FAM Social Nite 08’

FAM Social Nite 08’ is the last ball night for me, my classmates, and many other final year students in FAM. Held in Palace of Golden Horse Hotel, FAM “Social” Nite is a result of merger form by the initial FAM Nite and Social Nite 08’. Before we go through the program, allow me to comment on the initial purpose of both events. Based on my limited understanding, the initial purpose of FAM Nite is to create opportunity for students to interact with the alumni and also among themselves. In short, it’s a scale down UTAR Ball Nite that only opens to FAM students and alumni. On the other hand, Social Nite aims at inviting corporate personnel to participate in the event thus allow students to meet up and interact with them. However, I have seen none of the corporate personnel present at the scene. Therefore it leaves me with a big question mark on whether FAM “Social” Nite is a combination of both event or the merger of both events has turn into an acquisition indeed. Nevertheless, I would still like to congratulate the organizing team for the success of the event. I understand that there are complains about foods, emcee, and program transition on that night but trust me by having experience in attending both UTAR Ball 2006 and UTAR Ball 2005 simply means you will appreciate FAM Social Nite more. This is because comparing FAM Social Nite with the previous UTAR Ball, you will find that FAM Social Nite deserves a thumb up for their arrangement in term of the overall programs that really suits the taste of our students. Programs such as the live band, a Capella singing, Bani’s video, and the oldies plus ball room dancing dance floor add credits to the organizing team. Some might argue that the program is not rich, but honestly speaking, I believe most of the participants don’t really wish to see a circus performing on stage. What we, the participants really want is just a decent moment of getting together, take some pictures, chit-chat a bit while having some entertainment show and I bet the program organized in FAM Social Nite is just nice for most of us. You wouldn’t believe me if I tell you that the first UTAR Ball actually has Motorola DJs playing songs like “Smack That” all over the night. Try to paint the pictures that people actually dance as in clubbing with their decent gown and tux. UTAR Ball 07’ dance floor is not much differ than the previous one but the F&B is certainly better compare to both UTAR Ball 06’ and FAM Social Nite 08’. But people having petrol price rising to RM 1.92 and the current inflation rate, my fellow faculty mates in FAM, you really can’t expect much from the food serve in a 5 Stars hotel in Klang Valley with the price of RM880 per table unless you daddy is the owner of the hotel. Nevertheless, there are rooms for improvement if FAM is to organize another gala dinner in the future which is why I only give them one thumb up instead of two.

No MuSiC No LiFe

It’s finally done. Yeah, I am talking about my thesis of course. All I have to do now is to wait for my final exam to come and farewell to UTAR, the institution that I’ve chosen to pursue tertiary study 3 years ago. It’s very complicated to tell how I feel now. I’ve been through high and low in UTAR, been given opportunity to experience something that perhaps too good to be true for me but at the same time pay the price without me realizing it myself. I guess it would be too early to thank all the people who have been or who had passing by my side all this while. There are bloods and sweats that we have spilt together here and I shall remember that for the rest of my life. Hmm… why am I getting so emotional here… hmm… it must be the song! Okay, I have to stop being “vulnerable”.

As you can see at the side bar of this blog, it’s the Musical Nite™ that I wanted to promote here. For one last time in UTAR I will be emceeing again. I still remember I was once asked to emcee for the first event I did in UTAR. Yes, it’s the very raw Moonlight Fiesta™ that we organize back in year one time. By the end of the day, I did manage to excuse myself from emceeing for that event. Thus, that makes my first time emceeing goes to UTAR Star Search™ (USS™), FAM very own singing talent competition organized by Music Club. My route of emcee in UTAR then continues with Fashion Nite™, Song Composing Contest™, Ice Breaking & Tele-match MAY 2006, Musical Nite™ 2007, Colors of our nation: Gegar-U 2007, MOHEX 2007, Registration, Mass Call and Campus Tour JAN 2008, and the recent UTAR Apprentice: UTAR my choice; Durex your choice challenge. As I’ve start off with Music Club at the beginning so here I am to end my emceeing “career” in UTAR with Music Club. The only difference is that we no longer have USS nowadays as it’s now known as Musical Nite™. So people, you might be sick of looking at me emceeing again but for the one last time please come and support the night =p !

Just as I’m writing this post, it reminds me of how fast time flies. There are many partners that I have work with throughout the whole emceeing journey that I have had in UTAR. A big TQ to them and I must say that it’s indeed my great pleasure to be given the opportunity to work alongside with you all. Suddenly feel that I am being long-winded again. Alright, before I stop just one last reminder! Do come to Musical Nite 08’, A Journey to Remember! Live at UTAR FAM South Lobby on 5^th April 2008. Doors open at 7:00pm. Tickets are now available at South Lobby! Alumni members who are interested to join, you are most welcome to contact me via email or phone. Really hope to see you guys especially Music Club alumni member!

Music Club-No-Music-No-Life-V-RoCkkK!

Keep Bleeding...

Yes People… I am bleeding now… Not as in real blood spilt out but another kind of bleeding…I am bleeding now with my theme coding for one of the transcript…I am bleeding with chapter 3 the methodology part…I am bleeding with all the referencing that I have to quote…Keep bleeding… keep keep bleeding….

It’s all gonna end soon!! Tomorrow!! Tomorrow!! I will say good bye to all those bleeding stuff!!! Come on Kent you can do it!!! Try to motivate myself here… Eventually realize I did something really stupid this morning… I got my pc formatted and happily bought a microphone from Jusco ytdy… So I am keen to try out my new microphone.. and guess wut.. I start sending recording clip.. u noe those in MSN one to one of my buddies… as I was happily singing all the bangun pagi song… then she replied… Eh… u siao ar… my whole office is listening to that clip ler… >.<” gosh… what’ve I done…>.<" and she seems enjoy humiliating me by keep on replaying the clip (according to her la.. but I bet she won't do that? will she?? -.-")

Okie.. I guess I have to stop.. otherwise I will never get to finish all my bleeding stuff… I need to get it done by 3.30pm! So that I can start my car and head towards Bandar Sg Long… By the way, my blog now has a Chinese Version!!! ^^ Take a look at the left top corner above my profile! That’s the link!!! So people don’t forget to drop by to click on my ads corner… hohohoho even if you dun understand Chinese also u can still drop by~ Chinese wording are artistic… don’t believe?? Take a look at it!!!
Muahahahahaah

Polling Day: For the Fist Time in myLife

It’s 8th of March year 2008, the big day for all Malaysian. It’s our polling day for the 12th General Election 2008. For the first time in my life, I casted my vote approximately 9:18am this morning. The weather is good in PANDAN area, cloudy and the temperature is just nice for you to walk out there without much worry of sun burn.

Being the first time voter, I have done my homework before going to the polling station. For instant, I have checked my electoral details such as polling station, stream and etc. Compare to the 11th General Election (I was still underage for voting at that time but I followed my parents to the polling station), the 12th General Election is more well-organized. I think it might be because of the system is more stable compare to last time, the voting process become smoother as the waiting time this round seems to be shorten up.

I arrive at the polling station Sekolah Kebangsaan Pandan Indah around 9am. Get myself a nice parking bay and walk in to the school. As usual there are a few friendly policemen on duty at the entrance. Pass by a long corridor and reach the counter to check my polling stream. The SPR officer verified my ID and wrote a four digit number on the small paper that indicates my polling stream (classroom) which is No 6. There are 8 polling streams in SK Pandan Indah. The traffic was not that congested compare to last round as another polling station now no longer is SMK Pandan Indah that is right next to SK Pandan Indah.

I guess the SPR is smarter this round to place the other polling station away from this area to a religion school near the Pandan Indah Mosque. So for people that previously vote in SK Pandan Indah, please check your electoral status as you might be voting at the religion school this round instead of the ordinary SK Pandan Indah that you used to be. That is what happens to the gentlemen in front of me. He thought he will be voting at SK Pandan Indah like he did previously. I can still remember their conversation “Encik, I punya nama undi kat classroom mane?” said the gentlemen. SPR officer: “Encik, tempat mengundi Encik bukan di sinilah. Encik perlu pergi ke Sek Agama….” (The gentlemen respond: -___-“). It reminds me of the radio station community ad but I dare not to laugh at that moment because he was right in front of me.

Once I got my polling stream number I straight away head towards it. Que for around 5 minutes and I got to vote. I was given 2 pieces of voting slip (one for parliament and another for state assembly) with a serial number on it. My personal details such as full name and IC number was read out and being verified before I get to cast the votes. Who have I voted for? Well, I guess most of my close friends will know. Put a cross on the vote and I casted my vote into the transparent polling box.

Tonight is going to be another exiting polling box open night!
So Malaysian, have you all voted? I have done my part as a citizen.
Let's see what will the majority says. God bless Malaysia.

Must Watch Muvee

One of my friends is telling me that I’ve been writing too much about election lately. Well, here I am writing on something else. I’ve been trying to post some movie review but still the review that I am suppose to write stay comfortably in the draft box for more than 2 weeks. Lately I went for Vantage Point in Pavilion KL, so I guess I’ll just jumble up all three movies in one post.

The first movie or perhaps I should say the first two movies that I’ve watched way back in two weeks ago are American Gangster and The Great Debaters. Both starred by Denzel Washington, the academy award winner. I find both movies are quite inspirational. Both of the movies are based on real life story. The third movie that I watched is a purely friction but yet it is so “real”. Thus Vantage Point is another Kent recommended must watch movie!

American Gangster illustrated the story of Lucas Frank, the American Drug Tycoon in late 60s’ and early 70s’. Of course, the inspirational part is not about the “legendary” successful story of a Negro drug distributor but the story of how Frank Lucas, a Negro that helps to revives the America Drug enforcer integrity. Find out how a Negro drug dealer eventually creates his own “product” brand name and rise among the Italian mafias. American Gangster, do not miss it. I personally recommend for DVD full version as I believe a lot of scenes will be censored in Malaysia cinema.

Directed and starred by Denzel Washington, The Great Debaters story features Wiley College way back in the 30s’ when American education system still differentiate between colleges for white and colleges for Negro. Emphasizing on “The Power of Words”, The Great Debaters tells a story of the first ever Negro debater’s team that beat Howard University, the national champion at that time. The story brings a very important message of violence is not the way to solve problems.

Vantage Point story is about an attempt to assassins the President of United States of America. There are several key witnesses present at the scene. The assassin took place at Spain, one of America alliances in the movie where the President try to persuade the world leaders to support his effort in combating in the war against terrorism. You might find it a bit annoying during the rewind time part but trust me, just as you thought that you have lost patient and about to judge that it’s another bad movie, you’ll be surprise with how the story goes. Don’t believe it? Seing is believing, watch it yourself!

Remedy

Disclaimer: The blogger post does not reflect his final decision nor do any favoritism to any political party. This is purely an internet generator that adopted from Kennysia.com . The blogger do not responsible for any inaccuracy or any further impact arise due to the usage of the following generator.

Okay, guess it’s not that difficult to recall my previous post about choosing who or which site to vote for (It’s just below this post anyway =p). Today, I sort of discover a remedy to it… erm… or perhaps I should say guidance… Yes people if you still don’t know who to vote for, you can try what I did here… It’s very simple, all you need to do is to visit Kenysia.com and look for the kennysia.com Who-To-Vote-This-Election Decision Generator! Here is my result!

According to the 100% accurate kennysia.com Who-To-Vote-This-Election Decision Generator™, I am voting for...

PARTI KEADILAN RAKYAT!

Who Should You Vote For This Election?

Well, I guess the result is pretty clear. Just in case if you are also wondering who to vote for, don't hesitate, give it a try!

On What Basis? Party or Candidate?

I think most of the readers of this blog will find that I seldom post positive stuff about the government nor do their candidates in this coming general election. Many thought that I am a strong supporter of the opposition but to be honest, I try to be as neutral as possible despite the fact that I have to admit my current stand do fell more towards the opposition.

As an eligible voter for the 12th General Election (do correct me if I got it wrong cause I am not so sure whether it's 12th or 11th), I do concern about the Parliamentary Seat candidate in my resident area. With approximately 49% formed by the Malays 45% by the Chinese while Indians and others make up the remaining portion, Pandan is an area that MCA meet with PAS in the past. This round, the battle in P100 PANDAN is between Datuk Ong Tee Keat from BN and Syed Shahrir bin Syed Mohamud from PKR. Not forgetting the candidate for State Assembly which is also a 1 vs 1 scenario between Nosimah Hashim from BN (Replacing Datuk Mad Aris Mad Yusuf, the former YB) and Iskandar Abdul Samad from PAS.

Both ruling party and opposition banners, posters, buntings, and other promotional material can now be easily spotted in PANDAN area. It has come to my surprise to find out that the opposition actually send Syed Shahrir bin Syed Mohamud against Datuk Ong Tee Keat. It take me a while before knowing who Syed Shahrir bin Syed Mohamud is as I barely found PKR promotional material here (not to mention his photo). I am in great wonder of how on earth will a candidate that do not promote himself, or approach the electors win against Datuk Ong Tee Keat, one of the famous politician among the Chinese community.

I manage to dig out a person by the name of Syed Shahrir bin Syed Mohamud through a blogsite. I wonder if the person I found is the candidate that I am looking for. Forgive me if he is not as I couldn't locate any person by the name of Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud on the internet (not even in PKR official website). So for the time being, let's just assume that he is. A brief introduction of him through a press statement that he posted himself in his blog states that he is a former MTUC president who pledge to be the labor voice in parliament (instead of the people of PANDAN). The statement entitled Shahrir wants to continue legacy further illustrate that although the 56 years old Business Administration degree holder would be contesting under a PKR ticket, his priority was to fight for all categories of workers, including those serving as executives or holding middle management posts. As per written in the statement, Syed Shahir, who defeated the former MTUC president Zainal Rampak for the post, is not a novice to politics. He contested and lost a state seat in Pahang at the age of 22 under the former Parti Sosial Rakyat Malaysia (the cow head with red colored background if you could recall that the party contested during 1999 election by forming Barisan Alternatif with PAS, DAP and Parti keADILan) ticket. A member of Parti Rakyat Malaysia until the merger with Parti PKR in 2003, Syed Shahir again contested and lost the Kelana Jaya parliamentary seat in 2004, under the Keadilan ticket. Syed Shahir believes his party affiliation was not something unusual among union leaders or members.

My mom asks me who I will be voting for. "I will have no doubt if DAP is running for Pandan." that's the answer I gave her. She somehow agree to that by nodding her head. I must say that there is a huge gap between Datuk Ong and Mr Shahrir at the moment judging in term of the preparation work done by both site. I think most of the Chinese voters here will be in favor of voting for Datuk Ong considering his "straight forward" characteristic. In fact, in his own manifesto, a shortlist of what issues been raised by himself is included as part of the strategy to fish votes. Among the most famous incident will be the conflict between him and Datuk Seri Hishamuddin regarding funding of Chinese Primary School that was claimed to be "swallow" by certain people (namely the officers in MOE). It is indeed a very difficult decision to make when it comes to whether I should pick the right person of the right site (party). I am not a big fan of BN but I can't deny that Datuk Ong is one of the least political leader that I admire. If you're in Pandan, who will you be voting for? Would you make your choice base on party or candidate?

A Glimpse of Creative Work for General Election 2008

Let's take a look at how creative Malaysians are especially during the general election period. I have receive various emails and find that the following are quite interesting. My apology if the following pictures have infringed any copy rights~ Do leave me a comment and I shall delete it off but till then enjoy... Lolx...