Malaysia’s 11th Election, 21st March 2004 – The Preliminary Result
The preliminary result of Malaysia’s 11th General Election has been released, and I have to say that I am shocked to say the least. BN looks like heading for another historic landslide victory, with even Kelantan and Terengganu not being spared. I still find it hard to believe the news. I was in Terengganu for the past 3 days, and taking the general sentiment of the locals there, you wouldn’t count against Pas making another clean sweep as they did in the 1999 general election. Instead, when the result was released just recently, the former Terengganu Menteri Besar Hj Abdul Hadi is reported to have lost his state seat in Marang by a majority of thousands. We’re not talking about a small fry leader here. He is revered and so well respected by the locals there. Believe me, my feeling is that the locals of Marang where he contested would wake up tomorrow wondering what actually happened on election day. And who would have expected Pas to lose that many seats in Kelantan? No offense to the BN in Kelantan, but they look more disunited and in shambles if compared to Pas over there. Don’t know whether I should expect any shocking news tomorrow when they do the recount. It’d be interesting to see what will come out in the news in the next few days post-election.
The only good thing I can think of from the election result is that the government might announce tomorrow a public holiday in celebration of another landslide victory. Honestly if you ask me, I can’t help smelling a grand scam behind the general election this time around. Again, the media will have a field day for the whole of next week at least covering on the subject.
Sunday, March 21, 2004
Saturday, March 13, 2004
If Only Women Knew...
If Only Women Knew...
A friend of mine forwarded me this through e-mail recently. An insight into the male’s mind that women very rarely give a thought about. How true. The subject is titled in Malay, “If only women knew...”, it describes the feeling and psychology of the male’s mind that the opposite sex usually takes for granted. Perhaps the males out there reading this can confirm whether or not the following statements are true. It would be a joy to read the responses from the females. : - ) Enjoy!
Andainya perempuan tahu.......................>
* Lelaki juga boleh menjadi seseorang yang begitu sensitif dan mengambil berat (prihatin)
* Jika seseorang lelaki meminati wanita, wanita itu tak semestinya cantik. Cukup dengan budi bahasa dan kesopanan yang tinggi. Malah lelaki boleh menyukai wanita yang mempunyai banyak persamaan dengannya samada dari segi pemikiran atau minat. Oleh itu, banyak yang boleh dibualkan atau dikongsi bersama.
* Kebanyakan masa, lelaki sebenarnya tidak mengetahui perasaan sebenar yang dirasakan oleh seorang wanita.
* Lelaki boleh menerima penolakan dengan baik.
* Lelaki cuba menonjolkan sikap kelakiannya untuk menambat hati wanita...
* Lelaki memang dilahirkan dgn perasaan yg kuat terhadap wanita..sebab itu mereka suka melihat wanita, menjeling wanita dan menonton Baywatch! Atau mencuci mata di tepi pantai atau swimming pool.
* Kebanyakan lelaki resah bila berhadapan dengan situasi ingin mengajak wanita keluar kali pertama!
* Lelaki cuba meniru gaya selebriti atau berlagak macho hanya kerana ingin memikat hati wanita.
* Bila lelaki cakap.."Emm. tengoklah dulu"..itu seringkali bermaksud dia berkata tidak atau kurang setuju.
* Bila lelaki cakap direct to the point dalam sesuatu hal, dia sebenarnya ingin bersikap jujur dan berterus-terang dan mengharapkan wanita memahami maksudnya.
* Kebanyakan lelaki yang nampak 'desperate', datang dari sekolah all boys!
* Adalah biasa lelaki cemburu terutamanya apabila perempuan asyik menyebut nama lelaki lain.
* Lelaki tak boleh belajar kesemuanya pasal perempuan dari library atau
buku semata2. Oleh itu mereka selalu keliru dengan sikap perempuan..dan
tak faham kenapa perempuan bersikap begitu begini...
*Kadang2 lelaki perlu mengetahui lebih mendalam tentang bagaimana berhadapan dengan perempuan supaya hubungan dapat berjalan dengan lebih baik.
* Betapa hebatnya lelaki itu bersikap romeo dan 'flirting' dengan ramai wanita..dia tetap hanya ada seorang teman wanita yang istimewa...yang lain hanya kawan..:)
* Bila lelaki tertengok dada wanita dan wanita itu menyedari...maafkan saja. Kebanyakan lelaki tak sengaja....Mereka merasakan kejadian wanita itu begitu indah!
* Bila sesuatu hubungan putus di tengah jalan, lelaki juga rasa bersedih..cuma dia tak menunjukkannya kesedihannya di depan orang.
* Bila seorang perempuan meminati seorang lelaki, perempuan itu patut bagi hint! Mana tau lelaki itu juga menaruh minat. Senang usahanya nanti...
* Adalah memalukan bagi lelaki jika tak berupaya menolong wanita.
* Kebanyakan lelaki cukup lemah dgn air mata perempuan. Mereka lebih tewas sekiranya air mata itu mengalir dari perempuan yg dikasihi. Sebab itu dikatakan air mata senjata perempuan.
*Lelaki bukanlah sempurna 100%, walau bagaimanapun rupanya atau pandangan luarannya. Jadi, perempuan janganlah mengharapkan semua yang hebat dari lelaki! Mereka juga normal dan mempunyai kelemahan!
A friend of mine forwarded me this through e-mail recently. An insight into the male’s mind that women very rarely give a thought about. How true. The subject is titled in Malay, “If only women knew...”, it describes the feeling and psychology of the male’s mind that the opposite sex usually takes for granted. Perhaps the males out there reading this can confirm whether or not the following statements are true. It would be a joy to read the responses from the females. : - ) Enjoy!
Andainya perempuan tahu.......................>
* Lelaki juga boleh menjadi seseorang yang begitu sensitif dan mengambil berat (prihatin)
* Jika seseorang lelaki meminati wanita, wanita itu tak semestinya cantik. Cukup dengan budi bahasa dan kesopanan yang tinggi. Malah lelaki boleh menyukai wanita yang mempunyai banyak persamaan dengannya samada dari segi pemikiran atau minat. Oleh itu, banyak yang boleh dibualkan atau dikongsi bersama.
* Kebanyakan masa, lelaki sebenarnya tidak mengetahui perasaan sebenar yang dirasakan oleh seorang wanita.
* Lelaki boleh menerima penolakan dengan baik.
* Lelaki cuba menonjolkan sikap kelakiannya untuk menambat hati wanita...
* Lelaki memang dilahirkan dgn perasaan yg kuat terhadap wanita..sebab itu mereka suka melihat wanita, menjeling wanita dan menonton Baywatch! Atau mencuci mata di tepi pantai atau swimming pool.
* Kebanyakan lelaki resah bila berhadapan dengan situasi ingin mengajak wanita keluar kali pertama!
* Lelaki cuba meniru gaya selebriti atau berlagak macho hanya kerana ingin memikat hati wanita.
* Bila lelaki cakap.."Emm. tengoklah dulu"..itu seringkali bermaksud dia berkata tidak atau kurang setuju.
* Bila lelaki cakap direct to the point dalam sesuatu hal, dia sebenarnya ingin bersikap jujur dan berterus-terang dan mengharapkan wanita memahami maksudnya.
* Kebanyakan lelaki yang nampak 'desperate', datang dari sekolah all boys!
* Adalah biasa lelaki cemburu terutamanya apabila perempuan asyik menyebut nama lelaki lain.
* Lelaki tak boleh belajar kesemuanya pasal perempuan dari library atau
buku semata2. Oleh itu mereka selalu keliru dengan sikap perempuan..dan
tak faham kenapa perempuan bersikap begitu begini...
*Kadang2 lelaki perlu mengetahui lebih mendalam tentang bagaimana berhadapan dengan perempuan supaya hubungan dapat berjalan dengan lebih baik.
* Betapa hebatnya lelaki itu bersikap romeo dan 'flirting' dengan ramai wanita..dia tetap hanya ada seorang teman wanita yang istimewa...yang lain hanya kawan..:)
* Bila lelaki tertengok dada wanita dan wanita itu menyedari...maafkan saja. Kebanyakan lelaki tak sengaja....Mereka merasakan kejadian wanita itu begitu indah!
* Bila sesuatu hubungan putus di tengah jalan, lelaki juga rasa bersedih..cuma dia tak menunjukkannya kesedihannya di depan orang.
* Bila seorang perempuan meminati seorang lelaki, perempuan itu patut bagi hint! Mana tau lelaki itu juga menaruh minat. Senang usahanya nanti...
* Adalah memalukan bagi lelaki jika tak berupaya menolong wanita.
* Kebanyakan lelaki cukup lemah dgn air mata perempuan. Mereka lebih tewas sekiranya air mata itu mengalir dari perempuan yg dikasihi. Sebab itu dikatakan air mata senjata perempuan.
*Lelaki bukanlah sempurna 100%, walau bagaimanapun rupanya atau pandangan luarannya. Jadi, perempuan janganlah mengharapkan semua yang hebat dari lelaki! Mereka juga normal dan mempunyai kelemahan!
Friday, March 12, 2004
Peak Season at Work and The Paranormal
Peak Season at Work and The Paranormal
Guess where I am? I am still in the office! Though my brain has surrendered any capability to think of work at this point of time, I am here waiting for my fiancee to finish her bit of work. It is that time of year again (it seems to come around faster by the year), when we close our accounts for the year and brace ourselves for the avalanche of reports, questions, and consolidation that comes with it. Our auditors are coming in next week, and there are still a few things that need to be done. Looks like its going to be a working weekend for me.
Was in Melaka yesterday for a plant familiarisation visit. Familiarisation. Such a mouthful word. Kept having to repeat it yesterday and Wednesday when people asked me what I was doing in Melaka. Got lost for over an hour trying to find the hotel from the Simpang Ampat exit. Pusing sana, pusing sini. The route I was on was getting deserted by the minute that at some points I began to suspect if I had actually been diverted by some unseen forces. Which reminded me of a scene in the Mothman Prophecies when Richard Gere set on his way driving to Richmond which is in the south of the USA but ended up finding himself mysteriously in Point Pleasant which is way up north of the USA.
In fact, we (I was travelling with my colleague, whom conveniently is my fiancee... hehe) did come across something suspicious along the way. While I was driving along this secluded road, which turned out to lead towards Kem Askar Terendak, there appeared to be some road works on one part of the road. They closed one of the lanes on that 2-way road, and there was a tractor or something digging up a hole on the closed part of the lane. We were stopped by one of the workers looking after the traffic to allow the tractor to move to the other side of the road to pile up the soil from the dug road. There wasn't any other car on that road at that time. The time was around 10 pm.
When we were allowed to pass, I could not have driven more than a kilometre away when we came to the entrance of Kem Askar Terendak and realised that there was no way through. I asked the guard at the entrance which way to Riviera Hotel, and was told to drive a few kilometres back where we came from and take a particular turn at the junction we had passed. On our way back to the junction, I was driving slowly in anticipation of the road works that we had passed not more than 5 minutes ago. I kept on driving, and to my surprise the road works which had only been there a few minutes ago had DISAPPEARED! There was no tractor, no heap of soils on either side of the road, gone were the bright spot lights they had in the area for the works, and more significantly there were no signs that any road works had taken place there in the most recent time. It was all dark and quiet.
I looked at my fiancee and asked her whether she had seen it on our way back, and she just looked back at me silently, indicating that we do not talk about it until we were completely out of the area. It wasn't a great help either that the next 5 kilometres stretch of the road had no street lights along it and either side of the road was pitch dark. I just sped my car out of the area and was more than relieved when we finally came to the end of that dark road and back on the main road to Kota Melaka.
Moral of the story: Don't travel too late at night to places you're not familiar with. Though neither of us were significantly affected by the experience, the thought of getting lost further was beginning to worry me a little bit.
Anyhoo... looks like my fiancee's work is done. My tummy is making growling sounds already. Feel like having mee rebus tonight at Plaza Damas. Nyum.. nyumm...
Guess where I am? I am still in the office! Though my brain has surrendered any capability to think of work at this point of time, I am here waiting for my fiancee to finish her bit of work. It is that time of year again (it seems to come around faster by the year), when we close our accounts for the year and brace ourselves for the avalanche of reports, questions, and consolidation that comes with it. Our auditors are coming in next week, and there are still a few things that need to be done. Looks like its going to be a working weekend for me.
Was in Melaka yesterday for a plant familiarisation visit. Familiarisation. Such a mouthful word. Kept having to repeat it yesterday and Wednesday when people asked me what I was doing in Melaka. Got lost for over an hour trying to find the hotel from the Simpang Ampat exit. Pusing sana, pusing sini. The route I was on was getting deserted by the minute that at some points I began to suspect if I had actually been diverted by some unseen forces. Which reminded me of a scene in the Mothman Prophecies when Richard Gere set on his way driving to Richmond which is in the south of the USA but ended up finding himself mysteriously in Point Pleasant which is way up north of the USA.
In fact, we (I was travelling with my colleague, whom conveniently is my fiancee... hehe) did come across something suspicious along the way. While I was driving along this secluded road, which turned out to lead towards Kem Askar Terendak, there appeared to be some road works on one part of the road. They closed one of the lanes on that 2-way road, and there was a tractor or something digging up a hole on the closed part of the lane. We were stopped by one of the workers looking after the traffic to allow the tractor to move to the other side of the road to pile up the soil from the dug road. There wasn't any other car on that road at that time. The time was around 10 pm.
When we were allowed to pass, I could not have driven more than a kilometre away when we came to the entrance of Kem Askar Terendak and realised that there was no way through. I asked the guard at the entrance which way to Riviera Hotel, and was told to drive a few kilometres back where we came from and take a particular turn at the junction we had passed. On our way back to the junction, I was driving slowly in anticipation of the road works that we had passed not more than 5 minutes ago. I kept on driving, and to my surprise the road works which had only been there a few minutes ago had DISAPPEARED! There was no tractor, no heap of soils on either side of the road, gone were the bright spot lights they had in the area for the works, and more significantly there were no signs that any road works had taken place there in the most recent time. It was all dark and quiet.
I looked at my fiancee and asked her whether she had seen it on our way back, and she just looked back at me silently, indicating that we do not talk about it until we were completely out of the area. It wasn't a great help either that the next 5 kilometres stretch of the road had no street lights along it and either side of the road was pitch dark. I just sped my car out of the area and was more than relieved when we finally came to the end of that dark road and back on the main road to Kota Melaka.
Moral of the story: Don't travel too late at night to places you're not familiar with. Though neither of us were significantly affected by the experience, the thought of getting lost further was beginning to worry me a little bit.
Anyhoo... looks like my fiancee's work is done. My tummy is making growling sounds already. Feel like having mee rebus tonight at Plaza Damas. Nyum.. nyumm...
Tuesday, March 09, 2004
Kursus Perkahwinan
Kursus Perkahwinan
Over the weekend, my fiancée and I attended the compulsory course for every Muslim to attend before marriage. Kursus Perkahwinan Islam. The course was held over 2 days, beginning from Saturday afternoon and ends in the early evening on Sunday. I didn’t quite know what to expect of the course to begin with, but I have to admit it turned out to be a refreshing eye opener in some aspects for me.
The course was held in Bangsar Utama, near the Bangsar LRT station, and Dataran Maybank. One distinctive feature that you would notice almost immediately once you arrive at the place is of the many pictures of artists and celebrities that have attended the course in the center in the past. But I have to say that the place where the lectures are held look rather shoddy however. It made me think how could such a place attract such celebrities? Ruhil Amani, Fauziah Latiff, Tun Mahathir’s son (Mokhzani), Tan Sri Halim Saad, and Norman Hakim and Abby Abadi were clients here, just to name a few. The place basically has a list of who’s who in their list of past clients. And I was about to join this distinguished list… (cewah).
The lectures were ok, the syllabus a mixture of religious studies, some tips on marriage psychology, and some tips that would definitely come in useful after marriage. They also gave us directions on what forms need to be filled up and where we could get them from. One of the things I’ve learned while attending the course is that marriage requires so much paper work. Phew… and different states in Malaysia would require you to fill up different forms and to follow different procedures. So they had to separate our forms according to the states you’re from, and the states where you’d be getting married in. Another interesting feature about the course is that they have cameras fitted in the lecture rooms to monitor the participants, to make sure that none of us disappear after registration. Whoa… big brother’s watching you!
Being there with all the other participants made me feel how collective we were. You could sense the commitment in everyone. From the way they look, these people knew why they were there. When I checked the participants’ registry, I saw that the age of the male participants range from 21 to 36. And there were people from all background. There was this guy (who looked like he could not be any older than 23) who told me the woman he’s going to marry is a divorcee with a child. And apparently the woman’s ex-husband is thinking about taking her back, and thus is not about to give her up so easily. And from rumors that I heard, there was also a female participant who was already pregnant. The procedure that she would have to go through would therefore be different from the rest of us. There were people from all sorts of background and circumstances, but we were all there for the same purpose.
At the end of the 2 day course, I learnt more than what I bargained for. Though the certificate is what matters most, I’ve also learnt that I am very much luckier than most people are. And that I’m very thankful for. Alhamdulillah.
To those out day who are getting married soon, I would recommend this place to you. You can even register online here.
Over the weekend, my fiancée and I attended the compulsory course for every Muslim to attend before marriage. Kursus Perkahwinan Islam. The course was held over 2 days, beginning from Saturday afternoon and ends in the early evening on Sunday. I didn’t quite know what to expect of the course to begin with, but I have to admit it turned out to be a refreshing eye opener in some aspects for me.
The course was held in Bangsar Utama, near the Bangsar LRT station, and Dataran Maybank. One distinctive feature that you would notice almost immediately once you arrive at the place is of the many pictures of artists and celebrities that have attended the course in the center in the past. But I have to say that the place where the lectures are held look rather shoddy however. It made me think how could such a place attract such celebrities? Ruhil Amani, Fauziah Latiff, Tun Mahathir’s son (Mokhzani), Tan Sri Halim Saad, and Norman Hakim and Abby Abadi were clients here, just to name a few. The place basically has a list of who’s who in their list of past clients. And I was about to join this distinguished list… (cewah).
The lectures were ok, the syllabus a mixture of religious studies, some tips on marriage psychology, and some tips that would definitely come in useful after marriage. They also gave us directions on what forms need to be filled up and where we could get them from. One of the things I’ve learned while attending the course is that marriage requires so much paper work. Phew… and different states in Malaysia would require you to fill up different forms and to follow different procedures. So they had to separate our forms according to the states you’re from, and the states where you’d be getting married in. Another interesting feature about the course is that they have cameras fitted in the lecture rooms to monitor the participants, to make sure that none of us disappear after registration. Whoa… big brother’s watching you!
Being there with all the other participants made me feel how collective we were. You could sense the commitment in everyone. From the way they look, these people knew why they were there. When I checked the participants’ registry, I saw that the age of the male participants range from 21 to 36. And there were people from all background. There was this guy (who looked like he could not be any older than 23) who told me the woman he’s going to marry is a divorcee with a child. And apparently the woman’s ex-husband is thinking about taking her back, and thus is not about to give her up so easily. And from rumors that I heard, there was also a female participant who was already pregnant. The procedure that she would have to go through would therefore be different from the rest of us. There were people from all sorts of background and circumstances, but we were all there for the same purpose.
At the end of the 2 day course, I learnt more than what I bargained for. Though the certificate is what matters most, I’ve also learnt that I am very much luckier than most people are. And that I’m very thankful for. Alhamdulillah.
To those out day who are getting married soon, I would recommend this place to you. You can even register online here.
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