tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60850844660076881042023-11-16T23:26:16.138+08:00Thoughts of a Fellow Human Beingthat never belonged anywhere ...Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-39025773335735314682011-08-02T00:29:00.001+08:002011-08-02T00:29:08.415+08:00Procrastinator: Salvation Salamualaikum, dear phantom readers.<br />Hmmm, let's see how long has it been ... WHOA! 10 freakin months. OK, that is a VERY long time without a single post in this poor blog.<br /><br />Perhaps after new year a new sem has just started, so I was a bit busy. excuse#1<br />No mood. excuse#2<br />No one's gonna open it anyways! excuse#3<br />No inspiration. excuse#4<br />Procrastination! ok, this the real reason :D<br /><br />You know I have so much plans for this blog, a year a ago. Like at least a weakly entry, very cool blog design with very cool gadgets and perhaps vlogs *nah* but one thing has stopped me: procrastination. <br /><br />In real life i'm not a procrastinator, crucial things must be settled on the spot, and some things don't. I prioritize. So when it come to online stuff like blogging, social networks, i'm a huge procrastinator, I may leave a comment without a reply til the guy forgets he made that comment. you know facebook is my #1 time consumer, even when i'm flying low, scrolling down with liking or commenting.<br /><br />Another time eater is messenger, I use Live messenger, unlike many who like to use YM. chat n chat n chat n chat, I stay up late because of my dear friends holding me from sleeping because of the 5 hours difference, if it's midnight here, then it's 7 pm over there in Saudi.<br /><br />Now I'm trying to learn photoshop, which is something I was planing to do months ago, just solid basics. going pro is gonna take time. why it took almost a year to start learning? Procrastination<br /><br />Why is there only 16 posts in this blog? Procrastination<br />
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OK, inshallah i'll terminate this habit, it is really a charecter flaw.
hmm starting from .... tomorrow? nah after ramadhan .. nah that Eid ..
after Eid? nah the new semester in starting ..<br />
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See? HAHA<br />
Alright let's do things when they are supposed to be done!<br /><br /><br />
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<br /><br /><br /><br />Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-65585692176799173952010-11-21T21:15:00.000+08:002010-11-21T21:15:18.335+08:00Status UpdateWah, it's been like 8 months with no single blog entry, a lot can happen in 8 months.<br />
I'm planing on blogging more often and make it a habit, doesn't have be on daily basis, weekly at least. So, I'll update my current life status.<br />
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I've finished my bridging program, UIA's course foundation for international students, local Malaysian students can enrol to UIA by either CFS, centre for foundation studies, or by having an A-level certificate. In this "bridging" program I took Math, biology, chemistry, physics and basic computing skills, After that I've waited for the new semester, 2010/2011 session. <br />
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Kuantan! the day has finally come, i've heard a lot of stories about Kuantan, being the most boring and unsophisticated place to study, "The Jungle".<br />
It's July 12th, my bags are packed and ready to go. I took the UIA bus from Kuantan, at that time new students have just finished the orientation week "Ta'aruf Week", more like hell week, i've been through it, so some of those new student were going to Kuantan -I bet they also didn't know that UIA had a campus in Kuantan- those students are now my friends and classmates, it's amazing how you make relationships with total strangers. So I was there for the last 4 months, the first semester out of 7-8 semesters, and it was kinda difficult for me to live there because: 1. It was the first time I have ever lived and mingled with my paople, orang Melayu, before this I was always with Arabs, eating their food, talking their language and happy with their customs. At the end of this very painful cultural transformation i've bacame, almost, budak melayu, got used to the simple life, got used to ride a motor bike!, the food and the very awkward habits. I've changed my view towards kuantan, well, when you're in a monkey cage for while, you'll get used to the smell.<br />
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Now, I'm home, chilling and relaxing after that long horrible semester, waiting for my results. Ahh i've prayed a lot, InshaAllah i'll be answered.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com0Malacca Town, Melaka, Malaysia2.274418 102.2863862.1028884999999997 102.0529265 2.4459475 102.51984549999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-34319837026905612772010-04-11T15:14:00.004+08:002010-04-11T15:47:10.846+08:00Blog Entry No.2641431hmm, I really forgot why did I start blogging, at firs it was just doing what other people are doing, " owh, blogging is cool, lemme try ! ".<br /><br />Another reason was to write what going on in my life, more like a diary, which can be boring and girly at the same time, and i was like .. WHO CARES ? hmm maybe I do, perhaps after 20-30 years, if google wasn't fully hacked or bankrupted, I'll check these stories out, and remember the good 'ol days laughing.<br /><br />I heard that blogging should be meaningful, something that can help people, blogging can be an outlet for your ideas and opinions.<br /><br />One important thing got me to blog is to improve my English, which is from my perspective, terrible. yeah, despite how good it sounds and looks.<br />Here I am, again, bitching about my lousy English. hihhh<br /><br />Blogging in Arabic ? That would be great !<br />it has been months since i last wrote something in Arabic, I think my hand writing will deteriorate if i kept going like this.<br /><br />To this day, i still dunno how change my layout, or theme, or whatever it called.<br />Dja taught me, but hihh, still confusing.<br />I see the others with very beautiful layouts, themes, or whatever they're called.<br />I'll manage somehow.<br /><br />OK,from now on I won' post "dear diary" stuff. I'll post stuff that are interesting, stuff that happened to me and taught me a few lessons. Good stuff.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-75975288669042058302010-01-30T16:57:00.002+08:002010-01-30T17:30:33.075+08:0030 Nov .. Enrollment in UIAMAmazing, now I'm a collage student .. sounds awesome.<br />UIA, or IIUM, a well known University in Malaysia. also in some Arabic and Islamic countries. I really don't know how did i end up there, i don't even recall choosing UIA. I guess mom picked it up for me.<br />I was pursuing Medicine, but unfortunately thing didn't work out as i planed. So in UIA i had to switch my chosen course to Biomedical science, a major disappointment. I don't even know what will i end up with such degree.<br />But not worries I got plans ...<br /><br />So UIA, a pretty cool International university, there you find every race god created. i fitted there quickly, 'cause I've found lots of Arabs there, especially student from Saudi Arabia -my hometown- yeah my home town, and proudly saying it, 'cause i was born and raised there, you know already, kan ?<br /><br />Ta'aruf Week (TW) Was hell week. I hated every single minute of it. I wont mention the torture i faced that week. ask whoever you know about it.<br /><br />During the TW i took an English proficiency test EPT and, Arabic proficiency test APT and the Fundamental knowledge Test FKT.<br />and the results were :<br />EPT: 5,6 didn't pass, so i was forced to take the English course in the finale level, level 6. after that I'll take another EPT later. I must pass that one ...<br />APT: PASSED! I nailed it, no wonder,Arabic is my mother tongue.<br />FKT: didn't pass, i was about basic Islamic teachings, I felt ashamed for not passing, 'cause i came Makka .. daahh anyway i had to take some classes about it.<br /><br />I also had to take some "bridging" courses, or foundation as you call it.<br />the courses are: Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Basic Computer Skills.<br /><br />After finishing the foundation courses and the English I'll be able to go and start my major course; Biomedicine. In Kuantan NOT Gombak, very unfortunate ...Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-31015417858413275302010-01-30T16:51:00.002+08:002010-01-30T16:56:58.335+08:003 bulanYeah, 3 months with absolutely no single update.<br />Too many things happened to me in these 3 months, major and important turning point in my life.<br /><br />Ahh I feel the regret for not writing anything about them, now I'll try to list them down here in order to catch up, and hopefully i wont get malas to update this dear blog.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-55210419678241103112009-11-15T01:14:00.002+08:002009-11-15T01:40:28.959+08:00B.O.R.E.DAhhh .. i have absolutely nothing to do. its 1:15 AM. whoa time is running so fast, it was 00:22. i remember a teacher, a religion teacher, said once that wasting time is HARAM, wasting it with no good is haram. yeah .. i agree ...<br /><br />uuhhmm i've taken a nape today, so i don't feel sleepy .. like a Jinny .. everyones asleep, umm.. <br /><br />i'm now looking at my cellphone, and i feel like throwing it on the wall ... i hate it, i want a new one.. ee5555, 5 means the letter "Kha" in Arabic.<br />my life has changed when we moved here, a tremendous change ..god i hate here ..<br />very .. i grief on the time i've spent in Makka .. now my eyes are watering ..<br /><br />shit, why did we have to move here anyways ? .. why should i suffer from my dads decisions .. GOD ... shit .. forgiveness lord, i shall bear with this.<br /><br />a man, here, told me once : Majid, just wait and settle here for a while, i know that you eager to go back to makkah, but when you get used to it here, you well forget about going back and you gonna love it here.<br /><br />then i nodded my head head with a yes, telling my self : F*** you, you dump s*** you don't know what i'm suffering from you pile of s*** ..<br /><br />ahh i'm getting emotional here .. <br /><br />i'll go back, no matter what. god knows whats waiting for me in the future.<br /><br />...Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-40763856779784905202009-11-08T23:16:00.004+08:002009-11-09T13:31:59.833+08:00Up-dateI'm very lazy, thats why i don't blog here alot. When i click on New Post and see this big white blank space i stand speechless and out of things to write.<br />So now I'll write what happened today, like a diary, sort of.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Morning </strong></span><br />I woke up today to find everyones gone, i wondered is this a dream ? then i remembered mama telling me that they're going to uncle Munir's parents village, to pay a visit to the unwell ed oldster. He's in my prayers for soundness, if not resting in peace.<br />So i had breakfast, i found my sister; obviously she was asleep as well, picked the news paper anxiously wanna read them but it turned out they were in Malay, shiiiishshs "I don't speak Malay, Lucy" hehe.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Afternoon<br /></strong></span>I thought why not go out and catch a movie ? and so we did. supported by my over bored sister. by bus we went to Melaka Mall, but oops we're late "Law Abiding Citizen" has already started, so i switched to Inglorious Bastards.<br />We had lunch at KFC, waiting for the 3:30 movie to start.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Inglorious Bastards</strong></span><br />A complete disappointment, sorry Quentin and his fans but i didn't like it.<br />What had supported my opinion about the movie was:<br />1. the Malay and Chinese subtitles.<br />2. the guy with the big wig in front of me.<br />3. most the movie was in French, if not all of it, in German as well. I just couldn't read the English Subs quickly, especially in fast-French dialogues.<br />4. the sound went out for like 10 minuets. stupid stingy careless HBO people !!<br /><br />what a waste of time and money. maybe on DVD the movie well kill it, or in a proper theater.<br /><br /><br /><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Evening</span> </strong><br />We took the bus to get back, the same way we got there, we reached home at 8:00<br />Mama came home minute later, Bringing over 20Kg of Rambutan, yummm yummy.<br />Dad got his first ever ACCIDENT ! whoa, that calls for a celebration !<br />some lousy driver hit him in the back, smashing the rear bumper. No harm done, everyone is safe, only some substantial damage, Dad in pride refused the Compensations.<br />Surprisingly they brought KFC for dinner, HAHA lucky for us :)<br />uncle Salman gave me some books to reas too, bile of books.<br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Meanwhile </strong><br /></span>sitting here, the only one awake, music in my ears, facebooking, IM-ing, Emailing and writing this.<br />its past midnight now, my sleep cycle is corrupted again.<br />better now head to bed.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"Everything is written in stone, you cant change the past nor the future, thats why the open minded don't grief upon Misfortunes nor gleesome over fortunes" MajidMajid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-84418385562554334342009-11-01T22:45:00.005+08:002009-11-02T15:21:37.263+08:00ExploreOn 31 Oct we went to the "British Council" the place that my uncle Salman wanted me badly to go.<br />Madiha and I took a 4 PM bus to Sermban, the bus wasn't that full, only a few people. when i sat down i felt instantaneously bored; so i grabbed my PSP to listen to some music, when i found out that i didnt bring my earpiece, aaargh what a bummer.<br />So i slept until i reached my destination at like 5:30 PM, where i found uncle Salman waiting for us. Then, we had supper at aunty Faridah's. After that we went to uncle Salman's house in Nilai to take a loud off and to catch some sleep.<br />In the morning, after having a breakfast, we started the trip.<br />we went to the KLCC, which is a remarkable place that i haven't been in for the last 6 year, it is a bit shorter now, hehe I've grown a few cms. Then we went to this Malaysia tourism center, and we saw the KL tower,a terrific place for banji jumping as i supposed, i wanna try it one day if possible.<br />Finally! the British Council! a good place to educate everyone about English, i saw kids in classes, it was very adorable and the teachers were very kind and they looked professional, they seemed from out of town, Europeans or Americans.<br />we just sat there and read some books and magazines.<br />We got back to where we parked the car in the KLCC after we had lunch, and off to the bus station in Seremban, we bought the tickets, we said goodbye, and rode the 4 PM bus that was headed to Melaka.<br />We reached our home safely alhamdulillah, i dropped the bags somewhere, took a shower and fell to sleeeep ...Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-24133078627926337882009-10-31T13:36:00.002+08:002009-10-31T13:57:10.514+08:00Take This in ReturnIf everyone cant read Arabic well so do I can't read Malay well.<br />So in return I'll post in Arabic :p<br />or try to mix the languages, so you can feel the tease.<br />here we go .. Aywan mafi shy a7san mn annak tiktop belo3'atak alumm, 8odra fi<br />atta3beer a7san, better vocabiolay, abilty to expres more.<br />faa ummm esh bagol .. aywa, bs laman tiktop bil English -binnisba linnas illi tihrij 3araby mn yomaha- tigdar ti7assin ingliziyyatak, tiktashif kilmat, ma3ani wa<br />mo96ala7at jadeeda. wa kaman you English typing fil computer. a brighter future for you. <br />i3teraf ba9ee6: ana ma a3rif aktob "3arabishi" besor3a, English? Yes.<br />و العكس صحيح يمديني اكتب باللغة دي سريع، اكيد الناس -بعض الناس- حتلاقي صعوبة في الفهم. و القراءة كمان.<br />معظم الماليزيين يمديهم يقرأوا عربي، لانه في تعليمهم الابتدائي<br />بس مع تقدم المراحل، مادة العربي تختفي<br />و الفهم و كمية الكلمات عندهم تقل.<br /><br />Let's just keep it English, everyone can understand, after all, it is the universal language, existed ages before any language.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-8140517863498971242009-10-17T22:47:00.001+08:002009-10-17T23:27:56.690+08:00My English BlowsYes, it does, seriously. even though i can write, read and speak well; but very imperfectly.<br />Spelling is my huge problem, and i think that'll effect my educational process here.<br />I think my problem was in my primary education, me coming from Saudi Arabia, where English doesn't get that much of attention; my 13-year-old brother's English is better then an ordinary high school graduate in Saudi Arabia, and to be honest; only 4 or 5 in my whole school is good in English, seriously! I'm not overrating.<br />there we study English for only 6 years, thats merely not enough, and the English curriculum isn't so superb.<br />All my science subjects i had it learned in sheer Arabic! ,Unlike other countries, so I'll need to go through a preparatory year so i can bear the crucial studies later.<br />So, the average high school graduate can't:<br />1. Spell right.<br />2. Punctuate well.<br />3. make paragraphs or essays.<br />4. grasp outlandish new word,so a very poor vocabulary.<br />5. read skillfully, neither writing shapely.<br />and the list is on and on when it comes about English skills.<br /><br />oh god almighty make my English well as time passes.<br />uhh I'm predicting a bad future because of this.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6085084466007688104.post-35912085506136449152009-10-07T14:53:00.000+08:002009-10-16T15:12:18.938+08:001st BlogBlog blog blog, i hear this word a lot, but never interested in actually doing it.<br />But here I am blogging, haha. The main reason that allured me to this is because i wanted to document my life, and state whats happening, something for my children in the future to know about my past life, and of course for Friends and family and interested readers.<br />none of my friends or relatives in Saudi Arabia does blogging, i wonder why.<br />but here in Malaysia most of them does.<br />Lets just hope that i don't quit writing.Majid Ghaffarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06558599958379751637noreply@blogger.com0