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SDARA 8286 Golf Championship

May 2007 Medal

Inaugural game was held at Seremban 3 Paradise Valley Golf Club on the 13th May 2007. As usual orang jauh sampai dulu. Light refreshment at club house before tee off, own account. Tee off around 1.50pm. Divided into two flights of four. Flight one, Dondeng, Baba, Kiyai & Potet. Flight two Kabu, Balok Upai & Madiah. Started with second nine. Exchange of partners at the next nine hole. Game concluded around 6.30pm with Dondeng, Upai & Kiyai leading the stand.

It is also agreed that the monthly medal to be held in the following months until final of Annual Medal, expected sometime in April 2008.

On the green, kurang sikit macam pro, kurang banyak mcm amatuer. Upai sekali putt masuk terus


It seems that everyone enjoys their game during this first monhtly medal.

Tee off with style

Dinner at Anjung Seri 2 Restaurant at Oakland Biz Ctr, Seremban 2. Potet couldn't join it, however, Dr. Asiong and Lecak joined the kuboran later.

Around 9.30pm everyone travels back to original destination.

Salam Ramadhan

To all Muslim visitor(s),

Selamat menyambut Ramadhan.

Semoga segala amalan dapat dipertingkatkan dan diterima oleh Allah s.w.t.

Salam.

RM1 Coin confusing

When BNM came out with this statement that the RM1 coin will cease to be legal tender effective from 7 December 2005, it has created lots of confusion to the public.

Bank Negara Malaysia announces today that effective 7 December 2005, the RM1 coin will cease to be legal tender and will be withdrawn from circulation.

The RM1 banknote will continue to be legal tender and will remain in circulation.

Members of the public will be given a three-month period from 7 September to 6 December 2005 to exchange the RM1 coins at face value without any charges at all branches of commercial banks, the main branches of Bank Simpanan Nasional and Bank Negara Malaysia's branches at Kuala Lumpur, Pulau Pinang, Johor Bahru, Kuala Terengganu, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu.

As expected, the traders and these people will be most affected by the decision.

Company badly hit by withdrawal of RM1 coin

Our company supplies and operates coin-operated self-service vending machines throughout the country. These machines use the RM1 coin. So you can imagine how shocked and upset we were on hearing the news of the withdrawal of the coin.

Bank Negara’s decision will badly affect operators of vending machines like us.

We cannot believe that when other countries have recently released new coins, we choose to remove our most widely used RM1 coin.

The withdrawal of the coin is going to cost my company and its customers more than RM200,000 to source and fit new coin acceptors to our machines.

Who is going to compensate us? Will a new coin be released soon?

Imagine that you can no longer use RM1 coin to get your trolleys at Giant or Carrefour, or you can not use the RM1 coin at some amusement parks. I know for sure that my kids may not able to ride the merry go round horses at level 5 of SOGO after the deadline unless they manage to re-configure the machines.

Question is, why is all the sudden?. One of this day I'm gonna catch up with Mr. Londe who's working with BNM to get the real story behind all this mess.

The worst part was that the BNM's press statement came only after one particular Chinese daily had broken the news.

The Old Man

When the Old Man cried baby for his rights to speak on human rights at a human rights conference organised by SUHAKAM, P Ramakrishnan came in solid with this piece.

Remember how you trampled on Human Rights, Dr M?

Dr Mahathir Mohamad's response to the protest by some 30 NGOs that he should not have been invited by Suhakam to speak on human rights is pathetic. He reportedly asked, “Are they denying me my human rights?”

In insisting on his human rights, he has forgotten the human rights that he and his government had denied to thousands of citizens. What about their rights, Mahathir? Did you ever pause to ponder about the rights of those who were locked up based on unsubstantiated and dubious claims? Did it bother you that they lost many, many years of their freedom while you were in charge of this country? Did it ever disturb you that many wasted their best years of their lives locked up in your jails without any recourse to justice?

Do you remember that on Oct 27, 1987 during Operation Lallang, more than a hundred citizens were arrested and detained under the obnoxious ISA while you were the prime minister, home minister and justice minister? They were denied the right to a fair trial and subjected to a grave injustice: many of them were harshly interrogated, cruelly locked away in solitary confinement, and mercilessly tortured. What justice did you extend to them?

You denied our right to information by legislating an undemocratic law that kept under wraps many of the abuses of your administration. This Act protected those who should have been prosecuted. Do you remember Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor's case? He was found guilty of possession of a document that was classified under the Official Secrets Act and was convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.

But you must know, as we do, that Ezam's conviction only confirmed that there was a document from the public prosecutor recommending the prosecution of certain top Umno people who were holding important government posts. Didn't this sordid episode deny Ezam's right to expose corruption in high places?

And what about Anwar Ibrahim? Were his human rights any concern of yours? He was handcuffed, blindfolded and beaten up in a cowardly manner by your top police officer. He was then found guilty of what were widely believed to be trumped-up charges and languished in jail for six years. Were you concerned about Anwar's human rights? Instead, you came up with that flippant and silly remark that Anwar's injuries could have been self-inflicted.

When your position as Umno president was in danger, the bonus system was introduced in the Umno elections to provide 10 bonus votes for every nomination received. As the incumbent you had the advantages that came with your position which put any likely challenger under a great disadvantage. Were you bothered about the human rights of your prospective challengers?

And during the general elections, what human rights did you extend to the opposition? Did they get equal airtime? Were they given enough time to campaign and put forth their programme to the electorate?

Did you extend the same development funds to opposition MPs that you gave to Barisan MPs? What about the human rights of those people who elected opposition MPs? Did you give a thought to them? Instead, you punished the people who elected the opposition MPs and denied them their right to development funds. The money you denied these people did not come from Barisan Nasional coffers - but that didn’t bother you one bit.

How did you treat the democratically elected PBS government? Were the human rights that you now claim for yourself ever extended to the people of Sabah? And how did you treat the people of Terengganu who threw out the Barisan Nasional government in 2000? After the Barisan’s defeat, you stopped the petroleum royalties that the state government had been enjoying for so many years. What about the human rights of the people of Terengganu and Sabah and their right to development? Did it ever prick your conscience?

What about the human rights of the natives of Sarawak? Didn't your government ride rough-shod over their rights when the Bakun Dam project bulldozed over their human rights? How many were displaced and did they receive adequate compensation for their forceful displacement? Didn’t they lose their right to their native customary land and their traditional way of life?

It was the writer, Mary McCarthy, who said it all: “An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere.”

In your case, there were countless abuses and numerous human rights violations
during your long tenure of office. These cannot be so easily forgotten and glossed over. That is why we feel that your presence at the Suhakam Human Rights Day conference tomorrow is most inappropriate.


The writer is president of Aliran.

Enough said. Serves you right Old Man.

Langit ke Tujuh

I like this song.

It has been getting heavy airplay lately.

Langit ke Tujuh

Dulu kau pernah berkata
Andai kata kita bercinta
Akan kau bina mahligai
Yang terapung di langit ke tujuh
Sememangnya seakan khayalan belaka
Aku tak percaya.....

c/o
Kata-katamu hanya mimpi di siang hari
Kemarau panjang
Berpanas jua
Berteduh tidak

Hati kecil tak memahami
Mahligai itu ada di syurga
Terangilah mata hati
Agar dapat ku mengerti....

The song was composed by Azmeer and sung by Sharifah Zarina.

May be because of the feel that the singer put in the song.

Mmm......the melody has been ringing in my head since morning. So infectious.

Warning: Don't google search on the title. You may get into langit ke tujuh Ayah Pin. :)

Oh God please help

Oh God.................please help me.

So "£%^&&@ lazy today. Monday blues? Whatever.

Only managed to finish up and sent the first draft of the Info Memo to my client this morning. They were expecting it since last Thursday.

Let see, what else do I need to clear on my table:

(1) Opinion on conflict of interest on ABS issue. The merchant banker has been calling me since last Friday;

(2) Review comments and revise the documents for another PDS issue. I know the client will be calling soon;

(3) Application to Bursa for an off market transaction. Shuck! Why they didn't do it last time together with the earlier block of shares?

(4) An investment agreement for a client who wants to invest in a money changer business (not money laudering okay!). What they call it in malay? Pengurup Wang?. Where do they find that word in the first place.

Aarggggh. Tensionnya.

And my Maxis Data Card is not working. Cannot get connected. S****d. Always not functioning when I really needed it. Have to go to the Maxis centre again. It will be my third time!.

Commercialism in Sports

I have said this in my earlier posting. Yes, it is time to change.

IBF want female players to ‘get glamorous’

The International Badminton Federation (IBF) are calling on their female players to wear more glamorous outfits, complaining that the traditional style of dress is too old fashioned.

The IBF deputy president Datuk Punch Gunalan said at the World Championships in Anaheim on Sunday that he wished the women would dress more like Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova.

“We are too old fashioned,” Gunalan said.

“Nowadays the girls are becoming a little better dressed. We need to be in the fashion world. So we would like to see players wear more appealing clothes to the public. By appealing, I mean use it for everyday use. So when people walk around, they would want to wear it. Unfortunately we are far away from that. Let’s take Maria Sharapova. Look at her tank tops. It is pretty.”

New Zealand bronze medallist Sara Runesten-Petersen said that she is in favour of anything that will attract more fans to the sport as long as it isn’t forced on them.

“I wouldn’t mind it. I can’t wear skimpy tops because of my shape but some of the girls have beautiful bodies so there is nothing to hide,” said Runesten-Petersen.

“Lots of girls wear skirts and skimpy tops why not when they play sports?

“I wouldn’t want to play in just a bra but a (tank) top is fine. Why not when you are a girl, look like a girl. But it should be up to the individual and not enforced.”

Olympic champion Zhang Ning, of China, said that she had no objection as long as it was done tastefully.

“It is acceptable to me,” said top seed Zhang. “The tank top is all right, just not the string top.”

Gunalan said that he was talking to attire manufacturers about coming up with some new ideas.

“There is too much monopoly right now for one company, Yonex. We need to get companies like Reebok, Nike and Adidas involved,” he said. – AFP

Yeah, they should sack the designers at Yonex. The earlier they do that, the better.

New Blog

I have just created another blog.

Check this place.

Cerita Julia

Cheewah, tajuk bukan main bagus lagi..

Dapat cerita ni dari e-mail sorang kawan.

Subject: Fw: Pandu cermat jiwa selamat


"Abang ni, pakai tu elok-elok la sikit," kata Julia lembut sambil membetulkan pakaian Ahmad. Ahmad tersenyum memandang isterinya.

"Cantik isteri abang hari ni," Ahmad mencubit pipi Julia lembut.

"Ayah, ayah, cepat la yah," Liz dan Lin meluru masuk ke bilik kerana dah tak sabar-sabar nak bertolak pulang ke kampung.

"Yelah, yelah, ayah dah siap ni."

Julia hanya tersenyum melihat suaminya itu melayan karenah anak-anak mereka yang comel dan manja.

"Abang, dah lama kita tak balik kampung macam ni,ye?"

"Iyelah, maklumlah abang ni sibuk dengan urusan perniagaan. Baru kali ni abang ada peluang untuk cuti panjang." Ahmad berkata kepada isterinya tercinta.

Perjalanan daripada KL ke Teluk Intan mengambil masa lebih kurang empat jam. Liz dan Lin dah pun terlelap kat kerusi belakang. Begitu juga dengan isterinya, Julia.

"Tak sabar rasanya nak tiba kat kampung," Ahmad berkata dalam hati. Sedikit demi sedikit Ahmad menekan minyak keretanya.

Semakin lama keretanya semakin laju dan Ahmad semakin seronok. Ahmad dah tak sabar untuk segera sampai ke kampungnya. Pedal minyak ditekannya lagi dan Honda Civicnya mula memecut.

Ahmad cilok kiri, cilok kanan. Habis semua kenderaan dipotongnya. Bangga betul Ahmad masa tu. Terlupa dia sekejap pada anak dan isterinya yang sedang tidur.

"Eh abang, kenapa bawa laju sangat ni?" tiba-tiba Julia terjaga dari tidurnya.

"Tak ada apa la sayang, rileks... cepat sikit kita sampai kampung nanti."

"Sabar bang, sabar. Biar lambat tak apa.... jangan laju sangat bang, Julia takut." Julia cuba memujuk Ahmad supaya memperlahankan kenderaannya.

"Rileks Julia, tak ada apa-apa," Ahmad terus memotong bas ekspres di depannya tanpa was-was.

"Haaa..kan, tengok. Tak ada apa-apa kan?" kata Ahmad setelah berjaya memotong bas ekspres tadi.

"Sudah la tu bang."

"Ha... tu ada satu lagi bas ekspres. Julia tengok abang motong dia aaa...." Ahmad terus masuk gear 3, pedal minyak ditekannya hingga jejak ke lantai.

Ahmad terus membelok ke kanan untuk memotong dan.... di depannya tersergam sebuah lori balak yang besar dan gagah dan........BANG!!.

"Julia....bangun nak," sayup-sayup terdengar suara emaknya.

Julia membuka matanya. Dia terlihat emaknya di situ. "Mana abang Ahmad mak? Macammana dengan suami saya, mak? Liza, Linda....mana anak-anak saya
mak?"

Bertubi-tubi Julia menyoal emaknya. Julia tak dapat menahan kesedihannya lagi. Julia menangis semahu-mahunya di depan emaknya. Emaknya memandang Julia tepat-tepat.

"Macamana dengan suami Julia mak, abang Ahmad?" Julia masih terus menangis.


PANGGG!!. Kepala Julia ditampar oleh emaknya dengan tiba-tiba. Julia terdiam. Kenapa emaknya buat dia macam tu?

"Banyak la engkau punya suami! Muka dahlah tak cun, study pun malas, kerja pun takde, ada hati nak berlaki. Apa punya anak dara la kau ni?? Tu la, tidur lagi senja-senja macam ni! Dah! Bangun pegi sembahyang! Asar pun dah nak habis!"

Emaknya terus merungut sambil berlalu keluar.......dan Julia tersengih keseorangan.Rasa macam nak masuk dalam tin biskut!.

hahahahahadhari.......

Moral Cerita: Solatlah Asar dulu sebelum dipelempang oleh Ibu anda...

Trying and still trying...

THIS IS MY THIRD/FOURTH ATTEMPT TO UPLOAD USING THE ADD IMAGE FEATURE. I GIVE UP.....where's my picture?

Can someone help.

My youngest - also wanted to become a spider girl.
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Let's try again

Arrghhh...still didn't work.

What happened to my two pictures that I tried to upload just now?

Why the first time was easy?

Spiderweb

This post is to test the new 'add image' feature that Blogger just incorporated. Let see.......how it works.......

Whoa that's rather easy. Only thing is that it takes a while to upload the picture.

These are my daughters with their cousin.






I'd actually uploaded another 2 pictures. But didnot know where they ended up.

Minyak Naik?

Aarrgh - Part 1

Heard over the radio this morning that PM quashed the rumours about the increase in petrol price which was expected to take effect today.

Buang masa aku balik rumah cepat-cepat lepas main futsal malam tadi and then isi minyak kereta NAZA Ria yang memang jenis telan minyak punya kereta.

Note: I even got an email from a staff about the purported price increase together with a gentle reminder that salary revision is overdue. Aaarrgh....


Aarrgh - Part 2

Maria Sharapova lost to Venus William in the Wimbledon semi-final match last nite (Malaysian time).

Venus 1 Goddess 0

HOWEVER hard she tried, however loud she grunted, Maria Sharapova could not save herself at Wimbledon last night. The Princess of tennis and reigning champion was overpowered and outshrieked by Venus Williams as the American booked her place in tomorrow’s final. The Russian teenager just crumbled against the force of Williams, who won 7-6 6-1 in 101 minutes.

This was the best match of these championships — but it was also the noisiest.

Excerpt from The Sun Online.


Aarrgh - Part 3

Tak de sorang pun Malaysian badminton players survived the third round of Singapore Open. Singles and doubles sama aje kantoi.

Malaysia Boleh

A joke making rounds.

After digging to a depth of 100 metres last year, Russians scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 1000 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network one thousand years ago.

Not to be outdone, in the weeks that followed, American scientists dug 200 metres and headlines in the US papers read: 'US scientistss have found traces of 2000-year old optical fibres, and have concluded that their ancestors already had advanced hi-tech digital telephone 1000 years earlier than the Russians.'

One week later, the Malaysian newspapers reported the following:

'After digging as deep as 500 metres, Malaysian scientists have found absolutely nothing. They have concluded that 5000 years ago, their ancestors were already using wirelss technology.'

Proud to be a Malaysian.....

Thanks to Aliran Monthly [2005: Vol25. No.2]

Serve Them Right

Two brothers being sentenced to caned with six strokes of rattan by the Syariah High Court in Kuantan for drinking alcohol in public. Read more about it here. In pleading leniency, the offenders told the court that they were of lower income group. Stupid fools. If you don't have the money, go and drink syrup - it's much cheaper that the stouts that you drank.

That should serve them a good lesson and other Muslims too. Islam prohibits drinking of liquor. Period.

Lawak Pagi Senin

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Lawak Pak Pandir

Dah lama tak update this blog. Dapat lawak ni dari email seorang kawan.


Cerita 1

Satu hari kecoh Pak Pandir panggil wartawan datang kerumah dia. Bila wartawan-wartawan sampai mereka pun bertanya "Ada apa yang menarik ni Pak Pandir?".

Pak Pandir pun kata.."Tenguk ni..aku tanam pokok rambutan tapi tumbuh pokok ubi kayu..hehehe".

"Waaa pelik ni Pak Pandir..cuba cerita kat kami..."

"5 bulan dulu aku ada tanam pokok rambutan kat sini..aku ingat lagi sebab aku ada tandakanya kat sini..."

"Dengan apa Pak Pandir tandakan?" tanya wartawan....

"Dengan batang ubi kayu", jawab Pak Pandir.


Cerita 2

Alkisahnya..hebohlah satu kampung....Pak Pandir mendapat tiket kapal terbang untuk menjadi tetamu Halim Othman dlm Pagi di ERA. Walaupun hanya kelas ekonomi..tapi bagi Pak Pandir...itu sudah cukup mengembirakanya.

Dipendekkan cerita..hari dijanji telah tiba..Pak Pandir pun sudah menunggu seawal subuh di lapangan terbang.

Kapal terbang sampai..Pak Pandir pun naiklah. Masuk jer kapal terbang, Pak pandir terus ambik tempat.

Sebelum kapal terbang berlepas, pramugari pun memeriksa penumpang supaya semua duduk ditempat masing-masing dan bersedia untuk berlepas..

Sekali pramugari nampak Pak Pandir duduk kat kerusi bisnes klass.. setahu
dia.. tak ada penumpang bisnes klass hari tu..

Dengan budi bahasa pramugari tu tegur.

"Pakcik, Pakcik tak boleh duduk kat sini.. boleh tak Pakcik pindah duduk
dibelakang..?"

"Eh.. bagus sungguh bude bahasa orang kapal terbang nii (pramugari)..takpalah nak.. Pakcik selesa dah kat sini.." (*mana tak selesanya...bisnes klass).

Mati akal pramugari tu.. semua pramugari dan pramugara (kecuali yang
terlampau) datang silih ganti..sakit kepala..

Pilot yang menunggu lama nak berlepas, bengong kenapa masih belum ada isyarat kata ok dari ketua pramugari.

Dia pun keluar tengok..pramugari sorang tu cerita..

Pilot tu pun pi lah kat Pak Pandir.."Pakcik.. boleh tengok tiket?"

Pak Pandir kasi tiket..

"Ooo.. Pakcik nak pi KL yer Pakcik?"

"yer nak..."

"taapi Pakcik.. kerusi nii pi Johor Bahru Pakcik.., kerusi belakang baru
pegi KL!"

"yerker nak.. nasib baiklah anak bagitau.."

What day is today?

I'm confused.

What day is today. I know today is Thursday, but are we celebrating anything today?

I was confused because I saw a lady selling flowers (look like an Indonesian employee being sent by her florist-boss) in front of my daughter's school main gate this morning. There was a small manila card that read, 'Bunga untuk Hari Guru'.

Asked my daughter, "Hari ni Hari Guru ke?", because I thought the Teachers' Day was yesterday. "Tak de lah" was the reply I got. Normally schools throughout the country will celebrate Teachers' Day on the same day.

Later heard over the radio (ERA and MixFM) that today is "Hari Jururawat Sedunia".

Poor flower lady, she should be selling flowers in front of HKL.