Alkisah seekor anak kucing yg ibunya entah dimana. Mengigau-ngiau ia setiap masa. Bila hujan lebat turun, ia pun jatuh ke dalam longkang. Mengiau sekuat hati. Lalu didengari oleh seorang wanita lalu mengangkat ia keluar dari longkang.

Bila hujan turun lagi, ia jatuh ke longkang lagi..... dikutip lagi.....

Kuasa Allah Yang Esa, kucing yatim piatu yg kurus kering yang kerjanya asik jatuh longkang aje dan ntah berapa kali nyaris maut kini sudah besar dan sihat bagaikan juara. Ya, kini dialah otai segala kucing di kawasan perumahan itu....

Lihatlah gambarnya kini......

Satu Sabtu Yang Membosankan.

Entry ini akan hanya diceritakan dalam bentuk foto. Sila letakkan cursor mouse anda pada foto untuk membaca kisahnya...

Senjakala sudah tiba
membawaku rasa duka
dalam jiwa bergelora ...

Senjakala kau menjelma
menghampiri waktu sunyi
dalam hening .. tiada terperi

ku teringat peristiwa
kasih suci di sambar petir
kini aku merindui ...

senjakala kau pergilah
tinggalkan ku yang kecewa
biar derita.. menanti bahagia

- P.Ramlee -

Today I went to Sungei Wang. Nothing special, just surveying on new handphone for a friend. Besides, I would like to meet someone that I knew from Cari Forum.

HIs name is Jamil. also known as Jamil Kucing. Maybe you've read about him in newspapers and magazines. If you wonder around Bukit Bintang between 4pm-10pm, do not missed the chance to visit Jamil and his cats whose able to sit still on his scooter. He hangs in front of the Macdonald Bukit Bintang, at the junction. Near Giordano. He collect donation to support his 54 cats. Mind you, these are not Persian or Burmese or so called rich, fluffy cats. These are stray cats, street cats. He collected them from the roadside, stalls. He feeds them, take care of these cats.

He's been doing this road show for the past 3 years. I had a chance to have a quick half an hour chit chat with him while playing with his cats. The cats are all healthy and clean. There are many people who approached him to give donations, take pictures and play with the cats. His ambition is to open a cat zoo where families and anybody can come and play with the cats. He's working hard to achieve it.

So, if you happened to be around there, do visit him. Give some donations and you can play, take photos of the cats. :)


This is the scooter which able to carry not only an adult, but also nearly ten cats at a go


Jamil pushing his scooter after the drizzling rain had finally stopped.


His first and oldest cat. It's name is Adik. It is 16 years old. Equivalent to a Form Four kid's age.


Watcha lookin at, buddy?


Sleeping like a baby...zzzzz.....


It's a wild cat(kucing hutan) which he caught near a small bush/forest somewhere in Cheras. It took him several months to tame this cat and to adjust its food.


A poor small kitten which he found at a back alley. He think the kitten had been hitted by a car coz its hip's bone is somewhat broken. It cannot walk normally, only pushing its own body to move. But that doesn't slow this kitten down. According to Jamil, its a very active and love to find its own food. Hope the kitten will get well.

As usual, full album at Sherrina's Fotopages

I found a very interesting article which was linked from someone's blog which I stumbled upon while wondering around Petalingstreet.org website.
The story is called The Day Hang Tuah Walked Through My Door. Click to read. Enjoy.

Bila guna lesen terbang, ini le jadinya

aku isytiharkan hari ini ialah hari yang bad luck dalam minggu nie. nape? aku terbangun lambat. to be exact, 10am. Shit, mandi secepat mungkin, bersiap secepat mungkin. At the same time, I was glad minggu nie skolah cuti. Aku takyah mengajar, cuma kene ke ofis.

Sampai di ofis di KLSC Wangsa Maju, aku bleh agak sure parking zero. Seperti tekaan, 3 kali round memang takde satu petak tu. Sial nye Toyota showroom, amik 3 petak illegally. Aku dah report kat Toyota HQ and DBKL, tapi no response. Tunggu le, aku report kat Malay Mail and Karam Singh Walia.

Kali keempat aku masuk ke lorong, satu-satunya lorong untuk akses ke Jalan 1/27F, ada satu kelisa dok ditengah lorong. Between 7-Eleven and Angel Cake. Aku tunggu kejap, maybe dia fetch cake kot. Dah 2 minit, aku hon. Aku tgh cermin, nun...dah beratur kat belakang. Mamat belakang aku dah main ekzos, sambil tekan hon. Aku join sekali sekala. Buat haus hon aje. Dah ramai yang datang nak saksikan tragedi pagi Rabu ini. Eh, aku nampak Na Murad lah. dia tersengih-sengih. Pelakon Kopitiam. Dia ada hal kat ofis si Afdlin Shauki agaknya.

5 minit. takde perubahan, nie dah melampau. mamat belakang tu dah ke kereta. usha2, henjut2 kete. siap maki2, nak pecahkan kete. kat 15 minit main hon, last2 aku bukak tingkap suh dorang semua undur. Gila betul, jauh nak undur. s

satu,satu undur. yang belakang plak blu2 tak paham. bila aku undur, rupanya mamat belakang aku tu reverse belakang kedai and end up dia ngan aku face to face. Kancil blakang aku plak blur2, tak paham dan stop. Sebabnya yg belakang2 baru sampai semua nak masuk lorong. Aku terpaksa jadik polis trafik. Tebalkan muka (mujur aku tak pakai baju kurung), halau dorang semua gi jalan lain. Jalan clear, aku reverse dan parking nun jauh di bangunan yg tengah dok bina. Sambil menyumpah2, aku pastikan takde apa yg tertinggal. tak sanggup nak patah balik amik barang. dah le bawak laptop.

hati panas, berpeluh, muka berminyak2. nak masuk ofis terus dah takde mood. Aku usha lorong, kete Kelisa tu masih ada. aku tgk org ramai dah kerumun. Cayalah, mujur aku bawak digicam. MUahahaha...amik gambo kete dia. publish satu dunia.

5 minit pastu, sorang awek India terkedek-kedek senyum2, buka pintu kete. Takde rasa bersalah langsung. Org2 kat situ maki dan merungut2 le. Jalan clear kembali, life goes on.

Kalau aku jadi dia, for the next century pon aku tak jejak kawasan Wangsa Maju. Tapi minah nie bleh relaks, jumpa petak cantik punya depan ofis aku dan parking balik.

Dunia ini tidak adil!!!!!!!!!

Ini le kawasan KLSC, Wangsa Maju. Jalan 1/27F.

Kalau korang penah dengo restoran NZ, kat sini le letaknya.....

Orang ramai mengerumuni kete nie. Macam car exhibition. Mamat tu tepon sapa agaknya. Tow truck kot


Macam mana le pompuan nie bleh dapat lesen memandu? Takleh beza parking ngan jalanraya?

Kalau pemilik kete nie kawan korang, sedara,jiran ataupun ofismate korang, tolong sampaikan salam aku kat dia. Aku rasa nak pecahkan cermin kete dia ngan steering lock baseball aku!!

whooaa...hari nie best laa. lepas tuition class finishes at 5.30pm, aku drive balik ke rumah melalui highway MRR2. Ingat nak stop makan at Burger King kat Petronas tapi mengingatkan malam nie nak celebrate my father's birthday kat Pizza Hut, cancel. Lepas aje korner nak ke Taman Melati as I was driving on the most left lane....nampak kat side mirror kete polis bagi flash light. nak kata laju, slow aje aku bawak. suddenly ada kete wira kaler biru potong belah kiri. apehal mamat nie....depan aku ada satu old car was also slow.

out of sudden kete polis nie potong laju kat kanan aku and one of the man keluarkan senapang dari tingkap. what the heck!! takkan saman laju pon sampai kuar senapang. aku pon slow down, polis tu dah acah2 kat kete biru. kete biru yg mula2 nak pecut, suddenly decided to stop. aku cuma nampak mamat cina tu wave several papers, dokumen apa ntah kat polis tu. polis tu kuar sambil hala senapang kat mamat cina tu. and another police also came out bawak senapang. jenuh gak aaa, mau terkencing mamat cina tu. dan aku terus hon kete depan yg dah start slow nak tgk wayang.

oitt..ingat org shooting Gerak Khas ka. aku pecut, blah. dan aku nasib baik, aku tgk kat side mirror kat blakang nun dah jem.....nasib baik sempat.

ape lah agaknya kes mamat tu sampai polis kuarkan senapang. fuhh..first time tgk secara live. ingat nak amik gambo tp takut kene marah. so baik aku chow chin chowwwww.......

Hey Gals,

Take note about this and guys, please send this mail to your lady
Friends if you're care of them.

Through a Rapist's Eyes (No Joke)

A group of rapists and date rapists in prison were interviewed on
what they look for in a potential victim and here are some interesting facts:

1) The first thing men look for in a potential victim is hairstyle.
They are most likely to go after a woman with a ponytail or other
hairstyle that can easily be grabbed. They are also likely to go after a
woman with long hair. Women with short hair are not common targets.

2) The second thing men look for is clothing. They will look for
women who's clothing is easy to remove quickly. Many of them carry
scissors around to cut clothing.

3) They also look for women on their mobile phone, searching through
their purse or doing other activities while walking, because they are off
guard and can be easily overpowered.

4) The time of day men are most likely to attack and rape a woman is
in the early morning, between 5 and 8:30 a.m. coz most of working
women will shower before they come out from house to work and they
are 'clean'.

5) The thing about these men is that they are looking to grab a woman
and quickly move her to a second location, where they don't have to
worry about getting caught

6) Only 2% said they carried weapons because rape carries a 3 – 5 year
sentence but rape with a weapon is 15 - 20 years.

7) If you put up any kind of a fight at all, they get discouraged
because it only takes a minute or two for them to realize that going after
you isn't worth it because it will be time-consuming.

8) These men said they would not pick on women who have umbrellas, or
other similar objects that can be used from a distance, in their hands.
Keys are not a deterrent because you have to get really close to the
attacker to use them as a weapon. So, the idea is to convince these
guys you're not worth it.

9) Several defense mechanisms he taught us are: If someone is following
behind you on a street or in a garage or with you in a lift or stairwell,
look them in the face and ask them a question, like what time is it,
or make general small talk, "I can't believe it is so cold out here,
we're in for a bad winter". Now you've seen their face and could
identify them in a line-up, you lose appeal as a target.

10) If someone is coming toward you, hold out your hands in front of
you and yell "Stop" or "Stay back!" Most of the rapists talked to said
they'd leave a woman alone if she yelled or showed that she would not
be afraid to fight back. Again, they are looking for an EASY target.

PLEASE READ, THEN FORWARD THIS TO EVERY WOMAN YOU KNOW! IT'S SIMPLE STUFF BUT IT COULD SAVE LIVES!

PRE-ORDER OF HARRY PORTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE

This evening I rushed to KLCC to pre-book the upcoming latest book of Harry Potter. Other bookstores are also offering attractive promotion for this book but I find only Kinokuniya has planned to host special program on the early morning of the book launching which will be on the 16th of July 2005 at 7.01am.

I paid RM 30 as the deposit and these are what I've received:


The booking ticket which I must bring along to collect the book


A contest form for all pre-order customers. First prize is trip to London for four.


A white t-shirt with a big P in front


The back of the t-shirt


No prize given if you able to answer the question

For those HP fans...do not missed this opportunity. Insya' Allah, I hope I will be able to attend the early morning book launch. During the previous book launch, the kids were asked to bring along broomstick. Who knows what's the surprise for this time....

penah tak korang rasa berbaloi sangat apabila berjaya menolong orang? fuhh..rasanya best tidak terkira. tak terbayar dengan wang ringgit.

kisahnya sorang kawan aku baru mendapat kerja di tempat baru. Alkisah, tempat baru. biasaklah, nak sesuaikan diri...pastu senior2 staff pakat humban keje kat kita. dengan gaji seciput, rasa tidak berbaloi. tak penah aku nengok kawan aku tu dalam keadaan macam tu. sedih, rungsing...stress. yelah, dah 4 tahun dia keje sama ngan tempat aku. ofis aku tu stress free in terms of stress hal ehwal keje. stress lain tetap ada. tapi kali nie kesian aku nengok. sampai tak lalu makan, dan nak muntah.

aku ajak dia ke titiwangsa. aku cuba pujuk dia elok2...look at the brighter side. memang keje dulu best dari keje skarang, tapi baru satu hari. what can u gain with one day experience? tak banyak. dia dah terpikir nak cari keje lain. aku kata, what makes u think that the grass is greener on the other side (betol ke ayat nie, aku ciplak lirik lagu Tom Jones nie)? anyway, kat 2 jam gak kitorang story dan aku story. at last aku cabar dia untuk buktikan yang dia bleh handle semua itu dengan senyuman. walaupun ofismate baru dia semua masuk pejabat dengan muka cuka dan balik keje ngan muka tempe, aku cabar dia untuk stay senyum diwaktu masuk pejabat dan diwaktu keluar pejabat. takde mende yang mudah didunia nie. face the challenge...

when you feel stressful, think about happy thoughts....(I always think bout my fishy and my cat)
when you feel tired, take a break. drink a glass of plain water.

at last, dia lega dan puas hati. headache hilang, loya pun hilang. i can see a smile at her face. something that money can't buy. happiness.....

and i am glad that I am there to lend her a shoulder. and i am glad that she remains my bestfriend.

mak aku kata, dalam dunia sekarang istilah 'bestfriend' itu sudah pupus. yang ada cuma friend yang akan di sisi kau bila kau gembira dan bila kau sedih, mereka entah dimana. and i am glad that i am still able to fulfill what's a real bestfriend mean and i am glad that i had the opportunity to feel what it's like to have a bestfriend (or two) in my life.

again, it's a thing that money can't buy.......

PAMERAN PERJALANAN KE MADINAH

jom gi Muzium Kesenian Islam dekat Tasik Perdana. Ada pameran menceritakan sejarah bagaimana Rasulullah S.A.W mula-mula mengembangkan Islam ke Madinah. Banyak info menarik dan catatan sejarah yang tidak terdapat didalam buku teks. Tiket RM 8 untuk dewasa. Selain itu, anda juga boleh melihat pameran2 lain seperti replika masjid2 terkenal di seluruh dunia, matawang zaman dahulu, peralatan, senjata dan lain-lain. Sangat menarik...

 

Have you ever thought or wonder how did they created such a superb animation movie like Madagascar? Here's some useful info which I received through my email today...mind you, it's pretty long but phew...totally interesting.

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Subject: [forum-cari] Intricate Tech Brings 'Madagascar' to Life


Intricate Tech Brings 'Madagascar' to Life
May 26, 2005
By Peter Galli

The ability of animators to turn an imaginary world into reality formillions of movie-goers rests solidly on the shoulders oftechnological advances, said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder and
CEO of the DreamWorks SKG studio.

At a recent media conference about "Madagascar," the latest animatedmovie from DreamWorks, which opens at theaters around the country on Friday, Katzenberg answered an eWEEK question about technological advances by saying, "If you can imagine it, then we can pretty much make it happen."

He pointed to how technology has revolutionized animated filmmaking since "Aladdin" was produced in the early 1990s, and how it now affects every aspect of the animation process. As an example, he cited the fact that the color palette has expanded from four colors to 250 over the past 13 years, while the "Madagascar" landscape has 150,000 objects moving at once.

On the technical front, all of the technical work, production design, animation and rendering for "Madagascar" was done on a complex system of Hewlett-Packard hardware running Linux (gee....wonder why they don't use Windows) as well as its own proprietary operating system known as e-motion. The movie has taken about four years to complete, which sounds like a long time, but when all of the stages and components are considered, it's not really long at all. Consider that every detail of every person, creature, element, plant and background has to be painstakingly coded and then stored in the huge database of the e-motion operating system.

Also, every movement made by the foliage, background, elements such water, and the characters, in this case all animals, had to appear realistic to the design of the movie, which has gone back and adopted the "stretch and squash" technique along with the not-quite-real approach of cartoons and animations of the past. Every hair on every animal represents a line of computer code, with
ead character Alex the Lion having 1.7 million hairs on his head. The design team also developed five different kinds of lemurs with 12 variations of hair type, or 60 possible combinations, for characters.This would have been impossible just a few years ago.

Philippe Gluckman, who supervised a team of 45 and all of the film's visual effects, told eWEEK in an onsite interview at his office in Redwood Shores, Calif., that HP supplied all of the servers, desktops,
laptops and notebooks, which were powered by AMD Opteron processors. The render farm for production consisted of HP Proliant servers running AMD Opteron processors (bye bye Pentium).

DreamWorks moved to the AMD Opteron processors during movie production, which was risky given the possibility of disruption, but this turned out not to be the case. "The transition to the AMD Opteron
processors was made midway through production and was amazingly smooth," Gluckman said. E-motion, DreamWorks' proprietary software, used a specific programming language close to C and allowed those users who were technical to go in and program certain components, which gave them a good measure of control over their work and also saved time.

"Production artists don't program in any of the core technologies like the render program; they program in script on the production side," he said. Asked what some of the main rendering challenges were, he said getting the diverse foliage and the fur of the lemurs to render was very problematic at first, using up way too much memory. The fur had to be created from scratch because there was no existing component in the software database, so some memory problems emerged early on in which only five or six lemurs could be rendered before all of the memory was used up.


"On the software side, the lemurs' fur put our memory to test as it exposed things in the render that hadn't been exposed before and needed optimization. Initially we could only render six Lemurs, and
some scenes, like the rave, where they are all dancing, required hundreds of Lemurs," he said.

The solution? Create something that represented the volume of fur and the edge breakup that real fur would give, and that had shades like the fur itself, but which was not the actual fur. This solved the
problem, which was helped by the fact that the AMD processors on the Proliant servers gave an immediate 35 percent increase in performance and speed.

DreamWorks also sent hundreds of thousands of rendering hours to HP's Utility Rendering Service, essentially extending DreamWorks' own render farm and helping provide the computing power needed to complete the film.

"When we ran into rendering issues, we just looked at the ways we could solve them, using our hardware, software and on the production side. Once it became clear there was such a problem, we bring the production and technology sides together to brainstorm around this. It took us just a few months at most to develop a fix for this," Gluckman said.

Rex Grignon, the head of character animation for DreamWorks Animation, told eWEEK in an interview that the technological advances made over the past five years have allowed a movie such as "Madagascar" to be made, saying the computer had become the tool through which all creative ideas were now expressed.

"Our desktop machines have benefited from the surge in available memory, and that allows us to now deal with those elements that were previously very complex far more easily at the desktop level. We need to have access to a huge amount of data, and our software had to facilitate that," he said.

The company's e-motion operating system, which has all been written internally and is proprietary software, is continually updated and expanded, both to plan for long-term needs as well as to meet the
shorter-term technical needs of every movie. While Grignon said the issue of the company having its own, internally developed custom software has often been debated, for him the
positives by far outweigh the negatives.

"One of the best things about this is that I can talk to the people who wrote the actual software, explain to them my specific needs or problems, and know that they will start working on that immediately,"
he said, which is clearly not the case with software bought from a vendor.

In addition, DreamWorks and its staff maintain complete control over that software, its legacy, and its development and architecture going forward, he said. But on the downside is the huge cost of maintaining the software, which has been developed over more than 20 years.

Another of the challenges with "Madagascar" was that it used a stylized movement technique, where the characters do not look like real animals and thus do not have to move like them.

But, that being said, the animators wanted any movement to be realistic for that animal form. In fact, the animators have access to a mirrored room where they can act out the moves to see how they look
and where the different body parts are placed when those movements are made, before they actually create the poses for the characters.

Also, the "squash and stretch" animation technique had to be programmed in its own sophisticated, script-based programming language, which could take days to weeks depending on the detail and
complexity of the image being created.

While this technique had not been used before in a modern animated movie, Gluckman said he wants to recreate the technique, as it gives the artists and animators as much freedom as possible, including the extreme definitions and the ability to squash and stretch out the characters.

"You cannot imagine the sheer complexity of these images. We had to find strategies to manage the jungle [a major element of the film], not only for the rendering of final frames, but also to give our staff
access to all this data," he said.

When asked what they planned to do next, many of those who worked on Madagascar said, "Take a long vacation." But given that as one movie is completed another is already in development, there will not be much downtime.


p/s: the one in blue colour is my personal comment

Hari Yang Mendemamkan

eh, ada ke hari yang mendemamkan? hehehe...entah lah. yg pasti aku yg demam. dah 2 hari. tapi aku jenis malas do umah kalau demam. so hari nie aku amik cuti dan pegi ke Times Square menonton Madagascar. Nasib baik ada vick inhaler yg menemani dikala hidung aku tersumbat.

citer madagascar nie best. panggung full house. itupon beli tiket kol 1.30 baru dapat seat yang cantik. sementara ada 2 jam, lepak di Borders le mengabiskan buku yg aritu tak abis lagi dibaca. oh ya, Madagascar nie best dan lawak abis. Memang tak rugi le menontonnya.

Pas tu aku gi KLCC. saje ke Guardian shopping ubat. ceh, dah sakit baru nak cari ubat. Amik punya amik, laaa...rm80. mak aiii, mahal kos ubat2an di Malaysia. lagi2 yg dalam kaca (prescribe by pharmacist). Kat luar Guardian tu rupanya ada 2 Red Indian wat show. dari mana le nie....lawa plak topi dorang. rasa nak pinjam plak.

The Da Vinci Code

masa surf2 di internet, I came across info bout the movie yang aku dok tunggu sekian lama. semenjak pertama kali aku membaca buku Da Vinci Code yang ditulis oleh Dan Brown. Then aku start hunting all books written by him. Angels and Demons memang best giler, macam Da Vinci Code jugak.

Synopsis:

While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon ('Tom Hanks') receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. Solving the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci - clues visible for all to see, and yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu (Audrey Tautou), and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion - an actual secret society. In a breathless race through Paris, London and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who appears to work for Opus Dei - a clandestine, Vatican-sanctioned Catholic organization believed to have long plotted to seize the Priory's secret. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's secret - and a stunning historical truth - will be lost forever.


Movie nie akan dilakonkan oleh Tom Hanks. I think dia bawak watak utama. Ingatkan dah nak keluar cinema, rupanya 19 Mei 2006. Arghhh...lamanye. Sementara tu, bleh layan trailer dan website nya dulu..

Da Vinci Code Movie website

Da Vinci Code movie poster:

sementara tu, pe kata enjoy tengok citer Madagascar. Tengok trailer macam best gile. Kelako....