Seorang lagi orang yang rapat ngan aku pergi mengadap tuhan

Seminggu selepas mak aku meninggal iaitu pada 23/4/2009, aku dapat satu lagi berita mengejutkan. Masa tu aku baru lepas beli barang2 rumah kat Mydin. Dalam pukul 9 malam gitu. Eifa, students Taekwondo aku sejak tahun 2006 dan student English aku semester ni hantar sms. Dia kata "Sir, Fiza dah meninggal. Kat hospital Dungun" Aku yang masih bersedih dengan pemergian mak aku semacam tak boleh terima berita itu. Aku pun call dia. "Kau biar betul? Tak cayalah aku. Jangan bergurau benda-benda macam ni"Tak Sir, Betul ni Sir. balas Eifa terisak-isak". "Kat mana? Sakit apa?" "Saya kat hospital Dungun ni Sir. Tak pasti sakit apa. Katanya sakit perut petang tadi."

Terus aku bergegas ke Hospital Dungun. On the way sempat call wife aku cakap aku balik lambat sbb nak gi hospital. Bila dah sampai kat Hospital tu dah ramai kawan-kawan dia kat situ. Classmate dia, kawan-kawan kat Poli. Lps call pegawai HEP ada student call kata mayat ada di unit forensik. Terus gi sana. Kejap lagi En. Zamil dan En. Yaswadi sampai. Terus aku masuk dlm bilik mayat ngan diorang utk tengok. Bila dibuka je kain penutup muka, Ya Allah! memang betul itu Fiza. Innalillahiwainnailaihiraajiuun.

Aruah adalah students Taekwondo aku sejak tahun 2006 lagi. Semester ni pulak aku kebetulan ngajar English kelas dia. Bila ditanya pada ayah dia, katanya dia sakit perut dan datang hospital dgn seorg kawan pd pukul 5. Ayah dia kebetulan ada di Dungun. Dia pergi melawat dan Fiza masih boleh bercakap-cakap. Lps maghrib dia bertolak nak pergi Kemaman. Belum pun keluar dari bandar Dungun, Dr. call kata Fiza tenat. Dia pusing balik dan sempat bersama aruah disaat akhirnya. Aruah meninggal pada pukul 8 malam. Yang paling menyentuh hati aku kata ayah dia Fiza kata dia nak ikut trip ke Penang esok utk menyertai Kejohanan taekwondo di Politeknik Seberang Perai. Ramai pensyarah dan rakan-rakan aruah datang ke hospital malam tu. Congak2 adalah dalam 200 orang. Mengikut berita yang diterima kemudianya aruah memang mengidap barah usus.

Malam tu Eifa gi rumah sewa aruah dan kemaskan barang2 dia. Family dia tak sempat kemaskan sbb sibuk uruskan mayat. Pkl 12 malam pun belum dpt keluar lagi dr Hospital lagi. Pagi esoknya bawak barang2 dia naik bas dan singgah rumah dia utk ziarahdan hantar barang2 aruah sekali. Kebetulan rumah dia diKTRG. On the way ke Penang. Motor dia aku suruh Amir (Taekwondo Student) bawak sampai ke KTRG. Masa kami sampai tu mayat tengah dikafankan. Lps sembahyang dan masuk keranda, aruah dibawa dengan van polis ke kubur. Sblm van bertolak kami mintak diri dr ayah aruah sbb perjalanan kami masih jauh.

Semoga rohnya ditempatkan bersama dengan orang2 yang soleh... Amin.... Alfatihah.....



Kami merinduimu Fiza.

My mom passed away on 16 April 2009

My beloved mom passed away on 16 April 2009 at 2.10 a.m. She was 63. It is due to the lung problem. She suffered athma and efusi pleura (paru-paru berair) since 10 years ago. She was critically ill since 9 April.

I remember when I was doing my Diploma in early nineties she always take a shower at night. Sometimes even 10 at night with cold water (no water heater at my parent house at that time). I remember I told her not to bath at night because it can cause illness but she said she feels too warm. So to cool down she takes a bath.

My father was also a heavy smoker before he quit about 15 years ago after he was admitted to the hospital for 2 week due to lung problem.

So to all my friends & students out there please stop smoking and don't go near to any smokers while he/she smoke and don't take shower at night with cold water.

Oh Mother, I miss U............

Isu PPSMI 2

Post ini dipetik dari komen Ayasu Kuro Obi dalam post PPSMI aku yang terdahulu.

Silalah baca dan renung-renungkannya.

Somebody sent me this :-

Recently there is a lot of support calling for the reversal of teaching math and science in English.
Much of these support comes of intellectual who has never studied any form of science or math in their respective college or University.

Take for example the recent PPSMI forum which was supposed to be attended by Anwar Ibrahim but was replaced by Syed Husin ALi.

Syed Husin Ali is a Professor of Anthropology and Sociology from University Malaya. What science or mathematics is there? In fact I had to look at the dictionary to understand the meaning of Anthropology.

The anthropologist Eric Wolf once described anthropology as "the most scientific of the humanities and the most humanistic of the sciences."

Zaidel describes Anthropology as a major you take in Uni if you can't do Math well but want to seem smart by having fancy words on your degree.

And Anwar Ibrahim? Degree in Malay Studies, Oiyoooo the only Math they have in Malay Studies is to calculate the amount of credit you take per semester which isn't much of a problem for Anwar because during his Uni days he spent most of them shouting slogans on the street and getting angry for no apparent reason.

Why I say getting angry for no apparent reason? Because later he Joined UMNO!!

Back to thw reason why I support the damn thing.
I came from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and trust me when I say this that a few years back this was the most Bahasa Kebangsaan University than any other local universities combined. Let's just say the first 3 years of my Engineering days were filled with Bahasa Malaysia/Melayu jargons. Just to show you what I mean take a look at some of these examples..

Engineering Term
Capacitor - Pemuat
Resistor - Perintang
Impedance - Galangan
Current - Arus

Others include : Momen Lentur, Tegasan, Terikan, Pepejal, Dinamik Haba and etc...

I mean those Engineering Lecturer took the extra mile to translate every single damn thing into Malay and I greatly respect this. As oppose to my sociology lecturers who like to screw up the Malay Language by prostituting English words into BM.

Take for example this term "Dekadensi Moral" When I first saw that term I was thinking what the hell is dekadensi moral, a type of resistor or something? Turns out Dekadensi comes from the English word Decadence. Dekadensi Moral means Moral Decadence direct translation where as you can simply translate it into "Kemerosotan Akhlak/Moral" which is much more clear. But NOOOO he had to use dekadensi so that he would seem smart and people won't question his Associate Professorship. Then you would have other words like kompak, visi, misi, infotainment, naratif kecil, naratif besar and penkek.

At first the Lecturers (Engineering) seemed to get it all good, they managed to translate the English term to BM very well and with very clear meaning. Then Things started to change as the subject get's more complex and you get newer terms. Take for example this Subject..

"Motorolla 68000 Microprocessor"

Which translates to Mikro Pemproses Motorolla 68000"
Sounds fine....

But then as you go deeper into the subject you will find more interesting terms. For instance

Timer - The clock cycle chip you use to send timing signals to the processors. It acts like a stopwatch to the processor.

BM Translation - Pemasa. Which is fine.

Then we have things like this -
Bistable Multivibrator - Dwimantap Penggetar Pelbagai. Apo Kobondo tu Jang?

Then in microprocessor you have this term call "Interrupt" and like it's name it means to interrupt the normal cycle of the processor and tell it to focus to doing something else. Kinda like the phone rings when you are cooking, you stop cooking and answer the phone.

The Malay Jargon Interrupt would be Sampukan. Interrupt Pin - Pin Sampukan.

Sampukan? Sampuk ke? Sejak bila Mikropemproses ada pocong atau Jembalang dalam dia? Ini Electrical Engineering ka Bomoh Engineering?

Masked Interrupt - Sampukan Bertopeng.
Handshake Interrupt - Sampukan Jabat Tangan. Ko salam dengan dia lepas tu ko kena sampuk, kira dia ni macam santau laa.

Then you have this thing called "Latch" which is an output chip.
Latch in Malay is Selak.
Selak as in Selak pintu, Selak Pagar or Selak pintu Jamban.

Mula-mula baca dulu saya ingat Selak dalam erti kata Selak Kain.
Contoh - Angin bertiup kencang lalu baju kurung Fasha Sanda pun selak sikit lalu Zaidel pun telah menerima ganguan emosi akibat dari kejadian itu.

Naah see,
And it gets interesting when it comes to "Electrical Power" Subject. In there there is this chapter where they talk about CoEnergy in power transmission. Coenergy in malay is translated to Kotenaga.

Which is why when he gave the lecture my lecturer would loudly proclaim KOtenaga compare to the students who prefer to pronounce it as KOTEnaga.

3 phase Coenergy in power transmission would then become
KoteNaga 3 fasa dalam penghantaran kuasa. OIYOOOOOO, kalah Anakonda!

Just for fun here are some other Technical Jargons you can play with...

Transformer - Pengubah
Decoder - Penyahkod (Mak Nyah kot)
Multiplexer - Pemultiplex
Polarity - Kutub
Instruction Set - Set Suruhan
Components - Peranti (I bet you didn't know that)
Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) - Penghantar Penerima Pemasa Serentak Am

Now try translating this
Connect Your Joy Stick into the server Port, you should find little problem with the Joystick as the server has Plug and Play mode.

Masukkan Kayu Ria anda ke dalam lubang pelayan, anda sepatutnya tidak mempunyai banyak masaalah dalam memasukkan kayu ria anda kerana pelayan ini mempunyai fungsi masuk dan main.

Hambik kau!
Tu belum dia kena sampuk ke selak ke nak nak pulak ada kotenaga.

By the time I was in my 4th year,
Everything was taught in English.... SENANG!