Baru je cakap...

Six die in dawn crash, co-driver decapitated as guardrail spears bus
By M. KUMAR, STEVEN DANIEL and EMBUN MAJID

RAWANG: Six people were killed and a woman seriously injured when the double-decker express bus they were travelling in skidded and crashed on the North-South Expressway near Rawang yesterday.

The 5am accident at the 442.9nd kilometre of the expressway caused a massive crawl south of the Bukit Beruntung toll plaza as authorities took about four hours to clear the wreckage.

Md Zaher Mohamad, 33, C. Magenthiran, 26, Mohamad Fauzi Awang, 44, Muhammad Ismail, 27, Mohd Yusril Zakaria, 27, and co-driver Zulkhibri Md Saad, 35, all died at the scene.

The AB Express bus, carrying 34 passengers, was travelling south to Kuala Lumpur from Alor Setar when the driver apparently lost control of the vehicle.


The bus then skidded into the guardrail, causing the metal railing to break off and spear the lower deck of the bus before the vehicle came to a stop on its side. See? baru je cakap pasal bas. If you take note of the news, the accident happened at 5am, the bus was not hit by any other vehicle and somehow it went out of control.
Why, tell me why do they like to commit offence under Sect 41 Road Transport Act?? Baca lagi!

If you're driving on highways at night, watch your rearview mirror

Exacty. I'm not asking for you to watch out for 'supernatural beings' or some sort. Its busses.They are on the road, driven according to the rules-very disciplined-during the day. But at night, they're like ghost riders. They stalk yu from behind, flashing hi-beams to make sure you are out of their way. Even when you are overtaking another car on the far right lane.
Can you believe that?
I've had a double decker bus chasing me just because I gave him a flash of hi-beam once. The driver was relentless. I was driving like 140km/h in a Kelisa, but the bus chased on. I guess the driver thinks that only he can go on hi-beamming people from behind, but he cannot kena even once.
In the end, I had to pull over at a rest area after managing to pull off from that SOB driver. I waited at the rest area till I saw the him pass by.
What an experience.
Imagine if you pull out the statistic for accidents involving busses in Malaysia. I am positive that most of it, especially those on highways happened at night or after midnight. On my personal experience covering those accidents for work, I bet my limbs that 80% of them happened after dark.
What are the drivers trying to prove? That they rule the streets at night? Damn, they have many innocent lives depending on how they drive, yet they go on driving like crazy.
The govt needs to implement some kind of method to monitor busses in Malaysia. Introducing the GPS tracker is a good way in doing so. In Taiwan, city buses are equipped with those devices that are monitored at the bus company HQ. The HQ will tell the driver to slow down or speed up a little if they are ahead/behind schedule.
Why not do something similar here? We should start with express busses la. They have claimed many lives already. Baca lagi!

Hahaha!!!

Hahahah! Harian Metro made Lars Umlaut a superstar!


Pilih syaitan
KUALA LUMPUR: Awas! Remaja yang gemar bermain permainan komputer perlu berhati-hati apabila memilih permainan, terutama berasaskan muzik rock dan punk berikutan sesetengahnya boleh menjejaskan akidah.
Itu adalah sebahagian daripada berita muka depan mereka yang menyatakan sebuah permainan video mampu menjejaskan akidah.
Permainan video itu sebenarnya bertajuk Guitar Hero. Menurut kata paper tu, videogame itu "memaparkan grafik seakan-akan kalimah Allah ketika ‘syaitan’ bermain gitar." Syaitan yang dimaksudkan mereka ialah karekter gitaris yang kita pilih untuk main game tu lah. Sebenarnya, satu saja pun karekter yang kalau nak cop syaitan pun iaitu, Lars Umlaut (gambar). Nak kata setan pun, aku rasa badut lagi sesuai kut. Remember KISS?
Mengenai kalimah Allah, sepanjang aku main lima edition game tu, tak pernah pulak ternampak benda sebegitu. Grunge, ko ada nampak?
Tapi yang paling kelakar sekali, ayat ni: "Menurutnya, setiap pemain hanya perlu memilih satu karakter syaitan sebelum mengikut nota lagu yang ditetapkan."
Adik oi, satu karekter je pun yang macam setan, tu pun sebenarnya takleh nak kata setan sebab pakai bedak macam badut.
Haih, sudahlah. Paper tu pun macam UMNO. Dok sogok minda Melayu dengan sampah, macam calon UMNO sogok perwakilan dengan duit lah. To all GH fans out there, ROCK ON! Baca lagi!

I just did...

It took me a while to hit the 'confirm' button on the screen. I was split between lack of confidence and current inability to perform the duty, should I press that button. It's not like I have never done it before. I did. Once.
I was on foreign land when I did it. I did well, I guess.

But that was 5 years ago.

And now, it's there in front of me. "Confirm," said the button. Seems all too easy hitting that button. Just a click, that's all. But what it really mean is opening a life that knows no despair, built on diligence, hard work and sweat.

I was mulling over it for almost a week now. "Ah, what the heck. Just click the button," probably what my alter ego would say.
Oh well, I did. I just registered myself for KL Marathon this June.
Hello world, I am back.
Baca lagi!

TidakkK!

Nope, aku tak ada blog baru. Dah berbulan, I think about 2 months kot aku tak hapdet blog. Bukan tak ada apa happenings in my life. Banyak je . Dapat anak, jaga anak, dapat roommate baru, beli kasut lari baru, pegi lari-lari balik, rambut dah panjang, memacam lagi la.
Cuma takda semangat nak menulis. Boleh? Keje aku hari-hari menulis. Sampai kat blog aku sendiri, dah tak tau apa anak tulis. Gila agaknya.

On another note. Aku letih. Partner aku yang tak semenggah tu banyak pulak meeting dia kat KL tuh. So, it meant i had to work alone for most of the time. This week je, aku dah keje 7 days straight. Kalah bangla/burmese kat Ol& T*wn beb. Haih. Penat. Letih beb, letih. Jadi aku pun ngabihkan la masa rehat lepas keje dengan main PS2, main bowling, layan astro, pegi jamming (bos baru layan lagu 60an la....gian nak rock nih! Warpigs!@!!)Adala haritu tengok wayang sekali, citer apa ntah. Nak tengok latest movie, tak sampai hati plak kat Anne. Then sampai off day, baru la balik KL. Travel. Lepak-lepak. Travel. Kembali ke Melakeee la cilakee.
Dah la, merapu je nih. Tido tido. Baca lagi!

Only for a few hours a week la...

I was listening to a radio station in the car recently, and if I recalled correctly, the DJ's were discussing about how men tend to ignore everything and make silly excuses to watch a football game on tv. To the defence of millions men out there who almost religiously watch their favorite team(s) battling it out on the pitch, its only for a few hour only, lar.
Imagine for the rest of the week we spend quality time with families and friends, sometimes even forgetting about the game altogether.
But come weekends (or sometimes midweek), we will shut the world off, for a few hours that is.
Come on lar, it's only for a few hours.
Maybe we get too excited with the game played, we wreck havoc to the house.
But, come on lar, it's only for a few hours.
And please, all of you af the opposite sex have Mother nature to stop us having sex for at least a week each month. And we can live with it.
Football? It's only for a few hours, lar!


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My mind is in a distraught state. My wife is about to give birth to our first child, anytime soon. I know she can manage to go to the hospital with some help from colleagues (if she's working) or family members.
But I think it is important for me to be there for emotional support. And maybe to lend my arms, for her to grip on while going thru labour pain. But I will be there, when the time comes. I will just drop everything here in Melaka and cabut to KL.
Another thing that I'm worried of is the safety of my in-laws at Bukit Antarabangsa. They had a major landslide last Saturday, and it was quite near to their place.
Luckily, so far the place is considered safe.
But I still worry. These things happen before you know it.
Hopefully everything will be okay. Baca lagi!

Kenapa Pulau Pinang tak boleh pakai papan tanda bahasa lain

KM Pulau Pinang sedang menjalani kehidupan impiannya.Habis papan tanda jalan di PP nak ditukar supaya ada bahasa Cina, Tamil dan bahasa penjajah tu. Atas dasar "mahu meningkatkan industri pelancongan".
Andai kata dibuat perhitungan, berapa banyak pelancong India, China dan dari negara yang menggunakan bahasa Inggeris sebagai bahasa ibunda, cukup banyakkah untuk melayakkan PP berbuat demikian?
Bukankah lebih baik jika turut diletakkan sekali bahasa Perancis? Atau setidak-tidaknya bahasa Jerman? Papan tanda tu ditukar untuk pelancong, atau warga Malaysia bukan Melayu?
Ya betullah, kononnya kata KM, tindakannya itu "tidak mengurangkan status bahasa Melayu sebagai bahasa kebangsaan". Tindakannya itu cuma meletakkan bahasa lain sama status dengan bahasa kebangsaan. Tidak eksklusif dan sama rata.
Dah la orang Melayu sendiri pun kurang memartabatkan bahasa sendiri. Syarikat swasta apatah lagi.
Merenung kembali hujah si KM berkenaan nama jalan di KL yang turut meletakkan bahasa Arab, tak pasti pula sama ada ia benar atau tidak. Yang paling saya ingat, papan tanda polis pelancong dalam bahasa Arab, selain bahasa Inggeris ada lah. Tapi nama jalan, siapa nak baca nama jalan bahasa Arab? Dan oh, wahai KM, jawi bukan bahasa. Ia dibaca mengikut bahasa Melayu di Malaysia. Jangan jadi "masyarakat tertutup", bak kata si KM. Biarlah bahasa kebangsaan itu, diagungkan sebagai bahasa kebangsaan. Baca lagi!