Quotes

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage

Two weeks ago we send our daughter to piano class at our hometown for RM 90 per month, which was quite expensive - to me at least but maybe not to other people. When we decide to buy the piano, something stigmatic about learning piano among our people especially Malays, 20 years ago or more, rush to my mind. At that time people always make a jokes to parents who took their child to piano class.

" Kan bagus bawak anak belajar mengaji atau tiusyen math or English, ni belajar piano, buat hapa'.

Even my late teachers do that. But it didn't happen among non Malays that days. Chinese and Indian send their young children to piano class. The already knew the benefit of using right and left brain during piano lesson. Thats why their children are more inteligent and bright. I try to play the piano and I find it hard to use both my right and left hand at the same time. My brain let me down.
Hopefully my daughters will do better than me someday.

Watch This Movie - Shawshank Redemption

I watch this one last night on Astro HD. Nice story line and plot. Good acting by Tim Robbins and surely from Morgan Freeman. Here are the synopsis.

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman.

Adapted from the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, the film portrays the story of Andy Dufresne, a banker who spends nearly two decades in Shawshank State Prison for the murder of his wife and her lover despite his claims of being innocent. During his time at the prison, he befriends a fellow inmate, Ellis "Red" Redding, and finds himself protected by the guards after the warden begins using him in his money laundering operation.

Despite a lukewarm box office reception that was barely enough to cover its budget, the film received favorable reviews from critics, multiple award nominations, and has since enjoyed a remarkable life on cable television, VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray, was included in the American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Movies 10th Anniversary Edition.

In 1947, banker Andrew "Andy" Dufresne (Tim Robbins) is convicted of murdering his wife and her lover, based on strong circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to two consecutive life sentences at Shawshank State Penitentiary in Maine, run by Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton). Andy is quickly befriended by Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding (Morgan Freeman), an inmate serving a life sentence whose parole application was recently rejected. Red is known for obtaining contraband and Andy has him obtain him a rock hammer to maintain his rock collection hobby, allowing him to create small stone chessmen from rock. Andy later obtains a large poster of Rita Hayworth from Red, followed in later years by Marilyn Monroe and Raquel Welch.

On a manual labor detail, Andy overhears Captain of the Guards Byron Hadley (Clancy Brown) complain about having to pay taxes on a forthcoming inheritance. After explaining a legal loophole to Hadley, Andy is reassigned to assist the prison librarian, elderly inmate Brooks Hatlen (James Whitmore), a pretext to allow Andy to work on financial requests full time. Andy's financial advice is soon sought by other guards at Shawshank and by visiting guards from nearby prisons.

For Andy's first few years inside, he is sexually assaulted continually by a gang called "The Sisters". However, after his financial advice becomes an asset to the prison, Hadley delivers a brutal beating to the Sisters leader Bogs (Mark Rolston), after his gang attempts another assault that puts Andy in the infirmary for a month. Bogs is paralyzed, and the remaining Sisters leave Andy alone from then on.

Warden Norton develops schemes of using prison labor for public works, undercutting the cost of skilled labor and receiving kickbacks for it. Norton has Andy launder the money under the false identity of Randall Stevens, in exchange for allowing Andy to keep his private cell and to continue maintaining the library. Brooks is freed on parole and moves into a halfway house. Unable to adjust to the outside world, he hangs himself.

Andy uses his goodwill with the warden to expand the prison library. When one donation to the library provides him with the opera The Marriage of Figaro, he plays an excerpt over the public address system for all the inmates to hear, well-aware of the punishment of solitary confinement he will receive for the brief moment of bliss. Andy dedicates the expanded library to Brooks.

In 1965, Tommy Williams (Gil Bellows) is incarcerated on robbery charges. He joins Andy and Red's circle of friends, and Andy assists him in getting his GED. When learning of Andy's case, Tommy reveals an inmate at another prison, Elmo Blatch (Bill Bolender), claimed to have committed a nearly identical murder - revealing that Andy was actually innocent of his crime. He realizes that Tommy's testimony might prove his claims of innocence, but Norton, fearing Andy might tell of his corruption if released, refuses to cooperate. After they argue, he throws Andy into solitary confinement. Norton has Hadley kill Tommy, claiming he was attempting an escape.

Andy returns to his regular cell block and tells Red of his dream of living in Zihuatanejo, a Mexican-Pacific coastal town. He instructs Red, should he ever be freed, to visit a specific location in a hayfield near Buxton to retrieve a package. The next day at roll call, Andy's cell is empty. When Norton, angry at Andy's disappearance, throws one of Andy's rocks at the poster of Raquel Welch, the rock tears through the poster, revealing a tunnel that Andy had dug with the rock hammer over the last 19 years. The night before, Andy had switched the ledger book he had kept for Norton with his prison-issue Bible. Taking the ledger, his chess set, and one of the warden's suits, he escaped through the tunnel and a narrow sewage drain during a thunderstorm. After escaping, Andy poses as Randall Stevens to withdraw most of the corruption money from several banks, then sends evidence of Norton's corruption to a local newspaper. The police arrive at the prison and Hadley is arrested, but Norton commits suicide to evade arrest.

Red is seen by the parole officers again. Instead of saying he is rehabilitated, he states he does not know what rehabilitation is, and takes an apathetic approach to the proceedings - he subsequently receives parole after serving 40 years, is allocated the same apartment where Brooks committed suicide, and works at the same grocery store. Red follows Andy's advice and visits Buxton. There, he finds a cache of money and a note left by Andy, reminding him of Zihuatanejo. Red violates his parole and travels to Fort Hancock, Texas to cross the border to Mexico. The two friends are happily reunited on the beach.

Me! Big Fat Liar.

How to Tell the Truth

Everyone wants the truth, right?

Ask your spouse or your boss or your employees or your customers… they’ll tell you all they want is the truth.

But that’s a lie.

We hate the truth. Our reaction to real truth is hostility and fear.

Do we really want to hear the truth about why we’re fat, or why we’re broke, or why our kids are under-achieving? Tough stuff to process for most.

And yet telling the simple raw truth is one of the most effective attention and persuasion tactics available. Especially these days, with people sick to death of being lied to and betrayed.

from a guy on the net.

Me! Papa Dom

Last Monday i realise that my daughters are now not a small kid i use to know. They are now teenage, and with all new things in the world of teenage, i think i'm loosing my daughters. I don't recognise them anymore. A years ago i always thought that my daughters will never lie to me about anything, at least that was what i expect them to do. No lying. No secrets. But yesterday i found out that they have a different mind when they come to teenages. They start telling lies, and keep lots of secrets. I feel that they didn't need me anymore Thats a bad feeling and a sad one. Am i too emotional? Am i over protected father?

Lovely Bones

Last night i watch this movie. It was a film base on a novel with the same title. It's a touching story that make me want to cry and at the same time explode with anger towards child sriminal. Man can be worst than animal. Tough the story is fictious, i really believe that it is no different than realty today.

This is the story of LOVELY BONES

In 1973, Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan), a 14-year-old girl living with her parents, sister, and brother, dreams of becoming a photographer. On December 6, Ray Singh (Reece Ritchie), a boy Susie has a crush on, approaches her at her locker and slips a note into her textbook. He asks her out for the following Saturday, and as they are about to have their first kiss, they are interrupted by a teacher (Thomas McCarthy) scolding a fellow classmate, Ruth Connors (Carolyn Dando).

As Susie walks home through a cornfield, she runs into her neighbor, George Harvey (Stanley Tucci), who coaxes her into an underground den he says he has built for the neighborhood children. While in the den, Susie becomes uncomfortable in Harvey's presence and attempts to leave; when he grabs her, she elbows him in the face and runs into the field and onto the street, passing Ruth along the way. Meanwhile, the Salmon family begins to worry because Susie has not returned home. Her father, Jack (Mark Wahlberg), leaves to search for her, while her mother, Abigail (Rachel Weisz), waits for the police. Susie makes it into town and sees her father, but he does not respond when she calls out to him. Susie runs home and finds Harvey soaking in a bathtub. After discovering her charm bracelet hanging on the sink faucet near a bloody shaving razor, Susie realizes that Harvey has murdered her. As she screams in horror, she is pulled into a surreal world, the "In-Between", that is neither Heaven nor Earth. From there, Susie watches over her loved ones, unable to let go despite her new afterlife friend, Holly Golightly (Nikki SooHoo), urging her to move on.

Investigating Susie's disappearance, Detective Len Fenerman (Michael Imperioli) finds Susie's hat with blood on it and believes Susie has been murdered. Convinced the killer is someone Susie knew, Jack begins obsessively researching neighbors, including Harvey. Fenerman interviews Harvey but is unable to find any evidence to link him as a suspect. Susie's sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), comes to agree with her father's suspicions, but their casework takes an emotional toll on Abigail, and Jack invites her alcoholic mother, Lynn (Susan Sarandon), to move into their home to look after the family. Feeling alienated from her husband, Abigail leaves for California. In her afterlife, Susie inspects a lighthouse and learns that Harvey, who has now targeted Lindsey as his next victim after seeing her, has murdered six other females, including Holly, and that he stashed Susie's body into a safe in his basement.

One night, Jack, convinced Harvey killed Susie, trails him into the cornfield carrying a bat. However, Jack accidentally stumbles across Susie's friend, Clarissa (Amanda Michalka) and her boyfriend, Brian (Jake Abel), who beats Jack unconscious, nearly killing him. As Jack recuperates at home after being hospitalized, Lindsey breaks into Harvey's house looking for evidence. She discovers a notebook containing a sketch of the den, a lock of Susie's hair and several news articles concerning Susie's disappearance and murder. However, Harvey returns home and hears Lindsey, who barely escapes and runs home to discover that her mother has returned and gives the evidence of Susie to her grandmother. Fearful of being caught, Harvey flees, taking the safe containing Susie's remains, with him.

The realm in Susie's afterlife begins expanding into a larger heaven, and she is greeted by Harvey's other victims. She declines Holly's urging to enter heaven along with the others, saying she has one final thing to do. Meanwhile, Ruth and Ray are present when Harvey drives up to dispose of the safe at a sinkhole dump site on the Connors property. Susie returns to Earth and enters Ruth's body. Ray rushes to Ruth's aid only to realize she has become Susie. They share a kiss, completing Susie's last wish, and she returns to Heaven, as Harvey drives away.

Sometime later, Harvey meets a young woman outside a diner and offers her a ride, but she rebuffs him, leaving Harvey standing alone in the parking lot. Suddenly, a large icicle falls from an overhead branch, hitting Harvey on the shoulder. He loses his balance, falls backward over a cliff to his death. Time passes, and Susie sees that her family is healing, which Susie refers to as "the lovely bones" that grew around her absence.

As the film concludes, Susie finally enters Heaven, telling the audience: "My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name Susie. I was 14 years old when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. I was here for a moment and then I was gone. I wish you all a long and happy life."

Rubin Carter

Last night i watched ' The Hurricane". Its a movie about a boxer named Rubin Carter. Hurricane is his nickname. He was errornously sentence to life in prison of murder he didn't commit. It was in the 60's. At that time racisme are still in the skies of New Jersey. Rubin Carter have a great life. He got families, friends, respects and all the thing most man want in their life. Rubin in fact was a genius. But things turn upside down the night when three people were killed. Two man get into a bar and kill three people. The motive was unknown. A latin american guy name Bello at that time entered the crime scene and steal some money from the cash machine. A woman then saw Bello. Bello ask her to call police and says that two black man shoot all the victim. However there are two witnesses who saw whats really happen. Police took Bello to the station and start their conspiracy by asking Bello and his accomplished to admit that they saw Rubin Carter, the famous boxer, were the guy who shot the victim . Police makes false report, scared away witnesses, and ....

You know something, i then search for Rubin Carter in the internet and found out that there are lots of polemic about the movie. Some says its the truth same denied it. The scripts and stories were made based on Rubin Carter's book he wrote in jail.

Watch this movie, you will like it.

Selamat Hari Ibu

The history of Mother's Day is an interesting story. The second Sunday in May was trademarked as “Mother’s Day” by a young woman named Anna Jarvis. She set aside this day in order to pay tribute to her mother and other mothers around the world. This day was, and is supposed to, recognize the undying devotion mothers have to children and families. It is a day when many of us want to find a way to express a personal tribute to motherhood.

Two years after her mother’s death, Anna began a relentless campaign to honor her mother and her mother’s accomplishments throughout her life. Supporters were gathered and letters were written to express the importance for a “National Mother’s Day.” Anna was a fluent speaker, and she used that talent to gather supporters in her cause.

By 1909, 45 states including Canada, Hawaii, Mexico and Puerto Rico observed the day and held appropriate services. In 1911, almost every state in the Union observed and celebrated Mother’s Day. President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday, in 1914, and officially set aside the second Sunday in May to honor all mothers. This set the official day and took away the question of “when is Mother’s Day?”

Anna was also very persistent that the term should be Mother’s Day as opposed to Mothers’ Day. This was because she believed it was a day for families to observe their mother, not for the world to observe mothers as a whole. Today, however, the singular possessive term (Mother’s Day) is just as common as the plural possessive (Mothers’ Day) term.

Red and White carnations were worn on Mother’s Day. Carnations were chosen since they were her mother’s favorite flower. A white carnation was worn to symbolize mothers who had already passed, as they were meant to represent the purity of a mother’s heart. Red carnations were worn to honor a living mother. Mother's Day Gift Baskets might be goven that contain these flowers or can be filled with other treats Mom will love.

With the question, “when is Mother’s Day,” answered we can focus on showing gratitude and appreciation to mother. The purpose of Mother’s Day, by Anna’s beliefs, was to recognize the importance of mothers. This was supposed to be a day to show and express gratitude to the woman that gave birth to us and gave us life. It was also a day to recognize the many things mother’s do in our lives.

In the end Anna was more disappointed at the turn of events rather than proud. As her initial intent was simply to honor mothers, this was not how the nationally recognized day turned out. With all the commercialism put on the special day, she eventually regretted starting the tradition in the first place.

Now that there should be no question as to when is Mother’s Day, the focus can be on celebrating the special day. Though mothers are human just like the rest of us, and mistakes can be made by them as well, we would not be here had it not been for our mothers. Therefore, make this day a special day to honor the woman in your life who was a mother to you, and show her your appreciation and gratitude.

Quotes of The Day

on the wall of failure and give up
glory and victory were names i"ll like to write
blood and tears shall spill shall dried
never i say quit never i say bye.

Khirjohariamajid@blogspot.com

Money Didn't Buy Happiness

I woke up this feeling a little tired. But i quickly make up my mind that today is the same with the days I've been living for the past 20 years. The only difference is, today i'm the one who take a bath first, not my sweetie. We woke up late because the alarm of mobile telephone has not been set. Its my fault. I usually checked the telephone before retired, but last night my mind was badly battered by the fact that i've spent RM1000 for my Estima. Perghhh...its keep hanging in me mind the whole afternoon, wondering how much do i have to spent for the car.

Good Advice

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

Lucky Dad

My older daughter, Nina once claimed that her lips and also her sister, are getting black day by day. I just listen to her as i listen to her critics, and complained etc the bother day. But then i heard something that catch my ears. She claimed that the smoke from my cigaretes have blacken the lips. Can you believe that! What do smoke from the cigaretes have to do with the black lips? Why don't she blamed smokes from other thing such as cars, industries. mills, open burning activities etc? I feel offended. And the worst thing is, she got votes from my wife and my second daughter, Khairiah. Is Nina tried to tell me something. I think i knew!

When Khairiah celebrated her sixth and seventh birthday, she refused a present. My wife and i were so surprised. How could a sixth years old kid refused a present on her birthday? It never cross my mind that she have an agenda. So on the day we celebrated her birthday she just pulled the trigger. " I want my father to quit smoking as my birthday present" What? I have no word to say as i know Khairiah speak from her heart. She is a kind and soft hearted person. Khairiah once cried frantically from her sleep. When we ask why is she crying, she said that she was scared that i will die someday. So when she ask me a present like that, i've nothing to say, until today, i only can promise her that I'll some how fulfill her wish.

Funny Quote of the Day

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
Robert Anthony

Trapped!

Today is the seventh day. I'm doing quite well. My desire to smoke has gone down. I didn't feel the way it was six days before. But it didn't come easy. I have taken 2 strip of nikotine tablets already. A strip contain 12 tablets. It burns my throat ( haha is the spelling right?) , the way smoke from the cigaretes burns. Those nicotine inside the tablets make me feel like i'm smoking but not in the way i like it. It chokes my throat. Today i'm trying not to take anymore nicotine tablets. Now i know what nicotine can do to my body. Month before today, i actually tell myself that i should quit. If it's not now, when? So, the other night a week ago whil;e having dinner with my sweet wife, i told her that i want to quit smoking. She is not surprise! But as usual took the opportunity to trap me with my own game. " I'll buy you nicotine tablets tommorrow or if you want it , we could buy it after dinner", that was the response i got. Trapped! I got trapped. End of the road. No way of turning back, i thought! What am i doing? Am i totally an idiot? i think i'm!

Quote of The Day

You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.

Will Against Emotion

Today is the fifth day i quit smoking. Its hard but not impossible. On the first night, i thought my head is going to blow. Its keep telling me how nice it would be if i smoke at that moment. Some people says that quitting smoking habit, just "kacang", but for me its as hard as quitting loving someone you love. My wife and my daughters were my inspiration, so did my money which is still in my wallet. Five days ago I put RM 150 in my wallet, miraclely its still there. Hmm...that's the best thing. I'm sure my wallet is now empty if i'm still smoking for the last five days. Alhamdulilah..

Motivation To Teachers

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.
Anatole France

If you can't cry
try talking
as talks would make
your tears flows.

Pengetahuan Am

1. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

2. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt"

3. Almonds are members of the peach family.

4. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe.

5. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.

6. Ingrown toenails are hereditary.

7. The word "set" has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

8. "Underground" is the only word in the English language that begins and ends with the letters "und."

9. There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.

10. The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

11. The only other word with the same amount of letters is its plural: pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosesl.

12. The longest place-name still in use is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukup okaiwe-nuakit natahu, a New Zealand hill.

13. Los Angeles's full name is "El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reinade los Angeles de Porciuncula" and can be abbreviated to 3.63% of its size,L.A.

14. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

15. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

16. Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.

17. Telly Savalas and Louis Armstrong died on their birthdays.

18. Donald Duck's middle name is Fauntleroy.

19. The muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint - no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

21. A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

23. There is a seven-letter word in the English language that contains ten words without rearranging any of its letters, "therein": the,there, he, in, rein, her, here, ere, therein, herein.

24. Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

26. A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

27. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

28. Cranberries are sorted for ripeness by bouncing them; a fully ripened cranberry can be dribbled like a basketball.

30. The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti

31. 'Stewardesses' is the longest English word that is typed with only the left hand.

33. The combination "ough" can be pronounced in nine different ways; the following sentence contains them all: "A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed."

34. The only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.

35. Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct order, as does arsenious, meaning "containing arsenic."

36. Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian seal for that reason.

37. Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

38. The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat," which means "the king is dead."

39. The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.


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