Rambling on…

Kechara Soup Kitchen feeds the homeless and urban poor on the streets in KL. I didn’t know such a charity existed in Malaysia. I only knew because they had a booth set up in 1 Utama.

It’s gratifying to know that Malaysia as a whole is moving in the right direction, albeit slowly. Any pace is better than not moving at all I guess.

I never thought of this before, but this blog post has made me dwell on the matter a bit. It’s something I’ve taken from granted. I wonder if anyone has a list of games that are colour blind friendly?

You may or may not know that I am red-green colorblind. Money looks grey to me, pink looks white, brown looks green. No big thing. Since I was born colorblind, I have no frame of reference for how the world is “supposed” to look and, therefore, I’m not constantly in a state of misery and woe over the fact that I can’t differentiate maroon from purple.

With the General Election coming up, the campaigning and the voices shouting to be heard is steadily increasing in volume… Who are YOU going to vote for?

Here’re some well executed videos courtesy of Youth for Change.

Video #1

English translation:

Newspaper: Prime Minister Asleep Again.

When leader sleep, criminals rule.

This election, vote for change.

Video #2

English translation:

Joe Public: My life was ok before. Until oil prices starting rocketing up.
Politician: CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE.
Joe Public: But toll charges went up too!
Politician: CHANGE YOUR LIFESTYLE.
Joe Public: Every other bill has also gone up.
Politician: CHANGE THAT LIFESTYLE, CHANGE IT, CHANGE IT!
Joe Public: Prices of flour, sugar and milk have all gone up.
Politician: I feel… you should just wear these.

Change Your Lifestyle
Or Change Government?

Video #3

English translation:

To raise his popularity, the YB (Yang Berhormat) launched a stamp featuring his portrait.

After one month…

YB: So, how was my stamp in the eyes of the public?
Postman: Good YB. It was very well received. But there’s one thing.. there are alot of complaints that the stamp doesn’t stick.
YB: Why doesn’t it stick? Let me take a look.
YB: See? It sticks very well.
Postman: But, they don’t lick the backs of the stamps.
Postman: They spit… erm… they lick the front of the stamps.

Money can buy you prestige, but it cannot buy you integrity.

This election, vote for change.

It’s been revealed on Autosport that Sepang now too wants a night race and is reportedly working with the same team of people who are responsible for setting up Singapore’s lighting system.

Now, it’s known that Singapore has always tried to do a ‘one up’ on Malaysia. And generally, they’ve succeeded in outdoing Malaysia. Two most recent examples come to mind:

• The Eye on Malaysia (an obvious knockoff of the 135 metre high London Eye), a 60 metre ferris wheel has Singapore’s 150 metre Singapore Flyer to contend with.
• Then there’s the Singapore Grand Prix, which will be the first night race in Formula 1’s history.

The Singapore Grand Prix has already been dubbed as the Monaco of the East, and yet we have yet to even see F1 cars race in anger there. So, not wanting to be outdone, Sepang has also announced plans to run a night race, preferably in 2009. A case of too little, too late? Not only that… it just screams of “ME TOOO!! I WANT SOME ATTENTION!!!”

Doesn’t it remind you of something? “Ooo.. everyone has a sent a man into space, we can’t be left out! Let’s call ours an Angkasawan and let him hitch a ride with a Russian spacecraft!” Nevermind that we don’t have any program that deserves nor warrants the word ’space’ in front of it…

Sigh… When will there be some form of creative thought and initiative from our ‘higher ups’?

Here’re the rest of the pics! If you missed the first post, here it is. EXIF info has been retained if you’re interested in finding out the settings used.