BHO Crap Talk…

My p & s camera, Nikon Coolpix S1, still takes bloody good pictures.  Its only 5.1 mp and is very sharp.  Recently I was in Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China and I took this p&s with me for snap shots.  I took quite a lot of snap shots with this p&s, but I was not that impressed with the look of the pictures on the lcd screen; until I uploaded them all to the computer and only then I realised that the p&s still takes bloody good pictures though. 

The following three pictures are the beautiful scenes of Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China taken with Nikon Coolpix S1:-

These three pictures were taken in Jiuzhaigou, Sichuan, China.  They are all located in the Five-colored Lake (五花海), also called Peacock Lake, is 5 meters deep, with an area of 90,000 square meters and at an elevation of 2,472 meters. Its water at different depths covers a color spectrum from pale blue through aquamarine to emerald green.  Geologists attribute the phenomenon to mineral concentration.  These three views are just one of the views crowned as a wonder of JiuZhaiGou, China.

The rest of the pictures of Jiuzhaigou taken with Nikon Coolpix Si and other DSLR can be view here.

An article written by Raja Petra Kamarudin titled as “I am a Malaysian” and posted under No Holds Barred in MT on December 12, 2006 generates so far 372 comments and the original articles can be read here.

 I am particularly interested in the last two paragraphs of this articles and I quote as follows:-

“Okay, I have digressed quite far already. Let’s get back to the topic of the day. I started off by saying that I would like to make my New Year’s Resolution. I also added that I can never keep my Resolutions and break them even before the emergence of 2 January. Well, this year I am going to keep my Resolution. I am not going to break it right through to 31 December and beyond. I will carry it through to 2008 as my Resolution for that year as well. And the Resolution for 2007 is going to be: I will keep saying “I am a Malaysian”.

Yes, that is what I am. I am a Malaysian. And that is my 2007 New Year’s Resolution. I will constantly remind myself that I am a Malaysian and tell all and sundry that I am not Malay, I am not Bugis, I am Malaysian. Hmm…will this make me a traitor to my race? Maybe, but if enough people join me and proclaim that they too are Malaysians, then we will win in the end, because in a democracy majority rules. Well, let’s see if the Chinese too want to transform into Malaysians or whether they would like to continue with their Malay-bashing; which means then they regard themselves as Chinese. Then, in that case, I will form the Parti Anak Bugis and go contest in a Bugis majority seat somewhere in Sabah. Do you think they will admit my new party into Barisan Nasional? “

Now, see what I mean? This articles is very informative and provocative, humorous and witty too.  It generates 372 comments so far, mostly positive comments; of course, there are negative comments too.  Some are very extreme, like this one replied “I am a Malaysian. But Ketuanan Melayu still stays.  So, as a Malaysian, we have to live with 2 set of rules. One for the Malays, and another one for the non-malays. This is call Malaysia. Otherwise, it is not call Malaysia. It would have been called MalayChineseIndiasia.  So what the fuck? “

As I See It:- What and who am I then? Oh yes, my answer would be deep down inside me, I must confess that I AM A MALAYSIAN as I was born, raised, and school in Malaysia and that I am a MALAYSIAN when outside the country. But, I am a Chinese Malaysian when inside the country. Do I have any choice? My dream is to be MALAYSIAN whenever and wherever I am.

So, who are you then? Read the articles and form your own opinions as this articles is very informative and makes you think…