it’s a wrap!! Disember 30, 2006

Aidiladha merupakan penutup bagi tahun 2006 yang penuh cerita dan pengalaman. Jadi apa yang aku dapat dari tahun 2006? Jawapannya: Macam-macam ada…

Ada perkara yang aku pelajari dan ada peristiwa yang aku alami dan ada kenangan yang aku nikmati. Peristiwa paling pahit bagi aku pada tahun ini ialah jari aku terkepit pada pintu van semasa nak menumpang kawan aku pergi ke kelas.

Malang tak berbau. Kebetulan pula masa tuh ‘dealove’ aku berada di India. Menangis kerana sakit sangat dan sedih kerana teringat dia jauh dari mata. Nak dijadikan cerita doktor mencabut dan memasang semula kuku aku untuk memeriksa samaada aku mengalami hematoma. Ngeri kan? Aku pun tak sanggup tengok masa prosedur tuh.

Hampir tiga bulan jari telunjuk aku sentiasa keras lurus dan sentiasa dalam keadaan menunjuk kerana tak boleh dibengkokkan. Alhamdulillah sekarang dah kembali normal.

Selebihnya lebih banyak pengalaman manis. Aku dapat share banyak pengalaman ‘dealove’ aku yang kebetulan pula tahun ni banyak outstation ke overseas.

Kemudian baru-baru ini aku menjadi bidan terjun untuk mekap sepupu aku bertunang. Nerveous rasanya sebab aku hanya biasa mekap muka sendiri. Yelah, kita first timer kalau boleh nak mendapatkan hasil terbaik untuk hari bahagianya.

Aku juga menjadi agak sensitif tentang attitude dan ethics in life. Banyak orang tidak sedar akan ini. Bagi mereka ignorance is bliss. Bagi aku, ignorance sometimes is bliss. The rest is hell. Totally hell. Therefore if you want to ignore, make sure use your brain and your heart first. Otherwise, you are 10% close to be a monkey. Ooops sorry…what did I say?

Did I broke my 2006’s resolutions? Yes, but only part of it. I’ve got 28 on list but I managed to achieve not even half of it. Demnn.. I fail the big one which is to tone down my body. I almost achieve it but when my finger got smashed, I fail to continue my exercise and rebuild my cute tummy. Yeah..it’s cute and it’s multipurpose. It could be use as a slimming product commercials body double or as a pillow.

So, what’s my 2007’s resolutions? Erm….we’ll see in next posting. Until then..Selamat Hari Raya Aidiladha and Happy New Year folks!

IQ Disember 16, 2006

Saya terbaca sebuah esei yang yang membincangkan hubungan antara IQ dan kejayaan dalam masyarakat. Ia merupakan esei yang merumuskan kajian psikometrik yang telah dijalankan oleh para saintis Amerika Syarikat sehingga tahun 1995.

Terdapat beberapa hubungan/korelasi telah dihasilkan dari kajian ini yang menarik minat saya. Tapi harus diingat bahawa hubungan ini berdasarkan kajian, dan ia tidak semestinya mewakili setiap individu dalam kumpulan ini, tetapi peratusan dalam statistik jelas menunjukkan bahawa:

• IQ yang rendah mempunyai hubungan dengan prestasi akademik, kemiskinan dan jenayah.
• IQ yang rendah mempunyai hubungan dengan ibubapa yang mempunyai IQ rendah dan status sosio-ekonomi yang rendah.
• IQ dikatakan tidak akan berubah. Pendidikan yang lebih baik tidak akan memperbaiki IQ dengan banyak.
• Dalam ujian IQ, keturunan Asia mendapat markah lebih tinggi dari purata, keturunan Latin dan kulit hitam mendapat markah lebih rendah dari purata, manakala kulit putih atau Kaukasian adalah bersamaan dengan purata.

Jika statistik ini adalah benar, sekiranya individu dalam kumpulan ini hanya mencari pasangan hidup dalam kelas sosio-ekonomi yang sama maka kita akan terus-menerus melahirkan generasi yang ber IQ rendah dan berkemungkinan menjalani kehidupan dalam kemiskinan atau melakukan jenayah.

Namun secara rambangnya hubungan yang ditunjukkan oleh statistik ini tidak dapat mewakili individu di Malaysia dengan tepat. Ini adalah kerana, tidak semua individu atau keluarga yang datangnya dari sosio-ekonomi yang rendah mempunyai taraf IQ yang rendah dan melakukan jenayah dan begitu juga sebaliknya.

Dalam ertikata lain, faktor genetik dan persekitaran sama-sama memainkan peranan penting dalam menentukan tahap IQ individu itu.

Masa kecik-kecik dulu… Disember 13, 2006

Teringat zaman kecik-kecik dulu, aku ni nakal. Nakal dan mengade-ngade sebab aku lambat dapat adik sehingga hampir umor aku lima tahun. So, bayangkan bape lama aku naik tocang sementara belum dapat adik tuh.

Dalam sementara aku membesar sorang-sorang ni, seingat aku macam-macam benda aku buat. Sebab aku membesar kat kampung jadi macam-macam benda la aku explore.

Mak aku cakap, aku kuat merayau. Sebab tu kulit aku gelap. Ya, seingat aku memang aku kuat merayau. Kebetulan pula depan umah aku ada taman permainan seberangnya pula umah sedara-mara aku.

Pantang lepa sikit, tetiba aku dah hilang. Mak aku kata tetiba je tengok kecik je aku dah pun melintas padang nak menghala ke umah makcik aku.

Aku ingat aku memang sukapegi umah makcik aku yg aku panggil mak long. Dia ni kerja kampung, so banyak la benda yang dia buat menarik perhatian aku. Umpamanya dia buat kerepek ubi kayu berbesen-besen dan aikrim batang untuk dijual.

Anak-anaknya yang ramai tulah menolongnya. Aku ni suka datang menyibuk nak tengok diorang buat kerepek. Pastuh siap makan tengah hari sekali dengan diorang.

Kadang-kadang takut juga aku nak merayau ke umah mak long sebab takut kena cubit ngan mak aku..hehehe..mak aku garang. Jadi aku merayau dekat area umah aku je. Masa tuh mak aku bela ayam kampung so ada reban ayam dan ada beberapa tanaman kat belakang umah aku.

Oleh kerana kat kampung tempat aku tinggal tuh elektrik pakai generator yang hanya ada menjelang petang, maka dalam pukul 4 dan 5 petang aku dah mula boring. Jadi, aku akan kebelakang umah aku untuk mencari idea untuk bermain sensorang.

Aku cukup gemar mengacau ayam yang sedang mengeram dan mengejar ayam yang beranak kecik. Bagi aku adalah best dan thrill masa nak curik-curik amik telor ayam yang sedang mengeram atau dikejar ayam yang garang. Penah juga aku kena patuk dengan ayam yang sedang mengeram nih.

Mak aku cakap, penat jaga aku walaupun aku sorang masa tuh. Sebab aku ni degil dan manja dengan ayah. So, anak ayah kan mengade-ngade sikit. Tapi bila aku dah dapat adik, kurang la skit nakal aku. Kebetulan plak adik aku yang sorang ni baik dan mendengar kata. Kalo aku buat silap dia gerenti report, cis!

Semua ni jadi kenang-kenangan aku yang tak kan dapat dilupakan. Aku rasa orang lain pun mesti ada macam-macam kenangan dalam hidup diorang..siap boleh buat drama lagi. Korang ada kenangan?

*Lepa- biar, terbiar, lupa

Surprise Gift Disember 12, 2006

As what I wrote in my yesterday posting, I said that I was at a cafe surfing internet and sipping my favourite hot latte. I was there from morning to night, people goes in and out and sometimes my ‘dealove’ came to check me out.

I was busy writing my blog, updating my friendster. I don’t really care who’s around me except one cute caucasian guy on the other side of me. Almost every 15 minutes I stole a glance at him because he’s so cute and cool.

But, suddenly I just could not really concentrate on my laptop anymore. There was another caucasian guy who happen to sit on the other side of me and he seemed waiting for someone. Then a Malay woman with a big figure came in and sat beside him.

Ops, I realized she was not a woman. She’s a man. You know what I mean. I don’t want to be judgemental. I don’t care who there are and what are they doing. I just can’t concentrate on my work because even I don’t look at them I can’t avoid to not to see them at all. There were in front of me.

I think they are madly in love because they will look, talk and touch each other romantically like there was no other people around but them. The guy also kiss her cheeks many times in front of everybody and I can even heard the kiss sound. Euw..this is not cool.

This is a public cafe in a public bookstore! It was school holidays and there were a lot of kids and teenagers around. They should respect that. But then, the Caucasian guy left her alone. I don’t know where did he go. The realized the ‘woman’ always looked at me and I don’t know why.

                            

After about 20 to 30 minutes the guy came back with shopping bags. I thought he bought something like food or shoes or clothes for her when I saw he happily handed the shopping bag to his ‘girlfriend’. But, I was so surprised to see it was a … and my mouth almost slip to say what the hell!

You just imagine, after several minutes she talk about people surfing internet for free using laptop in a cafe, and pop! there he bought her a laptop! Damn! Even I can easily got gifts from my ‘dealove’, but not something cost thousands in a couple of minutes?! This world is not fair..

Anyway, I just want to share what I have seen. Not to judge, not to complaint. I just so surprise and even I did not get the instant gift like her but my ‘dealove’ always shower me with gifts. Even a small things and still sometimes I forgot to thank him. Thank you…

Malaysia Batik Festival 2006 Disember 11, 2006

Akhirnya aku sudah beransur pulih. Setelah lebih seminggu aku tido berbantalkan air mineral dan berselimutkan Strepsils akhirnya aku kembali dapat menyanyi. Ari Sabtu aku pergi wedding kawan hosmet aku yang nun jauh di Semenyih. Maka sepanjang-panjang perjalanan itulah aku tak henti-henti bercakap dan bergilir-gilir menyanyi dengan hosmet aku yang juga bercita-cita nak jadi penyanyi tanpa album.

Ya, salah satu sebab aku lambat baik ialah aku terlampau banyak bercakap. Apa lagi kalo aku berjumpa dengan ‘dealove’ aku. Sampai penat dia mendengar agaknya. Tapi aku tetap tak henti-henti bercerita dan ketawa.

Demi meraikan kesembuhan ini, maka berjalanlah aku di Berjaya Times Square. Sebenarnya, bukanlah berjalan pun. Aku lepak je di cafe melayari internet  sampil mengabiskan segelas latte panas kegemaran aku.

Bagi korang yang akan atau sedang menghabiskan cuti, jangan lupa singgah di Berjaya Times Square. Ini kerana, PENYAYANG sekali lagi mengadakan Malaysia Batik Festival 2006 yang merupakan tahun keempat pesta ini diadakan. Bersempena dengan itu juga Pertandingan Reka Batik Piala Seri Endon juga sedang dijalankan dimana acara kemuncaknya diadakan di Shang-ri La Hotel, Kuala Lumpur pada 17 Disember nanti.

Sepanjang pesta ini, korang berpeluang melawat dan membeli-belah di gerai-gerai batik oleh pengusaha batik dari seluruh Malaysia. Disini korang berpeluang membuat tawar-menawar dan harga yang sedia ada juga lebih murah dari batik yang dibeli dibutik biasa. Korang tentu rambang mata nak memilih pelbagai corak moden dan tradisional yang ada digerai-gerai ini.

Apa yang menarik perhatian aku pula ialah, Pertandingan Rekaan Kraftangan Batik. Di Berjaya Times Square, terdapat sebuah booth yang mempamerkan beberapa penyertaan bahagian kraftangan yang cantik dan menarik. Peserta kali ni lebih kreatif memilih bentuk kraftangan dimana batik dijadikan bahan utama. Ini termasuklah soft toys, kasut, beg tangan, dairi, memo holder, batu seremban, divider dan sebagainya.               

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Kalo korang tak rasa ingin membeli di bazaar, maka tak salah kalo korang jalan-jalan sambil cuci mata melihat hasil kraftangan dari batik ni. Manalah tau korang ada idea baru suatu hari nanti dan teringin pula menyertai pertandingan yang sama pada tahun hadapan. Apatah lagi hadiah yang ditawarkan juga boleh tahan lumayan. Selain tu, kalo korang nak dapat info mengenai pesta ini bolehlah korang melawat website dengan klik DISINI.

A Useless Experience to Share Disember 7, 2006

Maybe it’s a stupid question to you. But when is exactly the last time you visit a very nice and clean public washroom in a shopping mall? How nice and how clean is it? Most of the time you will encounter a wet floor, a gross smell and and not convenience at all.

Maybe for a guy, a place for shoot and aim or the drop that poopoo activity is not an issue. But for a women, a nice and clean washroom is ’sangat diinginkan’!

Well, for those who frequently shop and dine at Starhill Gallery, the is no public washroom. I mean, there are public washroom but it is just not suitable to call it a public washroom. I may call it a restroom. A restroom that is much much better than you see at Jusco restroom. A restroom that very convinience and comfortable and you may forgot that it is a place for you to peepee or to poopoo.

For women, they can happily drop by to powder their nose and to check out their appearance. There is a lot of mirrors with a nice and dry marble tabletop, cozy lightings, music to cover the sound you may make in your cubicle, clean and dry floor, and no gross smell but a refreshing peppermint!

The restroom at the ground floor or Feast Floor, is the most special. The interior is a cowboy ranch theme, with a slightly dark ambiance, smell of peppermint, and a unique water tap. The tap is not an ordinary tap. There is a girl who will spin a big spinner which works as a tap and when the water flow out you just have to wash your hand. The door and wall of the cubicle is look alike a log cabin.

You don’t have to pay for all the convenience you get here even a single cent but for the feast floor you may give some tips for the spin girl. Don’t be stingy to drop your blue notes because all the comfortable you had is far more valuable than that. How I wish all public washroom are as clean as the one we got here. Even I have to pay one buck just for peepee or poopoo, I don’t mind as long as it comfortable and convenience.

Here’s some photos to share.

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1 & 2 : Lots of big mirrors and clean washbasin.

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3 : That is how I check out my errr….hair…hehehe…

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4 : Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all…?

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5 & 6 : Budak spinner ni tengah tepon boypren mengadu ramai orang kedekut nak bagi tips. Sebab tuh muka dia penyek je.

Anyway, the restroom is not the main attraction in Starhill Gallery. It is the place where you can splurging on fashion, beauty, food, arts, and living to fulfill your luxurious lifestyle. Hop in and experience it yourself.

Bila Mahu Sembuh? Disember 5, 2006

Malam tadi tekak saya sangat gatal sehingga memakse saya membatukkan diri berkali-kali. Oleh itu, sangat sukar untuk saya melelapkan mata. Kawan saya pun tidak nyenyak tidor kerana bunyian batuk saya itu memecah kesunyian malam. Kesian dia sebab dia ada exam pada keesokan paginya.

Jadi, pagi tadi saya pun pergi klinik. Kerana saya sangat gatal. Gatal pada bahagian tekak. Walaupun suare saya seksi, tapi saya tak boleh cakap sepuas hati dan saya tak dapat nyanyi dengan merdu. Doktor telah memberikan saya ubat dan juga vitamin. Dia suruh saya minum air masak banyak-banyak. Tapi saya memang tidak henti-henti minum air masak sehingga saya perlu ke bilik air berkali-kali. Jadi, kenapakah kesakitan saya masih belum berkurangan?

Saya sebenarnya mahu jalan-jalan. Tetapi si dia juga tidak sihat. Dia menuduh saya yang menyebarkan virus-virus penyakit kepadanya. Tetapi saya menafikan. Saya hanya menyebarkan virus-virus cinta, tidak lebih dari itu. Bukankah itu sangat baik?

Saya mahu cepat sembuh. Saya mahu kembali menyanyi. Menyanyi dalam bilik air. Tolonglah cepat sembuh.

Sunday and Handphone Disember 4, 2006

Last Sunday, my housemate and I happily woke up very early in the morning and went to the pasar pagi. We shop and had breakfast like we are the gorgeous girls ever and too perfect to have a diet plan! Hello!!!! Remember the Sunday before we were jogging and start a diet plan in a spirit to achieve berat badan unggul?

Since I still got flu, cough and sore throat, yesterday we decided not to jog or to pasar pagi but to the library. My housemate and I study in the same university. She still have exams to sit and I love books so much and go to the library would be the perfect way for both us to spend our Sunday.

The day was so perfect until we reached home and I found that I left my handphone in the library washroom. I thought losing my handphone would be the end of my world. Eventhough there was not many students but what if the one found mine had an evil heart? The journey from our house to the library seemed like a journey that would never end. How I wish that I can just go there in a blink!

When I reached there I found nothing. There is nothing on the place where I put my handphone. Then I ran to the nearest guardwoman to ask if anyone had found a handphone. Fortunately, she said that a student had found and gave it to the of the university staff and he still in the office. Thank God!

Later, I called the woman who found my handphone. What a surprise, she is one of my coursemate. She can hardly recognize my voice because of my sore throat. Well, maybe she thought it was Rani Mukherjee called her. Hehehe….Anyway I thank her again and again. Her kindness could never be repay. I wish she would pass her exams with flying colours.

One more person who I owed so much is my housemate. Her willingness to drive back to the campus (eventhough she was really wanted to lay on her sofa and had a nap) was unforgettable. Well, of course she will maintain her 4 flat too lorrrr….

P/S: Should I or should I not tell my boyfriend about this? If did not tell him I feel guilty not to share. But if I tell him, he probably not happy and again will say that I always got something when he’s not around. Ermmm….?

I can’t talk la.. Disember 2, 2006

I have flu, severe sore throat and dizziness. All this complications really make me wanted to lay on bed the whole day. But since I must have proper diet to relieve the symptoms, so I must cook something healthy and drink a lot of fluids. I cook porridge with a chicken balls and lots of vegetables in it.

It is very uncomfortable as each time I want to swallow even a liquid, I can feel a very sharp pain on my throat. At this moment,I can barely speak and I don’t think I can answer my phone. My voice box took one day of today and I’ll hurt myself if I force myself to talk even a single word.

Eventhough I can barely speak, I still type for my Nana Tanjung review to share with you. Until then, please pray for my health.

Nana Tanjung

Nana Tanjung movie is about an old man and a single father, Nana (Pie) who is a mamak in Penang. He has three daughters and he is very protective and does not allow his daughter to have a boyfriend even hanging around with friends. He has firm believe on arrange marriage but he don’t know actually 2 of his daughters were secretly dating and his youngest daughter is not innocent as he thought. In order to convince Nana to allow the daughters to marry their lover, they have secretly arrange their father to marry his old love.

In my opinion, the plot of this movie is almost the same from Razak Mohaideen’s movie. Frankly, this Malay movie is too light for me. There is nothing special from this movie as I can easily aspect or assume what will be happen next. It is quite funny, but not funny enough to make me smiling after walk out the cinema. I just don’t like to see in this movie, the action to give a knuckle (menyekeh) on others head as a common behaviour. Maybe the action is nothing to be bother by Mamak’s but as far as I know among Malays that was rude and disrespectful.

For those who just want a to watch a movie just to fill their leisure time, this movie probably good enough. But, for someone who really want to watch a very good or above average kinda movie, Nana Tanjung probably will your be your last choice. Overall, I rate this movie 4 on the scale of 10.