We don't want to Yoga, so what?

I don't know what the insult felt by The Hindu Sanggam and also who are the 'all Malaysians' he refers to? We, Muslims in Malaysia will never involve in any practice by the Hindu believers as long as it will not interfere with Islam and the public. We respect your religion which always try to instill the good moral values in the believers. So please don't try to mess with Islamic affairs especially in any decision made by our scholars regarding fatwas. Try to educate your people to follow the true teachings by leaving all the gangsterism activities and the todi addicted group.

Conversation with Ulrich and Hetfield

When I listen to 'The Day That Never Comes' for the first time I noticed the part of the lyric .... Mouth so full of lies
Tend to black your eyes
Just keep them closed
Keep praying
Just keep waiting

Wow... black eyes was very politically related to Malaysian politic back in 1998-99 political turmoil. So what was the message? I've called this group after a long time haven't had any conversation after the Load, Reload and Garage Inc which were upset most of their fans. But Ulrich replied to me to refer his interview with the mtv.com about the song and video which he claimed not a political statement.

Do you know what marriage is?

This is a story about an idiot couple, I think....'We're married, we just don't have sex'
What on earth man loves women and getting married without the sex as a translation... yes your are honest with what you are doing but it is a spiritual need... 'People wonder why asexuals bother to get together, but Amanda and I have been happily married for nine months now and we're both still virgins. Some people even think asexuality doesn't exist. It's so underrepresented, I can understand why people are skeptical. I was too, even though I was perfectly used to thinking of myself in this way. For years I just thought I was the only person in the world who felt like this'. Nonsense!!

Dream from his father…..

Finally he made the declaration. Mukriz suits the idea threw by Obama that powerful politicians had either a strong father or no father at all. By confirming that he will contest for the wing’s top post in the coming party polls in December, he will face a stiff competition with the potential candidates like Khairy Jamaluddin and Khir Toyo. I believe Tun Dr Mahathir will give his blessing to his son to be the numero uno in the youth wing as a step to a higher rank in UMNO. And I’m waiting for a book written by Mukriz expressing his view about the struggle within the biggest Malay Party and experience as a son of 22 years Prime Minister.

'A man's either trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for his father's mistake' - Obama

Endorsement by Clintonites...

"I am honoured to be here tonight. A proud mother. A proud Democrat. A proud American. And a proud supporter of Barack Obama,"

Finally theses words came from the former first lady....

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Why you all so jealous aa? He fought for the oil royalty and only a few percent have been spent for this German car. The reasons behind this spending are very concrete maa... according to Sunday Star;

He said the German cars were bought for the safety of the state officials who had to travel extensively and to reduce the cost of maintenance.“After much evaluation, the state felt the Mercedes-Benz cars are more reliable for long term use. It was also time to replace the Proton Perdanas,” he added.

How come all the excos want to sit in the same seats sat by the previous excos - mostly the Idris men - never.....

Jom TUKAR .......kereta.....

Research, anyone?

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else - Mitch Albom The Five People You Meet in Heaven.

I'm wondering how to train my heart and soul to be more sincere and honest in doing my research. Academic wise, the research in political sciences require the researcher to be apolitical and the main purpose is for the betterment of the society. However, with the current scenario of political development, the recommendations made by the political scientists seem to be too ideal and utopia. You can't do it just to fulfill the requirement of the university or to make you cv looks good but you have to pay it forward to the society. Any research which ends in the library is wasting the taxpayers money. Beware, mind your research.

Prof Kamal should be named as President of IIUM

I'm calling the Lembaga of IIUM, whatever color you're, please don't politicize this higher institution. When Sanusi was appointed as a president, I was numb. It was a political revenge against his rival back in ABIM. Although I respect him as a politician with a wide knowledge through his keen on reading, but his role as a president very much covered by his track record as a former chief minister of Kedah with a 'marvelous' idea such as grow rice in the roof top and so on. Come on, Prof Kamal we need you....

You are right Mr Carter

I have no choice but to agree with the former pres that Clinton is not a right running mate for the Obama in his presidential election. According to Carter,

"I think it would be the worst mistake that could be made," Carter said, adding: "That would just accumulate the negative aspects of both candidates."

The former president, who formally endorsed the Illinois senator late on Tuesday, cited opinion polls showing 50% of US voters with a negative view of Senator Clinton.

In terms that might discomfort the Obama camp, he said: "If you take that 50% who just don't want to vote for Clinton and add it to whatever element there might be who don't think Obama is white enough or old enough or experienced enough or because he's got a middle name that sounds Arab, you could have the worst of both worlds."

He is right. More than 50% of Democrats have rejected former first lady and humanity wise, the loser will be haunted by those who has killed her chance to be the first female president in the most undemocratic election where the president chosen by American but rule the world. And if Obama fail in his bid, surely first word from Clinton, haa... you see, this guy will go nowhere...

Choose the best for the future...

Every decision made in choosing thing could be nightmare in the future... but what can you do? Try to shape the 'thing' and avoid being shaped by surroundings..

All the Rembauans please stand up!!!

People of Rembau must be proud of their MP, ...... do they?

A safe pair of hands

Richard Stengel, Managing Editor for Time Magazine wrote in the To Our Readers section saying that what TIME 100 great reading is the pairings. The pair of the great leader to give his or her opinion how great is the icon to be on the list.... and for the Malaysia so called 'prime minister in-waiting'... Wolfowitz is his pair, the most eligible figure to tell the world why Anwar is very important for them... Sleep on it mate....

THE 2008 TIME 100

By Paul Wolfowitz (TIME)

During the 1990s, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and a group of U.S. Senators organized a forum to exchange views among East Asians and Americans.

Asked at one session about the role of Islam in politics, Anwar replied, "I have no use for governments which call themselves Islamic and then deny basic rights to half their population."

This devout Muslim leader was an impressive and eloquent advocate of tolerance, democracy and human rights. So we were shocked by his arrest and trial in 1998 on charges of corruption and sodomy. I felt his real "crime" had been to challenge Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, whose impressive record will be forever stained by his treatment of Anwar. I joined Senator Sam Nunn and others to speak out in Anwar's defense. When he was finally released from prison in 2004, U.S. policy on Iraq was unpopular in Malaysia, and Anwar was harshly critical. It would have been easy for him to disown our friendship, but he is not that kind of person. He kept the channels of dialogue open, even while making clear our disagreements.

Anwar, 60, is back in the center of Malaysian politics. The coalition led by his wife Wan Azizah has become the main opposition bloc. His future role can be determined only by Malaysians. One can hope that they will embrace his brand of tolerance, valuing dialogue across political differences, and that this courageous leader will continue to play a leading role on the world stage.

Wolfowitz is a former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense

Dream, dream, dream....

You got a dream... You gotta protect it. People can't do somethin' themselves, they wanna tell you you can't do it. If you want somethin', go get it. Period. - Christopher Gardner - The Pursuit of Happyness

Yeah, I'm dreaming... and I'll always on my sweet dream... no one can wake me up from this dream...

I'm dreaming of a caring community which no children will miss the first-time notice of a beautiful schoolmate in line at the school canteen... although end up with 'just friend ok' sentence...

I'm dreaming of a caring ministry of higher education which see no student will skip the class to prepare the nasi lemak and burger for room to room night service in the campus....


I'm dreaming of a caring university which never let the lecturer begging to print a page of document to be put in the teaching portfolio....Period.

How to be remembered...

BOY
Are the stories about you true?
They say your mother is an immortal
goddess.

Achilles lifts up his shield. He slips his left forearm into the leather straps on the inside of the shield.

BOY
They say you can't be killed.

ACHILLES
I wouldn't be bothering with the
shield then, would I?

BOY
The Thessalonian you're fighting
-- he's the biggest man I've ever
seen.

Achilles mounts the boy's horse.

BOY
I wouldn't want to fight him.

ACHILLES
That's why no one will remember
your name.

The scene from Troy, where Brad Pitt as Achilles, told the boy how to be remembered... to fight the impossible is always in my mind. In politics, we should be a man with principle. But what a shame for those who follow the flow and polish the apple to get what he or she wants in this temporary world.

How to win votes?

Illustration and graphic taken from Malaysiakini

From his early works organizing the people in Chicago, Obama learnt the concept of issues, action, power and self-interest. He wrote, ' ...Find out their self-interest... That's why people become involved in organizing - because they think they'll get something out of it. Once I found an issue enough people cared about, I could take them into action. With enough actions, I could start to build power' (Obama 2004, 155).

SO, for the candidates wannabe in the upcoming general election please go to the grassroots first and learn what they really need and please care for them, not only when election comes but it is an ongoing services...

Frustrated MP

It was after maghrib when I read the news about the desire not to contest and retain the seat. Something uncommon when the ambience of election is very much alive..... what we have read and heard were all about how the politicians wish to continue their services to the constituents (except those in MCA who reluctantly announced their retirement) and another four years will accomplish their mission. But the news from Malaysiakini have made me numb. My senior from IIUM decided that it is impossible for her to continue as MP due to the internal conflict within the party. This 'giant slayer' who retain the seat in 2004 by defeating the present MCA secretary general Ong Ka Chuan was a vocal MP in Dewan Rakyat. Good luck to Fong Po Kuan.

In the mood of the game...

Just returned from Old Trafford... What an enjoyable game.... the celebration all along the journey back to Dungun...
Watching the game at OT - I'm dreaming
MANU 1 -MANC 2 - Dream comes true

Datuk, I was there when you were crying for Islam....

The silver bearded man asked the audience what he will tell his grandchildren if he wouldn't say the truth about what Islam has taught just to keep his position as a mufti.. will haunt his life forever.... still fresh, repeatedly played in my memory the scene in Masjid Melayu Subang eleven years ago.... Alfatihah to Datuk Ishak Baharom

Think as you wish....

Almost every class I've taught, I said to the student, in my class, thinking is compulsory and creative thinking will get extra mark. Some students told me, how can I measure the thinking and my answer was, I have the instrument that can see the bulb over your head ..... simple, those who has the ability to think critically could translate into words or actions. I did really enjoy when the class has full of thinkers and the tutorial was lively with full of knowledge spreading all over the campus.....

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason why so few engage in it - Henry Ford

Obama, Obama

I've replayed so many times this speech and decided to share with the forumers.. you can go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqoFwZUp5vc
to watch the video. I''m currently reading the 'Dreams from My Father' written by him and in a short while I will post the review in my blog. This was the transcript of the speech.

You know, they said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose.

But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do.

You have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America can do in this new year, 2008.

In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and in big cities, you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents, to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come.

You said the time has come to move beyond the bitterness and pettiness and anger that's consumed Washington.

To end the political strategy that's been all about division, and instead make it about addition. To build a coalition for change that stretches through red states and blue states.

Because that's how we'll win in November, and that's how we'll finally meet the challenges that we face as a nation.

We are choosing hope over fear. We're choosing unity over division,

You said the time has come to tell the lobbyists who think their money and their influence speak louder than our voices that they don't own this government - we do. And we are here to take it back.

The time has come for a president who will be honest about the choices and the challenges we face, who will listen to you and learn from you, even when we disagree, who won't just tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to know.

And in New Hampshire, if you give me the same chance that Iowa did tonight, I will be that president for America.

I'll be a president who finally makes health care affordable and available to every single American, the same way I expanded health care in Illinois, by by bringing Democrats and Republicans together to get the job done. I'll be a president who ends the tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs overseas and put a middle-class tax cut into the pockets of working Americans who deserve it.

I'll be a president who harnesses the ingenuity of farmers and scientists and entrepreneurs to free this nation from the tyranny of oil once and for all.

And I'll be a president who ends this war in Iraq and finally brings our troops home who restores our moral standing, who understands that 9/11 is not a way to scare up votes but a challenge that should unite America and the world against the common threats of the 21st century. Common threats of terrorism and nuclear weapons, climate change and poverty, genocide and disease.

Tonight, we are one step closer to that vision of America because of what you did here in Iowa.

And so I'd especially like to thank the organizers and the precinct captains, the volunteers and the staff who made this all possible.

And while I'm at it on thank yous, I think it makes sense for me to thank the love of my life, the rock of the Obama family, the closer on the campaign trail.

I know you didn't do this for me. You did this because you believed so deeply in the most American of ideas - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.

I know this. I know this because while I may be standing here tonight, I'll never forget that my journey began on the streets of Chicago doing what so many of you have done for this campaign and all the campaigns here in Iowa, organizing and working and fighting to make people's lives just a little bit better.

I know how hard it is. It comes with little sleep, little pay and a lot of sacrifice. There are days of disappointment. But sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this, a night that, years from now, when we've made the changes we believe in, when more families can afford to see a doctor, when our children inherit a planet that's a little cleaner and safer, when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less divided and more united, you'll be able to look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.

This was the moment when the improbable beat what Washington always said was inevitable.

This was the moment when we tore down barriers that have divided us for too long; when we rallied people of all parties and ages to a common cause; when we finally gave Americans who have never participated in politics a reason to stand up and to do so.

This was the moment when we finally beat back the policies of fear and doubts and cynicism, the politics where we tear each other down instead of lifting this country up. This was the moment.

Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope. For many months, we've been teased, even derided for talking about hope. But we always knew that hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the tasks ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path.

It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.

Hope is what I saw in the eyes of the young woman in Cedar Rapids who works the night shift after a full day of college and still can't afford health care for a sister who's ill. A young woman who still believes that this country will give her the chance to live out her dreams.

Hope is what I heard in the voice of the New Hampshire woman who told me that she hasn't been able to breathe since her nephew left for Iraq. Who still goes to bed each night praying for his safe return.

Hope is what led a band of colonists to rise up against an empire. What led the greatest of generations to free a continent and heal a nation. What led young women and young men to sit at lunch counters and brave fire hoses and march through Selma and Montgomery for freedom's cause.

Hope, hope is what led me here today. With a father from Kenya, a mother from Kansas and a story that could only happen in the United States of America.

Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.

That is what we started here in Iowa and that is the message we can now carry to New Hampshire and beyond.

The same message we had when we were up and when we were down; the one that can save this country, brick by brick, block by block, that together, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.

Because we are not a collection of red states and blue states. We are the United States of America. And in this moment, in this election, we are ready to believe again.

Thank you, Iowa