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ZanZiBaR BBQ

2007-10-01T19:15:00.001+08:00

Few weeks before our finals.. few of my friends and i decided to go for this BBQ buffet at this place called Zanzibar @ Dataran Pahlawan... The food was so so... heres the pictures.. !

Euro Fun Fair

2007-10-01T18:51:00.000+08:00

Sorry its been a while .. well.. actually really long since updating my blog..
I've been really busy.. and the finals are going on right now.. Just finish my Computer Applications Paper and now i'm kinda free so i'm gonna put up a few pictures of us when we went to this Euro Fun Fair a few weeks back... We went there with 3 cars... Faiz, Cat and I drove. The others who went were Chris, Hiren, Dorita, Tburn, Sarah, Hakimi, Justin, Ivan, Nesh, Audrey, & her friend...Ops ! Here are the pictures ...

My good friend, Chris and I at the Ticket Booth !

Faiz, Hiren, Nesh, Me & Chris !

Me, Club 99 Shoot Shoot Tburn, & Dori Mande !

Tburn, Me, Hiren Mow !! & Faiz ...

Somebody eventually vomited ... But sorry u gotta figure who out yourself !

Cat .. Dori.. Tburn & Ivan just didn't wanna leave !

Possessed Chokehold !

2007-08-15T19:13:00.000+08:00

I will blog about this later.. got exam in a while... Meanwhile.. enjoy the videos !

The Accident We Saw..

2007-08-13T17:01:00.000+08:00

This incident happened before the one week break. Faiz was driving the car, he took us to the Malacca Central to buy our bus tickets and on the way back... just one car in front of us.. we saw this accident !.... Hopefully no one was badly injured but the new car was a wreck !

RECHARGE REVELATION RAVE @ A'Famosa Resort, Melaka

2007-08-08T01:47:00.000+08:00

For the past 4 years, REVELATION has staged the most refreshing, exciting and memorable parties Malaysia has ever seen, bringing together the world’s leading dance DJs and electronic music acts.

REVELATION began in 2003 when more than 7,000 clubbers were blown away by a sensory overload of amazing music, fresh creative artwork and exciting interactive activities. Since then it has turned into South East Asia’s landmark music event, accommodating more than 20,000 clubbers with a music policy that embraces electronic music, rock, and hip hop; truly an event dedicated to contemporary progressive modern living.

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ASIA !!!! .......

On October 27th, 2007, celebrating its fifth anniversary at a specially built site at the A’Famosa Resort outside Melaka, RECHARGE REVELATION presents Global Gathering, Europe ’s biggest dance music festival. In Europe, Global Gathering has consistently run sold out festivals, reaching its peak in 2006 with a record-breaking attendance of over 70,000 party-goers.

REVELATION and Global Gathering is the perfect partnership as both are recognised for their production expertise and skillful programming of the most current international and local musical talent. They both also always deliver exciting interactive activities and showcase performance, dance, multimedia, art, fashion, design, film and adventure rides in a multi-space environment.

RECHARGE REVELATION 5 Global Gathering will be the event of 2007 with a line up of more than 40 international, regional and local acts spread across six arenas (outdoor and covered) with some of the most innovative lifestyle facilities ever seen at a Malaysian music festival. The full line up of acts and activities will be released in August so watch this space.

Recharge Revelation5 Global Gathering Teaser Trailer

WHAT IS REVELATION?
REVELATION is an annual music and lifestyle festival held in Malaysia. For the past 4 years, REVELATION has brought together the world’s leading dance DJ’s and electronic music acts together with Malaysia’s best DJ’s in an event featuring showcases by established and upcoming creative talents in the fields of performance, dance, multimedia, art, fashion, design and film in a multi-space environment.

REVELATION has revolutionized the way young adults perceive dance and electronic music culture in the country by pioneering activities that engage, inspire and recharge.

WHAT IS GLOBAL GATHERING?
Global Gathering is the brainchild of the people behind Godskitchen, one of the world’s biggest and most successful clubbing brands. Since its debut in 2001 the Global Gathering festival has sold out every event in the United Kingdom. Recognized in the industry as the dominate outdoor music festival in Europe, Global Gathering has achieved success through phenomenal production, world class talent, and superior promotion, enabling the festival to become the UK’s largest dance music festival.

WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REVELATION AND GLOBAL GATHERING?
Recharge Revelation presents Global Gathering, the Europe’s biggest dance music festival. Recharge Revelation5 Global Gathering will fuse the best elements from both festivals in what promises to be the music and clubbing event of the year.

WHAT BENEFITS DO RECHARGE MEMBERS GET?
If you have signed up at this website, you have exclusive access to early bird tickets, contests where you can win free tickets and the latest information

WHAT TIME DOES IT START?
2pm, there will be plenty of music and day time activities for you to enjoy with your friends. There will also be air-conditioned tents for you to hang out and dance in.

WHAT IS THE MUSIC POLICY FOR RR5GG?
Within the 6 Arenas, there will be a wide range of world-class music available. The genres are Trance, House, Prog, Techno, Minimal, Tech, Live Electronica, Hip Hop, Breaks, Indie, Rock and Retro.

WHERE WILL IT BE HELD AND HOW DO I GET THERE?
It will be held at A’ Famosa Resort, Melaka at an area specially built up for the party. Please click here for a map to the resort. Please click here for directions and the modes of transport you could take.

TICKETS?
Ticket Price:
RM53 (Early Bird: 01 July-02 Aug 07)
RM63 (Pre - Sale: 03 Aug-25 Oct 07)
RM83 (Door-Sale: 27 Oct 07)

Axcess outlets
Axcess Office, Jalan Semangat
1-Utama Shopping Complex
Stadium Putra Box Office, Bukit Jalil
Rock Corner, Midvalley Megamall
Tower Records, Suria KLCC
The Actors Studio, Bangsar
Lot 10 Tower Records
Music Valley Midlands Park, Penang
Music Valley Greentown, Ipoh
Music Valley, Holiday Plaza, Johor Bahru

WHERE DO I STAY?
There are rooms and bungalows (with a pool each) available at A’Famosa but they will fill up quickly.

Call the A'Famosa Room Reservation Hotline: 03 27818833
Operating Hours: 9am - 6pm Monday - Sunday
To find out more about A'Famosa, visit their website. here

WHAT SHOULD I BRING?
You should bring your IC if you are Malaysian and any ID that shows your age and picture if you are not Malaysian. Everyone will be carded. Bring some rain cover, just in case. Wear a pair of good shoes, leave your heels at home, ladies. Bring cash, only your first 2 drinks are free.

WHO IS PLAYING?
The full line up of acts will be released in August.

WILL I BE SAFE?
Every REVELATION event is carefully planned and managed for quality, safety and security by a professional team of experienced personnel. The promoters, Pervert Designs Sdn Bhd works very closely with all government departments and state authorities to ensure the safety and security of every attendee.

These measures include:
Age and ID verification
Metal Detectors
Security Personnel trained in crowd control
Police assistance including Traffic Police
Police with mobile command van on standby during event
Fire trucks
RELA
Emergency First Aid Staff
Ambulance on standby

WHO IS THE ORGANIZER?
RECHARGE REVELATION 5 is lovingly put together and professionally organized by Pervert Designs, a brandscape design and concept events consultancy with 9 years of experience organizing creative events. The people behind Pervert Designs are responsible for legendary parties like Heineken Green Room Festival, Heineken Thirst Studio 2006 and Revelation 1, 2 and 3.

Their dedicated team of expert suppliers provide the best services and equipment available in Malaysia. They also work closely with government administrative departments ensuring the legitimacy of everything they do to ensure the comfort and safety of attendees.

More info @ http://www.rechargeroom.com/

I found out that the possible DJs line would be the Bass Agents, blink, Terence C, Fono, Goldfish, Stylustiks etc and as for foreign DJs.. anyone got any info?

Beautiful Memories

2007-08-07T02:03:00.000+08:00

I went to Malacca.. and my new friends make me fall in love with this Indonesian song. The peak of my affair with this song was at PureBar when the band played this song.. and Syaz and I was toying around with Abel ( the international student from Ethiopia ) because he couldn't understand a word !.. The song can be listen by click on the YouTube video i added below and is dedicated to all my MMU Malacca friends... from my IT classmates right to my ixora apartment buddies and everyone who heard me say balls !.... hehe...

Samsons - Kenangan Terindah

Aku yang lemah tanpamu
Aku yang rentan karena
Cinta yang tlah hilang darimu
Yang mampu menyanjungku

Selama mata terbuka
Sampai jantung tak berdetak
Selama itu pun
Aku mampu tuk mengenangmu

Darimu...
Kutemukan hidupku
Bagiku...
Kau lah cinta sejati

Ooh...

Bila yang tertulis untukku
Adalah yang terbaik untukmu
Kan kujadikan kau kenangan
Yang terindah dalam hidupku
Namun takkan mudah bagiku
Meninggalkan jejak hidupku
Yang tlah terukir abadi
Sebagai kenangan yang terindah

Ooh...

THE SING ALONG VIDEO !!!

ONE OF THE FIRST FEW FRIENDS I GOT DURING ORIENTATION WEEK.. THIS WAS THE ORIENTATION NIGHT DRAMA TEAM FOR THE GREEN GROUP WHO GOT SECOND PLACE.. THE BIG MAN THERE IS ANDREW.. OUR OC.. YOU ROCK !

THE BROTHERHOOD .. CHINESE MALAY INDIAN .. ( JUSIN, FAIZ & ME )

WE WERE FATED TO BE BROTHERS COZ WE CAME HERE WITH THE SAME SLIPPERS ! WE CAME... WE SAW.. WE CONQUERED THE HAUNTED TANGKI AIR !!!

THE FAMOUS 3 SLIPPERS OF IXORA

TIMOTHY, ME, HIRANYA, DORITA & TBURN STANDING

CANDID SHOT OF ME AND TIMOTHY...

WE GO BACK A LONG WAY FROM THE ORIENTATION WEEK.. APPARENTLY I WAS HANGING OUT WITH HE'S COUSIN SISTER ( PRISCILLA ) THEN I WAS INTRODUCED TO HIM AND HE'S BIGGER BRO ( THOMAS ALSO @ MMU ) BY HER... AND ON THAT FIRST NIGHT WE FIRST WENT TO MCD.. THEN HE TOOK US TO PUREBAR TO CHECK THE PLACE OUT... AND THEN WE HIT THE SHISHA.. AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH .. WE DECIDED TO GET DRUNK.. SO THOMAS BOUGHT A BOTTLE OF DRY GIN AND WE HEADED BACK TO THEIR CRIB.. IT WAS THE WORST DRINK EVER BUT IN THE END.. TIMOTHY WAS GONE.. LOL.. HE WAS DRUNK AS A COW.. HEAD BANGING ON THE WALL AND ALL AND HE HAD EXTREMLY LONG HAIR THAT TIME SO IT WAS REALLY FUN.. AND AFTER GETTIN PUSHED BY THOMAS TO DRINK.. I TOO.. WENT DOWN !

JUSTIN, ME, CHRIS & KANAN... I MET JUSTIN AT THE GREEN TEAM DRAMA GROUP FOR ORIENTATION NIGHT AND HE LIVES JUST BELOW MY APARTMENT UNIT. CHRIS AND KANAN ARE MY COURSE MATES !

SOME POWER RANGERS POSE... THE NIGHT I WAS TIPSY AT THE BEACH AFTER PUREBAR.. FAIZ IS ALSO IN THIS PIC.. ONE OF MY CLOSES FRIENDS... NICE GUY.. BUT *TOOT* YOU FAIZZZ !

SYAZ AND MYSELF.. THIS GIRL HERE ADDICTIVE CAM WHORE.. CAN PLAY WITH CAMERA PHONES FOR HOURS.. HEHE.. AND SHE'S ALSO ONE OF MY BESTEST CLOSES FRIENDS HERE IN MMU !!!

Surprise on Jalan Hang Tuah !

2007-08-05T14:36:00.000+08:00

2 day ago.. my local and international friends ( Syaz, Kavind, Diana, Abel & Maher/Shakira ) got bored.. so we decided to get a Proton Wira and go out for spin around town... and later to the beach or something but first we stopped by Jalan Hang Tuah to disturb some bapuks ( transvestite ) . We'll there was nothing special there so i didn't take any pictures until this one time.. of of them got pissed because we had girls in their car that they shouted at us and showed of their.. hmm nvm i'm keeping this blog clean!

So after a few rounds of fun, we decided to make a move and while i was driving the car pass the street... Maher or better known as Shakira.. ( why..? i'll blog about that later ! ) screamed and said that we had to turn back because he saw something... So i accelerated and make a u-turn and @$(*^@*$)^).. there was a naked.. and i mean streeakkk naked man.. bathing in the fountain of Hang Tuah mall !.. well he was obviously crazy ! but it was funny.. he pulled over and decided to call the cops.. which took forever for them to come.. and when they came.. even they we're not brave enough to approach the guy.. hehe.. it was funny.. the cops then persuaded the man to wear he's clothes and walk away.. lol... now here are the blurry pictures... good luck spotting the guy !

THE CALL ME THE COP MAGNET

SHAKIRA JUST WANTED TO LOOK SEXY

OH.. AND BY THE WAY.. I'M BACK IN BUTTERWORTH.. FOR WEEK.. CHRIS AND I TOOK THE DURIAN BURUNG DOUBLE DECKER BUS.... WOO HOOO!!! AND I ALREADY MISS MALACCA !!!! WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEKEND !

YOUTH ALIVE CF FEATURED INTONE FROM AUSTRALIA !

2007-07-26T12:30:00.001+08:00

There's two Christians societies here in MMU Malacca. One of them is the CSS ( Christian Catholic Society ) and the other is YOUTH ALIVE CF ( Christian Fellowship ). I go for both but i can't always make it for their meeting as every time they have a gathering on that certain day, i would have some other meeting either is a club or extra classes.

Anyway last Tuesday, i heard some christian band from Australia was coming and i just could not miss that... so i went.. and the band was called INTONE - http://www.intoneband.com.au/ You can read more about their band at their website.They are currently on tour around Malaysia and then Singapore, and their quiet good. Their latest album has also just released. Maybe you can YOUTUBE them.. anyway here are the pictures i took from the other day!

FOR MORE .. VISIT THEIR OFFICIAL SITE > http://www.intoneband.com.au/

Brothers ..

2007-07-24T03:44:00.001+08:00

THEY CALL US THE BROTHERS ( FAIZ, JUSTIN & ME )

WE HANGOUT AT THE IXORA POOL ALOT WITH THE REST..

WE EAT LIKE PIGS...

.. AND WE LOVE DotA !!!

NRG BAND @ PUREBAR

2007-07-24T03:25:00.000+08:00

Last weekend, again my friends and i dropped by PureBar, one of the best clubs in Malacca, and this time we headed upstairs to watch the live band, NRG. Their queit a tight band and they surely rocked the crowed from new hitz.. to classics ..local and indonesian songs.. and they we're great !.. My friend told me that NRG got first in some Battle of the Bands competition in KL sometime back.. anyway here are some pictures...

THE BAND ROCKIN'

ANOTHER ANGLE

WHEN THE COPS STOPPED US !

.. AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU DURING LECTURE THE NEXT MORNING WHEN U STAY UP ALL NIGHT !! HEHE KIDDIN SUBRA HERE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE NIGHT EARLIER... IT WAS JUST A CANDID SHOT !

San Pedro Fiesta !

2007-07-09T15:37:00.000+08:00

ME, MY BEST BRO JOEL, SOME GUY & WESSLEY !

Few weeks ago, me and my friends, Iskandar, Afan, & Nabila went over to the Portuguese Settlement for the San Pedro Festival. We meet Joel there ( the guy i mention with a picture of him in one of my earlier post ) Well it was a must to be at San Pedro since we're in Malacca and it only happens in Malacca ! San Pedro is some sort of a Portuguese Celebration which u can know more about it bout googling it on the Internet.. hehe.. lazy wanna explain la.. but i think its gotta do with this Saint named Pedro or something like that.. there we're stuffs about him i saw but my Sunday School teachers never taught me about so blame them !.. its a very colorful and fun festival. There we're many decorated boats on display. ( Pictures Below ) and there we're also a fun fair !... well it wasn't a very good fun fair but still we went in the Ghost House and it was freakin funny... later we played a few ridiculous games and then had dinner. We had their famous Devil Curry Chicken thinggy then we joined in the dance for a while. It was really fun.. the had this line dance thingy at first and a whole big group we're doing it.. anyone could join it.. well i was lost with the steps then later it was a street dance kinda thing and it was really fun... beers we're cheap too at rm5 per can... anyway it was a good experiance.. i even meet my friend and he's family from my hometown Butterworth there too, Wessley and family. Wanna thank them for the wine..

Anyway thats about it... enjoy the pictures !

THE BOATS

MORE BOATS

THE FERRY WHEEL

SIGHT AT NIGHT

SAN PEDRO STATUE

One Crazy Night

2007-07-09T14:02:00.000+08:00

My hommies and i went out last Saturday and we went to Pure Bar this time. We we're kinda late so the place was already packed. We actually went to Sunshine but it was super packed so we headed to Pure. After arriving, we went upstairs to watch the live band and they we're pretty good singing a few english songs and popular Indonesian songs ! Then after the band finished their performance we headed down stairs to dance... We bought a couple of drinks that night.. Beers,Long Island and Flamming Lamborghin.. I wanted to take a picture of it but i was too out and don't ask if i was drunk..

After clubbin, we went to McD where i wasn't sane enought to remember what happened then we headed to the beach...

ATMOSPHERE OF PURE BAR

CAM WHORED AT MCD

AND AGAIN

LOOK .. LOOK I SEE STARS ( ME, FAIZ & SYAZ )

WHY ARE OUR FEET TOGETHER?

IT WAS SUPPOSE TO BE HEAR NO EVIL, SEE NO EVIL AND BUM NO EVIL ?.. I GUESS I WAS THE DEVIL

TOP : SYAZ, FAZZ, ADRIAN, EMMA & JUSTIN. BOTTOM: FAIZ, CANON !

GO GO POWER RANGERS : YELLOW RANGER ( FAIZ ) , GREEN RANGER ( ME ) , ORANGE RANGER ( JUSTIN ), BLACK RANGER ( CANON ), IRANIAN RANGER ( CHRIS )

FAIZ..WTF ARE YOU DOIN TO ME ?!

YEA.. WE'RE ONE BIG DRUNKEN FAMILY...!

JUSTIN, ME, CHRIS & CANON - THIS IS JUST THE STARTIN OF SOMETHING SO *^%*&^ UP !

Long Recap !

2007-06-28T13:48:00.000+08:00

Hey guys ! Sorry for the really really late post.. guy u gotta understand, i haven't bought a laptop for myself yet .. anyway I've got pictures for all of you this time. After almost 3 weeks in Malacca, i can say that I've already been to almost all the best places here in terms of foods and nightlife !

TEMPORARY ID CARD

My orientation week here in MMU was quiet a boring one. Not sure if i mentioned earlier, but we we broken up into 4 groups : Red, Yellow, Blue and Green! I was lucky enough to get the group of my favourite color, Green ! and my OC leader was Edo.. some whacky fun senior.. We had games and briefing. The group games we're fun as we we're able to make new friends but the briefings were deadly boring until one time, me and my friend, Iskandar was sleeping during one of the talks and when we we're caught they asked us to come in front and do the "Chicken Dance" in front what.. 200 or less people.. damnit ! Then came the peak of the orientation, it was orientation Nite" they had skits and cheer battles and it was really fun. I was one of the few who represented the Green team to do the stage performance. We had to act and it was also a competition. In the end, we, the Green Team got 2nd ! Wohoooo !

PART OF THE GREEN DRAMA TEAM EXCEPT THE LOST RED GROUP DUMBASS..

It was then a very emotional night as the whole orientation routine thing we're been doing for a week has come to the end. The MMU theme song, "Permata Dunia" we're been singing everyday was sung the last time and it's really a very nice and inspirational song. Listen to it a few times and it would be stucked to your head i think its the best university song ever !

After that we sang the theme song for this years Orientation, Muse's Starlight and damn.. it was really really moving. The song was really going with the flow, you could see people holding each other arm to arm, singing and moving to the music and it was just really a very nice moment...

and now i listen to starlight all the time now ! hehe... overall it was a good orientation and the orientation committees did a really good job.. hope i get to become an OC someday.. lol !

My current accommodation is at the one year old IXORA apartment. So far its good, not the best but its ok. Its just next to campus so people like me who has trouble getting up in the morning don't have much of a problem and can wake up like 10 minutes before the first class in the morning. !

IXORA APARMENT !

THIS PICTURE WAS TAKEN WHEN THE LIFTS WENT CRAZY.. ALL THIS DOORS WOULDN'T CLOSE AND IT WAS A BIG HAVOC...

GIRLS BLOCK VIEW FROM MY WINDOW

IT WAS NEAT FOR THE CAMERA ... TRUST ME YOU DON'T WANNA SEE HOW IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE !

ANOTHER VIEW FROM OUTSIDE MY WINDOWS

THE POOL !

THE SUCKY POOL

I've quiet fortunate to have a some senior friends here especially Joel Mendis who took me around Malacca and showed me all the interesting places.

Joel & Hannah

The first few days i was here, i've already checked out most of the clubs here and their not as lively as the ones in Penang or KL but still its not too bad. I've already been to Pure Bar which is one of the most popular, Sunshine which is really new, small but packed with people , and i've been to one more Kazoo or something i kinda forgot the name but its near by Pure Bar and it has this tribal bamboo deco but the only place with a real dance floor is Station 3 but there weren't many chics there.. !

SUNSHINE BAR.. ONE OF THE NEWEST HOTTEST PUBS

STATION-3 CLUB, ONE OF THE FEW PLACES WITH A BIG DANCE FLOOR !

I have also eaten in a few interesting restaurants here in Malacca. Malacca is known for its Baba Nyonya food so i just had to try them. I visited this place when i went to Jonker Street with a few friends of mine. Jonker Street is something like Malaccan's version of Petaling Street.
I had some Baba Nyonya mee thingy there together with their special Ice Kacang and boy.. was it GooOOooOD !...

NYUM..NYUM... !!

I KNOW YOU WANT SOME !!!

I've also tried a few types of Arabic food because there are a few Arab Restaurant around the are.. and their food are pretty unique and quiet good too !!!

AL - JAZIRA ..? LIKE AL-JAZEERA THE NEWS CHANNEL !? WTF.. ?

THE MENU ..

SOME ARABIC DUDES WITH THE ARABIC TEA TIME THINGY GOING ON

SOME MEAT THNGY WITH THE HUGE NAN !

DAMN.. ALL THATS LEFT IS A CHICKEN BONE !

HAVING ICE CREAM AT SOME OLD SKOL MALACCAN ICE CREAM SHOP..

Well thats all for now.. my next post is gonna be about the San Pedro Festival i went last week at the Portuguese Settlement. It was a unique experience that happens once every year in Malacca !.. See ya !..

WWE Chairman Dead ?!

2007-06-13T14:14:00.000+08:00

What could this be true..? I think its another gimmick but still its like a big thing on all the wrestling websites ! Too bad i didnt watch RAW yesterday until the end because i watched wwe at some food stalls near by MMU here and my friends wanted to go back a little b4 raw finished.. anyway, here are a few sites for you to read about the news and check out the video .. but i think its fake.. heck.. the Undertaker died about 5 times !

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/mcmahonexplosionupdate

http://www.gambling911.com/Vince-McMahon-Dead-061207.html

First Day At MMU !

2007-06-09T19:33:00.000+08:00

Sorry again for not been blogging much and been delaying my article about my National Service experience... It was because i had to come to KL then two days later to Malacca to further my studies at MMU Malacca. Well, todays my first day and sad to say i don't have any pictures to be uploaded yet, but i promise there will be soon ! Anyway today's been pretty tiring and boring .. got up in the morning at my aunt's place in KL then my family drove me all the way to Malacca .. well Ayer Keroh actually then we went straight into the MMU campus. Collected some documents and my Student ID, registrated and then i was done. They asked us to be back at the field later in the evening to we had a few hours to settle our accomodations ! I was suppoed to stay at this room, at a house where one of my friends are also staying in another room, but it couldn't happened at the Seniors we're all away on holidays so i had no choice but to stay at the IXORA Apartment. Its a nice apartment with a pretty good facilities.. well ok only la.. they have a swimming pool, small gym and a horrible wireless internet connection.. I have a room mate and he's not too bad.. anyway i think i gotta go now.. ill write more later.. and hopefully with pictures this time !

Our Prime Minister Is Getting Married Again !

2007-06-07T08:27:00.000+08:00

PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced his marriage to Jeanne Abdullah in a private ceremony on Saturday.

The akad nikah ceremony, to be attended by close family members only, will be held at the Prime Minister's official residence at Seri Perdana here, according to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office on Wednesday.

The bride-to-be, Jeanne, 53, was born in Kuala Lumpur and is the eldest among four siblings.

She received education from SM Assunta, Petaling Jaya, and has vast administrative and hotel management experience. She had also served several major hotels in the city, including KL Hilton and Pan Pacific Hotel. Jeanne served as a supervisor at the Deputy Prime Minister's official residence and also as manager of the Seri Perdana complex.

She has two daughters from a previous marriage - Nadiah and Nadene.

The Prime Minister lost his wife, Datin Paduka Seri Endon Mahmood who passed away on Oct 20, 2005 after a two-year battle with breast cancer. The couple has two children, Datuk Kamaluddin and Nori.

Been Extremely Busy !

2007-06-06T00:58:00.000+08:00

Sorry guys for not giving you a proper blog for quiet sometime. This is because i'm to busy running in my house and out to town getting stuffs, going shopping and packing. As you read in my previous posts, ill be going to MMU Malacca to do my foundation program leading to the degree.Time moves fast and i'll be actually leaving tomorrow ! ( Thursday ) Sigh... I'm excited, yet sad to leave everyone and everything back here in good old Penang ... I don't think Malacca would be that much different from Penang, heck it doens't have a King just like Penang...

Anyway i hope you all will check back real soon as i am working on a really interesting post on my experience at National Service ( Khidmat Negara ). But this wont be a typical goodie review about NS. I am gonna dig down and expose everything and not hide anything that happened there including a gay scandal and a few encounters with those supernatural spirit stuffs ! I might even put up a picture of "IT" ...

Anyway i've been everywhere in Penang today and i got bored in the ferry so i took some pictures !

MY BRO & ME.. MY BIKE'S MY BRO TOO ! CHECK OUT MY HELMET.. LIKE TRANSFORMERS RIGHT .. OR POWER RANGERS ?

FOR THE FIRST TIME, THERE WE'RE ONLY 3 CARS ON THE FERRY !

HOW DID THAT GET THERE...

I"M GONNA MISS YOU PENANG.. THE PEOPLE, BUILDINGS AND THE POLLUTED WATERS !

Alleycats's Loga Passes Away

2007-06-05T00:24:00.000+08:00

PENANG: Loganathan Arumugam of the Alleycats passed away at 10.50am Monday at the Mount Miriam Hospital here. He was 54.

Loga, as he was fondly called, was admitted to the hospital on Saturday. He was diagnosed with lung cancer eight months ago.

“He had been having a very bad cough for a year,” said his elder brother David, 57, also of Alleycats fame.

Loga was married, with a 23-year-old son and a 20-year-old daughter. He provided vocals and played the flute for the band.

The Alleycats, formed here in 1969, had recorded 29 albums. The group started by playing in clubs around the country before signing a recording deal with PolyGram Records in 1978.

MORE NEWS - CLICK HERE

TAKEN FROM THE STAR ONLINE - http://www.thestar.com.my

How Pepsi Twist Was Made !

2007-06-04T23:17:00.000+08:00

Check out this Pepsi advertisement poster..
Click on the picture to enlarge it

If Moses Went To The Olympics !

2007-06-03T17:52:00.000+08:00

Another Man Wants To Convert Out Of Islam

2007-06-03T01:19:00.000+08:00

Zulhadi Omar with his biological father Teyo Ma Liong and mother Lim Sik Hai.

KUALA LUMPUR: An odd-job worker, who was given to the wrong parents at birth, has filed a suit in the High Court seeking a declaration from the director-general of the National Registration Department that he is a Buddhist.

Zulhadi Omar, 29, said his name should have been Eddie Teyo. He filed the suit at the High Court registry through Messrs Gobind Singh Deo and Co yesterday.

In his statement of claims, Zulhadi said he was born at the Batu Pahat district hospital on July 17, 1978.

His birth certificate registered Omar Saim and Hasnah Salleh as his parents and his identification card states his religion as Islam.

Upon checks, he found out that on the same day he was born, another couple, Teyo Ma Liong and Lim Sik Hai, also gave birth to a baby boy.
He subsequently had a DNA test and on Feb 12, 2007, learnt he was the son of Teyo and Lim.

It was reported on Feb 3 that Teyo and his wife had approached Zulhadi in 1998 when one of the couple’s daughters spotted him at a shopping centre and saw that he had the same features as Teyo.

Taken From NST Online - http://www.nst.com.my

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An Amazing Discovery .. ?

2007-06-02T18:07:00.000+08:00

Men, Don't Judge Your Future Wifes Easily !

2007-06-01T12:06:00.000+08:00

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Michael Jackson's Evolution

2007-06-01T11:51:00.000+08:00

As much as i love Michael Jackson and consider myself as one of he's biggest fans, i still think most of you would enjoy this ...

Isn't this just cruel... ! hehe ...

Interesting Facts : Did u know...?

2007-05-31T22:21:00.000+08:00

1. Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha,the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2. A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.

3. A duck's quack doesn't echo. No one knows why.

4. 40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

5. 315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

6. On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

7. Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

8. Most lipstick contains fish scales.

9. Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

10. Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

11. Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

12. There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

13. Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

14. Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

15. The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

16. By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

17. Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

18. Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

19. The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

20. The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

21. Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

22. Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

23. Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

24. The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

25. "Stewardesses" is the longest word that can be typed with only the left hand.

26. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

27. A mathematical wonder: 111,111,111 multiplied by 111,111,111 gives the result 12, 345, 678, 987, 654, 321.

28. The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

29. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

30. The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

31. The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

32. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

33. The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

34. "Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

35. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

36. In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

37. A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

38. European women didn't wear underwear until the 1900's.

39. We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

40. Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

41. Coca-Cola can be used as car oil.

42. Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

43. Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

44. Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent
of Americans.

45. When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

46. There are more chickens than people in the world.

47. It's against the law in Iceland to have a dog.

48. The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

49. The only word in the English Language with all vowels in reverse order is "subcontinental".

50. There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

51. Beethoven poured ice water over his head before he composed.

52. In Pakistan, it's rude to show your feet.

McDonald's Videogame !

2007-05-31T12:21:00.000+08:00

My friends were recently we're talking about this online flash game they found out about and it was pretty interesting and it had something to do with managing McDonald's and it was also brought up in our conversation because we were enjoying our burgers at McDonalds that time. After i got home, i quickly search Google and found out about this game and even played it.. I found out that its more like an anti-McD games where you learn the many dirty tricks the management does to bring McD up like bribing and feeding the cows toxic waste.

The game is pretty impressive and as long as you don't go bankrupt you can keep on playing and playing ! You can also choose to either play the game online or download it to your desktop and play offline. Enjoy Yourself !

Offifical McDonald's Video Game Website - http://www.mcvideogame.com/

My View On The Lina Joy Case Decision ...

2007-05-31T03:58:00.000+08:00

Sorry for not really writing an original post about this Lina Joy case for quiet sometime. Anyway, as you have all read and heard from the news, Lina Joy has lost the conversion case and we know for more certain now that there really isn't any religious freedom in Malaysia.

The decision of this case was already expected furthermore with the many death threats against Lina Joy and her lawyers. Even human rights lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar, who has been an observer at the appeal trial for the Malaysian Bar Council, and whose face now appears in a 'Wanted Dead' poster.The message that came with the photo was no less clear: "This is the face of the traitorous lawyer to Islam who supports the Lina Joy apostasy case. Distribute to our friends so they can recognize this traitor. If you find him dead by the side of the road, do not help.Mr Malik is now seeking police protection.

Just look at the way the enormous crowd stood out of the court waiting for the cases' decision as if it was some kind of rock concert and imagine the consequences of what could have happened if the decision went Lina Joy's way ! There would be total chaos guaranteed ! A great example is what happened that occurred at the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes in Silibin, Ipoh on November 6, 2006 where several hundred Muslim protesters from political parties and Muslim NGOs gathered outside the church.

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First of all i don't see anything wrong with granting the people with freedom of religion unless they fear people will convert out of that religion because it is not that good. Is Malaysia so scared that the non-Muslims would out-number the Muslims in Malaysia? I've got nothing further to comment about and as for Lina Joy, all that we can do for her is pray and hopefully she will get some support to migrate out of the country and finally carry on with her life in peace.

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Lina Joy – ‘Save’ One, Lose A Million

2007-05-31T00:27:00.000+08:00

Farouk A. Peru
Jidal Society

When I awoke this morning, the name of Lina Joy came to my mind. I don’t know the lady personally nor was I in the country during the time when her lawyer was being threatened but Lina had become a public figure so much so that her case was a barometer of religious tolerance in Malaysia and even expatriates like myself knew of her.

Of course, as I expected, she lost her appeal.

It was hope against all hope anyway. What chance did she have when her case would be used as a precedent and as the word had been circulating, ‘if Lina Joy is allowed to leave Islam, then millions of Muslims would follow suit’. Is the only thing keeping the Malays in Islam the constitutional provision that Malays are automatically Muslims? Would Malays from all walks of life suddenly convert out of Islam the minute that provision is changed?

The Quran tells us:

When comes the Help of God, and the opening, and thou dost see the people enter God's System (deenillah) in crowds, (Al-Fath, 1-2)

‘Deenillah’ is God’s working system, a total system of life which establishes humankind People would want God’s system and to be part of it, owing to its success in the world. Rather, now, we have a situation where there are people who need to be forced to remain in ‘God’s system’. Is this the situation we want? A situation of the opposite nature to a situation where comes the help of God?

Watching Al-Jazeera’s ‘Everywoman’ program, we can see the same thing happening with the case of Ravathi, a woman born to Muslim parents but has chosen to follow her husband in Hinduism, with a child in tow. She has also been taken away by the religious officials and is being ‘rehabilitated’.

I don’t know what they hope to achieve by these measures. Do they expect Lina Joy and Ravathi to suddenly go ‘Eureka, I was wrong all along!’, and suddenly apply to be on Tabung Haji’s list? It won’t happen. Rather, Lina Joy will be even more faithful to her new faith and Ravathi might get her husband to convert to Islam and still live as Hindus so if it’s the statistics they’re going after, they have then ‘saved’ these two ladies.

However, they have lost a million. Through the above cases, other individuals, any non-partisan person who is in the process of researching Islam, will conclude that Islam needs these laws to sustain its numbers. Without these laws, everyone will just leave Islam leaving the clergy with no one to govern! It may not be apparent to these individuals that the Quran itself vehemently opposes such measures. Indeed, in the Al-Jazeera program, we were shown a certain Farid Sufian Shuaib, of the International Islamic University no less, who alleged that the Quran considers apostasy a crime. What can be more heartbreaking that this?

I guess it all boils down to mentality. In that program, the Mufti of Perak didn’t mind using the constitution as it suited to him to define a ‘Malay’ as a ‘Muslim’ but started out saying Islamic law has the apostasy provision. Well, Islamic law also denies creating formulas like ‘Malays equals Muslim’, so why didn’t he have a problem with that, I wonder? Why use something non-Islamic in nature to augment your argument if it is Islamic law you hope to bring forth?

Mufti Harussani Zakaria was quoted in the very same program saying ‘So when we allow all these things (i.e. apostasy), we are FINISHED (emphasis mine). Malaysia is finished’. It is very sad to me that a religious official of his stature and education can formulate such a deduction. Islam is FINISHED when we allow people to leave it?

The Quran tells us:

Assuredly Allah did help you in many battlefields and on the day of Hunain: Behold! your great numbers elated you, but they availed you naught: the land, for all that it is wide, did constrain you, and ye turned back in retreat (At-Taubaa, 25)

From here we can see that it’s not the numbers which makes the Islamic struggle fruitful. Even a billion Muslims can’t do much when their co-religionists were massacred in Bosnia, Chechnya and now Iraq. Numbers don’t mean a thing without faith.

Another verse goes:

If ye help not (your leader), (it is no matter): for Allah did indeed help him, when the Unbelievers drove him out: he had no more than one companion; they two were in the cave, and he said to his companion, “Have no fear, for Allah is with us”.... (At-Taubaa, 40)

This is a great lesson to learn from the Messenger’s pattern of behaviour. He had faith in God even in a situation where he only had one companion.

Yet Another verse tells us:

Abraham was indeed nation unto himself, devoutly obedient to Allah, (and) true in Faith, and he joined not gods with Allah’ (An-Nahl, 120)

So Prophet Ibrahim is said to be an ummah unto himself. This is the power of pure faith as Ibrahim is always described as ‘a fully-inclined Muslim, never was he an associator’.

Islam is not FINISHED when we scrap this anti-Quranic law, rather Islam takes one step closer towards being originalised, to being the same Islam brought by Prophet Muhammad.

Lina Joy’s tragedy is also the tragedy of the Malay-Muslims of Malaysia. Today, we have walked another step to joining Firaun of the Quran, the arch-oppressor of humankind. Unless we turn back now, the sea will overwhelm us as it did him. We need to realise our folly now and correct it, before time runs out.

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TAKEN FROM MALAYSIA TODAY - http://www.malaysia-today.net/

Lina Joy loses Islam conversion case..

2007-05-30T20:35:00.000+08:00

Kuala Lumpur (AsiaNews) – A harsh blow has been dealt to religious freedom in Malaysia. Lina Joy, the women who converted from Islam to Christianity, has lost her long and courageous battle to have her faith legally recognised. Today the Federal court, the highest civil court in the country, to which she appealed as her last hope, decided that only the Islamic Court may remove the word “Islam” from her documents.

Of the three judges called to hear her appeal, one was in favour, two against the Christian woman’s request; these last two are Chief Justice, Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim and Federal Judges Alauddin Mohd Sheriff. The verdict comes after a long wait and years of heated internal debate, marked by pressure from Islamic fundamentalists and death threats against the woman and her lawyers.

Azlina Jailani, 42, began attending church in 1990, in 1998 she decided to become baptised and take on the name Lina Joy. In 2000 Lina applied first to the National Registration Department (NRD) and then the Court of Appeal to change her identity papers to remove 'Islam' as her religion. (the document also notes a citizen's faith). Only in this way would she be able to marry her Christian boyfriend of Indian origins. Both requests are refused leading Ms Joy to appeal to the Federal Court in 2005. She was refused in both cases because as ethnic Malay she was legally Muslim and "could not change religion”. Religious issues involving Malays, including conversions to other religions, fall under the jurisdiction of Islamic courts and not the country's general laws. De facto, two legal systems coexist in the country: one based on Islam; the other, on the constitution. And the two are often in conflict. Lina Joy's case illustrates this clearly. The constitution guarantees freedom of religion; Islamic law prohibits conversion to any other religion.

Today’s sentence forces Lina Joy to marry a Muslim man in a Muslim ceremony and makes her subject to the highly discriminatory Islamic family and inheritance laws. On various occasions the woman's lawyer, Benjamin Dawon, has said the Malaysian Constitution did not call for the approval of an Islamic tribunal for conversions from Islam.

Since last year Joy and her would-be Christian husband have been in hiding after extremists issued death threats against her for apostasy, threats which they continue to receive. Even her lawyer, himself a Muslim is subject to serious intimidation. Today about 200 protesters shouted "Allah-o-Akbar" (God is great) outside the court when the ruling was announced.

Out of a population of just over 24 million, Muslims constitute 47.7 per cent of the total. The remainder is divided between Christians, Hindus, Buddhists and cults like Shamanism. These minorities have long denounced the worrying spread of Sharia law. Islamic laws once upon a time only disciplined personal and familial issues; now however they are invading the wider social context. Last April the Malaysian bishop’s conference together with other non Muslim communities took part in a national prayer campaign for “a return to religious freedom” in the country.

Crucial decision in Lina Joy case today !

2007-05-30T11:34:00.000+08:00

By SHAILA KOSHY

KUALA LUMPUR: The Federal Court judgment today on the Lina Joy appeal will be a historic one with legal and social repercussions, whichever way the decision goes.

This decision by the apex court will affect one’s constitutional freedom to choose one’s religion as well as who one can marry, especially for those who want to renounce Islam and for people who convert to Islam but later want to revert to their former religion.

The judgment, which was reserved on July 4 last year, will clarify whether conversion is a religious matter or a constitutional matter.

Lina Joy, 42, who was born to a Malay Muslim couple, became a Christian when she was 26.

The sales assistant has taken her case all the way to the Federal Court because unless the government recognises her conversion, she cannot get married under civil law.

While Lina managed – the second time around – to get the National Registration Department to change her name from Azlina Jailani in 1999, accepting that she had renounced Islam, it refused to remove the word “Islam” from her MyKad.

The NRD said it could not do so without a syariah court order certifying she had renounced Islam.

As long as the word “Islam” remains on her identity card, Lina cannot marry her Christian boyfriend, a cook, under the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976.

In 2001, she took her case against the NRD director-general, the Government and the Federal Territory Religious Council to the High Court.

She lost – Justice Faiza Tamby Chik held that Malays could not renounce Islam because a Malay was defined in the Constitution as “a person who professes the religion of Islam,” adding it was the syariah court that had the jurisdiction in matters related to apostasy.

Lina appealed to the Court of Appeal and lost again, this time in a majority decision – Justices Abdul Aziz Mohamed and Arifin Zakaria upheld the decision of the NRD but Justice Gopal Sri Ram said it was null and void.

In 2006, she got leave to appeal to the Federal Court and asked the panel comprising Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Richard Malanjum and Federal Court Justice Alauddin Mohd Sheriff these questions:

WAS the NRD entitled to require a person to produce a certificate or a declaration or an order from the syariah court before deleting “Islam” from his or her identity card;

DID the NRD correctly construe its powers under the National Registration Regulations 1990 when it imposed the above requirement, which is not expressly provided for in the regulations?; and

WAS the landmark case Soon Singh vs Perkim Kedah – which held that syariah courts have the authority over the civil courts to hear cases of Muslims renouncing Islam – correctly decided?

While Datuk Cyrus Das appeared for Lina Joy, Senior Federal Counsel Datuk Umi Khaltum Jamid appeared for the NRD director-general and the Government and Sulaiman Abdullah appeared for the religious council.

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TAKEN FROM THE STAR ONLINE ,Wednesday May 30, 2007 -
http://www.thestar.com.my

Miss Japan is the new Miss Universe !!!

2007-05-29T14:45:00.000+08:00

Mexico City, May 29: A 20-year-old dancer from Japan, who wants to someday open an international dance school, was crowned on Tuesday as Miss Universe 2007.

Mori, 20, the 56th winner of the title, was given her $250,000 (U.S.) diamond-and-pearl crown by last year's winner, Zuleyka Rivera of Puerto Rico, watched by a live audience of 10,000 and some 600 million television viewers worldwide.

A lifelong ballet dancer from a village near Mount Fuji, Mori wore a striking black gown with coloured lapels for the final. Winning surpassed the ambition of her grandmother, who told her as a child she wanted her to be Miss Japan one day.

"My mind went blank," she said of the winning moment.

Advertlets - Advertise & Make Money In A Whole New Way !

2007-05-29T13:26:00.000+08:00

Recently I stumbled upon the latest blog Advertising network called Advertlets. At first I thought it was just like any other Advertising company but after reading through their Introduction and F.A.Q's I was convince that this Advertising network has a whole new system that can actually benefit the advertisers and bloggers like us !

What caught my attention the most about Adverlets is their unique advertising concept. Advertlets are the first advertising network to have a real time demographic polls which are embedded in the advertisements itself. Visitors can click a little button to switch between the advertisement or the demographic polls. This demographic polls can not only help Advertlets find u a suitable advertiser but it can also help us bloggers to determine what type of people our blog readers are so that we could target their market. Advertlets is also a Malaysian network so this will benefit as to get relevant advertisers and not foreign advertisement that can't match our Malaysian market. Advertlets offers many interesting and interactive formats to display the advertisements

The minimum payout rate for Advertlets is Rm100 and there are many ways bloggers can choose to receive their cash. Bloggers can choose to receive their cash either via Cheque , Maybank2U accounts or Prepaid Reloads !

Advertlets not only provides advertising service. Advertlets also has a program called their "Sponsored Post ( Blogvertorial ) Program ". With this program bloggers can get paid to review products and services from advertisers ! This sponsored post program is different from others because Advertlets gives u local products/services/events to review so it would be much easier for us Malaysians.

Members of Advertlets are entitled to access the demographic data of their readers, have access to free site tools, use specially designed blog templates, skins and graphic, take part in contests and be eligible for monthly giveaways !

Advertlets can become one of the best advertising networks in Malaysia. Hopefully they will also have warm relationship with their blogger client and offer us blogger more programs, competitions and get togethers.

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Decision on Lina Joy's case next Wednesday

2007-05-28T23:58:00.000+08:00

Ten months after the final arguments were submitted in the Federal Court, the much-anticipated decision on the Lina Joy case will be revealed on May 30.

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PUTRAJAYA: Next Wednesday, the Federal Court will deliver its decision on the appeal of Lina Joy against the Court of Appeal’s majority ruling two years ago, which ruled that the National Registration Department director-general was right in not allowing her application to delete the word “Islam” from her identity card.

Lina's solicitor Benjamin Dawson confirmed the date of decision today.

On July 3, last year, Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum and Federal Court judge Justice Alauddin Mohd Sheriff reserved their judgment to a date to be fixed.

Lina, 42, was born Azlina Jailani to Malay parents. She was brought up as a Muslim but at the age of 26 decided to become a Christian.

In 1999, she managed to change the name in her identity card to Lina Joy but her religion remains as Islam.

On April 23, 2001, the High Court refused to decide on her application to renounce Islam as her religion on grounds that the issue should be decided by the Syariah Court.

It also dismissed her application for an order to direct the department to drop the word “Islam” from her identity card.

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PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has set next Wednesday for the delivery of its decision on the appeal of Lina Joy against the Court of Appeal’s majority ruling two years ago, that the National Registration Department was right in not allowing her application to delete the word “Islam” from her identity card.

Lina’s solicitor Benjamin Dawson confirmed May 30 as the date of decision yesterday.

On July 3 last year, Chief Justice Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, Chief Judge of Sabah and Sarawak Justice Richard Malanjum and Federal Court judge Justice Alauddin Mohd Sheriff reserved their judgment to a date to be fixed.

Lina, 42, was born Azlina Jailani to Malay parents. She was brought up as a Muslim but at the age of 26 decided to become a Christian.

In 1999, she changed the name in her identity card to Lina Joy but her religion remained as Islam.

On April 23, 2001, the High Court refused to decide on her application to renounce Islam as her religion on grounds that the Syariah Court should decide the issue.

It also dismissed her application for an order to direct the department to drop the word “Islam” from her identity card.

TAKEN FROM THE STAR ONLINE - http://www.thestar.com.my

WHO IS LINA JOY ??? -

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/6/25/focus/14641732&sec=focus

Multimedia University ( MMU ) ... Here I Come !

2007-05-28T17:28:00.001+08:00

After weeks and weeks of waiting and calling up the MMU Admission Department, i was finally accepted to Multimedia University Malacca (MMU) !

CHECK OUT MY FELLOW NIGGER GIVING ME THE THUMBS UP ! LOL !...

I got the letter post to my house a week later and there we're lots of stuffs in it, forms, car stickers, and other junks. I had to go through a medical check up which i did a few days back.
I even had an X-Ray scan ! Cool, i got an X-Ray picture of me .. haha .. its my first alright !

That my X-RAY ! CAN YOU SEE THE SMOKE LIKE THINGY FROM THE MIDDLE ?.. MY DAD ASKED ME WHETHER I WAS SMOKING !!!...

Anyway I've already filled all the forms and banked in the deposit but i still haven't decided where to stay there. I got two options, one is the newly opened apartment, Ixora, which has many facilities but also many strict rules and regulations and the other one is a room to rent. I found out about this room from a friend i meet online, Edwin, who's also renting a room at that house. In complete coincident he is also taking the same course as i am but he's a year senior. The downside of renting that room is that i would be rather lonely as no one will there there the week i'm supposed to go because they are still on their semester break. So i guess i would have to choose the Ixora Apartment. Hopefully i won't get a sucky room-mate but there are other things to look forward to like the pool & gym !!! oh.. and they separate guys and gals there ! damn it !

Well i haven't called up the Ixora Apartment people yet ! Hopefully they still got a place for me ! I'll keep you guys updated on things to come

Latest National Service Fight Video

2007-05-28T16:08:00.002+08:00

The brutal 3 on 1 assault is at the end of this clip.
See it to believe it !

The Legal Implications Of Conversation to Islam

2007-05-27T14:29:00.000+08:00

A letter issued by the Peninsular Malaysian Bishops advising the faithful about the implications of converting to Islam

Dear Sisters and Brothers in the Lord,

If you convert to Islam, there are important changes in your legal status and what you can or cannot do. Your conversion to Islam will be registered with the Religious Department and the National Registration Department, both of which are computerized so access to this information is available throughout the country.

Under Syariah enactments of most of the 13 states of Malaysia:

1.Conversion back to your former religion is either (a) not allowed under the law or (b) a criminal offence which means that you may be fined, whipped, detained or imprisoned under most State Islamic laws.

2.If you are under 18 years of age, you require your parents' permission to convert to Islam.

3.Your identity card will record your conversion to Islam. Therefore, even if you are no longer practising Islam, you may be fined, whipped, detained or imprisoned for violation of Syariah laws, such as praying in church, eating in public during fasting month, khalwat, etc.

4.You cannot marry a non-Muslim. If you decide to divorce and attempt to convert out of Islam, you will lose custody of your children because they are Muslims.

5.Upon death, your non-Muslim relatives will lose their rights to any property, money, etc that you want to leave to them. The corpse of a convert to Islam will be taken away from his or her non-Muslim family for Islamic rites and burial even if one has not been a practising Muslim for many years.

6.In the event that your spouse converts to Islam, you may have no right to either your children or your spouse's property.

We know that certain Christians who convert to Islam for whatever reasons are not aware of or do not consider seriously the implications of such conversion. Hence, the need to inform you.

By this, we are neither against Islam nor freedom of religion, which is guaranteed for all Malaysians in Article 11 of our Constitution, which gives the right to an individual to choose freely his or her religion. But to choose correctly, you need to know clearly what you choose and the consequences of your choice.

Archbishop Murphy Pakiam, Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur
Bishop Antony Selvanayagam, Bishop of Penang
Bishop Paul Tan SJ, Bishop of Melaka-Johor

(Published on 14th August 2005 in the local Catholic News)

Last day for " My Form Six"

2007-05-24T14:26:00.000+08:00

As i wrote in my previous post on my school, I said i was going to attend form 6 lessons at my school until further notice from a few universities i applied for.. well i already had an offer so today was my last day for form 6.

How was form 6 like for the past two weeks you ask ?.. Well it was something like this ...

USUAL CLASS ROUTINES

Yea... The first 3 days we we're in the hall for the Form 6 orientation which i only attended 2 days. They basically had some extremely boring talks about form six, and also taught us how to choose our subject packages and also how to fill in our particulars on a few different forms. The school also gave out forms for those who wanted to transfer school and the majority of the students we're serious about transferring school. Most of them preferred to be transfered to High School Bukit Mertajam ( HSBM ) , St. Xaveris Institution and St. Marks School.

Anyway on the last day of the first week, we we're put into our own classes. I was in 6 Berkat together with few of my friends which i've known for many years studying at SMKDOB. I also met a few new friends which i sad to say i won't get to know them better since i won't be going back to the school after the holidays.

FROM LFET : ME, NOEL, SHAWN, CHANDRA, CHIN.. AND WHAT THE HELL IS PRABH DOING BEHIND !

NO NEED TO ACT CUT E LA...

WHAT YOU LOOKING AT ? : CHIN & ME

ME AND MY NICE GAY FRIEND SHAWN, OK JOKING !

TOILET MANIACS.. FROM LEFT : NOEL, CHANDRA, CHIN AND ... ME

MEI WEN AND I, I KNEW HER SINCE FORM 1

CANDID.. MEI WEN, NOEL & ME !

CLOCKWHISE : ME, CHIN, NOEL & SHAWN

I will certainly be missing you all.. ! Take Care and Good Luck in All You Do ... and I hope you guys enjoyed all my jokes and nonsense... !

FOR SMKDOB MEMORIES CLICK HERE -
http://adrix.blogspot.com/2007/05/memories-of-smkdob.html
And the videos there is a Must for You to watch especially the dare devil and dance ones !

Blades Of Glory !

2007-05-23T23:50:00.000+08:00

Today, my friends and i decided to catch a movie at the cineplex because it was Wednesday, the movie day and the ticket price was just RM5.

JON(DRIVER) , JIMMY(BESIDE JON) , BACK:CHANDRA, ADRIAN & SUREN.

We decided to watch this comedy movie called Blades Of Glory !

Well, this movie was worth the price as it was hilarious !
It's basically a story about two rival male figure skaters who was taking part in a figure skating competition and they both we're drawn for the Gold medal that later led them to a fight that caused the mascot to be caught on fire ! One of them is a self-confessed sex maniac and the other more of a soft kinda guy.. but not gay because he manages to get a girlfriend in the end.. well thats bad news for this gay fan who's always stalking him !

They were later banned for life to enter the figure skating competition because of the fight but a loop hole was found by one of their gay fans and it was that they could still compete but as a pair.. which was usually makes up a team of 1 male and 1 female !

The later became the first all male pair to take part with many hilarious antics and later became champions.. Note that there are many really funny scenes on the way !

You can check out the trailer at http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/bladesofglory/
Or visit their official movie website at http://www.bladesofglorymovie.com/

The Prepaid Reload Business

2007-05-22T14:59:00.000+08:00

Yup, now I'm gonna teach all of you how to make money by selling or using prepaid for yourself! Hand phone users in Malaysia have increased rapidly this few years, even kids in pre-school have hand phones ! So with increase of hand phones users comes the increase of hand phone reloads ! Therefore, only the smart ones will take advantage of this and start to make a little extra money.. obviously by selling prepaid reload !!! This can be done by anyone no matter how old they are.. no matter how busy they are ! because its so simply ! Ideal for someone who wants to make some extra income part time !

By the way if you're thinking that this business needs you to carry a large amount of prepaid cards around or need a big modal to buy a huge amount of prepaid cards to get them at a cheap price.. Well your wrong ! It's a new age !.. and this prepaid business lets you buy and sell only through sms or their website online ! No need to carry stocks and buy large stocks from a wholesaler!

You only need to sms the amount of reload you want together customer's handphone number, send it to the respective numbers provided and voila ! the reload amount will automatically be credited to your customer's hand phone !

Just think of all your potential customers !.. They can be your family, friends from your college or school, neighbors, working mates, just anyone who need a reload anywhere ! You can be a reload agent on the move ! Just imagined the amount of reload u purchase from the nearest phone shop a month... You could have saved and made so much more money if you had bought all this reload yourself !.. Plus you can also save your petrol and time because everything is done either through online or sms !!

You can also earn so much more if you introduce people to join under you as your downline because from what ever sales they make, you earn a few percentage of them. So if you and your downline sell alot of prepaid.. don't worry about the profit.. It will just keep flowing... Trust me !

So don't just sit there and make that phone shop rich !.. take action and start your own easy prepaid business !!! You only need RM58 to start up but don't worry RM16 will be given back to you instantly so you can already start selling your prepaid reloads ! It works and i am doing it ! You can also register free at the website and take a look around and if your like it, but you can't start selling and making profit yet .. Only after u make your mind up and pay registration fee of RM58 then you can start selling prepaid and get people to join under you as your downline !

This is 100% not a scam or an MLM fraud of anything because i am doing it !

for more information, you can visit
> www.sellprepaid.cjb.net

or to ask questions or
start immediately email me
> adrixtacy@gmail.com

Little Landlord Girl ...

2007-05-19T14:25:00.000+08:00

This is one of the funniest video's I've ever seen ! ... You really can't miss it.. Just watch how the little girl talks and ask for her rent to be paid out !!..

http://www.funnyordie.com/v1/view_video.php?viewkey=3efbc24c7d2583be6925

The Landlord

Get Paid For Reading !

2007-05-19T13:58:00.000+08:00

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Racial Insult by A Malaysian Minister

2007-05-19T01:11:00.000+08:00

Sheena Moorthy
3400 Poly Vista,
PO.BOX#1087,
CALPOLY, Pomona,
91768, CA
U.S.A

2nd May 2007

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Prime Minister Of Malaysia
Prime Minister Department,
Malaysia
Ref: Racial Insult - Formal Complaint

Datuk Sri,

I, Sheena Moorthy, a 3rd year Biotech
Malaysian student in CALPOLY would
like to submit a formal complaint
against our Minister of Science &
Technology, YAB Jamaluddin Narjis. I
would like to bring to your attention
the following incident which was
totally uncalled for from the minister.

Date: 30th April 2007
Time: 6.30pm
Venue: Belacan Grill Malaysian
Restaurant, Redondo Beach, Ca

Minister of Science, Dato Jamaluddin
Jarjis was here on an official visit.
He wanted to meet some of the
Malaysian students studying in
California especially the ones from
TPM Academy twinning programme. During
the 3 ½ hour session, he passed a few
racial remarks on me, being one of the
two Indians present there.

Incident 1 - Each student had to
briefly introduce themselves. When it
came to my turn, while speaking he
interrupted me and asked if I knew
Samy Velu, because he knows him. I
don’t see any relevance in that and he
mentioned it a few times for no
apparent reason.

Incident 2 – He gave a speech
regarding how agriculture started in
Malaysia. He mentioned how the British
invested in Malaysia and made farmers
work. Due to the lack of work
force, “buruh India” was brought in.
While mentioning this, he looked at me
saying that’s how we get Indians in
Malaysia.

Incident 3 – After saying he is going
to get MARA to help the Bumiputra
students, he looked at me and
asked “How many Indians are here?, I
don’t have and don’t keep track of
number of Indian students here so I
mentioned that “In this room, there
are two (pointing to my another
Malaysian Indian friend, who is fair
skinned) and J.Jarjis looked at him
and asked “Oh. You are an Indian”,
which means you are an upper class
Indian and she is the lower class one
(pointing at me). He went on to say
that, “Oh, I am not going to help
upper class Indians, I only help to
lower class ones. They are the ones
that need it’. I left the room feeling
very insulted.

Basically he judged me based on my
skin color.

Being a Minister and respectable
figure, these statements that he
mentioned was unethical and biased.
This happened in front of a crowd
about 100 people. Being a true
Malaysian at heart, and being taught
not to discriminate among races
especially in Malaysia, I feel
humiliated as well as insulted by
these racial remarks.

I demand a public apology from him
because he does not have a right to
judge me nor pass any remarks to me.

Also, I would greatly appreciate if
you could kindly review his
performance and take appropriate
action to mitigate another unwanted
racial remark, insults and shame to
our country from this minister.

Thanking you in advance.

Sincerely,
Sheena

Apostasy In Malaysia

2007-05-18T15:53:00.001+08:00

Here's a very informative site which has all the facts and truths about apostasy and the freedom of religion in Malaysia.

http://www.balaams-ass.com/alhaj/malaysia.htm

Religious freedom in Malaysia.. ?

2007-05-16T22:32:00.000+08:00

This clip which is about Revathi and Suresh was taken from show on the Al-Jazerra news channel called "Everywomen" a couple of weeks back. It's about a true case in Malaysia where a muslim women married a non-muslim and this had put her through alot of pain and suffering , separation of a mother from her baby !...

"Should we in the US then find every American Christian who converted to Islam and send them to Rehabilitation? After all, according to Christian beliefs, THEY are apostates! It won't happen, because our constitution TRULY allows freedom of conscience."
- quoted by an American

An extract from The Constitution of Malaysia on Article 11 says :
1. Every person has the right to profess and practice his religion and, subject to Clause (4), to propagate it.

But this is not whats happening here... There are also many other cases such as the unsolved Lina Joy case and Maniam Moorty cases. This people's life's have been going through lots of pain.

More on Lina Joy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Joy

More on Maniam Moorty - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniam_Moorthy

More on Status Of Religious Freedom In Malaysia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_of_religious_freedom_in_Malaysia

Let's us all pray to our own religions for peace and harmony that all this problem will one day resolve and that Malaysia will truly become a country who has really professes religious freedom in Malaysia no matter whether that person is a Malay, Indian or Chinese ! Amen.

NATIONAL SERVICE FIGHT

2007-05-13T01:48:00.000+08:00

National Service or Khidmat Negara is a program by the government to encourage patriotism and unity among the citizens of Malaysia but in this video, it shows you a difference side of it..
This video shows you a footage caught by a camera-phone by one of this trainees from the dorm of one of the National Service Camps in Malaysia.

Memories Of SMKDOB

2007-05-12T01:17:00.000+08:00

School's starting again.. well for me.. i never really thought i would go back to my secondary school, well even though i might only be there for like 2 weeks or a month plus the most for form6 while waiting for my university application to be approved.

I was a Dato' Onn student and will also be one. No matter how screwed up the school can be sometimes.. or maybe it was just me i am still proud of being a student that that school. Maybe it's because i won't be the same person i am if i never went there and the 5 years of memories i had there was just priceless. I almost still every tiny bit of it.. since the first day i was there for my form 1 orientation till the last day of the biology exam where i got busted.. !

YES.. WE WE'RE A LITTLE LOSE !!!

Along the way, i meet many great people and not to mention girls..! Those moment shared the rest of my friends there are something i would never ever forget. I would trade anything to get back those memories one more time.. even if i had to go thru the "butt whipping" i got from my discipline teacher.

Form 1 most probably my most blurrest year i was there.. probably because i was still innocent and have not matured.. and for you who's mind are saying im still not matured.. i am ok.. i just like to have a little fun sometimes...

I think the sweetest year was still the year 2005. I was in form 4 and all my close friends we're in the same class with me.. not to mention friends i knew since primary school, friends that i was in the same class with for 6 years in primary school. This was the year after we all had to go through our PMR examinations and since we all did well i guess we took form 4 too seriously .. as a vacation !!! Yea... we we're fooling all year round ! Skipping classes.. Sleeping in classes.. and making trainee teachers cry.. Hey i didnt do that ok.. it was one of the girls !..

NOEL... THE USUALLY CLASS SLEEPER !

FORM 4 CLASS OF 2005

That year, i was also involve in the zone's drama competition and i was acting as "The Evil Wizard BooBoo" .. well it turned out that.. that damn wizard not that much of an evil after all.. he was more of a evil clown... hehe... but hey the convent girl dugged that .. !!! or didnt they..?.. hmmm.. anyway i really had fun acting and all. And along the way i really got to know friends which i've known for years much more closer and had a really beautiful relationship with them. We laugh, we cried and we shared and did all the silly stuffs together. And heck it was gonna be SPM next year.. but we kept telling our selves.. "long time more la.. long time more.. !"

That year we also took part in this program called the young enterprise program. It's basically a program which exposes us students to the world of entrepreneurs. Dell sponsored our school for the 2nd year in a row.

EXCEL ENTERPRISE 2005

There we're different positions that the students can hold in their company such as the managing director, marketing director, human resource, quality control and so on.. Our company's name was Excel Enterprise which logo i proudly designed! ..

I was also the marketing and IT director of the company. And we had produced 3 products for our company that year. The peak of this program was at the Prangin Mall Event.

THE PRANGIN MALL EVENT

Every school represented by their company took part in. We had our very own booth that we decorated ourselves and the sales begun. It was a good experience having to promote our products and have price war with the other companies taking part. Overall we had a really good time... it was also one of those priceless moments..

Check out the video presentation i made which was presented at our AGM.

At the end of that year.. my good friend, Hari Haran planned a trip to Genting Highlands for all of us and about 30 of us signed up.

HARI & ME ON CANDID !

It was gonna be the last time we could ultimately enjoy before having to go through our SPM examinations the following year and that trip to Genting was the best 4 days i've every had that year... How much we all had fun in the bus on the way there, and the many havocs we caused.

SPIDERMAN OR SUPERMAN ?..

One of the biggest havocs there was
no doubt cause by one of my friend since primary school who's name i can't mention. He was actually brought away by the police and had to pay the summon. We were in the hotel la..
and this fella's itchy hand had to go and touch the fire extinguisher and he left tons of the
left over of the extinguisher all over the hotel corridor. The hotel police arrived and they even took he's picture with the fire extinguisher and everything..

CRIME SCENE !

in the end nothing big happened, he only paid the fine and what better way to enjoy the night wish dancing and boozing all night long as we headed to Genting's premier and only club, Safari Disco.

THE SAFARI FEVER

Here's a video presentation i did of the wonderful time we had at Genting Highlands !

And then that year came.. 2006 !
The year none of us thought that it would come this soon.. They year we had to sit for our SPM examinations. Yes, we all said we "insaf" this and that and wanted to concentrate fully on our studies this year... that we wouldn't play around like we used to and not skip classes anymore.. But what happened was totally the opposite or what we pledged to !

THE BIO TEACHER WAS BORING... SO WE DECIDED TO SIT OUT...

If i said 2005 was the sweetest year ever..
i would say 2006 and form 5 were the most happening year for us ever... i mean..
we we're the seniors and we were going wild.. it was much much much more worst for me
and the rest of the gang... not only did we skipped our boring physic & bio class all
the time we even skipped school !!!

THE 7 BROTHERS ACTUALLY SKIPPED SCHOOL AND
INVADED CONVENT BUTTERWORTH !!!

Some of them skipped school and actually took a bus, then ferry then bus again all the way to batu ferringi !.. haha.. we were having tons of fun during form five.. practically because we realized it was gonna be our last year together before we all separate to different places.

NOT SOMETHING YOU WOULD WANNA DO !

I still remember how me and my friends would play truant and lepak at this place at school called the "Sanggar Muhibbah" and when the discipline or prefects teacher spotted us.. we would just run to our next hid out.. that year there was also this incident that cause us to shift blocks.. maybe i shouldn't talk about that here..

FOOLING AROUND AT THE SANGGAR MUHIBBAH

Anyway we also found a new get away no teacher would dare to go.. outside the window of the highest floor in the block ..yup !!! check out the pics..

NO WE ARE NOT ADDICTS... WELL MAYBE JUST ONE OF US.. !

i meant we could do almost anything here and no teacher would find us.. well .. we got busted anyway after sometime.. but it was worth every single cane we got on our butts !

Check out this video i recorded. Warning don't ever try this at home !
Leave the danger to us !

During this year there were many conflicts among my friends. There we're this group which didn't like this group, there were this guy wanting to whack this other guy, and there were this girl wanting to strip this other girl, hehe well not exactly like that or else we guys would encourage it you get what i mean la... But in the end, all of us tried to be ok with each other and former best friends became best friends again and since this would be our last year together, decided to design a t-shirt with all our names on it with a little fancy group name. It was called D89' CLAN.

D89 POTRAIT

D89 basicly caused all of us were born in the year 1989 and clan which means a group. The t-shirt was launch on our school's Canteen day and it caused a huge uproar from our jealous prefect/dicipline teacher and she was chasing all of us to change the t-shirt and all but in the end the HEAD of the PK HEM teacher, allowed us to wear it and the prefect/discipline teacher didn't know where to put her face !

ME AND MY GOOD CHILDHOOD FRIEND NOEL

Check out this funny video of my friend, Shawn, trying to impersonate my good friend, Noel !

Then the SPM examinations was already just around the corner.. And we all really promised to each other that we would cut down the fun.. The guys even had some sort of a "Last Supper" .. as that was supposed to be our last time out together and there won't be anymore outings or lepakings until our SPM was over...

THE LAST SUPPER.. !!! HEHE

D89 CLAN

But it never changed abit.. we we're still causing havoc.. Teachers were still chasing after us.. and sometimes we we're chasing after teachers... Seriously !.. and it happened on night day b4 we sat for our first SPM paper.. We just had class with our famous scam physics teacher Lim Peng Chu, and after class it was already 10.30pm, Hari Haran together wit a few friends and me.. decided to follow the teacher back all the way across Penang Bridge right to he's apartment on the Island !... coz we wanted to get some tips.. we didn't get anything anyway and on the way back .. we did the most craziest thing in our life ever !.. we actually stopped at one of the curves along Penang bridge and then the unthinkable happened !!! 5 of us actually "let go some excess water from our bladder" in a straight line !.. Luckily there weren't any cops around.. or else...

and the next few days we're pure nightmare for all of us ... do i really need to elaborate on that.. well.. lets just put all that misery to rest all rite..

the many sweet & sour memorizes i had at smkdob were all priceless...
the friends and the people i meet we're all great...
hope to meet all of u again in the future

HARI & ME IN HE'S CAR MINUTES FROM STARTING OUR LAST SPM PAPER.. THE BIO 3 PAPER !!

and as for this coming Tuesday.. dato onn'... you better get prepared.. coz... I'LL BE BACK !!!

My First Working Experience : MANHATTAN FISH MARKET !!!

2007-05-08T18:24:00.000+08:00

What... FISH MARKET ?..
yea i know.. thats the response i get from many people..
The fact is this is not some ordinary fish market..
Its Manhattan Fish Market !
What's the difference you ask.. ?
Well its actually an American styled
seafood fine dining restaurant.
Yes it not only serves fish but other seafoods too..
calamari.. shripms.. mussels.. oyster.. lobsters
you name it !!!

THE BIG ILLUMINATED LOGO IN FRONT OF THE RESTAURANT

THE RESTAURANT !

I was recommended by one of my friends to
work here because she was working here..
I could only start to find a job in the middle of March
because i was in National Service before that...

THE BALD ME AND THE REST OF THE CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP TEAM !

Manhattan Fish Market is one of the many franchises available in
Kuala Lumpur, Johor Bahru, Penang, Singapore, & Bangkok.

THIS IS WAT I MEANT.. ITS PRINTED ON THE TABLE

The branch i was working at is at the
heart of every food lover's heaven..
AUTO CITY, JURU !!!

THE BUSY STREETS OF AUTO CITY ON A WEEKEND'S NIGHT

I call it every food lover's heaven because
there are many restaurants, fast food
outlets cafes and pubs here in Auto City.
Subway.. Nando's .. Secret Recipe ... Sega Fredo ...
Seoul Garden ... Tao Lounge .. Soho .. Bed ..
and many more..

NATURE'S BEAUTY AT AUTO CITY

BEAUTIFUL ISN'T IT ? ... YOU CAN SEE SOHO THERE ...

So back to my story..
On 14th May I went straight to Manhattan Fish Market, Auto City.
I saw the greeter and asked for vacancy and he lead me to the
restaurant's manager.. Mr Andrew Tan Hsien-U !
Andrew was quick to greet me and gave me the application form to fill...
He gave me a brief interview and ask me all sorts of
questions and the very next minute..
i was hired !... i could start work the following day..
so the following day i reported to duty..
was given 2 sets of MFM t-shirts.. a MFM cap and an apron..
I was the new Front Of House Crew Member.

What does a Front Of House Crew Member do ?
Well the best thing about working here is that
your not always stuck doing one thing !
Everyday there are different duties we are divided to..
There is the cashier, bartender, greeter, server a, server b,
server c, food runner, drink runners and busser & condiments !
I would write a little about the duties we do except cashier because
i didn't work there too long to get that job..
plus you guys know what a cashier does right!

GREETER !

THE GREETER STAND

My personal favorite !
And i was quiet a favorite to get this duty
when i was there too..A greeter has do stand
outside the restaurant
at the greeter stand to greet
& promote the restaurant to customers..
This job can be really demanding especially
on weekends because the restaurant can't
accommodate the massive crowd..
you gotta put their name on the waitin list..
and while your attending to one customer..
5 more groups would rush in and you gotta
control them to follow the list
so if you are not a skilled greeter like me..
sure kelam- abut one ! haha.. kiddin' .. actually i was going crazy
too the first 2 times i became a greeter on a weekend..
Got screwed by my manager, Andrew many times !!! hehe..
but he still put me to become greeter..
some sort of training la it seems..
Then after a few times... i was already a pro at it..
And the best thing being a greeter is that you are
sure to meet every single customer & chics who
comes to the restaurant hehehe
and the others who walk along the streets of auto city..
And with that benefit.. YOU KNOW LAH ...

BARTENDER

THE BAR AREA

Ahh.. the bar !
When everyone started working here..
The only place that they wanna work in is the bar
because it seemed like so much fun and you know la..
you will have the title Mr. Bartender.. hehe
So i got my job in the bar about after a week or more working there..
You learn to make all sorta drinks here in the bar..
The only downside is that they don't serve alcohol here.. hehe..
Being in the bar can be really fun .. but at a busy day..
it can also be a stressful if u can't keep calm
because the orders can be up till 1 meter long !

HWANG WORKING ON A SMOOTHIE .. CHECK OUT THE GRAFFITI ABOVE !

YOUR OLD SKOL BOTTOMLESS SOFT DRINKS DISPENSER

THE CLASSIC COFFEE MACHINE

I learnt to make many times of coffee and smoothies here..
One of the hardest drinks to make here is The Manhattan Mocha.
It is basicly 3 layers of liquid..
the first layer is chocolate sauce... followed by milk and then coffee..
Alot of patients is needed to make this drink because
if you do it too fast the layers would be mix and ..
duh ! there wont be layers !
There is also the Manhattan Long Side,
Sweet Alabama Smootie and Tropical Breeze..
Few of the many fantastic drinks you can get at MFM !!!

TROPICAL BREEZE & SWEET ALABAMA SWEETIE !

Oh not forgetting our deserts !
If you come here.. you just gotta try our Tuscan Tiramisu !
Way better than the Tiramisu cake from Secret Recipee !!!

SERVERS

The servers usually serves the customers by attending to them
introducing the menu and taking orders.. sometimes when it's busy
the server also helps the food runner send out the food to the customers
The servers are diveded to 3 sections. Section A & B are
indoors meanwhile section C are outdoor.

SECTION A

ANOTHER ANGLE OF SECTION A

AND ANOTHER .. THE UPPER BANQUET ...

SECTION B CENTER BANQUETS

SECTION C

UPPER LEVEL OF SECTION C

The servers are also in charged of setting the table
following the MFM standards given.

THE PERFECT MFM TABLE SETTING !

FOOD/DRINKS RUNNERS

The food & drink runners task are simply.
All they gotta do is serve out the food or drinks.

The food runners usually keeps an eye at the caller
station to know whether the food is out to be served

CALLER STATION

DETAILED FIRE BULBS AT THE CALLER STATION

Another specialty being a food runner is that you get to flame certain
main course in front of the customers. This is just part of the
many thrills our customers can expect.

FLAMING GUNS !

HOT ISN'T IT ?... I MEANT THE FIRE ! NOT THE LEGS !!!

The drink runners will be placed near the bad so that they can know when the drinks are ready to be served. If both the runners are not busy, they will back up the servers.

BUSSER & CONDIMENTS

Doing bussers & condiments basicly
revolves you working withplates.. forks.. knifes. spoons..
condiments and the dustbin ! Hehe..
Yup.. you gotta make sure all the stuffs
are wiped till dry and shiny !
You also gotta prepare the condiment cups which
consist of chili vinegrate .. ginger and tartar sauce !

BUSSER & CONDIMENTS STATION

THE PYRAMID OF CONDIMENTS

WHEN THE CONDIMENT CUPS ARE PREPARED
CHILI VINEGRATE, GINGER & TARTAR SAUCE !

You also gotta make sure the bottles of chili sauce..
tomato sauce and tartar sauce are always full
Well to be completely honest...
Doing busser & condiments is my the duty i like the least !...
Well maybe its because i gotta work at the corner
and not being able to meet people.. but then again you don't have to
deal with the fussy customers and walk around much... but then again..
the chics don't really dig busser and condiments ! but don't get me wrong..
this job is one of the most important and most demanding..
At one point i almost like doing it !!!

GHUT WOKRING ON THE PLATES !

And thats about it i guess.. oh yea theres also this manager post
which will be rotated among the normal crew team hold..
Its called the "TOILET MANAGER" hehehe..
well basicly you just moped or clean the toilet abit-abit la..
its not that hard... its a fine dining toilet after all..
not your school's stinky toilet !

All though i don't work in the kitchen..
I still uploaded some pictures to show u a little what the MFM kitchen looks like !..

THIS IS WHAT THE KITCHEN LOOKS LIKE FROM THE OUTSIDE

MUSSELS, CALAMARI, TIGER PRAWNS.. EVERYTHING IS KEPT FRESH !!!

THE DEEP FRYERS

FRESHEST IMPORTED MUSSELS

I would now like to pay tribute to some of the nicest
people i worked with at MFM.. for giving such an amazing experianced
alltho there we're ups and downs.. i will always be thankfull
and remember all of you..

THE MFM FAMILY .. THE GUY IN BLACK SHIRT IS OUR MANAGER, ANDREW !

First of all i would like write about
the guy who hired me..
my manager and my bro ..
MR. Mr Andrew Tan Hsien-U !
"Where's the Love Yo..? I Don't Know .."
hehe.. that was one of he's favourite lines
I really owe this fella here so much...
He might be the manager but he's really down to earth
he treats us all very well..but of course la at times
he's strict but that's why he's the manager right...
business is business. after that it's all good.
I would really like to thank Andrew for helping alot especially
when i met a small accident and didn't have transport..
he gave me a ride to work and back home for 2 weeks plus !
haha that two weeks i really had fun going back with him...
he has tought me and inspired me alot.
I would like to thank Andrew for giving me a chance to work
there and gain so much.. and i also wanna
apologize for all i did wrong while working there..
THANK YOU SO MUCH ANDREW ! I STILL OWE YOU A TREAT !

ME , ANDREW, JAMES, & JENQ

Secondly i would like to mentioned my boss..
MR. Fredie.. One of the best boss you
can rarely find this days..
I Only managed to really get to know him during my last week
working at MFM and this guy is a damn bloody funny fella !
He is a person who i can relate and have alot in common with..
He is a very confident & talented person who is filled with charisma..
Not to mention he's smooth talking skills that would attract any hot chic !
I would like to thank him for giving me a chance to work here at MFM
and also for sharing some of he's past stories, wisdoms and motivations..
especially on smooth talking.. hehe

MR. FREDIE & ME

I would like to also thank all the Front Of House & Back Of House Crew
for giving me a not so pain time at MFM.. hehe..
I would like to mention some of their names..
Ming Erh, Huay, Ghut, Suresh, Khamini, James Boo, Shih Minn, Faizal, Xiyan,
Fiera, Yanie, Lina, Huang, Jenq, Edmund, Catherine, Cheryl, Kai Loon,
Cindy ( New Trainee Manager ) and also to everyone else..
sorry i didn't mentioned your names. I miss you buggers !

THE CHEESECAKE CAT, CHERYL AND I SHARED TO BUY ON THE LAST DAY !

SOME OF THE NICEST CRAZIEST PEOPLE I'VE MET !

It's also very nice when u see a repeat customer here... and even better
when they remember and call u by your name eventho you are just a crew member.
As much as i'm gonna gonna miss workin in MFM & miss
working with the rest of the staffs... I am also gonna miss my customers..
and i'm sure they are gonna miss my service too !..

I've learn tons of new things here in Manhattan Fish Market..
Especially communications skills.. how to interact and attract customers..
Most of all give a good service to them.. Because that is wat MFM is all about..
Its service ! No other restaurant you can find gives you a service this good.
Don't believe me.. why don't you drop by
MFM AUTO CITY one day and find out yourself !
If the service isnt that good, let us know..
If the service is the best.. do drop us a huge tip ! hehe

So what are you waiting for...?..
Drop By The Manhattan Fish Market at Auto City Juru today
Delight you tastebuds with a sea of the freshest catch
together with the the best service you can ever ask for..
and let them know Adrian recommeneded you to come here thru this blog
and you might just get a 10% discount !.. hehehe ( NOT GURANTEED ! )

TIPS : MAKE YOUR RESERVATIONS EARLIER
BECAUSE IT CAN REALLY GET CROWDED ON WEEKENDS !
TEL : +6(04)5018688

THE MANHATTAN FISH MARKET ( AUTO CITY )
MFM Auto-City Juru, Jalan Perusahan,
Highway Auto-City,
NorthSouth Highway, Juru Interchange,
13600 Prai, Penang.
TEL : +6(04)5018688
FAX : +6(04)5018686

Welcome To My Life

2007-05-02T10:34:00.000+08:00

ahh.. finally i found the perfect blog site
that would suit all my needs..
basicly in this blog i would be writing at
whatever interest me..
but hey it might interest u too.. places.. food..
educations and many other stuffs
there would also be some rare videos from ns that i
would post in a few weeks time
meanwhile plz allow me some time to get around this blog..
hope you would be back soon !..