Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, October 2, 2009
Kedudukan penempatan manusia di sepanjang pantai barat Sumatera pada masa depan adalah sesuatu yang mustahil untuk dizahirkan dengan teknologi yang ada hari ini.Ini kerana, pada masa depan, pemanasan suhu global akan menambah beban kapasiti lantai laut untuk menerima tekanan berlebihan kesan pertambahan isipadu air akibat pencairan glasier.
Ini akan membuatkan tekanan mendatar bertambah dan ini membuatkan rabung-rabung tengah lautan yang bersifat mengembangkan plat-plat bumi menjalankan aktivitinya dengan lebih kerap.
Akibat dari ini, kekerapan pembetulan plat tektonik pada pinggir subduction zone berlaku dengan cepat. Pada subduction zone ini, hanya Padang yang masih berdiri sebagai sebuah kota dan lebih merunsingkan, kota di ambang bahaya.
Walaupun impak terperosok (subducted) akibat pengembangan lantai luatan ini meliputi semua jurang-jurang lautan, Padang merupakan petempatan bertamadun paling dekat untuk hentaman sisi menunjukkan kuasanya. Padang hakikatnya berdiri di atas zon penyerap beban Lautan Hindi yang gigantik.
Bukan sahaja pembetulan tektonik gelincir sahaja yang menjadi igauan buruk Sumatera. Zon sesaran ditengah-tengah Sumatera itu belum lagi memperbetulkan kedudukannya sehingga hari ini. Lihat gambar di bawah. Anak panah biru menunjukkan kawasan pembentukan muka bumi bertebing tinggi dan anak panah hijau menunjukkan arah ricihan. Tanpa gempa bumi ricihan tersebut, zon ini masih menyimpan tenaga yang belum dilepaskan.
Sesaran inilah yang membentuk ngarai-ngarai dan tebing-tebing tinggi di Banjaran Barisan.
Hakikatnya, Malaysia perlu juga mengambil langkah peka terhadap ancaman gempa bumi berpusat di Semenanjung. Sehingga kini, belum ada kepastian bahawa di dasar semenanjung, tiada pembetulan mampatan atau ricihan yang menggegarkan pemukaan akan berlaku.
Mungkin, kitaran tenaga terpendam di Semenanjung menjangkau ratusan tahun tetapi, umum mengetahui, tiada rekod mengenai gempa bumi di Malaysia sebaik sahaja rekod-rekod alam sekitar diwujudkan, hingga ke hari ini.
Apa mungkin memang wujud satu tenaga terpendam ratusan tahun sedang menanti titik kegagalan untuk bertahan lalu terganjak. Mungkin di Bukit Tinggi yang kerap digegarkan gempa di bawah 3 pada skala Richter.
Fakta ini menjadi sebab yang jelas bahawa standard pembinaan perlu di perbaharui di Malaysia.
Adakah kita sedar bahawa Padang baru sahaja mengalami pembetulan tektonik dengan gempa sekuat 6.5 pada skala Richter beberapa ketika yang lalu.
Ini menunjukkan trend tidak sihat apabila gempabumi menjadi kerap dan pemampatan akan berlaku dengan aktif. Mungkin saat itu, Semenanjung Malaysia akan turut memasuki zon gempa Lingkaran Api Pasifik.
Seharusnya satu kajian yang jitu perlulah dibangunkan oleh cerdik pandai di rantau ini bagi membolehkan manusia berevolusi dengan alam dan tidak hanya berantakan hanya kerana isu-isu yang remeh.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Latest statistic shown that there is 1,995,040 Facebook users in Malaysia until July 2009. With that figure, Malaysia ranked 21st in the number-of-user's list.
The Facebook penetration is on around 7.4% in Malaysia and considered low to compare with Singapore that stood at 22.7%, but the higehest penetration is Iceland with 46.9% and the lowest in the rankable list is China with 0.03%.
With the info that I get from Nick Burcher, it clearing the air in my mind that keep on thinking the number of Facebook users in Malaysia.
I thought it penetrates into not less than 25% of the population and actually it was not that terrible. Haha.
But still, the growth of the users in Malaysia was recorded at 342% per year but soon, Indonesia will be the massive users of Facebook as it growth percentage was at skyrocketing 2997.3% !
Anyway, I just have no idea on what to write down here as my blog has started to get 'bersawang'.
The Facebook penetration is on around 7.4% in Malaysia and considered low to compare with Singapore that stood at 22.7%, but the higehest penetration is Iceland with 46.9% and the lowest in the rankable list is China with 0.03%.
With the info that I get from Nick Burcher, it clearing the air in my mind that keep on thinking the number of Facebook users in Malaysia.
I thought it penetrates into not less than 25% of the population and actually it was not that terrible. Haha.
But still, the growth of the users in Malaysia was recorded at 342% per year but soon, Indonesia will be the massive users of Facebook as it growth percentage was at skyrocketing 2997.3% !
Anyway, I just have no idea on what to write down here as my blog has started to get 'bersawang'.
Friday, August 7, 2009
On my previous post, I did mentioned about my northward journey that brought me to a place that I never 'landed' before. Sik, a small town in rural Kedah.As a stronghold of PAS, an Islamic political entity, I rather opened by the fact that there is a skirt wearing Siamese girls of Siamese community that ran a saloon business. When one of us asked on why don't they run a massage parlour, the answer is very simple yet straightforwarding "Lesen tak boleh dapat bang oi" ("Impossible to obtain a permit for that!").
One of my Management Dept. pilot ('driver' is a sensitive term), asking one of my subordinate (the one that we going to mess his mom's house)about any place for him to do some hair dressing. As it was almost 7.30 pm, the deserted town was only enliven by the weekly night market and the only saloon that operating on this twillight hour is a Siamese girls' saloon.
A gentle service with smiles and good manouvre that I have ( seems that I was amazed with the price charged ), is only for RM5.00 ! "Seumur hidup aku botak, tak pernah ada orang mesin rambut aku lembut macamni " (I never have a gentle barber doing the shaving gently like this since I started to get skinheaded") I told my friends while the girl working on my head.
Oh damn. She was a Siamese.. not a Chinese girl. Of course she knew what I'm saying. (Chinese girl mostly knows basic Malay only). The Siamese girls broke laugh and talking something with her friends in Thai. Damn. I'm blushed.
Later, we have a dinner at my subordinate's house, located in a remote kampong that fall into eerie silence after 9.00 p.m. To be precise, look at the "A" sign at picture below. That was his house. To make it worse, the loo is located outside the house when I had to answer the nature's call around 11.30 pm.
Anyway, I fall asleep later that night with a full stomach after I have the apam balik refilling my stomach. The night is so cold and caused me a little pain in my chest as I wake up few times on the wee hours.The unique of the people in Sik as well as Baling, Weng, Nami, Kupang and also as far south as Selama (Kedah), they believed that they are of Patani origin. (The place where people of Kelantan came from). And the fact that support this shall be found in their language.
Air ( water ) is pronounced as ai instead of ayaq that popularly used in Kedah. Kelik for balik (return home) and demo for depa ( they ). The intonation is slighly like Siamese people of Kedah origin that can be found in Satun and Danok and the whole of it shows that people of rural Kedah is actually originated from the East Coast.
But centuries of outcast across the mountain range has developed an ethnicity of their own with language spoken among them is hardly to be understood even by person of Kedah origin like me.
The early next misty morning, we departed for Alor Star which is located an hour driving distance away. While we stopped by at a small grocery to buy cigarette, a bunch of Tabika KEMAS kids are running out of their class lining up at the fence in a welcoming gesture, looking at our Nissan Frontier and a Ministry of Health labelled 3 tonnes truck with red crescent logo. But we left them upset when we just waived back and speed away.
Those kids and also their teachers must be thinking that we are going to give a health education or medication what-so-ever seems the nearby school in Sik has been closed due to the H1N1 outbreak. Yes, the desease has lingered even in the rural air.
One of my friend's uncle that living near my friend's house said "every desease that exist here is brought in from the outsiders, we the kampong folk have to work hard in our farms just to ensure that we could afford medication in case of critical condition that need money".
Saturday, July 11, 2009
This is my first absence on KL roads on early Saturday... haha... ( Roads katenye... padahal..... dentam dentum....) The reason is.. tomorrow.. there is gonna be a day of my first experience on being a tourist guide...
One of my weed fella, worked as a tourist guide.. on freelance basis.. Haha.. I wonder since when that kind of job is ever available here in M'sia..... But.. this fella offered me a luxorious offer... some three digit earning... for a single day trip... excluding tips that might rewarded by the tourist... ( Tu pun kalau mangkuk tu happy la kan...)
After all.. I have a good idea to bring him to a resort that build in an orang asli theme... everything made by bamboo.. woods... attaps.. and Lata Kinjang too... I knew my Gopenghagen quite well.... ( Padahal.. orang Tambun.. berlagak tetap ..)
This kind of business is actually part of my brainchild idea... I mean.. regarding the orang asli homestay.. but seems like one Chinese lady has been the first with the capability to materialized it... But I still eyeing one in Jalong.. Sg. Siput.
Meanwhile.. there must be a reason why I dont go for the dentam dentum tonight... a valid reason ... haha... Let it remain something in my mind.. ( Baik takyah cakap kan? )
It goes like.. when you being at a place with the right condition to get sweating by moving your body in artistic way... people just look upon you like... " He is a clubbing bitch "... now that is quite gross but it really is.. So I think that my absence... could lessen the bitch factor.. LOL..
Ya lor.. I can oso sleep maa all the way to Gopeng... but I dont want la... people are using my service to have me wide awake... speak something that they wish to hear.. kann?
Anyway... on the other issue... I applaud the step made by the MoE on the English thingy... I've been writing to newspaper opinions column since 2002.. opposing the not-so-brilliant policy of PPSMI....
For me... let the subject taught in the kid's mothertongue.. BUT.. the English lesson should be given more hours per week.... AND... the Science and Math could be tought in English paralell with the ongoing sylabus..
BUT I'm not an Education Minister... I'm just an assistant of a part time tourist guide.. tomorrow.. till then.. good night.
Gua Tempurung..Gua Tempurung.. Gua Tempurung.. Gua Tempura.. Gua Tempura.. Udang Tempura... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ~
One of my weed fella, worked as a tourist guide.. on freelance basis.. Haha.. I wonder since when that kind of job is ever available here in M'sia..... But.. this fella offered me a luxorious offer... some three digit earning... for a single day trip... excluding tips that might rewarded by the tourist... ( Tu pun kalau mangkuk tu happy la kan...)
After all.. I have a good idea to bring him to a resort that build in an orang asli theme... everything made by bamboo.. woods... attaps.. and Lata Kinjang too... I knew my Gopenghagen quite well.... ( Padahal.. orang Tambun.. berlagak tetap ..)
This kind of business is actually part of my brainchild idea... I mean.. regarding the orang asli homestay.. but seems like one Chinese lady has been the first with the capability to materialized it... But I still eyeing one in Jalong.. Sg. Siput.
Meanwhile.. there must be a reason why I dont go for the dentam dentum tonight... a valid reason ... haha... Let it remain something in my mind.. ( Baik takyah cakap kan? )
It goes like.. when you being at a place with the right condition to get sweating by moving your body in artistic way... people just look upon you like... " He is a clubbing bitch "... now that is quite gross but it really is.. So I think that my absence... could lessen the bitch factor.. LOL..
Ya lor.. I can oso sleep maa all the way to Gopeng... but I dont want la... people are using my service to have me wide awake... speak something that they wish to hear.. kann?
Anyway... on the other issue... I applaud the step made by the MoE on the English thingy... I've been writing to newspaper opinions column since 2002.. opposing the not-so-brilliant policy of PPSMI....
For me... let the subject taught in the kid's mothertongue.. BUT.. the English lesson should be given more hours per week.... AND... the Science and Math could be tought in English paralell with the ongoing sylabus..
BUT I'm not an Education Minister... I'm just an assistant of a part time tourist guide.. tomorrow.. till then.. good night.
Gua Tempurung..Gua Tempurung.. Gua Tempurung.. Gua Tempura.. Gua Tempura.. Udang Tempura... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ ~
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Nine years ago, I started to learn Chinese language. The best thing is... I can feel the excitement of smooth stroking on a paper to draw Chinese charachter.
During that time, although the internet is widely used, the portal for transliteration learning is almost unavailable. Only from few years back, Mandarintools web are available.
It was a complete accomodation for those who tend to learn basic things on foreign language.
Now, for my nickname, which is "abgdark" which is an Anglo-Malay co-literation, the best name I get in based on direct pronunciation in Cantonese is 阿棒得. It sounds "AH PANG TAK" .
Aa Paang Dak is how the transliteration process are finalised globally for romanization of Chinese pronunciation, for the commonly written Ah Pang Tak. The double a on the middle sound shows that it have its own way of pronunciation to give a precise meaning while communicate.
Ah ( 阿 ) is a prefix for names in Chinese as the usage of 'Si' in Malay. Western literature have this way of calling people absent.
Paang ( 棒 ) or in Mandarin it romanized as 'bàng', carries a meaning as a stick; club or cudgel; smart; capable or strong. How about I pick " SMART ". Or maybe " CAPABLE" ! Or any means that shall rise between this two words.
Dak ( 得 ) or 'dé" in standard Mandarin pinyin (way to romanized with exact pronunciation) means, obtain; get; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready or finished. Or what ever means that rise between these means. So I picked "GAIN".
Now I have a nickname that means "SMART GAIN" or in common Cantonese romanization in this country, AH PANG TAK. In Malay, it best translated as "SI PEROLEHAN BIJAK". Ek ele. Poyo.
That how i get my name even the real meaning of my name is actually 黑哥 which in Mandarin it sound HEI GE and in Cantonese, HAK KO. Hei or Hak means black or dark, while Ge or Ko means a brother. With the prefix, it sounds AH HAK KO or 阿黑哥.
Try it yourself. CLICK HERE
During that time, although the internet is widely used, the portal for transliteration learning is almost unavailable. Only from few years back, Mandarintools web are available.
It was a complete accomodation for those who tend to learn basic things on foreign language.
Now, for my nickname, which is "abgdark" which is an Anglo-Malay co-literation, the best name I get in based on direct pronunciation in Cantonese is 阿棒得. It sounds "AH PANG TAK" .
Aa Paang Dak is how the transliteration process are finalised globally for romanization of Chinese pronunciation, for the commonly written Ah Pang Tak. The double a on the middle sound shows that it have its own way of pronunciation to give a precise meaning while communicate.
Ah ( 阿 ) is a prefix for names in Chinese as the usage of 'Si' in Malay. Western literature have this way of calling people absent.
Paang ( 棒 ) or in Mandarin it romanized as 'bàng', carries a meaning as a stick; club or cudgel; smart; capable or strong. How about I pick " SMART ". Or maybe " CAPABLE" ! Or any means that shall rise between this two words.
Dak ( 得 ) or 'dé" in standard Mandarin pinyin (way to romanized with exact pronunciation) means, obtain; get; gain; proper; suitable; proud; contented; allow; permit; ready or finished. Or what ever means that rise between these means. So I picked "GAIN".
Now I have a nickname that means "SMART GAIN" or in common Cantonese romanization in this country, AH PANG TAK. In Malay, it best translated as "SI PEROLEHAN BIJAK". Ek ele. Poyo.
That how i get my name even the real meaning of my name is actually 黑哥 which in Mandarin it sound HEI GE and in Cantonese, HAK KO. Hei or Hak means black or dark, while Ge or Ko means a brother. With the prefix, it sounds AH HAK KO or 阿黑哥.
Try it yourself. CLICK HERE
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