‘Sometimes’ can become an obsession

BESEECH : Dear Allah, I am forever hapless. Please guide me to the right path always. Amin!

Dear WordPress,

I took a short 2 day break because I simply need it. But the anxiety of the coming Monday devastated the two short supposedly refreshing break and turned into 2 years in a microwave oven. Truly said, there is nothing more pleasing for most of us to rub salt to someone’s wound or stomp and wipe your feet clean onto someone down on the floor. Bullying isn’t just some kind of childhood learning experience. It’s a human trait entrenched on a significant majority of people on earth.

A more subtle reference to this undignified behaviour is treating someone else as a stepping stone. I guess the nature of mankind is to enjoy every moment looking at somebody else squeamish on the floor. As an added bonus, participating in agonizing the poor soul is actually a dream come true to these bullies. Not to care is as easy as turning away and deafening their eyes. An art perfected by these aristocratic snob who are a bit blessed than others.

Debunking Faiths in Malaysia (Read Myths) #1

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Love it or hate it, Malaysians are easily misled with unverified so-called news just because it was emailed / sms / blogged. Instead of checking with the authorities or reliable sources, such piece of (mis)information is usually viewed as the bible of irrefutable truth. Hence, one must be extremely wary and avoid rebutting this newly found but yet iron clad faith of gullible Malaysians lest one would land into a hopelessly lopsided argument.

Dilbert reviewed

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I have been a fan of Dilbert’s comic strips for a long time. Even my dad is an ardent fan of him typically when he was still working. He bought us one of Dilbert’s many compilation of comic strips. Quite expensive though since it is an international comic artist.

Basically, Dilbert is a white collar worker or more precisely an computer engineer working for an unknown company. Together with his colleagues such as Alice, Wally and Ted to name a few, they form the company’s core work force. Working at the fore front of the companies operations, they find the management’s (the pointy haired boss) way of doing business a tad too ‘managey’ and irrelevant. The pointy haired boss loves to spam the worker there with useless motivational quotes and maligned management jargon talk instead of managing the company and the people working there.

Happy World Photography Day 2009!

RELIC : The First Pentaprism Camera; the Contax S of 1949 (Courtesy of Wikipedia)

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I found this nifty website that exhibits some of the funniest and probably mind boggling pictures of photographers doing their thing. It was in conjunction with World Photography Day that fell on last 19th August 2009. A bit of history lesson is in order here. It was narrated in the annals of time that on this very date in the year of 1839, photography was officially invented in Paris.

Ia datang lagi… panggilan Haji 1430H!

MATLAMAT : Memenuhi Panggilan Haji

Tuan WordPress,

Sedar tak sedar ia datang lagi… panggilan untuk mengerjakan ibadah Haji tahun 1430 Hijrah. Mengikut hukum, haji boleh dikerjakan bermula 1 Syawwal sehingglah sebelum fajar 10 Zulhijjah menyinsing tiba. Ini bermakna seseorang bakal haji hendaklah selewat-lewatnya berniat ihram haji DAN wuquf di ‘arofah pada 9 Zulhijjah. Ini pemahaman saya yang sangat jahil, maklum sahaja feqahnya berterabur kursus haji pun belum pergi apatah lagi menunaikan haji.

Adoi!

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This posting is with due respect to the Malaysian medical fraternity. I know most of them are hardworking and honest in their duties. I really give them the Official EPI Tabik Spring for jobs well done and the unworldly hours they have to endure daily in discharging their solemn duties. I can’t even begin to fantasize holding a job with such heretic schedules and pressure.

TABIK! : A Salute to the Medical Fraternity

Life Reviewed – 2 weeks ago

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Quite awhile since I updated this blog and much have passed this way. As I mentioned somewhere in the blog, I went for a quiet holiday in yon peaceful and serene village. Come to think of it, the scenery was almost a-look-alike cut out poster of some distant land with black specks of birds on the otherwise bluish canvas called sky. Alas, like most good story or movie, it all have to end sometime, sooner or later.

LOTR revisited

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One of my favourite movies is the Lord of the Rings (the trilogy). Superbly played and written with in depth plots and of course magical wonder aplenty, it was definitely thumbs up all four (plus my feet’s). One couldn’t ask more with its epic soundtracks which will beg to play yet again the whole trilogy. No of course, there is nothing romantically connected to LOTR when I lament about this epic. But there is much discussion abound surrounding the entire plot which actually do touch our reality then and now.

IIUM English Teacher Passed Away

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This just in at Malay Mail. An English Language teacher from UIA collapsed whilst having a karaoke session with 2 friends yesterday around 11.30 a.m. The news piece didn’t mention who was it. A quick check with UIA’s website didn’t also reveal any information. My favourite grapevine IIUM Student Bloggers similarly didn’t shed light on this tragic incident. We at EPI extend our deepest condolences to the deceased family.

Here is the full news taken from the Malay Mail Online

Lecturer’s final song

She collapses and dies during a karaoke session in Damansara

Lonely day at the office

POSTER 1: Gee… I didn’t think of that before (about the voices!)

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The 3rd Raya for the past 6 years of my working life is consistently spent by yours truly at the office. Not because I’m dedicated to work but due to terrific almost nonchalant atmosphere one would get from working in a virtually deserted office on a working day. True you still have to shove the tonnes of stuff commonly disguised as work but the heart pumping tense is quite absent.