Grow Up

I read with embarrassment the news that relate to the football situation in Brunei.

Give me a break, people. There’s no need to create a power struggle if there isn’t any. This is not politics, this is called a playground argument of who should be the head of the see-saw equipment. BAFA, the registrar of societies, ministry of culture youth and sports, the new football federations, who is who, makes me sick. I’ll give you my opinion, all of you are pure 100% premium grade idiots.

What is the hassle all about anyway? The more this fiasco moves along, the more i am convinced that we are a nation who really can’t run things. If this is what happens in football, then imagine how we run things in flood management, wealth management and road networks planning?

oh wait.. *palms face*

As far as i am concerned why was BAFA deregistered in the first place anyway. Aside from not sending minutes of their AGM and financial statement, what else is there? Who has time to read all of the society’s reports anyway in the home affairs ministries? with that much scrutiny involved, you’d think that we’d be safe from financial scams that plagues our nation anyway. If theres a group of guys who are enthusiastically in playing scrabble, why the hell would you want their annual report. Fuck me if id find out a scandalous operation going on with subversive elements running in a scrabble club.

This issue also exposes how whiney people can be as well. The BAFA association still insisting that FIFA recognises only them, etc. Please, don’t complicate things if theyre not complicated. and b) I think we should realise once in a while, that these are times when we should let go. Wait, who forgets to send in their AGM minutes anyway? Are you THAT BUSY, BAFA? This is a flashback of the Olympic fiasco we had for Beijing 2008. What the hell are you people doing anyway, no wonder we’re still ranked 192 in FIFA.

I think all of you should just start a brand new piece of paper. Registrar of societies, piss off. Ministry of culture, youth and Sports; please come to work full hours, at least. and plan for the bloody London 2012 olympics. BAFA, get over it, move on. Form a futsal club, get another job or something, whatever.

Does it matter a lot? Of course, i think football in Brunei matters. For anyone who was extremely lucky enough to witness Brunei winning the 1999 Malaysian cup, i haven’t seen such level of national pride in my life. I have never seen this nation pulled together in unity than the time we won the Malaysian cup. Football fields were packed because kids played wanting to be like their heroes, people actually looked forward to going to work because of their mood and our form of entertainment was way cheaper because we didn’t rely on debt crunching consumer goods to keep us excited.

At darkening times like these, the nation needs confidence that it can do things properly. Bringing victories through football is one really cheap option. Cause hell, we need heroes

No, I’m not Back, I’m Just Scratching My Arse

How is everybody. I am good. Seria is beautiful. Once i saw the things at work, i realise Brunei faces bigger problems that the ones i’m ranting about. hence, why i have been pretty quiet since.

A lot have also been wondering how i did on my technical paper. I got sponsorship to go to perth to present it and i got third Not bad. =)

Everyone in World is Having a Party, Except for Us

Beijing pulled off a fantastic olympic opening ceremony. In fact, the best i’ve seen next to Sydney. However, all of this is marred by the fact that it was announced that Brunei was excluded from the march and the olympics because they could not register on time.

I watched countries, like the Cayman Island, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Eritrea. Countries that are either too pissed poor to develop or are smaller than Brunei. As poor or as lowly populated as they are, they have managed to send in at least 5 people to every olympics to participate in several events. Olympics after olympics, we’re sending in only 2 or so. In this olympic, we’re not sending any because we’ve failed to register. As the IOC has put it “the IOC tried until midday Friday to have the National Olympic Committee of Brunei Darussalam register its athletes, but to no avail.” – China News

The IOC were the ones who tried to contact Brunei? we’re not even trying! This is ridiculous! Why are we the only IOC member not competing?

If we can’t even organise ourselves for this, such a simple thing to do, we could afford it even. What in the world can you do? You need a damn good explanation, especially that this bungle was witnessed first hand by his majesty in Beijing.

No more dodging issues, no more finger pointing, no more “sshh.. sensitive issue ni, diam diam saja”. Hard straight facts are needed and we’re not a bunch of nodding thumb sucking monkeys, oh no no no.

If it is incompetency, someone needs to go out.

A Big Thank You

I usually don’t post up too much of the personal stuff but this is a big exception. People who know me well might raise an eyebrow with this post.

Me completing my degree.
these 4 years of free education in Australia.
the people i have met and for the friends i have met
the knowledge and wisdom i have acquired.
the patience to deal with the unbelievably tough times
the sanity when things were getting too a bit too much
the opportunities that has been opened for me
the food and money to support me for the 4 years and in the future
the help i have received over these years
the innovations, ideas and inspiration that came to me
the maturity i have gained over the years
the family so supportive of me and pray they will be paid back billion times fold for it
the undescribably beautiful wonders i have witnessed
the new sweet titleist golf clubs
the future

would never have been possible without you, god. Alhamdulillah.

There is no one and nothing that deserves more for my gratitude except for you. Humans have and would turn their backs on me at some point but my prayers and wishes just keep getting granted regardless of my defiance and ignorance.

For those who do not believe that you are the most gracious and most compassionate are eternally regretful.

and please god grant me wisdom to deal with extremists who are making air travel so much more damn difficult and inconvenient

2 Down, 1 More Piggy To Go

Took a bloody long time but thankfully one of the 3 most evil men in the world has been captured. Radovan Karadzic has been captured, the first step to his eternal fate of hell. These men were responsible for murdering more than 7500 muslims in an ethnic cleansing act in the Bosnian War.

Bastard #1: Radovan Karadzic

The other 2 are none other than Slobodan Milosevic and Ratko Mladic

Slobodan Milosevic: Bastard #2. Dead.

One more piggy to go: Ratko Mladic. Still on the loose

A New Beginning

3 years ago, i saw a t shirt online, fell in love with the design. Loved the design because it i thought it had quite a deep meaning (pretty deep for a t shirt, i know but i appreciate art and i was emotional and there were a lot of things going on, fuck you all).

So i tried to buy it and it was sold out. It’s not like threadless, where they’d reprint it and sell thousands of them, once it’s sold, it’s sold. So 2 months ago, i surfed the same site and saw the tshirt, this time, it didn’t have the sold out tag on it, holy crap! 3 years of waiting, the t shrt i’ve wanted since, i’ve been waiting for this moment. The delivery charges were a bitch but when you’ve been waiting this long, it’s worth it i guess.

Few days later, i received an email. The owner apologised saying that the website was sort of not working and refunded my money, so they sold it to me by accident eventhough it’s not in stock. Yesterday, my housemate said i got a package, opened it, and there it is.. the t shirt.

checked out my credit card account and they didn’t charge me. Wow.. now that’s customer service. Plus, i never thought i’d get the tshirt ive been wanting for 3 years for free. Awesome.

How To Rescue Yourself From the Shame of Thinking Out Loud

Have you ever concentrated so hard in doing your work that you don’t realise that you are mumbling out loud your inner thoughts, daydreams and feelings. Something like “Women ought to have long tails”, as an example, i don’t know, something ridiculous that you wouldn’t dare to say it out with a fully conscious state of mind.

but you’ve also forgotten that there are people around you.

and not wanting to sound like an insane and bitter person to those around you, you repeat what you said but this time, you sing it with an awkward sounding melody. Hoping that they’ll pass your mumbling as a weird song.

You then shut up and put on your ipod. Knowing you’ve lost your worth from drowning in shame.

How To Take An Important Call While Taking a Piss

It was a cool Monday afternoon, i was in the toilet taking a piss. In the middle, the phone in the jeans vibrate and ring. It was only one of those ‘anonymous’ calls, those usually very important calls. There is no choice but to answer before the automatic voice message feature kicks in. It’s very uncomfortable.

There is that courtesy issue, where you have to talk softly, so as not to produce echoes that reveal you are in a toilet. There is also where you have to hold your piss because it’s rude to talk to someone on the phone while pissing. No matter how attentive you are, you know you sound like you’re going to sound too pre occupied when you piss. Be careful to hang up first then continue pissing. Not the other way round.

Timing for these things. Always suck.

Academia Talk

I just had a meeting with the supervisor. I know he’s a stressful man, spending nearly 12 hours a day doing work at school. Yet, i’m very surprised at how he’s able to keep calm and handle things with smiles and laughter. Salute to such professionalism but i couldnt help but wonder is theres another side to academia talk..

Me: “Afternoon there”

s/v: “Oh hi Airul! how are you?”
(Jesus Christ… it’s you again..)

Me: “Good, thanks. How about yourself? Ohh! nice new laptop!”

s/v: “Yea.. they gave me a new laptop. Ok, ready for your update?”
(I wanted a Macbook pro but the bloody school took 99% out of my $200k grant… show me your work, i got important things to do, like painting my cats nails)

[and so... i did an update session with the supervisor]

s/v: “*short silence* ..haaa…interesting..”
(…Holy shit…)

[Further questionings and answer]

s/v: “Have you considered trying to apply this scenario to see if it works?”
(You forgot to do this scenario, you dickhead)

s/v: “Well… you’re leaving in a month, right? so we really need to find at least one scenario where this application is ideal for it..”
(Boy, you got pull out of some miraculous shit out of your ass within a month, or we are fucked)

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