TimeOut Kuala Lumpur出版了。 自从《全球一体化 Globalisation》概念被提出后，全球许多大都会都出现了同类型的东西。比如说坊间众多的名牌服饰店 Louis Vuitton，G U C C I，CHANEL，etc。。。美式的连锁快餐厅 McDonalds，KFC，Burger King，etc。。。还有Cafe的STARBUCKS COFFEE，就连杂志也出现了一体化的局面，什么Bazaar, COMOSPOLITAN，etc。。。当然也别忘了这本Time Out Kuala Lumpur。所以现今无论你身在这个世界的哪一个大城市都好，你必能见到熟口熟面的东西，一点惊喜都没有。就像7-ELEVEN的标语《梗有一间在你左近》。不过，倒是TimeOut的出版令我想起一段往事。
Read about 2 news reports for the same issue lately. BUT, how come the feeling arised was so different after reading it? WHAT WENT WRONG? Hadi issues warning
by the STAR MALAYSIA KOTA BARU: PAS will ban any entertainment deemed by the Islamist party to be negative in states it rules. Party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said if the entertainment was deemed to have negative elements, then it should be banned. Asked about outlets serving and selling liquor, such as the duty-free port in Langkawi, Abdul Hadi said the party would study what was allowed by all religions.
Abdul Hadi: What is banned by all religions, we will follow likewise.“What is banned by all religions, we will follow likewise,” he said after chairing the party’s management steering committee meeting here. PAS, which retained Kelantan and won Kedah, will also head the state government in Perak although the party won only six seats in the state while DAP won 18 and PKR, seven. Abdul Hadi confirmed that PAS would help form the state government in Selangor, where it won eight seats. PKR won 15 seats and DAP 13. The party also won one seat in Penang, where DAP and PKR garnered 19 and 9 seats respectively. Among the initial policies it would undertake included proposing for two non-Muslims to be part of the Kedah state exco line-up as gratitude to the support given by the non-bumiputra communities. “Freedom of religion will be allowed,” he said, adding that the hudud criminal procedure code for Muslim could be implemented if it was in line with the state constitutions. Abdul Hadi also said that PAS would review all the proposed corridor development projects announced earlier by the Federal Government. On the secret of the Opposition’s historic capture of four states besides PAS successfully defending Kelantan, Abdul Hadi said the party received support from many voters in urban areas, adding that support for the Opposition was based on the information flow generated from the Internet.
by the STRAITS TIMES SINGAPORE KOTA BHARU - MALAYSIA'S Islamic opposition party said on Sunday it has no plans to immediately shut down nightclubs and gambling dens, or ban alcohol in a northern state where it won elections. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, or PAS, also pledged to respect ethnic minority rights and said it would not unilaterally implement strict Islamic rules. PAS retained its stronghold in northeast Kelantan state and wrested control of mainly Muslim Kedah state from Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's coalition in Saturday's general elections. An Islamic cleric, Azizan Abdul Razak, 63, was named to lead the government in Kedah, said PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang. He said Mr Azizan will not impose Islamic laws of the kind in force in Kelantan, including segregation of sexes in public places and a ban on gambling, alcohol, cinemas and nightclubs. Such places flourish in Langkawi, a popular tourist resort island in Kedah state. He said PAS would consult its two political allies - the Chinese-based Democratic Action Party or DAP and the multiracial People's Justice Party known by its Malay acronym PKR - before implementing such rules. He said PAS will also seek feedback from the local community. 'We will first discuss with our non-Muslim friends. We all have different faiths. Whatever activities that are allowed by other religions, even though they are banned in Islam, we cannot disturb. That is their right,' he told reporters. 'We will ensure freedom of religion, freedom of worship and the right to carry out their daily affairs,' he said. PAS, the DAP and PKR captured three other states - Perak, Penang and Selangor - which have large ethnic Chinese and Indian populations. Penang, which is the country's only Chinese-majority state, will be governed by the DAP. Mr Hadi said the three parties were still deciding who would lead Perak and Selangor. PAS, which has ruled Kelantan since 1990, had alienated ethnic minorities and liberal-thinking Muslims with its call for a hardline theocratic state in the past. An earlier cooperation with the DAP collapsed over its Islamic agenda. But PAS dropped its call for a theocratic state in these elections and toned down its Islamic rhetoric. Malay Muslims make up about 60 per cent of Malaysia's 27 million people, while Chinese and Indians jointly account for about a third of the population. The opposition gains are seen as a protest vote against Mr Abdullah's government amid complaints over the rising cost of living, growing crime and religious and racial tensions. Mr Hadi attributed the opposition's strong gains - which eroded the ruling coalition's two-thirds parliamentary majority for the first time in four decades - to support from Chinese and Indians in urban areas. 'We praise Allah for our victory,' he said. 'It shows that Malaysians want a development policy that is fair and does not lead to abuses. We will support development that is beneficial for the people but we will reject corruption, cronyism and nepotism.'
My tea's gone cold, I'm wondering why I got out of bed at all The morning rain louds up my window And i can't see at all And even if i could it'd all be grey, But your picture on my wall It reminds me that it's not so bad It's not so bad
I drank too much last night, got bills to pay My head just feels in pain I missed the bus and there'll be hell today I'm late for work again And even if i'm there, they'll all imply that i might not last the day And then you call me and it's not so bad It's not so bad and
I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life Oh just to be with you Is having the best day of my life
Push the door, I'm home at last And I'm soaking through and through Then you handed me a towel And all i see is you and even if my house falls down now I wouldn't have a clue because you're near me and
I want to thank you for giving me the best day of my life Oh just to be with you Is having the best day of my life
前几个晚上，我在吉隆坡巧遇ANWAR主讲的群众大会。其中一段令我印象深刻。 《Ini bukan masalah kaum Melayu, Cina, India dan lain lain. Ini adalah masalah semua RAKYAT MALAYSIA。》此话说完，除了赢得全场的欢呼声，and it’d won my heart too。说真的，我在这片土地上生活了这么多年，很厌倦那些区分种族的言论和条例。所以对于这次大选，总觉得人民公正党(PKR)的表现宛如一股清流。
The 3rd LAW OF MOTION乃是牛顿定律在维基百科找到这样的诠释《Whenever a particle A exerts a force on another particle B, B simultaneously exerts a force on A with the same magnitude in the opposite direction. The strong form of the law further postulates that these two forces act along the same line. This law is often simplified into the sentence "Every action has an equal and opposite reaction"》
近几年电讯公司大洒金钱来宣传短信服务 ( Short Message Service )，强化收发短信的功能与乐趣之同时，也增加了电讯公司的网络收发费用。一切仿佛回到最初，利用文字尽情把话说出口。不同的是由纸笔转换成手机，由收发需时变成近乎即时。电讯公司大事催谷SMS，可以想象得到把话用嘴巴说出来，从来都不是传情达意最受欢迎的方式。好像收发短信更能准确地传达感情，也可以留有幻想空间，相互猜测心意。
Inspired by the Shakespearean play "HAMLET", The Banquet unfolds a story about power struggle in the royal court, which eventually climaxes at a night banquet.
Young Empress Wan, who used to be in love with Prince Wu Luan, is now his stepmother. Cunning Emperor's brother Li comes to throne, and see Wu Luan who's now living away from the palace indulging himself in arts, a great threat to his power. He sends assassins to kill the prince but the mission fails. The prince returns to palace and meet the Empress who is newly married to Li. Emperor decides to host a banquet, but everyone has a hidden agenda when they attend ...
Message from 小林方正 I'm a plactic bag. BUT, I don't chose to be one. If you key-in PLASTIC on wikipedia, you'll find this explanation of PLASTIC. Plastics are polymers: long chains of atoms bonded to one another. Common thermoplastics range from 20,000 to 500,000 in molecular weight, while thermosets are assumed to have infinite molecular weight. These chains are made up of many repeating molecular units, known as "repeat units", derived from "monomers"; each polymer chain will have several 1000's of repeat units. The vast majority of plastics are composed of polymers of carbon and hydrogen alone or with oxygen, nitrogen, chlorine or sulfur in the backbone. (Some of commercial interest are silicon based.) The backbone is that part of the chain on the main "path" linking a large number of repeat units together. To vary the properties of plastics, both the repeat unit with different molecular groups "hanging" or "pendant" from the backbone, (usually they are "hung" as part of the monomers before linking monomers together to form the polymer chain). This customization by repeat unit's molecular structure has allowed plastics to become such an indispensable part of twenty first-century life by fine tuning the properties of the polymer.
Message from Anya Hindmarch "When I was first approached with this idea, it gave me the chills. It seemed so important. The thing that struck me was that when I started working at 18 years old in the late Eighties, I remember drinking double espressos and smoking Marlboro lights and working all day and night. I remember the cool young girls I started employing arriving with their yoga mats and pomegranate seeds and their plants on their desk for oxygen and me thinking it was all a bit ‘knit your own yoghurt’. But of course the reality is that now we all realise the importance of looking after your health, what you eat and what you do. It was these cool, fashionable influences that helped it become trendy."
“The bag project all started two years ago when a man called David Robinson approached me. David - who is a very good man – runs a global social change network called We Are What We Do. They are a fantastic movement who try to inspire people to use their everyday actions to change the world. He is very much of the belief that if everyone makes a small change and does their bit it can actually amount to making a big difference.I just loved the simplicity of that and I agree with it. The first thing that they did was publish a book, which was done in a really upbeat, unworthy way, called ‘How to Change the World for a Fiver,’ and it was very popular - organizations really embraced it and gave it out to their employees. It started with fifty actions that anyone could do to help - things like ‘smile at old people because they know lots of good stuff’ and ‘turn off the water when you’re brushing your teeth.’But the first action was ‘decline plastic bags whenever possible.’ We Are What We Do came to see us because they were very keen to take the success of the book into a project.I was enamored with the idea because I do believe there is so much wasted packaging - although I’m far from perfect myself. But secondly I thought they were really good people and it was a really exciting project to try and highlight - it’s such an easy thing to do. We designed the bag as it’s big and easy and great for groceries, but will probably be used as a school bag or a gym bag. I use mine everyday as a tote bag bringing stuff from home. “There’s a lot to be said for plastic for sure, but on a recent shopping trip I refused nine plastic bags as I could put things directly into my cotton one - and that’s amazing.If it makes people rethink their behaviour and perhaps makes the supermarkets rethink their solutions then it’s achieved something as far as I’m concerned."
“What’s really exciting is the reaction from people. “I’ve literally had letters from models, film stars, politicians and even Prince Charles yesterday, all saying ‘fantastic, well done, we all
support it and we’re right behind it."
“I’m not the greenest person around, I drive a diesel car (I have five children) but the point is that ‘we are what we do’ and if we all
do a little thing then we’ll solve the damage, we’ll stop making it worse. And it really doesn’t take you long to rethink the way you behave."
TimeOut Kuala Lumpur出版了。
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