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Some filler update…

2009-07-10T18:50:00.001+08:00

When was the last time i posted an entry on this page?

Oh well, i have nothing to be used as an excuse anyway. But hey, I’ve started my second year of study already. So far, so good, and more good things are being anticipated to come!

New student are here as well. Alhamdulillah, I’ve meet with some of them and i can smell many collaboration coming; i mean, we sure have a lot of fun things to share among us, aren’t we?

Time passes really fast, i have to say. I had my 21st birthday on 6th July; now I am legally an adult hehehe…sounds like i can do anything i like lah? no lah, cannot. Restriction may bum your day; call me ‘mat skema’, but they are there for reasons.

Now, got to work on a proposal. Got a programme coming maa… More update later, insyaAllah :)

In the Search for Nemo…

2009-06-28T23:21:00.001+08:00

I was soo eager to see mr Nemo in the eye. I did met the guy, but too bad, my camera’s battery went out! among the anemone, the clowns played their way :D

Feast on with some pictures taken under the crystal clear water of the marine park and 2 other snorkel hotspots around Redang island.

…the fun, well, you’ve got the gist :D

akmalmohammad

‘berRedang-Redangan’ with friends…

2009-06-24T21:14:00.001+08:00

…priceless!

Yep. We had a hangout at redang. RM310 inclusive transportation (to and fro Merang jetty), lodging(the aircond is reeeal cold!), meals (buffet style), snorkeling trips (2 trips open sea, 1 at marine park), and a real good time!

Man, that was fun! :D

akmalmohammad

Of Dusty, Rusty Blog and Jalan-jalan Cari Gambar…

2009-06-17T09:24:00.001+08:00

Call this one posting a filler readers, I’ll feel very bad for not posting anything for..what, 2 weeks already ah? Man…

Ain’t going to write much about how the fourth block exam passed us by. But yeah, I think I can say that my first year of raving, raging scientific, medical and statistical streams of brilliant sounded words is over. Well, at least we have passed through the stage of “Man that word sounds brilliant, tongue twisting and out-of-this-world!”. Exaggeration is embedded in the statement, of course. Entering the second year of phase one of preclinical years, we are expected to be able to comprehend the uniqueness, interestingness and awesomeness of human bodily system.
Oh yes, in case you’re wondering about the study system of IIUM medschool, we will have to go through three phases; first is preclinical comprising of 2 years of all about what’s written in the book and what you understand about it; second phase, a year in clinical setting, learning many clinical aspects of medicine and the soft skills of getting close to the people; third phase and the second is about the same, and we are going to have a whole 2 years to enjoy it.

Let’s not bore anyone to death with all that school thing. It is holiday, so self indulgence and good things are unavoidable, isn’t it? ;)

Recently, I joined a forum in the web, namely KLIK (Kelab Lensa Negeri Kelantan). Well, I am actually a member of several forums (ie. Velocity, Fotomedia, Photomalaysia), but this one really gives me the kick of being in a small community, sharing knowledge, information, and many other good things you wont get on your own. Not that I am saying that other forums are bad, mind you. All of the members are information-millionaire and tycoons of ideas. I benefit a lot from them.

GG, Kamal, Mekyah and me had a small photohunting outing on 14th June. One word, guys. Brilliant!

Now, the pictures will do the talking :D

Around Masjid Muhammadi first!

On the way to Pasar Besar Siti Khadijah

Inside Pasar Besar Siti Khadijah

Back to Masjid Muhammad

Pantai Cahaya Bulan

Sunset watching at Ridel Hotel

Long exposure/slow shutter tryout

That’s all folks! :D

GG, nanti buat lagi deh!

akmalmohammad

p.s. all pics were taken using 40D with kit lens (EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6), pic no.6 with Raynox DCR-250 attached.

August Rush

2009-06-04T00:45:00.001+08:00

This is not a thriller title or anything. Just a movie that, seriously, everyone won’t feel frustrated watching.

The storyline is rather simple and predictable and the way the director kept me having rounds of replay of this movie got me dazzled.

Perhaps it is because of these scenes? :D

Enjoy, and experience my obsession!

akmalmohammad

A Little Update Here and There…

2009-05-31T01:07:00.001+08:00

Alhamdulillah, we are about to finish this block; the public health block which consist mostly biostatistics and epidemiology. What’s left is the endblock exam; which surprisingly will be held within one day, taking from morning to evening.
I think this block really is different in comparison to other blocks; mainly because we really don’t have to memorize many things. Application, being able to understand what numbers in table is all about, being able to read various kind of chart, and being able to be critical in thinking scores more than the facts being engraved in the gray matters.

Finishing this block will also mean that we are going into 2nd year; we’ll learn more on disease aspect of human body, which i can bet my fingers, will be very interesting.

To commemorate the one year of feeling good, hard work and many books, we had a dinner at Sri Chempedak, Teluk Chempedak, last week. Here are some pictures of the event.

This chap named akmalmohammad was awarded with Nice title.

Many of my friends begged to differ though hahaha :D

That’s would be all for now folks. Have a nice day :)

akmalmohammad

Who says films are old school?

2009-05-24T01:44:00.001+08:00

Sapa kata pakai filem ni old-skool?

You see, this friend of mine is one chap with ardent lover and tenacious user of film. Mind you, he is ‘digitalized’ ie. a digital-everything user; heck, he even use Mac!…yes Ayie it is you I am talking about. And Acap also. And Anis also. And yeah, you too, Mueiz and Janggut!

Wait, counting all of you, sounds like I am the only one of the “Sesame monsters*” who don’t have a toy lomo, right? Darn! Ayie, Muiez and Anis, each got fisheye. Acap got supersampler. Janggut got lomolitos. Ayie got Diana, pinhole, polaroid…errr…apa lagi yie?

Fisheye

Supersampler

Horizon

Diana

Pinhole

Polaroid

Lomolitos

The aforementioned names introduced me to the world of Lomography; the sphere where cameras and films are for fun! It is not that DSLR ain’t fun. It is rather the uniqueness that captivated me to consider buying; if there is any reason i fork out money for one of these, that’s the reason why. Or maybe, just for the sheer fun of it :P

My first camera was a Kodak; film, cheap and reliable. But it was a normal camera; as normal as you want to shoot some pictures out, develop the film; process, print it out and finally neatly arranged in photo albums or frame it. These lomo cameras, people, are very much like that, except that you are experiencing something else. It is camera; a tool, something you use to pictures as mementos. But lomos are, if I may say, specialized in their own ways. Take supersampler for example; a multi-lens camera that can take sequence of events on a picture (this one is what i am eyeing on). Polaroid, well, I am sure everyone knew about this one right? You take a picture and it is being developed on the spot. Neat, isn’t it? :D

Now, can somebody tell me how on earth can I resist that?

akmalmohammad

*sesame monsters is some kind of fun things we do to group ourselves into when we are out and about as photographers, or roaming around in the worldwide web.

Pedajal kawan bersama Akmal

2009-05-16T04:29:00.001+08:00

A friend of mine, Majid, had his birthday today. We are living in the same block of our mahallah, Talhah 3; a hostel. So, yes, we did a prank on him :D

This is not the first time we actually have birthday celebration; so far that i can remember, it is already 6 or 7 times already we did such party for our batch members. A way of appreciating friends, and also a way of reminder that adding 1 year to the number is minus 1 year of the whole length of his lifespan which we know not.

Anyway, it seems like pedajal kawan is becoming a big thing; got brainstorming of its own on what is the best way to pedajal this so and so fella.

Call me terrible person, but heck, it was awesome! :P

Makan kek pakai muka!

Happy birthday mate! :)

Now, don’t get me wrong. I don’t like being a dajal or such thing. Still, I can’t help laughing my head off during the prank-that-guy session :)

akmalmohammad

Untuk kawan2 sahaja…

2009-05-13T13:28:00.001+08:00

My research teammates only :)

Download spreadsheet here. Not done, though, just key in all the data, let me worry about the formulas, will ya? :)

What a week…

2009-05-10T07:54:00.001+08:00

Just to make me feel less guilty about this blog that, again, collecting dust (3-4 inches thick this time), let me post something about things that have been going on around me last week.

1. Interbatch Sports Day Committee Appreciation Dinner.

You know what I like the most when a programme went smoothly and the are leftover money (hundreds in value) to be spent? Yep, you’ve got that one right. We had our dinner at New Horizon Garden Kuantan. A portion of the money was used, and what was left was given back to the organization for future programme.

2. Annual Grand Dinner/ Graduation Dinner, 8th Batch.

This one was held at Swiss Garden Hotel and Spa. Seeing happy faces of these young doctors gets me wondering what would it be like to be a real doctor. I’d rather not turn down invitation to attend such event for this one is an opportunity to learn a thing or two about event photography; which, let me tell you, can be quite tricky.

Some committees on high. The beach is beautiful, by the way.
Some pictures of the event

First year committees(Muiz, Zawanah, Kermal)

What a week :)

akmalmohammad

Rumah Lama, Cat Baru

2009-04-23T16:59:00.003+08:00

This new layout, people, was unintended. I was trying to get rid of the comment service JS-Kit, because, well, somehow it didn't work well for this blog. But I think it is quite OK lah, because turned out it is beautiful right? Anyway, i've reverted back to using the normal comment service provider. JS-Kit was good, but it should have served a convenience rather than a nuisance; at least for this site lah. For those who are using it, and found out it was alright with their site, I say go on. It is indeed good. It is just that it is not for WiseUp.

Very sorry for any inconveniences. Have a nice day people :)

Kat Kampung...

2009-04-23T15:36:00.004+08:00

Just a short holiday people! Will be back in Kuantan this 26th, new session starts on 27th; with Public Health Department this time, so lots of statistics I guess. :)
So, just a little something that I did kat kampung. Not many things, really, it was very, very hot in the afternoon, a bit chiller in the evening. Takde kerja sangat, I went out to shoot some. Found quite some good subjects, here's some.

Lembu

Bicycle uncle

Here in Kelantan, we call this 'ttuyup'; pepatung in Malay and Dragonfly in English.

Uncle at work

Carefree... :)

Book - A Thousand Splendid Suns

2009-04-20T15:36:00.004+08:00

I am ashamed of myself, calling me an avid reader when having books in my possession but never really had finished reading most of them. But hey, exam’s done, so I’ll have ample times getting my books in the list done with.

In fact, I’m done with this one. The second time, in fact, although the first wasn’t really something one can be proud of. This review might do no justice to the beautifully written book, so pardon this posting will ya? J

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaleed Hosseini. I bought it from MPH bookstore in Bangsar Village upon visiting friend over there; his first novel made me nuts waiting for his second book. You loved that one, you’ll love this one. Mark my word, mister!

The book was as good as his first masterpiece; perhaps even better. The setting may look, in a way or another, similar with the setting of The Kite Runner, minus the United States. All the events revolve in Afghanistan, and a bit, in Pakistan. Some might find this book rather disturbing with the fact that there are too many people die in the war-stricken days. But then again, perhaps that’s one of the objectives of this book; war ain’t pretty. And yes, women might also find it disturbing to see how a man went nut when his most desired son turned out to be a case of miscarriage. Perhaps it is a form of desire and pride over there for having son. The way I see it, children are blessing we must be thankful having.

This ain’t spoiler to those who haven’t read it yet. Basically, the book is divided into several parts; each will in a way or another focus on one main character. The beauty of it is that the characters stealing the limelight are living in a same neighborhood and later will be brought under one roof to face the tribulations many of us cant even dream having.

Mind you that this is not really the happily-ever-after-ending kind of book. See how one of the main characters sacrificed herself for the sake of her sister.

I wonder whether this book will be made into the silverscreen or not. Block buster it will be, if it is making it’s way into the cinema.

I’m sure many have read this book. Heck, this book got the bestseller title ain’t for nothing, alright? Just in case you haven’t read it, go hit your nearest bookstore, grab one, and prepare to levitate.

Oh ya, don’t forget to pay muahahaha :D

akmalmohammad

ps. currently in Kelantan, with a totally no-go with his broadband. Bummer, ain't it? :(

Lagi sorang member aku nak kawen!

2009-04-10T22:36:00.001+08:00

Yeap, a friend of mine here going to get married this June. And I can only smile :)

I saw this coming anyway. He has been talking about looking for house (dah dapat dah pun. Murah pulak tu sewanya. Rezeki orang kawen. Kat IM2), getting engaged, children, this and that. Heck, he even has been ‘practicing’ nursing children of cafeteria owners; playing with them, taught them things, ask them to pray, tell them to be good…all that sort of things that a DAD (hehehe) would teach his children. Like eight of them at one time. Well, yeah, maybe it was just him being so fond to children. But I see it that it is a way of getting used to have a family.

Most of us, his batch members didn’t see this coming. Fast. I mean, all of us are in a way or another ‘have plans’ right? Those who are single will want to end it; those who aren’t single might want to go for number 2 (bwahahaha!!!)

He will be the number two in my class to be a husband. The first place was taken even before we started our session here in IIUM; during matriculation to be exact; both the husband and wife are my classmate. Both blessed with a cute baby Iffah :)

(Sori imran, ambik gambar takde kebenaran hehehe…tak marah kan?)

I should expect another daddy and baby in the batch, yes? :D

Anyway, bro, good luck! Knowing you, I know you won't have anything you can’t handle.

Hal Cameraman, jangan bimbang bro. Aku yakin akan ada around 4 bijik kamera hari ko kawin nanti ok? :D

akmalmohammad

muka-muka nak masuk exam :)

2009-04-06T01:23:00.001+08:00

Just a quick update people. Gave me excuses of getting away from the many books and medical jargons for a while hehehe :)

Taken during the dawn of the day…

Anyway, last two days (3/4/09), we had another round of earth hour (read:hours, it was 2 hours without light :D). Only in IIUM though, and mind you, it is not really an earth hour kind of thing. It was just 2 hours without electricity in our campus, I heard that TNB wanted to get the power line tested in the new building that is scheduled to be fully operational in the next session; the kuliyyah of pharmacy (KOP).

Yep, that’s the one. Pardon the grainy picture, i forgot to change the iso setting to lower value.

The power cut off was scheduled to be from 9pm to 11pm. Heck, i am not going to spend my night there lah, of course. Well, nothing wrong doing such stuff of course. But hey, you’d ever turn down an invitation to go out and shoot the breeze right?

And yeah, to Teluk Chempedak, AGAIN, we went :D Here are some pictures.

This was during the power cut off. Again, pardon the grains. Taken at ISO1600, aperture f/22, 30 seconds exposure.

owh bulan! jangan layan diriku lagi~~~ :D

incik karikatur. His drawing are awesome! :D

Tengah lepak-lepak tu, I saw lots of inspiring expression; the models are of course my friends lah. Hehe:D

This kid suddenly came and gave us friendly hugs, one by one dari belakang. Comel lagi hyperaktif, Nabil was his name :D

Some got pharmacology/ microbiology/ parasitology notes in their hand, considering we are about to get into exam hall for our battle next week. But hey, you shouldn’t expect us to concentrate much at places like this.

Whatever. We had good time, that’s for sure. :)

these pictures got no hidden meaning whatsoever. Saja nak menunjuk hehehe :D

To all my friends who are having exams these 2,3 weeks, good luck y’all! Do your best-est!

And for you people, have a great day, and enjoy life! :)

akmalmohammad

Real Homie

2009-03-27T22:38:00.001+08:00

Just a filler :)

Alhamdulillah, here I am, in Gual Periok, having a weekend off from the books and miseries with family. And yeah, it really is too bad having my internet speed switched from HSDPA to GPRS; and the worst is that it is that I am not receiving a full signal here. Connection is on-off-on like it is one of their hobby apart from being annoyingly slow.

Grrr…

Anyway, it is good to be able to be with mum and dad, and my other 3 brothers. Too bad, my sister can’t be home because his school got some activities; ‘lawatan sambil belajar’ type of activity to be exact. If she’s home I might as well get our family portrait updated.

Wait, we don’t even have one! Man! At least the proper one lah. Of course, we do have some pictures taken before. But none is proper family portrait, if you know what I am talking about.

It is actually hard to have everyone of the clan to enjoy their time being snapped away in front of the camera when a big portion of the crowd ain’t that photogenic. I was a big time example. You can take a walk with me to zoo negara; but you should expect the least that your picture will be included in any of my rolls (yep, plural there) of film. Trust me people, a yawning cat or a jumping monkey is much, much more cuter than your face in the super-cool style muahahahaaha :D That’s a camera freak for you. Well, at least that was what I was told my friend when I was in my secondary school lah. That was the only time I used rolls of film. :) In the present days, I enjoy taking portrait as well. Enjoyable what? :D

Whatever lah. I still can’t take a proper one for now. Need to get everyone of the clan to be under the roof and snap my heart out.

Enjoy your day, people :)

Si comel itu…

2009-03-21T18:06:00.000+08:00

“Our white, furry, nice looking, but too bad; rather unhygienic friends are very delicate. Befriend with them first before you inject anything”.

Experimental subjects for drug administration routes.

Sekor lalok, sekor dah bangun. (one is still sedated, the other has already waken up).Experimental subject for agonist and antagonist autonomic nervous system drug.

Yep, we did experiments with these beings. And they were alive, mind you.

Humming all Night Long...

2009-03-16T02:10:00.003+08:00

Sami Yusuf never fail to get me hum all day long with his tune, piano; and of course at the same time the advises, tazkirah and also get me reflecting myself of whatever things I do day in, day out.
He has, so far, three albums in the market. Not sure though, when this one was released into the market, but this album namely Without You definitely going to be one of those thing you'll never regret having :)

akmalmohammad

Of Chess…

2009-03-14T00:46:00.001+08:00

It was quite some times already since I touched chessboard. Of course, my chess play mesmerize no one. But I used to go nutty with it.

Last night I tried a round versus A.I., the computer. Was beaten. To pulp. Yep, against level one, and I was beaten to pulp. It was a 3-steps killer, and I was beaten to pulp. PULP!

Dang!

Guess what happened then? Yeah, that’s right. I went several rounds against level 3 A.I., and got my statistics less than 50% winning. Me, against the computer. I have lost.

You see, this is a computer game we are talking about here; nothing so serious. But this one thing is. I was dazzled with my lost. But that was not the fact that I am super mad at; rather, it is about the many mistake I’ve made during the games. I was repeating the same mistake, over and over again. Yep, I can say my queen were unharmed in most of the games, but still, I lost because I was concentrating too much on attacking rather than defending my own fortress.

I like this phrase “Offense is the best defense”, hence implementing it in quite many stuffs I do day in day out. I mean, something like making myself a go-getter, do stuffs first, learn the best options in order to tackle that stuffs, and somehow starts to consider risks and sometimes unrealistic pessimistic thoughts creeps in. The results? I’ll become too careful; mainly to avoid whatever bad may come. Oh ya, by the way, if you do read DeBono, I think I am more to the black-hat guy, rather than the other colors that are more productive.

You see, what is the problem when you have become something like this? Yep, you’ll start to miscalculate other factors and effects that may be beneficial to you because you’re being excessively careful; even missed big opportunities sometimes.

That somehow giving out an impression that I am not the person to lead right? hahaha. But then again, perhaps that explains why I hate it being on the mainboard in any kind of programme. Ground works, technical, well, I think I am pretty good at those kind of things :D But of course, leadership is to be trained.

Chess is indeed a very interesting game. If you do play, try to focus on the game; think of all kind of strategies, predict the opponent moves. The best thing about chess; thinkers win. Sometimes, being simpleton is best, and at times, think like your life depends on it makes the winner. Of course, playing against computer is not the best. Machines are machine. They calculate and permutations can be anywhere in accordance to the situation it is in; we won’t be able to train and learn much especially soft skills where emotion and human factors plays a big role.

And yep, you can expect another addiction growing up in me.

So, up for a game, people? ;)

akmalmohammad

No, don’t bang the monitor!

2009-02-28T20:11:00.001+08:00

You hit Leave a comment, but the comment box didn’t appear? Don’t go nutty on it man. I have installed new JS-kit comment box. Well, I did quite nothing to do that, really. All I did was download the original template, upload it onto JS-Kit page and they did the integration and all the other fancy things people who know little about HTML/Java modification script go lunatic over.

The main cool thing about this tool is direct reply to commenter. This is going to be forum-like, people.

And needless to say, I like! :D

akmalmohammad

Similarities vs. Differences 2

2009-02-28T19:53:00.001+08:00

I wrote this a month ago, all about what I felt when it comes to multiracial issues that have been cropped up from things we’ve been having, and regarding the “Institusi Perhubungan Kaum” idea by the government to tackle problems about ‘perhubungan kaum’, as the name of the institution may suggests. I say we don’t really need it if all of us are up to cherish what similarities we have rather than go all-out nuts about things that differ. Yeah, quite simple to put it in words, but practicing it is a whole different story to tell.

That’s for racial issue. What about religious issue?

“Religion is so close to our heart that we even exchange life of our kids, even ours to protect. So why don’t we talk about it?”

Dato’ Hamidon Abdul Hamid
Deputy Rector Student Affairs Alumni, IIUM

I’d say today is a history made in IIUM where we had our first Interfaith Dialogue between 4 main religions in Malaysia; Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. Each were represented by well versed people to talk about the very core of each religion; the concept of God : in the light of sacred scripture. Congratulation and million thanks are due to the committees (volunteer team, in collaboration with other Kuliyyah-based associations and clubs) who worked their butt out to make this a successful event. This is the first time such event were held here in IIUM Indera Mahkota Campus. This is not a debate. Rather, it is an intellectual meet-up, discussion, get to know better of each other, and most of all to be able to appreciate what we have and cherish what we share.

The representatives were Mr Rajagopal (Hindu Sangam) representing Hinduism, Reverend Benedict Eugene (St Thomas Church) representing Christianity, Mr Michael Kok (Soka Gakkai) representing Buddhism and Mr Shah Kirit bin Kalkulal Govindji (IIS) representing Islam.

The whole event was very heartwarming, full of ‘intellectual aura’ and all of the members of the floor showed a very high spirit and hunger to know about fellow human within their community; and most of all, showed a high level of maturity in appreciating and understanding what were being told in the dialogue.

The first part was presentation of the concept of God from perspectives of each faith. For me, there was too much information for me to get it all at one go. But it is suffice to say that there are many part of what I’ve been told before about these other religions are off the trail. This is a misunderstanding of the core of the faith itself; the concept of God, hence misinformation is very much unacceptable. Perhaps, just perhaps, it won’t hurt me too much if I misunderstood any part of other religion as long I am steadfast and understand what mine is all about, but personally taken, we won’t be able to achieve the so called harmony and mutual, communal understanding. It is as if we are the medium of wrong information, vessel of misunderstanding and the culprit of disharmony of the society.

Alhamdulillah, there were many outsiders came and join the crowd to learn about each other better, notably Chinese and Indians. Many international students were also there, with the equal amount of hunger and eagerness to know about us Malaysian, how we live along harmoniously. I was quite disappointed because I wasn’t able to spot Malays but some, who are not from the university among the crowd.

We student were actually cut into two notable events; one, the interfaith dialogue, and the other one would be the Marriage course. Me myself was in some kind of dilemma. However, considering that this kind of opportunity; to be in such a remarkable event, is somehow rare here, I chose what’s the best for me.

Marriage course, nanti-nantilah hehe. Bukan nak kawin lagi pon :P

May this kind of maturity, mutual understanding, eagerness and and the spirit to learn and understand about each other kept lit up all the time, and I am pretty sure that we can achieve lot of things with this.

akmalmohammad

Hail my blogger friends…

2009-02-21T21:45:00.001+08:00

Blogging, get connected with each other via words, apparently publicly on the net where bytes and bandwith matters, is indeed fun. No matter whether the writer block strikes or you are simply inspired to put every single matter around you, what you have to go through day in and out, you can type ‘em all out. Loud. Yep, maybe the writer of this blog is not exactly the one to talk; I mean, look at all the spiderwebs hanging here and there in this blog hahaha.

Whatever.

Ranting. Merapu. Experiences. Insights. Pictures. Mengumpat.

Whatever you write about, people :D

So. May I know what do you use to get your blogging routines go seamlessly?

List down things your blogging life going to be imperfect without. As for me…

1. Internet (…this is of no need to be said right? LOL) – My main stream of bytes is celcom broadband. Getting slower and slower, day by day. Especially when we are talking about places with darn many people sharing the same band. Take IIUM Indera Mahkota campus for a quick example :P

2. Laptop – Asus F5RL ain’t that shabby :) Just formatted it, though. Of dire need, not because I was up to extreme overclock, polishing the inside, and cut a wire off somewhere haha.

3. Windows Live Writer – You a blogger? This one gotta have a space in your harddisk. So far, i’ve found nothing comparable for ‘off-the-browser’ writing…heck, it is the only one I can find for such task. It is something like this…

Get things you want to say in words, put pictures you want to publish along the post, want to embed any youtube videos…well, pretty much everything you’d want to have in simple blogging. Got all done, spell-check if you want, then hit the publish button up at the upper left corner :D

Downloadable here, for free some more :D

4. Camera – DSLR, camera phone, Kodak c613 cabuk (apparently damaged due to battery leakage. Repair is highly not possible, at least that’s what the tokey kedai said). I’m nuts with EOS1000D, currently.

5. Inspiration, baby! :) – Writers are a bunch of people who can seamlessly write whenever they have a pen and paper. Yeah, keyboard, if you insist. I am no writer, needless to say. Mumbling is what I am good at. It is amazing having you guys around reading things I mumble about, alright? :D

But of all, i think i blog because it is always a fun thing to do; getting responses, get connected with people you only know in bytes and later get to know them on the real world, writing out what you think about things, or sometimes to let things go off your chest. Maybe for money also? I don’t do that though :)

So, Bloggers, blog it all out!

What the hell was that?

2009-02-14T01:24:00.001+08:00

Taken from thestar Online,

KLANG: Teachers and students at a secondary school in Kapar had the scare of their lives when an armed man stormed into the school and stabbed a student.

Klang OCPD Asst Comm Mohamad Mat Yusop said the incident occurred a few minutes after the morning session ended at 1pm.

He said the man, who was wearing a crash helmet, entered the school compound with a knife in his hand.

A female teacher tried to stop him but he quickly walked up to a group of students and stabbed one of them in the arm and thigh, he added.

The assailant then walked out of the school compound and slashed three more students who were waiting to go home.

The three students, however, suffered only minor injuries.

All the victims were aged between 14 and 15.

The four students were rushed to the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital here for treatment.

The student who was stabbed was admitted while the others were given outpatient treatment.

ACP Mohamad said police believed it was a revenge attack following a gang fight between two groups of students on Tuesday.

The assailant, believed to be a former student, is still at large.

Distorted, contorted, outta mind.

Talking about someone requiring psychiatric help…there you have it.

Masa aku PBSM dulu-dulu…

2009-02-10T01:46:00.001+08:00

A comment here took me back to my secondary school when I was a active member of Red Crescent Society. Well, ain’t that long to make it a real ‘reminisce of the past’, but long enough to give me the kick of how was it being able, or at least to know, to do something in dire situation and emergencies.

PBSM was known among my colleague as ‘Persatuan Bapuk-bapuk Se-Malaysia’, which is needless to say a joke, although rather harsh; considering I was (and still. My membership is still on, in case you are wondering ;)) the member. Mr. secretary, some more.

Camping was the ultimate thriller in any societal activities in school, at least to most of the members. But not me, as I found out that first aid training and classes is the killer. Of course, camping is still interesting; in fact it is like winning a car in Power Root lucky draw, especially for hostel chaps in the journey looking for something to break the routine. Gotten away from the endless cycle of class-room-canteen-prep class-room-mosque (…you got the picture) felt like one million bucks! Not an exaggeration, mind you ;)

Where was I?

Oh yes, that PBSM stuff. I learnt a lot by joining Red Crescent Society (RCS). They really are things that can be learnt easily by anyone. But..come on, let’s be real. Astro Sports Channel or CPR for Dummies?
You know what I’m saying? :D
All the Heimlich manoeuvre, CPR, first aid for various accidents techniques and knowledge can be summarized into three words in order for anyone to master them. Yep. Three. Cool, confident and manipulative; cool, in the term that you didn’t go nut and ‘gelabah habess’ in any kind of accident; confident, that is you know what you are doing; and manipulative, that is you know how to turn anything around you to help you aid the people in need.

Well, of course, putting things in words are loads easier than actually act. That’s exactly where you need practices and experiences. Practices make perfect is true, after all.

You see, being able to help is not to boost your ego up. Or yes, maybe it can, if you like it that way. But the important thing is to help; and to help, in dire situation, my friend, saves life.

I wrote something about this earlier. Check it out :D

Check our about Malaysia Red Crescent here.

Now if you don’t mind I better get to sleep. Class at 8 this morning ;)

signing off into blissful slumber,
akmalmohammad

For unfortunate things happened to my lands…

2009-02-08T01:53:00.001+08:00

…and when I said lands, I meant Palestine and Malaysia.

Many of us should have already known about the significance of Baitul Maqdis; the Masjid al-Aqsa, and the cons they are trying to deal onto all of us using the infamous Dome of Rock. For all Moslem, Palestine is a site that nothing else can replace; our first qiblah, 500 times ‘pahala’ praying in the al-Aqsa, the trust given to us by Sayyidina Umar al-Khattab, when the first time he set his foot on the land. He made it a waqaf to all Moslem of all generation; hence it is our right to defend it with all we’ve got; at least with whatever we can do from distance.

About Malaysia…well…

What we have been having these 2,3 days is rather saddening, and shocking. Lompat-lompat and all that stuffs, while none of the works are really being done. At whose expenses? People suffer the most, needless to say.
Various reactions have been made; available throughout newspapers, internet and blogs. So there’s really no need for me to get cranked up and write more things about it. Heck, I am not even constitution literate enough to jump myself into this matters.

What disturbs me much is HOW people react.

Yes.
People get angry because there are people jumping merrily while sitting high up there in the ‘Dewan’.
People get angry because they want a fresh poll; and they didn’t get it.
I am indeed dazzled of how much we are aware of our rights, and how much we love the land we are living in. Go on, get angry, whatever you want to do. What sadden me is how much we can really forget who we are; especially when we get mad. We curse, we become foul-mouthed; no more of those courtesy and tolerable; as long as our anger is expressed.

And I don’t see how is that going to help solving this matter. Perhaps it is rather unrealistic to keep on seeing things in a mess a mess and staying cool in it. Heck, it is unrealistic. But why sacrifice our value?

Perhaps we should consider what happening around us with the Six Hats of Edward deBono?

AkmalMohammad