Tawau Story

Kebakaran Di Kg. Muhibbahraya Tawau 03.10.2010

2010-10-03T18:13:00.000+08:00

Kebakaran berlaku sebentar tadi. Kejadian di Peringkat 1, Kg. Muhibbahraya Tawau. Bersebelahan Masjid. Sekitar 3 petang 03.Oktober.2010

2 more days to Eid Mubarak

2010-09-07T13:59:00.000+08:00

cannot wait for the day..

Happy Chinese TIGER New Year 2010

2010-02-17T15:06:00.007+08:00

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2010!!

First, I would like to apologize for having kept you waiting for my new postings since last December 2009. I was so damned busy this beginning of year 2010 doing so many tasks both WORK and personal ones.

To all Chinese worldwide, I wish you a Happy Chinese TIGER New Year 2010!

May this golden Tiger year bring more prosperity and happiness as well as success to us all.

Money is the root of all goodness or otherwise?

Gimme, gimme angpao!

Wanna some more "Tiger" ? hahah

Analisis Ringkas Keputusan PMR 2009 -Sabah

2009-12-28T00:27:00.002+08:00

MY former school SMAKK got 100 %. What a WOW!! I am proud to be ex-SMAKKIAN

SABAH
Bilangan pelajar yang memperolehi gred A dalam semua mata pelajaran pada peperiksaan Penilaian Menengah Rendah (PMR) di negeri ini meningkat kepada 734 orang tahun ini berbanding 659 orang tahun lepas.

Timbalan Pengarah Pelajaran negeri, Dr. Muhiddin Yusin berkata, bilangan itu berdasarkan calon yang mengambil lebih daripada tujuh mata pelajaran dalam peperiksaan berkenaan.

"Tahun ini seramai 44 pelajar mendapat sembilan A, berbanding 19 orang tahun lepas manakala terdapat pertambahan 46 calon yang memperolehi lapan A berbanding 340 tahun lepas. Mereka yang mendapat tujuh A pula seramai 304 orang berbanding 300 tahun lepas," katanya.

Muhiddin berkata, seramai 20,378 calon daripada 38,741 yang menduduki peperiksaan PMR tahun ini lulus semua mata pelajaran yang diambil berbanding 20,500 daripada 37,794 pelajar tahun lepas.

Sebanyak 12 buah sekolah di negeri ini mencapai kelulusan cemerlang ialah Sekolah Menengah Sains (Kota Kinabalu), Sekolah Menengah Sains (Lahad Datu), Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Kota Kinabalu. Turut cemerlang ialah Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Agama Inanam (Kota Kinabalu), Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan All Saints (Kota Kinabalu), Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan St Francis Convent (Kota Kinabalu), Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Lok Yuk (Likas).

Produk Ajaib / Miraculous Product

2009-12-23T03:57:00.003+08:00

To all of you out there who are having symptoms or have been diagnosed with diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, skin disease, heart blockage, high cholesterol and many many more diseases , there is still hope to heal by natural sources. One of the revolutionary products marketed by B-Swan is called Noni Fed.

Here by I would like to quote a story by a patient who are using this Noni Fed in his daily life now.

This story is in Malay language to preserve the originality of testimonial:

Tuan/Puan,

Ini ada berita baik bagi yang pentingkan kesihatan.

Bagi yang berpenyakit seperti saya (Anuar - admin Noni-B-Swan), jantung block, darah tinggi (180/110), diabetis (Glucose : 9 keatas), kolestrol (Triglycerides : 12 keatas).. cukup berisiko tinggi.

Kalau dah mencuba berbagai produk dan masih tak berpuas hati dgn keputusannya atau tak mendatangkan kesan langsung, saya syorkan tuan/puan cuba produk ni. Kesannya cukup menakjubkan.

Boleh rujuk lampiran keputusan saya di web (www.noni-b-swan.com/testimoni.html) dari Hospital Lam Wah Ee, Penang.

Jantung block - clear, darah tinggi (130/80-maintain), diabetis (Glucose : 6.4-), kolestrol ( Triglycerides : 2.10 )... sehingga doktor pakar sendiri terkejut dengan keputusan tersebut. Kalau diikutkan pengambilan ubat yang diberi ianya ambil masa 3 bulan utk keputusan macam ni.. tapi Alhamdulillah dgn izin Allah saya menggunakan produk ni hanya 3 minggu saja, tanpa side effect. Pertanyaan anda boleh email ke - anotmb@hotmail.com atau 013-4886891 - Anuar.

Utk keterangan lanjut sila klik link kat bawah:

http://www.noni-b-swan.com/index.php?ref=zam_saf

The following are some pictures taken from the above site:

For more info please surf on my webblog at

http://www.noni-b-swan.com/index.php?ref=zam_saf

AVATAR [Movie] - Review (which I have not watched yet)

2009-12-22T01:26:00.002+08:00

Readers,

Today I would like to write about AVATAR [Movie] , a movie that I have not watched yet but I have heard that AVATAR has reached Box Office despite blizzard in the US.

Avatar , that is regarded as one of the expensive films ever made by the renowned 'Titanic' director James Cameron, has earned an estimated $232.2 million from North America and and 106 foreign markets.

Here is info from yahoo.movie

AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home. James Cameron, the Oscar-winning director of "Titanic," first conceived the film 15 years ago, when the means to realize his vision did not exist yet.

Now, after four years of production, AVATAR, a live action film with a new generation of special effects, delivers a fully immersive cinematic experience of a new kind, where the revolutionary technology invented to make the film disappears into the emotion of the characters and the sweep of the story.

We enter the alien world through the eyes of Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. But despite his broken body, Jake is still a warrior at heart. He is recruited to travel light years to the human outpost on Pandora, where corporations are mining a rare mineral that is the key to solving Earth's energy crisis. Because the atmosphere of Pandora is toxic, they have created the Avatar Program, in which human "drivers" have their consciousness linked to an avatar, a remotely-controlled biological body that can survive in the lethal air. These avatars are genetically engineered hybrids of human DNA mixed with DNA from the natives of Pandora... the Na'vi.

Reborn in his avatar form, Jake can walk again. He is given a mission to infiltrate the Na'vi, who have become a major obstacle to mining the precious ore. But a beautiful Na'vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake's life, and this changes everything. Jake is taken in by her clan, and learns to become one of them, which involves many tests and adventures. As Jake's relationship with his reluctant teacher Neytiri deepens, he learns to respect the Na'vi way and finally takes his place among them. Soon he will face the ultimate test as he leads them in an epic battle that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.

Production Status:
Released

Logline:
AVATAR takes us to a spectacular world beyond imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on an epic adventure, ultimately fighting to save the alien world he has learned to call home.

Genres:
Action/Adventure and Science Fiction/Fantasy

Running Time:
160 min.

Release Date:
December 18th, 2009 (wide)

MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking.

Distributors:
20th Century Fox

Production Co.:
Lightstorm Entertainment

Studios:
20th Century Fox

Financiers:
Dune Entertainment, Ingenious Media Services Limited

U.S. Box Office:
$73,000,000

Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
New Zealand
Oahu, Hawaii
Oahu, Hawaii, USA
Kauai, Hawaii
Kauai, Hawaii, USA

Produced in:
United States

Blog Rahsia Tahun Lahir DILANCAR!

2009-12-19T21:25:00.000+08:00

Saya baru sahaja melancarkan edisi sulung blog saya tentang Rahsia Kejayaan Melalui Tahun Lahir.

Para pengunjung semua, jom baca blog terbaru ini di http://rahsiatahunlahir.blogspot.com . Terdapat pelbagai info menarik dan termasuklah RAMALAN APA YANG BERLAKU PADA 2010 !

Segera klik sahaja url yang saya sertakan di atas.

Bakal menyusul ialah blog Year-of-Birth Secret Revealed dalam Bahasa Inggeris tidak lama lagi!

[James Bond's Gadget] Imitation Coca-Cola Spy Can

2009-12-17T18:13:00.000+08:00

Believe It or Not , James Fake Bond is back. This time he is equipped with a spy cam in the form of Coke softdrink can. You need to be extra alert and extremely cautious if you found a Coca-Cola alike can in your bedroom or even bathroom. It is not somebody has misplaced the can. It might be a spy camera, instead. I believe none of you will generously allow people to join you secretly while you are enjoying your time in your bed or even in the loo.

For me, sometimes, technology is the monster of all evil.

The Real Coloured People

2009-12-17T17:02:00.000+08:00

The Real Coloured People

This poem was nominated by United Nation (UN) as the best poem of 2006, written by an African Kid.

When I born, I black

When I grow up, I black

When I go in Sun, I black

When I scared, I black

When I sick, I black

And when I die, I still black

And you white fellow

When you born, you pink

When you grow up, you white

When you go in Sun, you red

When you cold, you blue

When you scared, you yellow

When you sick, you green

And when you die, you gray

And you calling me coloured?

(acknowledgement to mindacergas.wordpress.com)

Information Retrieved From The Ancient Book of Tajul Muluk

2009-11-27T19:38:00.004+08:00

In this posting, I will share some knowledge and infomation based on my reading of an ancient book titled Tajul Muluk. This book is in old Jawi version which given me difficulty to read it. I actually tried many times to reread word-by-word and sentence-by-sentence from the book.

As a matter of fact, this book extremely excites me because it tells me lots of hidden information about human personality and character reading. It also has special chapter on human dreams which really interest me.

Here are some of the things that I'd like to share.

(This chapter will mention about dreams that are related to animals)

If you dreamed about riding a dragon is a sign of getting what you wanted. (And if) you dreamed about a dragon that is bigger than you, it is sign that an enemy is approaching. (And if) you hit the dragon or snake, it is a sign that the enemy will be destroyed.

(This chapter will mention about dreams that are related to food)

If you dreamed about eating pancakes, it is a sign that you will inherit other people's treasure and you will be loved. (And if) you dreamed about selling pancakes, it is a sign that you will have less income. (And if) you dreamed about eating plum or any sour food, it is a sign that you will fall a sick or a grief.

To be continued.

IDIOMS OF THE DAY

2009-11-22T17:16:00.000+08:00

Today, I would like to share some English Idioms that start with the letter A

1. A penny saved is a penny earned
   This means we should not spend or waste money, but try to save it.

   My thought:
   We have to force ourselves to save our money even as little as RM 10 a day from our wallets. Think really carefully before you decide what do you want to buy. In fact, you should clearly distinguish between "what do you want" and "what do you need" to buy. Make a list, and most importantly, you have to follow what have been listed. Imagine if you could save RM 10 in each day , in a year your could have at least RM3,650.00 .

2. A still tongue keeps a wise head
    It means wise people don't talk much.

   My thought:
This idiom has alternate pair that I've created myself, i.e. 'A talkative tongue keeps a silly head'. I think both idioms are true to potray people who have ideas and people who only talk more without any meaningful ideas. From these two idioms, I want you to choose only one that you think you belong to. I believe I belong to the first idiom.

Astalavista.

PENEMUAN BARU HASIL PRODUK TURUN TEMURUN ZAMAN BERZAMAN!

2009-10-23T22:04:00.007+08:00

Kepada semua pembaca,

Baru-baru ini saya telah di-approach (dengan izin) oleh seorang sahabat tentang suatu produk turun temurun zaman berzaman yang besar khasiatnya. Produk tersebut ialah buah Noni atau di Kepulauan Nusantara ini dikenali sebagai Buah Mengkudu.

Ekstrak dari buah Mengkudu ini telah diproses melalui sistem automasi dan dipekkan menjadi shampoo. Ada sekurang-kurangnya 3 manfaat Shampoo NONI ini :

1 - Shampoo NONI ini berfungsi sebagai tonik rambut yang BERKEMAMPUAN MENGHITAMKAN rambut dalam masa 10 MINIT SAHAJA!.

2- Shampoo NONI ini boleh mengubati dan menghilangkan kegatalan kulit kepala akibat kelemumur dan kulit kepala kering atau berminyak.

3 - Shampoo NONI ini jika diamalkan seminggu sekali selama 3 bulan, akan melebatkan rambut para penggunanya.

Shampoo ini dijamin HALAL, SUCI DAN BERSIH tanpa campuran bahan kimia yang merosakkan.

Untuk maklumat lebih lanjut silalah layari url ini : http://www.noni-b-swan.com/index.php?ref=zam_saf

Anda mesti klik link di atas dan baca semua testimoni-testimoni para penggunanya.

Produk NONI juga dijual dalam bentuk enzyme atau pati yang mujarab menyembuhkan pelbagai penyakit dan simptom-simptom penyakit moden hari ini.

Accountant's Jokes

2009-10-07T10:42:00.003+08:00

Another real life story

Sales People and Accountants

A group of accountants and a group of sales people take a train to a conference. Each sales person holds a ticket. But the entire group of accountants has only bought a single ticket. The sales people a just shaking their heads and are secretly pleased that the arrogant and mean accountants will finally get what their deserve.

Suddenly, one of the accountants calls out : "The conductor is coming". At once, all the accountants jump up into one of the toilets. The conductor checks the tickets of the sales people. When he notices that the toilet is occupied he knocks on the door and says: " Ticket, please!'. One of the accountants slidesthe ticket under the door and the conductor continues merrily on his round.

For the return trip, the sales people decide to use the same trick. They buy only one ticket for the entire group but they are baffled as they realize that the accountants didn't buy any tickets at all. After a while, one of the accountants announces again : "The conductor is coming!" Immediately, all the sales people race to a toilet and lock themselves in.

All the accountants leisurely walk to the other toilet. Before the last accountant enters the toilet he knocks on the toilet occupied by the sales people and says "Ticket, please!"

What happened next? Whatta y'll think?

Moral of the story : Sales people like to use the methods of the accountants, but they don't really understand them.

Teacher's Jokes 1

2009-10-07T10:24:00.005+08:00

Real life Story

Admin Staff and Teacher

Eleven people were dangling below a helicopter on a rope. There were 10 admin staff and one teacher. Since the rope was not strong enough to hold them all, they decided that one of them had to let go to save all the others.

They could not decide who should be the volunteer. Finally, the teacher said he would let go of the rope since teachers used to do everything for the school. They forsake their family, don't claim all their expenses and do a lot of overtime without getting anything in return. (this is true enough right..)

When he finished his moving speech all the admin staff began to clap...

Moral of the story : never under estimate the powers of a teacher.

Test Specification Schedule & Item Building Course (CONFIRMED)

2009-10-01T02:33:00.002+08:00

To All English Teachers in Tawau.

Please be informed that a course on TSS and Item Building as scheduled previously on 5th - 6th October 2009 has been postponed to 12th - 13th October 2009. The date has been confirmed by the organizing committee of SAGA-BI Tawau (consisting of Tawau schools' heads of English panel).

The venue will be at Tawau Teachers' Activity Centre (PKG), Jln James Power, Tawau, Sabah.

The course fee is RM120 per school with a maximum of 3 teachers only.

Meals will be provided. No worry.

See you there!

Regards
MOHD ZAMZAIRI NORDIN

Aktiviti Minggu ni

2009-09-29T02:33:00.006+08:00

Salam.

1. Jam 8 pagi ni (29/09/2009) ada meeting nak kena attend di PKG Tawau. Meeting ni meeting ke 2 untuk discuss program SAGA-Bahasa Inggeris peringkat Tawau for 2009-2010. Surat masih tak sampai-sampai lagi macam selalu. Mungkin stuck di pigeon hole PPD Tawau time raya baru ni.

2. Esok petang (30/09/2009) lak nak pegi Sandakan ada taklimat orientasi format baru Prinsip Perakaunan SPM. Yang peliknya, aku mungkin naik bas jak sebab SPA (Sektor Pengurusan Akademik) , JPN Sabah tak sediakan tiket flight. Sedih betul.

3. Dahlah tu kena pulak bertolak awal sehari, takut tak sempat. Ikut letter 1-2 Oktober 2009 tau. Actually, Tawau dengan Sandakan bukannya dekat, jauh tuh. Mahu 6 jam jugak kalau driving sendiri atau naik bas. Rasanya kalau di Semenanjung Malaysia, xda siapa pun nak attend taklimat yang terlampau jauh jaraknya begitu, mungkinlah.

4. Dah tu, belum tahu boleh claim. Kalu claim pun, blum tahu dapat. Kalu dapat pun, mesti ada yang kena cut. Kalu dpt pun nasiblah. Yg pelik tapi benar, tiap-tiap tahun ada pulak bajet on papernya untuk dibentang. Ajaib kan readers.

4. Apapun, aku dah inform bos yang aku akan attend dua-dua meeting, so by hook or by crook kena jugak aku datang both meetings. Lagi pun aku dah sain aku janji kan yang aku akan SYMP "Saya Yang Menurut Perintah" meskipun kadang-kadang sukar gak . Erm..

Adios & au revoir dulu yah.

Salam lagi.

p/s Adios in Spanish tu maksudnya may God be with you. Au revoir tu goodbye in French. Language lesson sket.

Jom Makan di Japan Boat Takoyaki

2009-09-26T19:43:00.008+08:00

Jom cuba Cuttlefish Ball di Ground Floor , Eastern Plaza Tawau.

Ini adalah iklan tidak berbayar a.k.a free of charge. Japan Boat Takoyaki Sdn Bhd tak bayar biar sesen pun untuk aku menulis di blog ni. tapi takpalah , amal jariah kan buat iklan free. LOL.

Kedai ni baru jak bukak, kalau tak salah aku adalah dalam sebulan lebih. Kalau salah, betulkan , k!. Kedai ini terletak di tingkat bawah (ground floor) Plaza Eastern Tawau. Kalau menurut kotak cuttlefish ball tu, kedai ini adalah di bawah milik JB Takoyaki Sdn Bhd yang beribu pejabat di Wisma Merdeka KK, Sabah. So ini kira cawangannya lah.

Apa yang menarik tentang JB Takoyaki ni?
1- Halal
2- Sedap
3- Berbaloi dengan harganya (RM3.20 = tiga ketul)
4- dapat tengok live tu macamana menyediakan takoyaki ni (kene tunggu lama jugak la!)

Actually. aku tak sempat lagi ambil gambar store tu. Kat sini ada sedikit gambar yang sempat ku sedut.Ahaks.

Live ni dimasak, tapi kena queue panjang dan lama tuh!

Sedap lagi menyelerakan ni. Mesti Cuba baru tahu.

Ni lah sampan Jepun nya.

Thanks to http://clerencekraze.blogspot.com for your pictures.

JIHAD - STRUGGLE FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE"

2009-07-28T15:01:00.002+08:00

Jihad : Struggle For Peace and Justice
Speech delivered by Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Ahmad Sarji bin Abdul Hamid, former Chairman, Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia at the Second “Parliament of The World’s Religions” August 28 – September 5, 1993, at Chicago, USA.

This topic – Jihad – Struggle for Peace and Justice – is very relevant as we are still in search of a universally acceptable world order that would guarantee a true state of international peace through absolute justice. The world is yet to be completely free from a number of bloody atrocities and aggression which a direct infringements on human and individual rights. There is the unending Middle East conflicts between the Palestinians and Israel for more than three decades; there is the “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnians by the Serbs; and there is the Somalian political and economic convulsion.

The relevant world bodies have yet to exhibit their ability to effectively handle and manage such delicate international conflicts with the desired firmness and vigour. It is quite apparent that the international community seems to depend on the world bodies that serve only the interests of a powerful few. Actions taken seems to be rather selective to the extent that they create some degree of bias and injustice.

The problems of environmental degradation and resource distribution still loom large despite the rapid and unprecedented advancement in science and technology. Abject poverty , undernourishment and malnutrition are still prevalent in some parts of Africa and Asia. The world now sees a system which concentrates political, military, economic, social and cultural power in the hands of privileged few located largely in North. More specifically, within this global system, the poor South had to “pay” the rich North something like 132 billion dollars in debt servicing in 1988. It has been estimated that 650,000 children die across the “Third World” each year. If we consider the distribution of incomes globally – that is – between and within the countries – we would discover that the richest 20 per cent of the world’s population get at least 150 times more than the poorest 20 per cent. What is even more distressing is a UN study which shows that “The poorest of the developing countries have more than half of the world’s population and 5.6 per cent of world income “ .

Values , cultures and influence of religions on societies are products of centuries. Globalization had tended to increase interactions between people of differing civilizations . Such an increased interaction is not helping to create a better understanding of the prevailing differences inherent in different cultures, civilizations and religious faiths. On the contrary , it had tended to enhance civilizations consciousness. I firmly believe that we should attempt to construct bridges to enhance understanding and increase tolerance as much as possible among people of different civilizations.

(to be continued...)

Retyped by:

MOHD ZAMZAIRI NORDIN

Neuro Linguistic Programming with Tuan Haji Mohd Taib Mat, Master Practitioner NLP

2009-07-11T10:35:00.003+08:00

Recently, an NLP seminar has been held in my school. It was presented by Tuan Haji Mohd Taib Mat, a consultant and Master Trainer of NLP. He is a certified and registered member of National Federation of Neuro Linguistic Programming, USA.

The 2-day course was so enlightening and motivating and stress relieving!
The course was participated by Form 3, 4 and 5 students as well as teachers and parents-guardians.

Here are some pics :

Pinang dengan Bunga Raya

2009-07-11T09:45:00.004+08:00

I took these pictures myself.

Click the image if you want to see the full image of these pictures.

To Kuching With Work

2009-06-20T21:11:00.007+08:00

I will fly to Kuching on Monday (22 June 2009) to attend a course organised by Examination Syndicate, Ministry Of Education. Flight tickets have been arranged by Sektor Penilaian dan Peperiksaan, Jabatan Pelajaran Sabah through its agent, Oriental Travel in Kota Kinabalu. The arrangement was a last call arrangement becurse (opps..because) I just received the calling letter on Thursday(17June) eventhough it was dated on somewhere May 2009.

Thank God, I managed to get a flight on next Monday. Thanks to a staff at UPP of Tawau District Education Office, which I did not know her name for helping me to facsimiled the letter to SPP in KK.

The itinerary was sent to my email zam_saf@yahoo.com by Ms. Biana of Oriental Travel Agent KK. Thanks a lot to her otherwise I would not be able to attend that course.

I was quite surprised to know that there will be connecting flights. Therefore, it will take almost 8 hours for me to reach Kuching from Tawau. Contrary, I went to Jakarta last year (see my previous posts). It took off from Kota Kinabalu and landed at Sukarno-Hatta International Airport in just about 2 hours, and it is Airasia.

Here are the itinerary for next Monday's flights (MAS & MasWing):

22/06/2009 :
0825am - 0915am TWU - BKI (Tawau to Kota Kinabalu) - 50 mins

0915am - 0135pm (transit in KK ) - 4 hours 20 mins

0135pm - 0310pm BKI - SBW (Kota Kinabalu to Sibu) - 1 hours 35 mins
0345pm - 0425pm SBW - KCH (Sibu to Kuching) - 40 mins

I am so curious about the venue because I have never been to Sarawak before. This is going to be my 1st ever time to leave my footprint at The Land of Hornbill.

Peace.

Meeting & Briefing Oral English Test English 1119 SPM

2009-06-20T20:50:00.004+08:00

On 18 June 2009 (Thursday), I have attended the abovesaid meeting and briefing which was held at :-
Venue : Bilik Mesyuarat Gunasama , Tingkat 1, Wisma Persekutuan Tawau
Time : 8.30 am - 1.00 pm

The meeting was chaired by the Tawau Head of Regional Assessors (Ketua Pentaksir Kawasan), Mr. Marzin Omar from SMK Kinabutan Tawau Sabah. During the meeting , I met several Pentaksir Kawasan for this year's ULBS. There are common faces and new ones.

This year, my school : SMK Wallace Bay will be observed by Madam Lily Kong from SMK Abaka Tawau. She came to my school last year for the same purpose.

I was informed that , there is no changes in ULBS BI format this year except there will be coordination assessment by both school assessor and regional assessor (PKw) .

The meeting was adjourned at 1.00 pm.

Right after the meeting I went to Tzone Computer System to take my school's laptops that were sent for repair.

Till then, adios.

iPhone (Original vs Fake)

2009-06-17T20:06:00.004+08:00

Hi readers,

Don't get too excited and overly proud when you know someone that close to you is using or having iPhone 3G. It could be a faked one!!! Instead, you should run a test on that gadget and if you found that the iPhone is faked, do not hesitate to spread the words that : Your friend/relative/colleague/boss/etc is using M.I.C.-

Enough said, faked iphone often is M.I.C.

What is M.I.C. anyway?. It is an abbreviation of Made In China, which usually printed on imitation products from the RPC. Actually, I got this M.I.C. term from a colleague in my workplace.
Hereby, I show you the original iPhone which pictures I took from http://www.apple.com/iphone/

Updated Photos and Vid

2009-06-17T19:59:00.003+08:00

Hi friends,

I have just updated my other blog http://englishincamp.blogspot.com/.

Come on guys and girls, click on the above url and I am sure you wanna see the photos and vid of English in Camp, Tawau 2008.

Thanks.

Regards,

My visit to Google News, this morning! (oops.. afternoon rupanya!)

2009-06-12T19:08:00.006+08:00

Today is a boring Friday. I woke up late at 12.oo p.m.

Then, I plugged in my broadband modem and start checking on something on Google News. This is a daily routine for me. There is no interesting news to read except a news on disagreement between PAS's (Pan Islamic Party of Malaysia) Spiritual Leader, T. G. D.S. Nik Aziz NIk Mat and its Political President T.G. D.S. Abdul Hadi Awang. Both people have made media comments on Unity Government and both of them seems could not get enough each other's understanding. One is against and the latter is for. Ohh.. what on earth is going on with these PAS leaders huh?

Deep in my mind, I actually prefer T.G. D.S. Nik Aziz rather than Abdul Hadi... To me track records speak better. Nik Aziz has led Kelantan Government for 10 or more consecutive years and the people like him much regardless of race, religion and even political party. In Kelantan , there are even Chinese people supported and voted for him. I remember when I had a talk with a Malay grassroot political leader in Sebatik Island off Tawau about couples of months ago. This man went to Kelantan in the latest general election 2008. In an occasion, he asked a chinese man while he was in a coffee house why did people of Kelantan give so much support to this N.06 Cempaka ADUN?. Nik Aziz is currently an Assemblyman for N. 06 (Cempaka). (Well, Sebatik Island is Sabah's N.60 , what a coincidence?!) Continue the story, that chinese man spontaneously and firmly answered in Bahasa Malaysia "Buat apa mahu tukar kerajaan negeri, kalu yang sekarang ini sudah cukup BAGUSS!!" (Why do we need to change the current state government if it is already a GREAT goverment anyway!!). So end of story, monkey-like shocked this so-called (kununnya - pinjam istilah Tun Dr. Mahathir) Malay grassroot leader.

I hurriedly woke up, took a nice bath and then made my move to TZone Computer Shop to discuss on some deals with its sales agent regarding my school's laptops that were sent 3 months ago for repairs, and still be in repairing process, dunnot know when I could get them back while this school break is coming to its end!. Whoooohh... what a long sentence huh.

Signing off readers...

(written at unnamed computer center in Eastern Plaza Tawau)
07:48 pm

Lama sudah ku tidak memblog

2009-06-09T21:01:00.007+08:00

Assalamualaikum membuka bicara blog.

Saat ini sudah hampir dua bulan setengah, bersamaan tujuh puluh lapan hari, sejak posting ku yang terakhir. Dalam dua bulan ini aku begitu sibuk dengan pelbagai hal sama ada urusan kerja mahu pun peribadi.

Kini aku kembali..

Semalam aku bermimpi:

Di sebuah kawasan pergunungan yang ku rasa begitu asing, aku berdiri di antara dua tebing yang cuma dihubungkan dengan (kalau tidak salah aku) 3 buah jambatan gantung. Di antara tiga-tiga jambatan gantung itu aku lihat hanya ada satu sahaja yang nampaknya baru dan tidak pernah terusik. Manakala yang dua lainnya, yang pertama kelihatan usang dan begitu menyeramkan hendak menyeberangi menggunakkannya, dan yang kedua nampaknya stabil dan okay-okay saja seperti telah biasa menjadi laluan orang.

Di waktu itu, antara sedar dan tidak aku mamai, aku terfikir-fikir hendak melalui jambatan gantung yang mana satu. Sejenak aku terbayang-bayang jambatan siratul mustakim yang banyak dicerita oleh ramai alim ulama, segera ku matikan fikiran sebegitu kerana di hadapanku sekarang ada 3 buah jambatan gantung (kan siratul mustakim hanya ada satu saja). Kemudian datang lagi fikiran lain ke kotak minda ku, adakah jambatan ini ibarat jalan seperti di dalam puisi Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken yang pernah ku baca kira-kira 10 tahun yang lalu? Tapi setahuku dalam puisi puitis lagi bermakna itu jalan yang terbentang ada dua sahaja, bukannya tiga dalam situasi ku kini. Pening aku dibuat oleh 3 jambatan gantung ini.

Otakku ligat bermain dan bertikam minda mencari penyelesaian jambatan mana yang harusku tempuh. Three hanging bridges diverged to unknown directions, itulah yang kurasakan ketika itu. Aku nekad, maka kupilih jambatan gantung yang baru itu meskipun ku tak tahu kemana arah tujunya, I chose the one that was less travelled. Baru setengah jalan dalam 20 meter aku menyeberang jambatan gantung itu, tiba-tiba papan lantai jambatan itu terlepas dan aku sipi-sipi jatuh ke jurang. Separuh kaki kiriku terperosok masuk ke lubang itu sementara papan yang terlepas tadi terus terjerumus ke jurang yang ku tak tahu berapa kedalamannya.

Kemudian, aku bangkit perlahan-lahan dan dengan lebih berhati-hati aku berjalan terhuyung hayang cuba mengimbangi diri agar tidak jatuh sekali lagi. Dalam fikiranku, aku rasa aku telah memilih jambatan yang kurang tepat meskipun nampak elok pada zahirnya. Namun, aku mesti meneruskan perjalanan ku. Aku tak mungkin dapat berpatah balik, apatah lagi bahagian belakang jambatan ini sudah rosak. Aku nekad. Belum pun sempat aku meneruskan perjalanan untuk menyeberang jurang ini, tiba tiba mimpiku terhenti. Ya, mimpiku terhenti begitu sahaja.

Aku terbangun. Sampai sekarang ku pening mencari tamsil dan tafsir mimpi ini.

(Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.)

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveler, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

zamzairi

Items For IMMEDIATE SALE!

2009-03-22T00:55:00.004+08:00

I want to sale all these items immediately. Any interested buyers? :)

1. Sony Ericsson P1i (original set - refurbished) - negotiable price

2. Old Books

3. All-in-One HP printer

call me at 019-8715071 0r email me at zam_saf@yahoo.com

Djakarta Dong!

2008-12-14T18:26:00.010+08:00

Pak Soekarno was delivering his influential and revolutionary speech that had made people speechless. (this is just a miniature / replica)

Jakarta (a part only) viewed from 115 metres high MONAS Tower

This is my travelmate, Fadzli

Kayak Artis bukan!

Response To “Camry : Kerajaan Perak Tidak Patriotik” Utusan Malaysia 14 Dis 2008

2008-12-14T18:08:00.005+08:00

Respon terhadap laporan akhbar Utusan Malaysia bertajuk
“Camry : Kerajaan Perak Tidak Patriotik” 14 Disember 2008

Sebelum saya melanjutkan respon berkaitan laporan berita di atas, ada baiknya jika saya jelaskan definisi patriotisme itu sendiri. Menurut pandangan umum, patriotisme ditakrifkan sebagai cinta dan/atau kesetiaan seorang rakyat kepada negaranya. Perkataan ini diambil dari perkataan Latin , patria dan Greek ‘Patritha’. Walau bagaimanapun, “patriotisme” atau kecintaan kepada negara, telah mendapat takrifan yang pelbagai seiring dengan zaman. Asasnya, takrifan patriotisme sangat bergantung kepada konteks, geografi dan falsafah. Menurut Sarjana J Peter Euben yang menulis bahawa ahli falsafah yang terkenal iaitu Socrates berpendapat “patriotisme tidak menghendaki seseorang itu bersetuju dengan kesemua perkara yang dilaksanakan oleh negaranya dan akan sebaliknya hendaklah mengutarakan hujah dan persoalan analitikal dalam usaha menjadikan sesuatu yang lebih baik kepada negaranya. Dalam konsep falsafah Islam pula, seseorang muslim tidak boleh mengamalkan taqlid secara membabi-buta (istilah membabi buta wujud di dalam Kamus Dewan edisi ke-4 DBP) tanpa hujah dan alasan yang munasabah.

Saya berpendapat tindakan media ini adalah kurang bijak dan berat sebelah apabila mengecam usaha kerajaan Perak yang kononnya tidak patriotik, dalam hal meluluskan penggunaan kenderaan rasmi kerajaan iaitu Camry 2.4 berbanding Perdana V6 sebelumnya. Hal ini kerana, kajian analitikal telah dibuat dan mendapati kos penyelenggaraan Perdana V6 adalah lebih mahal dan membebankan berbanding kos keseluruhan sekiranya Camry 2.4 digunakan. Bukankah dengan jelas di sini kerajaan Perak berusaha untuk berhemat selaras dengan dasar berjimat cermat yang sering dilaung-laung oleh kerajaan pusat. Tambahan lagi, kerajaan Perak bersikap patriotik apabila menjalankan kajian terlebih dahulu dan bukannya mengamalkan budaya taqlid seperti kerajaan negeri sebelumnya. Pusat penyelenggaraan kereta seharusnya bertimbang rasa dan tidak memikirkan untung besar semata-mata. Usaha berhemat dalam berbelanja harus diamalkan oleh semua pihak tanpa mengira sama ada rakyat mahupun pemerintah.

Dalam sebuah negara yang mengamalkan sistem demokrasi berparlimen dan parti politik yang pelbagai (berbanding Amerika Syarikat yang mengamalkan sistem bipartisan), pihak pembangkang diharus dilihat sebagai musuh negara dan tindakan menghentam usaha mana-mana kerajaan parti pembangkang oleh kerajaan pusat (atau oleh ejennya), dilihat sebagai ketidakmatangan politik meskipun Malaysia telah mengecapi lebih 50 tahun kemerdekaan di bawah sistem berkerajaan yang sama .

Secara relatifnya, Malaysia berada di belakang negara-negara seperti Thailand, Filipina dan jiran serumpun Indonesia. Umum mengiktiraf rakyat negara-negara ini sebagai pejuang demokrasi dan mempunyai tahap patriotisme yang tinggi sehingga mampu menumbangkan pemerintah dan kerajaan yang korup dan zalim.

Di Jakarta, Indonesia misalannya, rata-rata teksi menggunakan kereta Toyota Corolla Altis kerana kualiti dan kos penyelenggaraan yang munasabah. Indonesia adalah negara yang dikategorikan sebagai negara miskin tetapi mampu menyediakan kemudahan awam bertaraf antarabangsa kepada rakyatnya yang jauh lebih baik berbanding Malaysia. Meskipun begitu, tahap patriotisme rakyat Indonesia tidak dapat dicabar dan kematangan berpolitik mereka amat tinggi meskipun rakyatnya mengendarai kenderaan import.

Kesimpulan, saya menyeru agar para wartawan dan pemberita agar lebih terbuka dan memikirkan sesuatu isu dengan lebih mendalam agar tulisan anda bukan sahaja mencelik akal malah mencelikkan hati nurani para pembaca. Budaya berbelanja secara boros mesti dihentikan serta merta dalam krisis ekonomi dunia masa kini. Tindakan mana-mana pihak untuk berhemat berbelanja hendaklah disokong dan bukannya dikecam.

Minda Pengarang (Ditulis di WarNet saat berada di Kota Jakarta Sentri, DKI Jakarta, Indonesia)

PMR Examination

2008-10-14T19:41:00.002+08:00

This year's PMR Examination, I am invigilating the 119 candidates of SMK Holy Trinity, Tawau Sabah.

Today is the second day of examination.

Nothing much to write about the examination, I just wanna wish all PMR candidates throughout Malaysia "Good Luck!" and"All the Best!".

And, to all PMR inviligators in Malaysia, happy invigilating and working....

Till then.. I'm signing off..

I'm really off now... zzz.... zzz.....

New Update

2008-10-04T21:39:00.003+08:00

Today, historically speaking, I have attended one in a hundred years event held in Dewan Masyarakat Tawau Sabah.

It was the first ever Kee's family gathering held after 100 years passed.

The details I will write on more at later days. But here are some short details about the event:

Date : 04 October 2008 (Saturday - 4th Raya Day)
Time : started as early as 7.00 am - finished as late as 3.00 pm
Venue : Tawau Community Hall (Dewan Masyarakat Tawau)
Participants : Kee's family members ( roughly about 1000 of them attended )
Officiated by : YB Datuk Haji Tawfiq Bin Datuk Seri Panglima Hj Abu Bakar Titingan ( a member of DUN Apas Tawau and also a Kee's family member)

Media coverage : Radio Television Malaysia (RTM), BERNAMA, Local newspapers.

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p/s I wish to meet all of you Kee's family members out there either face-to-face meeting or online meeting. IM or email me..

zam_saf@yahoo.com

Eid Mubarak @ Aidil Fitri 2008 - Day One

2008-10-04T21:13:00.003+08:00

"Salam Aidilfiri to all readers"

I am so sorry for not blogging for these couple of days since I was so busy with scheduled and un-scheduled hari raya visit this Aidilfitri 2008 (Eid Mubarak is the term used in the UK).

First Syawal dawn, awaken by Hari Raya Takbir from nearby village mosque, I hurriedly preparing myself for the raya prayer. That was raya morning and somehow I had sufficient energy to wake up early in the morning, the thing that I hate most but still live with it.

In my mind, I have made a long list of schedule of houses to attend for today, tomorrow and a day after tomorrow, and if I that list happened to be insufficient, I will add the list for few more days. Ermm, hari raya is meant for a month, isn't it?. My advice is to you who have the same list in your mind, you need to properly plan and schedule the raya visit so that no single soul will be broken if you failed to attend his or her house.

At 12.00 pm, I started to make my move according to schedule... It seems like I am quite an organised person, ain't I? No really, I am not really a kind of person who follows strictly to schedule but trust me, it helps to have a schedule. This is particularly helpful during this raya whereby we have so many houses to attend.

The first house that I went was...

to be continued/

Aidilfitri Eve 2008

2008-09-30T22:18:00.003+08:00

I have been receiving text messages all these past two days wishing me Hari Raya from my colleagues, staff, old friends and former boss.

In this raya's eve, my fingers are absolutely busy typing reply messages to them which each text message (SMS) costs me RM0.12 such expense I consider it as costly. Since I am currently subscribing to CELCOM Postpaid Executive Plan, I would prefer to make a call which costs RM0.15 per minute rather than texting somebody...

However, for this raya time I sacrificed a bit by typing text messages wishing my colleagues and friends "Happy Hari Raya, Maaf Zahir Batin", in a rhyming pantun some more.

Tomorrow is Hari Raya.. I cannot really wait any longer for the tomorrow's dawn. Tomorrow, I will be awaken by Raya Takbir (Praises to Allah), then prepare myself for Raya Prayer, and then approach my parents for asking forgiveness for all these years wrongdoings to them...

Fasting month had passed and it is time to celebrate the Eidilfitri, the victory to Moslems who had successfully performed their duty during Ramadhan..

.... to be continued...

Raya Shopping in Tawau

2008-09-28T20:41:00.000+08:00

Tawau, owh.. Tawau...

Tawau, a small yet rapidly developing town, has outshined Kota Kinabalu the capital city of Sabah in some definable ways. This is ultimately true in terms of number of vehicles on the Tawau roads! Roads here are no longer wide enough to cater the highly increasing number of motor vehicles in Tawau. To whom should the blame go to? The car manufacturers? The car sales agents who are so desperate to find car buyers even without a single cent as deposit ? The car buyers themselves who most of the times feel one car is not enough for them so they bought another car for the sake of self-gratification?...

In Tawau, it is not uncommon to have a long traffic jam caused by congested roads and you may observe a vehicle could only move an inch in every 15 minutes. Turn abouts are everywhere to find, and still it contributes to the traffic jam. Ironically, turnabouts should have released and eased the traffic jam, but the other way around happened!!

Local authority still in the process of figuring out ways to solve this problem. Meetings over meetings were held while out there the congested road and heavy traffic jam had worsened.

So please you people with authority (that's why they are called People of Authority), do something about this...

Just please do not make this festive season's Raya Shopping becomes Raya Congesting!

(Anyway, thanks a lot to Tawau Royal Malaysian Police, Traffic Unit who work hard to ease and monitor the Tawau traffic during this raya time. You earn my salute, officers!)

Happy Eidil Fitri

Historical Gathering in Tawau Story

2008-09-28T20:37:00.000+08:00

100 years had passed yet memories still remain.

I was long ago told by my mother that we are the descendants of Mr. Kee Kim Swee @ Kee Abdullah, person responsible for founding of Tawau, a town in Sabah (North Borneo) Malaysia. It is said that the development of modern Tawau (Tanjung) was entrusted to Mr. Kee's hands in 1895, as he was the first civil servant employed by British Government who administered Tawau during that time.

On this coming Eid-Fitri, on Oct 04, 2008, the first family gathering of Kee clan will be held at Tawau Community Hall and it is expected to be attended by some 2000 descendants of Mr. Kee. This kind of gathering has never been organised before since the departure of Mr.Kee about 100 years ago.Kee's family is syn0nymous with Tawau and Sabah history and many of his descendants rose to prominence in business field and public sector. To name a few, former Sabah State Secretary Datuk K.Y. Mustafa, Assistant Finance Minister Datuk Tawfiq Abu Bakar Titingan, Tawau District Chief O.K.K. Kee Mohd Ayub Kee Abu Bakar are all descendants of Mr. Kee Kim Swee who embraced Islam and changed his name into Kee Abdullah some 100 years ago.

To those Kee descendants out there, you need to attend this once-in-a-lifetime gathering that will make its own history!!

The organising chairman is Mr. Kee Hamid Kee Sulaiman.

Mohd Zamzairi Bin Nordin @ Nurdin
(Generation from Kee Hatifah Kee Abdullah)