Thursday, November 25, 2010

Dear 208 binti Harapan 25

Dear 208,

I am leaving you tomorrow. I have lived with you for one semester. And you are really a warm haven for me. I'm sorry for filling you up with rubbish. Or junks. Whatever you call it. But for me they are treasures. Treasures I've been keeping since my first year. And now bit by bit, I am throwing them away. Because I realized, that without these 'treasures' I can still lived. Ugh, and I digressed.

When I first heard your name at the registration office, I felt that you are kinda familiar. No wonder. You were my senior's (Matthlessa) haven too. And I began to know you more when I started to live with you and in you.

It's tough at first. Whenever it's time to sleep, I could hear guys screaming insanely from the opposite, where your mother's twin brother, Harapan 26, stood. I know, as one of the approximately 300 children of Harapan 25, you have no say in this matter. You are usually gentle, and tolerate towards Uncle Harapan 26. Thank God too I am an easy sleeper. I could fall asleep easily, anywhere, anytime, regardless of how many noises and distractions there are.

At first, I treated you with care. Biasalah kan, kalau baru berkenalan, memang layan sehabis baik. Then, when I am getting busier and lazier, I began to neglect you. And bring more junks that may harm your health, 208. I am truly sorry 208. I never realized that too many junks can be harmful to you too, though you're not human.

Then, I began to complain about your mouth. Sometimes, it's hard to shut your mouth. I had to pull hard to make your lips closed together. And that made me pissed-off cause I thought it's easy to open and shut your mouth when I have the keys. But still, it's not guaranteed.

You've been so kind to me 208, but still, that doesn't mean I've forgotten about your half sister, 339. Though 339 is not as reachable as you are, the atmosphere is quieter when sleeping, where I faced the lake of Harapan instead.

And now, last but not least, I want to thank you, 208. And a deep apology for what you are experiencing now. I'm causing you to be dusty and messy now. I hope you don't mind 208. After tomorrow, perhaps you will new faces, whom I am unsure whether she will treat you nicer than I do.. Take care dear.



Regards,

Maureen

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Daring You to Document...

It's that time of the year again...

for...

*drum ro
lls*

Yeah baby.. Freedom Film Festival 2010~!

And yes, I am now a KOMAS crew. Though temporarily.. ;) hehe.



Don't believe? Here's the proof. Me and my two lovely seniors.



I got to know about this volunteer thingy from a friend of mine, Man Lee. Though it was in the exam season, I could not lose this opportunity to participate in something happening like this. So voila, me, two seniors and two juniors jumped up to this opportunity to volunteer in Freedom Film Festival 2010 at Kompleks Penyayang Pulau Pinang, and the rest of the process, as they say, is history...

The two of us with Sarah, one of the organizers.


Counter girls in action!

Me and my seniors & juniors kept switching roles and taking turns in our duty so that each of us could have the opportunity to watch the movies.

We switched between the duty as registration receptionist and the usher - which is also a good thing to train us to be more versatile (hak3) besides being not bored to death to stuck with one job the whole day.


The three winning films for this year are namely;
1) Pilih (by Loo Que Lin)
2) Hak Dinafikan (by Abri Yok Chopil & Shafie bin Dris)
3) Kisah Tauke Mancis & Minyak Tumpah (by Sheridan Mahavera & Siti Nurbayah Nadzmi)

Pilih is briefly about the student body election in Malaysian campuses and how the AUKU (Akta Universiti and Kolej Universiti) had put a boundary to the students' freedom and rights in decision-making.

Hak Dinafikan, on the other hand, portrayed how the orang Asli protested against a proposed new land policy, and among the faces there I recognized is Kak Tijah, one of the orang Asli active spokeperson.

Kisah Tauke Mancis & Minyak Tumpah depicted the story of the extremism regarding the relocation of a temple - and how some intolerance occur among neighbours in a neighbourhood. This film is somewhat daring for portraying a little sensitive issue regarding races and religions.

Among the three, I liked Pilih the best because it was something I can relate to, which is the student body election. I never really knew my rights as a university student until I watched this film.

There were a lot of other films but I did not get to watch them because it was about the overseas countries.


Quite a crowd turning up during the night of 13th November. ;)

Last but not least, say hi to the friendly usher, my junior Vera. ;)


Actually, KOMAS did come to Sarawak for this FFF screening at Miri but the feedback was cold. Not many who turned up for the screening. Perhaps the issues being shown were not that relevant to Sarawakians compared to here at Peninsular. Thus, we Sarawakians were encouraged to propose and idea for short films to document it back there so that the other Sarawakians can relate to it. Issues? haha. I have no trouble looking for issues as the first issue back in my hometown Sibu would be about gangsterism. How many of us Sibu people are daring to do some short film about that? Hmm..

What I can conclude from my experience here was that there are many issues around the country but many do not dare to document or even to speak about it. Most of us just kept quiet, since it did not affect us directly. Well, I am one of them. When I saw injustice, I rage and vent my anger over it but I did not do anything which may lessen or even make a little difference to that injustice.

Wow you may say that I start to involve politics here but that was not it. I want to talk about social responsibility. Since I couldn't do something about it, all I can do for now is to blog about it.

And yeah, I had fun volunteering at FFF for the priceless experience!


PS: Thanks KOMAS (as if they are reading my blog lol but anyway) for the free t-shirt, free food and the pocket money lol. Thanks for rewarding me for doing something which I would do for free!


Thursday, November 11, 2010

DiGi BlackBerry Torch 9800 – Hotter and Smarter

Greetings people~

I am in the mood of story-telling now.

Let me tell you about a story of a vain queen and her magic mirror. The setting for this story is during this current period, this current era. But this particular queen never watches Miss World or Miss Universe, thus she was very delusional and thought that she indeed was the hottest creature in the planet. She was so outdated, and so was her magic mirror.

Photo source: here.

Every morning, the queen would stand in front of the magic mirror and said
"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the hottest creature in this world?"


Because the magic mirror was totally outdated, it would always answer the queen with the same "Yes, your majesty. You are indeed the hottest creature in the planet."

And after hearing that particular uttera
nce from the magic mirror, the queen would be happy and contented - because her aim to be the hottest creature in the planet was fulfilled.

One day, after her plastic surgery, the queen upgraded her magic mirror because she wanted to be sure that she was still the hottest -even among the creatures of all the other planets. To upgrade her mirror efficiency, she subscribed to DG Smart Plan, after the advice of her surgeon of course.

The queen was very excited to use her updated version of her magic mirror for the first time.
And now, she asked the mirror

"Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the hottest creature in the galaxy?"

Suddenly a yellow man whose appearance looks like a member of the Teletubbies cam
e into the view of the queen.

Photo source: here

"The hottest creature eh?"
the Yellow Man from the magic mirror began.

"It's Jessica Alba~!" he answered excitedly.


Photo source: here.


Upon hearing this, the queen was furious.
"What? I can't believe this!"

"Ah.. slow down. Please my queen, do not be furious. I was just joking. The hottest creature in the galaxy of course is..."

The queen was very anxiou
s and she expected her name -
but instead the Ye
llow Man uttered..

jeng jeng jeng


"BLACKBERRY T
ORCH 9800!!"

The queen was speechless while the Yellow Man continued to talk about the hotness of the
Blackberry torch 9800.

"Blackberry torch is the
world's first Blackberry with QWERTY keypad and touchscreen. It is hotter than any smartphones ever existed before. Why it's hotter, you may ask, your Majesty. Well, here are the reasons why."


"My queen, instead of letting your hotness be reflected temporarily on this humble magic mirror, with this smartphone, your majesty can do unlimited camwhoring using the 5MP camera and with its capacity of 8GB memory. If your majesty thinks that 8 GB memory is still not enough to store up all your files and vain pictures (ahem), your majesty can expand its memory with a microSD card up till 32 GB!"

"Oh..." The queen nodded. "What else is so special about this so-called hot stuff?"



"Well," the Yellow Man continued. "Besides the camera, you can always update yourself by browsing the net through this smartphone. It has faster and richer browsing, where Your Majesty can manage multiple open websites with tabbed browsing. It also have the hot features, namely 3G, GPRS and EDGE."


"Oh" the queen nodded.

"But gee, Yellow Man, though I am a queen,
ahem, I have a teeny problem with my budget. You know, after my plastic surgery and magic mirror upgrade and all that, I don't have much money to buy this smartphone though I really, really am interested to buy it... Because it's really, really hot..." The queen said with a sad face.

"Fret not, your highness. This smartphone though its price is RM 2299, but since you had subscribed to DG smartplan, you ca
n get this smartphone at cheaper price. Let me tell you something. It's better for you, your Highness, to subscribe to this plan for 24 months so that you can buy this hot smartphone at only RM1499, which is RM800 cheaper than its original price!"

"Really?" the queen was very interested to be the owner of the hot stuff.

"Yes, your Highness. I won't lie to you. Besides there are other benefits of signing up for this smartplan as you can see from this magic mirror,"
the Yellow Man said as he depicted these information
on the magic mirror.

Why this DG smartplan is the smart plan for you, you and you:

The next thing we know, the queen was spotted by the paparazzi at the nearest retail shop, purchasing her very first hottest stuff in the universe and galaxy, Blackberry Torch 9800 while signing up for the 24 month DG smartplan contract for 24 months.

So, what are you waiting for?

Be SMART, but don't forget be HOTTER, people~.

For more information, it's just a click away!


Wednesday, November 3, 2010

M for Malash

Daripada tajuk di atas, anda dah tau status aku sekarang - malash tahap cipan (walaupun aku tak tau apa itu cipan sebab aku malash nak ambik tau). Orait. Mungkin sebab nama aku mula dengan huruf M kot, sebab tu la malas. (Salahkan nama dan bukannya peribadi atas kemalasan, bravo Maureen~!)

Walaupun berada dalam keadaan malas, aku tak dapat tidur oh terima kasih kepada teh tarik Kedai Makan Nazri tadi.

Dalam kemalasan ini, aku tengah sibuk stalking seorang blogger yang aku dah pernah discover blog dia, cuma belum sampai tahap check post dia dalam archive satu persatu. Namun entah kenapa sekarang ni aku rajin check postnya satu persatu. Wah alangkah bagusnya kalau kerajinan aku mengestalk blogger ini aku aplikasikan ke dalam Sociolinguistic, Discourse Analysis, Semantics, dan sebagainya. Tapi apakah daya. Blognya memang penuh dengan tulisan dan kadang-kadang I have zero tolerance for tulisan kalau font dia kurang daripada 11.

Time aku malas baca blog bertulis, aku beralih pula kepada blog ini yang ada tulisan tapi kurang tulisan.


Orait, sampai di sini sahaja pertemuan kita. Aku malash mau ca....kap..... lebih..........................