51th National Day - 2008

Well...

At last it is the time again for the 'anniversary of Malaysia'.

Seems that this year our country is always facing quite a number of ups and downs and now there is still some political issue about the country. But still, for today I think all of the grudges will be hold down for a while, at least for a day.

Theme for this year's National Day - Unity is the basic for success (Perpaduan Asas Kejayaan)... Will it really can be done?

Anyway...
Happy National Day 2008.

Yeah... and happy holiday for my DA coursemate because we no need to face that ugly fella by next Monday, uh.. whatever. Enjoy for the holidays.

P/S: I also consider today as the 1 year anniversary for my blog too as I started this at the beginning of the month by last year. Thanks (to you, readers) for reading and visiting for my blog. Hopefully I am able to continue till the end though.

Gosh, the library...

Look at the photo, see how the mXdXc students in our school that one of our 'lecturer' that praises the most and compares us with them. This is the way to study...?

Do they deserve the praise...?

There's only a mother and father in the world (Chinese)

I get this from my friend's e-mail again, and I find out this is an interesting item for me to post it up. Whoever is the writer of this essay, please contact me so that I can put a credit from it.

Thanks to my friend - Y_Wei to forward me this essay. If it is possible, I will try to translate this to English...

父母永遠只有一個

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媳婦說：

「煮淡一點妳就嫌沒有味道，現在煮鹹一點妳卻說咽不下，

妳究竟怎麼樣？」

母親一見兒子回來，二話不說便把飯菜往咀裡送。

她怒瞪他一眼。

他試了一口，馬上吐出來，

兒子說：「我不是說過了嗎，媽有病不能吃太鹹！」

「那好！媽是你的，以後由你來煮！」

媳婦怒氣沖沖地回房。

兒子無奈地輕嘆一聲，然後對母親說：

「媽，別吃了，我去煮個麵給妳。」

「仔，你是不是有話想跟媽說，是就說好了，別憋在心裡！

「媽，公司下個月升我職，我會很忙，至於老婆，她說很想出來工作，所以 ....」

母親馬上意識到兒子的意思：

「仔，不要送媽去老人院。」

聲音似乎在哀求。

兒子沉默片刻，他是在尋找更好的理由。

「媽，其實老人院並沒有甚麼不好，妳知道老婆一但工作，一定沒有時間好好服侍妳。老人院有吃有住有人服侍照顧，不是比在家裡好得多嗎？」

「可是，阿財叔他.....」

洗了澡，草草吃了一碗速食麵，兒子便到書房去。

他茫然地佇立於窗前，有些猶豫不決。

母親年輕便守寡，含辛茹苦將他撫養成人，供他出國讀書。

但她從不用年輕時的犧牲當作要脅他孝順的籌碼，

反而是妻子以婚姻要脅他！

真的要讓母親住老人院嗎？

仔問自己，他有些不忍。

「可以陪你下半世的人是你老婆，難道是你媽嗎？」

阿財叔的兒子總是這樣提醒他

「你媽都這麼老了，好命的話可以活多幾年，為何不趁這幾年好好孝順她呢？樹欲靜而風不息，子欲養而親不在啊！」

親戚總是這樣勸他。

兒子不敢再想下去，深怕自己真的會改變初衷。

夕晚，太陽收斂起灼熱的金光，躲在山後憩息。

一間建在郊外山崗的一座貴族老人院。

是的，錢用得越多，兒子才心安理得。

當兒子領著母親步入大廳時，

嶄新的電視機，42吋的螢幕正播放著一部喜劇，

但觀眾一點笑聲也沒有。

幾個衣著一樣，髮型一樣的老嫗歪歪斜斜地坐在發沙上，

神情呆滯而有一個老人在自言自語，

有個正緩緩彎下腰，想去撿掉在地上的一塊餅乾吃。

兒子知道母親喜歡光亮，

所以為她選了一間陽光充足的房間。

從窗口望出去，樹蔭下，一片芳草如茵。

幾名護士推著坐在輪椅的老者在夕陽下散步，

四周悄然寂靜得令人心酸。

縱是夕陽無限好，畢竟已到了黃昏，他心中低低嘆息。

「媽，我........我要走了！」

母親只能點頭。

他走時，母親頻頻揮手，

她張著沒有牙的嘴，

蒼白乾燥的咀唇在囁嚅著，一副欲語還休的樣子。

兒子這才注意到母親銀灰色的頭髮，

深陷的眼窩以及打著細紋臉。

母親，真的老了！

他霍然記起一則兒時舊事。

那年他才6歲，母親有事回鄉，不便攜他同行，

於是把他寄住在阿財叔家幾天。

母親臨走時，

他驚恐地抱著母親的腿傷心大聲號哭道：

「媽媽不要丟下我！媽媽不要走！」

最後母親沒有丟下他。

他連忙離開房間，順手把門關上，不敢回頭，

深恐那記憶像鬼魅似地追纏而來。

他回到家，

妻子與岳母正瘋狂的把母親房裡的一切扔個不亦樂乎。

身高3呎的獎杯──

那是他小學作文比賽「我的母親」第1名的勝利品！

華英字典──

那是母親整個月省吃省用所買給他的第一份生日禮物！

還有母親臨睡前要擦的風濕油，

沒有為她擦，帶去老人院又有甚麼意義呢？

「夠了，別再扔了！」

兒子怒吼道。

「這麼多垃圾，不把它扔掉，怎麼放得下我的東西。」

岳母沒好氣地說。

「就是嘛！你趕快把你媽那張爛床給抬出去，我明天要為我媽添張新的！」

一堆童年的照片展現在兒子眼前，

那是母親帶他到動物園和遊樂園拍的照片。

「它們是我媽的財產，一樣也不能丟！」

「你這算甚態度？對我媽這麼大聲，我要你向我媽道歉！」

「我娶妳就要愛妳的母親，為甚麼妳嫁給我就不能愛我的母親？」

雨後的黑夜分外冷寂，街道蕭瑟，行人車輛格外稀少。

一輛寶馬在路上飛馳，頻頻闖紅燈，陷黃格，

呼一聲又飛馳而過。

那輛轎車一路奔往山崗上的那間老人院，

停車直奔上樓，推開母親臥房的門。

他幽靈似地站著，母親正撫摸著風濕痛的雙腿低泣。

她見到兒子手中正拿著那瓶風濕油，

顯然感到安慰的說：

「媽忘了帶，幸好你拿來！」

他走到母親身邊，跪了下來。

「很晚了，媽自己擦可以了，你明天還要上班，回去吧！」

他囁嚅片刻，終於忍不住啜泣道：

「媽，對不起，請原諒我！我們回家去吧 ！」

～～後語～～

隨著自己愈長大，

看著父母親臉龐從年輕變憔悴，

頭髮從烏絲變白髮,動作從迅捷變緩慢，多心疼！

父母親總是將最好、最寶貴的留給我們，

像蠟燭不停的燃燒自己，照亮孩子！

而我呢？

有沒有騰出一個空間給我的父母，

或者只是在當我需要停泊岸時，

才會想起他們……

其實父母親要的真的不多，

只是一句隨意的問候：爸、媽，你們今天好嗎？」

隨意買的宵夜，煮一頓再普通不過的晚餐，

睡前幫他們蓋蓋被子，

天冷幫他們添衣服、戴手套……

都能讓他們高興溫馨很久。

有時，我常在想：我希望我的子女以後如何對我。

那現在，我有沒有如此對待我的父母？

我相信，人是環環相扣的；

現在，你如何對待你的父母；

以後，你的子女就如何待你。

朋友，人世間最難報的就是父母恩，

願我們都能：以反哺之心奉敬父母，以恩之心孝順父母！

～共勉之～

生命不要求我們成為最好的，只要求我們作最大的努力！

老人安養院牆上發現的一篇文章

孩子！當你還很小的時候，

我花了很多時間，教你慢慢用湯匙、用筷子吃東西。

教你繫鞋帶、扣扣子、溜滑梯、教你穿衣服、梳頭髮、擰鼻涕。

這些和你在一起的點點滴滴，是多麼的令我懷念不已。

所以，當我想不起來，接不上話時，

請給我一點時間，等我一下，

讓我再想一想……極可能最後連要說什麼，我也一併忘記。

孩子！

你忘記我們練習了好幾百回，

才學會的第一首娃娃歌嗎？

是否還記得每天總要我絞盡腦汁，

去回答不知道你從哪裡冒出來的嗎？

所以，當我重覆又重覆說著老掉牙的故事，

哼著我孩提時代的兒歌時，體諒我。

讓我繼續沉醉在這些回憶中吧！

切望你，也能陪著我閒話家常吧！

孩子，現在我常忘了扣扣子、繫鞋帶。

吃飯時，會弄髒衣服，梳頭髮時手還會不停的抖，

不要催促我，要對我多一點耐心和溫柔，

只要有你在一起，就會有很多的溫暖湧上心頭。

孩子！如今，我的腳站也站不穩，走也走不動。

所以，請你緊緊的握著我的手，陪著我，慢慢的。

就像當年一樣，我帶著你一步一步地走。

若為人子女也不懂得如何體諒他們，那他們便只能於痛苦中渡過餘生，黑暗中逝去....

請把此文章轉發給您的朋友，

讓他們知道家人才是最重要的。
愛情可以重新再找尋，但父母一生卻只有一個，
要珍惜、珍重。

Pesta Lawas (Con'td)

Wow, what a sensation. The day I came back and my hometown (consider as is) are having a 2-days festival, so-called Pesta Lawas. The climax of the festival is at Sunday and lucky me. I was able to have a visit with the splendid show.

Even though that night was only holding 2 activities, but it seems that both activities have taken a lot of time and attention of the folks (including me). It starts with the first activity which they
called as 'flower car' parade as well as the lanterns.

Before that, sorry about the photo quality - I don't have any good camera as I am using my Nokia 5700 as my primary camera and y'know... phone cam's are always having a poor performance while shot at night...

Photos:

One of the 'cars' after I arrived the arena.

Another one.

Bet this is from the school...

Obviously. This is from the palm or farming organization.

Two private contestants in the 'flower car' competition.

Government organization also involved in this event. Not so sure about others except JKR.

A 'flower car' from the private organization. I think most of the 'flower car' above are from the school...

Not only the cars, the lanterns are also in this show too. But I am late when I arrived to the arena, so I have visited the school where the lantern contestant's final location. There are some lanterns able to get the attention from the others though.

It seems that these lanterns are from the secondary school.


They said this is from the primary school. Looks very beautiful though.

Have no idea about this lantern, but it seems very beautiful inside (not so sure at outside)


A pile of lanterns from another primary school. Seems to be a lot of contestants.

It seems to be more items to be show for, but these are only photos I am able to get because I am late for the event as I got no information about that...

After that, I found the location of the second event based on the crowd. It is at the park of the town.

The speech by someone.. who?

Look at the crowd..

After all, this is the first time that I can see - the crowds and the scene of bustle and excitement in the town. I only knew that the event ended at 1.30am as I heard fireworks at that time.

Hopefully at the future this event will be continued and along with the improvements - I am extremely thrilled with that and... excited. Not often we can watch about these spectacular events in all the time too, even it is just a town's festival.

I enjoyed... and now you enjoy the pics.

Semester Break~

Just have my semester break starting today. And it is such a coincidence that there is a Lawas Festival (Pesta Lawas) starting yesterday. It seems that the 3 days (till tommorow) the town will be quite crowded.

I will going to gather some pics with my phone and try to post it out for the next few days. Please look forward into tomorrow or two days later. Don't know what is special during the days but it seems that tonight Lawas townspeople are having a good day and I am arranging the photos, quite blur as I am only using a 2MP phone to take the pictures... But at least this is the thing that I can show it off.

Lucky that 90% of us had raise our hands that we are going home and the DA class is canceled... otherwise we will need to suffer while people are enjoying their life during the semester break.

Well, friends, enjoy the holiday and 'sympathies' to our friends that have the field trip to Kudat for the ABM :P!

P/S: I still need some more time for the photos, it seems that the photo I shoot is more than what I have thought of -.-'

Guideline to LMS on upload the files (uploading)!

Sorry about the late posting about this information, friends. A lot of things happened recently and I just meet with out coordinator in order to cool down myself.

In today's lecture, I heard from our lecturer and our friends about the uploading issue regarding to the LMS. So I will going to put a simple guide on how to upload your things into LMS.

Important: Click the screenshot/ image for a better view as I make this as a thumbnail in my post to make sure that this is taking less time to load on my blog.

1. Log yourself 'in' to LMS. That is obvious.
2. When you go to link of TE 30503, you will see the interface as the screenshot below (IMG1).

IMG1

3. Make sure you go into the forum entitled Tutorial 2b week 3 as we are required to post the answer into this one (both answer for Tutorial 2b and 1)

4. Then you will see something just like the screenshot below (IMG2):

IMG 2

Reply to the post! You cannot upload if you are not reply to the post.

IMG3

5. You will see the interface like the screenshot above (IMG3). Make sure you have type what you want to post and upload the file first before you post the reply out! When you click on the Browse button in IMG 3, you should see a pop up window like in IMG 4.

IMG4

Make sure you know where you put the file in and yeah, an appropriate name, for the word document, even it is optional. But please let our lecturer have a easy way to identify it.

IMG5

6. Then, after you have upload it as instructed in IMG4, you will go back to the previous interface in LMS again (like in IMG5). Make sure that everything is there and you have see the directory of your file as mentioned inside the screenshot. (You cannot undo or redo everything once you have posted your reply after 30 minutes).

When everything is done, post it!

7. When you see your reply come along with an attachment like our lecturer did (eg. for mine in IMG7 below is LTA.doc in my post), then you have replied to the post and uploaded the file.

IMG 7

I hope everything is clear here and it will make you have a clearer instruction for you to upload the files in the future.

This is it for the guides. Questions? Comment this post or e-mail me.

Horrible tutorial along with the dog~

Wow, what a horrible tutorial we have with that dog today! Until today only 2 presentations are successful after a long way run uh~

Before I continue, please ignore my grammatical mistake as you know… a person who is pissed off with that dog will no longer has the patience left to check on the grammar.

Where should I start… yeah, perhaps… the presentation that our friend have by today. So far, we have a total of 9 presentations, but only 2 of them are survived in the presentation. What you can think about these in the statement of numbers? Perfection, strict, stupid or naive?

Perhaps his head got 'burnt out' since he was been locked inside the toilet by last week and he said he would die inside... (even though we know that it is not possible unless the toilet is in vaccum mode or there is no any space or holes around the room...)

This is the first time ever I cannot respect the lecturer, into the bottom of my heart. He is not teaching what is the thing that he SUPPOSED to teach, but correcting NONSENSE that is just affects the minor performance on it. What on earth he is focusing during a presentation?

These are the things he is focusing during a lecture or tutorial. Either you got a sweet voice, beautiful or not, gender, and capable to flatter on him. Performance or capability is not the point in 'his' lecture. Grammar, posing, body language, voice and also the appearance of the presentation and the criteria mentioned in the sentence before is the key to amuse him! If you got any abilities that he don't have (eg Computer literate skills), then he will try to humiliate you as he wants to have his nonsense pride on that.

I afraid that we will not going to learn anything if this condition is continuing to happen in the future as he spend his time in boasting rather than teaching at all. He said that he wants to improve if we wants to stay in the field, while in fact he is the one still running on the same location. And using a primary school trick to loose us... so you will going to expect a counter attack from a 'primary student' against to you quite soon!

I hate you, Jerky! I will ignore you in the class, but I will still keep on study DA. That is the purpose why I should be here. I come here to learn about maturity, language skills and what I should do to be a teacher, but not to be treated me and my friends as a pet or whatsoever as you only think your time is precious but ours not?

We will keep on improve ourselves but you will not. If you keep putting your pride or ego in the first place and not learn to be humble, I believe that quite soon there will be more students stand up against you!

I will continue to learn DA, no matter how you are going to humiliate me or in the grades, that is the thing I swear to myself. I will not let my process of learning fails because of you, dog! I will score the best that I can for my tests by ignoring that you are my lecturer or what - I don't give it a damn on it because you are not able to earn the respect - not only my respect, but even your colleague, and my coursemate's respect!

Facebook! Duh!

For my friends -

I just updated most of my information in Facebook. If you are playing this be sure to add me in, OK?

Obtained Celcom Broadband but no idea what I use it for, so maybe playing Facebook as my coursemates did will be another option for me.

How to find me? I guess you are more expert than me on this, it is not necessary for me to tell you how to find me on there, eh. Anyway... in case it is really a trouble, I have also updated my layout in my profile which links to my another Friendster profile, so you should be able to find it at there.

Visited some of my friend's Facebook account. Summary? Confused and don't know what it is all about. What? E=MC2 (mong cha cha) -.-', I can say... A lot of applications and I don't even know where is the link for the requests or notifications... Not really matters.

Hopefully I can stay awake on the dog's tutorial tommorow, wake up early and have his class in the beginning of the week is really a mental suffer for me (maybe for my friends too)...

Crowd of the hostel in every morning

Well. Want to know the basics of Advanced Survival Guide which I did posted in my previous post before?

Look at this image, and you will have a gist on what I am going to say.Hint:
We have the first class by 8am. This is the condition I shoot with my phone by 7.30am. What you can see? Not the view, of course... the huge queue here. This location is approximately 80 meters to the bus stop, where we are waiting for bus.

The line is still stretching until the edge of the block. (You can see, at the right side of the picture, there is a rotation of 90 degree towards north and the queue is going...

Summary? Terrifying morning. Happens everyday except Saturdays and Sundays. Most horrible queue? You will see another line at the roundabout (located at the right side of this picture) and the two days that are worst is Mondays and Thursdays! Agh!

Survival guide?

1. Get to the bus stop before 6.30 am otherwise you will need to prepare for the worst - not really worst, you just need to wait for 30-45 minutes until your turn to get into the bus.
2. Get more friends, in case you wake up late, use your friends as your reinforcements so that you can get into the line.
3. Not afraid on 'commentaries'? Then directly go to the front of the line and interrupt it. I think not a lot people doing so though.
4. Walk to your lecture location. Treat it as an exercise.
5. Complaint on BPA "What the heck are they arranging for the time table for this semester?"
... ...

P/S: Something interesting might come out sooner, still thinking a way to put it out. Look forward to it.

Classic words from a professional lecturer!

Today is another boring day. Because of that, I am able to have a view on the life of the people.

A word from a Ass. Pro. Doc (dog)?

Wow, a number of fantastic quotes that we can hear from this fella when I am mentioning the name. There are around 2 things that I need to quote from him and see what is your reaction...

1. Look at me, look at me. When I started teaching, you all are not even born yet.
(What do you mean by that, telling us that you are old, or experienced)?

The interesting part...
2. XXXXXXX, what do you think about 'masturXXXXXX'?
Is it fun? OK lah, right?
(wow... a classic word from a lecturer, especially who always quoted himself as a professional man, said something like this without thinking carefully! Yes he did said we are all mature, but still got some of them are not, and this topic is far more sensitive that it should be. A lot of examples can be used but why this?)

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Happy Friendship Day.

Just say Happy Friendship Day to all of my friends, and thanks for being a part in my life too, even we don't have any blood relationship with me, but still supports me whenever I am down, and never betray me. I am lucky to have such friends like you and now I am also going to say to you "Friendship Forever!"

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Miserable Day for me

That's a thing I want to say, and now here's the next thing. To the friends of DA, surely you have knew what happened to me today.

Sigh, a lot of things happened this week And the even worse, it seems that all bad things happened to me recently.

Firstly, the car I rented broke down and I and my friends were forced to pay an extra value of 50 something to the poor performance car. Luckily that nothing happened except that for the money.

Then, as mentioned at my previous post, my laptop's hard disk appears to be something wrong with it, and it did happened to be faulty - hard disk failure. More even worse, I lost all of my data and I need to present my work tomorrow. Still I consider myself lucky since I am able to remake a new one within a few hours, even it appears to be a lot of flaws.

Paid for the the new hard disk and a lot of things that need to be paid, aww... troubles... and just by yesterday (Thursday), my parents called me and when I have a call with someone which is related to some matters, the jerk caught me and wants to talk to me personally.

Let me cope out something that I still remembered and let you know about it. The words he mentioned are in italicized.

"Just be honest that what you think about this."
"Discourse is tougher than I thought and it seems that the terms that you give is far more complicated..."
"Where got?! My DA is more into practicability instead to theoretical!"

"You caused me and the friends nearby distracted from my lecture."

"I already knew about you in the first glance, and now I just want to confirm that to prove that I am right about this."

"DA is a easy course to understand... it is because you did not pay attention and you distracted me from teaching..."

"I am sorry if I am the one who caused YOU to be distracted. I thought you are professional as you mentioned, so it seems that my body language will not affect on you."

"I am pity on you if you are facing on these problems. But please pay attention on the class and don't try to distract me. I hope that I am not wasting my time."
.......

What you want me to say again to you, saying more to get to be more humiliated by him or I am going to quarrel with him? I rarely apologized and now I did that to the jerk... Seems that I am an useless person, am I? Don't know, but still at least I have 'contributed' something. Because of me - claimed by that jerk, he need to end the lecture early because I am distracting him and my friends. Whatever...

Well. It seems that he had started to declare the war which is bias against me. Clearly shown that I am having the disadvantage and how on the hell I am going to endure with this jerk for the rest of the 10 weeks (it should be 20 as this jerk also got insane tutorials + lectures) with this jerk?

Am I going to be able to endure with this jerk? Or I am going to start a revolution against him? What I am going to do with this situation?

Desperately I will going to need some help on this. I am now in the verge of collapse!