When Foreigner Speak in Malay...

Assalamualaikum and a very good "Wednesday Wonder" to all Infinitesane visitors. I'm sorry again for a really late post. I don't have any excuse though. It's just I watch football/soccer match between Malaysia vs Syria in the Olympic qualification round where Malaysia lost 3-0 and Fadhli Shas got a red card.

Today I want to share about an interesting competition that took place a week ago. It was a really interesting competition. It is "Malay International Public Speaking Competition". Yes, it was really interesting to watch foreigner speaking Malay. All and all it's really entertaining. There were 8 finalist divided to 2 category which are 5 "Antarabangsa(International)" finalist and 3 "Nusantara(Archipelago)".

So, I will provide you videos and a little bit my opinion below :
(Baca lagi = Read more)

First of all, I will share with you the videos of "Nusantara" category. However, I will not comment anything about these contestant. Well, they're from archipelago, they suppose to speak Malay well right? So, they're competing seriously. I mean by content, presentation and body language.

1st place (Malaysia) - Fathiah Ibrahim

2nd place (Brunei) - Dayangku Mumtazah Pengiran Haji Md Jaafar

3rd place (Indonesia) - Wahyudi

Now, the fun part. Let's watch finalist from International category:

1st place (Afghanistan) - Sebghatullah Qazizada

Well, what can I said. He is a well deserve to win the competition. He was appealing (speech presentation), he didn't show any sign of nervousness. And he looked relaxed throughout the speech. He even sing "Gadis Melayu(Malay Girls)" and quote Yuna songs. It show he made his homework really good.

2nd place (Russia) - Polina Matveycheva

First of all, her smile is cute. But, she stumble a little here and there. But it still entertaining.

3rd place (Latvia) - Elena Vorobyeva

She is also appealing. I mean she made me smile by her body language. However, her content was not as strong as the other winner. She was too relaxed and made her content loose. But she is beautiful.

(Japan) - Yota Tamura

Ah...zannen deshita...I bet he learned Malay using Katakana (Japanese writing system to write foreign words) which I'm not prefer when you want to learn foreign language. Because the malay pronunciation was pretty bad. I even couldn't understand some words that he said. He Japanised Malay words. But he was the most entertaining contestant that night. Because of his naiveness.

(Moldova) - Marina Makarova

Well, I fell in love at first sight when I saw her. Well just because she's pretty. On the other hand, I felt sorry for her because she was too nervous on the stage. She even forgot some of her content and need to pause to remember the content. But I forgive her for her smile. (Damn pervert!)

I think that's all for now. Once again, I'm sorry for this late post for today. I hope I will make it for tomorrow. I hope I can make subtitles for all videos above but:
1. My English bad
2. I don't have much time
So, if you like this entry, comment and/or share Okay?

See you later,
Hasta luego,
Mata ne,
Jumpa lagi.

K-tea.

p/s: Source from here

RockMelt: A little update

Assalamualaikum and a very good "Techy Tuesday" to all Infinitesane visitors. First of all I want to apology for a late posting for today. I just fall asleep and I get up late. I notice that among last week entries, the entry about RockMelt was number one entry that most visited by visitors. Thank you again for visiting Infinite. I'll try my best to keep this blog alive. Love you all as always.

Back to our topic. Today I'll just going to tell you what I feel after using RockMelt in a week. As I'm writing this entry, I still using RockMelt. It's a good sign right? As you can see the first image, you can still browse the internet WITHOUT logging in to your facebook account. But I think you still need to log in and log out again. I'll just going to show you what features you may encountered using RockMelt.

(Baca lagi = Read more)


At first, after you running the browser, you may see the image above. My first time using it takes a long time since it is importing from the default browser so if you've been ask to import from previous default browser, just say no. Just like you say no to cigarette and alcohol. It slows the first impression. But then my second time running this browser this thing comes out:

Man...at first I'm quite freaked out because I don't know what to do. Did I just messed up something important? I'm not geek enough to know all about my laptop. But I kept calm and wait for a while to let it cool down. Then I tried again. And Alhamdulillah, it shows what it suppose to show. Like this image below. It suppose to be like that.

So, you've successfully logged in. What can you do? Well it's a social browser. You can share anything you think interesting on the web. So, this is how you share. I used youtube as example to share to my facebook wall. I know many websites nowadays have a sharing button so you don't have any problem to share with that. Even youtube. They have share button below the video. But I'm using RockMelt sharing feature to share to my wall. If you found out something interesting inside a website and the website didn't provide sharing option, you still can share the website by copying the URL to the status bar in your wall to share it. But with the RockMelt sharing feature, it makes it easier. Just follow the instruction step by step in the image sequence below.



That's all you have to do to share anything in the web.

Next, you also can update your status without go to facebook site. By using a update status button, you can update your status. But I don't think this is practical. Logically people will update their status when they in the facebook site. But then, if you think this is cool feature, you can follow the instruction in the image below:


I just found out 1 flaw of this thing. YOU CAN'T TAG PEOPLE USING ROCKMELT FEATURE. Well I found this disappointing.

That's all for now. We'll see you again tomorrow InsyaAllah. You like this entry? share and/or comment. Thank you.
Until then,
See you later,
Hasta luego.

K-tea.

p/s: Proton will reveal their new model soon. What do you think about it?

Lawak ke Der: Lawak ke?

Adegan yang tak dapat anda tonton di televisyen

Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera kepada semua pengunjung Infinitesane.

Bertemu lagi kita di Mega Monday (tukar nama lagi). Kali ini saya nak bercerita tentang "Lawak ke Der" yang kini di Astro Box Office Event.

Anda semua dah tengok "Lawak ke Der"? Kalau belum, silalah pergi ke saluran 130 untuk melanggan. Mudah saja. Tapi, kenalah pastikan pemegang akaun Astro tu tahu anda ingin membelinya. Dengan RM 15, anda dapat menontonnya berulang-ulang kali sehingga hujung bulan ini. Ia turut disiarkan dalam "Standard Definition" (SD) dan "High Definition" (HD). Namun anda hanya perlu membayar dengan kadar satu harga sahaja. Maksudnya, kalau anda telah melanggan saluran HD, anda dapat menontonnya dalam SD mahupun HD mengikut selera anda. Tapi tak ada kerja tengok SD? Dah ada HD takder nye nak tengok SD.

Baiklah, "Lawak ke Der" ini pementasan komedi pertama di Istana Budaya. Setelah hampir sebulan selesai pementasannya, ia menjengah pula ke skrin televisyen. Namun persoalannya, tiket yang dibeli untuk menonton pementasan tersebut di Istana Budaya agak tinggi. Jadi berbaloikah menonton di Istana Budaya dengan tiket yang mahal sedangkan anda boleh menunggu ianya disiarkan di televisyen?

Jawapannya; Berbaloi. Kerana kalau anda perasan, tiada persembahan dari kumpulan Osbon semasa pementasan tersebut disiarkan di televisyen. Kalau diikutkan, memang Osbon terlibat sama dalam pementasan tersebut. Malah gambar mereka turut berada di latar belakang pementasan tersebut. Yang disiarkan hanya Nabil(pengacara), Boboi(2 sketsa), Jozan(2 sketsa), Harith Iskandar(1 stand up comedy). Itu sahaja. Tapi ia dikira berbaloilah untuk anda yang membayar RM 15 untuk menonton berulang kali sehingga hujung bulan ini.

Anda hanya dapat menonton sesi 4@5@11@12 Februari sahaja

Saya tak akan mengulas tentang persembahan-persembahan mereka sebenarnya, kerana kalau anda nak tahu, tengoklah sendiri. Tapi memang lawak der... Kalau anda tak nak beli pun tak apa, kalau anda naif, anda boleh cari cetak rompak. Kalau anda celik IT, anda boleh rompak sendiri. Carilah di google "Lawak ke Der SDTVRip/HDTVRip", mesti jumpa punya. Sedut je... Atau anda boleh cari di youtube.

Sampai disini sahaja dahulu, jumpa lagi esok. Seperti yang dijanjikan, saya akan menunjuk cara-cara nak share menggunakan RockMelt.

Jumpa lagi,
Wassalam...

K-tea.

p/s: Saya minta maaf kerana saya tak dapat nak beri kredit kepada imej-imej yang saya gunakan hari ini.

Road to Wrestlemania: Rocky Not Rocking Anymore?

Assalamualaikum and a very good day to all Infinitesane visitors. It's a Sunday Sunnyday! well actually it's a title of a song sang by 20th Century, a sub-unit of V6. You can listen it here:

Alright, WrestleMania is just a few weeks from today. So let's talk about it. Last year a match has been booked for this year Wrestlemania. I don't know whether it's a good idea or not. Because we know that The Rock will not be there (WWE Shows) every week. So, maybe by booking the match a year earlier will help the fued to build up slowly so that people will get anticipated by the match.

(Baca lagi = Read more)

Honestly, personally I'm getting bored by this feud. The fued is not anymore a wrestling entertainment. Since The Rock coming back, He's only wrestle once in the Survivor Series. Other than that, he's just always appear via video or just come to RAW to just running his mouth for like 20 minutes and leave. I actually want to see a typical fued man... I want to see The Rock in action when he is on a match and then Cena will interfere the match and vice versa. Because of The Rock, John Cena is also not wrestle much anymore. Tomorrow is The Rock concert and John Cena rapping. I might get entertained. But it is quite dissapointed to me.

People watch WWE to see action. So, maybe The Rock lack of action make the younger generation of WWE Universe start to ignoring The Rock-Cena feud and move on to another fued. Based on here, the rating is dropped compare to what he did last year. Maybe the younger generation didn't know the awesomeness of The Rock. Actually The Rock has shown his awesomeness in the last Survivor Series, but maybe that's not enough to capture peoples' heart. The only good thing that he can do now is trending, just like what Cena said. I have to agree that what Cena said, even though I'm not his in-ring fan. I personally don't like Cena in-ring ability. I'm not entertained much by his performance. But at least he's wrestle.

One other thing that makes people debating each other is whether the mouth war is scripted or not. Actually this is good for the entertainment view. Because we know that WWE is a scripted show, but sometime the wrestler making up his points. So, sometime some spontaneous words come out and may hurt the other wrestler. This is what happen between The Rock and Cena. It all started when Cena appointed the wrist note on The Rock and maybe embarrassing The Rock. Whether they're really hate each other or not, it helps the feud to sell to people.

Before I leave, let's have a good laugh to this week "Santino Marella Foreign Exchange"

That's all for now, I'll talk about other thing next week in "The Road to WrestleMania".

See you later.

K-tea.

Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying: Harapan Baru Untuk Malaysia (?)

Image taken from here

Assalamualaikum dan salam sejahtera dan salam 1 Malaysia (tiada unsur politik) kepada semua pengunjung Infinitesane. Alhamdulillah, masih ada yang sudi menjengah blog yang belum popular ini lagi (walaupun hampir 4 tahun blog ini beroperasi)

It is a Sporty Saturday! Macam mana? Sporting tak hari ini? Jangan lupa bersenam ya! Semalam ialah suku akhir Kejohanan Seluruh England (All England) yang menampilkan 3 wakil negara bersaing untuk merebut slot ke separuh akhir. Mereka adalah pemain No 1 dunia, Lee Chong Wei, Liew Daren, dan beregu campuran Chan Peng Soon dan Goh Liu Ying. Liew Daren yang berdepan pilihan ke 8 kejohanan, Lee Hyun-Il gagal memberi kejutan kepadanya sekaligus kalah 'straight set' 21-15, 21-13. Tapi tak mengapa, sekurang-kurangnya bukanlah dia tewas kepada pemain tak ternama seperti yang berlaku kepada Hafiz Hashim. Lee Chong Wei tidak menghadapi masalah apabila berdepan pemain Indonesia yang saya sendiri tak kenal, mungkin pemain pelapis agaknya. Tapi itu sudah bagus pencapaiannya untuk sampai ke suku akhir. Lee Chong Wei mudah menundukkannya 'straight set' 21-9, 21-11. Kali ini saya ingin bercerita kepada anda semua tentang beregu campuran no.1 negara.

Chan Peng Soon/Goh Liu Ying mendapat perhatian saya semasa pertandingan Sukan Komanwel 2010 apabila corak permainan mereka berjaya menarik perhatian saya. Seingat saya, tak pernah Malaysia berjaya menghasilkan beregu campuran yang berjaya menggamit perhatian saya. Dan semalam, mereka yang pertama kali berjaya sampai ke peringkat suku akhir di kejohanan yang berprestij ini, berjaya memenangi perlawanan suku akhir dan berjaya melangkah ke separuh akhir seluruh England buat pertama kali. Syabas saya ucapkan ke atas kejayaan mereka. Mereka menundukkan pasangan "tuan rumah" yang berjaya menewaskan beregu pilihan pertama kejohanan dengan 3 set, 21-16, 15-21, 21-17.

Mungkinkah ada sinar harapan yang baru untuk beregu campuran negara? Sama-sama kita tunggu dan lihat.

Sampai di sini dahulu, kita jumpa lagi esok hari, InsyaAllah...

Wassalam.
K-tea.

p/s: semasa di kejohanan terbuka selangor, mereka tewas di perlawanan akhir menentang Lee Chong Wei/Vivian Khoo. Tapi itu sebab "ada Lee Chong Wei".

Islam di era Globalisasi: Survival, cabaran dan peluang

Assalamualaikum dan selamat sejahtera kepada semua pengunjung Infinitesane.

Pernahkah anda terfikir kenapa 4U2C dan NICO tak mampu untuk 'survive' lama dalam industri hiburan Malaysia? Dan bagaimana "seteru" mereka, KRU berjaya bertahan sehingga ke hari ini?

Jawapannya, kerana mereka 'adapt' dengan 'trend' terkini, mereka 'adapt' dengan pemikiran zaman kini. Maka muzik dan hasil kerja mereka sering berevolusi seiring dengan arus peredaran zaman. Makanya, mereka masih relevan sehingga kini.

Jadi, apa kena mengenanya KRU dengan survival Islam di era Globalisasi ini? Kalau anda tiba di muka hadapan blog ini(Home), anda perlulah klik "Baca lagi>>" macam biasa. Kalau anda dah tiba di entri ini, silalah teruskan membaca...

Moga kita mendapat Berkat Jumaat...

"Keyword" entri ini ialah revolusi, entri ini sebenarnya dah lama dah saya nak tulis, semenjak selepas hari keluarga Sakijan Saamah lagi. Kerana, wak saya yang paling tua ada mengulas isu ini semasa tazkirah lepas subuh. Tentang bagaimana untuk ibu bapa generasi kini untuk sentiasa menerapkan nilai Islam dalam hidup mereka. Ini adalah kerana zaman ini adalah zaman yang sangat mencabar kerana zaman ini zaman globalisasi. Segalanya di hujung jari.

Zaman globalisasi. Ianya mengundang berbagai-bagai ancaman dan pelbagai bentuk penjajahan. Bagaimana saya boleh berkata sedemikian? Penjajahan zaman ini bukan sahaja berlaku secara fizikal, malah secara mental. Dahulunya kita tidak kenal, malah tidak terlalu "up-to-date" dengan perkembangan artis-artis di amerika dan luar negara. Dahulunya perkembangan luar negara hanya ditunggu di media cetak dan elektronik. Kini ada media alternatif. Dengan adanya internet, kita akan segera mengetahui perkembangan di luar negara sesegera yang mungkin.

Dengan tibanya era globalisasi, teramatlah sukar untuk membendung informasi-informasi yang tidak sesuai diketahui. Semuanya dikatakan mempunyai "hak" untuk dikongsikan. Maka timbullah gejala-gejala sosial yang tidak sihat yang diasimilasi dari budaya-budaya yang tidak sesuai sekali oleh norma seorang melayu dan terutamanya sebagai seorang Muslim. Rancangan-rancangan di Televisyen tidak dapat lagi dibendung dan dikawal. Stesen-stesen TV antarabangsa yang tidak berpangkalan di Malaysia sewenang-wenangnya menyiarkan rancangan-rancangan yang tidak sesuai ditonton oleh kelaziman melayu suatu masa dahulu. Kini tiada lagi rasa jijik terhadap khinzir kerana stesen televisyen antarabangsa kerap menyiarkan hidangan-hidangan khinzir yang dizahirkan dengan penuh cantik. Rancangan pendidikan untuk kanak-kanak juga turut disertakan watak khinzir sehingga tiada lagi rasa jijik dan kotornya binatang tersebut. Pembekal servis satelit juga tidak akan ingin menarik saluran-saluran tersebut kerana ia terkenal, mendapat permintaan yang tinggi dan mendatangkan keuntungan. Dengan adanya internet, sukar untuk mengawal kehendak manusia.

Di sinilah keyword revolusi ini timbul. Bukannya revolusi untuk merusuh, berdemonstrasi dan sebagainya. Tapi berevolusi terhadap tarbiyyah terhadap anak-anak generasi Y dan Z ini. Istilah ini bukan saya yang buat, tapi saya terbaca di surat khabar. Tak tahulah lepas Z apa pula nanti. Revolusi yang saya maksudkan ialah cara era ini untuk mendidik anak-anak. Siapalah saya untuk mengajar orang untuk mengajar anak kan? sedangkan saya sendiri anak yang kurang baik. Entri ini bukanlah untuk mengajar anda semua cara untuk mendidik anak, sebaliknya tujuan entri ini ditulis adalah untuk memberitahu cara lama tidak lagi berkesan terhadap generasi kini. Rotan sebagai contoh, sangat tidak relevan buat masa ini. SEKIRANYA kita tidak memberitahu kenapa anak tersebut dipukul. Ini bukan saya yang cakap, saya selalu terbaca artikel atau buku tentang kesalahan ibu bapa mendidik anak. Poin ini sangat terkenal. Memukul anak tanpa memberitahu sebabnya akan membuatkan anak rasa memberontak. Pada zaman dahulu mungkin ia berkesan kerana kalau dipukul pun kemana nak diberontakkan? Kini sangat bahaya. Sekiranya anak itu memberontak dia boleh lari dari rumah, sehingga boleh terjadi hingga ke luar negara. "Rakan-rakan" di laman sosial juga banyak membantu mereka untuk memberontak kalau mereka mahu. Jadi bukan tak boleh memukul, cuma kena rendahkan sedikit ego ibu bapa itu untuk berlembut dengan memberitahu sebab mengapa dia dipukul. Kadang-kala MUNGKIN ego sesetengah ibu bapa itu sangat tinggi untuk meminta maaf kepada anaknya. (Ketika saya masih kecil, bila saya dipukul atau disalahi saya akan lari dari rumah dengan menyorok di mana-mana taman permainan, tapi tak pernahlah lari sampai berhari-hari)

Itulah cabaran yang perlu ditempuhi untuk survival Islam di era globalisasi. Bagaimana pula dengan peluang di era globalisasi? Dalam kegelapan, masih ada sinar pengharapan. Kemunculan era globalisasi ini juga diambil kesempatan oleh pendakwah-pendakwah untuk menyebarkan dakwah mereka dengan lebih mudah, kurang penat dan efektif. Bayangkan semasa pra-globalisasi, berapa ramai golongan muda yang meminati pendakwah? Ada ramai tak? Tak ramai kan? Bila tiba era globalisasi ini, orang-orang muda akan lebih kawtim dengan golongan pendakwah ini. Golongan pendakwah ini juga sempoi, kerana ingin menyesuaikan arus muda semasa untuk dakwah mereka sampai. Siapa tak kenal Ustaz Azhar Idrus dan Ustaz Don? Saya beri dua contoh ini sahaja kerana nama mereka paling popular di laman-laman sosial. Golongan artis juga semakin terasa aura perubahannya. Semakin ramai artis wanita mula memakai pakaian yang menutup aurat. Memang tak dinafikan, artis yang masih rosak dan belum dibetulkan masih sangat banyak bilangannya kalau nak dinisbahkan dengan artis yang "berhijrah". Tapi dahulu artis-artis yang berhijrah tak seramai waktu ini. Saya sangat berharap mereka akan kuat dan terus ikhlas menunaikan tuntutan agama. Golongan artis ini juga sedikit sebanyak dapat membantu proses dakwah ini, Alhamdulillah.

Dalam kita asyik mencari kesalahan golongan muda, jangan dilupa yang mereka penentu masa depan agama, dunia dan negara. Syukur saya panjatkan ke hadrat Ilahi kerana rakan-rakan di laman sosial saya yang beragama islam sangat ramai yang mempunyai kesedaran agama yang kuat, saling berkongsi pengetahuan agar kita bersama membentuk dunia Islam kembali ke zaman kegemilangannya. Harapan saya yang takkan pernah terpadam kerana saya percaya dengan kekuatan golongan muda ini. Biarpun golongan muda ini tidak berpakaian ortodoks, seperti golongan tua yang memakai serban dan jubah, namun kebanyakan dari mereka sayangkan agama mereka dan tak ber"asabiyyah". Renung-renungkan...

Sampai disini sahaja dahulu entri kali ini. Sudah lama rasanya saya tidak menulis sepanjang ini. Harapan saya anda tidak bosan membacanya.
Kalau suka share dan komenlah...
Wassalam,
K-Tea...

Source: Imej entri ini diambil di sini

The New iPad, Solar Storm: Granny Earth Is Getting Sick

Assalamualaikum and a very good day to all Infinitesane visitors. Today in Thursday Thriller I'm just going to write a short entry about latest hot thing going on. But before that, lets just enjoy thriller by Michael Jackson.

The New iPad, The New iPad, The New iPad, The New iPad, The New iPad, The New iPad. You must been wondering why I keep on repeating this name right? This is not any chanting ritual just for your confirmation, based on The Onion entry here, I may generated thousands of dollars in advertisement. First of all, I KNOW THE ONION IS NOT A REAL NEWS WEBSITE. But it is a good joke though because at some point it is right.

Well, I'm not an apple fan. And I'm not really tech savvy at all, I can't afford any apple product right now. Bottomline, it is just another iPad. It didn't have a model name which I don't care much but it is maybe psychologically distractive. The name of the new iPad is just "The new iPad". Sure, the resolution is much better. The processor is much better. A little bit heavier than iPad 2 but if it is not, the battery lifespan will decrease. I don't know. But I'm definitely not buying that thing. At the same event, apple launch their new apple TV. I know nothing about that. Maybe I've never seen them in

Malaysia market? Anyhow, it is out there in 16 March 2012. Malaysia? I don't know but I don't think it is out for Malaysia yet. But it is out there if you're a Singaporean.

Next, it's about the Solar Storm. I know this Solar Storm has been struct quite frequently and this latest storm is called as a massive one. So, you can see the beautiful aurora but some people brought up a question about how it will affect the magnetic, radio and radiation emissions. Because it will interfere with devices related to the emisson. Like the airport that use radio frequency to communicate, not to forget, cell phone. I know that day will come when things that we call "technology" will be useless but I just hope it is still yet a long way to go.

Last night, Kuala Lumpur was raining heavily and that cause Kuala Lumpur to flood. And the consequence is defenitely; traffic jam. Luckily I'm not nearwhere and having a relaxing time in front of my computer (I'm trying a new antivirus, comodo).

As a conclusion, the earth that we live is not young anymore. It's getting old. That's why I call it granny. It started to get sick. And that means the nature is started to "throw a tantrum" by making a lot of natural disaster. Earthquake, tsunami, uncertainty weather. You name it. A lot things happen nowadays and we cannot avoid it. This earth will definitely "die" one day. I hope I'm not there anymore to witness that.

That's all for now. Share or comment if you like it. We'll meet again tomorrow, InsyaAllah.

Until then,
See you later and Wassalam.

K-Tea.

Source: The Onion and Cnet