What do I write?

I found this link from Doc: Bed Story. People are asking me what am rambling about in my blogs. At one point, I'm kinda curious about what people think about me when they read my entries. So, this website pretty much has an accurate idea about me or my blog, at least. 

Just put on your blog address and it'll tell you about your blog or personality.

This is the analysis it tells about my blog. 

ESFP - The Performers 

"The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves. 

The enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions."

 

Wade Robson - Beautiful performer

Pn. Azian, my notorious C++ instructor back in INTEC, always reminded me about a program's robust. I tested Azwan's blog and the result is kinda funny. Check it out by yourself.

Calamity?

Calamity? Worth it or not?

"We like to think we're fearless, eager to explore unknown lands and soak up new experiences, but the fact is, we're always terrified. Maybe the terror is part of the attraction. Some people go to horror movies. We cut things open. Dive into dark water. And at the end of the day, isn't that what you'd rather to hear about? If you've got one drink and one friend and 45 minutes. Slow rides make for boring stories. A little calamity. Now that's worth talking about."

Quantitatively speaking, "Well, it depends on the end result. Investment and Time value of Efforts can be calculated". But how about the process?

RIP Ben and Laura

Climbing at the Red river gorge has been a beautiful part of my journey in the US. Sometimes, in the middle of freaking hectic life as a student on campus, it randomly comes across my mind how nice it was if I were in the Red, camping out at Miguel's Pizza, rocking the rocks, hanging out with climbers, enjoying hand made pizza with self-grown vegetables and chatting about lots of stuff. I made tons of friends at the Red both local climbers and foreigners. They are all friendly and fun to be friend with. The environment is always warm that everybody is being nice to each other. It does not matter who you are, where you're coming from and whether you are a good climbers or not, everybody respects each other equally.
Today, I was so in shocked when I found out that two climbers at the Red River gorge were dead on a crag. Here's what I got from my club's mailing list:

"The two passed at global village around monday. Ben left Miguels monday with Laura. Their plan was to climb white-out and lower to the ledge to climb " The Man Behind the Curtain". Tuesday afternoon Jordan and Kobes drove by the parking lot and realized Ben's car was still there. Worried for their friend, they hiked up to the wall. They found Ben and Laura dead at the base of the cliff. They quickly ran down and called 911. At the scene Ben had Laura on belay and she was tied in. Ben was farther down the hill than her. Today Dan and I rapped in from the top to discover what happened. It appears that they climbed "white-out" and then lowered to the ledge half way up the wall. This ledge is the belay for the 11a "Man behind the Curtain". From what we could tell, they decided not to climb it........there was no chalk.... The anchors on the ledge were two rusty bolts with webbing run through them. At the ledge we found the webbing was broken. On the ground we had found a rap ring with blood on it.

They must have put the rope through the rap ring and started lowering Laura. The webbing broke, pulling Ben with her. There was no gear on the anchors, so we think he went in direct to the sling that he was lowering her with. The webbing was completely white. Where the webbing was against the bolt there was a faint color of its original color, dark purple. We assume they didn't notice the poor condition of the webbing."

I literally wept when I read this that this could happen to good climbers who had been climbing for almost their whole lives. And they were those people who I met regularly and talked to when I went to the Red. Now, they are dead because of falling on a climbing route.
Rest in peace Ben and Laura~

War!

Today, I am declaring WAR towards OREOS!!!
*strategies - Hakim as a weapon (give him all the Oreos left to finish as quick as his body can absorb which relatively faster than mine)
- more vegetables to be acquired from Allies (wal-mart and food mart)
- Corec as training field!

Waaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhh!!!!!

POCtoberfest (Purdue Outing Club October Fest)

It's an hour before ECON370 (International Trade) mid-term.
Kind of ready except for couple of ideas about how environmental regulation affects International trade.
STAT416 (Probability) mid-term at 6:30.
Tired of rolling dice and shuffling decks for past few days.
But...Bah! Don't give a shit.
Because, on top of those,
Totally excited for POCtoberfest tomorrow!!
Place: The New River Gorge, West Virginia
Date: Oct 11-13 (8 hours driving in Endo's car!)
Activities: Climbing, climbing, climbing and CLIMBING!

oh ya, found this superb websites pertaining to poetry.
Puisi-poesy
Yang Tercetus Lalu Bersuara
Bernice Chauly

Check them out!

Off to W. Virginia!

A Tag

Starting time: 7.53 a.m. US EST
Name: Mohd Hanif Kamis
Sisters: 2
Brothers: 2
Shoe Size: 9.5-10
Height: 178 cm
Where do you live: home

have you ever been on a plane? yes

swam in the ocean? like tengah2 laut? no

fallen asleep in school? hell yeah

broken someone's heart? yes!

fell off your chair? a lot masa sek rendah

sat by the phone and waited all night for someone to call? nah...

saved emails? yeah. important ones

what is your room like? hmmm...typical pemalas org bujang. ask addin!

what's right beside you? calculator, STATS hw and iPOD

what was the last thing you ate? toast bread and fish sticks

ever had chicken pox? masa kecik2

like picnics? not really when I have to set up t BBQ. Kalo makan je suka la!

who was/were the last person you dance with? OMG! Laurie, Kate and Jenny! White boys dance!

last made you smile? people at Tent in Town

you last yelled at... i don't yell

today did you talk to someone you like? not yet.

kissed anyone? emmmm.... *wink*wink*

get sick? occasionally

talked to an ex? yup! even closer than before but still be careful with the barrier

missed someone? OMG! tons of people

who do you really hate? I don't hate people

do you like your handwriting? Hell yeah!

are your toenails painted? nope.

whose bed other than yours would you rather sleep in?
Josh Hess and Mark

what colour shirt are you wearing right now? Don't ask me about color.

are you a friendly person? not a question to be asked to me

do you have any pets? never

do you sleep with the tv on? nope. really light sleeper

what are you doing right now? working in computer lab. And about to leave soon! Thank God!

can you handle the truth? with time

are you closer to your mother or father? I would say mom.

do you eat healthy? freakingly healthy

do you steal pictures of you and your ex? Steal? No.

if you're having a bad day, who would you most likely go to?
I'd rather keep it to myself. After all I don't complain a lot about my life until it could bring me down. But if it's TOO bad, I'd go to Josh or Kate

are you loud or quiet most of the time?
Loud! Very loud in every sense

are you confident? most of the time

5 things i was doing 10 years ago:

1. main mercun dlm kelas agama petang2.
2. Played trumpet in school band.
3. Main bola petang2.
4. Main nyorok2 kat newly constructed taman, jatuh from the bumbung and patah tangan. Lied to my mom that I fell from bike.
5. Didn't have any idea that I'd be here now.

5 things i would do if i am a billionaire:
1. Go to Alaska, India, China, and Egypt
2. Shopping!
3. Beli camping and climbing gears yang telah lama diidam-idamkan!
4. Ambitiously climb K2.
5. Kasi family sket.

5 of my bad habits:
1. Too random!
2. pemalas.
3. health freak.
4. good liar
5. selalu susahkan org.

5 places i am living in:
1. 101 N. Russell St.
2. Changlun Kedah
3. Temerloh Pahang.
4. Gurun, Kedah
5. Kuala Rompin Pahang

Ramadhan

Ily's recent post gives me the idea to write down this entry. This year's Ramadhan is quite different than last year's as we started on early September, which bring forward iftar as late as 830 p.m. in Lafayette (it's getting earlier though). And it's a bit tiring at the beginning. My 1st day was in my so-called-hometown, 'The Red River Gorge, KY', specifically, Miguel's Pizza.

It was the weekend of labor day plus a canceled morning class on the coming Tuesday, which gave me along with Kate, Adrian and Andy plenty of time having a relaxed-climbing trip. It was not until 3 hours I left Purdue that I called Addin asking solat time, which I rarely forget to jot down before heading to The Red, I figured the 1st of Ramadan was the coming Monday!

There was no problem at all fasting at The Red plus climbing at least 4 routes per day. On Monday after done climbing, Jenny came with an idea to do drive-in movie. And it was gonna be 3 movies back to back! Oh ya, drive-in movie or theater is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor screen, a projection booth, a concession stand and a large parking area for automobiles. So, basically we pay $2 for each movies and of course drive in into parking area, turn on radio channeled through the frequency given, sit back, grab popcorn and enjoy!

So, Jenny decided, as she always does, to have an early dinner at a Mexican restaurant. I didn't tell them that I was fasting that day. We drove 30mins away from Miguel's and got into this fancy Mexican restaurant in Winchester. When it came to my turn to order, I just said no, which was totally surprising everybody. It is uncommon for us not to have a big meal after such a tiring day of climbing as we always have at least 4 big slices of Miguel's Pizzas. Also, we kinda climbed a bit harder than days before since it was the last day.

As I told them that I was fasting because of Ramadhan, because Muslims before me had to do so, I can neither drink nor eat anything at all bla bla bla, I was bombarded with tons of questions!

Andy: "What if when you're climbing, you're sweating and the sweat drop into your mouth?"
"What if when you brush your teeth and you drink some water?"
"What if I shovel pizza into your mouth now?"
"What if you climb, falls and almost dying in need of water?"
It all came at once! And I was like "Andy..." but Kate goes "Stop it Andy! Otherwise you're gonna be thrown into the Hell." I didn't know whether to laugh or not, but Kate's response making sure I was not troubling myself answering those questions, considering that I was starving, I found hilarious.

The best part of it was when I bought this super duper delicious ikan bakar to eat while watching movies. AND of course Ale-8, a kind of soda which I brought some home a while ago and some people thought they were beers, which doesn't offend me at all. AND drive-in theater was great! I think better than normal theater.
Hmmm.... I miss the Red....