Thursday, May 25, 2006

A corrupted judgement...

For Malaysian who read about the Jasin MP who used his influence/power ans asked the Custom Department to "close an eye" on an unlawful consignment of inported logs, The Sun reported that he's going to be questioned by a panel of 4 people from the Cabinet... Unfortunately, look at the members of the panel:

Head : Najib Tun Razak (a womaniser)
Panel 1 : Chan Kong choy (no comment on him, yet)
Panel 2 : Nazri Aziz (after his statement about BN MPs cannot support any motion by Opposition MPs, I swear he's nowhere near "integrity")
Panel 3 : Samy Vellu (the logest serving, well-known corrupt)

Great... A bunch of corrupts questioning another corrupt... I bet the Jasin MP was laughing his ass off when he knew who the panels are going to be... I'm sure that people would be happier if the panel was made off neutral, non-MP members...

Which makes me wonder; Does Pak Lah meant what he said, when he made the statement that he's going to uphold integrity... I sure hope he's not sugar-coating his speech...

Monday, May 22, 2006

Piccies :p...

Here's some of the pics I managed to scan from a fellow archer... Others will be posted once I got my hands on them...



Trying to find the "feeling"... Konna kanji desu... Ehto, donna kanji ka na?... =.=;;...





Yosh, got the "feeling"... Now, aiiiiiimmmmm~~~...





FIRE!!!~~~... ... ... ... *silence*... Eh, where did the arrow go, ah?... Haih, that's the trouble when you have a rabun archer >.<;;...

Saturday, May 20, 2006

MASUM rants and groans...

Okay, as promised here's the update on my archery adventure, representing the university you'd love to hate (UIA) on MASUM '06... Sorry, no picture... ... ... Yet :p...

We arrived at UITM on Thursday, and were lodged at one of the female housing college (which, during one of my early strolling, happened to STILL have some female inhabitants)... It's kinda shocking to see how "open" UITM towards free mingling between the opposite sex (and perhaps, the same sex)... But being the typical Ismat, got over it in no time :p...

Us 2 and a half guys decided to survey our battleground, the UITM stadium, and perhaps have an early training... We were later joined by the girls... Much to our dismay, the shooting ground is not even prepared yet, and there's a big chance that the tournament is being postponed without our knowledge... We asked whether there is a shooting range available for us to start practice, which of course they do... Problem is, we have no idea where on UITM is the place -.-"... On top of that, the weather is just not on our side; it rained as heavy as you can imagine 15 minutes after we were back in our rooms... Haih...

The next day, we went to MSN Sports Complex at Keramat for training, and it's clear enough that we have improved a lot... Kak Aisah, our coach, gave some tips and advices, and reminded us to take the tournament as an exposure towards greater level of tournaments...

Saturday marks the beginning of the battle... No real battles yet, since we were just "target-practicing", or in archery term, sighters... Only managed to have it for half day, since, like I said before, the weather is not on our side for the time being...

Sunday, and the battle starts... All of us archers had to shoot 144 arrows for 4 distances: 90m (male), 70m (male n female), 60m (female), 50m (male n female), and 30m (male n female)... It was damn tiring, and yours truley here got trouble finding his "form" for the first 2 distances... A combination of mismatched equipments (will explain later) and windy range was believed to be the cause... Come evening, I managed to get a grip on myself, and landed on number 18 (or was it 19) overall... And for staying under the scorching sun for the whole day, the already hitam legam writer here got even darker than the darkest night (will tell about a funny story related later)... Kak Aisah told us to get a good rest, and Encik Ismail, her boss, told us not to take spicy food (whice we gracefully ate later that night XD)...

Monday, last day of the tournament (for archery, that is)... First of all, Individuals Olimpic Round... All the players, save the captain and 1-2 of the girls managed to fight it out twards the semi-finals, captain lost at quarter finals... Next is the Team Event Olimpic Round... Our first rival was USM... The sure underestimated us a lot, since we were using aluminium arrows... UIA's archers were yours truly, the captain, and our "Abang Long", 26-year old Azril... We beat the crap out of USM in all 3 rounds XD... Next on the list was UPM... They treated us with respect, we were fighting almost with an even footing (minus the arrows), until yours truly lost his grip again, and we lost by 20 points... Nonetheless, we landed on the 4th place for team event, which according to the captain, was not bad at all, considering we were all (minus the captain) newbies, and were competing with mismatched equipments...

Went back to our respective rooms, start packing, and yours truly starts to fall ill (and still not well while typing this post)...

Back home, I got news that we were mistreated by the UIA Sports Officials... Consider this:
UM players got RM150 for the span of 3 days as allowances,
UITM got a lump sum of RM800 as allowances,
UIAM gave its athletes a meager RM45 for 3 days (UM got more for 1 day)

KUIM offered RM500 for each medal won, regardless whether it's gold, silver, or gangsa (I forgot the term in English <.<)
UIAM refused to give any incentives for medals won... The most they can offer are the jerseys...

What a letdown... Here we are, UIAM students, sacrificing our time and efforts, only to find out that our efforts meant nothing...

INFO ON ARCHERY
If you guys got interested about archery, here's a list of links you can visit if you want to:
http://www.yale.edu/archery/about.html
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joetapley/ (A very nice site, explaining the physics of archery...)
http://www.kyudo.com/asahiam-intro.html (Japanese Archery...)
http://www.strictlybowhunting.com/Anov01issue/carbon_vs_alluminum.htm (Explaination on why we lost...)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/joetapley/target.htm

Funny story after archery
Remember I mentioned about being darker?... Some of the students were collecting donations room-to-room... They came to mine, and to my feverish confusion, start talking in English... At first I thought they were high on English, but then I realised: They thought I was an International/Overseas student (WTF *sweats*)... Once they finished explaining their objectives, I told them, "Bahase Melayu pon takpe"... Oh, the joy of seeing their expression... And as I went to get my money, I heard one of them said, "Serious, aku ingatkan foreigner tadi"... Tell me, should I get furious, or should I be proud?...

Ihab's singing clip
http://www.savefile.com/files/2242136 Here it is...

Okay, that's all for now... PLEASE VISIT MY BLOG MORE TT__TT...

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Something to tickle your funny bone...

No updates for MASUM yet... But here's something to compensate for the wait :p...

Go to this site www.thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi and enter your name in the box then hit the Sloganize button. DON'T CHEAT, KEEP THE FIRST ONE THEY GIVE YOU.

1. Ben- "Better ingredients, better Ben."
2. Laura-"Aaahh, Laura!"
3. Gary - "Nobody Better Lay a Finger on my Gary." beat that!
4. Hannah - "When You Get Bored, Call For Hannah"Yess Beat THAT!
5. Ruby-"Loneliness is a Pleasure."
6.Raffi-"You can do it when you Raffi it".
7. Eliza-"sharing the Eliza of your life"
8. James- "Gives A Meal James-Appeal"
9. Hanna- "Break Me Off a Piece of That Hanna".
10.ben - "FOR A HARD EARNED THIRST, BEN." (haha)
11.Caitlin-"Try Caitlin, you'll LIKE IT...!!"
12.Tara- "Probably the best tara in the world"
13. Carl-"See the Face You Love Light Up With Carl.????????????"
14. Witney - "Stimulation for body & Witney!"
15. Beau - "Get Serious. Get Beau."
16. Grimm - "Tell Them About The Grimm, Mummy." [[hahahaha]]
17. Trev - "Trev. Australian For Beer."(how did they know?)
18. Julian- "Shake the bottle, wake the Julian." (hhahahahaa)
19.Jessica- "Loves the Jessica you hate."
20. Jackie - "We Don't Make Jackie. We Make Jackie Better." (hell yeah! lol)
21. Erin - "An Erin Works Wonders" (She sure does!!!! )
22. Scott- "If only everything in life was reliable as a scott- i think it's broken."
23. Kat - "Get the door - its Kat" (man, how boring is mine!!)
24.Michelle-"Beware Of Expensive Michelle!" ( LoL i'm expensive?)
25. Celeste- "Once you pop,u cant stop CELESTE"..Hahaha
26. Teri- Four Out Of Five Dentists Recommended Teri... ((for what actually??))
27. Jason - "Jason- It does a body good"... hahaha.. makes me sound like im a sex toy or sumthing.. LOL
28. shurl - "do u eat the shurl last".. am i dat tasty?? hahaha
28 frank - Hand-Built by Frank....huh??
29 ahmad redzwan-the home of (my name).... blank..????
30. anne - 'there's first love,and there's anne love' vewy vewy nicey ;p
31. evon- "Let's Face The Music and Evon".. umm..
@ yvonne- "Reach for the Yvonne"...LOL
32. alom - "alom really satisfies"..i do? @
petrus - 'splash petrus all over'...wadda?!
33. Elizabeth- Just like elizabeth used to make.
*Adrienne~things happen after and adrienne
34.MaLIa - Australians Wouldn't Give A Malia For Anything Else. (hahaha)...
35.Fakhrullah-"Tastes Great, Less Fakhrullah.".<--wakakaka..wth..
36. gloria- it's gloria time!.. *yeah baby!! *
37. aaron - Leggo My Aaron (uh???)
38. Alia - Make Someone Happy With An Alia. :)
39. Shareen - Half the Shareen, All the Taste. ;) hahah
40. Shira - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Shira.
41. Dalila - The Best Dalila A Man Can Get.
42. Nabeela - Have Nabeela Your Way
43. Taufiq - Race for the Taufiq (hahahahahahaa)
44. Farahana - You Cant Top a Farahana
45. Rendra - Think Once, Think Twice, Think Rendra. (tht makes me sound like a drug.....)
46.yati - We Are Serious About Yati (what a crap..)
47.Let's buy the world of Mahhey
48. Aiman - Have You Had Your Aiman Today?
49. Ismat - It Takes A Tough Man To Make A Tender Ismat. O_o W T F
Nor Ismat - We Don't Make Nor Ismat. We Make Nor Ismat Better.