Christmas is here again!

I have always been waiting for Christmas, as it comes nearer the joy of the birth of our savior Jesus Christ been exhilarate inside me. What is my most memorable moment celebrating Christmas? To be frank, I couldn’t recall the best moment but I could remember the traditions. People are having open house and it could be dragged into New Year. Just like other occasions, I would rather say, Christmas also is a one month celebration. Means u could have your Christmas open house starting from 25 Dec until 25 jan the next year. When it comes to open house, happy faces will always be a good motivator for me to start my next year journey. Personally, for me, the food is not my main concern but the persons around me are what it takes especially my family members, cousin, relatives etc. These people been around me maybe for the rest of my life and some of them watched me grew up. The repercussions of it is that it tells me how valuable them in my life. You bring joy to my life.

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! and A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

Dr. Johan @ eddy Luaran

Visit to Genting Highland 2

As I said in my last posting, these were the pictures taken during the trip

Visit to Genting Highland

Last week, together with my friend at the same faculty, we went to the Genting Highland. It takes approximately 1 and a half hour from Shah Alam. Driving with my very own Viva, it was a pleasant journey coz we be able to stop at any place as we want. Using the PLUS highway, sometime known as NKVE (New Klang Valley Expressway) and take the route heading to Ipoh. And after driving about 80 KM take the Genting Highland Exit and the toll charge is about RM7.50. The exit route will be at Bukit Beruntung. Along the way to Genting Highland, we passed by Serendah, Sentosa, Sungai Choh (according to my friend, Sungai Choh is the hometown of our famous actress/model/singer Erra Fazira) and Hulu Yam and turn to the route heading to Genting Highland. If You move further you will be heading to Kuala Kubu Baru and Rawang.

Genting Highland located at the Gunung Uli Kali (According to the Wikipedia) and its location was in between of two states, Selangor and Pahang. So by all means, once you going to Genting Highland, you can claim that you been to Selangor and Pahang. At first, I want to drive to the top of the Genting Highland but according to my friend it is more convenient if we park the car at the middle of the hill and use the cable car to the top. I agreed with him. The car park was free then. Riding using the cable car was a first experince to me. I was quite scared at first because it seems moves to the left and right but then as it moves, things getting better. According to the info, the cable car in Genting was the fastest and the longest in Asia, 3 KM in total length, takes about 20 minutes to reach the end points. I m really enjoy throughout the cable car journey, the view was marvellous, unspeakable. Its like walking in the air and you can see all down there. I try look for wild animal down there but I couldn’t find. Maybe its to cold here for the animal to make it as their habitat.

Once you reach at the end points, you are at the Genting building already. The hotel are only walking distance. There are two theme park, indoor and outdoor. Both theme park looks good as we watch other visitors enjoying it. But one things I noticed, all stuff are very expensive at Genting. Even the price of McDonald Burger are 3 or 4 times more than the normal price. I managed to go through the hotel rates and I found that the cheapest was RM259 per night. But I think if we book early through online it could me more cheaper.

Those who love gambling, Genting is the place. According to my friend Genting also known as Las Vegas Malaysia . The name of the casino is Casino De Genting . I managed to go inside the casino and it surprise me that it have so many machine available to play. I want to try my luck playing one of the machine but I don’t know how to play!. My friend waiting outside coz muslim are not allowed to go in. I want to ask the casino staff to teach me how to play but its like putting my self shame. So I decide to just look around and see how people play. I look at one corner, one guy play jackpot and he keep on losing, by the time I m wathing him, he already insert 3 RM50 notes into the machine. At the other side, I can see old chinesse lady play the same game alone and very concentrate with the game. I walk around then I can see one young chineese lady with her few friends playing game and by observing her credit, she having 13+++, according to my calculation that could be around RM13K. After spent around 20 minutes inside the casino, I went out coz I don’t want my friend wait for me for a long time. After that, we decide heading back to Shah Alam using the same route. I forgot to mention that the fare for the cable car was RM5 one way and RM10 for return.

Lesson learned.
I think the same idea of having cable car for mount kinabalu will boost the Sabah tourism. I will upload a few picture of my trip in a few days ahead.

Best regards
Dr. Johan @ Eddy Luaran

BN convention 2010

Konvensyen Barisan Nasional yang berlangsung pada 4-5 Disember 2010 merupakan konvenyen politik pertama yang saya hadiri seumur hidup saya. Saya didaftarkan diatas nama perwakilan UPKO dalam konvensyen ini walaupun saya tidak memegang apa-apa jawatan tertinggi dalam parti. Ucapan terima kasih saya terhadap brother saya Nosius Luaran yang telah mendaftarkan saya sebagai perwakilan namun beliau sendiri tidak dapat menghadirkan diri dalam konvensyen tersebut disebabkan beberapa faktor yang tidak dapat dielakkan.
Konvensyen yang di adakan di Dewan San Long, Wisma MCA Jalan Ampang yang jauhnya hanyalah kira-kira 300 meter daripada menara kebangggan kita iaitu Menara KLCC telah dihadiri oleh kira-kira lebih kurang 2300 perwakilan, sumber ini saya perolehi daripada ucapan pengerusi konyensen ketika itu iaitu Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansur.
Walaupun duduk di barisan belakang dewan, saya dapat melihat dengan jelas barisan kepimpinan Barisan Nasional yang duduk di hadapan pentas. Ini termasuklah Perdana Menteri iaitu merangkap pengerusi barisan nasional yang juga presiden UMNO, Timbalan Perdana Menteri merangkap timbalan pengerusi Barisan Nasional dan 12 orang presiden parti komponen BN. Di belakang barisan depan ini duduknya 38 orang individu yang mewakili setiap parti. Iaitu setiap parti diwakili oleh 2 orang pemimpin. 2 orang individu lagi adalah Ketua Wanita UMNO (Datuk Sharizat) dan Ketua Pemuda (Datuk Khairy Jamaluddin)

Selepas Pengerusi Barisan Nasional menyampaikan ucaptama, presiden setiap 13 parti komponen akan berucap bersilih ganti untuk membahaskan tema/tajuk yang diberikan. Sebagai warga Sabah, dulu, kini dan selamanya saya lebih berfokus kepada ucapan daripada presiden parti komponen di Sabah iaitu V.K Liew (LDP), Datuk Seri Panglima Joseph Pairin Kitingan (PBS), Datuk Seri Panglima Bernad Dompok (UPKO), Datuk Seri Panglima Joseph Kurup (PBRS) dan sekiranya SAPP masih bersama dengan BN, kelibat Datuk Yong Teck Lee akan dapat saya saksikan namun beliau telah memutuskan SAPP meninggalkan BN atas faktor yang kita sedia maklum dan saya lebih bersifat neutral atas tindakan SAPP, tidak menyokong atau tidak mengecam namun bersifat tunggu dan lihat.
Walaupun acap kali saya menyatakan bahawa pemimpin veteran khususnya parti-parti KDM ini memberikan laluan kepada pemimpin muda, jauh dilubuk hati saya, saya bangga kerana mereka dapat menyatakan dengan jelas dalam ucapan mereka tentang keperluan rakyat Sabah khususnya. Dan saya berharap mereka dapat memberikan peluang kepada pemimpin muda dalam PRU ke-13. For the time being, they get my support but either they can lose my support if the party itself don’t change. Saya ingin nyatakan bahawa pemimpin veteran ini masih boleh menyumbang walaupun bukan sebagai ahli parlimen, ADUN ataupun presiden. Seperti yang saya selalu katakan, saya amat menghormati parti-parti cina di Malaysia, mereka memberi peluang kepada pemimpin muda untuk berkembang, menerajui parti dan member nafas baru kepada parti yang seterunya menjadikan parti relevan dengan keadaan semasa.
Saya tidak segan silu ingin menyatakan bahawa di kawasan parlimen saya sendiri iaitu Tuaran, Datuk Wifred Madius Tangau perlu dikekalkan sebagai calon pada PRU-12 namun kepimpinan telah mencalonkan Datuk Wilfred Bumburing. Ini merupakan pendapat peribadi saya sendiri tanpa mewakili mana-mana parti atau kepertubuhan. Saya melihat Datuk Wilfred Madius Tangau sebagai nafas baru dalam kepimpinan UPKO. Beliau harus diberi peluang untuk terus berkembang sebagai ikon muda KDM yang boleh dibanggakan. Datuk Seri Wilfred Bumburing telah berkhidmat dalam era 80-an dan 90-an sewaktu kegemilangan kerajaan PBS dan saya rasa cukuplah. Enough is enough. Saya berharap tidak ada sesiap yang tersinggung atas kenyataan ini kerana ini merupakan luahan hati saya sendiri sebagai anak jati Tuaran.

Berbalik kepada konvensyen BN, ia merupakan platform yang cukup kondusif untuk merapatkan barisan kepimpinan yang sedia ada. Saya amat tertarik kepada ucapan penutup Datuk Seri Koh Tsu Koon dan Datuk Khairy Jamalludin yang menyelitkan bahasa2 etnik utama di Malaysia termasuk la bahasa iban dan Dusun. Hala tuju BN juga di tekankan oleh PM dan hampir kesemua presiden parti berikar akan mempertahankan Putrajaya pada PRU-13.

Apa yang mencuit hati saya ialah ucapan daripada Datuk Shahrizat, some sort of like this
“ Ketika kita tercari-cari formula untuk menang dalam pilihanraya, saya mempunyai satu formula yang amat mudah. Just take care of the woman…. Kerana 63% daripada pengundio adalah kaum wanita….
Bila difikirkan semula, memang ada kebenarannya….

Merry Christmas and Happy New year to all my friends

Dr. Johan @ Eddy Luaran

Penamat untuk suatu permulaan

Saya amat berterima kasih kepada ibu bapa saya, Luaran Ansapi dan Anoh @ mairin Dansi, Big brothers saya Handry, Hampry, Nosius dan kakak saya Airin (sekarang ini sedang berdepan dengan dugaan hidup.. harap kuatkan semangat dan cepat sembuh), semua kakak ipar, sepupu-sepupu, saudara mara, sahabat handai, rakan-rakan sekerja sewaktu di SMK Pinawantai dan sekarang ini di Fakulti Pendidikan, UiTM Shah Alam dan semua kenalan yang memberi semangat kepada saya untuk menamatkan satu perjuangan yang tidak pernah saya impikan dalam seumur hidup saya, iaitu menamatkan pengajian PhD saya.








Detik konvokesyen pada 9 Oktober 2010 yang lepas mengimbau banyak kenangan sewaktu saya mula-mula mengambil keputusan untuk melanjutkan pengajian keperingkat PhD. Sewaktu itu, saya telah pun berkhidmat sebagai seorang guru dan boleh dikatakan saya telah mempunyai kerjaya yang tetap dan boleh menikmati kehidupan seadanya. Saya mungkin boleh berkhidmat sehingga menjadi seorang pengetua ketika itu. Namun semangat untuk terus melanjutkan pelajaran membakar semangat saya sehingga sanggup meninggalkan profession perguruan.
Seorang rakan bertanya kepada saya, apa yang yang saya fikirkan sewaktu nama di umumkan sebagai penerima ijazah doktor falsafah dan profil kajian dibacakan oleh dekan pusat pengajian pasca siswazah. Peliknya ketika itu, fikiran saya melayang kembali ketika sewaktu kecil sewaktu di rotan oleh ibu saya disebabkan kenakalan dan kedegilan saya. Saya tersenyum sendiri selepas itu kerana ibu bapa saya berada dalam dewan menghadiri konvokesyen anak mereka cukup nakal suatu ketika dulu.

Terlalu banyak ingin di ungkapkan tetapi tidak dapat diluahkan 

Ucapan terima kasih lagi kepada semua sekali lagi.

Melaka. The way I see it

Saya telah berpeluang berkunjung ke Melaka pada 24-26 september yang lepas atas kapasiti mengiring pelajar untuk program Menjejak Bumi Menggapai Bintang yang ditujukan khas untuk pelajar yang lemah dalam pencapaian akademik yang telah di adakan di kem biro tatanegara, Hutan Perca di Alor Gajah. Perjalanan keseluruhan kem cukup terkawal dan pengisian program adalah tersusun kerana program ini dikendalikan sepenuhnya oleh fasilitator-fasilitator kem berkenaan.

Semasa mengiring pelajar ke kem tersebut, saya dengan beberapa pegawai pengiring lain yang semuanya terdiri daripada pensyarah UiTM telah berkesempatan berkunjung ke Bandar Melaka. Kali terakhir saya berkunjung ke Melaka adalah pada tahun 2000 iaitu sewaktu saya masih lagi menuntut di Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) iaitu kunjungan lawatan sambil belajar ke Loji Penapisan Petronas Sungai Udang.

Mengikut sejarah, Melaka, Pulau Pinang dan Singapura merupakan gugusan negeri-negeri selat. Iaitu negeri-negeri yang dibawah kekuasaan perusahaan Hindia Timur Inggeris ketika itu walaupun kini Singapura tidak lagi menjadi sebahagian daripada Malaysia.

Terdapat beberapa persamaan antara negeri Sabah, Sarawak, Pulau Pinang dan Melaka kerana negeri-negeri ini tidak mempunyai Sultan atau Raja tetapi Yang dipertua negeri dan pentadbiran negeri di ketuai oleh Ketua Menteri.

Kunjungan ke Bandar Melaka membuka mata dan minda saya, negeri yang kecil tetapi mempu menarik ramai pelancong. Pembangunan negeri yang begitu tersusun, dan lokasi tarikan pelancong yang berdekatan antara satu dengan yang lain adalah salah satu keistemewaan kota Melaka. Antara lokasi tarikan pelancong yang saya sempat lawati adalah Water River Cruise, menaiki bot selama 45 minit yang membawa pengunjung menikmati pemandangan Bandar Melaka dari perspektif sungai. Lokasi lain adalah seperti A famosa, Taming Sari, Eye of Malaysia.

Kunjungan singkat tersebut cukup untuk membuatkan saya ingin kembali semula ke Melaka. Tidak hairan la kerana menurut seorang pengunjung, Bandar Melaka merupakan pilihan pengunjung dari Singapura dan Kuala Lumpur. Kepimpinan Negeri Melaka amat terserlah dengan program pembangunan di Negeri Melaka.

Jika saya seorang yang boleh bersuara dalam Kabinet Negeri Sabah, saya akan mencadangkan Lawatan Ke Bandar Melaka untuk melihat sendiri macamana negeri kecil seperti Melaka mampu menjadikan sektor pelancongan berkembang pesat dan menjadi penyumbang penting dalam poket kerajaan negeri Melaka. Syabas Negeri Melaka di bawah kepimpinan Datuk Seri Ali Rustam.

When dogs life no longer have value

When I watched the TV3 news at 8pm 20th Oct 2010, it caught my attention when I heard that the Council of Kuala Langat have killed 9 dogs and saved 16 birds from the farm the suspected killer of Datuk Sosilawati. It comes to my senses that what is the different between the dogs and the birds? When you save the other animal and you kill the other one. I was very sad when I heard this story, I could imagine how that people be so cruel. I do hope that this is not about religion. I understand that is quite sensitive issues where some religion put dogs as ‘Haram’. And I do hope this is not the reason why they legalise the killing of these dogs.

Perjuangan yang tidak pernah selesai

Mungkin tidak terlalu berat untuk kita berfikir sejenak tentang sumbangan pemimpin terdahulu Negara seperti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Tun Abdul Razak, Tun Hussien Onn, Tun Mahathir Mohamed dan Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. Dan bagi sesiapa yang mengenal rapat negarawan-negarawan ini dan pernah berkerja sama mungkin terlalu banyak yang beliau boleh perkatakan daripada segi sumbangan kepada rakyat Malaysia secara umumnya.
Saya merupakan generasi yang lahir pada era pemerintahan Tun Dr Mahathir sebagai Perdana Menteri Malaysia dan saya secara peribadi cukup mengagumi pencapaian beliau dalam menjadikan Malaysia sebagai sebuah Negara Maju, daripada sebuah Negara yang pendapatan berasaskan pertanian kepada Negara yang melibatkan eksport import, hub perniagaan kepada Negara barat di Asia, menyediakan tenaga kerja, dan banyak lagi.
Jika pencapaian beliau di nilai daripada sumbangan saya berpendapat, jasa beliau kepada Malaysia adalah amat signifikan ini termasuklah infrastruktur yang menyumbang kepada kelicinan pentadbiran dan sektor pengangkutan di Malaysia.
Jilka saya nyatakan secara ringkas;
1. Komuter KTM
2. LRT
3. KLIA
4. PutraJaya
5. KLCC
6. PETRONAS melebarkan carigali sehingga ke Negara Timur Tengah dan Asia Barat
7. PROTON
8. MODENAS
9. PERODUA
Ini adalah antara sumbangan signifikan Tun yang terlintas dalam minda saya kurang daripada 15 saat. Ini menunjukkan bahawa saya tidak memerlukan masa yang panjang untuk menilai kemajuan yang di bawa oleh Tun kepada Negara Malaysia. Tetapi saya akui, seperti kata pepatah Inggeris “Everything comes with a prices’ . Billon ringgit telah dibelanjakan untuk membangunkan infrastruktur ini, tetapi jika difikirkan kembali, bayangkan Malaysia pada hari ini jika tanpa semua sumbangan Tun yang saya nyatakan diatas!

Work to live: Live to work

I would like to share a few tips taken from the book by Micheal Heath entitle ‘Leadership Secrets’ . This part of the book discussing about work-life balance;
//Work-life balance has always been a big issue. Go back in history and you’ll find that many people worked long and punishing hours. Look around the world and you will see the same lack of balance in many people’s lives. So what balance should we have?
If you have a problem getting the balance right, then I would point you to the website www.worklifebalance.com. They have three simple statements about this subject:
1. Work life balance does not mean an equal balance. Scheduling an equal number of hours for each of your various work and personal activities is unrealistic. Life should be more fluid than that.
2. Your best individual work-life balance will vary over time, often on daily basis. The right balance for you today will probably be different for you tomorrow. The right balance when you are single will be different if you have partner or have children
3. There is no perfect, one-size fits all, balance you should be striving for. The best work life balance is different for each of us because we all have different priorities and different lives.
A wonderful boss I had when I was just starting work told me: “You never get something for nothing. Everything has a price.” Over the years his words has stayed with me. Do what you want to do, but be willing to pay the price for it.
The work life balance website agrees: “Achievement and enjoyment are the front and back of the coin of value in life. You can’t have one without the other, no more than you can have a coin with only one side. Trying to live a one sided life is why so many ‘successful’ people are not happy, or not nearly as happy as they should be.”
Yes, the organization and you have a responsibility to help employees achieve a balance. But we all have an individual responsibility to ourselves to ensure that our personal needs and wants are met. //

Hulu Selangor jadi penentu

1.Kehangatan pilihanraya kecil parlimen P.94 Hulu Selangor menjadi topik perbualan hangat setiap ahli masyarakat Malaysia yang mengikuti perkembangan pilihanraya kecil ini. Bermula dengan pertarungan empat penjuru kemudian berubah kepada pertarungan sengit dua penjuru antara BN dengan Pakatan Rakyat (PR).
2. Di tambah lagi dengan serangan peribadi keatas calon PR yang dikaitkan dengan alkohol serta perjudian lumba kuda. Di tambah lagi dengan penyebaran gambar superimposed calon PR yang memegang botol arak Jack Daniel. Kemudian team pembangkang fight back dengan mengaitkan beberapa personaliti termasuk Menteri Dalam Negeri (DS Hishammudin) dengan aktviti melibatkan alkohol melalui penyebaran beberapa foto di Internet.
3. Perkembangan politik yang berbentuk serangan peribadi sebenarnya ‘advantage point’ untuk menundukkan pihak lawan. Ini sebenarnya merupakan jalan paling mudah untuk menang. Menurut Blue Ocean Strategy, ia adalah salah satu cara untuk menjadikan lawan anda tidak relevan.

Journey of life

I rather say that I am hypocrite if I said I have no feeling on her. Being close friends for nearly 6 months and have an on-off for almost 2 years and finally the last news that I heard was she was married with a guy. She was a nice girl, homely type and has all the characteristic of being a good housewife. I am a bit frustrated that time but since I do not ‘really’ confess to her and her either, I think there is no point of being frustrated. I carry on with my life, knowing more and more person along journey of life...
The suddenly after a few years, I received a phone call at midnight and it was from her, saying that life tough for her and she need someone to talk to. She has a son and she was saying to me that her husband was flirting with another woman. Not one but a few and she even remember the entire name. She said I have to be strong because of the child and she doesn’t want the child to suffer. I do remember, she told me that, she found out that her husband SMSing and Calling another woman six weeks after giving birth! Even his lifestyle change even only after 6 month of marriage.
As a single guy, I personally do not know what should I advice her on the aspect of marriage itself. But I do tell her that, you always have God and ur family, do remember that! And I do stress to her that, as a guy (I refer to myself) even after married, we need some space, we need space with our guys friend, for our interest and do not expect we have to be at home all the time (24 hours per day). I agree it also should be also the other way around. She replied to me that, Yes, I do give him time, for anything he wants to do.
And after having long conversations, she finally told me that the situation also happened during their friendship, engagement and before getting married. But for some specific reason, she devoted her love for him. Hoping he would change! But things are not going into her way. But after all she was ready even to be a single mum. And I told her, that should be the last option.
We ended up our conversation that night after talking for nearly 2 hours and I try to cheer her up by recall all the good/funny memories. I do hope and pray to God that she would be happy. Coz If she happy, It will be parts of my happiness also.
This story is not to embarrass anyone but merely on sharing but as you know sharing is caring.

cross my mind

I was born and grown up in a village and I always refer to my self as a Kampung Boy. I went through all the ‘kampung boy’ stuff, you named it; Having bath in the river, went to the jungle looking for birds or squirrel, plays ‘guli’, catching fish in the pond (The pond is not that clean and not dirty either) and etc. When I looked back that years, it’s actually teach me about friendship, team work and learning new things in others way that I not realize during that time and I am sure all of you agree with me.
And after being academician for 3-4 years, I found out there is an explanation for all the things that I had been experienced, not one but many. But the convincing explanation was back in 1883, when Jean Piaget comes out with the Theory of Cognitive Development. It was a very convincing theory about the nature and development of human intelligences. The theory is well defined and being one of the important theory thought to our trainee teachers. To make it simple, the theory stated that there are four stages of human development;
i. Sensory motor period (Birth – 2 years old)
ii. Preoperational period ( 3 – 6 years old)
iii. Concrete operational period ( 7-11 years old)
iv. Formal operational period (12 years old and above)
I do not intent to explain in details each of the stages but, I do like to stress that all the ‘unaware’ learning process that happened to me was during preoperational and concrete operational stages. Those of you interested to know the detail about the Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, just types the words in google search engine.
It is even worthy for me to update my blog since now I have 5 followers. Thanks Sweet Craft Design, Norwahida, Anwarjauhari, E’na Binut and Reemolly.

1Malaysia; Learn from the best

I was quite surprised to read the star online today that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed the idea of 1MALAYSIA concept introduced by our Prime Minister was taken from the 1Isreal Concept. More over, he claimed that our Prime Minister has consult APCO WorldWide to design the 1Malaysia concept. According to him, it was obvious that a lot of similarities of between the two concepts. To mention a few, it includes the 1malaysia fund and 1Malaysia Clinic.
From my reading, APCO Worlwide is actually a US-based company, doing business in financial, political and media capitals throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. From the wikipedia it states that;

APCO has distinguished itself over the years by building a senior team that includes former elected officials, ambassadors, business leaders, journalists and government leaders. The firm has largely grown organically, developing its own offices around the world, building relationships with clients over time and offering an integrated, broadly based portfolio of services in support of the full range of corporate affairs activities managed by senior executives of its clients. Some of APCO's senior counselors include:
• A. Elizabeth Jones, former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan
• Aleksander Kwaśniewski, former president of Poland
• Darren Murphy, former media adviser to UK prime minister Tony Blair
• Don Bonker, former Democratic congressman from Washington state
• Donald Riegle, former Democratic senator from Michigan
• Itamar Rabinovich, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
• John Magaw, founding director of the Transportation Security Administration
• Lalit Mansingh, former foreign secretary of India and former Indian ambassador to the U.S.
• Marc Ginsberg, former U.S. ambassador to Morocco
• Sergio Marchi, former Canadian ambassador to the World Trade Organization

The issue that our opposition leader tried to highlight here was that the APCO worldwide were somehow connected with Isreal because the chairman of the company were top individual from Israel (something to do with army if I m not mistaken). So, the main issues here were the security of our country and the integrity of our leader.
Latest news that I read from The Star Online, Deputy Information, Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Joseph Salang said Apco was not involved at all in the ministry’s affairs.
What I am thinking is that, it is a wise move to learn from others especially if it benefits the peoples, even from our enemy. Like the great leaders says’ Put aside our differences, Lets us make the world a better place to stay.”

Adjusting to what I have...

Its been a quiet sometimes I haven’t update my blog, this was due to my jobs responsibility as a lecturer. I have to give lecture to my students, observe my practicum students, do some research (in fact, I just extract it from my previous thesis), do the faculty task, attend courses and etc… not to mention busying looking for overseas conference that I may attend if endorsed by the faculty.
Some of my friend asking me, how was life being a lecturer? Since I had been a teacher in secondary school for four years before joining UiTM as a lecturer. Usually my answer to them, It was a great experience in terms of career advancement, opportunity, exposure to new knowledge (of course by attending courses), knowing a lot of distinguished researcher (most of them are professors) and of course MONEY. But let us not put money as our main priorities because according to Dr. Fadilah Kamsan what matters is satisfaction. This was re-emphasized my one of my facebook friend (E’na Binut)
~Money can buy a house but not a home. Money can buy a bed but n0t sleep. Money can buy a clock but not time. Money can buy a book but not knowledge. Money can buy food but not appetite. Money can buy position but n0t respect. Money can buy blood but n0t life. Money can buy medicine but not health…. – Anonymous-
Since joining UiTM in December 2009, I have learns a lot of things, these 3 are only parts of it;

1. Being away from my comfort zone (The place where I belong, in Tuaran Sabah where all my parents, brothers and sister are there for me). Here in Shah Alam, I have to survive all by my own, but luckily I have a lot of Sabahan friends here plus my new friend at the Faculty of Education, I manage to survive. One important reminder that I always had in my mind is “ Masuk kandang harimau mengaum, masuk kandang kambing Mengembek”. I always missed the time in my village where every weekend my friends and I always had the “cerita-cerita’ session, karakoeing and had a few tins of beer! (wow, I should censor this kind of story huh!)
2. Teaching in UiTM is quite different from teaching in other IPTAs. UiTM policy are; the medium of teaching is English. So all the lesson should be conducted in English. I m unfamiliar with this policy before because I was graduated from USM and UTM and most of the subject are conducted in BM. Even in UMS the lessons are in BM. I would like to see it in the positive aspect; I had a feeling that this may among the reason my UiTM graduates are among the hot cakes; My brother its self (Nosius Luaran- Land/ Sea Surveyor) was the UiTM alumni, Alfred Angkaji (Attach with Construction Company and Majoring in Arts and Design; Christoper John Baptist (Lecturer at Maktab kerjasama Koperasi, Sabah Branch) all are enjoying their blooming career.
3. Teaching/Lecturing and doing research are two things that should come together. I better not discuss about this or else my writing more on academic.

This are the time I have for my blog folks. Since I have one follower, its worth updating my blog.
MCA fresh election is around the corner…after all I hope it can solve the MCA crisis. As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a high respect for the Chinese Party it is simply because they gave a youngster a chance to be a leader ( Do PBS, UPKO or PBRS do the same?; Tepuk dada Tanya selera……)