Passion wiv Words

Kuala Gandah

2007-11-21T06:55:00.000-08:00

remember that i said "i promised to blog about something that i was up to that day instead of going to bersih"?
now here it is
when 40,000 -ish public went to walk the talk and towards the vision of a better malaysia but i do regret that i didnt join in the fun but hey i was doing something towards a better future too okay?

that very important day instead of dataran merdeka as the meet-up point, Balai Berita NSTP Jalan Riong was instead the meet up place for some of us that fateful morning.
here are some pics

the whole team of reporters well we are the muhibah ones =D
bathing the elephants now and passing shit along the way lol
this is what they love to do ahaha

feeding them lol this guy got fedup of watermelons and threw them all on the floor
muax i love u too! =x
2 pro reporters and one fuking bloody noobie chinaman intern
and look behind there sexyback yea! ilupmysexyback ahaha
we got alot of groupies together but hey this one looks nice cuz u can only see the small little heads and not the beast we are =D
and last but not least thanks to the mat rempits that entertained us along the way
oh ya thankz to BERSIH and the fukin police roadbloacks all along the way for the massive jam starting from the outskirts of pahang until right up to the heart of KL. Thank You =)

thats all folks and i'm now a certified elefriends! Protect the elephants!

BERSIH Follow up

2007-11-15T06:30:00.000-08:00

watchin Al-Jazeera now, thank god my friend's place have astro

this was the first time I switch to the AJE channel @ channel 513 with great enthusiasm and not just surfing through. This weeks episode 101 east was recorded with abdullah's son-in-law khairy, de facto law minister nazri and also the hero HAKAM's president Malik Imtiazz (edited thanks chris) with Teymoor Nabili as the host and also the middleman.

Basically it's a 2 V 1 challenge with alot of extra footage that have never reach Malaysian public media. From what i can see anwar is just plain old with his hairline going further and further back and also the phone interview with information minister zainudin maidin that was made famous because of his powderful english.

they started off with the roadblocks and somehow with some twist and turns nazri did tried to say that its the demonstration that is the root cause for KL stopping in the middle of the hustle and bustle of a saturday morning. however i do wanna clarify this up, I've been stuck in the fooking jam when we went to pahang and it was far worst when we were coming back during the evening, what we got was a terrific jam that stretch until the bounds of pahang.

What i did in pahang is another story will blog about it later =D but some would say that i'm not patriotic but seeing life from a reporter's point of view had made me think and rehink maybe all these are just mere sandiwara but 40,000 people does prove that something is very very wrong with our constitution.

speaking about solidarity, strong solidarity in our country? my answer is a big NO

even though i loathe khairy to the core, i do have a little bit more respect to him as his public speaking skills are just so damn extremely good. The time when he talk about the BERSIH rally at the UMNO general assembly, he was just twitching words to awe the members of the floor and i too when i saw his speech on youtube, frankly i was awed speechless.

he too handled the interview with teymoor quite well too, but this damn racist provocator is not any material to run the country. When he can rally right in front of the myammar embassy, opposition parties are not allowed to just send a memorandum to his majesty. what the fuk was that when you yelling out this is a democracy country?

On speaking about the excessive force and police brutality used by the police, nazri retaliated by saying that there is no police brutality reported to the authorities and Malaysia on that time is under scrutiny by the whole world so they must control their actions. So do you mean when there's no media coverage police can do whatever they like and even detonating people with explosives in the Altantuya case?

*on a side note, a colleague of mine wet to a local hospital today to pay a visit to a victim of police brutality during the rally, he was being stomped on and his leg was just injured and being warded in the hospital, you and i know how serious it is la.

finally al-jazeera used a copy of NST *prouds* but the proud feeling just ends there when they used it as an example on the reporting of the rally which is just a small piece whereas it was the biggest rally ever in the Malaysian history, maybe guinness world record rip off malaysia book of record can have a mention on it. Nazri said that the press is free to report anything they deemed important but in the out of the studio world it is definitely the other way round where an official press statement was issued by the government and publications are instructed to run the story playing the numbers and facts down. Imagine how true can that be, 40,000 - 4,000?

On a final note, there is really a serious flaw in our system but still our ministers are still in a state of denial where they are still denying that there is anything wrong with our constitution.

some excerpts from the interviewteymoor nabili the host of the interview
de facto-law minister nazri aziz
the hero SUHAKAM president Malik Imtiazz

and here is the links for the whole interview
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

UMNO assembly

2007-11-05T06:49:00.000-08:00

general election is coming near...umno and gang are assembling for the GE
lets just see what are they up to this time?
keris? racist tauntings? bumiputra rights? hishammudin and khairy acting as clowns again..?
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nah none of the above i heard there's sumthing fishy this time lol
wait for tomorrow newspaper eh =D

Genting 2

2007-11-02T09:11:00.000-07:00

okay finally i've got the time to update my blog

this time around it will be the last funeral procession Uncle Lim will be seeing his brainchild for the last time.

went up the day before since the procession started at 730am as it is stated but oh well
VIPs are always late and this one even he's dead also damn late...the procession started at 9 instead.
I'm not going to be what superstitions or what but weather in the morning was really a pain in the ass. Visibility up there in Genting Hotel was really like only 10 meters?
jz look at the condition..fog all around and the wind blowing extremely strong tht day..itz just like uncle lim dun wanna leave genting.
cables leading to nowhere?
but hey heres the brightside because of the weather we got to go inside the hotel makan area
and i tell you it is the third breakfast i'm taking in 3 different places in just a mere few hours.
well food! i'm not complaining keke evrything is free ehehehe

i just love the orchid
hmm elephants reminds me that next week i'm gonna go pahang to go see
BIG ASSED ELEPHUNKS!
i was stationed at this temple and at least weather here is just so nice
a bird's eye view.. I'm on the top of the world looking down on creation
And the only explanation I can find
Is the love that I found ever since you been around
Your love's put me at the top of the world.
I LOVE UNCLE LIM lol!
uncle lim's house just at the right there, on the top of the hill the tiny speck overlooking everything down there.
he got him a statue in the temple area also damn..
this would make a great picture if there's one more guy there
heya the 3 stooges lol
now this is really one one one one bigggg assssed telephoto lense!
look at this kiddo hanging around before uncle lim arrive
when the hearse arrive...all these guys pay tribute to him..shuttle sounds from dslr are so damn noisy clicking away.
his sons daughters and grandchildren kalau all mati...habislah genting group keke
there was even more uncle aunty leng lui leng zai ah gua ah beng ah lian around waiting for his arrival at Genting Hotel entrance
jz look at all the people..
and finally....
a final tribute to Uncle Lim..
he will be forever in the books of all Malaysians.

*sidenote thanks to the genting management and PR for arranging the food and accommodation for the media..i really feel grateful for the 190 per nite room and also the lunch on the last day is just so mm mmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm!!!!

Tribute to Uncle Lim

2007-10-25T07:06:00.000-07:00

HE was just there lying in his coffin with all his Tan Sri regalia on the body and also on the songkok beside him.
now in front of me lies once was Malaysia's richest man according to Forbes Asia.
His complexion was just so peaceful. Despite the heavy downpour, close friends, former and current political heavyweights in the country came to pay their last respect to the late Tan Sri.
Personally I'm not related to Uncle Lim in any way but he is still the one in my list of people who I have high respect to. What makes him so great? well for one he started Genting by his own and despite being poor, perseverance have really show that anything is possible.
Well, perhaps maybe next time they will not be any Uncle Lim, but that time it will be Uncle Choong =D
*this post will be loaded with pictures I just can't help it but take and take and take all the happenings there, these happened on the first day, media really have the privilege keke.

at the base of goh tong Villa..Gohtong Jaya

the police blocking the way up to the Villa

look at all the kaki kopi here kakaka there are K9 unit and also SWAT team here
how important is Uncle Lim? think about it

what greeted us when we arrive at the Villa

look at the hordes of reporters and cameraman ahaha this is the life in the eye of a reporter

look and behold! Uncle Lim's mansion sitting right at the top of the hill.
its quite modest though compared to the ZAKARIA mansion

Datuk Tan Chin Nam leaving after paying his respect, for your info
he's the founder of Tan&Tan and IGB group.
Midvalley ring any bells?

there is this garden in front of his house which is so huge and so damn nice lots of green
next time when i retire remind me to do gardening =P
later during the day...Lim Kit Siang and his contingent of DAP guys came over
lim kit siang, lim guan eng, tan kok wai, anf fong kui lun
at night the heavyweight that came was...the MCA taiko and delegates
the taoist things prepared for the ceremony...
these things are really huge!

things you don't know about Uncle Lim.
He got his own green house to grow vegetables to makan!
and the swimming pool is 3-4 metres deep with a fountain beside
the monk for the buddhist ceremony was invited from the Malaysian Buddhist Association
and he's the chairman..nowadays buddhist societies also got chairman eh..next time there will be CEO and COO too lol
sad la can't get his face.

and lastly wreaths from all over came in truckloads...
there's one keep crossing in my mind the one from caesar's palace Las Vegas its so damn nice
but no pics

mutterings

2007-10-22T08:01:00.000-07:00

bendera berkibar di angkasa, lambang negara jaya, rakyat sepakat sejiwa, tekad berbakti dengan megah....

the 2020 song we always sung in school come merdeka and patriotic songs came blaringly from everywhere, well does it really exhibit what we have done throughout the years and the current political scene of our country?
Well, yes and no.
All these years since the days from the late Tunku Abdul Rahman days until Tun mahathir days yes they do exhibit what we have been done that really shows us as Maresians (pun intended) and a big NO nowadays, just look at our executive branch that is holding the power of office.
The angkasawan project? space traveller in disguise? astronaut? cosmonaut? no one is really sure what to call him as there's so much versions of the maresian astronaut is called. I'm not condemining about the angkasawan project, by all means go and have it done and bring new technology and knowledge to the people.

BUT

there's always a but and you just look at this article here TheStar
basically daily necessities are rising over the days and hey even flour and wheat is going up now, come to think about it there will be a large chain reaction brewing. Everything goes up, salary will not be going up though, who will be the ones suffering? and here comes the angkasawan project came into the picture. Maresians, sending up a donkey up to space and declaring him as a national hero with the deal of buying some outdated sukhoi planes and with russia sweetening the deal up is not what we need!

WHAT WE NEED IS A HERO TO LOWER DOWN INFLATION RATES AND HAVING A RISING INCOME RESULTING IN A QUALITY LIFE FOR THE WHOLE NATION! (as quoted from Mr. Tang)
Now this is what heroes are made off =D

ok ok enough of my ramblings now lets see where i went that day keke for all of you out there, Planetarium Negara sounds familiar right? but just where is it? most of us have heard of it but well never even think about going there even myself keke
pictars!

there's just so many steps to climb...
the scenery macam vvvv far from the city right....but hey look...
tiu..hilton and le meridien is just around and that means KL sentral is just right underneath those twins ahaha can't take any pics in the planetarium itself too dark d sry eh guys =)
oh ya btw if i did draw ur attention the planetarium is just somewhere near muzium negara
the golden question is where is muzium negara?! lol i'll leave the questiont to you guys to ponder about ahaha

Sungai Buloh Leprosy Settlement

2007-10-18T07:52:00.000-07:00

this happen last week and me thinks that this is worth a post
okay so i got assigned with eve last week to sungai buloh to attend a press conference organized by some guys that wanted to help the lepers to conserve their settlement which is really really freakin huge you all can see the area and history of it here
UiTM are claiming that its their land and they have even started to demolish the place well lets take a look shall we..

here's how it started...
i have a really hearty hearty meal in sungai buloh

this kai fan is really the best i've tasted since i'm in kl with an exceptance
of the seksyen 17 hainam kai fan in pj
damn i still miss ipoh food T.T

AND YOU WILL BE SHOCK WHAT I FOUND IN SG BULOH
this should be in Muzium negara rather than ploughing the streets!
look at this buloh river cat! he's got da WHT da FUK are u looking at? look lol

seriously the scenery here have been etched in my mind for such a long time i really think i need to pen it down, the memories are just fresh and seems likes its just been taken out from a kampung its just so peaceful and calm, remind me next time that when i retire next time i wanna spend my life just the place something like this.

one word-serenity

the conservationist Lim Yong Long on the 2nd right with the lepers
doing the conference with the press
there is even landscape architect students from taiwan comin
to look at the settlement and i luv hawt taiwan chicks =D
the aging buildings...look at the windows nowadays we don't see this much anywhere.

just look at all these trees..i reckon the biggest one went through the british colonial days and even the japanese penjajahan(okay i forgot about this word in english)

b4 i end this entry of mine there a blog set up also by them here Valley of Hope
and i too chant the slogan "SAVE THE SETTLEMENT NOW!"

delayed response

2007-10-18T07:14:00.000-07:00

okay i have been no updating this blog for awhile and well reading through my old blogs i noticed that i've missed out on the grado thing and here it is today

finally got it back from victor after quite a few weeks away from me, well its just really the twilight moment when you just put the cans on and the sweetness is just so fulfilling
ngek ngek ngek (i'm not jokin here okay try getting yourself a pair of these =D)
grado sr-80 flank by my ipod classic mm sweetness!!!

Demo and Grado

2007-10-06T05:32:00.000-07:00

fuk looking at the previous post, i screwed up all the margins next time must be able to judge.
and thats not the point for another post though. =)
this is the point-

yesterday was assigned to report on the demonstration done by the GMI which stands for Gerakan Mansukan ISA which was pressing the government to release the detainees under ISA. This is the scoop, for sure nobody can find anything on this in the main newspapers except some small article on it without much pictures.

more pictures..

even Tian Chua the information chief of PKR is present, funnily he was having the time of his life chanting "Jatuhkan BN" ahahaha oh ya on a side note this happened near the masjid jamek station right in front of the OCBC bank. I got shocked too when I knew I was interviewing him before I got his name. =X
the chairman of GMI Syed Ibrahim.
just look at all the onlookers, forgot to add some more details. This happen during mid noon lunch time which also held up the mid noon traffic causing congestion after congestion.

BUT.....this guy was the crowd stealer lol
a mental disordered guy shouting his head off for apparently no reason lolz
at one time he was shouting at me and i was so ugh...stoned ahaha

and our friendly guys from the neighborhood to check on the commotion and intervene
for one when the police wanna tangka him dia cakap he will behave well lets hope so =P

TODAYS DINNER
what do you get when you mix in...

and a packet of spaghetti, this is the outcome =P

muahahah delicious meal hav fun folks =)

Daily routines

2007-10-06T04:24:00.000-07:00

Foremost gonna say kudos to the local authorities of my living area.

have been noticing work in progress by the workers and
the build of a walkway for pedestrians and students alike due to a malay school around
no more sunny days for me yea! but gonna shift back to pj soon =(

KLCC
well outings to klcc are mostly fun and nonetheless this time =P. Was assigned to the
Best of Belgium 2007 press conference on thursday. Privileges are seriously abundant having been assigned for things like this lets see what i can list out today.

Option of sleeping more is obviously a bliss since the assignment is at 10am! Not rushing to Bangsar by 730 joining the rat race of people muahahaha perfect.
Open up your eyes to the world, seriously being a reporter have been an eye opener for me by seeing the world through the eyes of a reporter.
one word FREEBIES period.

beside having to listen to sum kuai lou talking and jotting down what he says
its okay where you can just doodle around your notebook when your mind wanders around =)
and this kuai lou is not sum ordinary kuai lou with big cock
this one is the Ambassador of the Royal Belgium Embassy lol

and now......the last thing

freebies! and this time it's not Belgian chocolates or beer it's Belgian biscuits called almond thins. Once I got back to the office sharing is a virtue k? i did share with my colleagues, using the Coke quote ASK for More!! the crunchiness and taste mmmmmm it have been a long time since I makan such delicious biscuit.

some more shots though I've no idea what is says on the boxbut who the fuk cares anyone knows where to get some? this rox seriously

the texture is just so nice and thin for these stuffs =D

Random Shots

on left final destination anyone? and the night lights of kay el though the focus here is on the malay chick =P

MIA

2007-10-03T07:07:00.001-07:00

yo have been missing in action for quite a few days mainly its because of the intership i started in instership well seriously doing reporting is not for the soft hearted though time is vvvv flexible it can be really demanding at times. Fun thing is that u can have all the time and bandwidth u want when you are free and NST is having all the "state-of-the-art" computers for our usage except for the editor's pc lol.
Will upload of the photos of me during work soon enough but well hey this are the happening during the gap i've been missing out. =)

random shots: my felali in the spotlight =P

Walking in KLCC

This clock feels so good if it was mine, hanging on the wall of my room keke maybe next time gonna rob it off there ahaha

one day i'm gonna be just like him.........
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in my dreams!!

this is damn contradicting spend & save?
how do u save when u spend?
its actually having more discounts when you buy more
but then when you buy more tell me do you save?

Dinner for birthday

well to all the guys that knows me, i didn't celebrate my birthday to what extreme extent due to well budget constraint and ahahaha got fei po around so she's the one with me ad also internship starting on the 1st oct so well its better to keep it low sry ya guys and oh ya thanks to all the wishes and stuffs rock on ya!!

muahahaha well since its the ramadhan period is on malays breakin fast are everywhere imagine kfc and mcd filling to the brim lolz
we initially planned to go for a happy meal at secret recipe for dinner along with a piece of cake but then pricing wise we ditch it and go for delifrance instead here's the fish and chips i took =P

and here's what fei po took baked chicken rice at first it came in pasta form and she was pissed cuz we ordered it alredi in rice form but oh well dinner there all i can say it see no go can see but knot eat....itz not like its not edible la but it doesn't give us the song-ness we got elsewhere we fill our tummy up like the ship and kim gary ehehe

mmmmmm wedges wedges

look at the meat in the fish jeng ah keke

NEXT UP: PYRAMID OUTING
Personally i do think that sunway newly opened section of the shopping complex is nothing to hoo haa about compared to Pavillion and The Gardens. Pavillion is the only one giving the most striking first impression on me the rest like sunway and The Gardens is nothing to be fuss about both are still in construction and is not finished up yet the fumes of the constructon work and lack of air conditioning just turns me off. What I found very nice is just this shot i took in this picture....seriously vvvv normal looking and oh ya the jusco just gives me a nostalgia of ipoh.

More shots...

On left another money shot of the newly opened section and on the right is a new restaurant offering chicken buffet and look at the crowd inside and most are all there for buka puasa and its offered at a quite attractive price too, speaking of buffet i recalled there's a ice cream buffet goin on in Bangsar Village's Hagen Daz so if ur free do drop in with an empty stomach. I tell you the ice cream buffet is really worth it. Don't say i din tell u ah

and for TODAY

spend on myself another levis again damn i'm so gonna be a levis headed freak soon this is macro-ed from the pocket of the pair of red loops =P
but i'm still not hardcore like those guys in pavillion, those sneakers head on the opening of the shop Sole What? selling limited and special editions sneakers from all kinds of work and brands mainly from 3 stripes and swoosh.

NSTP!!!

2007-09-24T10:28:00.001-07:00

Look what came into the mail that day
NSTP addressed to me, sounds good eh since I applied for a 3 months internship stint with them and got a reply letter would be great right. Well it was what i expected but hey dreams come true but well in reality it's a dog eat dog world everyone is trying to get the best out of everyone minimizing their potential cost. Gonna be reporting in to Bangsar on Oct 1st but hey it doesn't sound that bad ma but well lan ciao la after u see the second picture.

hoho my first official letter addressed to me

BUT

there is always terms and conditons which pull us
literally stopping us in our tracks

IT DID FOR ME LAWL!!

NIAMAH!!

aiyar ok la for the experience right? Just for the experience nvm nvm RM15 pun suda cukup boleh makan ahahahahahha

nothing much just another random posting to rant. I'm gonna be so pokkai soon, so if there's anyone out there who pity me do donate to the "Han is Poor Fund". =D

The Double Cs

2007-09-21T06:40:00.000-07:00

Today was the day or triumph and also a day of sadness for M'sia

Was cruising through astro today after test without anything shows in mind and hell yea! Japan Open finals is on and just during that time our national hero was on tv on the duel with Taufik Hidayat. The match was so exhilarating when it was down to the third set chong wei leading by 20-16. Hidayat picked up and manage a few shots and get through until 19 it was 20-19 it was so hard for Chong wei to wrestle the final championship point from hidayat but finally he managed through with a final mistake from Hidayat.

Smashes were so intriguing and the game was so fast paced. Bravo to Chong Wei congratulations!!

and now...her image have been etched in my heart for these few days

How can one sexually torture this innocent girl with such beautiful eyes. Missing for one whole month have been a major torture for the family and now she turns up dead with brinjal and zuchini in her private parts. There's really no words to label this killer except for sadistic and cruel. Come on man the more I think of it the more nonsensical it is, if you're really that desperate why can't you just go and download some lolita porns out there and fap yourself? Hey the internet is free k even though tmnuts have been toggling our torrent bandwidth. What's happening to this world...people bombed to pieces...people chopped to pieces and found in the fridge and now little kids enduring extremely hardcore sexual assault and turning up dead? Damn the world is seriously turning upside down..what's next?

CONDOLENCES

NURIN

YOU WILL BE FOREVER IN OUR HEARTS

Of blogs and bloggers

2007-09-21T04:12:00.000-07:00

okay..1st posting. This is not the 1st time i started a blog or something, just felt the need to be in touch with the world since there's a 3 months semester break for me to solve up all my resolutions that have been hanging around for don't know how many long years ago.

My older post can be found here www.xanga.com/ah_h4n and it had been left out in the cold yonks ago. For now life have been moving quite fast paced, and now I just finished the 2nd last paper of my degree semester one. Journalism is quite my thing compared to the mechanical engineering course I've been enrolled in beforehand.

Here's something to be done as resolutions
1. No half assed excuses when something needs to be done
2. Constantly update the blog seriously I need something to keep track of my life
3. Must not get pissed off that easily that much
4. It's a working world, must go through the NSTP internship without any bad impression from them
5. Macs are gotta be loved =D