Hari Malaysia

Selamat Hari Malaysia ...

Sekayu - Terengganu

My first ever visit there was way back in the eighties.

Told my future father and mother in-law (then) that I would like to send my parents to meet them and asked for the hand of their daughter (now my wife).

Sekayu Waterfalls is such a nice place than. Today, together with the family and my brother in-laws family, we were there again although we had been there once in between.

Nice place still, we managed to drive in and therefore did not walk as much like before. BUT ... the place has lousy public ammenities. I wonder why ???

If with such a beautiful GOD given natural habitat, we cannot take care of it, and Terengganu with its Oil wealth, where really do they spend all the money ???

Another Silver

Yes, Lee Chong Wei gets another silver, and congratulation is in order. Say what you may, it was a good game, so once again congrats, a GOLD not meant to be.

Well ... 2016, Rio maybe ???

Dari No 1 ... dah jadi No 2 !!!

Alamak !!!

Lee Chong Wei dah jadi No 2, belakang Lin Dan. Camne ni ???
Belum Olimpik dah No 2, selepas lebih 191 minggu. Ada harapan ke emas pertama ???

Masih ada harapan ... jangan putus asa.


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Ramalan Pak Belalang tak menjadi lah ... Portugal menang suku akhir pertama EURO 2012.

Nak Cerita EURO 2012 lah ...

Malam tadi tak dapat tidur ... 

Jadi buka TV, ada pula England lawan Ukraine, masa tu dah nak habis '1st half ' dan berakhir dengan tiada jaringan. Tak lah menarik sangat, Ukraine lebih banyak menyerang tapi nasib tak baik lah untuk mereka, tiba-tiba Wayne Rooney yang 'score'. Lepas tu John Terry berjaya mencangkuk bola yang nampak jelas dah masuk, tapi referee tak nampak, line official pun tak confirm, maka berakhirlah impian Ukraine.

Kasihan Team Oranje ... habis kalah semua, entah apa agaknya terjadi ... terkucil mereka tak menang apa-apa pun. Jadi berakhir peringkat kumpulan, dan sekarang ni masuk suku akhir.

Czech Republic vs Portugal

Spain vs France

Germany vs Greece

England vs Italy

Maka hari ni nak jadi Pak Nujum lah bagi Semi Final ...

Czech vs France

Germany vs England

Final ...

France vs Germany

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Team Malaysia camne ???

Hari tu, menang dengan Singapura, lepas seri ... ok lah tahniah pada Rajagopal serta anak buahnya.

Naik "PUBLIC TRANSPORT"

Hari isnin (19hb Januari) yang lepas, anak mula practical kat KL. 

Maka untuk membantunya membiasakan diri dengan jalan maka temankan dia naik kereta ke tempat practical di Jalan Pahang. cadangnya nak mula 6.30pagi, tapi akhirnya bertolak 6.55. Federal Highway dah jem, masuk NKVE pun jem juga, sampai Jalan Duta jem juga, akhirnya sampai 8.10pagi. Cari parking semuanya penuh, yang ada kena jalan 20 minit. Maka hari pertama dahlah lambat. 

Untuk mengenal pasti cara balik kalau guna "PUBLIC TRANSPORT", maka tanya lah orang yang menunggu kat Bus Stop tu cara nak pergi Stesen Komuter yang terdekat. Dia cadangkan naik bus yang menujuk ke Pasar Seni, jalan sikit ke KL Station naik Komuter. Tapi sebenarnya, naik bus menghala ke Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, turun kat Sogo lagi senang. Memang betul pun, bus tak sampai 10 minit, jalan lebih kurang 10 minit, tunggu komuter 30 minit, pasal masa sampai tu terlepas komuter yang terdahulu, naik komuter lebih kurang 50 minit. Sampai Shah Alam, call anak ambil (kalau jalan 10 minit).

Kira okay lah juga, tapi bukan waktu puncak, tak lah ramai orang. satu perjalanan "Point to Point" (RM1.00 + RM2.80 = 3.80), maka lebih kurang 1 jam 30 minit. dapat naik komuter baru, ada TV lagi (masa tu cerita Get Smart versi baru), relax lah juga.

Nak pujuk anak naik "PUBLIC TRANSPORT" ni punya lah susah, kena buat research dulu, try dulu supaya nak jelaskan opsyen terbaik untuk dia. Dia bawa kereta kena kira "COST" (MINYAK, TOLL, PARKING & MAINTENANCE). Itu tak masuk bila sangkut jem lagi, nasib baik kereta otomatik.

Secara umumnya, sistem di Malaysia ni masih lagi kurang "PEOPLE FRIENDLY", maka masih ramai yang belum bersedia nak guna "PUBLIC TRANSPORT", kena pula cuaca yang tak menentu. Kita perlukan political will yang lebih untukl memastikan sistem terbaik dapat dilaksanakan. Pengalaman saya di Toronto, Ontario, Canada pada tahun 1980-1984, masih bermain dikepala kerana kemudahannya yang tersangat lah baik. Itu berapa tahun dulu ya ??? WOW ...32 TAHUN.

Agaknya Tan Sri SPAD tu dah kaji ke ? Berapa kali dia naik Bus, Komuter, LRT dan sebagainya ya?

Balik pada anak saya tu, esok cukup seminggu, nak buat "post mortem" harga la, nak cuba pujuk cuba naik "PUBLIC TRANSPORT", dia setuju tak agak nya?

PM Najib Kata ....

dari Berita Harian hari ini 28hb Februari 2012

"Insya Allah, jika Barisan Nasional (BN) diberi mandat dua pertiga pada 

Pilihan Raya Umum Ke-13, pindaan Perlembagaan sewajarnya akan dilakukan dan 

Suruhanjaya Perkhidmatan Pencegahan Rasuah akan dibentuk"

tapi ... yang menjadi persoalan nya ialah, kenapa nak tunggu menang dengan majoriti 2/3 ? rasanyakan lah, kalau PM bentangkan di Parlimen bagi memastikan SPRM /MACC benar-benar dapat menjalankan tugasnya tanpa gangguan mana-mana pihak, mestilah Pakatan Rakyat sokong. 

Tak gitu ... Dato Seri Anwar ???

What if I say welcome to Malaysia ???

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. 

It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. 

You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay. The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met. It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned." And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But ... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

Post 901 ... Battleground Malaysia

Yesterday 9th January 2012, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim accepted a verdict that most people thought otherwise. DSAI, the Opposition Leader will now work on Pakatan Rakyat offer to the people of Malaysia as the next alternative government. 

Their experience at the moment are State Government of Kelantan, Kedah, Pulau Pinang, Selangor and for a short period Perak.

Can they do it ???

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and the Barisan Nasional on the other hand governs Malaysia (the Federation) and all the other states. With all the transformation agenda, and the goodies offered to the people during the 2012 Budget, will hope to maintain governing the country and win back lost grounds.

Can they do it ???

I have only one vote, how about all the others eligible voters ????

Good Luck Malaysia.

I'm Sorry

The Pencil and Eraser

PENCIL
    I’m sorry

ERASER   
    For what? You didn’t do anything wrong.

PENCIL

    I’m sorry because you get hurt because of me. Whenever I made a mistake, you’re always there to erase it. But as you make my mistakes vanish, you lose a part of yourself. You get smaller and smaller each time.

ERASER

    That’s true. But I don’t really mind. You see, I was made to do this. I was made to help you whenever you do something wrong. Even though one day, I know I’ll be gone and you’ll replace me with a new one, I’m actually happy with my job. So please, stop worrying. I hate seeing you sad.

I found this conversation between the pencil and the eraser very inspirational. Parents are like the eraser whereas their children are the pencil. They’re always there for their children, cleaning up their mistakes. Sometimes along the way, they get hurt, and become smaller / older, and eventually pass on. Though their children will eventually find someone new (spouse), but parents are still happy with what they do for their children, and will always hate seeing their precious ones worrying, or sad.

All my life, I’ve been the pencil. And it pains me to see the eraser that is my parents getting smaller and smaller each day. For I know that one day, all that I will be left with would be eraser shavings and memories of what I used to have.

How many of us actually realize all this, life is like a cycle, although a PENCIL will never be an ERASER, a son or daughter will one day be a father or mother (ie Parents), and therefore the cycle will begin. If you learn during your journey, you tend to make less mistakes. However, like it or not, with this changing world you need to adapt, learn, innovate and be creative.

Good Luck.

On the 3rd Day of the total 366 Days

2012 is a Leap Year

Yes this year we have an extra day ... as if most people care.

Just like its just another second, min, hour, day, week, months and another year. I thought its just awhile back since the world celebrate 2011 ... and just so suddenly its already 2012. Well all over the world, the owner of fireworks made a lot of money, they would have wished that New Year is everyday.

Here in Malaysia, we hope it will be a better year. Better for the family, in all area. Hoping for the kids that goes to School, be it Primary, Secondary and University to do well. It does not get any easier, but life goes on and all must learn to cope with it. As parents it gets much and more difficult by the day. They smarter by the seconds nowadays.

What ever it is, time flies faster that a speeding bullet.

So GOOD LUCK you all ...