Hey people!! I am back from exile!! Yeah, self-imposed that is. Well back in UTP. First week here...and oh my, weekends can kill you...you have nowhere to go and the blistering golden eye(Re:Shakespeare) is freaking hot. Yesterday, I went to Ipoh for some Rotaract function. Visit to Ipoh Hospital to give fruits to children and also brought orphans to the movies. Well, I have this scrawny looking kid of thirteen whom I cared for yesterday!! Well, I treated him like my brether and yes, I treated him movies and popcorns and drinks as well...Lol...oh ya, for you racist buggers who are wondering what colour is his skin, fine: he's a Malaysian. Get it?

As I have promised earlier in my first very entry of this blog...there will be not much pictures(think the Economist) and all words and words and more words...not much to add here though.

And there wil also be the occasional jabbing and poking albeit satirically at authoritative figures. So, today's topic of conversation is freedom of expression by scholars in a certain university located north of Selangor and south of Kedah and further from KL to Gopeng(wherever that is) if you measure the distance from KL to the university. (Disclaimer: I have just changed topic and all things mentioned here have strictly no connection to anything that was mentioned previously unless you can find a connection. If a connection can be found, you ought to be commended upon your achievement and will be subjected to the first sentence of the disclaimer. Repeat until you cannot find a connection.) Maybe things will get better when we put it in the form of a story:

Once upon a time in the 21st century, where globalization is the mainstay and internet connection is indispensible, there lived a community of elephants in a jungle reeking with green-coloured bugs and green-eyed monsters. The elder elephants remain at the top and think that they are simply so great and powerful. Although they are deemed to be wise they always forget why they are there for, which is to teach the younger elephants on how to hoist logs for export. As there is an energy crisis going on in the world at that time, logs were needed for fueling purposes. Don't ask how old the logs are, but they are estimated to be a few millions years old and they have turned black and sticky ever since. The elder elephants run a logging company which form trade with the humans(a greedy race which have sucked the earth dry and deprived their fellow brothers, the orang utans a chance to eat bananas) and grew rich themselves, selling logs by the tons. The logs were melted somehow and placed into barrels which were priced more than USD$80 at the time this page was written. The elephants growing older and lamer, set out to recruit young elephants from all over the world, wherever elephants could be found., so this young elephants were given free board and lodging in the jungle and promised employment in the timber company. To cut things short, the little elephants were deprived of proper rivers, where they bathe and entertainment outlets. Not only were they disconnected and blocked most of the time, they were also cut off from the world. No elephant was allowed to trumpet and blare as it would only draw snorts of comments. The elder elephants were dominant and controlled everything as the younger elephants, eager to find an avenue of expression and trumpeting, were taunted with sheer belligerence and a dash of ignorance whenever they stopped working and trumpeted. The younger elephants in the end learnt their lesson as they should never blow water at the very trunks that fed them, so they studied hard, kept their trunks in the river and released annal discharge into the same river they worked in and finally, ended up working in a culture where to trumpet unneccessarily brings trouble. The male younger elephants hardly married and kept working and working and working until the logs finshed. By the time the logs have finished, they were not worried as they are now rich and are living a life of relative luxury.

This sums up the topic for this week. Till then, goodbye and Happy New Year!!!
Note: About the disclaimer, well, if you know me, then you shall see.