UK ‘Tis :: November :: 2008
UncategorizedNovember 28, 2008 7:32 am

Alhamdulillah.

I just couldn’t be grateful enough for all the bequests and gifts given to me in this life.

Life surely is not a bed full of roses, but so far, I must admit, my life is indeed a box full of chocolate (quotation from Forrest Gump). Never in my life that I failed any exam (except for the JPJ driving test). I never failed to collect As for all subjects taken on every single exam taken during my different phases of life. UPSR, PMR, SPM, A levels..you name it…I passed every single of them with flying colours.

But only after I failed my driving test that I realised that I am not really good at handling failure. Someone who realised my frustration when failing the test must have thought that I am making a big fuss out of small things. Indeed yes, I admit, it really is a small failure. Nevertheless, during that time, I just couldn’t handle myself, and I made the most stupidest thing a failed person could do. I continuously swore to the JPJ tester (not at her face obviously), went to KLCC and watch 2 movies back to back, and smoke one whole pack of Lucky Strike in a day though it has been a very long time since I quit that thing.

Alhamdulillah, I managed to pass the driving test on my second attempt. But unfortunately, the gratitude for passing the test was not as high as the anger that I displayed when I failed it.

There is one notion that I had always reminded myself from then on: Istidraaj.

Don’t You our Lord! let our heart deviate now after You has guided us, but grant us mercy from Your own Presence; for You are the Grantor of bounties without measure

Our Lord! Lay not on us a burden greater than we have strength to bear. Blot out our sins, and grant us forgiveness. Have mercy on us.

When Allah will run towards me if I walk nearing him, I didn’t even bother turning to him whenever I fail or succeed.

Astaghfirullaah…..

 

Uncategorized 1:05 am

This is a bit from kitab al-Hikam, by Imam Abu Ata’illah as-Sakandari,

He recorded that Imam Abu Abbas al-Mursi said,

A person who do good deeds for the purpose of showing off, he will become the servant of his deeds..

A person who do good deeds in secret with the intention of not letting people know, he will become the servant of his secrecy,

And a servant of Allah is the one who is indifferent in both….(yang bersamaan dalam keduanya)

 

UncategorizedNovember 25, 2008 7:06 am

Pengajarannya di sini: JANGAN MAKAN PENYU TANPA DISEMBELIH TERLEBIH DAHULU.

zaman muda2
 

p/s: belek-belek gambar lama teringat zaman hippies zaman muda-muda dulu..skarang tidak lagi memperjuangkan binatang, tetapi kini aku seorang pejuang demokrasi rakyat, NEGARA RAKYAT UNTUK RAKYAT… tehehe

 

Uncategorized 6:45 am

 

This serves as an announcement on my latest entrepreneurial attempt:)

For those ‘ulat buku’ out there (excluding my Kuantan friend, as we already had special plan huhu), who have no time to shop but money to spend for book, I am available at your disposal.

In addition, I will extend 20% discount on your purchases (subject to maximum purchases of RM100, and that’s RM20 free)

Apart from the discount, whatever left in my pocket after deducting your discount and my limited expenses will be donated to Intelek, an organisation and foundation that supports youth activities (i.e. pre-departure programme, summer camp, etc)

How it will work:

1)You may place an order through this blog, stating the title of the book, and your contact details.

2)I will then contact you for confirmation and payment details.

3)Book will be delivered to you either via mail or in-person collection.

Or simply, if you could spare your time, we could go and shop together. Apart from the discount, you will get a good company to shop with…tehehe.

p/s: As this philanthropic effort involves upfront payment of my money (in the case of me buying the book on your behalf),  in order to prevent any unnecessary losses, please note that only those who really know me well will be classified as ‘have no time for shopping but money to spend on books’ category.

Others (hopefully unmarried beautiful decent women) should follow me for the shopping..:), again with 20% discount, plus irreplaceable shopping partner…uhuk uhuk.

No laah…lelaki also can..;)

UncategorizedNovember 17, 2008 8:27 am

Quoted from TheStar dated 17.11.08

Who’ll lead the country with PM and DPM away?

KUALA LUMPUR: The absence of both Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for two days this week has raised questions about who will lead the country in their absence.

Ipoh Timur MP and DAP adviser, Lim Kit Siang, said for as long as he could remember, such a situation had never occurred.

"It has been 30 years or longer since both the Prime Minister and deputy have been out of the country."

In a press conference at the Parliament lobby on Monday, Lim said Abdullah was in Uzbekistan for a four-day official visit accompanied by his wife and Cabinet ministers.

"On Tuesday, Najib will leave with another team of Cabinet ministers for the 16th Apec Economic Leaders Meeting in Lima, Peru."

Lim said Abdullah would only return on Friday while Najib is expected to continue to New York after Peru and will only return early next month.

"This would mean that for at least two days, both leaders will be out of the country. Why has this standing rule been broken?"

Lim asked who would be the acting Prime Minister as even Umno vice-president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar would be with Najib in Peru.

"Can it be the most senior minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Tan Sri Bernard Dompok or the newly elected MCA president, Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat?"

Lim said he would also like the Prime Minister’s Office to disclose the number of times in the past 30 years when both the prime minister and his deputy had been out of the country.

-end-

Who will lead then? Pastinya Bik Mama dan Kak Pidah…

UncategorizedNovember 15, 2008 4:27 am

(The post below can be categorised as 18PL/SX. Please stop reading, if your mental maturity is still below 18 years old)

I am perfectly sober when I write this. I am also fully aware that I might lose quite a number of friends due to this entry. But nevertheless, for those who are thinking of trying your luck borrowing money from me or others and invest in this shit, please F*CK OFF from my face.

It has been a general knowledge, that rich-quick scheme was banned few years back by BNM. The modus operandi, where the downliners have to pay upliners a certain amount of fees or buy something from the upliners (as to make the transaction halal) at a very exorbitant price, has resulted in exponential increase of wealth to the few, but at the expense of large debts carried by the mass or downliners.

The upliners, who sit at a higher rank of the pyramid, will usually wear expensive cloth, branded shoe, Luois Vuitton briefcase, drive a good car, i.e. Altezza, BMW 3 Series, RX8 and Impreza. Surprisingly, the show-off does work, and many stupid Malay students and freshly graduated Malay do get influenced by it. The upliners will also make some provocation on the ‘nasib bangsa‘ to these Malay students, and Malays being Malays are pantang dicabar, and without realising that they were cheated upfront, they will start imagining themselves to be one of the upliners. And finally, the hard earned salary and the PTPTN loans were sacrificed, as to ‘membela nasib bangsa’.

The modus operandi is again, a simple one. The upliner will invite the potential downliners for a drink in kedai mamak. Looking at the upliner driving his/her spanking new car, using a fancy mobile, wearing nice Tag watch and crisp Luois Vuitton, a group of potential downliner (say a bunch of farked-up students in one of Malaysian universities) without realising the purpose of the invitation, will then be brainwashed to death by the upliner, to the extent that you simply cannot face the world in the next following day. Later, when it comes to the bill for the drink, the upliner will belanja every potential downliners for the very first meeting.

The initial outlay is not cheap though. For example, one quick-rich-scheme require the new participant to invest in one of their three schemes. Different scheme will require different initial outlay, and the higher your investment, the larger the portion that you will get from your potential downliner’s initial outlay. The first scheme will require RM32,000 capital, and the second and the third scheme will require RM16,000 and RM2,500 respectively.

For a student, this is quite a hell a lot of money to fork out. For a newly employed fresh graduate who is earning RM2,000 per month like me, RM16,000 is quite a large sum to forgo. So where do they get their money from?

The answer is, leverage on your friends (i.e. ex-school mates, ex-kuliyah mate etc).

I have got quite a few text messages from my ex-school mate, requesting me to lend them some money for their business. Wtf, business taik kucing. And the sum requested is not small though, I have even got a request for RM6,000. Wtf!!

Luckily, I work as a government servant. A friend of mine who work in O&G once lended RM10,000 to one of our ex-schoolmate (who previously was a perfect prefect and wara’), only to discover 3 months later that the loan is only as good as a default junk bond.

The sickness of this rich-quick scheme disease has in fact compromised the integrity of the participants of the scheme. One friend of mine, once resorted to say that he needed money badly to cover the medical expenses of his dying mother. And this friend was in fact one of a high calibre during high school. See, how hypocrite those wara’ jokers. What a shame.

You might have thought that I must have gone through this before. Yes indeed yes. I had once visited their office for the brainwash, to discover that in that showroom, there were almost 1000 potential downliners. I am pretty sure that 800 of them is Malay. And I am pretty sure as well, that 600 of the 800 Malays must be university students. What a waste!!

And I wonder, how come quite a number of previously good, wara’, prefect, sportsman, perfect and obedient ex-schoolmates of mine had entrenched themselves in this mess. It is good if your are on the higher rank of the pyramid, but if it happens that you are at the bottom, and there’s no one else to recruit as your downliners, you will be f*cked up, with loads of debt to repay and service (if you take loan from loan shark).

And luckily, thank to God, I did not give a damn on this shit, and currently I am enjoying my decent life. Some say, it’s better to be poor than rich, as the rich fear for poverty, and the poor can smile even by small decency. And a smile is indeed a sadaqah :)

UncategorizedNovember 11, 2008 4:00 pm

 

 

It is a pity really to see one local newpaper putting 

‘Cheaper nasi kandar, teh tarik and roti canai’

as its headline on the front page. It consumed 2/3 of the front page really. Nasi kandar now will cost 20 sen lesser a plate, while roti canai (and other roti items such as roti telur, roti pisang, etc) and teh tarik will see a reduction of 10 sen each.

What a pity…as if average Tom, Harry and Dick in Malaysia is earning 80 sen per month, that the news must be really material to them. But what the heck, at least it touches the daily living aspect of every Tom, Dick and Harry in Malaysia, as most people in Malaysia do eat at mapley restaurants that serve mainly nasi kandar, roti canai and teh tarik.

And Utusan Malayau put the story of 2 old fart women tussling and brawling about their pathetic post in the ever irrelevant party named UMNO. And it literally consumed the whole front page, as the two old farts are as fat as Rikishi Pathu in WWF. What a pathetic newspaper.

Hmm…sudah-sudahlah menipu orang Melayu…kami bukanlah sesembab juak-juak kamu…

 

This is not Rikishi Pathu though, but they are Kak Pidah and Mami Jarum…hahaha

UncategorizedNovember 9, 2008 1:02 pm

I find this very interesting from chedet.

ECONOMIC HEADLINES

I wonder whether Government leaders see anything significant in these headlines in today’s (Nov 7th) The Star;

1) "Malaysians bearish on Economy"

2) "Tough road ahead for man in the street"

3) "Economic downturn to cause drop in passenger volume"

4) "Third quarter may be mixed"

5) "Moody’s gives negative rating on gaming"

6) "F&N quarterly profit declines on property"

7) "Britain makes record interest rate cut"

8 ) "Fund to prop up South Korea stocks"

9) "Iceland’s swap loss set to fall"

10) "Bonuses of top Wall St execs to be slashed"

11) "Toyota forecasts huge drop in profit"

12) "US vehicle sector faces ‘critical’ period"

13) "Snoring judges’ verdicts overturned"

…end of excerpt.

My takes on this:

For sure Malaysia leaders do not realise these.

Firstly, these old farts are still in their dream realm, thinking of Malaysia in a very pink of health economically and administratively. Every single  one of them is thinking about their periok nasik . People’s money are wasted unnecessarily, people on the street are not taken care of, the hard earned EPF money amounting to RM5b was used to absorb the impact on selected companies stocks due the uncertain cyclical downturn of the economy, and the national budget made last August was a complete crap and bogus.

Secondly, these old farts come from elite families. They have never eaten rice with ikan kembong goreng kunyit, never live in a house made from bamboo or cardboard, never in their life use KTM komuter (for this I am very sure that Dr M frequently used KTM komuter from Serdang to Midvalley, as I have seen him for quite a couple of time with Dr Siti Hasmah. The current sembap PM had used it once really as to feel the daily suffer that people have to endure. With 20 escort personnels, this in the end caused further congestion. Later he took LRT to Masjid Jamek. He then bought kueh-mueh in front of the station, which at that time was an illegal place for penjaja. The precedent set by him has now yielded a growing number of breakfast penjaja  in front of Masjid Jamek station, which further caused a massive pedestarian congestion at that small compound on every single morning), etc2.

Thirdly, these old farts read Utusan Melayau and Berita Hairan, which since the independent day have been telling unfounded lies to the Malays. Hence I am not surprise to see these juak-juak UMNO are so sembab and stupid.

Uncategorized 3:53 am

 

Story 1 (as relayed by someone to me):

Location: A restaurant in Yi Lan, Eastern Taipei

Time : Lunch hour, after a tiresome trip to the Taiwanese local heritage village.

As quite a number of the participants are Muslims (8 from Indonesia, 2 from Malaysia including myself, and  1 from Philippines), we were seated together at the same table, to ease the waiters’ work, as well as to ensure that we wouldn’t inadvertently eat non-halal food.

Seated in front of me is the participant from Philippine. Looking at her name tag, I quickly realised that she must have originally come from Mindanao. And indeed it is true. To her I shared my experiences that I gained during my visit to the Mindanao land last May. In the middle of conversation, the first meal was served to us.

Her attire was quite daring really on that day, that the waiter might have mistakenly thought that she was on a wrong table.And below is the summary of the conversation that follows:

‘Madam, are you Muslim?’ asked the waiter.

‘Yes I don’t eat pork’ said the Philippino.

‘Excuse me madam, we actually don’t serve pork in this restaurant’ replied the waiter.

‘Oh really? That’s interesting. okay okay..I will move table then’ said the Philippino to the waiter. To me she then said ‘Ok Mr Salleh, nice to meet you, and we will meet again throughout the course’, and she then left to another table.

And later as I discovered, the only difference between tables is only in the main menu. I had a nice and big steamed seabass, and she had a piece of grilled chicken.

If only there is a piece of pork on the next table’s menu, the two Muslims might have strengthen their unity to the next maqam…

p/s: Dalam hati aku,’Nak hairan apa…kat Malaysia juak-juak UMNO dok sebat rasuah/contract bergantang-gantang relax je…barulah Malay unity dan ketuanan Malayau!’

UncategorizedNovember 6, 2008 4:14 am

A day after Obama won…what a day to remember.

But don’t put a sky high hope, as when the expectation does not come true, a damaging and severe free fall would follow..

p/s: Peoples’ demontration in Taipei now, what an experience.