OneBigBone

Having living in Malaysia, one thing i enjoy most is the variety of food that our multiracial society offers and some even have the opinion that food plays a significant role in Malaysia’s culture and unity.

That is why there is always something to look forward to for every festive celebration.

With Hari Raya just round the corner, the various see-once-a-year-stalls starts to emerged during the Bazaar Ramadan.

And during this period, there is one particular dish that keeps me looking forward to - Ayam Percik.

I understand that you can get ayam percik at lots of places through out the year, but some how, only during the fasting time, the ayam tastes better than usual.

Though most of the time the chicken is not fully cooked, with only those few bites of cooked portion is enough to for one to look forward to next year’s ayam percik.

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I decided to bring my camera one day to Sri Serdang’s Bazaar Ramadan with the intention of capturing some portraiture of people in the bazaar.

And I took quite a number of shots, though there were some good shots but overall I’m not really impress of my work.

Perhaps you guys might have a different point of view.

Enjoy!

Happymah!~

i have been wondering lately.

Although i’m still at my early 20s, thoughts and plans of future do sometimes cross the fickle mind of what a person really wants in mind.

At this age, we should at least have thought of what you want and what you want to have 10 years down the road, or at least 5 years from now.

This has been occurring to me of late. So plans of “wanting” more responsibility starts to find it way around the details and figures.

And after a while, you start to tell yourself that it’s quite hard to live the life you want with the current life that one is going through.

Why you asked?

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jumpstart: The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.   - Ralph W. Sockman

I’ve been busy with work lately and it’s has practically taken a toll on me. So it has hit me hard with sickness, sorry for the no updates period.

Our world now has a heavy reliance on Information Technology, and because of that most of us are computer illiterate.

ENIAC. World first digital computer.

I’m not sure i should say that i’m fortunate enough on this, but i did Informasi Teknologi as one of my subjects for SPM. Me and my classmates were the first bunch of white mice for the education ministry on this subject.

Well, it indeed gave me a headstart in the IT education system after i entered my university, but thats all to it.

Being the BolehLand, our educationist seems still to be living in the caves with Parameswara hiding under a banana tree.

You see, the Bolehland is striving for vision 2020, and to achive this, Bolehland needs lots and lots of knowledge workers to help boost this vision of reaching a developed country by that year.

And our educationist, some how got the wind to introduce Informasi Teknologi as a subject.

I applauded for our educationist for recognizing the importance of IT.

Then i spit.

The IT that i took for 2 years in my secondary school days are in Bahasa Malaysia.

WTF.

Huge potong stim man~

I have no understanding of what those cave man are trying to achieve while the whole world of IT will be in the international language of english.

I sincerely have no ill feelings towards Bahasa Malaysia and i do respect that it’s the mother touge of the Malays.

Bolehland windows98

But this is just plain ignorance and making fun out of it.

And i’m bloody sure they hired who ever that translate doreamon into Bahasa Malaysia to translate all the English IT jargon into Bahasa Malaysia.

Mother Board = papan induk
keyboard = papan kekunci
mouse = tetikus
server = pelayan
client = pelayar
network = rangkaian
joy stick = kayu ria
light pen = pen cahaya
hard disk = cakera keras
Random Access Memory (RAM) = Memori Capaian Rawak (MCR)
software = perisian

Now, try to read the above again like how doreamon’s voice is, and how he would whisk out his gadgets from his bottomless pouch.

You will laugh.

Encik Bill Banyak Pintu

Luckily, those cave men never write to Encik Bill Banyak Pintu (Mr. Bill Gates) to change Windows98 to Tingkap98.

Imagine if that would to happened and try to understand this:

If we would to muat turun perisian lanun from the Internet, there is a possibility that the aplikasi has virus (read: ve-ru-es) or barang pengintai that can occupy your memori capaian rawak.

(if we would to download pirated softwares from the Internet, there is a possibility that the application has virus or spyware that can occupy your RAM)

Then we would have to press kawal-gilir-hapus whenever we encounter a tabir biru kematian to bangkit semula our tingkap98.

(Then we would have to press ctrl-alt-del whenever we encounter a blue screen of death to boot up our windows98)

Happymah!~

Jumpstart:

friend  : ei how long does it take to drive from png to kl?
me      : the same period that you need to drive from kl to pg
friend : not farny
me     : yup, i wasn’t joking

Yeap it’s been a while since i share my in sights of things happening around our ever changing and ever hard-to-understand habitat.

One being our political landscape that is going on a very guided random course, the other being the fuel price that seems like a healthy stock counter bouncing up and down on a up trend climb.

Then there is the Merdeka that doesn’t seem to have the spirit of Merdeka, thankfully guys from Petronas still produce excellent national advertisements which you can get hold of them on either NST or The Star’s website.

The Malaysia i once knew has changed. Perhaps because of a prime minister changed that produce this after effects that is filling the country’s atmosphere when we were so used to Tun’s style for 22 years.

Or maybe I never really knew the real Malaysia when i was small and young. I’m glad to read in the newspapers that the spirit of ching gay is still well in Penang during this “road shows”.

Anyway, it’s been a while since i had my camera, and none of the pictures i took actually found it’s way here. So i guess i present you with my first gallery - fireworks.

Fireworks is compiled from 4 days of fireworks photoshoot during the Malaysian International Fireworks Competition in Putrajaya.

As an amateur, who does not know his stuff, i think it’s a pretty good start.

Also i’m trying out this flash picture viewer which i’m testing out, besides your kind comment and critics on my pics, i would appreciate the same C&C spirit on the picture viewer itself.

Enjoy!

Happymah!~

A while back, satkuru did wrote some stuff on his encounter with a policeman who found his name to be quite “unexceptable”.

“kenapa tak diberi nama Johnny ke …?”

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“Bapa bagi ??? Bila kamu ini balik kampung nanti, pergi marah bapa. Tanya kenapa tak diberi nama macam Johnny …“

Anyway, few days back, my gf forwarded me something interesting.

It was a article on bbc news again - i seem to enjoy the findings and articles by bbc, they are quite entertaining.

The article was titled “NZ judge orders ‘odd’ name change“.

Apparently, there was this small little 9 year old girl, who managed to get an injunction in a court to overrule the given name to her by her parents - which she hated with her guts.

Her name?

Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii

Notice all the capital letters of each word?

Thats her FULL name.

Which sane parents will give their child such an idiotic name??!!

Come on! The parents got to be more than dead drunk to name their child as Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.

That name just bloody expose her to tons of teasing and embarrassment.

Just imagine the teasing she is getting.

She was so embarrassed that she refused to tell her friends her name and went simply by “K”.

Kesian betul la.

Worst if you could imagine that when she grows up and become a doctor DR. Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii.

Patients would just die of laughter instantly.

Apparently this is not the first case in NZ, there were previous names that was given by Mars-coming-parents to their earth child.

Some of the examples :

Yeah Detroit
Stallion
Twisty Poi
Keenan Got Lucy
Sex Fruit
Fat Boy
Cinderella Beauty Blossom
Fish and Chips (twins)

Sex fruits???? Fish and Chips????

It must be a crazy world down there at New ZeaLand and it seems that its a trend there to give their child bizarre names.

I’m just amazed what people can do.

Satkuru must be dam lucky his dad never name him “Nasi Lemak” or “Cicak Man Upside Down”.

Happymah!~