Monday, December 29, 2008

Three Million Dollar Palestine Gaza Strip Appeal






Please donate to Islamic Relief

Three hundred Palestinians have been killed and around 1,400 have been injured in a series of air raids on the Gaza Strip.

These numbers look set to rise significantly over the coming days.

IR is on the ground distributing emergency medical supplies and has launched an urgent appeal for $3 million.

Immediate needs include medical disposables and first aid kits.

Please donate today. Your donation can save lives.

Sunday, December 28, 2008

Cardiff, just peaceful

Spent my short christmas holidays in Cardiff with Yati (charming, wonderful host) and Ina (the girly girl). We hadn't met for a year, last time jumpa kat rumah Ina in London.

Manchester is pale in comparison to Cardiff's serene, and I don't wanna start on London. When shopping during Boxing Day in other places was like wall-to-wall packed with people, Cardiff city was just another ordinary day. Oh peaceful Cardiff... untung kau Yati. Thanks banyak2 kat tuan rumah and housemates yang baik hati. Sapa-sapa nak datang Cardiff sila la contact diorang ni (hehehe gurau je, jangan mare).

Gambar kat bawah ni masa pegi Cardiff Castle, nampak macam kat Ireland plak.

Yati- tuan rumah yang sangat rajin memasak, seriously

Ina- London chick, hot & available hehehe

Muka Yati happy gile jumpa aku hahaha

Jump!!!

Friday, December 19, 2008

Retirement, farewell

Kelmarin aku jadi camerawoman masa Ken's retirement lecture. Supervisor aku yang sangat-sangat baik hati nak pencen akhir bulan ni. So the school decided to throw him a farewell gathering along with school's Christmas party, right after his retirement lecture. Last week's party was the last one I attended this year, that makes the total of three parties  in a row.

Do I look like a party chick? --> HELL NO

Nasib baik dah takde dah after ni. Sesungguhnya aku sangat reluctant untuk pegi, tapi sebab yang last ni sekali dengan Ken's farewell party, nak tak nak kena la tunjuk hormat. Lalu terpaksalah aku hayun kaki aku dan berlakon gumbira dengan jayanya...

Group aku- drug design and delivery. Aku tengah berlakon happy, kononnya enjoy bangat

Walaupun enjoy ala kadar je parti tu, tapi aku sangat kagum dengan Ken. Ken is an eager beaver who covered a lot of ground, having supervised 42 PhD students and 55 postdocs. That being the case, you can expect that his students came from all over the world. First degree dia kat University of Oxford, pastu PhD kat University of Kent.

(Aku nak puji dia dalam bahasa melayu so that kalau dia terbaca blog aku, dia tak faham apa aku tulis muaaahahah)

Ken memang seorang yang sangat baik, merendah diri, suke tolong orang, tak pernah marah or tunjuk dia nak marah orang lain, dan tak pernah tunjuk lagak sebagai seorang professor yang ada pengalaman berpuluh-puluh tahun.

Contohnya, pernah sekali student dia ada problem dengan bank kat sini, dan staff kat bank tu dengan kereknya tanak tolong, claiming that it was not their responsibility to deal with it. Kawan aku ni asalnya nak inform Ken pasal dia tak boleh datang lab hari tu sebab kena pegi bank. Tapi si Ken memang tak boleh tengok orang susah, mesti dia nak tolong. So dia pun call bank masa tu jugak, tapi tak boleh. Pastu siap pegi teman kawan aku pegi bank tu untuk settle problem dia, walaupun masa tu office hour lagi.

Cuba korang imagine senang ke nak cari seorang supervisor - yang sentiasa busy - yang taraf professor- tolong pegi settle problem student dia kat bank masa office hour? Kalau kat Malaysia, sorry to say, tak mungkin ada orang macam tu. Kalau ada pun, mungkin sangat susah nak jumpa.

Ada banyak cerita kebaikan dia, cuma aku malas nak type. Then the more we (Ken's students) talk to other postgrads and postdocs, the more we realize how damn lucky we are for being his students...

AND...

...there's only one from Southeast Asia... the first & the last student... and that one person is me. Cool.

Apa yang aku boleh buat adalah berdoa harap Allah bagi petunjuk dekat orang-orang baik macam ni. Mintak-mintak tuhan bagi hidayah kat dia. Even Cat Stevens pun masuk Islam kan?

Amin.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Ouhhh the memories...

OLD SCHOOL ROCKS

The Animals - House of the Rising Sun



Talking Heads - Psycho Killer


Chris Isaak - Baby Did a Bad Bad Thing


Kansas - Dust In The Wind


Cat Stevens (aka Yusuf Islam) - Wild World

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Tanah runtuh double standard

My heart goes out to the family of the victims. The biggest regret is to witness the double standard policy of the government.

KUALA LUMPUR: Those left homeless by the landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa will be provided with accommodation at hotels.

International Trade and Industry Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who visited the site yesterday, said temporary lodging would be provided to ensure no residents remained at the unsafe area.

"The government will put them up at a hotel if there are no relatives or friends they can live with. This way, they won't feel helpless and worry about where they can go."

Mr. Muhyiddin, just because the victims are deemed richie rich you want to pay all the expenses for the hotel as 'penempatan sementara'? Would you take any actions like such if the victims were orang asli or the poors???

I don't think so... Huh.





Kau nak kasi hotel free guna duit rakyat kat mamat kecoh ni sebab dia ngamuk takde orang tolong jadi kuli hamba angkat barang-barang dia?

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Burn after reading

Brad Pitt kelakar gile. Boleh tak aku tengok wayang cite ni kat sini, tapi sikittttt je orang yang gelak? Typical Brits.





Bahaya menolak sebahagian dari syariat Allah

Firman Allah SWT dalam Surah An-Nisa' Ayat 150-152

"Sesungguhnya orang-orang yang kafir kepada Allah dan Rasul-RasulNya dan hendak membezakan antara Allah dan para RasulNya, dan mereka berkata: Kami beriman kepada setengah (Rasul) dan kafir kepada yang lain dan mereka hendak mengambil jalan tengah antara demikian itu (neutral). Mereka itu ialah orang-orang yang benar-benar kafir; dan Kami sediakan untuk orang-orang kafir itu seksaan yang menghinakan. Orang-orang yang beriman kepada Allah dan Rasul-Rasulnya dan tiada membezakan seorang pun di antara Rasul-Rasul itu, nanti Allah akan memberikan pahala kepada mereka. Allah Maha Pengampun lagi Maha Pengasih."