Muse in KL this FEB

DISAPPOINTMENT



Music fans rejoice! One of the most electrifying British rock bands today will be gracing KL with its presence this coming February, brought to you exclusively by Tiger. A band that recently sold out their 70,000 seater show at Wembley last June, Muse is on their 2007 world tour promoting their latest album, Black Holes and Revelations. The album won a Platinum Europe Award after selling one million copies on the continent and their single “Starlight” was a Rock Top 10 hit in the US and the UK.

P/S: Why i disappoint so much? See below :

*Event for non-Muslims aged 18 and above only*

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Hari Awal Muharram

Awal Muharram a.k.a Maal Hijrah


Hari Awal Muharram atau Hari Maal Hijrah merupakan suatu hari yang penting bagi umat Islam kerana ia menandakan dua peristiwa penting berlaku dalam sejarah Islam.

Pertama, memperingati penghijrahan Nabi Muhammad dari Kota Mekkah ke Madinah pada tahun 622 masihi, dan kedua, ia merupakan hari keagamaan di mana umat Islam mengadakan solat sunat di masjid-masjid di seluruh negeri. Hari Maal Hijrah atau Awal Muharram merupakan hari cuti umum di Malaysia dan merupakan permulaan tahun hijrah bagi umat Islam

P/S: Well this year, i got the real meaning of Maal Hijrah.

Tanda-tanda kiamat kecil


Telah dinyatakan bahawa tanda-tanda kiamat adalah petunjuk atau isyarat yang sudah hampirnya hari kiamat dan bakal menyusul pula tanda-tanda kiamat besar. Sebahagian ulama telah mengira tanda-tandanya dan menemui lebih 90 tanda walaupun berbeza menurut para penghitungnya.

Didapati kini bahawa seluruh tanda-tanda kecil telah muncul dan terbukti seperti yang dinyatakan dalam hadis iaitu sabda Nabi Muhammad s.a.w. sendiri.



Tanda-tanda menurut dalil

  • Penaklukan Baitulmuqaddis

Dari Auf b. Malik r.a., katanya, "Rasulullah s. a. w. telah bersabda:"Aku menghitung enam perkara menjelang hari kiamat." Baginda menyebutkan salah satu di antaranya, iaitu penaklukan Baitulmuqaddis." - Sahih Bukhari

  • Zina bermaharajalela

"Dan tinggallah manusia-manusia yang buruk, yang seenaknya melakukan persetubuhan seperti himar (keldai). Maka pada zaman mereka inilah kiamat akan datang." - Sahih Muslim

  • Pemimpin yang terdiri dari orang yang jahil dan fasik

Hadis Nabi

  • Bermaharajalela alat muzik

"Pada akhir zaman akan terjadi tanah runtuh, rusuhan dan perubahan muka."Ada yang bertanya kepada Rasulullah;
"Wahai Rasulullah bila hal ini terjadi?" Baginda menjawab; "Apabila telah bermaharajalela bunyi-bunyian (muzik) dan penyanyi-penyanyi wanita" - Ibnu Majah

  • Menghias masjid dan membanggakannya

"Di antara tanda-tanda telah dekatnya kiamat ialah manusia bermegah-megahan dalam mendirikan masjid" - Riwayat Nasai.

  • Munculnya kekejian, memutuskan kerabat dan hubungan dengan tetangga tidak baik

"Tidak akan datang kiamat sehingga banyak perbuatan dan perkataan keji, memutuskan hubungan silaturahim dan sikap yang buruk dalam tetangga." - Riwayat Ahmad dan Hakim

  • Ramai orang menuntut ilmu kerana pangkat dan kedudukan

Hadis Nabi

  • Ramai orang soleh meninggal dunia

"Tidak akan datang hari kiamat sehingga Allah mengambil orang-orang yang baik dan ahli agama dimuka bumi, maka tiada yang tinggal padanya kecuali orang-orang yang hina dan buruk yang tidak mengetahui yang makruf dan tidak mengingkari kemungkaran - Riwayat Ahmad

  • Orang hina mendapat kedudukan terhormat

"Di antara tanda-tanda semakin dekatnya kiamat ialah dunia akan dikuasai oleh Luka' bin Luka'(orang yang bodoh dan hina). Maka orang yang paling baik ketika itu ialah orang yang beriman yang diapit oleh dua orang mulia" - Riwayat Thabrani

  • Mengucapkan salam kepada orang yang dikenalnya sahaja

"Sesungguhnya di antara tanda-tanda telah dekatnya hari kiamat ialah manusia tidak mahu mengucapkan salam kepada orang lain kecuali yang dikenalnya saja." - Riwayat Ahmad

  • Banyak wanita yang berpakaian tetapi hakikatnya telanjang

Diriwayatkan dari Abu Hurairah r.a.
"Di antara tanda-tanda telah dekatnya hari kiamat ialah akan muncul pakaian-pakaian wanita dan apabila mereka memakainya keadaannya seperti telanjang."

  • Bulan sabit kelihatan besar

"Di antara tanda-tanda telah dekatnya hari kiamat ialah menggelembung (membesarnya) bulan sabit." - Riwayat Thabrani

  • Banyak dusta dan tidak tepat dalam menyampaikan berita

"Pada akhir zaman akan muncul pembohong-pembohong besar yang datang kepadamu dengan membawa berita-berita yang belum pernah kamu dengar dan belum pernah didengar oleh bapa-bapa kamu sebelumnya, kerana itu jauhkanlah dirimu dari mereka agar mereka tidak menyesatkanmu dan memfitnahmu" - Sahih Muslim

  • Banyak saksi palsu dan menyimpan kesaksian yang benar

"Sesungguhnya sebelum datangnya hari kiamat akan banyak kesaksian palsu dan disembunyikan kesaksian yang benar" - Riwayat Ahmad

  • Negara Arab menjadi padang rumput dan sungai

"Tidak akan datang hari kiamat sehingga negeri Arab kembali menjadi padang rumput dan sungai-sungai." - Sahih Muslim

  • Banyaknya sifat bohong dan ia menjadi perkata biasa

-hadis bawah-

  • Jarak-jarak antara pasar menjadi dekat (menunjukkan banyaknya kegiatan perdagangan)

"Banyaknya sifat bohong, pendeknya waktu, dekatnya jarak-jarak antara pasar-pasar." - Riwayat Bukhari

  • Manusia mewarnai rambut di kepalanya dengan warna hitam supaya kelihatan muda

"Pada akhir zaman akan muncul suatu kaum yang mencelupi rambut mereka dengan warna hitam seperti 'bulu merpati' yang mereka itu tidak akan mencium bau syurga." - Sahih Abu Daud & Nasai

  • Kekayaan umum dikuasai segelintir orang tanpa kebenaran dan tanpa rasa takut, termasuk rasuah dan mengambil harta secara tersembunyi.

-hadis bawah-

  • Berkurangnya sifat amanah

-hadis bawah-

  • Terasa berat untuk menjalankan syariah (zakat dijadikan hutang)

-hadis bawah-

  • Lelaki mentaati isterinya tetapi menderhakai ibunya

-hadis bawah-

  • Lelaki berkasar dengan bapanya tetapi beramah dengan rakannya

-hadis bawah-

  • Suara manusia meninggi (menjerit dan berteriak) di masjid-masjid

-hadis bawah-

  • Pemimpin suatu kaum adalah keji dan pemimpin suatu suku adalah fasik

-hadis bawah-

  • Lelaki dihormati bukan kerana budi dan kebaikan tetapi kerana takut akan kejahatannya

Dari Ali dan Abu Hurairah r.a.: "Apabila harta rampasan perang (milik umum) dikuasai segelintir orang sahaja, barang amanah menjadi rampasan, harta zakat menjadi hutang, seorang lelaki mentaati isterinya dan menderhakai ibunya, berbuat baik kepada temannya dan berbuat kasar kepada bapanya, suara-suara tinggi di masjid-masjid, yang menjadi pemimpin suatu kaum (bangsa) adalah orang yang hina (berkelakuan/bersifat keji) di antara mereka dan orang yang menjadi ketua suatu suku (kabilah) adalah orang fasik di antara mereka, seorang lelaki dihormati kerana takut jahatnya, arak biasa diminum, sutera biasa dipakai (oleh lelaki), munculnya penyanyi perempuan dan alat-alat muzik, orang yang di kalangan umat terkemudian akan melaknat (mengutuk) umat terdahulu, maka ketika itu hendaklah mereka menunggu kedatangan angin merah atau pembalikan bumi atau keburukan bentuk-bentuk atau tanda-tanda yang beriringan seperti tali yang putus maka jatuhlah biji secara berterusan". - Riwayat Tarmizi

  • Anggota polis semaki ramai yang menunjukkan semakin banyak kerosakan

-hadis bawah-

  • Mendahulukan lelaki menjadi imam bukan kerana ilmu tetapi kerana suara...

-hadis bawah-

  • Penjualan jawatan atau kepemimpinan (politik wang)

-hadis bawah-

  • Memandang rendah kepada darah

Rasulullah bersabda: "Bersegeralah untuk melakukan amal soleh apabila telah muncul enam perkara: perlantikan pemimpin yang boodoh, ramainya bilangan anggota polis, penjualan kepemimpinan, tiada penghargaan terhadap darah, pemutusan silaturrahim, orang mabuk menjadikan al-Quran sebagai alat nyanyi yang mereka mendahulukan seseorang antara mereka menjadi imam agar dapat menyanyikannya walaupun orang tersebut paling sedikit ilmunya." - Sahih Riwayat Tabrani & Ahmad

  • Seorang isteri bekerja dalam satu syarikat dengan suaminya. (Malah isteri berpangkat lebih besar)

Dari riwayat Ibnu Masud: "Di pintu gerbang (dekatnya) hari kiamat: Salam hanya kepada orang yang khusus (sudah dikenalinya), tersebar dan berkembangnya perdagangan sehingga seorang isteri membantu suaminya berdagang" - Sahih Lighairihi Riwayat Ahmad

  • Munculnya gaya hidup mewah dan manja di kalangan umat Islam

"Apabila umatku berjalan dengan sombong dan yang melayan mereka adalah putera-puteri raja, putera-puteri Parsi dan Rom, maka orang yang paling buruk akan berkuasa terhadap orang yang paling baik (pilihannya)." - Riwayat Tarmizi, Sahih Abdullah ibnu Umar r.a.

  • Orang fasik dimuliakan sedangkan orang mulia dan terhormat direndahkan

"Sungguh hebat dia, sunggu jarang orang seperti dia dan sungguh pintar dia sedangkan di dalamnya tidak ada iman sedikitpun" - Riwayat Bukhari, Muslim, Ahmad, Tarmizi, Ibnu Majah

  • Banyak orang berharap untuk mati kerana banyaknya kekacauan ataupun kesengsaraan

"Tidak akan berlaku kiamat sehingga apabila seorang lelaki melalui sebuah kubur maka ia akan berkata: 'Aduhai seandainya aku juga berada ditempatnya.'" - Riwayat Bukhari & Muslim

-hadis bawah-

  • Banyaknya berlaku huru-hara yang menyebarkan kejahatan

-hadis bawah-

  • Banyaknya berlaku pergaduhan dan pembunuhan

"Kiamat tidak akan berlaku kecuali apabila ilmu telah diangkat, banyaknya berlaku gempa bumi, timbulnya huru-hara dan banyak pergaduhan iaitu pembunuhan - Sahih Bukhari

  • Munculnya mati mendadak atau mati secara tiba-tiba

-hadis bawah-

  • Masjid dijadikan jalan iaitu seseorang muslim melalui masjid tanpa melakukan solat

"Masjid dijadikan sebagai jalan-jalan dan timbulnya mati mendadak" - Hasan At-Tayalisy.

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The 7th sense

The 7th sense


Today is 7th December, im turn 24 today. What happens in the last 24 years is not mystery i know what im doing now and what im going to achieve soon.

p/s: the best yet to become


Who the f***

PECAH RUMAH - LAHABAU BETUL !!

Yesterday morning some f**ker broke into my house when im still in my house in my room sleeping. What missing?


My 3 weeks old laptop were gone - sh**. Why we dont have or i dont have CSI kit at home so i can find whick f**ker broke into my house.

p/s: Sape la ni punya keje, suspek orang antara tingkat 2 hingga tingkat 5 apartment aku sendiri. Damn i miss my laptop already since this is the 1st time i got very high specs laptop to do my job with 1gb memory, duo core processor and 80gb disk- damn i can put 4 os running at same time on VMWare. Kepada pencuri tersebut, aku sumpah otak ko jadi cam hardisk lepas 3 tahun koyak pastu tak leh repair jadi gila la tu.

Where are the young Malays?

Where are the young Malays?

Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad

2006

A few months ago, a human resource manager at an international bank approached me. He wanted my help to find top young Malays for the bank’s fast-track management programme. “Where are the young Malays?” he asked.

One of the major cornerstones of the New Economic Policy (NEP) is the scholarship system. While scholarships existed prior to the NEP, it was only after the NEP in the 1970s that a large-scale government scholarship programme was initiated to send students to the top universities around the world. It had a huge impact not only on the NEP but also on our developmental success as a whole.

These scholars later joined the civil service and government-linked companies (GLCs), and many later left for the private sector as their contract ended and the opportunity beckoned in Malaysia Incorporated. The backbone of the Malay middle class today is largely a product of this system.

This system is still a crucial feature of our public policy. The best Form Five students are identified by their SPM performance, and then selected for preparatory and foundation studies before being sent to the top universities around the world. Upon graduation, they will come back to serve their respective sponsors for about five to 10 years.

But in conversations I had with various people — investment bankers, management consultants, young entrepreneurs, and chief executive officers — there’s a realisation that there needs to be a radical new approach. The current model results in an inefficient use of human resource (predominantly Malay at that), and may not be the most effective way to meet the objective it was originally designed for.

While millions of ringgit of taxpayers’ money have been invested to give the best possible tertiary education to these crème de la crème, many of them end up caged in jobs that do not fully make use of their potential. In business terms, this is a poor return on investment.

At the same time, with the advent of globalisation and liberalisation, job opportunities for young graduates are wider and more competitive these days. But while students who are privately sponsored or scholars who are not bound to their sponsors are able to reap the benefits of this development, sponsored students find themselves at a disadvantage.

That was why a young investment banker lamented that an often overlooked reason for the lack of young Malay graduates in multinationals and private companies is that a large number of them find themselves bound to their respective sponsors. Yes, other reasons are at play, such as the quality of graduates and discrimination, but those have often been discussed.

One might ask: Isn’t their contract of service only for an initial five to 10 years? They can certainly explore other opportunities after the end of their contracts. Two problems arise here: First, they have missed out at the earliest opportunity to do so, and secondly, while they may be free of their contract, they are now in a comfort zone — bound by their financial and personal commitments — and tend to become risk-averse.

But let’s go beyond whining and ranting. For all the limitations of the current set-up, one cannot overlook the fact that the interests of the sponsors — be they the government or GLCs — must be taken into account. It’s unreasonable to expect them to invest so much money every year in human capital, only for them not to reap the returns.

There is a practical way forward, provided we allow ourselves to think outside the box. I have learnt that some sponsors are actually looking into these alternatives as they too realise the problems that I have raised above.

One way is to provide a flexible period for graduates to serve their contract of service. It can still be five to 10 years, but they are allowed to choose to finish their contract terms anytime within, say, 15 to 20 years. Therefore, the graduates have the choice to either serve the sponsors immediately, or to postpone their service while working in a top private firm, either locally or overseas. Even if they choose to start with their sponsors, they should be allowed to take career breaks to gain experience in other private firms or sabbaticals to attend top graduate schools in the course of their employment.

Admittedly, there is a risk that some might land a well-paying job which would allow them or the employer to buy out the contract. This is a real risk, but since part of the purpose of the whole programme was to produce Malay professionals, the government and GLCs should consider this as part of their contribution to the national interest, especially since their financial outlay is being reimbursed.

Furthermore, many GLCs have diverse subsidiaries and associated companies, and they should allow their scholars to gain different experiences and perspectives through these different companies. This will expose these graduates to the best practices locally and internationally in order for them to develop professionally and contribute to their respective sponsors.

Another way is to provide a fast-track system in the public sector and GLCs for their scholars. This will be an important motivational factor for the scholars, while at the same time allowing the sponsors to leverage on their investment. Combined with the first suggestion, the GLCs will also be able to benefit from the experience, perspective and skills gained by the scholars in various top-class firms and organisations.

This will solve two burning issues that plague the current set-up — a dearth of top young Malay graduates in the private sector, as well as the low return on investment for the government and GLCs on the scholarship programme.

Then, when someone asks where the young Malays are, we can confidently say they are working in the top multinational and private firms around the world, as well in the public sector and GLCs with a competitive and forward-looking career path. And definitely, not becoming Mat Rempits! Isn’t that the true spirit of the NEP?

source : www.niknazmi.com and was published in The Edge newspaper on October 2006 where i read this for the first time.

p/s: This is very true, u can ask the Petronas Scholar that are not in engineering - they were put anywhere in the organization and for me this is waste. Bright students were given a full scholar to continue their study and after that have to serve with their organization and working in the area that are totally different from their studies - they can't do what have been thought in the University err for me this is ridicilous.
Nik Nazmi said "While millions of ringgit of taxpayers’ money have been invested to give the best possible tertiary education to these crème de la crème, many of them end up caged in jobs that do not fully make use of their potential. In business terms, this is a poor return on investment."

Singapore

First Impression

Last time i went to Singapore around 12 years ago when im still in primary school with my parents to Sentosa Island. Last 2 days in Singapore for Training is a good one for me, Orchard road is happening for Christmas Preparation. And one more things i spotted was so many 'mat saleh' there they all working there i guess.

Frm Left : S'pore guy, Indonesia Sun Eng, Me, Trainer (mark), Indonesia Eng and Philippine Sun Eng.

p/s: Its damn hard to get a Taxi after office hour here but their road don't have traffic jam like KL dats a good thing :)

Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On

Mac OS/Linux/Windows Single Sign-On

Centralized authentication greatly simplifies network administration. This post teaches how to log in to a Mac or Linux computer using centrally managed user accounts from a Windows Active Directory domain controller. With this configuration, the same Windows user accounts can be used to log in to any of the three operating systems, Mac OS, Linux, or Windows, with the same user network folder auto-mounted.

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DECISION MAKING

DECISION MAKING

Decision making is the cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among alternatives. Every decision making process produces a final choice. It can be an action or an opinion. It begins when we need to do something but we do not know what. Therefore, decision-making is a reasoning process which can be rational or irrational, and can be based on explicit assumptions or tacit assumptions.
Common examples include
shopping, deciding what to eat, when to sleep, and deciding whom or what to vote for in an election or referendum.
Decision making is said to be a psychological construct. This means that although we can never "see" a decision, we can infer from observable behaviour that a decision has been made. Therefore, we conclude that a psychological event that we call "decision making" has occurred. It is a construction that imputes commitment to action. That is, based on observable actions, we assume that people have made a commitment to affect the action.
Structured rational decision making is an important part of all science-based professions, where specialists apply their
knowledge in a given area to making informed decisions. For example, medical decision making often involves making a diagnosis and selecting an appropriate treatment. Some research using naturalistic methods shows, however, that in situations with higher time pressure, higher stakes, or increased ambiguities, experts use intuitive decision making rather than structured approaches, following a recognition primed decision approach to fit a set of indicators into the expert's experience and immediately arrive at a satisfactory course of action without weighing alternatives.
Due to the large number of considerations involved in many decisions, computer-based
decision support systems have been developed to assist decision makers in considering the implications of various courses of thinking. They can help reduce the risk of human errors. The systems which try to realize some human/cognitive decision making functions are called Intelligent Decision Support Systems (IDSS), see for ex. "An Approach to the Intelligent Decision Advisor (IDA) for Emergency Managers, 1999".

MY post:
God please help me in making this decision hopefully this is the best for me and my future. This is so difficult, between money and interest which one would you take.