Ni cite lama tapi x update-update lagi.. x sempat.. few weeks ago pegi ke Jepun untuk release tensen hahahaha release ke pun tensennye? So desu ne...

Anyway... Nihon aka Japan.. is nothing much different from Malaysia. I expect to experience Japanese culture macam dalam cite Oshin tu or Akantare.. tapi x dapat. What I got was a modern-so-Amerika-jin-like culture hehehe well, what can I say, dunia dah berubah. Owh kenape macam Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur to be exact)? Sebab pemandangannya dengan bangunan-bangunan besar diselang-selikan dengan apartment-apartment.. sistem monorel nye.. exactly the same when I took LRT to go back to Kg. Baru hahaha

Whatever it is, I enjoyed my short trip to Japan. Thanks to Su N sebab sanggup bersusah-payah dari awal tahun lagi tolong saye sampai berjaya dapat visa ke Jepun... (owh sungguh banyak cekadaknye). Keseluruhannya, I like it even penat giler lari-lari kejar train sume for 3 days in a row + balik lewat malam :P And above all, watashi wa Nihon ryoyi ga totemo suki desu!!!!! ( I really love Japanese food!)

1st day: Kyoto day trip.

Hmm pegi Kyoto untuk tengok femes-femes temple kat situ. Met 4 Japanese students yang sangat baik hati bawak kite orang berjalan-jalan di Kinkaku-ji. From there kami berpecah pergi ke To-ji. Then ke Kiyomizu Temple which should be the best tapi alahai... silap timing.. sampai-sampai temple tu dah tutup :D





2nd day: Universal Studio Japan

Second day pergi berpoya-poya di Universal Studio Japan. Teringat masa gi Movie World kat Gold Coast dulu. USJ ni lagi sesak dari MW.. queue sket punye panjang.. bayangkan nak main Spidey kena queue lebih dari sejam.. dan yang paling x bestnye.. everything is in Japanese... tak paham mende! (p/s: Superman nye roller coaster kat MW lagi best dari Hollywood Dream ride USJ)



3rd day: Banpaku-Kinen-Koen - Osaka-jo - Namba

Hari ketiga... berjalan-jalan ke taman bunga femes kat Osaka.. then dari sana berlari ke Osaka-joen untuk tengok Osaka Castle.. Destinasi terakhir gi ke Namba untuk shopping.. huhu mahal-mahal ok kat Jepun.. so beli untuk cukup syarat jek....



Favorite food:

As I said... i really love Japanese food. I love sushi.. memang antara cite-cite sampai kat Jepun nanti nak try sushi made in Japan!

di masjid Al-Huda selepas solat Raya

Seperti biasa, raya kat sini meriah. Raya pertama, lepas solat Raya, berkumpul kat rumah Nad, potluck lah since kami single-single jek. I did my mom's famous rendang dendeng. Walau pun x seumph yang mak buat, unexpectedly.. jadi! Lepas tu beraya ke sana ke mari sampai ler malam. Lab? X pergi langsung :)


4hb Oktober pulak merupakan Otago Open House hasil kerjasama 4 buah kelab Malaysia. Tahun lepas saya buat soto. This year, handle satay plak. Hmm by handling satay means menguruskan satay dari awal sampai habis (ikut description Faried, the president). Resipi of course dari Imran.


Hmm penat jangan cakap. Dengan sejuknya lagi tapi digagahkan jugak pakai baju kurung kain chiffon tanpa proper thermal di dalamnya huhu.. nak bergaya punye pasal! Anyway, it was a success dengan guests yang datang terlebih dari yang kami predict. Tahun depan number of students akan bertambah so xtau ler next raye jadi macam mane plak..

Kenapa dalam sejarah?

Sebabnya malam tadi waktu kat masjid, tengah tunggu pengumuman Hari Raya (kat sini memang based on nampak or tak anak bulannya), minah-minah Arab tiba-tiba bersorak keriangan. Then pula diumumkan Eid jatuh pada hari Ahad.
Dah siap bertakbir, tiba-tiba dapat pengumuman lagi sekali, actually news tu tak confirm lagi. Hmm someone from Auckland made a very bad joke by releasing the news?????
Semua orang blur, then Imam cakap takpe.. solat Tarawikh dulu regardless Eid jatuh pada hari Ahad atau tak.
Dah abis 4 rakaat (sini Tarawikh lama, satu juzuk, ulang balik Al-Baqarah malam tadi) baru dapat confirmation Eid jatuh pada hari Isnin sebab anak bulan tak nampak. Even kat Fiji pun (sebab New Zealand sekali ngan Fiji).
Haha lawak ok? Rasa tertipu sungguh-sungguh. Masjid pun boleh terpedaya.. hmmm...

Finally! Berakhir sudah Malaysian Nite '09 pada tanggal 8 August yang lepas. Dari dulu bercita-cita nak direct play. Tercapai jugak akhirnya. My directorial debut, meant for international.. bukan short play..but a 2-hour one. Woohoo! More importantly, it was a huge success!

How did it start? It was Otago Malaysian Students Association (OMSA) initiative to come out with the play of Si Tanggang. I was assigned to choreograph Ulek Mayang dance (ni last raye punye cite la ngan Praveene kunun nak wat Ulek Mayang). Then I proposed to have silat in the play. They accepted. But being me, who loves to write stories so much, I couldn't keep my mouth shut. I kept on giving them ideas on the storyline until one day they asked if I want to direct the play. Without hesitating, I said yes dan akhirnye.. muncul lah Si Tanggang 2009 in my own version (oh yeah, I made a lot of changes to the story. Diberi nafas baru :P)

5 months of planning and hard work. It was all paid off. Yang penting, the crowd loved it so much. Terbukti sebab we managed to keep all of them until end of the play. As opposed to last year, half of the crowd left during the intermission. Fuhh! Happy happy happy! Funny thing is, people congratulated me and said can't wait for next year's show. Haha the big Q is, will I be doing again for next year? I don't think so hahaha but who knows ;)

Alrighty... enjoy the show! ;)

4 hours earlier, I helped OMSA preparing acar for International Food Fest. Then rushed back to my lab. Soon afterwards, I rushed back home to get changed since I'd already promised MM to play pingpong. But I still have heaps of works to do so I decided to go back to my lab after pingpong.

By 9 pm, we finished playing. As planned, I went to the lab, sat there for few moments, in the middle of txting when I felt a little bit of swaying. I thought it was because I was still tired from playing so I didn't really bother. Not until Yaoyao and Thomas asked if I felt the building was shaking. The building started to sway again, the blinds were moving, and I felt dizzy.

Then only I knew it was an earthquake, my very first earthquake at a magnitude of 7.8, the strongest in 78 years! I was wondering, should I run out of the building? Yaoyao and Thomas seemed so relaxed so hey, I just stayed. With the minimum knowledge that I have in physics, I was pretty sure that the force was not enough to bring down the building, unless God says otherwise. So here I am, still alive telling the tale.. yada yada..

Anyway, last night, went up to Highgate with Geoff, his grandson Zach and Yaoyao to gaze Saturn and Titan, its moon. Finally, I managed to see the ring of Saturn with my very own eyes. But still couldn't see Titan though coz I was so busy finding the right angle to view its ring -sigh- Well, Geoff's next plan.... to look for Milky Way somewhere in August!

I told my supervisor "I hate myself".

He said "You were comparing yourself to me? Do you know how long have I been doing this?"

My answer was "4 or 5 decades".

He said "I started computer graphics in 1966. I am 43 years ahead of you".

My reaction was "Owh!"

He said "That's why I am here. Supervising you and you learnt something from me".

I smiled half-heartedly. Still can't stop thinking that I am so ignorance -sigh-