Seriously...

ZIMA
I just had a conversation with a friend who started working a few months ago:

Ronin: Apa citer ko terbaru? Ada apa2 yg interesting?

Mat Awang: You mean #######? Awesome!

Ronin: ic...

Now for a few months whenever I chat him up in the YM, typically that's how our conversation would start. Welcome to the working world mate!

Seriously...

Updates: 26/7/2008

ZIMA
Politically all is quiet for now. Except for the "alternative newspapers and web portals" (read: slander news; take it or leave it :p) the front page of all major newspaper in Malaysia seems to revert back to news before the Anwar Sodomy Investigations with the actual investigation is still going on but that seems not to garner the attention of newsmen all over the country (well, not yet anyway). Either its the calm before the storm or the storm is in its calm mode, as long as the Altantuyaa and Anwar cases haven't been resolved it is going to brew for quite a while.

Meanwhile day by day the Bar Council seems to shed its neutrality and going on along the opposition's highway. One advise to them: Members that have political leanings to either side should stop being a member and join the political parties. I don't understand much but the impression seems to be that the Bar Council should be neutral as it represents the lawyers all over and lawyers shouldn't take sides professionally accept then they are involved in their cases. I don't care if in personal they favor one political party or another, but if you are in your lawyer professionalism mode, please refrain from issuing political statements. It's misleading and give all lawyers bad impression.

For fuel users out there, this might be a good news: Hydrofuel. From what I've read and heard, the hydrofuel concept is the addition of water in fuel to assist in more efficient burning. Using a powerful sonic wave emitter, water is split to it's molecular level ie. hydrogen and oxygen which will then be used in the combustion process. It is touted to save fuel consumption by 50%. Because it is still new and the explanation is still unclear (or I haven't read as much as I thought :P) for starters have a look at the company's website that's developing the system in Malaysia: Hydrogen Fuel Industries (M)

All and all everything seems to be quite so far, but you'll never know...Just wait and see :)...

Thinking about...

zima
New workplace, new target...Ah, that's typical of me. Persoalannya adakah aku patut ambil langkah lain dari yang sebelum ini atau buat benda yang sama jer? Sebelum nih memang definitely tak jadi walaupun ada jugak ler perkembangan; but at least better, much better than anything before. Maybe apa yang aku tunggu sekarang adalah signal yang clear supaya aku boleh mulakan langkah seterusnya. Or should I start practice aggressive approach right now? Seeing how passive approach or no approach at all that I practiced all this while didn't yield any results...

Well, the moment to get serious will be in about 2 years time so it's quite a dilemma...

The Malaysian Social Contract

ZIMA
I've always been a firm believer of the Malaysian Social Contract agreed by our forefathers before independence. I've said this and I will never stop saying such:

"The Malays have been here for thousand of years as we are the people of this land here. We're as legitimate as the Indians to India or Chinese to China. Therefore we have no basis to abolish the supremacy of the Malay rules and with this responsibility, we will try our best to be fair to other races and religion and will try to keep this country as harmonious and multicultural as possible. To all skeptics out there, you won't be able to find another fair country like Malaysia"

For those who still don't understand what I am trying to convey here or the concept the Malaysian Social contract, here's an excellent explanation by the ex-PM of Malaysia, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, which by the way, inspired this short article.

Why I am what I am today, politically...

ZIMA

I used to be someone who has very little interest in politics. In fact, I don't even care about the elections and even though I was very interested in history (reading from books not learning from teachers mind you. And more to international history than local mind you again :)) my interest is more to historical warfare, battles and such, never for the numerous politic articles in the book.

Then came the year 1998. It was the year where Malaysia hosted the Commonwealth Games (I was touched by songs inspired by the games, I kid you not! :P), a Proton Perdana entered our life (ok, that was a little on the personal side but I remembered many moments of 1998 because of that car) and the most famous; the sacking of Anwar Ibrahim; Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister and touted by the West as the next Man of South East Asia.

A short historical summary on Anwar Ibrahim. He was an MCKK student, more to the Islamist activist side. There were many issues championed by him and he cause quite a ruckus to the government of the day by his activity as he was the stauch supporter of the People Power Movement (no doubt influenced by his admiration of the Philippines People Power Movement). All is well for Anwar Ibrahim, for some thought that he will be the champion of this kind of movement and lead the oppositions to the end. The inevitable happens. He was recruited into UMNO by Dr. Mahathir (Dr. M) and jump ranks at astonishing speed and retain the post of Deputy Prime Minister at the tender age of 50 (+ -). I still remember an Asiaweek article about his private life (everyday jobs, family life) and to tell you the truth, I used to respect the man. Here is a young Malaysian leader who has attained the rank of DPM and was both respected by the West and adored by the Islamic nations for his moderate Islamic ways.

But again, all is not well for Anwar Ibrahim. He was sacked by Dr. M (the man who literally brought him up politically) under the account of corruptions and sodomy. It all began when a man decided to write a book called "50 Reasons Why Anwar Cannot Be Prime Minister". Anwar used his power to obtained an injunction to stop the sale of the books and this resulted in the public (to entice people to buy certain products, try banning them :P). Police reports were made against him, investigations started and the rest is history. At first, I believe that he was innocent, but his later actions made me think twice and stick with my stand, until today.

Back to my political activeness, the Anwar Ibrahim case made me what I've become today; politically. Some friend who dubbed themselves Islamist was very vocal in their support for Anwar Ibrahim and against Dr. M and the government. At first, I didn't care at all. Support Anwar and hate the government for all I care. Do what your heart tells you but leave me alone. Then it started. Friends questioned my political belief. Trying to argue with me about the current political issues and on why I supported the government. At first I stave them off as gentle as I can. Every taunts I answered as nicely as possible and try to reasons as positive as I can. However, something in me snapped. If this is the way they wanted, I would fight fire by fire rather than by water. I started to be as sarcastic as I can when arguing and I not only defended myself, but start attacking as well.

And this continues until today, where so far I have "waged war" in Yahoo! groups, other blogs, Facebook and even Friendster. But come to think of it, many of my posting of opinions and writings were intended to defend the action of the governments and merely to counter unproven accusations that I felt harmful. After all, people are susceptible to hearsays and many tends to believe what they heard or read wholeheartedly news that come from unproven resources and many, too many of the accusations against the government have no basis or credibility.

This I believe has became the basis of my fight; to educate and open up people mind so that they will not accept anything that they heard or read without first investigating the sources or the true story.

The Best Damn Thing...

AL


Avril Lavigne's latest catchy single. Enjoy :)

Desktop refreshner...

AL

In light of Edz's posting here, I also did some modification to my desktop. Now take a guess. Is this a Vista or some other abomination? Thanks Edz, you've revitalized my desktop. And Rexx too, for giving me the idea of the wallpaper auto-changer.

P.S- Alamak, kantoi lagu...:P

Notes - The topmost image is what my desktop looks like now. I'm using Google Desktop and Stardock. Niceee...