ThisISmyJourneyoFLiFe~~: September 2009

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

we gotta fight,fight,fight,fight.....

fight for this love....

ok..i have decided the new blog will be consist of:

my diet journey (good luck! :p)
travels
music
food! me loike
work experience
current issue

ok fine...its gonna be more consistent i suppose...but whatever it is..im looking out for countdown widget..u know for the diet countdown...hehe

u know u love me...xoxo...

Monday, September 28, 2009

in search for other half...

thats gonna be my new blog..still deciding whether to make it public or private...

will announce when this blog comes to an end...TBA

It has been nearly a week from now I have start using windows Vista...how did I find it? Honestly...CONFUSING!

Especially the Microsoft Office...its gonna take a while to get myself adjust with the new layout...a bit slow to do my work(lately I've brought my work home).

Blogging? Much tougher as I can't copy paste from other sites to Ms Word nor blog...

sigh...

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Julie & Julia

At first I thought this movie was about both Js are chef...whereas they weren't!

Its about both Js in different time line (Julia in her 1950s, Julie in her 2000s) secretarial government servants, struggling their life and discover that cooking is their passion. Julie is inspired with Julia's success in 'french cooking for americans' and decided to blog about her cooking all recipes from Julia's cook book.

I really think this movie is mouth watering & even I want to try some of her recipes..some may find this movie dragging, but I find it very well play.

I think I want to write another blog (inspired by Julie Powell). I will think of what would be best for this blog about.

This current blog? I will decide when it would be the end . . .

Au Revoir! =)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

baru nak ade ke???

Broad welcome for postcode plans
Monday, 21 September 2009 17:16

The business community and the National Ambulance Service have welcomed the Government's announcement that it is to introduce postal codes across the country.

The Government said the introduction of the system would cost €10m - €15m and it is hoped that it will be in place by 2011.

Danny McCoy, Director General of employers' body IBEC, said postal codes would greatly benefit businesses and consumers.
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Chief Officer with the National Ambulance Service Pat McCreanor said the system would help eliminate confusion over locating place names in emergencies.

Yesterday, the Minister for Communications said tenders for the design and implementation of the system will be issued shortly.

Minister Ryan said he expects new postal codes with digits and letters to be introduced in two years.

A Government-commissioned report said codes would provide long-term savings and demographic details for planning as well as benefitting emergency services.

An Post said it will be playing a key role in the move to postal codes which will involve coding 1.7m addresses.

In 2005, the then Minister for Communications, Noel Dempsey, promised a new system by 2008. At the time An post questioned the need for postal codes and industry experts put the cost at €50m.

However, Mr Ryan yesterday said the move would cost a fraction of that estimate.

Monday, September 21, 2009

Looking back...

over my shoulder...I can see, the look in your eyes...I never dreamed it could be over...I never wanted to say goodbye~

I'm in the middle of conflict of interest...A conflict that it's very hard to make someone to understand me...

If only I can see life as easy as it looks...if only ...

sigh~

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

aiyak...

baru nk happy sbb dah check-in online...(away to london from friday - tuesday)

tp too forgetful of me to check in the bag first!!

duit lg kuar......sigh~=(

p/s: this is the time where you can mengada2 with him...and listening him nagging for ur silly action!)

>.<

Sunday, September 13, 2009

blushed...

firstly...he dedicated me a song

secondly...he claimed that he had found his dream girl [me!]

thirdly...I'm defintely sure that he's aware that I'm currently seeing other guy

so...what's my point?

it's been a while that I haven't feel this way.

and...sometimes it feel good that i'm still laku in the market! what kind of language is that?

lol~

anyway...maybe its been for me to let the guy to make his moves without me pressuring him what to do or not (cheay..falsafah setelah tgk Ugly Truth)

Monday, September 07, 2009

Life in the twilight for Malaysia's Muslim transsexuals

read it from msn.com.my.

Astaghfirullah...I'm speechless..

With her tight jeans, elaborate make-up and flowing hair, Tasha looks for all the world like a striking young woman. But her all-important Malaysian ID card declares she is a Muslim man.

"In Islam, there are only men and women, there are no transsexuals, and this is an Islamic country so that makes life very difficult for us," says the 28-year-old who has been cross-dressing since she was a child.

Like many transsexuals in Malaysia, a conservative and mostly Muslim country, the clash between ID card and appearance means Tasha is shunned by employers, and forced to make her living as a sex worker.

"It's a hard life, people don't like us, they're always making fun of us," she says as she prepares for another night in the grimy alleyways of Chow Kit, the red light district of the capital Kuala Lumpur.

Tasha endures drunken clients, violent pimps, and aggressive competition from other transsexual prostitutes, but what really frightens her are the raids mounted by police and religious authorities.

Enforcement officials from the Islamic Affairs Department (JAWI) -- notorious for swooping on nightclubs and motels in search of Muslims drinking or having extramarital sex -- regularly descend on the streets of Chow Kit.

Sex workers are sent scattering on their high heels, and those who are caught and hauled off face jail or intensive "counselling" sessions like a two-week interrogation Tasha once endured.

"They asked me why I didn't want to be a man, how I became like this and why I behave like this. But it didn't change my mind!" she says as she layers on make-up before hitting the streets where she has worked since she was 15.

Tasha puts on a brave face, but the the pain is clear when she relates how she has struggled for acceptance from her family, her religion and her country.

Although she is on the margins of society, she continues to perform the Muslim prayers, fasts during the holy month of Ramadan, and respected her mother's wish that she not undergo sex-change surgery.

"Of course I still believe I'm a Muslim, it's just that the religion cannot accept us transsexuals," she says.

"Why can't Islam accept us? We are human beings as well. I am also one of God's creations."

It was not always this way for transsexuals in Malaysia, where they are known as "mak nyah".

"Until the early 1980s transsexuals were usually accepted in Malaysia, they could go for a sex change and amend their identity card," says Teh Yik Koon from the National Defence University who has written a book on mak nyahs.

"At that time quite a few had sex changes, some became happily married and even adopted children."

But in 1983 a "fatwa", or Islamic ruling, that prohibited gender-reassignment surgery as well as cross-dressing was imposed on all Malaysian Muslims, who make up 60 percent of the multicultural population.

"So now they're not accepted, there's no such thing as transsexuals according to Islam in Malaysia," says Teh, who estimates there are in fact at least 20,000 in the country.

"The biggest dilemma for a Muslim transsexual is the ID card, because it states they are a Muslim man but when you look at them they look like a woman," she says.

Some do manage to find regular work, typically as hairdressers, make-up artists, and boutique sales assistants, but advocates say that at least 70 percent resort to prostitution.

"At 15 I ran away from home and to Chow Kit. I cried at first, but luckily I had other transsexuals who helped me find a place to stay," says Tasha.

On a good night she can earn 500 ringgit (142 dollars), a huge sum by Malaysian standards, but since the economic downturn she now gets only two or three clients a night who may pay as little 50 ringgit a time.

Now that her mother has died, she plans to go to Thailand later this year and have sex-change and breast augmentation surgery.

"If you want to become pretty quickly, then you can't be afraid," she says. "Only then will I feel like a complete woman."

Transsexuals do not need to be selling their bodies in order to attract attention from authorities. Last year, Islamic religious police arrested 16 for taking part in a beauty pageant at a beachside resort.

Influential Islamic cleric Harussani Zakaria, who helped establish the 1983 fatwa, defended the strict approach and said that transsexuals should use their "willpower" and adopt a traditional lifestyle.

"Of course they won't get a job if they turn up wearing a woman's dress. All religions are opposed to this," he said.

"You cannot be transsexual, you are either a woman or a man. Why do they want to go against Allah?" he asked. "If God has created you as a boy, then act like a boy."