#12α or 14ω?: From Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday

Well, not exactly from Ash Wednesday, but from 8pm tonight onwards, I will be fasting on internet on normal days until Easter Sunday.

I will be fasting on food from breakfast, through school recess, till lunch every school days, all the way until Easter Sunday.

Well, not exactly 40 days, and not exactly full fasting, but the most important part is sincerity, don't you think?

So, I will be online every Sunday afternoon around 1pm or so. Rest of the time, I would be doing my REVISION!

It's REVISION TIME NOW!

Hereby, I sign off at 7.02 p.m., while I will cut on internet officially at 8pm.

P.S. I will be online on normal days for non-entertainment purposes, hope that I REALLY will be online for serious matters......

#12: Intervention possible?

Before I touch on "intervention", let me tell you in brief about Chinese New Year celebrations.

Seriously, not much celebrations held, just the simple celebration of reunion dinner+going back to hometown.

Well, the reunion dinner is different than previous years-we had outside instead of cooking. And we chose steamboat, which is the decision we regretted. For the sake of your wallet and your tummy (and perhaps your ears), do not ever go to this place:

Why? We did not actually enjoy the dinner, as we are forced to have the reunion dinner under the evening sky and with awful, blasting loud, modern "la-la"-style CNY songs. And the food is not that nice and decent.

Hot surroundings over the hot stove, and "hot" songs. What a combination!
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Now, let us cool down from the "hot"-ness. But seriously, the weather is so damn hot these days.

The High Court in Kuala Lumpur is not spared with the "heat" too. Since the last few weeks ago, the High Court is the drama "Sodomy Trial II"'s setting.

And the lawyers, both prosecutors and defendants go in and out, again and again, and the pilot episode describes about Mohammad Saiful Bukari Azlan, or also known as Saifool among Facebookers, and his swan song that wants all of our pity towards him and hatred towards Anwar Ibrahim.

After the pilot episode, we can see that the judges 'brought' the whole team to the apartment, where Saiful alleged he was raped. And they seemed to be so obsessed into the trip, they left the defendant in the court house!

After that, it's just like going in and out, back and forth. I really admire Karpal Singh's determination, after all of the appeals that rejected, and all of the judicial review he made that was not accepeted.

Talking about in and out, I thought of YB Pasir Salak Dato' Haji Tajuddin Abdul Rahman's statement in the Parliament:

Minta laluan. Sekarang boleh? Dah masuk dah; Oh, tak masuk lagi? Dia tak masuk lagi? Dah lama tak masuk-masuk. Main tepi saja. Bila nak keluar lagi air dia?

Anyway, I haven't touch on intervention yet.

Is it OK to intervene in one's system?

Is it wrong to intervene one country's system?

Is there a need to bring such crowd and show face?

I know intervening is wrong, but how come many wants to intervene Myanmar's system (and wants An Sang Su Kyi to be released)?

Reason: They care about the people in Myanmar and they want Myanmar's people to enjoy democracy.

Same thing. Australia CARES about Malaysia (most probably to protect their investors), and they know the truth behind this "monkey business"-it is politically motivated. Who would believe that a young energetic guy did not resist against an act of sodomy by an old man? It is absurd. Totally absurd. I would instead believe the story that the young guy had sodomise the old man.

So, it is clear why 50 Members of Parliament in Australia that consist both from the governing party and the opposition party against, with US Senator John Kerry joining the line.

And now I hope that more politicians in the world would join this line to fight against intransparency in judiciary system, or to be more specific, fight against the people that connected the three separations of power which should not be connected in any sense.

But that is just a hope. Not many hope can become reality, but one thing for sure is that do not stop giving up, as hope will become a reality when you believe.

#11: Now I seemed to not favour Facebook that much......

But I will still keep my Facebook account. It is a source to get updates and informations. Just that I'm not going to log in so often.

Why should we go into Facebook other than for the sake of getting updates and informations? Unless you are playing those games that required you to play consistently like Mafia Wars or Restaurant City, there's actually no need to 'play' Facebook. And to be honest, I start to feel that I am wasting my time at Facebook.

Maybe we just follow the crowd, get an account ourselves to be 'following' the trend.

Maybe we just want to kill time, which I think it's quite a bit pathetic......

But nevertheless, the big winner of the whole social networking issue is this person:

#10: 2nd Choice for the Theme Song(s) for the 1674.4 km/h series

It's late at night and I can't sleep
Missing you just runs too deep
Oh I can't breathe thinking of your smile
Every kiss I can't forget
This aching heart ain't broken yet
Oh God I wish I could make you see
Cause I know this flame isn't dying
So nothing can stop me from trying

Baby you know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love
You know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love
No I ain't giving up on us

I just want to be with you
Cause living is so hard to do
When all I know is trapped inside your eyes

The future I cannot forget
This aching heart ain't broken yet
Oh God I wish I could make you see

Cause I know this flame isn't dying
So nothing can stop me from trying

Baby you know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love
You know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love
No I ain't giving up on us

Baby can you feel it coming
You know I can hear it
hear it in your soul
Baby when you feel me feeling you
You know it's time...

Baby you know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love

You know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't giving up on love
You know that
Maybe it's time for miracles
Cause I ain't, I ain't giving up on love

No I ain't giving up on us
I ain't giving up, no
Oh I ain't giving up on us

I'm no fan of Adam Lambert, not even after the All-American Music Awards.

But this song, I think, is the most meaningful song amongst all his songs.

And why is this song listed in the nomination list for the theme song?

1. Although the song is about humanity or love between two souls, let us interpret it as not giving up on the effort of saving this earth.
2. The flame on salvation is not dying.
3. It's time to create miracles-move your a** and play your part in saving this planet.
4. So happen this is one of the soundtracks of 2012......

Great song, but bear in mind that this is not the official music video-go and see the official one in YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmdQ_52gG1k

The music video is something like a summary of special effects you can witness in the film 2012.

Well, I haven't express my thoughts about Chinese New Year celebrations yet. Maybe a bit later.

#9: The Year that Had Been

Yes. It comes to this day, where all Chinese around the globe (I believed) will celebrate in the festive mood.

And this year, it makes a double-Valentine's Day, which actually is not something to glad about. It actually forces couples to choose between families and their partner. Well, they have to decide, and I'm sure it's a wise one.

It seems that even before the year of the Tiger came, we can know that the Tiger would bring a bit of trouble onto us.

Let us stop predicting the year of the Tiger, as it is an unknown, anything could happen.

Now let us see the year of Ox that had been, in the sense of politics.

I've promised in the old blog that I will post a self-created video on the political year, and I've seemed to fail on fulfilling that. Well, the failure part is to finish the whole thing, but I had published the "Unfinished Symphony" of the Year 2009, below.

Happy Chinese New Year, Happy Valentine's Day and Happy Single Awareness Day (thanks to Ivan's inspiration) to all readers!

#8: The Theme Song(s) for the 1674.4 km/h series

I receive any suggestions or nominations.

My first choice would be:



Why?

Reasons:
1) Fireflies are endangered species;
2) Making yourself thinking that the Earth turns slowly says that time for saving the Earth is still plenty; AND
3) The reality IS not what it seems.
4) Using fireflies to replace light bulbs is really a good idea, and a green idea, which in turn...
5)...provokes people to establish more breeding grounds for fireflies.

How about that?

#7: Start of the second week of being a kay-tee

Tough. Horrible. And getting worse.

The BC subject teacher now demands me to take attendance every time there is BC/Sivik lessons!

And now, I have to juggle between my conscience and "protecting" people.

Why? Why on earth should I land in such situation?

Is it Him that is now testing me?

And testing me again and again?

Should I go with my consicence, or keep protecting them?

#6: Despite all controversies about me, let us just settle down, with this song that might be the best definition of love...

Everywhere I go all the places that I've been
Every smile is a new
horizon on a land I've never seen
There are people around the world -
different faces different names
But there's one true emotion that reminds me
we're the same...
Let's talk about love

From the laughter of a child
to the tears of a grown man
There's a thread that runs right through us all
and helps us understand
As subtle as a breeze - that fans a flicker to a flame
From the very first sweet melody to the very last refrain...

Let's talk about love
Let's talk about us
Let's talk about life
Let's talk about trust
Let's talk about love

It's the king of all who live
and the queen of good hearts
It's the ace you may keep up your sleeve
til the name is all but lost
As deep as any sea
with the rage ofany storm
But as gentle as a falling leaf on any autumn morn...

Let's talk about love
Let's talk about us
Let's talk about life
Let's talk about trust
Let's talk about love

Let's talk about love - it's all were needin'
Let's talk about us -
it's the air we're breathin'
Let's talk about life - I wanna know you
Let's talk about trust - and I wanna show you
Let's talk about love

#5: The Ultimate Route of 8 kilometers

Before I'm going to say anything further, I would like to clarify this.

I know, the following words I utter, would be rebutted by all of you, and say that I'm in the state of denial.

We human are like that. We assume things before we clarify it, before we even know the truth.

Assumptions instead of the truth, and the result: there are many conflicts, grudges, hatred, disharmony, unrest. The world is not in peace, because we humans ourselves.

I am not in interests in any girl/female yet. Please, if I really had a crush with one, I would tell you (but of course I wouldn't mention her name).

What our reader, Hal said (I have deleted his comment) are nothing but lies. And if anyone of you would rather listen to him, well, I have nothing to say but to sigh.

Man have freedom of speech, and I respect that. I do not restrict any criticism or comments, but I just can't accept lies. Lies are not in the boundaries of speech/expression freedom. They are not protected.

I stress again that I do not put unusual interests on anyone, for now. If you rather listen to lies, go ahead.

Since this issue had influenced my mood (especially when a person I thought that would be reliable had chose to listen to lies), I do not feel like elaborating about the cross-country event this morning.

But for the sake of this post, I will go on.

Pathetically, I had ran 8 kilometers, in 1 hour, which surpassed the time limit by 5 minutes.

The course is pathetically harder than last year, with many slopes, steep slopes.

This means I have to put more effort in it, and I will continue doing running practices, beginning on Monday, if the weather is all right.

Now, I feel pathetic, mixed with disappointment

#4: Everything fails...just because you did something indecent and you put it in the net

It is proven in many cases.

To start off, there's the woman and her insurance case, where she failed to get her insurance claim, just because she posted pictures of her not being depressed.

And then there was this stupid teenager who posted a comment claiming he threw the molotov cocktails. Not sure what is his intentions, but if he is just joking......LOL.

There are many more similar cases, and maybe, some students would lose their scholarship just because they post something indecent, in Facebook.

Insurance company, schools, colleges or universities, companies which are hiring people and even banks, they had started their step in checking one's data, to prevent any loss, or taking their advantage to the most.

It is not wrong to have an account in a social networking site-it is good in fact. But, this proves that we cannot post as how we like as before, because they had just found a new spot for information and data.

So, a friendly advice to the owner of this picture: You know what to do lah.

#3: Shontelle T-Shirt

Hey, oh
Let me tell you no
Oh baby

Trying to decide, trying to decide
If I, really want to go out tonight
I never used to go out,
without you ,
I'm not sure I remember how to

I'm gonna be, gonna be late
But, all my girls gonna have to wait
Cause, I don't know if I like my outfit
I tried everything in my closet

Chorus:
Nothing feels right when I'm not with you
Sick of this dress and these Jimmy Choos
Taking them off, cause I feel a fool
Trying to dress up, when I'm missing you
I'ma step out of this lingerie
Curl up in a ball with something Hanes
In bed I lay, with nothing but, your T-Shirt on
Oh, with nothing but, your T-Shirt on

Hey, gotta be strong, gotta be strong
But, I'm really hurting now that your gone
I thought maybe I'd do some shopping
But, I didn't get pass the door and
Now I don't know, now I don't know
If I'm ever gonna let you go
And I couldn't even leave my apartment
I'm stripped down, torn up about it

Nothing feels right when I'm not with you
Sick of this dress and these Jimmy Choos
Taking them off, cause I feel a fool
Trying to dress up when I'm missing you
I'ma step out of this lingerie
Curl up in a ball and something Hanes
In bed I lay, with nothing with your T-Shirt on
Oh, with nothing but, your T-Shirt on

Trying to decide, trying to decide
If I really want to go out tonight
I couldn't even leave my apartment
I'm stripped down, torn up about it

Nothing feels right when I'm not with you
Sick of this dress and these Jimmy Choos
Taking them off, cause I feel a fool
Trying to dress up when I'm missing you
I'ma step out of this lingerie
Curl up in a ball and something Hanes
In bed I lay

Hey, hey

Nothing feels right when I'm not with you
Sick of this dress and these Jimmy Choos
Taking them off, cause I feel a fool
Trying to dress up when I'm missing you
I'ma step out of this lingerie
Curl up in a ball and something Hanes
In bed I lay, with nothing with your T-Shirt on
Oh, with nothing but, your T-Shirt on

Let me tell you know
With nothing but, your T-Shïrt on

This is not a song review, but I would like to talk about this song, or at least the content of this song.

Although the lyrics sounds quite indecent, it shows something-the significance of a Malaysian.

Maybe the purpose of putting this shoemaker is to get the rhyme, but it shows that the brand of Jimmy Choo is understandable in American society.

This means that there are many talented Malaysians, but most of them are not being appreciated, all because of policies that claim to help the 'majority'. It is kind of weird and it could be a substance for laughter, to see that when their own countries intentionally set policies to help the 'minorities', which is the indigenious people with the intention to keep the bloodline of the indigenious people alive, other country set policies to help the 'majority'.

Why? Why must the majority be protected?

Well, if you see, there are many races in this world, and I believe that almost every race can be successful, or at least self-sustain. This does not exclude the 'M's. They were once very great, like Sultan Mansor Shah and Maharaja Abu Bakar. They had prove themselves that they can be successful.

But why? Why did this even exist? The self-exiled political critic-Raja Petra Kamaruddin expressed this situation to be equal with a drug addict. Drug addict is first introduced with the drug by someone, then the addict starts, and the drug addict cannot live without drugs. Now, the person that holds the upper hand must be the drug dealer.

So, according to this equation, we must ask who had introduced this policy at the first place. We must ask what is the intentions of the person who introduce this policy. But more importantly, we must ask is it possible to curb this addiction.

If we ask this questions, we may be equate to contesting the 'protected' issue. And if we follow the perspective of the (former) aide to Prime Minister, Datuk Nasir Safar, our citizenship may be revoked.

This pathetic person, aide to the person that introduced "1Malaysia", made remarks recently in a 1Malaysia-related talk. Very 'spicy' remarks, so spicy that the Prime Minister Department had to declare that he had resign from his post.

I bet you didn't read this news. The Star just write in general, and had no details on what he had said.

They do not dare to publish that Datuk Nasir called the Indians "pendatang" (or imigrants), the Chinese (women) "selling their bodies", and warning anyone who against the SPM 10 subject policy to get their citizenship revoked. All of this can be read from today's edition of Oriental Daily News, and also Malaysiakini.

He even said this (translated from Oriental Daily News), "When the Malay language is the national language, how can they (MIC Branch members) discuss so many issues about the Tamil language? If they keep on expressing disatisfaction, I will revoke their citizenship."

(Sighing) It is another sad case of extremist, and definitely not a talent.

#2: First official day of being a K-T

Awful. Dreadful. And many other more negative adjectives to describe.

How? First I forgot of going to see the form teacher during recess, then I have to replace the treasurer's place to buy exercise books.

And between them, I am harassed by classmates, especially from the former K-T.

But that is not related to the succession of this post. He wanted to give up this post, and the teacher just speeded it up.

It raises me a question:

Should I stay being a monitor?

Anyway, today I attended the first class of English Literature.

The teacher-Miss Leela takes this first class to explain and introduces literature to us. And I seemed to agree what she said.

Literature, is not something most of you all perceive-it is closely about life. It is quite a study of people, of personality, of people's nature, so it is a study of life.

Ti Lun: Biology ah?

Ti Lun's remark made the whole class felt chill with the temperature subzero degree Celcius. Even the teacher had to stop for a while.

Anyway, let us move on.

She said that literature can help you in analysing a person, but don't go overboard to overjudgement......

And also, literature creates ideas, and perspective. Different people have different perspective, and they are all not wrong as long as their ideas are based on the work.

Many more she said.

Well, before calling it a day, I planned the route for my practice for merentas desa.

This is the area around my housing estate.


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I might just run around the perimeter of SS5D...


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Or maybe the most, the whole perimeter of SS5 which is 5km...


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Or else, the ultimate: Whole of SS5 and SS3 (Your place, Anne): 8km


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Obviously I'm going to run the 2.5km, which is the whole of SS5D...for 3 laps.

#1: Genesis-Alpha

I'm not so fancy about writing "Welcome Everyone" and words such like that nowadays.

Maybe everyone is growing up, and everyone's mind had developed and in the process of maturing.

But anyway, I have to at least greet all of you in this new blog.

Welcome aboard. This is the 1st post of Past Present Future Beyond, with the link named "constantly varying".

Why Past Present Future Beyond? Why the name?

Well, apart from this is just a temporary title that can be changed later, I think that all times are significant. We cannot neglect any period of time, whether it has gone, or it is happening, or even it haven't come yet. Writing about life is past. Writing suggestion to hope that it will happen in the future. And beyond future...hmm...

Beyond future is just another term for future, just that it is not the near future, like the future that will happen in the next minute, or next week. It is more "futuristic".

How about the present? Well, the present is you are reading this.

How lame is that?!

The present is every minute we are enduring. To have past, we have to undergo present. So, it is very relevant.

Now, moving on to the more permanent one-the address link. Why constantly varying?

Now, the paradox in this link is, the name is somewhat like the "pretty ugly" joke. A constant is something that might not change. A variable is something that keeps changing. But when two comes together, "constantly varying" means changing with consistency.

Seriously, why constantly varying? Well, partly because I'm going to change the theme of this blog unusually often, maybe once in two months or something. But mainly because all of us are changing, in some way. Whether physically, or mentally, or any other aspects, we are changing with a speed. The world is also changing, however the speed of it is quite unknown. Sometimes it can change very quickly, and sometimes it can take milleniums to change. Therefore, how varying the change goes is not known, but what can be sure that it is changing.

Now, let us proceed to the what-to-expect aspect of this blog. Well, I will be labelling my posts in a different manner than my previous blog. Different in the sense of different names for the labels.

For opinions, it would be called "You cannot make a phone call with a 2 cent coin". For posts about recording daily life, it would be called "Just another day...in paradise?" For my literature works, which is a new component, it would be called "Lit the flame of passion" For fictions, it would be named "Inversing Fact". For my opinions specifically about enviroment, it would be called "1674.4 km/h". For my chinese posts, which I have started in my old blog but it didn't work out, it would remain the same as "以史为鉴，可知兴替". Now, another new component also be introduced, and it is called "Jiwa", which the posts under this category are written in the national language (of Malaysia). Before, I attempted to create another blog named "Si Cina Cakap Melayu", but then the blog haven't even started. For announcements, it would be "Bring Your Attention".

Roughly, I have finished describing about the future. The blog's future.

Now, coming back to what is supposed to be under the label "Just another day...in paradise?"

I've not being successful to retain the optimum speed for the merentas desa. Moreover, next year I have to run even faster.

Today, is a very frustrating day. I wanted to time myself for a 2.5 km course, then after that, I found out that I haven't even started the stopwatch in my phone! Damn!

And then, I ended up running 2.5 km again and this time I timed myself. 20 minutes! I cannot reach the 8km in 55 minutes! I have to improve myself.

And now I have only two practices left, one on Tuesday, which is my own practice, and another on Thursday, which is from PJPK lessons. For Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I let my body to rest and recover from strenious and hectic activities.

Ta-da! I have finished my Genesis post for the new blog. And by midnight, this post will be automatically post. With this I have created the significance of 01022010. (Unfortunately I can't be so precise in time, so it's better to have something than nothing...)

With this, with the powers vested in me, and with all respect, and with upmost sincerity and authority, I officially launch this blog with it's first post, at midnight of 1st of January 2010. How meaningful.