Archive for April, 2007

TOP OF THE TABLE, CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS!!! GO MANCHESTER UNITED GO!!!

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

aku admit, my favourite EPL football team -MANCHESTER UNITED, astonishingly fought back from one or two goals down by their rivals, in these last couple of games. Truly amazing! Game dengan AC Milan aku dapat tengok live kat Channel SBS di Melbourne ni. The other one tadak live telecast, so I just followed the life commentary via MU website.

MU vs Milan - Really frightened with double goals from Kaka in the first half that made MU one goal down, even Ronaldo scored a great goal in the fifth minute of the game. Aduuuu, takkan MU nak strended b4 final Champions Cup untuk kali entah keberapa since 1999’s glory??? arghhh takuuuut, hormon adrenaline bergerak laju ke sekitar kapilari darah, otot2 biceps dan triceps, dan kelenjar pituitari aku! Tengok second half memang buat aku tak senang duduk kat Albert Street nih (local time - 5.30 am!). But, thanks to Rooney with his 2 ‘astalavista’ beauty goals included the additional time punya goal…MU beat AC Milan with 3-2! At, least adalah bekal nak bawak ke San Siro nanti. Tapi aku risau jugak, sebab 3-2 result doesn’t really means MU is safe! Rossoneri under Ancelotti cuma perlu score 1-0 aje dah cukup,  2 away goals at Old Trafford are more than enough. Come on MU, dapat seri kosong2 pun jadilah. San Siro is nothing, takdak apa2 spell or curse yang akan menghalang…as long as the team dapat bertahan…sure kita ke Champs League’s Final !

MU vs Everton- Goodison Park yang dulu jadi stadium keramat Rooney ‘the Blues former hero’, sekali lagi jadi stadium keramat Rooney the Wazza. MU fought back from 2 to nothing…memang astonishing. Stubb and Fernandes’ scores really made me think that, Chelsea will easily get the crown of EPL Champ! I also wondered why Ronaldo wasn’t in the first eleven? Lepas O’Shea scored the first goal, Ronaldo masuk–Lega…The table turns and MU added another three, thanks to own goal from x-MU defender (Phil Neville-makaceh eh?), Wazza and consolation goal of Eagles. Splendid! 0-2 then 4-2… aku terkinja2 depan bini aku yang baru nak tido (local time 11.15 pm). To add the sweetness of MU’s glory, the tightest rival draw 2-2 with Bolton. Thanks Bolton!

Now the gap add up to 5 vital points, with only 3 games remaining. The prediction–MU just need to win one and draw one, even the tightest rival win all their games after this, MU will be crowned with the EPL League Champ! that was just a smooth-to-be assumption. Hope everything will follow exactly what we ‘the die hard fan of MU’ predicted and dreamed from the beginning of this season…MU ada fat chance untuk dapat 3 championships- Barclay Premiership, English FA Cup and Champions League. ‘The tightest rival’ dah jadi rival untuk the first and second champs for sure. But I bet you for the third champ pun maybe will be bitwin MU and ‘the tightest rival’ jugak if both of the teams beat Milan and Liverpool respectively. Takpalah, just wait and see. Pada aku dapat even one champs pun kira caaaannnteeekkk dah.

Haiii MU kipas-susah-mati, mari kita terus support MU. Mari kita doa si tua bangka Sir Alex Ferguson dapat another precious token of life that will again colors more bright pictures of MU’s Glory!!!!!   

p/s: bini aku tak support MU sebab aku support MU…adaka patut????

Homesick Housewife…

Monday, April 16th, 2007

It’s really a scarce thing ever happened since day 1 we were here at Albert St— TO HEAR JULIE SOBBING! Julie noiselessly cries and tried her best to hide it from me… but she couldn’t. I’m quite shocked, grasped her onto my shoulder. ‘Rinduuu kat rumah..’ she whispered. Alaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ciannya dia. I predicted she felt homesick because at that moment, she had nothing to do!!! Yeah, there’s nothing wrong to have that feeling sayang. Heheheheh… Don’t worry sayang, I bet you, everybody felt the same emotion when they missed somebody, something. I am also included in the list. Perhaps, different people will show different kind of expressions. For instance, whenever I feel the homesick malady (‘malady’ maybe fit to the concept I think- cause it could be easily healed or sometimes could be deteriorated!!!) I always endeavoured to imagine that, those people or places that I missed so much are not so far away, anytime we could angkat kaki, and..chow! Some people they prefer to eventful themselves with activities like gardening, chit-chatting wif acquaintances, watching tv, and majority will choose…eating! Bustle our physical and mind with those stuffs seem to be effective I supposed. So, that’s why I always tried to give Julie more time for herself. More time for her to enjoy her life, notwithstanding that she carries her responsibilities as a wife and a mother for her family here in

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. Indeed, it doesn’t matter f I’m studying at home or at the campus, still she’s the one who did everything-laundry, cooking, tiding up the house, it just everything! I really have no other choice rather than gummed my eyes on the notebook’s screen for most of the time. She looks happy with herself and with those works, nevertheless deep in her heart, Just Allah Taala knows. Sometimes I knew that she was really exhausted, but still she concealed it with smiles. What a precious gift Allah has granted me!! Don’t worry sayang, I will always and forever appreciate your sacrifices and your willingness to be by my side all the time by no means certain! May Allah shows us the right path in this dunia yang fana and our life hereafter…JULIE, YOU ARE MY ABSOLUTE FANTASTIC INSPIRATION AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH DOLU2 KINI DAN SELAMA-LAMA-LAMA-LAMA-LAMANYA!!!!

THE BENEFITS OF WEBCAM!

Thursday, April 12th, 2007

Ingat lagi masa kecik2 tengok gambar2 sendiri dalam album, rasa seronok…ini ke muka aku? Comelnyerrr (dun wori I’m not truly opinionated to this statement… heheheh!). Oooo, this is my body stature viewed by others. Flabbergasted then, when I saw my own moving sculpture on tv (via video recording). Oooo, this is my gesticulation every time people gaze at me (or stare for hours…hehehehe!). That were possibly my views about looking at myself portray thru those means, at those child and adolescent’s age. Now, media technology and contraption really help me on getting in the vicinity of others, especially with those I love soooooo much, sapa lagi kalo tak femililaaa… B4 we come here to Melbourne, we bough a handycam with manifold purposes like: incarcerate our daily life here..chewah, capture Reena’s development from time to time, show our family our alluring and enthralling journey to anywhere here in Australia, and so forth. The most important thing for me is I want to motivate my siblings and my fellow students to trail the same opportunity that I had, to be like here in Melbourne or anywhere around the orb, cari ilmu sambil timba pengalaman duduk di Negara orang. Kan BEST?

Then, Julie and I also bought a webcam. Almaklumla, itu teknologi sudah berkembang luas, why not we use those inventions for our benefit, kan? Dapatla nak lepaskan rindu tengok muka mak ayah, adik2 kita live, even we are separated thousands of miles. But, sadly to know when the webcam corrupted! Tak boley guna! Bengang seh… setakat nak dekat dua bulan ni Cuma dapat chat ajelah dgn diorg thru YM. Harini, masa kuar lepas beli tempe kat Laguna, aku jumpa satu kedai PC, aku nekad-NAK BELI WEBCAM SATU LAGI. Balik rumah, terus install…after everything had been fixed up, happenstance on the same time, ayah appeared online in YM. Terrruuusss…aku try call and set up the camera. Initially, there were some predicaments and trouble shootings occurred. After a while, ALHAMDULILLAH nampak muka mak ayah, Ira dan Aireen (CIKENES- nick name untuk aireen, abbreviation of MAKCIK KENCING MANIS…dia kalau masak suka bebeno memanis2 tau, masak sayur pun nak letak gula!mati cepat la aku sebab kencing manis…taubat, taubat!). This is the very first time their live moving images appeared in front of our eyes. Terharuuuu… Tapi diorang more excited to spot Reena rather than anak menantu diorang nih..cheh! heheheh, Reena tido tak bergerak2…pun diorg tak kasik alih kamera, apa da.

Takpalah, after this alhamdulillah bolehlah buat live telecast as much as we desire so. Kalau gigi reena tumbuh nanti pun diorg boleh tengok, atau kalau Julie dah makin tembam sok, diorang boleh tengok progressnya, or if I put on muscles at every part of my body, puuuuunn they can witness it! Truly I admit, Gemereh kini taklah jauh lagi di mata, dan di hati!!!! It’s just better if we could also view Julie’s parents and siblings online…but, that opportunity still in a state of indistinctness…harap2 adalah peluangya nanti Insya Allah… ooo..just wanna share with all of you folks- yesterday was our ulangtahun yang ke 64 bulan declared jadi kekasih, 30 bulan engaged, 16 bulan get married, and 4 months and 5 days dapat NIESREENA. Best tak figures nih? Ikut calendar Masihi, every 11th day in every month, itulah hari yng membuatkan kami akan berlumba2 wish antara satu sama lain, tengok sape menang wish untuk bulan tu. Nampak bongok, tapi pada kami itulah our lifestyle. Crazy but fun!

2ND ASSIGNMENT

Monday, April 9th, 2007

Last week, attended 2nd academic meeting wif Pauline and Susanne. Reviewing my first task done a week before that, and alhamdulillah both of them looked so satisfied with my job done (to this extent). On that day, the three of us coordinating and structuring my studying plan until the last date I supposed to berambus from La Trobe Uni. Tentatively, everything looks perfect and positive. 1st year of study- cram up my life with readings, literature reviews, journals, theses, articles and all those academic papers. Create my study module and pilot study on some variables. With regards to the school’s seminar probably in March next year-I’ve been asked to prepare and present a paper. Wah, seronok. Memang seronok nak buat mat2 salleh terkebil2 tengok aku wat presentation dengan condition: 20% paham 80% tak paham. Good proportion at least kan? Daripada tak paham langsung? Heheh.. 2nd year of study- still with the lit.reviews and data collection. Basically these time will require me to be back to Malaysialah, coz my context of study were universities in Malaysia. Syoklah anak bini aku dapat balik tanahair. Seronok jugaklah atok2 dan pakcik makcik Reena, dapat main2 dgn cucu.Aku? for sure ‘seronok’ jalan2 satu melesia disseminate questionnaires..masaklah. 3rd year of study…hmmm ini memang tahap pecah kepala lah jugak pada aku- interpreting raw data statistically. Aku cadang2 nak wat correlation dah tentu, multiple regression, dan conjoint analyses…to this degree everything looks masuk akal untuk dibuat. But, dunno when the time comes, maybe I need to think of implement a greater style of data analyses such as factor analyses f there’s any existence of variable interdependence; or cluster analysis or multi dimensional analisys if there is any inter object similarity. Nengoklah nanti. Aku buka hebat sangat stat nih, SPSS nih really makes us SENANG LENANG. So, pakai jelah teknologi ni untuk jimat masa analisis data. There’s one Japanese PhD student sini yang dah 2 semester tangguh becoz of Data Analysis…eiii takutnya dengar kan? Aku? Peduli hape! Belum tiba masanya maa..at least I knew it earlier, so that sesiaplah dengan all the weapons available. Heheheh…cakap besar. And to conclude my study, I will present another paper maybe in one big international conference, that’s what Pauline told me…seram sejuk?Pedulik…

Then, in that meeting, I got another assignment…bestnya. Key Drivers and challenges of Malaysian University academics. Kenalah aku baca Malaysian Plan dulu2 sampailah MP9. Kenalah tengok social, political and economic policies in malaysia. Kenalah gak tengok influences of those policies on academics…sini nak cari bahan2 macam limited aje. So, adelah alasan nak balik melesia kan? kan? kan? heheheh…aku balik bagitau julie…kemain bersorak lagi dia…Reena? dia buat tak tau aje…

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Julie dan Reena…both of them look fabulous and wonderful. Julie dah terror cakap bahasa Vietnam rather than English itself..heheheh.Mana tak asyik mingle dgn minah2 vietnam kat umah ni…hehehhe..Reena? baru baik demam sebab coz of her immunisation (inject ler) last 4 days. Sabolah engko duorg eh…tinggal lagi 2 tahun 10 bulan je nak abeh seksa dok sini..seksa ke ekk?

Peace on Earth!!!