better be 21!

You Are 21 Years Old

Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Ahahaha


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A visit to IIUM (UIAM)

International Islamic University Malaysia, also known as Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia.

I was there, and I came back. And it was an eye opening experience.

The university is funded by many wealthy individuals, as well as from the OIC (Organization of Islamic Countries). Pretty cool, huh? Wait till you get inside the whole area, and be amazed at what a medium sized university like them can offer.

My first blog post written on this subject was somewhat botched, and I lost a precious 30 minutes on SUNDAY AFTERNOON and RM1.30 for the internet access charges (in a cyber cafe) and also another RM2.00 for a bottle of 'kickapoo joy juice'. Yeah, that sucks.

But here's a story. A story about an university situated in the secluded, on the edge of the hustle and bustle of city life, surrounded by the great gigantic limestone hills flanked by the Titiwangsa Range (and a superb view of Genting Highlands resort). One of the best locally available panoramic views, I admit.

On a sidenote, it was true that things were lost on me when I had to endure quite a trouble to make sure that many of us will go to UIAM. Suffice to say, we went through all the obstacles, miracles happening one after another. It was a well paid for trip. For a total of no more than RM2000.00. Yeah. So many thanks to our co-sponsors, and the hosts UIAM (because they bore the brunt of the costs involved indirectly). A worth-every-cent-I-may-have-paid-for 3 day adventure and seclusion in UIAM.

First and foremost, when you're making your way into UIAM, one of the very first images that greets you would be the "Grand Staircase" of UIAM. Yes, a grand staircase, preceded only by the beautiful fountain arc. And's there more to it. The architectural designs of the entire building is very unique - The main complexes were built in with modern and contemporary designs, fused / having tinges of turkish touches. (Turkish designs were once heralded as the epoch of Islamic architectural designs) The buildings remind me of Haga Sophia and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Turkey. Some may disagree, but I still stand to my opinion for the time being (it was my first impression, after all) about UIAM's architecture.

And that, was only the icing on the cake.

The mahallah-s (note the term is in arabic, but i added the suffix s to provide the english equivalent of a plural noun) that are provided are nothing short of full worth of praises as well. The boys are living in one of the "worst" available mahallahs, but they were superb and wonderful. ANd I do not have the pictures to show it, but if I do, I will (still waiting for Shima & gang to provide the pixxies of their beautiful girls' side). Nevertheless, they're still wonderful. One dorm, 4 cubicles, 1 main hall, and, wait till the pictures come, and then you'll see how good it is...I will edit this paragraph once I got the pixxies. Kekeke.

And its friggin cheaper than staying in UPM KK-Serumpun too!!! (ZOMG!) (Sob sob sob!)

anyways, back to the real thing.

TCW in UIAM was loads of fun. The theatre performance were all laughs and going "haha" here, just like old Mac Donald's farm. LOL.

The explorace was fun, even though our team got second but it was one of the most memorable one that I'll ever remember. Hey, its not everytime people get to do flying fox and abscaling in UIAM haha! weee!

Oh well, I really don't know how to say it, but I don't really wanna say it. I just don't know how to say it. UIAM, with everyone around, was really an enjoyable experience. The beef steak (YES! FOR ONLY RM5!), Kyros Kebab without any taxes (ROFLMAO!), and definitely one of the longest ever Roti John in my entire life, with an extra helping of potato wedges! Mwahahahaha!

And yeah.. Just like Reza said, one thing that she asked (forced! zomg! lolz) me to write is the fact that I'm enjoying myself right in the middle of a green garden surrounded by 50 lovely ladies. Oh, okay. Yeah. I really do enjoy working with them. Really (kekekekeke!) And boy, it was fun discussing some items on theology, I'm really impressed with the minds of the people around there. As a matter of fact, I'm really surprised to find out that a character by the name of Kak Sya (that's her short name) spent 3 years in Turkey deepening herself on the knowledge of religions (especially Islam), and yeah, you guess the next thing. LOL. *Salute!*

Still though, since now we may have the chance to meet each and every one from UIAM again, its going to be exciting. Hahaha.


And now, we wait. =)

A long week [Part 1]

I'll post what I remember.

29th August, 2007. After the blog that I have posted on 29th of August (12:00am morning), and that would officially dictate the longest days I've ever had in my entire life. Excruciating, fun, all rolled up in one day. Here's what happened.

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I woke up, and went to class. I missed the "Bimbingan & Kaunseling" class so that I could quickly get the letter for UIA's event done, pronto. Big issue. Took up the whole day, really, with little to eat and sleep. That reminds me, I still owe Juvian RM10. Finally, after a hard day, there was only 3 hours before test. The dreaded Pn Juridah's novel test. I think I flunked. I don't know.
Then later, we got a dance practice, and it took us all the way past into midnight. But here's where the "fun" begins.
In cabin, with mosquito stings, insect bites, Aida's radio (using her Sony Ericson handphone), and lots of chatter and banter while we worked on our masks (Pn. Juridah wanted it on Thursday, duh..) we worked our toil and sweat till dawn approaches... 6AM. Yes, I headed back, because there wasn't any class for Dr. Arshad, and slept, until Pn. Juridah's class came along. We showed her mask, and hastily constructed a play. A sacrifice, but it was unanimous decision, and it was beginning to look fun for us. Not quite the fun, you see... But still quite some fun.

So that rolls... to...

30th August, 2007.

We left class early, because Pn Juridah ended it early. Typically her style, or sometimes late. LOL. So with nothing to do, and with most of the "what I have to do" done, I head back and rested. Not so much of a good move, but because it was already raining, a beautiful sleep was much appreciated. Later that early evening, I headed out again to K15 under the request of our class rep Maninder, but I could only find 2 bus operators. There's a story later, which I'll detail it out under the title "The Bus ORDEAL".

Suffice to say, I only managed to ask two friends to help me out, Zarrin, and well, Ady. They helped me out in two different ways, but at least we got two numbers. (Ady's help was on the latter week, you'll see how). One by the name of unc Kavi, one by the name of the bus operator Suasana Edaran Sdn. Bhd (with the UPM LOGO on it, oh yeaaah baby!)

One thing was, my cousin's family flew in from Sabah, to attend Haw Jatt's convocation (and I was very anxious to retrieve my brand new Seiko 5 Sports calibre 7t92 watch which my father had just bought around April for me)

Of course, it was about to rain, and no, so I didn't went down to KL Plaza. Not today, not just yet.

But two long days, and here's where things started to spice up, when I went to Putrajaya. That will be part 2. For now.

And its about time to go to UIA. Anytime soon!

Meieve & Beouwolf

To those who do not know of my not-so-illustrious "endeavours" in a game called meRO (Malaysian English Ragnarok Online), Meieve & Beouwolf had a history of their own.

Suffice to say, the origins of Meieve came from an Indonesian Tiong Hua friend of mine, who studied in Singapore a few years back.

To this day, I'm always grateful to him for the two characters, in which I passed one to my sister, and one to myself.

To this day, the name Meieve is automatically synchronous with my sister's name, Yee Wernshiang.

Haha, and yeah, I got Beouwolf, and it stuck with my pen name. For a long, long time.

and if you notice my blog, its got a link to her's.
Yeap, my sisters.

A complete surprise from the past

I used to be one of those crazy innocent folks who went for RYLA year 2000 in district 3310, Sarawak.

It was in Sematan.

I lost all pics, but only one survived. Not realizing, since I was in form 3, I actually updated a few pics in an old abandoned website, only to stumble upon it back again many, many years later.

My memories are known to be vague, but when I was searching for RYLA 2000 (most of us lost contact by 2001-2002 due to personal commitments) I was surprised to see that the ECircles group got disbanded, inactive, and by end nobody, nobody remembered each another.

And then there was this funny link which screamed "miss malaysia". So I clicked on it, and I got a shock of my life.

Adeline had reigned champion as a beauty pageant queen. She's now Miss Malaysia, for year 2006. That was a year ago.

To Adeline, I wish you all the best in your service to the community.
To everyone who had been to RYLA 2000 districk 3310 Sematan, (Kem Belia Pueh), please contact me.

friendster, facebook, msn: hyperyouth_firepower@hotmail.com
I won't disclose my phone number here yet.

Why? That's because I want to know, has everyone's notions of service changed through the 7 years?

I'm with SEDS. Not with Rotary (too poor to join, LOL)
Where's everyone?

Pendrive M&Ms

One of the biggest problems I've ever faced, as a student, as a travelling scholar especially is when I DON'T HAVE A FRIGGIN' LAPTOP TO DO MY WORK AROUND WITH.

So, I seem to have a problem there. Not exactly anymore. You see, I was kind of "ingenious" enough to land myself some tools, and I have to buy them, really.... I used my handphone, since it is a NOKIA 6630, after all.....

But what about those not so priviledged like me?

portableapps.com

pendriveapps.com

go out and check out the freewares that RUNS from pendrives. COOL STUFF!

Look beyond the curtain, there's a whole world outside there!

Friends, readers. Let me bring forward to you a shocking (predictably) commentary from two presidential hopefuls. Obama, and Tancredo. They've said nasty stuffs, and its alarming to see what these two people have in their minds.

I first came to know this from an online bulletin board posted by one of my colleagues in friendster. This is the original message.

http://www.friendster.com/bulletin.php?statpos=bulletintable&bid=3217045&uid=12447158

I do respect her love and zeal for her religion, as much as I respect those who go to great lengths to protect their religion, professed by their love to the very principles that God has brought to them through His messengers. I make that clear to you.

Here are the sources which co-relates to the whole issue:

1. http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=88374
2. http://www.azstarnet.com/news/194889
   

We all know that fighting fire with fire, in some cases don't work. In this, it goes for war. To fight hatred with hatred only infuses more hatred. Its simple logic. So, I guess I made my point clear. So, what's the issue then? Nothing much, but I felt that as individuals, whenever we read the news, or gain access to some information made known to us, CHECK IT OUT FIRST.

I'm dissapointed with the fact that the person who wrote about this is a colleauge. Alright, no personality bashing, (you know, one have to try to be as impartial as possible). I give the credits to her for speaking up and telling everyone of what is happening, however I am very doubtful over the choice of words used. In functional grammar, every word functions to a spesific meaning, hence even with two identical sentences, but either "changing a word in the sentence" or "misplacing the order of the words in that sentence" can result in a totally different meaning. Just for your benefit, I didn't make that word myself. Halliday (one of the leading think tanks for functional grammar) did. You just don't appeal to audiences if you're being biased!

You and I, everyone have their own biasness, however it is important to be aware of such individual biasness and be prepared for its consequences should one remain in that zone.

I feel that american food's good, I feel that Americans are innovative and have excellent risk-assessment abilities, and I like many things about America, and americans. However, I do have some grudges to voice out, per say, such as Americans have such individualistic mindsets, the government of america is very gullible and "blur" about what its supposed to do, the judiciary system is flawed to a certain extent in which it is abused to a point where people keep repeating crimes instead of going against it, etc. But do I go around and say, "hey dood. Americans = bullshitters" (just because one guy bullsh*tted arround?), or sweeping remarks?

I'm drawn to a statement where the poster had said that "Its evident then, Americans are composed of citizens with completely no (zero, nil, zilch,) ethics and values of respect for sovereignity of other countries." Please note, I'm literally translating this based on the assumptions of literal word by word with the functional aspects taken into account. Why I can do this? Because I am a linguist. Feel free to challenge or re-interpret, but that is not my idea of presentation here. I'm not here to bash someone. I'm here to appeal to everyone to use your senses given the the Almighty God, to listen with your own ears, see with your own eyes, speak with your own tongue, discern with your own understanding. Search for the truth. Your truth and my truth can never be identical, but it can have the same founding understatement.

Back to the highlighted sentence, can that be assumed as a libel-ious, malicious statement? It can. If it was to be written properly, perhaps so that it could be written in such a way that states "given the track record of America's external affairs policy to be actively participative (intrusive? maybe. use it if you feel like it) in the internal politics of other countries, it seems that america has done it again in this case" seems much better, much receptive even to the more hardliners.

If you want to win a war of words, choose your words. Getting hardlining without substantial "balls-grabbing" won't even bother people.

So look forward, people. There is something beautiful in that ugly situation.