Some things that amused me…

Here are the few things I found that amused me that I manage to capture…

 

I think the word should be ‘multi-purpose’? am I right?

This is a site plan of KDCA, which holds the yearly State Level Tadau Kaamatan. Isn’t this embarrassing? hmmm…

 

Do you know any Government clinic in KK called “Klinik Luyong”? I don’t think so. Another embarrassing thing IMHO. I’ve been there 3 years ago and last month (this picture is taken on that day), and it is still called ‘Klinik Luyong’. Okaylah.. they’re too busy attending to sick people.. hmmm

 

Mind your what? I don’t think ‘overhead’ is the correct word, though I get the message. This is at Kompleks Asia City..

 

Quite creative.. and funny. Hahaha… though I noticed this has been vandalised for quite a long time… no time to ‘clean it up’? Oh yeah.. maybe it’s funny and worth leaving it like that… but I don’t hope to see this come May 2009!!! Bikin malu bah..

 

Ha ha ha.. Hope more will come during my journeys and walkabout in this beloved land..

 

But surely, this one amused him…

I bet he couldn’t finish it alone… haha

Pure digression from the original intention...

I do have a lot of tasks to finish but my mind is so jammed up now. So let me just typed a thing that just conjured up in my mind quickly before I am lazy to type and share them with you all…

Have you all ever thought what you will be if you are not doing what you are doing now? I mean, what will Lab Papa, a scientist, or Chegu Carol, an educator, be doing now if they never get to do what they are doing now?

I was thinking about it just now (yeah.. my mind is jammed so I was trying to think of something else just to clear my mind hehe so I digress here), but belive me or not, I can’t even think of any!! Perhaps my mind was in a mess, but really, I can’t relate to do something meaningful other than what I am doing now.

When I was schooling, my parents never ‘told’ me to do something like become a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer unlike other friends parents (overheard sometimes.. bukan menyibuk lah hehehe). My mother always advice me to “just do well in school”, and I suppose she wanted to say “and good things will surely follow suit”. Perhaps because my mother is not an educated person (she never goes to school), she never have ideas like ‘become a doctor or lawyer when you grow up”. May be that too is a blessing in disguise, as I never have any pressure during school days to become ‘somebody’, all I wanted to do was ‘just do well’. Because of that too, I never thought of any career to take up as one. Although when there is a question of ‘what do you wan to become when you grow up?” – I simply answer anything, ranging from policemen, fire fighter, army etc.

I carried this mentality when I moved on to a ‘lovely’ school on a hill, of which sometimes requires it’s students to carry water from down hill to have a bath. Some cool dudes will, however have other ideas – like going to the ‘kolam’ or take a bath near the guard house with only their ‘seluar katak’. Forgive my digression.

Anyway, it’s true that I never really thought of what career I want to do. I just want to do well for my exams and whatever I want to do like sports. Though I admit I am not a bright or talented person. Never good in cricket or football or hockey. Academic-wise also the same. Perhaps jack of all trades but master of none… hahaha.. blimey!!

Only when I befriended Lab Papa that I started to ‘see things’. We were in F4 at that time and we are good friends. I started to think what I want to do. But I never ‘finalised’ what I want to do as a career, as everything seems unsuitable for me. Perhaps ‘unreachable’ too as I know my own capabilities academically. I thought I tried too hard to find a career that I tried meddling in astronomy. I always go to the library and read those kinds of books. Two other friends always joins me – Cliff and Jason. Though Cliff usually looks for chess books and Jason, martial arts. Haha.. those were the days. Maybe they wanted to be the heir to Kasparov or Bruce Lee.. hahaha

I was really into astronomy that I declared to one teacher one afternoon – I want to become an astronomer!! CRAP!!! The teacher – I forgot who he is – shot down my ‘absurd’ idea right at that moment and it really go down the drain. “Where on earth (Malaysia) you will find a job for an astronomer” he says and said many other ‘advices’ to me. I have forgotten whether Lab Papa was with me… hehehe

So, when I finished Form 5, I tried to ‘survey’ what I wanted to do. Architecture and science seems a good bet for me as I am aware of my capabilities, but again never really ‘finalised’ it. Luckily my SPM result was okay. What luck!!!

I remember Lab Papa suggested to me to apply for RPKJ. But later I said I just want to go for the normal pre-U. For the two years in pre-U, I think I ‘worked’ hard to find what I wanted to take up as a career. Eventually, I ‘found’ my strength and weaknesses. I’ve consulted close friends, seniors and lecturers, did some serious reading and ‘analysis’ and finally ‘finalised’ what I wanted to do!! Yay!!

But sadly, eventhough I was offered the place, someone else has taken it!!! Thanks to the postal service that sent my offer letter very very late!! I don’t want to go into details about this incident though..hehehe.. as my mind is already cleared up

To summarize, I applied to do something I want to do, got offered a place, but was taken up by someone else, end up doing a different course, but grown to love it.. though in the end, I was am doing something else right now, different from the course I have taken… hahahaha…

Wow, I have digressed so much. Initially I was trying to ask you all what will you be if you are not doing what you are doing now, isn’t it… hahaha.. and I end up telling something else.. really this is pure ramblings of me… cheers friends!!

 

Well, at least this has cleared up my jammed mind.. heheheee

Kadazan, Dusun or Kadazandusun?

This one is another thing that provokes my sanity..

This issue has resurfaced ‘again’ a few months back and has become a favourite topic is the Daily Express’ Forums. Whatever the argument is, I don’t give a damn thing. Yes, I don’t give a damn thing whether my race should be Kadazan, Dusun or Kadazandusun. Some people may ‘blast’ me for this but this is my stance.

Why should the community bicker about this issue which is never-ending since time immemorial, especially the community leaders? Why waste time? I mean the KadazanDusun (okay lets me use this term to make my life easier.. I mean my posting) is basically quite behind the other races, especially the three main races in Malaysia – the Malay, Chinese and Indians in terms of economy and politics. Why bicker about this, IMHO, "small thing”? the community and its leaders should be bickering about how we can advance as ONE COMMUNITY economically, politically or wherever there is an opportunity?

Okay, I’ve read about how “Kadazan” came about, plenty of them in the newspapers. A lot things been said. Some people like to dwell on the past, but perhaps has forgotten other important things, I believe. Some people will ‘argue on this matter like there are no other things to do or to argue about.. why waste time?

In my opinion, the community should be ‘arguing’ about why their children can’t speak the kadazandusun language, why they can’t even dance dance their traditional dance like sumazau while other people of other races can do it gracefully, or how come they don’t know about their traditional customs? These are the few things they, especially the community leaders should be bickering about. And I haven’t include issues like why kadazandusun people still “behind” in many ways, how can we become a great and respectable community etc..

Oh well, some people just like to bask in the limelights for controversial issues and/or like to dwell in the past and talk on and on and on, blaming this and that.... crap talking!!!

Talk and waste time if they want to on this issue, but my stance will still be the same, I don’t give a damn s#@t about it.

Okay, some people may ‘attack’ me, go on. Many people may harp things like they are much better than the other – dusun singers and songs are much better, proud to be a Kadazan, Kadazan live in towns, there are many dusun politicians etc. They may be right or wrong. But the thing that makes it crap-talk is that one community thought they’re better than the other. CRAP!!!

Why can’t we just be like the Malay community as an example.. eventhough Malays in KL may not be able to understand most things said by a Kelantanese, they are still ‘Melayu’. Just like myself, a “kadazan” as stated in my IC, may not be able to understand some of the words by Dusun Aroma when he speaks in his Tambunan dialect, but still we are of the same people and community aren’t we? Like my first cousins who lives in Membakut, they speak a different dialect, but that doesn’t make them a different people from me, isn’t it?

I don’t want to bat an eye on these craps and nonsense.

I’ve talked with Dusun Aroma briefly on this issue and I agree with him that as for the race we should use – just follow the IC/Mykad i.e. Kadazan, Dusun, Kadazandusun– but hope you are not listed as ‘Lain-lain’.. that would be something else altogether..

Now I am talking crap myself..

The main thing I want to say to the community is, let’s us speak or discuss or argue about other things instead of this small issues of whether who should be a “kadazan or dusun or kadazandusun or whatever”…

Geezzz!!!

Thank You Cikgu Faridah…

It’s been a while I have not posted anything here. Haha..

Sometimes, when my mind isn’t occupied from the daily works, something will conjure up in my mind – be it an issue or two regarding public matters which often arise from things I read in the medias, or my son’s progress in life that normally relates to his naughtiness or just pure ramblings of the mind of Monsieur Hombidai… but putting something in the mind into a written or typed thing is another matter. Perhaps I was too lazy too. But I think it’s purely a matter of ‘finding the time’ to do it as my current project which I am handling now is 2 months into it’s completion.

I actually like to write the things in my mind, especially when it provokes my sanity and creativity or whatever I may call it hahaha (temberang gia sia ni). But, this interest of mine of writing anything, especially in English is down to one teacher of whom I really want to thank from deep inside my heart. She is the one who ‘unearth’ this interest of mine to ‘just write whatever you can think of’. Of course she encourages us to do it so that we can improve our written English. (Though I admit I don’t write good articles, I just like to do it in my own way and style haha)

When I was in Form One, we had a new English teacher. Her name is Cikgu Faridah Abdullah (But don’t be mistaken with another Cikgu Faridah who is the wife of Cikgu Awe’ heheheee). Maybe Black Kid still remember her. I am not sure if she taught other classes at that time. I think not, as there is another Mr Gerry. Any of you remember Cikgu Faridah? Maybe she taught Sigma class too.. is it correct Lab Papa?

But she is a great teacher for me. Kind hearted and understanding. I was terrible in English at that time – spoken and written. I admit I couldn’t speak a word in English in when i enter Form One!! Ha ha.. but she had a great idea for us to improve – she asked us to write a “Journal”. Yes, a journal to write anything – it can be some sort of a diary, or just pure ‘ramblings’. Just write anything you can think of, she said. It was not formal, according to her. It is up to you to do, if you want to do it. But she will check our journal and correct and comment on it. I do not know about my other classmates whether they do the Journal or not, but I remember Cikgu Faridah said something that I was one of a few persons who is ‘rajin’ to do it. I always send my journal once a week so that she can check and comment.

I really loved the idea, so I started off with one book. I wrote many things - my ideas from the articles I read in Reader’s Digest, even tried to translate some easy articles in BM into English to incidents happened to me. At one time, I wrote about how I got my head into stitches – it was an article with some cartoons to illustrate what happened. She commented, “nice cartoons. Now I know how you get those bandages on your head”. Ha ha. Yepp, I was playing goalkeeper and I hit my head on the goal post trying to save someone’s scoring a goal. I manage to save the ball but I didn’t manage to save my head!!! Hahaha

She was always giving good comments and correcting my writings. That encourages me I suppose and end up completing 3 books full of my ramblings (I called it Vol 1, 2 and 3). The things I have written there is something like the things I am writing in this blog, though that was kid’s stuffs at that time.

Actually, a few months back, me and my family was cleaning and clearing unwanted things in my Mom’s house. Then I came across my Journal – though only one of them. Then it invoke my memories when I was studying on one of the ‘sot’test school in town (ha ha ha). Too bad I couldn’t find the other two volumes. Now the surviving journal is in the hands of my niece, Andrea Gracia (who won state-level NST spelling contest last year). My brother told me that she has read my Journal and is doing her own journal too. Good for her.

To Cikgu Faridah Abdullah, wherever you are.. Thank you many zillion times. I don’t think this is enough how I feel very thankful to what you have done to me, especially. You may not remember me, the small skinny kid in Form One Beta… hahaha… but i do remember you Cikgu..

I wasn’t able to say thank you to her as I think she left suddenly. I think she was transferred elsewhere and dind’t stay for a whole year teaching us (this I remember because our Beta class joined the Alpha class with by Mr Gerry who taught us to sing a song.. what was that song again.. errr.. can’t remember..oooh yeah “Where Do We Go From Here” is it?)

She may not have realised what impact she has done to the English of Monsiuer Hombidai, the little skinny kid. Although I still need to improve a lot in my writings, in my mind, she has direct impact to me.

Thank you again Cikgu Faridah…

KITT is back..!!!

You heard me right. I watched the season premier last night at Star World.

I was in primary school when I watched the original TV series. I more of KITT’s fan rather than David Hasselhoff (Michael Knight). Who wouldn’t if you have a talking car with an attitude and some cool built-in gadgets. And the car itself, Pontiac Firebird Trans Am, was really awesome at that time!! Because I really loved the car design, I managed to get my school friend to part with his toy car that resembles KITT… huhuhuhu.

That’s why I was excited when I saw its preview a week back and eagerly anticipated last night’s show. The new Knight Rider didn’t disappointment me. KITT is now a cool Ford Mustang and a new nanotech body which can ‘heals’ itself and transforms temporarily into another vehicle of choice. Woohooo. Cool dude!!! KITT nanotech body also is as strong as a 10 foot thick concrete wall!! Although, the computer is turned off, KITT will become a normal car and subject to damages. Uhhuuuu..

And the new driver is Michael Traucer, son of the first KITT driver, Michael Long aka Michael Knight. David Hasselhoff also made a cameo in last night’s season premier as the original Mike Knightey..