Tusyen dulu-dulu

Tusyen..oh Tusyen

Baru-baru ini jugak, aku mendaftarkan anak aku di sebuah Tusyen swasta di Setiawangsa. Dah hampir petengahan tahun, baru ada ruang nak daftar anak tusyen. Aku lihat ramainya pelajar-pelajar yang pergi tusyen. Pakaian depa bolehlah tahan jugak. Lelaki biasalah tapi kalau perempuan,..fuhh.. amat berbeza tika waktu sekolah. Maklumlah ada yang tak pakai tudung. Aku juga lihat restoran mamak berhampiran Tusyen itu begitu maju, sentiasa ada pelanggan..maklumlah ramai pelajar kat situ. Suasana di restoran itu begitu membingitkan. ...Hmm..mungkin ini satu suasana yang baru kepada aku.

>> Teringat jugak Tusyen yang dianjurkan oleh Bang Man Haron di Madrasah kat Kampung Keriang Pulau. Ramai pelajar yang datang seperti yang pernah beliau ceritakan dalam keriangpulau.blogspot

Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (Rock in Rio)

Jogging di Tasik Perdana, KL

Sejak akhir-akhir nih, aku dah ketagih berjogging di Taman Tasik Perdana, KL. Dulu-dulu aku dok jogging sekitar Taman Tasik Titiwangsa saja. Ada seorang kawan pernah beritahu aku bahawa jogging di Tasik Perdana adalah lebih baik kerana bentuk mukabuminya yang berbukit-bukit, memudahkan kita berpeluh dengan cepat. Selain itu banyak pokok hijau berbanding tasik TitiWangsa yang "flat sahaja".
Ada satu tangga menuju ke Memorial Tun Abdul Razak menjadi tempat aku mengeluarkan peluh. Bayangkan untuk naik ke puncaknya kita berpeluh-peluh dan tercungap-cungap....Fuhh..memeang best.."no Pain No gain"...cabaran aku adalah untuk turunkan berat badan"..Insyallah aku akan cuba panjat setiap hari berkelapangan. Tadi dah buat 2 kali pusingan turun naik.

Menu Kenduri Kahwin kampungku

Antara menu kenduri kahwin dulu-dulu (70an-80an) yang aku masih ingat:

Pagi - Menyorok (Sarapan pagi)
- makan pulut/nyok dan ikan kering - selalunya tamban
- minum kopi "o"

Tghari - Menu utama:
- Nasi Minyak
- Gulai kawah/ daging /tulang lembu atau kerbau
- masak putih (kurma)
- pilihan lain - ayam masak merah
- masak kecil (daging masak kicap serta kacang panjang)
- buah nenas/pisang
- Air manis/sirap/sarbat(sirap bandung)

Makanan untuk mentara basuh pinggan - kuih bunga pudak, bahulu, pulut kacau, kuih kapal terbang,..

Esok..makan ghapah(lebih gulai atau kurma) ayang dipanaskan..makan dengan roti banggali/gardenia....jamu orang pereban bali/khemah.

Panaih Lit-Lit

Cuaca sentiasa berubah. Jika semua perasan, cuaca di Kay El selepas Tsunami kat JEPUN pada 11 MAC 11 tuh asyik hujan aje. Hinggalah hari Jumaat minggu lepas.....Cuaca sangat terik pada tengahari...orang Kedah kata "Panaih Lit-Lit"....
..Teringat jugak suatu ketika dulu, mungkin fenomena El Nino (tahun 1998) cuaca amat panas di Kedah..hinggakan bila balik kampung, buka saja pintu kereta amat terasa bahangnya.

>. Teringat jugak masa sekolah menengah ..pi sekolah kayuh gerek(basikal) tengah panas...kalau apakai minyak rambut Brylcream atau tancho..alamat melelehlah minyak kedahi dan leher...kotorlah kolar(daban) baju sekolah....sejak tuh mula tak minat pakai minyak rambut.

Baju Kebaya

KEMBARA SENIMAN JALANAN (A Short Documentary Part 1)

Buskers at Portobello Market

Busking Time....

Sebenarnya aku bukanlah kaki busking (alah..yang main gitar ditepi jalan)..tuh...tapi aku suka tengok orang busking. Memang aku suka tengok pemain gitar yang boleh nyanyi. Main gitar kapok aje. Kekadang sorang dan ada juga yang berdua. Dulu-dulu biasa tengok jugak Adi Jagat busking kat Pasar Seni, KL. Tempohari pi LONDON (OKT /NOV 2009) kat Portobello Market, tengok geng blues mat salleh main tepi jalan..ada ambil gambar . best jugak depa nih.

Sekarang ni aku suka tengok orang busking kat Medan Selera dekat dengan Hospital Besar KL/Stadium TPCA. Ada 2 group. Biasanya depa bawakkan klagu-lagu M NASIR, KEMBARA, BLUES GANG, RAMLI SARIP...fuhh..best layan.

Fear of tech helped betray bin Laden

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  Pakistani army soldiers leave the area near the hideout of Al-Qaeda leader Osama …

In a high-tech world where just about anyone who can afford it has a telephone or an Internet connection, Osama bin Laden's decision to shun the communications tools helped contribute to his demise.

Despite years of speculation that the Al-Qaeda leader may be living in rough conditions along the Pakistan-Afghan border, he turned up in a well-appointed villa in a military cantonment town north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad.

But the mansion in Abbottabad where the 9/11 mastermind was killed by US Navy Seals on Sunday did not have telephone or Internet service, according to US officials, presumably to prevent detection through electronic eavesdropping.

The absence of the basic tools of modern communications in a luxury home was cited by US officials as precisely one of the things that aroused their suspicion that the building was being used to house the Al-Qaeda leader.

Briefing reporters on the intelligence that led to the raid on bin Laden's hideout, a senior US administration official who requested anonymity said it was "noteworthy" that "the property is valued at approximately $1 million but has no telephone or Internet service connected to it."

"Everything we saw -- the extremely elaborate operational security... and the location and the design of the compound itself was perfectly consistent with what our experts expected bin Laden's hideout to look like," the official said. "Intelligence analysts concluded that this compound was custom built to hide someone of significance."

While bin Laden was betrayed in part by his decision not to equip the villa with something as simple as a telephone, the United States on the other hand deployed some of its most sophisticated high-tech assets to track him down.

The Pentagon on Monday released a series of satellite photographs of the bin Laden hideout and a diagram of the premises which included such details as the precise heights of the various walls surrounding the complex.

Central Intelligence Agency director Leon Panetta specifically cited the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Security Agency in a message to CIA employees marking bin Laden's death.

The NGA is the US government's main mapping agency responsible for satellite and other imagery while the NSA is its super-secret electronic eavesdropper, tasked with monitoring and intercepting communications around the world.

"We applied the full range of our capabilities, collecting intelligence through both human and technical means and subjecting it to the most rigorous analysis by our government's leading experts on bin Laden and his organization," Panetta said.

US officials said what initially led them to the compound was discovering the identity of a man known to have served as a courier for bin Laden.

From there, US intelligence analysts were able to "build a body of evidence that suggested, circumstantially, that bin Laden was at that compound," said John Brennan, US President Barack Obama's anti-terror advisor.

That included the curious lack of telephone or Internet service.

US has killed Osama bin Laden: Obama

AFP News – Mon, May 2, 2011 12:04 PM MYT

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  The United States has killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, pictured, nearly 10 …

The United States has killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden nearly 10 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks, President Barack Obama has said in a dramatic televised address.

"Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children," Obama said in a surprise late night White House address.

The world's most wanted man had been killed in a Pakistani compound in an operation on Sunday, which had been carried after cooperation from Islamabad, the US leader said.

Obama said in the historic address from the White House that he had directed the US armed forces to launch an attack against a compound in Pakistan on Sunday acting on a lead that first emerged last August.

"A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability. No Americans were harmed. They took care to avoid civilian casualties."