Ayam dengan Itik bercakap.

 Most of the time, I get my points across be it in writing or verbally or by way of gestures. People understood me, to certain extent. But there are times when I feel strongly about something, words, writing or gestures just fail to convey how I feel and why feel such feelings. I feel the choking limitations of human language. When that happens, I think to myself perhaps that is how those with...

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The Abominable/ Assistive/ All-Powerful? Intelligence

2 minggu lepas waktu sesi sembang santai bagi bulan Ogos ada rakan mentor aku yang turut sama sertai. Sebelum beliau sampai lagi topik perbualan memang menjurus kepada AI generated art, sustainability dan ethics menggunapakai AI Art, program yang boleh mengenal dan membezakan AI generated art dan yang dihasilkan oleh manusia. Sesampai rakan Mentor aku itu, dia diperkenalkan sebagai peguam masa hadapan....

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Let them eat (Oat)cakes!

Where I was a few days ago they botch a bowl of oatmeal porridge like nobody’s business. What they serve out would be something that falls into oat glue category rather than oatmeal porridge and I don’t even know how they managed that. It is hard to ruin a good bowl of oatmeal porridge considering making one is easy. You don’t need fancy cooking skills. Just some oats (steel cut, rolled, who cares),...

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Sonata For Good Men

There are simply days that I loath to be alone with my own thoughts where the dread and anxieties of tomorrow are all too overpowering that it saps away my focus to work. It would make my heart race and set my feet tapping impatiently. Those would be the days that I would leave the office early after doing all that I can at work before seeking company amongst my practitioner close friends. The vet...

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Do you feel lucky Punk?

Bila cerita tentang punk imej pertama yang selalunya akan terbit adalah gaya rambut mohawk atau berceracak tegak dan denim rabak dan busuk dengan patches, dumpster diving. Aku tak mahu bercakap tentang pemakaian atau ideologi yang dipegang oleh golongan Punk ini ataupun musik Punk itu sendiri. Itu boleh di Google.   Tak kira apa tanggapan kau tentang golongan Punk, satu sisi yang aku kira...

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Sekejap

Again, I was lucky to be upright and functioning this morning at Shah Alam court. Two nights prior a friend invited me to second chair for a case involving a restoration of a vintage piece of equipment by an expert. So last night I went to take a quick look at the cause papers and the documents to form a first impression of the matter. The owner claimed there was a guarantee given by the expert on...

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Mengantuk

There was a time when two straight days of  sleeping after 3 am is nothing. I could still function normally. Nowadays, two days of sleeping late would need at least a week of extra sleep for me to recover else I’d be nothing but a zombie. Upright but not functioning. Not fit company for man or beast. Last time it happened I had a blank spot in my memory. One minute I was drafting something on...

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Mak

 Where do I even begin.Mak pernah cakap dengan aku dulu, Hidup ni umpama tayar. Kadang-kadang di atas. Kadang-kadang di bawah. Bila dah tua bangka ni baru faham maksudnya apa. Menang bukan selalu, kalah bukan selamanya. Hidup ada cara untuk buat kau rasa humbled bila perlu dan memberi motivasi untuk terus berjalan tatkala kau rasa kena hempuk bertalu-talu dengan nasib tak baik. Macam itulah...

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On Trades. Nothing owned, everything on Loan with interest to pay.

I lost my bands last Monday. It was one of the oldest relics of my pupillage. I remembered buying it at one of the stalls at the KL Court cafeteria (odd thing to be selling at a drinks stall) after an LA  where i read in chambers discovered that he had his robe but not his bands for a High Court hearing. I was at KL Court at that time obtaining JID's by the armload at one of the magistrate's...

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On Investment Scams

 Yesterday, the Friday khutbah was about looking for rezeki halal or gains made in the permissible way. In the Khutbah there was a vicious poke at online scammers on whether in the race to accumulate riches in fastest way possible it is rezeki halal (it is not). If it is in the khutbah then things are that bad.This is not a khutbah. This is just a reflection of mine after having been involved...

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On CPD, Learning and the absurdity of trying to force learning on the unwilling

Those who know me would know how I honour and respect learning in its every form. But the CPD scheme, Man. CPD Scheme just grinds my gears. They piss me off. During the last AGM there was a resolution to start enforcing the collection of COD points. Failure to collect CPD points within the set period will result in fine being imposed. I was fuming when I read that email update. How on God’s green...

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