old people #16

26/7/2008 3.15pm Cintra Street, Penang

An Asam Drink seller. Just for RM0.50 only, you can get the one and only uniquely homemade asam drink in Penang.

QUOTE of the day

"Plan as if you'll live forever but live as if you'll die forever."

~ Dexter Khaw Kuo Wen

old people #15

28/5/2007 10am Balik Pulau, Penang

He’s a barber at Balik Pulau. Small in size, friendly and the only Malay shop there in the same row with other Chinese. Now, the shop is not there anymore. I wonder where is he. I'm happy and glad that i had a haircut from him before. I had an hour ride all the way to his shop just to had my haircut. Although the style is old, but it's worth it.

QUOTE of the day

"Don't stop believing."

~ The Oprah Show

old people #14

5/9/2009 9.50pm

He's the owner of Ghany Restaurant at Kampar which sells nasi kandar and Indian food. This type of restaurants usually opened by the Indian Muslims and it's halal. Ghany Restaurant is one of the top spot for UTAR students to gather, chit chat and spend their time.

Happy Birthday sis

yeah it's my little sister's birthday today. She's now 10years old d. Wah she grows so fast. I mean time flies so fast. hehe.

Happy Birthday Oh Poh SIm.

Don't be naughty pls!

true love...

I believe that true love is when you can cry all of a sudden because you love that someone so much.

happy ponggal

happy Thai Ponggal to all my hindu friends. =p

BOIL MORE MILK WIH ALL THE BEANS, VEGES N BLACK SUGAR!!

Rm4.70 for Lok-Lok

woohoooo! finally i got my lok-lok!! yesh!!

Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble

im in happy mood now! happy happy! let's listen to something fastbeat, happy and cheerful. yeah!

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I'm Not Surprised
Not Everything Lasts
I've Broken My Heart So Many Times,
I Stop Keeping Track.
Talk Myself In
I Talk Myself Out
I Get All Worked Up
And Then I Let Myself Down.

I Tried So Very Hard Not To Loose It
I Came Up With A Million Excuses
I Thought I Thought Of Every Possibility

And I Know Someday That It'll All Turn Out
You'll Make Me Work So We Can Work To Work It Out
And I Promise You Kid That I'll Give So Much More Than I Get
I Just Haven't Met You Yet

Mmmmm ....

I Might Have To Wait
I'll Never Give Up
I Guess It's Half Timing
And The Other Half's Luck
Wherever You Are
Whenever It's Right
You Come Out Of Nowhere And Into My Life

And I Know That We Can Be So Amazing
And Baby Your Love Is Gonna Change Me
And Now I Can See Every Possibility

Mmmmm ......

And Somehow I Know That It Will All Turn Out
And You'll Make Me Work So We Can Work To Work It Out
And I Promise You Kid I'll Give So Much More Than I Get
I Just Haven't Met You Yet

They Say All's Fair
And In Love And War
But I Won't Need To Fight It
We'll Get It Right
And We'll Be United

And I Know That We Can Be So Amazing
And Being In Your Life Is Gonna Change Me
And Now I Can See Every Single Possibility

Mmmm .....

And Someday I Know It'll All Turn Out
And I'll Work To Work It Out
Promise You Kid I'll Give More Than I Get
Than I Get Than I Get Than I Get

Oh You Know It'll All Turn Out
And You'll Make Me Work So We Can Work To Work It Out
And I Promise You Kid To Give So Much More Than I Get
Yeah I Just Haven't Met You Yet

I Just Haven't Met You Yet
Oh Promise You Kid
To Give So Much More Than I Get

I Said Love Love Love Love Love Love Love .....
I Just Haven't Met You Yet
Love Love Love .....
I Just Haven't Met You Yet

YOU are quoted

"You.. get angry for awhile and blame life for not being fair and then you try to hide your anger in front of your friend. But sooner or later, you learn that life's too short to hide anything. You then accept the hard truth, and try to make the best out of whatever time your friend has left. And along the way, you grow up a little."

~ Hor Wei Vern
~ 8.20pm via MSN

*hard to digest la.. but i like what you said. thanks alot.

old people #13

30/9/2009 2.04pm New Town, Kampar, Perak, Malaysia

A very old gardener that I found at the place I stay, Kampar. He and his another old Indian friend are the ones who cut the grass at my hostel area, Westlake. Two of them will cycle everywhere with their old black bicycles.

CRAVING for burger and lok-lok

im so KEMPUNAN burger and lok-lok right now. arrrghhh!

anyway kempunan means... er... i think it means ‘craving for’ or ‘dying for’ something.

Hehe. Yes im craving for roadside burger and lok-lok. Seriously roadside burger tastes better then any other burgers from the restaurant. Main point is it is CHEAP!

i miss them lar..  You can never get that taste in Kampar or anywhere else.

I’ve been in Penang for almost 4weeks and I haven’t tasted my favourite food. What the heck!

i wana go out to get burger right now but it's so damn late already la. Most of the burger stalls closed d. FINE! it's ok! i'll get that tomorrow! wahahah!

let's save! save money tonite! Sleep now!

new blog is activated

http://oce-thephotojournalist.blogspot.com/

old people #12

31/8/2009 5.36pm Kampung Buah Pala, Penang

Allah can’t be substituted with Tuhan in Bible translation — Dr Ng Kam Weng

JAN 6 — Muslims in other parts of the world (Arabs, Persians, North Africans, Pakistanis and Indonesians) have no objection and are not worried about getting confused when Christians using the word “Allah”. In contrast, some Malaysian Muslims claim to be confused; a strange phenomenon indeed.

This observation lends credence to the suggestion that the Allah issue is an artificial Malay issue and not a genuine Muslim issue. The truth is that the current orchestrated protests against the recent High Court decision to allow the Catholic Herald (and Christians) to use the word Allah must be seen to be as cynical manipulations by Malay politicians to gain votes from their community.

I am more interested in going beyond these political manoeuvres. Politicians (and that includes government bureaucrats) are happy just to stay at the level of vague suggestions since they have no competence nor care to address real issues of translation. In contrast, Christians must ensure their arguments for the right to use the word Allah are based on concrete evidence supported by a coherent linguistic philosophy of translation of Scripture.

One major demand from the Malay protestors is that Christians stop using the word Allah on grounds that Christians can find a simple alternative, that is, simply substitute the word Allah with the word Tuhan. Unfortunately, this demand only betrays the ignorance of the protestors.

I would have thought that any Malay would know that the meaning of the words Allah (God) and Tuhan (Lord, Rabb) are not the same. How can they suggest that Christians simply use the word Tuhan to substitute the word Allah? To express the issue linguistically, Allah and Tuhan have different senses even though they have the same reference.

Both the terms Allah and Tuhan are used in the Malay Bible. Following the precedent set by Arab Christians, Allah is used to translate el/elohim and Tuhan (or TUHAN in caps) is used to translate Yahweh (YHWH). The two words are sometimes paired together as Yahweh-Elohim in 372 places in the Old Testament (14 times in Genesis 2-3; 4 times in Exodus; 8 times in Joshua; 7 times in 2 Samuel; 22 times in Chronicles; 12 times in Psalms; 32 times in Isaiah; 16 times in Jeremiah and 210 times in Ezekiel, etc.).

More importantly, the word Tuhan is also applied to Jesus Christ in the New Testament. Thus we read of the LORD Jesus as Tuhan Yesus (The word LORD was used to translate the word kurios 8,400 times in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Old Testament. It refers to human beings in only 400 times and refers to God 8,000 times. Of these 8,000 times, 6,700 are substitute for the word YHWH). The transference of the title kurios LORD/YHWH to Jesus Christ is testimony to the belief in the deity of Christ right at the beginning of Christianity.

This simple statistical survey shows clearly that the demand by Muslim demonstrators that Christians simply substitute the word Allah with Tuhan is unreasonable since it renders many Biblical references to God and Jesus Christ incoherent. First, the substitution is incorrect since the meaning of Allah and Tuhan are different.

Second, it creates an absurd situation when Christians try to translate the paired words Tuhan Allah (LORD God). Are Christians now required to call the LORD God, Tuhan Tuhan? This sounds like committing linguistic redundancy. Worse still, the repeated words Tuhan Tuhan come across to Malay readers as suggesting that Christians believe in a plurality of Lords/Gods (since the plural form in Malay is expressed by repeating the noun and setting them in apposition).

Finally, Christians are unable to express the Lordship of Jesus Christ as one who is distinct from the Father and yet shares with the God of the Old Testament, the name that is above every other name — kurios/Tuhan (Philippians 2:9, cf. Isaiah 45:23). In other words, Christians are rendered unable to affirm the deity of Jesus Christ and teach the doctrine of Trinity without the foundational words that maintain the semantic relationship between the words Allah and Tuhan as they are applied distinctively in the Malay Bible.

Christians in Malaysia would do their utmost to maintain religious harmony in Malaysia. Indeed, the Christianity community has made many concessions to accommodate the concerns of the Malay community.

However, it cannot accept the demand that it abandons the use of the word Allah and adopts the word Tuhan as the substitute simply because some ill-informed Malays take offence at their practice — an offence which would not have arisen if only these people set aside emotions and prejudices and examine the historical and linguistic evidence in a calm and rational manner. At the very least, Malays (or rather Muslims) should understand that believers are not at liberty to change the meaning of their Scriptures, the word of God, to satisfy the unfounded scruples of man.

Postscript

I refer readers to the accompanying post, “Translating the Names of God” published in the learned journal (The Bible Translator) that gives more concrete examples of how the names of God are translated in the Malay Bible.

The article also discusses the controversy among some scholars on how words Allah and Tuhan should be used in the revision of Shellabear’s version of the Malay Bible. In any case, all the scholars in the controversy agree that Christians need to use both the words Allah and Tuhan in the Malay Bible. Please note that the article is reproduced (partially) with permission from the author Dr D Soesilo. — mysinchew.com

Source. The Malaysian Insider http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/opinion/breaking-views/48629-allah-cant-be-substituted-with-tuhan-in-bible-translation--dr-ng-kam-weng

Good Morning Penang

7.08am 31/12/2009

it's all about her

everyone i met today asked about her.

EVERYONE!!

can u imagine that?? do you call that a coincidence or there's a meaning behind it? Hikmah apa ni??

dahlah. i berserah segalanya kepada Dia.

i'm ok being single. very ok. =p

old people #11

Smiling happily to my lense, she's the oldest caretaker of Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple, Penang.

10/1/2010 1.54pm Armenian Street, Penang

YOU are quoted

"Rezeki ada di mana-mana. Kalau satu terlepas, ada satu lagi akan datang."

~ Faizal Tahir, pemenang tempat ke-3 AJL24
~ wawancara dalam rancangan Di Sebalik Tabir AJL24, TV3, 9-10pm

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Situation Under COntrol, Says Hisham

HULU SELANGOR: Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein has confirmed that the number of churches attacked has reached seven but says the situation is not serious.

“So far the attacks have involved stone throwing and arson attempts. There is no serious damage,” said the Home Minister, referring to the latest report on the surveillance on places of worship.

Yesterday, the All Saints’ Church at Jalan Taming Sari and the SMK Convent along Jalan Convent in Taiping were targets of arson attempts. Hishammuddin said the incidents were isolated and not coordinated.

Hishammuddin, who is also an Umno vice-president, said the narrow-minded agenda pursued by certain quarters was aimed at creating chaos and inciting hatred towards Umno and the Govern-ment.

“Over the past two or three days, we are tested yet again when certain quarters have taken advantage to point fingers at Umno and the government by suggesting that we are behind the religious incitement. Such allegations are baseless. These people have nothing better to do but to point fingers at others.

“The situation is under control. We are monitoring the situation so that it will not become extreme and affect the peace and harmony we have built in the country all these while,” he said yesterday at Umno’s Juara Rakyat programme in Bukit Beruntong.

Both he and Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin called for maturity in dealing with the situation.

Khairy said Umno and Barisan Nasional leaders should lead by example so that people would understand that the Government under Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s leadership was doing its best to bring calm to the current situation.

“Don’t be trapped in emotions, don’t be trapped by finger-pointing politics to the extent that the situation becomes out of control,” he said after kicking off the futsal match at the same event.

“Of course, there are many discussions in blogs but what’s important is our actions.

“We must not fan the fire. We must put the fire out. We do what’s best for all.”

He was asked to comment on reports in blogs, including opposition blogs, blaming Umno and the Government over the religious incitement and church attacks.

“I would like to deny the statement blaming Umno and the Government because it is such an irresponsible statement when we have a track record of administrating the multi-racial country.”

Source: The Star http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/11/nation/5447494&sec=nation

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Under control?? Haha! veli farnee! What is under control when more and more churches are being torched? Nak tipu budak 3 tahun ke?? Kalau cakap politikus boleh percaya, lembu pun boleh naik pokok. Please say something relevent Hishammooodin.

nicely said

Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you I had no control over.

*found this from someone. this is so true

perang lagi

boom!!

PERANG LAGI!!

situasi perang yang makin menggila!

hari ini dah masuk hari ke-5 perang berlanjutan. dan perang hari ini bermula seawal jam 6.50am semasa semua orang masih tidur.

BAGUS! satu strategi yang bagus.

tapi kecederaan serius dilaporkan berlaku di kawasan bernama Hati dan Minda yang sukar untuk disembuhkan.

Kawasan ini memerlukan masa yang lama untuk dibaikpulih bukan dengan wang ringgit tapi kasih dan sayang.

agaknya bila perang ini akan selesai?

curi-curi melaporkan dari meja editor.

pujian buat Aizat, Faizal Tahir, dan Yuna

Seperti yang saya ramalkan, Aizat, Faizal Tahir, dan Yuna akan muncul sebagai pemenang. Hehe.. tak tipu. I memang ramal these 3 will get into Top 3. They are really good. Bukan je lagu sedap tapi persembahan yang mantop.

Yuna mempertaruhkan lagu hitnya Dan Sebenarnya. Walaupun lagu ini simple tetapi ianya cukup soothing dan sedap didengar. Yuna bagaikan tidak menyanyi langsung kerana nyanyiannya yang begitu bersahaja. Bibirnya yang bergincu warna pink muda melontarkan suara seolah-olah sedang bernafas. Akan tetapi, vokalnya itu cukup membuatkan Stadium Putra menggegar. Senyumannya yang manis membuatkan penonton tidak kelip mata untuk setia menghayati lagunya.Tampil sebagai satu-satunya finalist wanita berpurdah, ia memberikan suatu keunikan dalam industri muzik tanah air dan kepada pertandingan ini. Cara pemakaian tudungnya cukup menarik hati saya. I memang pun suka perempuan bertudung. Hehe. Walaupun mendapat tempat ketiga saja, Yuna cukup bertuah kerana merupakan pendatang baru. Sebelum ini, dia bergerak secara underground dengan bandnya. Pertama kali dalam AJL telah mendatangkan rezeki kepada Yuna. Tidak boleh disangkal, Yuna memang talented. Dia boleh menyanyi, bermain alat muzik, menggubah lagu, menulis lirik dan merupakan seorang graduan jurusan undang-undang dari UiTM. Walaupun kebanyakan lagu Yuna adalah dalam Bahasa Inggeris, dia tetap memperlihatkan ciri-ciri seorang Melayu Islam yang soleh, manis, indah berkata-kata, dan sopan perilakunya. Susah kalau nak melihat seorang artis Islam memakai tudung dan membuat persembahan di atas pentas. Hati saya terbuka melihat gaya penampilan Yuna.

Faizal Tahir menerusi lagu tunggalnya dalam AJL24 iaitu Bencinta berjaya merangkul naib juara. Artis yang pernah dilanda kontroversi ini kerana aksi ‘superman’nya kembali merebut anugerah berprestij ini dengan vocalnya yang cukup bertenaga. Faizal Tahir merupakan antara artis lelaki kegemaran saya. Walaupun masih baru dalam industri muzik tanah air, beliau telah berjaya menggondol banyak anugerah. Halangan yang datang tidak pernah melemahkan semangatnya untuk terus berusaha dan berdisiplin untuk terus mencipta kejayaan. Lahir daripada rancangan reality One In A Million, beliau lebih menyerlah daripada pemenang pertandingan tersebut, Suki walaupun Faizah hanya mendapat tempat kedua. Pujian memang harus diberikan kepada artis ini sebagai entertainer yang bagus kerana walaupun cedera di kaki, Faizal telah memberikan persembahan yang mengkagumkan. Tiada siapa yang tahu yang Faizal sebenarnya cedera di kaki sehinggalah apabila Faizal bertongkat untuk ke atas pentas menerima trofi kemenangan. Pakaiannya yang ala-ala Michael Jackson dengan cermin matanya cukup menjadi dengan dendangan lagunya. Mukanya yang serius dalam setiap persembahannya menunjukkan dedikasi dan kesungguhannya untuk memberikan persembahan terbaik kepada penyokong-penyokongnya.

Lagu Pergi daripada Aizat telah dinobatkan sebagai juara untuk AJL24 pada tahun 2010 ini. Seperti yang saya jangkakan, Aizat antara artis pilihan yang akan memenangi anugerah ini. Lagu Pergi ini diterjemah daripada lagu I Go nyanyian Pete Teo. Lagu Pergi juga merupakan lagu tema untuk filem Talentime arahan allahyarham Yasmin Ahmad. Alunan melodi yang perlahan dan sentimental ini cukup menusuk kalbu. Setiap orang di dalam Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil senyap mendengar lagu ini dengan penuh konsentrasi tanpa satu suara. Aizat Berjaya menyampaikan lagu ini dengan penuh perasaan sehingga peluh membasahi dirinya. Persembahan daripada Aizat merupakan satu-satunya persembahan yang menampilkan konsep Malaysia kerana terdapat bangsa lain yang membuat persembahan bersama serta alat muzik orang Cina yang digunakan. Walaupun hanya mereka bertiga di atas pentas, ianya telah cukup untuk menaikkan bulu roma setiap orang yang menyaksi dan mendengar lagu tersebut. Malah, air mata saya hampir jatuh ke bumi sebab tersentuh dengan keikhlasan penyampaian Aizat. Setiap bait-bait kata dalam lagu Pergi sunnguh bermakna. Jika diperhatikan lirik lagu ini, ianya memang sedih kerana seseorang yang bermakna telah pergi dan tidak kembali lagi. Ianya suatu situasi yang sungguh nengguris hari. Lagu ini dimulakan dengan alunan suara daripada wanita India seperti dalam tarian klasik orang India. Kemudian ia dijayakan lagi dengan gesekan alatan muzik tradisional orang Cina iaitu ‘Erhu’ yang dimainkan oleh wanita Melayu. Dahsyat! Pada lagu ini, Aizat tidak meninggikan suaranya seperti lagu-lagunya yang lain. Lagu ini walaupun bernada perlahan tetapi tidak membuatkan pendengarnya mengantuk. Artis muda yang boleh bermain gitar ini kreatif dan celik apabila menggunakan gambar tokoh-tokoh Negara yang berjasa yang telah meninggal dunia sebagai background untuk menguatkan lagi persembahannya. Paparan imej ini membuatkan penonton terutamanya saya untuk mengenang kembalik saat-saat manis bersama orang yang tersayang yang bergelar sayang. Lagu ini penuh dengan feeling and soul. Ais di Kutub Utara pun boleh melebur kalau mendengar lagu ini. Aizat juga mendapat durian runtuh apabila lagu keduanya Kau Aku merangkul anugerah Persembahan Terbaik. Secara keseluruhannya, lagu Pergi dan persembahan Aizat memang layak untuk bergelar Juara Lagu Ke-24.

Superb performance by alI the finalists. Memang tepat pilihan juri-juri profesional. Memkik dan bersuara kuat tidak semestinya menjamin kejayaan sesebuah lagu. Apa yang penting adalah kemampuan untuk menyentuh hati dan jiwa pendengarnya. kan?

Love you lah Aizat, Faizal Tahir and Yuna.

Muax muax muax!

Pergi-Aizat AJL24 Live

Ladies and gentleman, the best Malay song of 2010, none other then the one and only Pergi by Aizat.

Haha! trust me, this song is really good. Simple and short lyrics yet meaningful.

I have listening to this song the whole night. memang best lagu ini. I don’t have to say more to descrive how good was his performance. Watch this people and you’ll know.

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sayu terpisah
hikayat indah kini hanya kini tinggal sejarah
berhembus angin rindu
begitu nyamannya terhidu wangian kasihmu

hujan lebat mencurah kini
bagaikan tiada henti
kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
tak lagi ku dengar

kau pergi
pergi..

sepi tanpa kata
terdiam dan kaku tak daya kau ku lupa
apa pun kata mereka
biarkan kenangan berbunga di ranting usia

hujan lebat mencurah kini
bagaikan tiada henti
kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
tak lagi ku dengari

kau pergi

pergi..

hujan lebat mencurah kini
bagaikan tiada henti
kaulah laguku kau irama terindah
tak lagi ku dengari

kau pergi

pergi..

kau pergi

pergi..

pergi..

pergi..

pergi..

pergi..

so long, fare thee well

AJL24-Ramalan Menjadi Kenyataan

Maka, berakhirlah AJL24 yang penuh gilang-gemilang ini. Keputusan rasmi AJL24 adalah seperti berikut:

Anugerah Juara Lagu
Juara: Pergi-Aizat
Naik Juara: Bencinta-Faizal Tahir
Tempat Ke-3: Dan Sebenarnya-Yuna

Vokal Terbaik
Aku Rindu Sayang Kamu-Black

Persembahan Terbaik
Kau Aku-Aizat

old people #10

28/12/2008 3.35pm Penang Road, Penang

Mali Tengok Anugerah Juara Lagu Ke-24

Saat yang ditunggu-tunggu telah tiba. Dalam masa 30 minit dari sekarang, akan berlangsungnya Anugerah Juara Lagu Ke-24 (AJL24). Pertandingan ini akan berlangsung di Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil dari pukul 9pm-11.30pm. Untuk penyokong yang tidak dapat menghadiri anugerah ini boleh menonton secara langsung di TV3 ataupun mendengar melalui Hot.fm.

Pertandingan pada tahun ini agak unik kerana tiada lagi kategori lagu yang dipertandingkan. Hanya terdapat hadiah untuk Lagu Terbaik, Persembahan Terbaik, dan Vokal Terbaik.

Terdapat 14 lagu yang akan dipertandingkan dalam anugerah ini iaitu:

1. Aurora (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik/ Penyanyi: Estranged)

2. Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang (Komposer: Ajai/ Penulis Lirik: Habsah Hassan/ Penyanyi: Alyah)

3. Cinta Adam & Hawa (Komposer: Azmeer/ Penulis Lirik: Loloq/ Penyanyi: Misha Omar)

4. Masih Jelas (Komposer: Aidit Alfian/ Penulis Lirik: Ad Samad/ Penyanyi: Hafiz)

5. Situasi (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Sam/ Penyanyi: Bunkface)

6. Pakai Buang (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Edry/ Penyanyi: Stacy)

7. Pergi (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Pete Teo/ Penyanyi: Aizat)

8. Aku Skandal (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Noh/ Penyanyi: Hujan)

9. Rindu Terhenti (Komposer: Aubrey Suwito/ Penulis Lirik: Tinta/ Penyanyi: Tomok)

10. Aku Rindu Sayang Kamu (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Yuzai/ Penyanyi: Black)

11. Bengang (Komposer: Amir/ Penulis Lirik: Sheikh Qalam/ Penyanyi: Akim)

12. Dan Sebenarnya (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik: Yuna, Paan, Efry, Adil/ Penyanyi: Yuna)

13. Kau Aku (Komposer/ Penulis Lirik/ Penyanyi: Aizat)

14. Bencinta (Komposer: Audi Mok/ Penulis Lirik/ Penyanyi: Faizal Tahir)

Penyanyi paling senior adalah Misha Omar dan yang paling junior adalah Hafiz dan Akim dari rancangan realiti Akademi Fantasia.

Penyanyi yang berjaya mempertandingkan lebih daripada 1 lagu dalam AJL24 adalah Aizah iaitu sebanyak 2 buah lagu.

Satu-satunya orang bukan Melayu yang terlibat dalam penulisan lirik untuk lagu-lagu dalam AJL24 ini adalah Pete Teo, seorang yang versatile yang telah disenaraikan sebagai TOP 150 Man to Watch Out by CNN.

Pengacara untuk AJL24 ini masih mengekalkan muka-muka lama iaitu Cheryl Samad, Ally Iskandar dan Faizal Ismail. Ketiga-tiga mereke ini memang merupakan kombinasi yang cukup bagus untuk mengendalikan anugerah berprestij  seperti ini. Terdapat kontroversi di sebalik pemilihan mereka. Adakah Malaysia kempunan bakat baru dalam pengacaraan? Saya rasa ini bukan satu isu kerana untuk menjayakan sesebuah persembahan, hanya yang terbaik dapat mengemudikannya. Pemilihan mereka adalah untuk meneruskan kesinambungan dan kejayaan AJL-AJL yang terdahulu.

Saya memang peminat Cheryl Samad sejak dulu lagi semasa dia mengendalikan rancangan Muzik-Muzik di TV3. Dia merupakan antara pengacara wanita paling berjaya di Malaysia.I kenallah seorang yang special ni, many people say she looks like Cheryl Samad. Haha! some even say that she looks like Nicol David. Haha! This someone and Cheryl Samad both hitam manis, sweet, cute, chomel, kecik, dan petah berbicara.

I doakan this special person dapat jadi pengacara TV one day. =p

Memang best ah dapat tengok these marvellous and talented artistes perform live on the stage. AJL ini adalah satu platform untuk mengiktiraf penggiat hiburan tanah air selain daripada Anugerah Industri Muzik (AIM).

Kesemua lagu-lagu yang dipertandingkan pada malam ini mempunyai kekuatan yang tersendiri dan tidak boleh dipandang remeh. Setiap daripada mereka mempunyai peluang untuk menang. Lagu-lagu yang menambat hati ku adalah:

1.Tak Mungkin Kerna Sayang-Alyah

2.Situasi-Bunkface

3.Pergi-Aizat

4.Rindu Terhenti-Tomok

5.Aku Rindu Sayang Kamu-Black

6.Bengang-Akim

7.Dan Sebenarnya-Yuna

8.Kau Aku-Aizat

9.Bencinta-Faizal Tahir

Saya harap artis pilihan saya akan menang iaitu Yuna, Aizat, dan Faizal Tahir.

I watched Hujan performed before at Hard Rock Hotel, Penang. Someone I know pula muka memang sebijik macam Yuna. She’s now also in UiTM, universiti yang Yuna belajar dulu. I start to listen to Yuna's song because of someone i used to called sayang la.. She can sing Yuna songs very well.

Who says non-Malays tak tengok rancangan berbahasa Melayu? Who says non-Malays tak patut or gila or tak ada standard sebab tengok rancangan Melayu?? BULLSHIT!

I dengar and nyanyi lagu Melayu. So? Does that make me less Chinese? Stuffs with Bahasa Malaysia or regarding Malays are not for Malays only. Bukalah minda. This is Malaysia, we share our uniqueness together. Malaysia belongs to Malaysians and not Malay, Chinese or Indian. It doesn’t belong to Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus as well.

Kalau semua orang sepakat, hormat, memahami dan give and take, taklah asyik gaduh je. Adakah patut kita buat sesuatau yang melukakan agama lain? Agama mana yang mengajar penganutnya untuk mengancam kesucian agama lain??

Anyway, luckily my semester hasn’t start, if not tak bolehg la I tgk AJL24. Hehe. I wanted to go KL n watch but it’s too far la. mahal tau duit bas. Lagipun ada benda belum settle kat penang. Rumah pula berperang. Siapa yang dapat pi tengok tu memang aku JELES la..

Anyway, I wish one day ada non-Malays yang dapat masuk AJL n get one of the awards. Best nya dapat perform on the stage sebesar tu where the whole Malaysia can c u.

I WANA ACHIEVE THAT!

So, Siapa yang anda rasa akan muncul juara pada AJL24 pada malam ini?

Siapa tahu keajaiban mungkin akan berlaku?

Are you ready people?!!

LET’S ROCK YOUR TV!!

PERIBAHASA of the day

Siapa makan cabai, dia rasa c*bai.

*oppss! i mean panas. no, no, it's pedas.

sekadar pedoman

Jangan menyalahkan orang lain kerana jari telunjuk boleh menunjuk pada orang lain, empat jari lagi akan menunjuk pada diri sendiri. Nilailah diri sebelum menilai orang lain. Yang baik datangnya daripada Tuhan, yang buruk datangnya daripada diri sendiri.

when people are too 'religious'

Bila olang boloh buat bnda boloh, wen eyes r covered by power money n fame, wen da name of religion is bein misuse, bila penganut agama nk tunjuk kuasa seolah-olah mrk pesuruh Tuhan yg benar dan betul, n wen they think they r exclusive, cow's head bein chopped off n religious buildings bein burnt down. Wat's da difference wif terrorism?

kerana setitik nila, rosak susu sebelenga.

Dis is Malaysia,my country. Dis is da Islam dat i respect all dis while.

MANGKUK!

old people #9

I found this uncle resting at the five foot way with his bottle of samsu, a type of alcoholic drink. Look at his golden teeth.

10/11/2009 12.57pm Gopeng, Perak

1ST PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION THAT I MISSED IN 2010

http://www.worldphotographyawards.org/default.aspx

That's the photography competition that i'm talking about.

Arrrghhh! Aduih!! Why am I so forgetful??!!

Eee!! Geram!! Grrrhhhh! I knew about this competition few months ago and I didn’t send any pictures at all.

Then this afternoon, I remembered about it but it’s already too late!

The competition has closed on the 4^th n now is 9^th!

Grrrhhh!! why didn’t I check earlier??!!

Why i take things easily??!!

KULANG HASAM BETOI

^%&^*()K)JHGREWCV*(*)%$&^%*%E$^N(M<(^$%U

I MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN AGAIN!

YOU are quoted

"Anger opens the mouth and shuts the mind."

~ Liani Manta-Khaira
~ 9/1/2010
~ via FB status

old people #8

10/11/2009 12.22pm Gopeng, Perak

ru guo ai - jacky cheung

Sudah lama tak dengar lagu Cina kan? Nah bagi sebijik kat hang! Dengarlah! Pasang speaker tu kuat-kuat. Cakap Bahasa Malaysia tapi dengar lagu CIna! BAGUI LA!! inilah 1 Malaysia!!

Dengarlah lagu ini yang menusuk kalbu kow-kow!! One of my favourite songs from Jacky Cheung.

Ada liriks sekali. U tau ke Bahasa Cina? Takpe la hanyu pinyin also. Translation pun wa kasi!

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如果 • 爱 (如果爱主题曲) - 张学友
Ru Guo Ai (Perhaps Love theme song) - Jacky Cheung

Simplified Chinese

每个人都想明白
谁是自己生命不该错过的真爱
特别在午夜醒来更是会感慨
心动埋怨还有不能释怀
都是因为你触碰了爱
如果这就是爱
再转身就该勇敢留下来
就算受伤就算流泪
都是生命里温柔灌溉
哦爱在回忆里总是那么明白
困惑的心流过的泪
还有数不清黑夜等待
如果这就是爱
如果你当时明白
后来的生命里是快乐还是悲哀
特别在夜深人静时想起未来
是否能平静不会想现在
只是因为你拥有了爱
如果这就是爱
再转身就该勇敢留下来
就算受伤
就算流泪
都是生命里温柔灌溉
哦爱在回忆里总是那么明白
困惑的心
流过的泪
还有数不清黑夜等待
如果这就是爱
如果这就是爱

Pinyin Translation

Mei ge ren dou xiang ming bai
Shui shi ze ji sheng ming bu gai cuo guo de zhen ai
Te bie zai wu ye xing lai geng shi hui gan kai
Xin dong man yuan hai you bun neng shi huai
Dou shi yin wei ni chu peng le ai

Ru guo zhe jiu shi ai
Zai zhuan shen jiu gai yong gan liu xia lai
Jiu suan shou shang, jiu suan liu lei
Dou shi shen ming li wen rou guan gai
O ai.. zai hui yi li zong shi na me ming bai
Kun huo de xing, liu guo de lei
Hai you shu bu qing hei ye deng dai
Ru guo zhe jiu shi ai

Ru guo ni dang shi ming bai
Hou lai de sheng ming li shi kwai le hai shi bei ai
Te bie zai ye shen ren jing shi xiang qi wei lai
Shi fou neng ping jing bu hui xiang xian jai
Zhi shi yin wei ni yong you le ai

Ru guo zhe jiu shi ai
Zai zhuan shen jiu gai yong gan liu xia lai
Jiu suan shou shang, jiu suan liu lei
Dou shi shen ming li wen rou guan gai
O ai.. zai hui yi li zong shi na me ming bai
Kun huo de xing, liu guo de lei
Hai you shu bu qing hei ye deng dai
Ru guo zhe jiu shi ai
Ru guo zhe jiu shi ai

English Translation

Everyone wants to realize who is the real love that he/she shouldn’t missed in life
It’s especially emotional when awaken at midnight
The unstill mind keeps complaining and pain can never release
This is because you bumped to love

If this is love,
Turning around to face it once again means it owes to be remained treasured bravely
Given that hurts, given that cries
That’s all the tender care of life

Oh is that so love
Always so much clear in memory?
There’s the confused heart
There’s the shed tear
There’s also the countless waiting nights
If this is love

If you could understand at that time,
Will your later life be happy or sorrow?
Especially during the quiet midnight when one thinks of future
Is it able to be undisturbed and never think of present?
Simply because you already possess love

shit or results?

shit la!!

my stomach is still not ok. I haven’t check my semester 3/Dec 2009 exam results yet.

Check the results now or shit first??!!!

If you ask me which one is more important right now, my answer definitely will be SHIT!!

Aiyah check tomorrow la. the results not gona run away right?? I don’t have the mood to check now la. don’t know why…

What if I check now n I fail?? I dun wana SHIT the whole night because of the bad results. NO WAY!

Plus im in the state of shitting. Later i get shitty results how ah??!!

I’ll take my time shit puas-puas then have a nice sleep. Hahaha.

Maybe I’ll just wait till the last day of my semester break then only I check the results. Let’s enjoy this 1 last week of holidays people!

Oh SHIT!

Cannot tahan anymore. the toilet is calling for my a$$.

i need to go to the toilet la! sakit perut! stomach ache the whole day.

Chao! Gnite. Tata.

old people #7

7/7/2009 9.47am Old Town, Kampar, Perak

Scariest Time of The Year

Everyone has something that they are scared of in their life. Some people recognized their fear and they try to overcome it. Someone people choose to hide it. And some people didn’t even know what actually they are afraid of.

Fear creates a distance between human and the things that they are afraid of. Fear makes people think twice of their actions and words spoken. Fear puts people in an alert and cautious situation where they know when bad things are gona happen. Fear also bring human closer to the Creator.

I have fear. Not one but quite a lot, depends on the situation. How about you?

One of the fears I have is the month of December and January. These 2 months are the months that I want to avoid. This is the most scariest time of the year, for me.

Problems started towards the end of the year until Chinese New Year. I’m so used to it already because this is the time when war usually erupts in my house. It’s a norm. it’s a tradition. I’m not sure whether it’s a curse.

That’s why I’m awake now, before 6.30am. I wished I was awake because of my own agendas but no. I was awake by the noises from the people in the house.

I am fed up. sometimes I just wish that I’m not at home to face all this. It’s not a pleasant feeling when you don’t even dare to close your eyes to sleep.

Do you call it a home when you feel insecure?

This is the scariest moment of the year in my home. How I wish there’s no December and January in the calender.