The power of the Shamal

I was reading this one article from Kennedy School. It was telling something about shamal. And I totally did not get what shamal was all about in-relation to this article. Anybody? Please enlighten me.

In Yemen, a leadership that belatedly came to realize the threat from al Qaeda and to partner with the U.S bla bla bla... What is highly likely is the close US-Yemeni cooperation of the last two years against Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) bla bla bla. Yemen was not a failed state. In the years ahead, until someone consolidates power, there is a significant chance that it could become one bla bla bla.

In Libya, for all that was undesirable about Qadhafi regime, including two decades of state sponsorship of terrorism and several attacks on Americans, in recent years the Libyan government had become a virulent enemy of al Qaeda. Qadhafi's secret police activity bla bla bla. As one knowledgeable observer told me this week, "the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is pleased this time that the Americans and Europeans are bombing Arabs should give us pause bla bla bla.

In Egypt, weeks after the departure of Mubarak, who and what will replace him remains unclear. The senior military leadership, who bla bla bla. Some observers

have suggested that what we will see in Egypt may resemble the Islamic party rule in recent years in Turkey. There, the secular nature of the Turkish government has very gradually but steadily eroded bla bla bla.

The winds are still blowing the sand about, but we are beginning to be able to make out the contours of what the dunes may look like when the shamal is over.

ps: yup too heavy.sebab tu gua takleh absorb kot hahaha

pss: 2nd thought.okay pe.at least gua try kan?

psss: wiki pon tak jalan

Kumar, Aboo, roti canai, teh ais & I

Four days ago, Kumar celebrated his 30th birthday. He had his 1st meal at the age of 30 with us, Aboo and I in the wee morning at our normal joint. A roti canai and a teh ais. What a way to start being a 30. High five macha! Hope you had an awesome celebration. Happy Birthday...

All right!

Nasib baik harini hari last. Weekend ni je, dalam 2 hari gua 3 kali pegi Prince Court Medical Center dekat KLCC tu. Sedikit stress di situ. Tapi tarak hal. Sebab lepas ni gua tak payah pegi dah. Phewww. So what's next? Perhentian? Siam? Hahaha.

Jakarta? Uuuuh Jakarta... Gua tak pernah pegi tu. Ada apa sana?

ps: weekend ni is all about sepupu-sepapat cousin-cousin.sorang kat hospital sorang lagi kat college

157th Boat Race

The idea for a rowing race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge came from two friends - Charles Merivale, a student at Cambridge, and his Harrow school friend Charles Wordsworth (nephew of the poet William Wordsworth), who was at Oxford.

On 12 March 1829, Cambridge sent a challenge to Oxford and thus the tradition was born which has continued to the present day, where loser of the previous years' race challenges the opposition to a re-match. Oxford team is commonly known as Dark Blue where Cambridge's has a nick name of Light Blue.

The Modern Boat Race still runs along the same lines but has now become a major international sporting occasion drawing millions of viewers from around the world. On Race Day up to 250,000 spectator crowd the banks of the Thames from Putney to Mortlake to witness the action. My brothers and I was one of them who were watching by the Thames last year. This year BBC has made the race available via a live webcast throught it's web.

Oxford whom has won 8 out of 12 race since the turn of the century, yesterday, crossed the finish line by 4 lengths defeating Cambridge which has won the 2010 Race. Cambridge currently lead the series since 1829 by 80-76.

2011's Race Time, Oxford 17:32; Cambridge 17:44.

Oxford lifting the 2011 trophy and celebrating

Oxford joyously celebrating the victory while Cambridge

is still 4 lengths behind the finish line

Cambridge girls =)

Oxfords

1st quarter of the race

ps: dont get me wrong.i just find joy in watching the race.nothing else

e-Filing 2011

Lu orang dah ke belum? Gua belum. Hehehe...

Hoping that Rosmah will be less iliterate in the future

An unimaginable wave

Japan is one of the richest countries in world and one of the most technologically developed. It has centuries of experience of tsunamis and how to defend against them. Yet the wave that rolled over the coastal town of Otsuchi in the north east of Japan a few weeks ago devastated everything in its path. As Mure Dickie discovers, this wave was bigger than anything before.

- Financial Times, March 2011

ps: it is more than botox if you need to know

iPad

By far, i think it is one of the best invention that has leap-frogged mankind to a different level. I do own one, I must say. And the iPad has changed how, we human socialized, or rather socializing. It really does. We talk to the people on the same table, less.

In some way, I'm a bit oldschool. Which make some of the thing to me, are better to be left how it was supposed to be; the traditional way. So if you agreed with what I have just say, iPad the is the greatest ever solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Thus, the result is spectacular.

Audi A1: An overpriced Volkswagen in a cocktail dress

All things considered, though, I would not buy the A1. It's nearly there but the nagging doubt that I'd seen overcharge for a Polo would, I think, spoil the enjoyment.

- Jeremy Clarkson, BBC's Top Gear UK

A statistic by the Australian Government

On average a woman speaks 7 millions word a year. Where men, only a million per annum. Today my Golf GTi turns 1 year old. She has to speak another 28 millions of words before the warranty expiry. Happy Birthday Girl!