Fatwa council...? Are they more dumb than a 1st grade kid?

Saw this article online and thought i should share with everyone to portray the stupid-ness of the government in handling such a beautiful country, MALAYSIA!

Everyone, stop doing YOGA! It will distant you from your God and get nearer instead to INDIAN God... And dont eat healthy, dont do good things, dont exercise, dont work (like the government), receive bribery because end of the day, you just need to pray!!! Thats what the government teach us!!!! How STUPID ARE THEY!!!! Dumb asssssses in the government!

This is the article that will make you realize that the government is one big circus with all the clowns in it:

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Tomboys, Yoga...what next?

Coming soon: Fatwa on yoga

Oct 29, 08 4:08pm, Malaysiakini

The National Fatwa Council will be issuing a ruling soon relating to yoga exercise, which is deemed to be deviationist in nature for the Muslims.

An announcement on the matter is expected to be made soon by the fatwa council's chairperson Prof Dr Abdul Shukor Husin.

This was revealed by the deputy director-general of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim) Othman Mustapha, reported Bernama today.

Yesterday, UKM lecturer Prof Zakaria Stapa advised Muslims who have taken up yoga - a widely popular exercise which has its roots to India and Hinduism - to stop practising it for fear that it could deviate them from their belief.

"Yoga originated from the Hindu community and it combines spiritual as well as their religious aspects. They believe it brings them closer to their god," he was reported as saying in Berita Harian today.

Zakaria was reported to have said that more Muslims were resorting to yoga exercise to find a balance in their hectic lifestyle.

He added that they should instead apply the Islamic teachings such as prayers to find peace and good health.

"If the Muslims want a healthy body, prayers are the right choice... why must we find alternate ways... a single mistake can deviate our teachings as yoga movements follow the style and tradition of Hinduism," he was reported as saying.

Ban on tomboys

The perils of yoga to the Muslims is learnt to have been discussed at the recently held fatwa council meeting in Kota Baru, Kelantan.

At the fatwa council meeting, the religious scholars have also decided to issue a fatwa against females from dressing or behaving like men and engaging in lesbian sex.

Council chairperson Abdul Shukor had said that many young women admired the way men dress, behave and socialise, violating human nature and denying their feminity.

"It is unacceptable to see women who love the male lifestyle including dressing in the clothes men wear," Abdul Shukor was quoted as saying.

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I'm just waiting for the National Fatwa Council to come out with fatwas against corruption, violence against women, cheating etc. Instead they have these.

Do they know anything about yoga or is this a classic case of reacting out of fear and ignorance? Yoga may have spiritual roots but most of us do it for the exercise, both for the mind and body. It helps you to focus and in fact helps you to focus when you do your prayers. The one thing it does not do is make you want to beat up anyone, call people nasty names or issue fatwas on things you don't understand.

If prayers are the only thing you need to be healthy, why are there so many unhealthy Muslims? Is this an indication that they don't pray? If all you need do is pray, why do sports or eat healthily?

If they have ever found any Muslim who has converted out solely because of yoga, they should produce evidence instead of speculating on the 'weakness' of our faith. If it is 'weak' at all, it is because people like the Fatwa Council have done nothing to make it strong, constantly weakening it through fear and ignorance.

And what is this thing about 'dressing in clothes men wear'? If I wear a pantsuit (which incidentally covers very well), am I dressing like a man? If I cut my hair short because it is easier to upkeep, is that forbidden? Will we now have the Fatwa Council scan the fashion magazines and make rulings about which clothes are 'masculine' and which are 'feminine'? (And what is there to admire about 'the male lifestyle' when males are represented by the men on the Fatwa Council?)

I know, I know...someone is going to tell me to shut up because apparently I don't know my religion. Well, that is a matter of opinion. The Islam that I believe in is just and fair, is compassionate, loving and peaceful.Someone tell me that's the wrong Islam.

Homecoming (belated post)

OSU ' s homecoming is the biggest in the whole nation. We get to experience it last week friday and saturday and it was an awesome event. Homecoming, if i ask anyone here what is the purpose and meaning of it, the answer will go like this : "Homecoming .... is a custom and culture of the US... we do it every year.... to celebrate........urmm........ celebrate the football season in US. We just have FUN... "

Conclusion: there is no meaning and purpose of it actually, just an excuse to have everyone out from their home and have Fun!!!!


So went up for the walkabout as they called it but actually it is just like a "pasar malam" on friday night. This is the first time i have seen so many people coming out all together on one street. We walked for about 2 hours and i found myself craving for food so i bought a 3 bucks corn and continue walking.


Photos on the walkabout are on my facebook account http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43662&id=635231452

Photos wasnt that clear due to the bad performance of my camera. :(

Then the corn didnt did any good to my stomach so i decided to get something that worth 5 dollar (the money left in my wallet)... and my eyes set upon TURKEY LEG and this is what i get :

It took me and my friend 1 hour to finish it.. haha

The next day we woke up early for the homecoming parade which will be hold off campus. It's a half an hour bike journey there. I thought i saw everyone out from their home the night before but i was wrong. The crowd was twice the night before!!! Even one of the senator candidate came to look at the parade. Photos are on facebook too : http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=43664&id=635231452

Taken a lot of photos on that day

Some of the photos taken:

Gymnasium on the back of a truck?

These 3rd to 5th grade students flipping along the street. Wonder when will they get tired. lol

lame felllow...

The one with a Cowboy hat is our school Mascot called PETE. check out that he captured a bear which is the mascot of the school that we are going to play few hours later. pity bear.. lol

Horses again.... with me again too... lol

The parade lasted for roughly 1 hour and Henry and i were deciding what to cook later but suddenly the restaurant NEW CHINA popped up in front of us! Henry said the food in NEW CHINA, which is a buffet restaurant is awesome so biasa lar guys... think of cooking also sien.... so we drop by there to take our Brunch!!

It is the bestest meal i ever took in my whole stay in Stillwater! They have chinese foods (mainly), pizzas, japaneses foods, deserts, italian food, fruits..

As i was so curious i calculated how many dishes are there and it turn out to be 90 of them! feels like a King on that day! haha..

and what the hell it only cost 8 dollars!!

I wasnt that hungry until i actually saw those food.

First round....

Second round...

Third round...

Fourth round...
Whats a meal without fruits?? :)

This is the heaven of food...

Look at my stupid face! damn full...lol. Took 1 and a half hour to finish them ..

Cycling back after that meal was the stupidest thing to do and we did. lol...

Took this meal at 12 pm and did not feel hungry until 9pm. :P lame ...

Anyway OSU won the football game on that day 27-6. Congrats congrats!! :)

My Laptop is BACK!

People may wonder what my display name on msn (laptop kena makan by bugs) means . It meant what it meant, literally because my laptop was infected with viruses and i was forced to sent it to the OSU IT service center. To my surprise they didnt charge me anything because it is one of the services Resident Life in OSU offers. So was kinda cool except that i was required to buy windows XP professional CD for them to reformat my laptop and the disk only costed 7.50 dollars!! :P Good deal. My laptop is now being BAPTIZED and REBORN!! wahahahaha....

Anyway went to Duncan Oklahoma Halliburton technology and manufacturing site last friday as was stated in my previous post and it was a blast! Get exposed to a lot of really cool engineer's stuffs. Feeling proud to be part of them.

The journey was slightly over 2 hours and i was the co-driver for Dr Thompson and so was required to look at the map and show the route to take. The journey was like one that never ends. The road is straight and the sight around?? I will show you... and you shall experience it yourself. haha.. Furthermore i pretty much needed to be awake all the time to ensure that we are on the right track. Fortunately and unfortunately(to some extent) Dr Thompson is a GREAT SPEAKER. When i asked him about some little thing that i saw on the way, he would explain the entire US history to me and my friend behind asked me secretly after the trip :" HOW THE HELL CAN YOU GUYS KEEP TALKING TALKING TALKING NON-STOP?"

Answer: You think i want meh? What to do?

Anyway here are the photos of our journey to Halliburton:

After 10 minutes of drive
After another 10 minutes
Another 10 minutes
1 hour passed.....

2 hour passed....

After another 10 minutes
then 10 more minutes passed
walao.....
where got end oh like that???

However, we manage to survive the drive and got to Halliburton successfully! yay! lolx.

The technology center
The manufacturing center..

Halliburton is mainly an upstream oil drilling company. They have roughly 55000 employess around the world with one of them located in Johor Bahru. What they do is they supply the equipments and workmanship to companies like Petronas, Shell and other multinational petroleum company to extract the crude oil from thousands of feet under the ground.

Imagine, they drill holes with a 1 feet diameter high technology pipe and cement the surrounding while they drill. Just like that, they are able to drill it thousands of feet under the earth. The deepest they ever drill is 35000 feet below the earth. Imagine, when i came to US, the plane was flying around 30000 feet about sea level and thinking about going that deep into the earth? Only Halliburton and Exxon Mobil can do that. and of course, they need ENGINEERRSSSS!! wahahaha...

We were not allowed to bring any cameras into their manufacturing and technology center because it is like their TOP SECRET stuffs. But it is a good experience there. There's two very cool stuffs that we saw them perform in the technology area. The first is the way they resolve the water that they suck out from the underground from being contaminated with sands.

First, they let us see the sand mixed with water in which the water were kinda contaminated with all the small dust of the sand. Then they mix a chemical and after they shake it, the water is clear. All the sands sink without making the water looks contaminated. Then to further enhance it, they mix another chemical, and shake it, the sand and water went to form a gummy ball. They stick all together and the water is like a rubber ball with all the sand inside of it. What the hell man. They said they engineered the polymers and structure of the water and sand to make it like that. ENGINEERSS.....Impressive. hahaha

It is like the picture above but the difference is, it is translucent with sands literally inside of it. How cool is it.

The next impressive thing is on the cement. How they make the cement to work like how they want it to be when it is underground. First, it is just a normal mixture of cement that is viscous and resisted to flow. Once a chemical were added, the cement became just like the pipe water, seriously. This is to allow the cement to flow faster as it flows down the pipe. Then, add another chemicaL? The cement harden in 2 seconds and he could not open the container anymore because it is fully cement-ed. Crazy engineerss...

We were then treated to a lunch at their canteen and then were brought to the manufacturing department. Btw, did i say how big is the whole site? It is like 3 or 4 golf courses size tentatively.

In the manufacturing part, it is where mechanical engineers (me) will be more interested in. We were introduced to all the history of Halliburton and then the real amazement began. As the door opened, we were required to get our safety glasses on all the time and WOW! is all we can grasp upon.

There are all kinds of machineries inside and all the big trucks that they uses for the drilling. I could not forget how huge one of the truck is. Imagine, looking two storey high, 2 car size wide and probably 50 feet long truck in front of you. WOW WOW WOW!! ...

There is one stop where we visited the device they used to cut small tolerance parts by using LASER! like the one in the star war LASER! They can make all kinda of things just by programming the computer and press the start button and it will do its job all by its own.

Lasers that we saw except that it was computer operating..

Imagine, technology will one day takes over the human world. deng deng deng deng.... :P

It was too much to be blogged during our 6 hours visit there so i am not going to elaborate every single detail about it but we managed to take a photo with out coordinator that brought us around when we were there and they also gave us a bag of Halliburton's souvenir.

Us with the Halliburton alumni along with 4 other engineeering students (non-Halliburton scholars)
Yu Jun and i at the half way hut. Super smart guy thou looks playful . lolx

That practically wraps up my day and week. ( i guess...)

At least now you get a view on how ULU this place is and i will be stucked here for the nect 2 years.. OH NO!!

Photos..

When i finally uploaded all the photos and were about to publish them on my blog! Suddenly! my laptop caught virus and files were infected and i was shown to an anti virus software page which requires me to buy their product. Of course, i tried to ignore it but could not find any ways to close the windows. Without wasting a second, i shut down my laptop! And that was the last time i ever saw my desktop background again.... Luckily these photos were auto saved in my blog.
It was such a rough weekends without my laptop and it seems like lots of the other things followed to turn sour for example, my handphone i brought from Malaysia which i uses for my alarm clock refused to charge and it died off from low batt, out toilet's sink stuck with water, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc.... Ok Ok .. Not that much but still its bad.:(
Anyway, dont let those things affect the mood in viewing these photos below! :) Enjoy...


Birthday Boy with Wun Wun from China
TADA! Finally the answer revealed! It is a love doll....:P Anyone guessed it right?


He likes it...???:P


This is the dinner i cooked for Henry. Took him more than an hour to finish them. haha

The 2 christian t shirt that we bought! This is funny.. I hang these two cloths on the hanger outside but the strong wind keep puffing them down on the field so with much desperation for shirt clipper, i used the clips that were on one of the old folder to clipped them and it works out perfect! wahahaah... Creativity + Desperation = Innovation.. :P

Saturday again..

It is like in a blink of an eye that another week has passed. Today , as in my saturday (lolx) we decided to go to Walmart to get some winter clothing and some household stuffs. Again, we spended 180 dollars but this time more on clothing. I bought one cool christian t shirt i guess and 2 track suit along with another winter jacket. Kinda love my room now since everything is getting settle down with all my new belongings. Anyway, didnt have any plans for the weekend and figure it would be another boring weekends and the beginning of another few weeks of test. However, there is this one day Fall break (lame) on this friday which i am really looking forward to because all 4 of the Halliburton scholarship holder will be going down to Duncan, Oklahoma to visit one of the Halliburton site and i guess it would be really fun. It is like a 3 hours drive down and we will move out from here at around 6 or 7 am and will not be back until late evening. So it's gonna be fun fun fun...:)

By the way, guess it is time to reveal the present of Henry now. The photos will be uploaded in a minute. Behold.... and you shall receive. :P haha

Henry's birthday!

It was Henry's birthday yesterday! When the clock strikes 12, i opened our house door and there were out friends waiting to give him a surprise party! Thou he is NOT THAT SURPRISE, it was indeed a good party and 3 of us, Jason, Teon and i gave him a present which we bought from OKC. Curious to know what it is? Its a secret...haha. I will upload it in my next few posts and let you guys have a look. It would laugh your ass off! Give you a clue, it is his 21th birthday. It is to signify that he is an adult and his girlfriend is in Singapore. Too far away for him............. Get it now? haha...

Anyway, on the night before his birthday ends, i cook a super good and delicious meal for him! Udon MEE!! with eggs, seafood, sausages, cabbage, mushrooms. He took an hour to finish that meal because it is too good. He didnt want to finish it so fast....lolx...

Then today we had an international expo at the library lawn where students from their own countries sell their country's specialties and we, as a Malaysian sold NASI LEMAK and BUBBLE TEA. Each nasi lemak, with fried chicken and spring roll COSTS USD 7.OO! haha... What the heck!
Of course, I as a malaysian, who loves malaysia so much and am such a patriotic citizen............did not buy it! haha.. Instead i bought African food that costed me USD 6. Nasi Lemak i can get it for 1 ringgit in Malaysia! Why buy it from US??:p haha..
Then henry and I had some vietnam food as well. They are good when coupled with thailand tea. wuahahahaa..... Jealous?? :P

Today, 1st of October, the starting of the month, also signifies the end of my aircond. As october is expected to turn cold, we decided to terminate the aircond service starting this month. In the afternoon when temperature was about 30 degree, it was kinda warm in the house. But in the morning and night when temperature is about 10 degree, it is just nice. As the weather now is changing to winter, it varies significantly with high like 30 degree and low like 8 degree. So got to prepare some jackets whenever i am out there.

Its time for me to have my dinner. Kudos people and take care.

Signing out.....