I found that I blog lesser and lesser.
Facebook is the quickest way to share things.
Am wondering if I have to maintain two sites.
The movie was slow but the big take away from the film, are the following lines
Matt: "Why did you stay with me all those years when you knew that we're doomed?"
Abby: "I didn't wanna hurt you"
Matt then commented on his relationship: We almost spent entire, the rest of our lives together, because we didn't wanna make the other person mad.
Personally I think religion shouldn't be part of the country policy, especially in the world nowadays, where pluralism is a norm.
First, many laws from the religion were created many many years ago - some of the elements might not be relevant to the society nowadays
Second, it's a nature that human will compare - if you apply law to a certain group, that others get different treatment, that's when the frictions started
What made the above two points worse is that, information flows easily nowadays, it's easy to compare with other people, other countries or even other religions
Just think of religion as a music genre: Would it make sense to play techno music in a classical music concert, and ask audience to accept it as it is?
No. The audience will leave, the audience will protest.
Therefore, in this country, it cannot be a wishy-washy hope that it is a secular state, as well as Islamic state.
Just my two cents - someone really need to make it clear.
It was midnight.
More 100 containers arrived at the port. The workers helped to unload the containers from the ship - they are all guarded by a team of armed forces
Lastly, the armed forces escorted the containers to a storage house nearby.
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This is a true story that just happened. It was not drug smuggling that you see in the movie.
It was definitely not human trafficking.
It was just police forces helping to escort the rare earth ore to the Lynas plant.
If you want to read the full story, you can go here
Let's try to flashback a bit - in my experience, I didn't see police escorting the cash delivery/collection at the ATM machine.
I didn't see police forces guarding Poh Kong jewelers shops
I don't think police forces would guard raw material for gold from the port to the plants.
Safely to say, I don't think police forces would have ever escorted the raw material for the Nestle Milo that you and I drink everyday.
So why the double standard?
What about street crime and robbery that happens at ordinary citizen's house. which is their official duty?
Look, this happened while anti-Lynas coalition Himpunan Hijau is holding a 300km march from Kuantan to Kuala Lumpur.
This rare earth ore is definitely something that Malaysian citizens do not want.
In short, we are double-screwed:
1) The police forces were helping to escort some raw material containers, instead of protecting citizen's safety (which is already at disturbing state)
2) Our delegate (i.e. the government) spent our hard-earned tax money to deploy police forces for such unwanted escort, because we had mentioned many times to this very delegate that we DO NOT WANT RARE EARTH PLANT.
Or put it this way, we had just spent our (tax) money to screw ourselves.
It will definitely happen again, in another form.
After more than a year since Tim Cook works as a CEO, the critics are mixed.
But I have only one question: in the past one year, does he look like, or did Apple make him a cult followers' figure?
Not really.
Now that is worrying - cos this was what Steve extremely successful at. He made Apple products seem magical.
Looking at the products lately, iPad mini can be replaced with Nexus 7 with similar battery performance, Nexus 4 is like iPhone 5 at half price.
It is true, Google has been catching up lately. The user experience has been consistently good and reviews showed that Nexus 4 has pretty good battery life: which has always been my buying point for a smartphone, I.e. to have good battery life to enjoy its features.
Further more, iPad mini and iPhone 5 come with the Apple Maps: the map that has been pain in the ass for Apple and its users
As of just now, it is still showing the lake nearby my house as a lake supposedly 30km away from my house.
If iPhone 6 or iPad 5 is not something that is truly revolutionary, that's the best time for you to sell their shares. If you have any.
That was perhaps the worst legacy left by the British before they left. (besides that, we are rather fortunate because they left a rather good parliament, judiciary system, as well as education system to start with)
Now the issue is, the jus soli method left by the British, which was used to divide and conquer different ethnicities back then, was used in even worse manner by the current government.
The result? A very sensitive nation.
After half a century, we are still practising divide and conquer method. We still brand ourselves as Chinese, Malay or indian
People will object or argue when they feel the Malay or Chinese or Indian rights were compromised.
The application forms are racist as well: there's no Malaysian option to select.
We have a privilege system for the majority "race", not minority.
We are a secular country that claims Islam as the official religion, with politicians claiming others for doing great harm on Muslim way of life, while they sit on the wealth from unknown source.
This is a confused nation, but with potential. At least it had great potential.
My summary? Voting for a different party to manage the country, for just 5 years, is worth the try.
By then, you will suddenly realise, you don't need the racial based parties: UMNO, MCA and MIC (in short:racist parties) to unite and run the nation.
They will suddenly become irrelevant.
