Takers...

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Aku tak tau apasal, tapi aku memang kurang gemar dengan orang yang suka ambil kesempatan. Maaf, bukan sahaja kurang gemar, tapi meluat. Being friendly with someone just to take advantage is also a no-no in my TENETS OF AL. It is just as bad. And I realize that I don't have to feel guilty if I refuse politely to do any favors (which I probably should be doing a long time ago). Sepanjang 26 tahun yang pendek yang aku lalui dalam hidup ni, ada juga aku terserempak dengan mereka-mereka yang boleh dikategorikan sebagai tukang ambil kesempatan. Modus operandinya pelbagai, dari cara-cara yang tersirat tapi tersurat kepada terus-terang lagi nyata.

Tersirat tapi tersurat lebih mengutamakan membina satu perhubungan yang agak rapat dengan aku sebelum tembelang sebenar pecah. Cara ini dapat menuai favors secara lebih berkesan lagi sebelum aku dapat mengesan dan memulakan penolakan secara halus. Cara terus-terang lagi nyata lebih direct dan blunt, membuatkan darah aku mendidih lagi cepat, tapi kerosakan tidak banyak dan lebih terkawal. Ini kerana aku dapat mengesan dengan serta-merta dan seperti biasa, penolakan secara halus akan dilakukan atau penolakan direct dan penuh dengan sinis (bergantung kepada situasi :)).

Why oh why that we humans tend to take advantage at every turn, can't we just do something voluntarily in turn, without rewards without interests, just give some helping hands and in the end, it's in our best interests. Don't you feel happy and fullfiled just to be able to help people? Its ok if they don't know it but anyways God knows. That my friend, is the true meaning of being an unsung hero.

I really don't understand human behaviors :(

I present you; a poem...

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I was always wondering,
Isn't YM good enough,
Do we have to also give a ring,
Gee, it's quite tough.

I'm kinda slow but sure,
I like to know, to talk, to see,
The way for me to see that you're pure,
Not just some wanna-be.

I admit that I am just at start,
5 months will not make me king,
But you have to know that this is life in part,
Tomorrow we know not what might bring.

Probably I'm like Dexter,

Just minus the killing part,

Society has never undestand me better,

Social for me it's never an art.

Anyways I think I'll end it here,

It's 5 am already and I'm sleepy,

To understand me is to get close to me; dear,

I am not joking, really :)

My Gaming Rig...

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Just bought meself a new gaming rig. Athlon X2 6000 3 Ghz with a whopping 4 Gb's of RAM and Nvdia  9800 GT graphics. So far I am satisfied with this configuration, just imagine I can play World of Warcraft while running Neverwinter Nights 2 and at the same time browsing internet and listening to songs through Winamp. I love multiple cores technology. And not to forget the 19' inch Samsung LCD display. Sori ler kepada member-member kepala gaming dengan ICTs sebab tak bagitau awal-awal. Saja jer buat suprise. 

Suprise! :)

The price...lets just say if this is a deal that  I made with the Devil, he may have to cry..in the end...:P

Jem, jem, jem, trafic jams...

Mengalami jem yang agak teruk dalam perjalanan balik tadi (keluar dari tempat kerja pukul 6 sampai rumah 8 pm). Ya, kepada sesiapa yang hendak tahu, aku selalu menggunakan Elite Highway pergi dan balik dari kerja. Dari Putrajaya > Elite Highway > Tol Ebor Selatan (sebelum ni dikenali sebagai Tol Batu 3 sebab keluar dekat kawasan Batu 3) > Federal Highway > Shah Alam (melalui overbridge sebelah SACC). Dari Shah Alam pula, keluar dari Bangunan SUK ke either roundabout dekat Kelab Shah Alam atau overbridge sebelah SACC > Federal Highway > overbridge naik ke Batu 3 > Elite Highway (sekali lagi melalui Tol Ebor Selatan) > Putrajaya. So, anyone who bears a grudge with me can wait in ambush with a sniper rifle near those routes or just plant a remote IED :P.

Anyway, just wandering. Why is it every rainy days, there is always traffic jams? Pelik dan ajaib aku. Not to mention countless accidents and wait, this is a good one; kereta rosak! Fine, tak pelik bila tengah-tengah hujan tapi kenapa dekat traffic light atau simpang-simpang or paling syok, jalan 2 lane atau 1 lane. Peh, nikmat menunggu jem reda dalam kereta sambil pasang MP3 kuat-kuat. Face it, bila lagi selalu kita dapat meluangkan masa bersendirian dalam kereta dengan kaki sakit menekan pedal sambil ditemani lagu-lagu yang berulang-ulang atau selection lagu-lagu yang tiba-tiba menjadi bosan di stesen radio? Bila lagi? Betul tak?

I don't understand Malaysian drivers. We speed up when required to be slow and slowed down when speediness is important. We Malaysians are truly gifted with the ability to interpret something simple into a reverse psychological complicated matters. If this is a sign of mutation, then I hope that my not yet manifested power is the ability to understand women better :D.

To all, drive carefully this raining season ok?

Runaways...

Aku baru jer diperkenalkan dengan satu lagi komik Marvel di bawah tulisan Brian K. Vaughan, seorang si botak yang merupakan penulis komik Marvel yang tersohor (pelik dan lucu apabila kebanyakan penulis komik barat tersohor botak-botak belaka, kecuali, well, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore and maybe a lot more). 

The title of the comic is Runaways, one of the quite latest works of Brian and presenting a unique prespective to the Marvel  superheroes world. It is about a group of juvenile superheroes whose parent; suprise or no suprise, were supervillains who named themselves "Pride". It started when these kids were hauled  to a once a year gathering by their parents. Actually these "gatherings" were sacrificial ceremonies to achieve the reborn of the world (world destruction), To cut it short, they discovered what their parents were up to, team up and along the way regain their "superhero powers" as they embark on the adventure to stop their parents from destroying the world.

Aku tengok konsep komik nih agak refreshing di mana anak-anak supervillains membuat keputusan tak nak ikut jejak langkah parents diorang dan instead menggunakan kuasa diorang untuk kebaikan. Pada aku, ada 2 underlaying themes pada series awal-awal komik ini. Satu, sejahat-jahat seseorang itu, anak-anak diorang tetap sayang. So kids, sedangkan supervillains sayangkan anak-anak diorang, takkan ibu bapa kita tak sayangkan kita. Diorang selalu marah-marah tu sebab sayang :P. 

And 2nd, which is the most important; is that the choice you make determines who you are and these choices make your destiny and fate. True, seperti kata westerners "fate has been written in the beginning" dengan ayat Al-Quran bahawa "qada' dan qadar dah ditentukan" tapi kita juga yang berusaha untuk menentukan nasib kita. Berusaha dulu barulah bertawakal atau berserah. Life is full of endless possibilities.

Well folks, thats all about Runaways that I can think of right now. Macam biasa, anda boleh melayari Wikipedia untuk mengetahui cerita selanjutnya, siap dengan spoilernya sekali. Anyway, let me end this article with this piece of self created wise saying:

In the end, it's your choice that will decide who you're going to be...

Long time no posting, makes for nothing interesting...

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Almost a month without any postings? That's not good by this new blog standard. I promise myself that I would at least once a week write a posting that at least reached the length and standard of my first article here. Tapi kita ni cuma manusia, so macam biasa ler kadang-kadang kerja jadi macam hangat-hangat taik ayam walaupun untuk sementara waktu. Memandangkan dah 5 hari kita masuk bulan Syawal, aku ingin ucapkan Salam Aidilfitri kepada semua kawan-kawan muslim dan muslimin dan Selamat Bercuti kepada semua yang bukan muslim. Oppps, cuti dah habis. Besok masuk keje balik :P. Anyway its better late than never right? I mean the wishing part...

Let me gather my thoughts and write a better article next.

P.S- Owh and Betty Banafe just got another plus point for speaking Javanese in the Raya drama Nak Pulang Tak Pulang (betul ka ini tajuk??) :D

Anwar Ibrahim = Bulls**tter. Period.

26-9-13-1

Sept 23 deadline for 'showdown'

KUALA LUMPUR: With his promise to form a new government on Sept 16 broken, opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim now wants Parliament to meet within five days for a vote of no confidence.

Anwar yesterday called on Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to convene an emergency session of Parliament by Sept 23.

Calling it the "final showdown", he said it would allow him to prove, once and for all, that the opposition had the support of more than 31 MPs from BN to make up the minimum 112 seats needed for a majority and to form the new government.

"We have told him (Abdullah) that we have the numbers. If he does not believe me, then convene an emergency sitting," Anwar said at the Parti Keadilan Rakyat headquarters.

Abdullah had challenged him to name the BN MPs who had purportedly agreed to cross over to Pakatan Rakyat by Malaysia Day.
When Sept 16 passed without incident, Anwar still insisted he had the required number of BN defectors to topple the government and said he was holding off because he wanted a "smooth transition".

He has, so far, not named a single one of them. Now he is playing for time by demanding a meeting of Parliament to table a motion of no confidence against Abdullah, which is certain to be turned down.

He said a letter signed by him, the DAP's Lim Kit Siang and Pas president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, had been sent to the prime minister to request him to convene Parliament by next Tuesday.

Asked why the PR alliance could not wait until Oct 13 when Parliament reconvenes, he said:

"State of flux, volatility, ISA arrests, economic collapse, switching cabinet portfolios midstream, uncertainty in Umno supreme council meetings. How long can you wait?"

He claimed he had met fund managers in the region, representing over US$1 trillion (RM3.4 trillion) in capital, who were ready to invest in the country when the Pakatan Rakyat took over the government.

-Sept 23 Deadline for "showdown", New Straits Times, 20 September 2008

Comments:

What a bullshit. Enough of this already. If the rakyat still fall for his tricks after the 16 September furor, then I am indeed worried about our political situation. Please, I beg you all. Don't be so gullible as to be tricked again by this irresponsible man.