MOVED !

Totally missed the ‘categories’ features that i.ph use to have. Tag clouds is not that great for me.

Have decided to move to another blog provider > musingsmanic.wordpress.com 

endure to conquer…

He conquers who endures ~Persius

on-the-road musings of the evil one

1) May his car breakdown tomorrow so he can finally walk vs driving (since he drives on the 2nd lane of a 3 lane road at the ‘amazing’ speed of 25km/hour). That guy need a reason to walk isn’t it? 

2) Maybe I should just swerve slightly to the left & I might just ‘touch’ the irritating biker who’s straddling the ‘line’ but his legs are 20% occupying the lane - so that I can finally be clear of ‘obstables’ to move forward on the fast lane.

3) May a BIG splat of birdshit land on his windshield when he stays on the RIGHT lane at 30km/hour speed just so that he can stop talking on the phone - after all you are driving so slow - makes a perfect slow moving shit landing spot . (hey if you can’t multi task, go to the LEFT & stop the damn car)

4) May those white uniform traffic police be stuck in traffic jams 100% of the time when they are driving a car.

5) May their steering wheel refused to be turn because there was no light indicator indicated .. so.. was it?

So what does the ‘good’ one do during these ‘on-the-road’ sessions?  Nothiing of course! Cause the evil one has all the right reasons.  

the ‘great’ national newspaper of malaysia

I wasn’t sure if I should find this amusing or ashamed when I saw this article via Malaysia Today that the NST posted this article in the newspaper today. Hello… NSTers… content of subtance please.. not some what astrologer says. NST is one of the highest distributed english newspaper. I’m more than proud to say that I do not subscribe to any of these ‘national’ newspaper. Source of news from the virtual world (internet) seems more real vs. those physical printed ones. 

Check out the difference of content between these 2 

1) The Malaysian Insider 

2) The New Straits Times (NST)

Talk about government control ! I don’t think the newspaper can be more ‘controlled’ than it already is. NST has no content, does not makes one utilise their own grey matter & mostly totally biased. And you wonder why the non-virtual-connected folks are clueless….   

nothing & everything

“Plans are nothing; planning is everything” -Dwight D. Eisenhower

To my ex-planner-colleagues :- I think the company got their priority wrong sometimes. Even the great Eisenhower knows planning is everything… don’t you agree? 

what’s complacent

Complacent is defined by Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) as

What’s complacent to me ?

It is lazily proud, It gets blind by own inaction, It is self destructive, It lives in the past.

Our country government is complacent. Our workplace workers are complacent. The managers are complacent as well.

So.. how do we ‘remind’ ourselves not to be complacent? Must we follow what old, big & successful corporations on reviewing needs of change & executing them every 5 years? How about own self-complacency? When one search on how not to be complacent - it returns 295,000 hits on thousands of different industries - health to govt polices & even personal developments. Still.. I cannot find one answer that I can readily use to remind myself easily.

The Immigrants of Malaysia

For the past 2 weeks, there are so much ‘hoo-haa’s from this Ahmad Ismail’s racist remarks (read archives here). The Chinese were called as ‘pendatang’ (immigrants) & thus impossible to achieve equal rights among races.

Now ‘immigrant‘ is define by Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) as

1. a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence
2. an organism found in a new habitat

So actually En. Ahmad Ismail is right in saying the Chinese are immigrants when they came to this country before M’sia achieves independence 51 years ago. However, so is the Malays !! if we want to follow the definition to the root ie. a person migrating to another country (we are still talking the time before M’sia achieves independence).

According to ‘Sejarah Melayu’ website, they (the Malays) were once probably a people of coastal Borneo who expanded into Sumatra & Malay Peninsula as a result of their trading & seafaring way of life, interestingly the site also cited that Anthropologists trace the home of the Malay race to the Northwestern part of Yunnan, China. And according to the site, the present day Malays of the peninsula are described anthropologically as deutro Malays & are descendents of of the tribal proto Malays mixed with modern Indian, Thai, Arab and Chinese blood.

Now, it seems that Malaysia is a country full of ‘pendatang’ afterall. I mean we have the Indians, Ang-mo, Peranakan descendants, Portugese descendants, Chinese & the proto Malays mixed folks.

So why need for apologies ? Apologies has no concrete use for the nation, it just another chance for some politicians to ‘wayang’(show & tell) that they care & demand for apology like they really care for their ‘race’.

We don’t need any apology , we just need to recognise that we are ALL Immigrants (except for the indigenous people like the Orang Asli, Dayak, Iban etc) before the country achieves independence and thus we just need policies to be equal among these band of  ‘pendatang’ in Malaysia & no more ’special rights’ for members of Umno.

the reluctant

Standing behind shadows keeps me cool

Following instructions keeps me from the need of searching everywhere

Multiple priorities or multi tasking are easy but multiple concerns & keeping things in balance makes me tired

    ………..musings of a worker, a do-er,

an executioner and a very reluctant leader.

day dreaming is good !

New research found that day dreaming is crucial for our creativity! Read article here. 

Since it is technically quite ‘OK’ to day dream, this is to just list out things i day dream about

1. 4 work day in a week (let’s face it, we need 1 day to tune down, 1 day to get into the relax groove & another day to totally enjoy the ‘weekend‘)
2. We can go anywhere we want without need of vehicles (car, bike or planes)
3. If we have to use vehicles, we can use rubbish, dust or the wind to power the vehicles
4. Fatty foods are not fattening (huh?!.. i know..its day dreaming isn’t it??)
5. People are all responsible (yeah-yeah)
6. People are all honest (hah!)
7. Dust does not collect in our homes

Now, these are all not very ‘creative’ day dreams.. so does it mean its not good?..

could it be true?

Now… I have been waiting for an alternative fuel car for pretty long - though it is not the best yet but it is at least better for the environment & cheaper vs. petrol. 

Seems that Detroit Electric got our national car company (Proton) attention in the midst of the unhappiness of the M’sians on the fuel hikes. Yes - the national car company Proton may be able to produce electric car by 2010! Read article here.

Now.. electrictity needs to be generated by either coal, petrol, gas or hydro ~ maybe - going into electric car alternative is not enough. Yes - dear PM lah - not enough. We need to be more independent of natural resources. 

Alternatives tested & progressing :

1. Water Fuel Cell Car  >  http://www.waterfuelcell.org/ 
2. The Air Car              >  http://www.theaircar.com/
3. Bioethanol Fuel Car  (converted from rubbish not corn) > article here

Electric car is soooooooo OLD idea. We have the advantage of jumping straight to something that’s more long term viable for the people yet - we still go with a resource dependent  alternative. Oh wait, yes.. you don’t know. Yes nothing.. that’s what it is.