Whats a blog??

Perhaps visitors must have heard the term blog very often but just didnt know or couldnt be bothered to know the origin of the word blog... wikipedia explains....
A blog (a contraction of the term weblog) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
The personal blog, an ongoing diary or commentary by an individual, is the traditional, most common blog. Personal bloggers usually take pride in their blog posts, even if their blog is never read by anyone but them. Blogs often become more than a way to just communicate; they become a way to reflect on life or works of art. Blogging can have a sentimental quality. Few personal blogs rise to fame and the mainstream, but some personal blogs quickly garner an extensive following.
A blog gives you your own voice on the web. It's a place to collect and share things that you find interesting— whether it's your political commentary, a personal diary, or links to web sites you want to remember.

Tornado girl...

Last week’s episode of Ugly Betty also has a truly valuable lesson. Those who follow this series know very well that Betty Suarez is a remarkable girl, she may be simple, but she is intelligent, hard working, always care for others, and most important of all Ugly Betty is Beautiful Inside.
In last week’s episode, Betty was accused for taking advantage of a tornado that had plundered somewhere in America to sell off Mode. Well, unfortunately, this happened because the front cover of Mode magazine was designed with the tornado motif. So she was dubbed the Tornado Girl, and everyone saw her as an irreverent opportunist.
The company was having monetary problems and ways must be found to boost up sales and save the company, and so Daniel and the scheming Wilhemina ( the ever beautiful Vanessa Williams) decided to go on with printing of Mode magazine, and put the blame on poor Betty.
When she learnt later that it was her boss Daniel Meade who had obscurely ordered the printing of Mode with the tornado front cover in anticipation of boosting sales, she was dismalled that it was her own boss who had put her to blame for the odious printing.
However, she was a girl of full esteem, and she met up with Daniel and said, “I am your assistant, but I do not want to be an assistant forever. The only thing I have is my reputation, and thanks to you, I don’t have it anymore.” (well, something like that).
This made Daniel uneasy , and his guilt made him confess in a press-conference that it was his fault after all……
There is valuable lesson in this story for employers or executives who are sincerely looking for ethical managerial enlightenment. If they are sincere.

The curse of the unicorn...

My children love to watch Merlin on Tv. So evey Sunday nite they will be eager waiting for the show to be on air. Its not really my favourite show , but I have nothing to do, so I usually join them to watch, after all, they are my family. In last week’s show, Arthur Pendragon , (the young King Arthur) had killed a most beautiful mythical creature, the Unicorn, in a hunting trip, and had sawn off the spiraled horn, and represented it to the king, his father.
Things went bad to worst almost immediately after, when all edible crops went dry and died, and water pumped from the Camelot’s water pumps turned to sand.
Then Anhora, the keeper of the unicorn, appeared telling Arthur that he is responsible for the dread over Camelot, and only Arthur can uplift the curse. He will be tested. Ha passed the first test due to his compassion over a man who had stolen food for his 3 hungry children, isk isk isk!!
However , in his search with Merlin for Anhora in the wood, he met the same man who snorted at Arthur. The sly thief threw derogatory sarcasms at Arthur ,and soon a duel came with swashbuckling fight. Immediately after Arthur slashed his sword at the thief, Anhora appeared and rebuked,” Do you kill a man simply because he had hurt your pride?”
Obviously Arthur failed his second test, and all grains kept in the castle went bad.
There is valuable lesson in this story for employers or executives who are sincerely looking for ethical managerial enlightenment. If they are sincere.
p.s. my favourite show is Ugly Betty…..

Senarai Barangan Haram oleh Mahasiswa April2009

Apabila saya baca senarai ini... saya pun rasa 'sceptical". History always repeats itself.... byk kali kita terima senarai haram dari mahasiswa....Bukan kah Jakim dah buat ujian dan uruskan perkara halal- haram? Jakim dah halalkan KFC dan MC D, dan byk lain2 produk dalam senarai.
Apabila kita sibuk dgn senarai yg di cipta mahasiswa, kita menuduh bahawa Jakim tidak buat keje dgn baik, atau makan rasuah, atau pemalas, melepaskan batok di tangga....
Kita kena lah haram kan babi,... dan juga buang sifat babi , dgn tidak menerima kebenaran senarai haram itu sehingga ada bukti yang kukuh mengatakan barangan2 itu benar2 HARAM.....we must have a critical mind and always be sceptical....

The quiet race

We are indeed living in a Malay World, where words don’t come easy, where dissatisfactions are swallowed but remain undigested in the stomach of fellow Malay men and women, although the pain of indigestion leaks out through the pores in the form of soft small group ‘let-go’ conversations and gossips, like the acrid wind that leaks out of the arse. Isnt UiTM the place where the best of the intellectual Malays exist, where we should profess verbal supremacy in expressions?