It's been a long time since i wrote on this blog... sorry about that, a lot of things happened in the past few weeks, and i would like to write it all at once.

First, I had to work on my final year project, I had to do some programming and document it according to the progress. Then I have to prepare a presentation about it, and the presentation was presented and done.

Next, I had to go back home meet a family member which i haven't seen for 5 years. We talk, shop and eat for a couple of days and he had to go back. Its been fun and we catch up on each other's life, and he and i gotten fat a few pounds after that 3 days(we had to taste everything in town).

Then, I have to get my teeth fix. Ouch, that hurts! Now it's loads better than the previous half year. =p

Then, it's back to my hole here with my cat. He has gotten thin. HAHAHA.

And last but not least, today is a very noisy day. The residential district here is getting new roads. Each and every road, street, avenue, lane, backroads..... all are being fixed, bad ones and good ones, ALL. This shows the election is getting near.

A Politician's Blog

Recently, I've been visiting a blog of a politician's, member of Parliment for Seputeh, YB Teresa Kok from DAP, it's really helpful for us to know what's going on in the Parliment and there's one particular topic that I would like to share with you all.

Women MPs dress down PS

December 6th, 2006 by Teresa

The DAP’s women MPs had one helluva firefight with the Parliamentary Secretary of Home Affairs, Abdul Rahman bin Ibrahim (Pokok Sena), over RELA this afternoon.

When PKR’s Wan Azizah, Fong Kui Lun (DAP - Bukit Bintang) and I raised the issue of abuse of power of RELA officers, the BN MPs were more interested to know when will they be conferred the title of kolonel that can lead RELA in their constituency.

The Parliamentary secretary said only BN MPs will be kolonels. That’s it. Time for action. Chong Eng, Po Kuan and I made a big fuss over this pathetic decision.

I asked the Parliamentary Secretary whether the BN MP who head RELA in their constituency will be sacked if RELA members abuse their power.

The Parliamentary Secretary seemed a bit nervous when we made big noise in the Dewan Rakyat.

The speaker, Lim Si Cheng, tried to help him by asking him to skip the topic and asked him how many minutes more he needed. He asked for 10 minutes and refused to allow intervention from us. He then continued and replied all our speeches till 6.30pm. He became more steady when we women MPs stopped making noise

Ucapan YB Teresa Kok, Ahli Parlimen Seputeh Dalam Perbahasan Peringkat Jawatankuasa Kementerian Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri Pada 6 Disember 2006

020000 Pendaftaran Pertubuhan

010000 Pengurusan dasar hal ehwal dalam negeri

Surat Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan Selangor Yang Jahil Terhadap Pindaan Perlembagaan DAP

Konvensyen DAP pada 19 Mac 2006 telah meluluskan pindaan terhadap Perlembagaan parti kami. Selepas kami membentangkan pindaan ini kepada Jabatan Pendaftaran Pertubuhan di Selangor, kami menerima surat daripada Jabatan tersebut yang menghendaki kami menjelaskan objektif dalam perlembagaan DAP. Ini termasuk maksud `secular document’ dalam Preamble, selain itu kami diminta memberi penjelasan tentang objektif:

i) To strive by parliamentary means for the establishment o a social democracy in Malaysia;

ii) To reaffirm and restore the Malaysian Constitution in its original secular framework as the supreme law of the land which respects democratic values and basic human rights that gives every Malaysian citizens equal and equitable rights;

iii) To promote an ASEAN community based on good governance, democracy and respect of human rights and to preserve the region as a nuclear free region revolving around peace, freedom and neutrality;

iv) To promote expand and enlarge democracy at all levels, particularly restoring local government elections, to give form and substance to people empowerment and participation in decision-making based on the principles of equality, free, fair and independent electoral process as well as freedom of the press.

Kami rasa amat hairan untuk menerima surat yang menanya isu seperti ini dan soalan seperti ini memang susah dijawab. Ayat dan perkataan dalam Perlembagaan DAP ini boleh didapati di mana-mana dokumen antarabangsa, dan ini bukannya isu baru. Jadi saya menyeru pihak kementerian supaya menghantar lebih pegawai yang membuat keputusan penting untuk menyertai kursus dan latihan samada di dalam ataupun di luar negeri demi menambah pengetahuan dan `general knowledge’ para pegawai ini, supaya surat seperti ini tidak dikeluarkan oleh mereka yang mana menjejaskan imej kementerian juga.

Selain itu, saya juga ingin minta jabatan pendaftaran pertubuhan boleh memberi lebih ruang dan kebebasan kepada persatuan untuk merangka dan meminda perlembagaan persatuan mereka dan jangan mengadakan gangguan atas perlembagaan mereka.

Filem LELAKI KOMUNIS TERAKHIR

Saya ingin tanya kenapakah filem dokumentari tempatan Lelaki Komunis Terakhir yang diarah oleh Amir Muhamad yang diluluskan oleh bahagian penerbitan dan kawalan filem, tetapi diharamkan oleh kementerian selepas itu? Kesemua ahli parlimen telahpun dijemput untuk menonton tayangan filem tersebut oleh Menteri kebudayaan, kesenian dan warisan, kami yang telah menonton filem ini mendapati tiada apa-apa masalah pada filem ini kerana ia adalah sebuah filem dokumentari hiburan, yang ada masalah ialah pengkritik yang tidak pernah menonton filem itu. Apa yang menghairankan saya ialah kenyataan oleh YB Menteri, beliau dilaporkan berkata keputusan samada menayang filem ini terletak pada UMNO. Bilakah keputusan yang sepatutnya dibuat oleh pihak kementerian terjatuh pada UMNO? Bukankah ini menunjukkan kekeliruan tentang tanggungjawab parti dan kementerian? Memandangkan pihak kementerian masih belum meluluskan penayangan filem Lelaki Komunis Terakhir sehingga hari ini, apakah rasional kementerian untuk mengharamkan tayangan filem tempatan ini? Bukankah ini salah satu bentuk sekatan terhadap kreativiti dan kebebasan penghasilan seni dan filem?

Sehubungan dengan itu, media online Malaysiakini telahpun memohon lesen untuk mengeluarkan akhbar harian, tetapi permohonan mereka masih belum diluluskan sehingga hari ini, apakah sebabnya?

RELA

Apakah peranan dan tanggungjawab RELA? Sejak Kementerian Dalam Negeri memberi kuasa kepada RELA untuk menahan pendatang asing tanpa izin, kita lihat kes dan aduan tentang keganasan dan kekerasan yang dilakukan oleh anggota RELA pun semakin meningkat. Ramai anggota RELA yang tidak pernah menjalani apa-apa bentuk latihan seperti pasukan polis, kadang-kadang berlagak seperti gangster. Keadaan ini adalah amat nyata apabila mereka menjalankan serbuan untuk menangkap pendatang asing tanpa izin.

Saya pernah menerima aduan di mana anggota RELA melayan pendatang asing tanpa izin seperti binatang, mereka pecah masuk ke rumah warga asing, pukul dan cederakan mereka, kemudian mengheret mereka ke pusat tahanan imigresen. Dalam operasi jenis ini, terdapat anggota RELA yang menahan pelarian yang memegang surat UNHCR dan juga pekerja asing ataupun pembantu rumah yang mempunyai dokumen rasmi, kadang-kadang, mereka malah menahan warga asing dan pelawat yang mempunyai visa dan passport yang sah. Saya pernah menerima aduan di mana mereka malah masuk ke rumah warga Malaysia dan mengheret pembantu rumah Indonesia yang passportnya disimpan oleh majikan ke pusat tahanan Imigresen. Selain itu, kita juga terdengar tentang anggota RELA menerima rasuah daripada pendatang asing untuk mengelakkan penahanan.

Dalam kes rompakan microchip yang bernilai RM50 juta di Batu Maung Free Commercial Zone pada 20 November tahun ini, 4 daripada 20 perompak ini berpakaian pakaian seragam RELA,

Soalan saya:

— berapa ganjaran diperolehi oleh anggota RELA yang berjaya menahan pendatang asing tanpa izin?

— apakah tindakan yang diambil oleh kementerian terhadap keganasan yang dilakukan oleh anggota RELA? Apakah mereka diberi lesen untuk melakukan keganasan dan kekerasan secara bebas?

When I see this blog, I commented on it:

Jacq

I have always wondered, if we women wear clothes that are so called “inappropriate” in Malaysia but are often seen as conservative in Japan, China and most western countries, why do women in those countries do not have to take the blame for wearing them when rape cases and sexual harrasments happens but instead we as a developing country still do? Are Malaysians moving forward or backwards? Are we suppose to expect that in the future, we women no matter bumiputras or non-bumiputras, have to cover from head to toe?

I once seen a comic that shows a female Muslim covering from head to toe(except for a pair of eyes) with the sign in front “Do not look” and a hot-looking female beside with the sign in front “Do not touch”. Which female represent Malaysia? Easy to guess, I vote the first.

Does what a woman wear really triggers the male to violate the woman’s body or the morality that are lacking in our society? The rape case of the malay university student in the bus so many years ago seems to have slipped most minds. Her death that once shocked our country is a good reminder not to let history repeat itself. Now that the shock has passed, maybe those ignorants will once again be reminded and proven wrong if another similar incident happen again. Well, they are used to that and are making a habit of it anyway.

The next day, another comment on my comment came up:

benmaarof

Jacq,

You are either naive, ignorant or in denial.

Women gets raped because the perpetrators were aroused. Not necessarily by the victims themselves. Some of them were just at the wrong place and at the wrong time. In the case of the bus driver who rapes his head covered, modestly dressed victim, he must have been aroused by other women from other sources. Maybe from watching those sexy actresses from Hindi movies, maybe from sexy miniskirt wearing amois in public. His victim was a victim of convinience. She was alone, he was aroused (probably from other source), he was stronger and she was unlucky.

Sexy women affects men. Maybe not outright porn but ’sikit2, lama2 jadi bukit.’

Perverts, deviants and sex crazed and starved men do exist in our society. Please don’t deny their existence and add fuel to the fire.

The more sexy women there are out there in the public and in the media, the more will there be aroused local (mat rempits, recently released ex-convicts etc) and immigrant men (Indons, Bangla etc). Some of those aroused local and immigrant men might even live, work or lepak near where our daughters or sisters or wives or girl friends or nieces lived, worked or lepaked.

Do you really want out there more aroused men mingling with our female loved ones?

Sexy women aroused men. Maybe not all men, but more sexy women statistically means more aroused men.

Rapists are all aroused men. Maybe not all aroused men becomes rapists, but the more aroused men out there means the more some of them might just lose all sense of reason and decency.

It’s just a matter of Statistics and Probability.

Do the math. Please. For you and your loved ones.

I was furious when I saw that I was verbally attacked, but I calm my nerves down and wrote another comment on his comment:

Jacq

benmaarof,

Thank you for your reminder on the safety of myself and to other female population.

I know and understand what you are trying to convey, however, I do not totally agree nor totally disagree on it.

Men are aroused when they see women with skimpy clothings. Of course, we all know that. But does that makes them right to attack the woman or other woman in that matter?

There’s an article in SinChew that said, if a woman’s dressing is to be blamed for a man’s decision to violate her or other woman’s body, then what about if I drive a BMW? Do I have to take the blame for the car jacker to steal my car because I have a valuable car and I opt to display it openly? And what if I stay in a banglo? Does that mean that I lure thieves to my house? Are we in the wrong place at the wrong time too? Same concept my friend.

When a man violate a woman’s body without her permission, he is lacking self-discipline, self-control and respect for others. All these are ethical values that sadly our society is showing a decrease. No other people are to take the blame and certainly not the victim but only the one who is responsible for his actions.

You have said that aroused men might be all around us, where we live, work or lepak. For me, I would take precautions and be more aware of my surroundings, maybe be prepared of anything that might happen(holding a pepper spray in my hands or a penknife) but I would certainly not restrict myself to clothings that portrays my character. That does not mean women wear sexily all the time but the right for us to wear appropriate clothings for appropriate occasions, men or women.

Maybe you do not agree to my point of view, I believe the Ministry in Kelantan do not too. I’m neither a big shot in the Ministry nor involve in any politics so all this are going down the drain anyway. But I am neither naive, ignorant nor in denial but just a normal woman trying to survive in the society and strive for basic human rights.

p/s: I do not make personal attacks to anyone because I am hoping that others will do the same. Thank you.

Please tell me that I am right in this, if I am wrong, I am very VERY disappointed in this country.

P/S: The blog's address is http://teresakok.com/

Das Kleine Krokodil - Schnappi

Das Kleine Krokodil - Schnappi This song originates from German, it is the song for a cartoon call The Little Crocodile(translated to English from German "Das Kleine Krokodil"). It's been a hit throughout Europe to US and all of this is because a 4 year old likes to make the sound schnap that inspired her mommy to write this song. This song is being played on a TV programme advertisement, I heard it and thought that it's so cute though I dunno whether it's english or not(I thought it's Chinese coz the first verse seems like it). So anyway, hope you all enjoy it, if you like the song a lot, i have the mp3 that you can save it as ringtone. I'll upload it later.

More Pictures of Didi

This is didi when he's about 3 months old, he's so active that i can't get a good shot with the handphone camera, so i have to trap him between my legs to get a steady snap.

These pics are taken when I'm mopping the floor, try to look at each pic seperately and do it repeatedly about 5/6 times, you'll see what I see at that momment.

I wrote before that didi can be very fierce looking when he's not in the mood right? well, i have to catch him at it and look how his eyes stare at me!

Now that didi can perfectly jump from high tables and cupboards(thanks to my everyday training), i am training him not to be scared of heights when he is positioned at a place where he can't balance himself properly. He's still pretty much scared of heights, phobia by the looks of it. I think it'll take him years to cure, but not to worry i'm doing my best to train him. : D!

书展

昨天我去了一个书展，这是我身平去过最大的书展，令我惊讶，震撼。整个书展就像我去过无数次的 PC FAIR, 即大又多样化。我看着那一排排的书，很是让我兴奋，我有个梦想，那就是我以后有个礼堂般大的图书馆，排着无数的书直至顶端，窗口边有个大沙发，任我舒服的看书，看累了抬头一望就看到一片草原，远处有几座山围绕着。哎呀，连想都在流口水了！

回归正题，这次的书展真的非常成功，男女老少都可看见，很多家庭带着大大小小的来看书。 最让我感动的是，这个是个中文书展，却连别的种族人士也来参观，这证明了华文在现代的社会上扮演了多重要的角色啊！

我在那一叠叠的书堆中，不知不觉已过了6个小时，肚子也在打鼓了，只好对书本说拜拜，头脑“满载而归”的上回家的路程。

期待着下届的书香国际中文书展呢！

http://www.wcb.com.my/

无聊的一天

昨晚又睡不好。

这两个星期已是如此，就算一闭眼就睡着，却进入奇奇怪怪的梦境，一晚就可梦见好几个。偶尔从梦中惊醒，在倒头回去睡时，却又发了另一个奇怪的梦。虽然醒来时已把晚上发的梦忘得一干二净，也因为这些梦而睡足了7个小时，可是精神上却没得到足够的睡眠，害我一整天都懒懒散散，头脑也不起劲！救命啊！

还好我这个学期不须上学，只需呆在家里，做project，偶尔忙一忙家务，或与朋友出去走走， 一星期一次去找讲师。对我这闲空的时间，你一定想，根本就不用愁嘛！！错！！我每天都必须喝至少一杯咖啡，不然我的头疼得很呢！一到了晚上9点，身体就累得不可开交，想一躺就睡到天亮，可是无论我多疲惫，还是一晚发5，6 个梦， 真烦！

所以咖啡现在对我很重要，不只是普通的咖啡哦，要是白咖啡，因为白咖啡沟浓，喝了能提神至少3个小时，对我这种喝了普通咖啡也睡得呼呼大叫的人，实在是太好不过了。因为开始喝白咖啡，让我今天我发现了一个秘密。

你知道mocha 就是咖啡与米禄泡在一杯对吧？可你又是否知道是要用白咖啡与米禄泡在一杯才是正确的呢？ 哈哈，只因我与白咖啡有缘，所以它让我知道了这天大的秘密！

真无聊。。。。。。

我有一只笨猫咪

对不起,我是用电话的摄影机来拍的,很模糊.....

这些照片是弟弟3个月大的时候,现在已经5个月大了, 时间过得真快, 可是它还是那么的笨. 为什么说它笨? 我的猫怕高, 可说是得了惟高疹. 每当把它抱起来(差不多有1米高吧), 他就叫个不停, 爪也都伸了出来, 稍微摇一下就用它尖尖的指甲抓住我, 如果不是我的衣服隔着, 肯定把我的敏感部位都抓伤了, 当然我的手就没那么的辛运了. 我还尝试放它在橱顶上, 它半步都不敢动, 只懂得用它那刺耳的叫声叫个不停. 我想要训练它的胆量, 就一手把它推下. 人人都说猫怎么掉都会脚先落地, 他们错了, 我的猫不会. 结果"抨"一声, 它的背部先着落, 翻一番身就跑到一个角落躲起来, 似乎怕我再次找它麻烦. 我当然没那么快放弃, 试了好多次才成功让它正确的跳下来. 你应该会想那么它不再怕高了吧, 又错! 还是怕高, 可是至少现在懂得跳. 所以我每天都会放它在橱顶,练一练它的胆量. 很变态对不对?

我的猫除了不会跳下来, 也不会跳上去或跳远距离. 他是会跳一点点, 可是却跳得很辛苦, 似乎太胖了, 没力气承担自己的体重. 我想来想去, 只想出一个结论, 那就是它没有运动. 因为我没让它出房间, 怕它受不了外面花花丽丽的引诱, 一出去就不会来, 所以一直都把它关在房间里面. 长期在这小小的空间, 只懂得吃, 玩 ,和睡, 也难怪它越来越胖啦! 所以我得照顾它吃的分量, 不能让他吃太多, 早上泡半杯的牛奶让它从早上到下午都能喝(它每次都只喝一点点), 晚上睡觉前才让它吃一些猫饼干, 偶尔我吃不下的食物就让它吃, 不算残忍吧! 现在总算平衡得多, 唯一不好就是它一直喊饿, 弄得我不耐烦也让它受了不少皮肉之苦(因为我生气起来就拿藤条打他). 离题了....我怎么训练它跳高, 哈哈很容易嘛, 放它的食物高一点不是行了吗?! 我把它的碗放在盒子上,有大概半米之高, 它要吃就得跳上去才吃得到. 至于跳远距离, 这个太难解释了, 总而言之我有办法啦!

我的朋友经常说, 我的猫很凶, 它的那双眼睛可会瞪人呢! 心情不好就会咬人, 真是一个坏猫. 我也认为如此, 可是它不太敢咬我, 因为咬我的后果就是要挨打, 所以它只能瞪着我. 这也不能怪它, 因为有其主人必有其猫, 连我睡觉的样子都像我了, 更何况是脾气. 我睡觉时眼睛是经常没有合闭的, 通常都会留一个缝, 嘴巴也是. 有一天我那只猫正睡得很熟, 我看它的眼睛没合上, 嘴巴又留一个缝, 我就去逗它, 怎知怎么逗它也逗不醒, 才知这只猫跟主人一样, 睡得像烂猪! 又离题了....要我证明我的猫很凶, 就得拍下来它那坏样子. 找机会吧!

还有一样能说我的猫笨, 就是它会忘记了我. 我有一次假期, 回去2个星期左右, 就托我的朋友照顾它. 怎知回来时, 它竟然不知道主人是谁, 嗅一嗅我的脚后, 又跑回去跟我的朋友, 简直气死我了! 必须过了2, 3天才认回我这个真正的主人 , 说它笨一点也没错, 对不对?

JerryC Canon Rock

For those who love Canon In D, this is the original composer for Canon In D rock version, check it out....