New Chapter

It's official, I'm no longer working in WOX now. Why? Well unfortunately, I have been affected by the global economic recession which my marine project depends on the incoming volunteers from the Western world. With so many job losses, no one is thinking of traveling to further distances to experience conservation movement. So for the past 2 months, there has been very low influx of volunteers, which leaves me no choice but to leave the office.

So what's my next move? Well first of all, I plan to relax and rest. I have been working for WOX ever since I handed in my thesis last year. Now I finally got the long break I want ever since last year. At the same time, I do plan to head to UMT to talk about my future studies in doing my Master's research. I want to focus on marine conservation, particularly to sea turtles. Other than that, I hope to get interview calls for the job vacancy I applied for in WWF as Field Biologist (Biodiversity Monitoring). What really attracts me to the job is the fact I get to deal with remote sensing, which is an awesome technology that I want to get my hands on.

As I tell myself, "Hope for the best, but expect the worst." Wish me luck folks. ;D

Would you care to help a lost & misguided robot on the streets?

This has got to be such a cute experiment. To have a robot that somewhat lost in the big city, and you take notice of people's response toward. It doesn't matter if the response was anything positive (helping the robot overcome an obstacle, telling the correct directions) or negative (making grafitti on the robot, doing anything that may seem cruel of rude), the main purpose is to study human reaction to an object that is human-like, how we relate to the particular object, and how our actions to the object be noticed due to the effects of living in the big city?

In my opinion, we should have more of these so called "friendly robots", to remind people that we ought to respect each other and be kind. If one acts in such a rude behavior, then how can we attain fair treatment for ourselves? Enjoy the video. (",)

How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air by Kamal Meattle from TED.com

Nowadays, people think that the air we breathe is healthy and good for the lungs. Our eyes can't see everything, especially in the air quality. Indian environmental activist, Kamal Meattle, have made a study on which plants are the ones that produces fresh air. Here are the following 3 trees along with their common name and scientific name:

1. Areca Palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens)
2. Mother-in-law's Tongue (Sansevieria trifasciata)
3. Money Plant (Epipremnum aureum)

we will always change...

No matter how hard I try to push myself to go with the flow of things, there are times when I find myself caught in the past. Reminiscing the good old days when I would wake up knowing I have someone to love, now I feel like I'm living my worst nightmare. The one fear I have in my life is to live old all alone and never getting married. Then just yesterday, one of my cousins was showing me some pictures of a wedding of another cousin of ours. That instantly made me feel disgusted, which made me realize I'm back to who I was before I met Laila.

Ever since I was a kid, I always thought about love. With whom will I end up saying "I love you" everyday? How will I surprise her to show how she means to me? How is my future going to be like with her? From high school to my tertiary education days, the questions ponders in my head. Just when I thought I met the one, I really thought that Allah answered my prayers. Easing my worries that I don't have to fear what I dread the most, growing old alone. With so many chit-chat of how our future would be like, where we'll have the wedding, the name of our kids; but now, they're just nothing but words of thin air.

I really have to thank Hanu, Alyn and Azri for keeping up with me. Though I may not have that special person, but it's good to know I do have friends that cares about me. Yet because of them, they're the happiness that I now see and realize that I shouldn't be sad and push myself forward. People would tend to think that we want to relive the past, but that also means we don't want change in our life. People always change, whether for good or for bad. One thing for sure, although she was the one person whom I loved so much as of this moment, I really hate her for what she has done. I just hope she's smart enough to realize that I want to be more than strangers to her, I wish to remain non-existent in her life.