JUE BU NENG SHI QU NI (Will never loosing you)
by : F4
(Jerry)
Mei You Ni, Wo Hui Shi Shui
(Without you, I don't know who I am)
Xin Ting Zai Na Li Dou Bu Dui
(Hati cemas di mana berada selalu tidak benar)
Na Jin Tian, Cai Diao Zhuo Tian .. Kong Bai Yi Pian
(Ambil hari ini, lepaskan kemarin … penuh dengan kekosongan)
(ZaiZai)
Na Yi Tian, Zai Na Yi Tian
(Ambil satu hari, di hari itu)
Ke Yi Jian Xu Wei Wan Qing Jie
(Boleh bertahan untuk akhir hubungan kita)
Zai Zhi Jiao Cha Dian, Shui Pei Zai Ni Shen Bian
(Baru diskusi yang mana, siapa yang menemani di sisimu)
(Ken)
Jiu Shuan Quan Shi Jie Dou Yao Ba Ni Fou Ding
(Walaupun seluruh dunia harus menyangkal kamu)
Ye Bu Neng Rang Wo Fang Qi Ni
(Tidak akan boleh untukku melepasmu)
(Vanness)
Jiu Shuan Wo Men De Guo Qu Dou Mei You Le Zheng Ming
(Walaupun kehidupan lama kita tidak ada hasilnya)
(F4)
Wo Yi Ran Shou Hu Ni ...
(Aku ‘kan tetap menjagamu)
OH BABY BABY BABY
MY BABY BABY
Wo Jue Bu Neng Shi Qu Ni
(Tidak boleh kehilanganmu)
Ni Shou Xin, Ni Sheng Yin
(Cinta-mu, suara-mu)
Hai Zai Ling Wo De Xin, Zhen Neng Wang Ji
(Serta hati yang selalu memperdulikanku, mana boleh dilupakan)
Xiang Ni Jiu Xiang Shi Hu Shi
(Memikirkanmu sama seperti bernafas)
OH BABY BABY
MY BABY BABY
Wo Jue Bu Neng Shi Qu Ni
(Tidak boleh kehilanganmu)
Bu Guan Ni Zai Na Li
(Di manapun kau berada)
Wo Yi Ding Hui Zhao Dao Ni ...
(Aku pasti akan menemukanmu)
Sunday, September 7, 2008
JUE BU NENG SHI QU NI Lyric and Translation
You Ni De Shi Jie Lyric and Translation
Jimmy Lin
Sleep till dawn breaks, we thank that piece of beach land.
yi jiao dao tian liang, wo men gan xie na yi pian sha tan
Road has become wider, we thank that sun that shine far and wide.
lu bian kuan guang, wo men gan xie na yi ke si mian ba fang de tai yang
Don't think of anything else, two persons still have each other's shoulders to overcome sadness.
shen me dou bie xiang, liang ge ren hai you bi ci jian bang ai guo ju sang
Now still heating cold rice, thinking back the taste is even worse.
xian zai zai chao chao leng fan, hui wei qi lai zi wei geng zao gao
Turn, turn, time is in your hands.
zhuan, zhuan, shi jian zai shou shang
Accompany you to explore around.
pei ni qu si chu huang huang
See, see if the beautiful scenery is still well.
kan, kan qian shan wan shui an bu an hao
Finding if the dream we had together is still carved on the tree.
zhao yi zhao yi qi zuo guo de meng shi fou hai ke zai shu shang
With you, the world is no longer the same.
you le ni, shi jie bian de bu yi yang
Love can actually be such a wonderful place.
ai jing ran hui shi zhe zhong hao di fang
What colour is the sky, I don't care about that.
tian kong shi shen me yan se, cai bu zai hu ne
Just gazing at you, I'll have a good view.
wo yi shi zhe ni, jiu you yi pian hao feng guang
Loving you, even fatigue is no longer the same.
ai shang ni, lian pi juan dou bu yi yang
Loneliness and frustrations are all chased away.
gu dan fan zao quan bu bei gan guang guang
What is the temperature of a hug? Asking you who's in my arms, the answer is in your eyes.
yong bao shi shen me wen du? wen huai li de ni, jiu zai ni de yan shen
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
INTRODUCTION TO DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Read the two texts carefully and answer the question that follows.
Text 1
And then, in the blowing clouds, she saw a band of faint iridescence colouring in faint shadows a portion of the hill. And forgetting, startled, she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself. In one place it gleamed fiercely, and, her heart anguished with hope, she sought the shadow of iris where the bow should be. Steadily the colour gathered, mysteriously, from nowhere, it took presence upon itself, there was a faint, vast rainbow.
(D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, chapter 16)
Text 2
normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you’re driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of +stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it’s just a + a series of + colours which + they seem to be separate but if you try to look for the separate colours they always seem + very hard + to separate + if you see what I mean + +
(Postgraduate student speaking informally)
+ indicates pauses
Analyse the texts above and comment how the two texts are different based on Paltridge’s (2006) argument for the differences between spoken and written discourse.
Answer.
The message or content in Text 1 and Text 2 are similar but they differ greatly in the way they were delivered or conveyed. The first one is in a written form and the second one is in spoken form.
In Text 1 , the rich lexis and well-organized structure are indications that the writer has taken time in the construction, and possibly reconstruction after several rewritings, of the final product. There are complete sentences, containing subordination, frequent modifications via adjectives and adverbs, and more than single predicates per referential expression. In Text 2, there are frequent pauses, often interrupting major syntactic units, repetitions, incomplete sentences, generalized vocabulary, fillers, and one example of a tongue-slip. The speaker planning in the here-and-now, possibly threatened with his interlocutor wanting to take a turn, typically repeats himself a good deal, using the same syntactic structure, the same lexical items, using the first word that comes to mind rather than hunting for the appropriate word or expression, filling in pauses with ‘fillers’. The overall effect is of information produced in a much less dense manner than is characteristic of written language.
Based on the elaboration above of the both text, there are a number of important differences between spoken and written language, which have implications for discourse analysis. The first one is grammatical intricacy. Writing is more structurally complex and elaborate than speech. Halliday (1989) argues that speech is no less highly organized than writing. Spoken discourse, he argues, has its own kind of complexity. He presents the notion of grammatical intricacy to account for the way in which the relationship between clauses in spoken discourse can be much spread out and with more complex relations between them than in writing, yet we still manage to keep track of these relations.
The syntax of spoken language is typically much less structured than that of written language. Spoken language contains many incomplete sentences, often simply sequences of phrases. But still it is comprehensible as illustrated in the extract taken from Text 2 below:
normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you’re driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of +stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + + I guess you hardly ever see seven it’s just a + a series of + colours
(D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow, chapter 16)
From the extract, we can understand that the speaker is trying to tell about the formation of a rainbow after the rain.
In written language and extensive set of metalingual marker exists to mark relationships between clauses such as: that – complementisers, when / while – temporal markers, so-called ‘logical connectors’ like besides, moreover, however, in spite of, etc. In spoken language the largely practically organized chunks are related by ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘then’ and, more rarely, ‘if’. The speaker is typically less explicit than the writer is: “I’m so tired (because) I had to walk all the way home”. In written language rhetorical organizers of larger stretches of discourse appear, like firstly, more important than and in conclusion. These are rare in spoken language.
Written discourse tends to be more lexically dense than spoken discourse. Lexical density refers to the ratio of content words to grammatical, or function words, within a clause. Contents words include nouns and verbs while grammatical words include items such as prepositions, pronouns, and articles. In spoken discourse content words tend to be spread out over a number of clauses rather than being tightly packed into individual clauses which is more typical of written discourse as illustrated in the extract from Text 1. The content words in this extract are in italics. There are many more content words than function words in this extract.
And then, in the blowing clouds, she saw a band of faint iridescence colouring in faint shadows a portion of the hill.
As compared to the spoken form as illustrated below that showed fewer used of content words than in the previous example of written text. The content words are italicized:
normally after + very heavy rain + or something like that + and + you’re driving along the road + and + far away + you see + well + er + a series + of +stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away
(Postgraduate student speaking informally)
There is also a high level of nominalization in written texts; that is, where actions and events are presented as nouns rather than as verbs. Halliday (1989) calls this phenomenon grammatical metaphor; that is, where a language item is transferred from a more expected grammatical class to another. Written texts also typically include longer noun groups than spoken texts. This leads to a situation where the information in the text is more tightly packed into fewer words and less spread out than in spoken texts. The analysis from Text 1 illustrates this. It shows the use of long noun groups that are typical of much written discourse. Another example includes an example of grammatical metaphor. Here, the verb ‘hover’ is changed into the noun hovering (clouds), an example of nominalization:
And then, in the blowing clouds, she saw a band of faint iridescence colouring in faint shadows a portion of the hill. And forgetting, startled, she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself. In one place, it gleamed fiercely, and, her heart anguished with hope, she sought the shadow of iris where the bow should be. Steadily the colour gathered, mysteriously, from nowhere, it took presence upon itself, there was a faint, vast rainbow.
Whereas, Text 2, is an example of the typically low level of nominalization and shorter noun groups in spoken discourse. The noun groups in this extract are simpler and less dense than in Text 1 and there is no example of grammatical metaphor.
Writing is more explicit than speech. This depends on the purpose of the text and, again, is not an absolute. A person can state something directly, or infer something, in both speaking and writing, depending upon what they want the listener or reader to understand, and how direct they wish to be.
Furthermore, writing is more decontextualized than speech. This view is based on the perception that speech depends on a shared situation and background for interpretation whereas writing does not depend on such a shared context. This is generally true of conversation but is not true of speech and writing in general (Tannen : 1982). Spoken genres, such as academic lectures, for example, do not generally show a high dependence on a shared context, while written genres such as personal letters or memos do. Both written fiction and non-fiction may also depend on background information supplied by the reader and an active role of the reader to enter into the world of the text.
Speaking is disorganized and ungrammatical, whereas writing is organized and grammatical. As we have seen, spoken discourse is organized, but it is organized differently from written discourse. Spoken discourse does, however, contain more half-completed and reformulated utterances than writing discourse. This is because spoken discourse is often produced spontaneously and we are able to see the process of its production as someone speaks. This is not to say that written discourse is not at some stage half-completed or reformulated. It is just that the text we see (apart from synchronous online chat and discussions boards) is simply the finished product and as Halliday (1989 : 100) points out, ‘a highly idealized version of the writing process.’ With spoken discourse, topics can also be changed and speakers can interrupt and overlap with each other as they speak. Speakers can ask for clarification and they can correct what they have said. Misunderstandings, further, can be cleared up immediately. Also, spoken discourse is able to use intonation, gesture and body language to convey meaning, whereas written discourse is more constrained in that ways of conveying meaning are more limited.
Speaking also uses much more repetition, hesitation and redundancy than written discourse. This is because it is produced in real time, with speakers working out what they want to say at the same time as they are saying it. A further characteristic of spoken discourse is the use of pauses and ‘fillers’ like ‘hhh’, ‘er’ and ‘you know’. Speakers da this to give them time to think about what they want to say while they are speking. They also do this to hold on to their turn in the conversation while they are thinking about what they want to say, and how they will say it. Text 2 illustrates the use of pauses and’fillers’ like ‘er’ and ‘ah’. Here ‘+’ indicates pauses and the number of it indicates the length of the pause in seconds:
you see + well + er + a series + of +stripes + + formed like a bow + an arch + + very very far away + ah + seven colours but + +
To sum up, there can be no doubt that spoken discourse, even though, conveying same message as in written discourse, differ greatly in many aspects. The differences are in the form of grammar and syntax, nominalization, explicitness, contextualization, repetition, hesitation and redundancy.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brown, Gillian and Yule, George. (1983). Discourse Analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Nunan, D. (2000). Introducing Discourse Analysis. London, Penguin Books.
Paltridge, Brian. (2006). Discourse Analysis. MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Paramasivam, Dr. Shamala. (2006). Introduction to Discourse Analysis. Language
and Language Use. Directions and development of a BA Enlish Programme.
PEARSON. Prentice Hall
Monday, August 25, 2008
Sabah Malaysia -Land Below The Wind Travel Itinerary (Sempena Perkahwinan Mohd Abdul Hadi Bin Ismail)
3.00pm – I left Pasir Puteh Kelantan driving the "on ground aeroplane" (as it is called by Khairul) to Seremban together with my wife, Tini dan Asyraf. On the way I fetched my nieces Syakirah and Madihah at R n R Gua Musang as promised. Khairul who is teaching in Jerek has to continue his jurney to Kota Bharu to fetch Mek and Nenek.
We reached Seremban sharp at 1 o'clock in the morning. I felt so tired. Morever the day before yesterday I drove from Ipoh to Pasir Puteh. And now from Pasir Puteh to Seremban. Namun begitulah lumrah saya sebenarnya setiap hujung minggu memandu dari ipoh balik ke Pasir Puteh memandangkan isteri dan anak-anak masih tinggal di Pasir Puteh.
14.08.2008 (Khamis) Day 2
4.00am – It's 4.00am and I only slept not more than 2 hours, saya terpaksa bangun juga. Soon we have to go to the Air Port. Lucky the kids didn't make much trouble.
5.00am – Bertolak dari Seremban Ke KLIA dihantar oleh Watie adik ipar saya. Walaupun pesawat akan berlepas 7.30 pagi tapi saya pastikan supaya tiba di KLIA sekurang-kurangnya 45 minit sebelum berlepas. Selepas check in bargasi terus pergi sembahyang subuh dan masuk ke balai berlepas.
7.00am. Kami menaiki pesawat MAS MH2604. Seperti biasa setiap kali menaiki kapal terbang, Tini dan Asyraf pasti akan bergaduh berebut tempat duduk di tepi tingkap. Oleh kerana Tini yang dapat dulu maka terpaksalah saya berjanji penerbangan balik nanti Asyraf yang akan duduk di tepi tingkap pula. Bagusnya Syakirah memberikan adiknya Madhihah tempat duduk tepi tingkap (Walaupun sepanjang penerbangan mereka tidur sahaja tapi sepatutnya begitulah seorang kakak)
7.30am. – Pesawat berlepas ke Kota Kinabalu. Mek, Nenek dan Khairul akan menaiki Pesawat MAS MH2616 pukul 2.15 ptg nanti. Apa boleh buat tak dapat menaiki pesawat yang sama maklumlah penerbangan tambang murah MAS RM0.00. Bayaran yang dikenakan setiap seorang cuma RM120 penerbangan dari KL ke Kota Kinabalu mestilah susah nak dapat. Murah tu.
10.05am – Tiba di Kota Kinabalu. Sebaik sahaja keluar dari Air Port kami terus menaiki teksi ke Center Point. Shoping sikit sambil menunggu Adi.
1.00pm- Adi tiba, tetapi terpaksa pula menunggu kawannya. Setelah kawan Adi tiba kami dibawa ke Pasar Filifina. Seronok lah Ina dapat menghabiskan beberapa ratus ringgit membeli mutiara, tapi bagi saya beli emas lagi baik. Mutiara begitu apalah nilainya selepas dipakai seketika.
4.00pm – Menaiki bas ke rumah Ust Rusli di Keningau. Syakirah dan Madhihah ditinggalkan bersama Adi kerana kumpulan Mek tidak akan terus ke Keningau sebaliknya mereka akan bermalam di rumah kawan Adi dan akan terus ke Kundasang saja.
6.30pm – Tiba di Keningau dijemput oleh Cik La. Rusli tidak ada di rumah kerana masih di UIA ada kuliah. Walaupun badan penat namun sepanjang perjalanan langsung tak dapat tidur.
15.08.2008 (Jumaat) Day 3
8.15am – Menghantar Cik La ke sekolah yang jaraknya lebik kurang 10km dari rumah kerana hari ini saya perlu menggunakan Vivanya untuk ke Taman Pertanian Tenom.
9.00am – Bertolak ke Tenom. Hafizah, Husna dan Hamidah ikut sama. Memang saya mahukan begitu supaya Tini dan Asyraf dapat lebih mengenali sepupu-sepupu mereka. Di Taman Pertanian Tenom (jaraknya 45km dari Keningau) tidak ramai pengunjung. Maklumlah hari kerja. Tapi bagus juga kerana tidak perlu bersesak. Setelah berjalan sedikit melihat beberapa jenis taman bunga, saya berpatah balik ke pintu masuk untuk menaiki train yang disediakan. Mana mungkin berjalan dengan membawa 6 orang ank-anak yang kecil begini. Hafizah menjadi pemandu pelancong. Sibuk bercerita tentang pokok ajaib yang mana buahnya dapat menuteralkan rasa masam buah lain. Sewaktu kami berhenti di taman yang ada buah tersebut, saya ikut merasanya. Dan memang terbukti, beberapa minit setelah memakan buah tersebut, buah belimbing besi boleh dimakan tanpa berkerut dahi.
1.00pm – Sudah terlalu penat berjalan di Taman yang begitu luas, kami keluar. Lagipuan saya kesian pada Hamidah yang kelihatan begitu penat sekali. Maklumlah dia yang paling muda.
2.00pm. Oleh kerana Cik La belum pulang dari sekolah, saya terus pergi menjemput beliau dan terus ke KFC bagi mengisi perut anak-anak yang telah lapar kepenatan akibat lawatan di Taman Tenom..
16.08.2008 (Sabtu) Day 4
9.00am. Bertolak ke Ranau dengan menaiki “bas” yang sebenarnya hanyalah sebuah van buruk yang sendat dengan penumpang. Seperti kelmarin, perjalananya melalui bukit bukau. Takkala hampir tiba ke Ranau, pemangangan indah Gunung Kinabalu mula kelihatan. Hati saya begitu teruja apatah lagi saya amat meminati gunung ganang. Sewaktu di unuversiti dahulu banyak puncak gunung yang telah saya tawan termasuklah gunung Mulu di Sarawak. Cuma Gunung Kinabalu saja belum berjaya ditawan lantaran masa dan kos. Namun niat untuk menawan puncak Kinabalu tidak pernah terpadam dari hati saya.
12.00pm. Tiba di Ranau. Ternyata Adi dan Khairul lewat menjemput kami. Apabila mereka tiba di Ranau, kami terus dibawa ke Kawasan Rekreasi Air Panas Poring. Oleh kerana pengunjung terlalu ramai saya dan Ina tidak langsung beremdam dalam air panas sebaliknya kami menaiki jambatan gantung atau kanopi. Penat sungguh mendaki bukit dan seterunya menaiki kanopi yang tergantung di atas pokok-pokok di lereng bukit, tapi pengalaman sebegini sukar dicari.
Dalam perjalanan balik kami berpeluang melihat Bunga Raflesia yang sedang berkembang. Walaupun bayaran yang dikenakan agak mahal sebayak RM15.00 seorang oleh “penjaga” bunga tersebut (terletak di belakang rumah mereka – kata Adi bayar sajalah lagipun mereka bukan orang kaya, anggap saja sedekah) namun berbanding dengan pengalaman melihat sendiri bunga tersebut nilai RM15.00 bukanya seberapa. Apatah lagi Tini yang begitu teruja dan amat kagum dengan bunga tersebut saya rasa berbaloi.
5.00pm. Kami tiba di Kundasang. Udara sejuk di Kundasang begitu menyergarkan. Panorama yang berlatar belakangkan Gunung Kinabalu amat indah sekali. Tini tidak habis-habis berkata “wow cantiknya” Memandangkan hari sudah lewat petang, Adi terus mengajak kami ke Kinabalu Park bagi melihat pemandangan di kaki Gunung Kinabalu tempat permulaan pendakian. Berdiri di Platfom peninjau di pintu masuk ke Gunung Kinabalu dan memandang kebawah melihat permulaan trek pendakian hati bagai ingin menjejaki trek tersebut menuju puncaknya. Saya pasangkan niat suatu hari nanti puncak Kinabalu pasti saya tawan juga.
7.00pm. Kami semua bermalam di rumah Ustaz Fazli di Kundasang. Kahairul yang penah mengajar di Kundasang selama beberapa tahun sebelum berpindah ke Jerek di Gua Musang mempunyai ramai kenalan di sini. Sejuknya di sini umpama berada di puncak Genting.
17.08.2008 (Ahad) Day 5
4.30am – Bagun dan menunaikan solat subuh. Awalnya subuh di sini. Jam 6.00pagi sudah cerah. Selepas sarapan masing-masing bersiap untuk majlis perkahwinan Adi. Setelah semua berkumpul kami semua bertolak ke rumah pengantin perempuan di kampong Ntah apa ke namanya, Kampung Tagoden Lama kot sebab itu yang saya ingat. (Ada satu pintu gerbang dengan nama tu sewaktu dalam perjalanan). Perjalanan memakan masa lebih kurang 45 minit melalui lereng-lereng bukit dan sebahagian jalan yang tidak berturap.
Rombongan kami di sambut dan di arak kumpulan pemain Gong yang berada di atas sebuat lori kecil. Tangkai hati ini bagi digaru ingin ketawa tapi saya tahan kerana menumpang kereta orang dan tidak mahu dikatakan sebagai mentertawakan tradisi orang di sini. Sebaik sahaja kami tiba di rumah pengantin perempuan, kami disambut pula dengan paluan kompang. Dari rumah pengantin perempuan berarak pula ke masjid bagi majlis akad nikah. Budak-budak pemain kompang ni tak boleh tengok muka Adi. Asal tengok je muka Adi terus di ketuk kompang-kompangnya. Agak lawak juga aku rasa, apatah lagi seingat aku dalam perkahwinan adik beradik kami belum ada yang begini. Bukan sekadar bahasa yang berbeza malah adat dan budaya juga berbeza. Dah tu jauh di pergunungan. Begitulah jodoh kata orang.11.30am – Majlis akad nikah berlangsung. Dengan penuh semangat dan sekali lafaz sahaja maka sahlah kedua mempelai diijab Kabul sebagai suami isteri. Semoga Adi dan Azlina akan bahagia selamanya hingga ke anak cucu.
2.30pm – Tiba di rumah penginapan Ustaz Fazli. Saya, Ina, Tini dan Asyraf di hantar oleh khairul ke Ranau untuk mengambil “bas” ke Kota Kinabalu. Terima Kasih ustaz Fazli sekeluarga.
4.00pm. “Bas” bertolak meninggalkan Ranau dan Kundasang. Sayup-sayup Gunung Kinabalu ditinggalkan. Insyaallah suatu hari nanti kami akan datang lagi.
6.30pm. – Tiba di Kota Kinabalu terus dihantar oleh pemandu bas yang baik hati ke hotel penginapan kami Casero Inn.
18.08.2008 (Isnin) Day 6
9.00am – Sekali lagi kami pergi ke Pasar Filifina. Walaupun saya rasa agak penat namun demi isteri tersayang terpaksa pergi juga. Lagipun ole-ole dari Sabah mesti dibeli untuk di bawa pulang.
12.30pm – Check out dari Casero inn dan terus menuju ke Air Port.
3.45pm. – Berlepas dengan Pesawat Air Asia AK5101 menuju ke Kuala Lumpur. Nasib baik kami adalah yang terawal menaiki pesawat jadi Tini dan Asyraf masing-masing dapat duduk di tepi tingkap.
6.15pm. Tiba di KLIA-LCC Terminal. Dijemput oleh ayah dan balik ke Seremban.
19.08.2008 (Selasa) Day 7
9.00am. – Bertolak balik ke Ipoh. Dalam perjalanan singgan di Shah Alam sebab Ina nak shoping baju raya.
6.00pm. Tiba di Ipoh.
20.08.2008 (Rabu) Day 8
2.00 pm – Bertolah balik ke Pasir Puteh Kelantan.
P.s Klik di sini untuk lihat sebahagian lagi gambar-gambar yang lain sambil mendengar lagu Sayang Kinabalu. Dan klik di sini untuk lihat gambar-gambar dalam fotopages
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin lyric and translation.
Yue Liang Dai Biao Wo De Xin
You ask me how deep is my love to you
How much that I love you
My feeling is real
My love is real
The moonlight represents my heart
A softly kiss
Had already get in my heart
A short but deeply feeling
Teach me to remember till this present day
You go and think about it
You go and find abou it.
Repeat 5,
Repeat 1, 2, 10 and 11
Click here to watch Datuk Siti Nurhaliza and Lee Hom sing this song and here to watch Teresa Teng
Friday, August 8, 2008
HOW TO APPLY TO BE A MAGISTRATE (Part 2)
Why do you want to be a magistrate? A lawyer who is also my friend once asked me, “is it cool being a magistrate?” So I take this opportunity without answering to the questions, to cotinue what I've written before on how to apply to be a magistrate. As a general guidlines if you are really interested in becoming a magistrate, then consider 3 facts below:
Firstly, as I wrote in the first part, a magistrate is one of the officers under the Pegawai Undang-Undang (PUU) Scheme. Therefore when you fill up the SPA8 form, ask for the post of PUU and not the post of magistrate because there are no magistrates post in the SPA8 Form.
Secondly, every PUU is subjected to be transfered to any other post under the Legal and Judicial Service at any time laterally or on promotion.
Thirdly, when you apply for the Legal and Judicial Officer post usually you don't know what designation you will be given until you are called to report duty. Generally speaking, there is no direct application to be a magistrate. At least not during my time. However, times changed. Maybe nowadays you may apply directly to be a magistrate but as far as I know nowadays you only may choose between the Judiciary or the Legal side. The judiciary means the court which include magistrate and Seniour Assistant Registrar at the bottom and the legal side is under the Attorney General Chambers which includes Deputy Public Prosecutor, Legal Assistant, Federal Counsel, ect.
For your information, for the time being, there are only two post grades for majistret iaitu gred L41 dan Gred L44. Mungkin nanti akan ada Gred L48 untuk jawatan majistret tapi tak tahulah bila. Gaji seorang majistret adalah hampir sama dengan gaji kakitangan kerajaan yang lain yang sama gred jawatannya. Bermakna gaji seorang majistret (PUU) hampir sama dengan gaji seorang guru atau Pegawai Tadbir Diplomatik (PTD). Untuk lihat jadual gaji jawatan-jawatan dalam kerajaan sila buat carian “jadual gaji…”
I think that's all for the time being. Darr..
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
HOW TO APPLY TO BE A MAGISTRATE (Part 1)
Yesterday I received a phone call from one of my ex-attachment student asking me how to apply to be a magistrate. She was then a UITM undergraduate doing her attachment when I was a magistrate in Pasir Puteh Kelantan. As far as I remember, I’ve explained to her about this matter during the attachment. Thus, almost all students who did the attachment with me, I gave the same explanation. So I answered her question that she must apply to the post using the SPA8 Form which could be obtained from SPA. Unfortunately she said that this is not about the SPA. She was looking for Palace Of Justice web page because according to her that would be more direct. Not totally understand with what she said, I texted her with a simple and short text http://theereis.blogspot.com/ that is my own blog which contain a short entry which I posted purposely to answer her quest on looking the Palace Of Justice web page. The post title is How Do I Apply To Be A Magistrate. The entry may be seen under this entry. Of course at that time I was a little bit upset because I’ve explained that to be a magistrate, you must first apply to be a Legal Officer (Pegawai Undang-undang- PUU) using SPA8 Form. Clearly she has forgotten lots of things that have been taught by me. But now the situation might has changed. As far as I know, at the time of writing this entry anybody who wish to be a magistrate may apply directly to Chief Registrar of the Federal Court's Office. But still I can not guarantee that you will get the post since there is a policy that new legal officers won't be appointed as magistrates. Instead they will be appointed as A Seniour Assistant Registrar.(SAR)
Okay, now let me further explain briefly here how to apply for the magistrate post. I hope this would be a helpful information especially for those who wants to be a magistrate and to all Laws Graduates.
The first thing in becoming a magistrate is to have graduated from laws school with laws degree from any certified universities. During my time we have to wait for the PUU job vacancies advertisement in local newspaper and after that fill up the SPA8 Form and then wait for the interview.
Even though it looks easy, but belive me that at that time it not easy to be a magistrate because when you apply to the PUU post you cannot simply choose what designation you want. This is merely because the Magistrate post is subjected under the Legal Officer Scheme or Skim Perkhidmatan Pegawai Undang-Undang (PUU). It includes both legal and judicial departments. Therefore, if there are some job vacancies advertisement, the advertisement would state more or less like this “JAWATAN KOSONG PEGAWAI UNDANG-UNDANG GRED L41…” and not “JAWATAN KOSONG MAJISTRET GRED L41”. But, as I said earlier, this situation might has changed.
Bear in your mind that if you are looking for filling up vacancies in goverment sector to be the government servant your application must be submiited through SPA8 Form. It's wise to know that the form could be submitted at any time without wating for the job vacacies advertisement. It could be submitted by post or by online. But some goverment agencies require you to submit your application directly to them. Meaning to say that if you want to be a mgistrate, you may submit your application directly to Chief Registrar of the Federal Court.
I think it's enaugh for today's entry. I do hope you understand. Inyaallah I will explain further about the PUU in the second part soon. To get the information on SPA8 Form please click here.