Uek!!

Day by day, i grow weary of listening to the news. Be it news on the internet or the TV, it's all the same. World mainstream media, alternative media, government funded media, independent media. These medias give a bad taste because as I noticed, there is not a single media in the world which offers a free, fair and clean report on a certain issue, especially when it comes to politics.

In Malaysia for example, there now exists two types of media in the world of politics. One is the mainstream media and the other is the alternative media. To put it simply, media endorsed by the ruling government is called mainstream, and media endorsed by the opposition is called alternative. Reading both of these reports, it leaves the public in total confusion.

For example, one report says that the current financial administration in the country is going well and the other media says that Malaysia will be heading for bankruptcy if finance is to be continued at the current pace. So, the question is, who the hell is telling the truth? Are these all but perceptions..

I think media is a dangerous medium. It's much more dangerous than having a gun in the hand, because media could poison people, manipulate the populace and influence people who don't think. In the old days, when one has a powerful sword, he could rule the world, but now, if one controls the media, he could manipulate the world and shape the world as he pleases without having to kill a single person. That is the danger of media.

Until the day that the media culture in Malaysia will be mature and open minded, that will be the day when I will start reading the newspapers with enthusiasm again. Now, I'd rather stick to watching anime, cartoons and documentaries. Much more peaceful and undepressing.. Call me ignorant... but sometimes being ignorant is a bliss

Spanish-Portugal Road trip - People

Travelling on the road ni, bukan setakat banyak tempat kita cam whore tapi juga banyak jenis orang kita jumpa.

Orang Sepanyol bagi ak good looking... Maybe sebab percampuran darah antara orang Arab ngan orang Eropah zaman Islam Cordoba dulu. Lama sebenarnya empayar Islam menentap di Sepanyol.

Tapi basically, pasal orang Sepanyol ni, deorang peramah. Xde gap.. Kalau duduk dalam train, duduk rapat2 paha ke paha, bahu ke bahu perkara biasa bagi deorang. Facial expression sket, tapi body contact banyak. Deorang not so distant macam org German bila jumpa ngan orang yang deorg x kenal. Deorang xde la prejudice sangat. Macam klau korang men2 ngan anak dia, deorang biar je.. Xdela macam kebanyakan orang German, men2 sket, ingat ak nk bawak anak deorang lari.. And mostly, they like to stare. And bile ak tengok balik, deorang pun buat dek je mcm xde pape berlaku... fuh... best..

New years day kat Barcelona, jalan penuh ngan orang2 mabuk. Macam2 jenis reaksi bila mabuk. Ada yang tetiba jadi ganas, ada yang tetiba berwatak feminin, n mcm2 lagi la.. Tp unfortunately XDE FIREWORKS... HUHUHU..

Sebab harga dia murah, dudukla kat hostel. and satu lagi, kadang kala korang kene kongsi bilik ngan orang yang korang x pernah jumpa. Hostel first yang kita duduk kat Madrid n Barcelona, taklah people friendly sangat.. masing2 buat hal sendiri... tp oklah... receptionist comel... hihihi

Perjalanan sosial start di Malaga iaitu bandar pelabuhan di selatan Sepanyol. Hostel di sana ada dapur yang pelawat boleh guna nak masak apa2.. mujurlah kitorang bawak spaghetti la, beras la, sos la, telur la, n macam2 lagi... so kos makan bole jimat... n sambil masak, sempat jugak borak2 dengan penghuni hostel yang lain. Dari US dua orang... dapat tau mcmn dia hidup, apa dia buat ngan hidup dia... n benda ak kagum ngan orang US sorang ni, walaupun umur dah tua n mempunyai anak cucu, dia masih travel around the world cari keje n buat benda2 yang dia memang suka... respect siot..

Di Seville, hostel dia memang paling best tuk jumpa ngan orang2 baru... 2 Malam tido sana.. setiap malam ada je benda... Borak ngan orang US, Brazil, Mexico, German... smua ada... N one thing, deorang smua guna English... so tiada halangan nak berbahasa, sebagaimana kehidupan biasa di Germany. Kumpul pengalaman borak2. X pernah borak ngan orang seramai tu dalam satu malam.. Mereka minum alcohol, kami minum kopi... Tapi seronok jugak... Pastu walking tour kat Seville, borak2 lagi n dengar pendapat seorang tour guide ni yang asalnya dari Itali tentang sejarah Sepanyol... memang masyhuk..

Di samping itu, sorang dari US telah hitchhike bersama kami ke Lisbon... So ok la tu... banyak jugak dengar dia cakap.. n for one thing, dah dapat dah dialect ngan body language orang yang datang dari US..

Tapi Portugal len crite plak. Orang dia distant. X mesra tetamu sangat... kecuali pemilik hostel yang kita duduk yang memang top class punya pelayan tetamu. Men bola smua etc2.. Tp by the time kita sampai Portugal tenaga batin dah kurang... so xde la se 'euphoric' seperti hari pertama

Post one in a million

Offenburg-Barcelona-Madrid- Alhambra-Granada-Sevilla-Lisbon-Porto-Offenburg

Post ni special sebab ditulis dan dipost dari kota seville di negara sepanyol yang indah...

1. Ak xnak crite panjang sangat sebab ni baru intro.. plan nak buat sesi berkongsi pendapat pasal road trip di sepanyol kat blog ni secara berperingkat...

2. Perjalanan 12 hari, memang best, sebab dalam masa yang agak panjang ni, bole mengenali magik2, keunikan, persamaan, dan perbezaan antara budaya.. n ak rasa budaya orang sepanyol memang setakat ni budaya yang paling unik ak pernah berhadapi..

3. Road trip yang lama ni memberi kebebasan untuk bergerak dan berilek tanpa perlu membazir masa kat airport atau mengejar masa tuk catch flight. Flexibility memang ada... tapi duit tu... len crite la... huhuh..

4. Adventure memang best... sebab seribu satu benda baru pernah tengok, lihat, rasa dan hadapi.. End of the day, walaupun penat lelah dan cramp kaki, hati masih gembira mengenang peristiwa2 yang telah berlaku pada hari tu...

5. Haha.. biarlah poyo... tapi saje nk dikongsi... Ni pun tujuan korang menulis dan membaca blog kan? :D

Merdeka sementara

Ok.. tengah happy... 3 exam dah selesai... hal ehwal praxis dah selesai.. haha..

Tinggal nak

1. Cari apartment baru kat Ulm...

2. Cari prof nak nilai Industrieprojekt ak

3. Projekt tuk maschine element yang dah 65% selesai

4. Ulangkaji fluid dynamics, Mechanik, Business n Electrotechnik

5. Cari awek.. ( Haha.. kidding je la... )

So buat masa ni... game3, movie3, n swimming3.. study sempoi2. Akhirnya ada masa nak sambung pembacaan buku2 ilmiah yang xde kene mengena dengan belajar... yeargh!!

Wake up

We saw things that were clearly wrong, in front of our eyes, could not speak because we didn't want to hurt. We saw something wrong, but when we chose to speak out, others shun us, saying we could not think right. Others got emotional and lashed out at us based on emotions instead of facts. Sometimes, what has been taught to us since young, is wrong, but we were dumb children, who only accepted the experience of others. But the more things we saw in life, sometimes we realize, what has been taught to us, is pretty much wrong.

We live through our own experiences, not the experiences of others. So we go far away. Solitary. Living in it for a long time makes us think. Makes us regret, makes us grow and makes us a man. No longer a pawn or a decoration for others to use to feel good about themselves. An independent man, a free man, who could think clearly, and move the world with his own two hands, to the path of what he sees as right.

Time changes, people change, the society changes. And yet there exists groups of people stubbornly rejecting change and wanting to ridiculously stand their ground. For me, they are inflexible, like a thin piece of wood, when we bend them, they break. An effective person, is like rubber, they could bend, stretch, and bind. They cannot break eventhough you throw him on the ground with a lot of force. But nothing is perfect. Rubbers are soft. But if this softness is used properly, it could create a world where people don't have to have guns, where people will lay aside their differences for the greater good. A world where people will live side by side as a happy family.

I write here in my blog today, as an advice to my generation and the generation after me, and the genaration after them. Every human, be it high or low, small or big, weak or strong, rich or poor has their own strengths, weaknesses and uniqueness. Until the time we see each other as equals, peace will not exist, wars will always rage, innocent people will always suffer and opression will always occur. Dissatisfaction will always leave a bad taste in our mouths. Not only wars in battlefields but also conflicts in the household, conflicts at work, and personal conflicts. It is the time for us as humans to evolve our way of thought and not limit it to sentiments of the past.

With that, I end my post..

2 bulan ku hilang .. muncul kejap...

Sibuk3...

Tapi oklah tu... Lama x berleter kat sini... Berleter ar jap...

1. Sem ni, byk kelas, banyak team work, banyak exam. Denagn 1001 jenis orang ak bekerja dengan n berkenalan semester ni... lecturer, budak2 kelas, orang2 tua kat Offenburg dll...

2. Banyak gak maklumat berguna dapat sem ni.. Ada satu kelas ni, 'Asas Undang2' unutk engineer. Dia ajar hak seorang engineer kat jerman apabila sumbang satu idea yang membawa untung yang banyak kpd syarikat. (Arbeitsnehmererfindergesetz). But mostly dia ajar macamana nak daftar Patent, denagn jenama. Procedure2 dia, syarat2 dia dr term undang2 dll.. so klau korg ada syarikat nnt, pastu orang pandai2 je tiru idea korang, korang boleh bawak dia ke makhamah dan dapat banyak gila duit daripada copycat ni.

3. Dlam kelas undang2 ni pun, dia bagi banyak maklumat secara x langsung pasal german mentaliti, asian mentaliti, american mentality n beza2 yang ketara antara orang US dgn orang German. Seriously, agak berbaloi, tambah2 pula dengan exam dia yang senang.. (I luv u prof).

4. Dalam kelas tu, banyak jugak pasal orang Asia dia kritik. Bagi kebanyakan orang Eropah:

Asian = Chinese

So, kalau deorang cakap macam tu, ak plak nak stereotype deorang

Orang putih = American

Fair n square ehk? Tapi who's to blame... Memang sebahagian besar orang Asia are chinese.. n memang sebahgian besar media barat asalnya dari US.

4. Sem ni pun banyak projek.. Macam2 jenis orang jd partner ak.. A sampai Z... ada yang buat keje sronok, ada yang buat keje best jadi x best, ada yang buat keje x best jadi best... But at the end of the day, it's all about being professional n maintaining your cool waluapun apa yang berlaku.

5. Pasal practical plak, ak xnk elaborate. Tengah menunggu jawapan dengan kesabaran n menerima setiap Absage (reject) dengan hati yang terbuka n bermuhasabah diri. So kawan2 doakan ye agarkan urusan kami dipermudahkan... Amin..

6. Btw, cuti hari natal ni, ku membuat spanish roadtrip bersama rakan2 seperjuangan di Offenburg.. Harap2 perjalanan kami selamat. Amin..

sebulan ibarat seminggu

Sepanjang oktober ak rasa bulan yang paling laju dlm hidup ak...

Banyak kelas.. (Ak convert BI so smua bole paham)

1. Welding

2. Fluid dynamics

3. Maschine Elements III

4. Product Development II

5. TEchnical Ennglish

6. Finite Element Method (FEM)

7. Technical Mechanics II

8. Industrial Economics (IBL)

9. Electrical Tech. II

10. Fundamentals of Law (Kelas sabtu)

And selain subjek yang banyak, nk kene apply practical untuk sem depan lagi, and ada kelas swimming 2 kali seminggu

Tapi basically sibuk2 sem ni, sebuk2 happy sebab rasa sronok amek subjek2 ni and banyak teman2 seperjuangan dalam kelas and cikgu2 semua layan..

By the way, kepada mereka2 yang terasa, sbb ak lama x contact... seriously.. it's nothing personal.. i'm just busy.. I should have given my apology in advance...