the fake truth in reality

A mix of old-school ‘nothing but crap’ tabloids, consumer awareness news, mainstream business digest and independent news and commentary.

Rojak of information. Georgetown.

I’ve only just realized that the design of The Edge Financial Daily is remarkably similar to that of UK’s the Guardian. Check the layout, the colours, and the font.

A closer look at still life:

Keypad and Keyboard

Let’s decorate it with this

Chasing trishaws, backwards.

Taken last week when I was supposed to be doing assignments… -.-"
Didn’t have a tripod with me, so it’s handheld. It’s really dark and I was shooting without flash (me anti flashie). Came out blurred but oh well, I kinda liked it.

Haven’t been doing that for ages… well, haven’t been doing it successfully… which explains my unfortunately continuous descent into ‘lazism’… especially when it comes to all these essays that I have to produce… the target I have to set… is a deadline… and get working… but no… the mind ain’t listening…

Camping in campus tonight… trying to hit the target properly… hasn’t got off well yet… spent hours reading about Hugo Chavez, the ALP (Aus), the DPP (Twn), and miscellaneous blogs, and finally a few pages of my reference books for my essay.

Now I’m back in this reallyartificial cocoon, warming up my fingers, exercising my brain, practicing my grammar, exercising my eyes, polishing my thoughts, making up excuses…

Ok, I like to kepoh over things happening elsewhere… including (of course) politics… 

One of the ‘it has been coming’ events happened just a couple of days ago- Well, not the call for early elections in Britain, which is  ruled out by Gordon Brown, but the resignation of Liberal Democrats Leader Sir Menzies Campbell. And most commentators have linked his departure to Brown’s decision.

While it’s sad to see Sir Ming leave the post after holding it for less than two years, I do think that the Lib Dems need someone radical, someone fresh, and most importantly someone with a clear sense of direction for the party to assume leadership and battle Cameron and Brown (hopefully it’s firmly towards social liberalization, the Lib Dems are the only mainsteam ‘big enough’ liberal party in Britain now and the progressives of this world can’t lose another forward thinking party to the seduction of neo-conservatism, a-la New Labour). The Liberal Democrats are barely registering double digits in opinion polls while the Tories are strongly challenging New Labour, the party that has been tory-ized over the past decade. While two major parties are increasingly ideologically similar, the miserable poll ratings of the Lib Dems could mean a massive silencing of a truly alternative, progressive voice in parliament.

So we’re buzzing with excitement over who’s gonna be the next leader of the Lib Dems, but more people have ruled themselves out instead of throwing themselves in the ring. Only two of the predicted favourites- Nick Clegg and Chris Huhne, have declared their intentions to run. Only two! Oh C’mon.

I thought Huhne was the better choice among the few candidates when he ran for leadership in 2006 (eventually losing to Campbell), but Clegg has received support from well-respected former leader Paddy Ashdown. There’s still alot to be known about Clegg. We’ll wait and see.

Watch out, David Cameron. 

After a 3 year hiatus, I’m returning to the blogosphere. Much has changed since I stopped polluting the interweb with my vocabulary in 2004:

I got lazier, hence the hiatus.
I got a laptop.
I got a driver’s license.
I got kissed.
I stopped writing creatively after so many years of non stop academic writing. Sadly.
Tony Blair has left No.10
Dubya is still in the white house.
Blogger/blogspot became crap.
Media Prima monopolized non-public media in Malaysia.
I’m still struggling with life’s evils.

Fuck it. I wanna move on. I should be writing proper posts.