Picture from: Urban Collective

No matter how much I complained about this current government; on the corruptions, cronies, political motives, short term planning and no planning at all, high inflation, economy dampness, interfering in jurisdictions, government controlled medias and web sites and less people friendly, just to name the few, I still love being in Malaysia. There is a say, “hujan emas di negeri orang, hujan batu di negeri sendiri, baik lagi di negeri sendiri” (translation: Even though other countries offer much better things compare to your motherland, it is better still to live in your own country)

Today is the 51st anniversary of independence of Malaysia. I read a tweet from Milkberry asking, “does the fact that you don’t blog about Merdeka or how much you love your country make you a lesser Malaysian?”. It is a good question to be asked around. For me, I do not believe it will makes you less Malaysian, but still it is one of good ways to show your love towards your country. I do not have my own vehicle to put a flag or stickers on to show my patriotic-ness (I just have a bicycle, but the tyres are flatted and 90% of it already rusted). So, although I am in the middle of preparation of two examinations on this Wednesday and Thursday, I make sure that I spend sometimes writing this post.

If you are doing a post about Merdeka or any other country’s Independence Day, do leave me a link. I will add you up in this post!

Posts about Malaysia’s Independence Day (31th August 2008):

1. Mangosteenskin – Malaysia Month of Independence
2. Bluecrystaldude’s My Little Black Pot – Show Malaysia Some Love!
3. Bluecrystaldude’s Hot Shit Form Here – How do you Show your Country your Appreciation?
4. Love-n-Hate - 51:... It's 31st!!
5. Love-n-Hate - 52:... Happy Birthday MALAYSIA
6. Akmal - Merdeka! Merdeka? Yeaaahhh Merdeka!
   

I am wishing that Malaysia will continue to grow further in the sense of politic stability, equal economic distribution, with consideration of ethnics’ sensitivity, social stabilities and unity of its multiple races and religions citizens. I hope that our country will be more resistant towards problems weather from the outside or inside country, and be more vocal in voicing its opinions. I also hope that there will be improvements in environmental awareness, human rights and government openness policies among others.

Some other activities usually done in celebration of Independence Day:

1. Watching concerts during the countdown (fireworks included)
2. Partying all night with friends while keep in mind how hard the oldies achieved the independence (some may also said that they party for those war veterans)
3. Watching the national marching at the morning of Independence Day (usually being done by kids as older people tends to take the advantage of holiday to wake up late
4. Playing futsal (could also being used to celebrate New Year) and karaoke (most probably would not be a patriotic song) the whole day
5. Spending holiday with friends and family in the comfort of home and watching movies all day long
6. Reduce the carbon burning by spending half or third quarter of day sleeping
   

Other than these activities, you could also leave me a comment on how do you celebrate your Independence Day’s holiday. I am sure you would find it very amusing how people quench their thirst of creativity on how to spend their holiday. Selamat menyambut kemerdekaan yang ke 51, Malaysia!

Bluecrystaldude

P/S: I will be off from commenting other blogs for a few days. Although, I will try my best to reply this post's comments. Don't worry, I will be back to your blog before long!

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Immoral? Who cares?

In case you haven't read about it, there were rumors circulating the internet saying that Avril Lavigne's The Best Damn Tour in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has been canceled. Then today, Malaysian government officially said that the concert will goes on as planned if only they have a valid permit for doing that. The same excuse was being used to Inul Darasita’s (a dangdut’s superstar) supposed to be concerts. Both her concerts were canceled in a short notice. And of course, she cried and fainted when she heard the news. I am sure she would not come to Malaysia for quite sometimes after this. Oh, there is also lots of fuzz when Beyonce changed her tour from Malaysia to Indonesia while Christina Aguilera skipped Malaysia on her Asia tour schedule. Gwen Stefani has to ‘tune’ down her clothes and the Malaysian organizer was fined RM10, 000 (USD2, 857) after the U.S. girl group was accused of flouting decency regulations.

After reading comments circulating in the websites from whether foreigners who never even come to Malaysia and from those who said they are from Malaysia, I feel quite ashamed and embarrassed. For what reason was other people have the right to blame other country for practicing and preserving their culture? Oh hell, who am I bluffing? Before I continue my rambling further, let me point out several factors for you to decide whether or not the government should cancel Avril Lavigne’s concert:

Nice abs!

Why Malaysia Government SHOULD CANCEL Avril Lavigne's Concert:

1. It is morally incorrect to invite Avril Lavigne and her immoral behaviors who one said may or may not include ‘jumping, shouting, hugging and kissing on stage’ – which was ‘refrain’ illegal in Malaysia. Malaysia also requires all the performers to wear clothes without obscene or drug-related images and to be covered from the chest to the knees.

2. Malaysia's Independent day is coming up on 31st August. It seems improper that close with the day our nation celebrates its 51st independent day, we celebrate it with a concert from foreigner artist!

3. For God sake, who watch Avril Lavigne anymore? If Perez Hilton spoke the truth, Lavigne’s concerts and album did not sell well in US. Nevertheless, Lavigne told MTV News on Thursday that she plans to put on a good performance for her Malaysian fans. "I've already sold 10,000 tickets there, so I will be going to put on a concert for the fans," Lavigne said in the interview, posted at mtv.com.

Why Malaysia Government SHOULD NOT CANCEL Avril Lavigne’s Concert:

1. We need this kind of tourist attraction. People are willing to spend times and money for their favorite artists. If this problems continue, I am sure other international artists will skip our country on their Asian tour

2. There are lots of other sources that will affect youngster’s moral values. For example, internet and those entertainment channels. Well, like ASTRO (the only Satellite TV provider in Malaysia) motto, “The best seat is in your house”. We should all enjoy and relaxing while watching all the half naked ladies in those video clips

3. Malaysia government should draw a clearer guideline for the performers to follow. For example, in Kelatan (one of the highly practiced Islamic values state ruled by the state government), they required the female performers to dress appropriately; wear a scarf or tudung. They also separated female and male audiences from mixing together. Not that I agree with their regulations, but I am not opposing either

The point is, we should have clear guidelines so that the performers will know what should be followed and what should not. If they do not prefer to abide it, they could just skip the country or state. There is less embarrassed rather than last minutes cancellation that surely will waste someone time and money. So, what do you think? Do you want to watch Avril Lavigne? Should her concert goes as planned? Do you feel pity with her? Well, I am pretty sure I am not having any sympathy to offer her. For one, she super duper rich, and I am not. Sigh. Oh, and I am not going to her concert either!

Bluecrystaldude

P/S: Do vote for this post poll at the side of this page. Thank you!

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From the movie of Quantum of Solace - the next James Bond movie

What are exactly the criteria to be a gentleman? This question starts to linger in and out my ears passing through my half-function brain all otherwise hot day long (there was a problem with my electricity earlier this day). This complicated story starts when one of my cyber space friends asked for my phone number. Let me bold that sentence; she asked for my phone number. I kindly said that it would be better if she could gives her number first as I do not want my number to be open for the whole world viewing. Her comment’s box is automatically approved while comments in my page need to have my approval first. But she refused and uttered the most cliché excuses in the world, “you should give yours first if you are a gentleman”.

Before I continue further, I honestly admit that my reaction after that was not to be proud off. Nevertheless, the lack of sleep and a very hot day already fueled up my sarcastic level with every sweat that I dropped. I replied her back by saying and I quoted:

Alahai.. ( Malaysian’s commonly use word which equivalent to ‘whatever’ but in a pity tone) Are you judging how 'gentleman' someone is by providing his phone number for viewing in the open internet and full of pervert from all over cyber world? Well, if that what it takes to be a 'gentleman', this is my phone number.. +6017+++++++

Well, please tell me whether I am overreacted or not. What are exactly the criteria to be a gentleman? When do we could imply the gentleman word in our daily sentences? Other than this one, the only common usage of it is when you are queuing for something, such as paying for bills, foods or while trying to do something that requires no harm and hardness. In my opinion, this is just a bullshit a way for women to discriminate male being (other than this way, they also done this). They want to make you believe that there is a standard opposed by them to level up your manliness (while they laughing their way to the queue in front off you.

Thus, for male inherited traits like myself, please beware of those XX chromosomes. They are just trying to blind you. Defend your species before they continue to extinct from this world. And for those women out there, please please please do let me know what the criteria to be a gentleman are. It is just unfair to compare a normal man with some movies heroes. They are just acting, in case you are naïve.

And for me, I just blew away my chance with this girl. What a day...

*UPDATED!*
And guest what? She message me back! but, the first thing she asked was, COULD YOU BORROW ME SOME MONEY?? Unfortunately for her (and good for me), I was already on bus, on the way back to my college. hurm.. what's up with that??

Bluecrystaldude

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Waahh.. Tags yet again! Sorry for those I am tagging!

MEME 1

From: Rizal
Tagging: Angelbaby and Faisal

According to the rules, I am to list down the household chores I hate and why I hate them. Then copy the image provided and tag as many people as you want. Add your blogs link to the domesticated divas linky love and leave a comment at Stripe and Yellow to be added to the master list. And like Rizal, I only picked one which is:

1. Washing dishes. LOL. I rarely done that (thank God I usually eat at cafe or restaurants)

Continue reading for more interesting tags and memes!

DOMESTICATED DIVAS: Living the Healthy Life / Sripe&Yellow / Vanity Kit / Mind Bubbles / Something Purple / Em’s DetourMe,Myself+2 / Kidd Designs / FunFierceFabulous / Ozzy’s Mom / Insights from the Grocery Cart / Living A’ La Mode / God’s Best Gift / MommyAllehs Up-Close And Personal / My Precious Niche / Just Me.. Eds / Eds Mommy Life / Aggie Shoots Aggie Scraps / All Kinds of Me Stuff / The Salad Caper / Winding Creek Circle / InkBabyStudios / Joys in Life / Me and Mine / Little Peanut / Creative in Me/ Pea in a Pod / Sugarmagnolias / Notable Bistro / Around the World / I am Mommy / All About The Memories / Enchanted Play / In Depth / A Housewife’s Journal / Life Together Starts / As We Face Forever / My Happy Place /Iam Dzoi / Suburban Sass / To the Moon and Back / Raising Sandy / Walk on Red / All Things Me / Because Life Is Fun / Feels Like Home / Growing up with Bea / My life… my own piece of heaven / Around the World / Hobbies and Such / My life in this Wonderful World /My Online World / / My Virtual Closet / My Views On My So Called Life / The Real Deal The Real Me / Changing Lanes/ Pit Stop/ Around the World / The Fountain Of Happiness / The Joy Of Life Forever / Love Is / Phtographic Memories / My Colorful World / Strawberry Gurl / Quicker8 / Mommy’s Little Corner / The Dawn That Shines / Journey to Prosperity / Homelife / Sheng’s Simple Thoughts / Coriander Dreams / Gorgeous Traveller / A Traveller’s Domain / Lemon Iced Tea / It’s My Party / My Wonderful Life / Simple Life, Simply Me / Sassy Finds / All things Yummy / Shangrila Journey / My Charmed Life / Mommyhood and Me / Crissy’s Zone / Crissy’s Library / Vis Vires /Crissy’s Haven / My Daily Thoughts / Abby’s Way of Life / Princess Bela / Women Xplore / Our Journey to Life / My Planet Purple / And so I am / Arlene’s Random Ramblings / Life’s All About Lourdes’ Mia / Faery Dancing / Purpled Sky /Almanac Queen / Caramel Corn / Sunny Side Up Foodie / Mamakshop /My Sweet Escape / Anything Goes! / Her Name is N.O.Y. / Mariuca's Perfume Gallery/ Irresistible Fascinations / The Treasure Chest / Complex Life /restnrileks / Hot Shit Form Here/ YOUR BLOG HERE

MEME 2 also from Rizal. But it was a bit too long. Sorry man :)

MEME 3

From: Rizal
Tagging: Farah Deen and Faisal

Rules:

• Copy the text from Start Copy Here
• Post it in your blog. Make sure you copy it in compose mode (blogger) or visual mode for the others. This will enable you to copy all your friend's link as well. Have fun doing it.
• In the next number, add your blog url and link it
• Add the greetings that you use frequently or one that is in your traditional language.

Konichiwa Meme by AikoAiko

1. All About Kawaii says Konichiwa
2. Mariuca's Perfume Gallery says HOLA!
3. Yenzz's SeeNRead says Hi!
3. restnrileks says Apa Khabar?
4. Bluecrystaldude says Assalamualaikum!

MEME 4 (in Malay for the first time ever!)

From: Love-n-Hate
Tagging: Fara (with new hosting and blog) and Rizal!

Click more to read those lovely questions. I still could not believe that I am doing this tag in Malay. Please don't laugh!

Siapa hero/heroin anda?
Bapa saya

Ayat yang selalu dituturkan?
Ayat yang mempunyai perkataan 'weh' di permulaan dan penghabisannya

Perkara yang perlu sentiasa kena ingat?
Sembahyang

Dalam wardrobe, apa perlu ada?
Baju & Seluar

Anda seorang yang branded?
Malangnya ya

Apakah rutin grooming anda?
Panjang sangat hendak ditaip di sini. hehe

Dan, apakah yang paling penting dan perlu ada dalam beg anda?
Duit

Apakah impian anda untuk 5 tahun akan datang?
Kaya raya

Apakah yang paling anda suka mengenai bandar di tempat anda?
Hujan! (Penang selalunya panas sangat!)

Sahabat susah & senang: sanggupkan kamu?
Of course! Sudah tentu!

P/S: God! I always feel that my formal Bahasa Malayu is sounding weird. Are they?

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Hi, my name is Heejeerah. Some may already read about me in this post done by one of my family, yeah he adores me. So, I am a guest writer for Hot Shit Form Here this month. I live in a small town with a bunch of family members. I would love to tell you guys my top 5 why human is an animal best friend!

1. They never judge me
- Even I haven’t been taken bath for quite some times, I never was accused for the bad smelled in the room. They never knew though that I fart release some air when I had a bad stomachache.

2. They need me as their source of entertainment
- Of course some of them forcibly requited us into some circus or freak show, but they also immortalized us as a superhero. You could see them borrowed our character in Cat woman, Batman or in the Spiderman series. They always wanted to touch their inner animal instinct from time to time whether in form of entertainment or in their sex life.

3. You could always share secrets with them
- I always share mine with them. May be they to dumb to understand it, but at least they never tell anyone what it’s all about. That being said, I am totally into those human secret whisperers. Gossiping is the best way to spend for otherwise a boring day. And they also love to share their secrets with us!

4. They love to touch me
- If only my species could be charged in court, I am sure there are a lot animals out there will sue human kind for sexual harassment. We were cuddled, touched and even grasped in some inappropriate areas. Nevertheless, I also love to hump on their fluffy cushions and sometimes a leg or hand (especially when they were asleep). Well, I guess we are squared then.

5. They care about us
- They cried when we are sick or when we lost. They watched us growing up and treat us like a family member. They even had made a movie or two about the friendship that were shared together right? And that is the main reason why human is an animal best friend!

So, you already have my top 5 Why Human is an Animal Best Friend. But, before I wrap up my post, there is also a reason why I hate human being so much!

I hate her!

PETA
- I hate PETA. Every time I see internet, there she is. With her fake boobs, fake lips and fake ass buttock (click here in case you do not know what buttock means - young people nowadays). I am sure none of my species looks like that. And how many times did she marry already? She was even dashing bad words to my Jessica Simpson. Damn that old lady! Go and do what you done the best!

*Updated* So, let me know why do you think Animal is Man Best Friend? I am sure my friends would love to hear it from you! By the way, I am a single and available bachelor cat. If you think I am attractive, please let me know. You could always leave me a phone number or email here. I am sure Bluecrystaldude will be kind enough to let me know later. Thanks!

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I am sorry for not updating anything for last week. No, I am not having writer's block, well, not yet and never will be - I hope. I am just being busy finishing my last week before I went home for my mid semester holiday. I just arrived home yesterday (Yippie!). Although it is only a week of vacation and I have tonnes of workload to be carried along, it still nice to be at home.

My presentation about the "What is The Perfect Age for Marriage?" when well and for that thank you for all the ideas that been shared with me. The comments in that post alone could easily rewrite my original post. Some of them even invaluable as it consist of the commentator's personal experiences and for that, I would like to express my greatest level of thank you. This is a token of appreciation from me. Though it may not be as beautiful as it should be (it was supposed to look like a flower, two leaves with a broken stick), I hope you like it.

A Thank You Note|By Bluecrystaldude

| Emila Yusof | Hafidz | The Success | Bluedreamer27 | Love-n-Hate | Akmal | Shemah | Sweetiepie (I really appreciate her comment as she hasn't been active blogging nowadays!) | Waliz | Mista Shandye | Fara (new blog!) | Angel Baby |

For those who commented more than once, please take the first one and this one too. (Please, I insist) :

You Are Awesome Award|By Bluecrystaldude

| zackzara (3) | Neomesuff (2) | Faisal Admar (2) | Farah Deen (2) | Rizal (2) |

P/S: Sorry if I miscalculated the number of your comments. Please do let me know.

I also included some calculation for my presentation. Oh, and by the way, that post also is the most commented post so far, in Hot Shit Form Here! My blog comments never reach 50 (some even reach hundreds) like most of my blogger friends did, but I happy anyway.

Hot Shit Form Here popular posts:
1. What is The Perfect Age to Get Married
2. Why Hot Shit Form Here
3. Hot News This Week #3
4. What is Your Definition of Friend?
5. Boys Are Stupid
6. Forgive My French
7. Define Your Happiness
8. When Love is On Air (Literally)
9. Paris - The Signs (Volume 1)
10. Dancing The Way

And my Award Gallery already packed with 40th award! Thank you Thank you Thank you!

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married, 1908

Click to hear the song Here Comes The Bride:

Why we are getting married? For some, the rest of their life will be like a carrion crows who is trying to survive just to live another day of fight and dismay. That is why you should have a little help, called patient so that you would not just end up regretting your life but you still have to live with it. After all, everyone has a dream to be married once (a statement not a rhetoric question). Some prefer to be marriage when they already have a stable career, a nice home and enclosed with a good social environment.

For others, they prefer to get married at an early age, mostly 18-23. Some are firm believer that we should be married at the first love that we had, or that if we wait a little bit longer, the right person may just walks pass by without our noticed. Others, believe in spontaneous act or when adrenaline hormone urges to a certain level (may or may not be due to abundant booze, boobs and drugs) have to get married just to fill an annulment hours after that (Read Britney Spears).

But in some part of the world, most commonly in South Asia and Saharan Africa, the children there did not have the right to choose, they were forced to. Their parents may consent to child marriage out of economic necessity, or because they believe marriage will protect girls from sexual assault and pregnancy outside marriage, extend girls’ childbearing years or ensure obedience to their husband’s household. From UNICEF report on 2007, 36 per cent of women aged 20-24 were married or in union before they even reached their 18th birthday. Child marriage is a long-standing tradition in areas where it is practices, making protest sometimes barely possible.

Photo from Flickr

So, if you ask me, what is the perfect age for me to marriage, I will say around 25-30 years old. I will graduate with my degree when I am 23, settle down as a junior engineer in my scholar’s firm for 4 years. Buy a comfortable house, the latest hybrid car and enjoying my years of traveling, parties and social meeting every before I move into the real adult age at 30 (young adult age should be around 20-29). My partner should be around 23-35 years old. I do not mind a matured one, if she is still keep in shape and has more experienced than I am – I will go and chase her if I feel that she is the right one for me.

Several factors to be consider when you are deciding your perfect age for marriage:

1. Career
2. Self achievement
3. Finances including assets and property
4. Physical attraction and emotion attachment
5. and the most important is Mr. or Mrs. Right

Three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~ Author Unknown

Of course, this is only a plan. In the end, we leave it to God to do His wonders. Marriage: a knot of two souls, two live and two families.

To have and to hold,
From this day forward,
For better, for worse,
For richer, for poorer,
In sickness and in health,
To love and to cherish,
'Till death do us part

Kindly note, I would love to hear comments from marriage couples to those who still single, to share their thought upon this matter. Your comment may or may not be used or publish for educational purposes only. I really appreciate your comments.

Bluecrystaldude

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>> Less Word Wednesday #2 >> Nerdy Professor

*UPDATED!*

Did you notice that the picture is actually a man face looks upside down and masked with few other accessories?


This picture reminds me so much to my old lecturer from India, Senior Lecturer, Dr. Jyoti Prosad Choudhury. He is very very thin (and fragile) looking lecturer, who spoke with confident and you could see spots of saliva form at around the corner of his mouth. He wears belt up to his chest and locked inside his office every free time. But he indeed a good lecturer. He cycles everyday from his house in front of the university to our campus. The rumors said that he was even bullied by secondary school kids at his residential area while riding on his old bicycle. He went back to India last year. I really hope that he will found happiness in his home country. What about you? Do you have a teacher that has a very distinct characteristic like mine? Please feel free to share with us here!

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Edited from Flickr | sdosick

It has been ages since my last post. Well, it was 4 days ago, but I do hope you miss my presence here. It has been a hectic week. My workloads have been multiplied every single minute as it approaches my half semester break, which is due on 15th August. Other than watching Never Back Down (5 stars – the actions were very impressive!), Wall-E (4 stars – filled with moral values), The Dark Knight (5 stars - the best summer movie to date) and the latest installment of Mummy (3.5 stars – Just okay and reminds me a lot to National Treasures), I also managed to squeeze my time to read a best selling book called The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.

It was the first book by him, but one of the best books I ever read. I am only half way through the book but already looking forward to buy his second book. (A Thousand Splendid Suns). What amazed me the most is that the author is a doctor. Who would have thought that a doctor could wrote such a beautiful novel to which Washington Post Book World quoted as “a powerful book… No frills, no nonsense, just hard, spare prose”. The book best describe as a remainder for some facts in life that we may be neglected after a hard day at work. The need for a good relationship with subordinates fellow workers, bosses, friends and family.

As I told before, I love to read books. But reading and writing is a totally different story. Nevertheless, I tried (read = forced) to write a technical essay on Energy: A Challenge for Sustainable Development. This essay was for the National Chemical Engineering Symposium 2008 (NACES). It is an annual gathering for chemical engineering undergraduates from both local and private universities all over Malaysia. I have submitted mine just a day before I went to Paris. Rushing and without any guidance from my deputy dean (the person who was supposed to supervise my essay), I thought nothing about winning. And then, last weekend, at the main NACES event in University Putra Malaysia (UPM), I was announced a second runner up. Crap!

I never enter any essay competition in my whole life before. Let alone wrote a serious article based on journals and other creditable resources for educational purposes. An engineer, who writes, draws and has a big mouth. I am sure hope it would not be a lethal combination. Great, this ends up just another post about myself (I had a different post in mind). Before you all getting bored about Hot Shit Form Here, I would like to give a little heads up. My next post would be about marriage! I am not married yet. At least it sure would not be about me, right.

Bluecrystaldude

P/S: Sorry for miss out few posts in my regular visited blogs. I will repay the visit as soon as I have the free time. Thanks for the faithful visits and commenting!

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