Tuesday, November 24, 2009

This is not a heavenly song but I love the lyrics.
This song is written by young singer, actress and composer Miley Cyrus.

The Climb

I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb

The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb

Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith

Friday, November 20, 2009

Thermostat Enjin

Ujung minggu ni free sket, sebab kawan wife tak jadi nak datang rumah, so berkira-kira nak (Do – It – Yourself) DIY la servis keta kat rumah, bole lah save cost sket time-time gawat camnih. Lagipun rasanya tak susah setakat nak tukar minyak enjin dengan tukar air radiator. Dah belek2 kat forum-forum automotif td, tak berapa rumit sangat la nak realisasikan projek DIY nih.

Satu lagi, keta ni nak kena pasang thermostat balik lah, sbb rujuk kat forum teknikal n wikipedia. Enjin sesebuah kereta tu beroperasi pada suhu tertentu untuk mendapatkan prestasi yang optimum. Last year, pomen panel sy dah remove benda ni sbb katanya kita ni duduk kat Malaysia, cuaca panas n lembab, so tak perlu la pakai thermostat sebab thermostat ni direka untuk kereta kat jepun yang mana suhu kat negara diorang kadang tu 5 darjah Celcius saja.

So hampir setahun jugak la running enjin tanpa thermostat, so far ok lah tapi masalah nya enjin lambat sangat nak capai suhu pengoperasian. Kalau setakat 5-6 minit panaskan enjin, tak sampai setakuk pon pada meter suhu tu. So memang lambat la. Biasanya kena jalan dulu baru dapat suhu yang dikehendaki. Kekadang tu kalu drive malam or dalam hujan, suhu pon drop jugak sampai suku jer. Suhu yang sepatutnya ialah kat tengah-tengah kurang sikit-skit jer. Ni sy refer kat forum automotif la..

Based on article kat HowStuffWork n Wikipedia, thermostat mempunyai beberapa fungsi yang penting dalam sistem penyejukan enjin. Salah satu nya nak mempercepatkan enjin mencapai suhu yang dikehendaki untuk beroperasi dengan cara menyekat air daripada mengalir kedalam radiator jika suhu enjin masih sejuk. Ini kerana thermostat biasanya akan membukat pintu aliran air ke radiator pada suhu 82-85 darjah celcius.

Selain daripada tu, themostat jugak memastikan suhu sentiasa berada dalam keadaan stabil dengan cara mengawal kadar bukaan pintu aliran air ke radiator. Jika suhu tidak terlalu panas. Maka aliran yang dibenarkan melalui termostat adalah perlahan sahaja kerana pintu aliran dibuka sedikit sahaja. Jika suhu enjin sudah tinggi, maka pintu aliran akan dibuka semaksimum mungkin untuk membolehkan air mengalir dengan lebih pantas seterusnya mengyejukkan enjin kereta anda.

Nway, maklumat kat atas tu mebbe ada sedikit kekurangan sebab sy ni bukan student automotif, tp cukup untuk sekadar menjaga enjin kereta kesayangan sendiri. Karang kalu dah kena overheat enjin, lagi banyak plak modal kena keluar untuk repair. Lagi pon dengan DIY ni dapat la berjimat cermat sket. Bak seruan pemimpin kita suruh rakyat Ubah Gaya Hidup. Pasni tak payah makan nasi, makan ubi kayu jer.. hehhe.. pastu kalu yang perut jenis makan nasi.. jangan risau, sumbat jer ubi kayu tu bebanyak.. baru kenyang..

Adios...


A n D

Monday, November 16, 2009

Tak Dak Idea

lately ni rasa macam ketandusan idea lah dalam pelbagai aspek. Tak kira la samaada nak pelbagaikan teknik pengajaran atau nak berborak kat kedai kopi. Macam membeku jer otak nih, otak tak berapa nak berlari-lari. Mebbe sbb dah lama tak buat Math kot.

Masa skolah dulu, math ni lah subjek yang amat-amat disukai, kira subjek faveret laa.. kalu dalam sehari tu tak buat math, rasa macam membeku jer otak-otak. Dulu-dulu, math dah dianggap macam kicap, subjek-subjek lain plak, terutamanya sejarah sebagai nasi.. So kalu makan nasi tak best kalu takdak kicap, maknanya kalu study sejarah tu, kena selang-selang la dengan buat math, baru lambat rasa boring... Itu la analogi yang menunjukkan betapa bestt nyer makan nasi.. eh he.. best nyer Math..hihi

Berbalik pulak kepada ketandusan idea nih, aku pon ada terbaca dlm sebuah buku yang berkisar mengenai Knowledge Based Economy. The most interesting quote yang aku dapat dari buku tu ialah "Kegagalan sebenar seseorang manusia ialah, mereka gagal mengeluarkan idea dari dalam diri mereka", lebih kurang "fail to plan is Plan to fail" laa.. Dan dalam buku tu lagi suruh setiap idea yang dikeluarkan tu mestilah diusahakan dengan bersungguh-sungguh. baru la akan nampak hasilnya samaada dalam jangka masa pendek or dalam jangkamasa panjang.. Yang penting kena usaha, rajin.

berbalik kepada konteks diri aku ni, mebbe sbb dah duduk dalam comfort zone kot, tu yang malas nak berfikir tuh.. huhuh Tapi kalu nak kata comfort sgt pon tak jugak. Kadang tu panas punggung n telinga jugak sesekali-sesekala.hehe

Mebbe sbb pemakanan pon bole jadi jugak, dah kurang makan kicap skrg ni sbb wife selalu masak makanan yang segah-megah.. Kadang tu simple jer tp keberkatannya tu ada.. Cukup la untuk aku n anak2.. Fort the time being, still kena caik lagi lah ape faktor sebenar yang buat otak jadi beku ni.. Yuppp, Punca permasahalan hari dinuru dulu..

Cuba kita renung kembali macammana org zaman dulu kali mengeluarkan idea dari dalam diri mereka, idea yang hebat2. Contohnya penciptaan roda, kapal terbang n komputer. Suma ni sbb mereka berfikir. So start dari sekarang.. aku kena la kerahkan sikit otak ni supaya berfikir.. fikir... Thinking.. :-)

Thermostat free dr Ah Kun

Monday, November 09, 2009

Bebelan hari ini

Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera.

Apa khabar semua pelajar sekelian, semoga anda sihat semua pada hari ini untuk kita teruskan pembelajaran. Kalau ada yang rasa-rasa tak sedap badan tu, boleh lah buat regangan sikit, biar mata tu kembali cerah n segah, boleh tarik nafas dalam2 jugak, bagi oksigen sampai kat otak terutama bahagian serebrum, sereblum dan medula oblonggata

So, minggu lepas, u all semua ada pergi taklimat OJT kat pusat sumber kan. Faham tak apa yang kena buat dan cara-cara nak isi borang kehadiran, nak isi maklumat dalam buku log semua tu. Sblm tu, ada tak pelajar yang masih belum dapat tempat untuk OJT, kena cari cepat sikit yer. Kalu tak benda ni boleh menjejaskan u all punya sijil dan CGPA.

Last week saya ada bagi assignment kan untuk subjek saya, so due date dia sampai petang ni. Harap hantar cepat sikit lah sbb saya nak marking semua tu and bagi markah pada u all. Markah ujian pon saya akan compile dan semua ni akan masukkan dalam CGPA u all. So kena buat betul2 lah, jangan meniru or ceduk daripada mana2 resource yang ada kt internet, especially information dari laman web indon. Jangan sampai saya jumpa assignment u all yang guna bahasa Indon. Better watch out.

So minggu ni saya bagi u all masa untuk study la untuk final exam nanti, jangan siakan masa dan ruang yang saya telah bagi ni. Kepercayaan yang saya bagi ni jangan awk ambil kesempatan pulak dengan main game and buat bising dalam kelas, saya ada spy dalam kelas untuk report pada saya siap yang slalu ponteng and buat bising dalam kelas.

Hari ni saya nak kongsi la sedikit cerita dengan u all semua, u all semua tahu kan yang u all semua ni pelajar dalam bidang kemahiran. Ramai orang beranggapan yang bidang kemahiran ni as a second class or second echelon or banyak lagi la term diorang. Tp bagi saya bidang kemahiran ni tak kurang penting nya dalam kita nak memajukan Negara umum nya dan khasnya untuk memajukan diri kita sendiri. Jadi saya nak u all semua tanamkan dalam diri masing-masing that Bidang Kemahiran bukanlah satu bidang yang dipandang sebagai kelas kedua. Malah bidang kemahiran ni merupakan bidang yang sangat penting dalam konteks Negara kita sekarang. Perhatikanlah kat luar sana berapa ramai graduate dlm akedemik masih lagi menganggur dan ada diantara mereka amat sedikit penguasaan dalam bidang kemahiran tak kira lah sama ada hard skill or soft skill.

Tp saya nak tegaskan bahwa, kemahiran semata2 pon tak boleh jugak, u all kena seimbangkan sedikit dengan pengetahuan teori, Sbb itulah di ILP ni, u all semua akan diajar toeri dan amali dalam nisbah yang optimum mengikut level masing2. kalau level 2, mestilah u all lebih banyak buat kerja2 amali iaitu 70% amali dan 30% teori, tapi bila u all belajar masuk tahap 3,4 dan seterusnya. Peratusan teori akan meningkat sbb bila dah tahap 3 keatas, u all akan didedahkan dengan kerja2 penyeliaan dan pengurusan. So, benda2 ni memerlukan u all berfikir secara kreatif untuk menyelesaikan masalah dan mencapai objektif kerja u all.

Last week saya ada menonton satu forum kat tv1 tentang aliran kemahiran dan aliran akedemik. Aliran kemahiran biasa nya orng lebih faham ia adalah kerja2 teknikal dan aliran akedemik lebih dianggap sebagai professional. Panel dalam forum ni terdiri daripada org2 dalam bidang kemahiran dan teknikal dan di hoskan oleh Dr. Fazley, mesti u all kenal kan Dr. Fazley ni, lagi2 student ppuan, yang hensem2 tu.

Dalam forum tu, sorang bakal arkitek dari uitm, dia ni salah seorang panel lah, menegaskan bahwa akedemik lagi penting dari kemahiran, dalam kontek pembinaan bangunan, mestilah pelan disiapkan terlebih dahulu sebelum bagunanan dibangnkan. Demikian lah tegas beliau. Kalau kita tengok hujah beliau, mmg betullah lah kalu kita nak dirikan sasuatu bangunan ataupun nak buat enjin turbo sekalipon, mesti lah ada pelan or paper dulukan. Tp pernahkan beliau terfikir, walaupun pelan dah siap. Kalau takde org yang berkemahiran yang nak bina bangunan tu, boleh siap ke bangunan tu?, Pelan dah siap tapi takde skill worker nak bina. So, tak mencapai la target untuk bina bangunan tu. U all fikir la sendiri yer..

Sebenarnya mana2 aliran/bidng pon penting, macam u all ni dah masuk dalam bidang kemahiran, so kena lah kuasai betul2, tak kira lah sama ada soft skill or hard skill, kena kuasai betul2. baru lah u all akan berbeza dengan org yang takdak ilmu. Penat lelah parent u all hantar u all kat sini akan berbaloi2. So petang ni kena pastikan semua assignment siap and dah ada kat atas meja saya before 3.30pm. Ketua n Penolong ketua, awak pastikan semua pelajar buat kerja and jangan merayau waktu kelas. Saya ada kat opis pengajar tulis blog.. ha ha ha..

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Dip conversion.

Smalam lepas dapat pelepasan from my boss, Hamba dengan boost kira 0.7 bar terus bergegas ke kenderaan angguk-angguk geleng-geleng untuk menghala ke Kota yang penuh dewa dewi. Terpaksalah kesana walaupon takut gak kot2 di gong-gong oleh merekain.

Perjalanan dengan kenderaan marhain ini memakan masa hampir 7200 saat dengan kelajuan angin, kadangkala pak pamandu naik syeikh tekan pedal sampai 1.00 bar.. perg.. sandar kat seat adjustable tu.. Sempat dak menyimpang kt umah tuk' ali jap anta kotak gergasi..

Sesampai nyer di kaunter dewa-dewi, permohonan hamba ditolak mentah2 dek tersalah mengeja nama Chief Dewa-dewi, maka setelah dengan khusuk nya hamba mendengar penjelasan dan pembebelan dr merekain. Hamba diarah ke Kota Keriangan untuk amend nama Chief tersebut..

Perut berroncong, kaki ber'jazz', mata berdandut, perut pon dah nak ber'be rocks' dek lama menunggu urusan di kota keriangan nih. Badan berkanun pon lembab gak.. huhu..

Dipendekkan, last2 permohonan diterima setelah hamba menggunakan kaedah Yakuza Lord..

Monday, June 29, 2009

Very hectic day

Lepas jer cuti seminggu, have to face back real world, yatta (taken from heroes series)
Tgk meja dah sepah, tak sempat nak berkemas, kena lak attend jap course level 4 and level 5 jap. Pastu curi2 kuar.

Pastu dapat pulak sms nak kena hantar SPC hari ni, so bergegas pulak ke bengkel tgk suma course work n final exam student dah bertanda ka blom.. Rupa-rupanya blom berusik lagi. Arghhhhh....

Hecticnyer, lepas tu kena jumpa tuan director pulak sbb nak mintak student praktikal 2 org. Nak kena buat kena ikut ISO. ISO is kertas, n kertas is ISO.

Tp aper yang bestnyerr hari ni.. sempat lagi g lunch kat Marrybrown ngan wife terchenta n g basuh keta... Very hectic... melelahkan...

Gambar Pilihan Hari Ni,
Wedding Suhana

Monday, June 22, 2009

Cuti Semingggu


Uncle Shahrul di hari pertama bersama Persona nyer..


Perghhh... panjang cuti seminggu tu. Actually nak buat preparation untuk coming exam. hehee. Exam untuk orang tua-tua yang tak berapa rajin masa muda-muda. Bila umur dah mendaki baru la rasa betapa penting nyer sijil. Ilmu pon penting, but org sekarang kebanyakan nyer lebih suka tgk sijil. Even nak cari menantu pon.. Maybeeee... So.. mana lebih worth.. Ilmu??? Sijil??? Pengalaman??? Kena pikir sendiri arr tu..

So, this is Ist day dok umah, nak kata aku study pon tak jugak. Macam jadi blank pulak bila tgk formula-formula yang mengkremkan kepala otak. I wonder why, dulu masa skolah benda ni rasa cam at my finger tips jer.. but now, everything has change.. Lot more thing change.. Tgk formula, theory n something like that. Kepala cam susah nak terima plak. Jenuh nak mengasimilasikan suma nih. Nak paksa diri takut jadi Crazy plak..huhuuu

Then, masa terluang ni la aku ambik utk tulis blog, n hari ni aku login facebook.. hehee Jumpa site kawan2 lama masa sekulah. Derang suma dah berjaya and have their own life. Like i said before, time's change everything, memories still remain. Even it's hard, terpulang kepada kita untuk menilainya. Kalu pandang -ve, kita pon jadi negatif ar.. kalu pandang +ve, that's what we want it. Kesimpulannya, Hukum Newton pertama ada kebenarannya tetapi Allah tidak akan mengubah nasib sesuatu kaum, kecuali mereka sendiri yang berusaha untuk mengubahnya.

Hr ni jugak sempat borak2 ngan one of my former classmate kat SMSS, Chenn, she's happy now with mix hubby and 2 kids. Really miss bebudak kelas Budi 96. Aku rasa suma bebudak ni dah berjaya and have their own life, so do I.

Esok start exam. Nak membaca arr sket.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Monday, June 08, 2009

Adakah comfort zone akan menjelma?

Sekadar Gambar Hiasan

Kek hari jadi




Setelah beberapa purnama diarah oleh memanda Dato' Bendahara ke domain yang begitu 'not worth it' tapi kadang-kadang 'more than worth it'. patik begitu tak cukup kaki tangan peha betis untuk menangkis segala serangan dan panahan musuh-musuh negara terchenta.

Perubahan ketara dapat dirasai kerana pengurusan perubahan merupakan satu subjek dan objek yang sukar untuk ditelan secara lolos untuk makhluk bernama insan. Tambah lagi patik yang tidak begitu kuat aura untuk mempertahankan diri. Namun bukanlah tahap dirundung malang.

Pertemuan projek ini yang terakhir mungkin bakal diadakan diseberang laut, adakah mampu bagi patik mengharungi lautan yang penuh bergelora pula. Apa yang patik harapkan sang geruda atau wau bulan mengiringi patik bagi maksud pertemuan terakhir itu.

Apa yang patik harapkan, zon senang akan kembali ke pangkuan patik semula, walaupun patik tahu ianya PASTI sementara, namun yang pasti ianya sungguh sangat bermakna. Kembalilah wahai zon senang.

Laku sembah...

Monday, May 11, 2009

Balik kampung

Cerita yang cliché namum sedap jugak kalu diulang-ulang, mana tak nyer.. Balik kampung besssss... hehee. Gini lah nasib orang merantau, mancari rezeki sesuap nasi untuk menyara keluarga terchenta..
Sebut je balik kampung, terus melayang kat kepala sotong celup tepung, ikan fresh n budu.. hehe (aku makan budu ke..huh..), lecah air luir dah ni.. Tp makan2 tu aktiviti sampingan jer.. Main thrust is, jumpa ngan parent arr.. rinduism..

2 hari sblm balik, mama dah siap2 ambik cuti utk wat persiapan, huh lama gak cuti tu, sib baik bos dia kasi cuti. Aku plak ada event kat sheraton subang sehari sblm balik.. mmg penat arr but balik kampung punya pasai... semangat terus berkobar-kobar.. kalu nak balik malam pon takperr.. tapi tak berani ar plak nak drive mlm.. Melawan fitrah tu.. mlm is time utk rehat, beribadat.

Balik kampung kali ni konvoi ngan adik ha, hubby n baby shafi, Adik Mat plak satu kereta ngan hamster nyer.. Comel2 belaka hamster Mat. Bertolak dalam pukul 9.00 pagi n sampai kat terengganu lebih kurang kol 4 ptg. Kira ok lah tu sbb sblm ni kalu balik musim perayaan, mmg sampai mlm la kat atas jalan.

Then, 4 hari kat kampung, dah tunaikan semua hajat kat kedai sotong n ikan celup tepung, bekal kopok lekor n kopok keping, aku balik ke Melaka ngan keadaan penat tp best.. Rasa macam bulan depan nak balik lagi sekali jer.. heheee...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

A n D n Katil n Gap

A n D stands for Afiq and Danish
Hari ni dah masuk hari ke3 Danish berak2.
Punggung dia pon dah merah-merah
Ada gak bahagian yang dah melecet
Siannyer kat dia, tp kata orang nak besar kena la lalu macam2
Mebbe aku kecik2 dulu pon penah kena camni jugak.



2,3 hari Lepas AnD buat surprise kat
surprise apenyer.. buat aku terkujat sampai bertakbir...
Mula-mula tu si Danish ni (umo dlm 6 bulan)
Dah pandai guling2 n merangkak.
Main langsir kat tepi katil tu.
Katil plak ada gap(ruang) dengan dinding, so muat2 budak masuk kat situ..
Aku masa tu tgh buat kijer kat luar tetiba dgr dia nangis..
AKu tgh wat kijer kat depan umah, mama plak kat dapor..
Aku ingatkan nangis biasa tp rupanya2 kepala dia dah masuk kat gap(ruang) antara katil ngan dinding tu..
Apalagi, aku bertakbir n melompat terus tuk selamatkan dia...
aku rapatkan gap tu.. takmo pisang berbuah 2 kali..
Nasib baik takde apa2 kat dia..




Mlm tu giliran afiq plak wat surprise..
Aku, mama n danish tdo atas katil
afiq plak aku beli tilam untuk tdo kat bawah.
Dia kena tdo bawah sbb dia tdo buas..
Dlm kol 2.30pagi, aku macam tdgr ada budak nangis bawah katil
aku terus terkujat ingatkan danish jatuh katil lagi.
aku terus bukak lampu n tgk bawah katil
rupanya si Afiq dah bergolek masuk sampai tgh2 katil
kat bawah tu tak kena kipas, so dia terjaga sbb kepanasan.
Aku n mama instruct dia suruh keluar dr bawah katil tu..
tp mana la budak bawah 2 tahun nak faham..
Afiq tersekat bawah tu, masa masuk mebbe dia golek2an badan
tp bila nak kuar dia terus nak bangun,
so kepala terhantuk n tersekat kat bawah tu.. jam 2 pagi plak tu..
so aku n mama sekuat tenaga tarik katil tu n keluarkan afiq ikut gap antara dinding n katil..
Fuh.. dah berpeluh-peluh si Afiq ni...
Padahal aku dah letak bantal utk elakkan afiq dr masuk bawah katil..
Tak tau la camana leh masuk jugak..

Itu lah cerita A n D n K n G..............




My Son.. U're my life... Mama too...

Thursday, February 19, 2009

I'm back on track

Selepas beberapa ketika aku tersasar dari menulis blog, kini aku kembali dengan harapan baru agar penulisan ini dapat diteruskan higgalah aku menemui titik noktah yang sebenarnya. Aku tersasar bukan kerana keinginan nafsuku sendiri namum ada petualang yang terus menerus menekan aku supaya aku terhenti dari mencapai diari ini seterusnya meluahkan rasa hati yang kadangnya aku sendiri tidak mengerti...

Petualang itu merupakan satu unit yang sentiasa menutupi dan menapisi laluan untuk ke dunia luar, mungkin mereka dapat mengesan salah satu hobiku adalah melayari laman ini lantas ditapisnya, ditutupin nya dan diberikan masa yang singkat untuk aku memerhati, membaca dan mencerna apa yang ada dilaman ini, laman kawan-kawan dan sanak saudara.

Kini semuanya berakhir, minggu ini merupakan minggu pertama aku ditukarkan ke unit petualang ini. Surat bersampul putih di pigeon hole aku merubah segalanya. Rupanya, aku menerima amanat dari ketua cif untuk menerajui unit petualang ini. Walaupun pada dasarnya aku tidak layak untuk ini. Tapi Aku hanya mampu menurut perintah. Adakah berbaloi semua ini.

Minggu ini, aku blom berbuat apa-apa lagi disini, cuma menghadiri beberapa 'pertemuan' dan merangka perancangan strategi yang akan disemak oleh ketua cif nanti. Tapi itu semua bukan perkara utama bagi aku lagi. Di kotak fikiran ku tertanya - tanya, perlukan aku manapisi diriku sendiri, menutupi capaian ku sendiri ataupun memberikan masa yang singkat pada diriku sendiri.

Sekian

Monday, October 13, 2008

Ketupat Palas.

Sekadar Gambar Hiasan



Bagi masyarakat Terengganu, ketupat palas ni merupakan antara makanan wajib@ruji untuk dihidangkan kepada tetamu pada hari lebaran. Ketupat palas ni tidak menggunakan beras seperti ketupat yang terdapat di negeri-negeri lain. Ketupat di Melaka contohnya menggunakan nasi dan dibungkus dengan daun kelapa berbentuk segiempat. Macam nasi himpit.

Apa yang istimewa nya ketupat palas ni, ianya menggunakan pulut sebagai bahan utamanya dan dibungkus dengan daun palas dalam bentuk segitiga. Perisa ketupat palas pula bergantung kepada citarasa masing-masing. Ada yang suka sedikit manis dan ada juga yang suka tawar.

Secara ringkasnya dalam penyediaan ketupat palas, pulut terlebih dahulu ditanak dan digaul pulak dengan santa setelah pulut itu masak. Kemudian ianya dibungkus dengan daun palas yang telah dilurut dan ketupat ini akan dikukus sehingga masak.

Di hari raya, ketupat palas dihidang bersama-sama dengan rendang. Ada jugak yang suka menikmati ketupat palas ni dengan hanya mencicah ketupat palas dengan gula. Makan dengan gulai kari pon bole. Kat umah wo (nenek) saya, ketupat palas dihidangkan bersama-sama gula manisan (gula melaka) yang dicairkan. Tapi gula melaka ni bukan diperbuat daripada nira kelapa, tapi ianya dihasilkan dari tebu. So, manisnya pon lain sikit lah.

Raya tahun ni, turn saya beraya kat melaka. So tak balik la terengganu sbb cuti pon tak dapat nak apply lama. Banyak kije tertangguh yang nak disiapkan segera. So sampai la saat ni, saya blom makan lagi ketupat palas untuk raya tahun ni..huuhuhuh

OMG, I miss ketupat palas so much!!!!!!!!

Monday, September 22, 2008

Hardest decision to be made

When we move from comfort zone to the other side, the art of decision making will determine where we will be. Between work, career planning and family, what is the greatest factor that affecting a decision making? I’m in dilemma... huhuu

For the time being, FAMILY is above of all matters. Although have to swallow the bitterness. And pretend it to be sweet.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Limited access to blogspot

My organization has implemented a new policy regarding on accessing the Internet. Many favorite sites have blocked and several of the sites are granted limited access. Lucky for me, I have ten minutes to access to my webblog to update or put an entry… huuuu..

Trying to access medcham blog



My favorite site blocked

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Name Proton’s First MPV

While browsing the internet this morning, I’ve jump to site of competition for naming proton’s first Multi Purpose Van (MPV). Although I’m not interested in buying this stuff, I decide to give one of my best shot to give it’s name.. hehee

Here’s the link to Proton competition site,
http://www.namakanprotonmpv.com/en/
, you can try it at your own ideas. Below is mine. Plagiarism is prohibited, hehehee


Friday, September 05, 2008

Training & Development

This article is quite long and many grammatically error, hehehee read at your own risk.huhuu

INTRODUCTION

Training and Development is an important part in Human Resource Management. In this assignment, we are going to focus on training. There are many definition of training, but the most important is training is the process of acquiring knowledge, developing competencies and skill, and adopting behaviors that improve performance in current job.

Training also involves sharpening the knowledge, skill and abilities or changing the attitude to enhance the performance. According to Mondy and Noe, training is the heart of a continuous effort designed to improve employee competency and organizational performance.

The objective of training is to plays a central role in nurturing and strengthening the competencies. It also a part of the backbone of strategy implementation in the organization.

Training help in increasing the productivity of the employees that helps the organization further to achieve its long term goal. Training also can create sense of teamwork, team spirit and inter team collaborations and creating learning culture within the organization

There a several method of training such as lectures demonstrations, discussions, Computer Based Training, games and simulation.



Discuss what is the potential employee factor that could be contributing towards training drawback?


There are two most important factors that could be contributing toward training drawback; it is Personal Factor and Environmental Factor. Personal Factor is referring to the problem that occurs in the employees itself or Internal Factor meanwhile the Environmental Factors is a factor from outside / with out the employees or external factors. The environmental / external factors sometime are beyond the control of the employees.

Personal Factors


Firstly is the Knowledge, Skill and Abilities (KSA) of trainee, sometime the training that’s conduct is beyond the trainee KSA. As an example, a clerk has sent to decision making training. She or he have to go this training because her/his supervisor on holiday. This is beyond his or her abilities. The employee will face a lot of new thing and they cannot cope with this situation. This situation also can make an employee will feel to rebel to their organization.

Second is Personal Problem, sometime the employee have their own personal problem such as they are slow learner. Compare to another employee who is fast learner, a slow learner employee will feel unmotivated and embarrassed. This will contribute toward training drawback.

Another factor that affects the training is relation between the training program and personal objective. Sometime the training that’s attended by employee cannot meet or contrast to their objective. As an example, Rosmah is a clerk in one of the firm in Malaysia. She has an interest in Procurement, but her supervisor has sent her to Store Keeping Management. As we can see, Rosmah interest is contravene with the training that’s she attended.

The fourth factor that contributes to training drawback is the benefit that’s expected from training. This situation happens because the trainee expects more from the training program. The training module doing not included certain part of knowledge for employee to perform their job or the training that they are attended does not have relation with their duties and task. As an example is an employee from Information Technology Department have sent to Marketing and Sale Training, there are no relation between employee and the training.

Lastly for Personal Factor are the previous training experiences. If the employees have an experience with previous training, maybe they already know what the content of the training is. The employee also got bored with the training if the same trainer involved. The employees tend to expect more from the previous experiences. If they have a bad experience in the past training, maybe the next training will cause a lot of problem to them, which will demoralized them.


Environmental Factors

There are several environmental factors that contributing toward training drawback. Firstly are the Knowledge, Skill and Abilities (KSA) of the trainer. This is important part when conducting the training; it is to find a suitable and resourcefulness trainer. What will happen if the trainer cannot answer the question? This will lead the trainee to feel bored and lost confidently to the trainer. Unqualified trainer also can tend to make a misleading information or knowledge when they only guessing the solution of the problem.

Training objective also must be clear; the employees must know what is the return or benefit of their training program. When conducting training, the trainer must give an explanation about the training objective. What is required and what should they got from the training must be understand by the trainee. For example, if we are conducting a Sale and Marketing Training please make sure that the objective of training is relevant to the Marketing and Sales.

Third environmental factor is the Content of the Training. The content of the training must be variety but not misleading to the objective of the training. Unattractive content of Training will make a trainee tend to feel bored and sleepy. The content of the training also must be relevant with today technologies and must include a value added skill take the training more fun, knowledgeable, informative, up to date and will improve effectiveness of the training.

The training design itself also plays a big part to determine successfulness of the training. Training design include method, technique and strategies use in the training program. The method of training such as lectures demonstrations, discussions, Computer Based Training, games and simulation can be use to make a training more effective and can enhance employee knowledge, skill and abilities.

The Training Team also can contribute to training drawback, because the compositions of a team are vital in making successful team. If the members of the team are not willing to work together as a teammate, there will be a problem. This problematic team will also affect another team because they tend to disturb the smoothness of training. Sometime, when a talented employee dumps into this team, that employee also can influence by a bad members. So, the organization will lost another talented employee in their organization.

Lastly, the infrastructure of the training program must be ready. Training must be conducted in a convenience place and have a seminar facilities, eating facilities, tea and coffee breaks. Inconvenience place will make the trainee tend to fell not spacious and restless. The eating facilities also must be clean and organize and the food and beverage must be fine and serve on time.



Explain how you would go about assessing whether it is in fact a training problem.

There are many methods available to assess or evaluate the training problem. One of the famous models is from Donald Kirk Patrick Model that there are consist of four basic criteria to evaluate.
1. Reaction
2. Learning
3. Behavior
4. Result

The organization can evaluate the REACTION level of the trainees by conducting an interviews or administering a questionnaire. Assume that 20 clerks have attended a three days Operational Management Training. A reaction level can be done by asking them to complete a survey that asked them to rate the value of the training, style of the instructors and usefulness of the training. Then we can see how the reaction of the trainees

LEARNING level can be evaluate by measuring how well the trainees have learned facts, ideas, concepts, theories and attitudes. Tests are the common method used to evaluate learning level. For example, we can conduct a simple test after finishing certain module in the training. Result of the test gives us a clear view whether the trainees learning level.

To evaluate BEHAVIOUR, usually two type of kind involve, they are,
1. Measuring the effect of training on the job performance through interviews of trainees and theirs co-worker,
2. Observing their job performance

As an example, a behavioral evaluation of the IT executive who participates in Web Site Design Training might be done by observing the actual website that he produces. If he produces the website according to what they learned in the training that means a behavioral indication of the producing website could be obtained. But if they don’t produce the website according to their training, It means there is no behaviors modification.

Employer can evaluate RESULT by measuring the effect of the training on the achievement of organizational objective. Because results such as productivity, turnover, quality, time, sales and cost are relative. So this evaluation can be done by comparing record before and after the training program. For the Sales and Marketing Training, we can measure the result of the training by looking at the result of sale next two or three month after training are conducted. If the organization can achieve more sole on the next two or three month, that means the result are positive and the training program are successful.



CONCLUSION

There several factor that affecting the Training including Personal and Environmental Factors, they are personal problem, relation between the training program and personal objective, benefit expected from training, KSA of the trainees, previous training experiences, KSA of the trainer, content of the training, infrastructure and the training design.

The evaluation of the training program can be done by using Kirk Patrick Model that consists of Reaction, Learning, Behavior and Result.

No matter how good the training program is, in the end it is the participant only who decides whether to change his behavior or not. Trainees do not change their behavior merely because they are telling to do so. They change when they feel there is a need for it.

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Sharpen Your Brain (adapted from Reader’s Digest January 2008)

• Improve your memory
• Boost your spatial awareness
• Crunch more numbers
• Widen your word power

Improve you memory

Learn by heart a “to do” list of 10 or more jobs for the day that incorporates a route – it could be your stroll to the cafe, say, or the walk to your first class – and try to mentally link each job with one location: buying a newspaper at the shops, dropping off a housemate to class, calling home outside the cafĂ©, etc.
Then ask yourself the following questions:

• What task follows buying the newspaper?
• What job precedes phoning home?
• The second job on the list is?
• Where on the list is sending your housemate?

The next day, come up with a new list and increase the number of items to 20 or so.

Boost your spatial awareness


Navigate your way around the house blindfold (best not done alone!). Then sit in a chair and mentally walk round your house, visualising your every move. Or put 12 objects on a tray, memorise their location, then get someone to move a few about. Guess which have moved.

Crunch more numbers

Do these exercises every day: add up in your shopping in the queue before you pay; divide up bills when they come in; estimate quantities of things you pass, such as people in a group or trees in a garden. Keeping your mind nimble and always on the move with numerical teasers will improve your mathematical sharpness.

Widen your word power


Go for as many of these as possible; learn a new word every day and use it often; make up anagrams of words. These will improve your understanding of the true meaning of words.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Wednesday

The series of torturing my student continue.. hehehee… Today is the last day for them to complete their SKM Application portfolio. I’m really impressed with one of my student. Beside is shying mode, he’s able to sing a song from Samudera – Terminal Cinta. Quite an old song but I’m still remembering that song.

Samudera – Terminal Cinta

sejauh mana lagi perlu kususuri
menjejak kepastian emosi rindu
mungkinkah aku ini terminal yg tak pasti
untuk kau melepaskan
musim sepimu

dimana kan berakhir kesetiaan ini
apakah seusia penantianku

semakin bergoyah kasih
kabus apa menyelang harapan
hingga lupa cinta yang pertama
kembalilah kejejak yang dulu
kalau esok tiada mentari

kasih suci nan abadi
masih dihatiku
kalau nanti kau mengerti
ertinya cintaku ini

seandai mekar lagi harapan yang pasti
jangan bersimpuh lagi dalam tangisan
setiap hanya satu jika berderai
kasih ku pasti berpaling
pada yang mengerti

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

Tuesday

Today is Tuesday, but I feel I like a Friday. Listening to a slow song encourage me to do the work slowly. Anyway, many tasks have done in slow motion. Slow but it move. It’s okay laaa….

Today, I’m just sitting at my desk, waiting for my student to get my signature for their SKM application portfolio. In addition to my boring mode, I will sign the portfolio if they can make me laughing, hahahaa.. Some of them sing a song, dancing, acting and many more. But there is a limit. I will not allow them to do something that will embarrass them.

Here is some poem that has declamation by one of my student.


Pesan Seorang Bakal SN

Usah berpuisi tentang bunga
Tentang kumbang menyeri kembang
Lantaran kita bukan penjaga taman

Usah berpuisi tentang ikan
Tentang sampan dan lautan
Lantaran kita bukan nelayan

Usah berpuisi tentang tudung kepala
Tentang syurga dan neraka
Lantaran kita bukan guru agama

Usah berpuisi tentang pilihanraya
Tentang nepotosme dan kronisme
Lantaran kita hanya sasterawan semata.


ZIZIE ALI

Monday, August 25, 2008