• 2005-07-18

    Farewell Malaya

    Tag：
    I walked thru this familiar ground
    Yet was greeted by strange faces;
    Malaya,
    You were once my refuge,
    But Your compound seemed alien to me now,
    Or perhaps I have become alien to You.

    Your buildings and walls once shadowed me
    They spoke to me since I first came;
    I have no lecturers but
    The bricks that fortified You.
    I have no teachers but
    The stones and pebbles that graced Your floor.
    These artifacts had recorded the voices
    Of Great Men who were once Your residents.
    They are my Masters and Professors,
    As I walked from those trees to the others,
    I heard their learned discourses
    And was enlightened
    And was fulfilled
    And was overwhelmed
    Encouraged...
    发表于19:11:24 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-07-14

    Happy Bastille Day 2005

    Tag：
    When man the scepter donned,
    And ov’r another rul’d and reign’d,
    Humanity bled and mourn’d
    O’er man’s aversed gain.

    All wert born’d and shalt come likewise
    All wert buried and shalt perish...
    发表于23:16:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 1 | 引用1 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-07-14

    Do You Heck Care? - National Congress on Integrity 2005

    Tag：
    The National Congress on Integrity 2005 (NCI 2005) is an intense one-day look on the effects of corruption on national integrity. It provides a public platform for concerned hearts and minds to engage the issue of corruption in a timely, extensive and inclusive dialogue.Join public, private and third sector leaders to address key issues and explore avenues to effect change. Good case studies on integrity will also be highlighted and public discussions conducted to collate feedback for the Government on related issues.


    Date: July 16, 2005
    发表于20:03:40 | 阅读全文 | 评论 1 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-07-14

    Justice Must Be Done...

    Tag：

    Chris and the all the great Malaysians out there, for your info, this fellow has not gone into ISA nor oblivion. Just a bit of retreating from writing here.

    Some English judge once said, Justice must...

    发表于20:00:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 1 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-27

    An Act for the Production of Infant?

    Tag：
    I discovered this odd sounding Act today while I was in the office:
    发表于20:35:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-23

    When The Dragon and The Tiger Clashes

    Tag：
    When the dragon and tiger clashes;

    the dust is stirred, the air becomes foul and many unpleasant things will surface. History, more often than not will come back to haunt us. This is even more so of those unfortunate events that we want to bury away in the sand of time. Following the highly emotional row between China and Japan in the recent days, one cannot help but to feel somewhat uncomfortable at the whole affair. The confrontation, however, is not a new development as the vendetta began almost half a century ago from the times of Japan’s imperialist campaign in Asia during the World War II. While China and Japan had since maintained strong trade cooperation, the Japane...
    发表于04:00:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-23

    Crying For My University

    Tag：
    Chris exposes the anarchic University Malaya:

    If my problem as a student is just to get back my grades, I have learned nothing valuable in this institution. I’m only a selfish prick who has got no sense of right and wrong. A commodity with a stomach, as Marx described. My conception of justice is totally wrecked!

    But I am not. Or more precisely, we students (and some lecturers) are not. While I am a student concern for my CGPA, I am first and foremost a human concern for justice, a citizen of Malaysia concern for her holistic development, a part of UM concern for her quality, standard and welfare.

    Some o...
    发表于03:58:42 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-11

    On The Orang Asli of Malaysia

    Tag：
    This is a picture of simplicity. Or is it? Behind the façade of a simple and relaxed life, there lurked the evil of poverty, of discrimination and of struggling to make sense in a world and time so different and so isolated from their own.

    The Orang Asli (Malaysia’s indigenous people) communities are like us, the only difference is, they are still living in the past. Their settlements still lack the basics of life that we have come to take fo...
    发表于15:04:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-11

    Too Messy(TM) Net

    Tag：
    Help~ slow internet speed! (and horror of horrors, my MSN cannot work *gasp*) We should ask for a discount...

    This is to announce that TM Net Sdn Bhd’s Internet service is currently experiencing a slight drop [Jack: sure or not "slight drop"] in performance caused by several outages due to service degradation at some of its international links to Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand and United States. Our multiple link providers which subscribe to the international carriers are still trying to restore their system for TM Net service.

    TM Net is currently running slightly</fon...

    发表于15:00:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-07

    Hamid Ibrahim, Author and Social Activist

    Tag：

    “Malaysians live in those places”, Uncle Hamid pointed towards the direction of one Indian kampung (village), “Not the two towers”. (the Petronas Twin Towers)

    I had lunch with History today; History that was not written, history that was censored, history that will eventually pass on unrecognized. Yet, this is one History our generation so desperately needs to hear and appreciate. When living in a time where a true Malaysian spirit is scarcely available, we need to borrow such model from the past.

    发表于11:54:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-04

    The World In Transit: A New Pact

    Tag：
    Since the tearing down of the Iron Curtain, Europe’s relationship with China has greatly improved, culminating today in a lucrative business and trade partnership between the two blocs. Fairly recent statistics has shown that EU held the third largest stakes in the trading industry in China and evidently, they are moving up the ladder very quickly. China’s import from EU increased about 40% in 2003 from the previous year and by 2004, EU was providing 16% of China’s total import. While French had previously declared a celebration of Year of China (2003-2004), the Far Easter Economic Review was quoted as saying (in 2004), “For China, this could well be the Year of Europe”. These indeed are prosperous days of the EU-China cooperation.

    The Euro...
    发表于16:07:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-04

    The World In Transit: A New World Bank Head

    Tag：
    On the economic front, the election of the new World Bank head was deemed by BBC Analysis, Mary Hennock as placing a “Wolf at the door”. Earlier on, Washington had rejected the application by the “old Wolf”, former World Bank president, James Wolfensohn (Clinton’s choice *grin*) to stay for another term. Instead, Paul Wolfowitz, the Bush administration’s deputy defense secretary was lobbied for the job traditionally held by US, the largest stakeholder in the Bank. Skepticism
    发表于13:30:39 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-04-04

    The World In Transit: A New Pope

    Tag：

    At the demise of Pope John Paul II, the Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church are meeting to elect from among themselves the paramount leader of the 1 billion-member Church. The new pope will succeed not only the throne of the bishop of Rome and the chair of Peter as the Head of the Roman Catholic Church, he is also expected to assume John Paul II’s conservative policies on women’s rights, abortion, family planning, pro-life etc and also John Paul II’s role as a reconciliatory figure in the sensitive religious arena and (worse!) political playground. While the Italians may be claiming the right to the bishopric, the recent years has seen many potential and charismatic non-Italian Cardinals trusting into the limelight. Depending on which part of the world they come...

    发表于13:25:52 | 阅读全文 | 评论 11 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-03-25

    On Terry Schiavo

    Tag：
    While the jurists are fighting constitutional battles, Terry Schiavo is dying by the day, being denied what is basic to her life in contrary to the Fourteenth Amendment (“nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”) of the United States of America and Article 3 (“Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person”) of United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. In fact, by denying her food and allowing her to die a slow death by hunger, the Court is violating Article 5 (“No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”) of the UN Declaration. But these, it seemed, were really ...
    发表于14:44:44 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 引用2 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-03-25

    On The Kyrgyzstan Revolution

    Tag：
    What’s next, Central Asia? After the Georgian (Rose Revolution) and Ukrainian (Orange Revolution) outbursts for democracy in the past years, the citizens of Kyrgyzstan rose in what was termed as “a revolution made by the people” (or some say “Tulip Revolution”) to topple the Askar Akayev government. During the uprising, several key opposition leaders who were imprisoned by the Akayev regime were released by the demonstrators. The situation in the country n...
    发表于14:43:44 | 阅读全文 | 评论 1 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-03-25

    On Technology And Dehumanization

    Tag：

    Today in the New Straits Times: Two Malaysians have had the world's smallest identification chips embedded in their arms.

    Man’s quest to build himself a technological paradise at times seemed to present a picture of anything but bliss. Science fictions may perhaps be right after all; at the end of time, humans will be subjugated by their own technological inventions (robots, computers). Our downfall might not be wrought by some artificial mind, but instead by our own. Because we have became so obsessed with ...

    发表于14:40:57 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-03-25

    On Cap Malaysia

    Tag：
    “Malaysia is truly a secret that needs to be discovered” (Prime Minister Pak Lah, as quoted at the Invest Malaysia 2005 Conference). Trust the Star to report it to us!

    I wonder if Pak Lah was speaking in cryptic. What secret? ...
    发表于14:38:15 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 引用2 | 编辑 | 分享 0

  • 2005-03-25

    On The Ukraine Revolution

    Tag：
    I read in amazement how once again, the people’s power proves to be a reforming factor. Ukraine, a country not particularly wealthy, in fact a nation where probably half of its population are living below the poverty line, has sent out a message to the world. In the past weeks, the election scandal in that country had angered the ppl enough to rise up to protest against the autocracies of the government. Most impressive however were the demonstrations by journalists and other media ppl throughout the country. Unable to tolerate anymore the hypocrisies required of them by the media organizations (which were state-controlled), these brave citizens literary walked out of their offices to join others in appealing to their Unalienable Rights. It was a d...
    发表于14:33:00 | 阅读全文 | 评论 0 | 编辑 | 分享 0
共1页 1