Narrations

It's week 14 of our semester which usually means blood, sweat, tears, dark eye circles and weight loss all cramped into 2-3 weeks. Nice. This is my schedule.

10 days since I last posted. Weirdly the visitor count increased more during this duration. Anyway the studio pics from my bro's graduation finally came back. Here's some:

He who rushes in life produces shit work

I woke up today to rush my assignment which is due at 5.00pm. I've done the important part so I just need to finish up the report. My groupmates have a weird way of doing things. We take the same subjects so each of us pick one assignment and do it alone. That means I'm doing this assignment alone while the others work on other subject's assignment. Each person get to do one. How lovely.

So ok, I there's one segment of my assignment codes that I need to verify with my lecturer. So off I went to campus and parked right outside of campus. Went to see him and went to a one hour class. Got out and saw this on my windscreen.

Thought I'd share the love since I've got a friend who's a nub at Firefox.
I'm not using Firefox by the way; I'm on Wyzo, a browser based on Firefox and still in development. So anyway the top 5 plug-ins are suppose to make surfing easier. So let's start.

1. Cooliris Previews

This plug-in lets you preview a website from its link before actually going in the website alone. Just hover over the link. Great for previewing Google search results.

2. Download Status Bar

Put's your download status at the bottom of your browser for more organized monitoring. You can also clear access controls for the downloads by right clicking on the bar.

Malaysia celebrates it's 50th birthday this weekend. Celebrations are everywhere and lot's of hu-ha in the newspapers about. Am I suppose to be super proud about this?

For all the achievements Malaysia raked up over the years, you would think that people of this country would have wizened up a bit and be more mature about matters at stake. But you know it's not really there yet when Parliment holds a meeting to discuss a Chinese youth who raps about stuff that's real and happening in society, albeit using the wrong background song when they could have used the time to come out with solutions with REAL problems like getting Mat Rempits off the road and the increasing crime rate in Melaka.

My sis was in Putrajaya for the fireworks competition last week and she was awed by the big government buildings at the administrative island(all the government buildings are on a island).
For a moment there she was quite proud but then later thought "did Malaysians design the buildings?" Achievements are not about giant buildings and skyscrapers and weird multimillion dollar roundabouts. All that just induces enlarged e-peens.

Reality is, it's hard being a minority in this country. Can't ignore the fact that racism is rampant on all levels of society. We hear stories of people getting beat up because of their race or how there are no non-bumiputras holding positions in government and all that.
It's hard to be non-bumiputra here.
It's hard to be a non-Muslim here.

I'm not out to bash or to put Malaysia down or anything like that. These are what people talk about out in the streets and everyone knows it although some of it ends up being untrue. Count your blessings and know that there are far worse fates. Malaysia without it's problem is a damn nice place to live in. It's beautiful, it's peaceful, it's safe and the people are most a nice bunch. We have freedom, though restricted in certain aspects, and we ought to be thankful for that.

So yea I'm kinda proud. One of the many good things coming out from this multiracial community is the rich food and culture. I love it here and Ican't imagine living anywhere else. 50 years is short and the country is still young, still much to learn. So count your blessings and say a prayer for our dear country and it's leaders.

Happy 50th Malaysia.



(sensitive stuff i speak of here. the good thing about small readership is I get to post this without all the over-sensitive hoes raining down crap on me. :D)