Japan’s Unity

For Japan

For Japan

Yes, I know that everyone blogs and tweets about it. The earthquake and tsunami in Japan. I bet some of you know the details much much more than me. The Richter scale, the tsunami radius, time line, number of casualties, etc. When I heard about it on Friday through Twitter, I immediately turned on the television and at that time, I wished I had more TVs so that I can watch CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera and Awani at the same time. But news on those channels are not that updated so I opted to live streams of JNN which was available almost instantly on the net. Continue reading

Economics: Now and Then

TAKE, TAKE ALL MY MONEY

TAKE, TAKE ALL MY MONEY

As much as the government boasting that Malaysia being an advanced country in various aspect, it is still a developing country. Heck, even if they put ‘advanced’ status upon some states or cities out there, they still need to boil or filter the tap water themselves before drinking. While we can say that facilities and infrastructures in Malaysia are decent and some being pretty good, let’s not forget that these only applicable towards major cities. Major city improvements are mostly centered towards Kuala Lumpur and areas surrounding it. It’s a good effort since centralization development is the best way for developing countries rather than spreading out. Generally, people are doing good but why there are lacking here and there? Continue reading

Revolt: Why it’s not possible?

Imaginary fight

Imaginary fight

As we all knew, the Arab revolts that are still happening in several Arab countries make some local people wonder. Will it be happen to Malaysia? Tunisian and Egyptians have toppled their previous governments while Libyans faced bloody retaliation from their fearsome leader that leads to United Nations to enter the conflict. Many other Arab countries are in some sort of having unrest everywhere. It gives some sort psychological effects towards other regions as well. Especially for the oppositions in every country. When I see some people think they can do like what the Arabs do, that’s a fallacy that they should dream on. Continue reading

Thou Enraged?

Actually I wanted to write stuff about something else but some shits happened several hours ago that made me feel funny. Well, I am a bit sarcastic although sometimes can be easily trolled but this is literally funny. As you know, I love to create artworks by copying from original source and then I added some pepper and salt to make it more delicious. The artworks I am talking about is the Moeslim images that I took some liberty to add head veils over my favorite anime characters. Apparently some people don’t like it. They hate it and loathe it until they want to throw a molotov cocktail into a mosque. It’s suggestive but still a threat. (a link to image capture here in case you couldn’t see the Facebook links above)

Haters gonna hate

Haters gonna hate

So, my artworks fuel terrorism act among non-Muslims in Malaysia? From my side, a lot of people praising me for doing such Islamic artworks despite not really original. Pretty much I saw some people using my stuffs on Facebook especially those greeting card images I created. I do received negative response from some Muslims because they prefer to separate the non-Islamic materials into Islamic matters, in this case Japan. Especially when Japan anime and manga stuffs are prone to turn into sensual stuffs. But this is the first ever enraging and full of hate comments I’ve ever saw. You know what? You just gave me ideas and passions to create more stuffs like these. Especially your Shana and Saber.

Oh, if you ever watched Ore no Imouto ga Konna ni Kawaii Wake ga Nai, just imagine the early part from the first episode that Kirino actually waking up her brother, Kyousuke, for Subuh prayer. I might turn that into a parody Islamic comic if I got the mood to do it. Or any of you can make it since I just give you an idea.

Improving Society

People and manners

People and manners

As a Malaysian, I always see local people doing something uncivilized. Not really that bad until like riding a shopping cart while gunning people down with AK47s African-style. Was that racist? Never mind. But Malaysian society is something not that different with other developing or advanced countries. Do I mean they’re mostly uncivilized in the civilized nations? Freedom of thoughts and acts for some people sometimes look weird to some others. This is what I called as uncivilized. In my own definition. Continue reading

Teaching: Now and Then

A normal classroom

A normal classroom

Teaching. A very well recognized profession that has been existed from the beginning of human history. In Islam, one must teach the other persons everything that he/she knows and hiding knowledge is considered as sinful. But of course, everyone is reluctant to let the others know about the best knowledge that they kept for themselves. I am writing this just for sharing some thoughts about teaching throughout my experiences and observations. Continue reading

Betrayal of Hope

That Medic is a spy!

That Medic is a spy!

I wasn’t into local politics much. In most cases, I prefer to be free from association of any kind of favoritism that only gives advantages to certain groups. Looking at how politics in this country work, it is safe to say that everyone has their own agenda and motives that not entirely related to my liking. No, it is not that I don’t have some love for the prosperity of my own land where my blood is spilled. I am somewhat patriotic. Patriotism is a love and devotion to one’s country. Whenever I tried to show my patriotism, some people think that I am a nationalist. It is not, people. Nationalism and patriotism have different meaning. Nationalism is related to a group of people or ethnic that certainly proposing for their rights of nationhood. If that’s a matter of race, how about my origin? Continue reading

Tyrannical Democracy

1Gensokyo

1Gensokyo

What do you understand of democracy? In the modern days of political movements, we have always been bombarded with multiple statements that pointing out about fairness among the citizens which lead up to an ideology that we called as democracy. It’s not merely an ideology but also a form of government. In relation to this matter, there’s always this thought that the idea seemed to be perfect and fair for the people but it is actually the worst form of government except all others that have been tried. That’s Winston Churchill for you. Continue reading

Miku Commands You to Vote for Malaysia!

Vote for Malaysia, you motherfucker!

Vote for Malaysia, you motherfucker!

Hear that lads? Vote for Malaysia goddamn it! Go to this Hatsune Miku World Tour site, post comment at the first blog post and make sure your text field for Country is written as Malaysia. We need more than 10,000 signatures. We do not condone any act of treason by putting in other than that. Any perpetrators that lead to the demise of the results will be hunt to the end of the world and the punishment will be skinning while you’re still live. Your skins will be made into kompang or rebana so that we could replace drums as musical instruments. Your bones will be turned into drum sticks. Your blood vessels will be used for guitar strings. Your ribs will be made as piano keys.

Hatsune Miku World Tour

Hatsune Miku World Tour

*back to normal* Oh, well. It seems that SEGA would like to have Hatsune Miku World Tour concerts to be held in various places in the world. The site link given above will be used to gather votes from different countries where any countries that have more than 10,000 votes will be chosen by SEGA as candidates for the tour.

I am not really a fan of Vocaloid (especially the voices though I am fine with others) plus the concert would likely to be something like a virtual singer singing on the stage with actual band plays at the back. But I would be really really love to have such concert to be made available in Malaysia. I don’t mind to pay just to get a chance getting in a hall for something like this. It’s gonna be fun.

Bon Odori 2010 Shah Alam

There were only few people at the beginning...

There were only few people at the beginning...

So I went to this Japanese cultural festival called Bon Odori which was held at Matsushita Stadium in Shah Alam last Saturday. As the event gonna be started at 5.00 PM, ultimaweaponx, yafex and I planned to go to Czero’s house in Shah Alam earlier. Well, the plan was to gather/park at his place and ride a bus from KTM station there to the stadium with others and we would like to use a new highway that partially being opened for public use namely SKVE. Around 4.00 PM, we departed from ultima’s house at Seri Kembangan all the way to SKVE. Of course that the new highway paths haven’t being applied to any existing GPS application as of yet, so it’s like a gamble that we might getting lost on the way. While we had minor detours because of lack of GPS data maps, we managed to arrive at Shah Alam pretty earlier than what we might achieve if we used the usual way through LDP, Federal or whatever the highway name was. What’s more, as soon as we exited the highway connected to ELITE highway, we immediately saw the entrance to the stadium so we decided to go there instead of going to the gathering place. The journey took about 30 minutes but we spent another 30 minutes to find parking place for my car and also strolling through from the car park to the stadium.

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