NAELAH - Genuine talent

 She's a close counterpart of me and I like her way with thoughts...

NAELAH

hm..

I've been into a lot of things for the past few weeks. Loads of articles to add to this blog but unfortunately I just couldn't make the cut. I don't have a personal computer so the time I get to go online is pretty much limited. 

So, I got reacquainted with a former classmate a few days ago and she redesigned my blog into what it looks like today.. 

Few days later she commented that this blog looks deserted. Well, I can't blame her... I've kinda been facing trouble uploading photos, writing articles, etc. So, just to be back, here's a post with some info of what I've been up to lately...

Libya is a mess right now, I check the situation up every now and then on BBC. But until now, I have no idea of which side I want to support... 

A cat gave birth to five little kittens (Five little infidels to be exact....) It was a total nuisance!! These kittens walk around wobbly and live by the sympathy of men!! I mean, Mama Cat is always by their side but what does she do? "BEG FOR FOOD MY LITTLE ONES, THAT'S IT...."

Little infidel..

Mama Infidel

Staying away from these little infidels, I joined three of my past schoolmates, Lily, Sakinah and Naelah to "design" our primary school's library. Sakinah wants to be a designer so I saw this as a really big thing for her... Naelah missed her friends, or so I think, Lily has been at it before we even started... 

So what else... hmm.. Dad's going to Sabah this Tuesday, we're finally getting a maid, I've got a grudge against my high school's admins.. 

Putrajaya, 

ah- shopping just now, and this topic just acquired to me, Why is it so hard finding a mosque in a mall but so easy to wind up in a toilet! Not to mention that the toilets are much much nicer than prayer rooms...

Then... Wikipedia... I've been hanging around there for quite some time, really. Reading has always been a great hobby and Game Theory, Prisoner's Dilemma and all the crap you can think of is really there... I don't really get the point of studying the same thing others study at schools. I mean, if everyone knows it, what should I care about it? What about the other bits that schools missed?

Think about it, every school in the world focuses on creating geniuses.. So their hierarchy of syllabuses at school would be:
1> maths, science
2> language
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Last> dance, arts...
funny huh..

Hacked!

Sorry dude, tempted!

DEJA VU

Déjà Vu all over again!!! I'm getting news from all over Malaysia that schools are holding their Cross-country races within this month.. and I, as the athlete of my former school, get psyched up mad with all this... I WANNA PARTICIPATE!!!

But the real Déjà Vu is that I'm still being referred to by my juniors and my former classmates... It feels weird really, it's like I'm one of those authors that respond to people seeking advice on the Ask Aunty columns you see in magazines... but I feel the joy too... being looked up at as a guy who can help, because 'help' is really a huge word to me. I can do something big for a change..

I'm the idiot of the group

Talk about knowing, I'm still pissed with my friends... most of them think I'm a foolish child who can't think far enough to give an opinion... once I tried to voice out my opinion in a meeting... just trying to help, but I ended up being scold at by THEM...

It’s outrageous!!! I thought, “Fine!! Then GO AND ROT YOURSELVES!!!”...

here's the thing, I prefer to be open minded, but when people are wrong, totally wrong, I come in and try to help... but what happened was I got scold... that's when I started looking at things a new way,

And guess what, more people turn out to be wrong to begin with... FYI, people tend to call those who wouldn't accept advises ego, but as-a-matter-of-factly, they're egoists... and I have been trying to correct my friends ever since, and it turns out that for study-geeks, these guys are stubborn, and they call me an ego...  FINE, again, DO AS YOU LIKE IT... I wouldn't give a damn about any of you anymore...

Laugh Out Loud!!!

I've been noticing a lot of stuff lately, one of them was how splendid some things intellects would label as stupid or idiotic or perhaps even a waste of time are...

Let's take comedy for example, I know many of my study-freak friends wouldn't laugh thinking that it'd make them look immature and stupid in front of others. But what they didn't notice was how communication and laughter could bring people together, and how these two subjects work so well together. I find it amazing how audiences could respond to statements following a story the comic presents that has a specific tone. I watched a few videos before starting to work on this post, among the comics were Ahmed Ahmed, Maz Jobrani, Aron Kader, Dean Obeidallah, and Wonho Chung (really, that's his real name... not kidding). It's amazing how these comics can give one particular statement that sends the whole crowd laughing their hearts out. Don't get it? Here are some few examples I can share...

Observe the sentences written in Italic which represents a story or a situation and then the corresponding statement underlined which representing the statement that sets the laughter off...

“my dad wanted to take my family out on a fishing trip at a beach in Selangor, but after a few hours looking for an exit to the beach, my bored brother innocently asked my dad, 'Are we there yet???' and my dad's calm response was...” “'don't worry, we'll get somewhere...'”

“after 9/11^th hate crimes towards middle eastern Muslims went up more than a thousand percent which still puts Muslims in fourth place in the hatred list” “right after black guys, gay guys, and jews... so what exactly do we have to do??!!”

“as I have a middle eastern descent, a director during an audition was like, 'oh, so you're an Arab..'” “'..can you say, 'I will kill you in the name of Allah!!!'?”... “I was like,'I can say that, but what if I say, ''hello, I'm your doctor,''' the director said... “Great!! And then you hijack the hospital”

“I want to play a bad guy in the movies, I wanna rob a bank in a film, but do it with a gun...” “not with a bomb wrapped around me.”

“being a middle eastern, people often look at me in a strange way, once there a guy sitting opposite of me at an airport, he was holding his magazine  upside down and looking at me suspiciously...” “oh the humanity...”

Get the idea? I found out that it was only fair that I watch for some other details in presenting a funny statement and as you can observe, I wrote some of the phrases in Italic and Bold. These phrases hint the audience on what was going on at that instant and how the coming statement is funny. These few little details not only contribute to the laughing but also stimulates the audience's brains to understand one topic faster... take my fourth example for instance, as soon as the comics says “..but do it with a gun...” the audience picks up the understanding that “this guy is being stereotyped as a terrorist” and as the comic goes “...not with a bomb wrapped around me.” the atmosphere is just blown away by laughter which so happens maybe due to the things going on in the audience's mind that very instant- maybe they're laughing because of they're right, or perhaps they're just acknowledging that the comic actually does have a point.

Another thing I noticed about comedy is that most of the things they joke around are about sex, religion, and politics, because without these topics, we don't really have much to joke about. But the beauty of this department is that as these topics get talked about, people are brought together, happily, and no hatred is bred. And debates can go on in a much much more peaceful air this way, won't it? Even when its about something that's bothering us, laughing about it for a while could bring all the stress of it to relief. I wish to be able to talk about these topics in public every once in a while so that people would start to realize about these things... I mean even with the freedom of speech, Malaysians can't understand unity to it's full potential. You say something about the truth and the next thing you know is that you're being held custody under the International Security Act. Or maybe when you quote out a joke, many people in Malaysia nowadays don't get it or barely laugh but instead they dully say “yeah yeah that was funny, I like that...” or “HILLARIOUS, my friend, you can almost hear me laugh, that's how funny it is...”

So what's wrong if we take things easy a little more and let our faces smile every once in a while? I say that I think it is about time for us to come back to appreciate laughter and the joy it offers... don't you?

Hiss....

I killed a snake, in my front yard... I was raking some leaves and some rubbish(cursed irresponsible neighbors)... and suddenly I realized that I just cut a 14-foot snake into three pieces, and I think I crushed its head. I stepped on it I guess... 

Traumatic, I panicked, but then managed to pulled myself together in just a matter of seconds- after all, better it than me, right? I then remembered in one of the Biology classes that I have attended back in high school, one of the ways to preserve a specimen was by submerging the specimen in saturated sugar solution, and so, yes, I tried. I thought that it'd be cool to have one of those jars with dead animals that boys usually have in cartoons. But it worked only for a day. Next morning it started smelling awful and it looked gruesome. So, I thought that it deserved a funeral...(yeah right..) so with my gardening tools, I dug a small hole, and let the poor thing rest in peace.

and so here lies a dead snake...

this was when I preserved it..

A few steps away form the little grave, that's when it just came to me, I FORGOT TO SKIN IT!!! The snake's skin could just be a little bit of fortune itself. But a second thought just came to me after that, though... to get the skin after its funeral would make me look cheap. So, never mind the skin. But just in the name of science, I'm gonna have a peek of what happens as it rot within a few months' time...

a call...

I have read a few of my friends' blogs, posts, whatever... and I can tell you this, most of my friends are really into Islamisme... not a bad thing though... but think of it friends... even when we are The deen of LIGHT, we need a proper approach to others...

a simple metaphor, if a preacher talks in a mosque, he's talking to the people who knows about what he's talking about... but if he says the same thing only in a different environment, a circus perhaps, he'll end up being the laughing stock of the crowd... or even worse, he'll even perhaps be one of them...

get it? A friend in facebook posted, “looked out at the world, what a shame... looked around in facebook, all the same...” no offense, but I say as long as the line is not crossed, there's no need of talking shit about people... not now that the human rights are well protected.. of course, faith is questionable to everyone.. even preachers... here's a thought... if you ask many Malaysians will say proudly say that they're affiliated to Islam... but ask again, not many practice it... yet the same people will go and say “hey, don't you dare question my faith!!!” of course, as if people won't question your faith when you're a Muslim but you drink, have sex, not pray, gamble, go to wild parties and all that... only thing about being a Muslim left there is not eating pork...

imagine that...

friends, I call upon all of you, we live in a plural community, and as much as you hate them, you'll always have to accept the fact that they're free to practice their beliefs even if they look ridiculous in your eyes...

and no bad thoughts about anyone... I'm not backing anyone but I see no good if the Muslim community condemns others when we ourselves need amends...

MY LIFE

Ahhh, well, it's been a long time, yes, well, I have been up to a lot of things really...

tell you seriously, after school, I have been interested in studying... really I have...

unbelievable, when after all these years, I have condemned Malaysia's education system...

but here's what I think...

exam oriented studies are killing what is now tomorrow's intellectuals...

I mean, the kids now study not because they want to, but rather because they have to..

teachers and parents keep on saying that “SPM is everything” and that “life is a race, and if you don't run fast, you will fall down being pushed by others” which drives the kids to study their heads off like cuckoo birds when they actually don't have to..

I finished my studies in high school as an ace but still I felt that there's a lot of details I've missed out in everything that I have learned...

perhaps it was application to those Physics lessons all the time...

my friends face a lot of trouble trying to sink everything lesson in while I just sit back enjoying physics with much understanding...

maybe the fact that I realized what it means to appreciate the knowledge when my friends can't really seem to understand what appreciate means have put me in a much much better position compared to them after all.

Come to think of it...

I don't mean any offense, but, I'm glad I'm no longer with any of my classmates now...

each and every one of the being “robots” and all, they literally just study and leave all the rest to me...

frustrating much! I always tell them that they have to leave their books behind someday. I guess now is that day... I look up at facebook to check up on what they're up to and all I can say is that they're not studying anymore... haha!!

point made? All these five years in high school especially the last two years have been devoted by my friends for the godforsaken SPM... what's up with that??? has everybody gone totally nuts?

But now that it's all over, I' just glad I'm away from my classmates that think they know everything and I'm the fool of the century.

Having my perception means I can see the whole wide world with a little more beauty alongside an I can feel satisfied with basically any outcome...

And about the SPM results...

I wouldn't give a damn about it...

there's still a hella of things that I can do to make my life worthwhile without it... so I'm just glad that I can live in the moment right now...

well... it surprises me that I've actually gained some more followers even though I've benn away for so long...

well then, I guess I better get started with new posts...

but for now, here's a few photos from my friend...

just some for the memories of 2010...

happy 2011 everyone...

TORMENT

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think i'm losing my mind!!!

ALL-TIME TOP CONTENDER: MUHAMMAD BIN HAMDAN

It's a bird!!!

No, it's a plane!!!

NO!! It's Muhammad Bin Hamdan coming in from the sky!!!

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Yes, it is definitely my comeback after a few events, -avoidable, but where's the fun in that?-...

A few things happened over the past few months... and... well... I just don't feel like sharing them okay?...

One thing for certain, GRADUATION is coming up pretty soon. 

That's right, I'm leaving school as soon as the SPM's end. Believe me, I feel just great. Just a few more months and I'll be playing all the tennis I want... and not even caring of the SPM results...
Sooner or later, I'll be competing with the best of the best. For every time I face an opponent, I'll always be giving my very best...

WATCH OUT WORLD!!!! This guy is gonna be the BESTest of the best of the best!!!

TEACHER'S DAY and MOTHER'S DAY

It's a drag!!! The drama crew were gathered together again!!! This time it's for a show for Teacher's Day...

And arrrgh!!! The times I have to spend with these pain-in-the-necks are terrible...

It just been like 1 month since this very crew won the Drama Festival, AND NOW THEY'VE FORGOTTEN THEIR LINES!!! Not to mention the fact that they keep on pissing me off every now and then... God knows how much I hated these guys... But I did it for the teachers... LOVE YOU TEACHERS

So let there be practice:

Practice...

practice...

and yet these guys seem to have lost their interest in acting...

man, I wonder why on Earth am I still with these guys...

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MOTHER'S Day came up and I had no idea of what to give for my mum. After a long thought, maybe I can give her my Disciplinary Icon prize. After all, my mum was the one who disciplined me since I was a kid...

I wrapped the prize up and gave it to her...

But I don't really think she appreciated it... She never told used it, not even put it on display.

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The drama went really bad...

The crew thought more of hanging around rather than practice...

The show went bad...

I mean, the drama was supposed to be full of suspense and romance........... 

But all was doomed thanks to the crew...

I felt like I don't ever want to show up in school again as the humiliation was just horrible...

DISCIPLINARY MONTH

DISCIPLINARY MONTH @ SMKAKA..

To the horror of my schoolmates, the Disciplinary Unit on SMKAKA launched this program. By means of disciplinary, all the school rules and regulations are enforced... causing many to lose their beloved items, i.e. cell phones, jeans, their HAIR... etc...

I, as a hostel prefect have been taught to obey the school rules. But still I face problems on keeping myself away from the fact the "rules are meant to be broken". Being patient for a month seems like impossible at first, but I got to get the hang of being like a "robot" after a few curses at the rule book.

Days past, then weeks, every now and then a kid try to prove himself to be a tough guy at school, but failed...

a thought came to me a few times that I should summon the throne of The School's Naughty Brat... It occurred to me because I am one of the most popular kid in school. Being one of the teachers' pet will get me out of almost any trouble I get myself into... But I somehow managed to stop myself from menacing in school. 

And I made a break for it in the last week of the disciplinary month after straining myself just to be an "angel". A trip to the National Park in Pahang did the job well. I returned with a surprise as I was awarded The Disciplinary Icon of SMKAKA. Hahaha. I'm really taken aback at first, but after being "congratulated' by my fellow classmates, I AM DISCIPLINED!!!

STATE-LEVEL TENNIS TOURNAMENT

After a tough battle in the regional tournament, which I lost in the semis, (what? it was a tough fight...)

I got selected for the state levels...

Training was hard...

I did my very best to match the state number 1 player, M. N. Aqram... But I always ended up second best..

Until the tournament started, I had my hopes high to get into at least the semis... 

The first round match put me in the most devastating match ever...

THREE HOURS of non-stop rallies, and I ended up losing to a beginner. Shameful...

the doubles event only got me through to the quarter-finals...

ahh... the tears I wanted to shed...

But looking in the bright side, Dungun won  the overall tournament...

Drama Festival - Malay Legends

A whole month of practice, and now it all comes down to this day... March 31st 2010. The drama crew arrived at the Dungun UITM at around 0730 hours. We were the first crew to get there... So we got our seats and then got up on stage to revise our play.  Not long after, other participating schools arrived.

1. Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sultan Omar.
2. Sekolah Menengah Sains Dungun.
3. Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Tengku Intan Zaharah.
4. Sekolah Menengah Teknik Dungun.

And soon the show began. Each school sent 1 person to draw a vote to determine which play will go first... So I went as my crew's brave hero and drew out the third order... Back when I was in South Africa, the kids usually said:
Zero The Hero,
First The Worst,
Second The Best,
And Third The  Golden Bird...

Ha! I Got a feeling that things are about to get awesome over here...

So the plays went in this following order:

1. SMKTIZ- The Legend of Hang Tuah.
2. SMTD- The Legend of Merong Mahawangsa.
3. SMK(A)K- The Legend of Mahsuri.
4. SMKSO- The Legend of Puteri Gunung Ledang.
5. SMSD- The Legend of Si Tanggang.

Well, I was really concerned of SMSD, SMKTIZ and SMTD... These three schools have been my school's rivals since like, ever! But never fear! We had a plan...

 We brought along a massive number of supporters. These guys fill up to one quarter of the hall.

But as our turn draw nearer... I started getting flashbacks... All the times at training...

The tree where mahsuri was killed...

The night we stayed up until 0300 hours...
These guys really pissed me off that time...

Our times at the rehearsal...

And it all comes down to this moment...
MAHSURI

The Intro... Mahsuri is the one in front,  that one at the back is Woman 1- no specific name for her.

Deramang and Mahsuri, one of the best scenes I planned as an experienced (just a bit, but more than the others...) performer. This scene got a great applause from the audience... here, Deramang was trying to comfort the lonely in gorgeous Mahsuri.

Woman 1 and Woman 2 (left and centre) talking Mahura (supposed to be my wife in this story...) into accusing Mahsuri of committing adultery with Deramang...

All went well throughout our performance until the part where Mahsuri gets stabbed- NO BLOOD!!! The plastic bag containing "blood" didn't burst!!
but the show must go on...
Just let it be ...

After every competing schools have done their performance, the judges decided...

"Ladies and gentlemen, we now announce the results of the judges..."

WHOA!!! WE WON!!!
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As my crew was announced the champions... The co-director (Fatin Syahirah) and I went up on stage to receive the trophy... Little did I know that there were cameramen recording us for the national news... (I just found out about when my teacher told me that I got in the news...= I WAS ON TV!!)
It was so awesome...
Always... I'll remember this day....

Mahsuri and Mat Deris...

HOLIDAYS!!!!!!!!! FREEDOM!!!! - just for two weeks though..."-_-

And so begins the holidays of June. Ahh... The pleasure of free time... DOOMED!!!!

HOMEWORK INVASION ALERT!!!!

BAHASA- I have to copy some 15 pages of essays!

ENGLISH- Well, just some "paperwork" (handouts)
ARABIC- I have to finish a WHOLE EXERCISE BOOK!!!

HISTORY- Notes on Chapter 7!, well, and some more handouts - a

QURAANICS- More handouts.t least I'm done with them.

MATHS- Handouts.

CHEMISTRY- More handouts.

BIOLOGY- More handouts.

PHYSICS- I have to finish 3 EXPERIMENT REPORTS... THREE!!!

SYARIAH- Let's see, papers, yeah, more handouts.

ADDITIONAL MATHEMATICS- A PROJECT!!!!

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Well, what the heck, I'll just have to suck it up and get them done...

there's so much for me to share...

STAY TUNED FOR THESE UPCOMING TOPICS AT THIS BLOG:

1. THE DRAMA COMPETITION...

2. THE STATE LEVEL TENNIS TOURNAMENT...

3. THE DISCIPINARY MONTH...

4. TEACHER'S DAY...

5. MOTHER'S DAY...

6. EXAMS...

7. A TRIP TO THE NATIONAL PARK...

8. THE PROPHET'S BIRTHDAY

Pranksters' work!!

I saw this advertisement in my friend's facebook profile... I really thought that it was something important, but it turns out to be just a joke.. check it out!!! I put it as... creative? why not?

Just Carry On

LIFE & PEOPLE

People we know, like friends, come and go...

some become so important, and some get forgotten.

Some even betray, and cause a terrible pain deep inside you...

and when that happens,

that's when you know where you stand.

It's what happens then... what you do with wasted relations...

I have always been thinking of revenge... but I choose not to...

you know, when people take you down, just move along... and keep that wi of yours strong. 

I promise you one day it's through.

As long as you are still live, appreciate life; because if you don't, there are only two endings that may come to you: either you TAP, or you SNAP...

so carry on, okay...

I'll be with you, dont you cry...

Just let it go...

Snap. I missed it... turns out that it's not the evil character that stabs Mahsuri... It was one of his henchmen.

So it all over... but hey, I still get to 'kill' her boyfriend...

And I think I'm on the right track to be the best actor too. I can see myself, it won't be long before it turns out a reality, me, right in the center of the stage, as the judges announce..."...and the award for the best actor goes to... Muhammad Bin Hamdan!!!..." All the cheers from my friends, and me in the spotlight... haha! I'd really like that to happen.

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And as for that day... it'll symbolize a new achievement. For me, leaving what's left of my past relationship with my ex locked in the most hidden part of my memory.

It was a nice thing, really, being in love...

But sometimes, love just don't have a happy ending...

Believe me, after being dumped, I know...

So it's not a good idea to go for revenge, because that's what I had in mind...

but just because of that,

I ALMOST TURNED INTO A MONSTER.