Well, I actually have nothing specific to rant about today. Took a day off of blogging yesterday. Talking bout yesterday, I finally finished off my data mining task given by my boss. Had "megi goreng kosong" for lunch yesterday. Kind of going on some budget nowadays. Well, approximately until the day my next scholar money banks-in. And yes, last night I almost had a heart-attack. When I turned-on my pc after arriving home, my D:\ drive was gone, missing, unallocated. Man, I'm quite pissed-off. All my work were in there. Internship weekly report, final internship report, some design, and not to forget my collections of almost 150 movies. Luckily Jaqas reminded me about the fixmbr thingy. Thanks alot for the reminder Jaqas.

Things goes quite well as far as today i think.

Owh wait. I do have something to ask. One thing that I want to ask here to the readers is that about the usage of words in our daily life. Well, concerning muslim. Yup. I'm a muslim. But I'm not a terrorists. I hated labels. I hated when so many people labeled muslims as terrorists. But that's not the point I want to talk. All these years, I've heard things about the words we use. Recently, I got this personal message in Y! Messenger that goes like

In Hebrew, the word akum means animals, bla bla bla, so we all can stop using the word akum in our conversation, instead, use salam or better, use assalamualaikum warahmatullahiwabarakatuh.

I'm not denying that the use of salam and assalamualaikum is good, because I'm a muslim. And I do know that as a muslim, we are encouraged not to follow the acts of the non-beleivers. But for god sake, it's just a word. Words can be different between cultures. And furthermore, the word akum is only used in cyberspace i presumed. And what does akum represent in our chat session? Assalamualaikum. Not animal. Heck i don't want to greet all of u with animals. And I presume that all of you know that fact that akum is meant for assalamualaikum. Same thing a few years back, when the pokemon name issue is raised. Pikachu means Little devil or something like that. I gladly welcome anyone to provide me the meaning of each pokemon name that represent bad thing. And as far as i watched the cartoon, never ever i saw the character preaches us to change religion. Only because the name, we must stop watching that show. We are provided by god a great brain. Used that to make proper reasoning.

The thing is that, it's like telling those people in Indonesia to stop using butuh because in malay language that word mean cock and is widely used to swear. The word butuh in Indonesia actually means "need". Same goes to a village named Fucking is Austria. Why don't you ask them to change their village name? Fucking is such a bad word. There's a lot more then akum that we have to change if we really want to. Ask all of them to stop swearing, with the words that they really understand. Instead of changing the word that they used, that to them, means good thing. And, as far as I know. The Jew didn't even teach us to use the word akum. And furthermore, i don't use that word in actual conversation. Please teach me if i'm wrong. And maybe i'll adopt salam in my chat session, and start using akum when swearing.