Friday, September 28, 2007

Siti Nurhaliza-Aku Cinta PadaMu

Juara Lagu 1997 - Aku Cinta PadaMu

She became widely recognised since that. That was 10 years ago!!

Andai engkau ku miliki
Terdahulu sebelumnya
Andaikan curah rasa hati
Mungkin kini ku kan tenang di sampingmu

Belum puasku menikmati
Kesan kasih sayang kau terpaksa pergi
Inginku terus dicintai
Walau bisikanmu azimat berduri
Bila cinta berbunga
Jadi airmata dijariku

Betapaku cinta padamu
Katakanlah kau cinta padaku
Sematkanlahku di hatimu
Walau di mana berada
Ingatku dalam doamu

Hiasilah hati
Dengan cinta suci
Selamanya

Solo (repeat 1)

Gemerlapan jiwa
Semikanlah cita
Semoga kau dan aku
Akhirnya bersama

Akukan menunggu
Walaupun seribu tahun lagi





Siti Nurhaliza binti Tarudin (born January 11, 1979) is a multiple-award winning Malaysian pop singer-songwriter. She is currently the most successful Malaysian singer. While there have been artists from Malaysia who reached international stardom but left the country in their pursuit of success, Siti Nurhaliza's career was planted and blossomed locally and as predicted, she has become an international icon respectively. She was honoured with the title Darjah Indera Mahkota Pahang (DIMP) by the Sultan of Pahang which carries the title 'Datuk' infront of her name.[1] To date, she has garnered more than 100 local awards as well as international awards.More here


BONUS track. She sang na ying's征服

Sunday, September 23, 2007

中秋节 ♦ Mid-Autumn Festival

每年农历八月十五日,是传统的中秋佳节。此夜的月亮比其他几个月的满月更圆,更明亮。人们仰望天空如玉如盘的朗朗明月,自然会期盼家人团聚。远在他乡的游子,也借此寄托自己对故乡和亲人的思念之情。所以,中秋又称“团圆节”。
Every year 15th day of the 8th lunar month of the Chinese calendar, is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival. The moon of this night is the roundest and brightest full moon. While people watch the shining moon in the sky, will think of their family and want to get together with them, exspecially for those who studying or working overseas. Therefore, it's also known as "Reunion Festival".

中秋传说有四:
There are 4 legends for Mid-Autumn:

1.〖嫦娥奔月
Chang'e (mythology)



有很多版本,大概共同的有后羿是嫦娥老公,然后后羿射日把九颗太阳射下剩一个。某某原因下(不一样版本有不一样原因)吃了仙丹飞上月宫。故事详情请参阅这里
There are few versions, roughly the same is something about her husband, Houyi the Archer has shot down 9 Suns and left one in the sky. And because of some reasons (the reasons varies by versions), she ate a magic pill and flew to the Moon. Please click here for detail.


2.〖吴刚折桂
WuGang cutting Sweet Osmanthus tree



吴刚因遭天帝惩罚到月宫砍伐桂树,不死之树——月桂树随砍随合。吴刚只好永无休止地一直砍。故事详情请参阅这里
WuGang was punished by the God for some reason to cut the Sweet Osmanthus tree on the Moon, immortal Moon Sweet Osmanthus tree will regrow after cutting. WuGang has to cut the tree forever without rest.

3.〖玉兔捣药
Jade Rabbit blending Herbs



相传月亮之中有一只兔子,浑身洁白如玉,所以称作"玉兔"。这只白兔拿着玉杵,跪地捣药,成蛤蟆丸,服用此等药丸可以长生成仙。故事详情请参阅这里
The legend says that there is a rabbit lives on the Moon, the whole body is white like a jade, so it's also called "Jade Rabbit". This rabbit use a jade stick, kneel down and blend the herbs to magic pill, after eating this pill may become angel. For detail please click here.


4.〖朱元璋与月饼起义
Zhu YuanZhang and Moon Cake Rebelling



朱元璋起义抗元,军师刘伯温献计,月饼里藏字条互通消息“八月十五杀鞑子”。成功把元朝推翻。故事详情请参阅这里
Zhu YuanZhang rebell the Mongolian rulers of China in the Yuan dynasty, his advisor Liu BoWen gave an idea to pass the message by putting a notes "15th of August kill the Mongolians" in the moon cake. Sucessfully overthor the Yuan dynasty. For further information please click here.


中秋节有什么东西好玩?
Anything to do during Mid-Autumn Festival?

1)赏月
Enjoy the moon light



月到中秋分外明,每逢佳节倍思亲。通常中秋节跟家人在一起的话,都会聚在庭院一起赏月,聊天。
The moon of the Mid-Autumn is specially round. Normally we will enjoy the moon light in the garden together with our family, and chit chat.

2)灯笼
Latern



点蜡烛,提灯笼,逛街去。小学美术老师还会教学生怎么自制灯笼,请看这里
light up the candles, carry lantern, walking on the street. Primary school art teacher will then teach the student to DIY their own lantern. Please click here.

3)月饼
Moon Cake



中秋节吃月饼,和端午节吃粽子、元宵节吃汤圆一样,是全球华人的传统风俗。
Mid-Autumn festival eating Moon cake, and eating Dumbling during Duanwu Festival, eating TangYuan during Yuan Xiao festival are the same, they are the chinese tradition all over the world.

相关的歌
Related song:

水调歌头》邓丽君



明月几时有 把酒问青天
不知天上宫阙 今夕是何年
我欲乘风归去 唯恐琼楼玉宇 高处不胜寒
起舞弄清影 何似在人间
转朱阁閣 低绮户 照无眠
不应有恨 何事长向別时圆
人有悲欢离合 月有阴晴圆缺 此事古难全
但愿人长久 千里共婵娟


月亮圆》山脚下男孩



月亮圆 月亮圆 月亮照在我的家
沒有春夏秋冬的家 流传千年
现在的孩子不相信 月亮有小白兔
功课与电脑 使他們不再听古老的神话
当高楼大厦 遮档了古老的月亮
就趁这个季节 让你的孩子知道
古老的神话 源自何方

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

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Thursday, September 13, 2007

Rendang ♦ 忍当

忍当(我乱照读音翻的)是马来人的一道名菜,原自印尼。可以是鸡肉,牛肉,羊肉。。。你喜欢的话猪肉也行,虽然马来人不吃猪肉。
Rendang is a Malay cuisine, its origin is in Indonesia. It can be chicken, beaf, mutton....can even be pork if you want, eventhough Malay doesn't eat pork :P.



全部材料: All ingredients:
洋葱 Onions
蒜米 Garlic
辣椒干和新鲜辣椒 Dry and fresh chilis
香茅=柠檬草 Cymbopogon
南姜 Galangal
椰浆和椰丝 Coconut milk and desiccated coconut
黄姜叶或柠檬叶 Turmeric leaf or Lemon leaf
鸡肉 Chicken
鸡蛋 Eggs

步骤大纲:准备材料(1),炸鸡肉(2),干烘椰丝(3),开始煮(4)。。。
Overall steps: preparation(1), deep fry chicken(2), dry the desiccated coconut(3), cook(4)!~~






1)准备材料:蒜米,辣椒干和新鲜辣椒(用搅拌机打碎),洋葱(红洋葱香,白洋葱甜,两个都要,用搅拌机打碎),香茅(中间嫩芯切碎,比较香;外面的切大段,切碎会苦),南疆(拍一拍就好),鸡肉切块(用糖盐,少少酱油腌,不要太湿),黄姜叶切丝(我们这里没有这个daun kunyit,就拿柠檬叶代替)。。。
preparation: garlic, dry and fresh chilis (blend with blender), onions (red onions smell great, white/normal onions taste sweet, we need both, blend them with blender also), Cymbopogon (the middle part cut it finely, smell better; outer part just cut to long piece, fine cut will be bitter), Galangal (just simply squash it), chicken cut to pieces (marinate with sugar, salt, a bit soya sauce, not too wet), slice Turmeric leaf (we can't find this leaf in germany, so we use lemon leaf to substitute)...





2)首先准备一大锅油来炸鸡,腌过的鸡肉粘上蛋,再粘面粉,那去炸。。。炸了过后,把油捞干净,再炸。。。正常来说是要热油炸一次,温油炸一次,这样才会全熟透。。。但是这里只需要热油炸过就好,因为之后还会再焖一阵子。。。
prepare a big wok of oil to deep fry the chicken. Dip into eggs, to stick the flour covering it, and deep fry...after frying must clean the oil using the filter, then fry again...for normal dish, you need to fry it twice, once with hot oil and once with warm oil, so that the chicken will be totally cooked...but here we just fry once with hot oil, because after that we will cook them again...



3)然后另一边准备一个干锅来烘烤椰丝,至金黄色就好。。。颜色深一点就比较香,但是一不小心烧焦的话就会变苦,要很小心哦!不停地翻锅。。。
At the same time, you can dry the desiccated coconut with a dry pan, heat them until they change to golden colour...the darker it is, the greater it smells, but becareful if they burn will change to be bitter. keep on flip the thing...




4)然后顺序地把蒜米,香茅,洋葱,南疆,辣椒用油炒香。。。炒一阵子后,放柠檬叶,椰丝和椰浆。。。然后把炸好的鸡肉也放进去再焖煮个十分钟(如果你煮的是羊肉或牛肉,之前不需要炸,但是在这里可能要焖久一点)。。。
In sequence fry the garlics, Cymbopogon, Onion, Galangal, chilis... after a while, put lemon leaf, desiccated coconut and coconut milk... then throw the chicken in and heat it for 10 minutes (if you cook mutton or beaf, don't fry it,but here may need longer time)...





整个过程要差不多2个小时。。。但是可以顶很久,放几个星期都不会臭。。。每天拿一点来吃也行。。。
the whole process spend around 2 hours....but this food can last very long, a few weeks also no problem....you can take a bit out everyday, put into microwave and eat...

黄明志 Wong Meng Chee/ Namewee

黄明志是马来西亚人,在台湾念书。不久前因为一首《麻坡的华语》,在网路上一炮而红。
Wong Meng Chee/ Namewee is Malaysian, studying now in Taiwan. Not long ago he started to become famous in internet with his song 《The Chinese in Muar》.





这首歌虽然很多粗话,但是毕竟没有特别讽刺什么人,听起来还蛮豪迈,所以备受欢迎。
Although in this song has quite a lot of dirty words, he didn't really criticise anyone. The song feels kind of gallant, that's why it's so popular.

其实他在之前也有做过一个短片介绍麻坡,但是没有这么一首短短的饶舌来得受欢迎。
Actually he had done a short movie to introduce Muar, but it's not as popular as this rap song.








后来大概是他心血来潮写了一首歌,叫《我的朋友》。
After that, he just simply write a song called 《My Friend》。





这首歌用几种语言唱,也说了很多讽刺的东西。用广东话讲吉隆坡人,用华语唱新加坡人,用马来语骂马来人。最后用英语打圆场,其实一切都是一场误解与互相的不了解而造成的意见不和。
This song have a few languages inside, and a lot of sarcastic stuff. Use Cantonese to blame people from Kuala Lumpur, use Chinese to criticise, use Malay to scold Malays. After everything he uses English to round his thing, and actually all of these is just misunderstanding.





而这首《Negarakuku》,就轰动了全马来西亚的关注。马来西亚政府准备要控告他,篡改国歌,诬蔑回教,还可能引渡他回马来西亚受审。依我看呢,他也不算篡改国歌,只不过是把自己的歌节上国歌而已,乱接国歌还可能告得成。诬蔑回教也没有啊!侮辱别人唱歌像公鸡都有罪?还要引渡他,又不是杀人放火。
Whereas this song 《Negarakuku》 catched the concern of the whole country. Malaysia government is going to sue him, editing National Anthem, slander Islam, and may use Extradition to ask him back. From my point of view, he didn't really edit National Athem but just joining it with his own song, maybe sue him on simply joining National Anthem will be better. Slander Islam? No way! It's just insulting someone's singing like a cock, that's all. Extradition? Isn't it too serious for this case?

之后,他道歉了。不因为什么,只因为他爸爸想息事宁人而听信马华的话,叫他公开道歉。
After that, he apologised. No other reason, just because his father wants to end this issue as soon as possible and believe what MCA said, ask him to apologise.



可惜马来西亚政府不接受道歉,坚持要告他。他就豁出去了,也有公司帮他出这个专辑《盗版之王》。
But Malaysia government doesn't accept his apologise, insist to sue him. He get fedup, and got company help him to release this album 《King of DaoBan(Pirated)》。



之后有个支持他的人放了这首歌《Negarakukuku》。马来西亚政府也没什么消息了,不知道是不是因为心虚国歌也是抄人家的歌《Mamula Moon》。
After that, one of his supporters puts this song《Negarakukuku》。And no further news from Malaysia government, don't know whether they feel shame as our National Anthem is also copying from other song 《Mamula moon》。


其实我个人认为黄明志很爱国,只是不爱政府(这个有差别哦!)。看了他这部短片,我很喜欢他最后写的一句“如果国家能够安定繁荣,不民主又如何?”。
Actually in my opinion, Namewee loves our country, but just doesn't like the government (they are different!). After watching this video of his, i really like what he wrote in the end: "If one nation can be prosperous and safe, why do we still need democracy?".

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Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Men's Health

Men's Health conducted an international survey to find the world's healthiest men, based on five categories: nutrition, fitness, stress, health, and sex. Here's what you can learn from the winners.

Nutrition:
What went into the scores:

We looked at each country's per capita consumption of fish, vegetables, fruit, breakfast, tea, sweets, and take-out and fast food.

Comment:

In Malaysia, we got a lot of fresh seafoods, vege, fruits...drink a lot of tea (chinese tea after dinner)...and the food is nice!~~~:P

But in Germany, there are so little seafoods (expensive but not fresh)... vege and fruits are even more expensive than meat (chicken leg 2 euro per kg, at the same time eggplant/ aubergine/ brinjal, which i like to eat, is also the same price!!~~)...a lot of fast food, Döner, pizza, you can buy them even in supermarket which are frozen...

Fitness:
What went into the scores:

We crunched obesity rates, strength (from situps and pushups), time spent exercising each week, and six-pack prevalence.

Comment:

The sport facilities in germany is really good... exspecially for student, we can use the facilities for free!!!(it's under the university and quite well-equiped.)...My senior, Eric brought me to gym and all those six-pack muscular men are there!~~~

I seldom do sports in malaysia....maybe i'm the one who pull down the marks :$...normally the sport facilities cost money, beside basketball court in the playground which has many holes :P...

Stress:
What went into the scores:

We surveyed workweek hours, vacation time, happiness, commutes, spending on leisure, and whether men check work e-mail at home.

Comment:

As i know, European's working life is quite relaxing and they have a couple of long holiday for vacation...maybe because they are in developed country and high standard lifestyle....

Normal Malaysians work from day to night and seldom have holidays, exspecially for those who run their own business....have to go back to office to check e-mails and fax in public holidays...

Health:
What went into the scores:

We considered death rates for heart disease, cancer, and stroke; the prevalence of diabetes and smoking; and data on life expectancy, cholesterol, blood pressure, sleep, and alcohol.

Comment:

How come? As i know, German smokes a lot and sometimes you can see even 16-year-old girls smoking on the street....and drink a lot of alcohol (beer)....drink a little bit of alcohol is good for health though...



Sex:
What went into the scores:

We analyzed marriage rates, divorced population, sex partners and frequency, masturbation habits, number of friends, sexual satisfaction, and affairs.

Comment:

Muslims are allowed to marry 4 wives if they have the "ability"...:P maybe this makes an Asian country, Malaysia unexpected high...

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Eye on Malaysia






Picture courtesy from cwhyoo

The Eye on Malaysia, the largest portable ‘observation wheel’ in the world, was unveiled by the Hon. Prime Minister of Malaysia on 6 January 2007 in conjunction with the grand launch of the Visit Malaysia Year 2007 celebration.

This giant ferris wheel allows visitors to experience a 360-degree panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur during a 12-minute ride that goes 60 metres high. It offers a magnificent view of Kuala Lumpur and over 20 kilometres of its surroundings including KL Tower, Istana Budaya and Petronas Twin Towers.

Eye On Malaysia

Similar in concept and style to the famous London Eye, the specially commissioned Eye on Malaysia is expected to be a hit among locals and tourists. There are a total of 42 gondolas comprising 39 units for the public, one for VIPs and two for disabled passengers. Each of the gondola can carry eight persons.

The Swiss technology used to make the giant wheel is the result of a strategic partnership between a Malaysian company, MST AD Suria Sdn Bhd, and an Australian enterprise.

Tickets are available at the sales counter in the Titiwangsa Lake Gardens. It costs RM15 for adults and RM8 for children aged 3 to 12 and senior citizens. The operating hours for the ferris wheel are from 10am to 10pm daily.

Titiwangsa Lake Gardens will be transformed into an audio-visual wonderland as four of the world’s largest and most high-tech water screens will show the faces and images of Malaysia combined with a fireworks display.

The International WaterSky Spectacular runs at night with exciting shows commencing at 8pm daily. It features jet and water ski stunts and close proximity pyrotechnics to create a truly spectacular experience.

Don’t forget to catch the ‘Theatre of the Waters’ premiere on 1 February 2007 and will continue to be screened each night throughout the year. Meantime, the ‘Art of Fireworks’ show runs every night from Saturday 6 January to Saturday 3 February 2007.


Daily: 8.00am - 6.30pm
Adult - RM15.00
Child (Below 3 yrs old) - FREE
Child (From 3 to 12 yrs old) - RM8.00
Senior (55 years and older) - RM8.00
Disabled - RM8.00

For more information about the Eye on Malaysia, please contact Puan Widyanti at +603-21661106 or email widyanti@suria.com.my

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