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Category: Politics & government
After 22 years, Dr. Mahathir’s retirement is fast approaching. In fact, he will step down from the leadership post in less than 12 hours from now.
Though there are a few things that I don’t agree with him, I nevertheless must thank him for everything he had done for Malaysia. Without him, Malaysia wouldn’t be one of the most properous and modern nations in Asia. Without him, Malaysia would have possibly shared Indonesia and the Philippines’ fate.
A tribute to Malaysia’s fourth Prime Minister and perhaps, the best Malaysian leader yet.
p/s – My name will be included in UbiSoft and Cyan Worlds‘ credit list as one of the Uru beta testers. The best thing is, my name will be listed for public viewing on a major game developer’s site. Talk about 5 minutes of fame! FYI, the game that I was involved with is Uru, a sequal to the famous Myst.
Due to Dr. Mahathir’s “Jews rule the world by proxy” speech, the US Senate has agreed to restrict a total of $1.2 million in military aid.
Just a point here, Malaysia’s GDP is measured in billion.
And guess what, ball pen does work in space. Apparently, the “Russian used pencil story was a hoax”. However, the million dollar pen, known as Fisher pen, does exist. Read all about it here.
p/s – Anybody that plays with fire alarm should be amputated.
A few days ago, Governor Jeb Bush of Florida saved a life. Though his action came a little bit too late from my point of view, nevertheless he technically saved a life. And I doubt his action should be appreciated.
I believe each one of us have the right to freedom, with some limitation of course. In doing so, I also believe a person has the right to choose between life and death for themselves. However, I believe Morpheus sucks. Err, I mean, it takes courage to live a life, to take up new challenges as each new day is given another chance of sunlight.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t consider suicide committer as a coward. Quite on the contrary, it takes tremendous amount of courage to take one’s own life. It’s just that, unlike living a life, committing suicide is essentially the epitome of giving up. But then, it is not my right to decide what’s and what’s not when it comes to such a philosophical issue. Everybody has their own opinion. So in the end, one’s direction must be decided by oneself after all opinion considered.
Respecting freedom, I cannot impose my belief on anybody else (unlike those Taliban and other fundamentalists. And also the communists. It’s amazing how some Malaysians strongly advocate for a total Islamic law for the mass while at the same time they themselves lament the US domination over the Muslim world. Human hypocrisy is endless).
The life that Jeb Bush (the brother of the infamous Georgie Bush) saved, is suffering from a permanent brain damage. Terri Schiavo has been in vegetative state since 1990 and her life now depends on machines.
Life seems hopeless for her and she, according to the media, has expressed her desire to die.
I have no quarrel with her decision but the way the doctors handle the case is much left to be desired. Of all the methods available, they chose to pull her feeding tube. This is an inhumane act.
Depriving her from the feeding tube simply means starving her to death. Of all the methods available, from overdose of morphine to lethal injection, why starvation?
Florida legislature should have prevented the starvation earlier than later. Understandably, the red tape prevented them from acting swiftly.
Seven days into the case, she was almost dying and without doubt got through the pain. Then magically, the state legislature finally got rid of the red tape and reinstated the tube for Terri. Again why?
The action would be welcomed if it were done earlier but she was almost there. And now her seven days struggle came to nothing. Imagine how she would feel?
No. Better yet, how would you feel if you were in a car race, you were on the first spot and you almost crossed the finish line. And all the sudden, your engine failed and you ended up a mere meter from the end?
After all effort, in the end you ended up last; in the end, it doesn’t even matter. How would you feel?
China is planning to launch a manned space mission next week and to say that I am not surprised will be an utter lie.
Almost everybody received a slap in the face once China announced it. The shock came not as jealousy but as pure unexpected development. Of course, China and a few other countries such as Japan have declared their intention of joining the elite space-faring group in the past few years. However, most people would have placed a bet on Japan as the next nation to experience zero gravity; few had anticipated China.
Though I am delighted to hear China’s intention, I feel China is taking too fast a step at a time.
The announcement came barely two weeks before the actual planned launch date. Furthermore, according to the Chinese press, the candidate for the taikonout (or taikonouts but essentially, an equivalence of cosmonaut and the astronaut) was (or were) chosen a few months (it might be just weeks) ago. Usually in the US, it takes the pilot and the crew months of training before undertaking such mission. Although the public is given the impression that China is prepared, I doubt the pilot, or the crew is. Worse, China has conducted only four unmanned space missions with its Shenzhou IV craft.
Thus, I come to a conclusion that though this is a great development to reignite the space race, it is merely propaganda at work. If you don’t believe me, consider this one fact – the launch will somewhat coincide with the Communist Party assembly of which opened yesterday. At the same time, the assembly is being held in closed door in secret. No significant news has leaked yet. Perhaps the announcement came in as a distraction, to sway the public away from the current political development.
In any case, I wish China the best of luck. I wish China’s space program doesn’t suffer the same setbacks as the American, the Russian, the European and the Brazilian had suffered in the past.
p/s – Congratulations to the Badgers for screwing up the Buckeyes. The Buckeyes deserve the loss. And to the Golden Gophers, maybe next year. LOLROTF.
35 – 38! Keep on dreaming, babeh! Dream very hard!