Saturday, July 26, 2008

Just Something To Share..





Just something I want to share to put a smile on my readers face just like it did when I open my email.

Have a good weekend.

Monday, July 14, 2008

A Time To Reflect.

It has been a week since my last post.I've been busy with some personal things and reflecting on life,on what I have achieve with this blog,what people say about it,about my other blogs.

To all those out there who thinks my English is bad,well,I'm so sorry.This is the best that I can do and I'm trying each time to improve it.I'm from Malaysia,a country in South East Asia where English is taught as a second language.I speak in Malay since I start to talk,because that is my native language.But I start to learn English when I was about 5 or 6,I keep on asking my dad about this and that,until he decided for me to learn it myself.He gave me an English newspaper and bought me a dictionary,and he teach me how to use it.That is how I learn English.By the time I started school,when I was 7,I can read and spell in English.I live in the rural area,in a Palm Oil Plantation,the nearest town is about 18 miles from our house.I didn't go to kindergarten,but I still do well in school,especially English.

We move to another Palm Oil Plantation in another state when I'm in standard 4(10 years old),and we live there until I'm 20.During my secondary school years,I improve my English by speaking to tourist who came to my place,because the town I live in is the last town before they all went to the famous Taman Negara(National Park).The either came by bus or train,and then continue the journey by bus to the place where they will get on a boat ride up the river to the National Park.I normally hang-out at the bus stand and will ask them where they came from,will they be staying over night before continuing their journey.This really help a lot,with my English,and my confidence.It is never easy to start a conversation with strangers,especially people from foreign countries.

I know my grammar is not very good,but I remember what Seth Godin said,you are not writing to get an A in an exam,nor you are writing about English Literature..you are writing about things that you like,that you want to share with others..Just write it the way you can as long people can understand it!If you don't know who Seth Godin is,he is the bald guy who wrote a few well known books,especially about Internet Marketing and he is the one who created Squidoo.People refer him as the guru of all guru's.

I want to share my view,my thought,that's all..What is the point of writing a post almost like a journal,but people cannot relate to it,or only a few people can appreciate it.What about those who wrote using all those foul language,or writing with certain slang?

People do things in ways that they are comfortable with,not everyone will like it,but certain people do.If my blog is not to your liking,if you find it not up to the mark,not up to your expectation,then just leave and find something that you like.There a are a lot of different blogs out there,we cannot blame them if it is not to our liking,they didn't start a blog to please everybody,but they know some people will appreciate it.I've seen so many blogs that I don't like,but I never comment about it,I just leave it be,they have the right to be here,to create their blog,and they can do whatever they want with it.There are adult blogs,gay and lesbian blogs,Scientology blogs,atheist blogs,blogs that say bad things about Islam..I've seen it all,but never say anything because it is their right to do and write about it.

I'm sorry if my English is bad,but I've seen blogs from certain countries that are worse,but I never criticized and ridicule them,maybe they want to do it like all of us but they lack the knowledge,so why not give them a chance,give them a break.There are translation tools,but would it be the same?I've tried using it on some blogs that are written not in English,and find the article a bit odd.It has lost the originality.

The blogosphere is open for everyone,some will last long,some will just fade away.Just let them be.Who knows mine will be here longer than the one that have a perfect English but boring post.

Monday, July 7, 2008

Are We Being Responsible?

I'm not much into politics,but I do follow things that happen around the world.The political scenario in my country have turn for the worst.I thought the last election in March was the biggest thing to happen,but now there are new things unfolding,sadly,it is more about personal attacks rather than a political issue.

What I like to focus about is not one regarding the attacks being made,just read the newspaper or see the news and you will know what is happening.My concern are about bloggers.Bloggers are free to express what is on their mind.My country are not like China where you can be caught and imprisoned for writing certain things about the government,about freedom.We always hear people talking about freedom of speech,but what is actually freedom of speech?

Does freedom of speech mean we can say anything,or for bloggers to write whatever we want to write,even if it is not the truth?Can we write something like calling name to a certain leaders,writing about their families,wife,children?Do we know the truth that give us the right to write something about it or we just write merely on something that we hear,something that was told to us?

They say the media in my country,the newspaper and television are being control by the government,so the stories are pro-government,but they still got licensed to publish their own newspaper and distribute it.No bloggers have ever been caught and send to prison for what they wrote.Doesn't this mean you are free to express yourself?

To what extend do we exercise our right to freely express ourselves?To write something that we doesn't even know the truth behind it can be considered slanderous.Yes..we can be famous because we write about something that other people only dare to talk about while having coffee in some laid back coffeshop among very close acquaintance.People will wait for our latest posting to know what is the latest "news",but is it the truth or just hearsay?

We have responsibility,to ourselves,to our country and our religion.Do we want to be known as the one who created chaos in this little and peaceful country?Do we want to be known as the one who instigate the people to go against the government?Are we writing our blog for our own satisfaction or do we get paid to do it by somebody else?

We can be heroes,we can be champion,but let it be because we do something right,not because we spread rumours,because we spread slander.Be a real champion,fight for the people,not for certain individual who use who ever they can to achieve their dreams.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Shiny,Happy People And Breaking Records.

Happy people or breaking records first..

Lets see about an interesting record breaking feat first.I guess most of you know what Mozilla want to achieve when they launch the latest version of FireFox browser,FireFox 3.It was launch on June 17 with Mozilla aiming to get 5 million people downloading it within 24 hours of the launch.They did manage to get it,the actual figure when the 24 hours is up is at 8,002,530!What a marketing strategy isn't it.Now after 2 weeks,the number is well over 28 million and Mozilla has published this map below showing the penetration of FireFox 3.Congratulation FireFox.



According to the US government-funded World Values Survey,a survey done regularly by a global network of social scientist,Denmark is the happiest country in the world with its democracy,social equity and peaceful atmosphere while Zimbabwe,torn by political and social strife,is the least happy while United States,the world's richest nation ranks 16th.

The survey found that overall the world is getting happier and it found increase happiness from 1981 to 2007 in 45 of the 52 countries analyzed.Ronald Inglehart,a political scientist at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research who directed the study said he believe there is a strong correlation between peace and happiness and also between democracy and happiness.

Denmark might not be the richest country but it is prosperous.Among other countries that rank high in the survey are Puerto Rico,Colombia,Northern Ireland,Iceland,the Netherlands,Canada and Sweden.Though the United States is not the happiest country but from a global perspective it looks good said Inglehart.The US is not only prosperous,it also ranks relatively high in gender equality,tolerance of ethnic and social diversity and has a high level of political freedom.(Source:Reuters)

I wonder if my country is included in the survey,if it does,where it ended,over to the top or more towards the end.Most of the people in my country are not happy before the General Election in early March,so the ruling government suffer defeats but still manage to keep on ruling,now the fuel price is up by 41%,they become more unhappy,then there is this conspiracy theory going on,one person who was next in-line to become the Prime Minister back in 1998 was surprisingly caught and charged with sodomy,but now he is trying to be the Prime Minister again,and another sodomy case was reported against him.Would the government be so stupid to come up with the same conspiracy,and I doubt the first time it happened it was a conspiracy.The person in turn accused the current Deputy Prime Minister of his involvement in this conspiracy and in a murder case that is still on trial.

I'm bored with all this political drama,in politic,you can say and do whatever you want,but it is all about you wanted to be where you want to be,it is not about the people or the party you represent.Like this guy,you are supposed to be the Prime Minister,but for a sodomy case,you went to jail instead,so now,10 years later,you are out,and you have lots of people backing you up,are you fighting for them or just to fulfill your ambition of becoming the Prime Minister?Even the party that has his wife as the leader was formed with the initial intention to fight for his release back then and now it is the fight to make him the Prime Minister.

I'm happy with my life but things like this is very disturbing for the future of this country and especially to the people.It is not the time to fight for position or what,now is the time to recover the economy,to bring back stability and to provide a better living for us citizen,so we can all be happy :-)