MOVING

I love this site but I'm OFFICIALLY moving. Check out the new site and you'll know why :

http://the88s.blogspot.com/

I'll retain this site tho. It's too hard for me to delete it.

THEafifah

Hi Tia!

Breaking first doesn't mean anything if you can't win the tournament. Special thanks to Pojue, Nury and Muslim. Yes pojue, it's 100% record of breaking 1st with YOU(baru 2 kali je...). Owh, thanks to Zamir too.

Exams have a thing against me.

I need music in my life to keep me sane. Yes, literally. In desperate need of an mp3 player.

Mika's thinking about getting the new iPod touch. I'm seriously gonna whack him.

I need the UIA car sticker.

What happen to the dream of working in a tv station?

Really happy with the new friends here, but somehow I miss the old ones.

I wish I was a kid again.

Yes Mah, I know you've heard this like every second but friday night lights BEST! Finished the 1st season already.

Nabila. Nabila. Tia. Tia. Mika. Mika. Pjat. Pjat. Syafiq. Syafiq. Pcha. Pcha. Azfar. Azfar.

Selamat Berpuasa!

England vs Israel now. Mama and ngah are watching it now but I'm too tired to join them. Gonna have another 2 rounds of Interkuliyyah debate tomorrow and if I'm lucky enough, a few rounds. I might not show it but Interkuliyyah has always been important to me. At this time last year, is the beginning of the feeling that I'm worthy of this.

On a separate note, I'm really excited about my new project with Nabila. All we have to figure out now is the 'names' that might be involved. Thus, this MIGHT be my last time blogging from here.

I gotta get my studying gear on! 3 papers next week and a whole lot of works to submit..

On the Mindless Menace of Violence

Mr Chairmen,Ladies And Gentlemen

This is a time of shame and sorrow. It is not a day for politics. I have saved this one opportunity, my only event of today, to speak briefly to you about the mindless menace of violence in America which again stains our land and every one of our lives.

It is not the concern of any one race. The victims of the violence are black and white, rich and poor, young and old, famous and unknown. They are, most important of all, human beings whom other human beings loved and needed. No one - no matter where he lives or what he does - can be certain who will suffer from some senseless act of bloodshed. And yet it goes on and on and on in this country of ours.

Why? What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet.

No wrongs have ever been righted by riots and civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.

Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily - whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of the law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence - whenever we tear at the fabric of the life which another man has painfully and clumsily woven for himself and his children, the whole nation is degraded.

"Among free men," said Abraham Lincoln, "there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet; and those who take such appeal are sure to lost their cause and pay the costs."

Yet we seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far-off lands. We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire whatever weapons and ammunition they desire.

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others. Some Americans who preach non-violence abroad fail to practice it here at home. Some who accuse others of inciting riots have by their own conduct invited them.

Some look for scapegoats, others look for conspiracies, but this much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

For there is another kind of violence, slower but just as deadly destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions; indifference and inaction and slow decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. This is the slow destruction of a child by hunger, and schools without books and homes without heat in the winter.

This is the breaking of a man's spirit by denying him the chance to stand as a father and as a man among other men. And this too afflicts us all.

I have not come here to propose a set of specific remedies nor is there a single set. For a broad and adequate outline we know what must be done. When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, when you teach that he is a lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, when you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, then you also learn to confront others not as fellow citizens but as enemies, to be met not with cooperation but with conquest; to be subjugated and mastered.

We learn, at the last, to look at our brothers as aliens, men with whom we share a city, but not a community; men bound to us in common dwelling, but not in common effort. We learn to share only a common fear, only a common desire to retreat from each other, only a common impulse to meet disagreement with force. For all this, there are no final answers.

Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence.

We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.

Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.

But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can.

Surely, this bond of common faith, this bond of common goal, can begin to teach us something. Surely, we can learn, at least, to look at those around us as fellow men, and surely we can begin to work a little harder to bind up the wounds among us and to become in our own hearts brothers and countrymen once again.

Forget the America part, this speech by Senator Robert Kennedy is very inspiring. This was given when America was facing problems with Vietnam, the assassination of Martin Luther King,etc. When Bobby was their hope, their light. This speech is still very much relevant in today's context. This speech has touched me greatly. Too bad he didn't live long enough to become President. After all the history of guns.. they haven't learned anything yet.

"Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose!"

I've found my new One Tree Hill. This one definitely has more soul to it. It doesn't feel like a series, it feels like a movie. There's only one thing I don't like about the show : the shots and angles of the camera. It moves too much thus making it quite distracting.

Friday Night Lights is a must see! Yes, even for those who despise American football.

My Saturday

Only a few 'uncles' and cousins missing

It's hard to get Mirza to approach you :)

I think today is the 1st time I saw Abg Shahril since he becomes a father.

And drumrolls to 'tukang SMS terkemuka and budak asrama finally!'

Listening to : Hey There Delilah

Mokcu 'summoned' us to her place, since I guess she'll be leaving for Jeddah soon. It's great you know since it's really hard to get everyone together at the same time. So this weekend has been the reunion of 'cucu-cucu dan cicit-cicit Hj. Jamaluddin, mak-mak tak kira'. LOL. Shah Alam or Klang has always been familiar to me. I used to go back to Klang every week up till standard 6 to sleep over with my grandparents. I sure miss them. Most of the Hj. Jamaluddin clan are now living in Shah Alam, even tokcik and tokti is going to move in to shah Shah Alam in the near future. So I guess it's a wise decision for my parents to buy a house there. The house is finished, done but we're not going to move in soon. Bak kata mama, 'tunggu u grad dulu or i retire'. For the past few weeks, I've been really trying to catch up with my family. I do think Shah Alam is a nice play to stay in, less hectic than Bandar Menjalara and I do look forward to stay there.

Unfortunately, I dont think I'll be able to go to Seremban tomorrow to send Azfar back to school since I have 2 major heavyweights paper on Monday. Contract and Tort. I haven't been visiting Atok, Wan and Mak Long for a long time and I really want to spend some quality time in Seremban. Hope I'll be able to go back during the Mid Sem break(which will be shorten due to BTN, still debating whether to go or not).

I had a good Saturday but I'm sure that Sunday is going to be suffering. Take care people.

What say you?

I read a post from Malaysia Today. The title is "Call to replace common law ‘baseless’". Just when I want to post my comment on the post due to the fact that other user's comment was just painful to read, this message appeared while wanting to sign up.

Error!

Creation of member accounts is disabled

So, I decided to post it her instead, just to relieve myself from the pain. Here it is :

It's really shocking to see people commenting like this without really knowing the issue, without understanding as to why the Chief Justice came to such a statement and as to why despite it might not be the BEST suggestion yet, it still has some grounds to it.But hey, freedom of speech means u have the right to express what u have to say and others have the right to respond to it.

To my learned Malaysian friends,
We call ourselves an independent and sovereign state, without realising that we're not THAT independent and sovereign when it comes to the law. I believe what the CJ was referring is to the Section 3&5 of the Civil Law Act where the law states that common law of England is to become binding upon us if it meets certain guidelines. I wish not to elaborate further on this.

I believe what the CJ means is that he believes the Courts of Malaysia now have the capability to make our own common law, in the same time we are free to adapt common law from other countries like Australia, NZ and even UK, or even the customary law of the people or Islamic Laws if it is deemed necessary to do. Instead of being binded to adopt common law of the UK.

And on the Islamic law or Shariah law, people keep condemning it but please tell me.. which part of it that you would like to resist and please explain to us WHY, why is it impossible to be implemented when there are similarities between it and the Malaysian laws now.

Please do not insult the CJ when you have 'baseless' reasons for the insult. Thank you.

You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive - quoting from dear mak cik

Ya Allah, forgive my sins.

money

It's funny how people say money can't buy you happiness. Money CAN buy you happiness, in a way. We work for money, we study to get a degree to get a decent job. Why do we need a decent job? Because we want to get money. It's all about getting good money. I know this is rebutabble in many ways, like how people say that they're studying just for the sake of studying. That they're doing it because they love learning. Yeah yeah, you can say that if you're living in an utopian world - not reality.

It goes hand in hand. You can love studying and you can also want to get a good job that pays you well, so that you can have a comfortable life.

You do feel happy right when people start showering you with material gifts when you dont get them often? I do. Money can bring you happiness. I know how materialistic I sound right now.

a tribute to the mega sale

time out

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