Budak Ipoh - In The Middle of Everything

My graduation day

2006-10-02T01:14:00.000+08:00

It has been one and half month past to celebrate my convocation (20th of August 2006). It is really a memorable day for me. Yet there is something special to talk to. Perhaps I will tell the story when we meet soon.

my fellowship since we were in matriculation

Thanks to Allah, my parents, family, lecturers, fellow friends and other third party who contributed something valueable to me during my 3 years in USM. I am so proud to proved to all of you that I am third quarter person now. The other quarter will become soon after I get what I want. Insya-Allah.

Lots of story to tell after I finished my final exam and before I have my convocation. I sat for the PTD exam, I have my vacation to Sabah, I worked at a small company which until present, I celebrate Kustem's convocation at Terengganu, I accident there too, my convocation at USM, I went to Sg. Petani for PAC and now still waiting for the result.

I do really miss to update this blog. To tell the world some of my little stories. It's so complicated to have a reason why I did not write to this blog even I am in front of my PC. Everyday glancing at it without any idea. Just like a person who lost in his world. Anyway, thanks for visiting me.

Monday Morning Blues

2006-06-26T00:10:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone. I apologize because of this ancient blog has become history in your mind. Anyway, I only have a month and 20+ more days to meet my convocation day (it is on 20th August) but still did not have any income to afford all the expenses on that memorial day. How pity I am.

I should have at least RM1000 for this becoming August. Most precious days were in that month. I am so desperated to get some bucks so I put up a DIY advertisement board on the gate in front of my house. Wishing that somebody will come to buy, repair or upgrade their computer with me. I hope there will come who wants to buy a brand new computer for their children which will get into university soon.

By the way, I hope my dream will come true. Not a bad dream that Matjan wrote in his blog during his graduation year.

TrojanHorse.Abrar

2006-02-08T21:38:00.000+08:00

Here is some information about Trojan Horse. The actual story of the Trojan Horse and it's concept in today's worm. The fact is it's ain't a virus but it's harmful same as the viruses.

- Based on the ancient Greek myth, the Trojan horse is a giant hollow wooden horse filled with Greek warriors as a gift to their opponent as a defeated icon during war.

- When the gift is accepted and taken into the opponent's city, the Greek warriors inside the horse came out and opened the gate of the city in the night to allow the rest of their army to enter.

- The Trojan horse worm works in similar way. This worm is brought to user's computer by a joke program or some software. When the user accept the program contained Trojan horse malicious code, it can triggered loss or even theft of data.

- However, based to the myth, the Greek warriors will never get trough the city until someone brought it inside the wall. After that, when the time is suitable for the warriors to do the sneaky actions, the entire city will be pillaged ruthlessly.

An illustration of the explicit Trojan Horse.

- The same situation happens to the computer's user. If they did not interacted to an attractive object during online or purchasing some software, they will never get infected by this kind of worm. In computer environment, the Trojan horse may contain spying function, backdoor function to allow the illegitimate breaker to steal the information of the victim and remote function to gain access from the victim via network.

- The Trojan horse worm could never be able to replicate itself or distributed to another computers like viruses. Its' only can spread trough user's invitation such as opening an email attachment or downloading a file from the internet.

- This Trojan horse are able to erase or overwrite data on a computer, corrupt a file, and spread other malware such as viruses and worms.

- To protect the computer against Trojan horse, the user must aware of every file that they get from the internet or mail attachment. Users have to make sure that every file they received is what they desired. Beside that, users can install anti-malicious software which can be downloaded for free.

Hello.

2006-01-23T11:14:00.000+08:00

Hello everyone. I know that lots of things changes and I missed all of them since I didn't activate myself in this blogsphere. Most of the thing that I'm doing for the last 3 months is playing an online game entitled Battlefield 2. I became addicted to the game because of the influences from my roomate and it's made me forget all the things around. I know it's not good for my social life, public relations, timetable and also my study. It's up to you to believe me or not.

Battlefield 2.

This game released few months ago and it's still the highest rate in Gamespot website. The things that made me so addictive to this game are their:

1. Ranking System
2. Ribbons, Badges and Medal.
3. Weapons and Kits.

Three types of armies:

1. USMC - United States Marine Corps

2. MEC - Middle East Coalition

3. PLA - People Liberation Army

Every army have seven specialties that were:
1. Sniper
2. Anti Tank
3. Engineer
4. Medic
5. Assault
6. Spec-Ops
7. Support

My Current Rank:

Gunnery Sergeant

Besides having fun with killing, revealing, supporting, healing and capturing the flags, players are able to view thier statistical records in the Battlefield HQ and from a website. Just now my rank is Gunnery Sergeant heading to First Sergeant. By the way, you can look at my game statistic in here.

Condolences to Paklah and his family

2005-10-20T14:06:00.000+08:00

I felt shocked this morning after hearing it.
Special condolence to Paklah and his family for the late Allahyarhamah Datin Seri Endon Mahmood.

Al-Fatihah..

The results from online interviews

2005-10-15T10:55:00.000+08:00

Dear all,

I've been very busy for the last one month. Some of the entries I posted before actually are my homeworks (assignments) belong to the school. Mat Jan also knows the "true story behind the scene". Another reason why I didn't update my own space is because my camera is with someone who needs it more than I do. A quote said that no music no life, for me no camera makes me no life too and it does happen to me right now.

A few weeks ago, I interviewed some people who dedicate their life to the blogosphere. Again, this work is also a case study for my professional issues course. Sorry Mat Jan because you are excluded from here. I found it's difficult to see you around even we're housemate. By the way, I shall present what I got in here.

1. How did you start blogging?
Kenny Sia :
A lot of my friends are already doing it and I felt that it was a good hobby to keep in touch with friends as well as keeping a record of things I have done. It's always interesting to read back on past entries and see how I've personally evolve over time.

Bunda Shafiya :
Bunda Start blogging sejak july 2004, sebenarnya Bunda mulai kenal blog sejak tahun 2002 sewaktu Bunda tinggal di Australia..nah saat di Australia itu, karena Bunda tak kerja...maka..banyak spare time untuk internet dan menemukan blognya Sera (http://honeybiru.org/) yang menceritakan tentang major depression yang dia rasakan setelah ibunya meninggal. Dari blog Sera, jumpa pulak Blog Rudy (Bluehikari) dan blog nya Dr MAX (kakak daripada Mat Jan). Interested membaca blog2 mereka itu lah yang membuat Bunda ingin membuat blog. Namun, keinginan membuat blog ini baru di wujudkan pada tahun 2004, ketika Bunda dah balik Indonesia. Tokrimau (http://tokrimau.tk/) tunjuk ajar Bunda cara bikin blog..di http://blogger.com/ melalui YM..:)hihihihi..

Tok Rimau:
1998, I started collecting and making political jokes on the web. The tool then was mailinglist, a many-to-many communication tool. Later, I decided to move to my own space. I didn't want to share with space with other gere of political discussions. I maintained my own web forum concentrating on political jokes. Although, I was the administrator, the web forum was still many-to-many platform. People keep on talking about other things. I couldn't control the topic. 2001, I found Blogger.com. It was the tool I was looking for. One-to-many communication tool with interactive feature. More power to the writer. Although, I am not amused with political jokes anymore, I still blog. Nowadays, I am into social commentary and digital photography.

Pakdi:
: trying for fun!

2. Have you heard of blogging before you started blogging?
Kenny Sia :
Yes. the first blog I read was around 5 years back by a girl called Cindy Khoo (thinkcink.net) back when it was still called an online journal and ppl respond on guestbooks instead of leaving comments.

Bunda Shafiya : Sudah dijawab di No.1

Tok Rimau: No. Before Blogger.com, I "blogged" on web forum and mailing list.

Pakdi:
: Yes.

3. Do you worry about offending people when you write about controversial subject?
Kenny Sia :
If its a topic I feel strongly about, I'd voice it out regardless. eg. I do not agree with the War on Iraq and whilst I know a lot of people would disagree with me, I'd still voice it out. Readers are so sensitive nowadays its impossible to make everyone happy.

Bunda Shafiya : Nope..:D Blog aku..suka suka hati aku lah...:p

Tok Rimau: Yes. I'll try my best not to accuse people of things that they don't do. I'll try my best not to direspect others. Unless they really deserve it. I try my best to focus on issue, not personalities.

Pakdi: : Sometimes. But in "non-controversial" subjects, it seems people feel ofended too. Anyway, even Quran is not accepted by all human. So do i.

4. Do you follow up on the comments readers leave behind?
Kenny Sia :
I read every single comments and e-mails left by my readers but I do not always follow up on them. Obviously time is an issue. Like every other people, I feel happy when a positive comment was posted and angry when people misinterpreted my intentions and lashed out against me. After a while I just laugh off juvenile commenters who called me names.

Bunda Shafiya : Yes, sometimes but not always..:)

Tok Rimau: Of course. The comments are like a meter that tells me how good my writing is.

Pakdi: : I want to, but so far, I can't follow up every comments. I read all of them.

5. How do you find items to blog about each day?
Kenny Sia :
The topics are all around us everyday. We probably just don't think about them or observe them as much. Inspiration could come from newspapers, from objects around you, from a comment someone said, from other blogs or websites. Its everywhere. There's never short of topic to write - just short of time.

Bunda Shafiya : About my daughter, my family, my job, current issues in my country.. and so on..

Tok Rimau: I got ideas from news, everyday events and sometimes from interaction with my kids. What I value most are views from different perspectives of common items.

Pakdi: : Reading books, magazines, news, other websites, weblog, your daily experience.

6. What do you do for a living?
Kenny Sia :
I'm an IT Manager. I source, evaluate, recommend, purchase and implement IT solutions for my company for a living.

Bunda Shafiya : I am a doctor

Tok Rimau: Teaching people to communicate.

Pakdi: : Blogging, Trading

7. Can journalistic code of ethics be applied to bloggers?
Kenny Sia :
Its up to the individual bloggers whether or not they choose to comply to the code of ethics. Nobody is going to be there to enforce it. If a journalist write something against the code of ethics, he/she could befired from his/her job but who is going to fire a blogger?

Still, I think every blogger should be responsible for the things theywrite. Authorities ARE watching on blogs and they could act on it easily if one were to tick them off.

Bunda Shafiya : Yes.. I think so... Blog..juga karya cipta kan? :-)

Tok Rimau: Yes. Bloggers get published. Bloggers should be responsible of what they write.

Pakdi: : I dont think so. Some bloggers write for themselves. Unfortunately, they become popular. But a journalist write something to be read by others.

8. What benefits have you gotten from blogging?
Kenny Sia :
Obviously my social life has expanded. A lot of people who read my blogs and sent me e-mails subsequently end up on my phonebook and became my personal friends. Blogging became a way to fast forward towards afriendship.

Apart from that, I feel I had become more observant and able to think more critically.

Bunda Shafiya : Benefits...? Banyak banget :) mulai dari bertambahnya kawan, baik dalam maupun luar negara..:) mendapatkan banyak informasi..baik dalam urusan domestics..such as recipes, child education and so on dan juga information lainnya.

Tok Rimau: I got lot of friends. I realize I can write and there are people reading my writings.

Pakdi: : Therapy, new friends, new enemies, sharing experience, learning new knowledge and 'surat ugutan' too :)

9. In your opinion, could university students gain benefit from blogging?
Kenny Sia :
Of course! I've seen students who reflect on their schoolwork on theirblogs. Their peers, teachers and even professionals would comment on what they have written. They gain perspectives from a wide range of sources and that's very empowering.

That's just one example. It is up to University students and educators to come up with an innovative use for blogging to facilitate teaching and learning.

Bunda Shafiya : Yeap..I think so..

Tok Rimau: If more people blog academic things, students can benefit by reading those entries. Nevertheless, it's a good platform to practice writing.

Pakdi: : Yes. But univ. admin wont like entries that critize them. I will encourage them because writing is a part of selling skills. I think unemployment among graduates could be reduce a little bit if some of them know how to sell themselves through writing.

10. What measures should be taken so that blogs wouldn't be misused?
Kenny Sia :
No possible measures could be put in place to prevent the abuse of blogs. However, the blogosphere itself has a self-sustainable ecosystem. If a blog is good, it will attract audience and links and survive for a long time. If a blog is bad, people wouldn't read it, link it and the really bad ones would get into trouble with the authorities and eventually die off of natural death.

Bunda Shafiya : Hm...apa ya? Misused dalam hal apa? Coba tolong jelaskan pada Bunda tentang ini..:p

Tok Rimau: Just remind Bloggers that they are responsible of what they write. Highlight the applicable laws or cyberlaws related to it.

Pakdi: : Be responsible with what u write. dont create surat layang type of blog :)

Thanks to Kenny Sia, Bunda Shafiya, Tok Rimau and Pakdi. We'd appreciate what we gave we've got back. The time is not over yet Tok, the lecturer delayed the due date to 19th Oct.

Furthermore, I also sent the same question to Mr. Lim Kit Siang but I didn't get any respons from him until now. Maybe he's being busy lately struggling on the latest issues at Parliament. Anyway, thanks to all respondents and next time shall be my victim again. hehe.

ICT Fair at Dewan Millenium Kepala Batas on 10th Sept 2005

2005-09-14T18:45:00.000+08:00

Observation

From what did I saw at ICT Fair, it wasn't as interesting as I've expected. I've an experience in participating in ICT Fair like this before. It does happen in Ipoh, Perak during my industrial training and I've the opportunity to be an exhibitor of a booth.

But the special in Kepala Batas is they also arrange a Career Fair which I think it's an opportunities for graduated students to find their relevant job. They also conducted walk-in interview sessions but it didn't for university students.

I visited all booths on ICT Fair but only AMD booth on career fair because I was late on that last day. Even though, I got lots of information about jobs opportunities from AMD's exhibitor, Mr. C.C.Leong.

Opinions

In my opinion, Dewan Millenium Kepala Batas is not a suitable place to promote all such things. It isn't a strategic place for a focus group to come. Most of the people come there because they assumed it's like a PC Fair where people can bargain PC's hardware.

I appreciate the entire contest that they've done. It's not because I won the 8th prize but it's because they did it creatively. My friends and I have to go to all booths and find out their information regarding their products and services. It's same like a treasure hunt!

Comments

This field trip is relevant for final year students to go. We can gain information about our future jobs. There are so many benefits when you joining all the contests and get to know the technologies on their products and services.

The last thing is, this field trip does not fulfill my expectation because undergraduate student are not allowed to get into the interview session. For me, we missed the best part on the Career Fair because it can be a good experience for us in the future.

Merdeka Special

2005-08-31T03:51:00.000+08:00

Happy Independence Day Malaysians! Let's pray for our beloved country, nation and religion will be harmony and wealthy. Amin..

I'm still in here and thanks to all who sent me sms, wrote at my tagboard and gave me testimonials during my belated birthday on last 26th.

I'm staying in Penang right now and returning back to my student routine after 5 months Industrial Training. It's worth of time because I didn't got any homework to do right now. This's the "rest semester" for computer science student. I took 6 units for 2 subjects. Both didn't have any final exam. So I don't have to remember what is on books.

It's much to write in here. I've migrated to a new rent house. This time it's not a house but it's a room. Enough for two people. Alhamdulillah it's more than enough for me to live in peace. Haha! For your own information, I stayed with Mat Jan. He actually have a peculiar habit which I should not write it in here. hehe.

Have anyone of you heard of Battlefield 2? It's a pc game that I addicted right now. I'll write about that in the next entry.

The August Special

2005-08-13T20:24:00.000+08:00

This is my birthday's month.
This is a 'very special' month for me.
This is where Malaysian prepare for one month celebration - The Independence Day.
This is a Malaysian shopping month.
This month is also have Indonesian Independence Day.
but they throw smokes to us..

What a relief

2005-08-07T02:16:00.000+08:00

Alhamdulillah, I just finished my Industrial Training with flying colours last Friday. For me, the most important thing is experiencing the workforce. Especially when working for 5 months without any profits for my own. (I'll write it later if they give me any)

I have finished 6 projects in that 5 months including writing a user manual for a system. The last project was a system interface for Fireman Department. It isn't easy anyway without any guidance in using Visual Basic and SQL programming.

I felt pretty lucky because of the organization's flexibilities. I ain't took any advantage on that but I'm able to do weird things such as: Have a nap in the afternoon and come late to office. Suppose that I arrived at 9 o'clock but the truth is nearly 10. I went to work by cycling (like Englishmen eh!). I think that I'm the only comp sc.'s student doing such things. I'll discover this later.

Anyway, have a nice weekend everybody!

Misteri Rumah Usang BERPUAKA Di Tepi TASIK HIJAU

2005-08-02T10:53:00.000+08:00

This entry entitled in Malay but the content is still in English.

I lived in a rented house for the last two years. It's a double storey bungalow but I warn you not to imagine that it's a nice house. Last Saturday I've decided to migrate from the hounted hut to the new one. I'll explain later why it's hounted. So, I'd like to write a true horror story since I was staying in that house:

The Hounted House
It's not a very nice house to see from the outside but the inside is also a mess place to live. If you are coming to that house, you are the most not welcome person there. When you give "Assalamualaikum" to them (especially when they are watching TV or they are sitting at the hall) only 1-2 of them will answer it very very very slow and if you see their face, I'm very sure that you will rise your fu*king fingers at their back.

Be carefull when you close the main door. One or most of them MUST felt uncomfortable after hearing the sound of closing door. A kind of sensitive person they are but don't worry, if they are closing any doors, they won't show their respect to you.

My room is on the upstair so I've to use the wood stepladder everyday. You may lack of respect if you walked hard on it but it's not a guilty if they kick your room's door when you made a normal noise in your own room. Ah! I almost forget, do not smoke in the house but their friends can do it all the time.

So this's maybe part 1 of the true horror story. We'll continue next time.

These 2 weeks

2005-07-28T00:34:00.000+08:00

I've another 2 weeks to go. The damned thing is my body is set to be a lazy trainee. So lots of shits happen since I became lazy on week 15. I came late to the office everyday and for now, I skive off a few days everyweek. yeha! Unfortunately my boss knew that. So the shits spread all over the company. hahaha!

Many of my friends want to skip the last week. ei. I'm pretty jelous bout that coz I'm not able to do the same. I've already take one week off just to finish my proposal entitle VoIP - The Better Design and Implementation. So then, I'd be the damned laziest robot in the company after this. Thank you.

My Y!Messenger

2005-07-17T03:23:00.000+08:00

Have you ever had this situation before?

Am I hired?

2005-06-24T08:08:00.000+08:00

I said well done for my self during this practical session. If anyone confused about my study, I still have another 2 more semesters to go. Now, I'm still in Ipoh doing Industrial Training and there are 5 weeks left. I'm wondering why I can do the jobs very good indeed. Alhamdulillah.

Actually, my CGPA is not doing so well. (but it's still accepted!) Maybe this's a battle between me and the reality. Not between me and my books or, on exam papers. If you like The Apprentice Season 3 reality TV show, you should know that you doesn't have to be a book smart only before you do all these works, but you still have to practice your knowledge. The appearance and experiences are your bonus. I'm not sure if you get what i've just said.

For me, I'm also a book smart but it doesn't mean that I'm studying the books so damn hard! It's only a title given to people who study in college or university. The most important is, you get what you read! To become a successful person in workforce, you need to know other people experiences. It doesn't matter if the others are just street smarts, but you should never ever look down to them. Be humble. They'll love who we are and if you are lucky, you will never believe what you've got from them. Trust me! I'm betting on this.

So, am I hired? My boss's always ask me about my future. Er.. I mean, after this industrial training, did I have to go back to Penang and forget about the past? They didn't ask me to stay with them, but I'm thinking that they need my help to be a part of them for their next project! One of them has already told me about the salary if I work with them. It is about a Koperasi Sarawak management system. We need to develop a system for their financial, membership, and all around them. I didn't get the true story from my boss. They are now proposing for the project to be.

Whats the matter here, I'm able to help them for their next project but my plan is like this: For the next semester, I've to work on two papers without any final exams! The first is I've to write a technical paper which is Professional Issue and the second is I'll start my final project (this is a 2 semesters' course). I'm thinking that my final project will be the company project! Am I right to do that? There are still have some lectures and presentations, but I think I could just manage that easily. The question is, did my propose here will be accepted? Anyone who cares and experienced of this, please help me to find out more. Thanks a lot!

Warming up session

2005-06-22T21:37:00.000+08:00

I'm a Pundit Blogger!

My blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.
Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few.

What kind of blogger are you?

Pundit? Instead of Pundit, may I suggest "Pundek"? heh.. just a lil joke :)

2 Weeks News Update

2005-06-12T14:37:00.000+08:00

As usual, i didn't have much time, mood and ideas to share with all of you. well then, i'd like to slip some notes here since i do nothing to this hororrable blog. heh.

30th May - 3rd June:
I spent my time in Perak ICT week as an exhibitor for Kaypi Technologies. Promoting IBM notebook and a brand new notebook - FTECH (which i suggest you don't buy it)

on the 2nd June, i have a lecturer visit. waiting for Dr. Dhanesh to come and having a discussion regarding to my works made me felt very tired. after that, i headed to the exhibition place instantly!

4th June:
I went to Sungkai to attend a wedding ceremony. Beside that, I spent a few minutes drove around Trolak Country Resort - my ex-matriculation center.

5th June:
As usual, I went to KL to visit my grandma and uncle and aunty's family. Thanx to Allah, all of them are in good condition. grandma complained that she cannot stand too much nowadays.

6th June:
Absent one day practical for having much more fun in Langat. My family and I went to Pangsun for a hiking! We hiked Gunung Nuang but we only got half of the mountain without any equipment. Some of us didn't wore shoes and as i've expected, they got leeches on their feet. We went back to Ipoh around 6pm.

7th - 10th June:
A boring working life starts back. I've no choice since I'm still in practical now.

11th - 12th June:
Met one of my bestfriends
Be an assistance to my father as a cameraman for a wedding ceremony.
Update this blog

Review of Perak ICT Week Vanue

2005-05-29T23:59:00.000+08:00

I spend my evening here. The Perak Techno Center. This's the tallest building near my house. Very very near! You can find this building easily because it's located near Exit Jelapang highway. Come and see the Perak ICT Week Exhibition starting from 30th of May till 3rd of June. See ya there!

(The Perak Techno Center building)

(The Entrance)

(Empty booth)

(Booth in decoration)

(Sight from 11th floor of this building)

P/s: Find me @ KAYPI Technologies booth!

A walk to remember

2005-05-27T22:26:00.000+08:00

I wonder how my friends and I went to Lumut last nite. It was a walk to remember. Of course it's a wonderful trip because all of us were sponsored by one of my friend. Thanks to him very much!

Acually, there're lots of things happen on the way there. We're 3 men and 2 women in the car. We head off from company around 5 o'clock and took the girls along the way. At first, we clogged at Kinta City but unluckily there was a terrible jamned and we couldn't found a parking lot. Hell the J-Card Day!

Next, we went to Ipoh Parade - just hanging around while looking at the showtime which didn't contribute any to our "time planning". So we decided to go to Lumut to have sea-food dinner. We tought that we could make it fast but..

We made many mistakes along the way. Err.. well, actually it was my mistake that I turn them to the wrong route. I can't remember the right way to Bistro Beach. I tought the place was in Seri Majung but the true is near Teluk Batik. Ei! we have dinner at 10.30pm because we lost the way all the time!

We reached Ipoh around 1 a.m and I was late to the workplace again...

Picture? don't ask me. Hell I didn't remember to bring the cam!

Midnite special?

2005-05-19T07:38:00.000+08:00

I watched Star Wars 3 last nite! Yey! Even I still have jobs to do today but it's ok. *grin

I suggest all of you enjoy it. Lucas done veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery well in this episode. Anyway, should I compare what was Senator Padme Amidala said is same as our parliament?

"This is how democracy ended - by the big applouses."

My Working Week

2005-05-14T21:38:00.000+08:00

I felt pretty uncomfortable this week. My brain tired of working. It seems like working sucks for me. I may done very well in every tasks but I did not enjoy whatever i do since last Monday. Maybe it's b'coz of another 2 trainees who just finished their training and left me alone in the dark side. Heh! if my boss know about this, he may not give me tips anymore. :p

Every weekend I've to do the same thing - making a weekly report. I don't know what to write for this week. The same thing happen to this blog. I think most of my days in office are filled with sleeping, playing games, watching anime, watching Astro and walk around aimlessly. My supervisor and the big boss are just having a vacation to Sarawak for 3 days and they left me with some jobs to do - Copy and paste all the tables from 4 databases.

I did it on Monday and Tuesday. On Wednesday, I gathered all the tables and analyzing it. What a boring task I mumbled. While the other two days, I realized that there was no work at all! I decided to go home early but I changed my mind and slept at the office. That's it! That's my report for this week!

Karamat

2005-05-12T19:57:00.000+08:00

Allah's Blessings And Signs For His Aid To Mujahideen

Most of us already know about Karamat or in Malay we called it Keramat.
Much has been written in Arabic about "Karamat" (Allah's blessings and signs for his aid to Mujahideen) in Fallujah, Ramadi, Al-Qaim and other Iraqi battlefields including mirages that blind the eyes of the aggressors, sand storms that disable their vehicles, sharp rises in temperature that hinder their offensives and other like incidents.

One of the more interesting is the "the giant Iraqi spider" that bit American soldiers during the Battle of Fallujah. It is said that this kind of spiders were unknown in Iraq before. The giant spider does not just bite its victim but deposits a deadly poison in the wound that progressively eats human flesh over a period of time.

The Giant Spider

The Bite on day 3

The Sting on day 5

The Damage : Day 9

The total destruction on day 10

source: Jihad Unspun

Mothers' Day

2005-05-08T09:26:00.000+08:00

Today's mother's day isn't it?

Happy mom's day
Everyday is your day actually
I shall love you till no end
As long as your soul in your body

I'm here and will be here beside you
And I'll never forget whatever you said
As long as it's good for you or me
I'll pray for you and for your love one till I cannot breath
And we'll meet in the truly Kingdom of Heaven
Amin..

S.H.I.T

2005-05-05T21:33:00.000+08:00

I don't know what else can I say. Nevertheless, all Malaysians should know about it unless you are living in "world's heaven". I said S.H.I.T again!

SubHanallah walhamdulillah walaIla haillallah wallahuakbar, walahaulawalakuwaTa illabillahi aliyyilazim

Life, My Version

2005-05-03T18:09:00.000+08:00

I got an opportunity to see Life Sdn. Bhd. 3 performance last night at Taman Budaya Ipoh. Starring by Andrew Tan, Ari Ratos, Ben Tan, Christina Orow, Fang Chyi, Gavin Yap, Mary George, Mohd Sobri Anuar, Nell Ng, Patrick Teoh, Reza Zainal Abidin, Samantha Schubert and Sue Lankester. I would like to meet them after the show but unfortunately I did not have any chances to do that due to time constrain and they were just disappeared.

I bought two tickets in the evening and spend a few minutes talking with two staffs at the entrance. Both of them ask me to invite all of my friends in Ipoh. I did so, but not much that I can help.

The first and the last time I stepped at Taman Budaya Ipoh was in 1998. I was performing in Orchestra Nusantara and playing Kompang. It's just a memorable experience when I was young and successful. There are also Caklempung, Gamelan, Gendang, Angklung and a Keyboard.

Life Sdn. Bhd. 3 shows was not bad. They did not use so many things to performed. It is enough one chair for each. I enjoyed their show. Listening to their life story make me remind some of my own old story.

Sanitary napkin:

It was not me but my friends. Absolutely they are girls. This tragedy happens when I was twelve years old. I sat in the classroom and did not understand anything about girl. I am likely a nerd person on that time. It was Pendidikan Islam class. Suddenly, there was a noise from the girls. I don't know what happen to them but the teacher on that time is Ustazah. She scolded the girls to go to the staffroom and take something that I don't have any idea what it is. I'm totally blunt what Ustazah had said to the class after the incident. She told us (especially to the girls) "When the 'time' is coming, you should prepare the 'sanitary napkin' before 'it' come out" I kept wondering what is the 'time', 'sanitary napkin' and 'it come out'. Lastly, a little explanation from my friends make me clear about this and after that, I am very happy because I was born to be a boy!

Anak Keling:

It was very funny to hear the story from 'Anak Keling'. He may or may not telling the truth but the story that he brought is more or less than I had. I have two cousins, which is at the same age as I am. Both of them are a boy and a girl but unfortunately, they came from the same boat.

Let me start with the girl. She's one year older than I am. When I was a little kid, her mother scolded me every time we met. She did that not in front of my parents but only when nobody beside me. Sometimes I felt very angry to her and I did not enjoy myself at grandma house if she was there. She thought that I would not remember what she has done to me. I'm sorry, I still remember the moment when she came to me and mad at me without I am doing anything wrong to her, to her son or even to anyone that related to her! I think she might hate me because I'm tanned. Not like her son or daughter, they are pretty fair enough. So back to her daughter now, she sat for the exam papers (UPSR, PMR, SPM) one year before me. Therefore, my mom starts mumbling at me whenever she passed the entire exam with flying colours. I also got good results in the exams. 4As in UPSR, 8As 1D in PMR and 1A in SPM is well enough for me. So what was going on here? Am I better than she is? Frankly said, yes it is. I can further my study in matriculation with that result while she is in diploma studying Architecture and now she is doing her first year degree while I'm in the third year. I think this is not going to make her mother happy with my achievement and I hope that I will graduate next year.

Next is my male cousin. He and his siblings are all white like Englishmen. When we gathered on Aidilfitri, I saw my grandparents take care of them like prince and princess. I hate that. It is look like I was not in the house but the truth is I always want them to know my present. Although now I can see what happen to my cousin is he now study in a private college near Gombak. Hopefully both of them will success in their life.

This week - Manual Book

2005-04-28T22:53:00.000+08:00

I spend all of the week in developing a manual book. That is a manual book for Coal Dust Dispersion Modelling Software. My supervisor made the application while I just writing documentation. Hahaha! Pretty easy isn't it? But I have to make sure that my job is done very well. Some people (my boss actually) told me to take it for granted. I'm not that kind of person because I should be very precise indeed.

I've been working more than one month without any payment. I'm not sad because of that. This is just the way to help "our people" in business become more successful. Perhaps, I should consider that I'm doing charity jobs as long as I'm able to do that.

New Layout on Maulidur Rasul

2005-04-21T18:15:00.000+08:00

I spent all of my day to create and provide a new product called layout. This time, I combined a few of my blogs which you can see it in the iFrame. This's more like SultanMuzaffar but I decided not to tooooooo much like him. hehe :p

Happy Maulidur Rasul - The Prophet Muhammad S.A.W. May His spirit always be with us. InsyaAllah.

Today, my grandmother visits my family in Ipoh. She came from KL to see his nephew in ward which is in comma yesterday and now, he seems like to be better than before. My mom said, the first word from him when he open his eyes is "ada rokok tak?" and if I was there, maybe he's gone forever. Mengong tul! He was in comma because of an accident. Anyway, I wonder how his wife can survive with a husband like that. May she always get rahmat and pathway from Allah.

The other things happen today is my parents' friend's mom has gone forever to meet Allah. May Allah bless upon all of them. Amin..

Birthday Blog

2005-04-15T06:52:00.000+08:00

Time won't stop ticking and it's been a year for me to keep blogging. Happy birthday my blog! May your dream come true. (What the hell are you dreaming blog?!)

Well, let me keep simple. Meredah Hujan was the first name of my blog. On that day, there was 3 writers writing in the same premise (which I mean blog). The name of Meredah Hujan came from someone who gave me inspiration and ability to get out from sadness and paintfull life. Everytime I met her, it was rain all over the time and I felt comfortable to go anywhere at that time. I love rainy day because it may help me to reduce stressful of life.

I changed my blog's name to abrar268 several months ago. It's the most selfish thing that I ever done to all my blogging friends. It was a radical change. I'm not blaming someone here but it's because someone's feeling towards the Meredah Hujan name. Maybe I should register that name for my own to avoid any confliction. I'm sorry for this pal but I'm still who I'm before. It doesn't matter what kind of name that I use for my blog and the writer is still me. I hope this is not a big problem to all of you.

Last but not least, I changed my mind and rename my blog to budakipoh. Suppose that this's my last decision forever about naming. This time I walk alone in changing and manage the whole things. Everything should be done clearly right now or else, I'm not who I am.

Walk again and My Company (part 1)

2005-04-10T21:22:00.000+08:00

I've gone to KL last Saturday. Met my friend there, walked around the city and searched for a reference book - PHP 5/MySQL Programming For The Absolute Beginner. My parents did not allowed me to stay there for one night so I've to go back to Ipoh instantly. What a boring rule. They don't want me to make my grandma's house looks like hotel for me. Well, I always go back home after 11PM. So, it's not suitable for me to do the same habit in front my grandparent (even they told me that they'll never mind it)

I got sms from my supervisor. Told me to come early tomorrow morning (before 10AM) because I've to drive him to Manjung. Dunno for what purpose but I'll know it tomorrow. So I can cycling happily tomorrow. Hahahaha!

Ei! Let me tell all of you on how my workplace looks like. Basically, the company will open around 9a.m. but the truth is - I just start ironing my clothes. Then, I'll start cycling around 9.30 and reach the company around 15-20 minutes depending on my speed. Is that fun? Didn't all of you felt jelousy? =p

I switch on the pc and start to do my work. Slowly. One of the staffs told me, why must you be in hurry? Take your time and understand everything. Else, I'll die to explain because I did not learned from what I've done. From here, I learn something that's not written in text books. DO NOT COPY-PASTE. They saw it and they can tell you whatever you try to cheat them. That's sux and I lost my credibility for a while but now, I'm in good condition. nyeH!

Suddently, when I was giving full commitment to my work, other members will ask me to go out and having breakfast. What da hell? I'm the happiest person there because I'm not working under pressure! They will never pressure or even scold unless you did not finish your work in time which is I think, it will never happen to me. For me, working with less pressure will make you satisfied on what you've done. Anyway, I'd like to stop here for a while. See ya in the next entry. I'll tell you what's there and how's their life in the software house - Cryptonics Research Sdn. Bhd.

Inhouse Training

2005-04-03T09:42:00.000+08:00

Yeah. It's true that I'm in practical now. I use to learn and use Visual Basic. It's never ever been tought in my course before. This is the 3rd week I'm in the company and it's challenging! I love it but I felt discomfortable because I'm depending to them to teach me using VB. I did not have any references or guidelines, I just look at some examples from thier previous projects and from thier mouth. Ei! It's so hard isn't it??

Anyway, I miss to update this old epic. May tomorrow or next day I've much more ideas to share with all of you. Thanks for still visiting me in here.

My Ipoh

2005-03-23T17:27:00.000+08:00

I'm sorry coz I did not update my epic for a long time. I'm not pretty happy here in Ipoh since I just come back from Penang. As I drove along the way to send my mom to her school in Ulu Kinta, I saw there was no big big trees beside the main road anymore! Its all have been cut off by the people to wide the road. Now I can see them do it everywhere around Ipoh and I don't know that should I make a protest or just don't care about them?

Most of the things that I hate when living in this country are:
1. People who did not care to their environment and
2. People who make our Malay Language look like suck.

Those things I often see everywhere including television (Saluran Infotainment Anda). People logged illegally everyday, non-Malay (do you know what I mean?) did not respect Bahasa as our knowledge language, and much more!

People tend to be very selfish since they are on the top of the world. They seems like that they're not thinking for a long time effect. Well, I don't want to talk more on it. I just want to see what happen then. If any disaster happen, then it's your fault and you have to pay for it.

P/s: Now, I'm going to my workplace by a bicycle. My father bought me a brand new mountain bike yesterday. I don't know if I'm getting dark after this or else I'm going to be a tough man. See ya again buddies on my next entries.

1st Paper Started

2005-03-08T16:33:00.000+08:00

Few days ago, I'm not home. I'm homeless! heh. Poor my roomate coz I just let him alone in the dark. Well, I need to sacrifice myself during these last few hours in here (in USm) bullying myself to read all the notes inside Desasiswa. I've no other choices, if there were any medicine or ma'jun salasah for me to remember and understand anything easily, I would like to buy it!

Last saturday, I met one of my chubby friend - Noni. First place we entered is Gurney Plaza, then we took a bus to USm (Noni said that she never stepped into USm before), dine at Pizza nearby (this's the third time I eat pizza for this month :p) , walked around USm and sent them back to Jetty. The last time we met together was two years ago in KL. At that time, I met her with my ex-. They sat together in front of me at Central Market's KFC and to be honest, Noni's much better than my ex-. Well, the past is the past, she's out of my sight.

Anyway, I'd like to list my exam papers here:

Today - System Analysis and Design
11th - Database Management
13th - Networking and Distributed Processing
17th - Compiler and Operating System
18th - Management Information System

As usual, you can click here for my latest pics.

The new bad schedule

2005-03-01T03:42:00.000+08:00

Let's go thru another happy go lucky life and forget the previous entry forever. I've decided a new schedule to follow since there will be final exam one week starting from today. My first paper will be held on 8th March and the last is on 18th of it. Now people can call me a vampire. I managed to study at night and sleep after Maghrib till 10PM. After that, I can stand up automatically, have a bath and do some prays before reading the notes.

I'm pretty happy last weekend because I went to an underground concert near Bukit Jambul. It's just a coincidence and I didn't plan to go there to see a concert! The concert is sponsored by PanGlobal Rock with their own portable stage. There are many Malaysian underground bands do their performance like Pretty Ugly and Tempered Mental. They do well but I still cannot understand why I kept yawning when Pretty Ugly performed.

Do you see the crowd of people in this picture? Actually, I hate crowded place but why was I there? For your information, I did not in the middle of the people. I was standing in front of the performance, very near and their sounds are very loud. I tought my hearing ability has lost for almost 40-50% on that night.

People often said that when you go to that kind of place, there will be lots lots of maksiat done by the people in there. Yes it is, but it's not my responsibility to tell who, what, and how they are doing 'it' since I didn't hear any reports told me there were condoms everywhere after the concert. I'm not there for that kind of purpose!

Further more, I'd like to say to all my friends who will sit for final exams GOOD LUCK and DO YOUR BEST. Do pray for me too. Thanks pal!

The Apprentice

2005-02-25T18:43:00.000+08:00

I'm sorry coz didn't writing for almost 21 days. It sounds ridiculous but I've to get through this. I got so much experiences since I'm working with other people. Yeah, people do a lot of business and personally, I like to choose people who have charisma and talented in doing lots lots of projects underpressure!

As we've seen on TV - The Apprentice: I would like to take the motto that's used by Trump. It's nothing personal, it's just business. I'm working with so many people for the last 21 days. The person who are very kind, the person of nothing and the person without anything but want so many things from me are around me. Beside that, the person who can manage his/her stress when collaborating with me will be appreciately welcome.

I've a motto. I'll never give up in making friends and I'm not a kind of person who counting with the others but since I knew someone, who did very well to me but one day from the last 21 days, he had raised my eyebrows by telling me the truth of himself. Yeah, sure I did trust him so much before but when he keep remind me to THINK of himself, himself, himself ONLY, I lost my good personal view of him. Thanks God, I've change and I promise to myself to not too close to that kind of person. I've learnt something!

That's the story of someone that I trusted. Now, I'd like to take a deep look towards the project that I've done with my... erm not so friendly friends (not the men). Every projects must have leadership and I'm not going to blame the leader. Absolutely not but let me tell you leader.. You are nothing and keep everything not in your mind! I'm not angry with you, but since someone beside you that does not have good communication skill, does not have good manners, does not giving good collaboration to my friends and I and keep blaming to each other like hated makcik tua. I felt very dissapointed to work with.. And did you know what's the suitable word for you? FU*K YOU BIT*H!

Starting from now on, only selected people in my mind will be like this: IT'S NOT JUST BUSINESS . IT'S ALSO YOUR PERSONAL. Thank you.

Soccer Match

2005-02-04T11:49:00.000+08:00

I dont wanna tell but as all of you can see below we lost the match. yeah. same like Arsenal, the ManU (kunun) got 2 goals. The senior won the match 2-0. Thanks for all who contributes directly or indirectly to this project.

see a disaster come from far.

someone try to save my team from the disaster

holy crap! the saviour down!

i dont think the ball are flying to the yellow

yeah! my instinct are always right!

damned! i just a few seconds late!

I'm not pretty sure if there is a problem to view the pictures. I hope you'll enjoy with this. Look I'm wearing number 16. For more details, you can click in here.

Dreamlover with Dreamweaver

2005-02-03T01:49:00.000+08:00

Yes! I've just finished another web for my IT management project. Gosh! It really not takes so much time after I teached my groupmates - The macromedia DREAMWEAVER.

I showed them only 1 silly simple things as the introduction and unfortunately most of them quarrelling on how to overcome our online portfolio better! To make a visit on our darnfull online portfolio, please click here.

Besides, I am one of the comp. sc. junior players for the soccer match this evening. Hopefully we'll be like Arsenal.

New Template

2005-02-01T05:02:00.000+08:00

Thanks to all for still visiting me in here.
I keep wondering why I've to be very hardworking to create a new template lately.
Why can't I stick to the only one?

Maybe coz I've to spend most of my time in doing ASP pages for my minor project.
I'm going to love dreamweaver so much after this!

Did the blue theme nice to all of you pal?

Fast foods

2005-01-27T22:38:00.000+08:00

Since early of this month, I'm having my lunch nor my dinner at McD more than 10 times, Pizza around 7 times, Baskin Robbins about 4 or 5 times and KFC once er.. two maybe. This extreme habit became worst since I got a discount card for Pizza Hut and so many birthday party of my friends.

Starting from this week, I've to fast from that kind of foods. Hopefully by playing football every evening will help me to reduce my weight (read: fats! fats! fats!). Ah! One GOOD news for all of ya! My kicking skills' improved! Hell the others butt!

lesen

2005-01-20T07:18:00.000+08:00

Tepat hari ini, pupuslah lesen memandu aku. yeah! aku dah tepat 3 tahun digelar pemandu profesional dengan rekod kemalangan sekali dan rekod jenayah sekali. Semalam sekali lagi aku cuba mencipta rekod jenayah tapi dilepaskan oleh pihak berkuasa kerana aku berpura-pura tak tau dan pura-pura bukan orang Ipoh.

Hampir pecah kemaluan aku disebabkan cuba menunjukkan lagak ngeri depan kawan aku. Untuk masuk ke tempat parking Jaya Jusco Ipoh melalui pintu belakang, aku meredah masuk ke lorong memandu bertentangan dan terus memecut sampailah ke lorong kecil untuk masuk ke kawasan parking. Kiranya kalau ada kereta lain lah time tu dah tentu berlaku collition. Tapi disebabkan pengalaman pemanduan aku kat Penang telah mengajar aku segalanya tidak mustahil, maka aku pun cuba mempraktikkannya kat Ipoh.

Rekod Kemalangan:
Aku rasa aku tak dapat rahmat dariNya sebab masa accident tu, aku tengah bawa ex- aku balik dari shopping. ergh.. Salah aku mungkin yang tu, tapi penyebab utama berlaku accident, adalah budak yang tak berlesen merempuh masuk jalan besar dengan tiba-tiba. Damned! sampai hari ni, aku masih tak dapat sesen pon dari budak tu walaupun dah diugut berkali-kali!

Rekod Jenayah:
Aku lupa nak bayar 20sen kat tiang meter parking.

Apa-apapun aku kene sedar yang Ipoh bukanlah Penang. Orang Ipoh lebih berhemah ketika memandu kecuali aku. Aku ikut mood pemandu lain. Kalau diaorang buat hal, maka aku pon tetap maintain berhati-hati kat jalanraya. Selamat memandu kepada semua pengguna jalanraya.

football

2005-01-14T07:20:00.000+08:00

I was addicted to play football everyday. As a sports exco for computer sc. I've to manage a game between seniors and juniors but the date and time are not decided yet. I'm free to play every evening but not them - the seniors. Ah yea! For those who did not and will never believe that I can play football, please come to Minden field and see me kicking others' asses.

This poster has been finished last night and will be post up everywhere around the school. Click here to read all the text.

update on Iraq

2005-01-12T10:06:00.001+08:00

Do you want to see the movie clip of Iraq? It takes time to download it and you need Real One Player to view the clip. I got it from Jihad Unspun, the only free reporter of Iraq's update.

Let us pray for our brothers and sisters for their safety, their life and their country. I don't know what is wrong with your sense of human if this clip didn't make any effect to you.

Download it here.

2 weeks of tests

2005-01-10T10:53:00.000+08:00

I'm facing a lot of tests for these two weeks. Wish me the best.

One of my ex-housemate scolded me to study hard. Yeah. I appreciate it but I'm not a kid anymore to be forced like that. Maybe he just want to remind me to get 2.75 pointer above.

Whatever.. I'm going to do it myself. Pray for me. Thanks! :D

Am I back?

2005-01-09T15:38:00.000+08:00

It has been long time ago I shutted down the meredahujan blog. I hope this new season wouldn't make the same mistake as before.

Now, Presenting The New Season of Meredahujan