the lord of the {blog} rings

Farewell Malaya

lotbr — Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:11:24 +0800

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...

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Happy Bastille Day 2005

lotbr — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 23:16:00 +0800

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...

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Do You Heck Care? - National Congress on Integrity 2005

lotbr — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:03:40 +0800

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

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Justice Must Be Done...

lotbr — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 20:00:00 +0800

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...

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An Act for the Production of Infant?

lotbr — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 20:35:00 +0800

I discovered this odd sounding Act today while I was in the office:

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When The Dragon and The Tiger Clashes

lotbr — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 04:00:00 +0800

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...

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Crying For My University

lotbr — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 03:58:42 +0800

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...

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On The Orang Asli of Malaysia

lotbr — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:04:00 +0800

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...

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Too Messy(TM) Net

lotbr — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:00:00 +0800

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

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Hamid Ibrahim, Author and Social Activist

lotbr — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:54:00 +0800

“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.

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