Malam ni malam kedua aku di Brackenbury. Bilik nih selesa. Luas. Ada bilik air dan tandas sekali. So, okey la. No complaint about it. Ada bas jugak dari sini ke school aku. Free during term time. So, not bad.

Aku baru sempat tegur … er.. Henry, asyik lupa ja nama dia. Dia duduk sebelah bilik aku. Aku nampak ada sorang lagi bertentangan dengan bilik aku. Dan sepatutnya ada sorang perempuan sebab nampak ada rice cooker pink. Anyway, nanti-nanti jumpa lah tu.

So far so good. Bilik panas, so I kinda like it. Walaupun ada certain time yang diorang tak buka heater, bilik masih panas sebab bilik nih kinda diapit dengan dinding-dinding berlapis-lapis. So, okay la. Waktu pagi, heater on automatik, tetiba rasa panas. Yang tak bagusnya, bila tidur dalam panas, tekak boleh kering. Entah macammana, semalam aku termimpi Yusran. Dia cakap, ‘kan aku dah cakap tidur tak payah pasang heater’. Lebih kurang macam tu lah. Wah, okey la Yusran, walaupun dah tak duduk dengan ko, tapi masih lagi dapat nasihat dalam mimpi. Hehe.

Bilik masih berkelabung. Kat sini aku cepat mengantuk. Ciao.

P.S: Terima kasih kepada Zeah, Arni, Mahadi dan Yusran yang tolong mengangkut barang-barang aku. Aku duk mula pindah sikit-sikit sejak Ahad hari tu. Isnin pindah banyak-banyak. Hari ni bawak pindah kasut. Tu ada lagi sikit-sikit barang kat rumah tu. Giler banyak benda aku beli dalam 8 bulan nih.

I loved it when I was a little kid - everything can be games. Like cycling bicycle and whoever reach home first will be the winner. Or as simple as guessing some simple stuff. My bro used to do some sort of olympics thingy when he came back from the boarding school. Me and my friends back then will compete in endurance challenge like who can hold their balance in one foot for the longest, or arm wrestling. It was fun.

Then, there come teenager life where pc games come in the mainstream. Still up until now. But recently, I always love to play those classic concept of games where human are come in contact rather than behind the pc screen. Nope, I’m not talking of doing Amazing Race and stuff where it requires some major plan (or otherwise I’ll be critisized by the players); I am thinking of some simple game that we can make out of our life.

I remember when I was in Brunel Uni. My housemates watched tv, quite a lot, so they come up with a game of guessing the commercial. They put some unwritten rules like - if the brands name comes up immediately, so it’s no one game. I didn’t manage to get too much into the games because I didn’t watch too much tv. I watch downloaded stuff where there’s no commercial and didn’t even pay attention to those awe-inspiring raya commercial although it’s available on YouTube. I will find it amusing, but not feeling to motivated to search for it. Not my thing.

I usually love ’searching for people’ game. I was with Intan (Bristol) in Wales Designer’s Outlet last month and Abang Tra and er… I keep forgetting his name… Abg Tra’s friend left us behind. So, I went, ‘okay Intan, whoever see (and point out) Abg Tra first, will score a point’. I think we got even scores. Can’t remember. I think it’s kinda pumping some adrenaline for finding people than feeling bored out of it. Surely A LOT of adrenaline if I’m playing with Zeah for her competitive spirit.

One of the quite interesting game that we’ve been playing lately was songs-on-a-theme. Last 2 days, me, Zeah, Arni and Mahadi was playing in Costa in service station (a.k.a R&R). I had just realised that Costa in service station was open 24/7. That’s nice. Just last couple of week, with Mahadi, I wonder.. isn’t there any place that we can hang out around 2am? Like coffee place or something. Not place where involves beers and drunking people. Now I got the answer - Costa, coffee shop.

The game goes like these. We pick a theme, or a word, and then going in circle (in less than a minute), we have to find songs related to it. The scores last couple of night was 3-2-2-0 for Mahadi, me, Zeah and Arni respectively. Poor Arni, she’s just can’t go underpressure.

The winning round for Mahadi was - songs that includes name of people.

So the songs that come out includes (but not limited to)

- Britney (in Oops I did it again) - mine
- Mak Minah (that Mak Minah song popular in my matrix time) - Mahadi’s
- Bob (in Bob The Builder) - mine
- Sumaiyyah (that nasyid song)
- Maria (which was repeatedly used in lot of songs which I can barely remember now)
- Billy Jean (as in Michale Jackson’s) - mine
- Annie (as in Smooth Criminal, agan by MJ) - mine
- etc

There are a lot and I just lose quite early in the round.

Anyway, that’s a game we’ve been playing. And I’m loving it

So, we had our Amazing Race Durham on Saturday. Best best. Aku gembira sebab banyak footage yang boleh dimasukkan untuk editing. Kitorang buat 2 round, ada 4 teams. So, aku bajet nak buat video 15 minit untuk satu round. Kalau buat panjang-panjang pun, tak larat tengok. Sekarang nih aku tengok orang target video untuk Youtube pendek-pendek saja.

For the contestants who read my blog, please do not leave comments here of who’s winning or who’s losing or anything related to Amazing Race Durham. Keep it secret first before they watch the episodes. Takpe, on your blogs, okey je kalau korang nak tulis pun.

Email from my brother regarding the server changing… sorta:D

Pada pagi ini, selepas buka email, abang ada terima satu email dari yourwebpoint.com (reseller utk EstDomains), satu berita tidak baik kepada 281,000 pelanggan dari seluruh dunia. Pemilik EstDomains disabitkan dengan jenayah berkaitan kad kredit.

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-29oct08-en.htm
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12nov08-en.htm

Apa kesan langsung kepada sub-domain solarstreak.com (pagihari.solarstreak.com) ?

Barangkali blog ini akan hilang buat sementara waktu (jika tindakan segera tidak diambil). Sebagai langkah seterusnya, ICANN (selaku badan yang mengawal selia semua domain seluruh dunia) akan membuat pemindahan ke mana-mana Registrar (syarikat pendaftar domain) yang mungkin mengambil masa yang agak lama.

Domain solarstreak.com dibeli di reseller Rusia iaitu http://www.tezis.ru .Semasa pembelian, abang terpaksa menggunakan http://babelfish.altavista.com untuk memahami bahasa Rusia. Faktor utama pembelian di tempat yang susah untuk dibeli ini ialah harga yang murah dan boleh dibeli menggunakan e-gold (harga e-gold jatuh pada masa tu). Tezis.Ru merupakan reseller bagi EstDomains, selain dari yourwebpoint.com

Pengurusan EstDomains tidaklah bermasalah (pengurusan domain dari segi teknikal), cuma yang bermasalah ialah pemilik EstDomains sendiri. Berita pada 29 Oktober abang tidak terima langsung. Berita ini pun diterima dari reseller yang sudah pun menutup perniagaan domain mereka (yourwebpoint.com).

Domain solarstreak.com yang akan expired pada 18 Disember 2008 akan dipindahkan ke syarikat DynaDot (http://www.dynadot.com) bermula hari ini, proses pemindahan mengambil masa 1 minggu (berdasarkan pengalaman lepas). Blog Pagi Hari di Durham akan berjalan seperti biasa. Jika pemindahan dibuat awal dari tarikh expired, tarikh expired baru dikira semula bermula dari tarikh pemindahan ke Registrar baru. Agak rugi dalam sebulan.

Sekian.

Abang
DagangAsia Enterprise
http://www.dagang.asia

So Halim asked me some questions. Well, I think that I typed about it already in my previous blog but it would be too much to ask him to go around and read it honestly. But anyway Halim, if you want to read the insight of my life when I was still new to UK, you can read my Jurnal dari Pinggir London - October 2006.

Otherwise, here are my answers. Bleh tak aku nak demand di’cameo’kan dalam ko punya cerita. Cameo jer, bukan watak utama pun. Haha.

- kiblat hala ke arah mana? waktu solat camne?

Kiblat arah 120 darjah dari utara. Hampir-hampir ke arah timur/matahari naik. So kalau katakan sampai ke tempat yang tak tahu arah kiblat, pastu takde kompas, biasanya mengarahkan diri ke timur lah, as oppose to Malaysia, ke barat.

Waktu solat plak berubah mengikut musim. Macam sekarang, subuh masuk kul 5 lebih, matahari terbit dalam 7.30 pagi. Zohor dalam 11.45 pagi dah masuk dan Asar plak kul 1.45 macam tu. Kul 4.10 dah Maghrib.

Kalau waktu solat Jumaat, kitorang still stick pukul 1 tengah hari (walaupun dah ujung-ujung Zohor tu) sebab orang break kerja pukul 1. This thing happen all around UK - sepatutnyalah sebab kat London, Glasgow dan sini pun camtu. So aku generalisekan lah.

- hang selalu turun london ke? brp lama tmpoh pjlnan dr durham ke london?

Jarang gak la. Sebab costly dan perjalanan agak lama. Sebenarnya kalau beli tiket train awal-awal bleh dapat murah dalam 10 pound sehala. Kalau beli last minit, mau 40 - 70 pound return. Kalau naik train best, sebab 3 jam dah sampai London. Kalau naik bas, sampai 7 jam. Mana taknya, dia stop banyak sangat untuk pickup orang. Tak macam bas transnasional.

- kalau sewa keta, apa prosedur or terms & conditionsnya?

You know what, talking about car renting - that’s the time I feel bad for being young. Mana taknya, kalau bawah 25 tahun, kita kena bayar 10pound extra per day untuk sewa kereta. Sebab insurans pemandu muda nih mahal sikit.

Biasanya kitorang sewa syarikat Enterprise, sebab bleh dapat dalam 10 pound sehari untuk kereta kecil. Kitorang pernah sewa kereta 7 seater, pun boleh lah sebab dalam 30 pound lebih sehari, bahagi 7 orang taklah teruk sangat.

Term and conditions? Hm.. takde aper, tempah, pastu kalo dengan Enterprise, diorang mai amik kat rumah. Tunjuk lesen, tunjuk passport, tunjuk dokumen yang ada alamat rumah (sebab dia nak make sure kita duduk kat situ) dan bayar 100 pound deposit. Pastu dia tanya nak amik insurans excess tak (untuk cover kerosakan di bawah 500 pounds sebab insurans asas hanya cover kerosakan yang lebih 500 pounds sahaja), pastu aku biasanya amik insurans excess kat syarikat online, sebab murah sikit, pastu amik kereta.

Hmm.. camtu jer.

- hang ada kenal sape2 yg ngaji medic kt UK? aku nk tanya dia nnti.

Kenal tapi tak rapat. Ader la bebudak kampus kesihatan Durham yang aku tau nama dan pernah bertegur sapa setakat ‘hi hi’ macam tu. Tapi takde contacts address diorang.

- kalau ada tips baik punyer ttg khidupan di UK, tolong inform aku!

Aku pun tak tahu tips apa yang hang nak. Tips mendapatkan orang-orang UK kah? Sebab aku tak tahu yang itu. Hehe. Tapi, kalo hang betul-betul nak insight of foreigner living in UK, aku cadangkan hang try membaca blog-blog berikut

• Blog lama aku tuh. Banyak gak cerita-cerita fasal life in UK.
• Blog sorang budak Newcastle nih. Aku tak kenal. Tapi dia pernah tinggalkan komen sekali kat blog aku. Link di sini.
• Arni, Zeah, Mahadi, Kak Nur dan Amirul. Tu suma kat UK tuh. Link kat senarai link di sebelah kanan.
• Blog Faiza (kawan Kak Nur, dan aku kenal dia sebelum tu lagi kot friendster). Dia baru sampai di Preston dan blog dia banyak cerita fasal pengalaman dia baru duduk kat UK. So, masih fresh lagi dan up to date la. Link di sini.

That’s all Halim. I’m glad to answer anything more (suppose that I’m not busy). Jangan lupa, cameokan aku dalam buku hang. Haha. (Sorry aku belajar demand-demand cameo nih dari Shahrill!!)

[Pos nih aku tulis 2-3 hari lepas, pastu waktu nak post, internet connection plak problem. Pastu terlupa. Dah alang-alang tulis kan.. so post jer lah]

I

It’s Autumn. Dah berapa lama ntah. Anyway, I just finished reading my sister’s email. We are both being excited about the race. And I knew quite a lot of her students through that particular event, so I do grow fond upon them. My sis will tell me some news about them and I always happy to hear about it.

II

3 kali jumpa sv aku minggu ni. Seriously busy and chaotic. But I don’t hate this. Mr Wan, kawan Abang Tra di Bristol gave me a call. Dia kata dah lama tak nampak online kat YM. Aku bagitau yang aku memang dah appear offline. Tak larat nak berYM.

III

Musim luruh di sini banyak berbeza dari waktu aku di London dulu. London penuh bangunan. Tup tup daun luruh macam pokok mati kat Malaysia. Kat sini, daun sempat menguning. Agak cantik la. Tapi sejuknya… hm… Orang-orang yang aku kenal dah mula terasa sayu dan pilu dek kerna persekitaran yang suram. Semalam baru matahari keluar.

Sempatlah aku bergambar dengan pokok yang dah mula meluruh.

IV

Aku pindah masuk kolej kediaman balik minggu depan. Pindah lagi. Waktu kat matriks, aku 3-4 kali (2 kali sebab terpaksa sebab diorang renovate bubuh siling baru). Waktu kat USM pun aku pindah banyak kali gak (Aman Damai -> Tekun -> Harapan). Kat Brunel 2 kali, dan kat sini dah nak masuk 2 kali dalam kurang satu tahun.

Sebab pindah? Aku nak duduk bilik en-suite, yang ada bilik air dan toilet dalam bilik supaya tak kesejukan di malam (dan juga siang hari). As simple as that.

Kak aku suruh buat application form untuk Pumpkin Race. Semalam baru pos kat dia. Agak seronok jugak buat borang pendaftaran nih.

Nih borang pendaftaran tahun ni. Nak buat face to face audition, tak sempat pulak, so borang pendaftaran dah cukup, dan lebih appropriate. Yang aku suka ialah proses pemilihan. Pumpkin Race 2 dulu, aku taip masuk semua data nih ke dalam Excel untuk susun, supaya senang nak sort. Pastu bahagikan kumpulan ikut kelompok yang sama - dulu ader kumpulan First Child, Last Child.

Kumpulan First Child kena singkir awal-awal lagi, waktu Pumpkin Race 1. Kumpulan Last Child plak kena singkir awal-awal jugak waktu Pumpkin Race 2. Takleh kumpul kot anak-anak sulung dan anak-anak bongsu satu kumpulan?

Kitorang pernah kelaskan bebudak nih dalam kumpulan ikut minat muzik dan kartun diorang. Kumpulan Local Music Fans (yang masukkan lagu-lagu Melayu dalam list diorang) dan Japan Anime Lovers (yang minat kartun-kartun Jepun, seperti Naruto) dapat nombor 1 dan 2  dalam Pumpkin Race 2. Mahadi, Ina (adik Wan) dalam Japan Anime Lovers la. Hang ingat tak lagi adegan kejar mengejar hang dulu weh? Waktu tu Mahadi jadi cameraman.

Aku agak suka merangkut kawan-kawan aku ke Pumpkin Race nih. Pumpkin Race 2 dan 3 - Mahadi jadi cameraman. Waktu Pumpkin Race 4, aku bawak Kak Khalidah dan Zakia join.

Yang bestnya lepas abis Pumpkin Race, pakat-pakat rasa taknak balik ke USM sebab best berada di alam awangan sekejap. Hehe.

Tahun ni aku nak cuba groupkan budak-budak kidal dalam satu kumpulan. Macam best jer:D

Hm.. er..

First: Ina, sorry to hear about the death of your grandma. Hopefully she will be blessed, InsyaAllah.

Second: Seriously I’m having quite a hectic life. Finding a new place (perhaps I talk lot about this in future), meeting my supervisor yesterday and will be later today, and being stucked in programming - which is so not fun.

But some miracle had just happened. Suddenly, my program works, and I don’t even know how? This is bad considering I should know which part is the cause. Anyway, I’m feeling grateful as I’ve been stucked for quite long.

Notis 1: Yahoo Messenger agak hampeh sebab kenkadang, benda yang ditaip tak tersampai. So, kalo tetiba terasa confused ketika berchatting, voice chat jer lah. Senang cerita

Confusion 1:

Waktu aku sampai Brunel dulu, aku buka akaun HSBC kat Bank UK. Pastu aku dapat email dari orang Malaysia lain yang cakap bank-bank kat UK memang kenakan caj bulanan kepada foreigner. Sekali Mahadi buka akaun LLoyds (aku saja sebut lel-lo-id, sebutannya lo-id-s), tak kena caj. Ish.

Confusion 2:

Zeah ada akaun HSBC, kad debit dia sama macam aku, takde kena caj bulanan pun. Ish

Confusion 3:

Aku pun berpatah hati dengan HSBC UK yang mengecaj akaun aku setiap bulan, jadi aku pun pergi buka akaun Lloyds. Memula dengan akak kaunter tuh, dia cakap, aku mesti tutup HSBC, sebab aku tak boleh ada 2 akaun bank kat UK. Oh, macam tu ke? Tapi beberapa hari selepas tu, aku pergi sekali lagi, akak kaunter yang lain pula tak kisah pun. Terus aku ada 2 akaun bank UK. Aper nih?

Confusion 4:

Maka aku bertekad untuk tutup akaun HSBC. Aku pun pergi bank HSBC kat Durham minggu lepas. Akak kaunter tu cakap yang aku kena hantar surat kat cawangan yang aku buka (kat Brunel Uni dulu). Oh macam itu ka? Hari ni aku lalu depan HSBC, aku nampak akak kaunter itu tak bertugas hari ni. Dah hilang kepercayaan aku pada orang-orang kaunter bank. Aku masuk, aku tanya abang kaunter tuh (apsal panggil akak kaunter tak rasa pelik, tapi panggil abang kaunter rasa semacam?). Tup tup, senang jer dia uruskan dan bank HSBC aku berjaya ditutup dalam lebih kurang 15 minit. Confused, confused..

Joanna (x-UIAM), USM’s runner during Debat LLM tagged me in her blog. LLM - Lembaga Lebuhraya Malaysia. ‘Yes, we even had debate for highway issue’, I told Tahir once. It does sounds awkward though.

Joanna, cheesy giler tag nih. Tapi, atas semangat profesionalisme orang berblog, I answer it as honest as I can.

1. What is the relationship of you and her?

She’s my ex-runner for debate. Currently a long distance friends.

2. Your 5 impressions towards her.

Cool, friendly, sweet, open-minded, and was very helpful:D

3. The most memorable things she had done for you.

Er.. being a runner?

4. The most memorable things she have said to you?

Oh yeh, I asked her a question, of how does it goes for lawyer (as she was taking law, and in the field now) - kan ke kalau dalam perundangan Islam pun, seseorang tuh dikira tak bersalah selagi tak dibuktikan bersalah. Jadi kalau peguam-peguam yang bela orang-orang macam nih, kira macam mana. She said, she will answer it. Yes, that’s the most memorable things, lol. Sorry Joanna, kejam giler:D

5. If she become your lover, you will…

See, this is the cheesy part I’ve been talking about. Believe me one of my friend (you know who you are) is kinda rolling her eye while reading this and gonna be ‘keji’ing me later. My answer is - hm.. I will be the same - being boring, not romantic and stuff (betulkan orang itu? - whoa, too many secret characters in this post)

6. If she become your enemy, you will…

Ah, if it’s Zeah tagging me, I will say, ‘I will win!’. Haha. But as for Joanna, I guess it will be quite dissapointing. I have enough enemy. Not planning to expand the number.

7. If she become your lover, she has to improve on…

Another cheesy question. Wah.

8. If she become your enemy, the reason is…

Hmm… usually people hates me for something I said, or my strong opinion.

9. The most desirable thing to do on her is?

Kumpul balik Kimi, Shila, Syikin and Joe to go and hang out (suma tuh bebudak LLM). Play bowling perhaps. Last time was fun:D

10. The overall impression of her is…

Cool. That’s the way I describe people recently. Innit, Mahadi?

11. How do you think the people around you will feel about you?

They always think I’m a decent, innocent, sweet kind of guy.

12. The character of you for yourself is?

Complicated and easily got cranky by food, coldness and someone disturbing me watching my favourite shows - Heroes, Amazing Race, Survivor etc

13. On contrary, the character you hate of yourself is?

Easily getting annoyed, and egoistic.

14. The most ideal person that you wanna be is?

My dad

15. For the people who care about and likes you, say something about them.

Keep reading my blog.

16. Ten people to tag:

Always hate this part. Don’t think they’ll answer it much. But anyway. Here’s the list

1. Zeah (my games nemesis)

2. Kak Khalidah

3. Ina

4. Mahadi (although he never answered my tag before + it’s gonna be weird for question 5, 7 etc)

5. Halim

6. Arni (you don’t have much things to do right?:)

7. Kak Dijah

8. Naz

9. Shahrill

10. Fariz (u haven’t been updating your blog for so long. Time to give you a reason)

17. Who is no. 2 having a relationship with?

Boleh ke menjawab kat sini? Nanti kena aura negatif. Taknak taknak.

18. Is no. 3 a male or a female?

female la

19. If no. 7 and no. 10 were together, would it be a good thing?

Hm.. will be a very good mixture.

20. How about no. 5 and 8?

Wah, soalan… they are good friends anyway

21. What is no. 1 studying about?

Education. And also how to win against me in Scrabble on Yahoo:D.

22. Is no. 4 single?

Tak

23. Say something about no. 6

Cukup-cukuplah mengemas (keji giler aku)