Cekal

Pagi ini, semasa saya di dalam perjalanan ke tempat kerja, Mutiara FM mendendangkan sebuah lagu rock 90an dari XPDC. Lagu ini bertajuk "Cekal". Lirik dan Muziknya amat bagus dan sangat menarik.

Saya ingin berkongsi kan lirik ini bersama pembaca:

:: CEKAL ::

HAYATI INI AKU BENTANG KAN SATU CERITA
KISAH MANUSIA INSAN SEJAGAD PUNYA ALKISAH
PELBAGAI RAGAM KERANA HIDUP PURA-PURA
BAGAIKAN TIADA KETULUSAN KEJARKAN KEMAJUAN

SIAPALAH ANTARA KITA SANGGUP MEMBELA
PERBALAHAN PENIPUAN ATAS KEBENARAN
MEMOHON SIMPATI TAGIH JANJI BUKA KAN MATA HATI
PADA WAJAH-WAJAH SEIRINGAN HALUAN PERJALANAN INI

OH…OH…SUKARNYA AKU MENGERTI
HIDUP PENUH RANJAU DURI
PILU RASA DIHATI

OH…OH…BILAKAH DATANG MENJELMA
PENAWAR KEDAMAIAN INI
PASTI IA MUNCUL KEMBALI

USAH DISANGSI JALAN YANG BAKAL ENGKAU LALUI
MUNGKIN ADA BENARNYA DI SEBALIK KESILAPAN

WALAU ADA SAKI BAKI YANG KURANG SENANG HATI
HARUS DITERUSKAN DENGAN SEMANGAT CEKAL DIHATI

LAGU: IZO XPDC
LIRIK: MAEL XPDC
“TIMUR BARAT”

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http://www.geocities.com/xpdc00/cekal.html

Last weekend craze

I'm absolutely tired today. Because last weekend, I was helping out for USA for Students event.

It turned out that I was in charge of lunch distribution, and I thought this was easy stuff. However, there were some miscommunication and the lunch came late.

I spent most of my time apologizing to the volunteers while carrying bags and bags of burgers and fries up and down of the building. I hope the volunteers are not pissed off too much.

After that, I went down to KLCC and went sipping a cup of Starbucks latte with an Indonesian friend I knew from USC time (btw, don't drink Starbucks too much at the time of inflation). He is doing some research in KL and will be working in LA soon. He's a cool dude.

Right after that, I took LRT and met a buddy of mine who lived down at around Kerinchi area and we spent some time discussing about data structure design, coding , etc. He's a really good programmer and I learn a lot from him.

Early morning, I left his place and took a bus to go back Penang. I bought Butterworth ticket because no ticket for Penang (well, they have executive, but I'm not paying for that). I took ferry down to Jetty, and took a bus back. (At this time around, let's try to use public transport more)

Yesterday, I also volunteered in some event here in Penang. So finished about 8pm or so. The event went well, and as usual, you don't get paid to volunteer, but satisfaction. I'm quite satisfied and after spacing out for about an hour or so, I slept.

I think I need to cut down my volunteer work and spend more time with family.

In fact, I'm going home next weekend. I can't wait for that.

Little program that I wrote

It would be boring to you if I mentioned specifically what I wrote last time.
Anyway, Since I promised to tell you about it, I just wanted to tell you that I was learning python and I was developing a simple data structure to do some mapping stuff. Python is cool because I don't have to worry about installing GCC, resolving some library linking and what not.
With Python, I just need to install the interpreter and bam, I'm on the go.

What is this mapping stuff that I'm writing? I have nothing to show now, so I won't show anything. Everything is not finalized and I'll tell you more when something is working and you can use it for yourself.

What do you do with a PC ?

OK, pretty straightforward stuff. What do you do with a PC? I mean, without Internet connection.
Haha. I know it. You want to get into Internet, right?

The next best thing is that, you can watch movie.
The next next best thing is that, you can listen to MP3 songs.
What else? Oh, I forgot, playing games!.

What else? You found that, other than those four things (Internet, movies, songs,games) you don't really have much to do with a PC (please don't talk about work, in which case, you'll use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint and etc).

OK, there's another thing, and this is quite particular to those who have nothing to do on the weekend:
Programming.

That's correct. Programming. Basically, to tell the PC to do whatever stuff in it's own language. It's pretty amazing, I mean, some people talk to animals to do what they want to do. Often, you have to force them (like getting cows to go around the field and things like that). The cows probably don't like you if you do that. But PC? PC is actually like a cow too. I mean, in terms of functionality, increasing productivity and stuff like that. If you know what I mean.

Anyway.
I have a wonderful weekend writing some little programs and manage to amuse myself momentarily. It's really great. I'll talk about it later, maybe tomorrow.

I have something to debug, friend. Chow.

Oil Price increase

I don't know, but as a Malaysian, I just feel bad about Pak Lah. Pak Lah didn't convey consistent message.

He increased the oil priced yesterday, only days after flip-flopping about whether to increase it or not.

Does the Government know how painful this is?

I'm sick of the Federal Government today. I don't want to talk about it anymore. I need to either work, sleep, play, and do my own things.

Life goes on, and heck to everyone in the Federal Government and UMNO now. If you're still in UMNO, why don't you consider quitting and do something else? Like Farming?

After all, Agriculture is Business. You can grow rice.