Nasi Lemak Tajol RM2

Saluran Melayu TV Suria Singapura menayangkan dokumentari pembuat filem merdeka (Inependence) Melayu yang bergiat di pulau itu. Recana ini membuat aku teringin membuat video lagi. Secara kasarnya ini ilham yang turun masa aku memandu ke pejabat.
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Close up. Tanda "Nasi Lemak Tajol RM2".

Zoom out. Tajol jual nasi lemak tepi jalan atas meja lipat. Bungkusan2 nasi lemak atas meja. Orang lalu lalang tidak pedulikan dia.

Sebuah Mercedez enter frame. Brake depan warung Tajol. Keluar Mamat dengan kot dan cermin mata hitam.

Close up. Bird eye view. Nasi lemak dengan bungkusan surat khabar Cina.

Medium shot. Camera dari bawah 45 darjah. Almost dog eye view. Mamat berdiri depan nasi lemak.

Mamat: Pelanggan abang banyak Cina ke?
Tajol: Errr... (clear throat) Cina, India, Melayu. Kebanyakan Melayu.
Mamat: Kalau abang bungkus dengan surat khabar Melayu, mungkin abang lebih ramai pelanggan.
Tajol: saya tidak baca suratkhabar dan tidak beli suratkhabar. Inipun jiran saya yang bagi.

Mamat senyum dan memandang muka Tajol. Dia terperanjat. Dia kenal Tajol. Tajol muka keliru. Dia tidak kenal Mamat.

Mamat: Eh... awak ni... Tajol. Tajol dari Sekolah Tanjung Rambai. Kita satu kelas dulu.
Tajol: Sekolah Tanjung Rambai. Ya.

Close up. Muka Tajol. Flashback effect. Fade to black and white.

Adengan Sekolah Tanjung Rambai. Tajol Muda berselisih dengan Mamat Muda. Langgar bahu.

Mamat Muda: Kelas nak mula ni.
Tajol: Ahhhhh... kau nak belajar kau pegi la belajar. Tak rock la belajar-belajar ni. Gua nak belah.

Tajol campak beg keluar pagar sekolah nak mula memanjat pagar. Diluar pagar, dia ambil rokok dari dalam beg. Satu motor rempit datang. Budak samseng. Tajol duduk belakang. Rempit rem motor dah meninggalkan asap.

Medium shot. Mamat muda tepi pagar. Asap. Close up muka. Habis effect. Back to present.

Close up. Muka Mamat. Zoom out. Mamat ambil satu nasi lemak. Bayar duit dan bagi kad.

Mamat: Saya nak cuba nasi lemak ni. Ini kad saya. Dah hampir 20 tahun. Zaman dah berubah. Lepas sekolah, saya masuk UTM. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. Saya belajar pengurusan di FPPSM. Fakulti Pengurusan dan Pembangunan Sumber Manusia. Lepas grad, saya terus buka bisnes.

Mereka besalam. Mamat meninggalkan warung. Masuk kereta dan berlalu.

Tajol melihat kad nama Mamat. Dia membaca dengan kuat.

Close up: Kad nama Mamat.

Tajol: Mamat bin Ghazali. Kelulusan: Sarjana Muda Pengurusan, UTM. Pengarah. Nasi Lemak Power Corporation.

Zoom out. Tajol jual nasi lemak tepi jalan atas meja lipat. Bungkusan2 nasi lemak atas meja. Orang lalu lalang tidak pedulikan dia.

Fade to black.
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Teks: Belajarlah bersungguh supaya anda dapat masuk FPPSM.
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LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
short video. nigerian black money. spam. short. simple and funny.

Fri.1.10.2004.|122692 | posted by harimauj at 10:06 | 4 Gigitan |

Along

A.L.O.N.G , Along. Pandai... bijak... Along jahat sekali.

Dalam berita semalam SAC 2 Abu Bakar Mustaffa buat laporan polis. Wow! Boss polis buat laporan polis. Tentu kes ini amat serius. Along atau ceti Cina (Bukan kucing yang pandai sifir dalam TV tu), telah menghantar surat ugutan kepada beliau. Satu salinan surat juga dihantar kepada surat khabar Cina. Melampau betul.

Ancaman Along kepada masyarakat memang sudah lama seperti kurap yang tidak baik-baik. Kalau ianya betul-betul kurap, dah lama berlubang badan kita kerana kita hanya menggaru tapi tidak letak ubat. Di rumah aku hari-hari diorang bagi name card dalam peti surat. Nak goda aku meminjam duit. Ya, bukan inbox mail aku sahaja kena spam, peti suarat aku pun kena spam. Aku cadangkan Polis telefon nombor dalam kad-kad ini dan menyamar seperti peminjam. Cekup mereka bila datang nak bagi pinjam duit tanpa lesen. Kalau tidak salah aku, nombor telefon along juga kadang-kadang tertampal di tiang-tiang lampu. Begitu hebat promosi mereka.

Apa pun, aku suka bila SAC Abu Bakar keluar berita TV. Dia kata, "mereka-mereka (along) ini sudah kurang ajar!" Dia nampak garang lagi serius. Bersama membenteras jenayah! PDRM boleh!

Wed.29.9.2004.|122528 | posted by harimauj at 16:45 | 3 Gigitan |

Soalan Temuduga Untuk Bakal Menantu/ Adik Ipar

1. Adakah masa yang tercepat atau anda yang terlambat?
2. Adakah baju yang anda terkecil atau anda yang tergemuk?
3. Jika sudah punya anak kelak, apakah mainan yang anda akan beli untuk anak anda?
4. Apakah mainan yang anda akan buat untuk anak anda?
5. Apakah mainan yang ada akan buat bersama anak anda?
6. Adakah anda sunyi bila keseorangan?
7. Kalau aku boleh terperanjatkan anda separuh mati; apa jadi jika aku terperanjatkan anda sebanyak dua kali?
8. Kalau anda dibenarkan buat rumah ini seperti rumah anda sendiri, adakah remote control TV ini anda punya?
9. Jauh-dekat itu relatif. Berapa jauhkah tempat kerja anda dengan rumah bakal mentua?
10. Kami nak buat kenduri arwah malam Jumaat depan, bolehkah anda jadi penghulu majlis?

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ISRAK MIKRAJ
Peristiwa Israk Mikraj itu amat panjang jika hendak dihuraikan satu persatu. Ustaz di surau sempat cerita bab Israk sahaja. Dia kata, "Saya cerita bab Israk sahaja untuk malam ini. Namun begitu ada antara kita dah sampai bab Mikraj."

Fuhh! Bisa bisa bisa. Mungkinkah Ustaz nampak aku terlelap sebentar tadi? Tak apa. Orang tertidur, lupa dan hilang ingatan adalah dimaafkan.

Selamat menyambut Nisfu Syaaban.

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
You Can Be the next Photographer of the Year

Tue.28.9.2004.|122400 | posted by harimauj at 11:05 | 4 Gigitan |

TV: Kotak bergambar di ruang tamu

Sambil-sambil lipat kain aku tengok berita TV. Persatuan Bolasepak Melayu akan menganjurkan Piala Nusantara pada 20-30 Disember 2004. Satu pasukan Cina dan India juga turut dijemput menyertainya untuk tujuan 'intergrasi' kaum. Kepala hotak dia berjambul! Ini adalah satu langkah kebelakang dalam menggunakan sukan untuk intergrasi kaum.

Untuk melihat Melayu, India dan Cina berpeluk-peluk walaupun badan penuh peluh, mereka hendaklah diletakkan dalam satu pasukan (dan menyumbat gol) bukan diadukan macam spider laga. Mengasingkan pasukan mengikut kaum akan mengundang perbalahan dan semangat perkauman dalam diri pemain dan mungkin juga penyokong. Bilalah kita nak belajar buat benda yang betul?!

Syabas pada RTM kerana menganjurkan Debat Perdana pada setiap malam Isnin secara langsung. Malam tadi temanya adalah Intergrasi Kaum. Dua wakil pembangkang diapit oleh dua wakil pemerintah. Pengerusi pula berpihak kepada pemerintah dengan melontarkan soalan-soalan sarat pada pembangkang dan hanya soalan-soalan bocor pada wakil pemerintah. Sepatutnya pemerintah menang debat itu kerana mereka menguasai pentas dari segi masa, namun begitu wakil pembangkang membentangkan hujah-hujah kuat lagi sinis membuatkan penonton bertepuk tangan. Penonton tahu membezakan mana hujah emosional dan mana hujah mantap.

Aku harap RTM tidak berputus asa dan meneruskan perjuangan untuk mempromosi ketelusan dan kematangan berfikir. Sedikit sebanyak ahli UMNO juga dapat belajar dari kekalahan. Kalau ada undi SMS untuk debat ini, mungkin RTM boleh kaya kerana ini lebih baik dari realiti Malaysian Idol. Aku nak undi keluar pengerusi majlis.

Dalam perkembangan lain, ada satu berita hangat yang aku tidak dengar dalam TV. Dalam seminar yang aku hadiri pada hari Sabtu lepas, ada kawan yang menyatakan Literasi Komputer akan diperkenalkan di sekolah tahun depan. Baguslah tu, aku harap ianya akan membawa sekali Hardware dan akses Internet ke semua sekolah. Menurut cerita, subjek ini diajar dalam Bahasa Inggeris, seperti matematik dan sains, oleh guru Bahasa Inggeris. Rasanya berita ini tidak keluar berita TV lagi. Kalau ternyata berita ini benar kelak, ingatlah... Weblog Tok Rimau: Lebih terkini dari TV3 dan lebih makluburan dari RTM!

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
Video Sejarah Weblog
Aku masih cuba memahami benda ni. Nampak menarik.
Kampung Kites

Mon.27.9.2004.|122225 | posted by harimauj at 10:08 | 3 Gigitan |

Lagi Panggung Digital

Kini panggung Digital Cakarama ada saingan.



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Lawatan Sambil Belajar
http://www.lamanestetika.com/

Thu.23.9.2004.|121856 | posted by harimauj at 11:51 | 1 Gigitan |

Islam Hadhari

Aku berada dalam satu majlis taklimat Islam Hadhari. Aku tertanya-tanya, kenapa Islam diHadharikan? Bukankah sepatutnya Hadhari itu yang diIslamkan?! Aku tidak tanya soalan itu pada penceramah kerana aku sedar aku akan hanya dapat jawapan politik. Tumbuhnya perkataan itu pun bermotifkan politik bagi menunjukkan siapa lebih Islam menjelang pilihanraya lepas.

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
Hadhari vs Hadhari

Wed.22.9.2004.|121750 | posted by harimauj at 17:26 | 2 Gigitan |

Interactive Writing (1st Draft, Pls Comment) Part. 2

SUGGESTIONS
The pre-requisites to the adaptation of weblog into the classroom are ample ICT infrastructure on-site and sound pedagogical techniques. Soon all schools will be equipped with Internet ready computers and teachers can start being creative and think about how computers can enrich the learning experiences of the students. Weblog can be used as a training platform for students to show their skills in creating web contents. School newsletters can now be made available online via weblog.

Class Weblog / Webzine
Language: Stating facts, opinions and feelings
Skills: Writing
Control: Free
Level: Intermediate/advanced
Time: Asynchronous project, preferably running throughout the whole year. It is best to start the project in the first month of an academic year.
Materials: Internet Access

Preparation:
1. Asked students to visit some weblogs and leave comments on those weblogs.
2. Train students to setup a weblog account via Blogger.com service.
3. Discuss the ethic of publishing writing online with the participating students.

Procedure
1. Each student writes a short article (100-200 words) a month and posts it on the class weblog.
2. Students should also read postings made by others and write at least 5 sentence comments.
3. Topics should be limited to reflection of events related to their school.
4. At the end of the year, best writer awards are given based on the number of comments received by their postings.

Variations
1. Instead of sharing one weblog, each student can own an individual weblog. He or she can reflect on events that happen around himself/herself.
2. Select some good articles from the weblog. Edit them so that they can be published on the school annual magazine.

Links
Free Hosted Weblog Service
1. Blogger: http://www.blogger.com
2. Livejournal: http://www.livejournal.com
3. Blogdrive: http://www.blogdrive.com
4. Diaryland: http://www.diaryland.com

ELT Weblogs
Blog-EFL: http://blog-efl.blogspot.com/
Englishblog: http://englishblog.blogspot.com/

Class Weblogs
Gameplan: http://gameplan.blogspot.com
Damien TESL UTM: http://damienteslutm2004.blogspot.com/
Let’s Blog: http://www.malhatlantica.pt/teresadeca/school/blog7.htm

REFERENCES
Brown, H. Douglas (2001) Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy. Addison Wesley Longman Inc. New York.
Blood, Rebecca (2002) Weblogs: A History and Perspective. We’ve Got Blog. Perseus Publishing. Cambridge.
Burnett, Robert and Marshall, P. David (2003) Web Theory: An Introduction. Routledge. London.
Dorner, Jane (2002) Writing for the Internet. Oxford University Press. New York
Kerka, Sandra (1996). Journal Writing and Adult Learning. ERIC Digests No. 174. ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education. Columbus Ohio.
Pyra Labs [Online] (2000). ‘About’ : http://www.blogger.com/about.pyra [19/02/2002.]
Richards, Jack. C and Rodgers, Theodore S. (2001) Approches and Methods in Language Teaching. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge.

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:: This paper is prepared for 4th ELT Southern Regional Seminar 2004. The seminar was organized by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Johor 25 September 2004.
:: Ghazali Bunari is a lecturer affiliated with the Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development. Currently, he is teaching English for Academic Communication and Language Games in the Classroom. He received his first degree in Applied English Linguistics at The Universiti of Texas and masters degree in TESL at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
:: Abdul Rahim is a lecturer affiliated with the Faculty of Management and Human Resource Development. Currently, he is teaching English for Academic Communication. He received his first degree in TESL at Universiti Malaya and masters degree in TESL at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

Tue.21.9.2004.|121563 | posted by harimauj at 13:03 | 5 Gigitan |

Interactive Writing (1st Draft, Pls Comment) Part 1.

Interactive Writing
By
Ghazali Bunari and Abdul Rahim Salam

Journal writing activity has long been used by teachers to improve students’ skills in writing. It is also a way for students to communicate with the teacher and vice-versa. This workshop demonstrates how interactivity in the traditional journal writing activity can be extended. Participants will be exposed to a pen-and-paper interactive writing technique and this is followed by an online version of the activity. The workshop explains the benefits of online journal or weblog implementation in ELT. The workshop also suggests variants of the activity and outlines the procedures for implementing the technique.

INTRODUCTION
In order to successfully learn a language, a learner needs to use the target language. For most English language learners in Malaysia, situations that call for the need to use the language are often limited to the classroom environment. One might have the opportunity to use English only in the English period, and more recently the mathematic and science periods. More often than not, the only one who is willingly communicating with the learners in English is the teacher. As there is only one teacher for each class at every period, the opportunity to learn the language is greatly reduced. This calls for the need for techniques that encourage more interaction in the target language.

INTERACTIVE PERSPECTIVE IN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
When people exchange messages with others, they interact among themselves. Brown (2001) writes interaction as collaborative exchange of thoughts and feelings or ideas between two or more people, leading to a reciprocal impact on each other. Burnett and Marshall (2003) define interactivity as a term to describe interaction between parties where both sources and receivers of information through a communication medium. It is a sequence of action and reaction. They further indicate that interactivity describes the extent to which messages are related to each other.

Interactional view of the nature language sees language as a tool for the realization of interpersonal relations and for the performance of social transactions between individuals (Richards and Rodgers, 2001). It is through interaction, students can use the language learnt in real-life exchanges as they send and receive messages in a casual manner. Thus, Brown (2001) argues that language classrooms should be interactive. One way to increase interactivity is to increase the audience of written works done by students. Perhaps, by giving access to others to read students’ written works and react on them, interactivity will increase.

JOURNAL WRITING
Journal Writing has long been used in the language classroom as a tool to enhance learning. Teachers can use journal writing to meet specific goals. Some teachers use journal writing to improve writing confidence and some work on perfecting paragraphing skills; others use journals as a platform to nurture students’ creativity. Some teachers provide title prompts to assist students begin their entries. Others leave decisions about the content and topic of student journals up to the students. The technique was traditionally a non- interactive activity. It is, if implemented traditionally, writing for the audience of one, the writer himself (self-writing). However, a dialogue or buddy journal in which a student records feelings and opinions and a peer or instructor reads and responds can be interactive. Increasing the number of audience and responses to a single journal entry can intensify the interaction.

Journal writing has been adapted as a learning tool because it lends itself well to heuristic learning approach. Kerka (1996) presented in her literature review that journal writing has several benefits to teaching and learning:
1. Writing journal entries is less formal and less threatening, thus students can write without self-consciousness or inhibition
2. Journal entries can provide tangible evidence of mental processes. They make thoughts visible and concrete, giving a way to interact with, elaborate on, and expand ideas.
3. Journals are tools for growth through critical reflection, for it is not enough to observe and record experiences, but equally significant is to make meaning out of them.

Nevertheless due to time constraint, the primary audience of a student’s journal is restricted to the instructor. It would be beneficial for the learning process if journal entries can be published and received feedback from the public or at lease from classmates. Comments on ideas written by a student would mature students’ critical thinking and enhance argumentative writing skills. Augmented by technology, entries in a journal can enjoy more readerships and interaction can be enhanced.

INTERACTIVE WRITING
The Internet has converted many people to become prolific writers. “It’s easy to communicate across continents that people – who perhaps did not write regularly before – are now finding they correspond daily with friends, relations, business contacts, and strangers.” (p.6, Dorner, 2002) Technology has now allowed journal writing to be done on the web. This medium is known as weblog. Weblog is defined as:

“A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically—like a what's new page or a journal. The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly—from links and commentary about other web sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction.” (Pyra Labs, 2000)

Weblog puts the latest entry always on the top and the older ones fall into archives. Most weblogs allow visitors or readers to interact with the entries by providing a comment form. Before easy- to-use template based weblog writing service like Blogger.com and Livejournal.com in 1999, only those who were good with html code can maintain a weblog. Now, even those who do not know html can publish their entries and update their journal everyday. They just need to fill in a form to sign up for the free weblog service and log in every time they need to update their journal. All they need is a web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape) and a computer that is linked to the Internet. Free weblog service providers such as Blogger.com, Blogdrive.com and Livejournal.com have made it easier for non-IT individuals to publish journal entries and readers at large give feedback to entries posted on the weblog. For tech-savvy individuals, they might want to tinker with free open source software like Wordpress and Greymatter.

Weblogs provide interactivity needed to help students to use English by increasing the number of participants that can get involved in a discourse. As writers and readers, students could interact with the teacher, fellow classmates and the whole world. This also gives students the opportunity to even interact with native speakers of the target language. Entries are published for the world to read and react to. Readers of weblogs post comments in reply to entries often lead to negotiations of meaning that might assist learners in developing writing and argumentative skills. The use of English language can be taken outside the four walls of the classroom and beyond. It is hoped that teachers and students can embrace the technology available and turn it to something pedagogically constructive. Blood (2002) wrote in her article, “I strongly believe in the power of weblogs to transform both writers and readers from “audience” to “public” and from “consumer” to “creator.”” Maybe, we are at the edge of a new revolution of interactive writing culture that calls for the voice of masses.

PROCEDURES
In 2001, an interactive writing project was introduced in UTM via a weblog named Gameplan (http://gameplan.blogspot.com), a shared weblog that acts as a learning journal. The Students involved in this project were students who registered for Language Games in the Classroom course, an elective course for TESL students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The main purpose of the interactive writing project was to update class members on the progress of the class Language Camp projects.

In the weblog, the students reflected on works related to their class projects. Mostly, the students posted informal reports of what they had contributed to their class Language Camp projects. The students had to post a minimum of five one-hundred-words entries on the weblog. The marks were given based on the completion of task and the amount of comments made by readers on the entries. Students were encouraged to read each other’s entries and give comments. At the same time, they were also allowed to promote their weblog in order to attract public comments.

The weblog empowered students to publish their thoughts for the whole world to read. The instructor understood the students better because they interacted beyond the boundary of the classroom setting. Project members immediately addressed problems expressed by others in the weblog. Classmates and public readers were presented with true anecdotes and witty commentaries. Students started to grow awareness of the audiences (instructor, classmate and the world) when writing. Few students were discovered to set their own weblog and continue updating their weblog even though the semester is over. New students taking the course could immediately read last semesters’ entries for reference. This gives evidence that weblog writing can provide a sustainable learning experience.

... to be continued

|121562 | posted by harimauj at 12:59 | 0 Gigitan |

Sarikata

Singgah di kedai Ah Seng, seorang usahawan yang berjaya di Giant Hypermarket. Aku beli DVD CSI Vegas 3 musim sekali gus dengannya. Selamat tinggal RM150. Ah Seng kata, "Lu tak mau beli ini manyak syiok punya filem. Melayu ada, Cina ada, India ada." Aku senyum dan geleng sahaja. Aku kata, "Mungkin lain kali bila pahala gua dah terlebih."

Aku suka set sarikata kepada English ketika menonton. Kalau aku set kepada Chinese atau Thai, aku tidak faham langsung. Kelebihannya, sebutan yang terlalu laju, dapat aku tangkap melalui sarikata. Dapat dilihat bagaimana siri CSI ini matang daripada sebuah drama polis opera kepada satu genre siri polis berfokuskan sains dan maklumat. Ini baru infotainmen. PDRM dan Yusof Haslam perlu tonton DVD ini bagi meninggikan mutu kerjaya mereka.

Musim pertama mempunyai sarikata yang tepat tapi musim ketiga mempunyai banyak sarikata yang lari dari maksud asal. Contoh: Hero kata maintenance, sarikata tulis mending. Aku tengok muka Ghazali dan katakan kepadanya, "Budak yang yang kau bagi "D" dalam Bahasa Inggeris itu tidak jadi jurutera. Dia mungkin jadi penulis sarikata untuk Syarikat Ah Seng DVD and Entertainment."

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJARCreating New Language

Mon.20.9.2004.|121386 | posted by harimauj at 11:23 | 5 Gigitan |

Lilin Yang Padam

Ghazali bercerita pada aku tentang betapa bosannya presentation beberapa 10 pelajarnya. Mereka tidak buat persembahan tapi hanya membaca nota di hadapan khalayak sambil berdiri macam kayu. Sudahlah kemahiran berbahasa mereka rendah, usaha pulak macam kelip-kelip di tengahari. Ghazali terpaksa buat kuliah tambahan pada jam 4.30 petang untuk membantu mereka yang hilang punca itu.

Masa tahun satu di Universiti aku ambil kursus ucapan. Masih aku ingat tajuk ucapan aku, "How to make a molotov cocktail." English aku masa tu tunggang langgang tapi aku dengan konfiden bagi persembahan yang meyakinkan lagi penuh drama.

Zaman itu aku blur dan tidak punya cita-cita pun tapi aku jenis manusia yang ghairah dengan apa yang aku buat. Walaupun tugasan persembahan itu benda kecil dengan markah 10% sahaja, aku nak hasil kerja aku lain dari yang lain. Aku dah praktis semalaman untuk persembahan itu. Aku dapat idea untuk topik itu sebab jumpa perkataan Molotov Cocktail masa baca Newsweek. Aku belek Ensaiklopaedia di library untuk cari maknanya. Aku kaji cara membuatnya.

Professor aku, Dr. Elerick, memerhatikan tingkah laku aku dengan penuh minat. Dia professor kesayangan aku sebab dia kelakar dan sempoi. Mungkin aku juga murid emas dia sebab dia selalu bagi aku "A."

Finale persembahan aku adalah bila aku membakar sumbu kain Molotov Cocktail. Mungkin juga khalayak separuh mengharap aku meletupkan kelas pada hari itu supaya esok tidak perlu pergi kuliah lagi, tapi itu tidak berlaku. Cecair dalam botol aku cuma air warna yang nampak seakan-akan petrol. Api padam bila kain sumbu kekurangan bahan api.

Walaupun anti-klimak bagi semua, aku rasa aku Dr. Elerick bagi aku "A" untuk presentation yang boleh mengheret aku ke penjara kerana mengajar orang jadi pengganas. Namun begitu, nasib baik pada masa itu perkataan pengganas bukan trend semasa. Aku sebenarnya tidak target "A," aku nak kepuasan merealisasikan satu gagasan idea dan memuaskan nafsu kreativiti aku. Kawan-kawan aku dalam kuliah pada masa berlumba-lumba untuk memberi yang terbaik bukan untuk "A" tapi untuk kepuasan diri sendiri.

Ghazali bercerita lagi bahawa dia bosan menunggu untuk pelajar tiba di kuliah tambahan. Hanya dua orang muncul dan lapan lagi nyenyak tidur pada petang yang dingin kerana hujan renyai. Dia berkata pada dua orang itu, "4.30 pm was 20 minutes ago. Rain is not a good excuse for coming late as I had to brave this rain also to be here. Class dismissed." Ghazali hampa dengan sikap pelajar-pelajarnya. Aapa guna jadi lilin penerang jika orang selesa duduk bergelap?!

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
molotov cocktail
Monsters + WWE = Kaiju
Takziah kepada mangsa Arson.

Thu.16.9.2004.|121011 | posted by harimauj at 15:48 | 9 Gigitan |

Casio, Tempe dan Novel

Klik Gambar untuk cerita lanjut.

Terimakasih Ika dan Naora.
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Standard CASIO AW80
Tauke, saya mahu jam Casio tali besi, ada lampu dan murah lagi bermutu...

• LED light Afterglow : Memudah aku melihat jam sambil bersembunyi dalam almari.
• 30 Telememo pages. 8 letters and 16 numerals per page Other: Auto-sort : Kalau jumpa mayat aku, senang orang tahu nombor polis adalah 999.
• World time Current time in 30 cities (29 time zones), daylight saving on/off : 30 bandar dari New York sampailah ke Tokyo. Kalau aku mampu gi bandar-bandar ni, aku tidak pakai jam ini.
• 1/100-second stopwatch Measuring capacity: 23:59'59.99" Measuring modes: Elapsed time, split time, 1st-2nd place times : Memudah aku memcahkan rekod 100m olimpik akan datang.
• Countdown timer: Input range:1 minute to 24 hours: Unit:1 second: Lagi 4 minit lagi Maggi aku akan masak.
• Daily alarms.3 independent daily alarms (2 one-time alarms and 1 snooze alarm): Alarm dah bunyi. Masa untuk tidur dah sampai.
• Hourly time signal: Setiap jam, jam aku berbunyi nit-nit. Jam kalian semua bisu!
• Auto-calendar (to year 2099): Aku akan mati dulu sebelum jam aku mati.
• 12/24-hour format: Kalau ada format jam Melayu lagi canggih.
• Regular timekeeping Analog: 2 hands (Hour, minute) Digital: Hour, minutes, seconds, am/pm, month, date, day: Standard la. Tak payah cerita.
• Accuracy: ±30 seconds per month: Bukan aku yang tercepat tapi masa yang terlambat.
• Approx. battery life: 10 years on CR2025: Bankrap tauke bateri.
• Size of case/total weight 46.8 x 40.0 x 13.5 mm / 34 g: Boleh diangkat dengan 1 tangan je.

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
Standard Casio AW80
CSI: Bush a war Hero?

Tue.14.9.2004.|120670 | posted by harimauj at 10:38 | 9 Gigitan |

Nikmat yang Ringkas

Gembira, aku gembira bila..
1. Tibai nyamuk yang membingit waktu aku tidur.
2. Mendapati bilik air kering di waktu subuh. (Orang pertama terjaga)
3. Melihat wajah bayi ketika ia sedang nyenyak tidur.
4. Siap menjawab soalan peperiksaan dengan yakin.
5. Mendapati gambar yang aku snap adalah seperti mana yang mata aku lihat.
6. Menerima senyuman dan layanan mesra dari seorang cashier.
7. Mendapati capaian Internet selaju air terjun Niagara.
8. Polis melepaskan aku di road block.
9. Mendapat e-mel dari bekas pelajar aku yang mahu bertukar khabar.
10. Ada komen baru dalam weblog aku.

Syukur. Alhamdulillah. Bagaimana dengan kalian? Apakah nikmat-nikmat yang kalian kira hari ini?

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
Kapalterbang Kertas lagi.

Thu.9.9.2004.|120161 | posted by harimauj at 11:07 | 11 Gigitan |

David vs Goliath

Dear Caltex,
I'm your loyal Customer. I have been frequenting Caltex Kg. Jaya Sepakat Senai, Johor for almost 10 years now. The service is teriffic and the people there are friendly. I stay loyal eventhough Shell and Petronas opened their stations next to my favourite Caltex station. If their pump failed to produce receipt for payment made via credit card, they would produce one manually. No fuss.

I learn recently that the quality service of Caltex is not common to all Caltex stations. The pump machine number 1 at Semabok Caltex, next to Semabok Hotel/Inn Melaka, failed to print receipt for me. The attendant tried to produce the receipt from pump number 2 but still he failed. I got the gas I wanted but I just didn't get the receipt. No big deal. I have experienced the same thing at other stations thus I chose to ignore the receipt.

To my suprise the pump attendant made a big fuss about the whole thing. He was worried the transaction did not happen and his boss might cut his pay because of that. A big fat cashier came out from the "Caltex Shop" demanded my card number. I refused. He could have used my card to buy Harry Potter from the Internet or worse yet subscribe to a porno service.

He later blamed me for using Visa which cannot be used at that particular station. How would I know about that? He then pointed the Visa logo on the pump was crossed using a blue marker. So, unprofessional of him. I thought it was a signal of "Undilah Visa." That was a very stupid way to tell people one does not accept Visa.

Nevertheless, that is not the main issue as I was using Mastercard, not Visa. I gave him my namecard instead. I was already late. I got my gas and whether the transaction had happened or not that was not for me to worry. I left the scene bitter with the service.

The next day, a girl called me. She claimed to be from Semabok Caltex station. She was polite and maybe a little bit flirty but I was not in the right mood to entertain her. She asked for my card number. Again I refused to give. She asked me to go to Semabok Gas Station to settle the matter of "they not knowing whether transaction had happened or not." I said why should I go. Your machine broke. It is not my problem.

She then said, "Manusia pun buat silap, inikan pula mesin." I said, "Mesin tu silap sebab manusia. You want to meet me, why don't you come here and see me." She said, she's busy and working on shift. And I am not busy? I hung the phone. I ignored a couple more calls from the same number after that.

To conclude:
I am pissed off:
1. I got the gas I wanted but not the receipt. I was cool about it but people from the Semabok Caltex made a big fuss about it.
2. Semabok Caltex pestered me with their problem of not knowing whether they will get money from the credit card company or not.
3. Semabok Caltex did not accept Visa but they failed to communicate that to their customer properly.
4. Their credit card swiping machine was not properly maintained as it couldn't produce receipt.

I propose you Caltex Malaysia visit all Caltex stations and make sure the branches really live up to the image as you potray in your ad and campaigns.
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I sent this to Caltex. Pernah suatu masa aku menjerit pasal Kawamichi. Menggunakan teknik aggregate atau syndication, komentar dari cerita itu telah dicolek masuk dalam web lain. Akhirnya, jeritan dalam weblog ini tidak masuk pada telinga yang pekak. Aku dapat balasan. Baca e-mel di bawah.

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From: kawamichigoods@yahoo.com
To: harimauj(at)yahoo(dot)com
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 04:51:47 -0400

Kami telah mengunjungi topik bertajuk"gigitan tok rimau" dan mendapati bahawa sesetengah komen adalah bertentang dengan syarikat kami dan kami mengsyaki sebahagian komen adalah dari competitors kami. Oleh itu, kami berharap bahawa encik presiden boleh membuat jumpaan dengan kami untuk menyelesaikan hal serius ini.

Pertolongan anda adalah amat dialu-alukan.

Yang Benar,
Kawamichi

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Keraguan Munasabah aku:
a) Kenapa syarikat elektronik ternama pakai e-mel Yahoo?
b) Kenapakah dia ajak aku melawat syarikatnya tetapi tidak membalas hujah?
c) Siapakah yang mencolek komentar dari weblog aku itu?

Aku balas emel Kawamichi ini dengan mengatakan aku tidak ada duit nak melawat syarikatnya. Aku tanyakan samada mereka ada duit. Pun begitu, tiada jawapan dari Kawamichi selepas itu. Agaknya mereka tidak ada duit nak biaya lawatan aku.

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Lawatan sambil Belajar
Wedding Pics

Mon.6.9.2004.|119823 | posted by harimauj at 18:31 | 9 Gigitan |

Anwar saga: The Plot Thickens

These blogs report the unfolding events.
Danny Lim
Menj
Mgg Pillai
Spyz: reporter tanpa Suratkhabar
Mat Jan: "peguam" tanpa pejabat

Fri.3.9.2004.|119434 | posted by harimauj at 12:43 | 0 Gigitan |

Kuasa Membeli

Seperti pagi-pagi lain, Jali dan Sabrinamon (4 tahun) menuju ke taska. Sabrinamon ditempatkan di belakang tapi dia jarang duduk. Dia berdiri dengan kepala terjongol antara kerusi pemandu dan penumpang depan. Kadang-kadang tangannya mengusik punat radio, suis lampu siling dan cermin pandangan belakang.

Sabrinamon sudah kenal duit. Ada duit semua boleh beli.

“Papa, belilah yoyo.” Sabrinamon merayu.
“Bina kecik lagi. Tali yoyo aje lebih panjang dari Bina.” Kata Jali.
“Papa, belilah Barbie.” Sabrinamon merayu.
“Kan Mak Pip dah bagi 2 patung Barbie. Buat apa banyak-banyak?” Tukar gear 4.
“Papa, belilah beg roda.” Sabrinamon merayu.
Jali diam. Dia malas nak layan rayuan bersiri ini.
“Papa, belilah belon.” Sabrinamon merayu.
Tiba-tiba Jali teringat buku psikologi yang menyatakan kanak-kanak akan terus bercakap sehingga dia dapat jawapan yang memuaskan.
“Papa, belilah gelang.” Sabrinamon merayu.
“Papa tidak ada duit sayang. Papa orang miskin.”
Jali puas kerana berjaya menamatkan desakan-desakan Sabrinamon.
“Papa, belilah duit.” Sabrinamon terus merayu.
Pap! Jali tepuk dahi.

Jali berhenti di kedai Chee Chap belikan Sabrinamon aiskrim. Desakan berhenti buat sementara. Kusyen kereta jadi comot.

LAWATAN SAMBIL BELAJAR
Nerd Protesting

Thu.2.9.2004.|119341 | posted by harimauj at 18:04 | 2 Gigitan |

Malaysia's Anwar Freed From Prison on Final Appeal

Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's former deputy prime minister, was freed after the country's highest court overturned his conviction for sodomy, in a decision that investors said heralds a more liberal political climate.

The verdict, six years to the day that Anwar, 56, was sacked from the government, was handed down by the Federal Court in the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya, Malaysia's administrative capital near Kuala Lumpur.

``Thank God, it's over,'' Anwar said.

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|119309 | posted by harimauj at 16:09 | 4 Gigitan |