Posted in Fiction, Personal on November 7th, 2011 No Comments »
He remembers all too clearly what happened six months ago on the other side of the world as he stands among strangers under a statue of St Michel, waiting for an old dear friend to emerge from the Metro. “Don’t bite your nails.” “You’re starting to sound like my mother,” she replied to him sarcastically [...]
Posted in Books & printed materials, Fiction, Liberty on September 13th, 2011 No Comments »
For centuries, the battle of morality was fought between those who claimed that your life belongs to God and those who claimed that it belongs to your neighbors—between those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake of ghosts in heaven and those who preached that the good is self-sacrifice for the sake [...]
Posted in Books & printed materials, Education, Fiction on September 4th, 2011 No Comments »
He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of survival, the cats who teach their kitten to hunt, the birds who spend such strident effort on teaching their fledglings to fly—yet man, whose tool of survival is the mind, does not merely fail to teach a child to think, but devotes [...]
Posted in Books & printed materials, Fiction, Liberty, Society on January 1st, 2011 2 Comments »
“Oh, I don’t know, but… but people do things in the world. I saw pictures of New York and I thought”—she pointed at the giant buildings beyond the streaks of rain on the cab window—”I thought, somebody built those buildings—he didn’t just sit and whine that the kitchen was filthy and the roof leaking and [...]
Posted in Economics, Fiction on July 19th, 2010 2 Comments »
It begins with a good intention. Everybody deserves to consume fantastical juice. After all, everything is made out of it. It would be a grave injustice to limit its consumption only to those who can afford it. Invested with executive power, a group of individuals with only the interest of the public at heart intends [...]
Posted in Politics & government, Sci-fi on October 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
I am unsure if I am recalling this accurately but at back in my mind, amid cobwebs of vague memories, I somehow remember reading an Asimov’s short story in a stuffy old library at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar. You will forgive me if it is not even Asimov’s writing. It may well be [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Sci-fi on April 27th, 2009 3 Comments »
They do not make good films like this one anymore.
Posted in Books & printed materials, Fiction, Liberty, Society on February 12th, 2009 No Comments »
I had never read a book after watching its film adaptation. I am usually dismissive of those who do that. I admit, I am arrogant about this kind of stuff. It is a feeling of those listening to alternative less-than-mainstream music have against those that listen to commercialized songs like Britney Spears’ or Backstreet Boys’. [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Humor, Sci-fi on July 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Naked cylon!
Posted in Books & printed materials, Sci-fi on March 20th, 2008 No Comments »
The one book that brought me to the path of environmentalism was Red Mars. The science fiction, along with Green Mars and Blue Mars as its sequels affected my worldview so profoundly. The Martian Trilogy as the three books are collectively known is more than an entertaining science fiction. It touches on various issues, ranging [...]
The name is Hafiz Noor Shams.
For more about me, please go here.