Berisman’s Neighborhood

Came to Ipoh to see daughter Amanina and give her support for her impending exam.. So I am made to think. Fact is she's losing her precious study time during my visit. This was taken at indian Restaurant by Kinta River and in the Ipoh Taman..

 

 

 

 

 

It's been a long time since I'd been here; too long in fact. Those days the Subang Parade was proudly proclaimed as the longest shopping mall in S.E.Asia. Today after the last presentation which lasted at 1.30pm; yes the Solat Jumaat time, and after lunch and some rest, I have some times to kill before my wife and daughter join me at the Hotel.

So, I said to myself, why not take the walk to The Parade; some 2-3km away and pick up where I left. So here I am after 20-25min walk. Since I did not bring my better camera my e90 camphone should be just fine. No rattan, root also can said some wise old man of yester years. May be this wise one did not forsee that the young modern generation has difficulty recognising how a rattan looks like. They would recognise joystick straightaway. Maybe this wise line should be rephrase to read "No joystick, mouse also can"....

Anyway this Subang Parade seemed so unlike the one in my memory. Has it underwent some massive revamping, or, mayhaps my memory have dwindled somewhat. The outlets inside are standard; MacDonalds, Nando's, Poh Kong, Bata, MPH, Manhattan Fish Market and the rest. The big M sign is beckoning me in, but I'll wait a while for In and Izzah... Maybe a Nando's would be just great...

Dalam kehidupan ini ,

Apa yang telah berlalu haruslah ditinggalkan

kerana ianya telah terjadi...

Tapi kenangan itu adalah panduan

Untuk bergerak ke hadapan..

Masa depan masih belum pasti

dan

akan ditempuhi...

Dalam kehidupan ini ,

Apa yang telah berlalu haruslah ditinggalkan

kerana ianya telah terjadi...

Tapi kenangan itu adalah panduan

Untuk bergerak ke hadapan..

Masa depan masih belum pasti

dan

akan ditempuhi...

Biar apapun pandangan penyokong yang mempamerkan sikap dan tingkah laku yang amat 'mengembang'kan (dalam istilah kelantan = menjijikkkan) ketika perlawanan akhir Kelantan vs N.Sembilan, Pasukan Kelantan patut berbangga kerana telah sampai ke tahap ini dalam 39 tahun. Kegagalan dilangkah akhir bukan  bererti kekalahan tetapi hanya dugaan menguji ketahanan mental dan kekuatan budi pemian dan penyokong. Ternyata kelantan GAGAL pada kacamata ini.

Tingkah laku membakar bendera semasa perlawanan sedang rancak berjalan, membaling objek-objek ke padang, membaling bom asap dan paling tidak dapat di terima adalah membakar kerusi-kerusi di dalam stadium ketika perlawana masih rancak berjalan menggambarkan betapa rakyat Kelantan sebenarnya RAPUH di dalam dan bukan kental sebagaimana yang disangkakan, walaupun negeri ini diterajui oleh seorang Tok Guru yang disegani di kalangan PAS mahupun UMNO.. pendeknya semua rakyat Kelantan termasuk dari keturunan lain..

Penyokong-penyokong ini patut faham bahawa mereka adalah peyumbang kepada kegagaan Pasukan Kelantan. Keyakinan yang tidak realistik dan melampau seolah-olah di alam mimpi oleh penyokong-penyokong memberikan tekanan hebat kepada pemain.. apatah lagi bermain di Stadium Bukit Jalil dengan 85,000 penononton, 2/3 adalah penyokong Kelantan. Janji-janji habuan dan ganjaran, termasuk pemberian iktiraf awal kepada Indra Putra dan menjadikannya kapten pada perlawanan akhir seolah menidakkan The Wonder Workers iaitu pemain-pemain lain yang telah bangun dari dalam lumpur dan bercawat kote bagi menggengam peluang ini seolah ditidakkan. Perlu diingat bahawa Indra Putra tidak bermain semasa Kelantan membelasah Perlis 3-1 di Indra Kayangan. Mengapa ditidakkan usaha pemain-pemain lain di peringkat akhir di mana amat perlu maintain kekuatan psikologi pemain-pemain?? Tekanan psikologi begini di saat akhir amat tidak baik..

Penyokong juga patut sedar bahawa untuk sampai ke Bukit Jalil, berapa banyak wang sudah dihabiskan dengan menaiki kenderaan awam atau sendiri, penginapan, kos tiket Rm20 dewasa.. Amatlah wajar terus memberikan sokongan di kala pemain-pemain memerlukan sokongan psikologi dan bukan hanya ketika pemain sedang cemerlang di padang.. Jika nak berkelakuan begini baik tengok di TV sahaja.. Kalau marah sangat boleh baling objek atau bom kat TV sendiri, tak ada orang yang marah kecuali isteri dan anak2 yang tidak dapat menonton TV lagi.

Perlu diingat bahawa pasukan lawan juga telah melepasi halangan-halangan untuk sampai ke situ. Mereka juga ada kekuatan yang tersendiri. Bagi penyokong, ketibaan ke Bukit Jalil adalah seolah-olah sudah memenangi Piala dan sudah tidak sabar hendak melihat piala dijulang.. Baik beli piada kat Rex Trading dan julang sesama sendiri.. Berulang kali tingkah laku penyokong kelantan merugikan Kelab sehingga wang yang sepatutnya digunakan untuk latihan dan insentif terpaksa diguna untuk bayar kompaun.. 

Paling memalukan ialah tingkah laku penyokong berlaku di hadapan Pemangku Raja; Tengku Faris Petra, Dato Mustapa, Tg Ahmad Rithauddeen, Dato Awang Adib,Dato' Annuar Musa dan lain-lain yang datang memberikan sokongan moral kepada Pasukan Kelantan.. Jurang tingkah laku amat ketara.. dari pemimpin yang berwibawa, Tok Guru, Pengurus-pengurus Korporat yang besae spt Dato' Nazmi Salleh dan yang grass root yang seolah-olah masih lagi berada sebelum Zaman Jepun..

Apapun satelah ramai dari penyokong-penyokong meninggalkan stadium dan Kelantan down 3-0, barulah nampak kelantan mencapai rentak mereka sebelum ini. Serangan-serangan di sebalah kanan sentiasa merbahaya dan banyak peluang diperolehi. Ianya digagalkan oleh barisan pertahanan N9 yang kental. Ahmad Shukor tonggak yang menggagalkan serangan balas Kelantan. Ddari sini kita tahu bahawa Kelantan selesa sebagai UNDER DOG dan tidak sebagai pasuikan harapan. Hanya satelah jatuh 3-0, dan nampak tiada harapan lagi barulah SEMANGAT KELANTAN SEBENAR muncul; semangat yang boleh melakukan apa sahaja.. sampai Cawat Kote..Sepakan cantik free-kick Indra Putra dengan planning yang amat baik menggambarkan seolah-olah pemain kebangsaan Brazil yang beraksi.. memberikan pengubat kepada luka kelantan. Jika 3-0, ianya amat pedih sekali.. Apapaun SYABAS PASUKAN KELANTAN..

Di dalam perkhidmatan Kerajaan sekarang, ini adalah proses yang perlu dilalui oleh setiap pegawai, meniti tangga-tangga yang tersusun dari TK1 hingga TK6. Selepas TK6 faktor lain yang diambilkira untuk kenaikan pangkat ke peringkat tertinggi di dalam perkhidmatan Kerajaan.

Walaupun banyak bantahan dari kakitangan-kakitangan dengan pelbagai sebab dan alasan, saya berpendapat bahawa PTK ini amat penting sebagai 'yard stick' bagi menilai tahap kecekapan pegawai selaras dengan tangga tanggungjawab yang dipikul di dalam perkhidmatan. Ada yang menyatakan bahawa dia telah menjalankan tugas-tugas yang terlaksana dan menjadi pakar rujuk jabatan pulak di atas bidang tersebut dan siapa orang yang akan menilainya yang telah mencapai tahap berikut.. Ini adalah ego yang telah menjerumuskan Iblis ke kancah kebinasaan. Jika anda telah terbukti pakar, mengapa takut atau enggan untuk di nilai? Sudah tentu anda tidak ada masalah untuk lulus cemerlang... Silibus dan tahap kecekapan yang dikehendaki adalah mengikut ketetapan Jabatan anda sendiri..

Alhamdulillah saya telah melepasi 5 tahap dan sekarang berada di tahap 6. Semalam saya telah menghadiri Taklimat PTK 6. Sekarang ini silibus dibahagikan kepada 2; generik dan functional. Generik merujuk kepada kemahiran asas dan ini dinilai melalui `public speaking', kerja kumpulan (75% markah) dan penilaian personaliti. Fungsional merujuk kepada kemahiran di dalam tugasan dan ini dinilai melalui kertas tugasan individu, penilaian pengurusan kerja (SKT) dan kini diadakan Kertas Renungan, iaitu kemampuan pegawai menilai dan membuat keputusan di atas sesuatu perkara dalam jangka masa singkat.

Selepas ini kami diberikan masa 1 minggu untk persediaan, penyiapan Tugasan Individu dan Pengurusan Kerja. Kemudian kami akan berkampung di satu Hotel di Subang Jaya selama 5 hari untuk mengharungi Penilaian yang akan dilaksanakan oleh Panel 3 orang yang hebat-hebat (Kalau dah Jusa C ke atas tentulah hebat...).

Sekarang ini dengan kerja-kerja yang sedang dalam fasa kritikal pembinaan, kerja tambahan untuk projek lama selama 2 hari, appointment di Hospital, saya perlu menyediakan semua itu..

The future looks bleak... but... I'll survive, InsyaAllah I will... Pray for me brothers and friends...

Liza, I shall try to respond to your request for book review on this particular book but where to start really? This book is already titled 'brief' and his brevity from Chapter 1 to Conclusion Chapter is 191 pages!!! I have finished up to Chapter 3 which is based on Newtonian physics and Einstein's Relativity Theory. That itself is already mind boggling. Next he's moving on to QUANTUM MECHANICS which to many is like reading an alien language.. So Liza, why give me such torturous assignment.. Why? Why? Why?? Anyway, I'll try my darnest and please understand that you need to read the book itself to understand fully as Prof Hawkings start from the very basic understanding of Universe and develop his story along the historical line to the present state of understanding.

Chapter 1 starts with Our Picture of The Universe, followed by Space and Time in Chapter 2 and The Expanding Universe in Chapter 3. Here the picture of the Universe developed is basing on two great theorems; Newtons's Laws of Motion and Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. I will not dwell on the pre Newton's views though elaborated by Prof Hawkings.

The basic question asked is whether the universe in unchanging, hence time has no beginning and end or changing and beginning at a definite point; the beginning of time. Our picture of the universe is described by 2 partial theories; Newtonian Physics and Einstein's Relativity Theory and The Quantum Mechanics. The former is applicable in the large scale world but breaks down upon reaching the sub-atomic domains in scale of a millionth of a millionth of an inch where Quantum Mechanics take over. Hawking try to assimilate both into a single unified theory that could explain everything.

Gravity is central to the concept. Newton breaks the ages old concept of static universe by saying that matter is in static state of rest or moving at constant speed unless acted upon by external force. This is very significant because such understanding shows that all laws of science is as applicable to a static person as per moving person; eg on a moving train. To the person in a moving train, a ball thrown upward would fall down in the same straight up-down path similiar to when he is on the static ground. However to a person on the train station looking at the train, the ball seems to move in a parabolic arch from when the other person throw the ball upward to when the the ball falls down some distance away as travelled by the train in that time. Hence the notion of an absolute position in space is dispelled with. However Newton still belief in absolute time.

Newton's discovery of gravity is central to understanding universe. The planets orbit around the sun by gravitational force. Gravitational force is proportional to matter's mass. As a planet moves, the gravity would pull it back, hence its path curves inward to form an orbit of ellipsical path. This understanding enables us to predict the path of orbiting objects in space quite accurately. However observations show that not everything obey Newton's laws, hence there must error in this understanding.

Then comes Einstein. This guy abandon the concept of absolute time and put forth the General Theory of Relativity in which space and time is relative to the observers at different state of speed; hence each observer has his own time and space. A person travelling nearing the speed of light would come back younger than the other person on earth. This is because the traveller carries his own time which is more elongated, eventhough they age at the same rate. However the speed of light is constant irrespective of the speed of the observers. The speed of light becomes the barrier that cannot be passed by any matter, explained by his famous Equation E = mc2. As mass increases, so too the energy needed to increase its speed. As mass approaches speed of light, the amount of energy needed to increase the speed further approaches infinity which is not possible. As such the speed of light will never be exceeded.

Einstein also claimed that gravity is a very special kind of force created by the space-time warp. Space-time warped in proximity to heavy mass. Hence near celestial bodies, the space-time warp in curved shape. Bodies moving in the space-time warp still follow a straightline path but it is in the curved space called geodesic which is the shortest or longest path between 2 nearby points. Following the geodesic, the body appears to move in orbit as if by a force named gravity.

The next great finding of the 20th Century is that the Universe is expanding. Hubble's work on measuring the size and distance of distance galaxies by measuring the brightness of the stars lead to the finding that the spectra emitted by distance stars were quite uniformly shifted towards the red end of the spectra. Using Doppler Effect, this translate to the finding that the universe is expanding, the further away the faster it is expanding. Modern telescopes confirm Hubble's finding and detected 100,000 millions galaxies each containing 100,000 million stars slowly rotating.

Friedmann, 1922 proposes 3 models of the expansion; a) Expand and retract back under gravity  b) Expand faster than critical speed so gravity no able to pull it back, hence continues at constant speed  c) Expand just above critical speed and constantly reducing rate afterward. From this comes the idea of The Big Bang as the start of the Universe. At Big Bang, the size of Universe is infinitely small and mass infinitely high. This start/beginning is called Singularity. However there is still dispute as to whether singularity is a 'could have happen' or 'must have happen' phenomena. Various possibilities were proposed to avoid the conclusion of singularity which speaks of divine intervention. However they all fall short and at last Penrose discovery on blackholes in 1965 lead to confirmation by Penrose-Hawkings Study in 1970 that The Universe Must Start at Singularity.

However, all science theories are based on assumption that space-time that is smooth and almost flat. At Big Bang, the curvature of Space-Time must approach infinity because of the infinitely small and infinitely heavy mass of the founding universe. Hence all science theories must break down at Singularity (Big Bang). This follows that TIME MUST BEGIN at Singularity whence the laws of science start to form....

Next Chapter will be on Quantum Mechanics..

 
 
Don’t want much, I just want everything 
Thought that I could, do almost anything 
One step in front of the other
Thought that I could do it alone
In the blink of an eye, it's just another day 
Telling me why, I'll find another way 
Got this feeling, got me reeling
I can almost start believing

 
CHORUS

 
Now there's me and you
And we are not alone 
A You and me 
We are together now 
Through my window, I can see there's 
More than you and more than me
Me and you
And we are not alone
Different view 
We are together now 
Through my window, I can see 
Our wildest dreams could be so real
THROUGH MY WINDOW

 
INSTRUMENTAL SECTION

 
I see a spark, it starts a fire 
Is this the one worth waiting for? 
Thought that I could do it without you
Can’t exist like this anymore

 
CHORUS REPEAT

 
Now there's me and you
And we are not alone
A You and me 
We are together now 
Through my window, I can see there's 
More than you and more than me
Now there’s me and you, you and me
We are not alone and we are together
Through my window I can see
Our wildest dreams could be so real