bought this when i was shopping alone. i was bored.
i dont know which wire of mine screwed up and made this decision to purchase this sexy piece of toy...
i was torn between the mini and this. decided to go for this instead cos it has everything. why buy additional flash later on with even more expensive price?
current film i have. :D
i snapped some. and then i havent finish snapping. left it at home and have not made it a habit to bring it out everywhere i go. it is actually DAMN light that i dont mind bringing with me wherever i go. :P
bought this when i was shopping alone. i was bored.
i dont know which wire of mine screwed up and made this decision to purchase this sexy piece of toy...
i was torn between the mini and this. decided to go for this instead cos it has everything. why buy additional flash later on with even more expensive price?
current film i have. :D
i snapped some. and then i havent finish snapping. left it at home and have not made it a habit to bring it out everywhere i go. it is actually DAMN light that i dont mind bringing with me wherever i go. :P
even on a highway, i always look forward going to the higher part of the highway and look down so that i can see a stretch of street lights beautifully lit up.
2 spots i love to view night views.
somewhere in puchong.
somewhere along MRR2.
which i think that explains why i lala-fied my car with lots of LED lights. :P
i dont know why am i blogging about lights but i came across some pictures i took. with lights of cos. :P
oasis square
went over to smoke a few times. once to have supper. by the road side, cos there is nothing opened there yet except for maybank and tutti fruitti.
singapore
i went there once around xmas season. and... omg... orchard road. the lights... i was facsinated... actually nothing to shout about la. but cos it is lights...! damn a lot of decorative lights!! :D
Statement by the COO of Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd - Yau Su Peng
In view of the reports in the press today about an employee of Borders being charged in the Syariah Court for violation of Syariah laws, Borders is compelled to issue the following statement.
The management of Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd, which owns and operates the Borders bookstore chain in Malaysia, is very disappointed that our store manager Nik Raina Nik Abdul Aziz has today been charged by Jabatan Agama Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) in the Kuala Lumpur Syariah Court for distributing a book by Canadian author Irshad Manji deemed to be against the Islamic Law (Hukum Syarak) and banned in Malaysia.
The charge was brought under Section 13(1) of the Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997.
Nik Raina was accused by Jawi of contravening the Hukum Syarak by distributing or selling Irshad Manji’s book entitled “Allah, Liberty and Love”. If convicted Nik Raina faces a RM3,000 fine or a maximum of two years’ jail or both.
The charge follows a raid on the Borders bookstore at The Gardens Mall in Mid Valley City on May 23, 2012 by Jawi (a unit of the Prime Minister’s Department), which saw the seizure of books by Irshad Manji that, at that time, had not been banned by the Home Affairs Ministry (“KDN”).
There was also no fatwa or any form of notification issued by Jawi to Borders. There was no way for Borders to know that Jawi considered the books to be objectionable.
We understand that the Home Affairs Ministry only gazetted the banning of the Irshad Manji books on May 29, 2012 and that fact was published on June 14, 2012.
Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd has at all times co-operated fully with the authorities and has instructed its employees, both Muslim and non-Muslim, to assist Jawi with its investigations, despite the company not being subject to the jurisdiction of Jawi as it is a non-Muslim entity.
On June 5, 2012, Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd wrote to both the minister for Home Affairs, Datuk Seri Hishammuddin bin Tun Hussein, and Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Islamic Affairs, Senator Mejar General Datuk Seri Jamil Khir bin Haji Baharom, seeking their assistance and intervention with regards to Jawi’s action but has yet to receive any reply from either minister to date.
The management of Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd fully supports our employee Nik Raina, who has done no more than to perform her duties as a store manager.
As store manager, she does not have influence or control over the selection of books in Borders. The seized books were not, at the time of seizure, declared to be banned by KDN. Neither did Jawi notify Berjaya Books concerning the seized books.
The day after the raid, Jawi came with members of the media to the Borders store in Bangsar Village 2 to interrogate another Muslim female employee.
When informed by her that the books had been taken off the shelf as directed and returned to the company’s head office, she was accused of lying.
They proceeded to do a physical search of the premises, which did not turn up any of Irshad Manji’s books.
In full co-operation and compliance with all directives by Jawi, Nik Raina also attended an investigation on May 30, 2012 with two other colleagues and accompanied by a Borders’ appointed lawyer.
Instead, they were treated roughly by Jawi personnel and were issued an arrest warrant.
Jawi also refused to allow legal representation to Nik Raina. We view this as outright victimisation and violation of the constitutional and legal rights of our employees.
In the same vein, the management of Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd fully supports and will continue to support our employees, who may be subject to persecution while performing their assigned duties.
This support was demonstrated by the presence of the management team of Borders at the Syariah Court today.
The actions of Jawi upon Berjaya Books employees may influence the considerations of corporations when hiring Muslim employees.
Berjaya Books Sdn Bhd has on June 18, 2012 also applied to the High Court of Malaya for a judicial review of the actions of Jawi.
The Minister of Home Affairs and the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department for Islamic Affairs have also been named as respondents in the application for judicial review.
ok. i know i am wayyyyy superrrrr late for this post. :P
if it is not bcos of Bersih 2.0, i would have zero knowledge about our lovely government.
sure, i always say i love malaysia but hate the government. we all knew our government is crap. but then, before all these, what were we doing? follow only la~ its ok wan~ tidak apa~
but Bersih 2.0 has definitely brought a lot of people's awareness, mine included. and that's why Bersih 3.0's crowd was massive!
but Ju said this, "more crowd, more violence"
cant help but agreeing before the whole rally.
packed~
so i've packed everything the night before. salt, good morning towels, water, etc. macam preparing ourselves to war. lol. one of the LYN fella whatsapp'ed me saying, if i dun kena anything den damn loser. hahaha!
bersih 3.0
for what? this is what... :D
i actually woke up late. well... i actually took things for granted. knowing that jessy will call me up when she is on the way to fetch grace. and no, i didnt ask her to wake me up at all... haha... and she did called me.
woke up and got ready.
then jessy picked me up and we headed to bkt jalil station to meet up with her cousin and his friends. we actually felt safer going with a bunch of guys. we are indeed well taken care of. :)
group pict before we left bkt jalil.
at the station, i saw a lot of people, who are obviously there for the same reason. just that we dont ask, dont say. its all understood... macam secret mission that everybody knows. =.="
on the way to plaza rakyat.
panorama shot while walking to reggae restaurant
when we reached kl. i can feel a little bit of festive feeling in it alre. but jessy's cousin said, wait till later when you will feel goosebumps. lol...
lunchie here~
we stopped by at reggae restaurant for brunch. before we faint during the rally. lol... avoid drinking water tho cos scared cannot find toilet. =.="
notice the my different baju? ya. i decided to go yellow instead. although it is actually a digi baju. :P
another group picture before the fun~
walking towards central market
and the fun begins.
people singing negaraku. all the chanting. the real feeling of 1 malaysia. people gave speeches which i have totally no idea who. (yes. i am ignorant that way) and i cant see anything! when i said "sucks being short", a few ppl actually looked at me and laughed. =.="
when we were at central market, i met up with a fella from LYN. i also knew jason and jimmy was there. and of cos the crowd was so massive that i didnt meet up or bump into jason and jimmy.
march starts
we walked, hand in hand. afraid of getting lost. the weather was damn hot. but it really doesnt matter cos we were actually having fun instead of a pressured aggressive rally.
yerrow angry bird. lol~
auntie bersih
all stuck
we actually got stuck at masjid jamek. all the cheering~ omg~ jessy's cousin was right~ the goosebumps!
we then walked a little bit to tun perak (dont know if im right or not cos i suck at KL roads), we rest there. sat, drank, smoked, cheered, laughed, chanted... basically i enjoyed being in the crowd.
i am not a crowd person.
but...
i actually enjoyed myself being there...
at the end, we decided to walk back to plaza rakyat and call it a day. but when we reached plaza rakyat, the station was closed. so we were hanging there a while deciding what to do next. to walk to another station, or to just get a cab straight.
and then...
we saw everybody running downwards... like... stampede. of. people... running...
then it hit us... tear gassed.
stampede...
amazingly, my eyes are ok. holding on to the cloth i have with me, people start offering salt. salt poured on my cloth, another person poured water on my cloth. grace prepared salt in small packets instead which came in handy to just put it in our mouth. cloth covered our nose and mouth.
a picture to show that our experience is COMPLETE...
still deciding what to do, another rush of stampede came, and we alre knew what happened. and we quickly decided to walk to hang tuah station. and we walked towards the direction nearer to those gas...
oh boy. that sucked.
my eyes went a little teary. and I CANT BREATHE! i was practically gasping for air. the small packets of salt that really came in handy apparently wasnt enough. so i took out the small tupperware of salt and use it instead.
while walking, from my teary eyes, looking at the people around me.
they all looked...
disappointed.
but at the same time, people kept offering salt, offering water... an uncle even offered 'miracle water' from taiwan. i didnt try it but apparently if soothes the eyes almost immediately.
that walk, was a nightmare for me. i cant breathe that i almost fainted. that walk... requires to walk UPHILL! omg!
reached hang tuah and the crowd was SUPER crazy! luckily for touch n go, we passed that crowd. took the train, back to bkt jalil.
after all that i have experienced LIVE, i realised i actually didnt wanna face the ugly reality by seeing the ugly side of the rally. people posting up videos of violence during the rally at the other side of KL... i never watch a single negative video about the rally.
call me naive but, i actually felt warmth... the really truly 1 malaysia warmth.
the next morning, i came across this video...
i cried...
and yet... we still call this country... Malaysia...
還記得我們見面 Hai ji de wo men jian mian 點第一根煙 Dian di yi gen yan 可是雲煙總過眼 Ke shi yun yan zong guo yan 剩下了純粹的寒暄 Sheng xia le chun cui de han xuan
曾經我和你 錯過甚麼 Ceng jing wo he ni cuo guo shen me 才要不停的說服自己 我快樂 Cai yao bu ting de shui fu zi ji wo kuai le
那個坦白的晚上 吻過的臉 Na ge tan bai de wan shang wen guo de lian 帶著一個微笑 來到我身邊 Dai zhe yi ge wei xiao lai dao wo shen bian 一擁入懷 我才發現 Yi yong ru huai wo cai fa xian 原來我們的眼睛 哭出的聲音 Yuan lai wo men de yan jing ku chu de sheng yin 蓋過兩人的戰爭跟和平 Gai guo liang ren de zhan zheng gen he ping 氾濫的愛情 吞沒了我的所有 Fan lan de ai qing tuan mo le wo de suo you 除了你 Cuo le ni
離愁別緒都演完了 Li chou bie xu dou yan wan le 可是我 忘不了 Ke shi wo wang bu le 難道真的長不大 Nan dao zhen de chang bu da 擁有過的總想要 Yong you guo de zong xiang yao
曾經我和你 錯過甚麼 Ceng jing wo he ni cuo guo shen me 才要不停的說服自己 我快樂 Cai yao bu ting de shui fu zi ji wo kuai le
那個坦白的晚上 吻過的臉 Na ge tan bai de wan shang wen guo de lian 帶著一個微笑 來到我身邊 Dai zhe yi ge wei xiao lai dao wo shen bian 一擁入懷 我才發現 Yi yong ru huai wo cai fa xian 原來我們的眼睛 哭出的聲音 Yuan lai wo men de yan jing ku chu de sheng yin 蓋過兩人的戰爭跟和平 Gai guo liang ren de zhan zheng gen he ping 氾濫的愛情 吞沒了我的所有 Fan lan de ai qing tuan mo le wo de suo you 除了你 Cuo le ni
那個坦白的晚上 吻過的臉 Na ge tan bai de wan shang wen guo de lian 帶著一個微笑 來到我身邊 Dai zhe yi ge wei xiao lai dao wo shen bian 一擁入懷 我才發現 Yi yong ru huai wo cai fa xian 原來我們的眼睛 哭出的聲音 Yuan lai wo men de yan jing ku chu de sheng yin 蓋過兩人的戰爭跟和平 Gai guo liang ren de zhan zheng gen he ping 氾濫的愛情 吞沒了我的所有 Fan lan de ai qing tuan mo le wo de suo you 除了你 Cuo le ni
