islamic information center

Last Saturday, i attended a forum which entitled : Youth: leadership & Change which was organised by Islamic Information Center (IIC)-- at Jalan song inviting the distinguished speakers from different religion to share in this topic. Kuching Buddhist Society was represented by Brother Lau from the english dharma propagation section.

Really learnt a lot from the respective speakers who share their viewpoint in leading from their religious viewpoint: from Islam, Christian, Sikh and last but not least from the Buddhist perspectives.

Surprisingly, i found that the design of IIC is really good which incorporates different culture in their building, which i had the opportunity to snap some pictures around IIC.

the front view of IIC main building is mainly chinese style

side view of IIC, big pillars

i like the wall which is modified to become the fountain

the other building which is the Barok style (melanau or Iban style)

seems like the Chinese temple or the palace

bad day

yesterday was a terrible day for me, the presentation was really bad..... huh~ really embarrasing!~ its because of not enough preparation and misunderstanding between colleagues, so it really was an unforgettable experience. first time in my life, being "shot" by Dr. and criticized..... hmm... nevermind, i know its a hard way for us especially the part time student in the course.. however, i discovered new things and concepts which is relevant in writing papers.... in such a way, i did grow up.... nevermind, its a process....

but one of my group members was not satisfied because "kena shoot" coz, in her point of view that we actually don know the format for the presentation then she blame it on the other colleagues from other group. i think this would create some "issues" between us, something weird lar.. may be i think too much lar..

i had made up my mind to struggle through the following semester to complete in time... still cracking my head to find a field for me to do research on.... SIGH! no more working, no more other distraction, concentrate and concentrate...

差点上当记

昨天，在还未到大学上课时，看看手上的表，时间还蛮充裕的，所以就在Tabuan一间新开张营业的商场闲逛。哪知我一踏入商场时，就有一位脸带笑容的年轻人走来，向我推介产品并且邀我进店里看看。。。。。盛情难却所以就跟随他进入店里，依据他所说他们的商品是来自德国并且拥有优良的历史背景，现在他们刚打入马来西亚的市场所以现在这个阶段在做促销。以5令吉就可以得到他们的产品并且有机会赢得大奖，在他的游说下，我又想看看到底这帮年轻人到底在搞什么，所以就继续玩所谓的“游戏”。一路过关斩将，顺利到大奖时刻，并且可以获得home theather 一台，但是系统有点故障,所以要打电话到厂商那边询问...看看四周的人表情都怪怪的.....而且打电话的人也是一样不敢于我四目交接,所以就赶快逃离现场....避免被人占便宜....WHEW..... 幸好幸好全身而退。。。。。

KK 大众缘素食馆

有过谁有到kota kinabalu时，可以到大众素食馆指教指教。。。。我弟是主厨哦！

Statistics

from secondary school till now i don really like mathematics, may be i m not good in logical thinking though. during university life, 1st semester i have to do statistic and mathematic in engineering and sciences, huh, that really was stressing me up... my level of adrenaline (hope that i din get it wrong) getting higher and higher after every class......

my master program also have statistic, but no more calculation like the undergraduates;flipping through the buku sifir and pressing buttons of calculator (casio FX570). now everything i do using software, SPSS, now then i realise the power of statistics. it help us to draw some conclusion from a population by collecting samples from it (*the data collected have to be valid lar in the first place.)

statistics could be divided into two categories: descriptive and inferential. Descriptive is the just giving information about the sample that was observed and inferential statistic would allow us to draw conclusions based on the sample data collected. for example, during Barrack obama's election campaign, we did see percentage of Obama will be the president of America. the expert did not collect samples from all the residents of america, but selectively choose their respondents. from that sample collected, they could make some prediction to it...

hmm.... this data collected is really useful if it was interpreted and provide some information to all the top managers or the management to start a new policy. i m wondering, did our government do the research before taking a decision to have a new policies? especially in education....

recession period

Master level of my course requires thinking skills and much more applications; it was no more like undergraduates which I could consider as spoon feeding type. Master level has required us to have own ideas especially how argumentative you are in that particular point of view, we could carried out discussion with our lecturer or they called themselves course coordinator.

During our discussion time, we had some new input on the hottest issue right now, the recession period. Our big boss, USA’s economy has collapsed and this has much impact on the exporting country including Malaysia. There is always a quote that when America Sneeze the others will catch a cold, we are a lot more dependent on them. Many people were laid off or retrenched to cut down the operational cost, banks are giving less loans for housing but there is an increment in personal loan.

In such dynamic condition with so much turbulence, we ought to save our money to ourselves and try not to spend much. There are some problems with the mindset of our people, when we are trying to cut down the cost of living and it actually couldn’t help our economy. Those who have been retrenched are suffering and having difficulties in their daily lives. On the other hand, we could create some wealth if we increase the buying power which will lead to more demand of the product and create more job opportunities. In fact, Taiwan has released some policies or incentives to their people so that they can spend, and stimulate the growth of economy within the country.

This requires all of the Malaysians to participate, everyone need to help!

有感而发

最近自己常常在观察，所以有感而发，发表了自己的一些谬论：

人的感情非常奇怪，有些人太有爱心，膨胀得让旁人受不了。或许这是个人对关心的定义不同，有些人喜欢和别人和交际，喜欢和人相处的感觉。最近常发现一些人，很故意或者是很关心一些年纪相较小的小妹妹；语言上或肢体上的发挥似乎让旁人都冒一身冷汗。而且在场的长辈们都窃窃私语的谈论着这件事。或许是这些“老人家”跟不上时代的进步，不明白时下年轻人的想法。或许大家对这件事上所抱持的观点都互有不同，不过总得一句，你是真心的吗？还是有怀有玩玩的心态？

无论这一份情是建立在正经的想法上也好，或许只是很单纯的一段情谊；不过这些是需要被拿出来讨论的。因为如果一个团体已经拐离了最初成立的意义的话，基本上其精神就可能在某种程度上被诠释得不一样了。最令人担心的是该做榜样的不把它当作是一回事，任由其他人一样而且还影响着别人的想法等。这是多么可悲的事情~！

我还是比较向往感情的建立在心与心的交流，很单纯的去结交，并不是很刻意的去为了某些原因而去这样做。这样是很危险的，而且当在一个组织里面有一对情侣的诞生当然旁人都是用祝福的眼光来对待；但是如果是因为不成熟而造成一些问题的话，这将会造成对组织的伤害，我认为这必然是一个祸胎是一个癌症。

每个人都需要对自己的言行举止负责人，要清楚明白自己的一举一动都将影响着其他人，毕竟这个世界上并不止只有你自己和你的异性朋友的存在。不要太自私，全部都想自己以自己为出发点。

后语：或许自己的过来人，所以想以自己的经验来分享，这件事情真的会造成无比的伤害，所以有缘的人啊，请您踏实的/认真地好好想想这个问题。就以余秋雨对成熟的看法作为结束吧！
成熟是一种明亮而不刺眼的光辉，一种圆滑而不腻的音响，一种不再需要对别人察言观色的从容，一种终于停止向周围诉苦的大气，一种不理会哄闹的微笑，一种洗刷了偏激的淡漠，一种无须声张的厚实，一种能够看得很远却又并不陡峭的高度。。