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. :(