Summer updated

It is the screen shot from my laptop wallpaper. Can you see the similarity between 

those two places, my current location which is Nashville and my hometown, Shah Alam.

Finally, Nashville is having its real summer with temperature 27 up to 29 degree C outside

there. When 27 degree C could be considered as really hot here in Nashville, I don't know

how about people in Malaysia, doing their activity in 33-35 degree C. Is it super hot? 

O God. But still summer is much better than the freaking cold winter.

Influenza A H1N1

Saya antara orang di muka bumi ini yang bersetuju apabila World Healh Organization (WHO) menukar nama "Swine Flu" atau "Selsema Babi" kepada Influenza A H1N1. Bukanlah saya penggemar haiwan itu malah saya juga jijik melihat haiwan itu, tetapi terminologi "Selsema Babi" itu agak kritikal untuk sesetengah pihak.

Cukup untuk saya katakan masyarakat Melayu yang beragama Islam di Malaysia sangat sensitif dengan nama haiwan ini dan sehingga terjadinya kes selsema ini, sifat anti-babi itu semakin mendalam. 

Melalui pembacaan dan pemahaman saya mengenai selsema ini, benar ia berasal dari babi tetapi dalam erti kata mudah, nenek moyang virus H1N1 itu yang berasal dari babi. Ini bermakna untuk masa sekarang, virus itu tidak langsung merebak melalui haiwan tersebut. Tetapi di sesetengah tempat yang kes Influenza A ini digembar-gemburkan (overrated), menjadi satu trend masyarakat di sana untuk panik, kelam-kabut dan tidak tentu arah.

Walhal mereka lupa ini adalah wabak selsema. Bezanya cuma kadar merebaknya virus H1N1 ini begitu cepat dan tiada lagi vaksin untuk virus ini setakat ini. Ramai yang sedia maklum flu atau selsema biasa juga boleh membawa maut. Apa yang penting ialah tindakan pencegahan dari awal agar virus ini tidak merebak.

Mengenai 2 orang pelajar Malaysia yang baru pulang bercuti dari Amerika Syarikat dan disahkan positif dijangkiti virus H1N1, adalah tidak adil jika kita menyalahkan pelajar-pelajar tersebut. Tiada sesiapa di dunia ini yang mahu diri mereka sakit apatah lagi dipersalahkan kerana menjadi punca virus itu tersebar. Kalaulah H1N1 itu boleh dilihat dengan mata kasar, sudah pasti mereka akan mengelaknya dan tiada kes Influenza A di Malaysia sehingga sekarang.

Nashville sehingga sekarang tidak mencatat kes yang serius walaupun dilaporkan terdapat kes yang berlaku tetapi boleh diklasifikasikan sebagai minoriti tetapi tidak pula diabaikan (not important but not negligible).

Sentiasalah berdoa kepada Allah s.w.t memohon agar diri kita, keluarga, jiran-jiran dan masyarakat seluruh dunia dilindungi dari wabak penyakit ini.

"Dan Kami turunkan dari Al Quran suatu yang menjadi penawar dan rahmat bagi orang-orang yang beriman dan Al Quran itu tidaklah menambah kepada orang-orang yang zalim selain kerugian" (surah Al-Isra':82)

Ingatlah. Allah tidak menurunkan penyakit tanpa penawarnya.

The small thing

Have you ever see something like "chenta" or "mutha"? Well, chenta = cinta and mutha = mother. Those kind of altered words are really annoying. I think it's just for me and others could accept it but I'm sorry buddies, I could not accept it. Everytime I see those kind of words, I just think that person might have some kind of problem in his or her language. Again I really apologize for that because this is just my thought and I am not in state of criticize any person.

I think everyone should read this article from Saifulislam.com. It is a good article from Ustaz Hasrizal. He got his own opinion and words about using the short form in writing or messaging. In Ustaz Hasrizal case, I think he is true when he could not accept people writing in this short form and obviously when leaving comment or shoutout in his blog. My words about this is Saifulislam.com is now becoming a public blog with thousand of readers per day. So, it is so true when you deal with something publically and academically, you have to use the proper words and language so that you are in the same boat as the writer.

For me, I'm fine with those short form because it suits me as well as my friends. You don't have to write "diz" as "this" or "bcoz" as "because" when you are using yahoo messenger or any other related instant messaging program.

Everything that we have to care about is when, where and to whom we are talking to. If he is our friend, then that is fine enough since we don't want to waste our time writing the complete words but if it is something academically or involve your profesionalism to be taken into account, yes you have to know how to deal with it.

p/s: I think my writing style is strongly affected by the engineering lab report style. Too bad. hahaha..