So, as promised, I updated (a bit! haha~) about Nottingham Games 2006.

Notts game is the biggest platform for Malaysian students to meet in UK. Apart from showing your talent in sports and compete for the Piala Pusingan, meeting with friends is one of its agenda. I never knew I met with my schoolmates. I didn’t even know that they are right here in UK.

Another friend of my friend, Nizam, looking a bit different (jangan marah ek doc~), makes me think this world is small. Why? He knows my friend, which means, actually we know each other.
A triangle. Wow~ Isn’t that awesome?

I even met my junior 😀
She was calling me when they were taking pictures. I felt so terharu. But since they (she and her friends) look damn busy, I get to her later. Guess what? Another evidence that this world is small.

Bla3. I know you won’t like this entry. It is plain dry. But hey, I’m trying my best to blog after I finished my assignment. ~whew~

So, the total number of attendees is: 5286.

Ministers in house:

Y.B. Dato’ Hishammuddin bin Tun Hussein 
Y.B. Dato’ Shafie bin Haji Apdal
Y.B. Datuk Mustapa bin Mohamed

* Can you imagine? 3 ministers in a place at one time in UK? Whaddaya think? Instead of me, they are having reunion too. 

Enough about Notts Game. Today is quite a busy day. *sigh* tomorrow will be too. 

There are so many things happen yesterday at University of Nottingham. Biggest Malaysian Game it was. 

Got some stories to tell, but currently quite busy with EIT assignment. Need to send it tomorrow to CITE before 12pm.

Wish me luck.

Will update this entry later.

Thanks for your patience.

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Gambaremasu!!

I would like to share with you guys what my friends and I had done this Tuesday, poem recital for BBC Devon. My poem is after Marrick’s. You can listen to it on air, by visiting BBC Devon website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/devon/local_radio/

Then, you go to listen again, choose ‘art & drama’ (3 records available), then click ‘the review’ for full recording. Mine is around the area of 15th minutes.

To download the snippets (90 seconds only), click here.

Hope you’ll enjoy it.

Download this crap IF you want to listen. I warn you to stop listening to it if you experience any discomfort. Click the title or download here.

PS: This file will be automatically deleted if not being downloaded for 30 days.

This is an interesting ad, and I would say, effective.

Q: What’s with the internet neutrality and why they want us (public) to sign the petition?

A: The internet is under attack by huge telecoms like AT&T. Americans across the country are fighting back, but does Washington, DC care? Or are they going to sell out the internet regardless? Musicians like Moby care because your ability to download and listen to music from iTunes and videos from youtube could be in jeopardy. The only way to save the internet from these big companies is through NET NEUTRALITY.

OK. I know this doesn’t have any relation with other country but this ad is cool and funny.

Watch this video to see Moby bring the issue of NET NEUTRALITY to Congress.

This cool video has been made by these genius people:

Produced & Edited by Laura Dawn, Adam Green, and Jason Rosenberg &
Dan Manatt of PoliticsTV.com
Directed by Laura Dawn
Music by Daron Murphy & Laura Dawn

This week is a lovely week. Half term for UK students. It means, a week of holiday. Luckily we can celebrate raya for the whole week. Below are the events according to chronological order:

Monday: Raya
Wednesday: DeepaRaya Feast
Thursday: International Nite
Saturday: Concert of Plymouth Respect Festival
Sunday: Plymouth Respect Festival

So, I didn’t finish my report for EIT yet. Luckily my friend (I’m sorry I don’t know who) asked Mike to give an extension for the assignment due date. Whew.

Translating English to Bahasa Melayu is quite difficult. Currently I am volunterring to be one of the translator for Ubuntu’s The Dapper Drake project and it seems that I have lost the skill of translating English to my mother tongue. I just realised all this while I don’t call computer gadgets in Bahasa, but English. I never once called a mouse as ‘tetikus’ and so forth. O wait, last time I referred computer stuffs in Bahasa was in my Friendster blog. Which is way months ago, before this blog exist.

With the help from my master cry4freedom, a widely used dictionary in Malaysia had been downloaded and I used it a lot in helping me to translate English to Malay. The software is called Al-Yassir. If anyone interested to download it, scribble it in comment area since the file size is 59MB, pretty big eh? Ok. Honestly, I don’t want to upload it if nobody wants it. What’s the point innit?

Right. Here’s one of the challenge, I had taken an hour to translate this;

alihbahasaubuntu2.jpg

I asked my friends, google, etc. I just do not know what ‘under score’ is called in Malay. But my friend gave me an idea and I finally translate ‘under score’ as ‘garis bawah’. Whew. Thank you Halwani.

Another challange; click the link below:

alihbahasaubuntu.jpg

Number 38: Acces denied. Do I translate it correctly? Is it ‘laluan dihalang’ or ‘tiada kebenaran masuk’? I can feel my brain cracks a bit as I was doing this translation job.

Number 37: I think I did it correctly. However, you can correct me if I am wrong

Number 38: This one is tricky. Nothing done. Is it ‘tiada apa dilakukan’? or ‘tiada tindakan dibuat’?
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OK. My humble point to volunteer in this project is to lift up my mother tongue’s notion of correctness, but I think I end up messing it. By the way, I had fun chatting with my master about Malay translation of computer terms.

🙂

PS: I am so confused with ‘hard disk’ and ‘hardware’. I thought it is ‘cakera keras’. I am totally wrong. Hardware is ‘perkakas keras’. *sigh*

In UK, we already celebrated Eid Mubarak, one day earlier than Malaysia (Monday, 23rd). So far, I haven’t shed a tear yet although there are many challenges and problems I encounter. I’m trying not to have any emotion attachment, as a Jedi is prohibited from doing so. Feeling will prone you to dark force.

Eid eve: cooking, playing sparkle.

On Eid: visits, chatting, eating and more eating.

Pertama kali beraya jauh dari family. Siapa agaknya tolong mak di dapur (?), siapa tolong mak basuh pinggan (?), siapa temankan emak kalau mak tak pergi solat raya (?), etc.

Soalan streotype: Apa perasaan?
Jawapan saya: Sungguh mencabar soalan ini ya. Pelbagai perasaan dialami seperti seronok; kerana kita mmg kena seronok masa hari raya, sedih; pertama kali sambut raya jauh dari keluarga, biasa; kerana sudah 22 kali sambut hari raya. Juga, sedikit rasa

Lagi soalan streotype: Sana (UK) puasa bila?
Jawapan saya: Mungkin hari Ahad (22/10/06) atau Isnin (23/10/2006)

S(ainee semakin malas menaip nampak gayanya): Seronok tak beraya di UK?
J: er, aren’t we supposed to be happy during hari raya?

S (and I’m not sure whether this is a question): elleh, sane raya tak best. takde lemang ketupat dan rendang.
J: hello? snap, snap. which world are you living? why are you saying like we’re living in antartica?have you heard anything called globalization? and even if you’re in Michigan, Tokyo, or Jordan, you can still eat those kind of stuffs OK?
PS: Go fish yourself.

I had fun playing drums today (and I still feel like playing it again). Well, if i have a band, I would play the drum. Spreading my anger via the drum sticks (not the chicken body part ok?). BTW, thanks for visiting my blog, Dienka.

Blogthings says that if I were a rocker, I would be a glam rocker. Something like Scissors Sisters+Suede+Duran Duran. LOL.

Ainee is a Glam Rocker!

You put the “show” in rock show with your larger than life self. No doubt, you are all about making good music… But what really gets you going is having an over the top show. Glitter, costumes, and wild hair are your thing – with some rock thrown in!

O yeah, I had finished the recording and copied it in the CD. There are 3 parts:

I: last week’s work. using garbageband software of macbook and some people said it sounds good (I send it to 3 people only, heheh).

II: experiment:not much. very short. don’t know what to say.

III: using keyboard to record “doe a dear” song. sounds like kids playing for school caremony.

The testimonials from the 3 people:

ina (my housemate who gave me the music notes for ‘doe a dear’s song): eh, okei la tuh .

blusmurX: bagaimana intro boleh begitu hebat sekali?
blusmurX: why why?
blusmurX: oh
blusmurX: talented.
blusmurX: tp seriously , u’re talented.
blusmurX: boleh la collab dgn i pasni.

alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:06:28): awal2 sounds mantap
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:07:38): huhu
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:07:43): yg awal2 serius mantap
and this person has promised me something–>
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:09:28): ok kak aini
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:09:39): saya nak g latih nasyid
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:11:16): klu recording kite org sedap
alilXaki (19/10/2006 20:11:26): sy bg akak

Wanna hear them? Get it here. Do comment.