Oh oh what are they?
Humans are they?
On two legs right there!
Coming right over here!
They’re coming nearer!
we must run, brother!
or may I suggest rather,
into the bucket, brother!
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[428] Of two cubs
Category: Poetry
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[393] Of the 393rd post
I need to sleep well,
but sleep is a waste of time,
so I will sleep late.
I want to sleep late,
but I will wake up late,
damned be dilemmas.
Damned be my eyes,
why cannot it be closed now?
I want to sleep well.
Still open I see,
and I see everything,
I need not see it.
Close I beg you please,
to see sunlight ere I sleep,
is too much to bare.
p/s – the recycling culture in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Funny how the recycling culture opposition asserts that recycling is a waste of money. Pittsburgh city council on the other hand has this to say:
Costa said failing to recycle costs the city money. It’s paid $11 a ton for glass, cans and plastics and $30 a ton for newspaper, Costa said. Statewide, the average cost to take municipal trash to a landfill is about $57 per ton, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection.
Regardless of that, people who think recycling is wasteful usually forget about the main drive behind recycling: it is about reducing waste, not about making money.
And efficiency includes not merely greenbacks but also includes the utility of having a cleaner environment (unless you like an environment comparable to the dumpyard, maybe a cleaner environment is an griffin good for you) to name one. or the utility of having more trees to name two.
pp/s – BusinessWeek is running an issue on global warming. It is long but nothing is new except the part where the article claims the business sector is ahead of the Bush administration in term of policy and technology concerning global warming.
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[346] Of pseudo-harmony
It has been 35 years since the worst racial riot occurred in Malaysia. At least 184 Malaysians were found dead on that day. Wikipedia has a short description of what the May 13 Incident was all about.
Looking back in time, Malaysia has gone far in achieving racial harmony. I can’t deny this but I fear that racial harmony is not enough. The harmony in Malaysia actually depends on the suppression of free speech. This suppression does not solve the racial tension but it merely delays the day when it is supposed to explode.
Because of this, Malaysia actually depends on pseudo-harmony rather than a real harmony.
A real harmony lives without any kind of restriction. A real harmony does not need suppression of free speech. A real harmony does not need a law to impose harmony. A pseudo-harmony on the other hand does need an artificial mechanism to prevent racial tension.
With a mechanism to suppress free speech in place, the underlying reasons that continue to divide Malaysia along racial line will never be addressed properly. The inability to discuss the matter as it should be will be the undoing of the law that tries to impose this pseudo-harmony. Without the ability to discuss on the issue, distrust will always be there because a simple understanding between one and another is simply hard to reach. One cannot understand somebody when that somebody is being silenced.
With free speech, dialogues are possible and the real issues could be addressed without the fear of being detained for committing thought crime by the thought police. Without free speech, Malaysia would never reach a real kind of harmony. With this thought police around, free speech and freedom in general will always be a privilege instead of a right.
As long as free speech is not our right, a real harmony will always be out of any Malaysian in Malaysia grasp. And as long as we live in a pseudo-harmony, we will always recognize ourselves as Malay, Chinese, Indian or God knows what else instead of as Malaysian.
Finally, as we will recognize ourselves along racial line, the next May 13 is bound to happen all over again. It is just a matter of when.
Dikala Sang Suria bangkit,
ku masih lagi berdengkur,
bangkit ku laung bangkit,
tidak mahu ku nanti tersungkur.
Two exams in a day, ten minutes apart is not good, especially when you are a professional procrastinator.
Well, that’s it.
The incumbent won about 9/10; that’s a lot more than 2/3, or taking a little jock, significantly different from 50.1%.
Though I’m glad to see BN won, yet I’m disappointed to see BN won with a total landslide. Malaysians in general still don’t realize the importance of a strong opposition. At least Lim Kit Siang and Karpal Singh are back in action. At least there are some prominent opposition figures in the Dewan Rakyat.
What a week. First it was Russia, then Spain, then Taiwan, Malaysia and after this, it’s France. All five, if I may say so, provide a glimpse of what is going on in this world. The elections in Spain and Malaysia show how the so-called war on terror affects the general population mentality.
The year climax should be held in November. It’s Kerry – Bush.
Roses are red,
violets are blue,
all your base,
are belong to us.
p/s – Israel killed Sheik Ahmed Yassin – Hamas founder!