{"id":725,"date":"2006-02-02T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-02T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=725"},"modified":"2006-10-09T18:06:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T10:06:05","slug":"723-of-haiku-on-ocean-and-maybe-on-proton-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"[723] Of haiku on ocean and maybe, on Proton too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bid to win <a href=\"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=719\">$20 worth of Greenpeace merchandizes<\/a>. Haiku on ocean! In Malay though:<\/p>\n<p><em>Di ufuk sana,<br \/>\nbiru laut memikat,<br \/>\nmengejar mimpi.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Roughly means, still in 5-7-5 format!<\/p>\n<p>On the horizon,<br \/>\nthe blue ocean calling us,<br \/>\nus, chasing a dream.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, there is a very high possibility that I will travel go to Terengganu next week and lend a hand to a conservation project <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/environment\">(tag)<\/a>. Well, a project cum holidays. I&#8217;m pretty much excited because it&#8217;s been more than ten years since I last bathe in the South China Sea. And sitting by the South China Sea, I will be vomiting more lame haikus for all to suffer!<\/p>\n<p>The only thing I might about travelling to Terengganu is that, there is no rail service. And I don&#8217;t wanna drive either. So, looks like bus for me. Seven hours in a bus won&#8217;t be too kind to my ass.<\/p>\n<p>While in the bus, penning a haiku or two for Proton <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Proton\">(tag)<\/a> might be something to distract me from boredom. Why Proton on all the sudden? Well, instaed of Volkswagen, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20060202\/bs_afp\/japanmalaysiaautomitsubishiprotoncompany;_ylt=Ahw7OMhpEQSZ2qbbEURF6o5vaA8F;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--\">Proton has a new ally; Mitsubishi. Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mitsubishi Motors to form new tie-up with Malaysia&#8217;s Proton<\/p>\n<p>38 minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>TOKYO (AFP) &#8211; Struggling Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors will form a new tie-up with Proton that would help the embattled Malaysian carmaker develop new models, a newspaper reports.<\/p>\n<p>The tie-up will include a technology transfer, mutual supply of auto parts, including engines, and allow Proton to create new models, the Asahi Shimbun reported, quoting unnamed company sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It has only been about about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandsmuseum.com\/cars\/elise\/information\/press\/press\/press2004\/protonsell.html\">two years since since Proton and Mitsubishi<\/a> last decided to part ways.<\/p>\n<p>Proton and Mitsubishi should just marry each other. Enough with the flirting already. Hell, let&#8217;s do one haiku for Proton now.<\/p>\n<p>Hail Mitsubishi!<br \/>\nA setting red giant star,<br \/>\ntrying to save us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bid to win $20 worth of Greenpeace merchandizes. Haiku on ocean! In Malay though: Di ufuk sana, biru laut memikat, mengejar mimpi. Roughly means, still in 5-7-5 format! On the horizon, the blue ocean calling us, us, chasing a dream. Anyway, there is a very high possibility that I will travel go to Terengganu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}