Disney Magic Live

on the 3rd of November, i won tickects to watch Disney Live Magic Show in Pisa courtesy of Astro. I indeed enjoyed the show very very much. For the past 2 occasions, i have been watching Disney on Ice, so, watching this magic show for the 1st time was brilliant. Since, i won the tickets, Astro organised a magic workshop for the winners to attend and i am glad we learnt some trick from their magicians...

and we werent allowed to bring in cameras to the show, thus we have to deposit it in the front counter. but i managed to sneak in my hp camera... this i what i managed to capture alhtough the security ppl kept watching those who was taking pixies.. haha.

It was all good and enjoyable.

Penang Food Hunt 2007

I recently participated in Penang Food Hunt 2007 organised by TimeoutSolutions with the Rasa Rasa Penang on 1 and 2 nd Dec.

It was fun. it was an unexpected msg from mei that lead us to sign up on it like on the spot. yeah, so 3 of us, girls in a team joined it.

and We are team number 19.

money prizes were guaranteed for the 1st 25 place winners... haha.. we did not get in there.. we know why but we know the trick how to next time.. as this was our 1st hunt adventure. the hunt starts at 12pm and we have a maximum 6.5 hours to finish the 3 leg hunt. First leg was to go to the 6 designated food places found in the rasarasa penang book and get the "chop" from the participating outlet. tat was the 1st part of leg 1. second part was to go to new world park and guess the type of food in the food court.. with clues sounding like.. exe: a meat from formosa.. then we have to hunt to get the answers from the other part of NWP. then, making popiah at the centre stage. We should not have spend much time on leg 1 and because of that we were running out of time for leg 2 and leg 3.

Leg 2 starts from new world park and we have to follow the tulip. which means navigate from our car with the route given and solve some hunt clues along the way. maybe because it was our first.. we found it extremely hard. we round and round the place again but could not find the answer tat we ended guessing few of them. Unlike leg 1, in leg 2 and leg 3 we have treasure to find and to submit at the end point later. we managed to solve the 2 treasure though. Leg 3 we just like leg 1.. navigate our way through the tulips given.

Overall, it was a good hunt and we enjoyed it much although we seems to panicked when we could not get the thing right. it's a good experience be4 we join another hunt soon. and i saw from the web that they are going to held this event yearly. so yeah,, hopefully i would be joining it again next year.

till then, pictures...

blogger is to slow. will upload more next time..

till then.. =)

all is good.

oh well, woke up in the week of monday.. new semester.. early morning class in library. Getting to know that we have script to write for 90 pages is a lot for a dummy like me who prolly dunno anything and being creative i'm not.
and to know that every monday we will be watching film is hmmm.. undesirable..
next up was english. explaining this and that and considering this is a business cum communication english.. it;s more to business, coporate world. hopefully it's fun.

was catching up with friends after a month break was good. i love the feeling being around them and to catch up with the new gossips. hah.

and here i am ranting as i have got nothing to do. bleh.

anyway, manunited won against liverpool last night with carlos tevez scoring the only goal!! Yippee... and i was rooting for Chelsea to win.. but they lost 1-0 to Arsenal who is now leading the league table. All this coming weekend will be a busy weekend for all clubs as they are going to play as many matches thus determining who will head the table going into new year!

and well, all is Good. =)

One Month

It's been a month. yes, the last post is one month before and now, one month after. semester 2 starts. dang.. i am taking 20units(maximum) yet again. Dun ask me why. I dunno. mayb the urge of finishing of subjects faster. I do not know. but it's sometimes fun rushing around when you have more things to do.
One month past and many things happen. I didnt think that things could happen..people live. people leave. and i believe things happen for a reason. the older we are the more things we have to face.
this past 1 month. my bestfriend grandma pass away. so unexpected. for i only knew she has been diagnosed with cancer months ago.. and now she is gone. and then last week, i read in the newspaper.. a friend of mine. a primary school friend who died.. accident. saw it in the newspaper. there is a small picture of him and i recognise it from there. though i dun really know him but he was still my sch mate during primary. RIP. but i was sad to think that, why would you be drink driving for what you have done caused the death of yourself. if you had been more loving of your life and think of your family, they would be the one who will be saddened by your death. sorry, i am not blaming you.. but pls, people out there, appreciate your life k? think of the loved ones by yourside. Dun dissapoint them.

I am going to update what i have done for the past 1 month later. for now, this weekend is the super clash of the english giants. MAN UTD VS LIVERPOOL and ARSENAL VS CHELSEA.
Just hope the best teams wins. but sure i would be rooting for................

have a bless weekend ahead..

OvER

Exam is finally over. *yay* turn, turn and dance around. but did badly lar. sigh. what to do. cant change anything d. even if i were to turn back the time, i dun think i ever want that to happen le.. ahaha. whatever is over is OVER d.

tomoro is the D-day for Mclaren and Ferrari.. Hopefully Kimi is going to retain his title and not to be snatched by LH just like tat. LH because i hate this guy so much. so arrogant. only 1st year in motorracing nia act like shit/.. saying he cant live in his country anymore.. , too much pressure this and that. stupid la.. you think you are so smart is it? hope you don even have any chance of winning any title. and yeah because of him fernando no longer with mclaren, though i dun like alonso.. but now i think he is much better than LH. darnyou!

on tennis, would you ever predict that Roger Federer is the man tat is being beaten lately. 2 times in a row by david nalbandian.. and now, fernando gonzalez. this is going to be the best master cup in many years,... past few years has been only dominated by federer.. am looking forward to it.

oh.. and this weekend football match between ISRAEL AND RUSSIA IS GOING TO DETERMINE WHETHER ENGLANG QUALIFIED FOR THE WORLD CUP OR NOT!!!!! I got a strong feeling the would qualify but another part of me think they would not qualify.

Have a wonderful holiday.. i'm sure i am having a good one..

buh bye!

2 more papers to go! Yay!

yes, 2 more papers to go. both mass com papers. One core paper, one major paper and both this sat. one morning, one afternoon. hopefully it's going to be ok. Will try my best and after tat is 1 month hols. i am so excited. cant wait for it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this is worst semester ever! everything just do not seems good at all!!! faster, faster be over!!

updates

3 papers done and dusted. That includes YKT 214. I did question on gender, occupation and the view of herb schiller and pool. I did the best i could. I felt like crying. It's worst than YKT 111 last semester. I do not think i will get a good grade this time. Sigh.sigh.
plus pn wang din even gave us back our assignments. So points on that question is purely base on my crappy understanding. So darn shit la. but no point to ponder on that. I still have 3 more papers to buck up if i were to retain/maintain my CGPA. So there you go my miserable life.. bitch.

on a brighter side, i celebrated my "freedom" going to QB mall after that. Forever 21 is chunted. i'm so going to slash myself as a fashion slave there. so good. would buy on my next visit. next is, sakae sushi. darn nice!

i am most prob going to kl from 22nd nov till 26th nov.. and oh, i got 4 free tickets to watch disney magic live this sat, 3rd nov at PISA. i got tickets to the workshop plus show.. so excited.. this mean that i will not miss any show of disney screen in Penang. the 1st one was paid by my parents and the 2nd one, i got it free as well... but wat is even better this time is, they have a workshop which i could proly go and hug hug those minnie, mickey and gang!! i am so excited..
way to de-stress.. haha. next exam is on monday, 5th nov and last 2 paper on the same day, 10th nov.. so yeah, i'll be going!!!!

I shall maintain this blogosphere and write here.. moving from xanga... more updates soon..

KIMI WON!!!

i watch wih my heartbeat feeling like felling off..... So dramatic.. and I AM proudly holy saying, KIMI RAIKKONEN WINS the BRAZILIAN GP and becoming the WORLD CHAMPION.. finally, after 2 missed chance on the championship..(one vs FA last 2 years ago and one last 3 years ago, vs M.Schumacher). and that is so sweet of ferrari's.. Team mate, FelipeMassa a very good team player as well.. congratulations, Kimi.

And sadly for Mclaren.. of Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.. hahahahaha..
but i just heard that car No4,5,6 of Heidfeld, Rosberg and Kubica under investigations by FIA due to some regulations prob.. and that Mclaren is appealing.. if that happen. Kimi wont be the world champion.. fingers crossed that HE will still remain the world champion.. I am so happy, proud and all that can be describe as HAPPY.. smiling ME..
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

i dun like Hmaliton and world champion. Please dun let the mclaren wins the appeal!!!


but for NOW!!

KIMI RAIKKONEN IS THE WORDL F1 CHAMPION for SEASON 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the routine gets going again.

i hate it. Raya is over. It freaks me out counting days to exams when i didnt even start opening any books nor reading yet. I hate the fact that tis is the 1st semester when i dun /rarely understand what is being taught. Forgive me for being a lazy ass but it's not my fault kan... tis semester is full with assignments and when you got to know it.. semester is over.. and you have to struggle looking for notes/past year quest and god knows what else to be ready for exam.. grrr...
Here i am ranting again instead of studying really proof that saya tak ada mood untuk study. You really got to force yourself.. even coming home for holiday.. i only brought back a file as thick as 2cm??? cause i know i wont be studying and there is of no use bringing back those thick thick books/notes back home. AND i got it SPOT on. I din even touch that 2cm file. SEE???
I hate studying.officially hate.and hate.....
SO, since semester is almost over.. guess this blog wont be on YKT 214 d kan? saya pun tak tahu samaada mahu terus untuk tulis atau tidak. Sudah macam tak bersemangat. Mungkin akan jadi blog peribadi saya. Maklum blog saya yang satu lagi sudah tak diupdate selalu kerana kemalasan saya. Saya semakin hari semakin tua dan semakin malas.
ANyway, i wont let my laziness get over me. I need to study. to maintain my results. Else, mummy dearest would nagged me again. and i cant stand facing those relatives who LOVES to compare with their goddammf***king children... grrr. i wish to get out every festive season. so i wont get annoy by those bitch and just my family and i. even my bro hates them.. and mind you, he is taking his STPM in few weeks time. He sure lagi will get bombarded coming next CNY.
why la our life so miserable???

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

so much yet so little..

By not giving us mid semester break we got 2 weeks of study break... how good is that? but it was mainly due to hari raya celebration.. so 2 weeks of study break (hols) is more appropriate.
hmmm..dunno if i really could study that early....

it also D-day time when results of assignments is out.. and i got my TV production result d.. dunno should be happy or sad.. maybe should have done better... never mind then, no point regretting it though..

This few days i have been questioning myself, do i really want to do what i really want or take another path in life.. sigh.. still i had ppl looking at me as if i am a different ppl... i dun f***king care what you ppl think.. Cant you ppl just grow up and have a life.. So i did a few things which lead ppl to think that i am not the same person as i am be4.. i know what i did but you ppl can nevr jugde me just because of some small things... screw you up.. and i dun care..

no point being emo... blah...

iCT and Education

this topic wont be coming out for exams anyway..
ICT and Education could not be seperated. More more sch in malaysia is equipped with computers with the main purpose of: let the children use them.. to surf the net for more information, to gain more knowledge.. but how correct or true it is.. statement from the optimist.. saying.. everyone will get access. children will learn more.. with media giving all the tools.. sure children will get more information..
sadly, it is not the case in Malaysia.. only selected sch or rich sch get access to ICT. See, those poor, village sch.. do they get this tech?.. even if they get the technology.. will they be able to utilised it? no telephone line=which means, no internet access... and to further maintain the ICT, who would want to pay? gov isnt supporting enuff in terms of financial.. at the end of it.. ICT in the poor place would then be abandoned.. so where is the use of ICT??? would techno savy kids be produced in this secluded area? i beg to differ..
on the contrary, kids or teenagers like us living in the city should be thankful.. we come from background where we have access to mostly everything.. computers, internet, satelite Tv and many more.. but we kind of taking things for granted and never appreciate it... The pessimist would then argue that those who have the control and power will have access and the rest would just be left out... it's sad... for me.. when i could not get access to internet for minutes, or connection is too slow, i will start to complain.. but screw the government.. with MSC they are supposed to give us a good connection.. but our service provider give us lame services.. where is the 2mbps connection as being propogate by the IPS.. ?

A question that everyone needs to think for a while is:
who benefited from this ICT introduction? big company providing us with the technology?
who get access to it? all of us? hmmmm
would there be a follow up or a maintenance after the introduction?

that's all..

today's tutorial, the last one of YKT 214 has the least ppl.. only 3 ppl in the class?? and tutor was discussing about the exam Q.. media global and imperialism.. hmmm.. i'm not in the favour of doing this kind of question/ i get frustrated everytime.. and mind you that i havent touch the reading pn wang gave us... out of the 5, i would prefer to answer the question on pandangan, gender and pekerjaan.. but then again, all question are tough. not easy le.. how to?

sigh, moment you finish with all assigments being thrown at you.. you have to sit for exams.. how crappy is the education system??
I guess i could not grumble much and stay on with the flow, see, me my ownself is following the norm and status quo.

enough of craps for now...

superb?

Eating at Ananda Bhavan was good! Food and service was real good. but i forgot to take pixies... haha.. i was eating too much.. and New zealand natural at 30% today is darn niceeee.. making this the wonderful weekend in this semester.

Going out with wondergirlMei was good. And to look for what path of life to go is so difficult. while she is working and having fun at her intern so much, i wonder what will my path of study lead me to. A fun, wonderful life? Living a naive life? i dunno which path to take.. Remember Robert Frost poem we used to study in School, The Road NotTaken.. Two road diverged... bla..bla.. bla.. and he choose the road less taken... should i or should i not take the road which less ppl are taking? i really dunno. There is so much life has to offer and i seriously dunno which kind of life i want. I yearn to backpacked around the world all this while. Doing things which are going to challenge my limitations but then again i have my family to care about and i cant be too selfish, can i.. sigh.. but life is too short to not taking any risk. I would risk anything to travel around the world. and when i was young, i used to have the girly talk with wondergirlMei that we would retire by the time we hit our big 3-0. We would be laughing our ass off doing things others wont do. Opening our own boutique and learing how to sew... we seat in borders, going around books be4 giving up but deep inside us, we still wana learn.. Boutique is still our dreams... after all, girls just wanna have fun!!!

I set my self short and long term goals... but things happen and goals will change as well.. For now, i will conc on exams and review my goals later.

Happy and Contented

I had a marvellous day off with glorius food and bought myself one top and bottom. So happy!!!!

I did not go shopping for a long time d.. and on a tight budget i am, i managed to eat and still make myself happi-er.thanks so smartassCL.

Next up is lunch with wondergirlMei who i have not seen for months. Due to my busy-ness and her internship in Intel(busy with her life as an engineer-to-be) we are meeting up for GOOD tomoro. I miss you much!!! =)

After i am happy and done with my sweet sweet weekend, october is going to be sweeter!!! ahaha.

Next week, i am going to start my new resolution. To complete my notes for YKT 211 and 214. Plan out my study time and have lots of fun while i am studying. I am not prolly be like a bookworm studying the whole time.

So, i shall managed my time went and study to the max i could.

I screw up all my assignments as i think what i have done for all my subjects this semester are like a piece of crappy assignments. with things done last minute, aint i going to produce a good piece of GOOD assignments rite? like what Pn Wang said last Thurs in class, "you all are going to receive a preset from me after Hari Raya" of course la this means a not so good grade for the coursework.

So, to make up for my badness in assignments, i need to work hard for my finals. so my mum wont nagged me for being a lazy ass. She view me as a lazy person as i alwiz sleep past over noon and still wouldnt get myself out of the bed while she is till busy doing the daily chores.

Exams starts on 29th Oct till 10th Nov. And then i have ONE month break be4 sem2 starts. I am not going to work for this one month. Me is going to ENJOY! Fr 9dec till 13 Dec, my Holiday is confirm but destination will only be reveal here once i post the holiday trip here. hehe.

I will end my post here and till i write again next week. with post of Monday lecture on YKT 214. Tek Komunikasi dan Pendidikan.

Happy a Nice Weekend! =)

Hectic life but still coping well...

The month of september has been filled with many things to do.. mainly assignments, assignments and assignments. Well, last weekend was not.. was on Freedom Film Festival, thought of pulling out as a volunteer at the last minute as i still have other assignment due.. but since i promised them months ago, it;s only right if i kept to my promises. So there goes my 3 days volunteering to help in The Actors Studio GreenHall..
I was to usher ppl to the lil hall to watch the screenings plus i was in charge with F&B for the whole crew and volunteers. That was the hardest job ever. I never did things like that be4. it's prety tough buying food with tight budget and seperating to buy food for those who is on vegetarian, halal and non-halal. and i feel bad i dun even know town that well and thus i could not get good food for them. Felt sorry, maybe i should have got to know penang more. sigh.sigh. but then i din even know they put my name on the F&B area until tat day itself. So, cannot blame me also la. But at least i kept their stomach from hunger.

I cant review the films as i din really get to watch it.. only a few glimpse of here and there.. I missed Fahmi Reza(10 tahun sebelum merdeka), but i got to watch 2 other winners this year.. Ong Boon Keong's (Forgotten) and Indrani Kopal (She's My Son)- Indrani is a sweet girl. You go girl, i love the way she documented her ideas into visuals. SO creative of her.. Ong Boon Keong was on clan jetty in Penang. Sigh.. can we not rescue the jetty... preserved it or give them the right to the land!!!! I will watch Fahmi Reza's documentary soon....

Today's Audio Production went well just a lil glitch here and there but overall is fine. am satisfied on that. 214 lecture was cancelled this week but we still have tutorials and class tomoro. Tutorial this week was on the new media in the repressive state. My group did on Raja Petra's. After reading it, only did i understand what the controversial was about. if not because of the tutor, i would not have read in so details on the issue. So, thanks much! =).. and i bought i copy of Aliran's Monthly and read article written by our lecturer, Zaharom Nain regarding the issue og bloggers.. Add more knowledge to things i didnt know.

Next, one more essay for audio production due this friday and finally i can have a sweet sweet september weekend, at last. weeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!



counting down in 14days for a big day! i cant wait! LOL!!!

I have been waiting loooong enuff to write this.. oh wait, did i expect it?

Okay. i did not expect it to come to an end so fast, I online to check the result of manunited this morning. BE4 i actually get to know the result. I saw ONE headline and one important headline it is. Jose quits!
LOL!
This fellow had me gotten to respect him at 1st when he was in Chelsea, but his mouth kept him talking till i dislike him and he never admits that his team was wrong. All the time he will say his team is the right one.
Rumours kept going on for so long and finally-hE Leaves chelsea.
I am going to miss his ramblings though.. i am going to miss him speaking in the press conference, him defending his favourites players and protecting chelsea. But the end of the he has to leave.No one is bigger than the club than the owner himself. or should i say, in the context of david beckham+manunited+ferguson.. Beckham has to go as he bigger than the club itself. ferguson dished him out, you may say so... in jose's case, HE DO NOT enuff power to stay on. THe owner ditch him out.

That is the question of who has the power can control everything. That certainly applies here in the context of Jose Mourinho VS Roman Abramovich!!!! LOL, it's obvious who will win the battle right?

Damm sad to see him leaving so fast as i had not have enuff of him yet. His saga with Arsene Wenger, Alex Ferguson and lots more manager... but he certainly kept to his promise that he will shut his mouth this year. and it's true, now, he is shutting his mouth in EPL forever. wonder what club he will be in charge next.. sigh.. sigh...

How irony, the next match they are playing is against champions man united in Old Trafford.. It shall be an interesting match this weekend. I cant wait for it.. muahahahaha...

Last but not least, i am a red devil fans....

liying rant again....

for the "n"th time i will be ranting again.
I bet EK must be mad at us on how we did the 3 questions he gave us in tutor at 9am. I know the answers we gave was sucky. I should have known better.. but i did not give a damm.. i can never work with ppl i cannnot click with and that resulted in a piece of crap shit presented..I am sorry and making your morning worst, EK..

Will there be marks? I hope not. I did crappy and lousy things. Like i said above, i never could work with ppl i am not comfortable with. Wonder how will i face the reality in working life then, but i bet it will not be that worst.Maybe i am a "lot" naive.

I work as a customer relations management junior during the last semester break in a local company. I did a lot of things... mind you my job was interviewing fresh graduates who are looking to secure a job in MNC like Agilent, Avago, and many more to name... i even did interview some seniors in mass com.

I did from the interview process to sending profiles out to the MNC company's manager and arrange them in for the interview. If they were successful and being hired by the company.. i had to prepare the contract and brief to them every single details. It's not easy but i managed to pull through. I managed to hit the target eventhough i only work for 2 months.. mayb that's why my manager put on so much hope on me to perform... and i had my hard earned commission. Working is not easy, i know but working with ppl you can click with makes life a lil easier. I was lucky my colleagues are nice to me... they never bully me and treat me as a person who deserve to be respected just like everyone else. My manager was good to me, just that she gave me too much things to do that i had to stay overtime, mostly everyday.. mine you that i did not get paid for overtime.. but why did i do that for.. experience.. maybe... haha.. BUT i GAIN a lot in my 2 months there.

I know what working life is out there. Some of my colleagues are total biatch but one must be smart enough to handle this kind of situations at work. but in uni.. things are diff..I just dun seems to find a groupie which i can pull through with. I dun see any similarities compared to my colleagues or even my bestest mates in secondary school.. sch mates are *sorry to say this* smarter ppl i have known than ppl i have known here.. sorry, no offence or anything to you ppl who read here...maybe i am being to emo...

but referring back to the questions given..
1) Categories into 3broad themes the things you remember learning in this course..

at that time.. i remembered.. communication technology and gender, occupation and democratization.. reason being is there is still gender inequality around us..ppl tend to treat one another with hierachry and there is a big gap of marginalisation towards women..Occupation-you see how lower class occupation ppl are treated with technology coming into picture.. they will loose their job.. like wat pn wang mention in her class... automation is replacing the labour force.. will this mean more jobs available or more ppl going jobless... or maybe working from home?? exe: with cheap labour in china.. big TNC's are moving there.. leaving workiers in malaysia jobless and struggle to earn a living..there are so many issue to discuss about with regards to technology and the relations with gender and occupation. So, i guess that issue was bout to be taken seriously as well... democratization, will the capitalism and com tech bring to unbalance in society?. if yes, what unbalance is there??? and will the country with com tech able to defend the power... Wil the power the authority has able to bring further develop and importance to the citizens???
My personal view is, democratization in the context of com technology will further give the authority bigger room for exploitation against the weaker ones..eg: the blog issue in malaysia.. why is gov so afraid that this new media will further destruct their ability to do their duty?... do they think this new medium of expression will block them from a better more transparent, accountable and good governance... a question for everyone to ponder upon..

2) list up to 3 things you expected to learnt about but were not discuss throughout the course..

Okay.. maybe i was a bit mixed up.. i was thinking in the context of what were not as in.. what we expected the course to teach us.. i as many of us thought that we are going to learn hands on stuff not on the theory part.. for seconds, minutes , etc.. i didnt think that i am going to give answer like.... oh.. blog issue, gender issue, and development of 3rd world was not fully dicuss in the class.. hahha... see, i am not critical enuff...

3) Have your views/ideas on communication technology..

firstly, one need to ask.. is there any changes with the invention of new technology.. how many ppl lives has changed because of this??? will everyone get access to things easily.. let jus look in the context of malaysia.. how many ppl have access to internet?? 3%??? how is this going to change ppl.... see, status quo is still there.. i remember learning status quo last semester in Pn Wang's class (YKT 111).. what i want to stress here is, from YKT 111.. what we have learnt there can be further adapated to communication technology but sadly no one understand my point in stating this... There is still the "core" and the "periphery".. and things doesnt just exist.. and exist within a context.. a place..

I guess, my rant was a bit over-rated... but i couldnt care less...
BLOG is a place where one can keep their own rant. no one can stop us in doing that, for now.
maybe with technology, will the powerful ones stop us from blogging. time will tell..

FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL@PENANG

Heyya PPL,

FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL IS COMING TO PENANG ON 21st till 23rd September 2007 at The Actors Studio GreenHall..

Come and join us in watching 32 thought-provoking films over these 3 days!!!!!

Below are some highlights of the feature films...3 of the winners of Freedom Film Fest this year

1. ‘Sepuluh Tahun Sebelum Merdeka’ (Ten Years Before Independence)

by Fahmi Reza – FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Bahasa Malaysia – BM with English subtitles)

Synopsis

Unknown to many, October 20th, 1947 was an important and historical day in the people’s constitutional struggle for independence from British colonialism. This documentary chronicles the events that culminated in the Malaya-wide ‘Hartal’ day of protest (a form of non-violent protest) against the undemocratic Federation of Malaya Constitutional Proposals devised by the British Colonial Government and the UMNO. This was the rise of the people’s democratic movement in Malaya, ten years before Merdeka.

Tanpa disedari ramai, 20hb Oktober 1947 merupakan tarikh keramat yang amat penting dan bersejarah sewaktu perjuangan berperlembagaan rakyat Malaya untuk mencapai kemerdekaan daripada penjajah dari British. Dokumentari ini berkisarkan perjalanan peristiwa kemuncak sewaktu Hari ‘Hatal’ di seluruh Malaya yang memaparkan aksi protes ke atas usul Perlembagaan Persekutuan Malaya yang tidak demokratik, hasil daripada jajahan Kerajaan British dan UMNO. Ini adalah kebangkitan pergerakan demokratik rakyat Malaya, iaitu sepuluh tahun sebelum Merdeka.

2. Forgotten

by Ong Boon Keong- FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Mandarin with English and BM subtitles)

SynopsisThe clan jetties are at the sea front of George Town, Penang. More than 2000 ex-port workers whose contribution towards the establishment of the Penang port and the George Town city has largely been forgotten. They live in an endangered heritage area with their land lease having to be renewed every year. After waiting for more than over a century, the application for World Heritage City status for George Town hold up a hope for getting their right to land recognized.

Suku kaum jeti kini di persisiran pantai George Town, Pulau Pinang. Lebih daripada 2000 pekerja eksport yang telah menyumbang tenaga ke atas pembangunan pengkalan Pulau Pinang serta bandar George Town kian dilupakan. Mereka kini mendiami kawasan yang kian pupus dan terancam nilai warisannya dengan sewa tanah yang diperbahurui setiap tahun. Setelah menanti berabad lamanya, permohonan untuk mencapai status Bandar Warisan Dunia untuk George Town, akhirnya memberi harapan untuk hak tanah mereka disahkan.

3.She’s My Son

by Indrani Kopal – FFF07 Winner 30mins/2007/Malaysia

(Tamil and English with English and BM subtitles)

SynopsisTransgender issue is real, but it is a reality many Malaysian will not admit to. Treated as a sex object and often the butt of lewd jokes and social outcasts, many boys who had the urge of becoming a girl, resisted it. Suganya begs to differ. ‘She’s my son’ tells the story of Suganya from her mother’s point of view. “He”, before the sex change, had the courage to face the reality and today, as “she”, stroll the road confidently with her family and friends accepting the reality as she did.

Isu pertukaran jantina amat nyata kewujudannya, namun realitinya masih ramai rakyat Malaysia yang menafikannya. Dianggap seperti simbol seks dan dijadikan bahan jenaka berunsur berahi di samping dipinggirkan masyarakat, kebanyakan lelaki yang ingin bertukar menjadi perempuan, terpaksa menahan diri mereka. Namun, Sunganya ingin merubah segalanya. ‘Dia Anakku’ menceritakan kisah Sunganya di mata ibunya. Suganya berani untuk berhadapan dengan realiti sebelum menukar jantinanya dan kini setelah menukar jantina, dia melangkah ke hadapan dengan penuh keyakinan dan akhirnya penerimaan positif daripada keluarga dan rakan-rakannya merubah segalanya.

You can find more schedule and synopsis over at http://www.freedomfilmfest.komas.org/

Interested???

Entry is by Invitation only.. if you are interested, email your name, which session you want and how many seats to fff.penang@gmail.com
Hurry!!! it's on a 1st come 1st serve basis....

See you there!!!

i may not be critical in thinking

forgive me if i am not critical. I admit, i am not the smart ass student who think and study things crtically. For communication is my 1st option when i choose the courses to enter uni, little did i know i will be learning theory and research communication, communication technology and soon to come next semester komunikasi budaya and komunikasi kuasa dan konflik. Last semester i ever wonder why the uni has to "create" those kind of papers for us to take and not the lame paper like komunikasi malaysia or maybe komunikasi media malaysia or something like the pro gov thingy. Then i realised ever since last semester, i really did a lot of thinkin and wondering why things happened and why did it happenned... When i was in Form six, i knew little but i know how to differentiate between the good and bad things that happenned..i love general paper very much.. that was the love-hate subject i had in form six compared to maths, chemistry and physics.... but coming to uni.. i learnt a lot.. after Pn Wang's YKT 111, i really learnt much. Like things does not just happen.. it happenned in A context. Status quo is there.

I understand what is being taught.. it's just that sometimes i am lazy to speak my mind up. I know what is happening.. i understand notes which is given.. i learnt.. i am not dumb.. i may look dumb but i am not. I have mind to think. and of course i think properly.. but sometimes i am pretty naive on things.

and i do blog long time ago.. ever since i was in form 3.... and of course this blog was created for a paper which i took this semester. I feel i am not myself doing all the rantings here. I do in my other blog... hehe.
and i do read politicians blog in our country..i am following updates from alternative media other than the mainstream media.

all in all, i might not be critical and i'm lazy. So, forgive me if i am not critical as what the objectives of every subject stated : which is to produced more crticially thinking student. haha. LOL.

migrant workers?

Last monday during lecture, we had a video on the topic this week.. Tek komunikasi dan pekerjaan. It was a video cdocumentary on the life of migrant workers in Malaysia. I mean how sad it is... the workers being treated like a piece of shit by our country.. i am sometimes ashamed of what we "malaysia" has become.... are we that cruel? Who is the cruel person? US? or the authority?.. i read on one blog which wrote on HOW foreigners who came to Malaysia is treat... it is real sad to hear that. HOw could a tourist be treated this way.. you may visit the blog here.. Sigh.. it happens in a week.. and then newspaper starting with headlines on to change the perception malaysian have on indonesian. I am not stereotyping indonesian.. but i have great respect for my friends who are from there. Not only that, remember a freelance writer.. Nila Tanzil from Indonesia who was being label "...." by our tourism minister... how sad is that??? she is a strong girl. i read her blog. I felt she is a strong person after what she has been through..but she is a tough girl.. you may want to read her blog as well... just try to look at diff perspective on things.

I think we have to have some pity on those migrants workers who wanna work here. They too, are finding and earning to support their family back home but we are exploiting them with MORE HOURS OF WORK BUT LITTLE SALARY. they are human beings as well. they deserved to be treated properly not being an kickass by the authority.. to those who have done that to the workers.. shame on you.. dun you have respect for yourself and being an dumb bell treating ppl like animals. even animlas are not tortured like that.

Take time to reflect on our mistakes and have respect for everybody. BY this, we could be a "respected" country back!

I am truly sorry to those foreigners, workers out there who got sentence of what they didnt deserved. MAy god bless you in other way, and forgive us for being cruel to you..

hype on high school musical 2

Yesterday, was the premiere of HSM 2 in disney channel in the asia region. the United States have watched the premiere last month. I watched it few weeks back due to the technology of downloading movie from the internet. to compare it with HSM 1. i would say this is a failure though i like the songs and some of the dance move. The story plot was not that good and i dont see any good acting as well. I dunno why there is so much hype. Maybe the success of HSM 1 lead ppl to cant wait of HSM 2.. the sequel. I would have prefer the sequel on the concert.. the drama show thingy.. then the summer holiday which was boring..
There is just so much hype.. Disney obviously have received free fall of cash from the merchandised sold all over the world and bla bla bla.
See, even in malaysia.. we did the bahasa malaysia version of the dialogue which was way so bad. I heard it for few minutes be4 it sounds even uglier that i switched back to the English version. yucks..
And then there is the MY School ROCK thingy which attracted up to 200 teams participated in it. This is just much hype and up till now they finalise 4 teams.. one of them was my ex secondary school. haha.
See, how much commercial of VALUE HSM has garnered.. i mean vow.. and why not they do a movie premiere instead of just DISNEY CHANNEL premiere.. and why do we have to seperate the premiere in US and in ASIA. if they had done the premiere simultaneously, i am sure private copy circulated in the net would be less as much would have watch it already.
it comes back to the power of the powerful ppl have//DISNEY is THE TOP media corporation in the WORLD. who knows how much they have secured from this 2 films.
Sometimes is the commercial value in it.
OR is it?
and just to premiere of HSM 2.. disney channel had the countdown with many more programs installed in the channel yesterday. and then commercial on HSM and bla bla bla.. Making it the BIg big grandest premiere.. or i should say the MOST GARNERED AND WATCHED mOVIE that disney has produced thus far..

it all then comes to who own the technology and have control on it... those who dont, like us the consumer either choose to watch or choose not to watch it...

I, watch it. and feel that there is just toooo much hype.

aftermath of assignments

Due to the hectic one week of not enough sleep, has it toll on me. I am sick. I hate to be sick. I fall sick twice and not hoping for anymore 3rd time sick. it's killing me.
We do not have tutorial for YKT 214 tis week. I wish we had but tutor need to attend something else, so my class tutorial was cancelled.. so next week we shall have the discussion on the topic of BLOGS. i actually cant wait . i love the TOPic.. is one of the BEST in fact THE BEST topic among all questions. HAHA..
more later. =)

Merdeka or M-E-R-D-E-K-A

hmmmmmm...
every year i look forward towards this day, but this year i dont feel anything. Everything feels numb.. 50 years of independence??
Things just dun feel the same, was it that i actually know more on the other side/part of the country that i never knew for the past 19years? it is this 1 year that i know the other side that i feel we are still being imperialised.. i dun damm thinking that we are 50 years old... we are not even that old to think critically or maturely. Sigh.. what a shame we are of ourself....

Usually for the pass 19 years of my life, i spend time singing merdeka songs, going to school decorating classrooms, going to school to celebrate merdeka and lots of crazy stuff i have done. mainly because it was fun and me being so pretty naive on the merdeka issue.

I have grown out of the SHELL of merdeka and for the past almost 1 year, where i learnt the other side of the country that i begin to realised much things that some actually amuse me very much.

me here writing instead of doing some merdeka crazy stuff truly shows that i dun really get into the mood of MERDEKA.. haha.

I have been deprieved of sleep for the past one week, starting with the YKT 214 assignments which then leads to my "busy-ness" of YKT 214 presentation and the "big" thingy.. YKT 211.. that was one tiring assignment.

I need a good and comfy sleep... so merdeka is the day for me to regain back my deprieve sleep. haha.

last but not least, those who are clebrating merdeka, happy merdeka...
my birth nation, happy 50th independence day..

to those who like me, is not celebrating and rushing on ykt 211 assignment. happy doing your assignment and merdeka to you on monday, 3rd sept.

NITEZ!!!

a stressing week ahead..

still in midst of doing ykt 214 assignment. hopefully it will turn out fine. still i have ykt 211 to worry about. dealine is on 3rdsept. how stressful it is this sem??? it's a hectic and alredy my sept month is fully pack.. i seriously which every could be forwarded till end ogf sept and study week comes fast. i super cannot wat for this sem to be over with. it is so stressful to thnk of it! i need space to breathe.

i cant wait for holiday!

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to recap, my bleak week, yesterday my fav team lost. haha.

today, on YKT 214 we learn on media imperialism. with the core and periphery and so on. and obviously there is discrimination between the poor and rich and between the poor or rich there is still discrimination and it wont end that easily.

it's officially a bleak week!

on my previous post i mention that malaysia has one more pair left in men doubles semis, and yes, they lost. so no malaysian pair in the finals of world championship. how sad is that in our own front, we are celebrating our 50th independence in weeks time. sad. sigh.sigh.

i still havent touch my 214 assignment readings and 211 research.. hmmm... i'm too lazy la, to put in a way.. haha

A week that is full of drama

monday was when YKT 214 lecture is on watching the debate between 3 scholars. i was optimist that pool's thought was right as i only wan the ideal site of the world, pretty being naive. but herbert schiller was more realist and pessismist. then with YKT 211 research assignment going on, i alomost died. sigh. why is it has to be so tough??? life hasnt going the way it is.. breeze and peaceful.. everyday is tough.. and having not enough sleep is another problem. sigh. i dunno how many a times had i been crying.(for another unavoidable reason)-not for assignments nor studies. sigh,sigh,sigh.

to know my favourite team and the defending champs on england start their 2 matches with a disappointing results alos do not help much and in our own front.. the badminton world championships. men singles, out- men doubles-malaysia only left with one pair.. the much expected, Koo-Tan failed to make the semis. sad.sad. sad. how sad this week is. and it'snot even ending yet. 2 more days to go. will the veteran pair go all the way to win? i hope so. hopefully its the end of a bleak week.

oh i almost forgot, 21ppl died in the horror bus crash in bukit gantang.. that is also happening this week.. what on earth is going on this week??? sigh.. who is to blame for this????/ grrr.. everything seems not right.

i think this is one of THE toughest week in my life. i never been through such a roller coaster life. life with studies especialy this semester is killing me. it's hard le. the pressure is too much! grrr.. i just cant wait for this smester to be over and to shout out a hug relief!!!!!

all of this is my ramblings, that is the main reason why i named my blog- ramblings of the day.

blah-now i have ykt 214 assignments and ykt 211 assignments to very about. hopefully my next post will be a cheerful one.

Happy graduation to the USM graduates! =)

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

something random

coming tomorrow will be the 6th week of this semester. which reminds me of : still i have not really done any readings yet for this semester. i practically drained out this semester, maybe because i was working my ass off for the past 2 months while i am supposed to be sleeping and wasting my time at home to rejuvenate myelf for the 2nd year of uni. Instead i work and now i am feeling the after-work-syndrome.. of not wanting to study and wanted to just go out and have fun of it. I do not know why but i just hated this semester this year. and last week i realised that there is so much to offer than studying. I have learnt something which could change my perception yet again on life. I cried hell shit off last wednesday due to some unforeseen circumstances. I was not ready for changes in life but still i have to pull through with it. Not all people are born lucky. and some just take for granted things they are in.
i am truly blessed but sometimes i do blame my parents if things doesn't go right the way i wanted it. So i shout out at them for making my life miserable. sigh. i regretted it though.

Lectures and Assignments

YKT 214 on Monday was supposed to be on video screening on Debate between 3 scholars. Herbert Schiller, Brian Winston and Ithiel de Sola Pool but sadly technology let us down. The video tape in form of VHR not functioning thus technician cant do anything but to convert the VHR to CD format. Sigh.. so it was postpone to Thursday and hopefully by then we get to watch it as it will help us in our assignment, very much indeed.

So instead of Video we had lecture on the development in Communication Technology. One interesting part of the lecture was when Pn Wang tried explaining on dependent development/development of underdevelopment. Literally, Andre Gundre Frank from his radical studies says that the transnational corporation with the backing of the developed nation/the European government trying to expand their business/military to the poor nations who is looking to improved their country in one way or another. With this transnational who have this technology and machinery stuff, they tried to promote their technology so that this poor lil nation could buy it and use it to “developed” their nation. By this, it means that it is a dependent development when we say this poor nation have to buy this machine, technology and etc to build their nation without knowing the other aspect of this huge/domination TNC who tried to manipulate them for the sake of business to gain more $$$$$$$.

So these poor old lil nations who have bought this technology from TNC of course will owe them a great amount of money. So instead of this poor nation becoming more develop with all the technology that they now have and with the debt amounting, they are actually becoming poorer and poorer. Which here means, development of underdevelopment. They developed yet at the same time they are underdeveloped.

Example here is on Indonesia who owed greatly to IMF(International Monetary Fund) during the Asian Economic Crisis in 1997 and this country is still owing to IMF and cant afford to pay back resulting in the nation becoming poorer and not helping them to become a developed nation. Sometimes I wonder how cruel could this people be. But then again, this is the greed of people. Like, ppl always says, this is life… whoever have the power will conquers all and whoever don’t will be conquer.

Like what was mentioned during tutorial, examples of transnational corporation or better known as multinational companies(MNC) in Penang are like Intel, Dell, Agilent, Motorola, Seagate, Solectron and lots more. Reason being here is the cheap labour. Using our manpower for their own sake. Profits that they make will be brought back to their respective countries. And we the labourers, is still is and will be in the state just as we are without us becoming richer.

Finally to conclude my entry this time, status quo is still there. =)

I need help!

I shall start with my free trip on Rapid Penang when the provide free trips for THREE days fro 31st Jult till 2nd August 07.

I went to the Bas Hub in Weld Quay to try my ride from there to Sg Dua(USM). I took the free booklet that was distributed and flipped through to see which bus should i take. Namely U301, U303 are the buses that will pass thru sungai 2. I waited there for 15-20minutes. No sign of bus going to Sg2. written there the frequency of the bus is at the interval between 20/30mins. Disappointed, but i continued waiting for i really want to try after years of not taking a public transportation. So finally, U303 came. I hop into the bus and took my seat. Was clean and nice la.. 1st impression. Then came this old lady who asked the bus driver on whether will this bus passed Sg 2, the bus driver ignore her and say "tak tahu". What the heck??? written in the newspaper, the drivers are TRAINED and will be courteous.. but this, is a bastard, no manners driver who never did his duty well. The lady board the bus and asked a few of us whether this bus will be heading to Sg2, we told her yes.. and she took her seat. I was thinking.. this is not good. I hate it and the public transportation in Penang will not improve.

And what written in newspaper as well is the drivers WILL NOT wait till the bus is full before the y move to the next destination.(Maybe it is because this is a free ride, so why not make it full 1st) I was wrong.. they did wait at the hub for the bus to be filled before they move on. Plus 20minutes to wait for the bus in hub and plus extra 25minutes seating in the bus before the bus move. I am in Weld Quay for F***ing almost one hour. and i was relieved when the bus started moving after that.From the booklet provided, U303 was supposed to leave the Hub to Jalan Jelutong via the expressway.. so i tot i could reach faster, boy i was wrong again. THe driver had to turned into Komtar to fecth more passengers. The crowd was packed in Komtar and everyone was pushing their way up into the bus. The whole bus was sardine packed. I was geram because the driver did not follow the route as written. After much stopped and other place he went be4 following the actual route back, i was already started cursing at Rapid Penang and sweared that THIS WILL BE THE 1ST and LAST TIME I AM ON BOARD USING RAPID PENANG!!!. The journey from Weld Quay to USM, SG 2 took me 1.5hours, where by car or by other public transportation i could easily reached by 30mins time.

The reason i took Rapid Penang was because i was Impressed with Rapid KL everytime my trip down to the city centre. But R.Penang has prove me wrong with the rude bus driver as well/

Maybe others might enjoy Rapid Penang and think that their service is good but not for me. They let me down. No more public transportation. Wonder with LRT soon... will it help to solve problems in Penang??? I am wondering...

On the next issue, the Malaysia Film Festival. I attend the forum yesterday. The forum was on the challenges and trend in malaysia film nowadays. Why the heck questions regarding language being brought up. Not really related on the problems being discussed. And the panels agreed that the main problem is money matters and some other issue that will bring the glory of films in Malaysia. But other issue has to be brought up. Dissapointed though. Even the anugerah at night was a bit monotonous and boring. I wanted to attend but guess luck was not on my side as i was somewhere else. Lazy to elaborate on this anymore.

I realised that i am becoming lazier this days. Reason being that all work and assignments given are not done yet. and if i have free time, i prefer sleeping or do nothing rather than get my ass off doing more useful stuff. I am becoming a pig for being so lazy. Please help me!!!! I could not find myself and feel like running away from all problems than facing them. But i have to faced them yet i am confused.

many things to write but dunno where to start

well.. i have been lazy updating blogs and sometimes i do not have the urged to write though i have many things to write down here.
Let me organize this and update this blog tomorrow.

Firsty, On Rapid Penang.
Second, Film Festival Malaysia.
Thirdly, Assignments


I am deprieve of sleep lately mainly on many things to think about and decisions to made..

Update soon! =)

Have a great weekend! =)

blogging?

our tutor for communication technology asked us to write an entry over a blog once a week. Being a lazy person i am, it's literally much of forcing myself to write. Sometimes i feel blogging is a way to rant things out where you are not able to express ourself in public. Maybe it's a new way, a new communication way to actually write things, rather than old-fashioned style :Diary. I used to and still am wrtiting a diary. It's more sort of a privacy given that writing a blog nowadays are no more safer than it is few years ago. Maybe technology did revolutionized us at make us easier to be a journalist itself.

Or will technology cause us more problems? In this case of blogging, it is already a big issue in Malaysia lately. Fuss on "unreal information" being written and etc....

Enough of all that... okay... what i learnt from YKT 214 was that technology is important but people who have the technology lagi hebat. I am not going to write what i leanrt in lecture but what i have gained from there.... see, wikimapia let us view the whole part of earth like damm fast. Virtual touring of whole earth in like few clicks... imagine us being the end user are able to see the whole world with few clicks, what about the person/instituition who creates this sort of technology? how will they actually manipulate? us/user? i am sure they can do lots of things on it. but at the end of the day.. the question will still be... will they/we misused technology for their/our own sake? that is the question to ponder upon and make us realised that technology indeed has change our lifestyle. We could even use technology to the max for our own good or to destroy someone.

That's all now.. Happy blogging!