Hail Obama the new President of America.
many rejoice on the streets of America. Never had the people out of America been so joyous with the choice of the new US president as well.
Many political leaders from all over world like Japan, China, India,Thailand, Indonesia all voiced their delight at Obama's appointment. Most expressed their delight at the prospect of better relational ties with the US.
Indeed, Obama represent a positive change in relationship between US and other nations.
A charismatic leader indeed.
last week Lewis Hamilton created history by becoming the first ever black champion in the history of F1 racing.
this week obama made it one step better by becoming the first ever black president of US.
45 years ago, Martin Luther King had a dream.
Today, Barack Obama made that dream comes true.
Today, they have a nation where the young and old, men and women, would be judge on the content of their character, but not on the colour of their skin.
Today, they have a country of true liberty.
While many americans cheer for the newly elected president, in the eastern hemisphere of the globe, are countries like Singapore and Malaysia ready for such liberalism?
Not now...
but maybe one day.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
recently, i was reading a newspaper article, it was quite interesting...
MR David Silfrey, an expert on blogs and changes in the digital media environment,commented that while blogs continue to be a personal diary of sorts for many, there is a growing minority in Asia who specialise in areas like technology, music, politics or art, to atrract readership.
totally agreed.
as a result of this phenonmenon, bloggers become brands.
people start knowing them and over time, and over time, forming an intangible sense of loyalty.
At the same time, he noted that while Asians were less likely to blog about politics, largely due to the culture, Asians leads in the usage of mobile techonlogy as more Asians are using advanced Internet-connected mobile phones...
however, at the same time, with the proliferation of blogosphere and online communication tools, concerns over online mischief also arise.
MR David Silfrey, an expert on blogs and changes in the digital media environment,commented that while blogs continue to be a personal diary of sorts for many, there is a growing minority in Asia who specialise in areas like technology, music, politics or art, to atrract readership.
totally agreed.
as a result of this phenonmenon, bloggers become brands.
people start knowing them and over time, and over time, forming an intangible sense of loyalty.
At the same time, he noted that while Asians were less likely to blog about politics, largely due to the culture, Asians leads in the usage of mobile techonlogy as more Asians are using advanced Internet-connected mobile phones...
however, at the same time, with the proliferation of blogosphere and online communication tools, concerns over online mischief also arise.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Few days back, i was talking to my online teammate from an interactive online game Utopia, and we were just having some casual chat until we started talking about our nationalities...
He's a malaysian. Knowing im a singaporean, he was pretty surprised i knew quite a lot about malaysian politics and started sharing with me about the people are frustrated over there and how envious they are of their friends and relatives living in singapore. He was comparing between the lives of minority groups between sg and msia; that the minority groups in singapore do not face the same problems like the minority groups in msia faced.
He mentioned there were never equality and so on and so forth, then he told me of a famous video that was uploaded by a malaysian rapper, which he claimed was pretty accurate in relaying how the minority groups in msia feels...
as according to him, it's a bit crude, but accurate. And the rapper subsequently got into trouble with the law after the video was uploaded as well..
Well.. of course i suppose so, who can get awat with that? but right here you see people using creativity to express their inner voice..
lol... creative people just utilize creative mediums as a mean of expression.
He's a malaysian. Knowing im a singaporean, he was pretty surprised i knew quite a lot about malaysian politics and started sharing with me about the people are frustrated over there and how envious they are of their friends and relatives living in singapore. He was comparing between the lives of minority groups between sg and msia; that the minority groups in singapore do not face the same problems like the minority groups in msia faced.
He mentioned there were never equality and so on and so forth, then he told me of a famous video that was uploaded by a malaysian rapper, which he claimed was pretty accurate in relaying how the minority groups in msia feels...
as according to him, it's a bit crude, but accurate. And the rapper subsequently got into trouble with the law after the video was uploaded as well..
Well.. of course i suppose so, who can get awat with that? but right here you see people using creativity to express their inner voice..
lol... creative people just utilize creative mediums as a mean of expression.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Neuro Linguistic Programming
hm.. the malayian politics are getting so draggy that i shall now start blogging sumthing which interests me and tele with my blog title.
and that is prolly time for me to start blogging about neuro linguistic programming, NLP.
NLP is founded by Richard Brandler and John Grinder in 70's, it is a series of procedures developed to help people make positive and desired changes in their lives.
Iwas introduced to NLP during my time i was doing coaching. And it's something that interests me and something that i don't get bored of.
The NLP concept works on how the brain works. There is the concious mind and the sub-concious mind, and while many of us focus on the learnings from our concious mind, we neglected the impact of how much our sub-concious mind can do for us. If you do an extensive research, you will find that 95% of our mental processing goes thru our sub consious mind instead
And this is where NLP taps on our untapped power.
first of all, NLP makes a number of presuppositions. Presuppositions or assumptions are the beliefs a person will find useful in effecting changes to themselves and/or to the world.
i'll state the more important presuppositions;
1. If someone can do something, anyone can do it.
2. Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
3. People already have all the resources they need to overcome their challenges.
4. The map is not the territory.
5. You cannot fail to communicate.
6. There is no failure, there is only feedback
actually there are a couple more presuppositions, go do a google and you'll be able to find out more. I personally like the last presupposition the most "there is no failure but only feedback"
Most times alot of us are focusing too much on the negative feelings being associated with non-success and then naturally neglect the valuable learning aspects that comes along with it.
hm... that's a start from me right now... more to come once im done with my mid term exams.
man... working and studying at the same time aint easy!
but guess what, i have enough resources to deal with that.
and that is prolly time for me to start blogging about neuro linguistic programming, NLP.
NLP is founded by Richard Brandler and John Grinder in 70's, it is a series of procedures developed to help people make positive and desired changes in their lives.
Iwas introduced to NLP during my time i was doing coaching. And it's something that interests me and something that i don't get bored of.
The NLP concept works on how the brain works. There is the concious mind and the sub-concious mind, and while many of us focus on the learnings from our concious mind, we neglected the impact of how much our sub-concious mind can do for us. If you do an extensive research, you will find that 95% of our mental processing goes thru our sub consious mind instead
And this is where NLP taps on our untapped power.
first of all, NLP makes a number of presuppositions. Presuppositions or assumptions are the beliefs a person will find useful in effecting changes to themselves and/or to the world.
i'll state the more important presuppositions;
1. If someone can do something, anyone can do it.
2. Behind every behavior is a positive intention.
3. People already have all the resources they need to overcome their challenges.
4. The map is not the territory.
5. You cannot fail to communicate.
6. There is no failure, there is only feedback
actually there are a couple more presuppositions, go do a google and you'll be able to find out more. I personally like the last presupposition the most "there is no failure but only feedback"
Most times alot of us are focusing too much on the negative feelings being associated with non-success and then naturally neglect the valuable learning aspects that comes along with it.
hm... that's a start from me right now... more to come once im done with my mid term exams.
man... working and studying at the same time aint easy!
but guess what, i have enough resources to deal with that.
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Msia Law Minister quits
Malaysia's law minister Zaid Ibrahim had decided to quit his post and resign from UMNO, after being infuriated by the series of ISA arrests. In fact, he is contemplating on joining the opposition forces PKR, led by Anwar.
Cool. cant wait to see 30 lawmakers making the switch from UMNO to PKR.
Seriously, i'm not biased against UMNO, but i do think their policies are flawed, still very much in the old-fashioned mould and narrow-minded.
their elements of the New Ecnomic Policy are still ongoing, and till the day they removed it they will always be facing the problem of mis-allocation of resources.
to sum it up, lets just look what their resigning law minister said regarding his failed attempts to reform;
"i admit i have failed, the whole time i have faced opposition within my own party, and colleagues saying that i dont protect my own race. it is as if i am less of a Malay ... by suggesting these ransformations."
in our lingo, he is "fed-up".
poor guy. he should have switched long ago.
they said Singaporeans are "Kiasu"... but i think they are people out there who are worse than us.
Cool. cant wait to see 30 lawmakers making the switch from UMNO to PKR.
Seriously, i'm not biased against UMNO, but i do think their policies are flawed, still very much in the old-fashioned mould and narrow-minded.
their elements of the New Ecnomic Policy are still ongoing, and till the day they removed it they will always be facing the problem of mis-allocation of resources.
to sum it up, lets just look what their resigning law minister said regarding his failed attempts to reform;
"i admit i have failed, the whole time i have faced opposition within my own party, and colleagues saying that i dont protect my own race. it is as if i am less of a Malay ... by suggesting these ransformations."
in our lingo, he is "fed-up".
poor guy. he should have switched long ago.
they said Singaporeans are "Kiasu"... but i think they are people out there who are worse than us.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Reporter, Blogger arrested under Internal Security Act
Reporter Tan Hoon Cheng, wrote about the incident of UMNO's MP Datuk Ahmad Ismail's racial remark about chinese being squatters and immigrants to malaysia. She was hence considered a threat to security, peace and public order under ISA of Malaysia.
Isnt a reporter's job to report? interesting.
Arrested.
Raja Petra, a malaysian blogger was arrested for allegedly being a threat to security, peace and public order after a blogging and linking Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib to the death of the slained Monoglian translater..
Arrested.
DAP’s Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, 43, is believed to have been picked up in connection with a residents petition in Puchong over a mosque.
Deem as threat too. Arrested.
What about UMNO's own DatukAhmad Ismail? Made racial sensitive remarks in public, stirred up emotions of both malays and chinese. Urged by UMNO to apologise but refused, open another press conference to stir up even more emotions.
What's his consequences and conclusion?
heavy i suppose?
suspended from politics for 3 months. they will welcome him back with open arms after which.
no threat to security and public order. no arrests.
BOLEH Freedom Justice and Equality!
=)
for full report read;
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080913/tbs-malaysia-politics-0fe1d6e.html
Isnt a reporter's job to report? interesting.
Arrested.
Raja Petra, a malaysian blogger was arrested for allegedly being a threat to security, peace and public order after a blogging and linking Malaysia Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib to the death of the slained Monoglian translater..
Arrested.
DAP’s Seputeh MP Teresa Kok, 43, is believed to have been picked up in connection with a residents petition in Puchong over a mosque.
Deem as threat too. Arrested.
What about UMNO's own DatukAhmad Ismail? Made racial sensitive remarks in public, stirred up emotions of both malays and chinese. Urged by UMNO to apologise but refused, open another press conference to stir up even more emotions.
What's his consequences and conclusion?
heavy i suppose?
suspended from politics for 3 months. they will welcome him back with open arms after which.
no threat to security and public order. no arrests.
BOLEH Freedom Justice and Equality!
=)
for full report read;
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080913/tbs-malaysia-politics-0fe1d6e.html
Monday, September 8, 2008
blogging?
hm... for my first post, what should i blog? Maybe some personal thoughts.
now... while everyone is submitting their first post on their blogs for our digital media across asia module "project"... i ask myself a very simple question, what am i doing this for?
the reason why i asked myself this question is simply because i already own a personal blog address which i have been blogging for the past 3 years. At the same time, i don't feel the impetues to submit my personal blog add for this purpose as i felt the objective of the blogging of my personal blog add and the objective of this blog are entirely different. and as such, catering to different audience. (at least that's what i learnt in marketing ;) )
then it leads me to my next question.
why do we blog?
there are various reasons as to why people blog; some people blog to share their daily experiences, companies blog to enhance communication as well as for marketing purposes, and some enthuasist blog to share the best food around.
but primarily, the reasons as to why people blog can primarily be broken down and categorized into two direct and simple reasons.
1. to garner attention. (notice garner sounds more positivie as compared to using the word "gain")
2. to transmit/pass on opinions and ideals.
i recall to the moment when i first started blogging on my personal blog. that was pretty much three and a half years ago. then, i was just out of a relationship with an ex girlfriend of mine and i wrote her a song to express my emotions back then. And then, it was the moment, the moment i thought i need to tell the entire world how i feel.
and yes you guessed it correctly, i found myself at the sign-up page of blogspot.com ;)
oh ya! at this point of time i'm very tempted to name a very popular blogger in our local scene !
xiaxue blogspot.
i like her. ;)
she is one who best epitomizes our first reason for blogging! isn't it?
hey dun get me wrong hehz, i like her alright!
company blogs, food blogs, media blogs and maybe even politics blogs... how about them? yea, they would be the happiest bloggers on earth if you think what they think and believe what they believe. (hey isnt that what i'm exactly doing to you right now!?)
Mr brown, rockson blogspot. rings a bell? another 2 famous local bloggers.
rockson's humour, crude but rockx.
At this point of time, however, if you are now fully convinced that these are the two primary reasons as to why people blog...
you are wrong.
there's actually a third reason.
but i shan't tell you what it is.
only people in my digital media class will know about it...
and because of it, we are all now working real hard, blogging to you... ;)
with luv, rance.
;)))
now... while everyone is submitting their first post on their blogs for our digital media across asia module "project"... i ask myself a very simple question, what am i doing this for?
the reason why i asked myself this question is simply because i already own a personal blog address which i have been blogging for the past 3 years. At the same time, i don't feel the impetues to submit my personal blog add for this purpose as i felt the objective of the blogging of my personal blog add and the objective of this blog are entirely different. and as such, catering to different audience. (at least that's what i learnt in marketing ;) )
then it leads me to my next question.
why do we blog?
there are various reasons as to why people blog; some people blog to share their daily experiences, companies blog to enhance communication as well as for marketing purposes, and some enthuasist blog to share the best food around.
but primarily, the reasons as to why people blog can primarily be broken down and categorized into two direct and simple reasons.
1. to garner attention. (notice garner sounds more positivie as compared to using the word "gain")
2. to transmit/pass on opinions and ideals.
i recall to the moment when i first started blogging on my personal blog. that was pretty much three and a half years ago. then, i was just out of a relationship with an ex girlfriend of mine and i wrote her a song to express my emotions back then. And then, it was the moment, the moment i thought i need to tell the entire world how i feel.
and yes you guessed it correctly, i found myself at the sign-up page of blogspot.com ;)
oh ya! at this point of time i'm very tempted to name a very popular blogger in our local scene !
xiaxue blogspot.
i like her. ;)
she is one who best epitomizes our first reason for blogging! isn't it?
hey dun get me wrong hehz, i like her alright!
company blogs, food blogs, media blogs and maybe even politics blogs... how about them? yea, they would be the happiest bloggers on earth if you think what they think and believe what they believe. (hey isnt that what i'm exactly doing to you right now!?)
Mr brown, rockson blogspot. rings a bell? another 2 famous local bloggers.
rockson's humour, crude but rockx.
At this point of time, however, if you are now fully convinced that these are the two primary reasons as to why people blog...
you are wrong.
there's actually a third reason.
but i shan't tell you what it is.
only people in my digital media class will know about it...
and because of it, we are all now working real hard, blogging to you... ;)
with luv, rance.
;)))
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