Megaprojects are:

Underestimated costs + Overestimated revenues + Undervalued environmental impacts + Overvalued economic developmental effects = Project approval

Something from an old college paper of mine. The authors of the work I cited were certainly sardonic with this statement. But that's a sadly (un)reasonable formula that seems to work all the time.

ISA Candlelight Vigil @ DAP Subang Jaya

The Wedding

Our lecturer got married to her husband. Haha. I love being redundant. Kay, here goes:

I'm a little lazy. You can check out the rest here. Because I know you're not as lazy as me. :P

By Candlelight

A candlelight vigil in support of Teresa Kok and other ISA detainees at DAP Subang Jaya.
Video coming soon.

I was more of an observer than participant. But...what's that word? Yes, solidarity was there.

Reminding myself...

Have work to do; reading, exercise, prayer.

To develop more patience; self-control.

Lucifer isn't Satan's real name*. But it does sound cool.

Talk to my brothers more often.

Learn more skills. Have been focussing a little too much on history and uh...geography, to crudely simplify it. But they're phases, I suppose.

I notice that this is a transition period for myself. Will have to work hard and be vigilant, identify my competitive advantage(s). Network.
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*A long semantic/literary/theological/historical story behind this. Wikipedia is a good starting point.

Hmm... - Part 2

Our Home Minister outdoes our former Information Minister with that and of course, this truly well thought out statement:

Asked on the detention of Selangor senior executive councillor Teresa Kok, Syed Hamid said she was arrested due to her comments on mosques and the Azan recently.

”Her comments have created public disorder and problems,” he said.

Oh, oh. Once again some people are unable to see the planks in their own eyes (c.f. Ahmad Ismail et. al.)

Hmm...

All I can say is, detaining a politician who won with the biggest majority in the entire elections isn't the wisest of ideas.

Brain Drain - A Matter of Perspective

While we Malaysians complain about brain drain of our finest students to countries like the U.S. (and even say we deserve to be compensated for it, says Dr. Mahathir "Bumiputera empowerment at the expense of others" Muhammad), some people in United States are complaining about the brain drain of their finest to Europe.

One commentator blamed it on the US' poor education system. Ah, perspective.

Only in Thailand.

And so the current Thai administration, and its Prime Minister falls (for now) not because of some protesters calling for "democracy", but because of a cooking show.

The usual.

Have resumed work at a local state assemblymen's office. Same old things to do, but you learn new things while you're at it. Probably the environment that I enjoy.

Am practicing sentence forming. Forming the most aesthetically pleasing ones, mind you. Right now I'm still trying to figure out how Ondaatje did it with "The English Patient". Then I'll move on to studying Coetzee (Cormac McCarthy is KIV). You never learn unless you start copying. I remember how in art class my teacher made me copy pictures again and again. I never got around to drawing my own. Heh.

Training for Kinabalu is on schedule. I found myself fatiguing faster today. Pitiful stamina, pitiful. :(