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Assalaamualaikum,

Mulai hari ni aku nak wujudkan satu corner yang menceritakan segala ragam dalam family sbelah Opah Kalsom aku. Bukan niat aku nak membuka keaiban orang lain tapi adalah sebagai pengajaran dan hiburan and I find it amusing when we all (sepupu sepapat, adik beradik, pakcik makcik, anak-anak sedara, cucu cicit… semua lah !) berkumpul bersama-sama.. sentiasa adaa je bahan untuk dijadikan santapan gelak ketawa…

oh man, how I wish I’ve always had a videocam to record our every "reunion"… hahahah..!!

tungguuu….!!!

..campur hari ni, tinggal 12 hari lagi kita berpuasa..

yesterday, aku dah start staying at rumah sewa baru, which is aA LOT nearer to my workplace. But somehow the travelling time is almost the same..(why aaa?) . aku keluar rumah pukul 6:45, sampai tempat keje pukul 7:00.. takes about 15 mins.. Dulu aku keluar kul 6:30 and dalam 6:50 dah sampai.. 20 mins kan tak jauh beza tu? It’s because of the DAMN road construction that I have to pass through from my new rumah sewa… Lambat sikit je JEM la nkau… bile laa Penang nak free from construction.. adaaaa je mende baru nak buat.. memeningkan kepala aku je la…

by the way this is my new "home" now…

Tengah dok rilek-rilek ni, teringat pulak journey aku balik cuti selama aku berada di tempat orang. Banyak dugaan woo, tapi memang best la sepanjang perjalanan. Apa yang bestnye aku pun tak tau.. tapi, memang seronot..

Aku mula "merantau" start dari Form 1 lagi. Parents aku kat penang dan aku sekolah Asrama kat Seberang Perai. Walaupun dekat, perjalanan balik takes about 2 hours jugak.. Tu la first time merasa balik bersendirian untuk beraya kat rumah..

Next was Form 4-5 kat Perlis. It takes 4 hours by bus. Ni la first experience book tiket bas ekspress, balik ramai-ramai ngan kengkawan, ish seronok la pulak.. Pastu next year kitorang charter satu bas untuk budak Penang. Riuh rendah satu bas aku habaq kat hang..

Next was UMKL - Penang. Makin jauh sedikit demi sedikit. Tiap-tiap hari akan ada one from our group pegi survey tiket dah start jual ke belum. Stesen Pudu memang cam Tin Sadin cap Ayam kalo time tiket raya dah start jual. Sepanjang aku dok KL memanjang dapat bas tambahan jek, siap Pahamin Rejab (pengarah JPJ masa tu, skang AirAsia) dengan topi koboinya turun dtg check bas lagi.. dah le nunggu cam nak gile, tiket pukul 11, pukul 2 baru berebut-rebut naik bas. Bas Sekolah pulak tu.. Takpe.. Janji sampai.. takes about 8 jam baru sampai Penang..

Next was the furthest, Japan, land of the rising sun. Raya puasa tak dapat balik pasal tak cuti, isk, isk, isk, uwaaaa…!!! raya alakadar ngan member je.. Tapi Raya AidilAdha balik gak, kena time cuti sebulan.. naik flight woo.. abis duit scholarship aku sebulan buat tambang balik.. 6 jam kemudian landing kat Airport Bayan Lepas.. ok la, tak serabut cam yang dulu-dulu nyer journey..

Most adventurous journey will be from Johor. At this moment parents aku dah pindah dok Tepeng. Aku pernah drive dari Johor pukul 5 petang, sampai Tepeng pukul 8 pagi esoknya.. 15 jam punya perjalanan.. dengan jemnya, berenti kat RnR lagi (sampai 5-6 kali), kereta pun buat hal, tapi enjoy jugak sebab kitorang balik berlima.. kurang-kurang tak le asik aku sorang je drive..

Once aku pernah balik raya AidilAdha ngan bas ekspress ngan member aku sorang nih. Trip nyaris-nyaris kensel sebab bas takde permit. dah la kitorang tunggu bas 3 jam, pukul 1 pagi baru sampai, pastu banyak kerenah plak tokey kompeni tu, takmo jalan la hapa la.. last-last ada sorang aunty India tu membebel kat tokey bas tu, kitorang senyap je, and bas pun start the journey.. sampai balik aku gelak sensorang, yang muslim nak balik raya nye tak banyak cakap, aunty India tu pulak yang lebih-lebih.. heheheh.. Buat ITA, lepas ni takde dah our journey together..

This year, aku dah balik Penang. so, journey from Penang to Taiping wont take that long.. I HOPE..!!

And luckily, my boss signed my leave application on Friday the 12th, one day before raya, tu yang berkobar-kobar sangat tu..!!!

apa-apa pun, abiskan pose tu dulu.. Aaamiiiiiiiinn..

Pagi tadi tetiba semua staff opis aku berebut2 nak apply cuti hari Jumaat sbelum raya, sebabnye boss aku ada kuota application yg dia akan sign… maka berduyun-duyunlah rakyat Engineering Department menghantar application masing-masing… entah lulus entah tidak..

Cuti raya 4 hari pun tak pegi mana agaknye…

Cuti thaipusam pun 4 hari, perlu ada pengisian nih… ke mana? Melaka? best gak tu… tapi aku nak gi mandi-manda.. laut seakan-akan memanggil aku… tapi dapat sungai pun jadilaaa… aku ON aje…

Cuti new year pun 4 hari gak? rugi woo kalo tak de plan… takkan nak memerap je..?? cepat..!! cepaatt..!! pikirkan sesuatu..!!

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i found a good article… read…漢字
KAN        JI
"Chinese" "character"

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but in the case of kanji, it’s really more like 2 or 3 words. Even if you’ve never studied an Asian language, you’ve probably seen kanji before–perhaps your friend’s tattoo, or on some anime nerd’s t-shirt. When you see a written language comprised of characters this complex, you might think that it would be pretty hard to read and write…and you’d be correct!

Please allow me to detail the horrors of kanji.

-[ Reading ]-
The largest kanji dictionary contains some 50,000 characters. Most of them are completely obsolete now, and the Japanese only recognize 2,134 official kanji for use in publications (1850 standard, plus 284 for proper nouns). Of those 2,134, there is one kanji that is used more than any other. Because of this, I find it appropriate to introduce the following:

日

It can mean "sun", or "light", or "day", or "Japan", and it can be pronounced "nichi", "jitsu", "hi", "bi", "ka", "ga", "a", "aki", "iru", "ku", "kusa", "kou", "su", "tachi", "ni", "nitsu", or "he", depending on what comes before and/or after it. However, please don’t confuse it with this kanji:

曰

It can mean "say", "reason", "pretext", "history", or "past", and it can be pronounced "etsu", "iwaku", "notama", "kokoni", or "hirabi", depending on what comes before and/or after it. Easy enough, right? Good, only two-thousand one-hundred and thirty-two more to go…

-[ Writing ]-
Reading is bad enough, but writing is even worse, for two reasons. The first reason is because a lot of kanji look amazingly similar to each other, but the meanings have pretty much nothing to do with each other. Case in point:

The second reason is simply because they are so damn complicated. Even if you somehow manage to remember the kanji, it’s really easy to get lost trying to write it. For example, the kanji for "love":

love is complicated

Because the above kanji is frequently used and is way too hard to write (23 strokes total), it has a "simplified" version which is only (hah!) 10 strokes:

恋
love, simplified

An even better example is the kanji for "depression":

"depression" also has a simplified version, so you tell me which is easier to write–the above monstrosity, or this:

うつ

The later? I agree. And so do the Japanese, which is why that horrid beast above is almost never written anymore. Other good examples of kanji that were deemed "too damn complicated" include the numbers zero through three:

-[ Meaning ]-
Each component (or "radical") in a kanji has a meaning, so sometimes you can get the meaning of a kanji simply by looking at its parts, even if you’ve never seen it before, and even without knowing the pronunciation. For example, the kanji for "blind" is composed of two radicals, "eye" and "dead"/"without", so that kind of makes sense. Or if you put the kanji for "king" next to the kanji for "child", you get "prince", which is logical. Unfortunately, most kanji don’t work like this. For example, what do you get when you throw together three random words like "stand" + "sun" + "heart"…?

This is only one of the thousands of kanji that make absolutely no sense at all.

Additionaly, how exactly do you draw a picture of an abstract concept? How do you draw "regret"? How do you draw "non-existence"? Well, apparently like this:

-[ Bonus! ]-
Although it is never used in modern Japanese, there is a certain kanji that guys generally find pretty funny (but girls don’t find it so funny). First, you need to know this kanji, which means "woman" or "female":

女
"woman"

…now when you put three women together, it becomes:

姦
"noisey"

Further investigation reveals that actually an alarming number of kanji with negative connotation contain the kanji for "woman". Observe:

It should be noted that the kanji for "ridicule" is actually the "female" kanji sandwiched between two "male" kanji. You can make whatever assumptions you want about that. It’s also worth noting that the kanji for "female" can be found in kanji with good, bad, and neutral connotation; however, the kanji for "male" is only found in bad kanji when it is accompanied by a "female". This is consistent with Bob Marley’s opinion of women.

-[ Conclusion ]-
You may be thinking, "Oh you silly cracker, what do you know about Japanese." That’s a legit point, as I am not a native speaker, but I can spot inefficiency, and kanji reeks of it. If you won’t take my word for it, then how about Professor Tatsuo Kishimoto, a well established gentleman from Ritsumeikan University. He has also written an article (both in Japanese and in English) about why Japan should do away with kanji and just stick to the phonetic alphabet (the "letters") they already have.

Also consider that even the Japanese have problems remembering kanji, especially since the advent of the word processor/computer. (Similar to our spelling getting bad due to dependence on English spell-check, when typing in Japanese, you don’t need to remember how to write the kanji, only how to pronounce and read them.) They even have a term for foos who suck at writing kanji by hand: "waapuro-baka", which literally means "word processor idiot".

Don’t get me wrong; I’m not trying to say that English is efficient. It has its perks, but overall it hella sucks. I’m just glad we don’t use kanji…

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Genap hari ni dah 3 hari kita berpuasa pada Ramadhan taun ni. Tiap-tiap ptg balik kerja terpikir nak makan apa berbuka nanti. Bubur Lambuk Masjid Sungai Nibong pun best gak, tapi kalo lambat melepas.. Genap hari ni juga cukup sebulan aku kerja di NSG Prai ni, walaupun aku stay kat penang tapi ‘if the weather is clear’, 20 minit dah boleh sampai kilang. Tapi balik time toksah cerita. Semalam (Jumaat 14 sep) dengan hujan plus jemnya, 2 jam baru aku sampai rumah. Singgah pasar Ramadan beli lauk n kuih, sampai rumah sembahyang Asar pukul 7:10.. tak dapek den nak nolong…!!