Quantum of Solace

Filem sains fiksyen sememangnya bukan genre kegemaran saya – mungkin kerana selalunya filem sedemikian dibikin terlalu jauh dari realiti, setnya terlalu futuristik dan terlalu asing menjadikan filem berkenaan ‘keras dan kaku’ untuk saya. Itulah, nama pun fiksyen kan. There's nothing wrong with that kind of film, but it's just not my cup of tea. Satu malam sambil mencari cerita yang menarik untuk ditonton di Netflix – ternampak filem Downsizing ini yang memaparkan gambar (antara) pelakon kegemaran saya – Matt Damon. Selalunya sebelum menonton apa-apa filem, saya akan baca sinopsis yang diberikan untuk mengetahui serba sedikit tentang jalan cerita, tapi kali ini auranya terlalu kuat (nak jugak pakai statement viral nih 😄) lantas saya terus pilih untuk menontonnya. What it is about? Dalam fikiran saya mungkin filem ini berkisar tentang kepayahan apabila syarikat melaksanakan downsizing . Rupa-rupanya telahan saya menyimpang jauh. Downsizing yang dimaksudkan dalam f...

Welcoming another year. This year is extra special for Malaysians as it is THE year of Wawasan 2020 as envisioned by our fourth Prime Minister in 1991. And now Tun M is our seventh Prime Minister - what a great coincidence.  If you ask any Malaysians about the Wawasan, I doubt that they can really explain what it is all about, but I bet that most of them (especially the 80's babies) can sing the Wawasan 2020 song. For some reasons, the lyrics still stuck in our mind after all these years😅 I was too young then to comprehend the gist of the Wawasan when it was being launched by Tun M. But like most kids (and people), I imagined that as we entered the new Millennium, our world would be just like in the futuristic, sci-fi movies. We would wear silver metallic clothes, eat super pills for energy fuel, be friends with aliens and move around in flying cars, just like this:  But here we are, two decades after the millennia - still wearing, using, eating and dealin...

Pencemaran toksik – situasi yang boleh berlaku dalam keadaan nyata atau tidak nyata.  Keadaan nyata seperti insiden melibatkan pencemaran di Sungai Kim-kim. Tong-tong bahan berisi sisa toksik dilaporkan ditemui di kawasan berhampiran. Keadaan tak nyata seperti murid-murid sekolah di sekitar Pasir Gudang yang mengalami kesukaran bernafas. Insiden berulang beberapa kali tetapi punca sebenar masih tidak ketahuan.  Tapi, persekitaran toksik  tak kurang juga bahayanya. Boleh terjadi  di mana-mana, bukan sekadar dalam radius Pasir Gudang, Sungai Kim-kim dan yang sewaktu dengannya.  Berlaku tanpa kelihatan dek mata. Terjadi  secara tak nyata. Tetapi kesannya tak kurang bahaya. Bahana kepada jiwa, bisa melumpuhkan raga. 

Day 1: 7th June 2019 After much delays and deliberation, we finally made it to Pulau Pangkor on the third Hari Raya. We had been talking about going there for quite some times and even did some research (read: Google-d) about where to stay, what to do there already - but for some reasons, it was not materialized until now 😁 As we were still entertaining guests the night before and had to do the clean up afterwards (penat teramat!) , I did not finish packing our bags until the very few minutes before our departure.  As a person who is terribly particular when it comes to packing, this was an ultimate nerve wracking task. Anyway, we made it, though we were left home almost two hours later than the planned departure time. Getting There  Despite of travelling during the peak season, the traffic was okay and we arrived at Lumut around 2 p.m. There are two ways to get to Pulau Pangkor from Lumut – either through the Lumut Jetty or Marina Island Jetty. We chose the ...

When I finally got the time to post something on the much abandoned blog, but I spent most of it to update the lay-out 😂. Well, I have so much to share here - about my opinion on things around me, about my feelings, about the places that I had visited, but somehow I did not manage to start it or to be exact, to finish it.   Well, to my defence, I did wrote a few posts. But it all got stuck in the draft section and not being published - just yet. I don't particularly know the real reason for the delays. I am a procrastinator, that is for sure. But I don't really have the answer on why I did not proceed to finish the post nor why don't I just post the finished ones at all. Deep down inside, I think the reason for me holding back is because I am not very sure about the direction of this blog anymore. I started it off with the main objective to be my creative outlet - for me to share about my thoughts and feelings, hence the blog description 'the unspoken thoug...

  Marking another year on this planet, Alhamdulillah 😊 I got to know this intriguing quote quite recently - but not from the great author himself, but from my favourite movie - The Equalizer.  Which remind me that I need to READ real books more!  On a serious note, yup, I have been celebrating the day I was born for decades, and yet to really figure out about the latter. 

Hello! ! Kisahnya, rancangan ke Bukit Gambang Resort City (BGRC) ini tersangatlah last minute nya hinggakan tempahan bilik pun dibuat pada malam kejadian sedangkan cadangan nak pergi berjalan-jalan ni dah agak lama. Alhamdulillah, walaupun tempahan saat-saat akhir di waktu cuti hujung minggu yang panjang, kami dapat  secure pakej untuk penginapan apartment 2 bilik, tiket masuk Safari Park, Water Park termasuk  breakfast & dinner.  Antara tarikan utama kami memilih ke BGRC adalah disebabkan ada combo Safari Park dan Water Park. Kedua-duanya aktiviti yang memang menjadi kegemaran budak-budak (dan mak bapaknya juga!) Jadinya, kami pergi satu tempat tapi dapat experience dua aktiviti yang berbeza ~ terasa bijak di situ 😄  Selepas check-in & berehat sebentar di bilik, kami menuju ke lobi untuk menaiki tram ke Safari Park. Untuk ke Safari Park, pengunjung boleh memilih sama ada untuk memandu sendiri (tak jauh pun) atau menggunakan perkhidmatan tram...