Craze Over Music...

Well as we all know, Malaysians are all crazy about singing and music. The testimpny to this is the fact that we have no less than 5 reality TV shows which concentrates on producing more singers (Quantity YES but Quality is another story). Here are some advertisment of a reality TV show which I feel quite funny to miss. Enjoy!!







All the videos above are from Malaysian Idol but the one below is a different kind of Idol. The first time I saw this video, it sent chill down my spine.



Thisis the video of the late Mona Fandey, a singer cum bomoh who cold bloodedly killed a state assemblyman in her house and cut him into 13 pieces. After months of trial and several controversies later, she was sentenced to death by hanging. I hope those who were produced by these realty shows don't end up like her. Ngeeeeeee..

Industrial Training Online Log

Since I was too tired and sleepy yesterday to write anything, this post is made for my day three and day four of my Industrial Training.

Day Three;

Whoaaa, this time I manage to wake up early to get into the bathroom before 7 o'clock. But I might have stayed extra long in there that I only manage to depart for work at 7.35 a.m. Takpelah still sempat what… half an hour. Yaa right, memang tepat – tepat half an hour plus 1 minute I punched my attendance which was at 8.06 a.m. Dah… my first entry, I got merah already. But nevermind, My boss said the latest I should be in office is by 8.30 so it's still ok lah. I entered my office and saw everyone was there already and I was still the last one to arrive. Turnes out that Shuhairy came at 6.00 a.m. to mark our test paper (He was our lab instructor until last week) and Foo just got in a few minutes before I do. So I did the usual thing I did for the past 2 days (open my laptop and check my email) and then finish up the filing. After that My Boss came in and gave me more documents including a copy of a BQ (bill of quantity) to sumbat into the already full file. Then I got email after email that I have to respond to and those are all regarding one single thing, the notes of the discussion made yesterday. Haha. Then on request of my boss, I went up to the third floor to the big boss' room to ask for the previous minutes of meeting (together with my FYP log book and also Foundation Engineering test II paper which I scored badly but anyway at least half of the class got their marks like I did).

Then straight after that, my boss came to my desk and took all the things he gave me earlier in the morning (except for a receipt for me to do the claim process). He said it's not that he didn't trust us but it's the procedure and he might have overlooked it. To me, I think there has been some misunderstanding in the way they handle the thing. It is true that the documents were supposed to be a secret one but the secret thing about it was only the pricing guide and not the scope of work to be done. We are supposed to be given an empty BQ and not the one filled with all the numbers. Surely it will cause conflict of interest especially me with the position that I'm in right now and it's well known to everyone within the project team. Haha. What position I'm in to cause the conflict of nterest? I don't know… or better said I malas wanna write in here.

After that I said oklah. What to do. Dah memang the procedure like that so I cannot do anything about it. So I continue my work. Then came in Ms Sivadass to give me the BQ I asked from him. Alamak, again!! Hahaha I have to asy to him sorry but we are not allowed to get hold on the BQ anymore until the project has been awarded. And then he said that's the reason why he had been holding it off me for days. Laa… well, he should have said it earlier. So we don't have to go through any of these troubles. Hahaha.

Well anyway, enough with the procedure problem. So, me and Foo went out for lunch with Shuhairy at COE Foodcourt. There we met Kamal, Cheng, Mr. Arabi Nawwaf Saud Al-Qadi, Omar and also Dr. Bashar. So I had lunch with Dr. Bashar, my most feared lecturer… hurm… nice.

After lunch came back to office and met Dr Lee. He explained why we cannot have this and that. It's all done to avoid complain by the contractor later on. Then he said the very word that have been said by the two person who met me before, " It's not that I don't trust you…". Haha, takpelah… anyway, of course they cannot trust us. We are the temporary staff and we are not even trusted to handle the photocopy machine, apetah lagi nak handle big things like BQ.

Then, the rest of the day went on like normal until we got home. It's just that since Foo live just by the highway where I travel every day and we just parked our car was left in the parking lot untouched from 8 to 5.30; we made a pact to carpool together starting tomorrow.

Day Four,

The day started pretty early today, I got out from home at 7.15 a.m. and went ahead to pick up Foo. After winding up and down the 'Bukit' and got to the highway, I got the shock of the day. The highway was surprisingly empty on a Thursday. Normally the exit from Putra Heights will be blocked by the cars lining up to turn into USJ but today there's hardly any vehicle turning into the junction. In 10 minutes I've reached Foo's house. After waiting for quite some time I got a call from him saying that I should go first because he kinda misplaced his wallet and I got makeup test to attend. So I went out to the highway again. The time was well past 7.30 a.m. but the road section is still pretty clear. In Transportation terms, if on other days I would consider the highway stretch to have a Level of Service (LOS) E but today it might have gone up to LOS C which is quite significant. So I happily drove my car (as my boss would say – "While singing Uniten song") and still manage to arrive in Uniten and punched the attendance at 7.46 a.m. Waahhh!!! First time weiii~ arrive earlier than everyone else in my office. But still I couldn't beat my boss (He got his own room so I don't see him, I just saw his car).

Shortly after that, Shuhairy came. He straight away printed the test paper and handed it over to me. So I got 1 hour to finish it. I do, do, do, do, and manage to finish the exam by 9.30 a.m. (hahaha Jangan marah…) Then me and Foo (who arrived while I was doing my exam) went out on site visit (or better said in search of one). In case I haven't mention, today, we are on our special assignment by our big boss to search for samples of Kanny Hill Formation and sandy Weathered Granite soil. He had asked me to do it like two months ago and he asked me to take a day off to search for it. The assignment was actually given to me personally but I dragged Foo along coz since the starting, we have been doing pretty much the same thing. It's just that we don't do it together (he has his own set of the same documents to file). So today is pretty much our get – along – and – do – stuff – together – day.

First stop, Upten Foodcourt. Fill up the tanks with food before start doing physical work. Then we move on to our next stop, the Hardware store. We have to drop by the shop since I was too old (I was like 70 to 85 years old) to remember to bring a shovel and some plastic bags to collect the sample. Or else how are we gonna transport the sample? So I have to buy some plastic bags and a shovel. Luckily the shop sells clear plastic bags loosely and is sold by its weight. So I bought 100 grams of the stuff (around 12 pieces of plastic bags) and a scoop (since my gardening scoop has already bengkang-bengkok so why not get myself a new one).

Then we head straight for Kenny Hill (nowadays known as Bukit Tunku. Kenny hill formation is named after the rock formation on this hill) to find any project which involves excavation which we can gather some soil sample. As usual, for every visit to Bukit Tunku, I will have problem finding a junction into the area. After few wrong turnings, I decided to enter Bukit Tunku through Jalan Duta as I did on my previous visit there. This time I entered through Langgak Tunku Off Jalan Duta. Before I get to get any deeper into the area, we saw a hoarding fence. "This is a good sign", so I turned around to have a better look and JACKPOT!!! They're doing excavation works!!! So we quickly parked the car, get our safety helmet and got ourselves into the site.

At first I asked an Indonesian worker if we could speak to their site supervisor, but he said they don't have their supervisor there then I asked if I could have his number and he said "no number". Then I said, "Tak apalah kalo gitu' cume gue mau ambik sedikit tanah disini mau buat experiment di universitas". So I gave him a plastic bag and he immediately filled it with the soil. After thanking the Indonesian guy, we were about to head to the next site when there came a smartly dressed but with worried – looking face guy from inside. He greeted us and we immediately greeted him back. We said to him that we are from Uniten on an assignment to find some Kenny hill formation. His reaction was somewhat relieved to find out that we are from University and not some authority enforcer. He then said to me, "You sure ke sini Kenny Hill Formation?" I replied to him,"Takkanlah tak pulak, sini kan Kenny Hill". So he agreed to let us get some more sample from his site and also agreed to help us out to get our ten bags of sample and gave us his contact number.

Yess… First mission completed. We then head to the second site which is situated just beside Intan Kenny Condominiums which confirms our claim that Kenny Hill was in fact Bukit Tunku. This time, since the site supervisor is a Chinese, Foo took the lead to approach him. And both supervisors in both site turns out to be very warm and friendly. So in a very short time our assignment in Bukit Tunku is over.

We head next to Hulu Klang area where I suspect we would find the weathered granite. And we did find it in Kemensah area. It didn't take long to get the sample but since the area was much bigger than Bukit Tunku, the search took slightly longer time to finish and also because the site we approached was run by a big company, we didn't get a very warm welcome. After collecting the two samples needed we headed back to Uniten to have our lunch.

After lunch, we head back to the office and sat in our cubicle doing nothing (since I didn't bring my laptop, there's nothing much that I can do in the office) until 5.30 p.m. punched the attendance, and head straight home. Tomorrow we're gonna start carpooling. Say yes to environmental friendly method of travelling to work!!

Industrial Training Online Log

Day Two of my Industrial Training.

First thing in the morning, I got kantoi-ed with my boss for coming late to work. In fact, I came so late that I only arrive at the office at 9.20 a.m. Kesian pulak at Foo for having to wait for me since I held the office key.

Upon entering the room I began the process of taking over the new cubicle. Move the furniture here and there, get a chair for myself, call the cleaner to clean the room and voila!!! I got my own space for me to work in. Yay!!!!

After that brief cleaning process, I began my work for the day. Continue filing the documents and sorting out the relevant documents from the non-relevant ones, and emailing my boss for the documents I have yet to receive.

Then my big boss came by the office. He wanted to introduce to us our new lecturer for the department. Aarrgghhh.. I forgot her name… well nevermind… anyway I didn't have the chance to talk to her yet. And she got her own room. Only Shuhairy talked to her sharing some knowledge about Uniten and also the system here. Haha. My boss also came by and he sempat to ask me to come out with a note about our discussion yesterday with TNB Transmission.

After that distraction from the job, I continue my day with the copying the files process. I had to copy all the documents that Foo has but I don't. So I took all the documents and take a short walk across the lobby to the COE office. Got myself into the office and head for the photocopy machine. Hehehe. I tested on many skills of copying. Normal put-all-in-tray copying, one page – by – one page, A3 plan copy, and also double sided copy. Hehe kiranya I get to know the machine.

Shortly before lunch I started on the notes of the discussion, stop a while for lunch with Arechong, Afiq, Foo, Faliq and Muazan. Came back at 2 and continue finishing the note and emailed everyone. At 4 my boss came and made some comments on the note I made. Hahaha. Have to make amendments to the note and email everyone again.

Finally, got back at 5.30 p.m. drop by at Upten to Ta-pao some Hanith Lahm (Arabic rice with lamb) and head straight to Dad's office. Usually on Tuesday and Thursday every week, we will be having a religious class which is sponsored by my dad (that's why it's held in his office). It's open to our friends and family and the best part is, since the thing is sponsored, it's free for everyone else. After the class only that I head home.

Earth Hour 2009

Earth Hour : TNB Records 550 MW Drop in Consumption

Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) is pleasantly surprised by the support and appreciation demonstrated by many of its customers on the worldwide Earth Hour campaign last Saturday, 28 March 2009.

"Electricity consumption dipped by 550 Megawatt (MW) which is equivalent to about 14 million fluorescent bulbs (40 watt each)," said TNB President/Chief Executive Officer, Dato' Sri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh.

During the one hour period of the energy conservation initiative (8.30 pm - 9.30 pm) TNB staff were extra vigilant in case any untoward operational difficulty occurs.

"Everything went on very smoothly and we were able to respond to the slightly lower demand without any operational glitch," said Che Khalib.

Demand peaked up almost rapidly at 9.30 pm to follow the normal Saturday evening demand pattern, he said.

"While this minor fall in demand will result in a slight shaving of our revenues, we accept that Earth Hour is for a good cause," added Che Khalib.

Imagine the saved energy's impact onto the carbon emission from the power plants. How many kgs of carbon did we save?

Congratulations to all Malaysians for showing that we do care for the ENVIRONMENT !

Industrial Training Online Log

Today is the 6^th of April 2009 which means it's the first day of my Industrial Training in Uniten. Haha, on the very first day itself I slack around. Supposedly, I came at 8 a.m. but I only arrive at there at 9. I entered the office but I couldn't see anyone. I thought to myself, "Habislah, I've created a bad impression on my first day."

After messaging Foo, I sat down at the couch pretending to read my Soil Mechanics book. Hehe. Cover mesti baeeeekkkk punya!!! Then I got a message from Foo saying that he's in his boss's office. Then I went up to the 3^rd floor, wander around then got back down. I sat back on the same couch and pretended again to read my Soil Mechanics book.

A while later I saw Afiq going for his Integrated Design presentation. He asked me to join him in the presentation room. Since I got nothing to do so I followed him. Tak sempat nak going out to the lift, I saw Shuhairy going to his room. Since I was assigned to the same room as he is, so I followed him to get my cubicle. (I should've followed Afiq. If I did, I would've got my job earlier and I would've have time to finish everything before we go for the meeting)

After I sat at my cubicle, Foo came by and sat at my cubicle. There are two empty cubicles in the room but only one is readily available for seating as the other has boxes on them. Maybe tomorrow I'll sort things out and make that cubicle as mine.

Since Foo had got the instructions from his boss Dr Lee and I haven't so I followed Foo to do his task of going to the BD lab and get the documents from the Research Assistants there. After we got back from the lab, I switched on my laptop and opened facebook. After doing few quizzes and showed Foo some of the videos recently posted here in this blog and also on Every-Rant-Counts, I began my search on info about Stone Column, the location of TNB building we're gonna have a meeting at and also about few landmarks in Petaling Jaya.

At around 1 p.m. Tn Hj. Sufian came in my office and gave me the tasks I'm supposed to do in the morning. So I did the job as fast as I could and depart for the meeting at 2.30 p.m. I thought half an hour is enough for me to get to PJ since I always make it to Mid Valley in fifteen minutes. How wrong I was. As I take the turning from KL-Seremban Highway to PJ, The road was jammed like hell. I had to inch my way until Mid Valley before the road clears back at Federal Highway. That time I rasa menyesal tak sudah for following my boss's advice to take that road. I should've taken the Besraya - Jalan Kuchai Lama - Jalan Klang Lama - Federal Highway stretch instead. Huh~ Takpelah… It's all in the past now.

I reached TNBT at around 3.05 p.m. and at that time only Shuhairy had arrived because he came from Sunway. I searched for parking spot and found one at the road side near Menara Axis close to the junction. So, I happily parked my car there and walked to the building. As I walked I realize that I was the only one in our convoy who parked at the road side. My boss and Foo all parked inside the paid parking space. Aah sudah… dahlah aku park illegally, overly exposed pulak tu. So I turned back to move my car elsewhere, but there's a problem. I cannot make a U-turn there an then because at the place where I parked, there's a divider at the centre and if I really wanted to turn around I had to 2 U-turns which is quite far away and given the PJ road condition, it's not gonna take little time to do so. So, dengan pasrah dan penuh harapan that the police will not come because it had just stopped raining, I walked back to TNBT to join the meeting.

The meeting went well without any technical difficulties but there's something funny happened. The guy who chaired the meeting was the guy who was in the same office with my boss back in 1987 but they never had a chance to each other until today. Yalah, one guy had to go to Sungai Piah, complete the hydroelectricity project and then came back and became a lecturer while the other one remained at the office and got promoted. Hahaha.

After the meeting our team head to Section 8 Shah Alam to see the site which we are going to work in. It is a yet to be commissioned substation situated on a slope which had failed. So TNB delayed the commission of the substation in order to let us do our study on the affected slope.

After the visit, we called it a day and head home.

Different Ways to Sing Your Nursery Rhymes

Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky,
Twinkle twinkle little star,
How I wonder what you are,

Jack and jill went up the hill,
To fatch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after,

These are the lyrics of two of the most famous nursery rhymes. Do you still remember how to sing them?
Well I don't. But, this post is not about teaching you or reteaching you how to sing nursery rhymes, Its about the different ways to sing your nursery rhymes. Indian STYLE!!!

Check out these videos!!! In case you don't understand the words they saying, you can refer to the lyrics above...






I think this is the source of the craze over these Indian Nursery rhymes. Hahahaha.
Its taken from a 1970 hindi film Purab Aur Paschim.

First Day @ Industrial Training

Yesterday was a hectic day, or izzit? I don't know… Is it my schedule that makes me run all about or it's just me who menyebok sana sini… Hehehe.

The day started pretty early, I woke up in the morning and said to myself, "Wah, today I'm unofficially gonna start my Industrial Training. But, then I just have to be there by 9.30 a.m. Hurm… it's still early". So I got off the bed, hit the showers and then head straight for the laptop.

Sempat lagi siapkan 1 proposal before my mom called for breakfast. The time was around 8.40 a.m. I was like, "ok.. lambat lagi..". I happily had my breakfast with my mom after quite a long time and finished eating like 9.00 a.m. and got ready to go.

I entered my car and cucuk the key in to start the engine. Once I start the car, I glanced at the clock. "HAAAAA!!! DAH PUKUL 9.20???" It was like I only got 10 minutes to reach the place where I would take 30 minutes on normal days. To get out from Putra Heights to reach the highway alone would take me 15 minutes. Mulalah I drive like a mad man… Pecut sana and cilok sini. I donno how many saman I got on yesterday alone. If I got any lah… The LDP got like 5 traffic cameras but I don't know which one is functioning on that day.

Finally after speeding at 160 km per hour on the Putrajaya stretch, I reached Uniten at 9.45 a.m. I drove in to the parking lot and saw something that eases my worry, "YESS, Dr Lee had just arrived, so they haven't left for the meeting yet".

I walked into the BN lobby and saw they all had gathered and ready to go. "Thank GOD, I'm saved". So, after greeting each other we went to TNBR for the meeting.

Upon our arrival, we were greeted by the engineer there who led the project. He then brought us into the swiss roll-shaped building. As I step into the building, I was struck with awe… It was HUGE!!! It got 3 separate blocks encased in the semi-cylinder shaped roof. We were brought past the forensic engineering area where they investigated the burnt substation components.

We got inside one of the building and got into the meeting room. Inside there, during the meeting, everything went well, we had our occasional laugh until the engineer from TNBR presented his part of the job. At that time, our group leader, Dr Lee who is my lecturer and also my project supervisor, showed his usual 'taring' at the engineer as he would with his students. He banged the engineer bertalu-talu until the engineer terdiam and donno what to say anymore. Hihihi.

After the meeting, I send my immideate boss Tn.Hj Sufian back to his office and since I haven't officially started work yet, I went straight to Amanah to surrender my apartment keys and also to pick up my Saudi roommate (now ex-roommate) for Friday prayer. He said he got his exam at 2 p.m. but I said to him "How can you have exams at 2 p.m.? I thought the earliest we could have the exams is at 2.30 p.m. since the prayers itself ends at 2 p.m.". He then called his classmate and then said that his classmate was not sure about the time. I then said "Never mind, the prayers should end slightly before 2 so meet me at the car directly after prayers and I'll send you to your exam room.

After the prayers I quickly sent him to admin building where he'll be having his exams. Upon arriving, we saw his professor walking by the road side… I said in my heart,"Duuuhhhh!!!"

After that, I went to do some errands and then went to Uniten Mosque to present my proposal for the community service program next semester. Right after my presentation, I got a message saying that my offer latter was ready for collection. So I went back to BN buiding to get my letter and to hand in my industrial training form. At the COE office I stumbled upon Zana which we then walked together to the IT briefing at BV lecture hall. As usual, the hall will be packed to the brim and I cannot hear a single thing. So we just stayed outside and chatted with the others. After that we walked back to COE office which I then stumbled with my co-authors at Every-Rant-Counts. The invited me to watch movie together, I said ok but since I hadn't had my lunch so I asked them to drop by for a drink first.

We went to Alamanda Putrajaya to watch Pantas dan Garang 4 (Fast and Furious 4. Hahaha) I don't really know how to rate a movie but I do enjoy watching it. The special effects are superb.

After spending time with the gang watching movie, I went back to Amanah with Afiq to his apartment. Perform Maghrib prayer and then took some rest. Then we went out again, this time we accompanied Arechong for dinner at The Village View, Bangi. Since I already had my popcorn dinner earlier, so I just had 1 piece of roti canai and air kosong. Then I went straight home.

At home, I took a shower, perform Isya' prayer and then went to bed. (or at least I thought I went to bed). I woke up being puzzled," Where am I?" I was not in my room. When I opened my eyes, everything looked different than my room. The color of the wall and even the brightness of the room was different from my room. For a while I tried to guess where I'm at. Rupa- rupanya I was in my living room on the couch. I thought I went to bed properly the night before but eventually I just landed on the couch and dozed off till morning.