With all this swine flu/A(H1N1) business going around lately, I am now gearing up my precaution level. Especially next week, when I’m going down to London. Extra precaution has to be taken and one of them is this…
Tamiflu doesn't work anymore, so kill it before it enters!
June 29th. Hottest day of the summer so far. Forecast show that it’s only going to get even hotter! This is literally living in hell. My mini fan is in front of blowing air the entire day and it’s not helping one bit!
On a lighter note, Wimbledon’s match Murray v Wawrinka is seriously good. World No. 3, Murray, is given a good run for his money by World No. 18 and the match is still on going as I type this post. It lasted more than 3 hours already. Can’t wait for the finals of Winbledon, it’s going to be awesome!
Today’s officially my last day of my housing contract and my room now is completely empty. Echoes bounce off the bare walls and hollow spaces of my once filled room. Oh well, I’ll be handing my keys in tomorrow and will be moving back in on Wednesday. Till then, my flatmate’s room will now be called home for the next 2 days.
Sunset in Sheffield on the hottest day of summer so far
The end of June is approaching rapidly and the end of month spells the end og my housing contract with West One. Will be handing my keys in on Tuesday 12pm but I have a cunning plan under my sleeve. Due to me staying back for another month waiting for my graduation ceremony at the end of July, I’ll have to find a place to crash for that 1 month while waiting and doing absolutely nothing. Hence, I’ll be crashing back at my current room until the end of July when the friend, after next week my room shall be hers, will move in. So at least, no big hassle of moving all my stuff around everywhere like the past 3 years. It was absolute hell.
This is where I live but in a different block
Anyway, 70% of room cleaned and clutter almost entirely removed and thrown away. Now my drawers and wardrobe is almost empty and hollow. And next week, they shall be filled again with my stuff. A small hassle but better than moving to another place entirely.
On a lighter note, Mr Chew has gone to Scouserland i.e. Liverpool for those that don’t know.
A group lavender in St John's Garden, Liverpool
Liverpool’s now a much better city compared to a few years ago. Come to think of it, Sheffield is currently like the old Liverpool – old abandoned industrial buildings, grey coal dust covered walls of buildings. But Sheffield is currently going a giant overhaul of the city and every year new buildings sprout out bringing the city into to 21st century though we’re almost a decade late!
Albert Dock was a superb place to photo taking. Especially the views of the river mouth entering the sea and wide panoramic views of Liverpool bay area and Birkenhead.
Albert Dock
Lovely place. 
The longest day of the year is coming pretty soon. Exactly a week’s time to be precise. The UK has been experiencing summer on and off the past few weeks. The weather was great the past 2 days and before that was the heaviest thunderstorm I’ve ever seen here in the UK since I came here 3 years ago. Heavy rain, hail and endless lightning is a pretty rare occasion. It rained so much that it flooded here in Sheffield. Pretty bad too…
Well, just to lighten things up a little. Here’s an HDR shot of a picture I took several days before the gates of heaven opened.
P.S. I want a DSLR. HDR shots just isn’t as in depth as it should look when taken with a digital compact as compared to a DSLR. 
MEEEEEEERRRRDDEEEEEEKKKKKKKKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! This will be that last time I’ll be shouting this word. There’s won’t be a merdeka once worklife commenses. Well, until I retire of course! 
Personally, if our Prime Minister wants to change the New Economic Policy (NEP), I wouldn’t mind if its still there just that the government should change the policy to cater to the poor and needy instead of covering all Malays. Obviously the rich Malays don’t need any discounts for housing and preferential treatment to enter universities as they can send thier kids overseas for a much better education. They already have all the money, why do they still need more discounts on housing while the poor Malays still can’t even afford to buy a small low cost house?
The NEP should only apply to the group of Malays that earn below a certain amount. This will assure that no one can abuse the NEP for their own benefit (if the rumours are true) and everyone will be happy. The rich ones don’t need it as I’m sure their paychecks is proof that they have arrived at the corridors of success. The Chinese and Indians agreed to give the Malays privileges in order to get our citizenship 50 years ago, hence, as a Malaysian Chinese I should honour that agreement although it fundamentally goes against several human rights laws.
If the government implemented these changes mentioned above, Malaysia would be a better place and everyone will be happy.
This is the view I get every night from my flat. Beautiful.
8 May 2009
Chinese are a bunch of Cowards
Five thousand years of Chinese Civilization have transformed the Chinese into a unique race which possessed all the necessary ingredients to survive in a harsh environment. But they are still the same homo-sapiens that are clever yet selfish and cowards. Although the Chinese are complex they’re relatively easy to understand once you mix with them. And they don’t call Singaporean “Kiasu” (fear of losing) and “Kiasi” (afraid of death) without any good reason. As usual there’re two sides of the coin and hence the Chinese are known to be rich (or rather economical capable) yet they need to be led and controlled under communism regime for obvious reason.
Generally the Chinese (in China) are weak in politics thanks to thousands of years under autocratic dynasties’ rule. From the first emperor Qin Shi Huang to the last emperor Pu Yi, the Chinese never tasted real politics let alone democracy. So when the Taiwan’s lawmakers started throwing punches and chairs, spraying water at each other, pulling hairs and literally transformed the House into a wrestling hall, it was understandable as they were just infants learning the rope of democracy. However the Chinese are very good in business so much so that they “may be” the first race that invented corruption (whether they realize it or not) in order to speed up the business deals.
Because of the “Kiasu” characteristic, the Chinese are always in front of the queue when come to the business of making money regardless whether it is legitimate or illegitimate. They can naturally smell the aroma of money miles away and they are willing to enter the ring of no-holds-barred for the sake of making money. There’s not a single business which can make money without the presence of Chinese. From stock market speculators to drug smuggling you will see the Chinese have some parts in it. Yes, the Chinese are brilliant and can make huge amount of money quite easily but that’s because they’re a great spender as well. They can create an efficient economy mill within a small town with ease and you wonder how the hell the community can prosper. As a comparison, go to a kampong dominated by ethnic-Malay and your jaw will drop to the floor.
Unfortunately the Chinese are “Kiasi” at the same time. They have extremely high level of tolerance and as long as they can bring food to the table for their family, they can accept intimidation, inefficient and even a very corrupted government. That was the reason why they never strike back even though their husbands and sons were brutally killed and their wives and daughters were gang-raped during the riot in Indonesia of which many said was engineered by General Wiranto and endorsed by President Suharto. The Chinese have done a calculated risk and knew it wasn’t a battle for them thus they migrated leaving behind the debris but not before transferred billions of dollars out of Indonesia (mostly to Singapore). They understand the concept of live another day and you will still be alive to avenge your losses. Fight a losing battle and you’ll lose your life cheaply.
Having said that the Chinese would not tolerate if their country is at stake as can be seen when the China was invaded many times by outsiders. In fact historically the Chinese never invaded other countries (if my old memory serves me right) but was enjoying many civil wars within the current modern China territory. The Chinese had the greatest opportunity to expand their empire during the height of their naval power under Admiral Zheng He when the China generally ruled the seas but they didn’t. They’re happy to show off their power and as long as you do not poke their nose, they’ll leave you alone. And for this simple reason former PM Mahathir once said Malaysia (and other countries) has everything to gain and nothing to lose if China continues to prosper although the other superpower U.S. didn’t think so, out of jealousy I supposed.
Unlike the Chinese, the ethnic-Malays are specialists when come to the topic of politics. They’re willing to risk everything for their political beliefs including their lives and for this reason the UMNO supporters were easily intimidated and demoralized with the presence of a bigger crowds from PAS, both consists of Malays. There’re reasons why the “Bersih” rally was a huge success but the supposedly “Perak” rally yesterday was, well, a failure. Unlike the “Bersih” rally, there was no serious organizer for the “Perak” rally and everyone “thought” people will show-up naturally as if it was a “Michael Jackson” concert. But sadly the urge for the rally never reach the Perakians. Furthermore the “Kiasi” Chinese will only turn up if they see scores of Malays turn up. It was like a 100:1 ratio – if there’re 100 Malays then you’ll probably see 1 Chinese *grin*. They need PAS-Malays to lead them, period.
Seriously most of the Chinese in Ipoh consists of middle-age or retiree who do not have the stamina to run should they greeted by tear-gas. Also, they do not read blogs but still subscribe to the government-controlled newspaper, mind you. In addition, many of these Chinese are still haunted by the 13th May 1969 bloody incident. The youngsters who are “relatively brave” have mostly migrated to towns such as Kuala Lumpur, Johore Bharu or Singapore. They have yet to see that should they be whacked by UMNO-Malays, the PAS-Malays will come to their rescue and can you blame the Chinese considering they’re one bunch of “Kiasi” cowards?
Now, after seeing how an Indian-Hindu Speaker Sivakumar was humiliated and dragged away as if he was a stray-dog by, God knows if they’re real police, do you think the already “Kiasi” Chinese will not think thrice to come out, if there’s another rally in the future? If the so-called police can treat a Speaker in such manner, what guarantees are there that an average-Joes will not ended up like toasted-bread with several broken bones? Yes, in this case the Malays are well-built wrestlers such as Hulk Hogan, Batista, Triple-H or Goldberg but the Chinese are just novice with body no better than Tian Chua. So it’s not a level playing field with Tian Chua holding a poster while Hulk Hogan holding a steel-bar thirsty for blood. Oh yeah! Do you want to know the court’s decision on Monday to decide who the rightful Chief Minister of Perak is? I’ve the crystal ball for this *grin*.
