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IT IS AN ABILITY
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010
my favourite photos in 2009
Photo 1: Syikin, Shah, Sara and Su
Photo 2: Saralissa
Photo 3: Saralissa
Photo 4: Johan and Phoebe
Photo 5: Lulu Alani
Photo 6: Maryam
Photo 7: Lulu Alani
Phot0 8: Shazali and his niece Irina
Photo 9: Shania Amani
Photo 4: Johan and Phoebe
Photo 5: Lulu Alani
Photo 6: Maryam
Photo 7: Lulu Alani
Phot0 8: Shazali and his niece Irina
Photo 9: Shania Amani
Photo 10: Lulu Alani
Photo 11: Lulu Alani
Photo 12: Lulu Alani
Photo 11: Lulu Alani
Photo 12: Lulu Alani
Photo 13: Isma Nuradiana
Photo 14: Elyas, Joned's son
Photos 15: Shahrul, Su and newborn Shania
Photo 16: Rina's son
Photo 17: Zayd
Photo 14: Elyas, Joned's son
Photos 15: Shahrul, Su and newborn Shania
Photo 16: Rina's son
Photo 17: Zayd
Monday, February 15, 2010
Cuti lebih-lebih
Bila kita bercakap tentang One Malaysia, saya suka dengan idea bahawasanya kita bersama-sama menyambut sesuatu festivals. Menyambut bukan beerti kita celebrate dan melakukan segala rituals, tapi lebih kepada happy dengan cuti yang diberi, berasa suka kerana kaum lain di Malaysia sedang gembira menyambutnya, wish other people’s happiness, berasa bertuah, sekurang-kurangnya ada satu hari off untuk berehat.
Having said that, bila cuti CNY jatuh pada hari Ahad dan Isnin, maka hari Selasa juga adalah cuti umum, ini tidak bermakna, kita patut tutup kedai dan berehat sampai hari Selasa.
Ini lah masalah orang-orang Melayu. Bila cuti umum untuk kaum melayu, mereka cuti selama yang mungkin. Bila cuti umum laum lain, mereka juga yang cuti lebih dari kaum itu sendiri.
Hari ni, bila saya berjalan di pekan kampong saya, banyak kedai-kedai cina dah pun buka dan mula berniaga seperti baisa. Tapi…makcik jual kuih, pakcik kedai runcit, abang cuci kereta, kakak jual sayur, semua masih lagi bercuti sakan.
C’mon…. macam mana ekonomi orang melayu nak maju?
Myself? Walaupun saya balik kampong, saya juga masih berkerja seperti biasa.
Having said that, bila cuti CNY jatuh pada hari Ahad dan Isnin, maka hari Selasa juga adalah cuti umum, ini tidak bermakna, kita patut tutup kedai dan berehat sampai hari Selasa.
Ini lah masalah orang-orang Melayu. Bila cuti umum untuk kaum melayu, mereka cuti selama yang mungkin. Bila cuti umum laum lain, mereka juga yang cuti lebih dari kaum itu sendiri.
Hari ni, bila saya berjalan di pekan kampong saya, banyak kedai-kedai cina dah pun buka dan mula berniaga seperti baisa. Tapi…makcik jual kuih, pakcik kedai runcit, abang cuci kereta, kakak jual sayur, semua masih lagi bercuti sakan.
C’mon…. macam mana ekonomi orang melayu nak maju?
Myself? Walaupun saya balik kampong, saya juga masih berkerja seperti biasa.
Friday, February 12, 2010
We oso celebrate, maaah!
My client dropped by in our workplace earlier today. He asked if anyone of us are going back hometown. One of my staff is a local so she celebrates CNY in KL. The other is just going back Seremban and I answered, yes as my family and I are visiting my grandparents in Ipoh. But to avoid the bad traffic on Saturday, we plan to leave on Sunday night to the north.
My client say “Tengok, biasalah macam tu kan… orang cina yang celebrate, tapi banyak yang penuh kat jalan raya balaik kampong is orang melayu, kan? Bagi la chance kat orang cina balik kampung”. I was damn annoyed with his statement.
Short of saying, “Kita ni orang Malaysia, semua orang dalam Negara ni enjoy each holiday given tak kisah la celebrate ke tak. Anyway, kita kan One Malaysia. Kenapa kene ada diskriminasi? Kalau bulan puasa pun the Chinese would also enjoy the food bazaar every evening”.
But I didn’t. Because saying these, would have to make myself sound rude.
But I am still annoyed.
My client say “Tengok, biasalah macam tu kan… orang cina yang celebrate, tapi banyak yang penuh kat jalan raya balaik kampong is orang melayu, kan? Bagi la chance kat orang cina balik kampung”. I was damn annoyed with his statement.
Short of saying, “Kita ni orang Malaysia, semua orang dalam Negara ni enjoy each holiday given tak kisah la celebrate ke tak. Anyway, kita kan One Malaysia. Kenapa kene ada diskriminasi? Kalau bulan puasa pun the Chinese would also enjoy the food bazaar every evening”.
But I didn’t. Because saying these, would have to make myself sound rude.
But I am still annoyed.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Gracias Mate
The scousers are really colourful people - they are pure breed scousers and yet they pretend to be spanish because their no 9 is from Spain.
ALL DAY TAPAS - Classic, it normally reads ALL DAY BREAKFAST/FISH AND CHIPS.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
7 km jer?
“Alaaa..7.7km jer..it’s like about 3km shorter than 10km? ok kot…”
WRONG.
It was very unfortunate for me as I did not have time for trainings. I was in peak period that went on for about 2 and half weeks. Once the peak was over it was about a week or so to the race day. Semangat berkobar-kobar untuk terus pergi lari lepas Subuh and terus pergi kerja lepas tu.
Tapi masa sentiasa mencemburui aku. [Atau mungkin kah semangat sudah tidak setia padaku?] hehe..
Meetings in the morning makes it difficult for me to do my training before work. Sedar-sedar dah Sabtu.
Yeahh.. Tak guna nak menyesal. It was time, I just had to do it.
We were there at 7.30am. Ali met few of his cycling mates, but no one that I know of. The place was quite disarrayed. The counters to collect water and snack pack for different categories were located at different places. Well, not that I am complaining, I mean it’s good in the sense that people won’t flock up at only one place just to collect the mineral water. But, maybe they could do a bigger signage to make it clearer. We had to ask around and I had difficulties to identify their volunteers as their official colors are black or white t-shirts. Couldn’t really differentiate the volunteers and the runners. I think volunteers should wear something bright like orange or red, so easy lah people to identify them.
The coupon looks SOMETHING like this. hehe.. where you are supposed to break the lines to be produced to the volunteers. Notice the coupon to collect water before the race is at the top rather than the most bottom? Bit difficult to tear it up dont u think? heeheh..
Semakin lama, kandang tu semakin penuh, semakin ramai. People are pushing here and there. We were standing soooo close to each other for half an hour. When it was about to start, the participants were hailing “wooohooooooo”, put their hands in the air.. maybe being over semangat, they produced their bau-bau yang harum dari ketiak while hailing to the FT minister, who officiated the event. Shit, too close, man…too close. And you’re tall and I am just at your arm’s length. So, knock it off, mate! Hehe.. JK.
The route was ok, at first. Flat. So I ran. I targeted to run at least 85% of the whole running thingy. But flat is bad. My legs were painful. At one point, it started to be hilly. There were sooo many people running. The air was just so still, that I could not breathe. I stopped running, that I thought I was gonna faint. “Please don’t make a scene, bitch. Please don’t. just keep on walking”. I went away from the crowd, found myself a space on the pavement. Then I wanted to run again, but it was too painful to run. My legs just wouldn’t co-operate. Adakah ini cramp? Tak tahu apa rasanya cramp. But I just kept on walking, walaupun sakit. Rasa kelakar bila budak-budak kecik (7-10 yrs old) berlari-lari dengan pantasnya memotong. Adoiiihhh..loser giler rasa. Budak-budak ni macam seronok jer main lari-lari. It’s like a game to them…while I suffer. Haha.. Bagus, budak-budak.. you start very early. Don’t wait until your bums are big like mine sampai dah berat nak lari. :)
Scenery was exquisite. I loved it. I loved the smell of the night air, and when I passed by some wooded area, the smell of pokok dalam hutan, oh so refreshing and rejuvenating. There were not many cars, and it was quiet, I just love it very much. I enjoyed the run. And the crowd, although I did not know anyone. However, because of the unfamiliarity of the race area, I felt that the run was taking me forever to finish. After half an hour of running, there was a signage saying “Congratualtions, you have achieved 3km. You have another 18km more to go”. I know it's not for me, but.... Baru 3km?????????? Haihh.. Oh, but the water station location was sufficiently good, I think. Quite happy for that.
Approaching the finishing line, I realized that the concourse was not as happening as the ones held in Dataran Merdeka. No loud music, no show, concerts, or demonstrations like they usually have while waiting for other runners to arrive. No cheering for the participants at the finishing line, at least not at the 7.7km area. No mascots. Macam so formal kinda thing? Maybe because its in Putrajaya, the governments’ area, so kene senyap n quiet, tak boleh havoc2 maybe? I don’t know. To be short, tak meriah sangat.
But I must say that the concourse area was sooo clean. No bottles/cups/food packets lying around on the floor. There were enough waste bins around and a lot of helpers to clean up too. So, that was good. All in all, I would say it was good experience altogether. I wouldn’t say it was badly organized, but I would think that there are more things that need to be improved.
I finished in 1.20 hrs for the 7.7k. Bad, yes. But I was still happy because it was my first run (literally) this year. So, I can say that it was my first exercise for the year. Hehe..
Congratulations to Ali that finished his half marathon in less than 3 hrs, better than what he targeted for.
Congratulations to every participants that completed the run. Especially the full marathoners. I know I will never be at your place.
AAhhh...I wish I had brought my camera along.
Current condition: bed-ridden. Sakit pinggang, sakit betis, sakit peha, sakit segala-galanya. Macam lari full marathon 2 round berturut-turut teruknya.
WRONG.
It was very unfortunate for me as I did not have time for trainings. I was in peak period that went on for about 2 and half weeks. Once the peak was over it was about a week or so to the race day. Semangat berkobar-kobar untuk terus pergi lari lepas Subuh and terus pergi kerja lepas tu.
Tapi masa sentiasa mencemburui aku. [Atau mungkin kah semangat sudah tidak setia padaku?] hehe..
Meetings in the morning makes it difficult for me to do my training before work. Sedar-sedar dah Sabtu.
Yeahh.. Tak guna nak menyesal. It was time, I just had to do it.
We were there at 7.30am. Ali met few of his cycling mates, but no one that I know of. The place was quite disarrayed. The counters to collect water and snack pack for different categories were located at different places. Well, not that I am complaining, I mean it’s good in the sense that people won’t flock up at only one place just to collect the mineral water. But, maybe they could do a bigger signage to make it clearer. We had to ask around and I had difficulties to identify their volunteers as their official colors are black or white t-shirts. Couldn’t really differentiate the volunteers and the runners. I think volunteers should wear something bright like orange or red, so easy lah people to identify them.
The coupon looks SOMETHING like this. hehe.. where you are supposed to break the lines to be produced to the volunteers. Notice the coupon to collect water before the race is at the top rather than the most bottom? Bit difficult to tear it up dont u think? heeheh..
We met Dr Azman, Bach and girlfriend, Nana approaching to the flag off time. Nana is a runner, Bach had run 2-3 events before I think and last night was his first half marathon. Good job, man. You finished it. You got your medal. I am sure Nana is proud of you. On another note, Dr Azman is a real classic story. He didn’t register for the run, but Ayman who registered for half marathon, couldn’t make it as he had to work. So Azman decided to run for him. He did it. Semangat you kental la Man… congrats. Kalau i…i dah naik van blk ke finishing line dah kot..
Semakin lama, kandang tu semakin penuh, semakin ramai. People are pushing here and there. We were standing soooo close to each other for half an hour. When it was about to start, the participants were hailing “wooohooooooo”, put their hands in the air.. maybe being over semangat, they produced their bau-bau yang harum dari ketiak while hailing to the FT minister, who officiated the event. Shit, too close, man…too close. And you’re tall and I am just at your arm’s length. So, knock it off, mate! Hehe.. JK.
The route was ok, at first. Flat. So I ran. I targeted to run at least 85% of the whole running thingy. But flat is bad. My legs were painful. At one point, it started to be hilly. There were sooo many people running. The air was just so still, that I could not breathe. I stopped running, that I thought I was gonna faint. “Please don’t make a scene, bitch. Please don’t. just keep on walking”. I went away from the crowd, found myself a space on the pavement. Then I wanted to run again, but it was too painful to run. My legs just wouldn’t co-operate. Adakah ini cramp? Tak tahu apa rasanya cramp. But I just kept on walking, walaupun sakit. Rasa kelakar bila budak-budak kecik (7-10 yrs old) berlari-lari dengan pantasnya memotong. Adoiiihhh..loser giler rasa. Budak-budak ni macam seronok jer main lari-lari. It’s like a game to them…while I suffer. Haha.. Bagus, budak-budak.. you start very early. Don’t wait until your bums are big like mine sampai dah berat nak lari. :)
Scenery was exquisite. I loved it. I loved the smell of the night air, and when I passed by some wooded area, the smell of pokok dalam hutan, oh so refreshing and rejuvenating. There were not many cars, and it was quiet, I just love it very much. I enjoyed the run. And the crowd, although I did not know anyone. However, because of the unfamiliarity of the race area, I felt that the run was taking me forever to finish. After half an hour of running, there was a signage saying “Congratualtions, you have achieved 3km. You have another 18km more to go”. I know it's not for me, but.... Baru 3km?????????? Haihh.. Oh, but the water station location was sufficiently good, I think. Quite happy for that.
Approaching the finishing line, I realized that the concourse was not as happening as the ones held in Dataran Merdeka. No loud music, no show, concerts, or demonstrations like they usually have while waiting for other runners to arrive. No cheering for the participants at the finishing line, at least not at the 7.7km area. No mascots. Macam so formal kinda thing? Maybe because its in Putrajaya, the governments’ area, so kene senyap n quiet, tak boleh havoc2 maybe? I don’t know. To be short, tak meriah sangat.
But I must say that the concourse area was sooo clean. No bottles/cups/food packets lying around on the floor. There were enough waste bins around and a lot of helpers to clean up too. So, that was good. All in all, I would say it was good experience altogether. I wouldn’t say it was badly organized, but I would think that there are more things that need to be improved.
I finished in 1.20 hrs for the 7.7k. Bad, yes. But I was still happy because it was my first run (literally) this year. So, I can say that it was my first exercise for the year. Hehe..
Congratulations to Ali that finished his half marathon in less than 3 hrs, better than what he targeted for.
Congratulations to every participants that completed the run. Especially the full marathoners. I know I will never be at your place.
AAhhh...I wish I had brought my camera along.
Current condition: bed-ridden. Sakit pinggang, sakit betis, sakit peha, sakit segala-galanya. Macam lari full marathon 2 round berturut-turut teruknya.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Women
Curi from a friend's facebook status, that i thought might give a big slap to the men.
Whatever u give a woman, she will make it greater. Give her sperm, she will give u a baby. Give her a house, she will give u a home. Give her groceries, she will give u a meal. Give her a smile n she will give u her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if u give her crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit. - T.A.N
I love this quote very much. I think it's so true. Women are always the one giving in, thinking "give him one more chance, i know he will change". Always saying "but he promised to change, and he will never repeat. So i am giving in".
Tapi men, always do or say things without thinking and forever saying "sorry, tak buat lagi, i promise". And we always wonder which part of the sentence that they don't understand, and they keep on doing the same mistake. They think, "takper, i'll buy her chocolate, and she'll smile at me again" always taking advantage knowing that women are easily swept away.
But what men don't realise is that women do have thier pride. They are always giving in not because they are stupid or weak, but only because they love you. But there'll come a time that love will no longer be your saviour. That's the time when she will regain her strength. That's the time when she has amassed the tons of shit to be thrown at your craps.
Whatever u give a woman, she will make it greater. Give her sperm, she will give u a baby. Give her a house, she will give u a home. Give her groceries, she will give u a meal. Give her a smile n she will give u her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what she is given. So if u give her crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit. - T.A.N
I love this quote very much. I think it's so true. Women are always the one giving in, thinking "give him one more chance, i know he will change". Always saying "but he promised to change, and he will never repeat. So i am giving in".
Tapi men, always do or say things without thinking and forever saying "sorry, tak buat lagi, i promise". And we always wonder which part of the sentence that they don't understand, and they keep on doing the same mistake. They think, "takper, i'll buy her chocolate, and she'll smile at me again" always taking advantage knowing that women are easily swept away.
But what men don't realise is that women do have thier pride. They are always giving in not because they are stupid or weak, but only because they love you. But there'll come a time that love will no longer be your saviour. That's the time when she will regain her strength. That's the time when she has amassed the tons of shit to be thrown at your craps.
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