Home sweet home, is it?

Interestingly I have nothing much to think about these days, except for the change back to BM in science and maths. It's just a populist measure for the sake of those who are afraid to lose their mother tongue.

When I first got back, I realised that the internet was too slow and the weather too warm, plus my sleeping patterns were screwed up. Now everything seems to get into place now, with my tolerence with heat is back to my pre-UK days. Eating very well, and the food here is 100 times better than the ones in the UK. No more fish and chips and kebabs for a few months. Just plain Malaysian food.

There are some things that will never change - the motorcyclists in Penang are still the same - Kings of the Road. Of course until they get hit by a lorry because they think they're invisible and still wanna *gaduh* with them.

Thinking back, the whole year away really changed me - either for the better or worse. When people go abroad for studies, it is either soak up some of the values they preach, or totally shun it and decide to be a really conservative person, or the other way around, take up the worst of their values to bring it back home. It is like either you embrace it or shut the door away from it.

Another amazing thing is, people still cling on to their roots even though they are now considered another country's citizen, while embracing their new country's values too. It just reminded me of the Malay proverb, 'Melayu tak akan hilang di dunia' - and I think it rings true not just for Malays, but also of all other races.

We might now be following every single thing we used to do, but we'll definately retain most or at least some of our values. So why so much fear of losing one's Malay-ness or Chinese-ness back home?

Out and Alive!!

Ahh, results just came out and thank God I passed. Phew. Now just aiming in getting back home and enjoy for the next three months. Lol.

Summer Break

Just got back from my mini Euro-trip. Was really tired but I did enjoyed myself then. Now cracking my head on which law firms in Malaysia should I go for my attachments and thinking twice on whether I could survive the 3rd year with heavy subjects.

For now, I'm just toying around with the 3rd year subjects (I know, I can't believe that I actually bothered to read up even before 3rd year even started because I'm usually very very lazy!!). In addition to that, I’m having my daily dosage of CS courtesy of Dinesh plus shows on the internet.

In the next few days I have to look around for a storage place to dump all my stuff here so I can only bring less than 15 kilos of junk back home, so I could have more space to bring foodstuff back into the UK. Anyone who knows a cheap place to dump things let me know, lol.

What the...

'Zambry compares himself to Mandela, Gandhi' - The Star.

Here's his blog.

Tell me what you think.

Erm...

2 down, and another 2 to come. Come 12 pm 11th May, the raping ends. Lol.

A is for Annoying

I know this is not something I should grumble upon, but I find it really annoying to find terms in the media stating, 'Islamist regime' or 'Islamist terrorists' or anything along that line. Yes, some (or most) of you may argue that the reason these groups are defined that way because religion, plays a part or a big influence in that organisation/country.

However, there are a lot of anomalies. The media don't define LRA (Lord's Resistence Army) in Uganda as 'Christian militias' - though they claim to rule the country according to the Ten Commandments. Or Tamil Tigers as 'Tamil seperatists' - since their aim is create an independent Tamil state in Sri Lanka.

It is either a plain term telling them they are 'terrorists', 'rebels' or 'regime' than putting terms like 'Islamists', 'Christians' or other faiths. It is just fucking annoying and misleading, giving the impression to people who don't read or bother to know that what they read is true. Plus, in my opinion, putting religion beside the word 'terrorists' is repulsive to me, whatever religion it might be.

I can feel spring is coming!!! :D:D:D

It was really warm when I walked to uni today. I'm just hoping for the tulips and all those spring time flowers to bloom. Hehehehe. It's so fun and nice. The sun shines, and I feel happy. Lol.