Monday, April 20, 2009

To Lovers and Friends

I am feeling a bit sentimental this morning...


You are the few I noticed amongst the thousandth,
and we both seems bond by invisible threads,
There is a feeling of longing, although undefined,
We could be lovers or a band of brothers in the past,
And here we are, meeting again in this life to complete the pages of our life stories or rewriting what was lost in our past life?
Come what may, come what may.

For now, you are like a refreshing breeze in the wake of spring,
Bringing new leaf of life to the frozen Earth after a cold long winter,
Awaken all men’s senses, and breathe colors and warmth into life,
You have brought good tidings and meanings to my life.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Standing ovation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KiGva9dV4

Standing ovation to Susan Boyle...
Didn't we all sucked up to shallow first impression of a person and judge just based on physical look? See how Susan Boyle stunned and wowed us with her voice despite her look. I like her attitude

and I was moved by her singing...."I dreamed a dream" one of my favorites of songs from Les Miserables

Monday, April 13, 2009

Winner of 56th Berlin Film Festival - Chicken Ala Carte





Chicken a la Carte
Director: Ferdinand Dimadura
Genre: Drama Produced In: 2005

Synopsis: This film is about the hunger and poverty brought about by Globalization. There are 10,000 people dying everyday due to hunger and malnutrition. This short film shows a forgotten portion of the society. The people who live on the refuse of men to survive. What is inspiring is the hope and spirituality that never left this people.
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One of my friends shared the above short film with me.

Other than the apparent lessons, like not to waste food, eat only when you need and not over-indulgence....

To my opinion and only my personal opinion, I strongly feel that if one family is poor, please don't have too many children.

although one can claim having children are blessings from God, bringing them into this world to suffer is the opposite in reality. To me, children are only blessings from God if the couples can afford it. This is because when children are born, we have to shower them with best of love, care, provide them with the best comfort and protection, as well as basic necessities like food, clothing and shelter. If a couple is in question or has any hesitation in providing what I stated above, well, think twice or more of having children more than they can afford.

Humans are creatures who need love and family, but adults also need to realise their responsibilities that comes after of their actions in bed, especially those who don't practise family planning. So, not only the teachers of various religions have to teach / preach about family values, they have to educate the people about reality too.

Wednesday, April 8, 2009

Another example of people loosing faith with BN














The results of the by-election sent a strong message that the National Coalition or Barisan Nasional - BN is loosing ground. It's race-based strategy is loosing its relevance to the people of Malaysia.

Out of the three by-elections, namely Batang Ai of Sarawak, Bukit Gantang of Perak and Bukit Selambau of Kedah; the opposition People Coalition or Pakatan Rakyat - PR, won 2 by-elections, namely Bukit Gantang (Perak) and Bukit Salambau (Kedah). This is despite BN's malicious race-based agenda and fanning the fire of race hatred.

Like an example quoted in today's Malaysia Insider, telling that [a leaflet distributed in BN's by-election campaign in Bukit Gantang warned that UMNO is being pressured by it non-Malay components in the BN, and this may happen to PAS and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PAS and PKR are 2 out of the 3 main component parties of PR, who are dominant ed by members of Malay ethnics) in their opposition coalition.

UMNO also campaigned along the lines of Malay power being eroded in the state under the former opposition government (in Perak state) which was toppled by the BN in February 09. It labelled the ousted PR Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, who stood as the PR candidate, a Chinese puppet.]

On the contrary, the PR's strategy of multi-racialism and calls for reforms and economic assistance based on need, not ethnicity resonates strongly among the liberal urbanites, as well as the marginalised rural and urban poor.

People are tired of BN's race-based agenda, corruption and cronyism practises. Even majority of the Malay community realised and disagreed that the threat to Malay power is not the non-Malays but the Malay leaders themselves and and their politically-linked Malay elites.

Our new Prime Minister - Najib Razak is doing a massive PR campaign to rescue his reputation and his party (UMNO) by acknowledging the contribution of Non-Malays to Malaysia recently; which UMNO party memebers previously labels the Non-Malay as mere "Pendatang" or Immigrants and disregards their roles and contribution to the building and development of this nation. Also, our new Prime Minister is also pushing for a freer Media in Malaysia and ready to accept its consequences. He also released 2 HINDRAFT members who have been detained under Internal Security Act on last Sunday 5.4.09 in the wake of the recent by-election , so to please and fish for Indian voters.

Let sees if our Prime Minister means what he said... How about amending our history book to tell the truth for a start? How about consider dropping the charges to a prominent blogger and stand for trial against his accusations? How about releasing all the other HINDRAFT members who are still detained under ISA, and not just the 2 that were released recently?

The anak-anak Malaysia are watching...

Talentime,Tale n Time

I watched Yasmin Ahmad's Talentime this afternoon. It moves me so much. Towards the end to the movie, at the scenes where Mahesh (a speech impaired Indian boy) kneel before his mom confessing his love to Melor (Muslim girl) and the closing score performed by Hafiz for his love to his mom really opened my floodgate and many times i almost failed to hold back and really want to sob out loud.

Yasmin did it a again, evoked our emotion and compassion through her story telling. Bravo!




And the song... O Re Piya (a Hindi song, i.e. Oh my beloved)... has kept lingering in my head for the last 8 hours.



Also, I like Melor's family dynamic in the movie - a family with such big hearts. Melor's Yorkshire English speaking granny was so funny too. There are many candid moments in the movies that put a smile to the audiences.

The movie also conveyed hidden messages of social issues that are relevant to fellow Malaysians now, especially on how religion and race now has divided and caused tension in between ethnic groups.

By the way, this movie was shot at my hometown of Ipoh and my younger brother was studying at the school where the story was told, i.e. Anderson School

If you have not watched the movie, please go watch it.

Monday, April 6, 2009

Funeral

This shortfilm which is made by Yasmin Ahmad (a reknown Malaysia film director) for Singapore government and it is posted on her blog.

This short film is very meaningful and absolutely moving and touching the hearts of everyone.

Key message: Imperfection of your partner makes a relationship perfect. Enjoy!

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Songs that keep playing in my head lately

End Of the World-Matt Alber

Accidentally bump into this song performed by Matt Alber. As the song title implies, it's a melancholic song and I love the singing and its melody. Initially, I was kind of hesitate to post up the video due to its content and then I realised I should not be judgemental. Love and music has no boundary and I would embrace them with a big heart. Hope you enjoy the song as I do.



Another song which keep playing in my head is Jason M'raz's "You and I Both"