Heh, saw this on Guardian today. If you ask me, it seems as if the recycling industry is either overloaded, understaffed or not properly managed. Can one make a living just recycling stuff?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/waste/story/0,12188,1308278,00.htmlSome of you out there might have read series of thrillers, horrors and gothic stories. It wouldn't be very different if I just take a story written since the eighteenth century and transplant that to modern day news on crimes. Better still if they could be serialized in tabloids. Coming to think of it, they USED to be serialised in tabloids. (:
I am so addicted to Dvorak's Symphony in E Minor for some reason. Must be the mood thing again.
Here is an interesting bit in Guardian again about ten year olds in Britain. They aren't too different from the kids in Malaysia, if thou were to read kiddies and teenaged (under 15) weblogs. :D
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1299466,00.htmlI am not that old, but I feel ancient whenever I say that kids have greater access these days, for better or worse. I can't decide as to when I think is the best time to be born, as one can only look to the past, but can't predict the future.
To all those still new to the idea of gender relations, to sex and violence, marriage, etc, you will do well to read this
http://www3.malaysiakini.com/letters/30115 .
I find it reprehensible that a few pea brains and rotten apples among the Malaysian men are giving Malaysian men in general a bad name for being backwards and chauvinists. And I find it idiotic that there are some who condescend to argue every dot and commas in this idea of marital rape instead of looking at the bigger picture, and finding profitable solutions.
To all the women who are reading this. Do not be afraid to walk it alone if you have to. I am sure you have friends and family members who could lend support of some sort. Leave crap behind and flush it down the toilet where it is due. Unfortunately, never in our training have we ever been taught how to make good choices, and learn to face up to the responsibilities of our actions. We have not been taught how to relate to people, even as we score As in our academic subjects in schools. Hence, it is pretty normal to see a super-achieving woman going out with a complete loser who beats the brains out of her. So if the educated among us are willing to suffer shit, how are you going to get those from more inimical backgrounds to fight for change. As women with choices, we are duty bound to make good ones and set the examples for our less fortunate sisters.
So apt that I am reading about the abject this Sunday afternoon. :D
Cheers all
When it comes to sex, the church just can't beat it. People will and continue to enjoy the pleasure of intercourse in every imaginable way regardless of what the church says. Having been a church-goer for many years and listening to all the discussions and interpretation of the bible, the people who do it are either very naive, ignorant or feel the need to justify that they will be going to heaven while the rest are condemned to hell. I have come to realise that even the most inspiring person in the church often grasps desperately and seek ways to bolster the arguments they have received when they first heard the Gospel. It is both sad and funny. Anyway, found this story on the Net and I am extremely certain that the "Daddy" in this story fits the description of some of the men in the church I go to and other churches. I came from a Christian family and have become on in my adolescent.
Coming from a background as conservative as her, I was fortunate that my own family are not as zealous in comparison to some of the families I knew (and I wonder why as I thought there was something wrong with us). In retrospect, though I have to now struggle in rethinking all those values and ideas I have been conditioned to from a young age, I do not suffer from as massive hangups that I find so much in my Christian peers, though that does not mean I have none! So much for teaching women to be submissive....pah. But do they talk to us about sex, sexuality and men and women's role in sex? NO!!! They think their little lambs growing up in the church are such innocent naive creatures who have no bodies, no minds and no sex. Perhaps while thinking that, they go around fucking others.
All we have been feed with is the kind of biases and narrowmindedness of the church leaders.
Dissent and you will be fed to the Hell Fire.
I have not evangelised for a long while because I feel myself a hyprocite, bringing unsuspecting victims to further repression and guilt. I still believe in God and the Holy Trinity. But I am beginning to think that HE is not what all those religious books like Us to think of Him as.
Can't one have good values outside religion? Why is it that Malaysia's constitution insists that one be NOT religiousless? Maybe it has to do with the stereotypical fear of Communist influence.
For a long time, I have been afraid to say this, in fear that I might be castigated. I don't give a damn anymore. I am still a prude in many ways, due to my upbringing.
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http://www.nyhotties.com/archives/2004/09/daddys_little_g.htmlhttp://www.nyhotties.com/archives/2004/09/daddys_little_g_1.html
Out of a guilty conscience, I have taken into the habit of trying to recycle as many things as I can. That interest took a dive for awhile, and something in my mind just forced me to look into my wasteful habits. One example. I packed food into my room today, with polystyrene packaging. I had to throw one pack away because it was too oily and also because I accidentally broke it, though I kept one to put my other foodstuff in. Guilt rides high prior to that and I googled this out
http://www.polystyrene.org/environment/econ.htmlso, how well does recycling help in saving the environment (and in assuaging our guilt conscience)? We need all our chemist, environmental technologists and environmental economists to help us out!
I am hungry still so going to have some crackers.
The line breaks differ from the original piece I sent it, and some sentences have been edited out. Nevertheless, my voice punctuates it. Some parts of the argument seem hollow and could had been better explicated. But as it was getting late and since this is just a letter, I thought I would leave it at that, since I don't want to risk it getting longer than it already is, or revise the entire thing. (:
Here it is
http://www3.malaysiakini.com/letters/29914Good night for today.
