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This is a personal blog and should be taken as such. So don't sue me if what I write pisses you off. Or if I write lies. Or if I give maladvice. Or if you fail to read through my sarcasm. Et cetera.
I like stalkers.
Is it in bad taste to quote one's self?
"The greatest of debaters are not only the most eloquent -- they are the most bruised, the most resilient, the strongest of heart." -- Andrew Loh
Quotes "How many times have you chickened out?" - Qu Hsueh Ming
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Affirmative action is something the good don't need and the bad don't deserve" - A wise man
"The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nation's greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us." - John F. Kennedy
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." - James A. Baldwin
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is but a broken winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." - Sir Winston Churchill
"Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." - John Calvin Coolidge
"We will either find a way or make one." - Hannibal
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"War begins in the minds of men, and it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must first be constructed." - UNESCO Constitution
"The proper study of mankind is man." - Alexander Pope
"My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death." - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
"Patriotism is to support your country all the time and your government when it deserves it" - Mark Twain
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." - George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a system ensuring that the people are governed no better than they deserve." - George Bernard Shaw
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." -- Noam Chomsky
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
"When the people fear the government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have freedom." - Thomas Paine
"I sense a learning: that much dumber people than you end up in charge. Look at the way things are. I'm no fucken genius or anything, but these spazzos are in charge of my every twitch. What I'm starting to think is maybe only the dumb are safe in this world, the ones who roam with the herd, without thinking about every little thing. But see me? I have to think about every little fucken thing." - Vernon God Little, Act II
Go to his blog and leave a congratulatory message.
Now.
And now, London, as promised.
We stopped over at London because IMPAC was generous and flexible enough, they booked air tickets with 3 days for us to visit London.
We stayed in Malaysia Hall (they had an 11 pm curfew you know!!!!!) where we could get Malaysian food cheap. Mmm.
London Heathrow SUCKS ass. Hot and old and LONG LINES. Why do they only have 2 immigration queues? Stupid. Ack.
London in summer is hot hot hot hot hot hot hot bloooooody hot. It was exactly like Malaysia, only less humid. I came all the way to feel this very familiar temperature? .........
I can't (don't want to) remember the chronological sequence, so it's all random.
Buckingham Palace
We were here for the Changing of the Guards. Very boring and crowded, overrated. Red mounted soldiers on horses, yada yada yada. The only interesting bit was that the military band played the Beatles!
Statue of Victoria outside Buckingham Palace
VICTORIA
REGINA IMPERATRIX
St James' Park
Pelicans at St James Park
Eh, all the Monopoly site names come to play now eh! Hhehe. St James Park is in the Orange Group!
St James Park
Parliament Palace by night
I like this pic. The reflection tells it all: we were in a bus.
Spiky spiky!!!!!!!
Hahahhahahahaha. Camera at some Underground station.
I LOVE the TUBE. MUACKS MUACKS it goes everywhere and is so bloooody cheap because you can get a unlimited day pass for 4 - 6 Pounds depending on which zone you're travelling to on the UNDERGROUND AND BUS.
Our LRT, on the other hand, is no doubt, air-conditioned, unlike the Tube, but the coverage is not very comprehensive.
(Think Abdullah Hukum is only 100? meters away from Midvalley Megamall - the stupid people didn't put an LRT stop at Megamall because they thought that would increase the competition to KLCC. Satoopeeed. And the LRT Bangsar free feeder bus that goes to Megamall is supposed to come every 30 minutes bt actually does every 90 minutes. Asses. I will NEVER go there again. Unless someone drives me there.)
Plus it's not integrated very well either compared to London. There were complimentary brochures about the various stops on the integrated lines there, but Malaysia doesn't even have one.
And the LRT is overpriced you stupid money sucking dumbasses who run it. $4.80 to go to KLCC and back!!!! I can eat two chicken rice meals la bodohs. No unlimited day passes, no unlimited monthly passes, no plans, nothing. Where is this komuniti penyayang ah, kerajaan yang aku cintai?
Parliament Palace from the London Eye. Very nice!!! They should start a KL Eye or something. Cool cool.
Parliament Palace
Oh yeah that reminds me that London is so paranoid after the July 7 bombings that they don't have TRASH CANS at ALL in their underground stations!!! Litter and garbade and rubbish = on the ground, baby. Hahahhaha mom and I thought that they were just as dirty as Malaysians, cause we couldn't find anything. Ahahahahahha so there's a reason behind that after all.
Big Ben
(Only the most recognized piece of Britain worldwide.)
Parliament Palace
Flying Buttresses!!!
@some old cathedral near Parliament Palace
Westminster Abbey
Look at the Baroque spires man! Gothic architecture is always cool.
Tower Bridge
Eh the blue paint damn ugly right.
St Paul's Cathedral
Designed by the one and only Sir Christopher Wren.
Museum of Natural History, South Kensington
The brickwork is just so... awesome.
Got dinosaur fossils also you know? Coool leh, and the best thing was: IT WAS FREEEEEEEEEEEE. When was the last time a Museum in Malaysia was free?
King George V
Check out the feathered guests, his crowning glory.
Trafalgar Square
There was a party of some sort!!! Guess what it was???
Hare Krishna!!!!
There was open proselytizing and free foooood, baby!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA.
This (the open proselytizing part) would never happen in our
OH-WORLD, LOOK-AT-ME because I'm a paragon of multicultural, multireligious, multiethnic TOLERANCE AND UNDERSTANDING, the bastion of internationalism where so many races and so many religions can coexist peacefully and harmoniously, and where we can discuss ALL OUR ISSUES LIKE LOGICAL PEOPLE AND NOT ACT LIKE GANGSTERS unlike you European neo-imperialists and colonists and blatant hypocritical racists who only discriminiate against Muslims,
NOW, would it.
(Stop being a hypocrite, Badawi)
Nelson's Column
The guy who defeated Napoleon at Trafalgar.
Regent's Park
This park was the nicest of all the parks in London. This and St James'. Hyde Park was nothing but weeeds and grasss.
News alert (I know, I'm repeating myself, but I can't help it)
SMKDJ WON FIRST and THIRD at
the HELP LAW OLYMPIAD 2006 !!!!!!
Pwnage la DJ this year. Rawr. Pn Lee sure damn happy one.
I wrote this article for theStar but I sent it in late so I don't know whether it's coming out one.
A free trip to Ireland for two, a seven day stint at one of the most happening cities in Europe, and a chance to meet the winner of the world's most lucrative literary award – not too bad a reward for listening to my mother and staying up late to write an essay on the extended competition deadline itself!
Winning the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Young Malaysians 2006 came as an absolute surprise to me. I was already more than satisfied to be short listed. Before, I never really thought of myself as a writer; but now, I found confidence to explore a new, exciting field of study. Nevertheless, I was nothing less than thrilled when I won: my mom and I were going to the emerald green isle of Eire!
Dublin Seascape
Day 1
We arrived on Sunday, 11 June. The first thing I liked about Ireland was its weather; its cool, rejuvenating, I-can-hardly-break-a-sweat-even-if-I-run weather. Oh, how I relished the wonderful, perfect breeze bringing life back into my tired, jet-lagged frame. I instantly knew that I was going to like the place.
We were taken to the posh Morrison Hotel, where we were to reside for our entire trip. This centrally-located four-star hotel overlooks the River Liffey, which runs through the heart of Dublin City, or Atha Cliath in Irish.
River Liffey (a bit the dirty one. can see green mold, hehe)
Atha Cliath is a pleasant-sized city; not too big, not too small. Home to about 1.2 million residents, it is the capital of Ireland. A lot of its buildings still retain their original facades, and the city is a fusion of romantic cobblestone streets and Georgian and Edwardian architecture. I believe that there is a cap on a Dublin building's height at four or five storeys – there aren't any skyscrapers in Dublin! This policy preserves the city's cultural and historical atmosphere – ancient structures with their flying buttresses, soaring steeples and Romanesque columns seem more prominent this way.
Cobblestoned streets
(Look reeeally carefully and you'll see that the streets are strewn with cigarette butts. Dublin is as dirty as Malaysia, but it doesn't feel that way, because of the perfect weather and breeeeeeze.)
Georgian architecture (think red red red brick)
Tourism and immigration have given Dublin a very metropolitan, multicultural feel. Mom and I tried to guess of what ethnicity people we met on the streets were (Chinese, Japanese, Italian, French, Polish!), with varying degrees of success.
One thing about Dublin: it is an extremely walkable city. Everyone walked everywhere! There were traffic lights and pedestrian crossings at almost every junction, and even the waiting periods at these intersections were soothingly short. The perfect weather definitely made it easy – I couldn't resist going out for a stroll in such conditions. (It never once rained when we were there – Mom claimed that we brought the sun over from Malaysia!) Truly, the best way to explore Dublin is on foot.
Four/five storey cap for buildings.
Day 2
I met the other Young Writers – John Raithel and mom from Rhode Island, and Britta Bell and dad from Connecticut. John had won for a story he wrote entitled Perimeters, and Britta, a poem called Keeping My Father. We trotted over to Trinity College Dublin for a walking tour and an exhibition of the famous Book of Kells.
Trinity College Dublin
Trinity College Dublin
The Book of Kells is an ornate, colourfully illustrated medieval manuscript produced by Celtic monks. Intricate artwork and stunningly complex decorations interweave with lavish calligraphy to create an awe-inspiring, breathtaking, almost sacred sight, even to the casual observer. Striking hues of green, red, purple, gold, pink and blue belie their true age. In the days when paints were painfully expensive and hard to obtain, surely the monks didn't spare any expense in its creation: pigments were acquired from all over Europe; the extraordinarily costly semi-precious blue lapis lazuli was imported from Afghanistan!
We then went over to the IMPAC Office to have an enjoyable, light, getting-to-know-you session with the illustrious Judging Panel for the International Literary Award. (They wouldn't tell us who won!)
Day 3
Did you know that no less than four Irishmen have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, namely William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, and Seamus Heaney? Not forgetting giants Oscar Wilde and James Joyce, Ireland has contributed remarkably, disproportionately to world literature. And for this Irish literary heritage, the world's richest book prize – the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award is held there.
Poet, Dramatist, Wit: Oscar Wilde lived here
Dublin Coat of Arms. But check out the irony: Flaming castles and obendientia in Dublin.
John, Britta, Me
It was there, in Dublin City Hall, where we were among the selected few to learn, first-hand, that Colm Toibin had won the award and the 100,000 Euros for his tour-de-force, The Master. He is the first Irishman to win the award since its conception.
John, Britta, Colm Toibin, Me
Colm, Me
Actually I won lah.
Later, Mom and I went on a walking tour of the city, where we visited, among other Dublin landmarks, the all-imposing Dublin Castle, historic Temple Bar, refreshing St. Stephen's Green, and a few ornate, antique churches. We would also attend the celebration dinner for Colm Toibin, where we would eat our hearts out and receive complimentary autographed copies of the winning book!
Mom and I, Christchurch Cathedral Dublin
I like the pic mah.
Dublin Castle
Day 4
The Young Writers and their parents were escorted to the IMPAC Office to meet the newly crowned Colm Toibin. It was very nice to get to know him personally; Colm was very humble, very down-to-earth. We congratulated and chatted with him about what it meant to be a writer, and about his experiences as one. His advice: take note of anything that motivates, touches, enrages, discourages, inspires, frightens you. Anything at all – for it is from your personal experience that you draw from when you write.
Rubbish!!! Mala = Bag in Irish.
The Four Courts
Next, Judge Eugene Sullivan, the chair of the Judging Panel and former Chief Judge of the US Court of Appeals, took us on a tour of the Irish Supreme Court – the Four Courts. There we witnessed a civil hearing, saw some dangerous criminals in handcuffs, talked to an Irish judge, and took in some legal trivia from our affable guide. Did you know that toilets in courtrooms have a form of ultraviolet lighting to make it next to impossible for people to locate their veins, thus deterring them from committing suicide in the heat of legal action? Now you do!
Day 5
Today was a free day. Mom and I went on a bus tour to the south of Dublin, where we saw dramatic changes in scenery from the flat, sandy beaches to the East and the alternating green hills and rocky mountains to the West.
We went to Powerscourt Gardens, which is this gigantic, hauntingly beautiful, aristocratic estate to the southwest of Dublin. Its main mansion is said to be based on Versailles, albeit on a much smaller scale. Here we could see endless miles of evergreen forest stretching into the misty horizon. There were also the vast seas of emerald plains for which Eire is so famous for, and that very site was where the movie Braveheart was filmed! C'est magnifique!
The entire delegation went to a couple of readings held for the Dublin Writer's Festival where we listened to several accomplished, internationally-acclaimed novelists and poets present an eclectic selection of their work.
The harp: a symbol of Ireland
That afternoon was also quite an experience, catching the World Cup live from a hotel room in Europe!
The nights I had were reserved for hanging out with John and Britta – chatting and joking, alternating between school, life, politics, other deep stuff, and nothing much in particular. I had my first pint of Guinness. It wasn't bad, but comparatively, it's staggeringly thicker than other beers. Surprisingly, even in Guinness' birthplace, beer was quite expensive: 4 Euro for a pint (500 ml)!
Statue of Guinness founder in St Stephen's Green!!!
We left the next day for London.
I wish to thank IMPAC for making this trip so enjoyable for me and my mom. Thank you so much for your flexibility and generosity. Also, another huge thank you to the IMPAC staff in Dublin: Linda and Tana for taking care of us so well, and Chris and Gorpin for taking us out so often to make sure that we'd get at least one good meal a day!
All in all, my trip to Ireland was immensely fulfilling. I definitely see myself going back again. Now, if only they'd change the age limit next year…
Why Israel is damned if it does and damned it it doesn't
Edited: CHECK OUT THIS VERY APT CARTOON!
Hizbullah is not made of idiots. They are highly intelligent, calculative strategists. Their newest action has forced Israel into another Catch-22 situation.
1) Hizbullah kidnaps 2 Israeli soliders.
2) Israel has to do something. If it does nothing, the coalition government will fall, of course. And it's simple psychology. You do nothing to retaliate, you lose face, you lose support. You are weak. You get voted off.
Hizb 1, Israel 0.
Choices:
a) Negotiatewith Hizbullah, exchange few thousand prisoners for 2 soldiers. Hizbullah wins, Israel loses face. Moreover this will incite Hizb to launch MORE kidnappings to free MORE prisoners.
Hizb 2, Israel 0.
b) Force Lebanon or whatever external organization to force Hizbullah to return the soldiers. Will not happen. Hizb listens to no one.
c)Do it themselves - invade Lebanon and get rid of Hizbullah. Hizbullah still wins, because
1) Although they might lose the military war, they will win the political war - casualties from the Lebanese will definitely outweigh Israeli civilian deaths, and they can count on the World to condemn Israel, yet again.
Hizbullah 3, Israel 0
2) People are nothing to Hizbullah, and everything to Israel. Hizbullah sees people like Arafat the Corrupt did, as matyrs, as compulsory sacrifices, as collateral damage, as world sympathy bait. They don't care how many people from their country die, the more the better, for the world will condemn Israel.
Hizbullah 4, Israel 0.
3) Hizb hides their weapons amongst civilian targets. Kill more people, yay! Israel, of course, seeks to minimize civilian casualties but cannot because of this often overlooked fact. Hizb on the other hand invites the Israelis to kill more people, becuase in their dictionary loss of life = political gain mah. You really think Israel is that daft to want to kill more civilians for fun meh?
Hizb 5 Israel 0
4) Israel has to INVADE sovereign Lebanon to get Hizb. Bad political maneuver. Sure kena hentam one. What to do? Lebanon so weak, cannot disarm Hizbullah, so Hizbullah is grabbing them by the balls lah!
Hizb 6 Israel 0
5) Hizb will batter down Israeli columns into a bloody guerrilla war in southern Lebanon. Remember, every Israeli casualty inflicted is horrendous loss to Israel, while Hizb can't wait to sacrifice more martyrs. As I think King Saud of Saudi Arabia once said in the 1948 War of Liberation, "there are 50 million Arabs and 1 million Jews. What would it be to sacrifice 5 million Arabs to throw all the Jews into the sea?" The longer the war is, the more Israel will suffer, and it will suffer more than Hizbullah.
Hezbollah's motto is: "You love life, we love death." There is nothing, gushes Hezbollah's patron Ahmadinejad, "more beautiful, holier or more eternal than the death of a martyr."
What are you going to do to a group which WILL NOT BE CONTENTED UNTIL YOU ARE WIPED OUT FROM THE FACE OF THE EARTH? What CAN you do? They don't care if they die, they WANT to DIE! Rhetoric it may all be, but you know how fanatical people can be from rhetoric la (think Hitler and his Nazis).
Imagine if an Israeli PM says that he wants to wipe out the Palestinians from the face of the earth to put it into perspective OK.
Only some other selective people can say things like these (wiping people off the face of the earth), start a war, and get away with it, and even be supported by 10% of the world's population.
The irony is that Israel can win 100 brilliant, against the odds wars and still be insecure, while if it loses just ONE, it can be destroyed forever.
Israel is damned if it invades, and damned if it doesn't. Israel. is. trapped. by this ingenious, brilliant political maneuver by Hizbullah.
Given all these of course lah Israel doesn't care what others think.
And so Hizbullah is MOSTLY, if not SOLELY responsible for the destruction of Lebanon, responsible for escalating every act of violence now. The blame IS theirs. Stupid, brilliant, crazy, heartless Hizbullah. If you want to point your fingers, point it at Hizbullah.
Hizbullah is willing to sacrifice the entire country of Lebanon and lose another military war to score another political victory against Israel. Much like Arafat sacrificed his hundreds of Palestinians and kept them in poverty and susceptible to fanatical illusions to spite Israel.
Go on, Malaysia, support these godless beasts.
But of course, the stupid, horrendously idiotic, inhumane way Israel has been treating the Palestinians is another thing.
But as Kuan Chuen said, it's alllll politics! Yay.
Why Hizbullah will still be in power in Lebanon? Because although the Lebanese hate Hizbullah for inviting Israel in wreak havoc on their fragile country, the politicians cannot say it out loud, because in true Malaysian fashion, saying that would mean that you are against Hizbullah and if you're against Hizbullah you're for the Israelis and if you're for the Israelis you're a traitor. Lebanon is TOO FRACTURED, politically, militarily and economically to take a stand against Hizbullah. It will remain in the Lebanese political scape for years to come.
And also a huge part of the Arab population in countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia support Hizbullah for being able to whack the Israelis up unlike their cowardly governments. See lar, if the war continues you'll see these people going to Lebanon to fight some more as irregulars.
Is that what they teach you in local universities these days?
Old news la, only first time caught on camera. I think.
OOOOO and guess what? UPM students under UMNO Youth were having a demonstration at the US Embassy today when I went to collect my visa. Blocking traffic. Burning Israeli flags and Bush pictures in the middle of the haze season. Empty rhetoric, angry faces and nothing else.
When they left, the roads were strewn with garbage. If you want to protest, protest lar. But protest in a clean clean manner can or not?
I should bring my camera everywhere I go lar.
EDITED: IT WAS KHAIRY JAMALUDDIN! Hahaha he's really sold his soul now hasn't he? Fiery rhetoric for political gain! Shame, shame, hor hor, tata yoh, nyeh nyeh di bu bu.
"Israel pesuruh syaitan"
"Israel is the root cause of terrorism"
So laughable, eh!
Fun.
Wow the government is so fair and just in their implementation of the UUCA! So unselective of them by letting UPM students protest!
(I'm for their right to demonstrate, and also for EVERYONE'S right to demonstrate.)
Haha I talked to one, and asked him kenapa nak protes-protes ni? (what are you protesting for)
He answered tak cukup kereta, tak cukup tanah. (not enough cars, not enough land)
I was dumbfounded. (and thinking in my heart, for you or for the Palestinians?)
Which goes on to show that some people go to such things to show up and know nothing of any sort.
But the good news is that I met some UPM students who were nice lar.
I asked them why UMNO Youth was so selective in their demonstrations. It's like protest against Israel, yes, but so conspicuously silent over Hizbullah and Hamas and the kidnappings and missiles eh. Why they covered up Darfur and are only protesting about Palestine.
One answered there are 2 opinions about Darfur, A: Darfur(ians) are being persecuted, B: Darfurians aren't being persecuted because it's all a matter of opinion.
Then I said then there are 2 opinions about Palestine, A: Palestinians are being persecuted, B: Palestinians aren't being persecuted because it's all a metter of opinion.
Bullshit lar that line of defense.
There was one particular guy who was outstandingly outspoken, though. Nice guy. We talked about UUCA and other stuff lar. Openminded, him.
Then there was this gerai owner who, unfortunately represents the whole majority of citizens we have in the country.
He called out, eh-leh, you ni nak (murmur murmur) Islamic state (mumble mumble)
Which goes on to show that so may stupid Malaysians (especially of the older generation) can't stand to have a proper debate and associate differences in beliefs as racial and religious opnions.
Idiots.
But I sincerely hope more people in our unis are like the 2nd UPM guy I spoke to lar.
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw; Playwright, Nobel Laureate
Alexander cuts the Gordian Knot, by Jean-Simon Berthélemy
TheGordian Knotis a legend associated with Alexander the Great. It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem, solved by a bold stroke ("cutting the Gordian knot")
In ancient Phrygia, an oracle had foretold that a man with a wagon would eventually come and end their constant quarreling. Midas wandered into town with his ox-cart while the high council met, discussing the oracle's prediction. Midas was appointed king.
As a reminder of his good fortune, to thank the gods for his rule, Midas erected a shrine and dedicated his wagon to Zeus. Instead of being yoked to an ox, Midas placed his wagon in the center of the acropolis yoked to a pole with a large knot. The knot was an intricate and complex Turkish knot, having no ends exposed. Hundreds of tightly interwoven thongs of cornel-bark made the knot an impressive centerpiece for the shrine.
This was the famous Gordian knot, and it was further prophesied by the oracle that the one to untie the knot would become the king of Asia.
In 333 BC, wintering at Gordium, Alexander attempted to untie the knot. When he could find no end to the knot, to unbind it, he sliced it in half with a stroke of his sword, producing the required ends (the so-called "Alexandrian solution"). Alexander did go on to conquer Asia, fulfilling the prophecy.
Rubik's Cube in scrambled state
I had a Rubik's Cube when I was like 10.
I worked on it for hours.
I couldn't solve it.
So I took out the colored stickers and stuck them where they were supposed to go.
:D
Heee.
(Now some stickers have lost their stickiness have are lost, forever.)
Stupid isolationist, paranoid, the-whole-world-is-against-us, anti-freedom of movement lobbyists in the Bush administration.
Stupid Department of Homeland Security and your countless vomit-inducing, brain-numbing, useless forms to fill up and pointless, time-wasting security procedures to go through.
Stupid DHS SEVIS fee, USD 100, that international students to America pay extra for the authorities to track them down.
Stupid forms, stupid forms, stupid forms.
Ughh.
10 years ago America was the world's friendliest country.
Now America has the world's most tourist/immigrant/visitor unfriendly VISA/Immigration/Naturalization service.
What happened to the good old liberal, open, friendly, wonderful land of the free and home of the brave?
Stupid terrorists, stupid people!
Stupid, stupid, stupid!
Italy didn't deserve to win! Poor Zidane. I seriously think it was a racist insult lah.
One look at Zidane and you know he's a nice guy.
One look at Materazzi and you know he's a big fat bully.
