A life less ordinary ?

This bright night skies,
serene, commanding, and encompassing.
Beyond the twinkling and sparkling stars,
is there a Heaven ?

In this dark corner of my mind,
of continuous howling dogs,
piercing illuminated eyes of black cats,
and slithering snakes.
Beyond this delusions,
is there a Hell ?

These beautiful places of worship.
Majestic symbols of different faiths.
Housing reasonable minds,
with unconditional devotions and faiths.
Beyond these reasonable minds,
is there a one that causes to be ?

There is.

This reasonable man of logical minds,
acknowledged your beingness and ascendancy.
But how do I accommodate your authority ?
These devil grants totem,
but they will barter my soul.
You want me to be your preacher,
to give testimonials and serve your commands,
but how can I disregard
my mortal responsibilities?

This trinity. Decide, I shall not.
In actionless passiveness,
Satori shall be my temporal state of mind.

My heart shall be my temple.
My mind shall dictate my path.
The path I walked shall lead me to my purpose.
When my purpose is done,
my time shall come.
Leave me alone,
and let me be.

Om......
ZZZzzzzzzz.......

A connected home.

LAN, WAN, and WLAN, etc has been part and parcel of corporate networking connectivity. These islands of topologies will eventually merged into a seamless entity driven by higher Internet bandwidth and lower costs of access. In the previous few years, we have seen furious and fast paced innovations and development that lead to the convergent of Computers and Communications as a single cohesive technology that drive business reengineering, work habits, and value added deliverables. A personal computer will no longer be a simple word processing machine or spreadsheet emulator. A personal computer will evolved into a much more powerful information and communication device that can handle simultaneous parallel applications at high speed. The personal computer, in certain business sense, will be a window to the world for data and voice messaging, client server transaction applications, remote workstation, etc.

The next booming frontier will be the integration of Computers, communications, and Consumer Electronics (CCC) in the minds of home users. Ultimately, in the not so distant future, the homes will be driven by PC and broadband Internet access. At the moment, the Internet bandwidth of the Malaysians' homes centred around 1 M bits - still not fast enough to carry the payloads of the future. As a result, we are still relying on the unstable Astro's satellite TV programs for entertainment, separate phone line for voice communications, and separate line and equipments for data and applications transactions.

In 1993, the bandwidth of Internet is probably around 33.6Kbps. Now, the average bandwidth has reached 1Mbps. That is approximately 3000% increase in performance over the last 10 years ! For the next 10 years, most likely the Internet bandwidth will reach 1Gigabits speed for home or personal users.

What will happened when the Internet access bandwidth hits 1 Gigabits ? One thing for sure, people will be well connected electronically. A lot of the traditional "high tech" companies such as Astro, Telekom Malaysia, Maxis, Redtone, etc. will have problems surviving based on its existing products and services. For example, for as low as RM100 one time charge, home user can install a small piece of software and start receiving TV programs from all over the world free of charge. Would it make economic sense then for you pay Astro RM 100 a month for TV entertainments ? For telephony services, we will end up having small pocket size computer with wireless access, be able to make voice & video calls to and from anywhere of the world without being encumbered by the existing telephone charges and cross border protocols. I believed, Apple Inc. is quietly doing R&D in this area. They just launched their iPhone! So, for those who are thinking of investing in technology company as long term investment, think twice, you may end up having pieces of useless papers or electronic accounts.

In the home front, the PC will be become a very powerful media centre integrating phone, video, audio, games, and a whole host of intelligence features. In fact, all electrical and electronic equipments will be linked into the PC to provide comfort, security, computing, and entertainment to the home users. Already, Microsoft has announced at the recent Consumer Electronics show that Windows Home Server software will be available during the second half of 2007. The new backbone software will function as the center of a home's computer network, from photo and video storage to television to accessing computer files when away from home.

So, what will it be, between now and the next 10 years ? Personally, I would think the homes will be very well connected, and the home will be driven by media computing technology. Maybe, sitting in the comfort of our living room, we will even be able to have satellite view of the garden party held by friends and relatives in another part of the world. For a price, we may even indulge in real life virtual sexual fantasy without incurring the risks of sexual diseases ! etc. etc.

Well, what else can I say ? Like Nokia ads' "I believe in miracles, you sexy sassy things......." Welcome to the shiok new world of media connectivity !

Anti Toll Hike Protest at Sunway Pyramid.

I drove back from Ipoh to Subang Jaya on Sunday. As I approach the exit into Bandar Sunway, I saw an unusual large presence of policemen. Strange, I thought maybe there are some VIP visiting the area, and the policemen are there to beef up security arrangement. I never gave any further thoughts to this unusual sight and carry on with my drive. However, at the turning into Sunway Pyramid, I saw a large number, probably a few thousands of protesters carrying banners, large number of FRU ( anti protesters armed personnel ), and massive traffic jams in front of the shopping complex. Thinking that there maybe riots, and I am worry for the safety of my family members in the car, I make a U-turn to take a longer route home.

After reaching home safely, I made a few calls to my friends in the Bandar Sunway area, primarily out of concern for their safety and well beings. I was told that, there was a huge anti toll hike protest and demonstration in the area organized by PAS, Keadilan, and DAP. What a relief ! At least it is not a racial riot. Demonstration by opposition political parties are usually very peaceful. They ave done a great job in serving as a platform for Malaysians to voice out their frustrations on the never ending spiralling of costs of living.

Welcome to Visit Malaysia Year 2007. Please visit HERE to register your protest on TOLL HIKE.

Come to think of it, the toll charges are getting ridiculous unaffordable nowadays. For example, the rate at the Kesas highway was hike up by almost 50% and the rate at LDP was hiked up by almost 60%. This increased toll charges coupled with the recent hiked in petrol prices, and many spiralling costs of essential items, are causing hardships to average Malaysians.

In case you are not aware. Effective January 1st 2007, the government has increased toll charges up to 60%. Is average Malaysian affected by this toll hike ? You can safely bet your smelly ass that it is !Take the case of my teenage son who has to travel to college passing through the Kesas toll everyday, a return trip will cost him RM 110 a month, petrol costs RM 250, parking fee costs RM 75 per month, and installment of his second hand car costs RM 500. Bearing in mind that the the non subsidized tuition fees is RM 1,200 per month. That works out to be RM 2,135 per month minimum excluding other living allowances. Here I am talking about average Malaysians who can not afford to send their children oversea to study. And I happened to be one of them. Kan-lin-low-boo, What farking government is this ? A caring government that work with the people or more interested to ensure sinful profitability for large corporations ? Robbing the poor to enrich the already filthied rich ? Robbing Hoods or Hooded Robber ? Either way, we are screwed !

Surprisingly, none of the local newspapers reported the incident on today edition. Was there an intentional "blackout" of people voicing their grievances ? Most of the local papers are indirectly own by political parties and their printing licenses are subject to annual renewal. I guess the local paper are playing safe not to print anything that is not music to the ears of the government.

Hey, Mr Yang Berhormat, please come out from your ivory tower and power hallway, put your right palm on your left chest and feel your heart beats, can you feel the hardships of average Malaysians ? Can you smell the burning frustrations of average Malaysians ? Can you hear the voices of economic desperations of average Malaysians ? In your congested self denial minds, do you understand the plights of Malaysians.

Frankly, if you ask me whether the anti toll hike demonstrations is going to have any influence on the government, well, I can safely tell you that it won't ! They are quite capable of seeing without visualizing, hearing without listening, and touching without feeling. I do have my doubt whether they understand the sufferings of average Malaysians. I am beginning to wonder whether they are already out of touch with reality, politically too decadence, engaging in too much in racial politics, or too busy conducting rent seeking demands. However, I have already made up my mind on my electoral rights. Come 2008, they can raise whatever emotional racial issues they like to desperately justify their stay, and I shall vote accordingly to retire them.

Donations for Malaysia Floods' Victims ?

When there are human tragedies outside Malaysia, Malaysians as a whole became very generous and morally motivated to donate to the victims. But when it come to donating to victims within Malaysia, the spirits of charity became waned and elusive.

With regards to the recent flood disasters in Johor, Malacca, Negri Sembilan and several other states, the floods maybe gone or receded, but there are still thousands of people misplaced or homeless, and are living in deplorable conditions and miseries.

The Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said "What Malaysians can do is to make life more bearable for the victims. They were poor to begin with and now, with what little they had washed away, they are close to becoming destitute." "I have seen poverty but never like this. When I come back after visiting the flood victims, I cannot sleep at night. Just think how much worse it is for those working to help them and how much more worse it is for the victims themselves, especially the children." This sounds like an urgent appeal from a Minister in the government to all Malaysians. I guess it would be more appropriate if this appeal is directed to the government of Malaysia and the elected representatives.

Why, when there is a disaster outside Malaysia, Malaysian spontaneously rushed to offer donations to help the unfortunates ? I would like to believe that, one of the main reason is, Malaysians are more comfortable giving donations via international aids agencies. Because, Malaysians know, the donations will be fairly distributed to the victims irregardless of race, religion, or creed.

The other reasons could be due to the fact that (1) Malaysians are economically not that well off as compared to the previous occasions. And, (2) Due to the recent racially divisive comments and statements made by the local politicians in other unrelated functions and events, and as well as the general perception of abused of power and corruptions, Malaysians are basically uncomfortable in donating to charitable causes that may end up being distributed along racial lines or portion of the donations being corruptly siphoned off by immoral middlemen.

With regards to collecting donations for the Malaysian victims, perhaps, the government agencies and local newspapers can publish a list of associations or charitable organizations located within or closed to the vicinity of the tragedies so that Malaysians can donate direct to these associations or organizations to cut down the number of "middle men" and to minimized the potential of improprieties.

The government of Malaysia still has the financial resources to reallocate funds to help Malaysian victims without having to seek generosities of unaffected Malaysians. For example, recently, the Prime Minister announced the extra allocations of RM 3 millions for each of Barisan Nasional's political parties' division, that works out to be approximately RM 600 millions. This RM 600 millions should be reallocated to help the floods victims. The government has also recently agreed to raised the toll charges and subsidized a few billion ringgits to toll concessionaires. The government of Malaysia has also committed to send 2 Malaysian "cosmonauts" to space to taste "roti canai". And the list goes on and on..... The question is, are these expenses more important than the sufferings and miseries of other unfortunate Malaysians ? I think not. Morally, the government has to do a rethink of all these "unnecessary" resources misallocations. It is the responsibility of the government to eliminate the sufferings of unfortunate Malaysians. Average Malaysians should not be abused into blindly donating for the sake of donating while the government funds are unnecessarily allocated. All it needs now is for the Prime Minister to make an executive instruction to make the reallocations. On moral grounds and on the basis of the proclaimed "caring government", I see no reason why this reallocations of economic resources can not be initiated to help and lessen the miseries of other unfortunate Malaysians.

There is no point for politicians to visit the affected areas, crying rhetorics, then calling for Malaysians to make donations. The right thing to do is for the politicians to visit the affected areas and make immediate disbursement of funds from their political machineries. Charity does begin at home. But in this case, the home is at the executive offices of the Government of Malaysia. Malaysians as a whole, look up to the government to effect immediate financial aids to help the unfortunate flood victims in Johor, Malacca, Negeri Sembilan, and other affected states.

Same as the honourable Minister, Datuk Seri Shahrizat, there are a lot of caring Malaysians out there, also can not sleep, knowing that there are so many victims of tragedies living in miseries, while the government spend unneccesarily. Where is the priority ?

In the mean time, while awaiting the government to reassess her priority and morality, I urged all able Malaysians to donate directly to the victims to offer immediate reliefs to the miseries of the victims. May God lessen the emotional and financial losses of the victims.

Women or WO-men

Women are funny animals. In the early 70's and 80's ( not very sure of which decade, but the time frames are irrelevant for argument sake ), they go "bra-less" to announce to the world of their "liberations" from men. On the other hand, they spend awful lot of money to buy Victoria Secrets' lingeries and some sexually naughty add-ons to express their purringly sexuality to their men. Oh my God ! Oooh... Yes, Oooh... No. And, the men, sadly, are left blowing in the winds.........

They want equality or rather same status with men, but again, are they sure of what they want ? Since when are women enjoying less equality and status then men ? They always get what they want, don't they ? You think you are on top of them, but do you realize they are draining all your energies to inflict final assault on you ?

I guess the problem with women are, they are emotionally illogical animals. Traditionally, the women "work" at homes, at the end of the day, they are perhaps mentally exhausted. The men, traditionally work outside the home, at the end of the day, they are physically exhausted. A home's relationship would be harmonious, if the physically exhausted and mentally exhausted can complement and comfort each other's exhaustions. But they problem is, the women envied the men's world, and want to venture into the men's domain to exert authority but expect the men to shoulder responsibilities. They want the physically exhausted men to be mentally exhausted also ! Isn't that what women's libs are all about ?

The men worked hard for the money, but the women work hard to spend the money. They spend unnecessary to remove their natural eyebrows and replace with tattooed eyebrows. Change their single eyelids to double eyelids, surgically increase the breast size so that a nice cleavage or bust shown to the world with their low cuts shirts. They visit spa and weight loss clinics in order to have sculptured body. At the end of the day, the men are left with merge sum to buy a packet of cigarettes, cheap beers, and worst stills, sometimes, a half Kg bag of Coffee mixtures to brew in solitude.

When the women work outside home to earn income, do you honestly think they allowed their men to spend a cent of money ? Mind you, it is over their dead bodies to even touch a single cent. By the way, women are pretty good at selfishly hiding their money without any trace. But when come to men's money, women are pretty good at making men account for every cents of his expenditure. No wonder, I am always left with less than 50 dollars in my pocket. Nothing more !

By the way, if a woman is "Spermophobia", it has nothing to do with the fear for your sperm. It simply means that, the woman is squeaky clean and fear for germs. A man will never enjoy the status of "easy rider". Easy rider does not mean a macho man riding super bike njoying outdoor life, but a pimp living with a whore because he has an "easy ride". Come to think of it, a man is like a male honey bee, after finished sex, its penis is lodged inside the queen, the rest of his body explodes, while the queen enjoy the lingering sensation of orgasms....... Sad, but it is true in this ANIMAL (aka insect) KINGDOM.

In the war of sexes. Who ultimately wins the war. As a peace loving man, in order not to inflict further casualty on myself, I am raising my WHITE FLAG now. Have mercy on me........

Am I a Male Chauvinistic Pig ? Oh, I am so confuseeeeeeed !

Well, what else can I say ? Bonne nuit...ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz