Malaysia Defeats Indonesia Thanks to Laser-Shooting Soccer Fans (Updated)

As soon as the team took to the pitch, they were bombarded with lasers to the point where they literally walked off in the 54th minute. No, this wasn’t Tron, dear readers, it was a soccer match. With laser pens!

The protesting team was Indonesia. They were playing Malaysia in the Asean Football Federation Cup finals first leg, and it would be the second time Malaysian fans attacked a team with lasers. Earlier, Vietnam lost 0-2 to Malaysia and complained of the very same thing.

Indonesia eventually returned to play the game out, but ultimately lost 0-3, possibly due to blindness. Whether it was from rage or the Malaysian laser pens we may never know.

Update: Is this an epidemic? Several readers have chimed in this evening to say that in previous matches Indonesian fans were also guilty of shooting opposing players in the face with lasers. Check out the 4:05 minute mark in this video, provided by reader Ikhwan:

Green laser to the keeper’s face, following the goal. Unacceptable, and apparently something both sides are guilty of at the AFF finals? [The Jakarta Post]

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Menjadi isuhangat baru-baru ini Presiden Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad melelong kereta Peugeot 504 yang dimilikinya pada 1977 untuk tujuan kebajikan,wang hasil lelongan kereta itu diserahkan kepada projek perumahan Mehr untuk penduduk yang berpendapatan rendah.

Selepas beliau dipilih menjadi Presiden Iran pada 2005, antara aset yang diisytiharkannya ialah rumah di kawasan kelas pertengahan berusia 40 tahun di timur Teheran dan kereta Peugeot berwarna putih tersebut.

Berikut adalah kisah hidup Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Kisah hidup Mahmoud Ahmadinejad selalu diperkatakan di blog-blog tapi saya memilih cerita Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sebagai perkongsian kerana kagum dengan kezuhudan beliau untuk dimasukkan di kategori tokoh hangat.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lahir di sebuah kampung pertanian di daerah Aradan, dekat Garmsar, sekitar 120 kilometer arah tenggara Teheran.

Dia merupakan anak keempat dari tujuh beradik, berasal dari keluarga Syiah. Ia merupakan putera seorang tukang besi. Seseorang yang tidak terkenal, bukan tokoh ulama, juga bukan tokoh politik di negara Iran.

Ahmadinejad bertubuh kecil semasa remajanya. Dikenali sebagai peminat bolasepak dan juga handal bermain bolasepak. Dia juga pintar matematik. Selain itu Ahmadinejad terkenal kerana memiliki suara yang baik, seperti semasa membaca Al-Quran dan juga pidato.

Tidak ada yang menyangka Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boleh dipilih menjadi Presiden Iran, kerana 6 calon presiden yang lain merupakan tokoh ulama atau tokoh politik yang mempunyai sumber dana besar. Ahmadinejad terpilih kerana rakyat menyukai gaya dan sifatnya yang sederhana.

Datuk Bandar Teheran

Ahmadinejad terpilih menjadi Datuk Bandar Teheran pada Mei 2003. Semasa menjadi Datuk Bandar Teheran, ke mana-mana selalu meronda sendiri, tetap tinggal di rumah teresnya, membersihkan rumahnya sendiri, suka meronda sendiri setiap sudut kota dan lain-lain.

Dalam masa tugasnya, dia membawa banyak perubahan yang dilakukan datuk bandar-datuk bandar yang sebelumnya iaitu lebih sederhana dan reformis, dan mementingkan nilai-nilai keagamaan dalam aktiviti-aktiviti di pusat-pusat kebudayaan.

Presiden Mohammad Khatami pernah melarangnya menghadiri perjumpaan Dewan Menteri, suatu hak yang biasa diberikan kepada para Datuk Bandar Teheran. Perkara ini kerana pada waktu Khatami menuju Universiti Teheran, Khatami terlibat dalam kemalangan. Khatami mengkritik Ahmadinejad yang pada masa itu menjadi Datuk Bandar Teheran.

Ahmadinejad hanya berkata: “Bersyukurlah kerana presiden kita telah merasakan kehidupan rakyatnya yang sesungguhnya”. Namun Ahmadinejad tetap tenang menghadapi larangan tersebut.

Kontroversi Ahmadinejad

Ahmadinejad semakin popular dengan kenyataannya semasa ceramah dalam sebuah pertemuan di hadapan para mahasiswa pada 26 Oktober 2005.Kenyataan Ayatollah Khomeini yang menyeru agar Israel “dihapuskan dari peta dunia” mencetuskan kontroversi. Selain, mengundang kecaman dari berbagai pemimpin dunia, termasuk Presiden Shimon Peres. Peres membalas dengan menuntut agar Iran dikeluarkan dari keanggotaan di Pertubuhan Bangsa-bangsa.

Kenyataan yang menimbulkan kontroversi ini diulang kembali pada 14 Disember 2005. Semasa itu, ia berkata bahawa Holocaust (peristiwa pembunuhan beramai-ramai terhadap kaum Yahudi oleh rejim Nazi pada masa Perang Dunia II) hanyalah sebuah mitos yang digunakan bangsa Eropah untuk mencipta negara Yahudi di jantung dunia Islam. Ia juga sempat mengadakan persidangan tentang Holocaust.

Sementara, kritik dalam negeri mengenai dasar domestik dan luar negeri terus menjadi isuhangat. Kritik datang dari tokoh ulama besar Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. Merujuk retorik Ahmadinejad terhadap Amerika Syarikat, Montazeri menyatakan bahawa Ahmadinejad perlu bertindak logik terhadap musuh dan tidak memprovokasi. Bagi Montazeri, ekstremisme tidak baik untuk rakyat.

Iran menegaskan bahawa pembangunan teknologi nuklear merupakan hak yang tidak boleh dinafikan walaupun Majlis Keselamatan PBB mengeluarkan resolusi yang menuntut Iran untuk menghentikan program uranium. Ahmadinejad mendapat kritikan dari kalangan konservatif mahupun reformis mengenai dasar ekonominya dan cara dia menangani isu nuklear Iran.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad berani dan selalu membuat ucapan yang berani mengkritik Amerika Syarikat, Israel dan sekutunya secara terbuka.

http://www.isuhangat.net/2010/10/ahmadinejad-bawa-al-quran-dan-injil/

Hidup Sederhana ala Ahmadinejad

Sifatnya yang sederhana ini terus terlihat semasa Ahmadinejad terpilih menjadi Presiden. Karpet-karpet merah Parsi yang mahal dikeluarkan semua dari istana, menolak kereta limosin dan tetap setia menggunakan kereta bapanya iaitu Peugeot serta tetap tinggal di rumah teresnya.

Selain sifatnya yang sederhana ia dicintai rakyat kerana lebih mementingkan memperbaiki ekonomi negara berbanding bidang-bidang lain dan memperjuangkan setiap pendapatan minyak bumi agar jatuh ke meja makan rakyat Iran.

“Ingat, kau tak lebih dari seorang pelayan, hari di depanmu penuh dengan tanggung jawab yang berat, iaitu melayani bangsa Iran. (Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) ”

Ahmadinejad terkenal dengan kesederhanaannya dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, baik sebagai personal maupun sebagai seorang Presiden Iran. Dalam sebuah sesi wawancara bersama wartawan TV Fox dari Amerika, terungkaplah sisi-sisi menakjubkan dari seorang Ahmadinejad, kehidupannya yang sangat sederhana menjadi sangat membanggakan jika kita bandingkan dengan kehidupan ahli politik negara kita.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad duduk dalam sesi wawancara semasa pertama kali menduduki pejabat Presiden. Dia menyumbangkan seluruh karpet Istana Iran yang sangat tinggi nilainya itu kepada masjid-masjid di Teheran dan menggantikannya dengan karpet biasa yang mudah dibersihkan.

Dia mendapati bahawa ada ruangan yang sangat besar untuk menerima dan menghormati tetamu VIP, lalu ia memerintahkan untuk menutup ruang tersebut dan meminta pada protokol istana untuk menggantinya dengan ruangan biasa dengan 2 kerusi kayu, meski sederhana tetap terlihat impresive.

Langkah pertamanya adalah ia mengumumkan kekayaan dan hartanya yang terdiri dari Peugeot 504 tahun 1977, sebuah rumah sederhana warisan ayahnya 40 tahun yang lalu di sebuah daerah di Teheran. Akaun banknya bernilai minimum, dan satu-satunya wang yang masuk adalah wang gaji bulanannya sebagai pensyarah di sebuah universiti yang hanya bernilai US $250.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Tidur Di Ruang Tamu rumahnya

Selama menjadi Presiden Iran, dia tinggal di rumahnya sendiri. Dia tidak mengambil gajinya sebagai Presiden, alasannya adalah bahawa semua kesejahteraan adalah milik negara dan ia bertugas untuk menjaganya.

Presiden ini selalu membawa beg setiap hari yang berisikan sarapan; roti atau roti keju yang disiapkan isterinya dan memakannya dengan gembira, ia juga menghentikan kebiasaan penyediaan makanan yang dikhaskan untuk presiden.

Selain itu, perkara lain yang beliau ubah adalah polisi kapal terbang presiden, ia mengubahnya menjadi pesawat kargo sehingga dapat menjimatkan cukai masyarakat dan untuk dirinya, ia meminta terbang dengan pesawat terbang biasa dengan kelas ekonomi.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad juga menukar protokol istana sehingga menteri-menterinya dapat masuk terus ke pejabatnya tanpa sebarang halangan.Dia juga menghentikan kebiasaan upacara-upacara seperti karpet merah, sesi foto atau perkara-perkara seperti itu semasa mengunjungi berbagai tempat di negaranya.

Presiden Iran ini juga kerap tidur di ruang tamu rumahnya dengan hanya beralaskan karpet.

Kehidupan Spiritual Ahmadinejad

Berbeza dengan perlakuan terhadap menteri-menteri di negara kita, Presiden Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tidak akan melangkahi makmum lain di sebuah masjid jika ia datang terlambat. Ia akan duduk di barisan ke berapa pun yang didapatinya.

Dalam aktiviti sehariannya sebagai Presiden, ketika suara azan berkumandang, dia terus sahaja mengerjakan solat di mana-mana ia berada meskipun hanya beralaskan karpet biasa. Ketika menikahkan puteranya baru-baru ini, beliau hanya melangsungkan acara yang sangat sederhana yang seperti majlis perkahwinan kaum pekerja.

Creadits to http://terbangdiawanbiru.blogspot.com

Anyway, tomorrow is the first lecture for Sem to. I expect more challenge to come as a Sem 2 Software Engineering student. Hopefully the sem 2 will be as fun as sem 1. Haha. Thats all for now. Off to bed. Bye

Too horrifying to be true huh? Well, it happened in Malaysia. What more can I say. Lets find out what the government weather guy say about this. I’ll keep you posted when I know more about this.

First, before we get into this topic deeply, I want you all to understand that there are no such thing as best keyboard or best mouse for graphic design or anything. When come to this topic, it actually a very personal topic. To get the best option actually is up to your own personal preferences. Example, for me, I like the big, lase, ergonomic mouse from Logitech and Microsoft. Some of you might don’t like this. Some of you like the small foldable mouse. The point here is when come the the hardware, you really need to feel it by yourself weather you are comfortable with it or not. But remember, before go out and buy something, always do your homework first on the reliability on the thing that you want to buy. Okay, enough about that. Let’s move on.

Screen

The is consider one of the most important aspect in graphic design. Remember:

• 1) Try to get big screen with high resolution
• 2) Get the screen with accurate colour management profile

One of the best screen I’ve seen out there is the 27” Dell UltraSharp U2711. I’ve used this monitor before and of course not mine, I used this when I was working in my friends studio. The white is so white, the black is so black, and the colour is so vibrant. I love it! But the price is around RM 2699 which is quite expensive for me. But there is some other option like the 23” Dell Ultrasharp. I’ve never seen it before but from what I heard, it is pretty descent for a 23” monitor. And the price is just around RM 600+ which is quite affordable!

Anyway, my point I actually want to make is that a graphic designer really need a big screen with high resolution. Believe me on this. It is really painful to work on a small screen since…. you know… it’s just hard.

Graphic Card/RAM/CPU

Pay attention to this if you are a speed freak. Actually, software like Photoshop is very CPU (Central Processing Unit a.k.a processor) and GPU (Graphic Processing Unit a.k.a graphic processor) heavy. Editing software is a resources eater. To get the optimum performance from your hardware, first you will need to make sure that it wasn’t bottlenecking the stuff in your machine. You will need to find a perfect balance between hardware – hardware, and also software – hardware. Then you’ll get the optimized system. It easy actually if you already the concept of computer hardware. A powerful CPU must be paired with a powerful graphic card and powerful RAM. if not, the slower stuff in your computer will slow down your CPU. This also applied to graphic card, RAM and software. The video below will best demonstrate you what actually bottle neck is and how to avoid them.

Thanks NCIX for providing this video.

And also always remember that editing software is always will eat up your RAM as much as they can. So, if your asking my suggestion, I would say 4 GB is a good point to choose on. But if just for fun usage, 2 GB will do just fine. It actually depends on the project that you are working on. If it’s a big size image, best to work on high capacity RAM. If it is just a small image, a little amount of RAM is enough. The more is better.

Input device

Don’t ever forget the most important device in graphic design which is called Pen and Paper. Even though you are a digital artist, pen and paper is really important to sketch out your idea. And the good thing is when you are converting your idea into digital format, the idea will just get better and better when improvement made in the process of converting. “What if I can’t draw?” No problem. You actually can. You just don’t try. In paper, you don’t have to draw you sketch perfectly. If so, what’s the point of using computer in graphic design right? As long as you, yourself can understand the drawing, if’s fine.

Talking about converting into digital format. There are so many tools that you can use to do this. he most common one the using the scanner. The second one is by using the tablet. But tablet is unnecessary for beginner. Just using scanner is just enough. I have use tablet before. One of the best one is the tablet from Wacom. This will cost you some money but again, for me, I think it is just unnecessary unless you are the really2 pro designer that make RM15k a month.

Okay. Enough for today. More coming this week. If any question, just leave it in the comment section below and I’ll try to reply it asap. Bye for now.

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Attractive Features
This phone have all the power you need. The battery will get you through the day. It will do a straight 5.5 hours on GSM network signal and up to 5.8 UMTS network signal. That not enough for you? You’re kidding me. Nobody in the world talk for 5 hour straight. You must be crazy enough to do that. This phone have 18 days of standby time. This means that if you didn’t used the phone, the phone battery will last about 18 days. That’s a pretty long time for a phone I got to say. Music playback is approximately about 30 hours. Still not enough for you? C’mon guys. Name me one person who listen to music for 30 hours straight. It does a 6 hour hours straight on video playback. Well, video buffering does require lots of processing power. But, to me, and I think for most of us too, this is more than enough already. Which is really good to me.

Memory
This phone 512 MB of RAM. Mobile phone also have RAM. Don’t you know that? This phone have 4 GB of storage space on board and supplied with 4 GB memory card which can be expandable up to 32 GB. That a lot of space.

In practical use
Ok2. Let’s just stop talking about the on paper stuff about this phone. If you want to know more about the technical stuff about this phone, click BlackBerry Torch 9800. Let’s talk about the practical stuff on this phone. The very first feature that you will notice on this phone is the large multitouch screen. Yeah, it is large for a Blackberry device. And it multitouch too! You cab expect all the multi touch gesture would do a a multitouch device like the pinch-to-zoom and all that kind of stuff. The other feature is the QWERTY keyboard that you see on the previous Blackberry devices. The keyboard on the Torch is also the thinnest keyboard design in the BlackBerry platform and extremely comfortable to type on. It already has the multitouch capabilities. So why does it need the hardware version of the keyboard itself? For some user, just using the screen only is the best solution for them. But for some user like me, I like it to be hardware oriented keyboard so that I can type on the phone without looking at the phone itself. For example, when I’m in a class or when in bed. This is what the Torch is all about. This feature is really is an impressive to me. I know some of you might say you’ve seen some devices that have this kind of functionality already. But the point is how well the multitouch performs on those devices? I have seen some too but it’s a single touch device and the screen is not very touchable too. I mean, it is quite hard to use the touch feature on that phone. On this device, you will get the full and proper multitouch experience like what I said previously. Scroll on web pages smoothly, flip through menu, pinch to zoom the picture. It’s just flawless. Second of all, the fact that this device uses the BlackBerry 6 OS also an interesting features for me. “A good device is a device that have good both hardware and software design”. The quote really represents this device. The BlackBerry 6 OS is just fast and easy to use. It also includes some advance feature that you can personalize it by yourself. The software side of this phone is just fits most people needs. Word processing, note taking, planner, email, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube­­­­­­­­­­­­­­, multimedia experience. Just name it, this BlackBerry Torch 9800 can do it. Just don’t mention all the editing stuff like Photoshop and After Effect. Who would want to do some Photoshop on screen this big? This awesome OS can do multitask! Nice! Switch between Apps flawlessly. And the browser which provided on this phone does support multi-Tab browsing experience. Perfect tools for a person lime me of course. BTW, I got to admit that this phone is a bit heavy compare to other BlackBerry devices, but the weight actually makes it feels sturdy and solid when you hold it in your hand. You got to hold it to feel it. Its a high quality device which equipped with amazing 5MP camera. What more can I say.

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I decided to start at the beginning. The very beginning. For those people who just “picked up” a copy of Photoshop and have no idea what to do with it. The keyboard shortcut is in ( ).

Rectangular Marquee Tool (M)
Use this tool to make selections on your image, in a rectangular shape. This changes the area of your image that is affected by other tools or actions to be within the defined shape. Holding the [Shift] key while dragging your selection, restricts the shape to a perfect square. Holding the [Alt] key while dragging sets the centre of the rectangle to where your cursor started.

Move Tool (V)
Use this tool to, well, move things. Usually you use it to move a Layer around after it has been placed. Hold the [Shift] key to limit the movements to vertical/horizontal.

Polygon Lasso Tool (L)
Ok, this should be the Lasso Tool, but I use the Polygon Lasso a lot more often. Use this to draw selections in whatever shape you would like. To close the selection, either click on the beginning point (you’ll see the cursor change when you’re on it), or just double-click. When holding the [Ctrl] key, you’ll see the cursor change, and the next time you click, it will close your selection.

Magic Wand Tool (W)
Use this to select a color range. It will select the block of color, or transparency, based on wherever you click. In the Options Bar at the top, you can change the Tolerance to make your selections more/less precise.

Crop Tool (C)
The Crop Tool works similarly to the Rectangular Marquee tool (see above if you have no short-term memory). The difference is when you press the [Enter/Return] key, it crops your image to the size of the box. Any information that was on the outside of the box is now gone. Not permanently, you can still undo.

Slice Tool (K)
This is used mostly for building websites, or splitting up one image into smaller ones when saving out. It’s kind of an advanced tool, and since you’re in here for the basics, we’ll kind of skip over it. Kinda makes you mad I made you read all that for nothing, huh?

Healing Brush Tool (J)
This is a really useful tool. Mildly advanced. You can use this tool to repair scratches and specs and stuff like that on images. It works like the Brush tool (see below). You choose your cursor size, then holding the [Alt] key, you select a nice/clean area of your image. Let go of the [Alt] key and paint over the bad area. It basically copies the info from the first area to the second, in the form of the Brush tool. Only, at the end, it averages the information, so it blends.

Brush Tool (B)
This is one of the first tools ever. It’s what Photoshop is based off of. Well, not really, but it’s pretty basic. It paints one your image, in whatever color you have selected, and whatever size you have selected. There’s a lot of options for it, but this is basic, so you don’t get to learn them. Ha.

Clone Stamp Tool (S)
This is very similar to the Healing Brush Tool (see above). You use it the exact same way, except this tool doesn’t blend at the end. It’s a direct copy of the information from the first selected area to the second. When you learn to use both of these tools together in perfect harmony, you will be a Photoshop MASTA! Not really, it’s just less irritating.

History Brush Tool (H)
This tool works just like the Brush Tool (see above) except the information that it paints with is from the original state of your image. If you go Window>History, you can see the History Palette. The History Brush tool paints with the information from whatever History state is selected.

Eraser Tool (E)
This is the anti-Brush tool. It works like an eraser (duh) and erases whatever information wherever you click and drag it. If you’re on a Layer, it will erase the information transparent. If you are on the background layer, it erases with whatever secondary color you have selected.

Gradient Tool (G)
You can use this to make a gradiation of colors. Gradiation doesn’t appear to be a word, but it makes sense anyway. It creates a blending of your foreground color and background color when you click and drag it. Like a gradient.

Blur Tool (R)
The Blur tool is cool. It makes things blurry. Click and drag to make things blurry. The more you click and drag, the blurrier things get.

Dodge Tool (O)
This tool isn’t as crappy as the car brand. It’s actually used to lighten whatever area you use it on. As long as it is not absolute black. Absolute black won’t lighten.

Path Selection Tool (A)
You use this tool when working with paths. Since this is all about the basics, I won’t go into details. It’s related to the Pen Tool (see below) though.

Horizontal Type Tool (T)
It makes type. Or text. Or whatever you want to call it. You can click a single point, and start typing right away. Or you can click and drag to make a bounding box of where your text/type goes. There’s a lot of options for the Type Tool. Just play around, it’s fairly straight-forward.

Pen Tool (P)
I mentioned this tool above. It’s for creating paths, in which you would use the Path Selection Tool to select the path. Paths can be used in a few different ways, mostly to create clipping paths, or to create selections. You use the tool by clicking to add a point. If you click and drag, it will change the shape of your path, allowing you to bend and shape the path for accurate selections and such.

Rectangle Tool (U)
By default it draws a Shape Layer in the form of a rectangle. It fills the rectangle with whatever foreground color you have selected. It’s pretty complicated, don’t hurt yourself with this one.

Notes Tool (N)
Like post-it notes, but digital. You can use this tool to add small little note boxes to your image. These are useful if you’re very forgetful or if you’re sharing your Photoshop file with someone else. I’m pretty sure it only works with .PSD files.

Eyedropper Tool (I)
This tool works by changing your foreground color to whatever color you click on. Holding the [Alt] key will change your background color.

Hand Tool (T)
You can really make short work of your job with the Hand Tool. It’s for moving your entire image within a window. So if you’re zoomed in and your image area is larger than the window, you can use the Hand Tool to navigate around your image. Just click and drag. You can get to this tool at any time when using any other tool by pressing and holding the [Spacebar].

Zoom Tool (Z)
Pretty obvious what this tool does. It allows you to zoom into your image. Don’t be dumb, it doesn’t actually change the size of your image. Hold the [Alt] key to zoom out. Holding the [Shift] key will zoom all of the windows you have open at the same time. Double-click on the Zoom Tool in the palette to go back to 100% view.

BONUS!!
These are your color boxes. Foreground (in the front) and Background (in the back). Click on either one to bring up the color select dialog box.

And finally, I would thank PhotoshopLab for allowing me to share this with you guys.

Stay tune for more next week.