Video on why Bersih 3.0 must be run on street

I neither the supporter of the 2 sides, and this blog is not for sharing any political inclination. Anyway, i'm sharing this video from youtube as i believe it is a good reference for those who need to understand the underlying reasons why bersih 3.0 should be handled on streets. Mind me, the video is very lengthy 1 and half hour, a debate between Khairy and Amiga on the ambiguous data and lacking of confidence of electoral details taken from Suruhanjaya Pilihanraya; Amiga claimed that 42 thousand voters are fraud and based on one Chinese researcher that there is 3 million people out there are questionable.
I personally believe that most of the street demonstrators in Bersih 3.0 do not really understood the reason why it was first planned to be run by Amiga; it turned out to be political rally where it was supposed to be a peace non-political NGO-inclined event. Other minority groups such as LBGT and Lynas-related issues were also there to be the event worse. Here is more than 200 videos on Bersih 3 issues; good if you've time, well i never go through them, only watch this one for my own consumption.

Where is my drupal project?

The last posting i made was on 10th April, and it has been almost 3 weeks i haven't touched my drupal. This is bad. If i keep on going through this this life routine without having highest concern in my mind on my project, rest assured it will be doomed as always. i need to make some amendments. i cannot go on following slow process like this. A drastic change must be done!

bersih 3.0 an insight

I reserve my comments on Bersih 3.0 cause i have no intention to revoke any political insights. It is undeniably right that the initial purpose of Bersih demonstration was to show how our voting system should be bersih but i personally believe the way Bersih 3.0 was done was more towards provoking political pressure. After going through some reviews, comments and real life videos from TVs, youtubes, i think this is one of the most fair-est article and insight come from this guy. table4three.wp com blog. i love to share his views on his own hands-on experience at Bersih 3.0 demonstartion.

Countries discriminating towards Islam

This is a newspaper cutting that shows some countries that have extreme sentiments towards Islam, in fact have imposed some discrimination on Muslims.

Spending on outdoor attires

Harini memang mcam orang kaya aku spend gilerbabi banyak utk barang2 hiking kat store yang jual branded items untuk mende2 yang ciput sahaja; eg xtralite fast outdoor shirt, pants, cold jacket ngn ntah mende2 yg kecik saja. Tapi disebabkan jenamanya yg dasyat maka harganya beribu lemon dashyat jugak. Hanya utk beberapa mende that was less than 10 items i have spent more than RM700. and that was considered fortunate cause there was no proper & light tent at the store in which that was the initial plan why we have gone out to the store, otherwise the expenditure for today would rocket up unbelievably high. If my financial expense for today is converted into a human fatal disease, it'd be equivalent to a heart attack level 4. One'd would be recommended for an electric shock to recover for his pass out.

Anyway, this kind of insane spending on items that was jarang2 guna is not my frequent habit. The fact that i committed such sin was because i just received my bonus few days ago and also the fact that i got my salary increase. So i thought, as a gift for me for being so fucking cheap in everything, i'd say a treat like this would be worthy. At least i can see for real that the financial suffering that i go through everyday is worth a while; bukannya spending on some vacation shit somewhere out of country which in the end, personally i feel takde mende pon ko dapat. Anyway, that's other people's interest.

For those who have experience in jungle tracking or expedition in mountain climbing in particular, lightweight is a life saver. So by having good quality tools with you is something that you cannot put it aside. When you were under extreme and tensed scenario in a jungle, every weigh and size matters and the more tools you have with you the better; thus everything you bring along must be extra light, small in size, dry fast and must be in its highest quality. Well, experience taught me well enough; i suffered a lot in my last experience to Tahan mountain.

520 kcal burn in 30min run

As usual, i spent out running in the early weekends morning. I managed to burn 520kcal at an average 154 beat per min heart rate. I actually planned to have a 10km run tonight at Putrajaya but since it would be a waste of time doing nothing useful in early morning, so why not burn some calories. But 8:15am, i finished running and arrive at my apartment area to cool down myself. My weigh has dropped from 66.2kg to 65.5kg after the workout.

Finished washing my office clothes and this time instead of drying them under the fan inside the house, i hanged them outside so they'll get direct hot morning sunlight. I usually don't do this cause worrying that it might rain outside & it normally was late already when i finished washing my clothes, but this time cause it's still too early i was confident they'll get dry soon enough just before noon.

At half past nine, i received a phone from my girlfren saying that she was already at KL, in fact was outside participating in a run race event and just finished her run. Well, she becomes quite astonishingly active lately. Yesterday, she participated in a family-day-type event organised by companies under which her brother in law works for. She had join fr 10km run and got a hamper because she managed to finish in a qualifying time; 1 hour 5 min. This is really an outstanding outcome for a sick lady like her, i bet nobody would believe her achievement with her good active life style this if they know that she is concurrently suffering from two critical diseases which are fatal, and she needs to attend for kimo sessions twice in a month.  This time, she was at Bukit Jelutong joining for a 10km run under Sime Darby. I pray for her health and long life. Luv you.

Someone has googled my name

This is weird. When i typed my name on the google text field for searching purpose, in the middle of typing it before completing, google auto completes my name. This means someone out there has already searched my name! eiisyh dasat2x. I hope my children are some of those internet searchers.

a safe life

This week is a week of mmmmm what i should refer as... i guess a moment of truth. Everyone knows their performance result of last year. In general there will be 2 main groups of people; the first group will be excited, happy, content and satisfactory with the result they get from the management on their yesteryear performance whereas the other one whom is unfortunate will be frustrated, upset, feeling down and even have a flash of mind wanting to commit suicide. perhaps the other one in between of the 2 groups would be the ones who don't care fucking less about the shit of the performance. Well, i admit i'm one of those guys. What can i say, living the shit out of the working culture under babi-sonnomabotch rapai and his gang kaki jilat, has made me sunk down to the bottom of the floor without being able to show that i'm as good as the other performer.  The fact that, my performance result for the rest of the-ones-that-have-ever-remember-until-now show that i'm just an averager, not up to achiever level neither at the non-performer has resulted in me being at the safe side. The risk of being in such group is my career is doomed to a crappy shit! i cannot moved up further for my self development and i can only be as stagnant as previous; only observing other junior kaki-jilat bastards climbing up the ladder.

Aaahh.. tak kesah lah, as long as aku safe kat sini, tiap2 bulan gaji masuk dalam akaun. aku happy buat kerje ikut suka hati aku cam kompeni ni bapak aku punya, ikut suka datang kerje pukul berapa and balik kerje pon suka hati aku. Pergi mampos telekong!


Anyway, from other angle, Terima kasih aku amat appreciate kat telekong dan sumer bos2 bangsat yang bagi aku kerje sampai sekarang kat telekong dan sentiasa rate aku kat average level, pastu bagi gaji kat aku tiap2 bulan tanpa fail. Memang padan muka aku, takde saper pun lebih padan muka banding ngan aku sebab mampos keras tempat sama kerja sampai sekarang. Aku amat appreciate gak kat kompeni telekong ni sebab bagi peluang kat aku buat kompeni macam bapak aku punya kompeni, so amat berbaloilah dgn sumbangan kerja aku ngan gaji yang aku dapat.

Changing blog address

I just changed my new blog address to a new one. This is merely for my own security reason as i suspect there are many office mates know about this crappy blog already. Never know, in the future that my blog content could be hazardous to be especially to my career. So the best way is to change it so nobody will know. Let's just see whether this can still be traceable.

PTPTN total loaners

This is another different source saying on the total loaners of PTPTN. The last news i read was 840 thousand loaners, now it is 1.96 mil total loaners inclusive of domestic and international studies. Confuse aku, mana satu yg betul kat Utusan nih!

An unknown fact for guys

This is something that i consider as unknown fact by public but important info for man especially in Melesia. Anyway, the more important question is; how can we avoid getting this fatal disease?

Maisarah hilang masa daki Gunung Tahan

Azahari is one of the going-to-be guide who never misses going for an expedition to Tahan Mountain each time the perhilitan authority organise a track cleaning trip every year. We met him on our last nite staying at Kuala Tahan when we were searching for a nice food stall for our dinner. Our plan to just have a light ask-answer question on some info on programs at Taman negara with him turned out to be a lengthy discussion that took more than a hour, yet i found our chat as enchanting and inspiring. The place we met him was at a small info counter that happens to be run by a private individuals; i think the main purpose of giving free info to the tourist who walk in their place is also to promote their business, a souvenir-related gifts. what i found most exhilarating when talking with Azahari was his story about this girl named Maisarah who got lost for 19 days in the jungle during her joining an expedition to Tahan Mountain. Maisarah has become a legend at Taman negara especially to local guides due to her strange story got lost for such unbelievable time, normal amateur traveller would probably die already even after a week not rescued in the jungle. The incident happened 4 years ago, 2008 but still if you have an opportunity to go to Kuala Tahan or Merapoh, and ask any otai guides about this story, their reaction and passion would instantly change to highly passionate mood.

I googled some stories about maisarah and found this blog that has the closest explanation with the one i heard explained by Azahari. Well, most of others in the internet are overdone by either bloggers or jounalist. The one i post here is owned by a guy who claimed he was Maisarah fren. Here

New tetra collection for my aquarium

I just bought couple of fish for my tank and they are all tetra family. The last fish i recently bought at Midvalley turned out to be not healthy, i think it was because of that in the end most of my fish including the present ones in the tank were dead also, leaving 3 different species; they yellow algae eater ( i'm surprised cause usually they were the ones who die first), the golden tetra and the rummy nose. Now after putting everyone altogether , my tank looks full again with variety of tetra species; 5 red zebra tetra, one peculiar tetra which i dunno the name and my favourite ones cardinal. I hope they can live long enough.

Unfortunately when i dipped the plastic bags filled with the new fish into my tank, 3 of them have shown some symptoms of early stage of dying. Dipping the bag into the tank water for at least 20minutes or more is a routine that you should do whenever buying new fishes before you let them mix with the new tank water; this routine is called familiarisation of water temperature. Total cost of buying additional 25 tetras is RM59. That the same cost for my entire week expense! Giler costly maintaining aquarium fish ni..

Truly beautiful fingerless hand

I was stunned & speechless seeing a beautiful melody coming from a handicapped girl.

Highest charge rate of guide at National Park

The charge imposed by the guides at National park at either Kuala Tahan & Merapoh considered to be the most expensive one. For a trip to Tahan mountain peak which usually takes 7 days & 6 nites, you require to pay RM1,200 per guide and that charge is considerably the same for both Kuala Tahan & Merapoh regardless if you start off from Merapoh where it usually requires 4days and 3 nites; from Sungai relau, Merapoh to Tahan peak and return.

I remembered our discussion with one travel agent named Badrol who set up an office at Kuala Tahan Sungai tembeling bank, expressed his disappointment with regards to the overly charge rate of guides. Another worse factor besides guides' charge rate is the cost of renting a boat. Some examples here are RM160 per boat from Kuala Tahan jetty to Lata Berkoh; the rate is the same if you only rent for either one-way direction or return. Badrol claimed that running a touring package at kuala Tahan is difficult especially if they want to focus on local market because of cost factor. Just imagine, the cost of a trip to Kuching inclusive of flight ticket is roughly the same as a 3d2n at Kuala Tahan. He even showed me that an expedition climbing Irau mountain at Cameron highland for  3d2n is much cheaper as compared to package at Kuala Tahan. 2d1n package to Irau peak costs RM88 per head and 3d2n cost RM120+, comparing with Kuala Tahan package of easily RM450 - RM600 for 3d2n package.

Well, i'm thinking to organise an expedition to climb Irau mountain in the future as the cost is affordable. Anyway, still hesitant if there are people out there who are interested to join.

What i want to do today

This week would be considered as the last weekday for April; although next week we still have the last day 30th April happens to fall on Monday, i don't consider this as a full working day cause i have my coming court on that particular day; who knows if i can see my children, the rubiah bitch claimed that my x will come to Malaysia to attend this court session. Well there are some things i wanna do today, one of which i perceived as the most mother-fucker office work task - SIB report for projek mangkuk. i plan to complete it at the level of cap kaki ayam quality. Janji siap.

1. Complete SIB report - i should rename it to SIBabi instead!
2. Go through on drupal buildmodule.com seriously. My level of focus on drupal keeps on shy-ing away, thus i need something that can give more clarity to my consciousness & reboost up my concentration & energy.
3. Errr..what else aaaa??? .... hahahha bestnya ni saja yg ada dalam kapla aku!... best! 10x

Discovering tiger footprint on last day at Taman Negara

We decided to make a more challenging activity on our last day at Kuala Tahan National Park, so we thought of have tracking on our own to one of the Bumbum in Taman Negara deep in the jungle. One of which not really far that requires 3 hours go and return way and its distance is only 3.1km from Mutiara resort, named Bumbum Tabing (1st time i heard the name, i mistakenly thought it was Bumbum Kambing, heh). the route to Bumbum Tabing would be the same as the route towards Tahan Mountain, where after 1 hour tracking, ones need to make a right turn towards bumbum Tabing.

We left off our chalets early in the morning & stopped by at the nearby stall for our breakfast. We plan to finish of our tracking and return back to our chalet before 12 noon, so that we have ample time to check out & intended not to be charged extra; additional of 1 hour for RM10. The first landmark before going off into the jungle was a big signboard showing the direction to several locations with their corresponding distances. At first, the tracking route was easy because we only need to walk along the fibre structure pathways; then it ended because there was still ongoing construction to continue laying down fibre pathways. The jungle started to get thicker and less sun lights with higher humidity. We encountered few wild animals on our way such as a pair of wild black chicken-like animals crossed the tracking path ahead of us, wild monkeys on top of us making noises. There were plenty of animal footprints on the track, most of which were either the malayan antelopes or mouse deers. Then after half an hour of non-stop tracking, i noticed several unusual footprints; i was not quite sure at first so i quickly signalled my girlfren to stop walking and both of us check on the footprints carefully. I was definitely 100% certain that they were belonged to harimau belang! and they were still fresh!.. we thought of cancelling our plan and have no 2nd thought of returning back to the base camp. There was no need to take risk, especially there were only 2 of us. I definitely didn't want to take any foolish chance since today was the last day of our stay at Kuala Tahan.

On our return to the base we stumbled upon a pair of british couple, so we warn them about our encounter. I believed they took our word cause once we arrive at the Perhilitan office, we saw them passing us. The Perhilitan people at the office reassured us that the photo we took earlier on the footprints were belonged to the tiger.

Perhaps, next time if i were with few more people i would certainly go on further tracking deeper until i reach Bumbum Tambing. Maybe next time...

10km run on early Sunday morning

Just came back from my 10km run at Putrajaya. i never plan that i'd run today until in this early morning when i woke so early on weekend like this (half past 5), i thought why not kill my time by doing something sweaty, moreover i miss out my gym workout, so i consider this as a payment for yesterday's. left 7am because i still sort of hesitant whether i should go off or not and anticipating whether the weather is fine. arrived at 7:20 and did some warm up, finally started running at 7:30am. I only have taken a fresh banana for my breakfast just before the run, i hope i'd be okay.

The run was at a moderate speed, it was not too fast and neither too slow; I passed high story building of Wanita, keluarga & masyarakat, the roundabout, uphill to PICC and reached the traffic light infront of PICC and made a U-turn towards the Putrajaya mosque at the other end of the long stretching 6-lanes road. When i passed by Wisna Tani on my left, it was already 10 minutes past 8. If it were not because i had done this routine & had an experience previously, i would most probably stop and have a rest before reaching the end. I finally finished within 1 hour and 10 minutes; still fulfil the qualifying time for any 10km marathon. By the time when i arrived at the Mosque compound, buses from foreign tourists have already started to jam up the place. I guess our place is a favourite for chinese-like foreigner like either hong Kong, Korea, Taiwan or singapore. Everytime i see the tourist here, they would be those groups of people. Have a cool down period for half a hour and head back home.

It was undeniably tiring but at the same a fulfilling one.

Google Calendar

I never noticed about so many features that Google has offered to their users aka potential customers until today when i just click one link called Calendar. Honestly speaking after trying a simple creation of event in my newly Calendar, i think this is quite handy tool especially when i am always using Google Blogger. It has the same feature as my typical Microsoft inbox calendar so i don't find it difficult and awkward to use. I'm thinking to use it as my regular reminder. thumbs up Google! i love it.

Most favourite antivirus on the market

This is interesting. I got this picture showing the stats in Facebook how people vote for the most favourite antivirus and Avast requesting their customers to push up avast result further up than AVG.

Avast on my computer

Completed downloading avast 30-days free trial internet security. Now my PC is on avast. We'll see whether this one is better than Avira and as good as those reviewers' claim.

I  might upgrade it to paid one if it satisfies me before the free trial duration expires. One thing which i really really impressed with Avast is that because of its so lightweight when running on my computer despite its realtime protection. i was so relieved when i removed Avira and swicthed to avast, my BB Flash video recorder works well as if there is no problem at all with the config. now i can restart my drupal videolog. i'm so grateful with avast.

Anti virus expired

I just realised that my anti-virus that bought earlier has already expired. No wonder i kept on getting this irritating message from Avira antivirus icon on the right bottom of my desktop untiringly kept reminding me over and over like-nothing-else-to-do; and i thought of there was some kind of error on my PC. Well, looks like i have to renew it and might be using a different one and not Avira. I should do some googlings.

Currently, what i have in my  mind are the followings. I did some simple google researches comparing of the features and prices.

1. avast! Internet Security - USD39.99 = 122.589
2. AVG Internet Security 2012 - USD54.99 = 168.57
3. Kaspersky Internet Security 2012 - USD59.95 = RM183.777
4. Avira Internet Security 2012 - RM119

It's obvious that Avira is the lowest of all, however according to the reviews that i have scanned through, there are not many feedback givers that recommend Avira as oppose to the threes. In fact when i compare the features amongst the fours, i guess there are not much that Avira has offered. So price vs values do speak here! I think i'm going for avast based on the simple feedback & reviews i've checked. I'm surprised that many reviews condemned AVG especially the free one because it was said that the program uses the memory resource of your computer and in the end it makes your PC damn slow, even crippled.

The date of comments were way back 2009 though. 1st and 2nd links.

Monthly expenditure - 1st day of the month

I wanna make a note on my monthly expenditure so i thought why not write them down in one of my posting here & keep on updating until the end of april.

RM200 for my savings to support yearly insurance and there is a remaining for RM520, which means RM80 had been used yesterday at pasar borong for my groceries. Hmmm, never thought that i would spend that much in a single visit. let's list down roughly what i've spent:

• half chicken - RM5.50
• Udang - RM8
• sotong - RM10
• Banana - RM2
• Bawang merah Onion - RM3
• Ulam Raja & Selum - RM2
• Tomato, carrot, etc - RM5
• Cake at Giant - RM10
• Salad - RM5
• ready made tumis sos - RM13

There is RM37 short from RM80. Wonder where i've spent yesterday

• April 3 - RM125 Piano lesson fee, RM2.4 Bread and RM4.90 sardine
• April 4 - RM5 Minyak Motor
• April 5 - RM24 Motor service (Minyak hitam RM16 + Sparkplug RM5 + Oil filter RM3)
  RM80 office monthly fee shit, RM42 treat girlfren, RM8 ikan aquarium + RM12 kayu
• April 7 - Siakap RM14.50, Prawns RM9, Sotong RM8, Ulam RM1, Tomato+carrot RM4, Banana RM3.50, Kacang Panjang + daun for nasi goreng RM1, Mineral water x3 RM14
• April 8 - Drumstick RM8.90, Chicken Keel RM5.80, Milo 1.1kg pack 19.60, Colgate 3 packs RM14.90, Shower soap RM6.60, Cooking Oil Knife brand RM14.70, Hand washing soap RM5.20, Book RM50.
• April 9 - Rucksack RM167, Headlamp RM183
• April 12 - Chili sauce RM3.40, Sugar 1kg RM2.30, Babas curry powder RM3.60, Giant Chocolate cake RM11, Gardenia bread RM2.40, miscellaneous RM6.10. Total RM28.80. Petrol car RM70. Batteries AAA RM???
• April 12-15 - Taman negara Kuala Tahan; accommodation RM70+RM90, rapid shooting RM60, Night tracking RM35, Canopy walk RM5, meals RM???, petrol car RM60.
• April 16 - Eggs, Daun pandan, daun bawang - RM6.50
• April 21 - at Pasar Borong (on weekend); Budu Rm2, Whole chicken RM8.80, Drumstick RM10, Ulam2 RM1, Cili padi RM1, serai+kacang panjang+sawi+carrot+halia RM3.80, Red Onion+garlic RM2, Banana RM2.40. In total at PB is RM30. at Giant; Marigold PeelFresh RM8, Clorox for colourful clothes RM7x2, Nestle coffemate milk powder RM5.50x2, Santan RM2.30, mineral Water RM4x2, Salad RM4.50, Cucur powder RM2.50x2, FAB soap powder for washing machine RM13. In total at Giant is RM60. Hair cut RM8.
• April 24 - RM42+ at Giant on Milo pack, chili sauce, bread. dunno where have pt the receipt!?
• April 25 - Rm15 for battery for Timex heart rate strap, RM59 for aquarium fish.
• April 28 - at Pasar Borong; Siput sedut RM7, Siakap RM8, Banana RM2.20, red onions RM2, Ulam 50sen, Santan kotak RM2.50, 6 eggs RM2, Tomato RM1.50, serai. Total was RM23.
• April 29 - DirectSport store. cold jacket RM60. Corezone - Compression Sack RM125x2, Drylite towel RM79.50, dryfast shirt Lafuma RM169, dryfast pants RM249. Total at Corezone RM748.50

Weirdest hair cutting experience

I think i just went through the weirdest hair cutting ever. The barber who happens to be an Indon in his mid 20-ies after finishing the cutting of my hair wanted to do a typical Mamak-ending style where they usually did a little massage on customer's neck, shoulder and back of the head with a free of charge. The purpose was to give a sense of warmth and comfortable feeling after the hair cut. Anyway, what that Indon barber did is a little more adventurous and weirder than Mamak's style; he did massage on me though like on my neck, shoulder and my head but the extra thing he used before doing the whole routine was, he mixed some kind of balsam gel with a liitle water and rubbed them all on my head and neck, which gave me a sort of warm-minty-chilly sense together with those painful pressure from the effect of tensed full strength massage. Honestly speaking, i never had those experience before, in fact i usually discourage all mamak barber not to do the massage cause i felt more pain than stress-relief sensation. This indon guy anyway, was the weirdest-dest-dest-dessssst ever!!!
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Hanging bridge in Stong

I never know that there is hanging bridge at Stong. I read this story on Stong and its picture of hanging bridge over there.

Dedicated to those who sujud before Allah

Opick - Rapuh

detik waktu terus berjalan
berhias gelap dan terang
suka dan duka tangis dan tawa
tergores bagai lukisan

seribu mimpi berjuta sepi
hadir bagai teman sejati
di antara lelahnya jiwa
dalam resah dan air mata
kupersembahkan kepadaMu
yang terindah dalam hidup

meski ku rapuh dalam langkah
kadang tak setia kepadaMu
namun cinta dalam jiwa
hanyalah padaMu

maafkanlah bila hati
tak sempurna mencintaiMu
dalam dadaku harap hanya
diriMu yang bertahta

detik waktu terus berlalu
semua berakhir padaMu

Vimeo - a paid video streaming hosting

I came across this hosting on video streaming. perhaps this could be one of the options for my project. the link is here and the price looks affordable for a year subscription.

Tips on keeping onions good

I think this tips is good for those who have their hearts close to kitchen and cooking, mmm like myself.

Solo Malaysian lady runner in Egypt

This lady i respect. Running for hundred of km alone. solute 3x

Cartoon Politics issue

Funny cartoon on politics issue

Climbing Ayam peak at Stong with TNB group

I received a call from my old Sheffield Univ fren asking me whether i'm interested in joining their TNB group for a mountain climbing in Stong Dabong Kelantan 11-14 may. I was so excited and straight away confirming my participation. It looks like going to Stong is my yearly activity. Well, personally i think the waterfall at the Baha campsite in the middle of the climb to the mountain peaks are one of the greatest waterfall ever. So, once confirmation was done, he extended the email circulation on the plan to Stong. Anyway, the mountain peak that we want to conquer is not Stong, but another one called Ayam. I don't really mind cause i have gone up to 3 peaks already over there; those are Stong, Ayam & Baha peaks. I consider this trip as one of my exercises before the most challenging one, which Tahan expedition.

The program from what i see, is a light and easy type. it'll be 2 days and 2 nites, so i guess it won't be that rushing; we should be able to get enough rests and fun time at the campsite & during the climb.

1st workout after a week returning from outing

Just came back from my usual workout at FF. As usual by the time when arrived back to the office, it was almost office timeout, well who bloody gives a shit. I ran over 4km for my cardio and did my routine muscle exercise, this time i never skip out the workout on my thigh. Building up muscle on my thigh was something important especially when i plan to get myself involved in mountain climbing and as a fitness preparation. Anyway, for the fun of exercise, i still do not know when will i join in any expedition of mountain climbing. It looks like it is close to mid year already, and i have yet to see any invitation from my fellow Facebook friends. I want to be more careful this time when accepting invitation for mountain climbing expedition as i don't want to get involve in circle of people whom i consider strangers. the last expedition i join was sucks! Those mother-fucker UIA students along with their senior x-students were not be someones that i want to be with in any next expedition arranged by them. Although we did manage to reach the mountain peak, but the experience working together with them as a team was something i considered as unpleasant.

1:40pm - i left the office heading to FF
2:00pm - arrived at FF and changed attire, started off my cardio
2:40pm - complete my run and cool down, start off with weight lifting.
3:00pm - Did some crunchings
3:10pm - finished off my workout & return to the changing room for shower
3:20pm - Packed up my stuffs and left FF
3:30pm - stopped by at surau for zohor prayer
3:45pm - Rushed off to office
4:00pm - arrived at the office.

So, in total it took me 2 and half hours for my travelling time, workout, shower, solat and return back to office.
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Typical climate at Taman Negara Kuala Tahan

Morning
If you wake up early before the sunrise, you'd normally observe thick mist surrounding the area, this was more obvious at the hilly range behind the town. I still remember when i was in my childhood, there was a saying that if you encounter mist in early morning, that means it is going to be a hot shiny day. The thicker the mist, the hotter the daylight. Well, that saying in some sense is believable over here. It is recommended that you hang out all your wet and damply clothes outside before noon, cause it is the time that is most-best for your clothes to get dried faster. the day would be so hot, you would just like to stay in your room with air-condition at its lowest temperature or you'd want to be under shelter or in the nearby rainforrest. Anyway, i would suggest that if in case you do want to hang your wet clothes outside, make sure that you wash them earlier or just soak them in soapy water for a night. So right before you go off for breakfast in early morning, you can hang them outside. Satu lagi kalu kena curik itu aku tak jamin! One thing for sure, if you hang your clothes without first washing them, once they got dried they will smell like dead chicken or even live tapir. I surely know if i were around close to you if i sense this familiar shit smell. It'd be nothing more because of your own laziness.

Noon
Is unbearably hot. An umbrella would be handy when you walk under the sun. usually at this hour Kuala Tahan inhabitants rather stay in chalets and own houses and thus limit their activities. This is the time when you feel your uncovered head under the sun blazing with fire! (hehe what an exaggeration. i hope you believe it cause i'm no liar)

Evening
The climate changes suprisingly in no time. You wouldn't notice its change if you remain staying in your room perhaps cause you're so full after having crazy lunch, and nothing else that crosses your mind except lying lazily in your room. If you're so, then your are such  a lazy bastard! why in the hell you come here if you plan to sleep & lay back in your chalet? Anyway, about the climate here in the evening; it will turn from originally so fucking hot to thick grey cloudy in minutes. If you are lucky, you can notice thunders and lightnings behind the mountain range far aside just before they come to the town. Anyway, if you're fortunate to escape from having any heavy downpour at this time, take this chance to participate in the rapid shooting and visiting orang asli's village. It's worth it if you have never experience them before.

Night
If you miss the rain in the daylight, then you might encounter them at night, or at least some drizzling. So, if you dare enough to go outside despite the possibility of raining, i advice you to join in some outdoor activities like night tracking or safari night. Safari night is one in which you need to ride a four-wheel vehicle at night going deep in the palm estate; the purpose is for you to observe bigger wild animals like harimau hitam, tapir, gajah, porcupine and dunno-shit-else you can find inside those wood. Anyway, i never tried it because i got this advice from the perhilitan guy saying that more travellers have complained that they could see nothing during their safari night except their own ugly friends who happened to be squatting next to themselves. Thus i don't want to take any chance fooling myself riding 4-wheel vehicle paying expensively where i can easily (i think so) ride one in KL. so i highly discourage this.

After mid nite
Go to sleep laaah, what else you wanna do? Climate change at this time is irrelevant cause you should be sleeping already.

Well, that's enough with my mumbling, if you wanna know more, just kick your lazy ass to come here to Kuala Tahan and feel the experience yourself.

A new design and interface by blogger

Honestly speaking, i never really bother to think in any serious manner on the looks and feel of my blog; personally i think it's trivial. Well, who bothers to look at it if you don't intend to draw crowds to your site, anyway my blog does not concern whoever come here; if such things happen, i would consider it as accidental or coincident. So, why in the hell i changed the layout and design of this crappy blog to such lame and artistic-like mood? Ahh! answer laaa!? Well, the truth remains the same, it is not intended to get neither praise or criticism, it is merely because, i for some dunno-reason has stucked into this new blogger interface and accidentally click on the various designs & layouts presented by blogger admin panel. Seriously it's not my fault; i just click and click and clicking until dunno-what, my original old layout has changed into this look.

It's shame that i'm not adventurous & patient enough to figure out how to rechange into original setting. I guess i have other more important things than indulging myself into this new panel features. Perhaps next time you see this blog, it might be in a different dress again. Now i even lost my steps already how-on-earth can i add the tags to each new post.

The most notable features that i like most is the stats that it provides to you. The analysis of counter stats is comprehensive & detailed, you can even further analyse the visits to your blog based on counts (day, weeks, months), geographical area, OS, browser types and many more. Anyway, i wonder how can it possibly happen that russians are so interested in my blog content? they have the highest count on my blog! ke counter blogger ni ngarut

Another story about PTPTN

some newspaper cutting from Siew Jit Poh. I never read them, but just cut & paste from Utusan. this is just for my mental consumption; not really sure whether this is actual fact or mere assuption by goverment supporters to condemn opposition.


i'm not sure that the current payment rate imposed on the loaners is at 1%. I thought from last story i recently read is at 3% & 1% is just a proposal. Dunno which is right?
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Highest follower in Twitter

I wish i could get constant followers for my drupal site like those bastards in Twitter.

Haven't in touch with my newspaper reading routine for 6 days

I want to make a mental note today, which is when i arrive home safe and sound, i would read newspaper before going off to bed. In fact right before asleep, i would also do some practicing on my piano lesson. I'd also flip through some of my drupal codes for my own refreshment. Few days in the thick jungle, far from advancement of technology really made me lost of my programming lessons.

Last but not least, I pray for my girlfren's safety for her hardship going through her usual kimo procedure today. I'm relieved that she finally made a phone call to me right after her finishing the kimo. Sleep well sayang and have an ample rest. Love you.

Back to reality

This morning i was being very punctual going for work. well, it was not exactly my usual day-to-day routine, cause this time i had to be in front of strangers (anyway those strangers are happened to be potential customers for TM) and need to present on one particular product that is under my supervision. And the place was not at my usual office-sonnomabitch-barua but at Glenmarie Holiday Inn; expected crowd would be 20-30 people coming from local broadband-internet industry.

Honestly speaking, i have forgotten already the last time i was in front of the crowds giving speech. perhaps the ones that i remembered was when i gave lecture for a part-time students and that was more than 10 years ago i think; well anyway this time was different cause those audience were not in desperate to get your approval but they were the ones whom you need to convince and i guess mostly they'll be in a state of rejection. The table is turned around and i was not at advantage. It's kinda of rising up your adrenalin just before it started especially when you imagine that you'll be in front of the hostile spectators. Anyway, seeing my boss was not exactly in her comfortable and cool state while giving out her presentation, i guess i was not that bad.

The fact was when i was in front giving the presentation; suprisingly enough i was quite cool and far from menggelabah. Or perhaps, most of the audience are bored with either myself giving presentation or my presentation content was lousy. Anyway, whichever it was, it has passed and the fact was when one giving the presentation, he will be in a sort-of-macam-bagus style; there is nothing he won't know and whatever comes out of his mouth is memang-cam-bagusss. But that was momentary... The moment when i got back to my humble bike, riding back to office; everything was just like usual. I'm a nobody guy; it's a small world again. So back to reality bozo!
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Most mental day

Today is the most mental day of my life, considering the fact that i have rode my bike for close to 100km distance in a single day. Do you know how i can manage to ride to such freaking out-of-my-mind distance? It was the fact that i have gone to my office twice in a single working day. There was no one else to blame for except myself; freaking losing my mind and bloody absent-minded. This morning, i went off to my office as usual, bringing along some food for my lunch and piano homework, however there was one thing that was not quite right. I have completely forgotten about my notebook that i usually left it locked on my office desk, but last week i brought it back home because i need to email few people in the last minute before going off for my trip to Taman Negara. So, when i arrived at my office, realising that no notebook on my desk, i knew already that today would be a loooooong fucking day. Well, there's no other choice except to return home and pick up my notebook and come back to office. My big-boob boss already reminded me earlier that i must alter some slides for tomorrow's mega awareness to potential customers, so must make it ready by today's evening.

Damned! it would be 2 rounds of trip going back & forth, my home-office-home again-office again. One-way journey is equivalent to 23km. So twice a complete go-and-forth journey would be 23x4 = 96km!!!
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3rd day at Kuala Tahan National Park

We woke up as early as possible knowing the fact that there will be a big crowd today at Taman Negara. Tourists coming either from locals and foreigners are said to be the major reason why there'll be a lot of people here; one of major attraction would be at Canopy walkway. True enough, when we were having our 7:45am breakfast at the nearest warung 5 minutes away from our chalet, we noticed there was a big crowd of teenagers already waiting at the edge of Jeti, waiting their turn to cross the river to the other side of the river bank. We were told that some people need to wait 2-3 hours at the Canopy walkway hut for their turns during weekends. We had our breakfast in a sort of rush and by 8:30am, we were already at the other side of river bank, moving towards Canopy site.

Anyway, foods sold for breakfast by local folks were like pisang goreng panas. Despite of many locals were selling similar type of food for breakfast, they didn't have any difficulty to sell off their stuffs completely. By 8:30am, most of them have run out of stuffs already to sell to customers. Well, believe me, selling food over here for breakfast is like living in heaven! Food like nasi berlauk ayam kicap, nasi berlauk daging kicap, ayam berlada and nasi lemak ayam goreng or simple fried egg are commons here; they were nicely packed up in wrapping paper readily as takeways.

We bought some extras for our meal during our next activities Canopy walkway and tracking uphill to Teresik hill peak. Tracking to the site entrance of Canopy walkway took 45minutes & its distance from the jetty is 1.7km into the jungle. We were lucky because we didn't have to wait for our turns as there was no one at the Canopy site except few Perhilitan staffs. The height of the hanging bridge made of ropes and wires is unbelievably high; truly this is not for the faint of heart, you'll definite pee in your paints ;) it got worse by the effect of the bridge swaying from side to side. Total distance of the bridge crossing was 280metres (the actual one was 500+m, but there was a repair going on at some segments of the bridge, so the authority closed the other half of the bridge). personally, i would rate this as 5 out of 10 cause i didn't feel it as that challenging. But for those who have never tried walking in the woods 50 metres high, you should try it and feel the rush of adrenalin.

Next was going up further to the peak of Teresik hill. I found this closer to my liking as it is more challenging. Route to the hill peak required us to track uphill of additional 1.7km. Teresik hill has 2 tops, the 1st one overlooks some view of mountain range at the same side as Kuala Tahan town whereas the 2nd top overlooks the Titiwangsa mountain range.

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2nd day trip at Kuala Tahan

13th April, this was the second day of our trip at Kuala Tahan National Park. It was Friday, so i thought of not really spending time on something serious or hard as i didn't plan to skip my Friday prayer. So right after we woke up at 8-ish am, we went to Pejabat Perhilitan nearby to register ourselves for the licence and registration to use a camera. Fee for a camera is RM5 and for ourselves is RM1 each. Then we went to a close warung for a late breakfast. Well, at 10:30am you won't get any breakfast-related meals already, what you can get is the meal for lunch. So it was kinda late for breakfast, we go for brunch instead. Ikan patin masak tempoyak and ulam raja; that was quite a heavy meal and that would probably last till dinner time. To be honest, i've never had any ikan patin masak tempoyak before, so this was considered my first time having it and i'm not fond of ikan darat; my response for those who have never had this meal before - you must not ever leave Kuala Tahan before eating this dish, it's worth it!

Half past eleven, we were on our move on the other side of the river bank. The fee to cross Tembeling river by using the only available public transportation river-crossing boat is RM1 for a one-way direction. Those boats are long and narrow where they can only fit 2 people per row. They operated since early in the morning up to 11pm everyday. You'll pass through an expensive yet very comfortable resort called Mutiara Resort on the other side of the river bank; those who have fat pockets can try staying here. There was a canopy walk bridge outside the resort at the rainforest edge where you need to track deeper into the jungle for 45minutes. The track leading to the canopy walk site is easy despite its location is inside the jungle; this is because the local authority has laid down long convenient walk-pathway structure interconnecting to various jungle trails for the convenience of the tourists. We moved on into the deep along the nice trail, however at 10min past one, we return because it was already late for my Friday prayer. We rushed off back and luckily i arrived just in time at a nearby mosque for the prayer.




At 2:30pm, we had a boat activity called rapid shooting; honestly i didn't understand why they called it as shooting in the first place. The first part which is rapid, i can relate because the boat that we use will go against the river rapids but shooting, mmmm... i have no clue at all. That was until i ride the boat i started to figure out why it is named as such. While we were moving fast through rapids especially against the current flow, the splash of the water from underneath will be so great that it will sort off shoot up at us. This was when the fun started, the whole splash of water to you will end up you getting wet the whole body. But i personally think that the splash purposely made by the guide sitting in front of the boat caused more splash that the natural one underneath the boat bottom. He started splashing waters to our face by putting down his hands in the fast moving river water. This was more looked like he is shooting water on us. Anyway it was fun though. i'd never forget this guide whose name is Lizan (012-9596753), he talked english quite fluently but with over-the-edge-european-style which in the end sounded strange. For just a record, his friend named Hafiz (017-9106122) currently working at NKS travel tour that was the same company that organised rapid shooting & visiting orang asli's village for us.


We stopped by at one of orang asli's village at the end of one-way ride. The village belonged to one particular orang asli called Batek tribe. 3 common tribes currently are the jungle inhabitants close to Kuala Tahan national park are Batek, Sekam-furi and Jakun. during the visit, the guide explained some stories about their life and let one orang asli guy did a demonstration of making fire from basic jungle woods and menyumpit. Honestly speaking i was quite impressed on how he did a fire in less than 5 minutes just by rubbing rigorously rattan wire against meranti wood piece. In total the cost of rapid shooting and visiting orang asli village was RM60 (RM45 for the boat and RM15 for the orang asli).


At night, we have another outdoor in-the-jungle activity called night tracking that costs RM35 per head. Participants were advised to bring along torch lights or headlamps. The purpose was to walk at night along the pathway close to Mutiara resort and observe insects and some small wild animals close to our pathway. It was a 200metre distance where at the end, we arrived at a Hide (aka Bumbum), named as Tahan hide where it allows us to see wild animals from far distant view. Anyway, we did see some far distant raindeers in one group grazing grass in a nearby valley. personally, i won't suggest this activity to those who rate themselves as serious adventurer, in fact i would consider it as lame; walking at nite for less than an hour along a nice pathway close to nearby resort just to see wild animals from far away. No challenging what-so-ever. this would definitely my last experience. Our nite tracking guide was a guy named Jaafar (017-9102733) in his mid 40-ties working for Perhilitan department; i guess he was doing some part time job. We sat down at one of floating restaurants having teh tarik after finishing the activity; he shared some stories of how's life at Kuala Tahan national park. In general, most local folks earn their money from jungle-related activities either doing some simple business like menjual, working as guides, operating travel agent business, running chalets or working for perhilitan department or available resorts. In a way, having national park over here have directly improved the socio-economic level of the local folks.

We went back to our chalet after having long chat with Jaafar. It was fortunate, cause few minutes after that, there as a heavy downpour along with thunders and lightning. Imagine, if we still doing our night track in the jungle! Our heighbour mat salleh, i guess few Germany tourists were not that lucky cause they got caught in the rain while doing an activity called safari night - an activity where you sit on an open four-wheel vehicle, going into palm estate searching for wild animals. i wouldn't advice joining in this activity as there were many complaints already claiming that there was no wild animals found during the ride. Well, i guess those mat saleh were having more challenges due to heavy downpour as oppose to the challenge seeing wild animals.

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Travelling to Kuala Tahan national park

It was 12th April 2012, we started off our journey by car at 11pm. I spent some time after work to pack up every thing into my car; lucky that it is a MPV-type vehicle, so i don't have trouble too just sumbat everything inside including few boxes of stuffs that i never look into them properly. Well, as long as everything i need is inside like medicines, outdoor gears and camping-related items, a simple of campak and sumbat inside the car will do the job. We intend to go off as early as possible so that we can reach Kuala Tahan town while local folks are still awake. However, since we took time to stop by at giant to shop last minute and have our dinner; worried that there won't be anything to eat once we arrive at Kuala Tahan, at last we were official on the move at 11pm.

Journey by car from KL to Taman Negara Kuala Tahan took roughly 4 hours; starting from 11pm and arrived at 3am. The route from Jerantut to Kuala Tahan town is bengkang bengkok and hilly. not to mention here that right after we passed Jerantut & heading towards Kuala Tahan, the only single route accessing the place was filled up with thick morning mist, thus worsened our visibility to less than 10 metres. because of this trouble & apart of struggling like crazy to wake up and being driving alert, there were so many cows preventing us from driving fast. those animals were like welcoming us along the road, and few considered idiots still cat-walked crossing the road while we were flashing high beam towards them. memang nak kena langgar betol la korang niii.

We passed by an area called Gajah Mati; there were some rumours saying that some night drivers encountered elephant crossing the roads ahead of them and some saw elephants in a group. they claimed those were not actually living elephants but ghost instead. Anyway our journey passing the road was good. Nothing happened & we never saw anything strange.

When we arrived at Kuala Tahan town, it was obvious that it was already a dead town; everybody was in deep sleep. Looks like we have to find this chalet that my girlfren have made arrangement earlier over the phone by ourselves. The chalet manager has obviously turned off his phone but anyway have left a message that he purposedly unlock one chalet in particular reserved for us with keys inside. Well, i can only say 'memang mangkuk la engko Azli! kata 24jam orang hidup kat bandar. Haram satu ekor pon takde, semur dah tidoo'. Anyway, after 1 hour crusing around every corner of the town, we finally found this Aki chalet. But before go on further, let me give you a good advice on Aki chalet. Never ever ever ever take this shit chalet. It was full of bug, kutu and pijat katil. menggaruk2 satu malam aku tido kat tempat barua nih! Dah la mahal!



As the room chalet is equipped with all basic facilities plus an old aircond but still works, we didn't stay awake long enough. You know what happened next, we doze off in no time. zzzzzzzzzzz
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Taman Negara Kuala Tahan 3days 3nights

this weekend was quite tight. My girlfren and i had a good time going outing to Kuala Tahan National Park. Personally, this place is like a ghostly inviting place to me; i had couple of unforgettable memories in relation to this place since i was teenager and the last one was last year where i've joined in the Tahan mountain expedition. So by re-visiting this place, there were times when some past mental images flash into my mind momentarily. Well, in this posting i won't bring up any past stories, in fact what i'll do for the next coming postings would be about sharing my experience staying 3days 3 nights at Taman Negara Kuala Tahan.

Thank you to my girlfren for her effort to do some research for the last few weeks before we went off to Kuala Tahan. Her effort paid off, as without her findings through internet and feedbacks from our outdoor guru Azli who had experience already staying there, we'd be spending generous yet unnecessary amount of money on our stay over there. At first just like other people who are first timers backpacking to Taman Negara, we'd just resort to taking package tour from local travel agent, where all things will be taken care off by them, from choosing appropriate chalet, travelling from KL to Kuala Tahan, our meals and activities at Kuala Tahan for a span time of 3days 2 nights. However, in the last minute, Azli reassured us that by backpacking on our own without engaging with any travel agent, the cost would differ astoundingly; so we followed his advice. Most travel agents charge in the range of RM300 to RM500 for a simple package 3d2n. We got this quotation from one travel agent, i think NSK something, they are charging RM450 per head, so in total for 2 people, the cost would easily reach close to RM1000. Well, since our weekend vacation is a low budget, we resort to do it on our own.

You know how much we have spent at Kuala Tahan for 3days and 3 nights (take note yeah, it was 3 nites not 2 nites)? Less than freaking RM300 per head! Yesss.. it's worth it.

The distance from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Tahan town is 270km and it took 2 and half hours journey using pantai timur Highway. You'll pass through jerantut town, where this is the last big town after which you'll only see jungle edge, palm estates and small vilages along the road heading to Kuala Tahan. Don't forget to fill up your vehicle gas to the fullest at Jerantut before your proceed to Kuala Tahan, just in case for precaution because after this onwards there won't be any oil station along the way.

Above is a view of Jeti Kuala Tahan; i know my hand drawing is kinda of rough but it basically shows the day-to-day view at Jeti. The building stuctures on a light brown background are the floating restaurants and the light brown color is the Tembeling River, pls do not mistake it as the usual ground soil. The color of the Tembeling river water is truly thick brown yellowish just like teh tarik. On the other side of the river bank is the other jeti that allows you to go to Taman Negara area. Those are the area where you can easily stumble upon wild animals.

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