Thursday, September 15, 2011

Selamat Hari Malaysia



Menyaksikan sambutan Hari Malaysia melalui kaca televisyen pada pagi ini cukup memberi makna kepada saya. Namun ia tidak bermakna sambutan sebelum ini tidak memberi makna kepada saya Cuma, kali ini cukup signifikan kerana ia disambut pada 16 September iaitu tarikh sebenarnya pembentukan Malaysia.
Saya seringkali bertanya kepada diri sendiri, manakah yang lebih signifikan hari kemerdekaan di mana Malaya ketika itu diberi autonomi oleh kerajaan British ataupun hari sebenarnya Persekutuan Malaysia dibentuk dimana Sabah dan Sarawak menyertai Malaysia. Jika dilihat daripada sudut sejarah, persekutuan Malaysia dengan peryertaan sabah dan Sarawak tidak akan dapat dibentuk tanpa kemerdekaan yang capai pada 31 Ogos 1957. Dan jika di kupas lebih mendalam, Sabah dan Sarawak sebenarnya menyumbang kepada Malaysia hari ini. Saya berhenti berfikir sejenak dan saya melihat persoalan ini adalah hampir sama dengan persoalan seperti, mana yang dulu “ayam atau telur”? saya tidak akan memperoleh jawapan kukuh untuk soalan ini. Oleh itu saya meyakinkan diri sendiri, elakkan bersikap skeptical, buka minda, tarikh hanya la angka, yang lebih penting kita hargai apa yang kita miliki dan kekalkannya untuk generasi akan datang.
Saya secara peribadi amat berbangga menjadi rakyat Malaysia, saya merupakan antara rakyat Malaysia yang mendapat pendidikan sepenuhnya di Malaysia daripada Darjah 1 hinggalah ke peringkat PhD. Tidak pernah pun dalam proses pendidikan saya, saya jalankannya di luar Negara. Saya masih teringat tatkala mula mengikuti program Sarjana di UTM pada akhir tahun 2003. Pensyarah kerap kali menggalakkan pelajar mengikuti pengajian PhD di Luar Negara. Namun peluang tidak memihak kepada saya apabila Biasiswa Skim Tenaga Pengajar Muda UiTM yang ditawarkan kepada saya hanya dalam Negara. Sewaktu memilih tempat untuk melanjutkan pelajaran ke peringkat PhD saya telah ditawarkan di tiga tempat di IPTA iaitu di Universiti Malaya, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia dan Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Saya mengambil keputusan untuk memilih UMS dan berkat sokongan ahli keluarga, rakan-rakan dan penyelia saya Prof. Dr. Zulkifli Mohamed saya dapat menamatkan pengajian. Isu yang ingin saya ketengahkan disini adalah komitmen serta daya usaha berterusan merupakan aspek penting dalam menuju sesuatu matlamat. Kata pepatah bahasa inggeris, It may take years, but it’s begin with a single step….. Bersama la kita membina Malaysia yang lebih progresif, ketepikan ideologi politik dan kita membina generasi yang lebih berwibawa. SELAMAT HARI MALAYSIA.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Proton will have it's Electric Cars

Congrats Proton for supporting Green Technology. We already have electric motorcyle and we are gonna have electric cars in the near future. Even Japan have this kind of car many years back, there is never too late. Its only a matter of time!

MAS suffer loss for the first half of 2011 and yet sponsor Home Jersey of QPR

I was watching TV3 sport news the other night and it came surprise to me that MAS have been sponsored Home Jersey for Queen Park Rangers, English Football team owns by our very own Tony Fernandez. The away jersey was being sponsored by AirAsia. Never in history I saw MAS sponsored any football team (I might be wrong) and all of sudden it sponsored QPR. I was reading the star newspaper at the office today and it indicates that the total sponsorship fee for both MAS and AirAsia for the English Professional Football Club involves a term of two years, would cost some RM30 million (6.2 Pound Sterling)! And to surprise me more, MAS take up almost 60% of the total fee because home jersey sponsorship more expensive than away jersey. It means it could be around RM18 Million!
MAS are now facing financial downturn and yet giving out money for sponsoring football team!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Sarawak & Taib Mahmud

Sabah dan Sarawak mempunyai banyak persamaan dari sudut sejarah. Kedua-duanya menyertai Persekutuan Malaysia pada 16 september 1969 dan mula berkembang maju sejak itu. Tidak seperti Sabah, tidak banyak perubahan kepimpinan politik yang dialami oleh Sarawak. Malah sepanjang pilihanraya umum Sarawak, kerajaan BN di bawah pimpinan Datuk Patinggi Taib Mahmud menang dengan margin yang amat selesa. Malah Datuk Patinggi Taib Mahmud telah menjadi ketua menteri Sarawak sejak 1981. Bayangkan! Tempoh yang agak lama dan apabila membaca laman web Malaysiakini pagi ini, beliau membayangkan akan memegang jawatan ini untuk beberapa tahun lagi. Persoalannya sekarang adalah berapa lama lagi? Adalah tempoh selama 20 tahun menjadi ketua menteri Sarawak tidak mencukupi untuk melakukan perubahan atau apa juga perancangan yang beliau inginkan. Saya amat bertentangan dengan prinsip seperti ini. Seperti yang saya luahkan dalam posting sebelum ini, saya amat mengagumi masyarakat cina kerana sentiasa memberi peluang kepada masyarakat muda untuk kedepan. Saya amat berharap pengundi dun balingian membuat pilihan yang tepat, jika PM dan kerajaan persekutuan tidak dapat menyingkirkan beliau. Anda boleh! Cukup la kekayaan yang beliau kumpul selama ini. Undi di tangan anda!

Saturday, December 18, 2010

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

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Visit to Genting Highland 2

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













Tuesday, December 14, 2010

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

Adakah pemimpin muda KDM dalam PBS, UPKO dan PBRS berpeluang menjadi calon dalam PRU-13?