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Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everyone! I was so happy to hear from you :D
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Apparently my spam filter have been catching a lot of non-spam comments, especially from the last 2-3 postings. I wonder if my settings were too strict.
Today is probably the first time Malaysians officially celebrated Malaysia Day en masse. I went to MBPJ Stadium at Kelana Jaya because I was feeling trigger happy and I figured I could pop a couple of good shots there. And boy was it a sight.
I arrived early, somewhere around 6 PM. I decided to come early so I could survey the area, estimate exposure, arrange compositions and pretty much the usual things people do on recon missions [I believe after going to similar events a couple more times, recons will become unnecessary]. There wasn’t much going on, in fact the crowd only started coming in around 7 PM. Thankfully there was a restaurant that served some pretty good food and helped myself to a bowl of Sup Gearbox [cow knee soup] for buka puasa.
After that I went inside to check things out a bit.
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もう我慢できない
“Muslims would come up to me and go ‘Ahmed, uhh… I don’t like it when you joke about Islam, okay? That is haraam, that is against God…Yeah, I’ll take a Heineken.’
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You know you’re a Muslim when you drink, gamble, have sex…but you won’t eat pork. That’s the weirdest thing, you won’t. Eat. Pork.”
- Ahmed Ahmed, Axis of Evil Comedy Tour
I don’t exactly consider myself a devout Muslim. As far as I’m concerned, I’ve pretty much committed most of the cardinal sins and my soul is pretty much destined to burn in Hell for quite a while. In the practice of my faith, however, I do not just practice and believe blindly to what I’ve been told to by others. I try my best not to depend on another ustaz or imam or some pious hypocrite.
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You know, I’m not really a big fan of politics. I’m not keen on participating in social movements or political activities. Simply because I don’t live on ideals and the thought of working to please others doesn’t quite sit well with me. However, this doesn’t mean I outright hate politics. I don’t, as a matter of fact, I’ve come to enjoy being an observer of the local political scene.
A sleeping observer, that is.
Now I’m not one to give any critical commentary or give a proactive voice to unheard thoughts. It’s just that it has been too interesting a year for Malaysian politics for anyone to not be aware of things. Especially those of us who spend many hours online.
Today, however, online is where the action is at. The alternative media has made a name for itself from the spectacular [or some may say devastating, depending on which side you're on] results for the recent elections. Social media has become a new element in the game, and now the players have taken the battlefield to the realm of ones and zeroes.
“Many may say I am wrong, as there are many other factors that make a person commit crime, and I agree with that. But video games have greatly influenced our values and swayed some into believing that fantasy is reality. There is nothing better to sway the young mind than a video game.”
- a letter to The Star.
Shift the blame, shift the blame! Keep passing the stupid ticking bomb until it fucking explodes in the scapegoat’s hands and blow up everyone else in the circle. Why the fuck do you even bother?
This is a big problem with Malaysians. Nobody wants to admit their own dumb mistakes. Nobody wants to sound like an idiot - while being well aware that they are more than that. Nobody wants to say “Oh damn, I screwed up. Let me fix that for you.”
At least, not anybody from the last generation, and definitely none of the cockeyed jackals from the noisy and leaky hall that is our Parliament.
