Good Morning 2007 !

This year I have decided to welcome 2007 in the comforts of my home with family members. It is past 3:00 A.M. now, I am still quite awake and my mind is still very alert. Did I have too much coffee and cigars just now ? I think I know what is troubling me. But whatever it is, 2007 is already here. Looking at the political and economic situations in the world of the previous few months, it looks like it is going to be another troubled 2007 ahead.

Making a wish list or resolutions for 2007 ? Forget it. I reviewed my 2006's list of resolutions, sigh, sigh, I have only achieved one or probably 2 items. So, for 2007, I am not going to belittle myself by making new resolutions. Let's just continue with the left over of the 2006's list.

Looking back the previous 12 months, one of the saddest event that completely drained my emotional energy is, the content of an email I received from an unknown sender in January 2006. The email came with a video clip as attachment. I opened the video clip and the visuals shocked me beyond descriptives of words. It changed my whole perceptions of the Palestinian, Lebanese, and the Iraqi in particulars and the Middle Eastern people in general. My past assumptions and perceptions of them are completely off tangent!

In the video clip, a group of Nepalese were blindfolded and forced to lying face down on the ground. At the background, religious music or verses are played. Suddenly, the hooded militants hold down the Nepalese, slit his throat, and beheaded the blindfolded Nepalese. The rest of the Nepalese were shot in the heads by the militants. There are shouts of loud noises of religious verses through out the clip. I must admit, in my whole life, this is the most shocking carnage and barbaric acts I ever seen. I deleted the email and its attachment, took the whole day off and went back home to pray for the souls of the murdered Nepalese.

Since that day, my perception of the Middle Eastern people changed drastically. I began to understand and empathize with the tough actions of Israel, America, Britain, and the rest of the civilized world towards some of these middle eastern countries. In a way, maybe this is how God serve justices on them on a daily basis.

The Nepalese are some of the poorest people on earth, they travelled thousands of miles to another country to earn a living and to feed their family, but end up being barbarically murdered. Until these days, those horrible graphic visuals of murders still haunt me. My mind is still tormented by the violent deaths of the poor Nepalese at the hand of the barbarians.

Come to think of it, 2006 is pretty much a year where religions are being used to justify political and criminal violences. Race issues are also being sensitized to justify for immoral rights to abuse human rights. What a freaking year ! And it look like 2007 will suffer the same fate. I know, most religions preached mercy, love, and forgiveness. But for a change, let's pray for damnations to these barbaric criminals and human rights abusers. Humanity has lunatically and animalistically lost all of its decencies. Will the world be a safer place in 2007 ? God (?, which one ) helps us !

Sayonara 2006 !

Friday, TGIF. Today is the last working day for 2006. 2007 is only 48 hours away. Whatever it may be, it will be a long weekend for most of us to take the much needed rest before we ushered in the brand new year of 2007. A long weekend of rest, I guess, would be much appreciated by most of the tired souls out there.

Looking back, 2006 is indeed a tough year for decent men and women on the streets. Mother natures ( we commonly called it Acts of God ) has caused many folds of miseries and sufferings. Mudslides, earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other natural calamities killed thousands of people. Thousands of people are also displaced and left homeless giving rise to economic hardships and degradation of quality of life.

If these natural calamities are indeed acts of God, God must be bloody heartless, dumb, deaf, and deceiveful. Might as well be a desciple of Lucifer. But leaving God aside, humanity are in even greater danger of self destruction than ever before. We are all now living in fear of intimidations, violences, persecutions, and terror acts.

Insane wars and violences are perpetually initiated in the middle east, affecting thousand of of innocent lives in the never ending disputes between Israel, Palestine, and Lebanon. In Iraq, the violences between various religious sects and non Iraqi conducting proxy wars on the soils of Iraq are causing miseries and suffering to Iraqi people, and decent young men and women in uniform died and suffered for the wrong causes. Innocent lives are also wasted by barbarians conducting terrorists' act by bombing the train stations in India and London. The insatiable greeds for military and religion supremacy breded unconsciously inferiority complexed people in North Korea and Iran, rushing in to develop Nuclear weapons of mass destructions to showcase their primitive barbarism. Nuclear bombs for what purpose ? To kill and threaten each other and striking fears into the minds peace loving nations ?

In Malaysia, the constitutionality of freedom of religion and special position of Islam remained a racially divisive and potentially explosive issues. In the name of social contract forged 50 years ago, inequality are also constitutionalized and institutionalized giving rise to abuses and human rights violations. As a Malaysian, we have to accept the fact that, this constitutional ambiguity is a potential time bomb waiting to be triggered by grievance seekers, rent seekers, apology seekers, racists and desperate communal pariahs to seek popularity and political positions. Whether we like it or not, in Malaysia, we do have a lot of idiots as well as a lot of brain dead people willing to be exploited and charged into a highly irrational and emotional stupidities.

As long as there is no clear separation between secularism and religions in the administration of governments, as long as people are lowly educated, and as long as people are educated but not learned, the world will never be at peace with each other. As long as there are blind faiths in religions, ignorances shall drive men and women to commit act of intolerances and insanities.

Thank God, we did survived the harsh realities of 2006. 2006 was a tough year. But as the saying goes, when the going get tough, the tough gets going. So how difficult can 2007 be ? I don't know about you, but sadistically, I do look forward to 2007. I don't know about your God. But my God is on my side ! So, all those grievances seekers, rent seekers, forked tongues patriots, dog haters, and blah, blah, blah, please step aside, failing which, you can go to hell to consummate with your promised virgins. I am going to sinfully enjoy my 2007. You mind your own business and I mind mine. Suki desu ka? Wakarimasu ka?

Sumi masen 2006, chotto matte kudasai ? No way. Sayonara ! Kampai 2007. Ikki ! Ikki !