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102 days ago
Facebook, for better or worse, is like being at a big party with all your friends, family, acquaintances and co-workers. There are lots of fun, interesting people you're happy to talk to when they stroll up. Then there are the other people, the ones who make you cringe when you see them coming. This article is about those people. Sure, Facebook can be a great tool for keeping up with folks who are important to you. Take the status update, the 160-character message that users post in response to the question, "What's on your mind?" An artful, witty or newsy status update is a pleasure -- a real-time, tiny window into a friend's life. But far more posts read like navel-gazing diary entries, or worse, spam. A recent study categorized 40 percent of Twitter tweets as "pointless babble," and it wouldn't be surprising if updates on Facebook, still a fast-growing social network, break down in a similar way. Combine dull status updates with shameless self-promoters, ...
131 days ago
Yasmin Ahmad passed away while in the ICU of Damansara Specialist Centre. It was reported by Bernama . You have been an inspiration to me for quite a while now. I've shed a few tears watching your movies and advertisments. I have posted a number of your advertisments on my blog as well. Your stories has touched my life as well as, I'm sure, lives of not just Malaysians, but everyone who knows your work. Your ideology of defying cross-cultural barriers is nothing less than inspiring. I will certainly miss you. Yasmin Ahmad (1958 - 2009) "The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere, they're in each other all along." - Yasmin Ahmad (Mukhsin) "It is as near to you as your life, but you can never wholly know it." - Rabindranath Tagore (Excerpt from Sepet)
132 days ago
The following is an open leter from a Martin Jalleh on a topic of spies to the Catholic Church (I won't name the church). This letter was published in Malaysiakini and Mr. Lim Kit Siang's blog as well. As a disclaimer (or rather a reminder), this letter does NOT represent my views (at least not all of them anyways). An Open Letter to a Muslim Journalist “Spy” Saudara, I just read that recently you and a friend visited one of the churches that I belong to. I was surprised that you had to do it in disguise. You should have told the Catholic community there that you were coming and we would have given you a grand welcome. Such was the experience of the MP for Shah Alam, Khalid Abdul Samad from Pas (see * below), who was even given a standing ovation when he visited and had a dialogue with the parishioners of the Church of the Divine Mercy in Shah Alam last year. Some time back I was attending a Mass (Catholic worship) in a Catholic church ...
134 days ago
One would think that by the age of 30 would have acheived a certain amount of experience and knowledge about what life is about and how to look at life. Frankly speaking, the more I know, the more discouraged I get about where society and ultimately myself is heading towards. As I progress through my career and going through life as they say, I have somewhat lost the plot. What am I working towards, for what, for who, for what reason? I've grown up in an environment where I've been taught to be better than others. I struggle for acceptance from a very young age. My education, my family, my religious beliefs, my cultural background (as a Chinese) and lately my career and my earnings. Never really succeeding in any of it, however, it doesn't really matter. It has all taught me a lot, but not enough for me to appreciate any of it, in the broadest sense of the word. Has it brought me an ounce of happiness? Perhaps, there were moments, but nothing ever-lasting. Some people have ...
141 days ago
Aww, man. It's been too long since my last blog post. I guess it is due to me being extraordinarily busy that I hardly have the time to sit down and pen down my thoughts although I have had certain revelations every now and then. Let's start with me settling down here in Singapore. I've moved to a new flat. The entire place from the inside is quite big, if I had to guess, it is probably about 1400 sqf. The hall way to the living area is huge. Because this is one of those "new" HDBs, it has a bomb shelter. It is part of the Civil Defence Shelter Act 1997, in which civil defence shelters are required to be provided in new houses or flats. Ha... It acts as a storage room at the moment. It has a rack for shoes, a unused bed and mattress and wine. Lots of wine. If we ever have to use the shelter, at least we won't be thirsty and sober. Anyways.... The living room is huge, there is enough space to insert a sofa set, the entertainment (LCD TV and a surround sound ...
