tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26175395496071947992024-03-13T06:03:35.565-07:00.: This is our yard :.An insignificant blog from an insignificant person that is trying to make a SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-1780001605899917392009-08-20T16:35:00.000-07:002009-08-20T17:23:04.145-07:001 Malaysia1Malaysia! 1Malaysia! 1Malaysia! ... the first question... What does 1Malaysia means? 1Malaysia means that everyone are united as ONE and move forward as ONE towards ONE goal. 1Malaysia means we are all ONE not only as a race but as a human being. 1Malaysia is where we Malaysia stand together putting aside all differences and move forward towards being one of the most top nation..... but are we there? is it working??<br /><br />Lets just do a SWOT analysis of our beloved nation. What is SWOT analysis? SWOT analysis means analyze the S.trength, W.eakness, O.pportunity and T.hreat of a certain thing. So lets get back to the analysis.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Strength</span> - our country are blessed with so many natural resources and we are blessed that we dont have really really bad natural disaster such as hurricane, earthquake or volcano. The peninsula itself is very much safe in its nest which comprises of Sumatera of Indonesia, and of course the Phillipines islands. This two nation blocks the wind from wrecking us. Malaysia lies just nice in the middle of the plate where we are safe from earthquake and volcano. One more thing is that Malaysia is also rich in culture, we are so diversified that we can really claim that we are all of asia into one. Singapore can claim that too but have you tasted their food??!!! Malaysian is so blessed with good food. Honestly you can never find another country so diversed in food that really really sparks our taste buds. We Malaysians are also blessed with communication skills. We are well marinated with cultures that if we are a meat it will taste damn bloody good.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Weakness</span> - It is with this diversity the people start to diffenciate themselves. Condemming each other and fighting amongst brothers. The leaders of the nation and the houses (parents, grandparents) potrays this in their comments. On the front they present the unity case but off the record they are one of the most racist people. And sometimes their comments just not only cause disharmony but cause cracks between races or groups. One more weakness is that we are all to obsessed with power that everyone is killing each other just to get on top or just to... 'cover' their crimes...<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Opportunity</span> - Our country have many oppportunities coming our way. Alot of leaders from other nation sometimes envy our diversity and how we can live together. It is that diverse crowd that makes the nations citizen so well sought off. We are blessed with the power of adapting and knowledge. We can actually be a country that is so rich in knowledge and so rich in culture. Other countries can just sit and watch us in envy.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >Threat</span> - All of our good leaders as the ones I said in the Opportunity segment is being dig by other countries or moved to other country. Giving all our best talents, skills and knowledge to other nations. This could be because of the problems that we are facing within the country. Leaders are too greedy, systems that is not well planned, cronyism, power crazy and corruption that cause all this people to seek better and more fair opportunity else where. Places where race or cronyism is not practiced. Places where skills are acknowledged and not the skin tone.<br /><br />So what is 1Malaysia again? its just a dream. Every Malaysian dreams of being one BUT not applying it to their daily life. I also realised those 'uncles' , 'ah peks' and 'pakciks' sitting at the coffee shops or mamak stalls. Have you listened to their conversation ar?! some condemn the country so bad. They condemn about the education system la, the government la, the shopping centers la and almost everything the sun shines on. Sometimes I just want to say... if you hate the country so much... <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">LEAVE</span>! or... <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT</span>! not complaining to another <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">USELESS </span>uncle that also <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">WONT MAKE A DIFFERENCE! </span><br /><br />If we all want to practice the 1Malaysia campaign we should first abolish one thing.... RACE! What my cousin told me that day really hit the mark perfectly... "Chinese is people from China, Indians is people from India... you dont see Taiwan people call themselves Chinese! they call themselves Taiwanese.... So we all in Malaysia should be called Malaysians!". What he said is true! we are born and bred here, we live here, we eat the food here and we pledge to the national flag and crest. Are we all not Malaysians? we speak the same language. If you look closely our culture are actually intermingled! there is no more pure chinese style, pure malay style or pure indian style! The things Chinese do here and other place is different. The things Malay do some are taken from Chinese and Indians and some even from the British and Portugese. Indians also! Somehow our culture have rub off each other. Try asking the Malays here to go live in Indonesia... they wont be comfortable, try asking a chinese fella to go live in China... they cannot really live there too... try asking a Indian fella to go to Sri Lanka or India... they cant.... for long! There is no place like home! and in Malaysia is MY home!<br /><br />I bleed Malaysia, I have Malaysia etched in my heart, I have Malaysia saved all over my brain!<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">SELAMAT</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">MENYAMBUT</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HARI</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">MERDEKA</span> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">K</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">E</span> <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">5</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">2</span>!<br /><br />MALAYSIA GEMILANG!<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">If you want change, First you have to change yourself!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It is not what the country can do for you but what you can do for your country!</span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-71517734303177053782009-06-07T19:36:00.001-07:002009-06-07T19:45:01.704-07:00Work work work...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/Six6vr7k3tI/AAAAAAAAACE/myl4-Jo6w9k/s1600-h/teamwork.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 215px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/Six6vr7k3tI/AAAAAAAAACE/myl4-Jo6w9k/s320/teamwork.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344781817446981330" border="0" /></a><br />I am pretty sure that everyone will face this sometime in their career or whole of their career. The feeling that you are not being looked after by the management or organisation. I have to say that due to circumstances they have hundred and one excuses and perhaps the almost perfect tai chi skills.<br /><br />Well this is what I am facing now. I love my job and the people in it.... but not the management. Its just too complicated and too much politicking. There are too many factions in the company that sometimes you dont know who is friend or who is the foe. I talked to the HR dept and they say that this is normal. NORMAL?!!! I would really say what the fuck?! There should not even be any politicking or mismanagement! they can even add one more line... "I've seen worse politics" ... my reply.... WOW! this world is full of crap! How in the hell did they get up there in the first place?! The style of the company I'm in is exactly like our own country. No body likes the management but they are still there! Due to... POLITICS! boot shining, ass licking and best of all cock sucking! Spits or swallow anyone? want me to cradle your balls?<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder for some people the higher they get the smaller their balls get. Really, they are so scared of the position they start to get paranoid about almost everything! In front they may seem like a wise and tough prick but behind they are panicking and sometimes their action started to show when ever there is a threat within. Using things so unruly and so horrendous that you actually think about their credibility. The paranoia and the fear of being replaced. If you are good enough then you dont have worry about anything. If you dont have shit on you then you dont have to be paranoid.<br /><br />So I've come out with the best way on how to manage your own company when the time comes. I am not saying my way is the perfect 100% way but its what i think will at least help the people.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1.</span> Keep your promises! Do not give any promises when you cant uphold them! Everyone will respect a man/woman of his/her words. Even when things doesnt really goes well. At least provide some reason or explanation rather then lame excuses or blame it to some other people. That is just a cowards move.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2.</span> Listen to the plight of the workers. AT LEAST listen and consider. Some management dont even bother to listen to the grievances of their workers, thinking that their decision or judgement on certain topic is god given. Always remember you are not god. Listen to the people and the company will prosper. WHY? coz your workers are the front line, they are your blood in the body, the pumping heart, the organs that makes the whole body (company) works as one. They are the one fighting for you on the battlefield. Listen and response is the most important. Some workers might actually have a problem that caused the drop in performance and with your 'wisdom and experience' help the worker to solve the problem instead of threatening them on their performance, threatening will only make the worker more demotivated and thus a further drop in performance. A great company solves problems instead of using another problem to cover one problem.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">3.</span> Share your vision and dreams. Always let your workers know what is your vision and dream. Of course it have to be a credible and attainable dream instead of just a dream u had... Letting your people know what exactly you want will at least gel everyone's mind into one target. While sharing also make sure there is a solution and system on how to do it. Open the floor and ask everyone what do they think. Brainstorm and see what is the outcome. Coz why? the workers have their rights to voice out. Not all great minds come from someone of power. Take Lord of the Rings for example, there are so many powerful creatures, Men, Orcs, Elves, undead and the dwarfs. But the fate of middle earth lies in the hand of the most insignificant creature... the Hobbits! so everyone have their rights to speak their mind. A good organisation works, a greater organisation listens and works!<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">4. </span>Find a solution. If you cant think of one, then its no shame to ask around. Every problem should not be ignored. As what i mentioned in no.2 a company solves problems instead of using one more problem to cover. This is the sign of a weak leadership or management. If you are all that great, then the problem wouldnt even exist in the first place. Its no shame in asking. That is what a team or organisation does... help each other. We are like a cohesive unit. A working system... helping one another to create perfection. Solving a problem will at least make sure when a new problems arises you dont have to worry about the old ones.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">5.</span> There is no I in TEAM. If you want to emphasise on 'team' or on 'family' then do not misuse your power and authority. I always belive that position is just a name. No matter who you are we are all equals but with different responsibilities. Humans are not perfect. We are made like that. But to achieve near perfection we need each others strength combined. So even if you are the boss or the worker we are in reliance to each other. Yes we can do each others work sometimes but the reason we have people in diff post and department is because we have designated duties and responsibilities. So if you are the manager, organise and lead your people. If you are the CEO, organise and lead your people, if you are the tea lady then make sure when people needs a drink... make them one. Work as a unit and a company can prosper! Do what you have to do, if cant ask for advice and help.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/Six621OBX9I/AAAAAAAAACM/IywyZZXaM34/s1600-h/Teamwork--C10286673.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 249px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/Six621OBX9I/AAAAAAAAACM/IywyZZXaM34/s320/Teamwork--C10286673.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5344781940199350226" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">6. </span>Be transparent! That is the most important issue in the age of information. Why? the workers knows what is going on sometimes. But hiding issues from them will create a sense of uneasiness or perhaps a sense of something bad is going to happen.<br /><br />That is all I can think of at the moment. On the point-view from a lowly worker of a company this is what I can read and see.....for a organisation to be successful.zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-20386833282234824212009-04-15T03:13:00.001-07:002009-04-15T03:14:45.191-07:00Goodbye my dear dear brother! R.I.P. ODIE!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SeWzbc0HaWI/AAAAAAAAAB8/zRib6QhLvZU/s1600-h/in+memory+of+odie.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SeWzbc0HaWI/AAAAAAAAAB8/zRib6QhLvZU/s320/in+memory+of+odie.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324859418608101730" /></a><br /><br />You have come into my our life and injected so much love and laughter. The journey we walk together and the hardship we walk together will sorely be missed. I miss your dreamy eyes looking at us, I miss your soft caresses, I miss your silky beautiful fur, I miss it when you greet me with your cheerful look which washes away all my stress, I miss your scratching at our carpet and at our drive way, I miss the way you look at us with your drippy mouth after drinking water, I miss your morning call when you come into our room and lick us, I miss when you run out and wait for us at the door when you want for food, I miss when you play 'hand' just so that we can give you food, I miss when you run around my feet when i stomp them, I miss when you bark at us when we sit too long in the car just so that we come out, I miss when you steal our socks in our shoes and underwear! I miss you when you stand up on our dining table just to see is there any food you can steal! I miss you when you stand in front of my bathroom door coz u want water, I miss when you rush to the back door when we say cat even when there isnt any, I miss when we say 'who is that?' and u run to our door and see, I miss when you wag ur tail when we call your name, I miss it when you come near my hand so that I can scratch and rub your head behind your ear with that satisfied look on your face, I miss when you jump and take the 'plumber card' from the gate and rip it all apart, I miss when you bark at the postmen, I miss when you sit in front of us begging for soup with your puppy dog look, I miss when you run around the house checking all areas when we come back from a long vacation, I miss when you gave us your utmost loyal company when we want some, I miss it when you snarl and growl when you have something you like! I miss when you run and smell everyone's butt, I miss when you try to put ur head under anyone that is wearing skirt, I miss when you sit or lie beside us, I miss your fresh smell when you just bathe, most of all we miss your presence! We miss you our dear dear Odie! We love you! Rest In Peace and hope you are as happy as u are where ever you are now!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-37583321615565711032009-04-04T20:33:00.001-07:002009-04-04T20:45:17.804-07:00Titter TatterNew PM!! New PM!!! that is what we are all thinking. But will it be a New Malaysia? Do you still remember not so long ago (approx 6 months ago) that we are hearing that there will be a new PM this year... a peaceful passing on of power... glory to a certain party... When I was watching last Friday the passing of power from Tun Hj Ahmad Badawi to Datuk Seri Najib Razak. hmmmm... as I was saying the peaceful passing of power and glory to the ... opposition?! yea... I really wonder in 6 months nothing has changed. <br /><br />Is AI losing his credibility? he was so confident that he will take over. He created a buzz and an unease at the heart of Malaysians. But yet we wanted to have a change. In the past 6 months we manage to witness the lunacy of the Perak government, the Karpal Singh issue at the parliament and the comedic UMNO meeting. But what change did we see? a new PM, worrying thoughts for Perak-ians and a comedic show in the eyes of foreigners. <br /><br />For one state that I really felt the change is the state i am in now... Selangor. Petaling Jaya. Well for now I can see potholes patched up immediately after the pop out, water bills slashed to zero and proper decorations around the area. I have to congratulate the Petaling Jaya reps... job well done... so far...<br /><br />I would also like to congratulate our New Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak! hope you can do better then your predecessor!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-40580262264878251642009-02-04T10:23:00.000-08:002009-02-04T10:48:03.340-08:00Almost one year!Its almost a year since we made a 'change' and yeah we do have a change in our country! The most significant change is... more drama on the front pages of the main news papers regarding who is crossing over, politicians rant and rambling, and of course the price of petrol! <br /><br />Well I can say that there are so many things far more important than joining the darkside or the lightside or whoever! I always believe the definition of being a politician is skewed so badly that politicians do not know the true meaning anymore. Is it for the people's interest? or is it for your party's interest? or is it for your clique's interest? or is it for your OWN interest? <br /><br />The recent breakdown of the Perak's government is showing that not everyone is really that good. There are so many issues that happened in the past one year which sounds sometimes confusing. For example, the passing over of power or the taking over or the blunders or the racial remarks. All this create more unrest amongst the 'rakyat'. <br /><br />Like I said in the past articles that what we the 'rakyat' wants is peace and harmony, better career opportunities, good food, and prosperous life! <br /><br />We as Malaysians should count our blessings instead! why? because for one is we do not have massive natural disaster like other countries. No earthquakes, no volcanoes, no hurricane and no bad drought! Our weather is almost perfect! (cooler would be better!). We are a food heaven! and we love our country! <br /><br />So why are we still having this kind of contest of who have more power? There is no a battle between good or evil here! So why cant we have a nice quiet and peaceful life?! Why cant we all live in harmony? why do we still recognize race? Why do we still fight amongst ourselves when we are all just brothers and sisters? <br /><br />One year and yet we never change... honestly...zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-64834994556972311742009-01-21T00:04:00.000-08:002009-01-21T00:14:26.048-08:00Corporations!!Alot of older people are asking <span style="font-style: italic;">"how come the new generation workers keep on changing job? Why cant they be loyal to their employers like us? "</span> Well I think I have found out why? Well during the 70s and the 80s our country are growing rapidly. There are many small or medium companies owned solely by one or two person. This bosses are brought up by the old school asian businessman style where they take care of the welfare of their workers. They may be fierce but they know how to treat their workers right. Put it in simple terms, they show appreciation and loyalty to their workers. But not now, all this company have grew up to be big corporations and the western way of employment where you are the worker and we pay you only style comes in. Too many people tend to take power and the hierachy becomes complicated. With this the workers dont know whether to be loyal to who. Their immediate manager? or their boss that never even know them at all?<br /><br />This is the reason why... the younger generation also been influenced by the western way of thinking where performance and numbers are the main topic. Without even seeing the real scenario anymore. The bosses never come down and get on the field with their workers anymore. The feel of family is not there anymore just the feel of boss and worker, master and slave. No wonder there isnt any loyalty anymore!<br /><br />I as a young worker, speaks on behalf!!! "all we want is some appreciation and some acknowledgement in our work! " if we do wrong... teach us and not strangle us and threaten to fire us! that is not family... and that is not loyalty!!!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-69660278962259094702009-01-21T00:02:00.000-08:002009-01-21T00:03:31.288-08:00Hoping for the hopelessThere was a jobfair/careerfair/a fair that fresh grads put their hopes and dreams on last weekend. My company opened a booth there for 1. publicity and 2. hoping to recruit some 'potentials'. Do you still remember that recent years there is always this issue where the unemployment rate is so damn high among fresh grads in Malaysia? Well, after this 'fair' i have come to realise why...<br /><br />So let me begin my barage of views and suggestions for the young hopefuls out there. This is what i noticed during the whole 3 days of the fair.<br /><br />1. YOU KNOW that you are coming for a jobfair and YOU KNOW that there will be interviews or viewing from your future potential employers, yet you wear... CASUAL! Worse off is that for guys your HAIR is unkept and you are not clean shaven. For girls, you come as if you just 'happen' to drop by from your shopping spree. Hair all one kind, make up like you are going for some punk rock concert. That is already a BIG NO-NO when it comes to first impression. It shows that you are not ready, a sloppy person and a person that is not serious for the task. If we were to hire you the image of the company will be spoiled. We will have to keep reminding you that your clothes need to be ironed or washed. We have to inform you to cut your hair etc etc.<br /><br />2. ATTITUDE!!<br /><br />a) There were a handful... wait i take that back. I would say half of the candidates that approaches our booth thinks that this is some sort of funfair or some food fair booth where u can come and laugh and play. There were so many of them that came to our booth thinking of dropping their resume or CV. When we ask them to fill in a form they took the form and laugh, play, joke and not even take it seriously to answer the questions. There was this group that came and took the form and took their own sweet time to answer. And the best part is i saw them sitting nearby joking and playing among each other... HELLO... you are applying for a job le! not filling in some contest form!!!<br /><br />b) There are some that come to the booth as if they are god sent to save our company. Just because you 'formerly' worked in a BIG corporation that doesnt meant that you are much greater then the people you are applying your job at! Coming here all gaya and all, telling us you work for this big company before bla bla bla yada yada yada... If you are that great how come you are still not working there??!!! and stop using big names to throw on us.<br /><br />my verdict... attitude reflects your character. Imagine would i want to hire someone who dont even take things seriously and instead take your own sweet time and play around? What if i gave you an important task? die la! Arrogance... if you are so arrogant then if you would have come into our company and instead question the management and your co workers on every single thing. Teamwork will be diminished. And your ability is in doubt coz if you are really that good then how come you are applying a new job at a smaller company rather then your BIG company? maybe you are just not that good after all... Being HUMBLE gets you places. WHY? coz you want a job!<br /><br />3) Alertness, well when i ask the applicant to fill in the forms, there were several very basic questions being asked. Simple and direct. Such as the name of the company, what do we do etc etc... well for one they cant even answer the first question... the name of the company!!! all just blindly apply coz they see us as a media company and 'glamour' hits their head instantly!!! Without even seeing properly or reading properly... they apply. Making them look silly. For me i think that you are not up to the task. Coz no.1 you are not alert at all! Half the answer is already on the question paper itself and yet they can ask around... sigh. My verdict... you have to be sharp and alert during this events. Read, see and think properly before you apply. Dun apply just because you see it as a glamour job...<br /><br />4) Knowing your ability before you step into something... Some actually come to our booth and ask for positions such as DJ and Broadcaster when you know you cant even speak smoothly. Some is so confident they are willing to do anything... Now i know why there are so many people every year applying for american idol... Wanting to get famous! there was this guy that came straight to us and started blurting out how he wants to get a job as a speaker coz he loves to talk and talk... bursting to us telling his 'skills' and 'talent'. And when ask him to fill in the form... he have the guts to ask us... What is the name of your company? That is already a big turn off! My verdict... if you dont have such a big head, dont wear such a big hat! think before you act!<br /><br />5) One of the irritating thing is alot of them never bring their resume with them. All also say can i give you the soft copy? can i send it to you? its always better to bring a hard copy of any documentation... is it that hard to bring 10-20 copy of your resume? And some are trying so hard to impress they actually attach all their certificate along with their resume! wow... thick as a book!! haha. Just the top 3 certs is good enough coz in your resume itself tells your other activities... but its ok coz its better to be safe then sorry. My verdict! always be prepared! bring hard copy documentations just incase!!!<br /><br />6) Some people actually came to the booth while eating some snacks and ask if they can apply! Mamee to be exact. Bad no no again! you come here with your breath and hands smelling like dry hard noodle crackers with flavouring and filling in forms... another bad first impression. What if we hire you and we need to meet a client? I already have a bad impression on our country's immigration dept when the officer that stamps my passport is eating some oily chilli thingy and took my passport and stamp!!! my pass port can see the oil prints on the cover! That is a definate BIG NO NO!!! unprofessional!! time to eat plz go to the canteen to eat! and time to work please WORK!!! my verdict has been said!!!<br /><br />Well now i know why there are so many unemployed fresh grad out there! i didnt want to admit when i read it... but with what i come through and what I noticed with my own eyes! there is a huge hole that needs to be mend and improved. I am also happy to see there are also quite a number of people with really good attitude that came and apply! Not to left them aside! just that with all the 6 problems i state above... it is what i noticed! so freshies! BUCK up or get F*CKed up!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-48727395826486028582008-12-10T19:31:00.000-08:002008-12-10T20:22:21.773-08:00Malaysians!Racial unity in our country? Who are we kidding? We are united in arms but not united in heart. As long as there is a special privileges then there is no balance. When there is no balance there is no unity.<br /><br />Well recently i stumble upon an article that stated that we need to implement a 'special' subject to teach about racial unity in schools. Bullshit... so when did the pendidikan moral went down the drain? well since its already damn bloody hard to pass the freaking paper. Now they want the kids to study about racial unity? what are we going to teach them? We must respect other race. We must learn to love other race... We know what to do... but that doesnt mean we will do it. Tell me how many things we learn in school is implemented in real life now?<br /><br />For me the way to totally imply racial unity amongst Malaysians wont need to be in the books. It have to be cultivated in the mind. The house... especially the parents and the teachers and the leaders. Simply dont acknowledge races in the country. Do not even bring up an issue about race. Malay, chinese, indian... why cant we just be labelled as Malaysians? We do have different names so what?!<br /><br />If we want to segregate races might as well we go along with the dialect and origin factor. Why? Because in one race itself is already divided into so many segments, the indons, the Kelantanese, the sheikhs, the Kadazans, the Ibans, the Hokkien, the Hakka, the Teochews, the Bhramins, the ceylonese, the Singhalese, the Malayalams, the sikhs, the sakais, the babas, the portugese, the chindians etc etc etc... just look at this... there is so many segregration but how come they still stay together? because we are one... No matter how dark or how light our skin are, or how strange or how weird our customs and religions are, end of the day all of us still bleed the same colour, we still have to earn a living, nothing special about that.<br /><br />So why do we need races again?<br /><br />abolish race and start as one race, the Malaysians!!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-68038808908675518382008-11-02T17:58:00.001-08:002008-11-05T17:21:36.027-08:00US Dollar going to collapse?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SQ5a5qhm8UI/AAAAAAAAABk/Evn92ATiMDw/s1600-h/amero1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 225px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SQ5a5qhm8UI/AAAAAAAAABk/Evn92ATiMDw/s320/amero1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264244961156985154" border="0" /></a><br />Recently I have read an article from Hal Turner, host of one of the most controversial radio show in New York, USA until it was shut down under pressure for its contents. Well now he has came up with a blog where you can read <a href="http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/">here</a>. He recently wrote a spine chilling information about the US dollar.<br /><br />I would like to quote from <a href="http://iamamalaysian.wordpress.com/">ewoon</a>'s blog <span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br />"He is, if you like, the equivalent of our Matthias Chang who is no bigot unlike Hal himself. The only probable common trait both share is their passion for deciphering future events that are overwhelmingly negative and life-affecting. And for their honest efforts both have similarly suffered the reputation of being often called “mad man and harbinger of bad news.”<br /><br /></span>It is believed in speculation that the North American region has came up to something that can protect the country by adopting what Euro is doing by creating a new currency called the Amero (as seen in the picture above). This is to replace the US dollar IF it collapses. Do not think that the event that is about to happen to the US Dollar will not only us. The world's economy is running with it. When one goes down... a chain reaction of things will happen. We will be affected! Being ignorant means killing ourselves. This might or might not be true but the chilling fact behind the article posted by Hal send shivers to my spine. The fact that what followed after the collapse starts to look like the movie Doomsday or V for Vendetta.<br /><br />Gonna take a quote from <a href="http://halturnershow.blogspot.com/2008/10/confirmed-us-govt-will-collapse-before.html">Hal's article</a> of this<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">"When this collapse happens because the government is totally broke, the welfare checks will stop. Almost immediately thereafter, civil unrest will erupt and we know who will be doing that. . . . don't we?</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">Now you know why Barak Obama is being pushed so hard for President. The powers-that-be know what's coming and they want a black man in the White House with the hope he can control "his" people. It won't work. They'll just call him an Uncle Tom or an OREO cookie and then go on their merry way to rape, rob, pillage, burn and kill.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">In fact, to prove I'm right about the Obama situation, check out what VP candidate Senator Joe Biden said this past weekend. Biden 'guaranteed" that Barak Obama </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/biden-to-suppor.html"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"will be tested by an international crisis within his first six months in power</span></a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and he will need supporters to stand by him as he makes </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">tough, and possibly unpopular, decisions</span><span style="font-style: italic;">." Telling us all that we're going to lose 90% of the value of our life savings sure will be unpopular.</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">I wonder if the Secret Service agents who lose their life savings too, will bother protecting Obama from assassination; or might they kill him themselves? After all, the Zapruder film proves the secret service agent driving John F. Kennedy in Dallas, turned around and shot him in the head. That's why his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, tried climbing out of the back of the limo after it happened! She saw who shot her husband. It happened once, it can happen again!"<br /><br /></span>So what is exactly gonna happen? god knows! Are we gonna listen to this paranoid white supremacist? or are we going to ignore everything? All I know is that we are going to see many interesting things happening in months to come. 2009 wont be a smooth one... <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/02BClhkMrlE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/02BClhkMrlE&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></span></span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-40502041013602867152008-10-23T19:02:00.000-07:002008-10-23T20:05:43.840-07:00Finding our rootsIts true a nation is indeed and in need to evolve and move forward. But what ever we've done we have altered and skewed our vision as a nation when we first started.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Akan kekal menjadi sebuah negara demokrasi, yang merdeka dan yang berdaulat serta mendasarkan kebebasan dan keadilan dan mengkekalkan keamanan di antara bangsa"</span><br /><br />Which translates...<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It is said that we will be a democratic country which is independent with sovereignty. Also based on freedom and justice to maintain peace among races. </span><br /><br />So what are we doing??? Fighting among races? we may have different skin tone but we are from the same family. What is with the grudge? what is with all this hatred? we need to wipe it off our mind. Teachers, parents and most of all... our LEADERS! Remember why our forefathers fought so damn f*cking hard to get our freedom. What we have today, what we eat today, where we stay today is fought so hard by our forefathers and we do not have the rights to dismantle the country they build.<br /><br />51 years... 51 freaking years we live together... why our leaders live together? I really hope we can walk together hand in hand as Malaysians to build on what our forefathers fought for and prove to the world that we <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Malaysians </span>no matter what drama our leaders are in will stand hand in hand united and harmoniously!<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/0w38W63L-yg&hl=en&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/0w38W63L-yg&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-23677319604128686042008-10-23T18:42:00.000-07:002008-10-23T18:58:12.197-07:00LETS MAKE THIS DREAM TRUE IN MALAYSIA!Where is the justice? Where is the freedom? The famous "I have a dream" speech by Martin Luther King. This is the moment our country needs. No difference in race, religion and people. We are one. We can take this historic speech to apply to our country too.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I refuse to believe the Bank of Justice is bankrupt"</span><br /><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /><br /><p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom. </span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">We cannot walk alone.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">We cannot turn back.</span></p> <span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by a sign stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."<br /></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><br />I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed. </span> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."</span></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;" align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.</span></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);" align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. </span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a <em>dream</em> today!</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that one day, <em style="font-style: normal;">d</em><span style="font-style: normal;"><em style="font-style: normal;">o</em></span>wn in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a <em>dream</em> today!</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:</span></p> <blockquote style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="left"> <span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic;">From every mountainside, let freedom ring! </span></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.</span></p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.</span> <blockquote> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania. </span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.</span></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">But not only that:</span></p> <blockquote> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">From every mountainside, let freedom ring.</span></p> </blockquote> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;">And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when <em>all</em> of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:</span></p> <p align="left"><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"> <i style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Free at last! Free at last!</i></span></p> <span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"><i style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Thank </i><em style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">God</em><i><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> Almighty, we are free at last!</span>"</i></span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-11417988784421043472008-10-19T18:05:00.000-07:002008-10-19T18:34:29.628-07:00A little of this and a little of thatHow can this happen? the fuel price dropped twice and yet nothing dropped? Well its not surprising that the price of consumer goods or foods have just stopped. Just up up up no down down down. The petrol price raise 10sen per liter their food raise 10sen per plate! incredible! So now I really wonder should I venture into my own business and start selling things with extravagant prices. Sad to see this. Really.<br /><br />The cost of living in KL is just so high. How can a cup of normal coffee cost RM1.50? madness!! No wonder the mamak stalls are now sprouting all over KL. You dont see lots of mamak at other town besides KL or Penang. Why? coz ppl there wont be willing to pay crazy price for something that is not worth it. They rather go home and make one cuppa for less than half the price! The last time i had a cup of really cheap drink was 2 years ago at PJ Old Town near Jalan Penchala. One cup of 'Teh o ais' and one cup of 'teh tarik' cost me the total of... ONE cup of teh tarik at the more commercialised MAMAK. But since the government build a proper stall for them and provide them with a FIX electricity the price started to chase the others. Now one cup of 'Teh o ais' is RM1.20. In some kopi tiam, a cup of warm/ice water cost 50sen!!! wahlao eh! 50sen for warm water. They sell 3 cups already manage to cover to cost of the whole container of water. Imagine how much water is there in there. Just have to sell all of that cups of water they can generate 3-4 times the cost of it. Sometimes i wonder is the ice water even cooked?!!<br /><br />Some prices of food is even more ridiculous! Normal fried rice is RM4.00. and to add a fried egg it cost an extra Rm1.50!! WTF? so expensive ar the egg? the cooking oil also use recycled cooking oil!!Madness. The food quality is not even good. Honestly, the quality is inconsistent. For one moment its too salty, then one moment too oily and sometimes... its just too crappy!<br /><br />There was once I had a meal with a close friend of mine, he ordered a maggi goreng. Guess what he found in his maggi goreng? a ripped section of the flavouring packet. We told them the situation and ask the person in charge to meet us, he was like so reluctant and didnt even know how to handle the case! The only thing he said is, he wont charge us for the price. The fella that cooked the food dont even dare to come out and instead gave the look of dissatisfaction! You did a mistake and gotten angry??! We warned them but yet the service still sucks and the food... lets just not go there. Thank god I dont eat there anymore!<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder should I start boycotting some of this crappy service Kopi Tiams and Mamak stalls or not. Charges extravagant prices and dont even have the slight courtesy to give at least a decent service! They kept on forgetting that there are so many other Kopi tiams and mamak stalls. U might offend one client but the chain reaction will eventually kill your business for sure! one by one... slowly all will leave.<br /><br />So lets drift back to the fuel situation. I am glad that the price has dropped. At least now I can save an extra bit more of money. Just that I really hope that all this consumer goods and foods will be kind enough to look into this and drop the price! I know its going to be tough as before this most people's pay was raised and the transportation cost was raised and the rental was raised so on and so forth. But something have to be done. I hope something will be done!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-92161870005513664892008-10-13T02:29:00.000-07:002008-10-13T02:42:56.706-07:00nothing better to doWatching the country's political scene is like walking in the mud. Can see the destination but its a bitch getting there. Honestly it is almost to the extend most of us just couldn't care anymore.<br /><br />Its like a soap opera... becoming stale and boring after a while. The hype and energy that we saw before the election and right after the election has died down. Just one or two interesting episode but right before we reach the climax it was ended like a typical harry potter movie. How disappointing.<br /><br />With the current economic avalanche going on around the world. We really are more concerned on keeping our jobs rather then focusing on the bishi and bashis of our government. We got our own rice bowl to take care. So its time the government, opposition or ruling please help your people. Put aside things that dont even matter and think of how can we help and hold our country together!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-25248672527689162242008-09-21T20:23:00.000-07:002008-09-23T04:15:58.032-07:00Radio24 speaking for who now?Recently there was a radio station that was questioned by the government due to one topic that was stated 'sensitive' ... the article written at <a href="http://www.malaysiatoday.com/Latest-News/report-on-govt-radio-station-radio24-before-action-to-be-taken.html">Malaysia Today</a> website reporting that "Report on govt radio station, Radio24 before action to be taken" Is just ridiculous.<br /><br />The topic was stating "Which is more important, the transition of power from Pak Lah (Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi) to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak or a reduction in the fuel price?"<br /><br />Well for my opinion, its not disseminating negative matters but more of what really the PEOPLE think. Its not all bad you know. There were callers that sided the government and some sided the fuel reduction. Its a neutral topic from where I see. Its just questioning what the people wants. If you cant accept the fact then you dont belong on that sit. This is constructive criticism. Its a good thing... we can learn from it. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE FOR ONCE!<br /><br />It is stated that the radio station is under a news agency that is Government based but that does not mean the station is bound to question things that is true? Its a MALAYSIAN radio station and not the GOVERNMENT radio station.<br /><br />It also stated that this will cause young people to not respect the government... well there was a saying "Respect is earned and not forced, to get respect is to respect others first!"<br /><br />Information Minister stated "If you do not agree with government policies, don't be a government employee. Resign,"... Mind you, the radio station is privatized. The station is a subsidary of the news agency and not directly under them. The employees does not get any government benefits... So erm... which part does it stated that they are a government employee? INFORMATION minister? where you get your info from la?!<br /><br />We love our country and hoping that all will be well and not with the chaotic situation right now. It is just wrong to point the finger around when you yourself done some wrong too. Admit it... no point hiding stuffs when it is already known.<br /><br />Think of the people! THINK OF THE PEOPLE!!! THINK ABOUT MALAYSIANS!!!! and not think about yourselves!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-73805340941791084252008-09-15T18:17:00.000-07:002008-09-15T18:42:47.322-07:00UntitledNew Government, Old Government... As long as it is a good Government! Its no harm to replace the old with the new but if the old is better then the new then why change?<br /><br />Not in this case, with the recent arrest of Seputeh MP, Teresa Kok, prominent blogger Raja Petra and newspaper reporter Tan Hoon Cheng, where they were all placed under ISA for National Security threat... WHAT??!! All Teresa said was just to tune down slightly the mosque prayer... what threat is that? All Tan Hoon Cheng did was report the thruth, isn't that what reporters are suppose to do? National Threat? Then what about former Bkt Bendera Chief Ahmad Ismail? Didnt his 'nice, slow and unthreatening' remark spark a massive National Threat? and where is he? He was able to make another 'smart' remark and not even being brought in under ISA. Instead he is just stripped of his power and allowed to walk and lay low... FANTASTICO!!<br /><br />I do not want to see so many problems in our beloved Malaysia but why oh why are our leaders not doing anything? is it because of stubborness? massive ego the size of Jupiter? or just plain sore losers? In a competition there is alway winning and losing and IF you wanna win, win with pride and honour. IF wanna lose, lose with GRACE! accept the facts and access the problem and mistakes that caused your loss. Not trying to disrupt the winners and whine like a wuss. That is just plain punch below the belt. Giving 'smart' remarks, diverting attention or blaming foul play and hope to win the heart of the people will not work anymore.<br /><br />We are in the age of information already la brothers ad sisters... we the people are smarter now, MSC status already. We know how to read la wei! Dont threat us like some dungus ok. We already know what is right and what is wrong now.<br /><br />What we need to do now is to learn how to improve ourselves as a whole and move forward as a unified nation. One voice, one race, one nation. Lets make the 'Malaysia Gemilang', the 'Keranamu Malaysia" and the 'Malaysia Boleh' back to its glorious state!<br /><br />Say it loudly and proudly "WE ARE MALAYSIANS, UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL, YOU CAN BRING DOWN ONE MALAYSIAN BUT YOU CANT BRING DOWN ALL" (taken and altered from Tupac's line)zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-75239301046079225302008-08-27T23:06:00.000-07:002008-08-27T23:23:30.781-07:00WHAT THE F**K IS WRONG WITH OUR COUNTRY?!What the F**K is wrong with us??!! I just don't understand the nature of all this fighting amongst ourselves! What are all the leaders doing? Fighting around like small kids. BALIK la you all! You all don't deserve to lead us! the PEOPLE are just tired of all this ruckus! I AM TIRED of all this ruckus. OUR country started off as a unified nation of multi races and now? We are still a nation but not a unified one anymore. The SHELL or the 'what we think the world sees us' as a unified nation.<br /><br />We are just gonna blow up and we are just a ticking time bomb! What is with all this races bullsh*t?! I am born and bred in this country and I am one with this country! Go home? Where is home? MY HOME IS MALAYSIA and not anywhere else! What the F*ck are you leaders doing? If you wanna fight take it outside and not drag is RAKYAT in with all your bullsh*t!<br /><br />I never once say that I am of a specific race, I always claim myself as a Malaysian. I speak the manglish, I eat the local food. I LOVE my Jalur Gemilang. I even have one in my car on my dashboard! I watch my local football team Selangor play! I would die for my country and no where else! I have etch the name Malaysian in my heart and mind! HOW AM I NOT MALAYSIAN ENOUGH? F*CK YOU ALL!!! I am just so so so tired of this f*cked up situation!<br /><br />I want a leader to listen and speak like a professional and lead us by example and not speak like a twat and show us the dark and ugly side of you. THINK BEFORE YOU SPEAK YOU DIMWEED!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-83740816215689985462008-08-09T09:51:00.000-07:002008-08-09T10:00:04.366-07:00RIP Bernie Mac<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SJ3Lm1ypxeI/AAAAAAAAABY/t9EgRSv22Ds/s1600-h/bernie-mac_bernie-mac__tickets_310218.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SJ3Lm1ypxeI/AAAAAAAAABY/t9EgRSv22Ds/s320/bernie-mac_bernie-mac__tickets_310218.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232562210209383906" border="0" /></a><br />Bernie Mac<br />1957 - 2008<br /></div><br />Today one is another to mourn for the world of comedy as they lost another of their shining Star. Bernard Jeffrey McCullough better known as Bernie Mac passed away from pneumonia this morning. I am truly shocked and he is one of the best stand up comedians ever. For one thing he is respected is he never uses the N word as most of other Black comedians frequently uses during their stand up routine.<br /><br />Bernie you will be missed.<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"I had a white guy tell me... he said, "Bern, why do black folks use the word 'mother-fucker?'" Well, I'm gonna break down what the word "mother-fucker" actually means. "Mother-fucker" is somethin' that black folks have been using for years. It's about expression. Don't be ashamed of the word "mother-fucker." Because the word "mother-fucker" is a noun: it describes a person, place, or thing!"<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"</span>There's no such thing as white-collar crime. And there's definitely no such thing as black-on-black crime. Crime is crime. Let me explain something to you. I don't care if you have a white collar or a tank top. If you rob me, I'm gonna whup your ass. "</span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-51669248525945733052008-08-04T11:29:00.000-07:002008-08-04T12:03:26.263-07:00Where is the limit?Ever drive on our local highways and think how silly the speed limit rules are? by the way, have anyone actually follow the speed limit? Who does? and what makes your speedo meter so accurate?<br /><br />I have once traveled with my dad encountered a cops saying that we have exceed the speed limit of 2 km/h. We were going 82km/h on a 80km/h zone... oh geez. Like 2 more km/h will make any difference. Moreover there have been lesser or no accident on that STRAIGHT road.<br /><br />Have you even wonder where some places where the road is perfectly safe and straight have the most ridiculous speed limit, 60km/h!! and the most dangerous roads that have cliffs and bumps and curves allows you to go 90 or 110km/h??!! Kinda silly aint it. Some places they even expect you to drive at a speed limit of 25km/h! cmon! even my grandmother on bicycle goes faster then that! Who makes this rules??!! who sets this limit?<br /><br />Well our country's highest speed limit is 110km/h. Thats our main highways the PLUSes, ELITEs, and many more. Then why do we actually make cars that can hit 220km/h? why dont they just tweak the cars to go only max 110km/h just like our motorbikes? Doesnt make sense aint it? If the cars are made to go max 220km/h or more that means the govt are actually in a way encouraging people to drive faster rite? If not why make cars that can go that fast? to show off?<br /><br />Then what is the speed limit implemented for then? To avoid accidents? HEY!! heroes. Most road accidents are not from people that drive fast. You dont see any rich Dato with their SLKs or Harriers crash and die also. They drive at a almost unimaginable speed on the highways and still reach their destination safe and sound. Its usually those with Kancils or Saga's that bang on lorrys or lost control and crash into a ditch on... SMALL roads!! that causes the accidents. They should implement a intelligence limit on the road instead. Those who cant think and react to certain situation should not enter highways. Or those with a so called <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">tuned-up-crap-car-thinking-that-its-a-super-high-performance-car-but- ended -up-as-a-8th-hand-1980's-normal-model-family-sedan-car- that-is-nothing-but-a-old-family-car- with -new-spoilers, skirting-and-weird-looking-crystal-lights</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"> </span>on the road. This is the cars that should be speed limited!<br /><br />Then again, they should implement driving fast on highways as a health hazard. Just like smoking. Put a sign right after the toll that says <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"Amaran dari Kerajaan, Memandu dengan laju merbahayakan nyawa"</span> thats all!! If you are the dumb f**k that knows you got a crap car or a turtle like reaction dun drive so fast or else you will die! And if you drive fast and then ended up crashed and burned, its your fault for being careless. Then the cops or govt can say "We warned you but you are too dumb to listen!"<br /><br />Driving fast will not only harm you but the people around you? Doesnt smoking does that too? doesnt just driving the car and releasing carbon monoxide too?<br /><br />Or why not have this system where the fast lane have a min speed limit of above 100km/h only, so slow cars can you please drive on the middle lane where the max speed is 100 and min limit is 80km/h. and the slow lane is for those who drives the super long trailer that is really really slow or those that dont know the meaning of driving and enjoying the car ride. See? problem solved.<br /><br />Thats what i think. But again its just me... who would listen to me??!!zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-18584977780688590632008-08-04T11:17:00.000-07:002008-08-04T21:35:39.411-07:00Fuel price to drop?Fuel price is dropping( HOORAY!! ) by maybe 6 sens! (WTF??!!!) Oh great like 6 sens gonna really help us so much! so practically if we calculate, its gonna be like 66sen difference from the last time! oh wow! great job in reducing. Like its gonna make any significant difference in the consumers wallet. Like what? We are gonna save RM 20 -30 per year? Oh give us a break la.<br /><br />Even if the prices drop like the industry going to drop the prices. Food, products and raw materials gonna be the same price. Like they are gonna drop the price. End of the day 6 sens might be a HUGE difference in the BIG industries but to the people... its still almost the same. Its like 'Hey I am taking a huge slice of cake from you but no worries i wont take the cherries from it." What the F am I going to do with the cherry? Shove it up your A**es? Mien Gawd!<br /><br />BTW why is everyone so serious? lets put a smile on everyones face!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SJfYgQxYbEI/AAAAAAAAABQ/PDIucTqnVc0/s1600-h/IMG_5052.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SJfYgQxYbEI/AAAAAAAAABQ/PDIucTqnVc0/s320/IMG_5052.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5230887540983622722" border="0" /></a>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-33866679920055301232008-08-04T10:59:00.000-07:002008-08-04T11:17:08.089-07:00The world is crumblingHave you been watching the news lately? Something big and ugly is starting to creep out and most of us arent even noticing it yet. Yes we notice its minions but the big daddy of all is not out yet. We are all still in our honeymoon period. We still chill and spend and enjoy as if there is nothing wrong.<br /><br />Well after reading Matthias Chang's article and reading <a href="http://iamamalaysian.wordpress.com/">ewoon</a>'s blog I've come to realise that there is not only a massive economy problem looming. That is just the minions. The big daddy-o is that its not only a economy recession but a massive world economy depression one that is worse than the one in 1929. YES, its a big matter! Experts are predicting a massive and I mean massive economy depression in months to come.<br /><br />Scary? Its like watching a horror movie and when the background music softens down and we know the 'monster' or 'ghost' is gonna burst out but yet we are not prepared when its coming out. Well its all happening in the US but slowly and surely its gonna creep into our country and shock us when we least expect it!<br /><br />What should we do? Plant vegetables? stock up our rice and can food? How long is this gonna last?<br /><br />Well I guess we have to start to live like how our ancestors live. Day by day, and walk where the wind takes us. Got rice eat rice, got tapioca eat tapioca... got shit... ahhhh dammit!! shieat!!! or Perhaps we are moving back the the dark ages where we have to pillage and plunder what ever we have.<br /><br />Then lets just zoom back at the current news on our front pages. Oh wait, we are still fighting among ourselves... fantastic! just great! Our leaders are still trying to fight among each others, whereas there is a bigger problem upon our doorsteps and we are not doing anything. (Are we? I hope so) Everything seems quiet now but its like the deep breath before the plunge.<br /><br />So lets brace ourselves and hope that somehow we can survive this fall. And I really hope that IF we fall we will still be united to help country to stand up again.<br /><br />United we stand, divided we fall.zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-55299245949664825052008-07-25T01:23:00.000-07:002008-07-25T02:21:35.134-07:00Aren't we all just tiredSo many mayhem and ruckus of the Government! What is going on here? a massive political mind games going on? Each of them blowing sucker punches to one another. For all I can say is, somehow the PEOPLE are tired of this. We ask for change of management in the Government but not change of peace and harmony to massive boxing match!<br /><br />As there are so many more important things to deal with! Are we just a bunch of grown up corporate political KIDS?! Its like a game of police and thief! I tag you and now its your turn to tag me back! or perhaps just a bunch of kids get caught in a massive cat fight! Just look at the Dewan Rakyat meeting! Throwing words to each other like a bunch of sissy kids trash talking one another! I still remember I set foot at this very own Dewan Rakyat back in 2001 as a form 6 student trying to learn the political system of our very own beloved country. Honestly, I was kinda shocked at how our very own political leaders talk in the Dewan. We as a student are actually laughing at their antics. The trash talking of utter nonsense like "Apa bodoh bodoh? Ambil balik!" and followed by a few other supporters blurting out "bodoh la kamu..." Throwing this kind of words among each other. Secondary school society meeting looks more professional and matured than this!<br /><br />Just look at the media and press. The 'tai-chi-ing' of responsibilities and the word war to one and other just sickens me. I for one rather read the sports section. At least my beloved football team, Selangor FC is doing some good. If I want some comic relief I now got two sections I can read. The COMIC section and if I am really adventurous I shall try to venture into the first few pages of national news.<br /><br />One for the rakyat? This is not for the rakyat anymore ain't it? It is more of trying to gain more power and trying to sustain the power. Which is the real story already confuses the rakyat. All we want is just a <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PEACEFUL </span>and <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HARMONIOUS </span>life. We want to get on with our own life challenges and not be disrupted by all this.<br /><br />For once let us be more professional and mature and deal with the issues at hand the correct and more appropriate way. There is one Cantonese saying my dad use to remind me every time<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;">"Yhong yat pou, hoi fut theen hung, </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); font-style: italic;">Yan yat si, fung pheng wong cheng"</span><br /></div><br />it directly translated as ,<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-style: italic;">"Move back a step, the sky is clear </span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-style: italic;">Be patience and tolerate, there will be peace and quiet"</span><br /></div><br />I've been living with this saying for most of my life and therefore I barely get into trouble with my OWN FAMILY AND FRIENDS! Ain't we all Malaysians family and friends? brothers and sisters? so why fight each other? why cant we build and love this family that we have fought so hard to have in 1957? In the words of my generation <span style="color: rgb(204, 51, 204);">"CHILL LA WEI BRADER!!"<br /></span><br />Here are the 7 things we need to learn and live by it...<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1. Instead of being fault-finding, be grateful/ thankful<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2. Instead of being grudging/ jealous, be appreciative<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">3. Instead of being calculative, be forgiving<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">4. Instead of being selfish, be generous<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">5. Instead of being self-defeating, be proactive<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">6. Instead of being critical, admire and appreciate<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">7. Instead of being impulsive, be patient<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">8. Instead of procrastinating, be optimistic</span><br /><br />Well there is all I have to say for now. I really hope that this message can be reached to all my brothers and sisters in this country.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >"Malaysia, on the other hand, is a diverse and complex country that wants to be modern. It needs to be governed like one." Michael Backman </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >(Read his column </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.michaelbackman.com/M8.html">here</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" >)</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:85%;">"It depresses me that Malaysia hasn't been more successful that it has and that it is still fighting the old fights of the 1960s" Michael Backman</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><a href="http://www.michaelbackman.com/MM.html">http://www.michaelbackman.com/MM.html</a></span></span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-66902313734584188712008-07-02T11:26:00.000-07:002008-07-02T12:15:12.845-07:00RIP GEORGE CARLINMy ever favourite stand up comedian <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Carlin">George Carlin</a>... may you rest in peace. I am sure you are now up in heaven and most probably having a cup of tea with jesus and looking down at us saying "Look at those f*ckers crying for me... I didnt know I touch all this people!"<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SGvJYvP1X_I/AAAAAAAAAAU/2FWqGfwfG9o/s1600-h/bio_carlin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SGvJYvP1X_I/AAAAAAAAAAU/2FWqGfwfG9o/s320/bio_carlin.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218486020075773938" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SGvKwcFIJgI/AAAAAAAAAAc/QJ2s77r2WQk/s1600-h/carlin_memletter.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 362px; height: 364px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_x-wWf2q-zCA/SGvKwcFIJgI/AAAAAAAAAAc/QJ2s77r2WQk/s320/carlin_memletter.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218487526759081474" border="0" /></a>May 12, 1937 - June 22, 2008<br />May you rest in peace...<br /></div><p style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255); font-style: italic;">I dread the deaths of certain super-celebrities. Not because I care about them, but because of all the shit I have to endure on television when one of them dies. All those tributes and retrospectives. And the bigger the personality, the worse it is.</p> <span style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">– </span><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin"><cite style="color: rgb(51, 102, 255);">George Carlin</cite></a><br /><br /><br />to view George Carlin's jokes click <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Carlin">here</a><br /><br />photos from:<br /><a href="http://www.georgecarlin.com/">http://www.georgecarlin.com/</a><br /><br /><br />more news about George Carlin click here<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/24/arts/24carlin.html?_r=4&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin">NY times</a><br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/3PiZSFIVFiU&hl=en"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/3PiZSFIVFiU&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-78892626163302958052008-06-30T22:50:00.000-07:002008-07-02T11:25:44.491-07:00WHAT HAVE WE DONE?!Do you know that global warming is at its critical stage? Everyone realises it but no body is really taking any action to it. Most people think that its just the environment change. Its ok... Think about it... is it really ok? Studies states that we have reach the critical point to save ourselves.<br /><br />Why I say ourselves but not the world? Coz the world will live on... not us. We pollute the world the only thing that will die is not plants or the planet... its the people. We are practically killing ourselves by deforestation and industrialisation. All this is due to greed and neediness of the human kind. Petrol prices just shot up and people are still buying cars. Some have a few houses, more than one car, more clothes then they will ever wear, more food then they will ever eat or better said more shit that you can take. Why? coz we are greedy. More money more power more greed.<br /><br />The world is a better place when we are not around. The other species are not doing any much harm why? coz nature has its natural cycle of doing things. But we humans come in and start doing shits that no one expected. The rise of the global temperature raises to its highest in its history in recent years. Hence alot of 'unnatural' phenomenon such as the recent floods, droughts and of course the most obvious hurricane Katrina.<br /><br />The CO2 and Carbon monoxide and many other gases that we humans produce is ruining the ecosystem, the toxic waste has taken its toll on the water system, the mass deforestation destroying our very one life support machine that produces oxygen, the mega fishing industry killing the ocean's balance and the human waste such as plastics, Styrofoams and petroleum based products polluting the world. Why? coz of mass demands of the consumers. Globalisation has its good and bad. This is the bad side of it.<br /><br />It is in only in the last few decares that asthma and cancer became a global plague of our society. Walk into any class room in a school and ask who has asthma? Probably around 30% of the kids will raise their hands. Ask anyone how many friends or relatives they know have/had cancer? according to the <a href="http://www.thecancerblog.com/2007/03/28/one-in-three-will-get-cancer/">stats</a> one out of three people will get cancer before they die. Why? it is due to the pollution of the water we drink and the contamination of the food we eat. There are many pollution aspect that affects the air, food and water we consume. So somehow we are killing ourselves.<br /><br />The society have focused so much on keeping the economy growing, earning money to get more things and gaining land and properties, thinking all this will keep them alive... they are WRONG dead wrong. Economy does make the 'human world' goes around. It also helps keep a country going on. But have we all been blinded buy money that we forgotten that the very basic of life is from this world itself? It is to be alive... we have been so disconnected from nature that we don't even know what plants is what anymore. In recent research, it stated that humans can recognise 1000 different type of worldwide corporate logos and know less than half of the name of the plants around our living area!!!<br /><br />What we need to do now is to stand up and start changing our mindset. We need to start thinking certain things when we are doing . For example:<br /><br />1. Do I need to buy many of this or is one good enough for me?<br />2. Can this thing be re-used or recycled?<br />3. Will I be using this stuff always or is it going to be just lying there? (if lying then why buy it??!!)<br />4. I need to plant more plants.<br />5. Think of ways to use renewable energy instead of petroleum.<br />6. Make the tree your friend. Why? coz it gives us oxygen, its roots holds the soil together, its absorbs water to prevent flood, its gives us shade, it provides fertilizers to the ground with its dried leaves, gives us food, gives us wood, and it helps greens the earth!<br /><br />Well some may think that all this is very hard to do coz of the price to start it. Well think about it... alot of things started off expensive (besides petroleum!). Eventually all prices comes down as more and more people produce it. Our political leaders should start taking environmental issues really really seriously, instead of fighting each other for power and area. Meddling around who got rights and who don't... when there are more serious and issues at stake. Why can't everyone put aside all differences and why can't we Malaysians stand together and be as one by starting to show to the world we are united to fight the common enemy... not the terrorists... but the environmental issues and fight for the future wellbeing of mankind... think about it... our grand children will one day say... "Dammit! why didn't they do anything when they already knew the problem!!! bunch of f*ckers la they all, only know how to fight"<br /><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">SO PLEASE STAND WITH ME AND TOGETHER WE WORK TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT and OURSELVES NOW! NOT 20 YEARS TIME... NOT 5 YEARS TIME... </span><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">NOW!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:85%;">as in the words of </span><a href="http://www.niamah.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size:85%;">Patrick Teoh... </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:85%;" >NIAMAH!!</span> </a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:100%;">we all gonna die liao still wanna fight among ourselves!</span><br /></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"></span></span></span>Do visit this sites for more in depth articles and columns:<br /><br /><a href="http://11thhouraction.com/">the 11th hour action</a><br /><a href="http://greenbeltmovement.org/">Greenbelt movement</a><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /></span></span></span>Just like the Linkin Park video I set below<br />" What I've done, I'll face myself, to cross out what I've become, to erase myself, and let go of what I've done"<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-size:78%;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wjBZh-yRmkc&hl=en"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wjBZh-yRmkc&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object><br /></span></span></span>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-70254984647659456272008-06-04T04:11:00.000-07:002008-06-04T04:30:34.548-07:00Petrol Price Hike?As I started receiving sms-es after sms-es just moments ago saying that petrol will hike 80 sen by mid night today. All I can say is "WHAT THE F#CK???!!!". Although we expected that petrol price will hike but 80 sen? How can a normal person earning normal money paying this extravagant prices?<br /><br />Why am I so pissed and frustrated?! Well as we know the public transport system in Malaysia especially the Klang Valley are sad to say CRAP! I can see some slight improvement but thats about it. The timing still sucks. Maintenance still sucks. The bus is smelly and dusty AND sometimes it smells like exhaust are pumping out of the buses air conditioning system instead of nice clean air. That is why we still prefer to take our own transport to certain places.<br /><br />Why some country can do it and not us? It is because their country's transportation is organised or the country is cold! Take the UK for example. The subway is so darn complicated but it helps to commute their commuters to places with ease. Our country's weather is for one a killer. Walking one short distance under the sun is enough to wet a shirt.<br /><br />Why am I still so pissed and frustrated?! Well, well, well, all the other product's price will hike up too. Already the inflation in the Klang Valley is so bad. Having a normal bowl of noodles in a coffee shop at the heart of KL cost me a hefty RM 6. A cup of kopi-o small cost me RM1.20!!! Even a cup of warm water cost 60 sens! So imagine when the petrol price hikes up??!! A bowl of noodles will cost how much?? RM7??! a cup of teh tarik cost how much? RM 2??? so have now all normal mamak stalls, kopi tiams or hawker centers became cafe's or coffee houses?<br /><br />What are we going to face now? I think I am going to start riding my bicycle or perhaps take a motorbike license. Lining up in the petrol stations to pump petrols??? what for??! how much can we save? When will this madness end? sigh... gotta go... time to take a walk. long walk! All I can say is no matter how life will go on. Just that life will go on slightly harder for those earning peanuts for a living in a city of jewels.zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2617539549607194799.post-76139908880122507622008-04-27T09:54:00.000-07:002008-04-27T10:27:13.344-07:00Well, finally found this clip after a long time. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_State_%28film%29">Head of State</a> tells the story of Mays Gilliam. He is an alderman of the local Washington DC area. After being fired from his post, Mays is surprisingly chosen as the party candidate for the presidency (after his party's original presidential and vice-presidential nominees die in a plane crash; their two separate planes crashed into each other) to run against sitting vice-president Brian Lewis. Assuming the election was already lost, the party decided to pick a likable but losing minority candidate to improve their chances of another politician taking the office in the next presidential election. Little did they know, slowly by slowly this local alderman won the hearts of the people by stating and acknowledging the daily problems that people face. And instead went against what the government stand for.<br /><br />This show is really inspirational. Although its just a comedy, BUT what we can learn from this is that no matter how much the government talk one day a true PEOPLE's leader will stand up. I always believe there is still leaders with a pure and true heart out there! for this I salute you and support you all the way!<br /><br />The Clip below is from the final debate from the film... enjoy<br /><br /><object height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/igg8NYlZZJ8&hl=en"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/igg8NYlZZJ8&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="355" width="425"></embed></object>zhunxenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06847213182076388481noreply@blogger.com0