One Malaysia

“ When I raised the subject, it was really my intention to get the authorities concerned to think about the need to work towards achieving the concept of “Bangsa Malaysia”.

One way of doing this is not to make it a requirement for the people to fill up the “race” column and identify their racial origin in all official forms and documents. ”

-Friday October 23, 2009 (thestar.com.my)

Personally, I think the idea is rather comical. Is it going to help? How could this step helps to increase awareness among Malaysians the need for integration?

Perhaps it is a small step for us today, a big step for us tomorrow.

For one more day

Procrastination is the thief of time.

What if you were given one more chance to do what you want? What if you were able to travel back time to do what you have yearn for long time? What if you had one more day to do what you had missed?

It is a nice, touching story - “For One More Day” by Mitch Albom.

Every home has a skeleton in the closet. This is what the writer keeps reminding us in the story. The theme of the story is love between a single mother and her son, Charley Benetto, whose parents were divorced. Other themes which are obvious: responsibility of a father to the family, value for life, not to succumb to failure easily and so on.

Charley Benetto tried to commit suicide after a big impact in his life: the death of his mother and the fact of not getting invitation to his daughter’s wedding.

When he was between consciousness and coma, reality and phantom, voluntariness and involuntariness; he had a chance to meet his late mother for one more day. That day, all his hidden memories in his deep heart core were unleashed.

This story will make you think of family and love. It digs out all the nostalgic moment in your life.   

Lost

This will be the only post for October 2009, maybe.

These few weeks will be very busy. External and internal examinations are coming soon. But don’t know what to do. What to revise…

Just now read the book – For one more day (by Mitch Albom), it made me think of home, family and mother… The story is about a man who reached his rock bottom in his life and attempted to commit suicide but to no avail. He went back to his abandoned childhood home and – surprisingly saw his dead mother, as if everything were perfectly normal. Then, he narrated about his childhood and the how the divorce of his parents change his life… Not yet finished reading the story but I think it is a very touching piece…

Today was a nostalgic day. When I googled “listen to ai fm online”, I found webpage that can stream the broadcast online! In my secondary school days, I used to listen to ai fm  while doing my homework. Today I could experience the nostalgic moment again :) I had streamed over 0.2 gigabytes of data since afternoon. Luckily digi broadband didn’t get capped yet though the quota has already been exceeded.   

Okay, now should get back on the right pave – do some German homework before going to back. Hopefully I wouldn’t overslept tomorrow :p