My Name Is Not Emo

I am a person who 'okay' with a consistent devil than an inconsistent angel. I can
always be putting myself on guard against devils but i cant be doing that all
the time against angels.

Yesterday, i went to one of the cyber cafe in KL with my cousin to play some online game to relax my brain a bit after long hours of classes. I was happened to put my name as 'Nurul Izzah' as my nickname because i personally thinks that she is hawwt. (For those who dont know who Nurul Izzah is, she is a MP and also the daughter of Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim). During halfway playing, as usual, arguments started to heat up and players started to calling each other names and stuff like that. And guess what? Since Nurul Izzah is a malay name, and all these assholes cant even tell that it is just a nickname (Cuz they got no idea who Nurul Izzah is) and thought thats my name and started with all the racist nonsense remarks nonstop. Really wtf huh?

Okay, what i am going to write today is not just about my experience in cyber cafe yesterday. Its a widespread plague that i am going to discuss here, ie Racism.

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I really beh tahan (cannot stand) with all these ppl, what were they thinking when they making all those racist remarks? The more they making those remarks, the more i despise them, but does it matter to them? Nope. This is what i cannot tolerate, hypocrites.


It is a very typical situation where the younger generation of non-bumis, especially the chinese will keep complaining about how unfair the country treats them, how they were discriminated, how they were marginalised, how NEP gives the bumis huge advantage in every aspects of life...yada yada (the list goes on). But trust me, if you can simply pick one of those ah beng out in the cyber cafe and interview them what them about NEP, chances are, they will like having the biggest shock in their life, speechless. Thats because they dont even know whats NEP, they only complain complain non-stop not because they know NEP works, but they were being told that is it unfair, full stop.


Whenever a MP made a racist remark, everyone would be jumping up and down calling him to apologize and stripped off their MP status. Yes, thats what everyone would do, to criticize others ppl wrong doings without thinking if they are doing the same thing, being racist. I know the fact that its true that just because most ppl are doing the same thing doesnt mean MP was right in making racist remarks. Two wrongs does not make one right. I totally agree with that. Dont come and tell me that we are picking on them because they are MPs, thats why they need to show good examples to the ppl. Thats kind of ridiculous, isnt it?


My next question is, what is racist? So far i dont think theres a definite definition for that though, simply because the meaning of racist is so damn wide. Everyone is racist, trust me, it is just depends to what extent the level of racism is. I guess thats a human nature, that exists even in animal kingdom. All species do prefer they own kind on priority before the others, isnt it? i might be wrong though, if theres a species that dont prefer their own kind, please do let me know. Anyway, at least thats my stand i am taking here, that everyone is racist just with the differences in the level of racism. Dont believe me?


For example: ( A very hypothetical example, nothing malicious intended )
-> You were walking down a road near a park, where you suddenly heard someone screaming for help. You rushed towards the scene and you saw a lady was injured lying down unconscious on the floor and 2 men ( a white and a black ) were fighting against each other and theres a handbag on the floor. Which man is the culprit that first comes to your mind? Answers maybe varied from different ppl. Nice example huh?


Anyway, the level of racism in me is just mild, really mediocre, near negligible. = ) Thats a good thing isnt it? Well, i do make and take racist jokes and calling some of my friend names based on their skin colour and stuff. Thats for fun, nothing malicious. Same goes to malay who called chinese dudes as apeks, or indians as kelings..and vice versa. For those who are reading this shet right now, ask yourself now if you ever did that before huh? XD


However, when talks about political world, its even worse. After the so-called political tsunami on March 2008, theres been a big hu-ha going on saying that the ppl are tired of racial-based political parties (UMNO, MCA, MIC..etc -political parties) and start rejecting it. Neh~


I honestly think thats not true, ppl are rejecting the gomen of the day its because the way they run the gomen, the widespread corruptions, the going-backwards-economy...etc. If theres anyone rejecting it because it is race-based, it would not be the sole reason for it. I got no doubts that the gomen of the day are pretty racist in nature, some of them like to make racist remarks, for political gains, to garner supports from their own races. But some claimed that those race-based political parties are losing its relevancy fast in this 'new society', thats why people rejecting it and vote for non-racial parties, where the society care less about skin colour. This was supported by the fact that Barrack Obama elected as the first African-American US president (a better way to call a black person anyway).


I personally think it is still relevant, and it will remain relevant for a long time in Malaysia. Dont misquote me, I am all-out against racism but i am telling this is based on my own observation. Readers may have their own opinion about this whole racism issue. If theres anyone who wants to do away with all these racial nonsense, count me in and put me in the frontline. A world without racism, how ideal is that huh.


I do, at times, felt that, PR (Opposition alliances) are hyprocrites as well. They dont practice what they preached. They claimed that they are doing away with the racial issues.>_>
Proof? i can easily give a few good examples for that.


1. When Perak state were captured by PR, there has been a fiasco about the composition of races in the exco board. COME DA FCUK ON DUDES, WHAT THE HELL IS THIS? DOES IT MATTER? seriously, i wouldnt mind if all are represented by malays, or indians or without any chinese in the board as long as i am not deprived of anything and everything runs smoothly.

2. When the assembly men sworn in, theres another fiasco when a few dudes refused to wear songkok during the ceremony in the palace. Seriously, you dont lose ur race identity in wearing the head gear just for the ceremony. Its like saying once you eat nasi lemak and you lose your chinese identity. Ridiculous right?


So far, it seems like i have been keep bashing on the opposition parties huh? Sorry though, i am not a fan of either BN or PR. If i were to choose, of course i will choose the lesser evil between both. I do think PEE-AR deserves a chance to prove itself but if they cant shake things up til then, i will spoil my votes to show my dissatisfaction in the upcoming next general elections.


I am a person who 'respect' a consistent devil than an inconsistent angel. I can always be putting myself on guard against devils but i cant be doing that all the time against angels.


One might ask, whats my hunch about this whole racism issue? Well, in order to eradicate this whole racism issue, i guess a radical reform needs to be done especially towards the education system or we will never see the so-called 'Malaysia For Malaysians' country, at least not in another 50 years to come. Just my hunch anyway, and i am not someone who is significant enough to be taken notice of. Lets just take a step at the time and lets hope for a better tomorrow!


Ahh, another lengthy post of mine, i hope you readers would give some constructive reply to my post though. = )

OooOoOo ya! BTW, My-Name-Is-Not-Emo reached 1000 hits milestone!!! wohoooo~ CHEERS guys! TQ to all the readers for da support!


Okay, its 3.05am, time for me to get some rest. Til me meet again~ Gnight



=Mr Zhong=

Once a person committed a crime and sentenced to prison, regardless whether
they were going to be rehabilitated or not is irrelevant. The public would still
have the bad perspective towards them as long as they stepped into prison
before. Thats the way it is...

Speaking of news that 3blups just wrote few hours ago, theres a quite important issue that he forgot to include, ie, the manaces of Mat Rempits (Hereinafter referred as MR ) in Malaysia. For those who doesnt know what MR is, they are a bunch of bikers which normally associated with abuses of drugs, robberies, and other social illment activites. Someone told me that perhaps its became more rampant these days due to recession and stuff like that. I told him, no, its not. MR problems have always been there, regardless whether we are facing recession, or armageddon.


There has been like 2 separate incidents regarding the rampancy of the MR involving snatch thieves and series of robberies that went reported on the newspaper last week. These assholes would not operate alone, they go in groups. One of the lady who happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, she was surrounded by 15 of those MR in the morning while she was walking towards LRT station, she was robbed and subsequently got herself injured when one of those MR dragged her from his bike for a few metres. Sigh..

My concern is, what is happening to the country atm? What has it becoming to this country where i, myself cant even enjoy the basic sense of security when walking on the street. As the matter of fact, sometimes i do felt that my life is like a Russian Roulette, not knowing when i might be ended up as one of those victims.


The police force has been repeating on the press that they have been trying to clamp down on all these MR activities. But my question for them would be, is 'trying' enough? No, its not. Something drastic need to be taken. Of course, i was hoping that someone from somewhere will be taking up some vigilante actions like those superheroes in movies. Again, it is just a hope afterall, ya? At least now, we have elicited the fact that these MRs are not intimidated with police force.


Anyway, i wont be talking much about MR today. I am just highlighting whats happening recently and what i am going to talk today is about a concept/theory which has some relation to what i discussed above.

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Okay, lets face it, one of the most effective way to curb crime rates from going up is by way of imposing heavy sentencing. In order to have a bigger picture, first we need to know the mechanism of sentencing. Em.. Lets take the example given above, MR. As far as i am concerned, theres no such offence of being a MR though. But it is their actions of being a MR that can amount to offences,eg: drugs abusing, snatch thieves, robberies, extortion, speeding while doing stunt actions on their bikes... etc.


IF the MR that were involved in the incident that was reported in the newspaper were caught and being charged in the court, for example... under s384 (extortion) of the Penal Code which it is punishable for up to 10 years of imprisonment/fine/whipping.


Under normal circumstances, even if the perpetrators were found guilty of that said offence, chances are, after all the mitigation factors being put forward to the judge, the sentences imposed would not be the max penalty. And if the perpetrators were to plead guilty ( it saves the courts time ) when the charge was first read to them, normally there will be a reduction of 1/3 of the sentence. ( the reduction is not based on the max penalty given, but rather based on the sentence which will be given IF the perpetrators were to be found guilty in the later stages where they claimed trial ).


For example, Ali was found guilty of extortion under s384 of the penal code. The judge made a 1/3 reduction from the initial amount of sentencing that he would impose on Ali due to the fact that Ali pleaded guilty, lets give and take... 6 years of imprisonment. After 1/3 reduction, Ali would have to serve in prison for 4 years. And there would be a further reduction of 1/3 of his 4 years of imprisonment by reason of good behaviour. Well, perhaps in total of years that Ali would be put behind bars would be around 2 years+ and he would be release back to the arms of the public. Sorry for the convoluted explaination given , i did my best to simplify it and i hope you readers can understand it.


To be honest, with all the reductions here and there that can be given, i personally think that the sentencing that being imposed on them (MR) are perhaps too lenient and it does not proportionate to all the troubles and hardship being caused by them. Mind you that a large number of them are considered as 'child offenders' which below the age of 18. And as a child offender, he would not be sent to a normal prison per se, but he will be ended up in a special 'prisoners school' ( Henry Gurney Prisoners School - located in Malacca ) That would basically sums up that if you are a child and committed a crime, the sentence that you going to get is even more lenient than what i have discussed above.


Another example that was given to me by a lecturer of mine, if a child offender (eg, aged 17) committed rape and were found guilty, he would be sent to this prisoners school until the age of 21 and he would be released.


My first reaction was like... wtf??! only 3 years??! (sorry, not that i dont know how to count but one can only sentenced to this approved school for max 3 years only ) How about the victim who is going to be traumatised for her rest of her life by the incident? Seriously... something doesnt sounds right to me though, i guess it is high time for the parliament to actually amend the law to lower down the age further to be considered as a child. The rationale behind this whole idea of giving child offenders a more lenient sentencing is because it is presumed that these 'children' do not have full mental capacity to weigh as to what is right and wrong, what they can do and cannot do. HELLLLLLOOO?! when i was 17 years old, i can think like any ordinary adult does. We might be able to justify it for about 30 or even 20 years ago. But with the changing of the landscape of the society atm, children tends to grow mature even earlier. Then how can we now say that these so-called 'children offenders' do not have the mental capacity to think??


But one would come and argue that there is such a concept called the Rehabilitation Sentencing. The idea is to rehabilitate the offenders to turn them to a new leaf ( lesser sentencing -such as community service ) because just by imposing heavy sentences on them, once they were released, a number of them would be going back to the same way they were and start committing crimes again. It is for them to actually being welcomed back to the society after they served their time in the prison/community service and hopefully would not face any discriminations from the public.


However, I would personally find that this argument is rather flawed. Once a person committed a crime and sentenced to prison, regardless whether they were going to be rehabilitated or not is irrelevant. The public would still have the bad perspective towards them as long as they stepped into prison before. Thats the way it is. Yes, on one hand, it might be unfair to those who actually did change for the better cause, but on the other hand, he would have thought on all the consequences of his act before actually did it ended up in the prison.

However, thats not always been the case though, the offence of Drug Trafficking (s39B Dangerous Drugs Act ) carries death penalty but it is still rampant these days. T_____T


Dont get me wrong, sometimes i do believe the idea of rehabilitation do work at certain situations, i'm just not a fan of it as i would rather prefer Retribution or Deterrence type of sentencing. At least by imposing a heavy sentence to the offenders, it will send the clear signal to the public that crime does not pay! This will also shows that the courts disapproval on behalf of the community pertaining to the particular type of criminal conduct. For me, its simple, the longer we put the offenders behind the bars, the better.


How if we change the law to a very stiff and heavy penalty such as imprisonment up to 20 years as opposed to 7 years max atm or with additional of 10 times whipping even for petty crimes like theft? Or for those who found guilty of incest (something which i CANT tolerate at all), his penis would be chopped off? I think the number of incest cases in this country would drop drasticly to the extent of near non-existent. I guess if all these were being exposed to ALL LAYERS of the public, i would genuinely think that the potential offenders would have think like 10 folds more than he would now before committing a crime.


Of course, there are other factors and policies to be taken into account as well, but the basic arguments for today's post can be summarized as 'Retribution sentencing vs Rehabilitation sentencing'. With all the rampancy of crimes going on, i would hope that the courts will be taking cognisance about it and start imposing as heavy sentence as possible everytime they found any accused guilty of a crime.





p/s:Yes, i know it is another lenghty post of mine, but what to do? = ) sorry if theres any typo mistakes here and there though, its 4am in the morning now and i am darn sleepy atm. Good night~~


= Mr Zhong =

Much had been said / read / told lately in the papers and in the net, a recap of some news which i found interesting...

(1)
Mara Vying to buy space suit for RM 185,000.00

A quote from what Entrepreneur and Co-operative Development Minister Datuk Noh Omar said

“The suit is special. It could only be worn once, after which it would be disposed off, then there will be nothing to remind us of his historic feat,” said Noh.

Errm, as far as i know, a space tourist ain't much of a historical feat, and using our hard earned money to get into space and came back after doing some "experiments" is not some national hero act. Hell, the experiments results were even destroyed in the re-entry...

(2) Financial Crisis and Bailout

Much hype has been put on the RM60Bio stimulus package but strangely the mainstream media never did put much attention on how the government is sourcing the money and the actual effect which it will cause to the economy (as in the effect the deficit will cause on the economy). True enough that our country was not downgraded by the ratings agencies but that is for how long?

RM60Bio is not a small amount and neither too big too. Are we going to issue more government bonds to fund the spending? And when the bond matures, ahh, yes, we could print money to repay the investors of bonds. The issue concern here is the implementation of the whole package. Who will ensure that the fund will be distributed equally / correctly? The fund management lies in the jurisdiction of which party? The last quarter GDP growth was registered at at mere 0.1 percent but traders are already pushing that figure to some negative 2.0-2.5 percent in the next quarter. General market response was that ringgit will continue it northward movement to its year low of 3.7300. How much can the stimulus package help in creating a better market sentiment? I have no idea how it helps others, but definitely it did nothing to my part...

(3) Teaching of Science and Maths in English

As i was browsing our former PM's latest blog entry, his writings on this matter finally do some justice to our country. The man that proposed to implement BM into our education system is now lamenting on the decision itself. Definitely a must read...


An excerpt :

12. Ilmu sains dan matematik bukan ilmu yang statik. Ilmu-ilmu ini berkembang sepanjang masa. Tiap hari ada hasil kaji selidik, penerokaan, ciptaan dan perluasan yang diperkenal melalui ratusan kertas-kertas yang ditulis.

13. Hampir semua ditulis dalam bahasa Inggeris. Untuk menterjemah tulisan ini kita perlu orang yang fasih dalam bahasa Melayu dan bahasa Inggeris dan faham ilmu yang hendak diterjemah.

14. Kita ada beberapa kerat sahaja orang yang berkebolehan seperti ini. Itupun dalam dua tiga bidang sahaja. Orang yang layak seperti ini tidak berminat menjadi penterjemah seumur hidup. Apabila sains dan matematik diajar dalam bahasa Melayu, orang seperti ini tidak akan ada lagi. Bagaimanakah kita hendak ikuti perkembangan ilmu sains?

Previously Mr Zhong did some detail elaboration on this issue, Read it HERE

Too freaking tired, will continue in part 2

Mind all of you, as much as we can hope for a better results or impact of
the policy implemented, we should give more time to it instead of having
flip-flop decisions from now and then. It is the students that suffers from
flip-flop decisions when comes to education issue, not others. Dont fix what is
not broken and 2 wrongs does not make 1 right.

After I finished my spm, I got a choice to whether to pursue my further studies in Form 6 or A-Level. Well, in the end, after series of discussions with my family members and friends, I decided to take up Form 6 with the intention to enter into Malaysia local Universities.

That was way back in the year of 2003, and that was the year where the government of the day(hereinafter referred as gomen) implemented a policy into our education system to teach math and science in english after long debates for them to actually find out that the importance of the english language in this modern globalisation era. At that point in time, the english standards in the country has dropped to a very serious level which nearing the borderline of untolerable.

My english standards is just mediore, so for me to actually come out with such a statement, it shows how bad it was the situation back then.

When the gomen announced that policy, perhaps I was one of the first person who welcome such a policy though there are a lot of uncertainties lurking somewhere in my mind. One would ask, what are there to be uncertain about? The policy do affects me as well, as my batch would be the first batch (Form 6) that the math and english subjects will be taught in english after all the years that i been learning it in bahasa malayu (Malaysia's formal language). Initially, I was a bit anxious mainly because I was worried that I couldnt cope with the sudden change in language medium for those subjects.

After months of adjusting myself to the new implemented policy, I started get used to it and as the matter of facts, I becoming more comfortable to it to a certain extent.

Today, 7th March 2009, its been 6 years after the policy was implemented, a big hoo-haa took place, where a huge rally demonstration protest took place in the center of Kuala Lumpur. I was walking on the street to college where i saw this huge group of people holding banner and stuff rallying on the street causing massive traffic jams everywhere, with curiousity creeps into me, I decided to walk nearer to find out what was it all about and even took photos with it on my handphone. Initially I thought they are protesting about some HUGE issues, about abolishing ISA (Internal Security Act), or about Constitutional issues, or maybe about human rights...ya da ya da. But i was stunned when I look closely to one of those banners that they are holding....

JESUS CHRIST!! THOSE RETARDS ARE PROTESTING ABOUT TEACHING MATH AND SCIENCE SUBJECTS IN ENGLISH~! WTH, WTF IS GOING ON?!? ( no, my capslock is not stucked, but i rather put it in capital words to emphasize on how ridiculous can that be ) Yes, I was so disappointed with the cause of their demonstration, where there are other major issues that has been going on in this country which I just stated above. For those who can actually smell what am i going to write next, that would be good, for those who dont know, dont worry. Just keep on reading it.

[TL;DR version: PLAIN RANT ABOUT THE PROTEST ON SUCH A PEANUT SIZE ISSUE ]
TL;DR means Too long; Didnt Read


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Its been good 6 years that the gomen implemented the policy to teach math and science subjects in english. Millions of ringgit has been poured into various programmes to ensure that the policy work. Thousands of teachers were being put under english courses to ensure that they are capable teaching those subjects in english. Yes, many argued that the policy did not turn out the way we all want it to be, it still did not meet up the standards that we are hoping for. You (readers) can disagree with whatever i said here and having your own opinion on certain matters are your rights.

BUT what i can tell is that, by implementing it, at least we are heading towards the right direction, ie to improve the english language standards in the young generations for them to compete in such a competitive modern era of globalisation. I am sure a lot do agree with me that we are on the right track atm and all we need is more time to actually see the positive impacts and results of the policy.

To me, I think the gomen did made a wrong move by announcing that they are going to do a review on the effect of the policy after 6 years of implementing it. Whats with the sudden decision to review it now?! What they do not realised is that, by announcing so, they actually opened the pandora's box. To be honest, I dont really know if they actually forsee all these nonsenses coming by doing so, or maybe they purposely does that. This has given opportunity to those opportunists to take advantage of it for personal political gains.

From the crowd that i saw today, it does not only consists of teenagers and adults, but i even saw some kids tagging along. I did asked myself a question, if I were to randomly pick one of those teenagers or even kids from the crowd and ask them what are they protesting about, chances are, they dont even know that they are actually 'protesting' about and I would not blame them, since they are still too young to understand the nature of it. As for adults, I dare to say that, some of them do not know the nature or reason for the protest that they are doing at that time. This is what saddens me the most. They are being used and yet they do not realise it, could not get any more retarder (theres no such word as retarder right? T.T ) than that.

I will go all out condemn all those mofos politicians out there who are using every opportunity they have by using all means necessary in trying to garner supports from the public. If theres anyone with the right to complain about this issue, it will be the students themselves not politicians. Some students might be facing difficulties due to the implementation of such policy but if thats the ground for abolishing it all together doesnt seems proportionate though. Perhaps what we should do is to look into the matter thoroughly and make amendments to it and not abandoning it after all the efforts and resources that being put in.

For those who didnt realise, all the retard demostrations about this issue are being brought up by politicians who are trying to be champion of their own races, malay, chinese, indians, all the same. 'We must preserve our own language bla bla bla..standard lines there'. Seriously, for those who are doing so, please do me a favour, go fck yourself.

Mind all of you, as much as we can hope for a better results or impact of the policy implemented, we should give more time to it instead of having flip-flop decision from now and then. It is the students that suffers from flip-flop decisions when comes to education issue, not others. Dont fix what is it not broken and 2 wrongs does not make 1 right.

Please, Alas, I urge all of Malaysians, do not simply refer anything under the sky or pass any not-so-important memorandums to the YDP Agong. Even if you do, make sure it is about something significant or some paramount important issues not some petty petty issues such as teaching math and science in english. We have more major issues than that to worry about atm, ie to prepare ourselves for the global recession which getting worse each day.

Yes, I am getting a bit emo with the country now. Emo because our country in such a sad state atm and yet nothing much is done to actually improves it. Things which need to be done, is not done, things which are so trivial, are being prioritised. There are various of brilliant ideas and ways are being put forward by Tengku Razaleigh, a highly respectable veteran leader (http://razaleigh.com/) to improve our current state of the country were not even appear on the mainstream media for some reasons ( I will talk about that some other time ). To be honest, sometimes I do felt that this country is moving backwards because of personal agendas of all those who walk in the corridors of powers are being prioritised above the people.

I guess I will stop writing here as I am not an articulate person to start off with. I been getting a little too verbose again today and I know for a fact that some of the readers prefer to read some shorter type of posts but I dont have much choice today as the topic that I wrote above makes me feel like want to rant about it nonstop.
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=Mr Zhong=

I can bet with you that (porn) it’s something that you will find on most men’s handphones

WALAO EH, my handphone is clean and i'm sure that most men i knew don't store that in our mobile phone.... WTF....

Another outright no brain blurt... and worse, it's by Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan. I wonder how he got elected for that post, gosh, can't he speak some intelligence?

He quoted people are linking his son's action of bringing child pornography to Australia and subsequently was detained to him. Hello, with that one sentence, now I know how his son sourced it....

Read more at :
The Star Online

ZoMg! SO far so good, the responses that we got after the blog being setuP'd for the past few days were quite overwhelming i guess. We even got some viewer all the way from the US. = ) cheers

Okay, i admit that i been slacken a bit for the past few days and my co-blogger, Mr 3blups posted a few posts and eventually drowned mine all the way to the bottom. Well, time for me to be more active in postings.


Oh ya, before i forget, there is this person (i am not going mention who) who keep insisting that i am some emo dude. I told her, i am the one who actually came out with this catchy name of the blog 'My-Name-Is-Not-Emo'. Okay, lets face it, if i want to emo emo about everything and anything, i would have came out with a blog name that actually matches my character instead, ie, My-Name-Is-Emo.

READ MY LIPS AGAIN, I AM NOT EMO, k? AT LEAST NOT MR ZHONG!


Btw, someone came and asked me a few days ago, 'Hey Mr Zhong, i dont understand, why you wrote something about tourism industry, isnt it boring?'

Em, actually some who read that post were rather find it amusing, while some others find it a bit boring. The reason is simple, that post titled '2 sides of a coin' were actually not about tourism but rather it is about human nature. I'm not going to interpret that whole thing and explain it line by line here, if u dont believe, read again, you will get what i mean.


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Let us not forget what he did for the country, he might not know how to
hold a gun or even a sword to fight, but the impact of his writings are far
beyond what a gun or a sword can do.

Today i am not going to post something about myself anyway, i am going to talk about a person, a person who i think worth mentioning and deserves respect from all Malaysians. His name is Raja Petra Kamarudin, aka, RPK.


Well, i got to know about him like a few years ago through a friend who introduced me to his blog, http://mt.m2day.org/ . Raja Petra is a member of the Selangor royal family. He is the nephew of the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, the eleventh Yang Dipertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia. Since then, i been following to almost every single of his articles that he wrote, because i find all his articles are very interesting because he dares to write and openly criticizes those who walk in the corridors of power.


Due to his consistency and persistency opposing them, he got himself into series of troubles, and for those who do not know, he might be put behind bars again in Kemunting under the grounds of threat to national security (ISA - Internal Security Act ). Those who are being charged under ISA would renders them being put behind bars WITHOUT trial. YES, the Home Minister can put anyone behind bars as long as he thinks that you are one of a threat to national security. He can put you behind bars for 2 years long and it can be renewed perpetually until the day you die inside the prison.

Sounds unfair? yes, it is more than just unfair, it is injustice that we are talking about here. If u cant imagine how ridiculous is it, let me give u an example.

I am going to tell you guys about my experience back during my high-school days ( i dont usually use the word 'high skoolz' but i am using it this time to cater those who insisted to me that using this word high skools seems a bit more high clazzzzz wor, yes i am talking to YOU! the one who is eating cili now~ siapa makan cili, dia terasa pedas~ ) .

I was loitering in the society room just after recess to pack some stuff due to the absence of that particular teacher. But i was unlucky enough to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, the school discipline teacher were walking around that area with a cane on his hand. He saw me and thought that i am skipping classes and whipped me once with that cane even though i was trying to explain to him. He doesnt care, he got the authority to do so, so long as he got 'reasonable grounds' to believe that i was skipping classes. Whats the truth does not matter, objective 'reasonable ground' is all he need to justify the whipping! T____T

okay, until now, i still felt the so-called 'injustice' back then. Anyway, the analogy is there, i know my situation is nothing compared to what is happening atm. What RPK facing now, is perhaps a million times worse than mine as his liberty is at stake. sigh....


In RPK's latest post, entitled 'Probably My Last Message to Malaysians' (http://mt.m2day.org/2008/content/view/18155/84/) , i almost broke into tears for reading it and i am not exaggerating about it. He is fighting hard, struggling for a better Malaysia, not just for himself, he is doing all of us a favour and yet when he found himself in trouble, theres nothing others can do anything about it and he will be facing it alone. I bet some of us who actually reading this post atm doesnt even know that such person exists. To me, he is a martyr, a martyr who sacrifices greatly because of his beliefs. Not those type which you can see in hollywood films, ie superman or batman. To me, he is much more than that.


I used to think that he got some hidden agenda under his sleeves for supporting the opposition strongly and opposing the gomen of the day. But guess what, i was wrong about it. He does not want to become a politician, he doesnt gun for any fames, as the matter of facts, all he wants is nothing other than a better Malaysia for all of us. There are just too many wrongs being done to this country and no one dare to speaks up other than him. He knows the heavy price that he needs to pay by doing so and he doesnt care.


For those who do not know, he was released last year from Kemunting after the High Court of Shah Alam accepted the habeus corpus (illegal detention) application from his lawyers and ordered for his release. Subsequently the Home Minister (puiiii kanasai -hokkien ) decided to appeal against the High Court decision in the Federal Court. RPK's liberty and fate now lies in the Federal Court's decision.

This coming monday 23rd Feb 2009, the Federal Court will decide if RPK will continue walk as a free man or he will be detained in Kemunting under ISA. He decided that in any event that he is being detained behind bars once more, he will speak the words of silence, meaning he maintain silence as a mute person refusing any medical treatments, food and water.


'....This action will mean I shall survive at the most seven to eight days. By the end of that period I shall be dead. I am prepared for that. They plan to imprison my body for the rest of my life. But I shall release my spirit from my body and will again be free. They can keep my body and they can do whatever they want with it. But they will never be able to keep my spirit. I shall separate my spirit from my body and deny them the pleasure of incarcerating me.....' (RPK)


Well, i guess i am done with explaining the gist of what is happening to RPK atm.

Let us not forget what he did for the country, he might not know how to hold a gun or even a sword to fight, but the impact of his writings are far beyond what a gun or a sword can do. I shall pray for your release and hope you would not give up in your struggle to make Malaysia a better place for all of us.

I guess i need to stop writing for now, i been a little too verbose in my writing tonight. Thats all i got to say for now.




= Mr Zhong =

It's back!!! On 28 March 2009 millions of people around the globe will unite for one hour and switch off their lights to show that they care about our living planet.... This will be the first time Malaysia officially takes part in Earth Hour and our Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Abdullah bin Ahmad Badawi has indicated his support and endorsement of Malaysia’s participation. More info here...

An extract from The Star...

Outspoken Bukit Lanjan assemblyman Elizabeth Wong lodged a police report at the Damansara police station here Sunday night over nude pictures and videos of her that have been circulating via MMS.

and the best part of the story....

In Klang, Selangor opposition chief Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo said that Malaysians were not ready to accept leaders afflicted with scandals and given this, Wong should relinquish all her positions.

“This is a moral issue and Malaysians cannot accept leaders with moral issues, so she must vacate her state assembly seat.

“Let the people decide and if they still want her they can vote her in again or vote for someone else if they don’t want her to represent them anymore," said Dr Mohd Khir, who last week was detained and questioned by police for taking part in an illegal assembly.

He is FAST !! Can you be even more obvious in showing your true intentions? At least lar cover sikit, say some sympathizing words first mar before revealing your true intentions...

Instead of giving the adequate moral support, you have truly degraded the word "man". What happened to the the gentleman in you? If there's any.... Shouldn't you direct your finger at the person that leaked out the pictures? Whoever that person is, he/she's a total scum, using such lousy tactics in an "political assassination attempt"....

If you were comparing this to Chua Soi Lek, this is totally different, Chua Soi Lek is married but Elizabeth is not, it's a whole different story altogether, it's like comparing an apple with a durian. First it was the Teresa Kok incident and now this... For god sake, i never see such sore loser before, you lost your seat, just take it and admit the people is in favor of a new change in the administration. Instead you choose to create conflicts and issues which stirs the political harmony of the country, now who's patriotic eh?

To dear Elizabeth Wong, stay strong, you have my utmost respect for your courage in handling this matter!! Don't resign and fell into their trap!!


More reads:
Malaysia Kini

Yes, thats how things work, we show only the good sides of ours to impress people, to convince people, we only show them what we want them to see, we only tell things that we want them to hear, things which are only favourable to us.

2 sides of a coin
Kuala Lumpur Petronas Twin Towers are always pretty to look at regardless from which angle you looking at it. But Kuala Lumpur is not just about the Twin Towers, mind you. But one would ask, then why all posters that promote Kuala Lumpur (KL) as a tourism destination will always have the pretty images of sights of KL especially the Twin Towers? Well, thats because we all want the foreigners to see what they want to see, what we want them to see. It will make Malaysia looks good to others.

Lets just pause for a moment and think about it thoroughly about what i stated above. Given any ordinary prudent man would have did the same, so i wouldnt blame them. The more foreigners come to malaysia, the more renenue we can generate from tourism industry. This is why we need to constantly strive to continue and perpetuate the idea to make Malaysia looks good all the time.

But lets give a hypothetical situation here, IF all those posters which promote Kuala Lumpur as a tourism destination doesnt show nice scenery of Kuala Lumpur but showing slum areas such as Pudu area where a lot of drug addicts are loitering in that area, and beggars sleep under the over-head bridges. Do you think the foreigner would have the same perception about Kuala Lumpur? Surely even a small kid could answer that easily, OF COURSE NOT!

But well, its not like only Malaysia using this tactic to attract foreigners to come here for a visit or investment, every country does that. Yes, thats how things work, we show only the good sides of ours to impress people, to convince people, we only show them what we want them to see, we only tell things that we want them to hear, things which are only favourable to us.

However, thats not the whole picture that we are getting when we listen and see something that people want us to see and hear. Perhaps letting people to judge something by showing 2 sides of the coin might not be a good idea afterall. That is why people kept quiet on things which they wouldnt want others to know.

But for me, i dont really care though, i dont give a damn how other people look at malaysia, if a foreigner come to me and ask me directions to both Twin Tower and Pudu area, i will show them both directions. Not just because of courtesy, its because i would rather want them to know the whole real picture of Malaysia even though it might damage the perception of the foreigners towards the country which detrimental to us instead of showing them only the better side of Malaysia like all the posters do. If theres anything bad about this country is being brought up as an issue, at least i would be first to admit it. But to put me solely on blame and even try to crucify me in public for down fall of Malaysia tourism just because i am showing both 2 sides of the coin, i would find it rather ridiculous though.


Oh my, its almost 3am and i still got classes tomorrow..(ya i know, its valentine's day, what to do) T.T. Actually today i wanted to blog about something more serious regarding politics today but i ended up talking trash about the tourism industry(oh ya, try read between lines-the title of this post itself actually means a lot).
Sorry dudes!

and ya, HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY to everyone! (oi, say something la 3blups)


(p/s: if u are a grammar police, go play far far please, u are not welcome here)



= Mr Zhong =


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