli keluarga yang sebenar tetapi sebenarnya merekalah orang yang paling kita harus sanjungi sayangi… ingat, serapat manapun kita dan kawan-kawan kita tapi ibu bapak, adik beradik, saudara mara kita tak mungkin kita dapat beli dengan wang ringgit…
 
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Saturday, October 10, 2009
Depression : Don't Take It Easy! Talk about it!
I wasn't even sure what happened to me 2 weeks ago. Seriously. Right after came back from hometown to celebrate Hari Raya Aidilfitri with my family, I became really uncertain. Moody for no reason(s) at all. I cried but I don't know why? I laughed but no one crack any jokes. I scared when nothing to be scare off. I heard voices all over me and my brain. I am totally depress by all these.

2 days under observation at psychotic ward - without doing anything just watching TV, read some magazines and few sessions with psychiatric - the same thing (as above said) happened to me, again and again. My psychiatric told me that I am suffered from schizophrenia, one of chronic mental illness but under control and can be cure; and also anxiety disorder. GOD! Btw, after few test and also being probed with lots of questions, the psychiatric told me that I have all the major depression symptom, 8 out of 10! Geez...

Doctor prescribed me with 14 tablets of anti-depressant pills called prozac and also 7 tablets of valium for my anxiety disorder. I don't take it right away. I went back home and browse the net - looking for the short/long term effect of both medications given to me. Heck! No way I gonna take those medications when it is clearly stated those medication will increase suicidal thoughts and behavior; and other scary psychiatric and paradoxical reactions such as stimulation, restlessness, acute hyperexcited states, agitation, aggressiveness, hallucinations, psychoses, delusions, nightmares, etc.

Why on earth I should take those medication when it will increase the fatal feelings and behavior that I already had? I just don't get it! I want to be OK, not to make it worst. So I decided to say NO to both prozac and valium. I don't wanna be another junkie!

So, due to that, I tried to find my way out without depending on those scary drugs. I make myself busy by calling up friends, meet them up for lunch or dinner, watching movies that make me laugh and happy, indulge myself with good foods and be in a crowd; and try not to think about all this mental illness shitz. It does work but not an easy task for me to do so because I have to make war with my own self. I have to fight my sometimes unstable mind. But I gotta do what I gotta do. I gotta to be strong since I don't want to be labeled as insane, nuts, crazy and such. Hahahaha! ...and I still struggle and fighting...

Now, I pray to Allah to give me all the strength to fight all this nonsense within myself. No one can help me except myself. I am really grateful that I still have strong faith in my belief and God. And of course supportive parents, brother and friends.

_________________________________________

Depression is probably the most common psychological disorder and the one that receives the most attention. Lately, we hear about millions of Americans being treated with Prozac and a multitude of other antidepressants. Everybody seems to know someone who is depressed whether a family member, a close friend or a co-worker.Depression makes a person feel sad, hopeless, worthless, pessimistic and guilty. Often the sufferer has difficulty concentrating and making decisions, has a loss of appetite and weight or a weight gain, has difficulty sleeping, has a lack of energy and sometimes physical symptoms such as slow movement and speech. Depression must be taken seriously because of the high rate of suicide associated with it.Many people are not aware of the many types of depression besides what is termed unipolar depression where the sufferer feels melancholic and never feels any highs. A brief description of manic depression (bipolar disorder), major depression, atypical depression, psychotic depression and dysthymia are discussed below.

Major Depression: Major depression is probably one of the most common forms of depression. You probably know a handful of people who suffer from it. The sufferer seems to walk around with the weight of the world on his or her shoulders. He or she seems disinterested in becoming involved in regular activities and seems convinced that he or she will always be in this hopeless state. There is a lack of interest in sexual activity and in appetite and a weight loss.

Atypical Depression: Atypical depression is a variation of depression that is slightly different from major depression. The sufferer is sometimes able to experience happiness and moments of elation. Symptoms of atypical depression include fatigue, oversleeping, overeating and weight gain. People who suffer from atypical depression believe that outside events control their mood (i.e. success, attention and praise). Episodes of atypical depression can last for months or a sufferer may live with it forever.

Psychotic Depression: Sufferers of psychotic depression begin to hear and see imaginary things - sounds, voices and visuals that do not exist. These are referred to as hallucinations, which are generally more common with someone suffering from schizophrenia. The hallucinations are not "positive" like they are with a manic depressive. The sufferer of psychotic depression imagines frightening and negative sounds and images.

Dysthymia: Many people just walk around seeming depressed - simply sad, blue or melancholic. They have been this way all of their lives. This is dysthymia - a condition that people are not even aware of but just live with daily. They go through life feeling unimportant, dissatisfied, frightened and simply don't enjoy their lives. Medication is beneficial for this type of depression.

Manic Depression: Manic depression can be defined as an emotional disorder characterized by changing mood shifts from depression to mania which can sometimes be quite rapid. People who suffer from manic depression have an extremely high rate of suicide.

Written by Andy Behrman is the author of "Electroboy: A Memoir of Mania"
 
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Kurt Cobain
He is my biggest influence in music. He & Nirvana "successfully" pull me off from New Kids On The Block bubblegum pop music scene; to Grunge in 1991. A "transition" that I never regret until he died. His death in 1994 is like "No fucking way! I don't believe it!". I cried and listened to his (Nirvana) songs again and over again like no one's business. It was one of heart-breaking news that ever been told. His music is still alive in me, till I die...

KURT COBAIN
20th FEBRUARY 1967 - 5th APRIL 1994

(Kurt Cobain - my biggest influence in music)

He is best known as the lead singer, guitarist and songwriter of grunge band - Nirvana, alongside bassistKrist Novoselic and drummers Dave Grohl.

(Nirvana)

With the lead single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" from the band's second album Nevermind (1991), Nirvana entered into the mainstream arena. Grunge, in general became a dominant genre on radio and music television in the United States during the early-to-mid 90s.

Nirvana's brief run ended with Cobain's death but the band's popularity continued in the years that followed.

The circumstances of his death have become a topic of fascination and debate. Since their debut, Nirvana, with Cobain as a songwriter, sold over twenty-five million albums in the US alone, and over fifty million worldwide.

"You Know You're Right", an unfinished demo from the band's final recording session, topped radio playlists around the world.

For more on Nirvana, click HERE.

(If not because of his music, I might be a fan of bubblegum-pop fan)

Cobain was a vocal supporter of the pro-choice movement, and had been involved in Rock for Choice campaign. The liner notes from album Incesticide declared "if any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the fuck alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records". There is an article from his posthumously released Journals declares that social liberation could be made possible only through the eradication of sexism.

(Gloomy eyes - untold pain and sorrow of Kurt Cobain)

Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love from the band Hole was introduced at an L7 and Butthole Surfers concert in Los Angeles in May 1991. In the weeks that followed, after learning from Dave Grohl that she and Cobain shared mutual interests, Love began pursuing Cobain. In the fall of 1991 the two were often together, and bonded through drug use. Around the time of Nirvana's 1992 performance on SNL, Love discovered that she was pregnant with Cobain's child. A few days after the conclusion of Nirvana's Pacific Rim tour, on Monday 24th February 1992, Cobain and Love married on Waikiki Beach in Hawaii.

(Kurt Cobain & Courtney Love with their daughter, Frances Bean)

The young parents blessed with beautiful daughter - Frances Bean Cobain on 18th August 1992, born at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center in L.A, California at 7:48 a.m., weighing 3.2kg. Frances is named after Frances McKee, a musician. The middle name Bean was chosen because Kurt thought she looked like a kidney bean on the ultrasound. Her godfather is R.E.M frontman Michael Stipe and Drew Barrymore is her godmother.

(Francis Bean Cobain, 2007)

During the last years of his life, Cobain struggled with drug addiction as well as the professional and personal pressures surrounding himself and his wife.

On 8th April 1994, Cobain's body was discovered at his Lake Washington home by an electrician who had arrived to install a security system. Apart from a minor amount of blood coming out of Cobain's ear, the electrician reported seeing no visible signs of trauma and initially believed that Cobain was asleep until he saw the shotgun pointing at his chin.

(Kurt Cobain lying dead on the floor at suicide scene)

A suicide note was found that said, in part, "I haven't felt the excitement of listening to as well as creating music, along with really writing . . . for too many years now". A high concentration of heroin and traces of Valium were also found in his body. Cobain's body had been lying there for days; the coroner's report estimated Cobain to have died on 5th April 1994.

(Cobain's suicide note)

For more on Kurt Cobain, click HERE.
 
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
SEACHANGE !!!

SEACHANGE is a movement of organizations, programs and like-minded people who want to help you. Tell us what change you want to see... and SEACHANGE connects you!

THE REGION'S LEADERS WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU.

1 million youths will fill up a survey to produce a Youth Report for them.

This report will be public, released to the world - AND be presented at the Youth Engagement Summit 2009, where regional leaders and global change icons will have it to kickstart the change process!

Youths who fill the report also have a chance to win free trips to the summit!

About the SEACHANGE Movement

What is SEACHANGE?

SEACHANGE is an ongoing movement connecting Southeast Asian Youths to projects, organizations, businesses, and leaders who can help them with the change they want to see!

The result?

A connected ecosystem for change involving 1 Million youths and the campaigns and organizations which matter.

How Does it Work?

Phase 1 ~ From now till November 16th, 2009

The focus in on our first initiative, the SEACHANGE Youth Report.

This gathers the voice of 1 million youths across Southeast Asia to answer 3 questions:

  1. What change do you want to see in your own personal life?
  2. What change do you want to see in your community and country?
  3. What ideas of campaigns or programmes would you support?

The result?

A first-of-its-kind youth initiated public report presented to every leader in business, government and media out there for them to know what change each segment of youth wants to see… and how to help them.

This report is also presented at the Youth Engagement Summit 2009 YES2009. YES2009 is giving youths who participate in the Youth Report up to 500 free trips to the Summit. Read about it here http://yes2009.asia

Help us reach 1 million youths to generate the report. Do the survey now on http://youthsays.com/seachange

Phase 2 ~ Ongoing change

Based on the youth report
  1. The 1 million youths who participated in the Youth Report will be connected via specific online forums based on the change they care about (personal and/or community)
  2. Organizations/ businesses / campaigns can engage in direct conversation via these forums, and promote relevant change campaigns to youths who care
Next initiatives to be announced at a later date.

Join SEACHANGE
 
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Anorexia Nervosa KILLS !!!
Blame the media to describe one's mind that being stick-insect thin is beautiful. Blame the media to manipulate guys' brain that plywood thin is gorgeous.


I write this in memory of Sharsya Dato' Burhanuddin.

She was born in 1983 and died in 2003. It's all because she wanted to be beautiful like what most medias portrays. It's all because she wanted to be gorgeous as her boyfriend been "corrupted" and left her for skinny woman.

Sharsya never a fat person when she was in her early teen. But not sure what went wrong that made her ballooning from 5'5" tall, 52kg (this when she was 16th years old) woman to 5'8", 136kg (this was 9 months before she died). She ate like another normal people. She didn't go for pizza or fast foods like everyday.

She suffered a lot. Not only because her bastard boyfriend left her for smoking-hot chick but also stress that she had to face due to her weight every time she went to college. People are nasty and they calling her name with nasty words i.e elephant, giant, fatso, etc. At the end of the day, she just stay at home and watching tv and read lots of magazine - medias that keep portraying 36-24-36 kindda woman are man's dream while fat, huge or anything beyond size 2, they should just go hang themselves to death. Sharsya was size 24 just 6 month before she died. But, although she's fat, I would say Sharsya is really pretty. She also very adorable person.

Sharsya died due to anorexic nervosa. 6 months before she died, she is mentally prepared to force herself practicing a very deadly diet, not a crash diet but deadly. She only ate 2 piece of cream crackers a day. 1 for breakfast and 1 for lunch. No dinner. And she only consume half glass of milk for breakfast and the rest, just a plain water. She was depress and manic, too, like no one's business. She did that till the day she say goodbye to all.

Her parents did sent her for psychotic treatment for anorexics. She went for group support. She took medication. I knew she want to get over all this ridiculous mental-torture sickness but she is very helpless. Her mind is not strong enough. From 136kg, she was only 39kg when announced dead by medical center. She is not like Sharsya that I've known when I went to her funeral. She is unknown "creature". Just skins and bones. She suffered, I know that...

When she was somewhere around 60kgs when I met her and tell her to stop. all this nonsense. She said she already tried but she can't. She told me that she don't have to eat because every time she look at food(s), she'll be full. And if she force herself to eat although just one piece of small pie, she will see herself gain another 100kg! And if she was being force to eat, she will... emmm... threw it all by chock her throat with her finger or anything i.e pen, ice cream stick, etc.

(editorial picture only)

So, thank you to medias and guys who go for a person for her looks rather than her attitude. Thank you too to medias and guys who think fat person like Sharsya, myself and many other out there are not worth living in this world...

Sharsya, may you rest in peace. Amin.
 
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Thinking of Giving Up? DON'T !!!
Think you've got it bad?

Need some encouragement?

Fallen DOWN?
Can't seem to find the STRENGTH to get back UP?

We are put in situations to build our character.

Not to destroy us.

If you fail, are YOU going to try again?

The human spirit can handle much more than we realize.

It matters HOW you are going to FINISH.

Are YOU going to finish STRONG?

The challenges in our lives are there to STRENGTHEN our CONVICTIONS.

There are NOT there to run us over.

I never met a Bitter person who was Thankful or a Thankful person who was Bitter.

In life, YOU have a choice:
Bitter or BETTER?

Choose BETTER, forget bitter.



 
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Malaysia vs. Indonesia / Malingsia vs. Indonesial
Kita semua tahu apa yang Indonesia kata kita telah curi atau plagiat dari negara mereka :-(

  • Mereka kata mencuri tarian Pendet dari Bali. Walaupun itu adalah kesilapan teknikal dan NatGeo juga telah memohon maaf, mereka keras kepala.
  • Mereka kata kita curi lagu Terang Bulan dan jadikan ianya lagu Negaraku, lagu kebangsaan kita. Bila sudah ada fakta mereka sendiri curi lagu itu dari La Rosalie yang dicipta oleh orang Perancis namanya Pierre-Jean de Beranger, mereka diam.
  • Mereka kata kita curi seni arkitek Borobudur dan jadikan seni arktikek pembinaan Menara Berkembar Petronas - Suria KLCC. Namun adakah mereka pernah kaji bahawa KLCC direka berdasarkan seni Islam (geometri Islamic) dan Borobudur itu Hindu?
  • Mereka kata kita curi makanan mereka seperti soto, rendang, lontong dan akui itu makanan kita. Adakah mereka bodoh? Kita kan serumpun? Sudah tentunya ada makanan yang sama.
  • Mereka kata curi bendera negara mereka dan jadikan bendera UMNO. Yang ini aku tak kisah sebab aku tak peduli dan aku bukanlah penyokong UMNO. Lantak lah!
  • Mereka kata kita curi emblem Belanda dan ubah sikit-sikit jadi emblem negara kita. Apahal sibuk pulak kalau itu emblem Belanda? Belanda tu menjajah Indonesia berkurun lamanya yang diorang nak menangkan kenapa? Tak faham...
Mereka sebenarnya kata macam-macam tanpa "mengukur baju di badan sendiri"... Kalau nak sangat berkira begini seharusnya orang dari India yang lebih ramai, lebih ganas dari Indonesia boleh datang menuntut kenapa adat bersanding orang Indonesia amalkan? Itu budaya Hindu dari India... dan banyak lagi. Malas nak sebut sebab ini bukanlah benda asal yang aku nak nyatakan dalam blog ini.

Persoalan aku adalah...

"Apa yang Malaysia telah lakukan untuk medapat ini semua (penghinaan, kata kesat, dan caci maki) dari negara jiran kita Indonesia?"


Tapi baik kita dikurniakan sedikit rahmat di dunia dan kebaikan dalam diri masing-masing dan kebanyakan antara kita tidak mengambil-hati selamanya terhadap Indonesia walaupun pelbagai yang telah dilakukan oleh sebilangan rakyat mereka yang akalnya entah di mana?

Malah baru-baru ini apabila Padang, Sumatera ditimpa gempa bumi (lagi) dan memusnahkan banyak harta-benda dan meranapkan ribuan nyawa, kita sekali lagi seperti ketika Indonesia (Thailand, Sri Lanka, India dan negara kita sendiri) di landa tsunami pada 26 Disember 2004, menghulurkan bantuan. Mendapatkan derma ikhlas dari masyarakat, rakyat biasa untuk membantukan meringankan beban mereka yang mengalami trauma kerana tragedi ini.


(klik untuk besarkan gambar-gambar di bawah)




Oh Indonesia... Kenapa mahu bermusuh dengan Malaysia sedangkan ramai rakyat kamu yang berada di sini dan mencari rezeki di Malaysia bagi memberi sesuap nasi pada keluarga yang masih berada di Indonesia?

Oh Indonesia... Kenapa mahu bermusuh dengan Malaysia sedangkan ramai juga rakyat kamu yang menjadi penjahat, membunuh merompak rakyat Malaysia semata-mata mahu teruskan hidup di negara yang kamu panggil Malingsia ini?

Oh Indonesia... Kenapa bersusah payah mahu masuk ke negara ini mencari wang walaupun terpaksa menjadi tanpa izin dan sering diburu imegresen sedangkan negara ini pada pandangan mata kamu adalah negara jahat, negara penindas, negara plagiat?

Oh Indonesia... Walau apa yang kamu telah lakukan, kami tahu, bukan semua di Indonesia berfikiran cetek. Tidak semua yang setuju dengan terma Malingsia dan kami di sini juga tidak semua yang memandang hina pada Indonesia dan untuk saya sebagai penulis untuk menaip perkataan IndonSial itu pun rasa sangat berat.

Indonesia, Malaysia... berdamailah!!!


**Ada lain artikel mengenai Indonesia Vs. Malaysia Vs. Indonesia di blog aku yang lain.
 
posted by Anita Tahir at 10:38 PM | Permalink | 4 comments
FILEM MALAYSIA - apa dah jadi?
Malaysia asalnya mendahului Korea dalam pembikinan filem tapi apa sudah jadi sekarang? Baru-baru ini saya pergi menonton filem Korea yang terbaru - Tsunami In Haeundae dan saya sangat kagum dengan plot cerita tersebut, penggarapan filem, lakonan pelakon-pelakonnya dari yang utama sehinggalah pelakon tambahan dan paling saya kagum ialah teknik grafik yang diguna-pakai adalah setading (mungkin kurang sedikit sahaja) dengan filem-filem Hollywood. Jangan katakan teknik grafik, poster mereka walaupun agak ringkas tapi menarik mata para penonton untuk ke panggung. Saya benar-benar kecewa dengan filem-filem Malaysia...



Bukan setakat filem Korea. Filem Thailand juga mengalami revolusi yang sangat ketara tidak kisahlah apa genre sekalipun filem itu. Ketika menanti Tsunami In Haeundae ditayangkan, beberapa gazet filem-filem yang akan datang di panggung-panggung dan cineplex seluruh Malaysia ditayangkan. Tolak tepi filem-filem Hollywood kerana yang tak berapa bagus pun orang kita akan kata bagus.


Saya tergamam dan pada masa yang sama sangat kagum dengan evolusi filem Thailand yang dahulunya saya panggil ntah-apa-apa dan kini sangat maju apabila menontot gazet filem Raging Phoenix (filem aksi) dan juga Phobia 2 (filem seram). Sekali lagi... bukan sajaha filem itu secara keseluruhan amat membuat saja tak sabar-sabar hendak menontonnya tapi poster mereka juga sangat efektif dan tidak sekelam-kabut kebanyakan filem-filem di Malaysia.





Filem Hong Kong pulak memang tidak perlu diperkatakan. Sejak dari zaman saya kanak-kanak sehinggalah umur saya sudah melangkau ke alam 30-an, peningkatan demi peningkatan nampak begitu ketara sekali. Walaupun ada setengahnya tidak memerlukan grafik yang melampau (contoh: The New Police Story) tetapi ianya tetap menarik untuk ditonton kerana jalan cerita dan cara filem itu digarap menjadikan ianya bagus. Kini, saya tidak sabar untuk menanti kesinambungan filem Storm Riders iaitu Storm Warriors II.



Apa sebenarnya terjadi kepada industri filem kita? Filem Kita Budaya Kita? Oh please... Saya sendiri malu hendak mengaku Melayu kadang-kadang bila menonton filem-filem sampah arahan Prof. Razak Mohaidin atau Dato' Yusuf Haslam. Tak habis-habis dengan cinta dan air mata yang tak sudah. Lepas tu lakonan sangat stereotype. Namun saya akui tidak semua filem Malaysia adalah se-sampah filem-filem seperti Mami Jarum, Sembilu, Senario, Kayangan (?) dan yang sewaktu dengannya. Saya masih lagi boleh mengangkat kaki menonton wayang kalau filem-filem Malaysia adalah filem-filem yang bagus seperti kebanyakan arahan Afdlin Shauki, arwah Yasmin Ahmad dan Bernard Chauly (dan lain-lain yang kebanyakannya lebih mengamalkan sifat keterbukaan dan pendatang baru).


Adakah kerana kita kekurang sokongan dari kerajaan seperti kewangan? Ataupun kita kekurangan pengarah berkaliber? Atau syarikat perfileman takut keluar modal? Ataupun kita tiada pereka teknik grafik? Ataupun kita tiada pengarah seni yang bagus? Dan adakah kerana pelakon-pelakon kita terlalu berkiblatkan wang sehingga tidak tahu memilih filem apa yang dirasakan bagus untuk berada bersama dalam produksi? Adakah tidak pandai baca skrip? APAKAH ADAKAH?
 
posted by Anita Tahir at 5:40 PM | Permalink | 4 comments