Monday, October 26, 2009

Tsunami At Haeundae




Ahn-hyung seyo! Setelah hampir 4 minggu bertungkus lumus menghabiskan pelbagai tugasan dan juga tanggungjawab sebagai pelajar, rasa di hati ingin memuaskan diri menonton filem di pawagam. Bukan satu, tapi perancangan asalnya ingin menonton tiga sekaligus tanpa menghiraukan hal sekeliling. Tapi itu perancangan awal, cerita apa yang mahu ditonton pun belum diputuskan lagi hinggalah saat-saat akhir. Ketika hari terakhir kuliah, terdetik ingin melihat sepintas lalu apa yang sekarang dihidangkan di pawagam MBO Galaxy Ampang buat masa ini. Terkejut juga saya kerana Tsunami At Haeundae masih lagi ditayangkan sedangkan sudah agak lama billboard filem ini terpampang di Lebuhraya Persekutuan.

Di tulis semula tajuk untuk pasaran Malaysia, Tsunami At Haeundae pada asalnya hanya bertulis Haeundae untuk pasaran Korea Selatan. Atas faktor apa dan mengapa diubah tajuk sedemikian tidaklah saya ketahuinya dengan lebih lanjut. Inilah kali pertama saya menonton filem bahasa asing (selain Inggeris) di pawagam. Lebih lagi, ini kali pertama saya menonton wayang dua cerita berturut-turut. Hasrat dihati ingin meneruskan marathon ini tetapi ternyata stamina tidak mengizinkan dan minda dan juga badan perlu berehat dari suhu yang rendah dan sejuk di dalam panggung.

Baiklah, mengenai kisah ini, secara ringkasnya saya dapat simpulkan bahawa filem ini mengambil pelbagai video-video realiti yang terpampang ketika fenomena tsunami yang melanda Asia pada penghujung tahun 2004 di mana 300 000 nyawa terkorban dalam peristiwa tersebut. Cuma yang berbezanya, semua peristiwa itu dikumpulkan dan diselitkan dalam kisah ini untuk latar Bandar peranginan Haeundae di Korea Selatan. Jika anda ingat rakaman di Sri Lanka, Aceh, Phuket dan juga Pulau Pinang – kisah ini tak lain hanya melakonkan semula rakaman-rakaman tersebut dengan gambaran lebih jelas.

Seperti cerita Sepi mahupun Cinta (sepatutnya ada contoh yang lebih lojik dari dua filem ini), ada beberapa peristiwa dan watak diutamakan dalam kisah ini antaranya kisah cinta antara penyelamat pantai dan kekasihnya, kisah bekas nelayan dan kekasihnya juga, kisah seorang anak yang pada dasarnya tidak mahu mengikut kata ibunya dan kisah seorang pengkaji gempa bumi bersama krisis keluarganya. Kesemuanya ini dirangkum dalam satu cerita supaya cerita ini tidak semata-mata kosong hanya untuk menampilkan bencana alam yang dahsyat.

Secara amnya, tahap kepuasan menonton filem ini hanyalah sederhana. Maklumlah filem ini adalah hasil buah tangan dari Korea Selatan bukanlah dari Hollywood. Sebaik keluar dari panggung, terus saya menganggap kisah ini hanyalah pemanas badan untuk filem yang betul-betul saya nantikan untuk berapa ketika ini iaitu 2012. Filem 2012 akan berada di pawagam dalam bulan November depan. Sebuah lagi filem bencana dari perspektif Hollywood dan hanyalah untuk hiburan minda sahaja. Akhirnya, Tsunami At Haeundae tidaklah membuatkan saya kagum seperti Death Notes dari Jepun. Gambatte Kudasai Nihon-go.

FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

Keropok "Papadom"


Tak sesuai rasanya meletak panggilan keropok di belakang papadom. Seolah-olah perkataan papadom itu adalah satu entiti sendiri yang membawa maksud sejenis keropok. Menariknya, papadom ini enak dimakan begitu saja mahupun dimakan bersama nasi.

Lain pula didalam filem. Walaupun jua papadom turut menjadi paparan didalam kisah ini, pada saya istilahnya mungkin lebih kepada Papa Dom dipendekkan dari Papa Saadom. Kisah seorang bapa yang menjaga anak perempuannya dari kecil setelah kematian isterinya. Kerana rasa bersalah, terlalu memberi tumpuan terhadap kerjanya membuka kedai Nasi Kandar akhirnya membawa padah kerana terlupa mengambil anak perempuannya Miasara dari sekolah.

Didalam amarah, isterinya Mun telah menelefon sambil memandu. Ketika itu juga Mun memarahi Saadom yang seringkali meminggirkan hal keluarga dan melebihkan hal bisnes dari segalanya. Ketika itu juga, kelalaian dalam memandu kereta telah membawa maut kepada Mun. Seterusnya dalam keadaan bersalah, Saadom terpaksa mengambil peranan sebagai bapa tunggal.
Kisah yang mudah dan ringkas, tidak perlu berfikir secara mendalam dan anda boleh rileks sambil menonton. Saya rasa susah untuk menilai keseluruhannya cerita ini kerana saya sememangnya mungkin berat sebelah untuk menilaikan kisah ini. Pertama, latar belakang kisah ini kebanyakannya berada di UiTM Shah Alam. Semestinya saya tertarik kerana mengenali segenap kawasan yang dipaparkan didalam cerita ini. Kedua, kisah ini mengutarakan isu perfileman sejajar dengan minat saya walaupun saya tidak mengambil jurusan tersebut. Tertarik dengan isu teras filem, adakah kutipan wang lebih penting ataupun kesenian dan pengertian filem tersebut yang patut diutamakan. Sebenarnya kedua-duanya penting. Jika kutipan tinggi, bermakna perhatian dan sambutan terhadap satu2 filem tersebut juga menonjol.

Agak berbeza kerana apa yang ditaipkan disini berbeza dengan sebuah lagi karangan sebelum kerini. Tetapi kerana terputus talian jadi tulisan sebelum ini tidak dapat direkodkan dengan sebaiknya. Pengajaran dari ini, taiplah dahulu di Mocrosoft Word sebelum hendak post kan ke blog. Nescaya tidak akan lupa dan hilang jika terputus talian.

Kepada anda semua, saksikanlah Papadom untuk santapan kerehatan minda anda tanpa was-was. Tidak akan maki dan anda boleh merehatkan mata dan telinga sambil bergelak tawa. Tidak perlu lagi hendak memaksa diri anda dari gelakkan yang tidak ikhlas. Terimalah Papadom dari Afdlin Syauqi.


FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

Thursday, October 15, 2009

High Work Metabolism

I think it's been a while I didn't write in English. It only happen if I'm a bit shy to express what I'm going to say in Bahasa. So it didn't really directly towards to whom I'm angered, hate and frustrated so they might not feel hate towards me so deep if it is in English. Other than that, I prefer to express in Bahasa.

So, here I am. In the critical period in the semester; 2nd last and final week for this semester. Well, as all other knows, this is the period where so many assignments must be submitted, so many test will be conducted, and so many presentation will be held during this time. It just another period where some student wanted to be dead rather than going through this tough period. Well for me, bring it on. He3, not so true but I try my best. Just look at this post's title so that is what I'm feeling right now. Here the chronological order:

26/9, Saturday: Hari Raya mood still held high but for me it's finished. With so many thought in my mind especially regarding Site Investigation report mini project for boreholes. So I come back to the Shah Alam house so early and it surprising my brother to be back at this early.

27/9, Sunday: Some interpretation being made by us as the team member.

28/9, Monday: The only class of the day, Highway Laboratory once again canceled. We didn't know why. But if only we know this earlier, we might be able to enjoy a bit for the Hari Raya.

29/9, Tuesday: Last minute final touch for the borehole report of the mini project.

30/9, Wednesday: The due date for the report. I considered this as the preliminary of the hectic period for us.

(Skip for a few days, in confusion of some other subjects. We didn't really know the exact date for the test respective for each subject except for 3rd language, Math and few more)

4/10, Sunday: I was informed that the Design test will be held on October 8th. This is minor because only some of us took this subject for repeater students only. But later on that day, one of my friend posted on his facebook page that the Site Investigation test will be held on the same day and at the almost exact time with SI test will be held only earlier for 15 minutes. Thus, the situation bring some headache to me cause to avoid confronting with SI lecturer, I rather to delay the Design test, but to apply the rights for the subject, I think that we should take the Design test because we know about the test earlier than SI test.

5/10, Monday: Discussion being made by us to determine which one to postpone first. Here I decided that someone should talk to PM because of this situation. Too bad, PM not in his room so my friends wrote a note to inform him about this. Another unlucky day, because we just been informed that VIVA for highway laboratory will be held this evening with the fact that we know this only on the afternoon. And the VIVA was made was so awful. For me it is unfair.

6/10, Tuesday: The due date for the mini project to be submit for correction is a week but we decided to submit early. So I took this opportunity to ask PM about our situation. Lucky to us, he was in his room with some joke from him, he decided to let us postpone his test and took the design test first. This day, I want to make some opinion change to others. Whoever thought that PM is a heartless lecturer, I hope you can change that perspective because he is kind hearted. Not only because of this, I think because of his method of teaching, now I knew to draw Mohr's circle better than during 4th semester in Diploma.

7/10, Wednesday: Many of us attend the Design class. It was rare for me. He3

8/10, Thursday: Yay, this day was my 22nd birthday. Wow, only after I wrote this I realize that the day --> Thursday is exactly same with the day when I was born back in 1987. But only there was no present. Hu3, but I'm not a girl who wanted a prize. Instead, I was given a Design test. As the present, I can answer it. Alhamdulillah.

9/10, Friday: Hectic day, we preparing for the MATH test.

10/10, Saturday: Math test day.

11/10, Sunday: Studying the SI.

12/10, Monday: The delayed SI test was now upon us.

13/10, Tuesday: Some work for SI presentation was underway. Also we studied for 3rd language test.

14/10, Wednesday: 3rd language test and final touch for the SI presentation. It was hard for me cause the title Pressuremeter was a hard one cause the calculation was not in our syllabus. I've need to study about it.

15/10, Thursday: Here I am, just finishing presenting the SI Pressuremeter test title. Alhamdulillah, he was not angry and mad at us because of our performance. For me it was not so interesting cause everyone not pulling their best effort on this cause there are so many thing to be done. And the best part is... it is not ended here. Tonight we are going to have our Research Methodology test (I'm not study anything yet). Tomorrow is Geotechnical Engineering test (of course not prepare yet). Tomorrow also the due date for research proposal to be submitted. Luckily, before going to class just now, I managed to finished my calculation for MATH subject. As long as I wrote this, believe me, its not finished yet. There are so many is about to come on us. Okay, BRING IT ON...

*notes: I wrote this during the hectic time. Just to relaxing my mind. Thank You!

FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Adoyai! Sogan Dibueknyo


Apalah nasib badan. Member kamcing sendiri pun ter'dajal'kan aku sendiri. Aku tau kau tak sengaja. Tapi yang kau pergi buat benda mengarut tu apahal. Adus.. Aku yang terkena, depan orang ramai pulak tuh.


Sedang pula tu, aku elok je seronok kelas dah habis, dah tak pandang kiri kanan dah terus melulu nak keluar dari pintu Dewan Kuliah tu. Tiba-tiba pulak yang kau angkat Fire Extingusiher(FE) biru tu kat tengah jalan buat apa? Elok FE tu digunakan untuk sendal pintu selain dari fungsi utamanya memadam kebakaran di waktu kecemasan, kau pergi alih buat apa. Aku apa lagi, terlanggar la dengan menatang tuh. Adussss... sakit kaki aku. Kalau aku Stephen Chow dalam Shaolin Soccer, dah melayang agaknya FE tu aku sepak, tapi kena kepala orang lain pulak nanti.


Tak kesah sangat pasal sakit kaki tu, tapi disebabkan tragedi tu, abis air muka aku nak letak mana. Ramai orang tengah tunggu nak masuk DK tu tau tak? Dah tu aku boleh pulak tersepak kat situ. Kantoi semua orang tengok aku. Malu den dibueknyo. Dah tu pulak kau boleh nak ngelat kata aku pulak yang tak nampak kau buat benda tu. Kau kata aku sebelah kau dan boleh elak FE tersebut.


Adus, kalau bukan aku pun kalau kena pada orang lain, orang tu pula malu. Kesian la, kita sama-sama kawan. Jangan la begini. Kalau aku ada salah silap kat kau, aku mintak maaf la awal-awal.


(Kisah ini sengaja ditulis didalam ayat bersahaja dan tidak mengikut mana aturan bahasa Melayu langsung.)


FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Little Big Planet (LBP)


"Kullu nafsin zaikatul maut" = setiap yang bernyawa pasti akan merasai mati (Ali-Imran : 185)


Adakah anda hairan, melihat gambar ilustrasi kartun permainan untuk pelantar Playstation 3 ini tetapi permulaan ayat yang saya gunakan adalah ayat Al-Quran dari surah Ali Imran? Janganlah begitu kerana sememangnya ada sedikit perkaitan antara ayat ini dan juga permainan ini.

Saya singkap kembali kisah saya, ketika saya sibuk mencari dan survey maklumat mengenai PS3 suatu masa dulu kononnya mahu membeli sebuah, jadi saya terselak pelbagai maklumat, video dan pelbagai lagi grafik mengenai permainan yang telah disediakan untuk pelantar ini dan antaranya adalah LBP. Dicanangkan LBP adalah permainan masa hadapan dan juga mempunyai persamaan dengan konsep Web 2.0 yang membawa pengguna untuk berkongsi antara satu sama lain ciri dan mod yang ada untuk bermain bersama.

Tetapi malangnya, sedikit saja untuk tiba pada tarikh pelancaran permainan ini, pihak Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) telah menarik balik pengeluaran permainan ini secara besar-besaran dari rak-rak kedai seluruh dunia.

Kenapa? Didalam permainan tersebut ada sebuah lagu yang menggunakan ayat Al-Quran tadi sebagai lirik lagu tersebut yang ditakuti menyentuh sensitiviti umat Islam seluruh dunia. Lagu yang bertajuk Tapha Niang dan artisnya adalah Toumani Diabaté dari Mali pada saya agak menarik dan saya terperasan lagu ini didalam reviu untuk LBP oleh Gametrailer.com.

Setelah dipanggil semula, kemudian pihak SCEE telah mengeluarkan semula permainan ini untuk pasaran antarabangsa setelah mengubah lagu Tapha Niang ini dengan menjadikannya instrumental sahaja. Jadi hilanglah ayat Al-Quran tadi dan yang tinggal hanyalah alunan lagu.

Jika berminat untuk melihat sedikit sebanyak mengenai permainan ini bolehlah cari sendiri di Youtube. Saya rasakan permainan ini agak comel dan juga menarik. Agak kelakar juga kerana permainan comel dan ringkas seperti ini juga boleh mengundang kontroversi apatah lagi Grand Theft Auto yang sememangnya sentiasa kontroversi.

Untuk mendengar lagu Tapha Niang (di sini)


FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

Friday, October 2, 2009

Ahmadinejad 1, Couric 0

Iranian President: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
A Martyr: Marwa Ali El-Sherbini

Last week, Katie Couric had the tables turned on her. During an interview with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Couric asked about Neda Soltan, the Iranian female who was shot and killed by Iranian security back in June.

After expressing his regret for the loss of life, Mr. Ahmadinejad pulled out a photo of another woman. He showed it to Ms. Couric and asked if she knew who the woman was. Couric said she didn't, and that's when Ahmadinejad pounced.

Ahmadinejad explained that the woman in the photo is Marwa Ali El-Sherbini. She was stabbed to death in a German court by a neo-Nazi. The Iranian president then asked why the death of Ms. El-Sherbini wasn't being publicized by the media in the same way as Neda's. Ahmadinejad "suggested that the western media — who turned Neda into a martyr — ignored Marwa's story."

The interview between Couric and Ahmadinejad took place last week, but the searches really started to pop this morning. Web lookups on "marwa ali el sherbini" and "who is marwa ali el sherbini" both spiked into the thousands.

The National Post writes that comparing the two deaths was a "little absurd," and referenced Hamid Dabashi's editorial for CNN. Mr. Dabashi, a professor at Columbia University, writes that "there are more holes in Ahmadinejad's point than in that proverbial Swiss cheese." Ms. El-Sherbini, Dabashi writes, was the victim of a "vicious act of a neo-Nazi racist, while Neda Aqa Soltan was one among many other victims of violence at the hands of the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic."

Regardless of whether or not the comparison was valid, interest in El-Sherbini's story has been piqued, and Ahmadinejad reaffirmed his status as a tough interview. But Couric didn't back down. Later in the interview, the journalist showed photos of World War II concentration camps to Ahmadinejad, who has called the Holocaust "a lie." Couric asked, "Is this photo fabricated? Is this photo a lie?"

(From Yahoo! News)

FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -

3rd Language Short Movie, Excited!

Somedays from now, we as a group will be making another short stories for our oral test. It is quite tempting for me because my interest is hugely on movie making. Well, even though the quality is not so good compared to the other directors who making short film, but I am relieved cause at least it is a platform for me to satisfy my hobbies.

The story will be made by girls teammate cause if I'm the one who came up with the storyline, it will be difficult for all of us cause it is heavy. I'm taking the lesson from 'Neko', our first level movie which was very different from others in term of the story, length, style and angle of camera is tireful. Therefore I will be leaving the storyline to them.

Where I've heard it, Yati-san as the lead writer associates with her friends will be creating and writing this story. Now I would like to think and imagine about the situation, condition and equipments available for us to start shooting. Whether I'm the director again, I don't know but for sure I'm the only one editor for our group. Yeah, with Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Premiere Elements, I will be doing the best out of it but still limited with my knowledge using those softwares.

About this story, I will give a hint about it:
There are 3 tourist from Japan who visiting Malaysia, particularly Shah Alam and there is a driver and a tourist guide. It is simple as that. They talking with each other using what we've learned during this semester and applied in the real life situation. That is the main objective so somehow for me it is limiting the creativity for us. Well of course, I do think that is to make everyone to be fair enough to be judged for the marks.

Hai, Muizzah-san, Emi-san, Shima-san to Yati-san, gambatte kudasai. Nihon-go no eiga o shimashoo.

(ps: if you ever wanted to watch 'Neko', please search in the youtube with "Neko radiuse1". hope you can find it there)

FEAR IS THE PATH TO THE DARK SIDE. FEAR LEADS TO ANGER. ANGER LEADS TO HATE. HATE... LEADS TO SUFFERING.
- Master Yoda -