Still breathing and well

Woooohoooooo passed most of the hurdles! Now just gotta finish that design work this weekend and on Monday morning I'm leaving for Copenhagen for a week for my studio field trip!

Good news this afternoon. Got an extra week off after Copenhagen as well. Apparently those lecturers that are involved with allocating us for a 6 week placement didnt quite finish their job in time. Its nice not having to go to classes for 8 weeks. But then, 9 to 5? Might be as bad, or most probably worse for me than classes. Oh well..

Copenhagen, here I come!

DEADline

I'm on the verge of psychotic breakdown. Period.

Tatkala bosan membuat assignment

Teka-teki yang perlu diberi penampar

1) Minyak ape yang disukai oleh lelaki?
Answer: MINYAKsikan pertandingan bolasepak Liga-M

2) Kuih ape yang bungkusnya di dalam, isinya di luar?
Answer: Kuih salah bikin.

3) Binatang ape power Karate?
Answer: Kuda belang.cube kira brape black belt dia ade.

4) Siape yang menemukan dompet kulit?
Answer: Yang menemukan dompet kulit tersebut tolong pulangkan kepada saye.

5) Pintu ape yang walaupun dengan 10 org pun tak leh nak tolak?
Answer: Pintu yang ade tulis 'TARIK'

6) Saya ade 3 kepala, 4 tangan dan 5 kaki...siapakah saya?
Answer: Pembohong...

7) Apa dia 'Jauh di mata, dekat di hati'?
Answer: Usus

8) Binatang ape yang seluruh anggota tubuhnya kat kepala?
Answer: Kutu rambut

9) Nenek sape jalannya meloncat-loncat?
Answer: Neneknye si katak

10) Knape lelaki jarang kene penyakit anjing gila?
Answer: Sbb lelaki ni kan 'buaya'

11) Ape beza sekretari baik ngan sekretari kurang baik?
Answer: Sekretari baik..................'Selamat pagi tuan'
Sekretari kurang baik...........'Dah pagi ni tuan'

12) Ape persamaan Michael Jordan ngan Michael Jackson?
Answer: Dua-dua tak kenal korang...hehe

13) Tukang ape yang kalau dipanggil, die menjenguk ke atas?
Answer: Tukang gali kubur

14) Nak mencari sikit punye susah, bile dah dapat buang, ape bendanya?
Answer: Tahi hidung

15) Ape persamaan kain jemuran ngan telefon?
Answer: Dua-dua kalau dah 'kringgg' bole diangkat...

16) Knape pokok kelapa kat depan rumah harus ditebang?
Answer: Mestilah kene tebang, sape nak cabut pokok kelapa ...gile ape...

17) Gajah terbang dengan ape?
Answer: dgn susah payah

hohohoohhh

*si jonet seperti biasa cuba menyelesaikan kerja rumahnya di saat-saat akhir tarikh penghantaran.

An Interesting Article From Utusan Malaysia

AS hukum Saddam

Sebenarnya bukan kerajaan Iraq, sebaliknya Amerika Syarikat (AS) yang memilih untuk menjatuhkan hukuman ke atas Saddam Hussein secara terburu-buru sebaik sahaja hukuman ke atasnya disahkan, sekali gus menidakkan semua perbicaraan yang sedang menantinya.

Kerajaan Iraq yang ada sekarang tidak mempunyai apa-apa untuk disembunyikan jika perbicaraan-perbicaraan itu diteruskan, tetapi AS mempunyai sebab untuk berasa bimbang.

Bagi memahami dan mengetahui susur-galur sebenar, perkara yang perlu adalah mengimbas semula pencerobohan AS ke atas Iraq pada Mac 2003.

Alasan pencerobohan AS pada ketika itu adalah Iraq mempunyai senjata pemusnah dan langsung tidak terlintas untuk membawa demokrasi kepada rakyat Iraq.

Bagi meyakinkan seluruh dunia bahawa senjata pemusnah besar-besaran (WMD) Saddam merupakan ancaman kepada seluruh dunia, maka didedahkan betapa jahat dan buruknya perangai Saddam termasuk “sanggup meracun rakyat sendiri.”

Malangnya sehingga hari ini senjata pemusnah itu terbukti tidak ada ada, menyebabkan skrip pencerobohan AS diubah, iaitu membawa demokrasi kepada penduduk Iraq.

Bagaimanapun dalil itu memerlukan Saddam tampil sebagai gergasi ganas dan pendedahan itu pula memerlukan cerita-cerita sokongan yang penuh dramatik bagaimana beliau membunuh rakyatnya sendiri, seperti melancarkan serangan gas beracun ke atas pemberontak Kurdis pada 1988, dan beliau akan dihukum gantung akibat “kejahatan itu.”

Memang perkara yang menarik apabila perbicaraan kes serangan gas itu sudah bermula beberapa bulan yang lalu, dengan perbicaraan membabitkan pemberontakan Kurdis pada 1988 dan penentangan Syiah pada 1991 dijangka bermula tahun ini. Malangnya, semua perbicaraan itu tidak menjadi kenyataan kerana terbatal dengan sendiri apabila Saddam menjalani hukuman gantung atas kesalahan membunuh 144 penduduk Dujail yang didakwa terbabit dalam komplot membunuh beliau pada 1982.

Mengapa Dujail? Bayangkan bahawa beliau muncul dalam tampuk kekuasaan pada lewat 1960-an dengan menyingkirkan semua kepimpinan Parti Komunis Iraq (kebanyakannya puak Syiah) daripada kekuasaan, melancarkan perang ke atas Iran pada 1980 yang menyebabkan setengah juta orang terbunuh, membunuh penduduk Kurdis pada 1987- 1988 apabila kebanyakan pemimpin puak ini menyebelahi Iran, menyerang Kuwait pada 1990 dan membunuh penduduk Syiah pada 1991 apabila mereka menentang pemerintahannya selepas berakhirnya perang.

Mereka menggantung Saddam kerana Dujail. Kenapa?

Ia sama seperti jika Adolf Hitler ditangkap pada 1945 tetapi kesalahannya mencetuskan Perang Dunia Kedua dan membunuh lebih enam juta orang Yahudi dibiarkan begitu sahaja, sebaliknya dibicarakan kerana membunuh orang yang disyaki terbabit dalam komplot melakukan serangan bom ke atasnya pada Julai 1944.

Sebegitu banyak jenayah yang dilakukan oleh Saddam, mengapa beliau digantung disebabkan tindakan pembunuhan ke atas komplot Dujail?

Jawapannya, AS terbabit secara langsung dalam semua jenayah, kecuali di Dujail. AS terbabit dalam pembunuhan ke atas anggota Parti Komunis Iraq, dengan Agensi Risikan Pusat (CIA) memberikan senarai keanggotaan kepada Saddam.

AS juga yang menyuruh Saddam melancarkan serangan ke atas Iran sehingga kepada tahap membekalkan senjata kimia, data perisikan satelit dan AWACS mengenai sasaran di Iran, selain menempatkan penterjemah foto Tentera Udara AS bagi melukis peta lengkap mengenai bentuk muka bumi Iran dan menyemburkannya dengan gas beracun.

Jangan lupa bahawa pentadbiran Reagan menghalang Kongres daripada mengecam Saddam kerana menggunakan gas beracun dan Jabatan Negara pula melindungi Saddam apabila beliau menyerang penduduk Kurdis menggunakan gas beracun pada 1988 di Halabja serta menyebarkan cerita bahawa Iran yang bertanggungjawab menyembur senjata kimia tersebut.

Bukan rahsia juga bahawa tentera laut AS yang memberikan perlindungan kepada kapal tangki yang membawa minyak dari negara-negara Teluk sementara pesawat pejuang Iraq bebas menyerang kapal-kapal tangki yang datang dari pelabuhan Iran.

Malah AS menutup mata apabila pesawat pejuang Iraq tersilap membedil kapal pemusnah AS pada 1987, menyebabkan 37 anak kapal terbunuh.

Dan bapa kepada Presiden George W. Bush sendiri yang bertanggungjawab menggesa penduduk Syiah dan Kurdis memberontak sebaik sahaja tentera Iraq diusir keluar dari Kuwait pada 1991, tetapi gagal menggunakan kekuatan tentera udara untuk melindungi penduduk Syiah selepas mereka melancarkan pemberontakan.

Sebenarnya AS terlibat secara langsung dalam semua jenayah-jenayah besar yang dilakukan oleh Saddam dan disebabkan itu juga perbicaraan yang dijalankan tidak membenarkan sama-sekali maklumat terperinci dikeluarkan dalam keterangan.

Sebaliknya para perancang dalam pentadbiran Bush sekarang telah menjadikan kes di Dujail sebagai pemula dalam perbicaraan Saddam sementara jenayah-jenayah yang lebih besar dibicarakan kemudian, kerana mereka tahu, hukuman mati akibat kesalahan di Dujail akan menutup semua jenayah-jenayah lain.

Sebab itu juga, lelaki yang dihukum gantung pada awal pagi Sabtu lalu bukan sahaja menjalani perbicaraan sandiwara di mahkamah kanggaru, tetapi turut dibunuh atas jenayah yang salah.

– Agensi

Death of An Arab Hero

Innalillah...Saddam Hussein was finally executed on the early morning of Eid ul-Adha, at approximately 6.00am local time of 30th December 2006 by hanging as many Iraqis began celebrating the holy day. There goes one Arab who could stand and fight against the US and its allies all these years.

The execution was seen as the first sacrifice for the Eid. This angries many Iraqis as it has sadden the day that was supposed to be a happy and holy day. But the new government of Iraq has seen the date of execution as essential, and a big step forward in moving on.

I was sad when I first learned about this on the news last night, as I could remember during school we used to talk about how brave Saddam was in standing up against the Americans. It was funny how at first, it was the Americans who supported Saddam during the First Gulf War of 1980-88. In 1982 with Iranian success on the battlefield, the U.S. made its backing of Iraq more pronounced, supplying it with intelligence, economic aid, normalizing relations with the government and also supplying weapons. The American President Ronald Reagan decided that the United States "could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran", and that the United States "would do whatever was necessary and legal to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran." And now it was the Persians who helped the Americans capture the country and Saddam himself. I guess thats how the world's politics goes. (NB: I just found out that it was the Americans that helped to create the Vietcong in Vietnam, in order to drive out the French from Vietnam soil, but then turned against them)

There is a video of the execution on the net, and could be found easily if you search it. The one I watched is an amatuer video taken with a mobile phone, but there was also a cencored footage taken by a videographer. The amateur video shows the entire execution process, and includes the moment when the platform was dropped and Saddam falls into it. He has recited the shahadah and was finishing it again when the platform dropped. I looked into the Wikipedia page on the article about the execution last night, and was surprised that they 'could not' determine what his last words were, but from the video of the execution it could be clearly heard that he was reciting the shahadah. I tried to edit the page, and put down that his last words are the shahadah and that it could be clearly heard from the amateur footage. But this only lasts 2 or 3 minutes as somebody else deleted it and put back 'he made some other remarks up to the hanging but this could not be determined.' I was furious that somebody did not want the truth to be known to the public and edited the article a few time before I finally gave up and went to sleep. When i woke up this morning, somebody already edited it and put down the truth to be heard. There was also a funny entry in the article which was removed later - somebody put down "Saddam, as he is sentenced to death by butt sex hanging." Vandals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_Saddam_Hussein

I put the entry as 'Death of An Arab Hero' because thats how I see him. Maybe he was wrong with all the killings, but I think with the main three sects of his country, the Sunni, the Shi'ite and the Kurds who kept on fighting each other as long as the world can remember, the dictatorship was essential and he was successful in uniting Iraq and also successful in moderning it before the wars.

I maybe dont really know them, but from a recent personal experience of the Kurds people, I now could understand why Saddam did it. As one of my Arab friend states, 'The Kurds people are hard people, fraudulent, no wonder Saddam gassed them.' And referring to my own personal experience, he added "He is lucky he's here, if he's in Iraq Saddam would have gassed his asses off". What a guy.

Finally able to use the damn phone again

Lost a couple of my O2 simcards back in early October. Then, from a former experience, I specifically told O2 that I just lost the sims when I called to report it lost, NOT the phones and asked them to block only the sim cards and not the phone itself, before I could get new ones. Then, as stupid as O2 gets, they blocked the IMEI of my Nokia 8800 phone, although the phone was not registered or associated with the lost sims. I got the phone with another contract. Their excuse was, the phone was blocked because it was last used with the sims - somehow they got the IMEI number of the phone whenever you restart the phone with a sim and then got associated.

That was the start of a three-months battle to get my phone usable again. FYI, there's a centralised system in the UK, where, when a phone reported stolen or lost, the IMEI number of the phone was entered into the system and then blocked across all networks in the country. This is also widely known as 'Blacklisting'. Then, whats gonna happen is, the next morning you'll wake up next to your unusable phone which appears to not receive any signals. If you restart the phone, it will display "Sim Card Registration Failed". For a Motorola phone, it will appear as "Unregistered Sim" (Yes, has happened to me before) No calls can be made in or out, except emergency calls only, of course.

Thats what happens if you report your phone lost or stolen here in the UK. If you're gonna fraudulently report your phone lost, and claim the insurance to get a new one, send the old phone back to Malaysia where it should be able to be used again (applicable to Malaysians who 'sometimes' like this option). Such system does not exist yet in Malaysia. Kalau phone kena ragut ngan Mat Rempit tu, redha je la. But thats maybe not for long, because there are talks that they gonna try to centralise the system across the world. But I really doubt thats gonna happen anyway.

Okay, to my story then. Since the first day that I discovered that my phone was blocked, I have been calling 02 to try to unblock it. Every time I called they say they have sent forms to the network department that deals with blacklisting, and says that its gonna be resolved in 3 to 5 days. Then 5 days passed and still nothing happens. I called them again. Same thing promised but still Im waiting for nothing to happen. But I kept on calling, never gave up, after all this is my Nokia 8800 which I waited for nearly a year for its price to come down before I could buy it. It must have been over 20 calls or more, week after week, and I felt like calling them family now. haha. Empty promises goes on, until last week, which was 3 months later.

That morning, I restarted my phone and then 'O2-UK' appears! Finally.

NB: Ape daa anti-klimaks nyer citer. hampeh. Tp tensen tgh tunggu gaji masuk nih. Penat baru balik keje. malas nak type dah.

Moral of the story: dont get ur phone blacklisted - it'll get to ur nerves, a damn nuisance.

How Steady Are Your Hands?

http://www.winterrowd.com/maze/

Try playing this to test how steady your hands are. Great for boring nights.

Rip Off Again - 18SX

Honeymoon Postcard

A mother had 3 daughters. They were all getting married within a short time period. Because mom was a bit worried about how their sex lives would get started, she made them all promise to send a postcard from the honeymoon with a few words on how marital sex felt.

The first girl sent a card from Hawaii two days after the wedding. The card said nothing but "Nescafe." Mom was puzzled at first, but then went to the kitchen and got out the Nescafe jar. It said: "Good till the last drop." Mom blushed, but was pleased for her daughter.

The second girl sent the card from Vermont a week after the wedding, and the card read: "Benson & Hedges." Mom now knew to go straight to her husband's cigarettes, and she read from the Benson & Hedges pack: "Extra Long. King Size." She was again slightly embarrased but still happy for her daughter.

The third girl left for her honeymoon in the Caribbean. Mom waited for a week, nothing. Another week went by, and still nothing. Then after a whole month, a card finally arrived. Written on it with shaky handwriting were the words: "British Airways." Mom took out her latest Harper's Bazaar magazine, flipped through the pages fearing the worst, and finally found the ad for the airline. The ad said: "Three times a day, seven days a week, both ways." Mom fainted.