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Friday, 28 November 2008
Buhsannnnn
Monday, 24 November 2008
Still snowing
Sunday, 23 November 2008
Saturday, 22 November 2008
Giving Birth story
I always scare when people talk about their experiences of giving birth. I cannot stand the 'cutting of the private part', the contraction and all the related things with delivery. Frankly, if I know in details about their traumatic experiences, my body seems can feel how the pain is. And my fragile spirit easily make me pass out. Even though I do not have any idea how terrible the pain is, but I do know it is terrible enough to put your life on the cracking egg. Well, that is me..heehhee.
My friend, En. Onn once told me about his real experience when he accompanied his wife in the labour room. He was there for almost an hour (and the truth was, he was about to reach the panic points in his 'waiting' session since there was some complication with his wife 's condition). Apparently, when he was there, he could hear clearly one of the patient (Indian lady) in the next room was screaming out loud with her healthy lungs while giving birth.The atmosphere was very chaos and then out of the blue, one nurse hurriedly rushed into the room with a stretcher. My friend was so scared just if that lady could not make it and he kept praying to GOD to save that lady's life.
In a few minute later, the same nurse was strolling out the stretcher from the room. And what a massive shocked to En. Onn to witness one gros Indian guy was laying on the stretcher instead! That guy was unconscious because of the traumatic experience in the labour room, like the blood, the 'cutting part' and everything. The nurse just left him outside, I mean just by the labour room's door.(He still unconscious on the stretcher k and nobody gave him any emergency treatment!) Hahaha..I guess, everybody was in a full hands so no more space to rescue the poor guy. Pity of his wife. But I think if I was there, I am pretty sure to give the poor guy a big laughs even though I am faint-hearted like him..hahaaha.
Well, I guess this phenomenon is going to happen if, the husband does not mentally and physically ready. Spouse is someone that should be there to welcome their new comer. To cherish your wife more by witness their pain to give you the most precious thing in the world. Oh dear...I do not know if I can get through the labour pain. But, I just knew I will somehow. Cannot wait to preggy again and experience it to myself....But, now I am getting better than I used to be. I do not want to think about it deeply until the time has come. Let nature take its course, I reckon!
Light snow in Autumn, Liege
Friday, 21 November 2008
Snow is coming
'Empty vessels'
Hey guys! I have a question to ask. The question is sounds like this. What is the difference between 'hardworking and workaholic' with the ' great talkers'? What I mean by 'great talkers' is 'those people who talk a lot and are always teaching others, and they usually do not do much work'. In Malay term is 'orang yang betul-betul tahu buat kerja' dengan 'orang yang tahu membodek dan kelentong'. My personal experiences when I was working with private companies in the few years back made me recognize these types of people easily. Hardworking people normally talk less, work more but at the end they come out with the results and vice versa to the 'empty vessels'.
My former project manager was really suit in this 'kelentong' type of people. He knows how to blabber around, and if you people do not know him very well, you will think he is such an adorable and talented person. Just ask him, he will know everything. Even though sometimes he just talk nonsense like an idiot to the smart people. But, one thing is good for these people are, they can survive in any conditions. They can climb up to the top position in the company. Without hesitate, they are about or inclined to do everything like poker face just to achieve their mission in life.
Most of the 'empty vessels' normally have a little knowledge in something specifically, but they do know all. If you know what I mean! And they usually talk the most and make the greatest fuss. Like, they know this and that, they achieve this and that, If you tell them your experience in doing 'let's say project A', straightaway, they will start all the craps by saying, they also did it before and better than you. All is about they are the best. No one else. .In the meetings, they will show off like they did everything to save the company and bla..bla..bla..But the truth is, they just use other people hard work and then claimed as theirs. What a shame people!
I do not know if the condition of this is happen or not in your students life, or your workplace but in my life, it did happen. For me to notice this type of 'empty vessels', does not take too long. For the first time it hard to tell. But after twice or thrice it will reveal and you just knew it. But why? The answer is because 'Empty vessels make the most noise'. And sometimes I was wondering, can we just cut all the crap and make our jobs properly to success in our life in today's world? Can we survive without' bodek and kelentong' to get the promotion? I think the answer is impossible and definitely not!
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Reality or fantasy?
I am not here to condemn the effort by our government that costed us RM 95 millions ringgit to accomplish the space mission. The idea is to become one of the prestigous countries in order to position
I know some of you could not agree more with my opinion but, just set aside our ignorance and pride. Just think carefully, Is Malaysia good enough to be known in the eyes of the world by sending 'a visitor to the space’ that costed us a bomb?
For the closure, I think I love the writing article from Australian writer for 'The Age' newspaper. He is actually telling the honest opinion that I have ever heard about Malaysia ASTRONAUT PROGRAMME
Click.
p/s - If some of you really do not know the world map, please take a look now in the internet. So tak la 'kemalu-maluan' bila org lain talk about the world map. Geografi kena tau k..Pengetahuan am tu..ciao!
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Happy..
Gambar cilok
I think I like this photo.I was so happy in this pic.u can see my uneven teeth,hahhaha...It has been stolen from Dr Asyraf's blog. One of our friends in Belgium. He is now doing his sub specialist (something like that) in Ghent University, Belgium. This pic was taken during open house at Zaini's. Sory ye tuan punya blog..curi gambar..Just in case u come across my blog, I just wanna say sorry for stealing..hehehhee..
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Haircut
Translation
I went for my haircut. The hair dresser was so nice. I got the discount price. Only 10 euro. The service was so gud. and aku sgt berpuas hatt..sekian .tq
Invitation
Monday, 17 November 2008
Legaaaaa
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Dreams
Bizarre dreams seem to take place in my sleeps every now and then. Likeness one of the must play film every time I shut my eyes out. Despite that, I hardly or barely remember how many times I can sleep peacefully, dreamless in my entire life. It sounds weird. But, yes it is true. Nightmares and sweet dreams keep taking turn in my daily night sleeps such as never ending mysterious world. Sometimes, I do hope my sweet dreams will never end. But, on the contrary, it always never reach the ending. It either I was waking up in the middle of my sleeping or I cannot remember what the ending were. Or if I remembered, I did not remember it well and I guess,my human memories fade by the time I woke up and it was frustrating like an unsolved mystery.
Last night, I dreamt about my late grandma. The dreamt was like this. My late grandma did not know that she is dead. That mean, she kept living like human being. But she did realize she is not normal as she used to be. Nobody in the family had nerves to tell her that she is actually dead. She kept mentioning to us that, everybody was ignoring her and asking why was her handphone on the dressing table in her bedroom was left uncharging for quite sometimes until the battery went dead and dusty. The reality was, my late grandma never ever had a mobile phone in her entire life. Hehehe. Actually nobody can see her. Only us, her closed family. It was quite a bizzard dreamt for me. I know it only just a dreamt but I cannot help myself preoccupied for the whole day. Nevertheless, I think it just about the time for me to alms and recite 'yassin' to her. May Allah bless her soul...Al fatihah..amin
Wait, the story does not end yet, there was another dreamt in the same night that I want to tale about.I guess I am a good dreamer after all..hehehe.. I dreamt of drinking two mugs of coffee. The coffee was the best coffee that I have ever had. When I woke up, I still can smell the aromatic. Crapppp..I am craving for coffee now.. Be right back! I need to indulge myself first before continuing my entry. A cup of cofee would be nice in the middle of the night to keep me awake..kikikiki..
Slurpp...Ok, let's continue. In spite of the weirdness, I do have a great dreams though! And dare I say, if I am a good writer or a film director, perhaps I can use the story line based on my dreams to write a novel or to produce a film. And I could win award from that. HAHAHHAH. In your dream, Nurul! Ok, what I want to say is 'mimpi tu mainan tidur' and wash your feet before you lie in bed la..and recite 'ayat quran' so that we will be 'looked after' for the whole night..Insya Allah..
Au revoir Mon Mari poisson
Saturday, 15 November 2008
My personal opinion about languages
Well, what to do? I was so proud to use only English as the medium of communication with foreigner. Well, you know how Malaysian people think about English, right?. In our people's mind are, English is a posh language. If you can speak very well, you are great! That the normal scenario in Malaysia. Am I right? But, I am not regret this condition k. At least we, as a Malaysian will improve ourselves in a communication skills in the eyes of the world..Cheewah..Unfortunately, one thing I cannot stand though, if people try to create, make or sound some 'accent' when use the English language. Such as, 'british accent', ' American accent' or whatsoever accents. I just afraid I will puke straightaway on your face if you guys do that..hahahaa..Just kidding but Come on k, if belacan takkan jadi cheese k! I was struggling to improve my English language to suit Malaysia condition when I return for good later. I was taking English class for almost two years and in fact, I was sitting for the exam and getting the certificate in the language.
My stubbornness finally disappeared in the thin air when one incident happened to me in the supermarket here. Well, lets me figured out the incident carefully in the right sequences k. The story was like this, one day I went to Delhaize to buy some groceries. I chose self check out counter to pay my items. When I was paying, accidently I pressed one number of recycle bag to collect point in my shopping card. Suddenly, the standby cashier at the self check out till came approached me and said in French something that I could not understand at all. I said to her, I did not understand French and could she tell me in English instead. You know what she did when I asked her that? She kept mumbling and pulling her face like b#tch and insisting on telling me in French what the fuss was all about. I knew for sure she was insulting and bad cursed me because I did understand one bad word that she said though! The word meant 'stupid person'. Can you imagine how my feeling was? I felt annoying and angry with her. I talked back to her in Malay since I had already lost my grip! For sure I bad language her either..haahahaa..
Truthfully, that is not the main point k. What I'd like to emphasize in this entry is, since that day I have changed my mind setting. I was urging my friend to looking for the place to learn French on behalf of me. Let's all the stupidest attitude of the old me be water under the bridge! So, here I am, a new me, in the middle of learning. I promised to myself, I will and must know how to speak French sooner or later. I do not want to glorify the only English language too much in my life. Never ever again. I can see how French people proud of their language. I know other people in the whole world will proud if foreigners try to learn and use their mother tongue language. It is does not matter at all if you have done the mistakes in the usage, since you dare to use them. So, to those who think like I was before, It just about the right time for you to rethink about it. For me all languages are posh if we, people appreciate the language itself. Like the proverb said, when in Rome do as a Roman! So, that is exactly what I am trying to do right now. To adapt myself with Belgian lor..
P/s-What the lady was trying to say was, I cannot simply pressed the number of the recycle bag, if I did not have any. In her mind, I was trying to cheat to get the extra point in my shopping card quickly and easily. So that, I can claim the prize shortly soon. In other word, she thought, I am a cheater.
Thursday, 13 November 2008
Congratulations my lil bro!
félicitations pour l'excellente résultat examen dans UPSR. Je suis fier de tu! Straight A's..again, congratulations k..
p/s-Aiman est mon petite frére, donc Il est la cadette dans notre famille.
Wednesday, 12 November 2008
pres+sure
Monday, 10 November 2008
New language and the mistakes I made ..
Ok, the conversation was like this, où est les cheveux? Then I saw the face expression the lady gave me made me realized I said the wrong word.In French language, castle is Le chateau but I said Les cheveux instead. Oh crap, in english the sentence is sound like this,' where is the 'hair'?'..hahaahaa. It was not so bad though! I just cannot imagine if I wrongly pronounced the word Le cheveux like this, où est le cheval? The meaning in english is, where is the horse? Sooo teribble isn'it? No wonder she gave me the weird expression. Ok then, I corrected the mistake by asking the right word. She told me, the destination that we planned to visit was quite far and it was impossible to take a walk. Then she asked me, the mode of transport if I want to go there, And I answered, A pied instead of A voiture / A bus..She looked more confusing, suddenly I realized, again I made the second mistakes. A pied mean by foot. So how on earth I can go to the far distance place by foot. hehehehe..
So, now I will be more careful to use the right words in French, but it's ok..we learn from our mistakes, right? The more mistakes I made, the easier I will catch up the language...Hopefully la kan..InsyaAllah..
Sunday, 9 November 2008
Handbag story..
When I almost gave up, I said to him, 'let's try this shop, maybe I will fancy one of their collections.' Luckily, he just agree and tagged along into the shop. Truthfully, I fancy one of the handbag in that shop. The green colour and the design of the handbag just look alike my lost River Island bag, that I like too bits! The one I was shipping from Manchester to Belgium when we were moving in here. Unfortunately, we lost all the boxes while they are in the hands of the postal services. ( five boxes to be precise, and we spent almost 200 pound for the fees) . We could not trace them since all the boxes had already left U.K. So, I am not complaining. Maybe those were not meant to be ours. Perhaps, it was foreordain to be lost in shipping. Something happened for a reason, right?
Now, back to my story...Am was trying to refrain me from buying that green bag. The reason he gave me was simple and dare I say it not just a reason, it was a fact. hehehee..He said that if I bought that green bag, sooner or later, I will ask him to buy me another one with the different colour. Some of you may think, why another one? Aha, the answer is, how many colours are really blend very well with green? I mean in terms of the outfit. Me, personally I think the colour can suit the green bag is limited. It not appropriate to carry green bag with orange or purple outfit, right? Well, maybe he was right..but what I cannot stand was, the way he read my mind. Like a book, I can tell!
Actually, I have to admit that, I was just about thinking of buying green colour outfit or perhaps another handbag if I bought that green one..Hahahaha..Pity me. Don't worry k, I did not buy it. The weird thing was, I never regret of not buying the bag. Maybe I am in the right track of piling up saving in my account instead of spending them to unwanted items. I think, I am getting wiser in handling money. Am I ?
Seriously, I need to save some money to settle my debt. Not too much in debt but still, I want to pay it all , so I will free from the debt fetter. It does take awhile before getting used with the saving habit. But, I will try no matter how difficult it is going to be...InsyaAllah...
Itchiness
Since the last two days, I was suffering with it and my skin was turning reddish and blotching everywhere especially on the top body. It was soo itchy cum uncomfortable and I kept scratching like a mad monkey until its bleading and leaving scar on my skin. The thing was, I kept applying special cream for skin problem repeatedly all over the blotched area but it was not making any difference. It just made my skin getting worst. I was showing and asking Am while wondering what has happened to my skin? Suddenly, he popped in with the words ' lapar garam', and he said, the only way to cure this problem was, by applying a mixture of cooking salt, turmeric and cooking oil. I was insisting him to make those things and applying it on my skin. After a while, I can feel the difference. I nevermore felt itchy. The itchiness has disappeared and I fell asleep for the whole night with those mixtures on my body. Believe it or not, it never been better..hehehehhe. Nevertheless, it was ok since I can sleep like baby.
I asked Am once last night, how he got the idea of making the mixtures to cure my itchiness. And he said, the tips is coming from elderly people. So, I guess that is why elderly tips become handy sometimes. And you can save money too, from buying the medicine. This experience makes me appreciate elderly tips soo much since!
Saturday, 8 November 2008
Namur
As in my entry before, we went off to visit Namur for the first time since we have been in Belgium.
Namur is the capital city of Walonnia, the French speaking area in Belgium. It has its own charm and characteristic that can attract tourist to come to visit this place. The signature thing of Namur is the countryside, with the picturesque view from the top of the citidel.
This town is located at the southern part of Belgium and only 50 minutes from Liege city centre. Actually, Mozat was our main destination at the first place. Unfortunately, due to the several reasons we chose Namur instead. And I was glad we did that because, we were totally indulging ourselves into the countryside, and we were closed to the nature as what we really wanted and planned in a few days back.
The medival town, castle and building on the top view of the citidel were soo lovely. Namur's castle is surrounding by the park, enhace the beauty of the castle itself. The park has been decorating beautifully since, and suit the medival age period of history. My wishful thinking was, to stay there even for one night! How I wish we could. But, arghh...in my dream..there was no hotel or whatsoever nearby the place. Thus, I ended up being in Liege and updating my blog to share my experience with my blog's visitor. Well, maybe we will return to Namur later, if we choose Mozet for our next countryside visit.
P/S- prochain image dans le facebook et le fotopages bientot!
Weekend Activities
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Not Yet..
Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Tomorrrow will tell
P/S- The ID thing is really bother me, because...
1. The lateness of the ID renewal resulting , the lateness in receiving the card back. So..
2.The lateness in receiving the card, mean I cannot go on holiday to other country!!So pathetic la..Buhsan oo lama2 terperap kat sini!
latest info
Rakyat Malaysia kekal nikmati 6 bulan perjalanan tanpa visa di Britain
KUALA LUMPUR 5 Nov. — Rakyat Malaysia masih diberi kebenaran menikmati tempoh melancong enam bulan tanpa visa ke Britain walaupun terdapat perubahan dalam peraturan mengenai visa United Kingdom (UK), kata Pesuruhjaya Tinggi British ke Malaysia Boyd McCleary.
Katanya beliau memberi jaminan bahawa para pelancong sentiasa dialu-alukan untuk mengunjungi Britain, dan sehingga ini tidak ada peraturan yang memerlukan rakyat Malaysia memiliki visa umum untuk memasuki Bitain.“Pelancong Malaysia ke UK masih menikmati tempoh perjalanan enam bulan bebas visa. Kumpulan yang perlu memohon visa ketika ini adalah kalangan mereka yang merancang untuk tinggal lebih lama dari enam bulan, mungkin untuk bekerja atau belajar,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.
McCleary mengeluarkan kenyataan itu ekoran beberapa laporan media sejak kebelakangan ini mengenai perubahan dalam peraturan mengenai visa UK.
Beliau menjelaskan bahawa UK sedang memperkenalkan ’Points Based System’ untuk akses pemohon visa, sama seperti sistem yang digunakan oleh kerajaan Australia, dan ia akan diperkenalkan secara berperingkat pada bulan-bulan akan datang, bergantung kepada kategori visa.
Beliau berkata peringkat pertama diperkenalkan hujung bulan Jun lepas dan peringkat berikutnya yang meliputi pekerja mahir dengan tawaran kerja akan dimulakan hujung bulan ini.
Berhubung masalah pendatang haram ke UK, Mc Cleary berkata UK sedang menangani masa itu di bawah Visa Waiver Test, dan bagi rakyat Malaysia, kerajaan UK sedang bekerjasama rapat dengan pihak berkuasa Malaysia.
“Satu keputusan akan dibuat berhubung hasil proses ini awal tahun depan,” katanya.
Isnin lepas Menteri Luar Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim dilaporkan berkata rakyat Malaysia yang tinggal lebih tempoh dan yang bekerja tanpa kebenaran di UK perlu pulang ke tanah air.
— BERNAMA-
the original news is here
Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Info
KUALA LUMPUR 4 Nov. - Malaysia mungkin berhadapan peraturan visa baru daripada Kesatuan Eropah (EU) jika 30,000 rakyatnya yang tinggal melebihi tempoh di United Kingdom (UK) masih gagal pulang ke negara ini.
Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar berkata, kerajaan Britain sedang meneliti untuk menggunakan peraturan visa baru ke atas 11 buah negara termasuk Malaysia kerana menyalahgunakan visa dan tinggal melebihi tempoh yang dibenarkan.
"Mereka ini perlu segera memberi maklum balas untuk pulang. Kita minta mereka patuh undang-undang untuk elakkan negara EU kenakan peraturan terhadap kita,'' katanya pada sidang akhbar selepas merasmikan mesyuarat Ketua-Ketua Pengarah Imigresen ASEAN dan Ketua-Ketua Bahagian Hal Ehwal Konsul Kementerian-Kementerian Luar (DGICM) di sini hari ini.
Jumaat lepas, Syed Hamid mendedahkan terdapat lebih 30,000 rakyat Malaysia yang tinggal melebihi tempoh di United Kingdom dinasihatkan segera pulang ke tanah air sebelum kerajaan negara itu mengambil tindakan undang-undang terhadap mereka.
Tambah beliau, melalui perundingan dua hala, kerajaan Britain memberikan insentif tiket penerbangan sehala percuma untuk menggalakkan rakyat Malaysia pulang dalam tempoh Julai hingga Disember ini.
Jelasnya lagi, kira-kira 271,000 orang dari negara ini memasuki United Kingdom setiap tahun dan keperluan untuk menggunakan visa hanya akan membebankan rakyat.
Oleh itu, katanya lagi, pemberian insentif tiket penerbangan sehala percuma oleh kerajaan Britain sebenarnya banyak membantu dan mendapat sambutan positif daripada rakyat negara ini di sana.
"Kita diberi tempoh enam bulan untuk menunggu kepulangan rakyat Malaysia di sana dan keputusan penggunaan visa pada tahun depan,'' jelasnya.
Syed Hamid berkata, kesungguhan yang ditunjukkan oleh negara-negara lain dalam usaha memastikan tiada pihak yang dapat tinggal secara haram di United Kingdom seharusnya dicontohi rakyat negara ini yang bermigrasi di sana.
Katanya, rakyat negara ini yang memasuki United Kingdom diminta jujur dan tidak membuat perkara yang menyalahi undang-undang atau tersasar daripada tujuan asal mereka ke sana.
"Jangan cakap hendak jadi pelajar, tetapi apabila sampai ke sana bekerja dan tinggal melebihi tempoh. Begitu juga sebaliknya,'' ujarnya.