Makan Secupak Perut Jadi Segantang

Been about 1 week I avoided rice. Muka dah kuncup sket, perut needs
some work. And this is my dinner tonight: Nick Nairn Sear Salmon with
hot potato & tomato salad.

Hmm .. Sedapp. I like.

Kera di Hutan Anak di Rumah

Surfed for news from homeland. As usual most are bad news or at the very least, stupid news (as in how the thing become news). A lot of debates on Ketuanan Melayu, democracy, tak sedar di untung, Melayu mudah lupa, PAS vs UMNO, PAS vs DAP within Pakatan Rakyat, Umnoputra, Ameno, Fatwa, Altantuya, ish banyak nya membaca .. tak kerja ke aku ni?

Anyway, something from Datuk Kadir Jasin, a friend of Arwah Abah, sebijik kena batang hidung. BTW, I like his house .. cantik siot, kat Tropicana lagi ..

Melakar Cerita Suka Duka
A Kadir Jasin

HARI ini, izinkan saya berpuisi
Meluah rasa terbuku di hati
Melakar cerita suka dan duka
Tanah Melayu bumi ibunda
Semakin hari dibenci dikeji
Ditertawa dipersenda di desa dan kota
Kerana Melayu semakin tidak berani.

Kerana apa?
Kerana yang berkuasa
Lesu tidak bermaya
Yang diberi amanat
Dan memegang wasiat
Hilang dan sesat
Lupa sumpah dan janji
Tidur lena dibuai mimpi
Tidak peduli lagi perjuangan suci
Kerana selesa berpura-pura
Diracuni harta dan kuasa.

Yang Melayunya berkata:
“Kamilah Bumiputera
Peribumi tanah pusaka
Inilah tempat tumpah darah kami
Di sinilah kami hidup dan mati
Kerana di sinilah terkubur
Nenek moyang kami
Polis dan askar Melayu
Dan perwira-perwira dulu
Datuk Bahaman
Datuk Maharaja Lela
Tok Janggut
Dol Said
Mat Kilau
Tok Gajah
Mat Salleh
Datuk Sagor
Tok Kenali
Dan ramai lagi
Yang tumpas dan mati
Demi bumi dan pertiwi.

Orang India dan Cina
Yang asal usulnya
Pedagang dan buruh ikatan
Jauh dari seberang lautan
Pun menuntut hak yang sama
Menolak kontrak yang ada
Kononnya demi reformasi
Meritokrasi dan globalisasi
Lupa bahawa nenek moyang mereka
Kiblat mereka bumi asalnya
Aspirasinya Parti Kongres India
Kuomintang dan Parti Komunis China.

Tetapi Melayu mudah kasihan
Mudah pula diperkotak-katikkan
Maka oleh British disyaratkan
Terimalah mereka sebagai rakan
Maka dapatlah mereka
Satu juta kerakyatan
Di bumi Malaysia yang merdeka
Tanpa orang Melayu sedar dan perasan.

British hebat putar-belitnya
Mereka tidak buruh Cina dan India
Dari tanah jajahan bernama Malaya
Membanjiri bumi suci mereka
Menuntut taraf warganegara
(Seperti terjadi dengan Orang India dari Uganda)
Maka yang mereka bawa
Dari China dan India
Mereka tinggalkan di Malaya
Kerana Melayu pemurah hatinya
Dan mudah pula lupa.

Sekarang Melayu layu dan lesu
Pertahan hak sudah tidak tahu
Takut, malas dan malu
Menjadi defensif dan apologetik
Hanya berharap kepada kuasa politik
Yang gagal diartikulasi dan diisi
Kerana terlalu lama dibuai mimpi
Tidur lena kerana jenama Bumiputera
Lega dan selesa
Dengan tanah se kangkang kera
Dan panji-panji politik yang hambar warnanya.

Kalau Melayu tidak bangkit
Tidak sedar jiwanya berpenyakit
Jangan salahkan orang lain
Kalau terlondeh baju dan kain
Bogel bagaikan orang gila
Di bumi sendiri yang kononnya merdeka.

Ingatlah permata kata
Nenek moyang kita yang bijaksana
Kerana Melayu kita berbudi
Kerana Islam kita beriman
Maka jika Melayu kenal diri
Jadilah dia orang budiman
Yang harga dirinya
Bukan pada wang berjuta
Tetapi pada budi dan bahasa
Tauhid dan pekerti mulia.

Kerana Melayu mudah lupa
Apa sudah jadi kepada negara?
Bumi ini menjadi tempat buangan
Pelacur dan GRO dari Yunan
Ke bumi ini konon mencari pelajaran
Pengemis dan Shao Lin Master
Yang entah dari mana datangnya
Sepatah haram bahasa Melayu tidak tahu
Meminta sedekah hilir dan hulu.

Itu belum dikira
Pendatang haram yang berjuta
Dari Indonesia, Burma dan Afrika
Yang masuk keluar sesuka hati
Maka jadilah bumi ibunda ini
Periuk menidih yang isinya basi
Jenayah dan maksiat menjadi-jadi
Kerana birokrasi dibaham korupsi
Rasuah, pecah amanah
Salah guna kuasa dan berbagai lagi.

Melayu sudah jadi pengkhianat
Lupa kepada amanah dan wasiat
Kerana wang, kuasa dan harta
Mereka khianati bangsa dan negara.

Akhir nukilan,
Ingatkan pesanan orang tua-tua
Sesal dahulu kedapatan
Sesal kemudian tidak berguna
Kera di hutan disusukan
Anak di rumah mati kelaparan.

Tak Habis Lagi?

Ter-listened to a phone conversation re: suruh ....

Sapa yg baca ni rasa nak marah, tok sah. Nanti kena jual.

Happy Birthday My Luv

It's 21st Nov, and again I failed to get her flowers. Instead I got Anne a Dell Notebook. Actually I am the one yg teruja lebih2 with the spec. For £449 its got among others:

• Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T5800
  
• 3072MB 667MHz Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM
  
• 320GB (5.400rpm) SATA Hard Drive
  
• 2.0 Mega pixel web camera

and for the heck of it, topped up another £29 to give the notebook her favourite colour.

• Spring Green Colour with Microsatin Finish

Checked for such spec everywhere, even Malaysia cannot give such spec for that kind of price. Advert pun keluar 1 day je. Need to chat with sales rep (in India) to get the proper link for the item.

Anyway, brought Anne out to Que Tapas in Staines. Just our luck some stupid printer rosak la pulak. We waited for 1 hour but still no food. When we checked with the waitress then she told about the printer. Brought our receipt & got everything done within 15 minutes. 1 hour 15 minutes .. that must be some record. But they were quite good, gave us complimentary drinks as well as complimentary desserts worth about £11. It was Churros & Choc fudge cake (sedap giller!!) Heh hee .. makan pree. Tak pe lah, tak de lah lapar sangat. Siap tapau lagi.

Happy Birthday My Luv

Leadership

There I was, sitting infront of the idiot box, squeezing my mind hoping that it would ooze out words for the speech/talk I'm preparing for my boss to present in Cardiff this weekend. The title is: Corporate Leadership: Challenges and Prospects (or is it Opportunities? whatever .. sounds the same to me). 

The TV was playing School of Rock .. you know, Jack Black. Damn! It's all there. He played a phony teacher after being thrown out of his rock band. And how stupid this may sound, his "teacher on crack" character really has some leadership qualities.

• Has an eye for talent, not unlike Sir Alex of Man U.
• Great empowerment - assigned each and everyone a great role according to their strength
• Everybody listens to him! - although it was actually some kind of a manipulation
• Flexible enough to change - who does what
• Listens to & solves greviences - consoled the chubby black girl when she wanted out because of her weight problem
• Understand the organization (school)
• A great mentor/teacher - taught the class the evolution of rock
• Leading the team - the Rock Band called the School of Rock

Damn! I enjoy this movie. Again.

Now, why am I writing this? I'm supposed to write the speech. Duh!

Monk

Received this today. Truly amazing discovery.

MONK
 
A man is driving down the road and breaks down near a monastery.

He goes to the monastery, knocks on the door, and says, 'My car broke down.
Do you think I could stay the night'?

The monks graciously accept him, feed him dinner, and even fix his car.

As the man tries to fall asleep, he hears a strange sound; a sound like no other that he has ever heard. The next morning, he asks the monks what the sound was, but they say, 'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.

The man is disappointed but thanks them anyway and goes about his merry way.
Some years later, the same man breaks down in front of the same monastery.

The monks again accept him, feed him, and even fix his car.

That night, he hears the same strange mesmerizing sound that he had heard years earlier.

The next morning, he asks what the sound was, but the monks reply,

'We can't tell you. You're not a monk'.

The man says, 'All right, all right. I'm dying to know.  If the only way I can find out what that sound was, is to become a monk, how do I become a monk'?

The monks reply, 'You must travel the earth and tell us how many blades of grass there are and the exact number of sand pebbles. When you find these numbers, you will become a monk'.

The man sets about his task. Some forty-five years later, he returns and knocks on the door of the monastery. He says, 'I have travelled the earth and devoted my life to the task demanded and have found what you had asked for. 

There are 371,145,236,284,232 blades of grass and 231,281,219,999,129,382 sand pebbles on the earth'.

The monks reply, 'Congratulations, you are correct and now you are a monk'.

'We shall now show you the way to the sound'.

The monks lead the man to a wooden door, where the head monk says, the sound is behind that door.

The man reaches for the knob, but the door is locked. He asks, 'May I have the key'?

The monks give him the key, and he opens the door.

Behind the wooden door is another door made of stone. The man requests the key to the stone door.

The monks give him the key, and he opens it, only to find a door made of ruby. He demands another key from the monks, who provide it. Behind that door is another door, this one made of sapphire. And so it went until the man had gone through doors of emerald,......silver, topaz, and amethyst.

Finally, the monks say, 'This is the key to the last door'.

The man is relieved to no end. He unlocks the door, turns the knob, and behind that door he is astonished to find the source of that strange sound.

It is truly an amazing and unbelievable sight 

. . But I can't tell you what it is because you're not a monk.



DON'T SWEAR AT ME,
I'M STILL HUNTING FOR THE IDIOT WHO SENT THIS TO ME!

Dubya Out Mubarak In

Yesterday, in Washington, the Secret Service arrested a man who climbed over the White House fence.

Secret Service told the man, "Get back here, Mr. President. You have two more months."

- Conan O'Brien

It's Obama Mania all over again. After the most expensive campaign ever, where all candidates raised $1,553 million (of which Obama alone raised $639). 21 months of traveling & campaigning. We see history today - 1st American black President.

Checkout Obama's acceptance speech - made infront of 240,000 audience at Grant Park, Chicago. Moving! Pandai siot speech writer dia. This is the CNN version which has a transcript (siap nyala2 macam karaoke lagi).

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/video.transcript/index.html

I probably will never forget this day. It's Shasya's birthday too .. dah belasan tahun kalau dalam Melayu (sebelas). But in England she's yet to be a teenager, only Venager (eleven).

BTW, I certainly hope the new President will live up to his name .. Barakah.

2008 New Stock Market Terms and Definitions

I've not dropped by my own blog for a few days now. The directors are in town, so a bit busy. May be I should explain to them some new definitions in capital markets.

2008 New Stock Market Terms and Definitions…

CEO --Chief Embezzlement Officer.

CFO -- Corporate Fraud Officer.

BULL MARKET -- A random market movement causing an investor to mistake himself for a financial genius.

BEAR MARKET -- A 6 to 18 month period when the kids get no allowance, the wife gets no jewelry, and the husband gets no sex.

VALUE INVESTING -- The art of buying low and selling lower.

P/E RATIO -- The percentage of investors wetting their pants as the market keeps crashing.

BROKER -- What my broker has made me.

STANDARD & POOR -- Your life in a nutshell.

STOCK ANALYST -- The idiot who just downgraded your stock.

STOCK SPLIT -- When your ex-wife and her lawyer split your assets equally between themselves.

FINANCIAL PLANNER -- A guy whose phone has been disconnected.

MARKET CORRECTION -- The day after you buy stocks.

CASH FLOW-- The movement your money makes as it disappears down the toilet.

YAHOO -- What you yell after selling it to some poor sucker for $240 per share.

WINDOWS -- What you jump out of when you're the sucker who bought Yahoo @ $240 per share.

INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR -- Past year investor who's now locked up in a nuthouse.

PROFIT -- An archaic word no longer in use.