28 Feb 2007
I am concerned about the ban of the 'Apa Khabar Orang Kampung' by the Malaysia's film censorship board.
So, now. Come to think of it. This question I need to ask: Should we not recognise the contributions by the Communists fighting for our country's independence?
Ok, then. Since I commented/criticised on the actions of the Government, they'll call me an anti-government. Now that I have asked for the recognition of the contribution by the Communist, they'll now marked me as a Communist.. hahahahaha
Back to the issue mentioned. If given a chance, I would like to watch 'Apa Khabar Orang Kampung'. Not because I support the idea of Communism, but would like to appreciate their contributions towards our country's independence as well as the live (and suffering) they had gone through.
For those who had joined the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) during the era, I appreciate that their intention were good. That is to fight for the country's independence. And, the only avenue to do so was to bring to the jungle. So, why not recognise their contributions?
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Man & Children Found Dead Again!!?
15th Feb 07
Not long ago, it was reported in the media that a man killed his whole family, including his own children.
Now again, it's reported (The Star)that yet another man killed his children before committing suicide, after an argument with his wife.
What on earth is happening to these people out there!!!?
Why can't they resolve their own (&%#@!!*) problem, but need to involve the innocents (their own children)!!?
Not long ago, it was reported in the media that a man killed his whole family, including his own children.
Now again, it's reported (The Star)that yet another man killed his children before committing suicide, after an argument with his wife.
What on earth is happening to these people out there!!!?
Why can't they resolve their own (&%#@!!*) problem, but need to involve the innocents (their own children)!!?
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Friend or Foe
"Be not friend with a fool, for he will harm you while meaning to do good to you."
"It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend"
"It is better to listen to a wise enemy than to seek counsel from a foolish friend"
Friday, February 9, 2007
Be Realistic
Be realistic
Do what you can with what you have, where you are; Listen to your enemies;Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the firstto discover your mistakes.
Do what you can with what you have, where you are; Listen to your enemies;Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the firstto discover your mistakes.
Get out of my @%^&! way
This is a good article I've read written by Davin Arul in http://thestar.com.my/columnists/, and it worths reading.
Davin, I hope u don't mind for me republishing your column here in my blog. Just want to make people out there realise. Thanks.
9th Feb 07
Get out of my @%^&! way
Rules of Unreality
By DAVIN ARUL
There are a few things we should remember about this whole rudeness-on-the-road thing
WHAT do the following have in common: a) the titular black demonic vehicle in the 70s horror flick The Car; b) the homicidal truck in Steven Spielberg’s classic TV movie Duel; c) a significant portion of the motoring public that seems to be growing larger?
Answer: Get in their way and you’re toast, one way or another.
Sigh, the things you could say about the behaviour of certain motorists could fill a book. No doubt, studies of their rudeness, arrogance and mental imbalance already have filled volumes.
While we shouldn’t let our sense of patriotic pride run away and presume that it’s a purely Malaysian malady (in a Haley Joel Osment whisper: it’s everywhere), there are a few things we should remember about this whole rudeness-on-the-road thing.
First, how can we expect politeness from those in the public sector and the service industry when we can’t even be civil to one another on the road?
Second, as the following example will illustrate, what kind of message are we sending to our children?
A friend told of how his wife pulled up in front of a school to drop off their child. Unfortunately, her car broke down right in front of the gate.
So there she was, stuck in an awkward spot, impeding traffic flow and with a crying baby in the car, too. Dozens of parents were driving up to drop off their own kids. A member of the school staff was on hand to usher the children inside. What do you think happened?
In Fantasyland, the staffer would have helped her call AAM while some gallant fathers would have got out of their own vehicles to help her push the car – if not to start it, then at least to push it out of the way.
In our waking unreality, she was honked at and yelled at by the parents, and the school employee came up to shout at her, too.
People had schedules, agendas, and were probably in a hurry. But ... couldn’t they have diverted the energy spent on shouting and tooting their little horns to help for just a couple of minutes?
Worse still is the effect their little tirades would have on their children. It would show them that it’s all right to be uncouth and abusive towards people in trouble – because Mummy and Daddy do it all the time. Isn’t it time we licensed parents?
Let’s consider another incident. A senior citizen was trying to make a U-turn which had been partly blocked by illegally parked cars. It became a three-point turn instead of one smooth U-turn.
Somewhere between points two and three, a large black luxury car came roaring up and tooted the usual “Get out of my way!” greeting. The senior citizen, fed up of being treated rudely on the road, honked back.
The driver of the other car then stopped and looked back in a “cari pasal?” (looking for trouble) way before eventually driving off. If the Neanderthal’s thoughts could have been recorded at that moment, they may have registered as “... and stay out of my @#$% way.”
Every day, thousands of scenes like these play out on our roads and well-tolled highways.
The most familiar of them would go something like this.
You’re driving along in the fast lane at 110kph, occasionally nudging up to 120 when you think no one’s looking. Without warning, a monstrosity appears in your rear-view mirror.
You think: My, what big headlights you have.
He thinks: All the better to flash you half-blind so you’ll get out of my way, you space-consuming waste of petrol and oxygen.
Let’s face it – this whole get-out-of-my-way attitude is getting pretty annoying and it’s you nice people that this column is aimed at this week.
I wonder what it is that gets a person thinking the driver in front of him is just an obstacle. Is it a sense of superiority? The absurd notion that you are the only part of the equation who has a right to be there?
Or worse, is it that you have simply ceased to consider the person in the car in front of you ... as a person?
I’m no angel behind the wheel but, lately, since observing the way some drivers treat my dad and other senior drivers on the road, I’m making a conscious effort to keep my hand away from the headlight controls or the horn when there’s a slow driver in my path.
And after forcing myself to slow down and just be content to follow for a bit, I’ve found that it is actually quite calming. That pressing appointment suddenly doesn’t seem so imperative, the actual time you lose amounts to just a few seconds, and the effect on your blood pressure is nothing but beneficial.
But for those who haven’t yet tried (hey, I’ll slip some day, I know) to make the change, here are some things to keep in mind.
1. Slow down, for your own sake. As naturalist Robert Winkler noted in his 2005 New York Times essay “The flicker fusion factor”, our perceptual abilities are just not good enough to allow us to react in time when we’re travelling at high speed.
We think we’re free as a bird once we’re behind the wheel but the way we process information at speed is far inferior to our feathered friends’ ability – and even they go splat against an obstacle now and then.
This is just how our brains are wired; and while a small percentage of us may have sufficiently fast reflexes to react, the vast majority of us really were never meant to go over 30 miles an hour.
As Winkler wrote: “The power we feel when we get into a car or an SUV is illusory. When we become motorists, we actually get weaker. We leave our natural bipedal realm for ? one in which we are out of control. Our self-absorption prevents us from accepting our limitations, though every day we see the consequences in untold deaths ?.”
(Read the full article at http://pages.cthome.net/rwinkler/fff.htm)
2. Leave early for your appointments so you aren’t always in a bloody hurry.
3. Bear in mind that the driver in front of you has just as much right to be on the road as you. If you really can’t stand it, just unleash some choice expletives, but keep it within your own vehicle – no splendid gestures, please.
4. Spare a thought that the other driver may be experiencing some difficulty or confusion.
5. Your large car does not make you superior, especially if you’re over-compensating.
6. Your small car does not give you licence to squeeze past others in a hazardous manner, especially not on the left.
7. Find your heart song (penguins optional) and stick in a CD or tape that calms you. Gangsta rap, Kenny G and anything with an ah beng base line are strict no-no’s. OK, so maybe Kenny is acceptable. To some.
8. Remember your children and the effect your tirade is having on their mindset. Think of the recent public service message on TV about the impatient father who embarrassed his daughter by harassing her friend’s parents on the road.
9. That mental health check-up you’ve been putting off for years? Go for it.
10. If all else fails to get you thinking, consider that the driver in front is your father or mother (or if they’re younger, your spouse or sibling) and consider how you would feel if someone treated them the way you treat others.
And if all this fails, and you really must flash something, go put on a raincoat and hang around outside a playground. At least that way, we’ll get you off the streets for a few years.
But rather than overcrowd our prisons, it would be so much simpler if all of us decided, today, to just let someone get in our way.
Davin Arul, vice-president of the I.Star Division, puts on the Ghostbusters soundtrack when he’s driving while stressed out, since it’s infectiously happy without being sappy.
Davin, I hope u don't mind for me republishing your column here in my blog. Just want to make people out there realise. Thanks.
9th Feb 07
Get out of my @%^&! way
Rules of Unreality
By DAVIN ARUL
There are a few things we should remember about this whole rudeness-on-the-road thing
WHAT do the following have in common: a) the titular black demonic vehicle in the 70s horror flick The Car; b) the homicidal truck in Steven Spielberg’s classic TV movie Duel; c) a significant portion of the motoring public that seems to be growing larger?
Answer: Get in their way and you’re toast, one way or another.
Sigh, the things you could say about the behaviour of certain motorists could fill a book. No doubt, studies of their rudeness, arrogance and mental imbalance already have filled volumes.
While we shouldn’t let our sense of patriotic pride run away and presume that it’s a purely Malaysian malady (in a Haley Joel Osment whisper: it’s everywhere), there are a few things we should remember about this whole rudeness-on-the-road thing.
First, how can we expect politeness from those in the public sector and the service industry when we can’t even be civil to one another on the road?
Second, as the following example will illustrate, what kind of message are we sending to our children?
A friend told of how his wife pulled up in front of a school to drop off their child. Unfortunately, her car broke down right in front of the gate.
So there she was, stuck in an awkward spot, impeding traffic flow and with a crying baby in the car, too. Dozens of parents were driving up to drop off their own kids. A member of the school staff was on hand to usher the children inside. What do you think happened?
In Fantasyland, the staffer would have helped her call AAM while some gallant fathers would have got out of their own vehicles to help her push the car – if not to start it, then at least to push it out of the way.
In our waking unreality, she was honked at and yelled at by the parents, and the school employee came up to shout at her, too.
People had schedules, agendas, and were probably in a hurry. But ... couldn’t they have diverted the energy spent on shouting and tooting their little horns to help for just a couple of minutes?
Worse still is the effect their little tirades would have on their children. It would show them that it’s all right to be uncouth and abusive towards people in trouble – because Mummy and Daddy do it all the time. Isn’t it time we licensed parents?
Let’s consider another incident. A senior citizen was trying to make a U-turn which had been partly blocked by illegally parked cars. It became a three-point turn instead of one smooth U-turn.
Somewhere between points two and three, a large black luxury car came roaring up and tooted the usual “Get out of my way!” greeting. The senior citizen, fed up of being treated rudely on the road, honked back.
The driver of the other car then stopped and looked back in a “cari pasal?” (looking for trouble) way before eventually driving off. If the Neanderthal’s thoughts could have been recorded at that moment, they may have registered as “... and stay out of my @#$% way.”
Every day, thousands of scenes like these play out on our roads and well-tolled highways.
The most familiar of them would go something like this.
You’re driving along in the fast lane at 110kph, occasionally nudging up to 120 when you think no one’s looking. Without warning, a monstrosity appears in your rear-view mirror.
You think: My, what big headlights you have.
He thinks: All the better to flash you half-blind so you’ll get out of my way, you space-consuming waste of petrol and oxygen.
Let’s face it – this whole get-out-of-my-way attitude is getting pretty annoying and it’s you nice people that this column is aimed at this week.
I wonder what it is that gets a person thinking the driver in front of him is just an obstacle. Is it a sense of superiority? The absurd notion that you are the only part of the equation who has a right to be there?
Or worse, is it that you have simply ceased to consider the person in the car in front of you ... as a person?
I’m no angel behind the wheel but, lately, since observing the way some drivers treat my dad and other senior drivers on the road, I’m making a conscious effort to keep my hand away from the headlight controls or the horn when there’s a slow driver in my path.
And after forcing myself to slow down and just be content to follow for a bit, I’ve found that it is actually quite calming. That pressing appointment suddenly doesn’t seem so imperative, the actual time you lose amounts to just a few seconds, and the effect on your blood pressure is nothing but beneficial.
But for those who haven’t yet tried (hey, I’ll slip some day, I know) to make the change, here are some things to keep in mind.
1. Slow down, for your own sake. As naturalist Robert Winkler noted in his 2005 New York Times essay “The flicker fusion factor”, our perceptual abilities are just not good enough to allow us to react in time when we’re travelling at high speed.
We think we’re free as a bird once we’re behind the wheel but the way we process information at speed is far inferior to our feathered friends’ ability – and even they go splat against an obstacle now and then.
This is just how our brains are wired; and while a small percentage of us may have sufficiently fast reflexes to react, the vast majority of us really were never meant to go over 30 miles an hour.
As Winkler wrote: “The power we feel when we get into a car or an SUV is illusory. When we become motorists, we actually get weaker. We leave our natural bipedal realm for ? one in which we are out of control. Our self-absorption prevents us from accepting our limitations, though every day we see the consequences in untold deaths ?.”
(Read the full article at http://pages.cthome.net/rwinkler/fff.htm)
2. Leave early for your appointments so you aren’t always in a bloody hurry.
3. Bear in mind that the driver in front of you has just as much right to be on the road as you. If you really can’t stand it, just unleash some choice expletives, but keep it within your own vehicle – no splendid gestures, please.
4. Spare a thought that the other driver may be experiencing some difficulty or confusion.
5. Your large car does not make you superior, especially if you’re over-compensating.
6. Your small car does not give you licence to squeeze past others in a hazardous manner, especially not on the left.
7. Find your heart song (penguins optional) and stick in a CD or tape that calms you. Gangsta rap, Kenny G and anything with an ah beng base line are strict no-no’s. OK, so maybe Kenny is acceptable. To some.
8. Remember your children and the effect your tirade is having on their mindset. Think of the recent public service message on TV about the impatient father who embarrassed his daughter by harassing her friend’s parents on the road.
9. That mental health check-up you’ve been putting off for years? Go for it.
10. If all else fails to get you thinking, consider that the driver in front is your father or mother (or if they’re younger, your spouse or sibling) and consider how you would feel if someone treated them the way you treat others.
And if all this fails, and you really must flash something, go put on a raincoat and hang around outside a playground. At least that way, we’ll get you off the streets for a few years.
But rather than overcrowd our prisons, it would be so much simpler if all of us decided, today, to just let someone get in our way.
Davin Arul, vice-president of the I.Star Division, puts on the Ghostbusters soundtrack when he’s driving while stressed out, since it’s infectiously happy without being sappy.
Thursday, February 8, 2007
"Do I look pan asian?"
I am reading through the post "Do I look pan asian?" in one of our friend http://sloone.wordpress.com/.
You and I would agree that discrimination is rampant everywhere in this world. Even in our own family that discrimination occurs. And here we are doing our level best to discourage this act of discrimination.
Now, once again, the issue of discrimination has become the word of mouth for everyone. This time, it is against Pan-Asian.
The same question I'll ask here "why are they penalised for their looks?" "What is the real Malaysian look?"
You and I would agree that discrimination is rampant everywhere in this world. Even in our own family that discrimination occurs. And here we are doing our level best to discourage this act of discrimination.
Now, once again, the issue of discrimination has become the word of mouth for everyone. This time, it is against Pan-Asian.
The same question I'll ask here "why are they penalised for their looks?" "What is the real Malaysian look?"
CNY Mood
8th Feb 07
It’s that time of the year when everybody is busy preparing for the Chinese New Year (CNY) celebrations. The mood is everywhere. You can see it either in the mall, on the road or even in a coffee shop.
Soon the day will come where those celebrating CNY will be giving out little red packets (Ang Pow) as this is the practice from our ancestral time. The joy of spring cleaning, dressing up in beautiful clothes/dresses and visiting friends and relatives. These especially do for children. They will be dressed up beautifully and getting Ang Pow from relatives, and there are “fire crackers”.
I remember the time when I was little when firecrackers are still not a banned product. Brothers, sisters, friends and parents will gather outside of their houses to light up firecrackers. “Bang!!” “Boom!!” “Veeee... Bang!!” “Pop.. Pop.. Pop”
These can hardly be heard nowadays when the ban by our government, though occasional “Bang” from someone who sneakily ‘burn’ one from their ‘old stocks’.
It is definitely different with the lack of the lights, sound and excitement of the olden days.
It’s that time of the year when everybody is busy preparing for the Chinese New Year (CNY) celebrations. The mood is everywhere. You can see it either in the mall, on the road or even in a coffee shop.
Soon the day will come where those celebrating CNY will be giving out little red packets (Ang Pow) as this is the practice from our ancestral time. The joy of spring cleaning, dressing up in beautiful clothes/dresses and visiting friends and relatives. These especially do for children. They will be dressed up beautifully and getting Ang Pow from relatives, and there are “fire crackers”.
I remember the time when I was little when firecrackers are still not a banned product. Brothers, sisters, friends and parents will gather outside of their houses to light up firecrackers. “Bang!!” “Boom!!” “Veeee... Bang!!” “Pop.. Pop.. Pop”
These can hardly be heard nowadays when the ban by our government, though occasional “Bang” from someone who sneakily ‘burn’ one from their ‘old stocks’.
It is definitely different with the lack of the lights, sound and excitement of the olden days.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
About Me
Hi,
I am Daniel. I had not come to the blog-world before. But a coincident stumbling into one of the bloggers in Malaysia-Today that has sparked my interests in knowing more about this new territory.
Actually, honestly speaking, it's pretty hard to write about myself, though. Let's you try it and you will agree with me (here, I am saying on behalf of most of the people out there)
Here I am. Borned in country that I love very much. The people, places, cultures, food, etc. What else can I say.
So, now that I have created a blog of my own, as I like to write and also like to have my 'creation' published for my respected readers to read, and leave their valuable comments either they stand by my writing or oppose to it.
Don't you have a wrong perception that I am a 'pro' government a**-h*** that is trying his luck convincing everybody that the government is good (as seen in my 1st work 'Malaysian Unite'). I am not.
I will write what I think is right. That is a blogger's right to express his/her thoughts.
As a result of the recent famous bloggers' lawsuits, this has sprout my interest.
I will write anything, from the smallest negligible point to the major issues. From your household squabbles to politics, from baby-sitting to government policies. Rest assured. No favouritism will be practised here.
Leave me comments and your thoughts here, and we can share.
I am Daniel. I had not come to the blog-world before. But a coincident stumbling into one of the bloggers in Malaysia-Today that has sparked my interests in knowing more about this new territory.
Actually, honestly speaking, it's pretty hard to write about myself, though. Let's you try it and you will agree with me (here, I am saying on behalf of most of the people out there)
Here I am. Borned in country that I love very much. The people, places, cultures, food, etc. What else can I say.
So, now that I have created a blog of my own, as I like to write and also like to have my 'creation' published for my respected readers to read, and leave their valuable comments either they stand by my writing or oppose to it.
Don't you have a wrong perception that I am a 'pro' government a**-h*** that is trying his luck convincing everybody that the government is good (as seen in my 1st work 'Malaysian Unite'). I am not.
I will write what I think is right. That is a blogger's right to express his/her thoughts.
As a result of the recent famous bloggers' lawsuits, this has sprout my interest.
I will write anything, from the smallest negligible point to the major issues. From your household squabbles to politics, from baby-sitting to government policies. Rest assured. No favouritism will be practised here.
Leave me comments and your thoughts here, and we can share.
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