important dates 2015

Big Bad Wolf 2011 - 2015

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ps: my laptop's screen crack and instead of repairing it for an amount ranging from RM400 to RM600, i'm planning on buying a new one.. But to have to wait until next year because it's not in my 2015 budget, haha.. So, please bear with the lopsided layout and all for i'm posting from my phone..

destination: kota kinbalu, sabah

actually this trip was really an ad hoc plan. one calm day at the office, fiza suddenly said, 'let's go eat seafood at sabah!' and we bought the flight ticket and booked the hotel the next day. the participants were none other than fiza, yati, miss a and me!

FLIGHT DETAILS

*notice how much different the prices are when you made a last minute booking, huhu...

HOTEL DETAILS

Promenade Service Apartments

TRAVEL ITINERARY

 ps: as usual, detailed entries will soon follow suit...insyaAllah.. :)

sunway lagoon 2015

SUNWAY LAGOON [5 SEPTEMBER 2015]

on this day, I finally did the thing that I wanna do for a long long time and it's bungy jumping!!! I even did it with my niece, Yasmin. actually, my sister got an MOHE (Ministry of Higher Education) at the sunway convention centre. the whole family (except me, of course) stayed at the hotel. she asked my help to accompany the kids to sunway lagoon. and of course, I agreed without any hesitations. I had a run that morning and I went direct to sunway right after.

 

I collected the kids at their room hotel and waited for my brother-in-law finishing his breakfast. he's the most important person here because he's the ultimate payer, hehe.. he bought the tickets and we began our adventure. we went first to the wildlife park especially for Alif followed by amusement park, scream park, extreme park and last but not least the waterpark.

 

at the amusement park, both Yasmin and Danish rode most of the rides. I only rode a few since this was my third time here. scream park is a new attraction for me. for the three of us stood in quite a long queue. the two kids were very excited since some of their friends had been there and heard their frightening experiences. while queuing, a few zombies roamed about and that made Danish 'chicken out' and joined Alif and my brother in law at the kiddies playground not far away.

 

I managed to convinced Yasmin to proceed and she was holding my arm tightly. they let a group of about 10 person within 5 minutes (I think) interval. when it was our turn, halfway through only a few people managed to get through the end and I was one of them. the others and Yasmin included went out at the provided exits for people who doesn't one to continue. the funny thing is, I walked so fast not because I'm scared but because I hate confined, dark place. so, I was at the very front. there are may twists and turned that I simply just asked the zombies for direction, hahaha.. the zombies seemed shock at first and showed me the way anyway.

 

the most anticipated event is none other than bungy and g-force! we did the g-force first and scream like hell!!! and bungy happened in a flick of time. once I jumped, it took less than a few seconds you're hanging upside down. I didn't even had the chance to scream my heart out!!! Yasmin went after me and at least she did scream, huhu.. we even got certificates for this crazy, insane act! Alif and my brother in law went back to the hotel first. so, Yasmin and I accompanied Danish at the water park.

 

on our way back, something funny happened ad it was all my fault. we didn't have the room key. the key was needed for the lift as well. I didn't know this. so, I dragged both kids into the lift. naturally, I couldn't press the number of our floor but one person luckily (I thought at first), stayed one floor above ours. so, we went out with him and took the emergency stairs (my dumb idea) to go down. and of course, the door couldn't be opened from our side. so, I called my brother in law to help us. but he couldn't find the right staircase. my sister had to call the security to help us out, huhu..

~end of entry!~

 



[SONG] SISTAR ~ Loving U

Hey cham isanghae jeongmal strange
Ireon jeok eobseonneunde
Neol bolttaemada na dugeundugeun tteollineunge

Hey it’s so strange, really strange
I’ve never been like this before
Whenever I see you, my heart pounds and trembles

When I see your face honja mak sangsangeul hae
Na pyojeong gwalli andwae michil geot gata
Tto niga niga bogo sipeoseo

When I see your face, I imagine things by myself
I can’t keep a straight face – I’m going crazy
Because I miss you again

I wanna say woo~woo~woo~woo~yeh
Neo ttaemune geurae
Meonjeo malhagin sirheunde
Nae ipgae maemdora

I wanna say woo~woo~woo~woo~yeh
I’m like this because of you
I don’t want to be the first to say it but
The words linger around my mouth

[CHORUS]
Loving u~ u~ na eotteokhae what should I do?
Jojeori andwae nae mam gojang nabeorin heart
Jeongsin mot charil mankeum
Boy I’m falling in love with u~ u~
Na eotteokhae what should I do?
Neol nochimyeon nan andwae saranghandago
Woo~woo~woo~woo~woo~
Baby I’m in love with you

Loving U U – what should I do – what should I do?
I can’t control my heart, my heart is not working
It’s to the point where I can’t focus
Boy I’m falling in love with U U
What should I do, what should I do?
Baby i’m in love with you~
I can’t lose you, I love you
Woo woo woo woo woo
Baby I’m in love with you

Ok let’s talk about love
Modu hwiparameul bulmyeo
Eomeona nareul kkosiryeogo haetdeon namjadeul ijen
Modu annyeong
Nae aegyoseogin moksorineun
Oppaman bureullae (oppaya)
Eojjeomyeon joha
Naega sarange ppajyeonna bwa

Ok let’s talk about love, everyone whistles
Oh my, all the boys who tried to hit on me, now goodbye
With my cutesy voice, I only wanna call you, oppa (hey oppa)
What to do, I think I am in love

I wanna say woo~woo~woo~woo~yeh
Neo ttaemune geurae
Meonjeo malhagin sirheunde
Nae ipgae maemdora

I wanna say woo~woo~woo~woo~yeh
I’m like this because of you
I don’t want to be the first to say it but
The words linger around my mouth

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Aetaneun nae mam neomu ginagin bam
Sumgyeowatdeon neoreul hyanghan mal saranghae

My heart is burning, this night is too long
Words I’ve been hiding from you, I love you

[REPEAT CHORUS]

Hello hello nuni majuchimyeon
L. O. L. O. V. E naneun malhae
Mello mello urin L. O. L. O. V. E.
L. O. L. O. V. E
I’m only think about~u~u~

Hello Hello, when our eyes meet
I speak of L. O. L. O. V. E
Melo, melo, we’re in L. O. L. O. V. E.
L. O. L. O. V. E
I’m only think about U U

Source: KPop Lyrics

entries..

haaaachoooo!!! gesundheit! sorry! it seems that there are many dusts and cobwebs here.. my fault entirely for not writing anything. actually, there are a lot of things that I want to write about. and there are:

• self laundry
• kinabalu trip
• putri's wedding
• etc.. etc..
• sunway lagoon

I hope that I would find the time and mood to write an entry soon.. until later then..

being silly!

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities. [Dr Seuss]

fruits season is back! (...a couple of weeks ago)

 

well, like the title says the fruits season is back and goonnnee... sorry for the late update.. for those who never been to my house in segamat, you probably should know that my house, my parent's house to be exact is inside of an orchard, THE orchard! there are various fruit trees around; durian, rambutan, manggis, pulasan, duku, duku langsat, langsat, dukung, cepu, ciku etc..etc.. you just name any local, I repeat LOCAL trees, no apples, pears, grapes etc, the orchard probably has it!

 

I had my share of local fruits since I was young, Alhamdulillah. i'm lucky my parents and my late grandparents and late grandparents for planting the trees for us, the later generation. and now, my parents keep adding their own trees for the benefit of the youngs.

 

 

this time, the fruit season arrived the same time of hari raya, double festive season for us! during my office raya celebration, my sister (we worked in the same Immigration Department) brought the fruits all the way from segamat to Putrajaya. she brought along a few of her staffs to segamat to 'harvest' the fruit. and the week after that, I brought fiza (and her two cute nieces) and yati home to segamat to 'harvest' even more. before that, my brothers already collected the fruits as well.

 

I could climb trees, I was a good tree climber! but with age, comes the weight (for not leading a healthy lifestyle), so I fall off the trees not once, but TWICE. once while plucking rambutan and the other while plucking pulasan. poor poor trees, I broke their branches. I also got bitten by a few small black bees which my parents call kelulut. I got the lips of angelina jolie for about two days and itchy all over for about a week!

 

 

58th Independence Day! [Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!]

today, malaysia celebrated its 58th 'merdeka' day! alhamdulillah... i rarely talked about politic but today i'm going to touch a little tiny bit of it. in my humble/honest/inexperienced opinon, my beloved country is really in a big trouble. this trouble will keep on going until a few people in the higher up comes to their senses. that's all, thank you! (see, only a tiny bit!)

On the day you were born...

Want to Influence The World? Map RevealsThe Best Languages to Speak by Michael Erard

S. RONEN ET AL., PNAS EARLY EDITION (2014)
(click here for interactive map)

Many books are translated into and out of languages such as English, German, and Russian, but Arabic has fewer translations relative to its many speakers. (Arrows between circles represent translations; the size of a language's circle is proportional to the number of people who speak it.)

Speak or write in English, and the world will hear you. Speak or write in Tamil or Portuguese, and you may have a harder time getting your message out. Now, a new method for mapping how information flows around the globe identifies the best languages to spread your ideas far and wide. One hint: If you’re considering a second language, try Spanish instead of Chinese.

The study was spurred by a conversation about an untranslated book, says Shahar Ronen, a Microsoft program manager whose Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) master’s thesis formed the basis of the new work. A bilingual Hebrew-English speaker from Israel, he told his MIT adviser, César Hidalgo (himself a Spanish-English speaker), about a book written in Hebrew whose translation into English he wasn’t yet aware of. “I was able to bridge a certain culture gap because I was multilingual,” Ronen says. He began thinking about how to create worldwide maps of how multilingual people transmit information and ideas.

Ronen and co-authors from MIT, Harvard University, Northeastern University, and Aix-Marseille University tackled the problem by describing three global language networks based on bilingual tweeters, book translations, and multilingual Wikipedia edits. The book translation network maps how many books are translated into other languages. For example, the Hebrew book, translated from Hebrew into English and German, would be represented in lines pointing from a node of Hebrew to nodes of English and German. That network is based on 2.2 million translations of printed books published in more than 1000 languages. As in all of the networks, the thickness of the lines represents the number of connections between nodes. For tweets, the researchers used 550 million tweets by 17 million users in 73 languages. In that network, if a user tweets in, say, Hindi as well as in English, the two languages are connected. To build the Wikipedia network, the researchers tracked edits in up to five languages done by editors, carefully excluding bots.

In all three networks, English has the most transmissions to and from other languages and is the most central hub, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But the maps also reveal “a halo of intermediate hubs,” according to the paper, such as French, German, and Russian, which serve the same function at a different scale.

In contrast, some languages with large populations of speakers, such as Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic, are relatively isolated in these networks. This means that fewer communications in those languages reach speakers of other languages. Meanwhile, a language like Dutch—spoken by 27 million people—can be a disproportionately large conduit, compared with a language like Arabic, which has a whopping 530 million native and second-language speakers. This is because the Dutch are very multilingual and very online.

The network maps show what is already widely known: If you want to get your ideas out, you can reach a lot of people through the English language. But the maps also show how speakers in disparate languages benefit from being indirectly linked through hub languages large and small. On Twitter, for example, ideas in Filipino can theoretically move to the Korean-speaking sphere through Malay, whereas the most likely path for ideas to go from Turkish to Malayalam (spoken in India by 35 million people) is through English. These networks are revealed in detail at the study’s website.

The authors note that the users they studied, whom they consider elite because—unlike most people in the world—they are literate and online, do not represent all the speakers of a language. However, “the elites of global languages have a disproportionate amount of power and responsibility, because they are tacitly shaping the way in which distant cultures see each other—even if this is not their goal,” Hidalgo says. When conflict in Ukraine flared this past summer, most people in the world learned about it through news stories originally written in English and then translated to other languages. In this case, “any implicit bias or angle taken by the English media will color the information about the conflict that is available to many non-English speakers,” Hidalgo says.

The networks potentially offer guidance to governments and other language communities that want to change their international role. “If I want my national language to be more prominent, then I should invest in translating more documents, encouraging more people to tweet in their national language,” Ronen says. “On the other side, if I want our ideas to spread, we should pick a second language that’s very well connected.”

For non-English speakers, the choice of English as second or third language is an obvious one. For English speakers, the analysis suggests it would be more advantageous to choose Spanish over Chinese—at least if they’re spreading their ideas through writing.

The problem of measuring the relative status of the world’s languages "is a very tricky one, and often very hard to get good data about,” says Mark Davis, the president and co-founder of the Unicode Consortium in Mountain View, California, which does character encoding for the world’s computers and mobile devices. “Their perspective on the problem is interesting and useful.”

Cultural transmission happens in spoken language too, points out William Rivers, the executive director of the nonprofit Joint National Committee for Languages and the National Council for Languages and International Studies in Garrett Park, Maryland. Data on interactions in, say, the souks of Marrakech, where people speak Arabic, Hassaniya, Moroccan Arabic, French, Tashelhit, and other languages, are impossible to get but important in cultural transmission, he says. He adds that “as the Internet has become more available to more people around the world, they go online in their own languages.” When they do, now they know how to connect to other languages and move their ideas, too.

SOURCE: AAAS.ORG

aidilfitri 2015

today marked the eight day of syawal a.k.a the eight day of raya! on the first day of raya, I celebrated it at my hometown, kampong berata segamat along with my first brother's (abang ain) and my first sister's (kak sya) family and of course with our beloved parents. as usual we went to our arwah atok's house and visited our aunts; mak ilah and mak akak. the menu is the usual lontong, kari ayam kampong and rendang daging. our house had the same menu but with extra laksa Johor. our second house of the day was mak ijat's house (menu: soto) and the third and final house of the day was my mother's cousin (menu: sup tulang/roti arab). then, we had our photos taken.

with the parents

me with abg ain's family (had to blend in, hehe..)

abg ijan's family

kak sya's family

kak ala's family

on the second day of syawal,  we practically did nothing but lazing around and on the third syawal.  we all (except our mother for she was tired due to raya preparation and all) went to our father's side of the family at felda taib andak, kulai. there was tahlil and all but we arrived a little be late and made it jusr for doa time. my father have eight siblings but one passed away a couple of years ago. I (shamely) didn't know all my cousins from my father side and still doing my best to get to know them. it seems I come from a large family from both our my father's and mother's side.

abah with his siblings

added in the spouses or children

smile :)

the kids made bonfire and cooks potatoes with it. the next day, they made the fire once again and this time they 'cooked' marshmallows and sausages (s'more). at night, they showed their creative side by painting. oh and i almost forgot, on the first raya we went to watch a midnight movie of ant-man. while waiting for the movie to start, the kids (and I) spend time at the video arcade and did some 'karaoke'ing. it was actually fun and funny as well singing with them. they fought for the microphone. they sang their hearts out (sometimes out of tune, me included). and they even didn't want to leave the room because they wanted to sing some more...

movie time

s'moring

painting

:: Danish :: Areef :: Shafi :: Izz ::

| Yasmin | Syaira | Safia |

raya 2015/1436h is just around the corner...

 

wow, it's already the second last day of fasting! time flies very fast. well, i'm still at putrajaya since I didn't apply any extra leave for raya. the truth is, my annual leaves are left to seven only. thanks to me for always applying emergency leave. I try to like my job. seriously, i'm trying! i'm really am grateful for having this job. I love it more and hate it less after listening to the 'laying-off workers' news in the private sector.

 

my sister and her family had already gone back to kampong today. she told me to wash the clothes etc which I didn't mind at all. eventhough I still go to the office, the mood for work is already thinning as the mood for raya are thickening. I will go back tomorrow after work and would be back in putrajaya on Monday. i'm planning to go go back from kampong early in the morning and hoping to arrive at work before 7:30am. actually, i usually travel this way during festive holiday to avoid traffic,

 

this ramadhan, i usually breakfast at home. during my paid leave at kampong, my parents and i would just by foods from bazaar since my mom thought cooking for three person was not worth the time and energy, hehe.. i agreed with her. only this one time, we breakfasted at a restaurant in muar when we send haziq (my nephew) back to his boarding school, mrsm muar.

 

when i came back to putrajaya, i breakfasted mostly at home. they were a few time when i breakfasted outside with my friends. twice with rafiz and miss a, twice with fiza and yati and once with my fellow schoolmates from sains tuaku jaafar. with rafiz and miss a, we breakfasted at alamanda. with fiza and yati, once at laman grill kajang (we celebrated fiza's birthday as well) and once at everly. with the smstj99ners, we breakfasted at darc. okay that's all for now! selamat hari raya dan maaf zahir batin to all muslims in this world..

 

laman grill; yati, fiza and i

 

smstj99ners at darc

 

 

 

Baju Raya Hitam

pre-monday blues!

I love my job! I love my life! I love my job! I love my life! I love my job! I love my life! I love my job! Please, please, make me see the blessed, joyous, happy moments while I'm at work.. Please imprinted the 'I love my job' mantra into my mind and then made it progressed into believing and finally into doing! But whom am I to fool but my only foolish self.. Yes, I'm whining and complaining but it doesn't mean I didn't take any action to rectify the situation! Maybe the time isn't right and the situation isn't right! ONLY ALLAH KNOWS BEST!

 

 

 

how i spend my one month unpaid leave...

 

salam,

 

I couldn't remember whether or not (this sentence is so familiar, hehe..) I have mentioned about my one month unpaid leave from June 1st to June 30th. the reason for this leave is for me to relax and spend my time leisurely. I don't have to think about work but I still have to think about classes and attend them. for this semester, I'm taking only one subject (repeat); human development across the lifespan and the assignment question is on the psychosocial therapy focussing on Erik Erikson (1902 - 1994). his theory focused on eight (8) stages:

1. Trust vs Mistrust (Infancy: 0 - 12 mo)
2. Autonomy vs Shame and Doubt (Toddler: 13 to 48 mo)
3. Initiative vs Guilt (Pre-schooler: 3 - 5 yrs)
4. Competence vs Inferiority (Elementary School: 6 - puberty)
5. Identity vs Role Confusion (Adolescence: Teen years - 20s)
6. Intimacy vs Isolation (Young Adulthood: 20s - early 40s)
7. Generativity vs Stagnation (Middle Adulthood: 40s - 60s)
8. Integrity vs Despair (Late Adulthood: Late 60s and above)

hehe, sorry for the sudden educational input. just want to share the basic. well, how much is the progress? currently, it is in the very first stage; gathering information. my style of writing a theses is like this:

• Stage One: Gather the materials (books, e-books, journals, magazines, internets and so on)
• Stage Two: Go through the data (read everything and plan how to include all the materials into the theses so it looks more original and less plagiarism)
• Stage Three: Write (so the last stage is to write the theses and still cross check every details)
• Stage Four: Double check and once you're satisfied, submit your work to your tutor

oh, I just realised that I've only four steps/stages! I'm sure most of you are much more thorough compared to me. so, I borrowed a few books (six to be exact!) from national library. before this, they only allow you to borrow three books. I've went through their website to search for books. but, it turned out most of the books are only for references so I had to went through their OPAC once again to search for book. I did this last Tuesday.

 

and on the same Tuesday, my parents and I went to I-Kids Putrajaya/Cyberjaya fairy tale fancy fashion show. before this event, we also went to their first ever sports day. before this, I-Kids was under smartreader management but starting last year the management changed. well, alif was dressed as buzz lightyear and syariq as Arabian prince. both of them were really cute.

 

alif and syariq

once the show is over, my parents and I made our way to Segamat. but before that, we well I stopped at the national library. we arrived around 8pm. so, on the first day of fasting, my mother and I went to the bazaar ramadhan to buy thing for breakfast. actually, it is our daily routine. my mother didn't cook because they are only three of us (cheaper to buy than to coo). so let me see, today is the six day of fasting and 23 day of my unpaid leave. I will start working next Wednesday (1 july). okay, now let ,e summarize what I did in this one month (almost).

• sleep
• eat
• fast
• read book
• blogging and other social media
• sleep
• looking for assignment material
• shop
• sleep...

so as you could see, I haven't done much. I'm planning to finish my assignment before my leave is over... that's all for now, until later...

 

Non-Muslim Historic Personality's Views on Prophet Muhammad SAW