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Name: Adlina
Country: Malaysia
Metro: Kuala Lumpur
Birthday: 8/30/1983
Gender: Female
Interests: Writing, Doctor Who, Little Britain, Cooking, Baking, On-off gymming, Ipod, Eddie Izzard,
Expertise: Writing, Debating with oneself on existentialism, Cupcake baking, Obsessing (full time job there), Business Plan writing
Occupation: Entrepreneur, Writer
Industry: Service
Message: message me
Member Since:
11/5/2002
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| Time to Say Goodbye
After six long years, seriously, it's been that long, I am bidding farewell to Xanga. I loathed to do so, with everyone moving away, I remained loyal to Xanga despite it's...err...less than nice features.
But, it was seriously starting to suck recently, and a chunk of the times when I don't update, it's not because I don't want to, but it's because I can't. Either my entry disappears or the weblog editor refuses to load.
It's been fun and meeting people on my blog. To all my Xanga mates, I have linked all your blogs on my new site, so I'm not going to quite give up my Xanga connections. But my new updates and new entries will all be posted there.
There being:
It's still a bit naked, I'm in the process of moving all my entries there. It'll take a while, but it'll get there soon enough!
SEE YOU THERE!
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| Gyahahahaha
Hooray! I can finally access my Xanga. For some reason it had been down for the past few days.
Nonsense will resume shortly.
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| Title: Peculiar
Series: Tanjong Ole (Previous chapters can be found here)
Rating: G
Author's note: Been a long time coming for this one, eh? A bit longer than usual but should make up for missing time. Many, many thanks to Eizwan for his ingenious way of re-arranging some of the lines.
Peculiar
“Naked protesters, death by durian,” the Superintendent seated across
Inspector Jamal listed out. “Some would think you’re making some of these cases
up.”
Inspector Jamal struggled to find the words to defend his turf but he was
always so hopeless when it came to the inspections. It was one of the reasons,
his friends from the Academy days pointed out, that he would always struggle
for promotions.
“It’s just the town,” Inspector Jamal defended lamely as he poured tea for his
superior officer. “It’s a little peculiar but I’d like to highlight to you,
sir, our modern techniques in managing our staff…”
“Only non-performing police officers would blame the town rather than their own
supervision, Inspector Jamal,” the Superintendent interrupted sharply.
“But sir…” Inspector Jamal began and was interrupted again, this time by his leather-jacket-wearing
Sergeant who strode into his office with a restrained man in his wake. The man,
a usually very calm Mr. Tan, struggled against the police officer. He was
shouting at the top of his lungs. Followed behind the two of them was a very
meek Doctor Chan.
“I’m going to get you!”Mr. Tan shouted. “I’m going to sue you! This is
completely unacceptable!”
Doctor Chan looked on forlornly.
“Hey Guv, I’m going to take these two in. Get them to start talking. Calm them
down,” said Sergeant Izwan.
Inspector Jamal nodded and the three of them walked out of the room, presumably
into an interrogation room.
“Assault case,” he said lamely.
“Oh?” The superintendent was clearly disinterested, but he continued. “I’m
surprised at you, Jamal. I didn’t think you could be that unreasonable in allowing
a victim to be so close in proximity to her attacker. The woman was very
frightened.”
Inspector Jamal winced. The Superintendent had that effect on him. But as the
Superintendent drank his tea, Inspector Jamal felt a sudden, rare spark of
rebellion from within.
“But he wasn’t the one doing the assault. The young woman did,” said Inspector Jamal,
keeping his voice level. “She’s a doctor. She thought someone was about to get
her in her clinic and she gave him one. Uppercut right up the chin.”
The choking noise emanating from the Superintendent was music to his
ears.
Inspector Jamal shrugged. “Thought it was her crazy ex.”
The Superintendent continued to cough into
his tea. The Inspector struggled to keep a smile from surfacing. But Inspector
Jamal was a professional and he would not gloat.
“This town, sir, it’s just a little peculiar,” Inspector Jamal continued. “More
tea, sir?”
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| My Malay Still Sucks
I am currently trying to write a letter in Malay, and dammit, my brain is aching because it is so bloody hard to do so. My Malay is as crappy as my brain would have me to believe.
To think I got a 6 in IB Malay SL. If you ever need to believe in miracle, believe in that one. I'm still trying to figure out how I managed to do so.
Meh.
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| Undilah Saxon 08 As inspired by the folks at Ihasatardis. Jan asked me why I would vote for an evil alien. YKK and my answer is pretty much a nobrainer. Because he's John Simm, that's why.
Political discussion up ahead, feel free to skip it.
Come elections time, it would be the first time (I hope) that I would be voting. I'm pretty keen on voting this year, not just as a citizen of Malaysia, but it will be my first official vote as I overslept on the day I was supposed to vote in the UK (which was a real shame, since I was proud of the fact that being a non-citizen I was still allowed to vote). I was 20 when Malaysia had its election in 2004, therefore I was ineligible to vote, but now in 2008, I will be 24 and therefore completely ready to vote.
A lot of people asked me on who I would vote for. That question, if I take it seriously, is a difficult question for me. I think the reasons why I vote are slightly different from why other people vote. I take voting very seriously, I take it as a duty as a citizen. Just as we frequently call on our politicians and our ministers to uphold the integrity of their position they fill in, I feel it is just as important that we as citizens uphold our duty to vote. As a citizen of any nation or state we're in, we have responsibilities to fulfill and one of them is to vote.
One thing that fascinated me about voting this year was the question on "Who should you vote for?" If you had asked me that question three years ago, my answer would have been simple. I was going to mark a cross for every candidate on the paper. Why? Because I wanted to record in a spoilt vote, an abstain as a mark of protest on every candidate represented. Since we can't actually say, we abstain, a spoilt vote in my mind, is the same as voting but abstaining.
Which brings back to my original dilemma. In 2000, I was absolutely furious when some left-wingers voted Ralph Nader in the US Presidential Elections, which in my mind, cost Al Gore the elections resulting in 8 years of Bush. I suppose as a non-citizen, it was easier to pontificate. I have my own selfish reasons why I didn't want Bush there (and to be fair, so does most of the world) and because some of stupid, selfish ideal (or so I thought) these people denied the world a fairer leader (of course, this is merely speculation, we hope that Al Gore would have been a better leader, he could be fairly disappointing like say....Gordon Brown)
Now that it is my turn to vote. A lot of discussion have been forced on to me (another issue which I'm fairly bothered about, politics is fine and dandy, just don't force it down my throat) and some of my more vocal friends have been saying, "Deny BN the 2/3 majority, vote opposition."
Fascinating. I'm not about to say who I'm about to vote, it is my right to keep that to myself but I do feel like I am faced with the same dilemma those on the left in the US did. Should I do what I said I would do? If neither candidate stand for what I believe in, I ought to record in a spoilt vote? Should I only vote for a candidate that stands for my ideals and my beliefs?
Should I do what my friend S is thinking of doing. She feels like voting for the incumbent as she believes the incumbent is doing a good job despite if the incumbent is actually, well, part of the Firm? S believes that voting should be based on the qualifications of the individual candidate, as opposed to if the individual belongs to a party who isn't doing such a great job leading the country right now.
Or should I do what a lot of people feel would be a good thing, even if you feel you're dealing with the devil, at least a vote with the opposition is a lesser evil than voting for the incumbent? I'm no fan of the incumbent but to be honest with myself, I'm no fan of the opposition either.
So the question I have to ask myself now, is what is more important to me? Voting in what fits my personal ideals or voting in what I feel would do good for the country? For the individual or for the country? For what is fair to the individual candidate or for the overall country again?
Feel free to contribute to this discussion all three of you reading this blog, hehehe. Any lurkers too, but be nice!Since politics is frequently incendiary, keep it civil and polite
And for the rest of us who just don't care, which I know, there's a bunch of you out there. I feel for ya! It's also your right to not be interested, so whoever shoves politics down your throat, politely tell them to shove it up their arse. That's what democracy is all about. | | |
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