ME IN EDINBURGH PART 5: MAKAN!!!!!

eheh!!!ada sawang pulak blog ni~~haha..lama gila tak update..bukan malas, kekangan masa..banyak kerja 2 minggu kebelakangan ni..macam yang aku story sebelum ni..haha..ni tengah bertungkus lumus nak siapkan report untuk green corridor project kat london..lusa, kena submit..dalam masa yang sama, aku kena prepare untuk pergi field trip next khamis..at least, data dah siap proses, tinggal nak site visit je..

Gulai Lemak Ayam plus Cendawan

ok, aku nak cerita pasal makan plak..haha..sebab member aku beria sibuk tanya makan macam mana..haha..masak ke???beli???haha..dua2 aku buat..tapi, selalunya, aku masak..hehe..sampai member aku kagum..tak caye aku masak..haha..sebab kat malaysia, aku jarang gila masak..so, diorang assume, aku tak pandai masak..aku bukan tak pandai, malas je..haha..

Tomyam Ayam plus Cendawan

kat sini, aku kira paling rajin beli ayam..haha..seekor, ayam kecik tu, dalam GBP 2.50..bolehlah masak 4kali macam tu..pandai2 r nak goreng ke, nak buat gulai~~~daging, aku tak makan~~haha..ikan, ada aku beli sekali..tapi sini, ikan tak fresh..tak sedap!!!!dahlah mahal!!!!!!!sekilo GBP 10 kot!!!!!sedih aku time bayar..haha..

Maqbools dekat Potterrow

kalau nak beli barang dapur, sini banyak je kedai..tapi tang beli daging dan ayam halal tu, kena cari betul2..haha..tak boleh main pakai beli je dekat tesco tu..haha..kat area tempat aku tinggal ni, senang je nak cari kedai jual daging halal tu..

Bismillah Food Store defat Nicolson Square

ikan, kena pergi fishmonger..situ je banyak choice ikan..aku ada pergi sekali je..dekat dengan hostel aku ni..tapi, macam yang aku cakap, mahal!!!!

Eddie Fisher dekat Marchmont

barang dapur lain macam beras, minyak, sayur, aku beli dekat Lidl..sini murah!!!aku rajin singgah sini beli sayur..haha..favourite aku, cendawan..dalam 79p je..sayur lain biasa harga pun GBP 1-2..oklah..takde mahal sangat..haha..

Lidl dekat Nicolson Street

Tesco Metro dekat Nicolson Street

kalau angin malas tu datang, aku beli je makanan dah siap..haha..bukan malas je, kalau balik kelas tu, terasa sangatlah lapar, agak2 tak tahan sangat lapar tu, aku memang beli je..biasa, aku beli ayam goreng..dalam 3.75, 3ketul ayam, fries n soft drink..standard macam kfc..haha..tak pun, aku singgah beli kebab..kebab mahal!!!tapi, kalau dah bosan makan ayam, nasi, aku beli kebab je..haha..

Chickies dekat West Crosscauseway

Munchiez dekat St Patrick Street

Kebab Mahal dekat Nicolson Square

Mosque Kitchen defat Nicolson Street

basically, sebab aku ni tak memilih makan, takdelah jenis; "nak jugak makanan melayu!!!kena ada belacan!!!kena ada ikan bilis!!!!", senang je aku bab makan ni..takdelah kena menapak cari kedai jual barang2 asian tu..haha..aku jenis telan je ape ade..haha..sebab aku tak suke bawang, tak suke makan pedas, so, aku jadi jimat dah kat situ..haha..tak payah beli bawang..tak payah beli cili..haha..kalau jenis memilih, leceh sikit kat sini..kena pergi cari oriental supermarket..yang jual barang2 asian..sini ada je..tapi, jauh sikit..kena naik bas..duit lagi!!!haha..dekat area hostel aku, ada satu..tapi, kecik je..tak banyak sangat barang..tapi, maggi kari ada jual~~haha..

Ni aku tak pernah pergi lagi..jauh!!!

OPENSTREETMAP: A NEW REVOLUTION FOR MALAYSIA (perhaps???)

got a chance to attend a seminar regarding the value of geospatial data in UK..the speaker is Dr. Gesche Schmid, the Project Manager of Transparency and Local Government Associations..basically, she gives speech regarding the application of geospatial data in UK government nowadays..

this seminar makes me wonder actually, how much my home country, Malaysia is fall behind..even though we always talk about 'TOWARDS MODERN AND SUCCESSFUL MALAYSIA', we're still lacking much..our geospatial data, there's so many problem with it..not in terms of accuracy or what not..it's not about accuracy..it's about the application of the data..as far as I concerned, every single state in Malaysia have their own organization which hold responsibilities for the geospatial field..each state have their own Land Office, and each state have own law..land in Malaysia, unlike UK, is under state government..the state owns the land and have full authority on it..this somehow become a burden at the federal level..i've done one alienation survey during my internship in JUPEM before..and we've got problem with the boundary line between Selangor and KL..there are two boundary even though both states are adjacent to each other..this is simply because, every state have their own datum, and own law..

i also remember, attending a talk from the Head of JUPEM Kedah during my undergrads study..the speaker talk about how the land office and JUPEM work differ just because both are ego..this is simply because the Land Office is under the state government while JUPEM is under federal authority..the work actually different..for example, Land Office will be the one issuing the title while JUPEM is the one working on the field, surveying the land..JUPEM proposed to make a much simpler yet fast application named F2F where the land title will be issuing 2 weeks after the application is made..however, the problem lies on the inefficient work by Land Office where some applications will take months to actually reached the JUPEM team..and some applications also pending in some JUPEM sections and will only delivered to Land Office years after..

we should also learn from UK government where data sharing is applied..this means, many departments will shared same geospatial data..this is what we're lacking..in UK, the data redundancy case as I stated previously in the second paragraph is rare to happened since they share same data..they used GIS efficiently to allow same data to be integrated and manipulated based on each department purpose..for example, the police department used the data for analyzing the crime..the fire department can response faster to the emergency..the town planning department can plan a friendlier neighbourhood..and much more..

the outcome of this data sharing, the cost is reduced of course since every department can freely access to the open source data..when i said open source, doesn't mean that every single citizen is eligible for that data..of course it is protected and can only be access by some authority only..but the main thing is, there'll be no such thing like " MY DEPARTMENT IS MY DEPARTMENT, YOURS IS YOURS..NEVER TOUCH MY DEPARTMENT'S WORK"..

if only we can solve the differences between the departments in Malaysian, I'm sure, there's no doubt, we can achieve our WAWASAN 2020 easily..

ME IN EDINBURGH PART 4: HARI REHAT SAYA

haha..hari ni, puas aku jalan..bukan pergi mana pun, just saja jalan2 sebab weekend lepas aku langsung tak keluar dek kerana assignment yang bertimbun..haha..kelas aku hari ni, habis sangatlah awal, pukul 11..supposedly ada field trip, tapi oleh kerana tidak diwajibkan, aku malas nak pergi..haha..

jadinya, tadi, lepas zohor, aku jalan2 ikut je mana kaki aku bawak..haha..takde plan langsung tadi..keluar hostel, then, terus pergi hala ke holyrood park sebab malas nak pergi city..menyampah dah tengok bandar..haha..

hari tu, aku dah pergi holyrood park ni, tapi, hari ni, aku pergi the opposite direction..n, tak sangka, banyak jugak benda boleh tengok..haha..keliling holyrood park tu, ikut queen's drive..haha..nampak ada satu binaan..aku ingat istana lama yang dah runtuh..haha..rupa2nya, St. Anthony Chapel..sejarah dia panjang..malas nak tulis..haha..

then, jalan2 lagi, jumpa ada tasik..nama dia St. Margaret's Loch..santek jugak..haha..ada banyak swan..haha..ada la 15minit macam tu aku lepak tepi tasek tu..mujur tak ramai orang..mungkin sebab weekdays..ada 1 family je tadi..anak kecik2 lagi..haha..

dah puas amek gamba swan tu semua, aku jalan lagi..memang aku hari ni, langsung takde perancangan..main jalan je..haha..tiba2, dah sampai meadowbank yang biasa orang pergi naek bas..haha..bapak jauh aku jalan..kat sini, takde apa yang menarik..sebab dia just ada rumah2 orang je..

then, aku bukak apps offline map yang aku download before datang sini lagi..sebab ingat nak tengok hala ke city..sebab macam dah takde apa nak tengok dekat meadowbank tu..ingat nak jalan kat city..tiba2, bila aku zoom out map tu, nampak kaler biru..haha..kalau dekat map, kaler biru, dah sah2 water bodies..bila aku scroll lagi, confirm, laut!!!!haha..aku, dalam banyak2 kejadian alam yang ada kat dunia ni, laut #1!!!!haha..dulu masa study dekat arau, boleh kata 2minggu sekali mesti aku dengan geng aku lepak dekat kuala perlis..bukan buat apa pun..just lepak tengok laut..n, kalau family nak pergi holiday pun, memang kitorang suka pergi laut~~haha..

jadinya, aku pun melangkah ikut arah ke laut tu..haha..jalan punya jalan punya jalan, tiba2 sampai dah..haha..orang sini, mungkin tak suka lepak laut kot..haha..takde orang pun..ataupun sebab hari ni weekdays..adalah omputih tengah exercisekan anjing mereka..haha..

tenang je aku jumpa laut..hilang semua stress dari minggu lepas..kalau pandang laut lepas tu, memang kita punya fikiran jadi tenang..relaks je..rugi aku pakai kasut..takleh rendam2 kaki..haha..btw, laut kat sini dengan malaysia lain..sini takde bau masin laut tu..kalau kat malaysia, dari jauh dah bau..haha..pasir pantai sini, kaler coklat gelap..macam kat malaysia putih ada, ada yang perang..sini cekelat..air dia, subhanallah, jernih~~~tu yang sayang takleh rendam kaki tadi tu!!!!!haha..

tengah aku dok layan2 perasaan, dengar bunyi guruh kuat!!!dengan pantasnya aku cabut pergi kejar bas..haha..