The United States of America is the greatest civilization so far yet. No other nation has the ability to influence the world in the many ways – for better or for worse – though that might change in the near future.
History will judge the United States as history has judged so many others.
Leaving that at that, I wish my American friends (with deepest apologies to South and Central Americans), happy birthday. Happy birthday, America (fuck, yeah).
I’m in the process of writing a long entry, inspired by… As an introduction, I want to share the following quotation by John Kenneth Galbraith (tag):
In economics, the majority is always wrong.
Of course, Voltaire said:
A witty saying proves nothing.
Be right back, in a day or two… if there’s nothing to blog about before I’m done with that long entry.
This is sad. It’s Friday evening, almost 10 PM and I’m still stuck at the 35th floor of one of the Petronas Twin Towers. Worse, Germany-Argentina match will start less than one hour from now.
Anyway, I still don’t have the luxury of time. As such, another photo. I’ve already posted pictures of the clock tower, the Overfloor and the Big Tree at the Malay College. Now, it’s the Big School (tag).
During my time, the Overfloor was painted white. Allegedly, the current colors are the original colors when the building was first erected in 1905.
No real blogging since I can’t find the time to do so. So, here, another photo from the Malay College that I snapped earlier (tag).
It’s fondly known as the Big Tree. Scientifically, it’s Samanea saman.In foreword written by Abdullah Ahmad in MCKK 1905 – 2005: Leadership But What’s Next? by Khasnor Johan, he wrote:
Whenever I look at the pictures of the Big School and the Big Tree, time seems to have stood still. There is always something about them; the school and tree are timeless and seem never to have grown old.
Never? Heh. Not literally.
I don’t have access to Photoshop right now since my desktop is messed up at the moment. So, I have limited ability to improve the picture digitally. That sucks in so many ways.
…to the “I hate Italian soccer” club. Henceforth, we’re brothers, forming a common front against Italian soccer!
I hope Ukraine will wack those wanking cheaters, just like how the English are going skin the Portuguese alive (tag). God save the Queen!
I have a “those that are worthy for the second round but failed to make the cut” list. Now, I doing a new list – those that aren’t worthy for the quarterfinal but by deceit, makes it. And there is only one in it. Guess which team is that.
And yeah, I’m still bitter.