Tragedy in beauty ...

and shakespeare's tragedy is so comedy ...

The super duper plane ...

a guppy for a plane ...

for prehistoric giants ... and giant cabin crew ...

Image Source : Here

 Image source: Here

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nak pindah rumah also can ...  like this ... macam kereta potong ...

Image Source: Here

atau nak transport crew and pelbagai peralatan kempen pilihanraya GE13 ...

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My daughters ...

... born of different wombs ...

1 of the Masyarakat Semai, 2 of the Masyarakat Jakun ...

AlhamduLillah they have all graduated last year ...

1 in Islamic Finance, 1 in Marine Biology (also a Leftenen Muda) and 1 a Science teacher ... 

for the past many months ... they have not been able to secure an employment ... 

2 since last October, 1 last December ...

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they said they are stressed ...

because orang kampung kata why tak kerja ... kalau dah graduate ...

what's the point of belajar kalau tak dapat kerja ...

tidak marah orang kampung ...

because begitulah pengharapan mereka ... 

untuk kehidupan yang lebih baik ...

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Learning with them ...

the one that does ... learns from the poor by being with the poor ... 

where there are no teachers and students ... 

where everybody is a learner ...

How a principal quit school to learn from the poor

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the fish says ...

what's with these children ...

poking their noses over me ...

where is my dinner ...

:)

 

Genjer genjer ...

 Versi asal nya

Genjer-genjer nong kedokan pating keleler
Genjer-genjer nong kedokan pating keleler
Emak'e thole teko-teko mbubuti genjer
Emak'e thole teko-teko mbubuti genjer
Ulih sak tenong mungkur sedhot sing tolah-toleh
Genjer-genjer saiki wis digowo mulih

Genjer-genjer esuk-esuk didol ning pasar
Genjer-genjer esuk-esuk didol ning pasar
Dijejer-jejer diuntingi podho didhasar
Dijejer-jejer diuntingi podho didhasar
Emak'e jebeng podho tuku nggowo welasah
Genjer-genjer saiki wis arep diolah

Genjer-genjer mlebu kendhil wedang gemulak
Genjer-genjer mlebu kendhil wedang gemulak
Setengah mateng dientas yo dienggo iwak
Setengah mateng dientas yo dienggo iwak
Sego sak piring sambel jeruk ring pelonco
Genjer-genjer dipangan musuhe sego


cerita dan terjemahannya di sini

http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genjer-genjer

yang mula melagukannya

di sini

 seseorang pernah berkata di negara jiran ... ahhh nasib bangsaku ... makanan orang miskin ... the proletariat

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makanan itik dan khinzir ...

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di kampong kami semasa masih ada sawah tumbuhan ini dipanggil kelelayau ... or something like that ... ingat ingat lupa ...

masalah besar di sawah ... kalau dibiar ...

its glamorous name is Paku Rawan (Limnocharis flava)

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The prehistoric bourgeoisie ...

and the bourgeois egg ...

Image Source: Yahoo

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one of these can feed 100 kinderkids ... but i would suppose a kinderkid of the same era would be a giant size ... so one of these would be for one giant kinderkid ...

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The bourgeoisie in us ...

English is the national language ...

 ... sambil beratur tunggu lampu hijau di Persiaran Senawang ... 

renyai-renyai menjelang petang ... 

ternampak igauan Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka di tiang lampu TNB ...

 

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Acik ...

acik ... ko kecik ... itu sebab mungkin nya kita semua panggil ko kak cik ...

among us ... mata mu yang paling bulat galak ...

you were the comelest ... masyaAllah ... among us ... putih bersih ...

langsing je tubuh mu and panjang langkah mu ... laju larimu di padang Sekolah Rendah Kebangsaan Pelangai tu ...

kecik kecik mu kak mbong selalu kacau timang mu tinggi tinggi ...

then abah cakap jangan ... abah kata you almost died when you were born ... tumpah darah dari pusatmu yang masih belum kering ...

kak mbong tak tau ... di asrama when you were born ...

cuma teringat masa bercakap dengan abah di talipon asrama ... tak ada mobile masa tu pun ... abah cakap emak dah bersalin ... it was a saturday and abah dah beri nama ... seperti biasanya ikut hari lahir lah semua nama anak-anaknya ... dalam talipon kak mbong dengar nama mu Sabarina ... and i remembered thinking alah nama adik ni tak mmmm lah ... kalau Sabrina kan cool sikit ... tapi okay lah tu kalau abah dah beri nama kan ...

balik cuti penggal baru tau rupanya nama mu sebenarnya Sabrina (plus plus) ... cuma abah cakap biasalah cara orang kampung ... ooohhh gembiranya hati  kak mbong nama mu so beautiful ... and i fell in love with you so much ... masyaAllah you were so cute ...

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acik yang sangat disayangi ... i  am remembering this ... as you remembered me this evening ... calling me to say that you have passed the interview with flying colours ... AlhamduLillah ... it was a smooth interview ... they were pleased with you ... Allah SWT permudahkan bagi mu ... syukur banyak banyak ... life has been tough for you these past months especially ... but you sabar dan tidak putus asa ... Allah SWT ilhamkan abah beri nama mu begitu AlhamduLilllah ... Sabrina ... yang sabar ... throughout the challenging years of your life ... demanding family and career issues ... raising four boys alone these past years ... you have been sabar ... AlhamduLillah ...

step by step you did it ...

dan air mata kekandamu menitis when you said that now you are an SR ... that certification for your profession ... i know you are highly competent in your profession masyaAllah ... and the panel knew it too ... syukur syukur AlhamduLillah ... semoga bertambah kebajikan dalam kehidupan mu insyaAllah ...

i love you acik ... you know i am with you always insyaAllah ...

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adik akak ... an illustration ... google image

Dato' Dr Fatma El Zahraa - Akhlak

Dato' Dr Fatma El Zahraa - Q 49 Al-Hujurat : Huraian Ayat 1 - 12 Pengajaran Akhlak

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MasyaAllah ...

... tak hujan ...

Najib joins large turnout at Seremban gala dinner

... Allahuakbar ...

:)

the amateur journalist's previous report ...

here

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no wonder ... i was wondering ... kenapa cek tak kena jemput ...

deficit thinking betul  ... hehehe

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Deficit thinking ...

the roots of deficit thinking ... spilling on to education ...

... that the poor, the indigenous, the minority refugees can't learn as well as the mainstream children because of personal and community, linguistic and cultural deficiencies ...

and how many among us are aware that this is the way we think ...

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Kalau hujan ...

macam mana ni ...

balik dari KLIA ... lalu pekan (pekan?) seremban ...

ikut jalan tak tau nama, if you are at the wheel this padang is down next to you ... i am driving towards KPilah ... on the left atas bukit Majlis Perbandaran Seremban.

panjang pula kereta beratur ... alih alih nampak oh ini sebabnya ... our PM is coming ... and this whole padang looks pink because of alas meja dan kerusinya pink ... a sea of pink so to speak ...

dek lama beratur sempat pula sekeping gambar ni ...

then i was wondering kalau hujan macam mana ni ...

and lately everyday, almost,  bila petang ... hujan ... kilat bersilat petir bersabung ...

this is very very good ... menguji kesetiaan tetamu ... 

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Making time ...

for the less fortunate takes passion and vision ...

Reaching out to refugee kids

 

 

 Image Source: Here

Fountain of Jannah ...

a daughter who is named after the name of a fountain in Jannah, whose drink is

 superior to the purest of wines, its nectar will only be drunk by those nearest to Allah Ta'ala sent an after Fajr message ...

"... Selamat Hari Raya Acik, today is yaumul jumaah, sayyidul ayyam. Let's read al Kahf. May Allah bless :)"

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AlhamduLillah ... Allah SWT bless her ...

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to all  i pass on to you the same greetings 

"Selamat Hari Raya on this day of yaumul jumaah, sayyidul ayyam."

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Recitation & Tafsir Al-Kahf

Dr Fatma ...

Dato' Dr Fatma El Zahraa - Simtom Iman Lemah @ Monday Class

When warring is a lifestyle ...

you have achieved peace ...

 

Tears of joy for civilians and even hardened soldiers after signing of Mindanao peace pact

 

 

 

but peace is not the way of life ...

 

you are born to fight ...

 

it is your job ... your profession ... your identity

 

now the fight continues ...

 

you have to create enemies ... where there is none ...

 

on the land of the people who embraced you ...

 

 in your hours of need ...

 

...

 

Please end soon ...

and no more fallen soldiers or the police or the civilians ...

Lahad Datu: Soldier, three gunmen killed in Ops Daulat gunfight

 this is truly a sad time

muslims against muslims? ... tak cukup musuh ke kitani ...

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Inna Lillahi wainna ilaihi rajiun

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update ...

there's a great deal of pain of not being able to articulate the anger ... without getting venomous ...

but this has helped  

  http://art-harun.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-indefeasibility-of-malaysias.html

a bit ...

 

 

The original ...

weight management tips ...

bila check email ... ada ada saja ... so nak share lah ni 

more 

sini

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i like the apple bit ... but green apples ... kalau kat kedai makan minta 3 apples ... juice kan dia ... no water no sugar no ice ... this will give us the perfect paper cupful used for cold drink tu ... and pay for three cups of course :) ... rm4.50 kat senawang (yang kedai saya biasa ni lah ... :)

sendiri dirumah lagi murah ... 

and nuts ...almonds .... Oghang Besar di rumah bawa balik berkilo so AlhamduLillah sentiasa ada supply of fresh almonds ... kena ketuk kulit dia nak keluarkan nuts (kernels) tu ...

(now that reminds me kena beli nut cracker hehe ...)

and pisang ... cavendish banyak di hypermarket ... tak putus supply insyaAllah ...

senangkan ... sedap pula :)

dan sihat insyaAllah ...

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tetapi malam malam pergi men dinner berat pula ... adoi bengong ... insyaAllah trying to contain this bad habit :)

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Image Source: Here

 

 

Bumble Bee Buzz...

tuna recalls actually ...

just a service to those that could be affected  and not using yahoo email ...

more

here

my favourite emergency food ...

but not this brand ...

and this recall is only for the US market i believe ...

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masih teringat Sabah ...

i ve watched some videos about the people living in shacks on the waterfront ...

kesian sungguh ...

i think we begin with community health care intervention ... strongly supported by education ...

of the young children ... and the parents ...

NGO based intervention ... jom ke Sabah ...

kawan-kawan ... apa pendapat kawan-kawan ...

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... and AlhamduLillah ... just received notification "Paper accepted for conference " gembiranya ... hehe ... and i want to say thank you to all kawan-kawan yang full of encouragement, bantu minyak pelita ... teman tengah malam to work on it ... thank you all. I appreciate it very much, Allah SWT bahagiakan kawan-kawan semua ... xxx :)

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one more to go ... this month ... InsyaAllah

Celebrating women ...

yang selalu me ziarah is this blog by a well-known senior writer ...

it is a men's blog ... replete with men's language of politics, etc ...

and men's approach to an issue ... now the Sabah intrusion ...

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i don't have any problem with that ...

but i failed to understand why when a man want to insult another ... he will link it to woman ...

and a favourite is ... meroyan ...

man meroyan ... ? man tak beranak kan ...

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Meroyan atau rayan (juga dikenali dikalangan ahli perubatan sebagai Postpartum depression - PPD) merupakan satu bentuk kemurungan klinikal (clinical depression) yang menjejaskan wanita, dan kadang kala lelaki, selepas melahirkan anak. (Wikipedia).

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oo la ... i am most in error ...

man pun meroyan ...

more here

doktor doktor sure tahu ni ...

but a bitter taste in my mouth for this error ...

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thank you

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lesson learned ... jangan sibuk-sibuk (bukan meroyan okay) sebelum tahu hujung pangkal ...

that's all folks in celebration of our women today ...

:)

The legacy ...

the legacy unknown ...

more 

here ...

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a few lessons learned ...

1. Buying old pondok as an investment is a very good idea :) ... call it cottage if we wish for a tinge of the romantics

2. Marketing is a must if we wish our work known ... methods and channels aplenty

3. Even if we are good, or very very good ... if we don't venture beyond our fence ... something like this will be said of us ...

"American art historian William Innes Homer, who died last year, had compared Pinajian to a "lone researcher in a laboratory pursuing knowledge for its own sake." 

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suddenly ... 

this reminds me of ...

the value of Waqaf in Islam ... for us orang Islam ...

maka tinggalkan lah pada mereka yang akan menyambung kan manfaatnya ... apa yang sedikit kita ada ...

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teringat pula ...

... a beloved friend who is researching Wakaf for Microfinance ...

No Fear For Love ...

are you ever not scared ...

here

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Can't resist ...

this ...

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Singapore Airlines is the most prepared. Its planes feature a "corpse cupboard," a compartment for storing a dead body if the situation arises.

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bila check email ada ada  saja ...

more ...

here

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suka yang no 9 ... boleh kabar kat AirAsia

lagi labuh lagi bagus ...

yang no 5  ... nak tanya orang atas awan tu ... betul ke :)

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Dry shampoo ...

sambung cerita shampoo kering ...

more sini ...

i first read about this in a book

for natural care

the book is somewhere in the store ...

nanti jumpa will update insyaAllah ...

in its original sense the cornstarch was use ...

but the talcom is equally okay ...

guna ... masa emergency tak sempat basuh rambut ...

orang lepas bersalin tak leh basuh rambut ...

tempat tak de air ... kalau kembara kembara ke etc ...

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Changing landscape ...

kok dulu ...

sebut senawang ...

alahai ... tempat orang biasa biasa ... sebut taman je ...

now ... to differentiate ... we have 

banyak Heights ...

tompek tinggi ... untuk yang tinggi dari biasa biasa ... :)

okay lah tu ... no offense intended ye ...

with so many hypermarkets ... kalah pula Seremban ...

but what i wish to show ... 

hari ni sambil driving menurun ke Senawang-LEKAS Highway yang under construction tu ... panjang pula kereta beratur ... so sambil pandang-pandang piling in process ...

tetiba ... ambil lah gambar ... kut kut nanti Sham balik ... tau lah nya banyak nya dah berubah kek konar-konar dan colah colah bukit ni ...

so here gambar gambar senget yang sangat amatur ... sambil driving ... :)

 Senawang LEKAS junction  under construction ...

 Downhill looking towards LEKAS Highway ...

Big sungai kat depan tu dah hilang ... replaced by concrete waterway ...

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hehe ... tahniah diri sendiri ... first original pictures tak google for this blog ...
kesian betul bunyinya ...

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Finally ...

a glimmer of the truth ... perhaps ...

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The villagers claimed that those detained could include a son of Azzimudie and a woman related to him.

Azzimudie, the brother of self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu Jamalul Kiram III, had told The Star over the telephone that one of his sons was with him in Tanduo along with 200 to 300 of his followers, including six women.

Tanduo residents, who fled when the Sulu group first landed on Feb 9, have said that Azzimudie and his top army man known as Musa, a former Moro National Liberation Front member, were related to local village leaders through marriage.

Azzimudie was an assistant district officer of Kudat in the early 1970s and his family had many relatives living in Lahad Datu, Semporna and Sandakan.

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more ... sini

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 with the emergence of this reality ... i am concerned about how we treat the so called "intruders" ...

because ... they are us ... among us ...

pictures of how we handle some of those taken under custody have impact ...

 upon the rest of the community ...

so berhati hatilah wahai yang menjalankan tugas ... semarakkan simpati bukan dendam

... tiada lagi wanita menangis ...

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Appreciating now ...

I did this a year ago … when I was telling myself to get out of it … and appreciate the Now of Life … and this was what I found …

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The search results you will get if you google the following:

^ Moving Forward - 327,000,000 results.

^ Looking Back - 2,450,000,000 results.

^ Appreciating Now - 19,500,000 results.

Hmmm. Curious thing this is… where most of the world's population live … 

in the PAST...

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Today … triggered by the historical claim beyond the sea, I tried again … and here’s the results …

^Moving Forward - About 234,000,000 results (0.22 seconds)

^Looking Back -About 2,960,000,000 results (0.34 seconds)

^Appreciating Now - About 28,900,000 results (0.32 seconds)

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It appears that more are appreciating now …

also as expected ...

we are also very much into swimming in the glory (or otherwise) of the 

past … 

getting stuck and not moving forward …

Of course … this little piece of research lacks evidence of validity and 

reliability … hehe

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still ...  my point is ... let's all 

Appreciate Now ... and Move Forward

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Let's see ...

if we can situate ourselves among these ...

mmm ... berasa macam ...

oh mine is macam ni ...

or macam ini campur ini ...

:)

more 

sini

here's mine ... online

~ or this `'

according to the mood of the day ...

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the real one ... will do a comparative study later ... :)

 

to boldly split it ...

ending the day with courage to be real original ...

here's an article about ...

7 bogus grammar 'errors' you don't need to worry about

1. Don't split infinitives
The rule against splitting infinitives — that is, putting an adverb between the word to and a verb — was pretty much made up out of whole cloth by early 19-century grammarians, apparently because they felt the proper model for English was Latin, and in Latin, infinitive-splitting is impossible. However, English is not Latin, and infinitives have been profitably split by many great writers, from Hemingway ("But I would come back to where it pleases me to live; to really live") to Gene Rodenberry  ("to boldly go where no man has gone before"). It's okay to boldly do it.

2. Don't end a sentence with a prepositionThe idea that it's wrong to end a sentence with a preposition (from, with, etc.) was invented by the English poet John Dryden... in 1672. He probably based his objection on a bogus comparison with — you guessed it — Latin, where such constructions don't exist. In any case, there is no basis to the rule in English grammar, and, once again, great writers have ignored it with no great loss to their prose or reputations. Jane Austen: "Fanny could with difficulty give the smile that was asked for." Robert Frost: "The University is one most people have heard of." James Joyce: "He had enough money to settle down on." Trying to avoid ending with a preposition frequently ties you into the awkward knot of "to whom" and "to which" constructions. On a memo criticizing a document for committing this "error," Winston Churchill allegedly wrote: "This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."

It is true that prepositions are a relatively weak part of speech and, all things being equal, it's desirable to end sentences strongly. So sometimes it pays to rewrite such constructions. Thus, "He's the person I gave the money to" isn't as good as "I gave him the money."

3. Don't use "which" as a relative pronoun
The bogus idea here is that only that, never which, should be used to introduce so-called defining or restrictive clauses. For example, "The United States is one of the countries which that failed to ratify the Kyoto Protocol." One again, this is totally made up. Geoffrey Pullum, co-editor of the authoritative Cambridge Grammar of the English Language, has written, "The alleged rule has no basis. Even in edited prose, 75 percent of the instances of relative 'which' introduce 'restrictive' relatives." The culprit here seems to be the great language commentator H.W. Fowler, who popularized the notion in his 1926 book, Modern English Usage.  

In fairness to Fowler, he merely speculated that if writers were to follow this custom (as he acknowledged they currently did not), "there would be much gain both in lucidity & ease." Language sticklers took that and ran with it, and this idea reigned for most of the rest of the century. Even now, it has a lot of adherents. But it still doesn't have any justification. One of the great sticklers, Jacques Barzun, advised in a 1975 book that we ought to avoid such whiches. But as Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage points out, on the very next page Barzun broke his own rule, writing, "Next is a typical situation which a practiced writer corrects 'for style' virtually by reflex action…."

4. Don't start a sentence with a conjunctionExcept possibly in the most formal settings, there is absolutely nothing wrong with starting a sentence with And or But. A funny thing about the supposed rule against doing so is that no one has been able to find a book or authority that has ever endorsed it (with the exception of a single 1868 text turned up by the scholar Dennis Baron). But countless people feel this is unacceptable, possibly because the notion was pounded into their head by some middle school grammar teacher. Get over it!
(It has become popular recently to follow sentence-opening conjunctions with a comma, for example, "But, we got there too late for the early-bird special." That is indeed wrong. No comma.)

5. Don't use the passive voiceThe poster child for passive-hating is a quote from President George H.W. Bush. In a 1986 speech about the Iran-Contra scandal, he said, "Clearly, mistakes were made." Just as clearly, the problem is that the grammar fudges a crucial question: Who made the mistakes? Passive construction can indeed propagate such obfuscation, as well as wordiness, and thus should be used judiciously. But there's nothing inherently wrong with it, and when the subject of a clause or sentence isn't known, or isn't as important as the object, passive voice can be just the thing. Tom Wicker's classic New York Times opening sentence of November 23, 1963, would have been ruined if he'd tried to shoehorn it into the active voice. Wicker wrote: "President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot and killed by an assassin today."

6. Don't neglect to use singular verbs
Etymologically, data is the plural of the Latin datum. But from the time it first appeared in English, it has been treated as a collective noun (such as water or money), and collective nouns take singular verbs. Every single citation in The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) pairs data with such a verb, starting with, "Inconsistent data sometimes produces a correct result," from an 1820 edition of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. Thus, insisting on the data are… is pretentious and unnecessary. Media, meaning the various means by which information is disseminated in a society, appeared later — 1923, according to the OED. Although it's plural of the Latin medium, it too was treated from the start as a singular. The media are…  is an unfortunate recent affectation.

A similar issue arises when a word such as group or bunch is followed by the word of, then a plural. For example: "A bunch of my friends is/are coming over." Some sticklers insist on is, because group is singular. But this is an area where English grammar is flexible, and are is acceptable as well. My advice is to choose the singular or plural based on whether you're emphasizing the collection or the individuals. In the above example, I would go with are. Saying A bunch of my friends is coming over sounds as stuffy as your nostrils in the middle of a particularly bad cold.

7. Don't use words to mean what they've been widely used to mean for 50 years or more
An instant's glance at the OED confirms that the one thing about words that never changes is that their meanings always change. The process takes time, and to be an early adopter of a new meaning means putting yourself at risk of both incomprehension and abuse. However, at a certain point, clinging to old definitions is a superstitious waste of time and thought. Here's a list of words and expressions whose new meanings, though still scorned by some sticklers, are completely acceptable. (If it puzzles you that there is any objection to some of these, or to find out the original meaning, Google the word or phrase. You will find a lively debate, to say the least.)

It's okay to use...
Decimate to mean "kill or eliminate a large proportion of something"
like to mean "such as"
liable to to mean "likely to"
hopefully to mean "I hope that"    
over to mean "more than"
since to mean "because"
while to mean "although"
momentarily to mean "in a moment"
the lion's share to mean "the majority"
verbal to mean "oral"
I could care less to mean "I couldn't care less" And if you have a problem with that, I could care less.

(By Ben Yagoda | The Week )

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meaning ... carry on ... do do all the so-called don'ts ... :)

 my way exactly ... yang selalu kena betulkan ...

sangat sangat suka

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