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Was it meant to be this way?

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

It has been a good holiday. I really felt that I had escaped from all the hustle and bustle of school life, these two weeks that I was here traveling in the East Coast, visiting places, seeing new things.
Someone whom I really cared about was recently called to be with the Lord, and I accepted [...]

Gone

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

… the 1 second that you took to read the title above is now gone.
Two days ago I attended an event organized my church’s three campus groups and it was themed “Gone.” “Gone” is actually the title of a song by Switchfoot. It sounds like just another rock song, but it’s lyrics have profound meaning:

She [...]

An Analysis of UC Berkeley’s rankings in the latest THE – QS World University Rankings 2008

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

THE – QS World University Rankings 2008
2005 Rankings:

Harvard University, United States
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Stanford University, United States
University of California, Berkeley, United States

2008/2007 Rankings:
2008/2007 Rankings
1/1 HARVARD University United States
2/2= YALE University United States
3/2= University of CAMBRIDGE United Kingdom
4/2= University of OXFORD United Kingdom
5/7= CALIFORNIA Institute of Technology (Calt… United States
6/5 [...]

Flight and Day 1

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Pretty tired now after the journey of 17 hours flight and 8 hours transit in Seoul on the way to San Francisco. Had a brief immersion in the Korean culture, though I never did go out of the Incheon International Airport. Watched 3 movies on the way to San Francisco from Seoul. :)
God prepared the [...]

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: LRT stalls, Terengganu buys Mercedes, PAS wants to join UMNO, PAS’s Islamic State agenda

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I think Malaysia needs to get its act right now or risk fuming its citizens such that they leave the country (which is already happening by the droves)
So today I was asleep at 8 am (read: holidays) when my mum called and asked me to come get her from the LRT station. (Light-Rail Transit, the [...]

ES’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Concise Answers

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

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Before I begin, I want to tell of my amazing journey yesterday at about 2 pm on the LDP highway from Bandar Utama to Subang and back. There were a few flyovers along the entire stretch of the LDP highway, and there were bottlenecks (read: traffic jam) on 3 of these flyovers:- Flyover [...]

Meekness. Self-control. Love.

Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I think more highly of myself than I should.
If people knew me much better perhaps they would see me in a different light.
I can be a monster sometimes.
I have an anger problem.
I am too proud.
I have an ego problem.
I don’t love people enough.
I shun people. I am shy.
I am too much of “I”s and not [...]

The Anwar Ibrahim issue

Saturday, July 19th, 2008

Did he really commit the alleged crimes? Or was it an elaborate political plot by the cronies in the Government? Evidence featured in the following videos seem to point to the latter.
These YouTube videos shed some light on the topic. Follow “Foreign Correspondent” (Reporter Evan Williams and Producer Virginia Moncrieff) from the BBC as they [...]

SMKDJ Prefects MPPT 2008

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I went (for the first time after leaving DJ three years ago) to the Majlis Penyerahan dan Penerimaan Tugas 2008 for Prefects (Prefects Handing-over Ceremony) which was held last week at DJ’s Pavilion.
I miss the old school days. So fun.
Some pictures:

Five generations of DJ Head Prefects. From left: Ern Sheong (04/05), John Lee (05/06), Sher [...]

Beautiful imperfections

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Which other country in the world has

a stock exchange which stalled for an entire day because Bursa Malaysia could not fix a hard drive problem?
parliamentarians calling each other names and entertaining the people with their antics?
a very entertaining political scene involving the nation’s most influential politicians?
people double parking (sometimes triple) in high density areas?
pirated [...]

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