Things you do with a laser pointer

I bought a laser pointer the other day. They're pretty cheap, RM10 for a piece. Comes with an extra set of batteries.

When you are unable to sleep and just rekindled your friendship with the camera again, here's the outcome.


An outline of Stonehenge.



... And of course when drawing outline of things get a little boring, drew outside of the line. Btw, if you are wondering... that's a flying saucer trying to abduct a cow using its lightbeam.

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Normal Blog Post: May The Fourth Be With You

If you have not noticed, yesterday (4th May) was Star Wars Day.

If you have not seen it yet, then I should say the most popular catch phrase of that movie was May the Force be with you. (Did you got the pun?)

You know what would be really cool?

If my friend, Wan, has a baby boy and named him Kenobi. Then his nick name would be Obi.
So when he goes out and introduces himself to others, he'd say:

My name is Obi, Wan Kenobi.

(*btw, that's a popular character in Star Wars)

Now, let's think of a way how to lobby for this.

16_Another Picture of Yourself

I have large head. 
Which sits perfectly on my shoulders. 
It may not be as big as a boulder. 
But it's quite large to consider. 


On my head, 
I don't wear a hat. 
But instead I wear a hijab. 


Even if it is rather large, 
It is no burden to carry, 
Because inside I carry 
A brain, oh so handy,
 which is the the envy 
of the typical monkey.


(dyanna -18042011) 

Lol. That's a poem I just candidly wrote from the top of my head (it's so large that I could use it as a writing pad!). * Que in the sound of silence*

Jokes aside, this is a picture of me and my friend in the House of Mirrors at a fun fair circa 2005.

Disconnect to Connect

Do you like oxymorons?     I DO!
It's the innuendo of the English language. So cleverly arranged in a sentence that when the first time you hear it, it makes sense and when you think about it, you'll go "Hey, wait a minute!". It never fails to amuse me.

There is a website dedicated to cleverly crafted oxymora (plural of oxymoron; oxymorons is also accepted ~ according to Wikipedia at least) that you just got to go see.. it's terribly good (pun intended).

[image from Gizmodo]

As amusing it could be in literature, having it in real life is called paradox. Have you ever thought about the paradoxial social networking is?To connect, you need to disconnect.

As we thread our days living in the era of social networking, we are slowly detaching ourself from 'actual' socialising activities? We stopped talking to our neighbours who lives just next door, but we chat non-stop with people hundreds of miles away through social network. We kept quiet during meetings, but we criticised incessantly about how dull or indecisive the meeting was on virtual walls. We are sooo much connected that we allow work stuff to creep into our mobile email boxes even after work and during holidays just to be 'on top of the game'.

We wanted to be connected with the other side of the world so much that we've forgotten that there's actually one in front of us. We rather look at back-lighted devices for updates rather than look into the eyes of loved ones and have meaningful conversations. Sadly, this is the irony of 'being connected with the outside world', we have to be disconnected from everything that's happening around us.

Hear this song. It has this kind of continuous looping music that just can't escape from your brain.

Rogue Waves - Eyes

(Almost) Everyone is in FB

Facebook is the "IN"  thing nowadays. I was skeptical of FB initially, mainly because my friend who introduced it to me keeps going on and on about how fun it is to play Vampire and Zombies on FB (ugh!) and take quizzes. That's what FB basically do last time. But now after many Facebook facelifts and re-vamps (pun intended), I've changed my mind ever since.

On a daily basis, I normally would get maybe 1 to 5 notifications a day. 10 is the max. 0 on really slow and boring days. But on this particular day, when I logged in FB around lunch time,  there's a couple of small red boxes blaring at the top of FB menu wanting my attention. 

30 new notifications and 10 new friend requests!
Wait a minute... I never get this much request in just a single day. This must definitely be spam!

Went to look at the thing that started this all. I was tagged in a class photo. A photo that came from the year 1992!

Up until today, the comments mounts up to 161, and still counting, though slower than initially. I was the Penolong Ketua Darjah that year.

And that started the wave of comments, from people that I haven't heard from in ages! And most of us are now connected to each other thanks to FB. And thanks to FB, I am now able to put names to the faces that I've forgotten all these years.

It is amazing and almost magical to think that one single picture is able to bring everyone together and how it manages to take us down memory lane and somehow it felt like this happened just recently and not 18 years ago. My goodness, how time surely flies!

It was good to hear from classmates again, especially from primary school =)

Bobby, dewan yang panjang dan jambatan

Sayalah Raj. Sila tunjuk ajar kerna saya naif.

OK! Terkejut tak tengok muka mamat ni hari ni?! Hehehe... macam comel.
Alright, I just had to get it out of my system. Ever since A$tr0 showed the 1973 Bobby last January, I just can't sit still because I can't believe the clothes they wore in the movie. OMG! OMG! The palette combinations are just colourful (who would wear red pants together with a red shirt?). Now I can vividly visualise the '70's being so disco-rama and fuyoh! And the hair... what's that about?
If I see guys wearing something similar these days, they'll definitely be listed down as queer.

Bwahahaa! But me likes this movie because of the songs. Scroll. scroll.scroll.

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I was really swamped out during the week. Things are just flying over our heads and we had to try our best not to get hit too hard on the head. Adoi...

Below is a picture of the first wedding for this year. My, what a ver long hall! They only put one table alongside the red carpet and I think it's a great way to give the guest a close up view of the couple. And the red carpet could double as a track for the 100m dash to the pelamin.

Ada laksa penang di serve. Pelik gak.

This is a view from the Penang bridge from my handphone that still have old fashioned buttons (no I wasn't driving) at sunset. That's Pulau Jerejak in the background. You know, there's no other place in Msia (that I know of) where you can have a very scenic view like this while on the way to the office EVERYDAY! It's pretty awesome and very therapeutic. Kalau kerja tempat lain, takkan dapat 'perks' macam ni.

Here's Raj and Bobby again with their 'loud' fashion choices:


..another one:


And another one:

(ok better stop, now I'm just spamming my own blog).

An accidental witness of the Solar Eclipse

I think the last time I noticed there was a hullabaloo about the solar eclipse was when I was in Form Two, which felt just like yesterday (eceh, in denial mode, well you do the math). I remember a lot of word of caution being mentioned by the science people advising keen and curious on-lookers to be careful not to stare into the sun as it might cause blindness.

I did not have any intention to capture this astro-event because I thought I did not have the right equipment. But I snapped a few shots anyways just because the camera was in my hand. I just snap-snap-snap simply like that (and I dare not burn my corneas).

When I uploaded the pictures in the computer and looked back at one of the picture, my jaw literally dropped. Subhanallah!

Tak perasan sangat kalau tgk full image. Bila zoom baru Wow! (click on this picture)

Out of the 10 shots, one turned out to be accidentally jaw-dropping (for my standard-lah).

CSI: Blog

Something quite exciting happened at work (this normally wouldn't happen). Someone at the office stumbled upon a suspicious blog that shows dozens and dozens of pictures of female co-workers (the pretty ones of course) at company events, social get-together and other personal kind of pictures in the blog. The blog is aptly named 'chicks-at-_______(put company's name here)'. Other than posting private and personal pictures (close-up lagi you), that person also put the girls actual names and some even have biodatas and also put some comments about these people. I bet he's a guy, if not, why would there be so many pictures of girls in it? What a demented-spazz-stalking-perv!

OK, back to the story, when this guy found out about this dodgy blog, he posted a mail and distributed to all the foto-members group. So, everyone (well, almost EVERYONE) in the list (about 100 of 'M----olans') went to check that blog out. People start throwing comments here and there and suddenly just after 30 minutes, it has snowballed into somekind of a witch-hunt, searching for the owner of the 'now-infamous' blog.

People started to kan-chong and emails being thrown to and fro, left and right in the foto-members forum talking about how insensitive this guy is because posting personal stuff about other people and also commited the biggest offence ever in the photogs world -> using other photogs photo without consent. And guess what? 15 minutes after that, the blog has been shut down by the owner or Blogger; due to high in-rush visitors. GAAA! Now everybody suspects that this perv is someone from inside the mailing list. Nobody knows for sure as now, all evidence has been cleaned up.

Obamania

I have never been so inspired by a single living person (in today's life) as much as Barack Obama, the newly elected 44th President of the US. He seems, on tv, just like any ordinary man would. Nothing special about his hair, or his face, or his suit and either his family. Everything looks normal, decent and real. So, what is it about him that makes everybody gawping in astonishment, not just in the US, but all over the world?

Personally, I thing what got everybody mesmerised was in his ability to communicate effectively. This guy is very eloquant. Whenever he gave a speech, he just blew people's minds away. He enunciates his words distinctly. The intonation of every words was applied accordingly and perfectly. You can even hear the earnestness, and sincerity in his voice. I think that made people believe that he is much more real compared to McCain.

Listening to this makes me wonder why our politicians can't even talk like him or let alone be like him...

Is this guy for real? Is he too good to be true? Let's hope so.

He is the epitome of change and a living proof that nothing is impossible and anybody can achieve greatness.

I am, therefore I googled..

I'm surfing the net like usual on my free time. After jumping from blog to blog and finished reading all sort of weekly round ups I finally got bored and started googling people's name (bengong tak? klu dah takde keje sangat cam ni la).

I almost gagged when I saw the search results.... 'pom!' came out this picture.... it was for Utusan's Salam Aidilfitri in 2001.

Caption: Pengirim : x-Pelajar IB Kolej Mara Banting 1999/2001

Ucapan: Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri kepada seluruh kaum keluarga dan
sahabat handai... tidak lupa juga kepada guru yang pernah mengajar
kami......

This was taken in our first 3 months in UK. At Notts game. The first sports annual when uni starts. So you can notice the eager faces... for most of us, it's our first time living in a foreign country and all that you could depend on is yourself and your friends. Gone through a lot of obstacles but everything came out fine at the end.

Kelakar kan kalau tengok gambar lama-lama macam ni? After that, you start to wonder what's going on with their lives right now... orang ni macam dulu lagi ke? orang ni happy ke? orang ni finally dapat jumpa cinta sejati tak? orang ni kat mana sekarang? diorang sume wat ape? apa-apa pun, untuk semua I pray to you all the same, that you are leading a good life with all blessings given from the Almighty.

Raya poll..

Either it's because it's the festive season or what they show on TV (news, advert, dramas, reality programme, etc) manages to hit the emotional threshold of it's viewers or I am simply having a cocktail of hormonal imbalance. Everything I watch makes me want to shed a tear (even two or three more tears...) even listening to a song from Dewa 19 (Larut) pun menyentuh perasaan... tak patut langsung.

Life is about the coffee, not the coffee mug...

Sekumpulan alumni yang mempunyai kedudukan dan tahap yang tinggi dalam
kerjaya mereka membuat perjumpaan di rumah professor yang mengajar mereka
di Universiti dahulu.

Mereka berbual-bual dalam berbagai topik dan perbualan itu bertukar kepada
rasa "stress" atau takanan yang mereka hadapi di tempat kerja ataupun
kehidupan mereka.

Professor mereka masuk ke dapur dan kembali semula dengan sebuah teko besar
berisi kopi dan bermacam jenis cawan dan gelas. Ada yang diperbuat dari
porcelain, plastik, kaca, kristal. Ada yang kelihatan biasa dan ada yang
kelihatan mahal.

Professor itu menyuruh mereka menuang sendiri kopi tersebut.

Setelah semua anak muridnya mengambil kopi masing-masing, professor itu
berkata:

"Jika anda semua perasan, semua cawan yang cantik dan mahal telah diambil
meninggalkan cawan yang biasa dan kelihatan murah. Adalah keadaan yang
biasa anda semua mahukan yang terbaik dalam hidup anda tetapi itulah punca
kepada masalah dan "stress" yang anda semua hadapi"

"Apa yang sebenar anda perlukan adalah kopi, bukan cawannya tetapi anda
sendiri telah memilih untuk menganbil cawan yang terbaik. Dan lebih teruk
dari itu, anda memerhatikan cawan yang diambil oleh orang lain."

Kehidupan adalah kopi, kerjaya, wang dan kedudukan anda dalam masyarakat
adalah cawan tersebut. Cawan itu hanyalah alat untuk mengisi kandungannya
iaitu kehidupan. Kehidupan tidak berubah hanya alatnya yang berubah.
Kadangkala kita terlalu fokus kepada cawan yang kita pegang hingga kita
gagal untuk menikmati kopinya.

Nikmatilah kehidupan yang ada...

Crack the code....

All you Robert Langdon wannabes out there... crack this code.

*Hint: Primary school autograph book.

Experimenting with Photo Story 3

Thought I'd try my hands on doing a photo presentation. Used Photo Story 3 (downloadable at Windows webpage for free) to compile and set up the presentation.

Have a go at it... I know you want to... watch.

(Note: No animals were hurt during the photo shoot)

Crazy Frog (dikir remix)

Ada satu lagu dikir barat about The Crazy Frog (deng dedeng deng...) and it goes like this...

Katok Gilo (Krazee Frog)

Dengar sebetar gak adik kakok

Berbunyi naka tapi sedih jugok

Tubuh bergelap ore panggil katok

Kalu di Amerika it crazy frog

Demo pung tahu tempat asal ambo

Anok berudu dok di dale paya

Ayoh dan ibu dok amik caro

Masa kecik dulu ambo ni ado ekor
(ding, ding..)

Rasa nak tengok rupo ayah ibu

Supo katok ngamok ko mak katok puru

Rasa takdok gamok

Sedih dan pilu

Mari kelik la ma

Ubat hati ku rindu

Sungguh sedih kisah hidup ambo

Ado worih pun tokleh wak apo

Ramai kena tindih kut jale rayo

Air mata menilih

Apo yang nak di kato
(ding, ding..)

Gimana-mana pun dok sedak duduk

Dok dale paya ado ular senduk

Dok atas darat pun berasa takut

Budak mari igap amik wak umpan tauk

Ding-ding berbunyi lagu

Memang begini nasib diriku

Tubuh kurus kering sedih dan pilu

Perut masok angin terik mace buah labu

("Penak weh ambo.." sahut si katok dr background)

I am Malaysia.

My dad puts up the Malaysian and Penang (state) flag on the balcony earlier this month. This clearly means Malaysia's Independence Day is coming.

There's so much to be proud about being a Malaysians. I, personally, am grateful that I am a Malaysian, for that if I am not, I won't be where I am today. Thank you to our forefathers who has fought against the invaders and occupiers to gain our independence on 31st August 1957.

There's so much to say about where we are now after 46 years of being independent. Do you vaguely remember about 'Vision 2020'? There's only 14 years left for us to get there.. have we fulfilled most of Vision 2020 goals? Honestly, I don't know, but what I expect to see in the year 2020 is that we have a clean environment to live in, low crime rates throughout the country, the average income of the population is in what we consider as 'middle class' income (and not ridiculously low as RM500/month), courteous and respectful Malaysians, and above all, I do hope we won't turn into a heartless hedonist. All in all, religion must be held high in importance in the hearts of the people.

The list above may seem like a list in the Republic of Utopia or La-la. I think it is achievable, but only if we have the right people and the right leaders.

I am concerned with the behaviour of the Malaysian youths. Moreover, I am deeply concerned with the level of moral depreciation experienced by the Malays (which, in retrospect are assumed to be Muslims) youths.

(*I am rating this section as a PG: need parental guidance)
Nak cerita pun jelik. Entah apa nak jadi laa.. budak2 sekolah agama pun jadi samseng kampung dusun, pukul budak Form 1 sampai tulang belakang rosak. Belum lagi yang hidup atas duit haram hasil meragut beg duit pejalan kaki. Itu yang miskin; budak2 yang ada wang pulak dok ralik pergi enjoy dekat club2 yang hingar bingar menari dengan bukan muhrim sambil minum arak, kononnya cool lah tu. Before I rant about rape cases and et cetera and break out in an uncontrollable rage, I'd better stop. Tapi nak share a short story pasal sorang Mat Rempit ni. I received an email about this Mat Rempit. The contents of the email were three .jpegs pictures of this boy.. and it's a gruesome image of the boy's decapitated body. One of the picture showed, kepala mamat ni, mati terjelir. Isk.. mati sia-sia je.. Kalau mati syahid tak pe jugak. Tak tau la macam mana nasib mamat ni kat akhirat nanti. (*)

(Amaran keras!! Jangan tiru!!! Takdak faedah langsung!!)

Put the law breakers aside, we also have a massive group of youths who's lives revolves around idols (Pop idols that is). If in the past, idols were made out of stone and wood and they're worshipped by the jahilliyah... fikir2 kan sendiri la about idols zaman sekarang. I guess it's not the artiste's fault that their fans worships them. Peminat yang taksub terlampau.. kenalah belajar kawal diri tu, janganlah obses sangat.

The late Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj was right when he said the process of claiming independence is easier than retaining it. I guess what he meant was, the effort did not just ends there, when Tunku got the signatures agreeing on Malaysia's independence with the Birtish Government or when Tunku's plane landed at the airport from Britain. The effort also does not end after Tunku shouted "Merdeka!" out loud at midnight of 31st August 1957. All Malaysians, be it the veterans or post-Merdeka generations have to carry this responsibility to maintain our country's status as an independent country.

How can we achieve that? Easy. Remember the 5 principles of Rukun Negara:-

" Maka kami, rakyat Malaysia, berikrar akan menumpukan seluruh tenaga dan usaha kami untuk mencapai cita-cita tersebut berdasarkan atas prinsip-prinsip yang berikut (We, citizens of Malaysia, pledge all our energy and efforts to attain these ends guided by the following principles)":

1. Percaya kepada Tuhan (Believe in God).
2. Kesetiaan kepada Raja dan negara (Loyalty to King and Country).
   
3. Keluhuran Perlembagaan (Supremacy of the Constitution).
   
4. Kedaulatan Undang-Undang (The Rule of Law).
   
5. Kesopanan dan Kesusilaan (Mutual respect and good social behaviour).

The Rukun Negara says it all. We've been chanting it since primary school, back then when reciting it all that I was concerned was the curvature of my left palm, whether it is straight or not or should I keep my thumb and my fingers close together or spread it out a little at some angle.

Now I am old enough to understand what it means and if we follow these constituents closely, we will be able to experience a continuous peace of living in a harmonious country regardless of its thousands of diversed ingredients.

We should appreciate the fact that we had gained our independence and we still have it with us.

Selamat Menyambut Hari Kemerdekaan dari saya.

Recommended site: Merdeka @ 49
Petronas' Merdeka Advert "Bumi Kitakah Ini?" (I am a big fan of good poems and nice flowery words. Lihat, dengar dan rasakan. Inserted below is the poem that I copied down based on what I heard on tv, I apologise if there's any misquotations).

Bumi kitakah ini?
Pasir yang mengalir dari jari jemari ku
jatuh berderai membentuk bumi.

Adakah lautan tanah ini milikku?
Mungkinkan bumi yg berjuta abad,
Milik manusia yg umurnya singkat?
Sekalipun bumi ini milikku kenapakah pabila ku pergi, akan ku tinggalkan jasad ku didalamnya?

Bumi kitakah ini?
Siapakah pemilik sebenarnya?

Oh Tuhan seru sekalian alam!
Bumi Mu takkan jadi milikku;
Hanya berikanlah aku kesempatan;
Meneguk dari sungaiMu;
Menyelami kesepian lautan;
Mengagumi gemuruh langit;
Mengikuti gelagat hambaMu;
dan menginsafi kekuasaanMu.

Berikanlah aku kebijaksanaan
untuk tidak hanya menerima, tetapi juga memberi
usaha dan titik peluhku dengan keikhlasan, benar hati dan belas kasihan.

Amanah yg ku warisi dengan ikhlas ku manfaatkan;
Semoga semua terilham jua;
Semoga yang lain akan bertanya;
Soalan yang sama;
Mencari jawapan yang kian amat ketara,
Bumi kitakah ini?

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