Today's Rambling

My mood of the day was lifted by a remark by my Yemeni PhD-earning neighbour who said something like this; "you look a little too young to be doing a postgraduate program, don't you think?"

and I was like,

Appearance-wise, I may LOOK a little young (merry all the way~), but I am already 22. Even so, not many people can boast that they'll be earning their Masters degree by the time they reach 23 though. Not that it really matters to many, but it matters to me - I take it as my own personal accomplishment and I am proud of it.

On Joseph Kony

Anyway, talking about some worldly issues that have been going on these days, I've seen quite a lot of people rambling online about Joseph Kony. One month ago my friends and acquaintances (and me too) were completely oblivious about Uganda. And not until recently my Facebook wall was being bombarded with a flux of commentaries on Joseph Kony. Figuring out the sudden flux of said commentaries isn't really a mind-sweeping task. Everybody wants to show to somebody that they care in Facebook. So tell me, what do you really do in support of Kony 2012 outside of Facebook? After 20 years of being a tyrant in a country where the location is unknown to most people, why now? Then, I found this;

and after that I did a little bit of reading from a non-mainstream media of course. I am not that kind of person who will just accept what the international or the local mainstream media has to offer.
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"Joseph Kony, not heard since 2006, no one cares. Then oil found in Northern Uganda, suddenly people want to stop him?," - quote

A food for thought, no?
This Kony has been idle for the past 6 years, and all too sudden the world only notice of him now (with the prodding of the US of course). When there is war (and oil reserves), you can bet your life on it that the US will take action in the name of peace and justice.

They say they have started on Kony project since almost a decade ago.
Oh really?
I guess the me and the rest of world must be so downright ignorant for not being able to even know of such noble project, until 2012 of course.

Another article for the soul.


Oh sure, I am pretty certain that the rest of the countries in Africa are very peaceful now - until oil reserves are found and some God of War from the West starts to unveil to the world the chaos and tyranny (that have been happening for decades) of the whatever countries that we know nothing of now.

I hate the United States of America. No, not her people, but her government, who runs the country not in the name of democracy, but through greed and wickedness (and Wall Street).

When the ground isn't so much far from where you stand

Now this is an actual intelligent article that I have managed to read today.

On the issue of Lynas' Plant.

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The writer basically challenges many views on this issue - and he certainly managed to challenge mine.

I thought I was being critical on the issue of Lynas. No no no, HE was the one who's critical on this subject.

To be honest, I hardly knew anything about nuclear physics - and, I humbly admit, my view on Lynas was mostly based on political reasons only, not much from intellectual scientific reasons. Shame on me then.

Even so, I have to agree (for now) with some skeptics that Malaysia, whether we want to embrace the reality or not, lack sufficient intellectuals who specialize on nuclear physics.

Until the world finally manages to harness energy from the process of fusion, rare earth is the best way to produce energy - albeit the controversies and risks that envelop this process.

Having said that, however, I mildly stand on the view that Malaysia is not ready to own a nuclear plant.

BUT, I could be wrong though. Perhaps I am underestimating the Malaysian population in general. And maybe one fine day, my view regarding this could be challenged again once more.

"Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think."

- Ambrose Bierce

Jom buat-buat macam tak ada apa-apa, like we always do

Sungguh intellektual! Fabulous thoughts!

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Nothing to say on this?

I can't wait to read what pro-Tun have to say about this.

Zasss!

p/s: as quoted from the article itself -
"saya tidak perlu menjadi pembangkang atau PM untuk memberi teguran ini..."

Hollywood

I love Michael Buble's voice.

This man, without a doubt, is one of my favourite singers of all time, parring with another favourites of mine like Norah Jones and Stevie Nicks and everybody else in my list of favourite singers.

I tried to sing like him, but when I heard myself singing like a toad every single time, it made me wanna throw myself in a ditch somewhere. I'd love to post some Michael Buble Youtube videos here, but unfortunately I am deliberately using USM's shitty wireless service right now to save my broadband's quota, hence the inability to view Youtube. At least I can connect to the internet, some might say. Ya ya ya I get it.

So, here goes a lame post.

Again, Anwar haters?

Dedicated to those who blatantly criticize Anwar Ibrahim regarding his statement of the Israeli/Palestinian issue seen on the Wall Street Journal.

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First of all, let me make myself clear. I don't see Anwar Ibrahim as my father or a deity. In fact, my sense of loyalty to him is close to zero, to tell you the truth. I neither hate him, or like him.


Omg I'm exhausted. So I am feeling a little bit like this;

source - 9gag


Anyway,

if you want to intelligently discuss on matters regarding any issue, then do read as many news as you can that are NOT written solely by the government before you even think to start a debate or an argument that is valid. If you don't, then you are a pro-government, end of story. So, there is really no need for further discussions, thank you.

Recently, Anwar Ibrahim said something on the Wall Street Journal about the issue of Israel and Palestine, and no kidding, a whole lot of people were (and still are unfortunately) making an unnecessary fiasco on this matter. Here, let me give you an article provided by Wall Street Journal South East Asia - not a government article, not a Malaysian Insider article (which many assumes to be written by pro-oppositions, which is partially true), but an international article.

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Now tell me, from where in the article can you find any remarks that say Anwar Ibrahim supports the violence that the Zionists have done towards the Palestinians? Well, I am saying this after seeing enough shared photos and posts from varieties of people who claim themselves to be a real thinker, but unfortunately share mutual understanding that Anwar's remark is anti-Palestinians. So here I quote from the article;

"In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Anwar responded to the question of whether he would open diplomatic ties with Israel by stating his “support” for “efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel,” while at the same time backing the “legitimate rights of the Palestinians.” 

Geez, no surprise that the second part of his remark was left unnoticed by certain people. Hold on, based on my puny knowledge of English, the bold phrase tells me that "Anwar hates Palestinians and he supports the killing of Palestinians and he wishes that Israel will shoot them all and drive them out from their land soon." I guess that's what he must have said since so many of you have uploaded pictures of Zionists and place the word Anwar Ibrahim in the depictions. Gee, thanks for the unnecessary enlightenment!

“Some refuse to recognize the state of Israel,” he said, “but I think our policy should be clear – protect the security [of Israel] but you must be as firm in protecting the legitimate interests of the Palestinians.”

You see, English isn't really a simple language. But of course with limited access to the knowledge of syntax, semantics and pragmatics, one would just simply say, without any justification, that the protection of Israel security means protect Israel from violence, or international laws, or whatever else you might wanna think of. It took me a while to understand this concept of "protect the security of Israel", but after a little bit of further readings I found out that what Anwar was saying was to recognize Israel as a constituency of its own, WHILE, at the same time, protect the rights of Palestinians - in simpler words, help them fight for their home. If I am wrong, DO TELL. I'm serious.

If the government is so self-righteous and believes that they are right and the opposition is wrong, why decline the offer for a public debate with the opposition? Since you are not corrupt and you have nothing to hide (quote unquote), then prove your self pompousness in a debate. For the love of God, just agree to debate and bombard us people of Malaysia with proper actual facts and convince us that the opposition is totally and utterly wrong (if you can). Then I have no problem to root for whoever that I see as more promising.

Why, you jelly?

LOL

You know a website is pro-government when you see talk about nothing else but the bad of the oppositions. You know, from all the sources you cited or quoted, I never see any issue regarding NFC? That is just one example. Don't just read from pro-government media and started claiming that's common sense. That is bullshit.

Admit it, you are pro-government, not neutral freelance writers. If you are neutral, then you would have talked something about NFC by now.

p/s: when there is little reason to read from the local media, I read international news, whether you like it or not.