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Liberty Society

[648] Of annoying explosions and brats that cause the explosions

One thing that I hate about Eid in Malaysia is excessive noise due to firecrackers. Don’t get me wrong. I love firecrackers. I really do, especially roman candles. Noise is an inescapable part of enjoying firecrackers. Still, if people want to play it, especially the ones that go kaboom, I strongly suggest those people to exercise their right of having fun somewhere out of any residential area.

I cringe every time an explosion blared during a relatively calm night. Unsuspected explosions always step up my heart tempo. I minor heart attack if you will. And I think Kuala Lumpur this time around has more explosions than Baghdad, albeit less deadly.

And there you go. Another one had just gone off, along with a couple seconds of my life.

Seriously, a lot of people that are playing firecrackers are inconsiderate buggers. Since these people being blithely discourteous, from now on, I promise myself that I am going to treat myself with a bar of chocolate each time a brat loses his or her finger, eye or dick.

Yes, I hope you damned buggers lose your dick with a spectacular show of rainbow and some decibels to match it.

Hear me, if you’re in Kuala Lumpur, go to the lake garden or somewhere secluded for your activity. Or better yet, join the Al-Qaeda or American foreign legionnaires in Iraq or Hamas’ and Israeli in Israel – I don’t care which side, any will get you dead, pronto, almost; that’s good enough for me – and make all the booms you want.

And what the hell the police is doing? It’s supposed to be illegal to sell firecrackers out in the public, much less playing contrabands in the public.

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Environment History & heritage Photography Society

[647] Of traditional Malay lamp

With Eid coming up, many Muslim Malays are taking the initiative to lighten up their home compound. My family is no exception – they’re placing traditional Malay lamps at the edges of our compound. Pretty but I rather not have them. To me, it’s a waste of energy and serves no practical purpose.

Not to mention, unnecessary release of carbon dioxide too. And climate change and the sky is falling. Run!

Still, I can only object but its my parents’ money and they may choose however they want to spend it.

Mohd Hafiz Noor Shams. Some rights reserved

I like the blurring of the background but I somewhat had hoped that the whole lamp would have been sharper.p/s – pyramid in Bosnia? (via)

pp/s – Greenpeace fined for reef damage. Oh, the irony.

p3/s – by spaghetti monster in the sky’s name, this DDOI’s is indescribable. No word can do justice to this picture. Any word uttered to even praise this photo will be an understatement. Even more remarkable, the photo was taken from a moving platform. Impressed? I know I am.

This kind of photo is why DDOI is my favorite – numero uno – right since the beginning of the photoblog.

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Economics Politics & government Society

[639] Of overheard in Ann Arbor

I found Overheard in Ann Arbor via Ann Arbor is Overrated and I’m lovin’ it. And wow, OIAA via AAIO. Talk about coincidence.

Somehow, that site makes me miss Ann Arbor and undergrad life even more. I’m reserving a spot for OIAA in my blogroll. It, together with AAIO, is now immortalized. Sort of. And McDonald’s sucks.

Also, this might be old but Berkeley is trying to tell Ann Arbor something

Anyway, for the sake of making the bear happy, I am neutral on the Miers nomination.

p/s – Ben Bernanke is the next Fed chairman. Who’s Bernanke? Don’t ask me.

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Society Sports

[638] Of Jamban Revolution

When I was attending Malaysia Forum at Stanford last May, there was this out worldly project dubbed the Jamban Revolution. Jamban is a crude Malay word for washroom. Capital or little ‘j’, it doesn’t matter but it was about an ideal; worthy, if I might add, of consideration. The revolution aimed to rally the masses to push for more hygienic Malaysian public washrooms. “Three cheers for an admirable cause”. I had yelled inside my head but I had serious doubt whether the project would take off. And indeed, it didn’t. However, I think first step towards the J-Revolution is a dry washroom.

Malaysians are used to wet lavatories and typical Malaysians usually have problem with it. Splashed water here and there, not swept, untaken care of – one could only wonder what one could step on on a bad hair day inside a Malaysian public washroom.

Worse, no amount of campaigns to raise civic consciousness may help improve Malaysian jamban scene. Nope. I’m convinced. Hell, if even the state of our jambans in our Parliament is not spared from the neglect, it will take more than a jamban ministry to take care of our washrooms. No matter how highly maintained a washroom might be, the atmosphere inside it will degrade exponentially. Almost uniquely Malaysians!

Hence, enter the dry regime!

The dry regime, the Jamban Revolution will bring on a new order in Malaysian jambans. A new order where the floor is clean, recycled paper towel hangs on a side waiting to be reap or even electronic dryers powered by green energy to save the trees!

Imagine the would-be outcomes of this glorious revolution, comrades!

Down with wet regime. They are nothing but mere impedance to our march towards a better society. A society which we may sit on a bowel and answer nature’s call without worries. A society which suspicious water patches are things of the past. A society free from fear.

Comrades! For Motherland, we must overthrow the dirty wet regime. Unite friends, brothers! For Motherland, comrades! We must unite! March forward to a greener pasture and shout it out loud brothers!

What do we want? Better jambans!

When do we want it? Now!

What do we want? Better jambans!

When do we want it? Now!

Viva la revolucion!

Alright. I think I’m getting too excited.

p/s – pee ass V was lucky.

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Society

[635] Of Micheal Jackson might go back to court

I’m not a person that care for celebrities’ gossips and stuff. I don’t care whether Britney Spears was a virgin when she said she was or whether Lindsay Lohan’s boobies are fake or who the f- is this Siti Nurhaliza’s Datuk K. However, I can’t help it with this one. Too amusing for me to ignore, especially when a professor made a witty remark:

“It’s just one of those ironies of life that he’d be called as a juror,” said Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola School of Law who monitored Jackson’s trial.

Never a dull moment.

p/s – Laputan Logic is back! Or, at least, he blogged eight days ago after a very long hiatus.