Election is coming - are you registered??

We all have lamented about corruptions and dirty politics. It's time to use those power we have to make a change.

Enough is enough. Time to vote for a change.

It is saddening to hear from my colleagues whom have missed out multiple elections votings, because they don't care. Retards as such are the cause of our cuntry state as it is.

Register to vote and make your voice heard!

Indifference Citizens

My last post about two and half months ago. My last effort to make a difference since to come to a sad fade. Have I myself turned into an indifference citizen? With recent hoohah with the Negarakuku music video by namewee, i have no more doubts on the theory that, malaysia as a country is in such a state because more than half the population don't care shit about politics, good governance and accoutability. Most people will take what's feeded to them on newspaper as god-given truth, and what's the government edict as god-given laws. Back to the negarakuku song for example, i have realised that a lot of people has made a judgement or conclusion even before they read the lyric or listen to the song. well, here's the lyric, translated, courtesy of namewee himself:

NegarakuNegarakukuNegaraku
NegarakukuNegarakuNegarakuku

我爱我的国家 有国才有家
Aku cinta Negara aku ada Negara baru ada keluarga
有家才有我 站在这边跟你
Ada keluarga baru ada aku berdiri disini
大声唱歌 你麦惊
Nyanyi dengan engkau engkau jangan takut
虽然我每次骂粗话
Walaupun aku selalu cakap kasar
我的歌 就像榴莲一样
Lagu aku sama macam durian
硬硬尖尖 只是
Keras dan tajam tetapi
看你敢不敢打开 看看里面的真相
Tengok engkau berani buka ke tidak tengok apa yang ada di dalam
它可以很臭 也可以很香
Dia boleh dikatakan busuk dia juga boleh dikatakan wangi
只是看你又怎样的鼻抗
cuma tengok engkau ada macam mana punya hidung

我们的警察 叫做MATA
Polis kita panggil ‘mata’ (dlm bhs hokkien)
因为他们的眼睛很亮
Ini kerana mata mereka sangat tajam
新年一到 他们就很努力
Apabila raya mereka akan jadi rajin
拿住笔可是很会少跟你开单
Pen di tangan tetapi jarang bagi saman
因为他们口很渴 需要喝茶
Ini keran mereka dahaga mereka mahu minum teh
还有KOPI O 要不要加糖
Ataupun kopi O nak tambah gula ke tidak
如果加糖 他嘴巴会甜甜跟你微笑
Kalau tambah gula mulut mereka akan senyum dengan engkau
你要离开的时候
Apabila engkau nak pergi
他还会跟你TATA
Dia akan ucap TATA (maksudnye bye)

NegarakuTanah tumpahnya darahkuRakyat hidupBersatu dan maju

这种现象 不需要改善
Gejala ini tidak perlu memperbaikikan
也不用加强 警民合作
Tidak perlu memperkuatkan kerjasama antara pihak polis dan rakyat
一杯咖啡感情不会淡
Secawan kopi hubungan boleh kekal
我西北suka
Aku memang suka
至少不会回家收到三万
Sekurang-kurangnya balik rumah tidak akan dapat saman
我爸爸一定赌懒
Ayah mesti geram
我一定欠干 没有车给我驾
Aku mesti kena marah tidak ada kereta untuk aku
怎么办 这次西北够力
Macam mana kali ini memang teruk
没有车 我要怎样出去玩
Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak keluar main
没有车 我要怎样打野战
Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak XXX
没有车 我要怎样看阿瓜
Tak de kereta macam mana aku nak tengok ah kua
这个国家 我很喜欢
Negara ini aku memang suka
早上五点pukul 5 pagi
还有morning call会叫我起床
Ada morning call akan suruh aku bangun
有时几间一起唱
Kadang-kadang beberapa ‘buah’ nyanyi sama-sama
听起来好像情歌对唱
macam tengah duet lagu cinta
声音坳来坳去像唱R&B一样
Suara tinggi rendah macam tengah nyanyi R&B
虽然他们有时唱到走声
Walaupun kadang kala sebahagian daripada mereka out of tune
虽然他们有时还会唱到破声
Walaupun kadang kala sebahagian daripada mereka pecah suara
有些声音像公鸡 可是比公鸡早起床
Ada juga suara yang macam kokokan ayam tetapi dia bangun lagi awal dari ayam
这样我们才会知道准备上课上班
Macam ini baru kite tahu mase untuk bersiap ke sekolah dan kerja

不要怪 政府只会照顾土族
Jangan salahkan kerajaan hanya akan jaga rakyat tertentu
不要怪 我们没有受到公平照顾
Jangan salahkan kami tidak dapat jagaan yang adil
这样才能证明我们华人不怕吃苦
Macam ini baru boleh menunjukkan yang orang cina tidak takut menderita
这样才能训练我们逆境寻找出路
Macam ini baru boleh melatih kita mencari jalan keluar apabila menghadapi kesusahan
不要邹德他们的标准 很奇怪
Jangan mengatakan standard ini sangat pelik
因为这样反而表现我们 很厉害
Kerana dengan ini baru menunjukkan kami sangat teror
没有被宠坏的小孩 才不会依赖
Anak-anak yang tidak dimanja baru akan menjadi tabah
不然你看有人到现在 还没有断奶
ada orang sampai sekarang masih belum berhenti minum susu

Rahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhtaRahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhta

躲在政府部门里面的人更厉害
Pekerja dalam kerajaan lagi teror
他们做什么事情都可以慢慢来
Apa yang mereka buat boleh slow slow
就算排队的人等到要骂 臭lelai
Walaupun orang yang beratur marah
他们心情还是一样自由自在
Mood mereka tetap rase bebas dan seronok
有时kuih都拿出来
Kadang-kalag kuih pun mereka ambil keluar
他吃他的娘惹kuih
Dia makan nyonya kuih dia
你的队继续排
Dan engkau sambung beratur
就算你真的骂臭lelai也不要紧
Walaupun engkau nak marah pun tak pe
因为旁边的guard他在做梦
Kerana guard kat tepi pun tengah bermimpi
他不会鸟你的啦
Dia takkan layan engkau
他们把头包起来 慢慢走慢慢过马路
Mereka yang memakai tudung perlahan-lahan melintas jalan
你驾车经过还要小小让路
Engkau yang memandu kenalah berhati-hati
最终要活得开心 最重要活得舒服
Asalkan hidup dengan gembira asalkan hidup dengan selesa
不要学华人一样
Jangan macam orang cina
整天忙忙碌碌 西北辛苦
Tiap-tiap hari sibuk sangat susah
这个精神我们真的不能不佩服
Semangat ini mesti kita kena kagumi
因为这个就是他们生活的态度
Kerana ini adalah sikap hidup mereka
（态度 态度）
Sikap sikap

这首歌我都在讲好话
Aku bercakap baik-baik dalam lagu ini
相信你们赌懒我的人现在一定很喜欢
Aku percaya orang yang tak suka dengan aku mesti sangat suka
世界很和平 很有希望
Dunia aman baru ada harapan
没有人受伤 也没有很乱
Tidak ada orang cedera dan tidak tak tersusun
你很高贵 你很高雅
Engkau suci engkau sopan
大便很香 不会骂粗话
Najis wangi tak tahu cakap kasar
你们最high class 每天耍浪漫
Engkau sangat high class tiap-tiap hari main romantic
听光良品冠
Dengar guang liang pin kuan (penyanyi malaysia)
可是人家都已经跑去了台湾
Tetapi mereka sudah pergi taiwan
独中生毕业了
Pelajar Sekolah Cina
要进local大学西北难
Nak masuk local U sangat susah
其实这件事情我们更不需要赌懒
Dalam kes ini, kita tidak patut geram
这个其实是政府的一个伟大的计划
Ini cuma satu rancangan yang mulia dari kerajaan
他要我们到处跑 出国自己找希望
Dia nak kami pergi merata-rata tempat pergi oversea mencari impian
然后学习东西回来报答国家
Lepas itu balik negara membalas jasa
这个计划真的是 好到没有话讲
Rancangan ini memang bagus memang bagus
世界各地都会看到malaysia的囝仔
Di seluruh dunia mesti nampak malaysia punya rakyat
好像逃难一样 西北爽
Macam melarikan dari bencana memang best
2007 马来西亚搞观光
2007 ialah tahun pelancongan malaysia
华人文化统统拿出来宣传
Budaya cina semua mengambil keluar untuk publisiti
独中生政府根本不相管
Pelajar sekolah cina Memang tak dilayan oleh kerajaan
文凭丢去longkang 像我一样
Sijil boleh buang ke longkang macam saya
中华毕业去了台湾
Lepas tamat persekolahan terus pergi Taiwan
学了东西 准备回去报答国家
Belajar di sana bersedia balik negara untuk membalas jasa
我站在台北路边拿住guitar
Aku berdiri di tepi Taipei memain guitar
可是我的嘴巴 还是一样唱
Tetapi Mulut aku tetap menyanyi

Rahmat bahagiaTuhan kurniakanRaja kitaSelamat bertakhta

Hope we all will speak up like namewee here...with or without cost!

Two Types of Heroes

Type A: Fireman who saves the day by risking his life and stopping an explosion in a petrol station in NZ, claims that "I am not a hero". What impresses me the most is when he said the following:

However, Burford said he did not feel a hero, despite his actions. "I'm not. It's just my job. I have been in the job for 37 years, and that is what I get paid for."

Let's compare him to the 2nd type of Heroes : Type B: Mat Rempits turned national heroes, by jumping off an all-expense paid holiday skydiving trip at north pole . When these youngster returned to malaysia, they were given cash rewards, job opportunities and training and "heroes welcome".

Lain rasa, lain rupa
Lain bangsa, lain cerita.

Malaysia Boleh!

the death of PPS?

PPS, or Project Petaling Street was the first blogtal (blog portal, where members can post/ping their lastest posting) for Malaysians and by Malaysians. Appeared roughly at the same time as Technorati, the world biggest blogtal , PPS is certainly one of the cornerstone in Malaysia cyber history. Well, history aside, more recently, I observed some sad and gradual developments of PPS.

Firstly, due to its non-profit nature, all its administrators are rather busy with their own private life and career. Unlike Technorati where its founders are paid in millions, the founders of PPS (a bunch of them) are not paid by anyone. In fact, few years back, when PPS requires a new server, donations have to be called in. Unsurprisingly, the Malaysian government never chips in when it should. Hence, PPS has not been developed or monitored well in recent months. Random spamming and commercial advertising pings are not removed. THe recent layout change was rejected (due to poor design etc).

Secondly, as mentioned before, is the prevalence of commercial postings by various "professional bloggers". As more and more Malaysians join the bandwagon of posting for a living (few hours work a day and money coming in streams...siapa tak nak!), learning from the successful trials by various established bloggers, most of them would fully utilize the availablity of free advertising on PPS. who wouldn't?

Consequently, more established bloggers are slowly disassociating themselves from PPS. Bloggers such as Jeff Ooi, Kenny Sia, and even xiaxue, started off by pinging PPS. Jeff used to have a special link bar on the side. Well, those were the days. With gradual decline of useful content pinging, and the decline of growth of bloggers, PPS will only see its way out to obscurity. Unfortunate end-of-shelf life for such a great idea.

Blatant Bribery for Election

Chinese = FELDA land receiver?!?!?!

Wow...

THat's new...hang on a minute...there's a by electino somewhere at the same time..

let me see...by-election at Machap
Free lands to 50 families at Machap. :)

Nice.

Malaysians cannot have healthy discussion

purely because we re not capable of doing so. Perhaps we are narrow minded, perhaps we value "harmony and peace" a little too much. It's not a wonder that our government further exploits these weaknesses by various laws to silent our dissent.

Why do I make sure a generalized claim?

Ask yourself, when is the last time you (a Malaysian) have a healthy open discussion/debate about anything sensitive? When is the last time we can have a discussion in which one side might concede and says, "yes, you are correct and i was wrong. thanks for informing me?"? or when is the last time us as a nation has an open discussion about taboo issues (islamic state? sex? abortion? racial politic?), as most of the "discussion on these issues" have been polemic one-sided talk during political ceramahs.

No. Us malaysians are just not capable of doing any healthy discussion. For an example how a rational discussion can go into an emotional argument, check out this short post at Education Malaysia's UK vs US: A Different Perspective

Mommy's little pampered kid

This post may not sounds interesting or relevant to those who don't know the story...but i can't just let it go without writing note about it. I dedicate this piece to those little pampered kids out there. :)

Mommy's little pampered kids

One day from now, you may
walk away,
To a distance land, seeking
for recognition,
in guise of knowledge),
Travel the sea, venture
the sky,
My dear little kid, I wish
I am there with you.

Mommy worries everyday,
whether you get fed, or
you get prep'ed,
for the world out there,
is vastly difference from
our little Malaysia,
My dear little kid, I wish
you will see my anxiety.


You will see strange men
and women,
Sleeping together,
eating together,
strange as it can be,
that's normal, my dear little kid,
if by chance, you re upset
or offended,
Rest assured, and Mommy shall
be there for you,
my dear little kid.
(or at least the minister will!)

Economics Ignorance of Malaysians?

Without knowledge, there will be no freedom. For one's that doesn't know the value of freedom, will never truly appreciate it.



Often a times, when i read current affairs news related from Malaysia, that has slight relevant to the economics of the country, somehow, I got the feeling that Malaysian public is generally economically-ignorance. That is to put it kindly. I would like to say our general public (and the politicians!) are absolutely stupid and retarded in terms of basic economics.

An easy example is the shortage crisis of essential items during festive seasons. By imposing a ceiling price on many essential items such as sugar and meat, the government effectively limits the economics incentive for the supplies to import more of these items. Consequently, we ALWAYS, i repeat, ALWAYS encounter a shortage in the supplies of these so-called controlled items. While it's important to ensure that the suppliers and retailers didn't take advantage of the consumers, we really ought to let the market to price itself.

Ohter notable examples, which I don't have time to describe in details are:

a) existence of monopolistic firms (e.g. indah waters?, syabas? tenaga? tv3?)
b) conflict of interest of government controlled "privatised" companies
c) level of involvement of the state in supposedly private investments (thru khazanah, epf, tabung haji etc).
d) lack of market mechanism and the presence of market failure in many areas.

Well, recently, a blogger-businessman turned politician, Tony organized a Coffee Talk session , which focus is to clarify basic economics issues to the general public. Hopefully more of these sessions will be held, and perhaps someday, the education ministry will engligthen itself, and began compulsory economic lesson to high school students (rather than some stupid pendidikan moral).

Slowly sliding into a hole

That's me.


I can't stop thinking about her,
I can't help but to think about her,
My day is incomplete without being with her,
What's wrong me with?

I am already blissful with my life, but yet,
I am discontent.
What's wrong with me?

A bold prediction >> a big earthquake will hit Indonesia

Hi all,

Some of you might not know, but I am actually an avid student of seismology and earthquakes as they are closely related to my field of studies.

In recent week, there has been a high seismic activity in the Indonesia-Australia fault zone. While it is normal to expect low-moderate(3-4 Ritcher Scale) level of earthquakes to occur of a particular normal year, it's atypical to have a high concentration of moderate-high level(5-6 Ritcher Scale) of earthquakes in a short period of time. I postulate, that, with the series of earthquakes, in reality, could indicate an incoming massive earthquake (7+ Ritcher Scale) in this fault zone. The scientific explanation for it is rather convulated, but the general idea is, the fault is due to slip anytime now, but it's gradually slipping (hence the moderate earthquakes). However, at one point, the moderate slipping will trigger a massive slipping - partly due to the shock effects of slipping at one fault, to another one along the same fault line.

Well, it's just my postulate. :)

Recent Earthquakes in Australiasia Zone

Time to think about the environment!

I am not sure whether it is the third-world mentality, or rather the wrong priority on the wrong issues. As a Malaysian, I am used to reading about weird news on snooping, corruptions, sexy dresses, artiste insulting prophet's wife or racial politics. However, the article from the STar Development puts the heat on cities , manage to make its way to the headline of a mainstream newspaper, is indeed refreshing. It's good to know, sometimes, on the back of our mind, we do think about all these more important issues.

In many countries, New Zealand for example, environmental issues such as nuclear technology or greenhouse gases are major political issues. However, in contrast, our politicians like to talk about racial supremacy, or economics benefits (ala developments in the form of government contracts), or your-typical-bash-the-opposition-islamic-values talk. How and when we, as a nation will grow up and start to think about the environment?

The article itself highlighted three issues that seems to compound the problem of overheated urban cities bolded lines are my opinions
a) concrete building storing heats and releasing it at night
isnt this a good thing?? In reality, the so-called urban heat island phenomena is nothing other than the fact that our urban cities have too much impervious surfaces and too few greens.

b) that brought us t the second issues - lack of green trees.
this can be more true. we do need trees..as in big big trees. not just some fancy low maintenance nipah/palm trees.

c) lastly, the use of roof tiles
I am surprised that the Department of Drainage and Irrigation (why are they involved anyway?), would raise this issue. In contrary to the suggestion of the use of reflective roof, i personally think roof tiles are much better heat absorber. If all houses/buildings adopt the reflective roof tiles, we ll bound to have higher average temperature in cities because all the sunlight is reflected away from the structures.

Honestly, this article only serves the purpose of awareness. It doesn't have much scientific value, nor any concrete suggestion/plan. ANother one-minute-fame news. Too bad for the hutan-hutan beluka (forest).

On the side note, there's an earthquake in SUmatra! I think one day we ll get a big one that hit singapore/malaysia! Source: The star Earthquake!

Top lecturers for public universities? Too many public universities?

Refering to The Star article "Only the best for 20 varsities" , i can only read with a major skeptism in my mind. Accordding to the Minister of Higher Education, "the hiring of academicians for the 20 public universities will be based on meritocracy to ensure high standards". Three simple questions came to my mind:

1) where are they going to find all these "talented" academicians?
Fresh Phd Graduates from local universities or dodgy oversea universities? Or in fact, a bunch of Bachelor graduates or perhaps some with Master degrees. What do they term as talent? Talent for research and academic excellence? or Talent for teaching? To be honest, we just don't have the number. How the ministry intend to attract these talents to Malaysia (or to Kelantan, kedah, Pahang for that matter!)

2) are these universities going to be center of academic & research excellence, or merely degree-mills ?
Malaysia's degree mills actually have buildings and classes, just that the content is water-downed and the quality is greatly reduced. As long as the basic is there, it's good enough isn't it? One Prof as a Rector/Chancellor, one or two full Phd Holders as heads of departments, and fill up the faculties with poor quality masters/phd holders.

3) how much money we want to waste on these universities before we realize that money and building alone don't make up a school?


A few years ago, we don't have that many universities, but we have several "world-class ones". At least USM and UTM then have one of the few good engineering schools in SE Asia. UM and UKM was still premier universities of studies related to Asia, SE Asia and Asean. UPM was relatively strong in its partnership with Mardi and FRIM on agricultural research. UIA was truly world class with its niche subject areas as well as English-focused education. UPSI (recent upgrade) was a world class teachers college then, which was also the hotbed for nationalism back in the days. UUM, UiTM, UTAR and other private universites (MMU, UTP,UNITEN) are your recent universities that taken the role of churning out mass amount of graduates (albeit some truly talented gradutes).

Then some brilliant politicians think it's good to have a university at every state and hence we have (be prepared ...):

Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) - Kedah (quite old)
UiTMs - Selangor, Perak, Johor, Perlis, everywhere really!
Universiti Darul Iman Malaysia (UDM) - Terrenganu(GE,05 promise)
Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) - Kelantan (GE,06 promise)
Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) - Pahang
Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) - Perlis
Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) - Sabah
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) - Sarawak
Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT) - Terrenganu II (this is more recent)
Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) - ala west point?
Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia(USIM) - Negeri Sembilan
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) - Melaka
Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia(UTHM) - Johor (good bye Kuittho)

Phew! I ll keep this list for my own reference! :D Hopefully some of these will be more than just a degree mill. God bless Malaysia.

Source: Kementerian Pengajian Tinggi

A New Beginning

Hi blogging world.

I have always been blogging, under my real pseudonym. Blogging has both been a joyous and painful experience for me. Over time, I might divulge some of these experiences. As for now, just celebrate with me this brief induction to the bloggin world.

Silent me not....

Truth shall be spoken and light shall be shone. I don't claim to be a great writer, not one with some insider knowledge, but i just can't sit back to see my beloved country and society, slowly degenerate itself into anarchy.