The Technician

Watch this video, great to watch and to ponder :)

ps; credit to anjang who posted the link via facebook

One thing though, I wonder when will the depiction of Arabic-Muslim(or MidEast-Muslim) being terrorist gonna stop. Anyone?

Interlude: Babbling...

Right now... I'm freaking bored... Which in turn, make me wanna write a few things on this blog.

Hooww kayy, the 1st one... About a few days ago, i happened to know a couple of girls who shared the same goal as I am, which is the quest of venturing into the field of astrophysics. Yeah, I was feeling exhilarated like hell at first... First time! :p Initially, we, as in including me, were going to study in Pusat Asasi Sains Universiti Malaya(PASUM) taking Foundation in Physical Science. I had already planned in my head, that i was gonna make something out with them. Discuss in terms that they would understand, and not me just talking to myself(experienced it, a lot~ =_=). Alas, Allah said nay for the plan to happen...................................

21st May, JPA and MARA finally revealed their results of who would get their valuable scholarships. For me, yeah i got it, thank God.. but not for those two girls. They will go to PASUM, nevertheless. But for me, back to square one. JPA sent me to Uniten, taking American Credit Transfer Programme for two years, and hopefully afterward, continue my bachelor degree in USA. Again, alone..... I guess my fate is always to be alone...adeh! I just hope that in Uniten, there'll be people who wants to study the same thing as me...

Nexxxtttttt, 2nd issue... kali ini berbahasa Malaysia pula. Harus sentiasa ingat kepada asal usul diri sendiri...hehe.. (rojak boleh tak?? bolehh kaannn?? :D)

Aku berasa agak kecewa dengan tingkah laku beberapa orang manusia. Bukan nak kata apa. Tapi alangkah baiknya jika mereka berfikir secara mendalam dan menggunakan skop yang lebih luas. Seperti yang telah dinyatakan di atas, keputusan JPA dan MARA sudah pon keluar. Ramai yang bernasib baik macam aku, dan tidak kurang ramai juga yang tertolak permohonan mereka. Ada yang menolak tawaran kerana ada tawaran lain. Itu tidak menjadi suatu masalah. Malangnya, ada juga yang menolak kerana mereka merasakan 'tidak yakin' untuk meneruskan pelajaran mereka di tempat mereka ditawarkan dengan alasan "aku tak cukup bagus la"...atau... "aku takut tak dapat catch up nnt." Sungguh bullshit alasan mereka. Aku cakap macam ni kerana ramai sgt kawan2 aku yang bukan bumiputera yg tidak begitu bernasib baik seperti mereka ni.. Yang straight A's pon terpaksa merayu utk pergi ke matrikulasi. Tidak kah mereka sedar!?? Macam mana lah Melayu nak naik. Kalau asyik takut utk mengambil risiko.. Kita harus pandai menilai risiko. Mana yg baik, dan mana yg buruk. Baik tak payah apply awal2. Kalau peluang tajaan itu diberikan kepada mereka yg lebih pandai menghargai, lagi bagus. Maaf kalau sesiapa terasa. Ini hanya luahan hati sahaja..

Habiss sudahhh...

FIN

The falling(failing) capitalism? (Part 2)

In USA, there is an insurance policy legalized by the country, called the Corporate-Owned Life Insurance(COLI), or the other, more scandalous name, the 'dead peasant' insurance policy . A company has the right to buy life insurance policy over its workers. Which means, when an employee dies because of a certain complication, the employer will get a sum of money resulted from the insurance policy. Simple to say, companies make money, a LOT, by the death of their employees. There's a guy, I can't remember his real name, let just say Tom(myspace??) who worked with a bank. The bank name was Amegy bank, if I'm not mistaken. The bank bought the 'dead peasant' insurance on him. Because of cancer, Tom died at an early age leaving behind a wife and few children. The bank gained around 5 million bucks in total, and the family of the deceased earned zero cent. So much with the social commitment, eh?

Another person, this time a woman. Let us call her Diana(the dead princess Diana??) as I can't(again~~) remember her name. She worked with WalMart(sounds familiar??). WalMart too bought the 'dead peasant' policy on its workers. Diana died because of a very bad asthma(I think?). The death of her gave the super-giant company a neat USD80,000++. Diana's family didn't get a penny too. The husband was bound to pay a hundred thousand dollars worth of medical fees and USD6000 for the funeral. WalMart didn't lend a hand at all. There's a fact that, a young worker, and female, would earn a company way lot of money than an older female as well as the other opposite sex. This is because women is expected to live longer than a normal man. So when a young female worker dies, maximum profit can be gained.

What's with the name anyway? Dead peasant?? You must be kidding me. What have those workers done to deserve such name? USA is realllyy famous with their human rights activism, especially the government which never cease to meddle with other countries' matters. Corporates in USA clearly violated human rights on this matter. Why does the congress didn't lay a finger on those damn corporate people? Well, the reality is, most of the congressmen are actually involved in this kind of 'business'. Many who become congressmen have corporate background. Since the president Ronald Reagen and up until the reign of George W.Bush, politicians and board leaders in Capitol Hill had deep affiliations with a few mega finance companies such as the Golden Sachs company and the Meryl Lynch, the biggest retail brokerage company in the world, In fact, the one who controls the USA national treasury during Bush time was an ex-CEO of Golden Sachs. There's no wonder such act never been abolished at all, because the people higher ups were getting profits, a whole damn lot of greens.

So there you have it, one of the many reasons why rich people controls 3/4 of world resources.

There are still many other methods they used, but I'm not gonna go further into those. Honestly, who wants to know anyway? Capitalism is always right, right??

TAMMAT

The falling(failing) capitalism?

About a week ago, I'd watched the documentary-movie Capitalism: A Love Story produced by a very bold director(in my opinion, that is), Michael Moore. Should I tell you what it is about? I doubt you want to hear it... Better watch it yourself .. I'm not much of a story-teller anyway. Let me be brief. By definition, which was taken from Wikipedia, capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned; supply, demand and price are mostly set by market force rather than economic planning; and profit is distributed to owners who invest in business.

So it seems, literally, capitalism is not bad at all, right? It gives people freedom to make their own money, to fully utilise whatever chances that may come with the ideology. It makes more people rich, so on and so forth.

Or is it?

One may dispute this, but like h**l I care. The conventional wisdom that people think "Oh hey, capitalism really makes the world a heaven on earth" is rather, well, quite deceiving. I've recently(no, no recent actually. More like always.) observed the people, the common people who minds are always been kept in pure delusion. Let me give you an example to understand it a little bit clear. I bet that you may have seen tv shows, reality shows, about the world of riches and glamourous. This phenomenon is greatly magnified by the existence of Hollywood in USA. And those who are involved in business markets, Wall Street and so on. Most common people are deeply awed by the glamourous, the pampered lives of they living in. So people believe in that, "One day, I'll be like them if only I work harder and harder and harder." Well, this is a delusion, for most part of it, yes. They can be like them, if, and only if, they do it in the right way.

Sadly, the truth is, most people do not end up like they wanted to. They just stay on the rat race course and never really succeed. They keep on living in debts, desire, sorrow, stress n others. They have become robots, who serve their lives to the kings and queens of capitalism. The disparity between riches and poor ones is still obvious in many countries. Based on the 2007 Human Development Report(HDR), United Nations Development Programme, more than 80 percent of the world's population lives in countries where income differentials are widening. It really looks like the riches are getting richer, the poor people are getting poorer. The question is, how on earth that the richest 20 percent out from the world population accounts for three quarters of world income?

To be continued in the next post.

Much of a newbie

Owh mann...this blog thingy makes me feel odd. Writing things that I don't even think people may or even want to read any crap I poured in this blog. And another thing, I just can't keep my focus with this stuff with so many distractions in my laptop. Hope this piece really works.

P.S Hanisssss..I've done it... buy me a Haagen Daaz, will ya? :p