12 hours in KL

Had return in one piece this morning from my trip to KL, Alhamdulillah segala urusan dipermudah.

Sempat juga ke Tasik Titiwangsa naik Eye on Malaysia. Thanks Zakiah (coursemate dulu) for accompanying me around KL that day, walaupun dah naik dan waktu tu mmg langsng tak sesuai, dengan panas terik 2pm.





Gayat! Zakiah rilek je, berdiri dlm coach tu, sambil menerangkan prinsip physics yang berlaku :P

And Thx to Rizuan (schoolmate dulu) sudi berbuka bersama di Times Square walaupun sgt lah sibuk dgn final yr project.

Seronok berjalan, walaupun dlm keadaan berpuasa.

Guys, Will miss u all huhu

p.s. Azim rugi ko tak ikut, best tau naik train hehe

I will never grow up

A Maze of Transportation Methods to KL (my personal journey to collect my visa tomorrow)

Want to go via KTM train (13 hours journey 6pm-7pm, but I think it is worth a try, plus it have berth to sleep on, will be much more convenient than bus, plus my head dept in the UK, is a locomotive collector/fan, will have somethg to talk about with him, i mean out of the academic thgs)
ACCESS DENIED: adviced to take a bus to Shah Alam, go to yr relative house, and ask his help to take you to the Visa Center

Dont like to interrupt others daily life, plus I am not that close to him.
And if I took a bus, I will arrive early morning, since bus trips are usually at night.
Thus, still insist with train
ACCESS GRANTED: not fully heartedly, they bought me a train ticket.

Later told by the granters: You cant bring yr laptop along, also yr atm card. KL is not a safe place. And they brought up the issue of me being robed in KL 4 years ago (I made a mistake, waitin for my fren at a black area in KL, the Central Market). Old memories freshen up again.

Without laptop, the 13 hours journey will become unbearable. And I am now feels insecure about this trip, If others don't believe in me, how can I believe in myself. Dont wanna be blamed later, if somethg happens to me in the trip that is not really agreed by the access granter.

Thus, I had made a decision to sell back the train ticket (will lost 50%) and buy a return (on the same day) flight ticket. Yup that had pissed off the access granters. (I am really sorry, didnt mean to be a disobedient son Huhu)
I think that is the safest. Reduce my time being in KL, and hopefully i am back in one piece.

Pray for my safe journey ya this Monday.

-7.45 am-
After an hour later of rethinking:
I think I shouldn't give up and will go on with the train journey.
I have to believe that I can stand on my own two feet.
I have to grow up!

will be MIA

The Freshers' week
1st Oct: Pub Quiz Night (probably in Cheam)
2nd Oct: No scheduled event
3rd Oct: Ten Pin Bowling @ Bloomsbury bowl, Tavistock Sq, Central
London
4th Oct: Comedy @ Jongleurs, Clapham
5th Oct: Induction day for new students - PhBar + Pizzas + Games +
Band

U know what? I am exempted, hehe, my reason: I want to celebrate Eid with my family here in Msia, and my super said, dont worry, Ull catch up the induction later.
Isnt my super, super nice :)
(jgn jeles kengkawan ku yg slalu kena marah dgn supernya, sabar je la ye hehe)

And yah, a huge sum of money need to be deposited to my housemate account for my house in the UK,
Will money transfer frm Malaysian bank account to Europe's gonna take some time? I know cheque will take at least a month long. For those who are expert in ths, PM me pls Thx

Money2, where are you, I can sense a future of part time Janitor LOL

p.s. my niece is one year old today. Selamat Hari Lahir Amni Nasuha from yr only PakNgah. She is way much brighter now...

I am now have a Power...

...but too bad, couldn't make it this year,
and I dont dare to vote via post from overseas, skeptical of its confidentiality



hopefully, nobody dares to use my ID as a phantom voter. (this answer why I had deliberately erased the details)
Please do check yr status here even if you havent register with SPR
thx En Arip for alerting this

CRAZY WORLD it is

The body found in the bag is in fact the 30 days missing girl, Nurin, DNA test had confirmed. Breaking news from the Star

I AM SICK TO MY STOMACH!

In fact, I just came back from KL for my VISA application, did stayed in Kg Baru for a night, and I found that the bag the CRAZY BEAST stuffed Nurin in was sold at only RM10 in the ramadan market there.

God, give her parents and families, strength to endure this. Amin. My deepest condolences towards them.

It is time to do something. Make it unlawful for parents to live their kids alone/roaming freely.

More sickening news and pics here

30 More Days...

Its official; in 30 Days, I am going to leave my beloved country, my comfort zone, to a foreign land...InsyaAllah

By this time; in 30 Days, I will be 10 Megameters away from home, in the Capital of the United Kingdom, to pursue my next level of education in an institute ranked 4th in its research and listed among the best company in the UK.

It does feel surreal, I always felt that I am just an average Joe (or average Awang in Malay context).

Its been an emotional roller coaster, recently.

Sometimes I am high, happy that the new chapter in my life will soon begin, my baby steps towards my dream realisation.

But sometimes I do feel down, with excessive anxiety. How I am going to cope when I got there? In fact, I never went out of Malaysia! Just once to Singapore, but that happened during my earliest childhood time (in the 80s), where I can barely remember (My mum told me that I was dragging my newly bought bigger-than-me sized stuff bear all over the city, haha)

The fact that Ill be in a place so foreign, plus Ill be the only Malaysian at the institute, does scared the hell out of me.

Ill try hard to always remain positive. I have a friend who had just went to Canada, the only Malaysian at the University, it is hard, yup, but still endurable, and the fact that my friend is a she, makes me feel that I don't deserve to be down, I'm sure its even harder for her.

Thus, Ill try to stay strong.

Are Religions Genetic?

Somebody in a group I subscribed to, started this thread. I think it is worth sharing here.

M wrote:
Are Religions Genetic?

N wrote:
The Nazi's thought so.

M wrote:
you probably didnt understand the question.
or maybe I was not clear in asking
Let me rephrase.
Are you free to change your religion? or is it innate?

A wrote:

Hi M and fellow Mensans,

I think religion is genetic and religions are not genetic.

I said religion is genetic because human believes in God or if not God, other means of Divinity, or supernaturals is intrinsic, it is human nature. Stephen R Covey in his book, entitled The 8th habit from effectiveness to greatness, wrote "spiritual intelligence is the central and most fundamental of all the intelligence, because it becomes the source of guidance of other 3 intelligence" (source: Covey, Stephen R, The 8th Habit from Effectiveness to Greatness. New York: Simon Schuster Inc, 2004). He puts Spiritual Intelligence above IQ and EQ.

Religions are not genetic because a religion is seldom exclusively for certain race or skin color. It looks predetermined by race, only because of the history; its origin and how the religion being spread. (I think it is no longer applicable in this information overload age) Thus, it is possible to change our religion, which is usually determined by our parents, to the one we seems appropriate. The thing that we need to do is to study the religions from its source, the holy book ie the Bible, the Quran, the Torah, The Bhagavad Gita, to name a few, just to be fair. Do you know that; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are all originated with a
divine covenant between the God of the ancient Israelites and Abraham
around 2000 BCE. There are lots of similarity between these three religions, therefore I dont think its hard to study these three for starters, Im sure all of us (the top 2 %) ;), are very capable of.

My 2 cents
arepiece

JOLAS readers 2 cents?

Ihya Ramadan

Ihya Ramadan (Hidupkan Bulan Ramadan)

"manusia dan binatang hidup dengan makanan, kenderaan hidup dengan minyak/bateri, begitu juga dengan Ramadan, perlu juga dihidupkan, iaitu dengan Tilawah AlQuran, Zikir, Solat Terawih, Tadarus, Munajat dan Doa, seperti yang telah Nabi Muhammad SAW lakukan 1400tahun dahulu"
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, Menteri Besar Kelantan, dalam Ucaptama beliau sempena Sambutan Ihya Ramadhan yang sedang berlangsung sekarang.

Saya sentiasa tertunggu-tunggu mutiara kata beliau, analoginya selalunya ringkas dan mudah difahami, tetapi maksudnya mendalam. Alhamdulillah pagi ini, berkesempatan menonton ucapanya, secara langsung melalui Kelantan WebTV walaupun tidak berkesempatan menghadiri majlis tersebut.

Bulan Ramadan, Bulan mulanya Al Quran diturunkan
Bulan Jihad menentang Nafsu
Selamat Menyambut Ramadan Al Mubarak kepada semua Muslimin dan Muslimat

hayatilah lagu bertajuk Welcome o Ramadan oleh Zain Bhikha


dan ya, Ramadan bermula malam ni

just for laugh ;)

p.s. seriously I think, Kelantan is been underrated by the media, Development are everywhere (not just the infrastructure, but also the spiritual developement), Kelantanese have a decent life (you can spot luxurious car everywhere), and interracial relationship is the best in Malaysia (simply because Islam is a colour blind religion), and I think Im blessed been given the opportunity to live in this land.

My patriotism works?

Yesterday, Malaysian Budget for 2008 had announced that there will be an increase in government sponsored students' COLA (Cost of Living Allowance) in the UK, the US and Canada starting this month. The increment will be up to 97%, which is almost double the previous rate, but that doesn't mean a 97% increase, im sure the UK will get a lower increment (thx to the freakin high exchange rate), but still Alhamdulillah at least there will be an increase, insyaAllah gov sponsored student at these countries will no longer live below the poverty line hehe (how many increase did i repeat? haha I am freakin obses with the word now)

While searching for the exact amount of the increment on the net (yea, im a patient guy :P), I stumbled upon few interesting blogs writing about this, most are happy (yea the benefiters i.e. the students), but it can never satisfies all, I also stumbled upon a person who did not agree about the increment (this fella argue that the students are wasting the taxpayers money, touring europe and didnt return) let this fella disagree, he need to be in the students' shoe, then only he is able to understands how hard it is Anyway forget about this, I think the funniest comment about the increment is below (LMAO)

"Rasa macam nak berenti cuci jamban hari ni jugakkk:"
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Among other things in the budget that I really applaud is that it covers the whole spectrum of Malaysians. I think its great, if the budget is really the plan (i mean not just a freakin piece of writing), im sure a lot of peoples will benefit from it.

The couple of patriotism posts recently is worthy I guess

My thanks to all peoples that had worked hard to make this a realisation. Esp the students that never give up writing to the gov, letting them know that they dont hv enough money, apparently it is no longer fell on deaf ears

p.s. Haha Funny when I think how easy I was being bought

Merdeka spirit

Im still in the merdeka spirit, hehe. Funny that I felt like this only at my 23rd encounter with the 31st of August. Probably because it is the 50th anniversary and probably because, ha you all know

Anyway enjoy these TV commercials commemorating 50th Anniversary as an Independent Nation

Media Prima

"...no matter how much Malaysia will change in the future, its a comfort, that something will always remain the same..."

Malaysian Airports

"...tak terfikir langsung nak ke London..."

Perodua

"...tanah air memberi banyak, mesra mendakap kita..."

p.s. I always love Malaysian TV adverts, especially the special ads for religious/cultural/national celebrations, it is rich in esthetical values with deep profound messages. Weird when we cant produced good movies/drama series par with our commercials. If you watch an American channel, ull realize that their adverts are seriously stupid, but somehow they can make great movies/TV series . still cant comprehend yet