Drama King

OK, this is just sad. 2 out of 3 of the drama tv shows I’ve been following has ended last week. The two are Desperate Housewives and One Tree Hill.

The thrid and only remaining show left is Lost which is airing it’s last episode if the season this week. Means no more shows to watch after exams!

Nooooooo! I can feel the boredom setting in already!

Rapidshare

OMG! How difficult is this??? I don’t think any bots out there is advanced enough to even read the warped characters but this?! I think this is 34 steps too far! Rapidshare FTL!

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Tibet

DISCLAIMER: This post represents my opinion and mine alone. Be it absurd or ridiculous, you have the choice not to read it. You may post your opinion or any disagreement through the commenting function provided in a civilized way.

Before I go on, just to let everyone know. I am a Chinese Malaysian. Therefore, I am of Malaysian nationality, residing in Malaysia and have been in Malaysia for the past 3 generations. My loyalty is for Malaysia and not China and I have no direct relations to China whatsoever.

Sometimes things just hit people hard on the face without them realising it. All this talk and passionate screams to “Free Tibet” from China is being overrated.

Why is the Western world calling for Tibet’s freedom? Who started this in the first place? There are certain facts about Tibet that many “supporters of this cause” overlooked or even too ignorant to find out before jumping on the bandwagon supporting something they don’t even know it’s legitimacy.

Here are 2 solid facts about Tibet that supports Tibet is part of China.

Fact #1

Tibet has been under China since the Mongolian empire of the Yuan Dynasty since the 13th Century until this very day eight centuries (that’s 800 years for those who are unable to count centuries with their fingers) later. Tibet was under the Yuan (1271 - 1368), Ming (1368 - 1644) and Qing (1644 - 1911) dynasties, Republic of China (1911 - 1949) and the people’s Republic of China (1949 - present)

Fact #2

China is a multiracial/multicultural country, just like many other countries (just like Malaysia!) and not only consist of one race that many overlook as the Chinese. There are the Hans, Mongols, Manchus, Koreans even Muslims and not forgetting Tibetans. In total, there are 56 separate ethnic groups united under one country - China.

In my opinion, I see all these “Free Tibet” gimmicks is just to create problems in the upcoming Olympic Games for China. The timing of this is just undeniable.

All these human rights violations and robbery is just more gimmicks created by western world. Talking about human rights, more pressing human rights issues in the western world are almost totally unheard of as the western media almost NEVER cover any stories regarding the matter. Talk about neutrality. There’s no such thing!

Australia and the United States all have been oppressing their natives for too long but yet nothing has been done and no one stood up for them.

It’s time for Asians to rule their own countries and the western world to stay out of it. The west have oppressed us for too long since the Colonial and Imperial ages. It’s time that the west mind about their own business, buck up their own collapsing economies and focus on more pressing matters like ending the Iraq War.

If China is denying human rights in Tibet, then what is the Iraq War? Iraqis have been robbed of their rights ever since the war started and the best thing of all is, the western world endorses this war! How ironic!

A friendly message to “Free Tibet” supporters (or Human Rights activists for which both are to blame) - go read your history books before taking it to the streets on something that you have no idea whatsoever you are supporting. There are matters that are more pressing in your own countries that needs your immediate attention.

Competitiveness

Was reading this article on The Star website regarding our beloved Prime Minister giving a speech telling people not to compare Malaysia with Singapore.

 The Star

18 February 2008

Pak Lah: Don’t compare Malaysia with Singapore

PENANG: Do not compare Singapore’s economy with that of Malaysia’s.

It is like comparing “first-class grapes (Singapore) with first-class apples (Malaysia),” Prime Minster Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said when addressing the Chinese community at the Penang Chinese Town Hall (PCTH) dialogue session yesterday.

“We are a population of over 20 million and we rank eighth in the world in terms of our competitiveness.

“This is not the Government’s figure and I am not telling you lies. This statistic is from an international survey.

“If I quote statistics from our own surveys, you will not believe us. Everywhere I go, the business community tells me that Malaysia is doing very well. These people are smart. You cannot fool them because they are well-read,” he said, adding that the Government had no reason to lie.

“Please trust us – we are your government. If you look at the economy, we are doing well. That is a fact proven by figures. But people still claim otherwise because of increasing prices. This is a very simplistic way of analysing the economy.

“Nobody is happy to see prices rising but this is out of our control. The question is not how to bring down prices but how to help the rakyat cope.

“Every country in the world is faced with rising oil prices except maybe Brunei but you cannot compare. The RM40bil oil subsidy we give out can be used to build better schools, roads, hospitals and infrastructure but we don’t want to burden the people,” he said, adding that education and medical treatment was also heavily subsidised by the Government.

“We subsidise even water and electricity, yet people are angry when they hear the word ‘toll’. We try to subsidise as much as possible but we still need to impose toll charges because we need to build roads,” he said before thanking the Chinese community for contributing to the country’s economy.

“The private sector is dominated by the Chinese and I want to say a big ‘thank you’ to the community for creating so many job opportunities,” he said.

1. If we don’t compare ourselves with someone better, how are we to improve ourselves?
2. We rank 8th in competitiveness in the world as claimed but according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report released last year, Malaysia ranks 21st in both Global and Business Competitiveness from 19th the previous year. (Where did he get this ambiguous and inaccurate information from? There’s no where else other than the World Economic Forum’s report to follow)
3. Read on the report further and you’ll find out that the top 2 most problematic factors in Malaysia are inefficient government bureaucracy and corruption. Oh dear, oh dear!
4. Yes, yes. You would argue that Malaysia is 21st out of 131 economics surveyed, that’s good. That isn’t my point, my point is where on Earth are we ranked 8th?

Hmmm. *ponders*

Probably I should go look at some anonymous global competitiveness ranking only approved by Malaysia and I might just find the answer there.

Facebook

Lately I’ve been plagued by several friend requests on Facebook by “unknown” friends. Take for example this “so-called-friend” - Chistina Kong.

No idea who she is. Therefore, I’ve sent her a nice and friendly message asking her for some information of herself asking in case I might have met her before but just couldn’t remember. The letter sounded as follows:-

Dear Chistina,

 

 

I am afraid that I have no knowledge whatsoever of your existence on Mother Earth and who you are in person.

 

Before I can approve your friend request, I would like to know you more. Whether you are a family member of mine (I’ll have to admit my family is too big to know every single one of them), distant family relation, long lost friend (if you are, I apologize for not remembering who you are), or any kind of relationship you and I both have in common or you just want to start a new friendship.

 

I hope you can reply this message as soon as possible as I am eager and looking forward to know who you are exactly.

 

Please do not be afraid if this message intimidated you. I mean no harm and am just curious who you exactly are.

 

Hope to receive a nice and pleasant introduction of yourself soon. Until then, your friend request is held under view. Convincing and successful replies or introductions shall be approved in a very short time.

 

Hope to hear from you soon.

 

Qi-Guang

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I also noticed that all her “friends” don’t know her :-O Her wall is full of post asking her to introduce herself. Making me think that she’s a weirdo…

She doesn’t appear to be replying any of these guys’ request for more information of her.

And to make things even worse, ALL her “so-called-friends” are guys! I wonder whether it’s really that girl as pictured in her profile behind the screen. Here’s more proof!

Till now she hasn’t replied my friendly message requesting for a more formal introduction of herself to me. I guess I’ll give her a few more days. If not, I will not only block her and reject her request but report her! Muahaha! *evil laugh*

These kind of people shouldn’t exist on social networking sites.

What Now?

Looks like Hindraf is going through an amazing chain of events going against them.

7th December 2007

The Star

IGP: Hindraf trying to garner support from terrorist groups

KUALA LUMPUR: There are signs lately that the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) is trying to garner support from terrorist groups, the police charged yesterday.

Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said Hindraf has also set up a fund by misleading the public into believing that the money is to finance its activities.

“We view such matters very seriously. It is also very worrying especially when we live in a multi-racial society.

“The police will not hesitate to take stern action against anyone to ensure that peace and security prevails in this country,” he said.

Musa also said the group was trying to sow hatred towards the Government and that its actions could spark racial clashes.

He said such dangerous sentiments were being widely spread via Hindraf forums, distribution of books and leaflets, on websites as well as through the short messaging service.

“It is also trying to rope in gangsters to prevent local authorities from demolishing illegal temples in the near future.

“The fanning of such racial sentiments among the Indians is very unhealthy and dangerous,” Musa said, adding that the police would not hesitate to invoke the Internal Security Act (ISA) against those who abused technology to stoke racial hatred or unrest.

The IGP said those found guilty of spreading such messages through SMS or e-mail could be jailed up to three years, fined RM10,000, or both, under Section 28 of the ISA.

One of Hindraf’s leaders, P. Uthayakumar, was reported as saying in an interview in Monday’s edition of Singapore’s New Paper that that he would not rule out using violence.

He was quoted as saying that the protest by monks in Myanmar last September inspired Hindraf’s public protest.

“The monks were prepared to die for their cause. I’ve shown slides of monks getting shot and killed during my roadshows and I think it struck a chord with the people.

“I think it’s quite unlikely we’ll head down that path towards a civil war but there’s always that possibility. Some of the uneducated may resort to violence,” Uthayakumar was quoted as saying by the paper.

He also allegedly made similar statements in an interview with Indian national television in a programme called Times Now, where he warned of serious consequences.

What?! Now they’re terrorists? Why on earth would terrorists would want to hand over a memorandum to the high commission when they can just walk up into the building and blow themselves up once and for all?!

Someone’s not using their head properly…

Malaysia’s Identity Crisis in TIME

Found an interesting article about our beloved country, Malaysia.

It’s rather long though but it’s worth the time and effort to read every word.

Click here to find out!