-i got one paper left and i'm happy about it...

sometimes we think that the world revolves around us,
its like we're the nucleus of our family or our league of friends,
but then,
its not...
the world is still spinning round and round,
and we on the other hand,
have our own cycle of life that keep turning round and round too,
either it will spin slow or fast,
it is beyond our control,
the ups and downs, that's it,
then it will spin again,
so we just have to wait what is in store for us,
but that makes everything great, isn't it?
the non linear life, that will fluctuate every now and then,
its the real life, its good when its not perfect sometimes,
coz we may deem it to be special later,
we may diverge from the right path occasionally,
why?
coz sometimes the things outside the line is so tempting,
that is very hard to resist, irresistible,
but wait, it may be good in a certain way,
we'll experienced more about life,
the rights and wrongs of it,
then, we'll go back to the 'right' path once again,
oh wait! how do we know that the path we're following is right,
maybe there are other paths that might be better, oh yea worse maybe,
but then that's what we called exploration,
Christopher Columbus can't pride himself to be the first man to discover America,
if it wasn't due to the exploration that he and his team made,
so let's become our own explorer,
who will courageously discover the true meaning of life,
our true self,
in our very own perspectives and light...


owh ya, i just let my fingers dancing on this lappy's keyboard... so ya, i'm in the state of where i don't know why i'm writing this and on what basis...

but then, who'll bother right? chow...

-WTH!! land for dams and oil palm? how about the people??

Borneo natives in stand-off with oil-palm giant

By STEPHEN THEN

MIRI: A stand-off between a group of more than 500 Kenyah minority natives and an oil-palm giant over a land-dispute in Long Koyan settlement in the Belaga district in central Sarawak has reached a boiling point.

The oil-palm company, a subsidiary of a Miri-based land development consortium, had allegedly bulldozed its way into a plot of land to open up an access road into areas earmarked for an oil-palm plantation.

The natives claimed that the area targeted for clearing was their native customary rights land, inherited from their ancestors.

The company claimed that it has been given the concession right by the State Land and Survey Department to develop the land.

Over the past two days, workers from the company had ploughed their way through a plot of farmland adjacent to the native’s longhouse despite desperate attempts by the villagers to stop them.

The natives have lodged police reports against the workers for trespassing on their farms and uprooting their fruit trees, but they claimed that the police were siding with the company and were helping to provide security escort to its workers.

Long Koyan chief Tuai Rumah Nyalang Tahe had to seek help from the Borneo Resources Institute, a community-rights group.

The institute’s executive director Mark Bujang on Friday said the Long Koyan natives were very angry with the company for infringing upon their land.

“The company workers had started clearing works despite appeals from the affected villagers. The natives said they have NCR status on the land.

“They have lodged numerous police reports, but no action has been taken,” he said.

for more click here!!

-a mother's love....

Mother marches 2,000km to save son

A 55-year-old woman in central China marched a total of 2,000km in seven months to lose weight and save the life of her son.

According to Bernama, which quoted China's Xinhua news agency Wednesday, Chen Yurong walked about 10km a day after being told her 31-year-old son, Ye Haibin, needed a liver transplant.

Her liver was not suitable because it had accumulated too much fat, doctors had told her in February.

In an effort to get her liver into shape, Chen marched along a dyke near her home in Jiang'an District, Hubei Province, everyday. She also went on a diet, only eating rice and vegetables.

She eventually lost 8kg. On Oct 19, doctors said her liver had reached the standard for the transplant.

In a 14-hour operation at the Tongji Hospital under Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, the provincial capital, on Tuesday, Chen gave part of her liver to her son.

for more click here!!

God could not be everywhere and therefore He made mothers.
- Jewish Proverb

-in the spirit of unity, shall we?

Marina, is an excellent student who managed to obtained a good results in her SPM last year (9As 1B, even my results were not as good as her)... she has a mixed blood of Iban (father) and Chinese (mother), and thought that she's a bumiputera all this while... ouh correction, was a bumiputera.. she found out that she's not a bumiputera when her application to go to a matriculation program was rejected by the Ministry of Education simply because err, she's not a bumiputera (but she's an Iban considering the fact that her father is an Iban)

this is according to a definition used by the Student Intake Management Division, Higher Learning Department and Higher Education Ministry.

Their definition is as follows:

• Semenanjung – “Jika salah seorang ibu atau bapa calon adalah seorang Melayu yang beragama Islam/Orang Asli seperti mana yang ditakrifkan dalam Perkara 160(2) Perlembagaan Persekutuan; maka anaknya adalah dianggap seorang Bumiputera.” (If either parent of a candidate is a Malay who is a Muslim/Orang Asli as defined in Article 160 (2) of the Federal Constitution, the child is considered a Bumiputera.)

• Sabah – “Jika bapa calon adalah seorang Melayu yang beragama Islam/Peribumi Sabah seperti yang ditakrifkan dalam Perkara 161A(6)(a) Perlembagaan Persekutuan; maka anaknya adalah dianggap seorang Bumiputera.” (If the father of the candidate is a Malay who is a Muslim/native of Sabah as defined by Article 161A(6)(a) of the Federal Constitution, the child is considered a Bumiputera.)

• Sarawak – “Jika bapa dan ibu adalah seorang Peribumi Sarawak seperti mana yang ditakrifkan dalam Perkara 161A(6)(b) Perlembagaan persekutuan; maka anaknya adalah dianggap seorang Bumiputera.” (If the father and mother is a native of Sarawak as defined under Article 161A(6)(b) of the Federal Constitution, the child is considered a Bumiputera).

to read more of her story, click here!

it's hard to live in the society nowadays,
if your are stupid, life would be hard,
if your are intelligent, doesn't mean life is like a bed of roses for you,
coz in the end of the day,
sometimes, yeap "just sometimes",
its who you are that make the differences,
be it your family background, race or religion,
all these play a big role in determining the path of your life,
sometimes...

if this is 1Malaysia as being shouted here and there,
why is there still differences between us, as in the above definitions,
i know and deeply realize that if it is not because of this the natives/bumiputra (err earthprince?) will surely need a lot of catch up to do,
but how about those nonbumi who really deserves to be given chances,
aren't they Malaysian too, who someday will contribute to the nation economy,
to serve their people, society and country too?
why are they not having the same opportunities as someone who really deserving it?
and the chance for them to give back something to their country once they succeeded?

why everything must be based on race/religion aa?
will it make you having certain kind of special traits based on your race/religion?
coz i believe that its you, yourself that determines the capabilities you have within you..

i'm a Malaysian, a Sarawakian and owh ya a bumiputra too...
but my aspiration might as well the same as those nonbumi,
to be a able to success in my life,
and to serve my fellow men and country....

SAY NO TO RACISM!!!!

-Aaahh i seriously forgot!!!!

click pic for source

my blog was already two years old last 18th...
thanks for dearest loyal readers,
i'll keep it short, so,
HAPPY BELATED BURFDAY TO MR BLOG!!!

-sigh~

More questions raised over Murum Dam project

By STEPHEN THEN

MURUM (Sarawak): Environmental organisations are aghast to find that the construction of the RM3bil Murum Dam in central Sarawak has already proceeded despite the fact that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report was only released less than two weeks ago.

(not very surprising coz they really can't wait to get the money from the sell of timbers first)

Sarawak Conservation Action Network (Scane), a coalition of more than a dozen environmental and community rights groups, said the way the state government had carried out the project was a cause for deep concern.

Scane director Raymond Abin told The Star on Tuesday that the EIA for the Murum project was only made public on Oct 18 and the Social Impact Assessment report is not even ready yet, but site- and road-clearing at the Murum Valley in Belaga district have already gone full-steam ahead.

(above the law already oo hmm... people know why la)

“The developer for the Murum project (a Malaysia-China consortium led by Sarawak Energy Bhd) had only just finished the EIA report. I have a copy with me. It was only completed recently (on Oct 18).

“The report has not been gazetted as yet or tabled for discussion at official levels. The Department of Environment (DOE) has not given its approval for the report nor has the public been given a chance to express their views on it. The Social Impact Assessment has not been completed yet.

“Despite all this, the construction of the Murum Dam is already in full progress,” he said.

“The natives affected by the project have not even agreed to the relocation plan proposed by the state government. Their native land has not been surveyed. They have not been offered any compensation and yet project construction has already started,” he added.

(and these are the people who are now finding shelter in the sg. asap settlement... what more can they do... a mere 1,800 Murum Penan vs the "people with power")

The Star paid a visit to the Murum Valley, located 70km inland from the Bakun Dam, and found that the access road into the site earmarked for the 80m high dam had already been paved.

Trucks, lorries and four-wheel drives were making their way into and out of the Murum Valley, transporting heavy equipment, workers and raw materials like steel, cement, gravel, fuel and the like.

The dam will flood about 30,000 hectares of the Murum Valley to create a reservoir that can feed water into a generation plant to produce about 900 MWs of electricity by 2013.

Some 2,800 people, including 1,800 Penans, will have to be uprooted from eight settlements in the Murum Valley.

Abin said the manner in which the Murum Dam had proceeded without prior EIA approval and without the resettlement issues being resolved showed that the state government had no intention of negotiating or considering the plight of the affected natives.

(they didn't forget about that, didn't they?)

“There is no genuine concern for the people affected by the project. In fact, some of the affected Penans said the blasting in the Murum Valley (to create the access road on the hillslopes) had started even last year, long before the state government had announced its intention to start the project.

“The affected natives had protested to the Chief Minister (in September) but to no avail,” he said.

(as if anything going to happen.. haish~)

A check with the Belaga District Office showed that the Murum Dam EIA report can be viewed by interested parties at the office’s premise.

The Murum Dam is the first of 12 new dams that are to be constructed throughout Sarawak.

-sometimes....

sometimes we have to swallow the bitterness of life to taste its sweetness...
sometimes love is not all about showing it, but rather realizing it is deep inside...
sometimes the littlest act changes people...
sometimes its all about endurance...
sometimes we have to be in the losing side...
sometimes to put other first is the best thing to do...
sometimes its always like that...

sometimes life is like that...

sometimes...