Temanya satu. Namun pelbagai. Ini yang paling disukai. Ditujukan khas buat insan yang pernah bersama mengharungi hidup remaja dan dewasa bersama.

 

PS: Jadikah projek pembinaan mahligai bahagia kita? Ahahaha~

Totally busy day today. Haven’t do my usual visits to blogospheres’ blog yet. Gomenasai~

Plus, my Mozilla Firefox can’t upload its browser currently. Don’t know what had happen. I lost all my bookmarks. *sigh* This can’t be happen to an IAD person innit? So, summary of today’s event.

Classes from 10am to 4pm.

EIT: 1000-1300
Teaching English to Young Learner (II): 1400-1500
Language Support: 1500-1600
Collective Voices: 1700-1900
MARJON COmmunity Play: 1945-2100
Class for EIT (Education in Information Technology), cracked my head and some of my friends got sick. I think I agree with Ruby, we were exposed with the ray from the monitor for hours and that makes us sick. 😛

Went to Barbican theatre, being filmed, watched people being filmed and playing around with Amna. Zehra’s sister. She’s another kid who asked me whether I’m a Chinese or Japanese. LOL. First time this kind of thing happen when I was in Mecca, on top of Marwa hill, an Indian boy asked me “Are you Chinese? Are you Philippine?”. Hahah. Perhaps kids don’t know much yet to differ people’s face of origin. Anyways, Amna is a cute, active, playful, stubborn and adorable little girl. Such a brave girl.

We rushed to MARJON around 7 something and arrived at Drama Theatre but nobody was there. We don’t know that the first part is finished, and the audiences went out for MARJON’s tour. However, second part was quite brilliant. I like the idea of using human’s voice for sound effect. Voice projection, good. In my opinion, as a teacher, I need to learn from Drama students on how to project voice rightly. Perhaps I can get Jules tips of this. Herry likes the flow. I think.
I don’t like the plot. Since I’m a perfectionist, I look at all aspect, and plot is the crux of a production. I know they can do better. Props especially. Owh, I wish I to help them with the writings. So, I hope they can do better and recognise “Malaysia” as part of MARJON since we are the biggest group of international students in here, and our lecturers had been here for a long time ago and I think Malaysian Government has build a good rapport with MARJON for a long time.

Enough of that. Too many things today. I rushed home (since it’s just a few steps from drama theatre) and eat a lot. And now, my stomach is full and tight. Hwargh. I think I can’t do tarian gelek for pakcik BTB since perut sudah boroi =P

Today is one of the biggest event in the history of MARJON. Desmond Tutu Center(DTC) finally launched today, 8 November 2006. Right, who knows Desmond Tutu please lift their mouse. To those who don’t have any idea about him, read it here. This nice archbishop just celebrated his 75th birthday. The place is named after him, although he believe that we should not name a place after a person who is still alive. However, he said, for this (humanity) sake, he allows.

There were many people attended the ceremony. Lord Mayor, MPs, and many more. After the amusing speeches (by David, a chaplain who used to learn together with Mr Desmond in King’s College–sorry; I forgotten his name, and MARJON’s principal Professor David), there was a man, who lost his son, in 2005. Giving a speech in Arabic (luckily I can still recognize few words), accompanied with strong material video, made many shed tears. What do you expect of me? Well, I cried too (I saw His Lord Mayer lifted his glass and wipe his tears too! You see, men cry too). It’s too hard to imagine your own son, playing, then suddenly he will never smile and call “abi (daddy)” and “ummi (mummy)” again. That is what happened to people who live between borderline of war. Their life is at stake. While boys in America are playing Half-Life, using virtual gun, Palestinian boys are playing with REAL gun. Yes, they go to school. They have their own playtime like kids in the other world, but they are in great danger. I can’t imagine to lose a beautiful son like Ahmad Al Khateeb. His parents even give their son’s organ to 4 people who need them. 2 Arabs and 2 Jews. And his speech, is simple, yet sorrowful, and the only one received standing ovation.

I talked to Ahmad’s mum when she was in the Old Chapel. I managed to understand a bit, since her language Arabic is much different than what I learned in school. I think she don’t get me much either. LOL. I need to re-learn Arabic after this. Why? Lughatul jannah (heaven’s language). His prophet’s language. Owh, I miss the Arabic lessons with Ustadz Yazid so much. I think I want to call him after this.

Honestly, before this, I never wish to change this world towards better place. But Mr Desmond said “dream, dream, dream, and work towards your dream”. He even told one of the ARROW girls (in the video) that “Who knows one day you will receive Nobel Prize for peace. Who knows one day you will be the president of South Africa?”. It’s quite sad he can’t join the event although the place is named after him. So, from then, I look differently. I can’t be a teacher merely. There are many people suffer of war and racial conflicts. Even in my own country.

What I contributed and gained today? I helped Dienka put up the posters for the Collective Voices booth and had ‘once in a lifetime experience’ for today.

So friends, respect is not what you gain, but what you earn.

Extra: screeshot from my newly installed ubuntu.

PS: Make a change (in any way). Streotype is boring.

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.

If you miss this blog, feel free to browse the archives and leave some comments.

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*