My Mind,My Thoughts,My Views

18! A day too late but who cares right? 18!18!18!

The opportunity to study abroad is gift. I remember my days as a student in Belfast so long ago. Now as then, overseas study gives us the chance to be educated at some of the finest, best established institutions of higher learning anywhere, and to be exposed to the best that has been thought and done, and to measure ourselves against the highest standards. It is an opportunity to see the world.

Travel and living abroad takes us far away from home, but in doing so it also brings us closer to ourselves, and closer to home. Have you experienced this? Have you felt time and distance making you more conscious of how unique and precious the places, relationships, colours, smells and yes, tastes, of home are? Distance can help us see things more clearly. Home is such an immediate, dense and total experience that we often need to go away to see its contours. Home is such an emotional experience that we often understand it better in the coolness of distance. We sometimes need the elevation of distance to see the map of our own country.

I want to use this privileged distance that we now share, here in Melbourne, to speak frankly with you today about a matter that is usually so tightly wound up, so emotional, that at a national level we have not been able to have a rational discussion about it.

I want to invite you to look across this distance at the map of the life in common that we call our country. I want to look across the distance of fifty two years of independence, across changes over my own lifetime, to understand where we have come from as a nation and where we are going. My topic is race and racial consciousness in Malaysian life, and especially in our politics.

Race in the political life of Malaysia

Our social and political life is racialised to a degree seen in few other countries in the world. There are historical reasons for this. Malaysia was, at its birth, a country deeply divided along communal lines. We negotiated and attained independence with a power-sharing arrangement between the leaders of the three major racial communities as represented by the Alliance coalition. The agreement and cooperation of these leaders ensured peace and stability while we modernised our economy. The skill and integrity of these leaders, and their clear authority among their own communities was key to the success of this model, which is sometimes described by political scientists as consociational democracy.

This arrangement lasted only 12 years. After the traumatic riots of May 1969, we underwent a period of rule under the National Operations Council before Parliament was restored. The New Economic Policy was drafted and put into action. A new coalition, the Barisan Nasional, was put together to ensure that every community had a place at the table. Once more, the idea was to resolve conflict within a consociational power-sharing arrangement. Each community was to have a place at the table. Conflicts were to be solved between the leaders of these communities, behind closed doors. This arrangement was useful and effective for its time, but we have to wake up to the fact that it no longer works.

It is important to understand why:

It was never meant to be a permanent solution. Our method of racial power-sharing is primarily a system for resolving conflict in a deeply divided society. It was designed as an interim work-around, an early stage on the way to “a more perfect union” and not as the desired end-state. Over the years, however, we have put up barricades around our system as if it were a fore-ordained and permanent ideal. In doing so, we have turned a half-way house into our destination, as if we must forever remain a racially divided and racially governed society.

Instead, our ideal must be to become a free and united society in which individuals can express their ethnic and religious identities without being imprisoned in them. We must aim for a society in which public reasoning and not backroom dealing determines our collective decisions.

The power-sharing model that we started life with is an elite style of government justified by the virtue and competence of natural leaders of their communities. It needs special conditions. It does not work when political parties are led by the ignorant and the corrupt who have no standing in the communities they claim to represent.

It needs genuine agreement and cooperation between leaders who command support in their own communities and are universally respected. It will not work if the power-sharing coalition is overly dominated by one person and the others are there as token representatives. Our founding fathers negotiated, cooperated and shared responsibility as equals and as friends within a power-sharing framework. The communal interests they represented were articulated within the overarching vision of a united Malaysia. In the intervening years, as power came to be concentrated in the Executive, we preserved only the outward appearance of power-sharing. In reality we have had top-down rule and power has become increasingly unaccountable. Each of our political parties has also become more top-down, ruled by eternal incumbents who protect their position with elaborate restrictions on contests. Umno itself has become beholden to the Executive.

Our decades under highly-centralised government undermined our power-sharing formula, just as it undermined key institutions such as the judiciary, the police and the rule of law. Our major institutions have survived in appearance while their substance has eroded. Seen in this light, the election results of March 8, which saw the Barisan Nasional handed its worst defeat since 1969, was just the beginning of the collapse of a structure which has long been hollowed out.

The end of the old, but not quite the new

The racial power-sharing model now practiced by Barisan is broken. It takes more honesty than we are used to in public life to observe that this is not a temporary but a terminal crisis. An old order is ending. Our problem is that while this past winds down, smoothly or otherwise, the future is not yet here. We are caught in between. Despite our having become a more economically advanced society, with many opportunities for our citizens to express richly plural identities, our races have become increasingly polarised. Large numbers of our electorate still vote along ethnic and religious lines. Much of our political ground is still racially demarcated. Although we have made some progress towards truly multiracial politics, both the Government and the Opposition are largely mobilised along racial lines. It is not yet time to herald a new dawn. Instead, we are in a transition full of perils and possibilities.

You are this generation caught between. You are the generation of transition. You will play a key role in determining its outcome. However well a certain kind of politics of racial identity may have served to reduce conflict in the past, it has come to the end of its useful life. We need a new beginning to racial relations in Malaysia, and you must pioneer that beginning. We need to re-design race relations in Malaysia, and you must be the architects and builders of that design.

In coming to that new design I hope you take advantage of the perspective of distance that your overseas education has given you to not take as your starting point the tired answers that are passed on as conventional wisdom. You must reformulate the questions and come up with your own answers. When it is clear that one generation may have run out of steam, it is time to generate your own. Where do you begin? May I suggest some perspectives and principles. Whatever the answers we come up with, I think the following elements are important:

Begin with our common humanity. Respect our common humanity must override all lesser affiliations, including race. One of Islam's most powerful contributions to human civilisation has been its insistence on the equality of all human beings. Islam tolerates no notions of racial superiority or inferiority. All human beings are equal before God. That same principle of equality is absolutely fundamental to democracy, and democracy is a foundational principle of our Constitution. Democracy is part of what makes us who we are as a nation. Even if we might still gravitate towards racial groupings, our allegiance to these groups must never overshadow our allegiance to the Constitution, and to the claims of equal dignity that it establishes firmly and permanently. Political parties based on race or religion must never be allowed to do or say anything contrary to justice and equality.

We must anchor ourselves in the Constitution and restore its primacy. This founding document of our country establishes definitively the equality of citizenship that is the bedrock of democracy. It gives us the framework of law and order within which we become a nation. It establishes the primacy of the rule of law, the sovereignty of Parliament, the independence of the judiciary and civil service and of our law enforcement agencies. These are the institutions which guarantee the freedom and sovereignty of the people.

We should acknowledge that while race is a category that unites people in common feeling, it can also divide, and divide disastrously. While it unites people who possess a set of social markers it often divides the same people from other communities. We should appreciate not just the fact that we are diverse but diverse in different ways. What I mean by this is that we are not diverse in the sense of being merely Malay, a Chinese, an Indian, a Kadazan, Iban and so forth. Each of us inhabits these particular identities in different ways. Each of us is not just a member of a race. There are other classifications which matter to us, such as location, class, social status, occupation, language, politics and others.

Is race the most important thing?

We would be terribly impoverished as persons if our identity was given ahead of time and once and for all merely by our membership of a fixed racial category. I would be a very dull person if you could tell who I was simply by looking up my race. We would never have unity if that is primarily how we regard one another. If you reflect on yourselves, you might find that all kinds of identity matter to you: that you are a graduate of such and such a university, that you speak these languages, support this football team, enjoy certain food or music, love to travel, can write computer code, have read such and such books, and have so-and-so as friends. Just reflect on how you identify yourselves in your facebook profiles. Is race the only thing you regard as important about yourselves? Is it the most important thing?

To expect our politics to be given by our race is to make cardboard images of ourselves, it is to retard our growth as individuals and hence as a society. Similarly to see no more of others than their race is to turn them into stereotypes and maintain a view of the world bordering on racist. I want to urge you, as the makers of the new social landscape we need in Malaysia, to reject taking race to be a unique and fixed categorisation, to reject race as a central category of social and political life.

Race is a constructed category, in the sense that people shape what they count as a “race” according to time, place and purpose. There is no unique and rigid concept of it the way there is a rigid concept of buoyancy, double-entry book-keeping, equilateral triangles and photosynthesis. I would be offended if you tried to measure and determine my racial identity, and it would tell me that there was something deeply wrong with your worldview. I am not Malay in the sense in which water is H2O.

Race is merely one among many identities we take up in life. We may not have much choice over how others categorise us, but we certainly have a choice about the relative importance to place on our own and therefore on the others' racial identity. We have a choice in how much weight we put on it, and in how high in our scheme of values we put it. The contrast I want to draw is between the view that makes race out to be a unique and fundamental category, and a view that sees race as one out of many kinds of identification we could prioritise.

If we see race as a watertight category, then you are either of race X or not, and everything else: your habits, thought-patterns, loyalties and politics must all follow from that. Then race becomes destiny. The politics of this kind of conception of race will always divide, and the ultimate solution to intra-racial problems it leads us to is, in the end, violence. It is easy to identify the practitioners of this kind of racial politics. They will rely on veiled threats of communal violence even as they take part in democratic politics.

However, if we understand that racial identity is just one of many identities we have to balance, then it becomes our duty as thinking persons to set relative priorities on all these identifications. We need to ask ourselves whether we want to draw our moral values and perspective from our common humanity or from our racial identity. As educated, reasoning people, we cannot but find our common humanity the more fundamental value. We cannot but find rationally chosen universal values more important than inherited tribal affiliations.

The ability to root ourselves in our common humanity first and foremost is the prerequisite for the development of a democratic society in which policies are decided by public reasoning rather than determined by violence and manipulation. This is because open public reasoning can only be carried out where there is equal respect for the dignity and rights of all citizens, and such respect must be firmly rooted in an understanding that despite sometimes clashing interests and identities, we are united by a more fundamental common identity: that of a shared humanity created by God. Our common humanity gives us moral obligations to one another, regardless of our lesser affiliations in a way that racial identity does not?

Time to embrace the diversity

We need to arrive at new ways of mediating conflicting claims between the races, new ways of bringing people to the table, of including everyone in the decisionmaking process.

These new ways must be based on more open conceptions of who we are. Malaysia's major races have lived together not just for decades but for centuries. Their cultures have interacted for millenia. In that time there has been mutual influence, admixture and cross-pollination at a depth and on a scale that our politics, popular culture and educational curriculum has largely pretended does not exist.

In my own parliamentary constituency, jungle covered, far inland and one of the most remote in the peninsula (it used to be known as Ulu Kelantan and covered half the state, and when I started there I had to travel to it by boat), is a six hundred year old Chinese community, perhaps the oldest in the peninsula, living in peace with their Malay and Orang Asli neighbours. Why pretend that we do not owe so much to each other that we would not be ourselves without each other? At the level at which people actually live we are already inextricably linked to each other.

It is time to embrace this real diversity in our political and personal lives. Our racial identities are not silos in a cornfield, forever separate, encased in steel, but trees in our rainforest: standing distinct but inexplicable without each other and constantly co-evolving.

While giving room to whoever wants to organise and advocate political interests according to our ethnic and religious affinities, we must now, very firmly, assert that such affinities must always recognise the priority and primacy of our common citizenship, our equal dignity, and above all, our common humanity before each other and before God. First we are human beings who are open to one another.

My young friends, I am not recommending anything novel. These are cardinal principle of our Constitution and the faiths we profess, most especially of Islam, and of reason itself. Let us have the sense of perspective to see our ethnic identities against these cornerstone principles of religion and ethics, and let us now educate our young, apprentice our youth, and conduct ourselves according to these principles. And then let us have a new beginning for Malaysia.

The above speech was delivered at Melbourne University at an event organized by the Umno Club.

This article is taken from MalaysiaKini website and is written by Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah.

Started my studies at UTM,Universiti teknologi malaysia....
Plenty of stuff to tell but I am not bothered to do so at the moment,maybe later....

Salaam,if your a muslim then you ve probably heard that some stuff regarding the giving of salaam to non-muslim regarding replying and also greeting them with salam. If you only bothered to listen to ur ustaz or ustazah then you most probably had been told that u cant or can only reply with a certain way of replying but if your the type to think,to ponder if that is really how is suppose to be then i bid you to open this link and read it so that you may decide for yourself which of it do you believe or want to practice.

LINK

My personal stand of this issue? I am not against giving salaam to non-muslim or replying those who greet me with salaam with Wa’alaikumus-Salaam(spelling may differ) as long as it is said with good intend,heck,I might even practice it myself one day though not at this very moment becoz the people in this country are not as open to this culture or way of thinking like other muslim around the world and I mean why not do it?Other parts of the world practice it too,muslim and non-muslim greet each other with salaam and I must admit it is sad that the people in this country cant open their minds to such culture.Salaam in its english translation means "peace be upon you",it hold such a beautiful meaning?Peace,who are we to deny peace to other people of different religion?Peace belong to all,regardless of race,religion,origins and background so I beg you all to remember that peace does not belong to one race,one religion but to all who live in this world.

With this I say,to my non-muslim friend,if you wish to greet me with salaam(Assalamu alaikum) then i shall return the favour to you on another occasion and i shall reply you with
Wa’alaikumus-Salaam but please do so with good intent and none of the opposite..

And to all my muslim friends,I am sorry if anything I said might hurt you or that my opinion might offend you but I shall not retract anything that I have said thus far,because it is my opinion,there is no right or wrong in this topic,believe in what you want to believe and force it not upon others because you do not know which is right and which is wrong,only Allah S.W.T knows the answer as does with all the un-answered question we have...

Therefore I would to end this post with this,Assalamu-alaikum to all who read this and also thank you for reading...

Thank you barcelona!
Thank you for giving me happiness!
Thank you for curing my heartache!
Thank you for playing such a superb game!
Thank you for winning!
Thank you.........

Here's a prime example of "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" offered by an English professor:

The professor told his class one day: "Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. As homework tonight, one of you will write the first paragraph of a short story. You will e-mail your partner that paragraph and send another copy to me. The partner will read the first paragraph and then add another paragraph to the story and send it back, also sending another copy to me.

"The first person will then add a third paragraph, and so on back-and-forth. Remember to re-read what has been written each time in order to keep the story coherent. There is to be absolutely NO talking outside of the e-mails and anything you wish to say must be written in the e-mail. The story is over when both agree a conclusion has been reached."

The following was actually turned in by two of his English students, Rebecca and Gary.

THE STORY:

(first paragraph by Rebecca)
At first, Laurie couldn't decide which kind of tea she wanted. The chamomile, which used to be her favorite for lazy evenings at home, now reminded her too much of Carl, who once said, in happier times, that he liked chamomile. But she felt she must now, at all costs, keep her mind off Carl. His possessiveness was suffocating, and if she thought about him too much her asthma started acting up again. So chamomile was out of the question.

(second paragraph by Gary)
Meanwhile, Advance Sergeant Carl Harris, leader of the attack squadron now in orbit over Skylon 4, had more important things to think about than the neuroses of an air-headed asthmatic bimbo named Laurie with whom he had spent one sweaty night over a year ago. "A.S. Harris to Geostation 17," he said into his transgalactic communicator. "Polar orbit established. No sign of resistance so far..." But before he could sign off a bluish particle beam flashed out of nowhere and blasted a hole through his ship's cargo bay. The jolt from the direct hit sent him flying out of his seat and across the cockpit.

(Rebecca)
He bumped his head and died almost immediately, but not before he felt one last pang of regret for psychically brutalizing the one woman who had ever had feelings for him. Soon afterwards, Earth stopped its pointless hostilities towards the peaceful farmers of Skylon 4. "Congress Passes Law Permanently Abolishing War and Space Travel," Laurie read in her newspaper one morning. The news simultaneously excited her and bored her. She stared out the window, dreaming of her youth, when the days had passed unhurriedly and carefree, with no newspaper to read, no television to distract her from her sense of innocent wonder at all the beautiful things around her. "Why must one lose one's innocence to become a woman?" she pondered wistfully.

(Gary)
Little did she know, but she had less than 10 seconds to live. Thousands of miles above the city, the Anu'udrian mothership launched the first of its lithium fusion missiles. The dim-witted wimpy peaceniks who pushed the Unilateral Aerospace Disarmament Treaty through the congress had left Earth a defenseless target for the hostile alien empires who were determined to destroy the human race. Within two hours after the passage of the treaty the Anu'udrian ships were on course for Earth, carrying enough firepower to pulverize the entire planet. With no one to stop them, they swiftly initiated their diabolical plan. The lithium fusion missile entered the atmosphere unimpeded. The President, in his top-secret mobile submarine headquarters on the ocean floor off the coast of Guam, felt the inconceivably massive explosion, which vaporized poor, stupid Laurie.

(Rebecca)
This is absurd. I refuse to continue this mockery of literature. My writing partner is a violent, chauvinistic semi-literate adolescent.

(Gary)
Yeah? Well, my writing partner is a self-centered tedious neurotic whose attempts at writing are the literary equivalent of Valium. "Oh, shall I have chamomile tea? Or shall I have some other sort of F_KING TEA??? Oh no, what am I to do? I'm such an air headed bimbo who reads too many Danielle Steele novels!"

(Rebecca)
as*hole.

(Gary)
b****

(Rebecca)
F__K YOU - YOU NEANDERTHAL!

(Gary)
Go drink some tea - whore.

Quick Thinker
After a late afternoon get-together of co-workers, a man drove his secretary home because she had too much to drink. Although nothing happened between the two of them, he decided to not bother mentioning it to his wife.

Later that evening, the man and his wife were driving to a movie when he suddenly noticed a high-heeled shoe sticking out from under the passenger seat. Thinking fast, he asked his wife to watch out her window for a parking spot near the theater and as she was busy looking, he grabbed the shoe and tossed it out of his window.

They arrived at the theater a few minutes later and were about to get out of the car when his wife asked, "Darling, have you seen my other shoe?"

Some Good News
A woman called her husband at work and told him she had some good news and some bad news. "Which do you want first?" she asked.

With a sigh the husband replied, "Let me have the good news first dear."

"Ok," she said, "well ... the air bags work ... "
You Call This Fun?
An angry wife was complaining to her husband about his spending all his time at the pub, so he decided to take her along one night.

"What'll ya have?" he asked.

"Oh, I guess I'll just have the same as you," she replied.

So, the husband ordered a couple of Jack Daniel's and threw his back in one gulp. His wife watched him, then took a sip from her glass and immediately spit it out.

"Yuck!" she spluttered. "That was horrible. I don't know how you can drink this stuff!"

"Well, there you go," cried the husband. "And you think I'm out enjoying myself every night!"

So Much For Mom's Advice
A young man phoned his mother and excitedly announced that he had just met the woman of his dreams. "What should I do now, Mom?" he asked.

"Well, why don't you send her flowers and, on the card, invite her to your place for a home cooked meal?" his mother suggested.

The young man thought this sounded like a great idea. A week later, the woman came to dinner.

The following day, his mother called him to see how things had gone.

"I have never been so humiliated, Mom," he moaned. "She insisted on washing the dishes."

"What's wrong with that?" asked his mother.

"We hadn't started eating yet!" groaned the young man

A Couple of Black Eyes Louis arrived home from work one day sporting two black eyes. "What on earth happened to you?" asked his wife. "Well, while I was on the bus this morning going to work this fat lady got up to get off," Louis explained. "As she passed by, I noticed that her skirt was caught up in the crack of her butt. Hoping to save her some embarrassment, I reached over and pulled it out and she turned around and hit me in the eye." "And how do you explain the other eye?" his wife inquired. "Well, I figured I must have done something wrong," Louis said, "so as she turned to walk away, I reached over and tucked it back in!"

DATING: The process of spending enormous amounts of money, time, and energy to get better acquainted with a person whom you don't especially like in the present and will learn to like a lot less in the future.
EASY: A term used to describe a woman who has the morals of a man.

EYE CONTACT: A method utilized by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Despite being advised to do so, many women have difficulty looking a man directly in the eyes, not necessarily due to the shyness, but usually due to the fact that a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

FRIEND: A member of the opposite sex in your acquaintance who has some flaw which makes sleeping with him/her totally unappealing.

INDIFFERENCE: A woman's feeling towards a man, which is interpreted by the man as "playing hard to get."

IRRITATING HABIT: What the endearing little qualities that initially attract two people to each other turn into after a few months together.

NYMPHOMANIAC: A man's term for a woman who wants to do it more often than he does.

SOBER: A condition in which it is almost impossible to fall in love.

ATTRACTION: The act of associating horniness with a particular person.

LOVE AT 1st SIGHT: What occurs when two extremely horny, but not entirely choosy people meet.

LAW OF RELATIVITY: How attractive a given person appears to be is directly proportionate to how unattractive your date is.

Okey,The past two post is relationship jokes as per say,so here a bunch more that i found recently,enjoy and all shall be clean as possible n most probably i wont post any dirty jokes here even though a bunch of em is good...

Backseat Cook
A wife was making fried eggs for her husband for breakfast. Suddenly her husband burst into the kitchen.

"Careful... Careful!!! Put in some more butter! Oh my God! You're cooking too many at once. Too many! Turn them! Turn them now! We need more butter. Oh my God! Where are we going to get more butter? They're going to stick! Careful... Careful!!! I said be careful! You never listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up! Are you crazy? Have you lost your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. Use the salt! The salt!"

The wife stared at him and asked, "What the hell is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?"

The husband calmly replied, "I wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving with you in the car."

Wedding Colors Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "Why is the bride dressed in white?" "Because white is the color of happiness, and today is the happiest day of her life." The child thought about this for a moment, then said, "So why is the groom wearing black?"

Divorce News
An elderly man in Phoenix calls his son in New York and says, "I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mother and I are divorcing; forty-five years of misery is enough."

"Pop, what are you talking about?" the son screams.

"We can't stand the sight of each other any longer," the old man says "We're sick of each other, and I'm sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her," and he hangs up.

Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone. "Like hell they're getting divorced," she shouts, "I'll take care of this." She calls Phoenix immediately, and screams at the old man, "You are NOT getting divorced. Don't do a single thing until I get there. I'm calling my brother back, and we'll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don't do a thing, DO YOU HEAR ME?" and hangs up.

The old man hangs up his phone, too, and turns to his wife. "Okay," he says, "they're coming for Thanksgiving. Now what do we tell them for Christmas?"

Romantic Food

Joe was not a very romantic person, and furthermore he was rather stupid. But he wanted to impress his wife, so he took her out for an anniversary dinner and watched the couples around them, following their leads.

He observed the couple next to him. The man lifted a sugar shaker towards his wife's cup and said, "Sugar, sugar?" Joe thought this was great and continued to listen around the dining room.
Another table over Joe observed the following. A man spooned out some honey out of a bowl for his wife and asked, "Honey, honey?"
Again Joe thought this was good stuff.

Finally, he cut off a piece of his meat, stared longingly into his young wife's eyes and said, "Ham, pig?"

Golf Mate
A couple of old friends are trying to play a round of golf when they catch up with two women. They watch with mounting frustration as the ladies manage to hit every water hazard, bunker and piece of rough - without waving them through, as golf etiquette requires. After two tedious hours of waiting, one of the men decides enough is enough and walks over to ask them if he can play through. He strides up the fairway, but halfway up stops suddenly and quickly returns. "I can't do it," he says to his playing partner. "One of those women is my wife, and the other is my mistress! Maybe it'd be better if you went to talk to them." The second man agrees, but halfway there he too, noticeably slows down, stops and returns, just like his colleague had done. "What's up?" asks the first man. "I tell you what," says the second man, gazing at his shoes and smiling sheepishly. "It's a small world, isn't it?"

At A Wedding
A person wishing the groom... "I don't know whether to congratulate you, or pity you."

CIA Final Test(its a little sick)
Three men are getting ready for their final test to become CIA agents. The instructor says that their final test is to kill their wives. So, the instructor hands a gun to the first guy and he goes into another room where his wife is. The man returns just a few minutes later and says that he loves his wife too much and can't go through with it.

The second guy goes into the room with the gun to kill his wife. He returns 10 minutes later and says that even though he really wants to become an agent he just couldn't kill his wife.

So, the instructor hands the gun off to the third guy and he proceeds into the room. After about 15 minutes they hear three gun shots go off. The man returns a few minutes afterwards all sweaty and out of breath. The instructor asks the man what happened and the man replied "Some idiot put blanks in the gun so I had to strangle the b****".

To be 10 again.
A man was sitting on the edge of the bed, observing his wife turning back and forth, looking at herself in the mirror. Since her birthday was not far off, he asked what she'd like to have for her Birthday.

I'd like to be 10 again, she replied, still looking in the mirror.

On the morning of her Birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Lucky Charms, and then took her to a theme park. What a day! He put her on every ride in the park; the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster everything there was.

Five hours later they staggered out of the theme park. Her head was Reeling and her stomach felt upside down. He then took her to a McDonald's where he ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a chocolate shake.

Then it was off to a movie, popcorn, a soda pop, and her favourite sweets, M&M's. What a fabulous adventure!

Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted.

He leaned over his wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, Well Dear, What was it like being 10 again?? Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. I meant my Dress Size, you idiot!!

The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he is going to get it wrong.

Thats all for now,more to come in a day or so,maybe later...

Top 10 Rejection Lines Given By Women (and what they actually mean...)

10. I think of you as a brother. (You remind me of that inbred banjo-playing geek in "Deliverance.")

9. There's a slight difference in our ages. (I don't want to do my dad)

8. I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You are the ugliest dork I've ever laid eyes upon.)

7. My life is too complicated right now. (I don't want you spending the whole night or else you may hear phone calls from all the other guys I'm seeing.)

6. I've got a boyfriend (I prefer my male cat and a half gallon of Ben and Jerry's).

5. I don't date men where I work. (I wouldn't date you if you were in the same 'solar system', much less the same building.)

4. It's not you, it's me. (It's you.)

3. I'm concentrating on my career. (Even something as boring and unfulfilling as my job is better than dating you.)

2. I'm celibate. (I've sworn off only the men like you.)

and the number 1 rejection line given by women (and what it really means)

1. Let's be friends. (I want you to stay around so I can tell you in excruciating detail about all the other men I meet and have sex with. It's that male perspective thing.)

Top 10 Rejection Lines Given By Men (and what they actually mean...)

10. I think of you as a sister. (You're ugly.)

9. There's a slight difference in our ages. (You're ugly.)

8. I'm not attracted to you in 'that' way. (You're ugly.)

7. My life is too complicated right now. (You're ugly.)

6. I've got a girlfriend. (You're ugly.)

5. I don't date women where I work. (You're ugly.)

4. It's not you, it's me. (You're ugly.)

3. I'm concentrating on my career. (You're ugly.)

2. I'm celibate. (You're ugly.)

and the number 1 rejection line given by men (and what it actually means)

1. Let's be friends. (You're sinfully ugly.)

1. NAMES
If Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara go out for lunch, they
will call each other Laurie, Linda, Elizabeth and Barbara.
If Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom go out, they will affectionately
refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla, Peanut-Head and Scrappy.

2. EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mark, Chris, Eric and Tom will each throw
in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything
smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.

3. MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.

4. BATHROOMS
A man has five items in his bathroom: a toothbrush, shaving cream,
razor, a bar of soap, and a towel from the Marriott. The average
number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man
would not be able to identify most of these items.

5. ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

6. CATS
Women love cats.
Men say they love cats, but when women aren't looking, men kick
cats.

7. FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

8. SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can
spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

9. MARRIAGE
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.

10. DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the
garbage, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. A man
will dress up for weddings and funerals.

11. NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.

12. OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows
about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods,
secret fears and hopes and dreams. A man is vaguely aware of some
short people living in the house.

13. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
Any married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two
people remembering the same thing.

AND FINALLY.....
A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a
word. An earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of
them wanted to concede their position. As they passed a barnyard of
mules and pigs, the husband asked sarcastically, "Relatives of yours?"
"Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws."

This blog is pretty dead all thanks to me and my lazy-ness to update it... Owh well,life goes on

Saturday
Went shopping for matriculation item such as slacks,shirts and stuff.

Sunday
Went to 1u with kennet tariq and sister(laura),watched sniper which is quite good,though the ending was lame.Had fun with em..miss spending time with everyone actually,miss those school days...

Monday-Tuesday
Nothing special about this days,did the same old same old.

Wednesday
Went for lunch with kennet vicky and tariq,then lepak-ed at the school for a while during koko with vicky. Had lots of fun,got slightly with all thanks to azra =.=

Today(thursday)
At around 2.30am,went to Al-Safa with Mr Francis And Mr yugesh along with kennet to watch Arsenal-Man United game.That was fun though it really sucked that they lost but it dont matter,because Arsenal are gonna win next week!
Okey,later that day went for lunch with vicky and kennet,then we lepak-ed around the school till koko ended...

Im stressed out! I dunno what but I know I am though,how do i know this? I started ticking again,if you were in the same class in me last year,you will know what I am talking about..hahaha...

Name the brand of these toiletries you used:

-Toothbrush: Colgate last i check
-Toothpaste: Colgate also,dont really care what type..gosok je...
-Facial Wash: I dont use facial wash =.=
-Shampoo: Head and shoulder,anti dandruff,prevention is better than curing
-Soap: Ph 5.5 body wash
-Mouth Wash: Also dont use...
-Floss: Dont use too,brushing your teeth should be enough..
-Deodorant: Adidas deoderant.
-Perfume: I dont wear perfume also...
-Shave: Gillette Mach 3 Turbo if im not mistaken....

Queer tag indeed...Who ever reads this you must do it!!.

I like em,so i share em,enjoy!
Thanks to jazz for showing em in the first place :D

Tahniah! Anda telah ditawarkan ke Program Matrikulasi, Kementerian Pelajaran Malaysia.
Nama:	BENYAMIN BIN MUHD NAJIB
No Kad Pengenalan:	910901105655
Program Pengajian :	PROGRAM SATU TAHUN
Kursus:	M001-SAINS
Nama kolej:	13-KOLEJ MATRIKULASI P.PINANG (KMPP)
Tarikh Mendaftar:	11 MEI 2009

I got it,finally some good news,one of my cousin got it too,same place also....
Now I just hope vicky gets it also.....

When I was child,I spoke as a child,
I understood as a child,I thought as a child;
But when I became a man,
I put childish things away.
- 1 Corinthians 13:11

Confuse,numb,shocked,denial,sadness

Thats what ive been feeling all day long.....
Im lost,I dunno what to do.....
I dont want to think about it.....
Help me keep it off my mind.....
Nothing has change yet everything seem so different.....
Its only a matter of time before things do though.....
I hate life at the moment.....

1. type of person you would settle down with?
Can't think of an answer so this is my answer...

2. type of parent-in-law you're hoping for?
Not in particular,just one that accepts me for who i am...

3. when are you planning to settle down?
When im ready?

4. how many kids do you plan to have?
I would say 3..

5. what would you do if you partner is unable to give you off-spring?
Just accept it,adopt perhaps?

6. what would you do if your marriage is in a bad situation?
Do my best to fix it of course,duh!

7. what would you do if you're a divorcee?
Life goes on.

8. what would you if the next morning you find out that your partner is dead?
Never been thru,nor can i predict my reaction...so cant answer it..

If you read thru this,you ve been tagged!

Benny Booger!

Dont ask me how this name came to be,just something laura aka Lau Yuet Sian calls me by nowadays,totally weird name I must say..

Owh ya,if you haven watched Fast and the Furious 4,go and watch it!Good Movie I must say,enjoyed it so much...

Okey,bubye!

I realise something childish that is an abudant in this country,the lack of respect for someone elses opinion?
Calling people names,cursing them and all the other thing ppl do to "express" themselves is totally childish,if you dont agree with the opinion given,voice out and argue,debate it not call em names and insults.
Grow up already ppl,this country got enough childish ppl leading or running the country as it is,we dont need anymore people of that sorts for the future...

Again grow,if you dont get this,shows how much u lack maturity n how childish you are.

My Mind,My Thoughts,My Views

What is your best friend's dad's name?

Shanmugan,or is it ragavan?

Who was the hottest teacher you ever had?

no comments

Do you have any piercings?

Nope...

What's the strangest talent you have?

I dont have talent.

What's your favorite chocolate?

I love all chocolate!hence,my size.

How old are you?

Current 17,turning 18 this year

Is there one thing all of your ex's have had in common?

Never dated before.

Did you french kiss before you were 16?

no?

Who is the last person you think about before you fall asleep?

Cant remember...

Have you ever had a poem or a song written about you?

In this year school majalah,name was mentioned.

What was your childhood nickname?

Ive got a few,lazy to type it here.

When is the last time you played the guitar?

i dont play guitars

Have you ever peeked in the opposite sexes locker room?

I ve got better things to do

Have you ever bitten your toenails?

no?

How do you normally eat your cookies?

Like any other normal human would?

Name something you do when you're alone?

Play games,Good time killer and no,im not geek! or is it nerd?

Have you ever sniffed an animal's butt?

I ve got brains,so no..

How often do you clean out your ears?

Define clean my ears?

Do you scrunch or fold your toilet paper?

Toilet paper?whats that?

About how many times a day go to the toilet?

It differs day by day

Do you have any strange phobias?

I am never writing that here.

Have you ever played naked twister?

What is that?twister i mean...

Have you ever found your gf/bf's sibling more attractive?

Again,ive never dated!

I tag all who read this and is willing to do it!!

This is an article I took from friday,3rd april copy of the nst,(this is from the opinion section)

Title:Earth Hour is a total farce

As the lights went out for Earth Hour on March 28,organised by WWF to protest againsts man-made global warming,our scientist family did exactly the opposite.
We switched on every single light in our energy-efficient bungalow in Bandar Baru Bangi.We held this mini festival of lights to say that mankind's increasing use of electricity has nothing to do with global warming.
My wife,a retired scientist,had been complaining all week about the unrelenting earth hour campaign on tv,radio and the newspapers.
She pointed out that it was manly youth who are getting sucked into this campaign.
"This is immoral and an insult to everything we have achieved.I studied under old lamps until I was 16.Electricity got us out of poverty and built Malaysia.It transformed society.if anyone messes up our electricity supply,it's back to oil lamps and padi farming."
"That's what our youth don't realise. But now the WWF is trying to convince the youth to feel guilty about consuming electricity"
"Earth needs more and more electricity. That is how we measure our improving standard of living."
My objection to the Earth Hour campaign is also fundamental. Man-made global warming is simply not true;it is man made fraud.
Thirty-one thousand scientist so far,including me,have felt it necessary to protest against this fraud by pusblishing our namkes and qualifications in a properly conducted Internet poll.
There is nothing new or to fear about global warming.It is not caused by man's industrialisation,by over development or "over-population".
Global Warming is a perfect;y natural-phenomenon.Ten thousand-year global warming periods followed by 100 000-years ice ages have occurred with some regularity for the last two millions years and probably throughout much of the 4.5 billion years of life on Earth.
What causes climate changes is the Earth's varying tilt and elliptical orbit around the sun and our solar system's long journey through the Milky Way,together with cosmic radiation from exploding stars. Most of this basic science has been known for 100 years.
Carbon Dioxide,(CO2) is not an enviromental poison but has been named by 10 generations of scientist as "the gas of life" which,by photosynthesis in green plants,gets converted into organic matter. The small additional carbon dioxide produced by industrial man is a bonus,not a threat to life.
Our rainforest climate is Earth's best example of the tremendous benefits of global warming and higher levels of CO2. Malaysia's constantly warm climate, high rainfall,abundant sunshine and high natural CO2 levels,caused by plentiful rotting vegetation,combine to produce the highest rate of biomass production in the world.
The kenaf tree in Malaysia can grow to five-metres in four months. A new malaysian grass plantation is producing sustainable one-metres cut grass for climate-housed cows every 30 days. This Malaysian invention, deep tropical agriculture, can transform food production and, with cheap desalinated water and electricity from new "inherently safe" generation nuclear power stations,can spread throughout the dry tropical regions of the world,even deserts.
Scientist now know in priciple how to feed the population during the next ice age,which climatologist say will begin with a mini-ice age by 2050,within the lifespan of half of the world's population.
We must get back to the big science of my youth, like Atoms for Peace, the Green Revolution and the Man on the Moon mission. The very best investment from Malaysia's economic stimulus packages is a great increase in science and engineering scholarships at all levels for the best generation of youth in our history.

Written by: MOHD PETER DAVIS
Posted by: Me

READ!
Thought it was better to place a warning of sorts here,to anyone who is an environmentalist,u may read,i din badmouth you all,keep up your good job,IF your the type who is really really sensitive when it comes to our world dont read too and last but not least,if u cant stand or accept the opinion of another person,then just skip this post,because this is written purely on my personal opinion and i wasn thinking of how much others feel about it..Thank For You Reading Till This Point.


Okay,Who here supports this?Anyone? I for one think its a total waste time. I mean,really?What good does it does? You off it for an hour then after that u continue doing what you usually do,it will make no difference in the long term,not that i would even care if it did because if you reduce pollution or by accomplishing the impossible you actually stop pollution,you are only delaying the inevitable..
Inevitable? What do I mean by it? Simple,delaying when our once beautiful(not that it isn now) planet is going to be destroyed,totally stripped of its beauty,un-able to sustain life any longer and the worst of all is to be turned into nothing but dust in space...
Pollution is incessant,its never going to stop,it wont go away not unless we humans go away first,only then it will disappear,that if its not too late when we do get wiped out off the face of the earth but come on now,lets be honest to ourselves because we all know that the chances of that happening is very low,for now anyhow.Human push for advances in technology,better this,better that and nothing is free,everything has a price,history proves it,with almost every new technology discovered,with every new technological advance we make,we bring about pollution,destruction and also hope and creation but that is another story.Easy example of it is agriculture ,when agricultural become widespread,when agricultural technology advanced,it brings about it new ways to feed the people of this world but at what cost? More and more forest being logged to make way for places for agricultural activities,usage of pesticide to prevent damages of crops and etc,that poisons the land,the air,the water around us. Electricity,petrol and everything else,all brings about pollution and why do all these exist? Because we exist that is why
Oh ya,you cant make the entire population of this world to turn green and it requires but a simple explanation,because we are humans,enough said...
Even if by a god given miracle the environmentalist manage to make the entire population go green,the planet is still doomed one way or another.Owh,all so many scenarios can be thought of on how the world will be doomed.A global nuclear war for an example,we all know the destructive powers of nuclear warhead,the land in which it is striked upon is uninhabitable for years and years to come so imagine if the entire world was engulfed in a nuclear war? Or it could be because we discovered some new technology that we cant handle and in the end,it destroys,it might sound ridiculous but its possible none the less,humans are never satisfied,all wanting,all searching,be it for money or for power it will never be satiesfied.
Well,Im done speaking my mind for now,that was fun...

Feel free to post up your arguments,disagreement though i doubt it will change my point of view but feel free to try none the less...

My Mind,My Thoughts,My Views

Oh Yea!
Over the weekend,hasif and shafiq came to bsd to hang out with everyone which consist of Me,atif,tariq,rudy n syazwan at some point of the three days...
Had a blast spending time with them,plenty of laughs,trash talking,gaming n a total lack of sleep!
Saturday slept 4hours n Sunday another 3hours...
Not much to say,went to the cc for about 4 times,on saturday we went n visited fathin during the afternoon n had pizza for dinner and Cc there after..travelled around in the back of a jip that night,looking over the roof of the jip was fun! The wind in the face felt real nice,did i mention it was fun?
On the way to the cc,while pulling that stunt,police car was driving behind us..that was really scary,luckily they din do anything n according to shafiq who was with me at the back,they waved =.=

So the rest of the day is pretty much the same,talking,walking,playing and all the usual stuff...
Oh ya,my mom came back yesterday and she brought back plenty of liquorice sweets for me and the family,yummy!

Thats all to say,nothing much to talk about,live has been really dull these past couple of weeks....

Okey,a little slow on this,took results last week and I got 4A1,3A2,3B3.
Its okey results i guess,everyone seem to be happy about it,except me,as soon as i got the results and i saw it,i started feeling down,dunno why.Everyone says congrats and such,not much meaning if u ask me,if you really meant it,thank for it.Its like how atif say,congrats is something ppl would say even if u din do great or if you did great..I think its called being polite? Either way,that is what is,too little too late to fret about it now,its the past,gonna leave it there....

Oh ya,I managed to cook spaghetti from scratch for dinner,all by myself.That was nice,was worried it will become a disaster,well received by my family.For those who think whats the big deal with cooking it,to me it is because i only saw my mom cooked it once,was helping out too and which was 3 weeks ago..
Oh ya,i managed to burn myself,not my hot water,hot pot or anything,but hot spaghetti sauce that jumped onto my hand.Even my the skin tore off,oh well,life goes on...

Just saw it with my elder bro and three younger siblings,great movie!If ye haven watched it,go watch it while its still in the cinema!Bye!

I like this video,its from a game,yet it talks so much about things in our lives especially one,about peace,I ll just write on the important line for those who are lazy to listen to the video,it goes "remember to be very grateful if you happen to be in a country at peace".Peace is something that we all take for granted in our life,never thankful...

"He who has not experienced war,does not know the true value of peace"

I am not sure about anyone else,but I admit,peace is something I take for granted,I have never truly appreciated it,we live in a country at peace,usually only disturbed a few idiotic politician and political shenanigans that happen all so often in our country nowadays but then again,we can go on our with our daily life with that but what about those in country filled with turmoil?war?
We do not know how lucky we are to have peace while others die and suffer endlessly,how would they wish to leave in peace,to move to another country where peace is there for their enjoyment but for us?We leave the country because its nicer there,the pay is better,local education is not good enough and much much more but in the end it don't really matter,because no matter what,home is the place you grew up in,how is the place you were raised in,home is the country you lived in all your life,whether you hate it or love it,its an deniable fact and not to mention the place that your family will be,always..
Overseas education pursuit is over-rated because its only truly valuable when you are first looking for a job but you will most probably will be on scholarship so you'll be most likely be working for the people who sponsored your education,no? Later in life,experience and your work performance over the years is what you will be most likely be judged upon if your job searching.That being said it is,none the less a great experience to be had,given the chance,take it!For if you don't,you will regret it.

I wonder if I went off topic,most likely did but oh well...

Now this is an interesting series,based on King Henry VIII.For those who are still studying in form 5 and have ended school.Then this name should ring a bell.Sejarah anyone?Chapter 9?reformation?protestant?Did any of you study in school?
Anyhow,the first episode on the first season just aired on HBO today.The actor and actresses are for you to find out for yourself,I am not bothered with all that nonsense.
All in all,its a good series,check it out if your free n if your interested.

Man!I suck at this review type of thing! Owh well........

Oh brother! Life has been pretty much the same old,same old except for the fact that my elder brother is annoying everyone of my siblings with his constant whistling day in,day out.Even as I write this blog,his whistling away with hopes its annoying me. Unfortunately it is! Hiding the fact that Im annoyed by him is not easy...
On a different note,yesterday I went to the curve,a big break from my usual stay at home and rot routine though its only for about 15 minutes.I went to get a new game for my Xbox 360 but to my despair,it was out of stock,pre-ordered it with a Rm50 deposit,There goes a big sum of my money,of sorts.Getting the game next week,can't wait.
Today,i cooked desert for me family,bubur pisang is what I cooked.It could taste better but its nice none the less.Thats what u get when your father(original chef) is not bothered to make it and left it to the only other person thats good at making it to cook it.To those that don't know what bubur pisang is and is trying to imagine it like rice porridge,I am sorry to say,its nothing of that sorts.Bubur pisang is just banana boiled in water mixed with santan n gula melaka with some added spice.Thats all there is to it.

Oh ya,results coming out next week,can't wait for it!Wonder what my results will be? Oh well,what ever it is,too little too late now!

Another day,another thing to talk about..
Okay,this particular post is to explain something to a friend..once this is done,he ll be getting an sms to read this!!
Okay,today at the mosque,a friend of mine,u know who u are!
He kept on nagging me about Israel,destroying it and such,going on and on...
That kinda annoyed me.When ever it comes to the topic of Israel,Palestine,Gaza strip and such,I ll prefer not to talk about it...
Its not that I don't care,its just that I don't like to talk about it but I DO care..I'll always take the newspaper and read on the situation there,what goes on there and what they do,how they,the pain,the suffering,all of it!
I don't like to talk about it not because i don't care but it because of how helpless I am? What can one person do? I mean,I can make all the noise in the world,and still it will fall on deaf ears. The best thing I can do now,is pray,pray with all my heart for the safety of the Palestinian and that it would end soon.
Secondly,another reason why I got annoyed with this entire topic is because whenever that topics comes up,it usually follows on the topic of killing the Israelis,this and that...Argh!I am sick and tired of it!
If anyone of you justify killing them for what they did to the Palestinian,then dare I say your no different than the Israelis themselves,I can't stand the stupidity of some that say kill them,destroy them.
Tell me,Is taking the life of a another justified just because they have done something wrong?Something inhumane? Well if u ask me? Its not.Not now not ever! Human life is precious,something that money cant buy,something only given by god!
Humans cant appreciate the value of life of another human till they lost someone close or precious to them though i must stress,not all are like that but a majority of the people in this world are for I am one of those who have not yet felt the lost a loved one.If someone knows the value of life,then never will the person will talk so easily about taking the life of another!
No,I don't support the Israelis,that will be stupid,foolish to a certain extend.I also pity the people of Palestinians for the suffering but nor do I condone the action of Hamas.Their stupid action of shooting rockets into the Israeli territory is what started the entire attack.Those people gave the Israelis a reason,though what they did is simply disgusting!
Shooting rockets that will hit civilians is not allowed in Islam,that is what I have learnt in school thru-out my life.Woman,children and other stuff are not allowed to be harmed and even if you were not taught that,common sense is all you need to know that hurting civilians and killing them should be not allowed.
I believe in god,i believe in justice and because of that,I know justice will be done to those murderers and killers.It may not be in this life but in the afterlife I am sure it will be done,I know where they will go,where they will end up!
Given the power.If I had power.The last thing I will think of doing is killing the Israelis. I would rather not sink to a point where I am as low as them,I would rather not degrade myself to their standard because I am better than them..I will use it to protect the Palestinian as that is all.
Revenge.Revenge will only breed hatred and create more people who wants vengeance.This will create a continuous circle of violence,suffering,death and war. When will it end?

I'm sure I missed some points here and there.This is a post base on my opinion and based on what I know,what I feel and what I think.Feel free to voice out if you disagree with me,though I doubt it will change the way I feel or think.

My Mind,My Thoughts and My Views.