a story in progress

Today's headline of Star newspaper is kinda interesting actually. It's entitled "Government declares war on paedophiles" I am sure by know, all of you would realize how reactive we people are actually. We only react or take drastic measures after a problem arises.

A very good example to illustrate my point would be of the brutal, heartless killing of Nurin Jazlin. (honestly a list of adjectives can be compiled just to describe the act of killing this poor Innocent girl, but lets not go there today shall we?) Any way, it's only after this incident the government decide to declare war on all this so called paedophiles. How about before this senseless murder ever occur? Does that mean before this, there aren't any paedophiles out there in our dear little country? Obviously not.

How about another tragedy that befall us recently? The ferry that caught fire while heading to Pulau Tioman. So far four passengers were confirmed to be drowned where as three people are still missing. The next day all sort of NGOs and government agencies started making a scene out of this tragedy. Full inspection are made on ferries and boat alike. Conducting random checks on companies operating boat and ferry services.

So what does all this tells you about our dear little government and us?

REACTIVE

1. Remind your children not to release personal information on the Net.
2. Ensure your children does not send photographs, video clips, or other images to cyber friends or on the Net.
   
3. Remind your children not to use their photos for avatars for chat.
4. Remind you children not to download or open any attachments, programs or files if they are not sure who the offender is.
5. If your child becomes more quiet or withdrawn after chatting online, it could signal something is amiss.
6. Find out who your children befriend on the Net and who they are e-mailing and chatting with.

Terminus by Lim Kar-Men


Oh!
How I grew so weary,
Of all these lies and deceit,
How I wish I can put an end to 'tis,
Even if I knew,
How sordid 'tis could be,
I am at the end of my tether,
Blinded by a second's sojourn in Terminus.


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I was suddenly inspired to write this poem last night before hitting the bed. Its kinda like a new style of poetry writing for me. (which I never dabble with before) Kinda weird too, if you ask me. It tells about the feeling of being at the very end/the last stop of a station. Thoughts,feedbacks and your very own interpretations of it are of course welcomed.

Turns out that my stupidity is astoundingly stupid. In fact it knows no limit! Took me such a freaking long time to realise that this blog of mines can be easily customize using Blogger's new feature. But no, I wasted days ( 3 days to be exact) fumbling with this blog's HTML code. A real frustrating process actually. So the lesson behind this? Look properly before you decide to do anything. Or else you would end up like me! Desperate, frustrated then annoyed. But good news though, I finally managed to change this blog's layout to my liking. The previous one is getting kinda old any way.

The solution to all of my 3 days worth of frustrations.




Been messing with this for days!

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And in case you are wandering bout the hiatus thing, it's still on you know. Just that I decided to take a short break from it. Ironic isn't it? A break within a break? I should really get going and start hitting the books once more. Sigh. But before I attempt anything gotta do something about my lack of focus and laziness first.

So sorry ladies and gentlemen of the blogging community for my recent demise from the World Wild Web a.k.a the www.com. My internet has been wtf-ing through out the whole week. I can't even access the god damn for saken Internet for days! Do not know why my parents even bother paying Streamyx for this kind of crappy service. But then again, the phrase beggars can't be chooser comes to place right?

Anyway, with all the mopping aside, its time to get to the gist of today's blog!

'Of Bananas and Hiatus'

Bananas is defined as a group of Chinese people who ARE NOT Chinese-educated and uses a fair amount of English on a daily basis.The term 'bananas' is meant as yellow from the outside (Chinese), but white in the inside (pro-Western culture).

This entry is actually inspired by an article which I read not too long ago in The Star newspaper entitled One race, two sets of views by Joceline Tan. According to her, the Chinese race itself can be further break down to two major groups of people. From there the first group can branched out to three more components. Sound confusing? Fret not for there is a pie chart below to illustrate her point.

What really inspired me to write this post is because at one point of my life, I grew up with all these 'bananas' crap or nonsensical classing about whether I am Chinese-educated child or my inability to read and write Chinese etc. I have to admit, at some point I used to care about all those nonsensical crap. But after for a while, you have to admit;it get so tiring and at one point you will grew immune to it.

But the article above do make some sense after all. Even if it's more of a political kind of opinion on the Chinese race by the author, you have to admit, it got some degree of accuracy on the reality of the situation. All the stuff mentioned above actually happens in the real world with all those fanatics and their mindless rational.What intrigues me is that, after all those bold claims made by our leaders (and us occasionally) on all of us being one as a nation and so on, does it mean that all these are just a bunch of baseless assumptions? Even within a SINGLE race itself can be so much categorizing and class. Just imagine living in a multi-racial background with so many other aspects at hand. it really worries me at times.

But at the end it doesn't really bug me anymore. All these nonsensical classing and so on. If being a banana is really who I am, then it's fine with me. I suppose being a banana have it's perks too. (other then being a rich source of potassium)

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Another random online personality test. This time however, it measures your psychological types and your intelligence. Here's the link if anyone is interested in taking it.





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And finally, this will be my first and last post for this month. After this I will be on a hiatus. There are several reasons actually. But the primary reason would be the approaching final year examination. Have to study, study and more study. Besides, I don't think I will have much to blog about anyway.

So yeah, I hereby declare that this blog is on a HIATUS untill further notice.

Any messages can be left in my chat box on the right hand corner of this blog.