Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Archive for January, 2009

Announcement!

Someone made me realized that some of my writings had made some of the people mentioned here sad or embarassed. I am truly deeply sorry for causing that. To the person affected, I have no intention of  embarassing you but perhaps I have not thought of your side’s response or feelings before.
But I need to write [...]

Read Full Post »

Kugan. Another victim of a system that does not sides  with the marginalized, the poor, the uneducated or the “unconnected”. Kugan is another Vikneswaran, a 19 year old boy shot dead by the police for being one of the three suspects that committed armed robberies in Nilai Negeri Sembilan few years back. Viknes’s  family raised questions about [...]

Read Full Post »

Friendship can be bizarre sometimes. It is this personal level Social Contract,  a  non-biological bond that you have with another person you met at venues such as office, kindergarten, campus or that regular commuter ride which in the end tie you for life. Isn’t it more bizarre that our tolerance and coping level with our friends are [...]

Read Full Post »

They say heartbreak and loneliness are two of the biggest foe to our soul. I’d say let’s be true to ourselves and confront these feelings courageously. I don’t mean we let ourselves succumbed to the tragic depression or emotional downfall that will normally be the result of enduring both, but let us embrace the facts that we will grow [...]

Read Full Post »

Apart from cramping our brains with technical and substantive discussions on areas such as anti-terrorism, human trafficking, migrant workers and even human rights education, as a person who celebrated the work of art plus cool contemporary must-haves, these are some of the gems of Bangkok that I think you guys should get or try whenever you [...]

Read Full Post »

I am off to Bangkok today with colleagues to attend a regional meeting. The hardest part of  making this long trips are not packing or repacking or…packing. Seriously, to me, it will be the part where I have to kissed my little Gremlin before tip toeing out of the room and slowly leaving the house. [...]

Read Full Post »

Do I need to introduce the Butters? Puh-lease…they are a stuff of legend  in the underground scene circa 1996- when across the Pacific, Seattle is rocking the world hard with the grunge sound of Nirvana. Here, we have the Butterfingers. I remembered during 1996 SPM exam, my junior, Yus smugled a tape wrapped with photocopied covers and introduced the [...]

Read Full Post »

Today was deja vu day for your moron-ness. After a few weeks of happily moving on, today, which is a Friday, my favourite day of the week for being the gateway to Saturday and Sunday, became my crappiest day in my life. In the morning, while eating roti canai at the Hottest Mamak Shop On [...]

Read Full Post »

Today, I want to give my emo reputation a rest. I want to write about other stuff that gives me the kicks of the day.
First, as we all knew by now, Slumdog Millionaire grabbed the four major Globe awards plus cementing AR Rahman, the music director for the movie’ s status not only in Bollywoods [...]

Read Full Post »

Have you ever wear masks in your life? Never? Spare me the bull. I bet you had and will when the time and situation requires you so. Yesterday, I realized I lost some of my masks. One when I finally talked to my mother in law and the other one, to “The Person Whom Should [...]

Read Full Post »

Older Posts »