Sensational News

Dato’ Dr. Chua Soi Lek has been elevated to the status of celebrity. Our honorable Health Minister err…..ex Health Minister is more famous than any reality TV star at the moment.

Anyway, whether it was a noble deed to resign as he did is still left to be seen. As far as I’m concern, what he does in his private life is just that, a private life. The question here is not the morality of a 60 years old man having a romp with a younger girl. We can leave that to his family for judgment.

As far as I’m concern, the scandal is a deliberate act to assassin his political future, this has the work of his rival within the party written all over it. The opposition has no part of it. Thats my humble opinion anyway.

On the brighter note, we shall all applaud the gusto of our aging leader. Not many people at his age can still perform at the level he shown. Hugh Hefner not withstanding.

The “thirteen million plus Ringgit” guy rambles….

The Star

Malaysia Today

Lim Kit Siang

The News Speculator

Malaysia Buzz

Tunku

Start the new year with a BANG!

Another sordid tale of Malaysian politics.  I don’t mean to jump on the bandwagon and capitalize on this sleazy news, just that I saw a spike in my visitors count to this blog. I was wondering why, the I realized its because of one of my blog with a tag of “Chua Soi Lek” which is not related to the latest sensational news about our Health Minister.

Well, we have our own Bill Clinton to look up to now.

Right Celebrity

Random Citation

Shadow Fox

Bernama

Yahoo! News

The Star

The Malaysian

What a spark in our political scene. Much like the fireworks on New Year eve

Maybe this year will be better than the last

A Long December by Counting Crows

A long december and theres reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I cant remember the last thing that you said as you were leaven
Now the days go by so fast
And its one more day up in the canyons
And its one more night in hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven…i wish you would
The smell of hospitals in winter
And the feeling that its all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And its one more day up in the canyons
And its one more night in hollywood
If you think you might come to california…i think you should
Drove up to hillside manor sometime after two a.m.
And talked a little while about the year
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
And its been a long december and theres reason to believe
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I cant remember all the times I tried to tell my myself
To hold on to these moments as they pass
And its one more day up in the canyon
And its one more night in hollywood
Its been so long since Ive seen the ocean…i guess I should

Connection

We have more in common with anybody on this planet than you care to know. All of us are connected, though not physically. We wield more power on the rest of the human rest than we ever know and I’m not talking about politicians, billionaires or perceived powerful people. I’m talking about everybody, including you and me. How else can you explain the phenomenon of blogging superstar. They are seemingly normal people. Yet the emotion of people reading their blogs fluctuate according to the sentiment of their posts. People from all over the world, irrespective of their location or distance from the bloggers have their emotion play to the tune of the blog’s entries.

Another example, when we chat over the IM, we can make the other party euphoric or we can infuriate him or her by just typing a few words. We have more power over others than we would ever want to admit.

Love N Promises

Goodnight girl by Wet Wet Wet

You can hear me so clearly
And see how I try
You feel me, so heal me
And tear me apart

I wont tell a soul
I wont tell at all
Do they have to know
About my goodnight girl

Caught up in your wishin well
You hopes and sadness
Take your love n promises
And make them last

You keep me so near you
And see me so far
And hold me and send me
And deep in your heart

It doesnt matter how sad
I made you
Doesnt matter how hard
I try

Just remember the same
Old reason
Reflected in your eyes
You said you wanted me

Caught up in your wishin well
Your hopes and sadness
Take your love n promises
And make them last

Resurrection

A couple of days back, early in the morning, I log on to my blog (this blog) for routine checking and to my horror, I only see a message of “Suspended or Archived” the reasons given were too diverse for me to pin down where exactly gone wrong.

Anyway, at that point in time, I manage to extract myself or more accurately, my emotion from the whole affair. I didn’t feel anger or sadness of losing my work for the past few months. Whatever will be, will be and no amount of frustration will bring my blog back to live if that is what WordPress wish.

Two days later, this blog was miraculously back to life and I’m writing an entry about this near death experience of a blog.

FREE! FREE! FREE!???

Freedom is an over rated virtue. What is freedom anyway? Can anyone enlighten me? Freedom means different things to different people. And money cannot buy freedom.

Freedom can only come from within and not without. Money, power or any other resources will give you more options and not nescessary freedom.

Lets take an example, now everybody in this country is so worry about the rising crime rate. the more money people have in their possession the more worry they are. Can you tell me, if money can buy you the freedom to walk on the side walk at night? Free from your fear of being another victim of crime? No doubt, money offer you options and choices, you can choose to take your toys and play else where. Meaning, migrating to places that don’t have security issues.

You will still get stuck in a traffic jam no matter how much you have in the bank account or whatever luxury car you are driving. Then again, you will have the choice of flying in a helicopter or choose to not to travel during peak hour.

Money is not evil!

Money is not evil, Bert is. I’m only kidding.

My point is, money is not the root of all evils, people or more specifically, those who got hijacked by their own mind are truly evil.

Money is good, money is great.

I’ve noticed that there is a shift in the marketing plot of network marketing, multi level marketing, direct marketing or whatever they wish to call it. The latest that I heard is CDM (consumer direct marketing), how about that? Eat your heart out.

Anyway, the shift that I’m talking about is that instead of selling dreams as what they have done over the years, they are now switch their attention toward marketing fears and lots of its. You see, previously, the presenter in those seminar organized by those marketing organization will keep on mentioning about nice car, big house, expensive vacation, fat bank balance, so on and so forth.

Now, they will intimidating the audience by harping on, among others, lack of retirement fund, limited resources to start other business other than those offer by their group, might died on the job working for others, stuck in an unhappy job, maybe your internal organ will deteriorate to the point of putting them out of order, poison from chemical residue will seep through our skin intoxicating us, not having enough trees for the next generation if we don’t use their so call environmental friendly products, bla bla bla.

The main purpose is to drive fear into our heart that if don’t but their products or agreeing to their business plan will live a life of misery and deprivation.

Wow, fear is a valuable commodity that worth a couple of billion dollar if you consider how much is the fear mongering industry size is.

The state of Malaysian politics

This guy still hasn’t lost his oratory charisma but whether he will rise like a phoenix or drift slowly into oblivion is still left to be seen.

As with all the former powerful leader, was he involved in drafting and implementing those same policy that he is criticizing now? To be fair to him, he is not the only one that we doubt has renegade on policies of their own creation.

The jury is still out.

The Man Who Sold The World

Triple helpings of The Man Who Sold The World, I only found out that David Bowie wrote this song and release it as the title track from his 1970 album.

Most of us, me included thought this is a Nirvana song.

We passed upon the stairs,
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes — I thought you died alone
A long long time ago

Oh no, not me,
We never lost control,
You’re face to face,
With the man who sold the world

I laughed and shook his hand,
I made my way back home,
I searched for form and land,
Years and years I roamed,
I gazed a gazely stare,
We walked a million hills — I must have died alone,
A long long time ago.

Who knows, not me,
I never lost control,
You’re face, to face,
With the man who sold the world.