Circumcision for 20 Rohingya's Orphanage

Amir with the children

each is given a badge

not really afraid to potong!

cool with Amir's Ipod during the circumcision process

with Muslim Aid banner

the process goes on

I'm done!

More report here

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Nuruddin and Wife visit to KL

Nuruddin and his wife, Wardah came to KL to visit us. It was their first trip together as a happily married couple. I took them to Niara for dinner and they really love the tomyam chiangmai. Niara Restaurant is located at Taman Melawati and it is one of my favorite place to have dinner.

Nuruddin and Wardah enjoyed their meals

map to Sri Niara Restaurant

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Nuruddin and Wardah Reception

Selamat pengantin baru for Nuruddin and Wardah! Nuruddin is a close friend of mine since at al-Mashoor. Currently he's working as an engineer in Ipoh and he is heavily involve with charity and community work in Penang and Perak. His wife is also an active activist and that makes them a good couple. May Allah grant you happiness forever:)

with the new couple

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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A True Story About The Rohingyas

Today I met a a few Rohingya refugees residing in Selayang. These children are one the many students from the Madrasah Hashimiah Rohingya Orphanage. I was told by the principle that these children previously had mother and father. But later after their father started to consume alcohol, the father often loose control and always hit the children. Their mother managed to flee from their house and sent the kids to the Madrasah. Now the 3 kids are staying at the Madrasah Hashimiah with more than 40 other unfortunate children. Muslim Aid will be trying to help them through educational needs with the help from other agencies such as the UNHCR and volunteers. For people who wants to contribute, may contact me at 012-3377195.

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Eid Mubarak and happy birthday to my wife!

Just finished solat sunat raya at our surau apartment. Yesterday I went back home late as I was still receiving calls from people who wanted to participate in the Qurban For Life program by Muslim Aid. I came back home at about 9.30pm realizing that my wife birthday is going to be tomorrow! But still don't have any idea what gift should I give for my lovely wife. This is going to be her first birthday as my wife.

great ice cream cake!

Ali was sleeping at that time..:)

That night while processing some of the qurban form, I still manage to get connected with some of my friends thru facebook and yahoo messenger. I still can't think of anything to get for my wife. I should be back early, or at least to have dinner with my wife, but I can't, since there is still pile of work to be done. Out of a sudden, one of my ex classmate from UIA send a message thru yahoo messenger with Eidiladha and happy birthday wishes to me and my wife. I told him that I need to get something for my wife. he gave me an idea to get a cake!

a gift for my beloved wife

its purely ice cream inside

Yeah! Thats it! At least I can get a cake before coming back home! At Bangsar, there is plenty of choices from Secret Recipe, Baskin Robin or even Haagan Dazs. After work, I quickly drove to Bangsar Village. Secret Recipe don't have much choice, so I went to Hagan Daazs to get an ice cream cake. Strawberry cheese cake was my choice!

And now today, after solat sunat raya, i gave my wife a surprise! A Haagan Dazs birthday cake! Thanks to Zaid for the lovely idea!

Muhammad Bin Kamarulazizi

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Ramli Sarip and Me

Today we met Ramli Sarip to discuss on humanitarian projects between Muslim Aid and Ramli Sarip. Just wait for our launch next year!

listening to his idea

a very good discussion

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Snap Shot at Fitrah Kasih RTM1

Mubin the volunteer!

Thanks to Zaid for the photos!

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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Leman Dawi's Cendol

It was my first time trying the Leman Dawi's cendol at Senawang, Negeri Sembilan. Even though my kampung is at Seremban, I didn't even know about this cendol until I went to Felda Jelai with a my office mate. Its quite a popular place where customer can refill the cendol as many time they like! The cendol is also quite cheap, ranging from RM1 to RM2 only. Drinks such as sirap and barley is free, you can even 'bungkus' the drinks as well! The owner is also unique, where he can memorize all facts about Malaysia and even Indonesia! He'll keep talking with all the customer to make sure all the customer are happy.

cheap huh?

drinks are free and can tapau also!

will come again!

InsyaAllah next time coming to Seremban or Jelai, I'll make sure to go to Leman Dawi's cendol again!

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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My First Experience Handling a Blogging Course

I was invited by SMK Jelai Felda principle to give a short course on how to blog to the school students. It was a three day two night course. Nearly 50 students were involved and they were really enthusiastic to learn on how to blog. I brought along my ex practical students from UM to help on the course. It was really a great experience handling it, especially for a sekolah luar bandar.

Day 1

participants from the students

AdvertBlogger Crew

teachers are also among the participants

InsyaAllah next time I'll be planning to set up an enterprise, and will plan for more blog courses or kursus blog for schools, government agencies or anyone who wants to know how to blog. Anyone interested, you may contact me at 012-3377195..:)

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi
AdvertBlogger

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I'm Smarter Than Einstein?

Today I was at Shah Alam Flee Market. I came across a guy who claim to be the Ketua Saintis Negara. With a blue jubah, the pakcik was demonstrating on how to calculate 'sifir' in various method. Together with were also some photo showing him with Sheikh Muszaphar, and an English man claimed to be a Nobel Price winner. I'm not sure what is he up to, but what I can say that this guy is not crazy as everyone thought.

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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I'm not an Actor, I'm not a Star...:)

I learned that being an actor is not that easy. Last Friday I had a recording for Fitrah Kasih live show at my office and at Gombak. 1 plot requires repeating several shots, and if let say theres 10 plots, it might repeat the same shot again and again for several times. A friend of mine, Mubin who was one of the actor did quite a good acting skills. Tomorrow will be another day, shooting at Selayang. Don't forget to watch Fitrah Kasih this Thursday (5 Nov 09), 3pm only at TV1!

Mubin in black shirt with the kids and Hani in blue shirt from RTM

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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A. Samad Said with Muslim Aid

A Samad Said with Pyan Habib made a visit to Muslim Aid office today. It was a surprise as I was only expecting Pyan Habib to come. Last time it was Ramli Sarip, but I didn't manage to meet him personally. Pyan Habib who is one of the well known artist had been helping Muslim Aid to promote charity and community development programs to other artists. He even helped Muslim Aid to promote the Qurban For Life (Q4L) program through his blog. Probably he'll bring M. Nasir to join Muslim Aid one day!

Pyan Habib with A Samad Said

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi

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My Part Time Tuition

After work, I'll be having my tuition class at ASDAF. So this are my students, Afiq, Fadillah and Nazri from Sekolah Menengah Bangsar. I'm thinking of having my home tuition at my house next year. Its a little bit tiring to teach after work, but I do enjoy teaching at ASDAF. I would like to have 'kelas mengaji' at my house in Sentul.

Nazri, form four

Afiq and Fadillah (black shirt)

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi
Part Time Tutor

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My First Open House

Thanks to all for coming to our open house in Bandar Baru Sentul especially friends from UIA, RMC, Muslim Aid, Mashoor and others! Thanks as well to Ella (my sister in law) for helping us to prepare the dishes. We manage to make nasi ayam, spaghetti, nasi himpit, koey tiow and the delicious puding jagung from Kak Nana (another sister in law).

dari GEMADA UIA

dari UIA

sukarelawan Muslim Aid

member Penang!

dari UIA

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi, Ainie Asyikin dan Muhammad Ali

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Malaysia’s broadband quality is below par, says Oxford study

By Leslie Lau

Consultant Editor

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 2 – Malaysia was ranked a poor 48 out of 66 countries for Internet broadband quality in a study conducted by Oxford University and sponsored by Cisco.

The global study on broadband quality conducted by Oxford’s Said Business School listed Malaysia among countries which had Internet speeds which were “below today’s applications threshold.”

Malaysia is listed in the same category but above countries like the United Arab Emirates, Philippines, Pakistan, Morocco, Vietnam and Indonesia. China, Malta, Brazil and Thailand are among countries just ahead of Malaysia in broadband quality but still in the same low category.

Countries like Singapore, Britain, Australia, Spain, Turkey and the Ukraine were listed above Malaysia as having Internet speeds “meeting needs of today’s applications.”

Switzerland, the United States, Russia, Taiwan and Hong Kong “comfortably enjoy today’s applications. Crucially, Korea, Japan, Sweden, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Latvia, Netherlands, Denmark and Romania were identified as countries with broadband speeds that were “ready for tomorrow.”

The study was conducted between May and July this year and Broadband Quality Scores (BQS) were awarded based on 24 million records sourced from speed tests.

A similar study conducted last year established that download speeds of 3.75 Mbps and upload of 1 Mbps was the quality requirement needed for today’s applications such as social networking, video steaming, video chatting and file sharing.

For what was classified as “tomorrow’s requirements” speeds of 11.25 Mbps for downloads and 5 Mbps for uploads was needed for visual networking, HD video streaming, consumer telepresence, large file sharing and HD IPTV applications.

According to the study, the research team had found that broadband quality was linked to social and economic benefits and that countries with high broadband quality have broadband on their national agenda.

In a statement earlier today, the DAP’s Lim Kit Siang described the study as confirmation of Malaysia’s unchecked plunge in international IT competitiveness.

“Internationally, broadband quality has moved from one of penetration, i.e. who had broadband connection and who did not, to broadband speed but Malaysia is till bogged down in the initial stage.

“Some six months ago, when Datuk Dr Rais Yatim was also appointed Communications Minister apart from his other portfolios of Information, Culture and Arts, I had called on him to give top priority to turn Malaysia into a broadband power, both in broadband penetration rate as well as in broadband speed if Malaysia is to enhance its competitiveness to take its rightful place in the global arena.

“I had asked what Malaysia’s national average broadband speed was, because nobody was talking about 2Mbps – we are lucky if we get 512 or 256kbps without disruption!”

Malaysians in selected areas will get access to high-speed broadband only by the first quarter of next year.

Residents of Taman Tun Dr Ismail, Bangsar, both in Kuala Lumpur, Subang Jaya and Shah Alam have been promised broadband speeds of 10 Mbps and above under the High-Speed Broadband (HSBB) project.

Residents in high-worth economic zones such as the rest of the Klang Valley and Iskandar Malaysia are expected to get the service later with 1.3 million households expected to have access by 2012.

The HSBB project is a public-private partnership between Telekom Malaysia and the government. Telekom is expected to invest RM8.9 billion of its own funds while the government will put in RM2.4 billion.

Telekom has so far claimed RM290 million from the government for work done.

Malaysia currently lags behind advanced countries in terms of quality and affordability of its broadband offerings, which has been confirmed by the Oxford University study.

While some countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Sweden and Finland have been enjoying speeds up to 100 Mbps for several years now, most Malaysian still make do with speeds of 1 Mbps or less.

Recently, Singapore, China and Australia have also upped the stakes in this strategic sector and announced massive initiatives to wire up their countries with fibre optics.

p/s to go more than 512kb pun susah...

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi
streamyx user

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Q-Buster?

This was what happened at a Hypermarket store in Setia Alam Shah Alam. When I was in Penang, I love shopping at this chain hypermarket because normally you won't need to queue quite long. When there is more than two trolleys, they will open another cash counter. But it didn't happened here. You can see the people are frustrated. I tried asking one of the staff to open more counters, but she replied stating that not enough worker!Man! So what is the use you guys having those 'Q-Buster' banners?

its just a banner...

Muhammad bin Kamarulazizi
I hate long queue....

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