The 5 Naughty Acts

I cannot help myself. Sometimes, it is too irresistible that some things just have to be done!
So, I'm sharing with you today the 5 naughty things I do when I just feel like it.

A.  Pretend to not having enough coins.

Well, I usually do this with the female toll collectors. Did you guys know there are lots of beautiful toll collector? So sometimes my friends and I would act as if we didn't have enough coins, thus gave us time to talk to her.

B.  The Ghost in the room.

Take the white bed sheet, a little everything-white make up on the face and put on a wig. Hide in the room, waiting for the housemate to come home. And watch the comedy takes place.

C.  Prank call.

Call some of my friends using land-line phones and do a gotcha call on them. Some turned out very funny, some made them very angry. Either way, lots of fun!

D.  The eggs in the shoes


During birthdays. Well, it's a special day for the birthday boy. Instead of flour, put in the eggs in their shoes and see the magic happen.


E.  The Alarm Clock




Attending a best friend's wedding. My friends and I usually give alarm clock and set them for ringing during the "active period". And wait for the call from my friend, scolding us.

Well, sometimes these are some of the things we love to do. Not often, but just for the fun of doing them. No harm done, no extreme acts. Just lots of laugh.

Are you willing to share some of the naughty things you did to your friends? (ekekekee....)

The Stink!

I was watching a movie in the cinema the other day. Yes, when I paid my RM 10.00 ticket, I expected an awesome experience for me. 

Watching movie in the cinema is one of the ways for me to release the stress. Living in the city, I am always, always stressed by the stressful environment!

But as with everything else, not everything can go the way we want them to.

Hitler watching movie in the cinema

What happened?


1.  This dude next to me opened his shoes and the stink coming off from the smelly socks. Oh gosh.
Dude, I know you want to be comfortable. But please, this is an invasion of my privacy! 


2.   The dude in front of me was making a phone call. And darn it, it was freakin' loud.
I just want to grab the phone and throw it as far away as possible. 

Seriously, bro? I mean, seriously?
Do you guys have any uncomfortable and infuriating moments in public?  


Anyway, found this picture on the net today. So cute. Love the picture.

Have an awesome day today!

Where did I ... ?

I was over at Midvalley yesterday for lunch. And of course, there were a lot of parking spaces in the mall. I picked mine. Usually, when I go to the malls, I'll take a picture of the park number just so i don't forget.

But yesterday,

I didn't. 
Luckily it was not a bigger mall. But it was big enough to make me walk around for quite awhile.
I paid the freaking parking ticket and I had only 15 minutes to search!

NOTE TO SELF: Take a freakin' picture! Never take it lightly! 

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Change Vision 2020 to Vision 2100, please.

I was over at Starbucks when I overheard a conversation between a group of friends sitting behind me. They were talking about modernity and the term "being civilized" is largely based on infrastructures alone. They mentioned, other than KL and Penang, the other parts of Malaysia are not as "civilized" due to its lack of infrastructures. 

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It's such a pity that we have come to this, where we judge this based on how many high rise buildings we have. And I must admit, they were not the first that I heard of this narrow-minded views. Even among my friends, they have this same perspective. 
Which is sad.

I don't like our views on being civilized is largely based on infrastructures. Don't take it so simple. Without moral and matured thinking of the people, what's the point of having the tallest building in the world? What's the point of having the most expensive building in the world? What?


Look at Kuala Lumpur. Are we civilized just because we, the urban folks, stay here? I see more lack of moral here than any other place in Malaysia.Look at Tokyo. Look at Dubai. Are the people there civilized? Not really I guess.


I'm not forcing to accept my views. I'm just expressing my disappointment. 


Vision 2020? Maybe we should change that to Vision 2100.We're still very far.Sad reality.

Zombie Attacks!

OK, for this time and this time only, I hope we can play a little bit with your power of imagination.
Now Imagine, you are alone at home. They are zombie outside, looking for fresh victims. Earlier that day, the news were hot with news on zombie attacks in your city.

I always fill my moments of boredom with these kind of thoughts. It's fun.
If it was me, I'll grab the backpack, fill with some foods and take the knife and cooking pan for self-defense. And locate the nearest police station.
Or is it too simple?


Have you thought of yours? Mind sharing?

What's up with the homosexuals?

I don't have a problem with Elton John as a person. I love his songs. 

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But I do have problem with homosexuality. Gays, Lesbians, Transsexuals, Bisexuals.
I've debated about this issue with some other people before who are supporters of the community.

They said that it's human nature and most importantly, there's love between two people irregardless whether they are of the same sex. 

But I cannot stand and watch. It's unhealthy. Yes, I don't like gays and lesbians. I'm not a supporter of this trend. Take note. Don't lecture me on human rights. Please, I'm not going to listen. 

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And parents, you would not want your children to, one day, be like this? No, I don't think so.

How do we stop this trend from continuing?

Beer & Wine served at Starbucks

And no, not all Starbucks outlets, rest assured on that, ladies and gents.
They are doing it over there at Starbucks's home country:


such as Atlanta, Chicago, Southern California and a few other places.

So, they are planning to bring in the beers and wines at the year end.
Actually they are already testing putting the menu at their outlets in Seattle.
They are offering $5 for beers and $7 for wine.

But not everyone is happy with them doing that though. One customer said she's not coming to Starbucks for beers. If she had wanted to, she'd go to the bars.

Another one said, when he thought of Starbucks, he definitely would have never thought of beers.

But Starbucks is doing this to aim at the happy hour audience, as they want to expand the crowd. Well, can see that angle - to expand the crowd, expand profits.

They are already in the market for the morning hours - and then, afternoon hours, so it's now happy hours.

Well, we'll see how it goes.
But of course, I'd have to buy an airplane ticket to go there. 



Be well, ladies and gents.

Image & News source via Los Angeles Times.

How did the Egyptians build the Pyramids?

We humans do have a knack of surprising ourselves, don't we? We've built very tall buildings. We've built very complicated machines to perform experiments. We've landed on the moon. And many other great achievements. But modern accomplishments are clear, are they not? Simply because we can see through videos  or in front of our own eyes how our fellow humans are building them. 

View of the CMS Detector before closure, on August 17th, 2008. (Maximilien Brice; Michael Hoch; Joseph Gobin, © CERN) #

But I like to share, and together we wonder, how the hell did our ancestors built some of the great achievements in the past? 

I mean, there were no sophisticated machines to help them with. Some of the things seemed impossible, even!

What are they?

Well, since there are a lot of them, I am just going for the Pyramid of Giza that still hold me in awe for so many years!

So, as a curious being, I am, I've started to do some serious readings on the pyramid. One of the things that often came up during that session was that, some claimed the pyramid was built by aliens. 

I mean, seriously? I dunno. I've often taken the stance of seeing is believing and there are some things I could believe in, like the concept of religion but aliens building the pyramid around 4 thousand years ago, hmm, that seems very unlikely. 

These alien believers are lunatics. Obsessed with the presence from outer space and coming down all the here to earth to build a freaking pyramid? yeah right. 

I'm definitely dismissing the aliens theory. 

I guess, one who did come up with the theory of aliens who had built the pyramid, concluding to such a conclusion because humans did not have the technology and knowledge to build such a building. 

And the famous perspective, who tend to go for the alien theory is,

Did humans really build the Pyramids?

If you answer yes, please explain how they could have moved stones that weigh over 40 tons to the top?

           via yahoo answer 

From my readings, I can conclude some of the following ways and methods the Egyptians took to build the pyramids, especially Pyramid of Giza - and hopefully this might get you thinking...I will only provide three though. 

1. They have thousands of slaves working on the pyramids

More than 20,000 - 30,000 slaves worked on building the pyramids. And mind you, these men were not as weak as men generally today who have big belly and fat. They were all big and muscular. 

    2.   How they moved the stones to fall in place until the top?

Ramps were built to get them into place on the pyramid and these ramps were built made of mud brick and coated with chips of plaster to harder the surface. 

    3.  Before the stones reached the construction site...

The Egyptians used teams of oxen or manpower to drag the stones to the construction site. 

    

Now, there are those who said the pyramids couldn't possibly have been built by humans because of, well it's pyramid and it would be impossible for them to build them without the proper technology and knowledge.  They added further that there's no way we can build a pyramid like that today - without using the present-day technology. 

But to these people who seemed so naive and seriously misinformed, let's look back and forth. 

Firstly, the Egyptians invented many things that are still used even today. Want to hear some of them? 

papers, eye-make up, pens, high-heel shoes

So my point during that era where the Egyptians seemed to have been very innovative and creative, who's to say they are no knowledgeable to calculate and consider every aspect involve in building the pyramids?

Secondly, we can build the pyramid today but we don't have the resources we need to build them. 

What kind of resources?

Well, as I've mentioned above, the pharaohs needed thousands of people to build the pyramid and mind you, lots of money were involved in building these freaking pyramids. And do we still need a pyramid today? I don't think so. Because it just doesn't fit the purpose. We have to know well why they built the pyramids in the first place. 

So, instead of building a pyramid today, we build very long bridge, very tall buildings, we landed on moons.

Well, that should wrap up for this time. I hope you find this article entertaining as I had fun learning about them! :)

Sources via:

1.     Aliens built the pyramid
2.     The Eloquent Peasant
3.     Science Daily
4.     CERN Structure Image
5.      Wikipedia
6.     Environmental Graffiti
7.     Yahoo Answer
8.     Pyramid Image source

RP: When Did Americans Lose Their British Accents?

Revolutionary War Reenactment Image via Shutterstock

First, let’s be clear: the terms “British accent” and “American accent” are gross oversimplifications. There were, and still are, many, many constantly evolving regional British and American accents. 

What a lot of Americans think of as the typical “British accent” is what’s called standardized Received Pronunciation (RP), also known as Public School English or BBC English. 

What most people think of as an “American accent,” or most Americans think of as “no accent,” is the General American (GenAm) accent, sometimes called a ”newscaster accent” or “Network English.” Because this is a blog post and not a book, we’ll focus on these two general sounds for now and leave the regional accents for another time.

English colonists established their first permanent settlement in the New World at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607, sounding very much like their countrymen back home. By the time we had recordings of both Americans and Brits some three centuries later (the first audio recording of a human voice was made in 1860), the sounds of English as spoken in the Old World and New World were very different. 

 We’re looking at a silent gap of some 300 years, so we can’t say exactly when Americans first started to sound noticeably different from the British.

As for the “why,” though, one big factor in the divergence of the accents is rhotacism. The General American accent is rhotic and speakers pronounce the r in words such as hard. The BBC-type British accent is non-rhotic, and speakers don’t pronounce the r, leaving hard sounding more like hahd. 

Before and during the American Revolution, the English, both in England and in the colonies, mostly spoke with a rhotic accent. We don’t know much more about said accent, though. Various claims about the accents of the Appalachian Mountains, the Outer Banks, the Tidewater region and Virginia’s Tangier Island sounding like an uncorrupted Elizabethan-era English accent have been busted as myths by linguists. 

Talk This Way

Around the turn of the 18th 19th century, not long after the revolution, non-rhotic speech took off in southern England, especially among the upper and upper-middle classes. It was a signifier of class and status. This posh accent was standardized as Received Pronunciation and taught widely by pronunciation tutors to people who wanted to learn to speak fashionably. 

Because the Received Pronunciation accent was regionally “neutral” and easy to understand, it spread across England and the empire through the armed forces, the civil service and, later, the BBC.

Across the pond, many former colonists also adopted and imitated Received Pronunciation to show off their status. This happened especially in the port cities that still had close trading ties with England — Boston, Richmond, Charleston, and Savannah. From the Southeastern coast, the RP sound spread through much of the South along with plantation culture and wealth.

After industrialization and the Civil War and well into the 20th century, political and economic power largely passed from the port cities and cotton regions to the manufacturing hubs of the Mid Atlantic and Midwest — New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, etc. 

The British elite had much less cultural and linguistic influence in these places, which were mostly populated by the Scots-Irish and other settlers from Northern Britain, and rhotic English was still spoken there. As industrialists in these cities became the self-made economic and political elites of the Industrial Era, Received Pronunciation lost its status and fizzled out in the U.S.

 The prevalent accent in the Rust Belt, though, got dubbed General American and spread across the states just as RP had in Britain. 

Of course, with the speed that language changes, a General American accent is now hard to find in much of this region, with New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Chicago developing their own unique accents, and GenAm now considered generally confined to a small section of the Midwest.

As mentioned above, there are regional exceptions to both these general American and British sounds. Some of the accents of southeastern England, plus the accents of Scotland and Ireland, are rhotic. Some areas of the American Southeast, plus Boston, are non-rhotic.

Article source via  Mental Floss
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[R-P] Won $128.8 Million Mega Millions! Jammy Bastard!

Just the other day, I posted about I don't have luck with lotteries. And here we go again, another jammy bastard.  What the - ?

Firstly, they won they checked the ticket on Christmas Day. What a freakin' cool Christmas present!

Secondly, it's worth 128.8 million! Mother of God!

Thirdly, they are giving some to charity. God bless them. 

Fourthly, the owner of the Wesley's Restaurant must be furious he didn't buy the ticket! LOL

Anyway, this is an R-P post. This is something worth sharing.

An impulse buy turned into a big winner for a Pennsylvania couple on Christmas Eve.  While getting beer on Christmas Eve at Wesley’s in Elkton, a Pennsylvania man bought 2 Powerball tickets since the drawing was that night.   On Christmas Day he checked the tickets to find he was a winner – of $128.8-million – the second highest jackpot prize won in Maryland.  The largest prize was a $183-million Mega Millions prize in 2003.  The Pennsylvania couple, who want to remain anonymous, had the only winning ticket on Christmas Eve, but haven’t yet decided if they’ll take the annuity or the cash option.  Wesley’s Restaurant will receive $25,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.  

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(Baltimore) – An excited Pennsylvania couple arrived at Lottery Headquarters today, accompanied by legal counsel, to claim their $128.8 million Powerball prize. The elated twosome, who chose to remain anonymous, had the only winning ticket for the Christmas Eve drawing. The couple’s Quick Pick Powerball numbers of 14, 16, 30, 51, 52 and Power Ball 19, matched all five white balls and the red Power Ball to win the second-largest jackpot ever hit in Maryland. A Baltimore County woman holds the record for the largest jackpot prize in the state with a $183 million Mega Millions win in 2003. 

The lucky Lottery player walked into Wesley’s, a restaurant in Elkton, on Christmas Eve to purchase a case of beer and on his way out happened to see the Mega Millions and Powerball signs. “The Mega Millions jackpot was larger, but the drawing for Powerball was that evening, so I bought two tickets for that drawing,” said the nervous winner. His spur-of-the-moment purchase made for a-once-in-a-lifetime holiday season.

 “I checked my tickets on Christmas day,” said the winner. “When I saw the numbers, I started stomping on the floor and shouted to my wife to come upstairs.” Thinking her husband had dropped something, she quickly ran upstairs to find the Powerball ticket in her husband’s shaking hands. “We were in shock,” she said. “At first, we thought we’d won $20 million. To discover it was over $125 million was unreal.”

The couple has not yet decided whether to take the $128.8 million annuity or the cash option of approximately $81 million. They intend to use some of the prize money to pay off their debts and give to charity. The ticket was purchased at Wesley’s, located at 3700 Telegraph Rd. in Elkton.  Wesley’s will receive $25,000 commission for selling the winning ticket.

Maryland joined Powerball two years ago and has produced two jackpot winners. The first Powerball jackpot won in Maryland was for $108.8 million and was claimed by an Abingdon couple in September 2011.  There have also been 21 second-tier $200,000 Powerball winners since its arrival to the state. Three of these second-tier wins turned into $1 million prizes as a result of the Power Play option.

Beginning Sunday, January 15, 2012, the multi-state jackpot game will double its starting jackpot from $20 million to $40 million. In addition, the second-tier prize will rise from the current $200,000 to $1 million. If a player adds the Power Play option, the second-tier prize automatically doubles to $2 million. The ticket price also changes, moving from $1 to $2 for a single Powerball ticket. The first Powerball drawing under the new game structure will take place on Wednesday, January 18.
The multi-state Powerball game is played in 44 states and jurisdictions. Powerball drawings can be seen locally on Wednesday and Saturday evenings at 11:22 pm on WBAL-TV, Channel 11.  Additionally, results can always be found on mdlottery.com.  

            Since its inception in 1973, the Maryland Lottery has awarded more than $18.73 billion in prizes to players and $12.2 billion in revenue to the State of Maryland. One of Maryland’s largest revenue sources, the Lottery supports important state programs and services including education, public safety and health, human resources and the environment. For more information, go to mdlottery.com.

This article was written by Mari Lou 

 [R-P] Repost article. stories worth sharing.

 

Do you wanna dance?

Am I getting old for spending my time listening to this song? I dunno, I just find it very catchy! You guys should try listenin' to it. So - do you wanna dance? Music! Lights! Camera! Dance!

The World is coming to an end [and we survived!]

Have you come across (in your respective places, anywhere you may be on this earth) and someone would come out with a prediction that the world will come to an end (and some more, coming up with the specific date and time), have you ever come across such cases?

Well, have you guys ever heard of the man called, Harold Camping? If you don't know him, google! Click here. (I'm making it easy for you guys, hoho... )

Anyway, back to the story. So, he predicted of the return of Jesus Christ and the end of the world as we know it. He predicted,

His 2011 end times prediction was that on May 21, 2011 Jesus Christ would return to Earth, the righteous would fly up to heaven, and that there would follow five months of fire, brimstone and plagues on Earth, with millions of people dying each day, culminating on October 21, 2011 with the end of the world. He had previously predicted judgement days on May 21, 1988, and September 6, 1994. - Wikipedia

Interesting enough, May 21st of this year came and passed. October 21? Same result.
Well, this is not the first man to have ever come up with predictions such as that. There are many others that seem to predict the end of our time.

To begin with, does the Mayan and the Mayan calendar ring a bell? The history and backgrounds of the Mayans reached a new height after the released of the movie, 2o12. In the movie, everything comes to an end and mankind has to start all over again after that - after a global destruction as mother earth strikes back.

the Mayans' temple

"Both the Hopis and Mayans recognize that we are approaching the end of a World Age... In both cases, however, the Hopi and Mayan elders do not prophesy that everything will come to an end. Rather, this is a time of transition from one World Age into another.

The message they give concerns our making a choice of how we enter the future ahead. Our moving through with either resistance or acceptance will determine whether the transition will happen with cataclysmic changes or gradual peace and tranquility.

The same theme can be found reflected in the prophecies of many other Native American visionaries from Black Elk to Sun Bear."
— Joseph Robert Jochmans

the movie poster for 2012

So, if you guys want to read more about them, click here. =)
But the Mayans and Mr. Harold Camping here are some of the predictors. Many before came before and between them.

Take a look at this website. It provides us with a very good summary of these predictors. Click.

In any case, if it is the end of the world, I believe (and this is just my honest opinion) that God would not warn beforehand. It can happen anytime and we would not even know about it.

And I have been living with my Muslim friends and based on my observation, the Muslims also believe in the end of the world - called kiamat and there are signs showing that we are coming to an end.

the end of the world

Well, anyway in the mean time, whether you're religious or you're agnostic or you're an atheist, just live well and wishing you guys all the best of luck! =D

But just a quick question, if you ever know TODAY is your last day, what would you with your last remaining hours? What would you do?

Happy Christmas!
& of course,
Happy New Year everybody!

When a rich kid demands what she wants

Suri Cruise Throws Toy Store Temper Tantrum

When a rich kid demands what she wants, by hook or crook, damn it get it for her...or else!




And after awhile, they settled for the to store below. wooo~



Damn it, when I was little, for me to get something is so hard. And if I tried a little too hard, I'd get "boy, get in the car. We're going home"

But back then, because I did not get what I wanted, usually I'd just create my own toys or games, which I believe actually what most kids in the 90's did and what made that whole decade even funner!

ahhh...the childhood. Fortunately I was not that pampered and got everything that I "demanded" else I'll just be a spoil-brat now. Who knows how I would turn to.

Kids today? PS3, Xbox, Iphone, Ipad...geez. They don't play with dolls, action figures anymore. When I have my own kids one day, hell no I'll be giving these sort of luxuries to them!
*evil laugh*



Anyway, Christmas is just a few days away. Have you gotten everything you need for Christmas?

All the best of luck guys!
& Happy Christmas!

Tobacco companies strike back!

In Malaysia, tobacco companies are being told by our government to put graphic warning labels on cigarette packs. Well, it certain raises some eyebrows among the smokers whether this is an effective method to stop people from smoking.



And these companies did adhere to the requirement put forward by the government and today, unless it's a black-market cigarette packs, you would see graphic warning labels on the major cigarette packs such as Dunhill, Malboro, Winston and Salem.

Whether it has helped to reduce the number of smokers in the country, I don't know.

But here, here, I read one news article the other day on the internet, (entitled)

Tobacco Companies Sue Over Warning Labels

In this combo made from file images provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows two of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012.
(USFDA/AP Photo)

I was curious - what could it be? What are the issues? So I read on and apparently, the issue is:

"Four tobacco companies are seeking legal action against the federal government over requirements to put graphic warning labels on cigarette packs."
(www.ibtimes.com)

Now, what do we make of these? And they argued that,

"This is precisely the type of forced speech the First Amendment prohibits," the lawsuit said, which was filed Tuesday in U.S. of the District Court Columbia, MedPage Today reported.

Well, honestly, is the graphic warning labels really work though? From my own observation, smokers aren't really affected by them, seriously. What's more, some of collecting these cigarette packs.

So, is it effective?

To read further, click here.

Happy Christmas.

A letter to RTM

Dear RTM,

And by RTM, I mean TV1 and TV2. Anyway, the reason for this letter is to share what I feel for the channels and what you guys over there at RTM should be doing to solve the issues presented, if ever solved.

I have always watched these channels since I was little back in the 90's. Every weekend, would love to catch up with my favourite cartoons and during school holidays, would watch movies you guys chose to show. And every now and then, there would be the classics of P Ramlee's and then,
sometimes during the weekdays, you guys would show some Kung-fu movies which my brothers and I really loved watching, especially ones where the movies featured Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

But that was before Astro came along. Well, Astro wasn't really a threat to your viewership then because it was still really expensive and most middle-class people couldn't afford to have Astro at home. So, RTM still dominates the televisions back then.

And then, during last decade, Astro has become cheaper and there was a huge rise in subscription among the middle income families and Astro offers a variety of channels, from ESPN, to FOX, to AXN to Astro Ria. With the power of the remote control, we have these channels to choose from! Awesome, isn't it?

Yes, but with that happening, you have lost your viewership drastically, I daresay. I don't know about the older section of the society, but as for my generation, especially those still below their 30's, we RARELY turn to TV1 or TV2 anymore. Simply because your contents are too boring, too government-ish and just becoming more and more irrelevant.

Well, we do tune in to your channels every now and then, but if there's football featuring our national football team. But other than that, I can't say my friends and I watch your channels at all.

Your featured drama? - Boring
Your selection of programme - Lame
Your news programme - you can feel the "lame-ness" of the reporting by the newscaster

I know that RTM is where the government use to mainly voice out their voices, but what's the point in delivering fancy patriotic messages if there's no one watching?

But to be fair, I have always been watching TV3 since my childhood days and I still watch them today. TV3 actually succeed in becoming relevant with the generation-Y.

I'm just saying, if the government is going on full-steam ahead with the ETP/GTP programme, I'd say TV1 and TV2 should also be transformed!

Other than that, both of these channels are wasting away their time running the stations with no one watching.

Thank you.
Happy Christmas

Global warming - to save mother earth or us?

start thinking now...

Global warming, global warming...global warming

Often I see posters and campaign slogans would go on saying, save mother earth. I will not boring you with the effects of the global warming and what does it mean for our future eventually.
If you like, here you can check out the following links.

What is global warming? here
Facts on global warming. here
Globalwarming.org. here
Stop global warming. here

Ok, now let's go back to why I chose to write this post in the first place. The thing is planet earth has been around for billions of years, long before mankind come into existence. And as time went on and on, the advancement of human civilization took place bit by bit - first, we discover how to make fire, and then build proper homes, weapons, trading system and it went on and on until where we are today.

But as we advanced forward, we are also sacrificing our surrounding - just as Saruman needed to burned down the Fangorn forest to develop his armies of uruk-hai (kindly wiki if you're in the dark to what I'm saying here about Saruman).



So, the term global warming came about when mankind continuously developed their civilization aggressively and natural disasters kept occurring. At the same time, the planet's temperature kept on rising.

But

There's a reason WHY i was pointing out that the planet has been in existence for billions of years. Before that, various natural disasters have taken place including the meteor clashed with the planet that had cost the lives of the dinosaurs once upon a time.

What I'm trying to say, the slogan of save mother earth should not be that, but instead save our freaking lives!



When the planet is not a suitable place to live in anymore due to natural disasters that kept on knocking on our daily lives, who suffer the most? The planet - meh, still remain solid. But us? The breathing human? I doubt we can live underwater. Or survive frequent earth quakes.


And with no foods to eat as flora and fauna extinct and lessened in numbers, isn't that the more appropriate slogan?

Think again how each and everyone of us should view global warming from now on. Because the campaign and works to reverse (if possible) the global warming effect, it is to save us!

Think!

Oil & Coal

The art that's come out of the Durban climate conference!

Review this!

A letter to fellow Sarawakians on Gawai Day

Today is the Dayak's Gawai Day actually, the 1st of June. It's actually a harvest festival, for those who are still in the dark about what Gawai really is.However, this year I couldn't make it home due to work commitment but I'd love to write something on behalf of today.

I am a little bit unfortunate to have never experienced gawai as it is supposed to be where all those rituals and many other things involved, in my entire life. I heard my cousins and friends back at their hometowns celebrated it so damn fun, and this has never failed to make me feel jealous!

But of course, it pretty sums up the point of my writing today, which is towards the contributions that my fellow young Dayaks and I could do to rectify this on-going problem of brain drain which does not only affect the development of state but the celebration of Gawai itself.

When I went to my longhouse during Gawai, there were not many people and many of the families that used to be there when I was younger have moved or did not return home.

For the past a decade, I couldn't really feel the festival is being celebrated as I would've loved to see as the families that used to stay in the long house have dwindled in numbers and this got me thinking, is because of migration and lack of economic opportunities there?

How misleading indeed when Sarawak itself is rich with natural resources and many undeveloped lands still waiting to be explored and filled with roads, buildings, neighborhoods, shopping malls, parks etc.

If truth be told, I cannot speak too much on this matter because pointing this out would make me a clear-cut hypocrite considering I am still here working in Kuala Lumpur while writing this article pointing out that my hometown is rich with opportunities?

To make things clear, I never intended to stay here for too long in Kuala Lumpur and in a couple of years time, I do want to return home, in helping out the development there. I seriously hope to see more aggressive growths taking place but in order to accomplish that, the state itself need its best human capital out there, wherever you are.

But, what can we, particular the young ones, do to contribute when we're far from home? I discussed this matter with one of my friends the other day during lunch, coming up with various initiatives to gather up the sarawakian youths here in Peninsular and coming up with an action plan entitled, let's go home.

This is not in any way, asking you to leave your jobs and schools at this moment, today. But let's plan out, carve out the directions in a few years time which give you an ample of time to identify another job or business opportunities back home in Sarawak.

The Kuala Lumpur city is packed with people and growths are positive, so let's put it into a balance and spread the growth elsewhere too. If we are too achieve the things we have dreamed of in our vision 2020, the balance must exist and it cannot be ignored.

So, the let's go home plan is essentially an idea to highlight and share the various opportunities that exist back home and I want to be part of this as well. This rings true even for other young Malaysians abroad, please come home and return to your respective states and contribute in the growth of your homes. They seriously in dire need of you and without you, they cannot grow.

let's go home plan is an idea, of asking all Malaysians to return to their homes and contribute. Let's give it a 5 - 10 years time frame. Even more so, we have 9 more years to go before 2020, right?

Clive

P.S. Happy Gawai. Gayu guru gerai nyamai.

A Liverpool lifted the Premier League cup?

woops! ex-Liverpool more like.

Yesterday was probably the highlight of Michael Owen's carrier when he lifted for the FIRST TIME the premier league cup with Manchester United, NOT Liverpool FC.

And the man himself said, in an interview with MUTV

“As they say, if you can’t beat them, join them. I won a lot of trophies with Liverpool but to win the Premier League is the pinnacle of anyone’s career.

"I’m very proud today. I’ve not played as much as I did last year but we all have to play our part to win the league and it’s been enjoyable, nonetheless.

"I’m really pleased and proud to have played with a great crop of lads and obviously the manager’s second to none.”

Wow! That was a smack in the ass to the Liverpool there, mate! Ouch! XD

On another story, Kai Rooney is so cute weh! XD

Imperialism today

Imperialism today doesn't seem like the conquest that resembled those the likes of Caesar and Alexander 2000 years ago but through layers of masks and controlling the weaker nations' economy.

Next: Libya. After that?

For all it's worth, President Obama couldn't do anything anyway. He's just a puppet just as many other Presidents before him.