Bloopers

Oops! Berita Harian did it again!

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I highlighted on Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism (MCCBCHST).

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They translated the word 'Consultative' from the NGO's name into 'Perundangan' in Malay. How surprising! The only Malay word I know which gives a meaning for 'consultative' in English is 'perundingan.'

Plus, is there any belief out there called Toa? The Taoists must feel insulted!

Now, I know why my dad didn't want to read the newspaper anymore.

Similar but slightly different situation happened to me. Some Malaysian students from Al-Manṣūrah blamed me for being insolent just because I used phrase 'pet name' instead of 'nickname.' They accused me for referring them as 'animals' and demanded me an apology. What the hell? Instead of looking up in dictionary what 'pet name' means, they instantly 'assaulted' me and called me an insensitive person. Wow, seems that some people just know how to mark their territories and go against me. But, all they do is acting like smart asses without realizing that they're just some faction of morons.

Thus, proving my point that those Al-Manṣūrah group of medical students really are incompetent in English and only know how to say to lecturers, "can you explain in English?" I bet they don't even know what that means.

Medico-Legal

People love to sue physicians’ asses. Physicians suck that they can never meet the patients’ requirement.

Well, from my point of view, both parties are at fault.

First, doctors, when they’re still undergrads, they didn’t respect much the profession. They didn’t give a damn thing about studies and all they care was taking pictures with cadaver or ‘playing doctors’ with patients before upload it into facebook and tell the world how cool it was. But, they didn’t realize that it was a breach of ethics and physician-patient confidentiality. Even cadavers deserve to be treated with respect and dignity; not to be taken picture of it with finger ‘peace’ gesture. Consequently, some lousy group of doctors, err I mean quacks is born.

Second, patients, if their doctors made a little mistake, it was a worldly crisis. They hurriedly call their lawyers to make a living hell for such physicians. But, hey, here’s a thought. Have you ever wonder that there are many doctors out there who accidentally contracted hospital-borne diseases (we often referred it as nosocomial infection) such as MRSA, AIDS, TB, Hep B, C, any letter you name it, from their patients during the treatment and they didn’t even summon their patients to justice ?

Wow.

So people, please, act fairly and be fair. 

Oh wait, what did I just said? 

This life is never fair.

Bored to Death

This boredom is killin' me.

In spite of that, I manage to get my hand on these:

1. Album: TV Animation Series 「tactics」 Opening Theme
Artiste: Miki Akiyama
Catalogue No.: AFC-1017
My pick: Secret World

2. Album: 0079-0088
Artiste: Gackt
Catalogue No.: CRCP-40195
My pick: Ai Senshi (Original Artist: Daisuke Inoue)

3. Album: Fight!
Artistes: Romi Park x Mamoru Miyano
Catalogue No.: VPCG-82219
My pick: Fight!

4. Album: Doubt & Trust
Artiste: access
Catalogue No.: AICL-1884
My pick: Doubt & Trust

5. Album: CODE GEASS COMPLETE BEST
Various Artistes
Catalogue No.: SMCL-163
My pick: COLORS & Hitomi no Tsubasa

Future of Islam in Malaysia

I stumbled upon verse 54 from Surah al-Mā’idāh, when I read Quran and the translation goes as below:

"O you who believe! Whoever from among you turns back from his religion (Islām), Allāh will bring a people whom He will love and they will love Him; humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers, fighting in the Way of Allāh, and never afraid of the blame of the blamers. That is the Grace of Allāh which He bestows on whom He wills. And Allāh is All-Sufficient for His creatures' needs, All-Knower."

I wonder, what’s gonna happen to Islam in Malaysia?

Hey, here’s a thought. I think, since Islam is taken for granted by Malay, maybe Allāh (gotta use a lot of this word, now) will bash His divine retribution upon them and let the matters of Islam be handled by Chinese Muslims instead.

Kelantan Government is now planning to amend it’s constitution to allow non-Malay to be a Chief Minister. Is this a sign from Allāh?

Nowadays, a lot of young Chinese converted to Islam in Malaysia while at the same time, a lot of good-for-nothing Malay youngsters are trying to get out of Islam. I have many Muslim Chinese peers to prove the former.

Many Muslim Malays take prayers for granted while at the same time many Chinese are trying to study and practice ‘solat’ voluntarily.

Malays don't give a damn about Islam. They just use it whenever possible to serve their own political agenda; mainly Malay supremacy. How pathetic. Let me tell you, Islam is no longer synonym with Malay. Malay doesn't own it; not even Arab, nor Chinese. Nobody.

It is not something impossible that Islamic affairs will be much better under Muslim Chinese supervision. Who knows? They’re rich, well-known for their business skills, diligent, more disciplined compared to Malay, hardworking and ‘kiasu’ (Hokkien word means afraid of losing).

Islam is not something unheard among Chinese. They discovered Islam centuries before the religion reached The Golden Chersonese. They call Islam 'Huijiao,' (回教) means 'the religion of Hui people. Chinese people from this ethnicity is known for practising Islam even though they're culturally similar to Han people.

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Nah, this is just an idle thinking.

Food Hunt During Eid

The bodyguard, The godfather and the 'crook' cook.

Patiently waiting for meal to be served.

...but only get some banana crackers, kuih gasing, Fruit Plus and some citrus.

Oh yeah, lontong babeh!

Crime scene.

My ex-neighbours. They have grown a lot.

We take a photograph after successfully raiding the second house.

A few steps away, and we take a photograph again.

The third house is unfortunately on their preparing process for their food.

Nonetheless, we have take another picture to commemorate this failure.

Making snide comments against each other.

A loving couple is left behind in an area called Shaymaa'.

We're about to raid the final house of the operation.

Taking nearly 20 minutes to reach the most isolated house in the area.

The 'oyabun' is scheming an ambush plan.

"We go like this, and like this...," said the future executive-officer.

I looked at the targeted house.

Damn it! It seems that the residents have known our modus operandi. They make us wait for nearly an hour for the meal.

...and they're finally busted.

The connoisseur is always tempted by the food.

Always leave no trace.

Eid Adha 1430 Hijra

I still remember what my teacher, Mr Yusof had taught me about Eid Adha.

He asked everybody in the class, “what’s the moral of Eid Adha?”

Of course we answered with the lame answer - the willingness to sacrifice.

He said, “You’re wrong.”

“The real purpose of Eid Adha is to obediently follow what Allāh has commanded. Just obey Allāh without questioning the purpose of it. It's that simple," he added.

At Samanoudy Mosque, after Eid prayer.

Left to right: Nasi impit, kuah kacang (Nadhir's), rendang ayam (mine).

Blame the camera, not me.

Going to raid the next house.

Curry noodles at the most isolated house in Al-Manṣūrah

Kamus Dewan Edisi Keempat: There's a Mistake?

To use Malay words to describe emotion and feelings, one must follow these grammatical rules:

1. The word + akan. For example: Suka akan, benci akan. Or,
2. Prefix ‘me’ + the word + suffix ‘an/i’ (suffix is not a necessity in some words). For example: Menyukai (out of suka), Merindukan (from the word rindu).

However, I was taught that the word 'merindui' is wrong. The correct form is 'merindukan.' You can’t find the word 'merindui' in Kamus Dewan Edisi Ketiga but I was told that the word is included in Kamus Dewan Edisi Keempat, page 1332.

I still believe that the correct form is ‘merindukan.’

A Malay linguist told me that Kamus Dewan is not an ultimate guide for Malay grammar. The only guide you can rely upon is Tatabahasa Dewan.

Fake Professorship

There have been some issues here in Egypt, shaking a group of Malaysian community in this place. But, I don’t wanna comment about those issues.

But what really intrigues me is, the way people addressing a character in the issue. Let’s look at this thing from linguistic and moral aspect.

Let say his name is Jamal, PhD. And let just say that he’s some crappy liaison for some corrupted agency from Malaysia.

Right, when he came here few years ago, people address him ‘Doctor Jamal.’ Maybe, he’s not a physician but it is still correct to call him as such as he holds a PhD.

Time passed by and all of sudden people address him as Associate Professor Jamal officially in ceremonies and working papers. And it wasn’t long before people starting address him Professor. For your info, this Jamal guy hasn’t done any dissertations, academic papers or whatever for him to be entitled for aforementioned academic titles. Plus, he’s far away from those because he’s no longer affiliated with any university or other academic institution.

I wonder, what kinda crappy secretaries and master of ceremonies are there? Don’t they know anything about protocols?

What if he does something that can lead to abomination? A professor fucking up some ceremony, or maybe work part time as a contrabandist? If you’re in your right mind, do you think he as a (fake) professor or at least a doctorate holder would do as such?

See, Malaysians here in Egypt are so unnecessarily ‘kind.’ You’re an Islamic studies student, you can be called ustaz or ustazah. You’re med student, people call you ‘duktur’ or ‘dukturah.’ I deplore the latter. Nonetheless, these people should realize that sometimes they’re overstepping border. Making up people's title sometimes is really too much, I think. It's flattering and exaggerating. I saw such screw-ups happen too many times in Malaysian med students society especially in their paperworks.

You wrongly address people with some academic title he/she doesn’t have, you’ll end up telling lies to the society. Giving too much credentials is fatal.

Stupidity

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen. Harvard University is in London? You gotta be kiddin' me.
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Geez, even dung beetles know that Harvard is in Massachusetts, USA. Guess what would happen when those students arrive in London. Would they be able to find Harvard University in London?

Okay, now let’s see another same-day news excerpt of the same e-newspaper.

Some stupid newspaper is suggesting college students to use their library/archives as source of references. Yeah, refer and fail for sure.