self-indulgent

Last time I wrote on my plan during 3 weeks holiday. In order to refresh your rusty memory, have a look here.

Well, most likely, some of it were successfully done while some aren’t. Number 3 is most likely my victory. I do it every single day, skipping and crawling and leave my footprint universally. I did it very well, in fact, I have a dream to get a certificate for this field. No, no one ever get a certificate for bloghopping. It’s my other blog, which I intend to give a makeover and recognition.

Carboot is quite enjoyable but the weather is not. While for books, I’ve breed them in my room. Just read one and others were breeding. Quite ambitious I am.

Preparing for the next term? I don’t know what I should do anyway. I’ve prepared mentally, I have accepted the fact that the class is going to start soon. Probably just need few days to adjust my sleep time. That’s it.

I had good time in London with kak eQin and abg kejam. London was nice. Yup, weather was been nice that time. Sunny, bright and cheery. Parks, strolling and try to enjoy our days as much as we can though we don’t have big budget for our holiday. Yeah. Happiness is not determined by your money, it’s determined on the way how you’re thinking bout it. I’ve had my lesson thank you. ~(sing it!)yang penting happy~happy~ Previous report here.

Jobhunting, I guess I’m not lucky enough. I think I’m going to bluff my name sounds like ‘Miss Adam’ (someone teaches me, and she’s a good teacher) after this.

Well, just seize the day while I still can. I don’t find it boring, cause I found day with a class is hectic and there are so many things to be done and rushed. See ya people! Selamat menyambut hari Malaysia pada 16 September ini.

I am a pundit blogger

A blogger is a person who writes blog and have a blog (duh, obviously~). There are few people who were dooced because of their filthy blog. There are cases, where blogger were sentenced to jail because of expressing their thoughts. Name it: Xanga, blogspot, Yahoo 360, Live Journal, Myspace, etc; they are still web+log. A platform where we can express our thoughts, ideas, opinion, etc.

Latest, we have podcasting and it expands the freedom of media. Thanks to Brad Fritzpatrick, it widens blogosphere and inpires many to write. From blog, a blook has been created. Followed by: moblog, vlog, flog, plog, and many more. What a big world of blog we have! Even politicians have their own blog, laureate, artists, sportswoman and even well known millionaire have a blog.

Looks like it’s a good industry eh? If your blog have a good prospect, you can ask the advertisers to advertise in your blog. You’ll get money while blogging. Isn’t that great? Well, what I’m trying to say is, I’m keen with blogging, and I hope my fellow blogospheres will too.

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Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read.
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Senarai penerima AP

Bukan saya hendak menulis tentang penerima AP kali ini. Title tu tak melambangkan entry kali ini. Ia wujud kerana saya tidak tahu apakah terma yang sesuai bagi orang yang mengucapkan ucapan ‘selamat hari jadi’ kepada saya. Ada sesiapa tahu terma bagi orang yang menyampaikan ucapan? Pengucap?

Saya tidak tahu bagaimana untuk menunjukkan betapa berterima kasihnya saya kepada mereka di atas ingatan mereka kerana saya fikir umur 21 bukanlah masa untuk menyambut hari lahir dengan meriah. Ia merupakan titik permulaan saya melangkah ke alam dewasa. Bagi saya, cukup hanya dengan ucapan di kalangan rakan-rakan.

Dengan ini, saya ukirkan nama mereka di blog saya sebagai tanda terima kasih kerana menjadikan detik bersejarah hidup saya lebih bermakna.

  1. cikgukampung
  2. abg Firdaus Ashraf@Abg Best
  3. indra
  4. zuera MMU
  5. zurina
  6. najihah
  7. fikri
  8. majidah
  9. nicang
  10. laili
  11. cinot
  12. faa+geng
  13. k.eQin
  14. alin, ina, wani+nisa–>siaran langsung dari McQuarie
  15. abg wan
  16. seow shi ying
  17. asyraf notts
  18. kuzek
  19. zuera auckland
  20. dayah zaba
  21. s0ya
  22. azim
  23. loqman
  24. anis
  25. ruth
  26. azwan
  27. ainna
  28. kak julie pinky
  29. mak+ayah
  30. mimiey
  31. shaminah
  32. hanis
  33. shah
  34. hazwan

Ada yang wish via YM, friendster, in person, sms, dan calls. Terima kasih semua. Kalian hadir dan membuatkan hidup ini lebih ceria.

Ada berita baik buat orang Manjung/Sitiawan. Secret Recipe bakal dibuka di daerah kita. Yeay!

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Juga berita terkini. Kawan-kawan saya juga sudah punya blog baru di blogspot. Check them out!
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Nur Afifah

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Bila umur menginjak ke 21

Hari ini hari sabtu. Hari ini merupakan hari yang penting buat saya. Umur saya menginjak kepada angka 21 dengan rasminya mengikut Greenwich Mean Time. Saya bersyukur ke hadrat Ilahi kerana memanjangkan umur saya, masih menyayangi saya dan memberi rezeki yang melimpah ruah kepada saya. Alhamdulillah. Segala Pujian bagi Allah. All praises to Allah. Tatkala membaca entry KeretaMayat yang latest, hati saya membenarkan kata-katanya. Ya, kita perlu meminta agar umur kita diberkati, bukan setakat umur yang panjang. Biarlah saya mati syahid tatkala muda dari menyusahkan orang (cth:bakal anak2/cucu sy/orang hospital) bila tua nanti. Justeru, di dalam entry (apa ya terma bahasa Melayu bagi perkataan entry? Masukan?) kali ini, saya bukan hendak bercerita tentang sambutan hari lahir yang ke 21 ini, namun hati ini terdetik untuk menaakul tentang apa yang saya telah buat sepanjang 21 tahun saya hidup.

Sepanjang 21 tahun ini, pelbagai kenangan pahit manis dan pengalaman saya kecapi. Perpindahan ke SMKASAS merupakan antara yang termanis buat saya. Hingga kini pabila saya datang kembali ke sekolah, kasih sayang dari guru-guru yang pernah mengajar saya membuatkan saya terharu. Insya Allah, saya berazam untuk menjadi guru-guru yang hebat seperti mereka, malah lebih hebat dari mereka, Insya Allah. Saya doakan agar guru-guru saya menjadi penghuni syurga Allah, juga dosa-dosa mereka diampunkan dan agar Allah berikan mereka kekuatan untuk mendidik anak-anak bangsa.Anda boleh lihat wajah-wajah mereka di sini; laman web rasmi SMKASAS. Ada yang di antara mereka sudah bertukar dan sebagainya. Namun, izinkan saya namakan mereka yang memberi inspirasi kepada saya. Jasa kalian akan dikenang hingga Izrail menjemput saya.

Ustadz Yazid
Pn. Jumilah
Pn. Bainah
Pn. Zaimah
Ustadz Rushdi
Pn. Bahiyah
Pn. Alina
Pn. Hazaliza
Teacher Rose
Pn. Norayon
Ustadz Kashfi
Ustazah Uraidah
Ustadz Ziyad
Cikgu Zan Asri

Terima kasih kerana memberikan daku inspirasi, moga ilmu yang kalian curahkan akan menjadi bekalan pahala yang berkekalan. Terima kasih cikgu!

Hari ini juga membuatkan saya sedar tentang kemasukan saya secara rasmi ke dalam alam dewasa. Sudah tua saya rupanya. Boleh mengundi dan memegang kunci kebebasan. Namun kebebasan bukanlah bermakna keseronokan. Terlalu banyak perjuangan yang perlu dilangsaikan. Segala ranjau alam orang dewasa perlu dihadapi dengan akal relevan dan matang. Susah juga menjadi orang dewasa ya?

Terima kasih kepada yang telah memberi ucapan juga bingkisan kenangan. Nantikan entry seterusnya, penamat kepada detik bersejarah hidup ini. Terima kasih semua.

Your Birthdate: September 9

You are a born idealist, with more pet causes than you can count.
You prefer be around others, both when working and while relaxing.
Generous and giving, you believe you can change the world one person at a time.
You’re open minded and tolerant. People feel like they can tell you anything.

Your strength: Your go-with-the-flow flexibility

Your weakness: Your flair for the over dramatic

Your power color: Pine green

Your power symbol: Circle

Your power month: September

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English is not a vocational major that prepares you for one particular job (like an accountant, for example). Instead, a degree in English provides you with a broad range of skills useful for any number of careers. Skills that make you a good job candidate include the ability to:

  • Think critically and solve problems
  • Write and speak effectively
  • Edit someone else’s writing
  • Express your creativity in any number of ways (design a brochure, write a campaign letter, reorganize an office, and others)
  • Learn new information quickly
  • Work well with others
  • Develop hypotheses, research data, and interpret and summarize data
  • Organize ideas and information

With these skills, English majors have achieved success in a variety of fields, including writing, editing, publishing, teaching, public relations, technical writing, paralegal and legal, marketing, consulting, business, government, museums, libraries, and more.

Explore these and more career options in What Can You Do with a Major in English?, by Shelley O’Hara, and brought to you by the experts at CliffsNotes.

My own additional notes:

  1. If you learn English as second language, you can also be a translator, for books, movie subtitles and plenty more. Especially best selling books, who knows your name will be under JK Rowling’s.
  2. Write your own memoir, who knows one day it’ll be as hot as Arthur Golden’s.
  3. Scriptwriter for those who have creative ideas and good writing skills. Name it: drama, stage play, TV series, children’s theatre, etc. Who knows you might be the next Marc Cherry.
  4. Emceeing. Our market needs high-proficient speaker for official caremony, public events, etc. Who knows you will be proposed by Radio producer.
  5. Anchorman/anchorwoman: I would say this field has a good prospect since there is a competition among broadcasting companies. Who knows you will be the next Normala Samsudin and be a ‘Datin’.

Opting for English widens your job prospect and produce multi-talented people. Good luck!

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Movie Review: Solaris and Lagaan

Solaris: A sci-fi movie that is starred by George Clooney. It said to be though provoking but I dare to say that it is ‘mind numbing’ since the plot is slow, you can’t trace flashback and sometimes you need to strain your ears since the actors/actresses are like whispering. I even need to use the subtitle for hearing-impairment because my PC can’t go any louder. I slept halfway anyway. I rarely sleep for a movie but a dull one. The music makes me feel sleepy either, plus, there’s not really a music. The ending, frustating I would say. I recommended this movie for aeronautic people and men who do not want kids. I don’t really upset with this movie since it’s George Clooney =P. I give this movie 2 stars out of five. (2/5) *Most press give it B, some Cs.

Lagaan: It is based on 1893 setting, where India was ruled by ‘White people’. Although this movie runs for 3 hours, the drop-dead-gorgeous actor and enthusiaisic Aamir Khan, will make you wide awake. I’m sure it changes your mind a bit about Hindi movie. But still, Hindi movie ALWAYS have happy ending. That one I am pretty sure, will not change for about another decade. For the synopsis, you can read it from here.

What I like the most about this film is, the make-up, very natural. It suits 1893’s setting. It does not emboss its actress much. She (played by Gracy Singh) is absolutely looks like a normal rural girl. Not too beautiful (too beautiful like Aishwarya, which makes us distracted from the movie) yet charming. Nude colours, natural tan (yeah, oily and bronze colour looks best on Aamir Khan) and you’ll barely notice they are wearing any. The plot does not merely involves love relationship, although there is, but not like other Hindi movies, which main focus is the love story. I would say the percentage is just about 35%. No wonder it receives nomination for best foreign movie in Oscar. Rarely we can see a Bollywood movie in Oscar. Besides, this movie has victoriously stole 33 awards. I am sure that your sportmanship will be uplifted as you watch this. It’s about injustice, loyalty to your motherland, teamwork, social status, disability discrimination and corruption.

This time, a Hollywood movie has been defeated by a Bollywood movie. If you need to choose between these two, I suggest Lagaan. It’s worth your 3 hours. Really. While Solaris, it has taken 2 precious hours from my life. I wish I can claim back from them.

B’DAY by BEYONCE (2006)

Tracklist:
1. Deja-VU
2. Upgrade U
3. Get Me Bodied
4. Suga Mama
5. Ring The Alarm
6. Kitty Kat
7. Freakum Dress
8. Green Light
9. Irreplacable
10. Resentment

Beyonce has finally come up with her 2nd album, a follow up to her worldwide success of debut solo effort, Dangerously In Love. B’day is a birth to music industry with another quality worth buying collection of R&B tracks. I really fancy this album since the tracks are quite new to my ears. Congratulations to Beyonce for being creative enough to feed her listeners with some new cool songs. Generally, Beyonce and her co-producers seem to explore more varieties to the sounds in this album. Heavy drums, heavy beats, heavy sounds, and live instruments sound really fascinating. However, there is something that I find could be the minus point to this album. She is great singer but she showed off too much of her vocal prowess.The result is, she is rather screaming than singing in some of her songs. Poor her, she maybe forget that good vocal means good control.
1.Deja-Vu: At 1st, I had a hard time to like this song. It isn’t cathy as Crazy In Love. But it’s still enjoyable and listenable. The rythms are quite flat but the lyrics is brilliant. I’m torn between saying this is better or worse compared to Crazy In Love. Owh ya, towards the end of the song, I’m not suprised you are devastated of how much she showed too much of her vocal capabilities. The ending turns ungly than aspiring to wrap up the whole song…
2. Upgrade U: Tired of dancing to Deja-Vu?This one is designed to slow down your tempo!It’s such a soothing mid tempo hip hop track. As usual, a little help from Jay-Z is needed to make this track more enjoyable.
3. Get Me Bodied: I was really impressed that Beyonce could come up with this song. You can dance like a Bhangra with this tune. This track sounds more like a Bollywood soundtrack. An interesting song for you to Shake Your Booty!
4. Sugamama – Another good song which really tests Beyonce’s vocal capabilties. This song needs only the right soulful diva to deliver the tune.And Beyonce is the one. The formula is still the same with Work It Out. Heavy drumbeats and live instruments…Only the lyrics is different.
5. Ring The Alarm – The only thing you could remember about this song is a range of annoying sirens to mark the beginning fo the song. The sounds are too ‘alarming’ that only big woofers can present the distinctive sounds in this piece of work. The sirens often time overcasts the other musical instruments and you won’t be suprised why you don’t like the song. Perhaps after you watch her recent VMA 2006 performance of this song, you could deny this fact. At least she performed it very well on stage despite the poor musical arrangement in this song.
6. Kitty Kat – This is rather an extra track when Beyonce does not have enough songs to include in her album. The sound is too easy, nothing to say WOW about it. A typical Destiny’s Child sound.
7. Freakum Dress – I think this can be Ring The Alarm part 2 but the arrangement in this song is way much better.
8. Green Light – If all the other songs are too bouncy for you, this one is more decent in beats. You can dance to the right and to the left as this song can make you feel good time.
9. Irreplacable – Irreplacable and Turntable(by TLC). The title is alike and guitar strings are also alike,….hurmm is it from the same song writer(s)?. I’m quite relieved that we at least have a ballad song to die for.
10. Resentment – Soull influence brings us to the Motown era in this song. Maybe this will be featured in her upcoming movie, Dreamgirls.Who knows??
SCORE: 81
Recommended Songs: Deja-Vu, Suga Mama, Get Me Bodied

LONDON (Reuters) – The Arctic Monkeys, who shot t…


LONDON (Reuters) – The Arctic Monkeys, who shot to fame on the Internet and broke all records with their debut, won the coveted Mercury Prize on Tuesday for the best British album of the year.

“It’s good tunes — that’s what we try to do,” said frontman Alex Turner after the group accepted the 20,000 pound award.

The Mercury Prize judges tend to court controversy every year by picking quirky and offbeat winners rather than chart-topping blockbusters.

This year was a glaring exception with the prize going to the Arctic Monkeys who in January smashed the British record for the fastest-selling debut album.

“Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not” sold over 363,700 copies in its first week.

Even Turner admitted to being surprised that they had won. “Normally it doesn’t go to a band that has sold as many albums as we have. But we are very pleased with it,” he said.

The Arctic Monkeys handed out free CDs of their music at early gigs which were in turn downloaded onto the Internet by fans and sent across cyberspace.

They were surprised as anyone when crowds at concerts then began singing back the words as they performed.

For the Mercury, first awarded in 1992, the quality of the music, not the weight of album sales is normally the prime consideration.

In 1994, M People’s “Elegant Slumming” beat competition from Blur, Pulp and the Prodigy — much to the surprise of the music press.

Last year Antony and the Johnsons won the prize for “I Am A Bird Now”. Lead singer Antony Hegarty, while born in England, spent more than 20 years in the United States, raising questions about his eligibility for the award.

The nominated albums for the 2006 award were:

Arctic Monkeys – “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”.

Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – “Ballad of the Broken Seas”.

Editors – “The Back Room”.

Guillemots – “Through the Windowpane”.

Richard Hawley – “Coles Corner”.

Hot Chip – “The Warning”.

Muse – “Black Holes & Revelations”.

Zoe Rahman – “Melting Pot”.

Lou Rhodes – “Beloved One”.

Scritti Politti- “White Bread Black Beer”.

Sway – “This is My Demo”.

Thom Yorke – “The Eraser”.

yeehaa..my favourite band won…who can get bored with their smashing heavy banging tune, When Te Sun Goes Down??A brilliant song to bang your head to after a bad day!It’s wonderful they defeated the amazing Thom Yorke (Radiohead frontman) who has a critical accalim for his debut solo album,The Eraser. Muse also went home empty handed, but never mind, at least I still enjoy their heavy electronic guitar sound, Supermassive Black Hole…Im still wondering whether Arctic Monkeys will make any debut at this year’s grammy…looks like they will…yeah, consider they r already in the top 20 best albums of the year as compiled by metacitics.com..if you would like to have a copy of any of the songs in this article..please contact me…now still looking the best way to embed songs in my posts..any suggestions???

WHAT’S MORE TO COME?

Hi guys, in the next posts, I’ll bring you single reviews and album reviews. My first album reviews would be Beyonce’s B’Day, Breaking Benjamin’s Phobia, and Basement Jaxx’s Crazy Itch Radio. We will also look at at the latest singles from Paolo Nutini, Lily Allen, Jesse McCartney, Evanescence and Beyonce:

1. Jenny, Don’t Be Hasty (These Streets) – Paolo Nutini
2. LDN (Alright Still) – Lily Allen
3. Right Where You Want Me (Right Where You Want Me) – Jesse McCartney

4. Call Me When You’re Sober (The Open Door) – Evanescence
5. Ring The Alarm (B’Day) – Beyonce Knowles

In the meantime, this is where you can find reviews for most major records:
http://www.metacritic.com/music

UK TOP 40 SINGLES CHART WEEK ENDING 05/09/2006

Here is the latest UK Top 40 singles chart:

  1. SexyBack – Justin Timberlake feat. Timbaland
  2. Hips Don’t Lie – Shakira feat. Wyclef Jean
  3. Deja-Vu – Beyonce Knowles
  4. Scissor Sisters – I Don’t Feel Like Dancing
  5. Fratellis – Chelsea Dagger
  6. Ridin’ – Chamillionaire feat Krayzie Bone
  7. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
  8. Love Don’t Let Me Go – David Guetta feat. The Egg
  9. Me & U – Cassie
  10. Everytime We Touch – Cascada