十月的她

和新玩具大熊猫合影。

这张好像小白兔！

在妈妈生日那天合影。

在槟城从店里借用的玩具。

The 3rd recorded Burning Bush in History (must be all that oil)

The world is ending. Why are you here ?

Shouldn’t you be over at the Hill thinking ?

Let’s take a look at the legacy of President George W. Bush :

1. Started the war in Afghanistan – still ongoing.


2. Started the war in Iraq – still ongoing.
3. Inspired an entire new army of Jihad terrorists - Osama bin Laden is happy that Bush was President. Bush made recruitment easy for him.


4. Torture at Guantanamo Bay – bill passed : torture is barred, but the President now gets to determine what is torture. Hah!


5. Detention without trial – bill passed. It’s called the Military Commissions Act of 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Commissions_Act_of_2006). The USA’s very own ISA.


6. Eavesdropping on public without a warrant – executive order issued amidst controversy. After legal wrangling, now subjected to judicial oversight.


7. Increase in USA’s national debt from US$ 5,727,000,000,000 (i.e. 5.727 trillion - on the day he became President) to US$ 10,149,875,434,832 (i.e. 10.149 trillion) – the greatest increase of any president in American history. And it’s still increasing.


8. The worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. You could say that the bubble has been building for decades, but it burst on his watch – in the 8th year, so the new President gets to handle the shit from this baby.


9. Refusal to join the Kyoto Protocol – out of 185 countries, the USA is 1 of only 2 countries that have not ratified the Kyoto Protocol. And they’re the biggest per capita polluters in the world by a wide margin. I guess that would have meant reducing the profits from selling the oil in Iraq.


10. Both McCain and Obama, the presidential candidates, are campaigning on a platform of CHANGE :
    
    Guess who they’re changing from ?
    
    What a difference a few hanging chads make : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Florida,_2000

Worst. President. Ever.

I fear

There are many things where I fear for my child :

* I fear that sending her to a national-type school will expose her to only Chinese culture while ignoring the other cultures that exist in Malaysia. I fear that their reputation for too much homework and exam-oriented pressure is justified and that she will not have the time to grow in other areas, whatever those may be. BUT, I don't think much of the quality of education in national schools, so what can I do ?

* I fear that she will grow up in a country where we talk about Malay supremacy and the special interests of the Chinese and Indians and Iban, et al. And while the politicians are all fighting over their slices of pie, other countries just come in and take that pie away - bit by bit. And at the end of it, having 80% of nothing is still nothing.

* I fear that she will have to grow up in a country where theft and robbery and rape are common place. Oh wait, we're already here.

* I fear that she will not know the joy of meeting and playing with friends in her neighbourhood because it's dangerous out there.

* I fear that she will not exercise because she's sms-ing on her phone or playing her Playstation or sat in front of the TV and PC all the time.

* I fear that she will not know the beauty and joy of nature because she only ever sees a screen - be it TV, PC or phone. And nature has no screen.

* I fear doing this to her in my own way :

There are many more things where I fear for her. This, at least, I can control.

第一张彩画

这是韵的第一张彩画，不是什么惊天动地的杰作。

但是对于好像昨天才是婴孩的她应该是一个非常大的突破。

看起来像个小大人的画。