Lirik: Keamanan

Keamanan
Artist: Raihan, Feat: Hijjaz, Rabbani, Brothers
Song Category: Nasyid

Tangisan selubungi alam
Kisah manusia yg terluka
Terhina di bumi sendiri
Kifarah terbiar dari Ilahi

Hilang segala apa yg dibina
Kehancuran memusnah melata
Kehidupan insan tak bermaya

Dengan air mata
Sukar bertukar duka
Cahya harapan berubah gelita
Kepayahan hidup yg amat sengsara

Keamanan, Kedamaian, Keharmonian
Dan Kasih sayang
Harapan dalam kehidupan
Setiap insan

(Kasih sayang sesama insan)

Hulurkan bantuan
Kepada yang memerlukan
Perhatian dan Pembelaan
Belah kasihan

Semaikan benih keimanan
Agar ia tumbuh subur
Memayungi kita

Sinar dan harapan
Pasti kan tiba
Menerangi hidup diri kita
Memerlukan pengorbanan semua

Masa hadapan yg kita impikan
Dunia yg penuh ceria
Hidup aman sentosa
Bahagia

Keamanan, Kedamaian, Keharmonian
Dan Kasih sayang
Harapan dalam kehidupan
Setiap insan

Hulurkan bantuan
Kepada yg memerlukan
Perhatian dan Pembelaan
Belah kasihan

Hentikan sengketa
Hilangkanlah penderitaan
Kita sesama manusia
Bersaudara

Malaysia - UK: Cultural Diversity (part II)

I won't discuss about the obvious matter, i.e.: weather as everybody almost know the differences of tropical and European weather. But it's worth to mention that with the cold weather in the UK, we need to have a heater in which we never need one in Malaysia. Heater could be powered up by electric or majority by gas, yeah the latter one is not so familiar in Malaysia - apart from fuel, and cooking gas. The things is the gas is not cheap, and based on my experienced the total cost of gas always greater than electric (we used the combined energy supplier). To put things into perception - let look at this: apart from heater and kitchen stove, everything else are using the electricity. Sometimes we just avoided using the stove for reheating purposes (go for microwave alternative) so that we could reduce the usage of gas.

Oh, I forgot to mention -WATER. The gas is needed to heat the water, and you dont want to shower if your water is not heated in the UK :-). That's probably put gas as the major - kitchen, water and continuous heater. For sure the hating is big stuff in the winter, but for people like us the early spring and from fall-to-winter it's still really cold for not to use a heater. So, except for summer we put the heater on for quite a few hours in a day (longer in winter, probably half-a-day).

So for us, the average cost for both electricity and gas is ~80-100pounds (~60 summer, 100+ winter) which is about RM500. Yeah very expensive, in Malaysia you must use a lot of things to get your electric bills reach RM100 - especially if you have movies channel on your ASTRO subscription. But that's life, there are always pros and cons in any place you have to go.

Malaysia - UK: Cultural Diversity (part I)

Living in the UK is very different, not just the language and the people but the cultural and lifestyle is all significantly distinct. I would describe those differences in a series of entries, beginning with this. Just to compare, and maybe giving some idea to whom might be interested to come here in the future. It' doesn't mean that any place is better than the other, but we learn from the best and try to adopt to get better.

One of the obvious difference is in the UK, there are spread of power in many of the stuff: business, politics, etc. Electricity for example, is distributed to the household by several companies with the popular are E.On, N-Power, British Gas, Scottish Power and EDF Energy - to name a few. On the other hand, in Malaysia only one company is providing the electricity - TNB (at least  for peninsular Malaysia and some part of Sabah). With multiple of options, you can make you informed choice, whether it's to be price-based, service-based and other reasons. On the other hand, having only one company doing the job, you cant really do much - just pay the bill at the end of the month and complaining when  they decide to increased their rate :-)

RIM

Can We Really Make Money With Blogging?

I think the answer is yes, but it need a lot of effort. It took time to established fan-base of your blog, and getting the loyal visitors, and I would say it go to the content of the blog itself. It's easy to make a blog, easy to make so many entry, but the quality one? I did take a look of a lot of others blog, and I'm so surprised they got so many visitors when in fact the blog is so short of quality, let alone the prestige. I believe there are many ways for them to achieve that, but I never go for a short-cut, never in my life. So I will go for the difficult way, try to get the best of the blog, and lets see if people are interested with it.

When talk about money-blogging, it's mostly related to the ads, and there are several ways the blogger got paid; pay per click, pay per thousand impression (in which you got paid regarding how many of page views), direct advertisement, referral and some others. I'm just learning all these in the past month, and to be frank I have no idea what's all this before. It's tempted me, as it looks as easy money but when you doing it - it's never as easy as it may seems. Doing it right make it harder, but that's life - nobody going to give you money just like that.

Right now, in addition of looking the several potential of ads company whether its international-based (google adsense, chitika) or local (nuffnang for Malaysia), I need to learn the best way to locate the ad in the blog. Too many things actually, the blog template, colour scheme, header, widget, sidebar and most importantly good content. For the latter, I think there is no compromise - so I would give myself at least a year to really get a feel of blogging world. Till then, it's fine not to achieve much. But, with the blogging just being the part-time stuff, it's really not easy to put up consistent effort, actually - career world never give you free time. At least for most of the jobs in the world. I dont know if you could name a few jobs in which you can relax all the time, yes they are but no easily spotted on.

RIM

Poster: Online Research Poster Competition - Graduate Junction

Malay Nasheed

This is one of my all time favourite of Malay's Nasyeed, very good one!

Keamanan (Hijjaz, Rabbani, Raihan & Brothers)

Tangisan selubungi alam
Kisah manusia yg terluka
Terhina di bumi sendiri
Kifarah terbiar dari Ilahi

Hilang segala apa yg dibina
Kehancuran memusnah melata
Kehidupan insan tak bermaya

Dengan air mata
Sukar bertukar duka
Cahya harapan berubah gelita
Kepayahan hidup yg amat sengsara

Keamanan, Kedamaian, Keharmonian
Dan Kasih sayang
Harapan dalam kehidupan
Setiap insan

( Kasih sayang sesama insan )

Hulurkan bantuan
Kepada yang memerlukan
Perhatian dan Pembelaan
Belah kasihan

Semaikan benih keimanan
Agar ia tumbuh subur
Memayungi kita

( kanak-kanak )
Sinar dan harapan
Pasti kan tiba
Menerangi hidup diri kita
Memerlukan pengorbanan semua

Masa hadapan yg kita impikan
Dunia yg penuh ceria
Hidup aman sentosa
Bahagia

( korus )
Keamanan, Kedamaian, Keharmonian
Dan Kasih sayang
Harapan dalam kehidupan
Setiap insan

Hulurkan bantuan
Kepada yg memerlukan
Perhatian dan Pembelaan
Belah kasihan

Hentikan sengketa
Hilangkanlah penderitaan
Kita sesama manusia
Bersaudara

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Poster: Structural Variation of Palladium-Gold and Palladium-Platinum Nanoalloy Clusters and Its Sensitivity to Potential Parameterisation

 

Title: Structural Variation of Palladium-Gold and Palladium-Platinum Nanoalloy Clusters and Its Sensitivity to Potential Parameterisation

Ramli Ismail, Roy L. Johnston
University of Birmingham, UK
 
The structures and elemental ordering of Palladium-Gold (PdAu) and Palladium-Platinum (PdPt) nanoalloy clusters have been studied using a genetic algorithm global optimization technique with the semi-empirical Gupta many-body potential. The variation of these features was investigated as a function of composition and the strength of the heteroatomic interactions, by modifying the bimetallic parameters of the Gupta potential. Structural analysis showed competition between several structural families and four main types of chemical ordering were observed: core–shell; spherical cap; ball-and-cup, and mixed. By finely tuning the Gupta potential, it is possible to qualitatively reproduce the results observed at higher levels of theory, such as Density Functional Theory.

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