tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21085867912404791582024-03-05T12:45:16.717+08:00The Keyboard WarriorFor my future great-great-great-grand children so that they may have an insight of what their 21st century ancestor think and that we owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-30695566488414761012015-06-16T17:45:00.001+08:002015-07-14T11:55:04.428+08:00The Magna Carta<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Malay language version please visit this <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/magna-carta.html">link</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There have been two documented events called the Baron’s Revolt
(or also known as Baron’s War) in medieval English history. The first was from
1215-1217 (also portrayed in the movie Robin Hood featuring Russell Crowe) and
another one from 1264-1267. The important consequences of these events are the
gradual changes from absolute monarchy system which has been in used for some
times to the constitutional monarchy system which have since then been in use
in many countries including our own. The
events also introduced a sets of documents known as the <i>Magna Carta</i> which has
been the foundation of the freedom of the individual against any arbitrary
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In our modern country’s history, the constitution amendment in
1993 involves the limitation of the royals’ legal immunity. It was sees as a
victory for the commoners after few incidents involving a few royal family and
common people which were made into the news and could turn the people against
the royals. It was not seen by the majority of the people at that time as just a
fight between royalty and nobility (read ruling government) but the support
from the nobles for the large segment of the people who are seem to be against
the royals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There were few other spats between the royals and the nobles
from then on but the event that happened a few days ago that seems to change its
tune where the commoners are the one who seems to be supporting the royals this
time instead of the nobles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It all started after the ‘No Show’ incident by the Prime
Minister where one of the royal questions what many commoners have been asking
the Prime Minister, basically ‘What have you been hiding?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">There have been many questions which no answers were given
even when the questions came from one of the most respected commoner in this
country, the one who have ‘been there, done that’ once and have never been as
far as I remember, shy away from answering any questions without having to
resort to some written script during his time as the Prime Minister.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Obviously, rather that turn up to the event that is supposed
to be a platform to answer, if not all then at least some of the questions, as
expected he did not turn up. Citing security matter (which I find it strange as
the place itself is what can be said as the party’s own headquarters) and as we
know he then left the country even when disaster struck East Malaysia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Stranger more is that the Prime Minister then left to his
nobles then to answer to the questions and one among them even dares to
question the questioner. Later we hear the words that ‘royalties should be
above politics’ and so on but my take is that while it is true, it has been
used by this noble for a wrong reason and certainly out of place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, the royalty should be above politics by not showing
preference of which parties especially during election time so not as to influence
the commoner whom they will choose to be their modern day nobles. However, this
new event is not about politics at all. This event is about questions from the
commoners regardless of their political support, including from the ruling
government’s party themselves has been asking. It got nothing to do with
politics. It all got to do with how the government governs the country which
will affect the commoners the most, rather the royals and the nobles. Since
even the most respected commoner’s questions has even been brushed aside, then
what can you expect when the questions comes from the more common commoners?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This could be trigger to what the nobles have not been
imagining of, where the commoners sided with the royals against them. Could this
also trigger our own <i>Magna Carta</i> to be written where we can have a truly
transparent government in all possible things especially that involves the
money which come from the taxes we’ve paid as long as they do not involve
national security. We want to know what the money is going to use for before it’s
being used and rather not know them only after they were gone. </span></div>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-74554306893935222892015-06-12T16:06:00.000+08:002015-07-13T13:45:44.098+08:00When In Rome...<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">No, this is not about my travel to Rome. In fact, I have
never even been to Rome though I have many times over defeated and annihilated the
Roman Legions leading the <i>Carthaginian</i> armies and even sacked and razed the city
to the ground with my <i>Hunnic</i> hordes in few Total War games. Actually this post
is about the phrase that many of us have read or heard which is "<i>When in Rome, do
as the Romans do”</i> or <i>“When in Rome, act as Romans</i>”. It is first attested in medieval Latin “<i>Si Fueris
Rōmae, Rōmānō vīvitō Mōre; Si Fueris Alibī, Vīvitō Sicut Ibi</i>” (if you should be
in Rome, live in the Roman manner; if you should be elsewhere, live as they do
there); attributed to St Ambrose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There is even a Malay proverb which reads “<i>Masuk kandang
kambing mengembek, masuk kandang kerbau menguak</i>” which practically advice us
very much the same as the Latin quote above. While there are probably various
meanings or places that we can use the proverb above, I’m going to talk
specifically about the dress codes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We surely have heard regarding the sarong incident at one of
the government office few days ago and like many other things that happened in
this country, for me it’s a small issue blown out of proportion every time any
politician opened their mouth. From a practically an issue regarding conforming
to the dress code, it has become a political and even a religious issue, with
accusations like the government is going to <i>Talibanize</i> the country, personal
definition of what decent and what’s not decent to wear to the minorities are losing their rights and
so on. You can almost pick up various types of these kinds of answers on many
blogs, news sites, forums and Facebook pages relating these incidents.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are some that gives their opinion of what is decent
and what is not like saying that since they are confirming to their own office
dress codes, then they must be confirming to other places dress codes. Look,
just because you can wear something to some place, it does not mean that you
can wear the same thing at every place. The dress codes are there for a reason
and they varied from places to places. Not just government and public offices
but there are also dress codes even for privately invited parties which one
must follow if one wants to participate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I find it strange that the particular government office was
forced to issue an apology because someone who came to their place did not
conform to the office rules. I did not read about the apologies and wondering
are they apologizing because they did not turn the woman away and come back
when she’s dressed according to the rules or because rather than turning the
woman away , they provided a solution where that saves everyone’s time?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Yes, there are times that some rules may no longer be
relevant but as long at the rules is being in practice then should not we
follow them? Yes, rules are made to be broken, but then we’re not English. Again
the little non-issue has become a national and religious issue especially when
every politician racing to show their faces on the newspaper get saying all
sort of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">However, coming from any other people I can simply say that
these are political stunts but from this particular politician however there
seems to be some sort of agenda which is not solely politics. I would rather
not speculate much but this particular politician never seems to miss
commenting on almost any issues that may (or may not) related to Islam. Whether
that’s a coincidence or whether that’s what the type of person she is or even
whether that’s what her constituents expected her to say, from the issues like
</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">azan</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> and </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Octoberfest</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, my impression is that she’s that she’s trying to make Muslims
feels ashamed for being what they are. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This can even be seen from her personal attack
on one of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MultiRacialRevertedMuslims?fref=nf"><b>Multiracial Reverted Muslims</b></a> group founder related to the article
posted on <b><a href="http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2015/06/11/muslim-politicians-are-cowards-says-converts-group/">FreeMalaysiaToday</a> </b>where she in the first place tried to give the
impression that the ruling is related to Islam and will probably infringe on
her moral and maybe her own religious sensitivity. Luckily I’m not staying
under her constituency so I will not bother much as long as her intentions are
political.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I guess I should stop talking about this anymore since cheap
politics are not within my listed interest and I would rather go back to read
about Rome. Who knows, maybe someday I can afford to take my wife for a visit
to the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Roma Aeterna</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> the Eternal City, the </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Caput Mundi</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, the Capital of the
World, sitting in front of the Flavian Amphitheatre sipping Lavazza’s </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Crema e
Gusto</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">!</span></div>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-15184915329722062282015-06-11T14:14:00.000+08:002015-07-10T15:28:31.857+08:00Alea Iacta Est (The Die Is Cast)<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Malay language version kindly visit <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/alea-iacta-est-dadu-dilempar.html">this</a> page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Caesar was ordered by the Senate to resign his military
command, which is practically illegal since he’s entitled to command the army
until his proconsular term expired, or face the ultimatum of being declared the
enemy of the people. Due to jealousy of Caesar’s success in his Gallic
campaigns the Senate has thought that this these charges can put stop to Caesar’s
ambition and hoping that he will quietly retire and forgotten by the people as
being called the enemy of the people and the republic is the same as being
called a traitor and liable for any persecutions. The Senate however
miscalculated Caesar commanded respect from the army and has the love of the
people of Rome especially the <i>plebians</i>, if not the aristocrats. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Face with either to quietly fade away from the public or
face persecution from the false accusations of theft, tyranny and illegal
warfare, Caesar has done what is unthinkable. With a single legion, he was said
to utter the famous word and crossed the Rubicon bringing his army into Italy
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alea iacta est.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It certainly feels that </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the
die is cast</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> now regarding the showdown between Tun Mahathir and Prime Minister
Najib and base on my innocent observation the Prime Minister has now perform
the biggest major blunder by proclaiming that Tun Mahathir is the one behind
the ‘crisis’. A blunder that is much bigger than the ‘No Show’ event that
happened last week. Just like Pompey and the Senate has miscalculated, so did
the Prime Minister probably on the wrongly advice of his highly paid advisers
is that Tun, just like Caesar still commands respect and surely the love of
still many people in this country.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The claim that Tun is trying to mislead and maybe trying to
influence the people is simply wrong. The Prime Minister are getting the wrong
type of advisers who may still be thinking in the terms of ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">pemimpin</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’ and ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rakyat</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’
and not ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wakil</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’ and ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">rakyat</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’. The advisers may still be advising base on 20</span><sup style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">th</sup><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">
century political mentality where the ‘</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wakil rakyat</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">’ are voted to be the leader
rather than what it’s supposed to mean which is simply the representative of
the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It’s funny that the very people who understand actually
what the job of ‘<i>wakil rakyat</i>’ happened to be a former one himself. Tun did not
write as he had written to mislead or misguide the people. What he wrote was
simply what the ‘<i>rakya</i>t’ has been asking. It is as simple as that. What we need
is just answers. If we had asked the wrong questions where there are no answers
then at least show us where we are wrong rather than trying to shut down the
only voice where many people from various different race, religion and political
affiliation can find a common cause.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To the Prime Minister, I ask nothing than you to tell the
truth. I know that the money are gone but at least show me where they went to.
Show me where the photos of the power plants that the money was suppose to have
bought. Tell me how those power plants are supposed to help me and my fellow
Malaysians? How many jobs will the
plants help created for us? Will you ensure that after this to let businesses
to be run by businessmen rather than politicians just like politics be run by
politicians rather than businessman? You can still make your mark in our
history by being the first prime Minister to actually be the leader of the
representatives of the people. If not, may you step aside and resign with
dignity so that a more capable person can replace you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">*To Tun Mahathir, do not relax your efforts, and thoroughly
polish what you have already on the stocks, and - continue to represent me, to
be my voice, to ask my questions as long as you are able to for the style of
your composition, though I had always entertained the highest expectations of
it, has yet surpassed my hopes, and has taken such a hold upon me, or rather
has so fired my imagination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">* <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The above is my reproduction of </i><b>Cicero</b><i>'s Letter to </i><a href="http://www.bartleby.com/9/3/10.html">L. Lucius</a><i> befitting the current scene.</i></span></span></div>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-74602538786786034452015-06-10T17:59:00.000+08:002015-06-12T14:33:02.249+08:00The 10th Of JuneOn the <i>10th of June</i> 1190, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa drowns while crossing the <i>Saleph</i> River in Turkey while leading an army to Jerusalem during the Third Crusade and thrown his army into chaos. While the Crusaders army still have other capable leaders like Richard the Lionheart which have won many battles against Saladin, the have failed to win the war and Jerusalem stays in Muslim hands.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">At 3pm, </span><i style="text-align: left;">10th of June</i><span style="text-align: left;"> 1540, Thomas Cromwell, the Earl of Essex was arrested on the falsely accusation of the crimes of corruption, heresy and treason. He was then sent to imprisonment and later executed at the Tower of London. </span></div>
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The first boat race between the now famous Oxford and Cambridge universities happened on the <i>10th of June</i> 1829 between Hambleden Lock and Henley Bridge on the River Thames. It has then became an annual event starting from 1856, interrupted only during the First and the Second world Wars.</div>
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Thanks to Google, there were a lot of momentous events that happened on this date throughout history whether they are related to politics, warfare and even sporting events. There's so much that have happened on this date that's worth remembering.<br />
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There is however an event which is the most memorable, that is the event on the <i>10th of June </i>2005, the day that I married the most beautiful woman on the planet. It was 10 years ago to this date that I married my wife and it was the day that I don't need Google to remember.<br />
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To my wife, thanks for giving me three (any more coming soon ?) beautiful children. Thanks for being an i<i>bu </i>to Ian, Iris and Iman. Thanks also for being an i<i>bu</i> to Mimie. Last but not least, thanks for being you and besides the regular <i>doa</i> in my prayers, I dedicate this poem to you.<br />
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<i>How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee to the depth and breadth and height</i></div>
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<i>My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight</i></div>
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<i>For the ends of being and ideal grace.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee to the level of every day’s</i></div>
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<i>Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee freely, as men strive for right.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee with the passion put to use</i></div>
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<i>In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith.</i></div>
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<i>I love thee with a love I seemed to lose</i></div>
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<i>With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,</i></div>
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<i>Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,</i></div>
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<i>I shall but love thee better after death.</i></div>
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Happy 10th Anniversary darling, on this day, today the 10th of June 2015 to you, to me and all of us!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h4>
<br />Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-54595118319814105292015-06-09T11:37:00.001+08:002015-07-09T11:00:01.137+08:00Nero Burning Rome<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Malay language version kindly visit this <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/rom-dibakar-nero.html">link</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They said that Nero watched Rome burned from his palace at
Palatine Hill singing and playing the lyre. They even said that Nero himself
sent out men to set fire to the city. Some even blamed the Christians that sets
out to burn Rome. There are those that even said that Nero was not even in Rome
when the disaster happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Whatever surviving historical accounts that we have today with
regards to the Great Fire of Rome in 64AD came only from secondary sources through
the writings of Cassius Dio, Seutonius and Tacitus. Unfortunately the primary
accounts from contemporary writers like Fabius Rusticus, Cluvius Rufus and
Pliny the Elder no longer survived. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since only the secondary sources survived
and they tends to differ from each other, and even the primary accounts
themselves were said to be contradictory and exaggerated. Modern historians tends to agree with Tacitus
version of the event though in truth, while we do know that the fire incident
did happened, we may never truly know how and who caused that event to happen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We also do know that during the flood crisis in Kelantan late
last year, our Prime Minister was away playing golf with Obama. We also know
that when Sabah was hit by an earthquake a few days ago, our Prime Minister was
seen in Saudi Arabia a few days later. Those two things we do know and they
have been reported all over the news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What we may never know unless we are in the loop are the
reasons. Maybe it was a coincidence that the Prime Minister left the country
right after the much talk about Nothing 2Hide/Everything2Hide incidents? Maybe
the prime Minister unfortunately has booked with AirAsia with its No
Cancellation Policy which made him not able to cancel these engagements when
disaster struck the country? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We don’t know the reasons and that unfortunately,
for better or worse leaves room for a lot of speculations. What we only know is
that at the time of national trouble and disaster, our very dear leader is not
here with us to share our grief and to relief our pain. For me, I will let
those political players (and political writers) present to us their version of
these stories while I go on and continue to read and write what I know about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know that not long after the Great Fire of Rome, Nero was
murdered and since he was the last in line of the first Julio-Claudian imperial
dynasty, the imperial throne of Rome was contested by 4 influential generals
(google Year of the Four Emperors) between late 68AD until 69AD when the
victorious Vespasian finally becomes the victor to wear the purple and Rome
finally had peace internally for the next hundred years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h4>
Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-74507208191574449312015-06-04T16:16:00.001+08:002018-11-01T16:12:55.551+08:00Mind Your Language !<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For Malay language version please visit <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/jaga-bahasa-kamu.html">here</a>.</span></span></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"English is a
Germanic language formed by a fusion of Old English and Norse. If you want to
talk about religion or science or law or medicine you must use Latinate words
(from French or Latin) and a smattering of Greek. English is basically a skinny
barely functional body of Germanic (bones, basic organs and muscles) with a
huge overgrowth and brain of Latin and Greek words, more than trebling it in
size. Sort of like a massive genius head crab perched on a hillbilly."</span></span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The quote above is one posted by a user on an internet forum
that I usually frequent and I like that considering that language, as in many
other things in Malaysia has and is being politicized much by almost every
segment of the society.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’s this issue about teaching Science and Mathematics in English
which I believe now has been scrapped and the call to uphold the <i>Bahasa Kebangsaan </i>(which I very much
agree despite ironically I’m posting my blog articles in English). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are people especially from the upper middle class to
the higher class (the <i>haves</i> and the <i>have yachts</i>) who are probably thinking
without saying out loud that we should be better replacing Malay as the
national language to English. They gave us various reasons to support their
claims like most accessible knowledge currently can be found in English. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On the other hand, there are those who have said that
English, while it’s certainly important, is just a tool. Our dependence of the
English language is that we as a society has grown into the end user, rather
that becoming the inventor. We are seeking knowledge, not creating and expanding
them. We can’t say as of now that the people in Japan, Germany and France for
example don’t even bother to make English as their first language since they
are a nation of inventors and people even have to learn their language to
further develop their product.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">While I find nothing wrong with learning Science and
Mathematics in English for schoolchildren, there are two equally possible
scenarios that can happen if that is continued.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">First, the students will be better equip to look up further
information on their own from outside sources (like the internet) and develop
thinking of their own rather than what’s only been though in the classroom. Besides
the knowledge in Mathematics and Science, they can also master English at the
same time (I don’t know whether killing 2 birds with 1 stone applied to this). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Second scenario however, without proper basic in English, the
students may be left behind because they will not know what’s being teach. The
terms use in those subjects maybe alien to them and this will cause them to lose
interest in the subjects since they can’t catch up. This is because they need
to learn and master English first before even learning other subjects in
English.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #141823; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There is nothing wrong whatsoever in learning other language.
In fact I have regretted that I did not properly learn
Arabic and French in school while I had the chance (Arabic is compulsory while
French is optional). In fact, the earlier Muslim thinkers actually learn Greeks
and Latin too to collect earlier knowledge before translating them to Arabic
and then expanding upon the knowledge, creating new stuff with them which
contributed to what is known as the Islamic Golden Age when non-Muslim Europe
at that time were living in the so called the Dark Ages. </span><span style="background: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">In the ninth century, the library of the
monastery of St. Gall was the largest in Europe. It boasted 36 volumes. At the
same time, Cordoba’s library contained over 500,000</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During the renaissance the
Europeans use all the discoveries to kick start their scientific revolution
which leads to the Enlightenment and subsequently to this modern age. They have
rediscovered their Graeco-Roman roots via what was saved actually by the Islamic
thinkers and even translated Arabic text to their own language. So like the
Arabs (including Persians and many other Muslims at that time) and the
Europeans, we should not be shy to learn other languages.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">However we should not
forgets our own language. We should not however content to being the end user.
Once we become an inventor, others will come and learn our own. After all,
Malay is not a ‘small’ language. It’s a language (including all the dialects)
being spoken by more than 150 million people. However, to become inventor we
should all learn a new language, a language that can send humans to the moon
and outer space.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">We should all learn </span><a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/whats-best-programming-language-learn-2015/" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Java</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> ! </span></span></div>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-33401980868300121072015-06-02T17:28:00.001+08:002015-07-03T16:00:56.165+08:00Look East Policy<h3 style="background: white; line-height: 16.8pt; margin-bottom: 1.2pt; margin-left: 1.2pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">For Malay language version please visit this <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/dasar-pandang-ke-timur.html">link</a>.</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nakanu nara, koroshite shimae, hototogisu</span></i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.8pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.8pt;">(If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.)</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nakanu nara, nakasete miyou, hototogisu</span></i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.8pt;">(If the cuckoo does not sing, coax it.)</span></div>
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<i style="line-height: 16.8pt;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Nakanu nara, naku made matou, hototogisu</span></i><span style="color: #252525; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16.8pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16.8pt;">(If the cuckoo does not sing, wait for it.)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The <i>senry </i>(Japanese form
of short poetry) above are best described the important characters that
contributed the most for Japan’s unification post <i>Sengoku Jidai </i>or Japan’s medieval age civil war where the first
line is attributed to Oda Nobunaga, the second to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the
final to Tokugawa Ieyasu who later on form the Shogunate that lasted for few
centuries until the modernization of Japan. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The poetry describes the characters
for their traits where Oda is known for his ruthlessness in the first verse,
Toyotomi for his resourcefulness in the second verse and finally Tokugawa for
his perseverance and patience in the final verse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Sengoku period happened from 1467 until 1603 before
Japan is finally united after the previous Ashikaga Shogunate lost power and
control over Japan and warlords pop up all over using war and diplomacy to
become the next Shogun (which meant supreme military leader). Even though the
Emperor is the highest authority in theory, he basically just governed issues
related to custom and ceremonies while the temporal power were in the hands of
the Shogun and other military commanders (sounds familiar?). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The war basically goes on for the next one and
a half century before Japan was finally united by the three characters above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The interesting thing to note is that Oda was a ruthless
general he almost successfully capable to unify all of Japan if he was not assassinated
by one of his closest companion through treachery. It’s very interesting also
to learn that his companion was actually coaxed by his another companion, the
one who eventually succeed him to do the traitorous deeds. So, to cut thing
short, Oda is killed by his friend who upon instigation from Hideyoshi, seek
out to assassinate him for some made up reasons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">(Do you
think this sounds contemporaneously similar?).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hideyoshi through diplomacy (and some said intimidation too)
manage to make all other warlords make peace with him and support him for the
invasion of Korea. Even though he can be consider the supreme military
commander at that time, he was not eligible to become a Shogun since we was
originally from the peasant stock and not the ancient </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">samurai</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> lineage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Finally, after he died and nominated his heir to succeed
him the power eventually fell upon one of heir’s guardian. Tokugawa was
believed to have already planned the ambition to become the Shogun and rather
than take power by force but wait until the opportune moment. He initiated a scenario where the final civil
wars were forced upon him starting with the <i>Sekigahara</i> campaign and ended with
the Siege of Osaka where all his opponents are obliterated or forced to submit
to his sole power.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">With the end of the civil war period, he can now petition
the Emperor to grant him and his descendants the Shogunate office which had
ruled Japan until 1868.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When Tun Mahathir announced the ‘Look East Policy’ in 1982 I
was too young to remember what it’s all about so maybe I’m looking from a
different angle and my interest in Japan was not economics but more about
history. I’m still looking at this when
Mahathir retired and was replaced first by <span style="color: #252525; line-height: 115%;">Oda Nobunaga (I mean Tun Abdullah) and later by Toyotomi
Hideyoshi (current Prime Minister Najib Razak).<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">I
am wondering who will become Tokugawa Ieyasu? Who have the perseverance and
patience to wait. Easiest bet will be Tan Sri Muhyiddin of course as a natural
successor since he’s the current Deputy Prime Minister but then Tun Mahathir
himself was served by 4 different deputies so there’s no guarantee that Muhyiddin
will survive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There’s
also the high equally possibilities that the BN will fail to win the next
general election. If that happen then I will then tell the end of the Shogunate
days.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #252525; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Until
then, just let the cuckoo sings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h4>
Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-77125009459405274262015-05-28T17:47:00.001+08:002018-11-02T12:17:41.396+08:00The Year Of Living Dangerously<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For Malay language version please visit <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/07/zaman-yang-penuh-pancaroba.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<i>"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." </i></div>
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~ Marcus Aurelius</div>
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I was introduced to Marcus Aurelius actually from the movie Gladiator (featuring Russell Crowe) who as portrayed in the movie, a Roman emperor who while doing what most of Roman emperors did at those time such as killing and conquering the Parthians, the Marcomanni, Quadi, and Sarmatians among others, also have time to write down his <i>Mediation </i>which according to wikipedia, a <i>revered as a literary monument to a philosophy of service and duty, describing how to find and preserve equanimity in the midst of conflict by following nature as a source of guidance and inspiration.</i></div>
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I wont write more about him but more about the particular quote. Today, we are indeed living in dangerous years. Not the danger of being at war whatsoever (though there are people indeed at war on some other parts of the planet but if you're able to read this blog then there is a high chances you are not at war), but the danger of having too much information easily at the tip of our finger. The danger of thinking that we can know everything just because some people somewhere posted something that we think we want and need to know. We think that knowledge is easier to find since we can seek them from the comfort of our home (or from our office), as long as we have a computer, or a phone or whichever devices that we can connect to the internet.</div>
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We no longer have to cross the seven seas or to climb the seven hills to seek knowledge as knowledge is easy to come by. It came even without us seeking them, from various media that are being shared by our friends and acquaintances. We can read what has been written either yesterday or even thousand years ago without even waking up from our bed.</div>
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Therein lies the danger. While it seems easy to seek knowledge, we may not learn wisdom through them. In the easiness, because in this internet age we all think we will know everything. Since we all think that we know everything with the knowledge, we no longer continue to find wisdom. We trust everything said by someone just because we no longer feel the need to learn about other opinions that may be contradictory with what we want to hear. Just because some news site posted something that we 'want' to read, we do not feel the need to verify the news even further. Just because some information is shared by someone we know from Facebook or Twitter, we easily believe that the information is true.</div>
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Finally, as Marcus Aurelius wrote nearly 2000 years ago, we easily believe something as a fact, when it's just an opinion and more dangerously we believe everything we see as the truth when it's just a perspective. It's no wonder an American President, from the country that gives birth to the internet have already warned us of the danger.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">Oh yes, before I forget. Marcus Aurelius in the movie Gladiator was portrayed as an ideal Roman emperor who intends to give power back to the Roman senate and make Rome a republic again rather than be rule by emperors when the historical Marcus Aurelius actually nominate his son Commodus as heir rather than adopt a really capable general to succeed as 5 other successful emperor before him (google Five Good Emperors for details). I may write about that some times in the future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h4>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-10669187409757738992015-05-26T16:37:00.000+08:002015-06-30T12:10:12.695+08:00A Dictator In Need<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For Malay language version please click <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/06/diktator-diperlukan.html">here</a></span>.<br />
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I have to confess that when I first hear the word 'dictator'
the only information and images that I received is that it is something bad.
Images of Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Saddam and Gaddafi among others are
those that entered my mind when hearing the word. The word portrays the image
of a ruler with total power over a country and typically one who has obtained
power by force, synonymous with autocrat, despot, tyrant, oppressor and all the
negative ways and method of how to rule a country, for the citizen at least.</div>
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Closer to home, we've heard that the late Lee Kwan Yew was
called a dictator too and to certain extend our own Tun Mahathir during his stewardship
of the country. </div>
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I was introduced to the origin of the word actually from
playing computer games. Rome Total War (developed by Creative Assembly and
originally published by Activision) is one of the game that sparked my interest
in wanting to know more about ancient history especially during Roman
republican era that introduce me to dictators like Sulla and the most famous
Roman (which I'm sure everyone has heard of) Julius Caesar and have learned
that the office of Dictator itself is nominated by the Roman senate in
emergency situation.</div>
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By law, the Roman republic was ruled by two consuls elected
each year with each consul holding <i>imperium</i> (a Latin word meaning 'power to
command') the armies of the Republic in alternate months. In the event of
extreme emergencies, like the consuls themselves are not capable of being good
military commanders and in many cases, the consuls themselves were killed in
battle then the senate will pass a <i>senatus consultum</i> (decree of the senate) for
existing or newly appointed consul to nominate a dictator which holds great
extraordinary power. The office of dictator itself is originally set for 6
months and only renewed should the need arise.</div>
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Among the famous dictators of ancient Rome was Quintus
Fabius Maximus who was appointed dictator after two consular armies were
defeated by Hannibal during his invasion of Italy and even after his term has
ended he was again consulted after Hannibal again defeated even bigger Roman
consular armies at the famous Battle of Cannae.</div>
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The other famous Roman dictator was Lucius Quinctius
Cincinnatus who was made dictator twice and was regarded as a model of Roman
virtue and simplicity. What's interesting fact about Cincinatus is that he hold
the most supreme power the first time for only two weeks, where he resign from
his office right after he completed his tasks of defeating the enemies of Rome.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>His immediate resignation of his near-absolute authority
with the end of the crisis has often been cited as an example of outstanding
leadership, service to the greater good, civic virtue, lack of personal
ambition and modesty </i></span>~ <span style="font-size: x-small;">Wikipedia</span></div>
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Cincinnatus was also nominated the second time even as he
already retired and working on his farm to put down conspiracy and rebellion in
Rome and like the first time, he resign immediately after the crisis has ended.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Within his lifetime Cincinnatus became a legend to the
Romans. Twice granted supreme power, he held onto it for not a day longer than
absolutely necessary. The high esteem in which he was held by his compatriots
is illustrated with an anecdote from the end of his life: one of his sons was
tried for military incompetence. The great Capitolinus defended him by asking
the jury who would go to tell the aged Cincinnatus the news in the event of a
conviction. The son was acquitted because the jury could not bring itself to
break the old man's heart.</i> ~ Wikipedia</span></div>
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The more I read about the deeds of these ancient dictators,
the more I can't help to have these feeling that a dictator is what Malaysia
needs at this time. With all the issues surrounding the government regarding
the 1MDB, the mistrust in the Prime Minister, the internal squabbles with the
Opposition pact it seems to me that a strong, capable leader who '<i>been there,
done that, got the t-shirt' to prove it</i>' who can come and lead us out of these
mess and then resign when these crisis is over.</div>
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No, I'm not advocating a rebellion or revolution whatsoever
(so don't change me under Sedition Act) and only suggesting that what may be
possible. What if Tun Mahathir or even Tun Abdullah can again be the president
of UMNO and chairman for BN as a temporary measure? These two statesmen have known
how to rule and also to let go of the rule.</div>
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I'm sure if these two of our former statesmen can come again
to save the nation in these times of trouble, 50 years from now our next
generations don't have to go back to more than 2000 years ago to learn that the
word dictator does not always mean a bad word.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h4>
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Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-1708808778716816552015-05-25T15:38:00.000+08:002015-06-29T11:09:40.444+08:00The Barbarians Are Coming !<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.3899993896484px;">For Malay language version please click </span><a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/06/orang-gasar-akan-tiba.html"><span style="color: #7c93a1; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 22.3899993896484px;">h</span></span>ere</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>“Discover how to visit the past and bring yesterday's stories into our lives today”</i></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> ~ </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gillian Hovell.</span></span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The late classical antiquity, the Dark Ages, dawn of medieval age,
the migration period and many other names given by both historians and
non-historians were a period containing series of events that eventually lead
to the collapse and fall of a political entity known as the Western Roman
Empire which were the provinces of the Roman Empire administered by the western
court base on</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Mediolanum</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(modern day Milan) and later</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ravenna</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, while the city of Rome
maintains at the spiritual capital of the whole empire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Series of invasions by the barbarian
tribes from the north and the east was not the sole reason for the collapse of
the empire but they were also helped by the instability and the dependence of
the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">foederatis<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(non-Roman soldiers) to guard the
borders while the famed legions of the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Caesars</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the earlier</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Principate<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">were no longer the backbone on the
military structure. The legions themselves, rather than swearing loyalty to
Rome, transferred their loyalty to those generals who paid them more, a repeat
of events few centuries earlier that brought down the Roman republic. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Obviously there are many theories
regarding the reason why large group of people (we're not talking about few
families, but whole tribes) migrating, including climate change, seeking better
lands, running from other invaders and various reasons, but whether the reasons
were political or economic, both were towards the same goal, which is to
continue living. The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Angles</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saxons</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, among other migrated
and invaded Roman Britain, driving away both the Romans and native</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Celtic</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">people away and eventually became the
English left the native lands in Germania from more vicious people from the
east. The Franks move towards what is now central Western Europe while the</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Lombards</i><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">moved south towards Italy and
eventually replaced the Romans and the Italic people after the fall of Rome.
The</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">barbarians<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">facing death and annihilation did
only what they know at that time, which is to move to other place and cause the
death and an almost annihilation of the native people already living there and
unfortunately for those people there are no other places to go except the
Atlantic ocean.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">"<i>What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.</i>" ~ Isabel Wilkerson </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Closer to our shores in this modern time we are reading and
viewing the news regarding a new events of migration, which is the Rohingya
people who fled Myanmar and also from Bangladesh. I will not get into the
details of the reasons and there could be various reasons depending on one
point of view but just like the ancient time people are running to find a
better life either when facing persecutions or for economic reasons. While this
kind of events are not something new as Malaysia has already seen the coming of
boat people from Vietnam and the Cambodia in the past, these new events
unfortunately brought out some ugly side of the people and we can see many
comments of the internet about how the government should not accept these
people with questions about 'who's going to feed them?', 'we don't need any
more crimes from these people', 'this will be new project IC' and so on, even
those that boldly shouted that these people should just be left to die in the
seas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There are also sane arguments that
humanity should supersede any political, even emotional or economical reason in
urging those in power to help these people as they are the right thing to do,
even if the time is not right. Of course some people not just talk the talk but
walk the talk to by actually doing something to help these people while some
vocal people at the beginning are now being seen as shutting their mouth
because it is now seem that helping the Rohingyas is not the correct thing to
do by their own political supporters. In the period of political instability in
our country, the government seems to be indecisive in their actions, with some
quarters wants to help while some quarters are still looking for solutions
while those who are trying to seek refuge are dying day by day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Even without the Rohingyas, we already
have a lot of immigrants to this country and the funny thing is that some of
those who are against these refugees are descendants of those immigrants
themselves, either to escape persecution of their native land or simply just
for economic reasons. It's really funny when hearing this kind of people talk
about how they themselves are ready to migrate if they feel that this country
is no longer stable and can no longer provide security for them or their
wealth. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It is interesting to finally hear that the
Turkish government has pledge to help these people and provide the humanitarian
aid and it took a nation formed of descendants of one of the great migration
people itself to show what country like Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia their
lack of moral courage to do what's right and putting political and economical
reasons above humanity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>"We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are." </i>~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</b></span>Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-61535007147065050142015-05-21T17:00:00.001+08:002015-06-26T15:11:25.162+08:00Oration Against Mark Antony<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #000020; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">For Malay language version please go <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/06/pidato-terhadap-mark-antony.html">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"<i>Consider, I beg you, Marcus Antonius, do some time or other consider the republic: think of the family of which you are born, not of the men with whom you are living. Be reconciled to the republic. However, do you decide on your conduct. As to mine, I myself will declare what that shall be. I defended the republic as a young man; I will not abandon it now that I am old. I scorned the sword of Catiline; I will not quail before yours. No; I will rather cheerfully expose my own person, if the liberty of the city can be restored by my death.</i>"</span> ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #9c9c63; font-size: small;">(106 B.C.–43 B.C.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well... That's not a photo of Marcus Tullius Cicero, who according to <i>wikipedia</i> was a Roman philosopher, politician, lawyer, orator, political theorist, consul and constitutionalist who came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Above is a photo of Tun Mahathir Mohammad who, again according to </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">wikipedia</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and had held the post for 22 years from 1981 to 2003, making him Malaysia's longest-serving Prime Minister whose political career spanned almost 40 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So what does Cicero got to do with Mahathir ? Well, both were respected statesman and great orator of their times and both have held the highest political office of their country and more importantly never stop to criticized those who are holding the office after them. I will not write more about Cicero since anyone who's interested in him can simply google all the information about him which I will assure you is interesting enough (to me) since he had lived throughout the final days of the Roman republic, witnessing and participating in civil wars until he finally was ordered to be killed by Marcus Antonius, to whom his final oration was directed to.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the Romans were engaged in bloody civil war back then between the Triumvirs and the Liberators, the Malaysians today were also engaged in bloodless civil war, divided by politics if not by political parties. For the sides of independents and neutrals like me, the most interesting thing happening is around the attack by Mahathir towards the current Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">These attacks can be found at Mahathir's blog : http://chedet.cc/</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The attacks were mostly related to the 1MDB issue which may (or may not - only time well tell) the fall of not just Najib, but will also destroy the ruling coalition who have been ruling the country since independence. The most interesting thing is that Mahathir have been receiving support not just from the pro opposition supporters (for obvious reason) but also from those who consider themselves pro government supporters. While many people hated him because he was thought to be an ultra Malay nationalist, the support he received was from various segment of Malaysians, regardless of races especially those who have grown up during his reign.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">It will be interesting to see how these attacks will go on as the main call from Mahathir is that for Najib to resign. Just like Cicero, Mahathir is already in his old age after serving the country though if you read more about Cicero and the Triumvirate you will find that Cicero was ordered to be killed during the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.84px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Proscription.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.84px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will end my rambling today with some rearrangement of Cicero's speech.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-size: x-small;">"</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-size: small;">Consider, I beg you, Najib Razak, do some time or other consider the nation: think not of the family of which you are born, but of the men with whom you are living. Be reconciled to the nation. However, do you decide on your conduct. As to mine, I myself will declare what that shall be. I defended the country as a young man; I will not abandon it now that I am old. I scorned the sword of Anwar*; I will not quail before yours. No; I will rather cheerfully expose my own person, if the liberty of the city can be restored by my death.</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #000020; font-size: x-small;">" ~ Tun Mahathir Mohammad.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #000020;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">* Anwar Ibrahim</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Full English translated text of Cicero's Oration Against Mark Antony can be fount at :</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.bartleby.com/268/2/14.html</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">http://www.bartleby.com/268/2/15.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclaimer : All images are for illustration purposes only and this blog author does not claim any copyright to the published images and he only copied the images already publicly available on the internet (unless stated). The blog author also wishes to state that his opinion posted on this blog are his alone and not paid by any political parties.</span></h3>
Adamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11908587153032543537noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2108586791240479158.post-21516733314067556852015-05-20T16:06:00.000+08:002015-06-25T12:19:26.475+08:00The Keyboard Warrior<div class="def-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.39px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: red;"></span>For Malay language version please click <a href="http://pahlawan0papankekunci.blogspot.com/2015/06/pahlawan-papan-kekunci.html">here</a>.</span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="color: #2c353c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 22.39px;">1. </span><i style="color: #2c353c; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 22.39px;">A Person who, being unable to express his anger through physical violence (owning to their physical weakness, lack of bravery and/or conviction in real life), instead manifests said emotions through the text-based medium of the internet, usually in the form of aggressive writing that the Keyboard Warrior would not (for reasons previously mentioned) be able to give form to in real life. </i><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;">2. <i>The term is a combination of the word 'keyboard' (the main tool by which the person expresses his/her latent rage) and 'warrior' (due to the warrior-like aggression, tendency towards violence, headstrong nature and propensity towards brute force as a means of resolving conflict rather than more subtle means dependent on finesse).</i></span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;"><i> </i></span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;">3. </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;">The Keyboard Warrior seeks to use the power imbued in his 'weapon' to effect death and destruction (in a strictly-metaphorical sense) upon his foes (other virtual identities he has encountered on the internet). In essence, the keyboard (ie. text input ability) allows the keyboard warrior to manifest his true warrior nature in a safe and removed environment, from which no real-life repercussions . </i></h4>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;">4. </span><i style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif; font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 22.39px;">Keyboard Warriors are generally identified by unnecessary rage in their written communications, and are regarded as 'losers' by other virtual identities on the internet.</i></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.39px;">Since both sword and pen are stabbing weapons, maybe the new phrase for the new generation should be '</span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.39px;">the keyboard is mightier than the hammer</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22.39px;">' since both are blunt weapons and can be crush your opponents so when you bang the keyboard to these kids head then maybe they will understand.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c353c; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22.39px;">Now.. What am I'm saying ? No, I don't actually advocate violence even though I will (always without fail) to play violent computer games whenever I have free time. I enjoyed killing all these tiny pixel soldiers, whether they're lowly <i>ashigarus</i> in Total War Shogun 2 or they're the elite <i>Praetorian</i> cohorts in Total War Rome II. No, I don't like to kill cartoony pixels in DOTA2 or TF2 and I'll leave those killings to kids so that they can fulfill their nerdy rages. My pixel killing spree must have more class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Okay, probably by now you will ask, '<i>What is the point of this blog </i>?' I will have to disappoint you by saying that there is actually no point at all. Just a boring rambling on my free time and since my wife asked me to start blogging (<i>she thinks blogging can make money - really ?</i>) and because I think maybe it's fun. I'm not much a blog reader myself so I don't expect that anyone else to read my blog but maybe if this site (and the world) still exist in 200 years, then my future great-great-great-grand children can maybe have insight of the thoughts and the minds of what their 21st century ancestor view of himself, the world around him and how those help shaped how he is, how he was and how he is going to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, welcome and be entertained !</span></div>
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