Freedom and Immorality

Neuhaus (Some dude who wrote some article about The Changing to Islam for TIME Magazine a few weeks ago) made the most important point of all when he said;

"Mosques proliferate (grow) throughout cities in the West, while any expression of non-Islamic religion is strictly forbidden in many Muslim countries,"

No matter what moral failures we find in the "Christianized" West, people have the freedom to exercise their faith and religion. For people to be deprived of that freedom in Muslim countries is blatantly immoral.

James E. Ruark
Kentwood, Michigan, U.S.

TIME Magazine, 25 December 2006 - 1 January 2007

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If you've read my previous post about the Worthy 8, each individual processes whatever we read differently and personally. To be put in context, the word Freedom and Immoral hit me more than any other words in the article commentary above.

I'm not that a religious person. No. Yet, I like religious issues because it touches the most sensitive part of the human civilizations. 1+1=2. You punch that dude, he'll get hurt. You want a BMW instead of a Proton, you have to take out more money from your bank account. These series of action and consequences, as our mind can comprehend as common sense, doesn't work the same concept when it comes to religious issues. There are different Dos and Don'ts in different religions and having to live in this world of globalization, other religions beside our own might affect our perceptions and common senses in living our lives. However, I will not elaborate more on this religious thinking of mine. I want to type more about Freedom and Immoral, which is not that far different actually.

Freedom. I have a very limited knowledge about how much freedom we have in Malaysia in practising different religions. Apparently, there are contradicting policies between the goverment's federal constitution and the Islamic laws practised in Malaysia as the official religion.

"In today's world, scepticism, secular humanism and scientific progressivism has made religion unattractive,"
-Dr Syed Alwi Ahmad-

Globalization. A cartoon strip from Denmark can be read by a Taliban boy in Afghanistan. An 8 years old Swedish can learn about Malaysian Federal Constitution under Article 11 regarding citizen's freedom on religion from the desk inside his own house. A boy can learn about his crush's favourite food, or even her phone number, just by clicking on her profile on Friendster or MySpace. Awesome. This is the information age where the supply of knowledge is massively accessable and its growth throughout the century is faster than the demands by humanity. Hence, the price for knowledge drops in the information age economy. Are we taking this for granted? Through this information age, secular humanism seems to be a popular agenda whether we like it or not. We live in this information age and apparently media has the power to influence our secular humanism. What we read, what we watch and what we listen to. This is the freedom that we're having. Freedom of speech. Freedom of learning. Many people are taking advantages from this freedom; let it be the provider of information or the seeker of information. People don't like when their freedom are put into court, questioned and jeopardized. Thus, secular humanism grow stronger. Freedom is overrated. Blerhh.

Immoral? Well, it's pretty much covered by the previous paragraphs. It's a very subjective issue and yeah, who are they to tell us that what we're doing is immoral? There are parts of the world that permit weeds, drugs, sex and many others. Religion is the one who usually tells us whether what we're doing is right or wrong. Having to live in Malaysia, I find apostasy is one of the trickiest issue questioning freedom and immorality.

I just read an article regarding apostasy. The thing is, I celebrate the freedom of people. Yet, apostasy opposes to this idea and I dare not to question the morality of my religion-Islam. Liberalism is not always the solution for everything. However, Malaysia is a unique country of many races and religion. Having Islam as the official religion, the country holds a tremendously difficult task to pioneer a new political ideology for having these multi-racial citizens of many strength and influences. Apostasy challenges the idea of freedom and immorality. What is it in here that is benefit for me? The issue that challenges your conscious perceptions. I'm not talking about apostasy. I'm not interested to state which side I'm on or think the justification of this issue. I'm interested on this idea of having our common senses questioned. I like the thought of having tolerance of a new idea. Reduce scepticism. However, as I always like to remember; it is okey to be creative and invents many ways of thinkings. There are reasons why there are many mazhabs in Islam exists in this world. Thus, we can always return back to our Holy Book of al-Quran so that we won't get that carried away.

Again, this is what I think. What is good for me is not necessarily good for you. However, there is this possibility that it is. Welcome to the casino of life.

Approaching New Year 2007

This is taken from Friendster's Bulletin Board. Some people posted them and I find it interesting for my own introspection.

RENDITIONS OF THEN AND NOW

Note : 5 years ago I was 16 switching homes between STAR Ipoh and Bandar Baru Bangi. Now I am 21 studying in Wellington and come back home a lot less than before. 5 years later I would be 26, somewhere.

1. Personality

5 years ago : I picked that single favourite character and tried to be like one
Now : I'm already in that character and try to think of what's in there which'd be important to me and what's not; throw away some rubbish and experiments with a few upgrades.
5 years later : I'm still upgrading, wishing by that time I'm quite certain that I'm on the right track

2. Location

5 years ago : Ipoh / Bandar Baru Bangi
Now : Wellington / Bandar Baru Bangi
5 years later : Wellington / Bandar Baru Bangi hehehehe

3. Status

5 years ago : Single. I think
Now : Solo
5 years later : Loser

4. Style

5 years ago : Stereotypes wannabe
Now : Stereotypes wannabe
5 years later : Cool gila babi

5. Hobby

5 years ago : Basketball, Music, Art
Now : Basketball, Music, Art
5 years later : Basketball, Music, Art

6. Job

5 years ago : Pelajar
Now : Tauira
5 years later : Student

7. Favourite food

5 years ago : Many
Now : A few
5 years later : Getting more fussy as I grow older

8. Favourite brand

5 years ago : Except Adidas
Now : Except Adidas
5 years later : Except Adidas

9. Hangout spot

5 years ago : Taman Cempaka, Ipoh
Now : The best mapley in the world
5 years later : Bangi Square hahahahah

10. Pet

5 years ago : Timon the cat
Now : Putih the cat
5 years later : Kutupiaumiau the magic cat

11.Mobile phone

5 years ago : Siemen ape ntah
Now : Nokia ape ntah ni
5 years later : Samsung ape ntah kot

12. Website

5 years ago : www.star.edu.my
Now : www.studentvuw.ac.nz
5 years later : www.yahoo.com

13. Music

5 years ago : Ilmu Panduan Hidup
Now : Sheila Majid and anything fusing upbeat jazz and broadway. Best.
5 years later : Dangdut. Irama Malaysia.

14. TV Shows

5 years ago : Nope
Now : Humor
5 years later : CNN

15. Hair

5 years ago : Schoolboy's short
Now : Varsity student's short
5 years later : Abang macho short

16. Weight

5 years ago : 60+ kilos
Now : 70+ kilos
5 years later : 80+ kilos assuming from the pattern

17. Transportation

5 years ago : Bus
Now : Mommy's car
5 years later : Batmobile

18. Phobia

5 years ago : Ntah
Now : Ntah
5 years later : Not that I'm not afraid of anything. Just I'm quite ignorant about this part.

19. Breakfast

5 years ago : Not so healthy stuffs
Now : Healthy stuffs
5 years later : Healthier stuffs

20. Goal

5 years ago : Successful
Now : Ala ngam-ngam la
5 years later : As long I'm still alive and surviving, I'm grateful. Loser.

Curiosity Kills

Please follow the instruction given.

Talking Crap

I love to shit at home. I don't have that much problems with public toilets but I just have this very special comforting familiarity with the toilet at my home. The arrangement of its systems; the sink, source of water pipes, toilet bowl, tissues, rubbish bin, etc are just fantastic. Plus, there's this lovely air refreshener, lavender, which really soothe the shit out of me. I grew up doing stuffs in this toilet so yeah I'd been developed into the ergonomics comfort of its architectural design. Wow!

WARNING: The next paragraph is rather disturbing and may offend some people to a certain extent. Read with cautious and preferably, after you have your meal. No, it's not like medicine where you take it 3 times a day after every meal, but it is bitter and not that well liked by many. Otherwise, please enjoy!

Here's a tale of my awesome shitting experience. The story starts with that cool feeling once the skin of the bottom ass touches the rim of the cold toilet bowl. Let it be for a few seconds to digest in the deep inner delight. I pick up the rubber water hose next to me and start shooting some water between my thighs while I shit myself. Press the thumb against the mouth of the rubber pipe to apply pressure so that it will increase the acceleration of the water coming out from it. The feeling once the sharp shots of water hits the bottom of the ass, while you continuously shit yourself, I tell you, is priceless. The hard pressure from the water improves the flowing movement of the shitting process. Thus, when shitting speed increases, the smooth gush gives such comfort which is similar to the feeling you have when you're urinating. "Ahhh~" That's it. That feeling. However, don't start comparing with when you're experiencing diarrhea. The more watery process does not give the same kind of comfort when you're urinating. Shitting is quite unique in this part. It can't be too liquidated nor even too solid. It needs to be in that certain density where it can produce a comfortable projection when it reach to the end of the laxation process and out into the sewage system. It's hard to explain but it's rather pretty shitty business.

No matter how hectic your life is, when you reach the toilet bowl, your time will slow down. Universal world starts to catch up back with you as you yourself may start to grasp the things around you, even to the detail of the sound of the splashing water when the nuclear bomb is dropped. "Kabooshh!" Yes. That harmonic sound. Many profound thinking came from the toilet. Indeed, I thought of this entry when I'm in one, my own toilet.

Worthy 8

I like forwarded e-mails. Although sometimes it's rather irritating whenever my messenger kept unnecessarily alerting me for some of those bullshit stuffs, I'd still like to enjoy the benefit from forwarded e-mails. Sarcastic. No I'm not being one at the moment.

Probably, most of the time, out of 100 forwarded e-mails, 10-20 of them might be useful and relevantly beneficial for me to have a look. Apparently, that's about how much the same we get in lecture or class lessons, unless you're geek so sue me because I'm cooler than you. Being cool and stupid. No, I don't want that. Anyway, without any proper reference or research background to back me up here, humans attention in a educational lectures only last up to 30-40 minutes. No, the ADD and ADHD dudes are not included in this no-basis-theory of mine. Anyway, afterward, the input mechanism of the brain starts to subside and our mind concentration towards a focused subject, which is the source of education, starts to weaken. Hence, we start to think of something else, choose some alternate activities or worse, fall into sleep. Furthermore, out of the most possible 40 minutes attention span, each human might take only up to 10-20% from the time period. Meaning, only 8 minutes out of the 40 minutes of the lecture will be considered as relevant and useful to them.

No, I'm not implementing that you just should spend only 8 minutes in the lecture hall and buzz off. Unless, you yourself wish to do so, yeah feel free to skip lectures. Thus, you'll lose chances and opportunities in education, get stupid, become a moron, fail exams, extent subjects and graduate late so then yeah fewer of you in the job search race would give me the better odds in getting myself one.

The 'Worthy 8', as what I like to call it, does not come in the continuous 480 seconds basis. It may spread along the 40 minutes lecture in minor seconds and accumulates up to the quality 8 minutes of the time. Thus, you have to focus for the whole 40 minutes to gain the 'Worthy 8'. Once you dream off something else or for asleep in lectures, you'll lose parts of these 8 minutes or worse, you'll end up with nothing. You may never know when opportunity of this 'Worthy 8' strikes. However, this theory only applies onto the ability of humans own concentration to vocal education transfer. When you start taking notes or use sound recording methods to learn, those are just some additional learning aid to boost up your input capability. Technology. Yes, notepads and pencils are considered as technology as well. Don't put all the blame on the invention of televisions and electronic microwaves. It's the progress of humanity in advancement to make life's much more easier. Pencils help us to write down things. Back then people had to carved on rocks. Imagine having to write a 1000 words essay in 2 hours on carving stones.

Anyway, back to the main issues, whatever that was, the human brain chooses for us what we like to learn about. Each of the brain individually processed the information around especially for us, uniquely and personally. The individuality of us enhances the brain to comprehend different things at different values and thus, the diversity among people exists. Imagine, in the 40 minutes of lecture, 2400 seconds of vocal education transfer, as each seconds value differently to different people, there are about millions of combination to accumulate up to the 'Worthy 8' for each individuals!

"Humor is the timeless antidote to life. The beauty of our humanity is that we are imperfect. It is our imperfections and our idiosyncrasies that make us such a wonderfully unique species,"
-Tan Sri Dato' Professor Dr Lim Kok Wing-

I just read in my past forwarded e-mails collection: "A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change and she does." Funny. I hope you enjoy it as well.

Shit Happens

I write an average of 400-500 words per post- recently, at least. Any less than that would make it seems worthless.

There you go. 1036 words today. Shit happens. Don't forget to clean it up afterward.

photo taken from www.deviantart.com

Mentah

The first step. It's the step that you take before you have another few of them afterward. Where are you going?

Changes. I'm not that fond of changes. Not that I'm not good at it or at least I do think so. Just that there are times that a dramatic leap is not always the best way to attract ratings in action movies. Yet, a moment of hesitant can cause the hero the life of his own, or worse, the life of the beautiful sexy heroin, who he yet haven't managed to charm the pretty lady into his cradle of love. Such loss. For me, hesitant had caused me many losses of opportunities, which may bring major changes in my life, probably for the better, or so I like to believe. Maybe I should have been more certain in things, make quick decision and take it like a man. Well, not that I've been taking these kinds of things like a woman. Boy, perhaps.

Mentah adj. 1. callow (-er, -est); 2. immature and inexperienced; 3. crude (-er, -est); 4. not cooked; 5. not yet processed or manufactured.
-Kamus DwiBahasa Oxford Fajar-

Nonetheless, I've chosen my path so far and I'll swallow this consequence and God bless, I'll make the best out of it. Experience, whether it's good or bad or terrible, is always worthwhile to have. Have I learnt anything from these experiences? Would I make the same unnecessary act of hesitance when my life and near-death is depending on it? Something about repeating the same mistake is that, you feel the same stupidity twice. Stupid². Although, somehow when instead I repeat the same smart thing to do, I actually gradually feeling stupid anyway. Tricky. The more you learn, the more you'll realize how stupid you are. I couldn't recall where I got this, but from here, it just means that you learn more when you do mistakes. Nice theory.

The more you learn, the more you'll realize how stupid you are

People often change. They change throughout their lives and to them; they change for the betterment of themselves or for the benefit of others. Even so, most of time, it's for a good cause. For a smaller part of the time, they were just bored. I would like to change. It just seems that I needed one. However, changes start from the first step. I have some issues about this first step to be taken. What do I wear? Socks are not that comfortable. I have yet find a proper pair of walking shoes and we're now talking about the first step? Scary.

A Good Night

It was that moment of the night, when the purity of the inner self came to visit the hectic body, whom it soul was drifted through the channels of life commitments. I grabbed the car keys in the drawer near the kitchen. There were food and drinks in the refrigerator. No, I just needed to go out.

I thought I could use a can of Dutch Lady's Ice Latte: Vienna Coffee. It's been my favourite drink since as far as I can ever remember. 7-Eleven is just about 3 minutes drive from my house. Maybe I should stop by.

"Hello, selamat malam, .. eh, petang?" the cashier confused herself as she giggled and may thought it was cute.

The thing is, she was cute. The nametag on her red uniform shirt told me her name was Sufina. Beautiful name. Sweet smile. Although I knew it was that smile of a 7-Eleven cashier to a customer. Ahh, f**k it. It was warm and nice and I loved it. I was the only customer there. "Yey!" I yelled silently. Well, it was 1:20am. Go figure. I wandered around the store prolonging my visit there as my eyes kept finding hers. Yes, she was looking at me as well. Although, I did thought that because she might just being worried if I gonna steal stuffs, rob the store or something. She smiled. She must be scared. Nice.

"Ada apa-apa lagi?" she sweetly asked since I only came up with a can of drink after those prolonged adventures at the back of the tropical jungle of 7-Eleven. I just smiled. I wished I could have come up with something smart enough just to make a good first conversation. I slowly reached for my wallet in my pocket. I tried to delay every seconds I could afford thinking of ideas I could use. Her eyes roamed around elsewhere probably giving me privacy on counting my small change of coins. The brain could not tolerate the amount of short time given to bloody flirt with the cashier. "Terima kasih. Datang lagi," I walked away from the store. Nothing. I loathed myself. Every bit of steps towards the car were like regrets stamping on the streets marking my ever-amazing failure. I drove back home. I cursed all the way. Repeatingly the same stuffs. I don't have that much ideas for bad words. Got home. Threw the keys into the bowl. Locked the doors. Grabbed the remote and reached for the sofa. I opened the can of my favourite drink, took a sip and it tasted great!

Well, the truth is, I did made a conversation. I even got her number. Ahh, should I message her now?

When the Brain Tricks You

What is good for you does not necessarily means it is good for me.

"Em-pir'i-cism n. 1. The view that experience, especially of the senses, is the only source of knowledge."
-www.thefreedictionary.com-

This apparently seems to not only be the problem among philosophers, but within our social conduct as well. Empiricism. Sounds a bit too much or almost redundant for many people to find some bit of effort to learn it meanings. I can simplify this.

"I think it is correct and what you think is wrong,"

Well, empiricism in this matter is that people tend to believe what they see, listen, smell and touch. It's not that it is wrong to do that but there's this line dividing the sceptics and the non-sceptical people. Okey, of course when you see the ball is round, it is round, or is it really? Well, lets leave this part of philosophy right there because I'm confused myself.

Anyway, the point of this theory is that what you think is right does not necessarily apply to everyone else in this world. Say, to the simplest occasion, when he tastes the food is delicious, does not mean that it is delicious to his pretty brunette date too. Although, there's this high possibility she might enjoy the food as well but lets play with the small odd we have here. Most of the time, there is always this possibility, big or small, that you are wrong in what you think. I'm not demotivating you to decide on anything afterward. Just that there are times people are so stubborn that they can't open their minds to accept suggestions or opinion of others. Arrogance. Ego. Prick. Bastards. Well, they are many kinds of these people. It's even worse when tolerance and understanding can't be achieved and thus war occurs. Well probably not to that extreme but you get the idea. The point is, how far you are willing to tolerate with this many kind of people? You do understand that different people led different ways of life thus their perceptions fall under many vary angles which may be far from your tolerance of logical thinking. Crime can be justified. Lawyers are trained for this. That boy murdered that dude. Why? Because if he didn't, that dude might kill 10 others. For many parts of the world, that boy will be safe in his trial of justice. However, there this small odd that the boy is going to the court where he will be sentenced to death. Are you living in this small part of the world?

Nonetheless, you can believe whatever you want to believe. It's your choice to do decide on what you want to do on anything. There's always this power of persuasion that you can convince people around you that you are right and they should follow your way of thinking. What works for you might work for many other people as well. Arguments are suppose to be objected to achieve the betterment of the discussion, not winners. We always want to improve our lives. Day to day from here to there. What should we see? Is it okey to listen to that? How do you know when you made the right decision? Putting your foot down and deal with the consequences. In some thoughts, there are right and wrong decisions. Nonetheless, many times its just either right and left path to choose from. Deal with the consequences. I'd rather live in a way I am certain than living in confusion. Mysterious is cool but there is limit.

What do I think? I think we should learn to understand each other and tolerate every bit of annoyance people do. There's very small need for us to yell at anyone in the burst of irritation. Do remember that loud noise is a kind of pollution. Nonetheless, be sensible. I like the principle of Wasatiah in Islam. The balance. Don't overdo things. We all know we shouldn't be reckless but don't overdoing it by being a paranoid. We should be understanding but don't be too much of accepting. Ahh, thus there you go my definition of Wasatiah. I do want to remember one thing; it is okey to be creative and invents many ways of thinkings. However, there are reasons why there are many mazhabs in Islam exists in this world. Thus, we can always return back to our Holy Book of al-Quran so that we won't get that carried away.

Again, this is what I think. What is good for me is not necessarily good for you. However, there is this possibility that it is. Welcome to the casino of life.

You know what? Humour is often the best antidote in life. There's this KL International Buskers Festival around Kuala Lumpur between 2 and 10 of December 2006. Check it out!

AGLOCO: Own The Internet

OWN THE INTERNET

Whenever you are online, either surfing, blogging, clicking on an ad, making a purchase, all the money generated by your activities is pocketed by a small number of players. At AGLOCO they say not anymore!

AGLOCO is a global community, whose owners are its Members (you and potentially the millions of internet users out there). Their goal is to capture a significant portion of the value generated by our online activities and return it to Members in cash. Best of all, it is totally free, Members will NEVER have to pay anything, nor will they have to disclose ANY personal information!


HOW IT WORKS

How does this work? Once you sign up on their website, when available you will be able to download the Viewbar software, a free toolbar-sized application (half the size of a traditional Windows tool bar) that quietly sits on your desktop without ever hampering your online habits. That's all you need to do! Just continue using the Internet as you used to and no need to change your habits!

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There are different ways AGLOCO can make money for its Members:

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* Shares: In addition to cash, AGLOCO will give out shares in the company to its Members. Eventually, AGLOCO plans to go public and will be traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM. You can start earning stock options by keeping Viewbar active while you surf. In addition, you will gain extra shares by referring active users to AGLOCO (they lose nothing). Click here to see the calculator.

The more people join AGLOCO, the more value the community can generate for itself. The company believes those that build the community deserve more: your own profits become larger the more people you refer. You can accumulate hours not only from your Internet activity but also from those who you refer, and their referrals too, say to 5 levels underneath you! For example, if you refer 10 people and all of them refer 5 people each, you could make over 7000 shares a month*!

Remember, this is all free, you don't lose anything, all you have to do is sign up, download the Viewbar and that just it. Build your network and refer friends, family and colleagues to AGLOCO and earn even more!

HISTORY (Unless you're not interested, feel free to skip)

The guys behind this idea include several Stanford MBA's and a few individuals who started AllAdvantage back in 1998, which gave over $100 million to its users before falling victim to the burst of the internet bubble. Today, the context is much more favorable: The sophistication of on-line commerce, the rapid emergence of communities, the wealth of advertising revenue sources, etc. Isn't time you got your share of the Internet?

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KEY STUFFS

1) $$$ - We will earn ownership in the company (in the form of shares) and will then begin earning substantial money if this thing blows up (and we have nothing to lose if it doesn't.)

2) Simplicity - we use the Internet just as we always have… we just get paid to do it!

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Don't wait any longer. This is a win-win opportunity, and you'll make it even more profitable for yourself when you start referring friends and relatives before others get to them! Assuming you learned about AGLOCO thanks to my blog* here, please don't forget to add my referee ID when signing up: BBBB5541. Click here to sign up directly!



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I suppose just half an hour, or less, to settle everything up, you can go back and continue surfing the internet like you always do and see what happens? Read the FAQ, browse through the website and if you seems to like it, just sign in and I would be really grateful if you use my referral ID. Nonetheless, I'd think there's not much to lose here eh? Enjoy!

Conception of Literature

A personal diary or a journal of thoughts?

Well, not that much of a difference between these two aspects. Those are the two things that have been playing in my head racing each other to come out into the form of literature.

I'm sure many people today love to go to those large commercial bookstores such as MPH in Mid Valley, The Times or Kinokuniya in KLCC to relax and have a long enjoyable reading pleasure in these sacred literature heavens. I often went there during the younger period of myself before, and still interested of course, to read books such as Chicken Soup for the Soul series, comics, western humours and many others which I couldn't remember at this moment. I loved Chicken Soups. Well, both food and book. Somehow, other people's experience in life touched and taught me more than any other award winning books such as those of "10 Ways to Achieve Success", "Get Rich in 3 Simple Steps", "Idiot's Guide to be Smart" and any other kind of factual, theoretical stuffs.

What I think or what I've experienced in my life is more important? Well, there's this concern of for who is this for - the audience reasoning. Nonetheless, screw that for a moment. In general, as a good practice for the future being, it just a battle between the theoretical value in my head and the action experienced and dealing with the consequences.

"Niat tak menghalalkan cara,"

Well, a saying I often thought about, meaning that our intention does not always justify the action. There are people around us that really screw up their actions; unintentionally hurt people feelings, discharge a number of workers to save the productivity of the company, killing one people to save millions others and many other inevitable circumstances. Do we ask these people why they did that? Many times it would just end up in assumptions of others as rumours corrupting the air we breathe everyday. Owh, media loves to do that. They can just get more ratings with bad-ass stories. Nonetheless, again, our intention does not always necessarily justify our actions. However, not everyone perceives the same recognition of legitimacy the same way as another party. Yes, it is difficult to satisfy everyone. Understanding. Tolerance. Human civilization is in progress. I just wish I could live long enough to reach the time when we achieve world peace.

A personal diary or a journal of thoughts? Today, the theoretical mind won the race.

CERAGEM

I just drove my mom to Cheras today. She wanted to go and try out this free treatment by Ceragem. I'm not sure whether Ceragem implies to the type of thermal treatment, the name of the company or even the product itself. It's something like thermal massage therapy integrating the principles of Chiropractic method, massage technic, Moxibustion effect and the stimulation of the jade stone commonly used in Eastern medicine. My mom said it's free to try out at any of their centres; Cheras and Desa Sri Hartamas as far as I know, for about an hour everyday except Sundays. Will elaborate later. I'm going to drive my mom there again tomorrow. Might try it myself.

I wanted to go out, but I just realized how petrol is very consuming for that bloody old Kembara. Plus, RM1.92 per petrol litre (I think)! That bloody toll as well. One thing I like about Wellington now. No car. No needs for petrol and toll charges. Just the magic of the feet. Well not that I don't like walking around Bandar Baru Bangi, but the satisfaction and utility value gained in km square area covered per energy consumed is actually pretty low. Moderating satisfaction gained with satisfaction loss from cost of travel expenses, I would end up settling down with the Kembara anyway. Yes, I am aware of the existence of public transports. Ah, bloody hell. I'm spoiled.

I thought my sister offered me to use her less-petrol-consuming Satria. I will get that car. I need a date.

Rain

Rain, by definition, is water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere (www.thefreedictionary.com).

I'm not sure whether I don't like rain or not. Well, I planned to stay home today, taking care of Danial and Intan since Mom went out today with her friends somewhere. I thought I could go out and play basketball at UKM later this evening. Yet, weather is almost never on my side. Rain. Here I am. Thinking. It's 5:30pm now. The heavy rain just now is starting to take it easy from overfeeding the not-that-thirsty-anymore soil on the ground. Some hints of thunders are still howling around warning humans nearby to take a second thought before deciding on any outdoors activities for this evening. It sucks. Everytime I went out to KL it did not rain here in Bangi. And when I actually stayed here to play basketball in UKM, it somehow rained as if refusing me from getting my only exercise on this holiday. I eat a lot this holiday. I need to work out a bit and basketball is the only exercise I would like to do. Gym is boring.

Well, the rain has stopped now but Thor (or suppose its Zeus?) is still not showing any signs of leaving.

Thinking.

Hm, where's my car key?

REMAJA : Inspirasi Remaja Kini

A new basketball gig.

I went to my friend's open house in Ampang Jaya yesterday. Audi is his name. To whom it may concerns, well, if you look out into those books of Nama-nama Islam, Audi is actually means yang disayangi. Unique name. I might actually name one of my kids those. Kot. Anyway, I met a few old friends from school; Oye, Dog, Poyo, Lalat, Din, Psyc. Good times. Everyone seems to be doing well in their life. Nice. We hung out until late evening. Afterward, I went to Audi friend's open house later that night. Well, initially I quite hesitated since it was his friend, which I didn't even know. Nonetheless, I don't have anything to do later on that day and muka tebal seems to be not much of a problem for me at the moment. Makan free ape.

Thus, it turned out to be that opportunities can strike you from anywhere you might hardly expected. Well, I met an old basketball friend there during the open house. Man. Nice fellow. He told me about a few basketball spots around Lembah Kelang. There's this one place in Hartamas. I heard many of my good old basketball fellows from my past younger times play there quite often. Every Friday starting at 9:00pm. A new basketball gig. I'm so much looking forward for this coming Friday night.

REMAJA: Inspirasi Remaja Kini

Today, I went to KLCC with my family. Just a simple day out. Anyway, just to spice up my day of Sunday, I bought my first ever, since my wholelife, a new November 2006 issue, Remaja magazine. Coklat buat kamu gemuk? Bila hormat kian hilang: Blah atau buat selamba. 7 tips elak jadi minah blur. Seks siber. Urut power. And many other interesting topics inside this very interesting teenage magazine. Not that I'm promoting this magazine or anything. I just needed something new to read. To be honest, it is fun as hell! They did mentioned about MySpace in Seks Siber topic. The topic about Urut Power is indeed very informative wehehehehe. Ahh, good book.

"Brad Pitt memulakan harinya dengan minum smoothies buah-buahan yang rendah lemak. Resipi smoothies kegemaran Brad ialah buah pisang, epal dan dadih rendah lemak. Caranya ialah dengan mengisar sebiji pisang bersaiz kecil bersama 25g dadih rendah lemak dan 200ml just epal tanpa gula."

Seremban

Today I went to Senawang. It's in Seremban kan? Well, anyway, I met an old friend of mine there; Khairus Ambia Putra. I call him Kepp. Good ol' friend from high school. Charming person. He's now studying to become a pilot. I stayed at his house from lunch to dinner. His mom cooked. Nice. Owh, her teh susu was awesome. I had like 4 cups as I was drinking with his parents and a friend of his dad. Anyway, I was hanging around in his house, watching some old photos and videos. Ahh, good old past time memories. Did I tell you Kepp is a great magician? Ahh, aku tengah promote ko nih Kepp so thank me later. Well, he's the kind like you see from David Blaine thingy on TV. Brilliant stuffs I assure you. Not like the one you used to see in primary schools or cheap funfairs. Well he showed some new tricks with his deck of cards when I was at his house. Then it got me thinking. Damn I'd have been such a babe magnet with this ability. Kepp is already taken so yeah sorry ladies. Although if he's not pon then the stewardess would have surround him a lot earlier before. Magic => girl happy => girl get closer => I'm happy. Awesome.

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Here's a few video clips of his stuffs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJH3MxoYh1c
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vCO1RgZnG4U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfLDvRnmlu8

You guys can just check out his YouTube profile to find out more of his videos. Enjoy!

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Well, after dinner at his house, Kepp and I went to Seremban II. He showed me this new gigantic Jaya Jusco there. Great place to hang out but it was closed already since it was already late night. We parked ourselves at this one mapley nearby. I had two glass of warm teh tarik and a great long conversation with this good old friend of mine. Owh yea, Seremban II does bring back good old memories as well. It was a good night for me. A great day as a matter of fact. Wonderful. I'm looking forward to this coming days meeting old friends and fellows.

It's raining quite often lately. The rainbow doesn't shine much anymore as I see above the dark blue sky. I have a car and an umbrella.

Home

I live in No. 4, Jalan 3/6N, 43650 Bandar Baru Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. Nice neighbourhood. Good people.

It's been a week now I've been here in this humid country. Although I do think I've been adapting well. I took my second warm shower this morning. I'd been using cold shower until yesterday since it's freaking hot here. Humid. Yes. The first thing I realized the moment I stepped onto this home soil ground of my country. Lemas. A bit at least. Well, that's why we have Cendol and Ais Kacang here in many parts of this land in a very affordable price. Nice. However, can't blame entirely on the weather can I? Well, the construction design of the house isn't helping much either. Owh, don't get me started with building studies.

Nonetheless, a home is not only about the technical physical construction of the house. Yep. Family to come back to. What good is a house when there's no one there to welcome you back? Then there are other aspects as well such as comfort around spaces, childhood memories, familiarity of spatial experiences, etc. Owh, the address too. Bandar Baru Bangi. There's UKM here. UKM has a basketball court. It's near, about 5 minutes drive. I often go and play basketball there. Met a few old friends. Great. Then there's a few favourite people to meet nearby. KL I consider as near. Shah Alam as well. Well it's not about far or near anyway- it's more like depends on my interest and priority. KLCC. MidValley. Uncle Don's. Warta Bangi. Pasar malam Seksyen 4. 7 Eleven. Her. Him. Them. Us. So far this home of mine has been great.

I'll be here until 24 January 2007. I have more than 2 months more to make my summer holiday worthwhile. My phone number is 012 271 2142. Ring or just drop a message. I like pool and foosball, basketball; playing and watching, teh tarik and shisha, coffee and dessert, or just simply meeting good old friends (and new *heheheheh*). I have lots of money. Sila ambil kesempatan. You bloody money-suckers hahahahah. If you ever walk or drive nearby Bangi, text me up and I'll show you the best mapley in the world right here in this small town of Bandar Baru Bangi. Teh tarik my treat.

Home sweet home.

Introduction

Hello is always a good start for an introduction. Added with a small wave and a smile, a good first impression can be made. Nonetheless, a good first impression is not what I'm looking for. Just for some satisfactions in writing- I think. I do think I love to write. Maybe. Well, it's southern hemisphere summer of 2006 and now I'm in my holiday in Malaysia. It's been a week and somehow it's raining quite often. Thus, the inactive physical being of mine leaves room for the eager brain to contribute into my daily life. External parties are very most welcomed to share this exercise of the mind. The physical bodies need some rests. Although my knee is injured anyway so I don't actually have any much choices. So. Blog. I wish this could live up my summer holiday of 2006.

My name is NJB and I'm here to write. Hello.