Laskar Pelangi?

I found these photos when I was doing some housekeeping on my computer. Circa 1997-2001, SMAPK.

Heh... do we look like some sort of 'Laskar Pelangi'? The characters in that novel (or film) had a very tough times wading through their life, and in no way that what we had in SMAPK were anywhere close. But, I think the greatest test of all - the very dining hall servers one-week-menu ie. if today you're having chicken curry, veggie soup and some papaya, you'll be having it the same day every week until they change the dining hall contractor - and it's like forever waiting for it!


Now the condition has improved, in fact I heard it is 3-week-menu or even 4! What a bless!



Mimpi adalah kunci
untuk kita menaklukkan dunia
Berlarilah tanpa lelah
sampai engkau
meraihnya

Laskar pelangi
takkan terikat waktu
Bebaskan mimpimu di angkasa
Warnai bintang di jiwa

Menarilah dan terus tertawa
Walau dunia tak seindah syurga
Bersyukurlah pada Yang Kuasa
Cinta kita di dunia
selamanya...

Cinta kepada hidup
Memberikan senyuman abadi
Walau ini kadang tak adil
tapi cinta lengkapi kita

Laskar pelangi
takkan terikat waktu
Jangan berhenti mewarnai
jutaan mimpi di bumi

Menarilah dan terus tertawa
Walau dunia tak seindah syurga
Bersyukurlah pada Yang Kuasa
cinta kita di dunia
selamanya...


// Hari Persaraan Puan Hajah Jumaiyah - dari kiri : Azlan (Dental USM?), Fairuz (kini di PETRONAS), Haikal (Final Med @ RCSI), Anas (baru grad UIA in QS), Khairul Nizam (Kejuruteraan di Jepun), Shahril (???), Syukri (baju oren, kerja di mana tak tahu, tapi lepasan Aeronautik USM), Syed (Kejuruteraan di Korea)


//Duduk - Sharoof (dulu YPM Shamelin), Aznyadi (dulu UTP, tak tahu di mana sekarang). Berdiri - Syukri, Faisal (???), Yours truly, Syawal (???), Ramzi (Final Med UIA)


// Paling dekat dengan kamera - Cikgu Norizan (Yob). Berkot biru, Ustaz Wan Akashah.



//Bergaya seperti CEO muda. Dari kiri - Hatta (Oil & Gas industry), Rozaidi (???), Firdaus Radzi (lepasan UTP, no idea mana dia), Hilmi (Kejuruteraan di Korea), Amirul Hafiz (???), Haikal, Afandi (Kejuruteraan di Korea)



//Graduation Lunch @ UNITEN Residence Hotel. Duduk dari kiri - Marzudi (???), Hafidz (lepasan UTP, no idea mana sekarang), Yasser Helmy (baju merah, UIA, kerja di Port Dickson). Berdiri dari kiri - Jihad (???), Halim (IMU Final Med), Zar Aieman (intern di Melaka), Mujtaba (lepasan UKM dalam Matematik), Tuan Fairuz (Newcastle Final Med), Nik Sulaiman (Oil & Gas industry), Shafie (???), Yours truly, Ramzi

Wishing all of you the very best in your undertakings...

How Solat can...

produce a Responsible Muslim Doctor.

Dr Haji Haniffah Haji Abdul Gafoor @ Penang Medical College. This is the first of six parts. The rest is on the Youtube.


Quoting him:

Q: Why subarachnoid haem can mimic acute meningitis and vice-versa?
A: Diseases don't read text books, just like some medical students...



Selamat menduduki peperiksaan - Medicine, Surgery, ENT, Ophthalmology, Paeds, Psych, dan O & G.

Mission To China - lagi sikit...

A tribute to Mrs Zainab,


and Madam Mariah Ma.

Oh yes, this is a trailer I made - no narration. Finished version includes my ranting... heh let's give it try eh?

Fotografi Perang

"In a war, the normal codes of civilized behavior are suspended."



Terima kasih perkhidmatan torrent. Dokumentari ini dapat membantu kita meletakkan nilai pada fotograf-fotograf yang terhidang di media massa.

"What you see [in war or conflict] is unmitigated pain, injustice, and misery. It has occurred to me that if everybody could be there just once to see for themselves what white phosphorus [used in bombs, artillary shells, and mortar shells] does to the face of a child or what unspeakable pain is caused by the impact of a single bullet or how a ragged piece of shrapnel can rip someone's leg off - if everybody could be there to see for themselves the fear and grief just one time, then they would understand that nothing is worth letting things get to the point where that happens to even one person, let alone thousands."



Macam pernah dengar suara ini, tapi di mana ya?

"But everyone cannot be there and that is why photographers go there, to show them, to reach out and grab them and make them stop what they're doing and pay attention to what is going on - to create pictures powerful enough to... shake people out of their indifference."

Panjang umur

I was in a hurry to surau in MidValley when...



1. Terserempak dengan Hazwani

2. Pot pet pot tentang kawan-kawan lama di Perth

3. Kemudian Ikhwan & Wani (isteri) pun datang

4. Sambung pot pet pot pet

5. Ambil gambar

6. Bersurai

Apabila pengimbas rosak...

kamera pun berguna juga...

Alhamdulillah I'm done with Nephrology for now.

Right after the Long case I went to the workshop, to see what can be done to that recently-flooded seasoned Saga. A routine as it seems, I stopped by Popular bookshop before pocketing away a lifestyle magazine - Off The Edge.

Well, you know, this sort of mag rarely features someone I'd like to have a cup of coffee with. Hmmm... it is quite a so-called middle class literature is much akin to KLue, with some heavy op-ed about what's going on out there, rather than bloated by endless reviews about entertainment (recall URTV? or Galaxie? or Mangga?).

Enter the November issue. It's him my goodness!

God, politics, everything
Farish A Noor interviews Tuan Guru Nik Aziz Nik Mat
Off The Edge | Volume 47 | November 2008

Click to jump into the gallery. Just a reminder - extra huge files.



Dedicated to his die-hard fans out there. Yes, I did snap all the pages - so check it out, eh?

Burung

Burung yang terbang saban senja
berlegar manja di langit sepi
mendorongku untuk bertanya:
Pernahkah ia merasa sunyi?

A. Samad Said
Benih Harapan
1973



atas - Kevin Carter @ Sudan, 1993, TIME
bawah - Keren Su @ Zhalong, Heilongjiang, China, CORBIS

Kenangan kartun Dilbert

Bureaucracy made ridicilously simple.
...



This is what happening in some companies in this very Bolehland.
...



I hope they will reevaluate the Eurocopter deal. Yes, the Cougar seems so alluring, but is it really that expensive?

...



Do not bite off more than you could chew.

Dilarang membuang kucing di kawasan hospital

Kucing menjadi tempat beristirehat si Toxoplasmosis sebelum ia menyusup masuk ke dalam tubuh anda, dan menimbulkan pelbagai masalah...

Asian Gaelic Games @ Padang Polo, Pulau Pinang

Pertama kali memanfaatkan 70-200mm f/2.8 ED VR II yang melenguhkan. Taubat sungguh. Belum campur nak proses ribuan foto yang telah diambil!

Padang Polo menjadi mini-Dublin sepanjang hujung minggu - ya Guinness pun ada. Kalau boleh tak nak ia ada dalam frame...

Jamuan Hari Raya di PMC