LIAR GAME

Just taking a break for a while before continue reading MPW..

The exam is just around the corner.. But I know I'm still not fully prepared for it..

So scared... Hope I can give my best in the paper.. Gambate qila! ^^

This afternoon I had watched a japanese drama together with my friends. It was an interesting story. It really needs us to understand the plot of the story really well. It is actually about how a swindler [a person who trick somebody to get their money] teached a very honest person or in my hometown they called this type of person as 'lurus bendul' how to cheat others in order to avoid from being deceived. The person is a girl who is too good for herself. She always be kind to others so she is easily being fooled by her friends.

Matsuda Shota played the role as the swindler in this drama and he looks really cool... First time I watch his acting in the Hana Yori Dango drama. Well, in that drama, HNY, he just played the side actor. But, in this drama.. Ops, wait a minute.. I think I didn't mention the title of the story yet right? Hehe.. So sorry.. Well, the title of the story is LIAR GAME. The winner of this game will be announced as the 'King of Liar' and of course the winner will be rewarded with a big sum of money. Back to my incomplete sentence, in this drama he played the main actor named Akiyama Shinichi. He is really genius in the story where he managed to read people mind and observed people's behaviour really well to guess what they will do next. It was really fantastic!

I think the credits should be given to the script writer and the director. They are really brilliant to come out with such a complicated and tricky concept in the story line. Wow!

Well, we still haven't finished watching the drama yet. Still got the final episode to go. But, we had to stop first because my friend still not finished downloading the last episode. Cannot wait to see the ending.. Who will get the title 'King of Liar'? and I think the most important is just want to know exactly why such game was organize? Can't wait to see it!

POST [A]

Just finished searching MIDI songs. It was really a tiring jobs to do. ~.~
Actually, we need to do our own website by using front page. Talking about ourselves there, our family and a little bit about our education background. I just trying to make as simple as I can. Really don't want to think too much complicated into that.

Well, lately I see that a lot of my friends always update their blog. Certain of them I can say that quite everyday they will post something to their blog. Good for them but.. Hey, what had happened to me??? Qila, please wake up!!! After the Raya post I never open my blog ever.. Bad me... =(
So, today I want to post something. And this is it. Yeah...!

Just want to say here that this week I'm going home!!! Hoho..
And... I will be back to INTI the next tuesday which means the monday is a holiday for me.. ^^

Actually, I have reason behind it. I want to send my parents to the airport. They are going to Mekah to perform Hajj [ : an obligation that must be carried out at least once in lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so]. They will be there about 45 days. So, around early of december then they will come back to Malaysia.

Fortunately, it is the end of the year. So, most of my siblings will have the semester break. So, we can take care of our youngest sister who are just in standard 2. I really don't know whether she can stand to live without my parents for about a month and a half. Hope she won't miss them too much. Btw, my parents had promise that they will call her everyday. So sweet..

Hope that their pilgrimage there will go on without any difficulties. Amen... God bless them..

So, came to the end of my post today... let me end it with a quote:

---It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it.---

Salam Eid Mubarak

Hello! It's been a long time since I never post anything to my blog. Btw, first thing is I would to wish "Selamat Hari Raya" to all my muslims' friends. May they forgive me for all my wrong doings which I had done to them before.

Well, Hari Raya is the most joyous occasion for Muslims. As a brief explanation, Muslims starts the day by wearing new clothes and congregating in the mosques early in the morning to perform Hari Raya Puasa prayers followed by visiting the graves of the departed. The young will ask for forgiveness from their elders and have open house for relatives and friends to come to their house. Plenty of traditional Malay delicacies are served during this festive season. Houses are thoroughly cleaned and decorated, and lighting of oil lamps welcomes the angels which are believed to be visiting the earth during the seven days preceding the festival.

The celebration lasts for a month but most of the celebration is concentrated in the first three days. Visiting Muslim homes on Hari Raya Puasa, you can expect to taste a wide variety of delicious spicy dishes. Some favorite dishes that can be found in Muslims homes on this special occasion are ketupat, lontong, nasi padang and beef rendang. The Muslims also give packets of money to kids when they go visiting. The packets are usually green in colour and children often look forward to getting these money tokens on Hari Raya Puasa.

This year, my family got colour theme for our 'baju raya' on this special day which is GREEN. Here are some pictures of us before going for the raya's prayer.

As a means of celebrating the Raya day, quite every year my family will make the ketupat. I means 'anyam ketupat'. Usually around 100 of ketupat. And, just want to say here that I am quite excellent in making the 'sarong ketupat'. =p

My moms cooked a lot for the day besides ketupat, such as 'rendang ayam', 'kuah kacang', 'kuah lodeh' and don't forget about the cookies. I really enjoying myself with all the food. lol.. As a result, my weight had increased quite a lot even only after the first day of Raya and this means I really need to have a strict diet when I went back to INTI to reduce my weight as before-well, fasting is the best way.


Here is me, my sister and my younger sister. This picture was taken when we went to visit the grave on first day morning of Syawal.

Although this time I did not get as much money as I get before-haha..., as I went back to INTI I really miss my home. I wish I could stay more longer at home. Just watch the television and telling jokes with my siblings. *sigh* -singing the 'Selamat Hari Raya' by Saloma. ^^

What a tiring day! T.T

Guess what, today my roommate, Kathy and I went out at 11 in the morning and just coming back to INTI around 11p.m! We went for shopping in Mid. Hehe.. Looks like a shopaholic right? No lah.. we just want to have some new outfits for the coming Raya Day. Actually, I want to find a new shoes and my roommate just want to look around. But, at the end I didn't bought any shoes. Maybe I will just buy it with my mom next week as I will go back home next weak. Yeah! ^^ Mid really doesn't have many shoes' shop. Don't you think so? Melaka is better. lol.. -melaka is my hometown.

Just don't want to make my visit-can I call it a visit?; to Mid a waste, I bought 2 shirts in Carrefour. There, Jusco is having a kind of Megasale as Raya is just around the corner. A lot of people in the store and of course most of them are woman. =p But, I don't know why I didn't buy any shirts there. The price offers is quite cheap-discount 10%, 50% and even 70%. Kathy had bought herself shirts there. Pink colour you know. =)

The time to break our fast was really an interesting moment. At first, we decide to have it in KFC. However, when we arrived there... OMG! It had already fulled with people. A long queue to order the food and even the queue was until outside of the shop. It really shocked me. =( Then, we went to top floor where the food court is located. And the same scenario there. All the tables were fulled. Not even a single chair were available to sit on. Once again we look around to find any food shops with free tables. But, it was really sad because most of the tables in the restaurant had been reserved. So, we really had no idea on how to break our fast. Then, we decided to buy some bread and performed our solah first. And after that we plan to go to KFC to have a meal-hoping that less people are left. Unfortunately, when we arrived at the surau, there was a long queue to go inside the surau. Oh, man! another long queue. Huhu.. After thinking for a while, we decided to take ablution in the toilet and straightly cut the long queue to perform the solah.. Thanks God! Things really went well. And we also succeed to have a meal in KFC. Yeah! at last.. =) Then, we straightly went back.

On the way back, we met with some AUP students. They also went shopping but in Jalan India-if i'm not mistaken. Then, we realised we are not the only one who come back late. Still in the bus, we met another senior who went to Mid also but we never encounter each other. lol.. -is it Mid reallly that big?

After having those all tiring day, now I'm writing it in my blog just to share my experience with others. The lessons is if you want to break fast in a mall, better for you to reserve the place first. Yes, that the main important lesson! Haha..

-AUSTRALIA-

I have just watched the movie ‘Australia’ and if I can rate it, I give it 3 out of 5 stars. It is not a really enjoyable movie but not a really boring one neither. We can just say that it is a movie rich with meaningful message. First, it is a travelogue of a wide brown land with sweeping plains and lofty mountain ranges; second, it is a glorious Mills & Boon style romance between an English aristocrat and her love interest of an Outback drover; and third, there is the gut wrenching social justice commentary of the wrongs wrought on the Australian aborigines. This movie was directed by Baz Luhrmann and is rated PG-13 for some violence and a scene of sensuality.

The story begins in AUSTRALIA, where Lady Sarah Ashley, a proper Englishwoman who journeys to Australia in the years before World War II reached the country's shores. She is determined to have her estranged husband sell his cattle ranch to a monopoly-craving businessman named King Carney, but when she arrives, Lord Ashley is dead, and her plan to sell the ranch changes when she sees an employee named Neil Fletcher cheating her husband's business and mistreating a young boy named Nullah because he is of mixed race. Urged on by both pride and a sense of justice, Lady Ashley wants to drive her herd of cattle to Darwin so she can sell them to the troops, but she'll require the help of an independent cowboy known as The Drover to get them there. The drover is not really a fan of Sarah's either, but they are forced together due to their mutual dislike of the competition. Of course, being that this is a romantic epic, they soon discover there is an attraction between them that can't be denied.

I would like to talk about The Drover which is played by Hugh Jackman. Drover, in the story is narrated as a muscular and handsome drover, with unshaved beard making him look fierce. He is the one who helps Lady Sarah Ashley move the cattle across the property. In the story, he is essentially an outsider; in his back story he was married to an Aboriginal woman who died. It was illegal to marry an Aboriginal woman back then, so he was not accepted in white society, however he was not fully accepted into Aboriginal society either because he is a white man. So he was truly an outsider. He became known just as the best drover around.

A drover is the Australian version of a cowboy and his journey involves taking cattle a long way across one of the most inhospitable parts of the planet for a long period of time. Drovers, these men who do this for a living, are as tough as you can’t imagine. Jackman had really done a good job in this movie.

Now, let's go through his characteristics in this movie. The drover is an independent person. He never depends on other to survive in his life. His works as a drover needs him to drive herds of cattle across hundreds of miles of brutal, unforgiving terrain. The Drover is a superb horseman who prefers to live under the sun and stars, a nomad and a solitary man. He is more comfortable out there with his horse and the cattle than he is with people. He doesn’t want to be beholden to anybody. He said once in the movie which described himself : “No man hires, no man fired”. He struggles by himself to live.

Besides that, The Drover hates the wealthy, land-owning establishment, and Sarah is the poster girl for the aristocracy. He takes delight in shocking and teasing her, because everything about her annoys him. She is arrogant, pretentious, frustrating and impossible in his eyes. Actually, The Drover has spent years trying to bury his anger over the loss of his wife, who died from tuberculosis because Aboriginal people were not allowed in hospitals. But those walls start to break apart as he comes to know Sarah better and becomes a kind of father figure to Nullah. At the end, under the awesome power of the landscape, transformed by the love of a child, Sarah and the Drover fall in love.

The drover is also a person who disagrees on the discrimination towards the aboriginal people. He never treats the aboriginal in bad ways as the other white men did. For him, it is easier to be friend with the aborigin other than the white men. Even his ex-wife was an aborigin woman. There was a scene in the story at the last part of the movie where he went to the bar after he knows that Sarah was bombed while working. With him is Magarri, one of his aboriginal friends, was first not allowed to be in the bar as the bartender refuses to serve blacks. But, he said “Just because it is, doesn't mean it should be.”- actually, it was Sarah’s word. He bravely stands up for Margarri. This show that he never agrees with the way the white men treats the aboriginal badly.

Next, we can see in the movie that the drover is the one who lead the journey to drive all the 1500 cattle-if i'm not mistaken, to Darwin. He possesses the great true-leadership skills in himself. To drive a big crowd of cattle with just a small group of people in not an easy job to do. But, he still managed to do it. They succeed to bring all the cattle down to Darwin and sold them to the army corporation.

The Drover is really an amazing person right? ^^

Coach Carter

I am not a fan of sports movie. But, after watching a movie entitled, ‘Coach Carter’ directed by Thomas Carter, I really enjoyed myself then. I will rate this movie 4 out of 5 stars. Thomas, the director, is an African American three-time Emmy Award winning American film and television director known for Swing Kids, Save the Last Dance with Julia Stiles, and Coach Carter with Samuel L. Jackson.

A true-life story of a coach who tries to teach his players that there's more to life than basketball is brought to the screen in this sports drama. Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson) was once a star player on the Richmond High School basketball team in Richmond, CA, and years later, he returns to the school and to the team as the new basketball coach. While Carter wants to make the Richmond oilers into a winning team, he also wants a lot more - to teach the boys to respect themselves and one another, and that they must as well excel in the classroom. It is a fact that most of these guys are decent ball players, but are all dealing with some pretty adult issues as young men. Kenyon (Rob Brown) feels like he’s being held back by his pregnant girlfriend Kyra (Ashanti), Timo (Rick Gonzalez) is living the dangerous life alongside his drug-dealing cousin, and Ken’s own son, Damien (Robert Ri’chard), just wants to play for his dad, even if it means leaving the better education that private school St. Francis offers across the tracks.
Ultimately, Coach Carter was the one man that saved these guys from becoming another statistic. He sets strict new rules for the players, insisting that they sign contracts agreeing to meet his standards. They must keep a grade point average of 2.7, wear ties on game days and do other academic skills in order to keep their spot on the team. Some players decide to leave the team. With Carter's intense coaching, the team begins the season undefeated, and wins a holiday tournament. However, Carter discovers that some of his players are not producing the agreed academic results. He locks the team out of the gym in the midst of their still-undefeated season, canceling practice and forfeiting games in favor of studying in the library. The school board eventually votes to end the lockout, despite dissenting votes from the principal and the chairwoman of the board. Carter is about to quit, but he finds the players sitting at school desks in the gym, with teachers tutoring them. The players point out that even though the gym is reopened, the school board can't force them to play. Carter is heartened and decides to stay, thanking the players. The team makes it into the state high-school championship playoffs. The climactic game takes place in the tournament's first round against the #1 ranked team in the state, St. Francis (starring a superstar NBA prospect, Ty Crane). Did they managed to win it? If you want to know the rest, watch the movie yourself!

I can simply conclude this is a great movie with a great message. It teaches us about team spirits and having the strong wills to become a better person. Never give up and give your best in all that you do are obviously stressed on in this movie. There was a scene in the movie where one of the students, Timo Cruz, played by Rick Gonzalez, walks off the team during a practice. When he returns to get back on the team, Carter gives him until Friday to do like 2500 pushups and 1000 suicide laps. This tests Timo a lot, so when Friday comes around and he still owes coach some stuff, the whole team begins helping Timo out. Jason Lyle says to the coach and the team, ''You said we're a team. One person struggles, we all struggle. One person triumphs, we all triumph.'' This shows a great lesson in life.

In 'Coach Carter' we feel moved by some of his speeches or conversations, just how strong they really are is amazing. It's even more amazing though that this is based on the real life of Ken, and how much someone still cares about the school system and the real value of education, it's good to see that someone out there still thinks on the right level of things. The script was written by Mark Schwahn and John Gatins, who must have done a lot of research on Carter in order to get the story right. I really appreciate the way Mark and John approached the movie without being too sympathetic or attempting to make a tear jerker, but more of a study in academic achievements/failures and how one man can change a group of students forever. Thomas Carter never takes the movie too far and I never felt bored of the plot or the characters. The basketball scenes were well invented as well, sometimes I felt like I was actually at one of the games.
'Coach Carter' is an amazing movie, it is definitely one of the best in more recent sports dramas and well worth the watch.

Hoping for holiday?

I went back home last weekend and left my roommate alone in the room. haha.. But, she said that she still enjoyed her weekend. On Saturday, she text me that there had been a confirmed cases of h1n1 in INTI! Guess what was the 1st question that I asked her? hehe...

---do we get holiday?---

Then, my roommate reply..

---NO. Only the library is closed.--

OMG.. what a heartbreaker answer... I'm so sad you know.. My mom is enjoying her holiday because her school was closed due to this case.. Hooray for her..! If I'm not mistaken, quiet a lot of school in Melaka had been ordered to be closed because of h1n1.. Kolej Mara Banting(KMB) which is not far from here was also had been closed.. Quiet scary yeah.. Maybe INTI will be next.. hehe..

But, I am not hoping for that as seniors are now preparing for their exam.. It will be a messy if their exams need to be rescheduled again..

Now, I can see that more people has take the first step of preventing from being infected by this virus.. The face mask had become a big hit in INTImart now.. Well, I'm still hoping it will be given with free for all the students... (^.^)

Well, before I end my post today let me share with you info about H1N1..

The symptoms of influenza A (H1N1):
The symptoms of influenza A (H1N1) in people are expected to
be similar to the symptoms of seasonal influenza and include fever,
cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. Some
people with influenza A (H1N1) have also reported diarrhoea or
vomiting. If you get any one of these, please stay away from me! hehe.. just joking.. just go meet the doctor lah..

The four key things to do that will help in preventing you from getting the H1N1 Flu:

1. Wash Your Hands

2. Cover Your Cough

3. Don't Touch Your Face

4. Stay Away from People Who are Sick

If you do get sick, stay home so you won't pass it on to anyone else.

Relax..

Got too stress today? Give yourself a break...

Expand it..

Try one more..

Why did Women likes to Cry?

Watch her eyes
A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry..

Finally he put in a call to God.

When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said

"When I made the woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Quite a touching story.. i'm proud to be born as a woman.. haha.. btw, i think the say that tears is weapon for woman is true, right? what do you think?

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