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AIDIL ADHA
... seperti biasa, ada yg beraya hari ni (sabtu) dan ada yg beraya esok.
Innalillah wa inna illahi rojiun kepada Arwah Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti, pemimpin rakus yang 'dicipta', 'disokong' dan 'dibantu' oleh Amerika yang akhirnya juga digantung bunuh oleh Amerika. Semoga beliau dihukum seadilnya di mahkamah Yang Maha Kuasa.
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65 Years Ago
I planned to write about this last Thursday/Friday but the incident (see 2 previous postings below) overshadowed this historical event 65 years ago in my homeland. Anyway, I wrote this a year ago....
95* Minutes Before Pearl HarborIt was the annual monsoon season in the East Coast, and kampung folks of Kuala Pak Amat had just finished their
'mmaeng tteghi' (main puteri) on the beach on the evening of 7th Dec 1941. The traditional shamanistic healing ceremony (which has now banned by the state government) which could take up to three consecutive nights finished quite late and as the folks dispersed into the gloomy December evening at about midnight, they suddenly noticed three gigantic silhouettes emerged from the sea horizon. Moving stealthily, there were half a dozen more such smaller silhouettes creeping behind. The three were
Awagisan Maru,
Ayatosan Maru and
Sakura Maru navy transport ships of the Japanese Imperial Army, commanded by Major-General Hiroshi Takumi with its 5,200 troops on board and the smaller ones were light cruiser
Sendai, destroyers
Ayanami,
Isonami,
Shikinami and
Uranami, minesweepers
No. 2 and
No. 3, and subchaser
No. 9.
As soon as they anchored just after midnight, about 3km from the shoreline, Nippon landing crafts were launched and fires were shot toward the heavily defended beach. The invasion of Kota Bharu hence commenced under the eyes of Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita.... whilst at the same, on the other side of the globe, his fellow comrade Vice Admiral Nagumo was still monitoring his first 183 fighter planes flying high towards Pearl Harbor.
* the exact time is disputable; ranging from 70mins, 60mins, 45mins, 90mins and 95mins.
epilogue:Ada beberapa orang saksi mengatakan, dua hari sebelum peluru pertama ditembak, sebahagian askar Jepun talah pun berenang ke pantai dari kapal-kapal perang mereka yang berlabuh beberapa batu di Laut China Selatan dan bersembunyi di hutan nipah, menunggu isyarat untuk memulakan serangan.
Pertempuran bersejarah ini disurahkan amat hebat sekali, dengan askar gurkha yang mengawal pantai berjaya membunuh sebahagian besar dari gerombolan permulaan tentera Nippon yang menyerang, hinggakan di suatu masa, ketua serangan Jepun telah meminta kebenaran dari panglimanya untuk berundur seketika sementara bantuan tiba; satu permintaan yang tidak dilayan.
Dikatakan, kubu-kubu yang dibina di sepanjang pantai telah ditawan dan ditawansemula buat beberapa kali. Namun, tentera Nippon yang terus melanda pantai, satu ketumbukan lepas satu ketumbukan, walaupun sebahagiannya gugur di pantai... akhirnya berjaya menyepikan askar-askar gurkha.... yang berjuang hingga ke titisan darah yang terakhir, mempertahankan sebuah tanah asing untuk kepentingan tuan yang asing.
Tiada siapa pun yang mengingati pengorbanan mereka ini... sedikit yang tinggal, kenangan buat anak-anak merdeka... pun saban hari semakin lenyap dari mata, ditelan laut yang rakus...
kredit foto: raykinzokuDunia terus digemburkan tentang Pearl Harbor; dengan filem box-office, drama, dokumentari dan segalanya.
Kuala Pak Amat, Sabak.... yang pernah dimandikan darah merah, tiada siapa yang mengingatinya....
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a year to go
Yesterday, 7th Dec 2006, New Line Cinema has launched
'The Golden Compass' official
website, exactly a year to the date of the film’s scheduled worldwide release.
This week, for two days, Wednesday & Thursday, Kakak attended stunt workshops with the stunt coordinators at the Shepperton Studios... rehearsing the fighting scenes they'll shoot next week. They learned, basically, the correct ways to fall and get flipped, bashed, dragged etc.
As a ballet dancer, Kakak is very agile for such things. She was even picked by the director to show others. As always, she can be very dramatic and shown great crying skill when asked, during the rehearsals. Hence, Kakak was chosen by the director to be one of the main characters in the fighting scene where they fought the mighty Tartar army right after they escaped the Bolvanger, whilst Lyra mounted onto
Iorek and headed to the beast's icy kingdom, Svalbard, to settle old score.
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m u s i b a h
Tell me, what is the probability of this chain of event to happen?
- for the first time, last night, I left my workbag in the car;
- early this morning, discovered that the car window has been smashed and the bag has gone; (it's a black laptop bag, but there's no laptop in it)after went through the things one has to do, e.g. report to the police, insurance, office etc., I was informed by the office that- a gentleman called and told that he found my bag with its contents scattered near a hedge as he was walking to his office this morning.
- he is also an architect;
- he works with another Malaysian architect who is my friend !
i went to his office and picked up the bag. everything was wet. fortunately, most thing were there except my faulty mobile phone of which I've wrapped in an envelope ready to be posted back for repair
- and the architect's daughter goes to the same school as Kakak !
