My personal views on Malaysia and the world around me
How can I not wish my Muslim friends on this special day.
Here is one of the must have Hari Raya songs. You don’t go through a Raya without listening to this song over a dozen times. Seems like everyone will be on holiday now. Even Malaysiakini has hung the “closed” sign. LOL. I guess it is a good and quiet weekend where everyone just go around forgiving each other and enjoying great food.
Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri! Maaf zahir dan batin. Enjoy the holiday.
UPDATE: I read one of Jeff Ooi’s post on Astronaut? Spaceflight Participant? and realized that I made a mistake on labeling our first Malaysian to space. The right term we should be using is spaceflight participant and not astronaut.
This was pointed out by Devil as well. Thanks.
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I have to shamefully admit that I was asleep when the spacecraft ferrying our first Malaysian astronaut spaceflight participant blasted off into space. In fact, when (probably) the whole of Malaysia was talking about it, the space mission didn’t even made me raise an eyebrow. To make matters worse, I only knew that the blast off was last night when I heard it over the radio yesterday morning.
Although I knew that the blast off was scheduled last night, I didn’t even realized that I missed it until this morning when I read it on the papers and on Malaysiakini. I slept very early and woke up almost 2 in the morning.
For whatever price this space mission has and will costs us, I hope it is worth every cent of it. There are already plans to send a second astronaut spaceflight participant to space.
Can I be the next astronaut spaceflight participant, or maybe even the first real astronaut, please? I would like to show the world how making money blogging from space is possible. I may even get dozens of three figure offers from advertisers. Maybe even more. Who knows? I will then be the first Malaysian (or even first person) who wrote the first paid post in space! Maybe even a second title — The first person who became a millionaire by writing paid posts in space. OMG!
So, where were you during the blast off? Were you glued onto the TV screen? Was there a great sense of pride and joy when you saw the blast off? If yes, how much is left? If no, why is it so? What else did I miss?
I don’t remember when the last time I went for a swim was. I have been avoiding the weighing machine for quite some time too. I stepped on the weighing machine the other day and didn’t like what I saw. Not that I was surprised with it though.
I need to exercise.
After countless lame excuses, I finally grabbed my swimming gear and headed to the pool. The car park was empty when I reached there. Then, I noticed that the pool was closed. I thought they must have closed it for puasa or raya. I saw the guard and asked him when the pool will be opened again.
He replied: “Oh, lama. Tahun depan”.
There was some construction going on around the pool. I guess there are upgrading the facilities. So, what am I going to do with my excess weight? *sigh*
It is around 4.30 in the morning now. I just got back from a late night supper. When I was on the way home, the road is almost empty. I was approaching the final traffic light that I have to cross before reaching home. The traffic light was red at that time. There were no other cars on the road except mine and another car probably 100 meters behind me.
I did something that no law abiding driver should do — step on the gas when the red light is on.
I saw the car behind me followed my lead by jumping the traffic light as well. I thought to myself, “See. No one in their right mind would wait for the traffic light when there is not even a single soul on the road.” A second later, my surrounding was flashing with blue light.
Niamah! Police!
I stopped by the side of the road shaking my head. What rotten luck am I having? Another few hundred meters and I will reach my home.
The police came to my side of the window and asked my IC and driving license. He passed it to his partner and the other guy went into the car while checking for something. The police started asking me the “normal questions” like:
I was trying to buy my way out of the mess by arguing that there were no other cars on the road. He replied me saying that there is no such law that allows a driver to jump a traffic light when no other cars are around. He was right and I had nothing else to say. He asked me to open the boot and I did, stepping out from the car to assist him.
That is when his partner joined us and asked me questions #4 and #5 again. I wonder if these are their standard questions. In the midst of the discussion, there were “if you were summoned, can you pay the fine?” and “we are just trying to help”.
Of course, I replied, “What to do? If you guys summon me I will have to pay lah.”
After a while, they returned my IC and driving license and let me off because “this is my first offense”. Thank you very much.
Having an open comment system and blogging about Malaysia (the good, the bad and the ugly) is like having a time bomb implanted in your body. You have no idea when the time will run out and you will end up in a million and one pieces scattered all around the place within a 50 meters radius.
Ok, I may have exaggerated the whole scenario a little. Ok, maybe a lot.
On a serious note, the risk of someone leaving a seditious comment in your blog that may bring you trouble is real. There is no way of telling when that freakin’ idiot will come along. If he does and you are not prepared…buh-bye.
Just a while ago, I was shocked when I received the longest comment that I have ever seen. I thought it was spam at first but spam comments are never that long. Then I thought I just had myself a die hard fan who loved what I wrote thus replying in a longwinded comment. However, I realized that cows had more chance climbing a tree than me having a fan.
Anyway, I checked with Microsoft Word and the comment was 3,564 words long. I don’t think I will read a post/article with 3,000 words (unless it’s darn interesting), let alone a seditious comment. I didn’t fully read the entire comment. I just scanned the post and notice that it was about some “ultra-sensitive-no-one-should-ever-discuss-or-bring-up” kind of issues.
I did a last minute search before posting this up and found that the comment I received was once published in Malaysia Today. Most part of the comment is the same but there are some additions here and there. I have no idea who is behind this but leaving a link to the source would have been enough. However, I have no idea what is the connection between the comment and my post about the Malaysian minister planning to sue YouTube.
Such a waste of my time.
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