October 31, 2011

Hakka Raischa

Satu jenis permainan yang tak pernah aku berpeluang bermain…ragbi. Dengan ketinggian 155 dan berat badan ‘ideal’ 45kg (suatu masa dulu) takde mana-mana pasukan yang berminat walaupun aku ada kelebihan kelajuan, kehenseman dan pelbagai ke lagi lah :-0. Aku ingat kata-kata Maran, kalau aku try jugak patah riuk jangan sesekali salahkan depa. Aku demotivated, takut sebenarnya, so aku pun tak pernah try2 sampailah hari ini. Namun bak kata orang tua-tua, the flame masih burning dalam diri so itu pasal la RWC2011 sangat2 aku tunggu.

Ragbi bagi aku satu permainan yang menerujakan juga mengghairahkan. It’s a combination of both kekuatan dan kepandaian. Jarang ada permainan yang sebegitu. Pemain ragbi pulak ada character2 mereka yang tersendiri. Dulu di ITM budak-budak ragbi ni selalu dipandang tinggi, sama tinggi dengan ketinggian masing2. Ujang flyhalf contohnya walaupun tak memiliki ketinggian yang boleh ’dibanggakan’, tapi ada character gila-gila yang tersendiri. Pernah sekali tu masa dia tengah tension study, di soundnya katak2 dekat longkang besar hostel Halban supaya berhenti berbunyi. Dia boleh jerit sekuat2 hati sampai satu dorm terkejut. Lepas 2 minit terdiam katak2 tu semua. Study dia maintain 3 pointer every semester. Sarjen (lock - budak TI) badan punyalah besar Extra XXXL ala-ala Kumin tapi hati ada sikit sentimental. Awek dia comel je saiz S. Ada sekali tu kita org balik cuti semester masa tengah tunggu keretapi awek dia tertidor dekat kaki Sarjen, cute sesangat. ;-)

Masa mula-mula di ITM, budak freshie cam aku ni tak reti lagi properly dressed so pi beli makan kat gerai siap pakai kain pelikat lagi tu. Lalu pulak ikut hostel Halban tempat senior-senior melepak. On the way balik beli pisang goreng malam tu aku kena tahan. Muka-muka pembuli2 senior semuanya turun. Dalam hati abislah aku ’dikerjakan’ bebudak senior ni. Nasib baiklah dalam kain ada seluar pendek malam tu kalau tak berbogel la aku balik Jati agaknya..huhu. Bila geng2 senior ni tanya aku asal dari mana? Aku jawap ’Manjoi’ terus Krull datang. Dia kata budak Manjoi jangan sapa-sapa berani usik sebab budak kampung dia. Muka toreh takde darah kembali jadi merah gumbira penuh dengan bangga diri sekejap. Selamat aku. Rupanya Manjoi ni sama level dengan Kuala Perlis a.k.a tempat gengster-gengster bertapak di Perlis. Lepas peristiwa itu takde sapa berani kacau aku lagi. Krull pemain ragbi ITM budak final year. Awek dia Popeye (sebab tengkuk dia agak panjang skit) bekas pelajar terbaik Hartford Univ, US masa depa sama2 melanjutkan pelajaran mid 90an dulu. Last aku jumpa Krull dgn Popeye dia dah bawak Merc S280 raya hari lepas. Agaknya Popeye punya kut sebab dia anak org kaya KL dengar critanya.

Anyway, All Blacks berjaya juga menang balik World Cup selepas gap 24 tahun. Last sekali masa depa menang first WC 1987. Ironinya final dan semi-final mempertemukan empat pasukan dari kejuaraan 1987 tu dan pemenangnya pun pakai skrip yang sama. Tahniah kepada Ritchie McCaw dengan rakan-rakan sepasukan. Dia sememangnya rugger yang akan jadi legenda selepas nama-nama besar lain seperti Jonah Lomu, John Kirwan, Rokococo, Sean Fitzpatrick, Dan Carter, dsbgnya.

Tapi yang paling syoknya bila tengok Piri Weepu menjelirkan lidah bila dia lead All Blacks dengan Hakka...

Ringa Pakia, A Ka Mate, Ka Mate, (‘Tis Death, ‘Tis Death)
Ka Ora, Ka Ora (‘Tis Life, ‘Tis Life)
Ka Mate, Ka Mate (‘Tis Death, ‘Tis Death)
Ka Ora, Ka Ora (‘Tis Life, ‘Tis Life)
Tenei Te Tangata (This is the man)
Pu Huru Huru (The fierce powerful man)
Nana I Tiki Mai (It was he who captured)
Whaka Whitti Te Ra (The sun and caused)
A, Upane, Karupane (it to shine)
Upane, Karupane (Its rises and sets)
Upane, Karupane (Rises and sets)
Whitti Te Ra (The Sun Shines)
Hiii....


P/s – Raischa sedang buat Hakka untuk manakutkan ibunya yang nak kasi ubat..

October 25, 2011

Transformation 'Soft Part'

The Institute has embarked on its Transformation Plan initiative back in 2009 with objective to identify and recommend appropriate action plans to accelerate the university’s R&D capacity and capability in order to become a world class research university. The near to-date target or immediate milestone was to achieve a Research University status by 2013. I was heavily involved with this Plan.

Two years down the road, we have finalized the plan, I would say in details, consists of not only immediate action plans to achieve the RU status but also a long-term strategies to ensure sustainability. Putting too much pressure with workload during the implementation phase of the Transformation, be it academia or administrator, needs motivation and morale boost. A set of new environment whereby transformation is not regarded as a threat but rather as a stimulating opportunity should be emphasized and put in place. I guess that’s why we have abundant of strategies, plentiful of initiatives and many-many action plans in ensuring a new environment to the staff. We want the staff to ask themselves what they can contribute to the institution rather than the otherwise.

That was then. I was with the rest of my colleagues today for a sharing session with the Transformation Team. They have a very focus presentation which I believe should come from a full time job effort. My expectations were never low until Khalid raises a very pertinent question whether all the above so called soft part is taken into consideration in ensuring sustainability of the Transformation. Then only I know that most of the soft part was not well covered.

Somebody needs to do something. Otherwise, the Transformation will not last long. It will only create short term gain but in the long term it might goes down the drain. I’m quite concern…


P/s – Good presentation on the slides thou…

Festival of Lights - KBP Style

Amazingly, I did not write anything for more than 1 month. Not that I’m running out of idea or simply nothing much to write, in fact there were lots of things happen during that one-month period. We had our 11th Convocation; Raischa visited Hospital again, twice in a gap of 2 months etc, etc. But then, I just don’t feel in putting up my pen to the draft pad (or in this case to the keyboard).

Anyway, this week we gonna have a mid-week cuti of Deepawali. So to my entire Hindu friend out there, happy celebrating the ‘festival of lights’. To all the happy lot of Kampung Buah Pala as well. I heard the ‘High Chapparalian’ consists of 17 Indians and 7 Malays families have returned to the site of their old village to accept keys to their new double-storey houses. Lampu kalimantang lights finally emerged from the end of the tunnel, huh? A unit of double storey house in that area might be valued in the range of 300 - 350K, thus will cost the private developer Nusmetro Ven¬tures (P) Sdn Bhd RM8 – 9 mill altogether. Guan Eng and the rest of developer can now happily develop the whole land that has a commercial value of billions. It’s a huge spot-lights coming out from the end of the tunnel for Guan Eng and co.

For the remaining 9 families that did not accept the RM125K offered by the developer, they might have lost everything.


P/s - The Chinese Opera in a thick make up with esoteric and mysterious yet hardly understandable characters…
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