Criticism ..

One word but has many meanings..

Many people cannot stand being criticised. For me, I can take constructive criticism, that's based on facts and logic, and not just criticised me because you advanced than me. If you just wanna criticise without basing on facts but feelings, I'd say SHUT UP you. There are some people who just have the urge to open their mouth and talk with the motive of bringing down people and criticised, everything and anything. Those that aren't their cup of tea.Constructive criticism on the other hand, is with the intention of making situations better - this I welcomed a lot but more often than not, people just have opinions about everything and anything, even things they don't know they also want to act like they know it all. Only criticise if you can do the job better - otherwise let others do their work. Only criticise if you are in the position of higher authority to do so, and for a greater good. Otherwise, just SHUT UP.

Can you take criticism?

A Story of Me, Myself and MY-melayu-Team.

Believed it or not?! I woke-up at 4.50am to pee, but when I tried to close my eyes back, only my right eye could close easily,my left eye didn't want to close. Suddenly, I felt like the ex- Prime Minister of the Islam Hadhari Land who is said to not be able to sleep because he is supposedly thinking of a way to change this secular based nation into a pure islamic country,ark! But there are also romours of a south east asian ex- PM who just married who always sleeps even at important meetings. I also heard that he sleeps on the road, true or not? I don't know! But for sure, like me maybe that ex- PM, wakes-up as early 4.50am to think of unfinished matters of his country who knows?! As a solution and also out of bad habit, I maked my hot chocolate drink then on my laptop and try to type something! But what do I want to write? Yesss! last evening I read two posting of Dr. Clark Gable of Pulau Duyung about bloggers defination and my friend's blog, her post quit cool and the title was a story of leaf, tree and wind. I'm sorry dear, I'm plagiarizing your title, but don't worry I'll change it a lot! I am very sure there will great result if I colaborates thats two stories. So, there is good benefit if we love to read, at least my brain will not be dried out of knowlegde and most importantly my brain will not lack in ideas! Remembered someone's top post said "aku kena berfikir...berfikir...dan terus berfikir dan tak salah sambil-sambil itu, aku berzikir!".

Yes...without thinking long, I forced myself to name my post "A Story of Me, Myself and MY-melayu-Team...". Thats a big difference between mine and her post title. For sure, I will make this content cooler than her's. Ok lets talk about my post, Yess, I want to write about M.E.L.A.Y.U and for sure I, myself was 'melayu'. What a shame of me to write something about Globalisation or world matters when at the same time, I still haven't writen anything about me as a 'melayu'. Hey nothing wrong with the title...? My mother and my father are melayu'', My brothers are 'Melayu', My Sister is 'Melayu', my sisters and brother in law are also 'Melayu' and the all 3 my nephew and nieces are 'melayu' too. The most important thing is, I myself am a 'Melayu'! Enough?! No...I still have some more reasons to this title. In my independant country Malaysia which will be celebrating 53 years of its Independence that 'Melayu' said "MERDEKA", there was more than 65% of 'Melayu' in that land. Furthermore, there were a lot of associations or clubs or whatever we call it, were built in the name of 'Melayu'. The top one is called United Malay Nation Organisation which have more than 3.3million registered members. So in bahasa I can say that "Melayu ini, macam-macam ada..." Read something cool that I qoute from Uncle Syed Hussien's journal;

"Tiba-tiba saya teringat satu dari sifat orang Melayu. Kalau mereka suka pada seseorang, mereka tidak memuji orang tersebut di depan. Begitulah juga kalau mereka tidak suka, mereka tidak akan menunjukkan sifat marah dan tidak senang mereka secara terbuka. Pelik, mereka yang mengaku sahabat, mengaku saudara Islam tapi tidak segan silu mengkritik, mengata, menfitnah, mengadu dumba orang yang mereka tidak suka di belakang. Untuk apa ‘telunjuk lurus kelingking berkait’, ‘pukul anak sindir menantu’. Yang ada diatas ditarik macam ketam dalam bakul, yang di bawah dilanyak, dipijak, dipukul beramai-ramai..."

To the 'Melayu' who are still dreaming by showing the 'keris' and and receiving RM50 tip offs to shout out "Hidup Melayu" did you know that there were two theories to define 'MELAYU' ? Have you ever heared about the defination of 'MELAYU' based on Yunan Theories which tells us about Orang Negrito, Melayu Proto and Melayu Deutro? Or the defination of 'MELAYU' based on Nusantara Theories by Sutan Kadir Alisjahbana? Ahhh...just forgot?! Mmm its ok! Ok..next question, are you guys familiar with the person who is named Usman Awang? Ok fine, you guys know him?? Congrat! Lets read these two phases below :

"Melayu itu org yg bijaksana, Nakalnya bersulam jenaka, Budi bahasanya tidak tidak terkira, Kurang ajarnya tetap santun, Jika menipu pun masih bersopan, Bila mengampu bijak beralas tangan..."

"Meski telah memiliki telaga, Tangan masih memegang tali, Sedang org mencapai timba, Berbuah pisang tiga kali, Melayu itu masih bermimpi..."

That was first and sixth phase of the poem named 'MELAYU' by Usman Awang. I don't want to elobarate this poem, just think for yourself the messagge!Ops..don't forget, during the next assembly, you guys better get M16 rifles to replace the 'keris'!

Melayu is WEAK by it meaning!!! Anyone wants to be angry me? Be my guest, to any 'Melayu', you have the right to be angry with me! I don't care, why should I?! I am 'Melayu' too! Long...long time ago, I read one article about 'Melayu'. that article said 'Melayu' itself was weak cause of it itself 'Melayu'. The prove, follow this step, please spell 'Melayu' in bahasa, M.E.L.A.Y.U ! please remove M and E, so what left?L.A.Y.U...right? Find word 'LAYU' in your dictionanary, it will give you the meaning was wilt ; lose or cause to lose freshness and droop. That's what 'LAYU' means, what about english? Melayu mean Malay in english for sure! Please do the same step and see what's left? L.A.Y! My Concise Oxford Dictionary - 10th Edition, 'LAY' mean not ordained into or belonging to the clearly, not having profesional qualification or expert knowledge. Hmm..the meaning of 'layu' and 'lay' was quit same! Next...I'll try to find a new definition of 'Melayu' based on the 'Melayu' current matters and situation by use the meaning 'MeLAYU' and 'MaLAY' as my basic ideas...It's sound difficult but I'll try!Remember the question from 'Ahli Nujum Negara Pasai' to 'Ahli Nujum Pak Belalang'?!

"Di manakah letaknya...kekuatan Hang Tuah? Di kepalanya kah...?! atau dikerisnya kah...?! Jawab Ahli Nujum Pak Belalang "Kekuatan Datuk Laksama Hang Tuah...bukanlah dikerisnya atau di mana-mana, tetapi terletak pada huruf 'T', iaitu menyebabkan namya menjadi T.U.A.H"

How lucky Hang Tuah got a perfect name from his parents. But...remember Hang Tuah is also 'Melayu' same like me, and same like the rest of you who claims that your are 'Melayu' Remember the malay proverb "Nak Seribu Daya, Taknak Seribu Dalih...". Ok..I'll try..

As I am not here to talk merely on how LAYU Melayus’ are, I would prefer to discuss something along the lines of the paragraph I just quoted on Hang Tuah who if without his ‘T’, would have been Hang Buah or Hang Muah, haha! So lets for a second think of what MELAYU would have been if the ‘YU’ in MELAYU was substituted for something else…

The first one is MELAyan. Yes...this very much describes the 'First Class Minded' era and Human Capital idea promoted by the authorities. For more 'kick', I should also elaborate on MELAlak in this paragraph as these two words uniquely draws a picture of MELAYU.. Based on current entertainment scenario, teenagers are encouraged to MELAlak...don't believe? watch tv9 on saturday at 9pm.Before that, watch the same channel at 6.30pm! Are you familiar with this dialogue "Errr...pitching tu penting yerrr, pitching kena jaga...dah nak sedap dah tu, you 'up' lagi pitching you, sure you ada chance untuk menang...percayalah!" For sure, the MELAlak will get 110% support from the MELAyus’. Now, how does MELAyan connects to MELAlak? Obviously it does because the current top ‘MELAlak’ers are voted by SMS by the people who MELAyan! Admit it or not, you and I both know that we MALAyus can spend the whole day watching reality TV making ourselves oblivious to what reality really is…I guess...by year 2020, these two MELAlak and MELAlak will grow prosperously like the amount of mud that appeared after flash flood at KL...cant even get it off the roads!! Honestly...I think by 2057, MELAlak will be the top profession choosen by 'Melayu'! We'll see... For any parties joining the next general election, you guys better put the agenda to nurture these two types of 'Melayu' in your manifestoes. For sure...you will get plenty of votes and if SPR decides to implement the SMS for the voting...I am VERY SURE that that party will win...110%! On this suggestion, my confident is like Doug Hall (American Inventor) when he said "I put my whole reputation on this invention"

Third...MELAyang! Yes...MELAyang a.k.a Mat Rempit or as some of people call it, Remp-it! These parasite Malayu folks loves to fly on their bikes… again too proud or rather too stupid to realize that bikes are meant to be road on roads not to be flown on above roads…. Duhh. Describing the way MELAyang flies its like watching a Wau Bulan fly at 200ft off the ground while being controlled by 3year old girl, Yes...the Wau Bulan will drop any time...and anywhere! So thats the MELAyang... whom never fails to annoy the public… The most popular activity among the MELAyang community wopuld be illegal racing. Like others, JPJ charge me RM55 per year or 15.06849cents a day and I pay more than thousand to the insurance company for permission to use the road which is declared as road tax. But...unfortunately, I have to share this road with MELAyang...how risky is that?! Sometime I think that the recent move to decrease the road tax and increase the insurance is because our roads are getting more risky to use. Back to MELAyang, actually...we have to mention the 6-7 of ex-‘MELAyang’ers who turned a new leaf after being brought to the North Pole for a Winter Camp… they returned to their country as 'Melayu' again! If that so..its great, but what happens to the rest of the 6-7 thousand or maybe 60-70thousand ‘MELAyang’ers still ‘flying’ out there? I feel that what we are doing is "Memberikan pisang pada BERUK di Zoo dan membiarkan BERUK di hutan terus memberuk di situ..." … we should make that into a new proverb!

Forth...MELAntak! In bahasa, MELAntak..means eat like a mad in a single meal, but that was not that what I meant! 'Melayu' MELAntak...is the worst case scenario that happens today since 31st August 1957. Still unclear..? MELAntak is something our top notch people who are just never satisfied with their big fat pay check. News claims that our economy is blooming...on top of that, Malaysia's Annual Trade in year 2006 was RM 1,069trillion...amazing! what does it mean actually? what I want to point out is this- are we among those 'marhaen' people who got the benefit of that trillion figure? Yes...the government servants got their increment. And that’s all the country is sharing with us! Unfortunately...only 1.2mil people in this country work for the government. How about the remaining 20million citizens and 5-6mil workers at the private sectors and how about the people work 'kais pagi makan pagi, kais petang makan petang..."? Either Aware or not, the growth of those who MELAntak, will pose the country many problems in 5- 1 years to come. In the most feared problem would be the separation of the 'Melayu' itself. The gap between the poor and the rich is enlarging. However, we should also give those who MELAntak a pat on the back for building up foundations and means to help other MELAyu. That's nice...help the choosen 'Melayu' (MELAyu who doesn’t really need help but are cronies) and at the same time, MELAntak will excused from tax...thats just nice!

The fifth one is MELAmpau… it shames me to elaborate on this. Take a moment to think about it and I bet you can come up with something to relate to this…its sad to know that so many of us has converted from MELAyu to MELAmpau.. it’s a pity…Guess these five ‘MELAyu’s illustrates my view well… bet there’s more but lets not go there at the moment. I don’t mean to insult who I also am… like I said … My mother and my father are 'Melayu', My brothers are 'Melayu', My Sister is 'Melayu', my sisters and brother in law are also 'Melayu' and the all 3 my nephew and nieces are 'melayu' too.. .. I hope we MALAys will try to get a fresh and shiny started,InsyaAllah.. =

Teori Generasi Spontan

Bunyi macam kelakar? Yeah, sikit-sikit ;p

Well, permulaan ilmu sains memang bagi kita kadang-kadang nampak kelakar dan tidak realistik, kan?

Ingat lagi tak tentang seorang saintis di zaman Greek silam, Copernicus yang menemukakan teori bahawa bumi sebenarnya berbentuk sfera walhal ketika itu ramai saintis lain mengandaikan bumi adalah leper, seiring dengan kefahaman Gereja Kristian Katolik ketika itu. Pihak gereja tidak dapat menerima pendapat saintis ini, menganggapnya sebagai sesat dan dapat menggugat keagungan ajaran agama mereka sekaligus melemahkan pengaruh gereja dalam masyarakat. Copernicus akhirnya dihukum pihak gereja semata-mata mendatangkan teori yang bersalahan dengan keyakinan pihak gereja dan dikatakan menyalahi kandungan Bible.

Ingat juga tak, bagaimana 2 bersaudara Wright diketawa mati-matian kerana mereka bercita-cita untuk terbang? Well, bagi masyarakat ketika itu, terbang bagi manusia adalah sangat-sangat lucu. Tapi sekarang, lihatlah..idea 'kelakar' Wright ini merealisasikan manusia terbang. Terbang macam burung? Haha, tidaklah~ cuma terbang menaiki kapal terbang, helikopter atau roket sajalah.. ;-) Tapi, tetap terbang kan? Satu idea yang diketawakan tak lama dahulu.

Teori Generasi Spontan.

Tak pernah dengar? Haa, meh nak bagitau..

Teori ni mendakwa, hidupan boleh terbentuk dari benda tidak bernyawa. So, what do you think? Believe it or not? Hah, think~

gandum + peluh = tikus

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Saintis abad ke-17 mendakwa perkara di atas. Kononnya, untuk menghasilkan tikus seseorang hanya perlu meletakkan sehelai seluar dalam yang mengandungi peluh bersama sedikit gandum di dalam sebuah balang terbuka. Selepas 21 hari, mereka mendakwa peluh dari seluar meresap masuk ke dalam gandum sehingga menghasilkan tikus! "What the.....??" anda kata? Haha, rileks.

Teori ini dibahaskan berabad lamanya. Ada juga saintis yang menyanggah teori ini dengan mengatakan ulat tidak terbentuk dari daging busuk, sebaliknya lalat yang meletakkan telurnya pada daging tersebut. Saintis ini bernama Francesco Redi (1668), merupakan seorang penyair dan ahli fizik Itali. Sekalipun beliau berjaya membuktikan teorinya, dunia sains ketika itu masih menerima Teori Generasi Spontan dengan mendakwa ia hanya berlaku dalam keadaan terbuka dan ada udara.

Perbahasan teori ini berterusan lagi, sehinggalah ia dibatalkan sepenuhnya seorang ahli kimia muda Perancis, Louis Pasteur.Beliau mendidihkan sup ayam (mematikan mikroorganisma) di dalam sebuah termos kaca, memanaskan leher termos tersebut dan membentuknya seperti huruf S. Dengan itu, udara boleh memasuki termos tetapi tidak udara yang mengandungi mikroorganisma. Seperti dijangka,tiada hidupan atau organisma terhasil di dalam sup ini walhal ujikaji ini telah memenuhi kehendak teori(keadaan mestilah terbuka dan ada udara). Dengan itu, eksperimen ini secara rasminya membatalkan Teori Generasi Spontan yang mengandaikan benda mati boleh menghasilkan benda hidup, sekaligus menunjukkan mikroorganisma berada di mana-mana termasuk di udara. =)

Ya, namanya pun teori; tentulah bersikap hipotesis dan andaian (^_^)

Sengaja saya berkongsi kisah ini...bukan apa. Kadangkala, dalam menuntut ilmu, kita lupa mengaitkannya dengan kebesaran Allah SWT. Jarang-jarang sekali kita berkata, "Hebat sungguh Allah nie.." atau "CIptaan Allah nie sempurna betul." tak pun "Dasyat tuh....! Allah cipta tu, cipta nie. Bijok sunggoh!~". Yang kita selalu sebut, " Pandainya Isaac Newton, tengok buah epal jatuh ke tanah je, dah tau ada satu daya yang tarik..". dan juga ayat-lain lain yang memuji si pencetus ilmu. Ya, memang tak salah untuk memuji mereka, tapi jangan sehingga kita lupa untuk menyandarkan semula semua ilmu itu kepada Yang Maha Berkuasa dan Maha Bijaksana. Menuntut ilmu biarlah diri semakin dekat dengan Allah, dan bukannya semakin jauh dari-Nya. Wallahu'alam.

p/s: Saya teringat semasa belajar Mass Balance di tahun pertama. Prinsip Mass Balance ialah mass in equals to mass out. Spontan, pensyarah bertanya, "Kenapa mass in sama dengan mass out??" Gatal kepala kami memikirkan jawapan yang realistik lagi saintifik. hu~ Selepas beberapa detik, pensyarah memberi jawapan.. "..sebab Allah Maha Berkuasa..." Haha~

Jawapan itu tepat, logik dan benar!

Hosni Mubarak Resigns...

There are no Mubaraks on the Forbes list of the world's richest people, but there sure ought to be.

The mounting pressure from 18 days of historic protests finally drove Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from office, after three decades as his nation's iron-fisted ruler. But over that time, Mubarak amassed a fortune that should finance a pretty comfortable retirement. The British Guardian newspaper cites Middle Eastern sources placing the wealth of Mubarak and his family at somewhere between $40 billion and $70 billion. That's a pretty good pension for government work. The world's richest man--Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim--is worth about $54 billion, by comparison. Bill Gates is close behind, with a net worth of about $53 billion.

Even though he's out of power, Mubarak may still be able to influence the Army officials running the country, through the financial connections that made them all wealthy. And if not Mubarak, the next leader may be poised to start lining his pockets the same way Mubarak did. For Egypt to have a more effective, transparent economy, all of that will have to be cleaned up. There are probably a lot of people in Cairo who have been checking their bank balances lately.

That's it. He's out.