wake up call...

Few weeks ago, all staff in my school was forced to take blood test..I always worry about my sugar level since my mom has diabetes...my sugar level was far below the warning level..however, my cholesterol level was very close to the borderline...Of course I can easily blame it on unhealthy diet, lack of exercise etc...I was given 3 months before the next check up..I was advised to control my diet, increase exercise from 2-3 times a week to 4-5 times a week..don't know if I can find time to do this...

Well, at least it's a wake up call to me...after my colleague passed away last few months, most of us started to take care of our health..live a healthy life...appreciate every single day because life is toooo short!

election fever

I'm going to post several photos related to election fever...ParBun and TTSerong are considered as 'HOT' places..I would say pro-BN and opposition is almost 50-50...any time, the voters might change their mind...

Quite bad for BN to have so many ass-kisser but work less..moreover, some of them are 'pencopet'..nearly a month ago, more than 100 houses were destroyed by heavy rain and strong wind. Perak MB annouced to donate RM700 for those affected. However, only those who received the envelop from MB got RM700. A lot of people only got RM100-300. The most surprising thing, most of the envelope were UNSEALED!...there...how are going to trust them? Are we going to elect 'penyangak' again??? I would rather sleep the whole day on election day than vote for this penyangak!

kick them OUT!

Hadhari's LIAR....

A day before he made statement parliament won't be dissolved tomorrow (today). Less than 24 hours, he announced parliament is dissolved (today)...what a liar...I guess Islam had-hari allows them to tell lies...what say you???

cosmonout...

Interesting article from Berita Harian..After we spent billions of RM to send so called a space flight participant to ISS, we proud with our angkasawan program..now let us go through the article..

MEMANG sudah menjadi tradisi, setiap insan yang menjelajahi angkasa lepas dengan kapal Soyuz akan diiktiraf oleh pihak Russia sebagai cosmonaut. Ia sebagai satu tanda penghormatan dan kebanggaan buat cosmonaut yang dianggap wira negara yang berbakti dan menabur jasa demi kedaulatan negara. (hello..kalau setiap insan yg dapat title tu, what so special about it?? List down bakti or jasa sbg 'angkasawan'??)

Apa tidaknya! Krew Russia menetap di Stesen Angkasa Lepas Antarabangsa (ISS) selama enam bulan meninggalkan keluarga tersayang demi menjalankan pelbagai eksperimen saintifik untuk kebaikan manusia sejagat.(adakah 6 bulan dan 10 hari sama..tidakkah kamu berfikir...:-))

Saya berasa bangga kerana pihak Russia juga mengaitkan saya dalam upacara pengiktirafan sebagai seorang cosmonaut. Ini penting dalam menangkis pelbagai kontroversi yang mengatakan angkasawan Malaysia hanya seorang pelancong.

Tarikh 9 November adalah hari yang bersejarah buat Oleg Kotov, Fyeodor Urchikin, Sunita Williams dan saya sendiri. Sunita adalah wanita Amerika dalam ekspedisi 15 yang mencipta dua rekod, wanita yang paling lama berada di ISS selama tujuh bulan dan astronaut pertama berlari Maraton Boston selama 3 jam 48 minit di ISS.

Upacara pengiktirafan sebagai cosmonaut berlangsung di Star City Russia bermula di tapak Yuri Gagarin. Hari yang bersejarah ini dihadiri oleh semua cosmonaut Russia yang pernah menjelajahi angkasa lepas, termasuk Valentina Tereshkova, wanita pertama ke angkasa lepas pada 1963 dan media antarabangsa.(cuba banding what she's done compared to our 'angkasawan')

Kami diberi bunga carnation yang berwarna merah dan berarak sejauh 200 meter diikuti sekumpulan orkestra yang memainkan lagu kebangsaan negara mereka. Kami berempat diberi makan secebis roti sebagai tradisi kesyukuran sebelum memasuki dewan yang penuh sesak.

Delegasi Malaysia turut hadir bersama ibu bapa yang dikasihi. Saya berasa begitu terharu dan berbangga apabila lagu Negaraku berkumandang sebagai tanda rakyat Malaysia sudah menjejaki angkasa.

Saya memberi ucapan dalam tiga bahasa, Russia, Inggeris dan Bahasa Malaysia. Saya diberi pingat dan sijil serta diiktiraf sebagai cosmonaut. Pengiktirafan yang begitu bermakna buat diri ini. Ini bukanlah kejayaan saya seorang, tetapi kejayaan seluruh rakyat Malaysia yang sentiasa mendoakan kejayaan misi ini.

Sepanjang berlatih di Russia, saya bekerja keras untuk membuktikan bahawa Malaysia walaupun sebuah negara kecil mampu bersaing dengan cosmonaut bertaraf dunia.

Saya mempelajari setiap aspek dengan penuh terperinci dan mengambil tanggungjawab seorang angkasawan sebagai sesuatu yang serius. Setiap bulan kami menghadapi peperiksaan untuk menilai prestasi. Saya pastikan menjawab dan mendapat keputusan yang cemerlang.

Ramai astronaut dari Amerika Syarikat dan Eropah serta Jepun membimbing saya ke arah itu. Saya tidak pernah berasa malu untuk bertanyakan sesuatu. Sikap bekerjasama amat penting dalam diri angkasawan.

Inilah yang saya ingin terapkan dalam diri anda. Saya hanya seorang doktor perubatan. Tidak ada perbezaan. Hanya kekuatan mental dan sikap yakin kepada diri sendiri yang boleh membawa anda ke arah kejayaan.

Jika saya boleh melakukannya, anda lagi boleh. Impian sudah menjadi kenyataan. Impian anda juga mampu menjadi kenyataan. Bermulalah dari sekarang. Saya galakkan anda bertanya apa juga kemusykilan dengan menghubungi Berita Minggu. Insya-Allah saya akan cuba menjawab setiap soalan dengan terperinci.

SOALAN: Saya ingin tahu lebih lanjut mengenai Soyuz serta pengalaman Dr ketika menjalani latihan di Russia dan eksperimen yang dijalankan ketika berada di ISS?

Ahmad Mujahid Mazlan - Terengganu

JAWAPAN

Struktur Soyuz dicipta untuk kegunaan sekali saja setiap enam bulan. Ia agak kompleks, tetapi lebih selamat berbanding kapal ulang alik Amerika Syarikat walaupun ia memerlukan latihan yang lebih intensif. Krew harus menjalani pelbagai latihan sebelum dibenarkan menaiki Soyuz kerana pelancaran dan pendaratan adalah lebih mencabar. (in other words, soyuz is nothing but SCRAP METAL...how much are we going to spend for this besi buruk???)

Latihan di Russia membabitkan kekuatan fizikal seperti larian, berenang, gimnasium, ikhtiar hidup musim sejuk dan laut. Kebuk udara (aerochamber), emparan (centrifuge) dan kerusi pintal (spinning chair) juga memainkan peranan penting. Kekuatan mental dan psikologi diutamakan di Russia.

Pemeriksaan kesihatan terperinci dilakukan setiap tiga bulan. Eksperimen yang dilakukan seperti kanser, bakteria dan penghabluran protein diusahakan bersama saintis tempatan dari Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Malaya (UM) dan Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) dan beberapa eksperimen lain bersama Agensi Angkasa Lepas Eropah (ESA) dan Agensi Eksplorasi Angkasa Lepas Jepun (JAXA).

Voice...

When I wrote previous post on from Grey to slightly blue, few friends came back to me sort of accused me for did not have a firm stand on Malaysian politics. I did not explain much in that post since I guess most of my friends already attended BTN course. Yesterday, I read an article in The Star "Don’t lose voice in Cabinet, Chinese advised"

Let's go back to history....First, let me lay down several statistics for parliament ..

• In 1994 election BN won 164: UMNO = 92, BN component= 72
  
• 1999: BN won 148: UMNO = 72, BN components= 76
• 2004: BN won 199: UMNO = 110, BN component = 89

I guess most of us still remember what happened in late 1990s. When TDM sacked Anwar, politics became really unstable. As a result, vote for UMNO decreased dramatically. Then few years after that TDM came out with meritocracy system to enter universities. Did we ever think why he made that decision?? Why he was so sad when he announced the news?? He had no choice because BN components won more sits compared to UMNO. Thus, all those leaders said UMNO was not practical anymore...that's why, they request so many things...meritocracy, UiTM open to all races, more non-bumi intake into MRSM and boarding schools, more universities belong to MIC and MCA-which we hardly see Malays over there! Not only students but also lecturers.. All those Malay 'Boneka' up there could not (or did not) do anything because they in fact lost popularity in parliament...There's nothing they can do if they don't have majority voice...

With the existence of internet or blog in particular, I would say the popularity of BN, UMNO in particular is dropping...however, I still believe Chinese are smart enough to still vote for BN because they don't want to lose voice in cabinet. If, BN cannot get 2/3 majority in this coming election, they will lose voice to make policy...in other word, those in power can easily change policy...so, let us imagine if UMNO keep losing popularity..definitely, all those BN components will slash all policies including 9th National Economy Plan. We should expect very limited opportunity for our future generation especially in education, economy etc....

I realise so many JAWS in UMNO, but do we have choice? Let us combine sits won by PAS and Keadilan. 1999= 32, 2004 = 7. Not even half of the contested sits. Total sits they contested (not won) did not even reach 50% of the total sits. There's no way they can reach 2/3 majority to become decision maker in the coming election...

Up to us to choose...get rid of the JAWS up there..or let's gamble our 'young generation" future...politicians are politicians...they are full of shit...hahahaha...even me, I don't think I want to vote for "Mr Sleeping beauty"...talk a lot but work less...Those who talk much don't listen and don't think! with cronies around him, I believe either he win or not he will definitely 'sell' the country..I quite like an article about "The emperor with no clothes..."

When doors and walls talk...

First and foremost I just don't get it why people think I'm the decision maker..hellooooo....I'm soooo junior, I never bother to make decision except for myself...I just don't get it....

I was so surprised when some people thought I'm the one who did not include them in the school programme. The main reason was "I was the committee member to prepare the document". I did not 'volunteer' to be the committee member in the first place. I did not even put my name in the proposal...I just didn't get it when people who did not want to contribute in the first place have guts to say such things..behind my back!

My challenge to them, read the document thoroughly if you can find my name anywhere in the document! I'm just 'kuli' ..unknown person who do the work without acknowledgment :-)...well..next question would be "why new staff like me involves in the project?"..The answer is "because I was the one who willing to do all 'balaci' works"...We were given less than 24 hours to submit the paper work. Of course we only submitted what we already had in hand. Why it's becomes controversial behind my back ONLY when we receive the money? Why would they argue about my capability to do this project? The project it self is directly related to my PhD work...Who are you to argue with me when you never ever been to lab??? My next challenge would be: repeat your final year project by yourself to prove your capability in research!

Remember, 'what' we have today are temporary gift from God..anytime, we can lose them...Appreciate what we have, don't complaint on what we don't have..it doesn't make any different by complaining....I'm so 'ikan bilis' to compete with...let DEWA compete among them, but please leave us (the ikan bilis) alone...can jaws satisfy himself by eating ikan bilis???