MUSIC ...MUSIX...MUSE-IT...

Music is lingering around us nowadays. We can get many information of types and roots of music as we surf through the internet. It brings lots of influences to people as its being evolved from time to time.

Personally, I like to share my opinions about music with anybody. It’s kind of fun when we can exchange lots of ideas about it. Some of the people especially the underground band don’t like the “emo” type of music. I asked them what is the “emo” music. They told me that “emo” music is like “glamrock” or “metal” but the lyrics pertaining women, love story, etc. So I guess I know why “emo” doesn’t suit them well. Another person claim himself as a universal music listener. Then, I told him about “dangdut” song that heard last night. With an annoyed face expression he said “Don’t talk about dangdut in front of me. I hate “dangdut”! I thought to myself, isn’t a universal music listeners suppose to love all kind of music without any bias?

A friend of mine is also music listening enthusiasts. But I attracted to his opinion. He said that he didn’t mind that what songs or music he is listened to as long as it is fascinating and suits him. Well, I was pretty agreeing with him because to me it doesn’t mean if I keen in “black metal” music so I can’t listen to “keroncong” music. Well it makes sense, doesn’t it?

I like what Edry Hashim, one of the Malaysian guitarist said “If we in the state of relaxing, it didn’t make sense if we listened to rock, metal or grunge music. Maybe the “classical” or “nasyid” are better depends on the current situation. Michael Angelo, one of the world guitar shredders also has an interesting opinion. He said that “Instead of criticized that guitar shredder technique is better than another guitar shredders and vice versa, it’s better if we learn the guitar techniques from all of the guitar shredders without any bias because every one of them got different skills in playing the guitar. So we can posses’ different skills from them and this could improve ourselves instead.

So, that’s some of my opinions. How about you? You guys are welcome to leave any comments or opinions. See you on the next post!! : )

CHAPTER 2: MULTIMEDIA CITY

In 1994, Tengku Farith Rithdaudeen was asked to join Road Builder, a listed construction company that his father had just bought into. He was executive chairman of the company. Tengku Farith feels uncomfortable with that because everyone will see that he is a son’s of a chairman at the Road Builder. Besides I wasn’t sure whether leaving CIMB would be the right thing to do as he used to be there for a long time.
Then, his brother in law Shahrir Roose advise him to list down all his weaknesses and show it to his prospective boss, Mr. Chua Hock Chin. To his surprise, Mr. Chua Hock Chin, who are also an executive vice chairman and cofounder of the company impressed with Tengku Farith action which considered as a mature person to reveal his weaknesses.
Tengku Farith was given the position as business development manager. He did big projects including Kuantan Port and Bes Raya. But, the Road Builder has its rival, DRB Hicom in competing to get project at Kuantan port. After discussing with EPU (Economic Planning Unit), DRB Hicom got the Kemaman project while Road Builder got the Kuantan Project.

In 1995, he was approached by Syed Jalaludin of UPM a project which is not necessarily agricultural basis. Again, the fact that good relationship led to business opportunity came to test when he had to get his cousin who worked in MIMOS involved.

Road Builder decided to build a cluster of research centers, and while doing so, they met a lot of important persons including Ariff Nun of MDC who was quite hilarious, and Mohamad Awang Lah of CEO Jaring which was opposite to Ariff Nun.

The idea of setting up Multimedia City did not go smoothly because EPU not giving an approval. This is because it involved university land and they don’t think this project would be great benefit to country. Tengku Farith and his team wrote to prime minister and attach a lot of supporting document. After read all document, Dr. Mahathir not have objection but unfortunately, the strong objection come from the late Othman Yeop Abdullah who was MDC chairman at the time. He thought that this project would steal the thunder away from Cyberjaya. Year 1997 was a Asian economic crisis and the big project like Multimedia City would be out of question anyway.

CHAPTER 1: MEETING FUTURE PARTNER

Chapter 1 tells us about how the skali founder which is this book writer meets his future partner. The writer name is Tengku Farith bin Tengku Ahmad Rithaudeen and he is the CEO of Skali. He has 6 siblings. His father is government minister. When he was 13 years old, he was study in Canada because his parents felt that international exposure would stead their children well.Tengku Farith was graduate from Carleton University in year 1992.During studied, Tengku Farith was trained by her mother in financial management which many of the room was rented out to other student and Tengku Farith must take care for house management. After finish his study, he was come back to Malaysia and work in CIMB in privatization unit. He works as corporate finance executive. This position teaches him how to be thick-skinned which is essential for business. He had to organize all entertainment functions for the company.
His get exposure in IT when he was child in 80s.He use Apple II to play game and read a lot of book and magazine about computer to learn how to do basic programming using BASIC language. He takes Management and Information System course in college. During work in CIMB, he get a chance to be expose to IT where he was ask to make a power point for presentation which Microsoft Word not so famous during that time. He was learning how to make spreadsheet for financial modeling. During work in CIMB, he meet Azmi Ahmad which is become his business partner in Skali.
Azmi Ahmad is very diligent, meticulous and very concern about the welfare of staff. He also a very serious and strict about quality and had no time for small talk. His personality make Tengku Farith more close with Aimi Aizal Nasharuddin which was more his type. Aimi is fun abd easy going. After a year work with CIMB, Tengku Farith, Azmi and Aimi joined force to form a corporate advisory consultant called ACIF Resource which would later become one of the main shareholders of Skali.

Anime

" NANDE DATTE BAIYO??!! " ....Im damn sure that you guys naruto fan out there well recognise with that phrase. Yes its from an anime (japanese cartoon) called naruto. Its very popular nowadays. It was created by Mangaka (cartoonist in japan) name Mashashi Kimimoto. Anime is different from the western cartoons artwork. We can see the difference from the stroke of the artwork created. The story is mostly based on asian taste. Anime is not just like having some heroes fighting with the villains only like the western cartoons does but they have the moral value embedded in every stories such as friendship, love, honour, justice, hopes. And of course, every cartoons have their sense of humour. The Naruto anime is about a boy name Uzumaki Naruto who was born in Konoha village. He is an orphaned. When he was still a baby, there was a nine tails fox demon (Kyuubi) attacked the village and made horrible annihilation. Many ninja warriors and the villagers were dead. Then, the first Hokage (the head of the Konoha village that has amazing powers) made some jutsu(ninja skills or techniques) and managed to seal the Kyuubi in Naruto's stomach. As I watch through the episodes and the plots of the naruto story, I can say that it is very interesting. Naruto has the unique characteristic. He is the boy who always being a public nuiscance in the village. He is also naughty and energetic. Though he is a bigtime loosers compare to his friends but he never give up in almost anything. He always keep up trying as his ambition to become the next Hokage. Naruto also emphasized the value of friendship in this story. He made everyone acknowledge his existence by make friends with everybody. He strongly believes that friendship will bond them together and will give the power to overcome any obstacles or enemies in their missions assigned to him and his friends or team members. Will Naruto become a Hokage one day as he desired? Only Mashashi Kimimoto knows of course (Haha). So, lets watch this exciting anime until the finale episode till the truth revealed. See you guys on the next post :)

YouTube....Goodness or Madness........

Hello again..im sure you guys internet surfers have heard or using the youtube. It was a website with large media storage in it. Do you know what you can do with youtube? Here I stated some of it purposes (that I know for the time being..hehe).

GOODNESS





PROGRAMMING


As a trainee programmer, I can learn many programming codes such as PHP, AJAX, MySql,etc from videos in youtube. Instead of reading books, this is very practical i think.

ISLAMIC MATERIALS

We can hear the qari or qariah from all over the world recite the holy Al-Quran from the videos. We can also watch what happen in Islam world today. It can be like a discovery channel.

ENTERTAINMENT

Of course from here, we can listen and watch videoclips from various of our favorite artists. For people who like to go for jamming session. I strongly suggest this website because we can learn how to play the songs from lead guitar until the drum position from the user that share the videos on how to play certain songs.

MADNESS


Do you know that.. there are negatives influence that people can learn or get from the youtube website??


VIOLENT

Some of the videos contains violent and brute material where one can learn how to make bombs, how to kill, fighting videos, recorded videos of victims before being murdered, and so on.


REMP-IT SCENES

Nowadays, we can see many illegal motorcycle show perform by the youth at Malaysia that we can call mat rempit. In youtube, they can be seen performing many dangerous technich of riding the motorcycle. This videos are suppose not to be upload because it will represent the bad reputation of malaysian youth to the world.


SEXUAL CONTENTS

There are some sexual contents contain in youtube videos. These stuff are not suitable for users especially underage internet surfers. It will lead them to watch porn sites eventually.



So guys, youtube is website that contains vast expanse of informations and materials. So use them wisely. See you on the next post :)

What was it???

Do you all heard about Masjid Kristal which was built on Pulau Wan MAn? I am pretty sure that all of u knew about that because the information about it was spread widely through internet, television, magazines, newspaper, etc. It was very beautiful and unique designed mosque which surrounded by the Taman Tamadun Islam near the Masjid Kristal.
On this post, I would like to share about something odd that my friends keep talking about; pertaining Masjid Kristal. The story goes like this. A few days ago, my friend told me that he wanted to show me a video in the YouTube website that has been captured by a tourist whose on the journey to Pulau Wan MAn.
In the video, the tourist was in the boat and enjoying capturing the wonderful sight of the vast expanse Sungai Terengganu. All of sudden, when he focused his handycam at Masjid Kristal, there was images looks like faces of creatures at the Masjid Kristal's Dome. Some said, it was the faces of Djins that roam the island. Was it really the Djins? Wallahualam.
But, to my opinion, in this information technology era, it is not possible that the images of the creatures on the Masjid Kristal dome was somekind of superimpose technique that can be made by using any video editing software like Ulead Photoshop, Adobe Premier, etc. So, if it is true, I wonder what is the purpose of doing so? Was it somekind of conspiracy done by the irresponsible person?
Below, I attached the video that I told you about the creatures at Masjid Kristal. So What do you guys think? Well, share it with me by giving any comments to me. See you on the next post :)

Why Learning English So Hard AArr?

One day my friend asked me, why is it so hard to learn English? I smile at him.Then i told him that I myself also have the difficulty in learning English too. But for me, I have ways or technique that I consider them as fun in learning English. So I told him the ways that I think suitable (well at least it suites me!).

Reading materials

Generally, everyone knows that we can learn English through reading materials such as book, magazines, etc. We can read whatever materials that we love to read. So by reading, it can improves our English and vocabulary.


Visual material

Well, this is the second way that we can learn English. What I meant by using visual materials for example such as watching movies, documentary, etc (that are spoken in English of course!).
Usually in Malaysia, when we watching movies, etc. in television, there will be Malay subtitles or translations . So , while watching them, hear what the actor or actress spoke carefully and see the subtitles for translation. By doing that, we will learn to hear and understand what they are spoken.



Audio materials

I love this part of learning English because I like music. We can do so by using our skill of hearing
and see the lyrics to see what they are singing about. You can choose any kind of English songs that you like. In my opinion, rock,grunge,metal and all sort of hardcore music is good in learning English.Of course if we think once, it has very bad influence. But, in my opinion, the lyrics have advance vocabulary and usually using English literature. So, use it for English learning purpose and not for the bad deeds because Allah give us a precious gift that is called BRAIN to think and isolate what is good and bad.


Well. That's all that I can share for now. See you on the other posts :)