Desert safari again.... with Sagem Orga...

the Mat Salleh... the lady is the big boss in Dubai
the one on the phone is the Head of Sales for EMEA, came from the same company where I was 4 years ago in Malaysia/Singapore... (small world huh..?)

Gazelle in the desert

going up....

and down the dunes....

and got stuck in the dunes.... too heavy (we had lunch before going for desert safari)...

dgn bangganya... menyebabkan kereta stuck in the dunes

lost in the desert (not me... I found my way... haha)

looking for direction...?

stuck again in the dunes.... not our car...

off we go again... 3 cars from Sagem Orga, combined with about 20 other cars of various tourists
err... who is the biggest...? besar bagai Johannn...!! besar bagai Johannn...!! besar bagai Johan, besar bagai Johan.. minumlah susu penuh krim Dumex....!! (???? haha...)

sunset in the desert



ini gua ambik sendiri tau.... but not me laa... I oso dunno who the lady was... her photo was taken on close up by her friend, laying on the desert (view from front, so the friend is on the left of this photo, out of the frame), and I was far on her side on another dune watching the sunset.... was a good candid photo...:)

The stupidity of some Malay Muslims

read this below article in Malaysia Today... a response to the article written by RPK entitled "The stupidity of some Malay Muslims"
like what dusunbukit has written... "it's well written. What can I say?"

written by dusunbukit, February 27, 2009 16:51:21

someone e-mailed this to me - it's well written. What can I say?

From the heart of a Muslim - Tawfik Hamid

I was born a Muslim and lived all my life as a follower of Islam. After the barbaric terrorist attacks done by the hands of my fellow Muslims everywhere on this globe, and after the too many violent acts by Islamists in many parts of the world, I feel responsible as a Muslim and as a human being, to speak out and tell the truth to protect the world and Muslims as well from a coming catastrophe and war of civilizations.

I have to admit that our current Islamic teaching creates violence and hatred toward Non-Muslims. We Muslims are the ones who need to change. Until now we have accepted polygamy, the beating of women by men, and killing those who convert from Islam to other religions.

We have never had a clear and strong stand against the concept of slavery or wars, to spread our religion and to subjugate others to Islam and force them to pay a humiliating tax called Jizia. We ask others to respect our religion while all the time we curse non-Muslims loudly (in Arabic) in our Friday prayers in the Mosques.

What message do we convey to our children when we call the Jews "Descendants of the pigs and monkeys"…. Is this a message of love and peace, or a message of hate?

I have been into churches and synagogues where they were praying for Muslims. While all the time we curse them, and teach our generations to call them infidels, and to hate them.

We immediately jump in a 'knee jerk reflex' to defend Prophet Mohammed when someone accuses him of being a pedophile while, at the same time, we are proud with the story in our Islamic books, that he married a young girl seven years old (Aisha) when he was above 50 years old.

I am sad to say that many, if not most of us, rejoiced in happiness after September 11th and after many other terror attacks.

Muslims denounce these attacks to look good in front of the media, but we condone the Islamic terrorists and sympathise with their cause. Till now our 'reputable' top religious authorities have never issued a Fatwa or religious statement to proclaim Bin Laden as an apostate, while an author, like Rushdie, was declared an apostate who should be killed according to Islamic Shariia law just for writing a book criticizing Islam.

Muslims demonstrated to get more religious rights as we did in France to stop the ban on the Hejab (Head Scarf), while we did not demonstrate with such passion and in such numbers against the terrorist murders.

It is our absolute silence against the terrorists that gives the energy to these terrorists to continue doing their evil acts. We Muslims need to stop blaming our problems on others or on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. As a matter of honesty, Israel is the only light of democracy, civilization, and human rights in the whole Middle East.

We kicked out the Jews with no compensation or mercy from most of the Arab countries to make them "Jews-Free countries" while Israel accepted more than a million Arabs to live there, have its nationality, and enjoy their rights as human beings. In Israel, women can not be beaten legally by men, and any person can change his/her belief system with no fear of being killed by the Islamic law of 'Apostasy,' while in our Islamic world people do not enjoy any of these rights. I agree that the 'Palestinians' suffer, but they suffer because of their corrupt leaders and not because of Israel.

It is not common to see Arabs who live in Israel leaving to live in the Arab world. On the other hand, we used to see thousands of Palestinians going to work with happiness in Israel, its 'enemy'. If Israel treats Arabs badly as some people claim, surely we would have seen the opposite happening.

We Muslims need to admit our problems and face them. Only then we can treat them and start a new era to live in harmony with human mankind. Our religious leaders have to show a clear and very strong stand against polygamy, pedophilia, slavery, killing those who convert from Islam to other religions, beating of women by men, and declaring wars on non-Muslims to spread Islam. Then, and only then, do we have the right to ask others to respect our religion. The time has come to stop our hypocrisy and say it openly: 'We Muslims have to Change'.

Tawfik Hamid

The Art o being married...

A newlywed couple had only been married for two weeks.

The husband, although very much in love, couldn't wait to go out on the town and party with his old buddies.

So, he said to his new wife, 'Honey, I'll be right back.'

'Where are you going, coochy cooh?' asked the wife.

'I'm going to the bar, pretty face. I'm going to have a beer.'

The wife said, 'You want a beer, my love?'. She opened the door to the refrigerator and showed him 25 different kinds of beer, brands from 12 different countries; Germany , Holland , Japan , India , etc.

The husband didn't know what to do, and the only thing that he could think of saying was, 'Yes, lolly pop ....... but at the bar, you know.......... they have frozen glasses'.

He didn't get to finish the sentence because the wife interrupted him by saying,
'You want a frozen glass, puppy face?' She took a huge beer mug out of the freezer, so frozen that she was getting chills just holding it.

The husband, looking a bit pale, said, 'Yes, tootsie roll........ but at the bar,
they have those hors d'oeuvres that are really delicious..............I won't be long, I'll be right back. I promise........ OK?'

You want hors d'oeuvres, poochi pooh?'. She opened the oven and took out 5 dishes of different hors d'oeuvres; chicken wings, pigs in blankets, mushroom caps, pork strips, etc.

'But my sweet honey............ at the bar, you know ......... there's swearing, dirty words and all that'.

'You want dirty words, Dickhead???? Drink your fucking beer in your goddamn frozen mug and eat your motherfucking snacks because you are MARRIED now, and you aren't going anywhere! Got it, Asshole?'..


......... and they lived happily ever after. Isn't that a sweet story?

kah kah kah...!!!

Sun tanning in the desert....

another one of those days...

Aper gua nak ceghiter ari nih huh…? Hmmm, nothing much ekcelli... dunno why, last wknd was feeling very tired... hari Jumaat bangun pagi, did some house cleaning… basuh2 baju, dan kemas2 rumah apa yg patut… then go out, jumpa ex-colleague & bawak si ex-colleague nih gi jalan2 Dubai, finish by 8pm… then did some office work at home….

Hari Sabtu, bangun pagi punyalah liat…!! Pergghhhh...!! slow ya amat..! letih ler tuh... noon time, went to do some sports, balik rumah rehat jap, nap 1 hour, then bangun to do some office work…. Finish…

So everything done ystdy.. .hari nih kat opis, melangut don’t have anything to do… hmmm… half day, I am done with what I am supposed to do for today… other stuffs need to wait till tmrw… so now, just waiting for time to go back home… mlm nih, gi bersukan jap, then go home tido… boy…!! What a life…!! Hehe…

btw, lusa ada sales seminar... tue evening, gi desert safari in the evening with the whole Middle East & Africa sales team & bebudak opis... hope that it will be fun...!

“Challenged, but definitely not defeated…!!”

I have not been blog reading for quite awhile... kat opis, kalo free, cannot surfing2 internet… kang opis detect kang, kecoh lak nanti… pelik sket company nih… internet access is being monitored, tak kira lah jawatan setinggi mana… sebabnya, boss yang check internet access consumption nih.. hmmm, one of the pelik things in the company, among all the ‘vonderful stuffs’… hehe…

So, last wknd, tengah tak buat amende tuh, maka pegilah surfing2 blog geng2 bloggers….

I have just discovered that one of the fellow bloggers have encountered some challenges in his life recently... (btw, have never met him, just exchanged msgs in the net… )

Read the blog entries here :

• http://deathofkalel.blogspot.com/2009/02/challenged-but-definitely-not-defeated.html
• http://deathofkalel.blogspot.com/2009/02/hey-thats-my-leg-so-long-farewell.html
• http://deathofkalel.blogspot.com/2009/02/one-foot-in-grave_12.html
  
  
  

Well, life is full of challenges, you will never know what God has reserved for you… Good times, bad times, challenging times, enjoy sakan times… dan macam2 lagilah…

For Kalel, yes, “challenged, but definitely not defeated…!!”

Dgn sorakan gemuruh…

Kalel…!! Kalel…!! Kalel...!!!
Kalel…!!!! Kalel…!!!!! Kalel...!!!!!!
Kalel…!!!!!!! Kalel…!!!!!!! Kalel...!!!!!!!!!

Truly Malaysian heritage...

Gua punya sorang kawan nih dtg Dubai transit in the way to Athens (ex-colleagues in KL).... ex-colleague dtg jumpa gua sama itu "auntie sengkuang" juga... sebab auntie sengkuang pun ex-colleague dia maa... mula2 sblm dia dtg, dia tanya gua, apa gua mau dari KL, dia boleh tlng bawakkan... Gua cakap... "tak payah susah2 laaa...". then dia kata, apa2 gua mau, kasitau sama dia cepat2, dia boley bawak... gua tarak kata apa2... nothing maaa... gua pun nanti mau balik KL cuti...

dia sampai Dubai smlm, lu tau apa dia bawak utk gua...??

haiyaa... gua manyak telhaluuu woo... ini kawan hor, cakap tarak payah bawak apa2 pun, dia ada bawak jugaa... walaupun hanya dodol cones & maggi curry Mesia... itu dodol manyak sedap woo, itu maggi curry, biasa2 laa.. dia pikir sini tak ade maggi maaa... dan gua tentu sudah gian sama maggi curry...

semalam gua bawak dia jalan2 Dubai looorrr (the usual Dubai tour)... gua manyak banggeeee.... ini kawan really rmbr Malaysian "kulture"...

(bukan macm itu 2 kawan manyak kaya raya dtg shpng Dubai itu hali... dtg tangan kosong, lepas itu manyak songel mcm Datuk Datin tak kenai diri... pergghhhh...!! manyak serik woo...!)

Listen to your mother...!!

Is it my fault...?

apa nak dikata... Is it my fault that I am soooooo freeeeeee now...? hehehe...

bosses baru balik dari Barcelona... they are in the opis today...

have done what I am supposed to do today, have called customers, have sent emails, have prepared weekly report (dah hantar dah pun)... and it's only 12h30pm....!!

what to do...? update blog looorrr... :D (sambil mengunyah pisang salai yg si Radha bawak balik dari Kerala, India...)

by the way, the trainer says that if I feel hungry, I should eat fruits, like banana... errr, pisang salai nih kira masuk kategori healthy food one huh...? (sambil mengunyah lagi,... haha...)

Gosh...!! Female drivers...!!

Release stress...:)

Suatu hari, Pak Mat berkunjung ke muzium negara, ketika itu berlangsung pameran pra sejarah. Antara yang dipamerkan ialah rangka dinosaur. Setelah berpusing-pusing, datanglah seorang penjaga muzium yang bernama Komeng yang sedang bertugas lalu bertanya,

Komeng: ada apa pakcik?
Pakcik: Pakcik nie nak bertanya... agak-agaknye la berapa umur dinasour nie?

Dengan penuh yakin Komeng menjawab

Komeng: Satu juta tahun, empat bulan, lima hari.
Pakcik: Terernya awak... macam mana awak boleh tahu sampai begitu sekali?
Komeng: Waktu saya mula kerje kat sini, umur dinasour ni satu juta tahun, sekarang saya dah empat bulan lima hari kat sini.

kuang kuang kuang...:)

IT Twins

Somebody in IT industry gave birth to a set of twins

Guess what they named them?

Pssst....!! nak tahu tak...?

am going back KL bulan March nanti...!! hehe...!! yeah...!!

best, best, best...!!

balik Ipoh hari Jumaat, then hari Sabtu, terus ada kenduri...

err... kenduri aper kah ittew...?

lol...!

Boss not around this week....!! yeah...!!

This week, dua2 bosses tak ada... deme pegi Barcelona for 3GSM World Congress... Balik Rabu nih, depa masuk opis balik hari Khamis, then wknd oledi...

maka... apa lagi...!! bermaharajalela lah kita minggu nih...!! hehehe...!!

Re-discovered...

Just came back from bersukan... kena lanyak dek trainer...

Johan has re-discovered that there are actually muscles at his hips, thighs and calves...

perghhh....!! sakitnya...!!

Have we forgotten our manners...?

ini bukan sesi lepas geram, tapi sesi "revisiting our past..."

sometimes, I just wonder... sebab kita terlalu sibuk dgn kehidupan seharian, running here and there, rushing right and left.., we don't get to visit friends and relatives that often, and somehow, due to our "busyness" and "forgetfullness", we sometimes forget our manners when we go visit friends.... so, let's review our culture again, and review what are the DOs and DON'Ts when visiting friends... (according to Malaysian culture)

1. call in advance

this is not typically Malaysian, but out of courtesy, talipon la dulu sebelum pegi menjerkah kat depan pintu kengkawan tuh... this is the least that you can do. respect other people's privacy, close not close, kasik warning that you wanna drop by... tak ler kelam kabut geng tuh... just enough time so that the friends/relatives have time to siap2, and not long enough to avoid them from preparing lunch, tea and dinner to welcome you (kalau ada sedara mara yg camtu ler, which is very common in the kampungs...)

2. bawak buah tangan...

kalo dah lama tak jumpa, make an effort to bring some "buah tangan".... if you are from far away, bring something from where you come from... fruit is very common as buah tangan, or local delicacies/cookies... they don't cost much, and your host will appreciate it very much...

3. no visitors after 10pm

be considerate, people also wanna have some rest. no visiting after 10pm, and if you are alrdy there before 10pm, try to leave before 11pm...

4. avoiding lunch/dinner...

it is common that your host will either invite you for lunch/dinner, or have alrdy prepared lunch/dinner for your visit. it might be less true nowadays especially with "town people", but this will definitely happen if you visit friends and relatives in the kampungs... it might be a pain to some of us (eating and eating and eating....), but you can avoid it :

• give notice to friends or relatives that you are coming, enough time for them to get organized (kemas2 rumah), but not enough to start cooking...
• if you know that they have the habit of preparing food for your arrival, and you are close enough to them, tell them that you are visiting to see them, not to have lunch/dinner with them... tell nicely
• avoid lunch/dinner time... visit after 10am, before 11h30am... then between 2pm and 6pm... then after 8pm till 10pm...

those are some of the tips that I have learned from my parents... My dad, being a teacher and still trying very much to preserve traditions, have been instrumental in me trying to do the same... sometimes, some small gestures and efforts from our part, make us more "learned" and have some "class"...

let's emulate the Japanese... "Master of the future, and Guardian of the past..."

I love my country, I love my culture...

Watch out for this space...!!

am officially on a mission... to get healthier, fitter...!! started this week... more exercise, better control for food intake, lesser junk food...!! timeline - 3 months...

watch out...!! a new man is in the making....!! hahaha...

(sajer jer buat public declaration, supaya semua org tahu, and I will not have any excuses to abandon the mission...!! takut kena perli beb...!! haha...)

Eh eh... got bonus one huh...?

had my annual performance review yesterday....

huaaa...!! so good one huh...? 5 months in the company in 2008, no sales came in (started coming in only in 2009), but still got bonus one huh...? huaaa... this company is GOOOODDDDDDD...!! was not expecting it... hehe..

tak ler banyak, but still got la some money utk belanja lebey sket bulan depan... (err... or, simpan lebey sket...? or... bayar hutang lebey sket...? haha...)

one thing which is soothing... bosses are happy with my work, just need to continue doing what I am supposed to do, insyaAllah, God willing, big big sales will come in...!!

syukur, syukur, thank you, thank you, alhamdulillah (the more you stay thank you, the more your wishes will be granted.... petua tuh...!! :))

btw, in an unrelated event, treated fellow colleagues ystdy for lunch, "thankgiving" sempena the first 2 POs received... ewah, ewah, ewah bebudak opis nih... they wished me get more & more POs after this, sebab depa kata, everytime I get POs, I will have to treat them for lunch.... eh, pandai la korang...!! banyak kerja aku nak belanja depa sentiasa...?!! kang geng geng kat Mesia sure jeles abih nyer...! :)

Najib tak terkejo...!!

Habis dikroje nyer Najib Razak
Diumpan empat monyet nasi keghark
Dapat semule perintah negheri Peghark
Negheri jadik celaghu dan berseleghak
Ade due MB satu melayu satu mamak
Satu MB PR satu MB Baghua NaZak
Tuanku memang ade budibicare
Untuk melantik siape sahaje
Tapi kite pun tahu siape tuanku suke

Bile ke Jakarta Tuanku ajak MB lame
Dan oghang juge tau kaitan dengan Gamuda/e
Tapi keputusan Tuanku timbul salah sangke
Rakyat terguris dan demo di Kuale (Kangso)
Mahu Tuanku baik-baik gune kuase
Bukan engkar atau ingin menderhake
Bukan untuk buat tuanku jadi murgke
Namun niat supaye tuanku pikio semule
Semoge Tuanku dapat disanjung di atas takhte

Aper beze caghe Najib dengan Nana
Nana idok tawo mereke/deme Ringgit Malaysie
Nana nak bawak undi tidak percaye
Tapi caghe Najib sungguh berbeze
Najib gune ganjaran dan kudeta
4 monyet jadi kelabu tengok jute-jute
Dikurung tanpa pengetahuan sesiapee
Takut senasib macam Bala dan Altantuya
Arumugan pun terpaksa lari ke India

Tup tup tup mati MP Bukit Gantang
Manusie meghancang Allah juga meghancang
BN dan PR lihat ini satu peluang
Tok Jib akan buat aper sajer untuk menang
PAS pule over-confident akan menang
Penduduk Bukit Gantang akan ditatang
Macam di Kuale Teganu dan Permatang
Kali ini biar aper yang datang
Kain pelikat kain batik atau wang
Ambik sebab memang tu duit korang
Tapi jangan sekali undi Barisan Natang

Keris Silau
Februari 11 2009
not mine - taken from Malaysia Today, with some spelling modification, "to make it more "pio Peghark" :)

Bapak tak berperikemanusiaan... (switch on your speaker)

smile...:)

Idiots of the Year (warning, nasty clips...!)

Enjoy the clips...

"Sultans of Swing" - we are...!!

*Sultans Of Swing*

You get a shiver in the dark
It's raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing Dixie double four time
You feel alright when you hear that music ring

You step inside but you don't see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth London town

You check out Guitar George he knows all the chords
Mind he's strictly rhythm he doesn't want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And Harry doesn't mind if he doesn't make the scene
He's got a daytime job he's doing alright
He can play honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for Friday night
With the Sultans with the Sultan of Swing

And a crowd of young boys they're fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They don't give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It ain't what they call rock and roll
And the Sultans played Creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
'Thank you good night now it's time to go home'
And he make it fast with one more thing
'We are the Sultans of Swing'

am soooo upset....!!

huaaaa....!! am so upset of what is happening in Perak now....!!
why la like tat...?!! Kanena cibai lu BN...!!

Gua sumpah takkan vote for BN forever in my life...!!
mati idup balik pun tak mau...!!

yg defect2 tuh... hmmm, apakan daya... jadik wakil rakyat bukan sebab nak serve rakyat, tapi utk kepentingan sendiri....!!!

gerammmm....!!

Think whatever you like, I luv Somalis....!!:)

Alhamdulillaaaahhhhhh....!!! syukur...!! syukur...!!

Setelah 5 bulan gua berhempas pulas menjaja di sekitar pelusuk Timur Tengah dan kwsn2 yg sewaktu dgnnya... maka hari ini gua dpt 2 Purchase orders....!!! yeah...!!

the paradox is that the POs (both POs) came from.... from.... Somalia....!! hehe... combined value of USD650,000...

agak2 teman ler... depa guna duit ransom yg Petronas bayar kat depa dulu la utk beli SIM cards nih (for the 2 tankers which were hijacked last year).... hehehe... you see, someone's misery is someone else's rezeki... hehe...

whatever you all think of the Somalis... I luv them... hehe... as long as anybody gives me a PO for my goods, I luv them whole heartedly...!!! :) (sounds very 'jurujual', right? macam 'selling my soul to the devil' lak bunyinya...)

fuh...!! lega dpt PO... boley company nih cover gaji teman since the past 5 months, & bayo gaji teman for the next... next... err... berbulan2 tuh...!!

next will be the Yemenites... waiting for a deal valued at USD830,000... mintak ler dpt...!! wang besar! wang besar....!! :)

wish me luck! and may Allah have mercy on me....!!

80% of Singaporeans studying in UK are studying law

UK Immigration Officer: Purpose of visit?
Visitor: I'm here to study law, sir.
Officer: You know, you must have a lot of lawyers in Singapore .
Visitor: Why do you say that?
Officer: Well, I've been here for a good twenty years, and I'd say 80% of Singaporeans I see here say they're here to read law.
Visitor: Oh, really? That's something I never knew. Hard to believe in fact.
Officer: Just you watch, then. You just stand here until the next Singaporean comes along, and I'll bet he's here to read law.

Visitor waits for 5 minutes, Ah Chong from Singapore comes to immigration counter.

Officer: Mr. Ah Chong, purpose of visit?
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Ah Chong: Study lorr...!!!

kuang.. kuang.. kuang...!!:)

I need to loose 10kg....!! perghhhh...!!

did a health check today...

am healthy, in the normal range, but body fat, my gooodddneessssss....!! 20% tuh...!!

depa kata to get my ideal weight, I have to loose 10kg....!!!

perghhhh....!!

dahsat tuh...!!

in the meanwhile, sementara kita pikir2 camna nak buat..., kitaaaaa..., kitaaaaa..., kita makan dulu...!!

hahaha....!! :D

I think I am officially masuk family "bear"...!!

have to change nickname from "Kingkong" to.... to... to what huh...?

beruang jenih aper aku nih...?

sedapnyer spaghetti goreng nih...!! haha (sambil mengunyah...!!)

Wheels of Life...