The dreaded mondays

It's that time of the week again, the time where we are forced to drag out half asleep bodies down to our classes or our workplace to start yet another monotonous week......I just have a particular dislike towards Mondays forgive my crazy babbling but I just hate the fact that I got to drag my half dead body to class for 9am Structures and Materials........ Oh well nothing I can do about this.....Till the next post... chao!

An alternative view of Valentine's day

FEB 14 — While the world is going to hell in a logarithmically increasing function, are we still going to agree that Feb 14 still makes the world go round? I really don't know why people even bother celebrating Valentine's Day? There is nothing even remotely romantic about Valentine's Day. Romance should be a spontaneous thing.
This "holiday" is the most bullshit day on the calendar. Regardless of whether or not you have someone. If you don't, this day only serves as a slap on your face that you don't. Even if you don't want a relationship, this day is trying to tell you otherwise. "Come to the dark side." It whispers in your ear. "Better than Single Malt Whiskey".
The whole day only emphasises all the "pink" things about a relationship, completely ignoring that most real relationships take a good deal of commitment, sometimes work, and aren't always rosy. Yes, I do agree that passionately there is the love between a man and a woman for each other. How is this love articulated? From down on my knees kinkiness to up my head conservativeness, the point being that very individual has inimitable ways of getting the message across. But definitely, for a start it isn't expressed specifically on one day!
The foolish part is that if you do actually have someone, this is a fabricated day in which you basically have to prove your love. Even if both parties don't particularly feel obligated to do something, social pressure may demand otherwise. I see it all the time, a guy has a nice, simple evening planned, hears that his buddies plan to rent the entire restaurant , which probably costs him more than what it takes to feed an entire village in Somalia for a week, then feels compelled to upgrade.
Isn't it ridiculous to buy a Valentine's Day gift to make up for a year of neglect? It's as if to say "Here honey, it's the time of the year again for the overly priced flowers! Be thankful since you ain’t getting nothing for the rest of 364 days". Valentine's Day has indeed received the same fate as the rest of the holidays; it has been hijacked to contribute towards the growth of economics. Saint Valentine used to be the patron saint of lovers, now he seems to be the patron saint of card makers, chocolate manufacturers and not forgetting the 1-800-what is the number-FLOWERS.
Alternatively handfuls of single souls get into cynical mode; I suppose that's why folks call Valentine's Day as the Singles Awareness Day. By some means Valentine's Day becomes a yardstick to measure their self-worth and confidence. Slowly the cynicism evolves into depression that drags on till Feb 15 or perhaps longer. Believe it or not, wallowing in bitterness is definitely not a way to live.
I'd love to completely ignore this day, but you can't. Unless you hole yourself up in your room, shut the door, close the blinds, and immerse yourself in good sex or a book, it's everywhere. Turn on the TV and there it is on from Oprah to Ellen De Generes. Turn on the radio, there it is. Oh, and those annoying high school-ish dedications... does that make anyone else want to reach through the radio and slap them silly? Go outside, and there it is on STREOIDS.
If two people are truly in love, they do not need a contrived, commercialised holiday to prove it to themselves and others. , So I don't give two hoots on needing Valentine’s Day to provide me that satisfaction. I believe that life and love has a couple of things in common: It's an everyday commitment — not a one-day agenda (leave that to one-night stands!) and both don't have known expiry dates. Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forget about the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it.

Valentine/ Single Awareness Day

It's been a long long long time since I added a post in my now cob-web infested blog.

A lot has taken place since my last posting in November 2008, will update this blog more frequently as I seem to have time nowadays. The reason I didnt update it often is due to the fact that I thought I deleted this blog, but apparently it is still here.

I actually wanted to start a new blog but since this is here might as well make good use of it.

To all those couples out there, HAPPY VALENTINE's DAY

To the singles, enjoy your SINGLEDOM

Personalisation

This shall be my first post in my "newly" personalised blog.
Since the general stuff can be read in any newspaper or magazine anyway.
Pending the aquisition of my new camera phone. I wont have many pictures in here yet. So in the meantime I shall blog about my typical life as a University student......Enjoy!!!

Just for fun

Just so cute!!!!!

I hijacked this from Min Hao's blog.

quick update

seems like I havent updated my blog in quite a long time. I think I should update my blog more often but due to the small number of readers and the fact that it is not a personal blog I somehow dont have much incentive to actually put in new posts. But I will try to update more regularly and also try to add some more personal stuff into my postings as well.
Every1 that actually reads my blog are free to post their comments in the comment area.
Thanks to all that actually read this blog

Time flies, it really does

It's been 3 weeks since I last posted something on my blog. Some how time seems to past me by without me even knowing it.
somehow things which seem to happen quite recently actually took place years ago.
The innocence of childhood.
The carefree-ness of school days
The fun of college.
It all gone, in the past never to return again. As I set my sights on yet another chapter of my life, University. I sit back and wonder where has all the years gone. Soon I will be stepping into those hallowed halls, but I know before long I will be standing there on graduation day closing yet another chapter of my life, life seems to fly by.......there's no repeats, no do-overs, no resets. this is it our 1 shot at life, we got to make the most of it, thought it sounds cliche live everyday as it it is our last day on earth. Treasure the simple things in life.
and not forgetting the most important part of life, love..... no not the love between those of opposite genders, althought it is important too, but instead I'd think that the love between family members are the most important and pure.
The love a parent has for their child, or the love that the child has for the parents are certainly something great that cannot be diminished. Then there is also the wonderful thing called love between the siblings and also those with the uncles, aunts, grandparents etc. To me this is what life is all about, love.
So I think we should all really treasure our love ones while we have them because life on earth is merely temporary and hence we got to make the most of it.

A new Merdeka for Malaysia??

Perhaps it'll be a new dawn for Malaysia as the much awaited results of today's by-election reaches the millions of Malaysian who were eagerly glued to their TVs, their radios, and their computers to get the latest on the Permatang Pauh by-election.
The people of Permatang Pauh were king makers for a day and both sides tried their outmost to woo the people with all sorts of promises. But one party seemed to have delved into dirty politics with all sorts of slanderous accusation ranging from corruption to sodomy. But in the end those accusations seemed to have failed to sway the voters as they showed that they have the brains to differentiate truth from falsehood, such as the allegations that a 60 year old could rape a 23 year old man, 6 times!!!!! Here's the election result breakdown

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (parti Keadilan Rakyat): 31,195

Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah (Barisan National) : 15,524

Hanafi Mamat (AKIM) : 92

Majority : 15,671

Winner : Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ( PKR)

Now to sit back and witness what might be a change in the government of Malaysia come September 16th.
after 51 years of a mono-party rule, perhaps it is time for a change, if we never try we will never know.

MALAYSIA BOLEH!

The Georgian sideshow

These past few weeks while the world was fixed on what's going on in Beijing, another important issue was talking place in another part of the world, in the once little known country of Georgia,

in the past when people mention Georgia, many, especially those in the United States would think that it meant the State on the East Coast of the United States, but by now most people would know about this small nation.

How did Georgia propel itself into the eyes of the world?

Well it is simple, all u need to do is launch a full scale invasion against a territory that you consider part of your country.

That is exactly what Georgia did, pouring troops into the Region of South Ossetia, which internationally is recognized as part of Georgia but in reality it has had de-facto independence since 1992. Peace between the Georgians and the South Ossetians were mantained by a peace keeping force headed by Russia.

By ordering a large scale invasion to take back South Ossetia it is inevitable that the Russians would be caught in the cross-fire. This caused Russian to take action against the Georgians to drive them out of South Ossetia.

The fact is Georgia provoked Russia, they had hoped for American intervention in the face of a conflict, they gotten too brave due to American promise, but they have forgetten that America always forgets. It is a known fact.

So Russia invaded Georgia, the Americans cant complain because they did they same thing to Iraq, a soviergn nation with a democratically elected government, but wait, that is not American idea of democracy, to them democracy is when the government that gets elected is pro-America, that's why they love Georgia so much, their president is very pro-America and hopes to join NATO 1 day.

If America can accept Kosovo's declaration of independence why not that of South Ossetia and Abkhazia?? The Russians did exactly what the Americans did, so how come the EU suddenly decided to intervene?? Is the Russian wrong for going against a nation who uses tanks and artilery on people that they claim to be their own citizens. Is a government who uses soldiers to shut down an opposition TV station such as the government of Georgia really democratic?? Shouldnt the USA be against this crimes against humanity??

It is the cold war mentality all over again. it is actually a power play between Russia and the USA. The United States set their pet Georgia to provoke Russia, but Russia swiftly destroy and crippled that puppy state. 1st let's show the pre-war states of the Russia and Georgia military.

Personnel

Russia: around 700,000

Georgia: 20.000 maximum

Tanks

Russia : almost 20,000

Georgia: 800

Aircraft

Russia: almost 7000

Georgia: 20

With such discrepancy there is no way in the world Russia could be threatened. The EU has been silenced by Russia's placing of NUCLEAR WEAPONS in the European Enclave of Kalinigrad. The Russian Black Sea Fleet has also been armed with nuclear arsenal.

There is no way in the world that America would dare challenge Moscow. But it is clearly a proxy war between the US and Russia.

The Georgian Affair, is merely a side show

The great haul of China

Michael Phelps the name that most people would know by now did the impossible by winning an unprecedented 8 gold medals at the olympics and 14 overall surpassing Mark Spitz's record of 7 gold medals at a single olympic game.

It was certainly a moment that will go down in olympic history when Jason Lezak touched home a mere .5 seconds faster than the australian freestyler to give the US men's medley team the olympic gold and more importantly hand Mr. Phelps his 8th gold medal in the Beijing games. Acheiving a feat which retired Australian swimming great Ian Thorpe claimed was "impossible" , well Phelps seemed to have taken que from the adidas motto of "Impossible is nothing" and decided to "Just do it", in most of his races the fight was clearly only for second place as Michael was head and shoulders over the rest of the competition, he did have to depend on Lezak to deliver 2 of his golds in the team event but other than that Phelps was phenomenal. Setting world records in 6 of his 8 races. And after winning the 8 titles Phelps said "I just want to go see my mother" a true mama's boy which makes it all the sweeter

Hat's off to a true swimming great. Perhaps Usain Bolt can do the same on the track??