Father = Ayah?
A non-Muslim came home and his children ran to him and called “Ayah! Ayah!”
His Muslim neighbour got upset and said to him, “Can you please tell your children not to call you Ayah?”
The man asked, “Why?”
The neighbor retorted, “Because my children call me Ayah too. They might get confused and mistake you to be their father.”
The non Muslim nearly fire his Indonesian maid for teaching his children Malay word for Father….
I heard this joke yesterday, from a friend. This morning I saw it again on Facebook, therefore I made the decision to copy and paste it here. Courtesy to who ever invented this.
Finally.. We have 4
Tell you a joke.
A friend of mine, from neighbor country. He told me this before.
He was frequent traveler to KL since 90’s. It was when Malaysia economy emerged very fast, due to many factors, under the ruling of Tun M.
That was time when our Putra LRT, now Rapid KL Kelana Jaya Line, firstly launched.
The poor guy was waiting for the train underground of KLCC.
He had the habit, waiting at the last platform gate. That’s pretty normal for those taking trains (MRTs) in Singapore, I guess.
However, when the train first arrived, he was shocked.
The train go all the way beyond the last gate. The train only stop in the middle of the platform, and only 4 gates in the middle opened.
Realizing that, the poor guy had to run all the way to catch the train before the door closed.
Our Putra LRT had only 2 coaches per train, buddy, even though the platform built for longer trains.
It was late 90’s.
More than 10 years after the event, only we started to use 4 coaches train. What’s wrong with us?
Clipped from MerdekaReview
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“马来西亚英殖民时期研究”学术交流会
【作者／何启才】 Jan 15, 2010 12:05:34 pm
新纪元学院马来西亚族群研究中心和砂拉越华族文化协会将于2月6日（星期六）的上午九时，在加影新纪元学院联办第二届“马来西亚英殖民时期研究”学术交流会。本届交流会的主题是“马来亚、砂拉越及北婆罗洲（沙巴）英殖民时期的西方图像”。
会议将分三个场次进行，届时将有十篇论文在会上发表。会议讨论范畴将集中在1786至1963年的“英殖民时期”期间，西方文明对马来亚，砂拉越及北婆罗洲（沙巴）之影响，或这些殖民地所能理解的西方文明，希望借此发掘和诠释英殖民时期所遗留给马来西亚在政治、经济、文化、历史、文学、教育、宗教、思想等领域的精神面貌和影响。
我们欢迎对上述课题有兴趣的学者专家、学生和社会人士前来参与，互相讨论及交流。此交流会仅象征式收取报名费十元，名额有限。详情可联络：新纪元学院马来西亚族群研究中心03-87392770，分机6209（陈先生）、分机6201（何先生）。
以下为第二届“马来西亚英殖民时期研究”的论文发表者及论题：（依场次排名）
（1）发表者：廖文辉博士（新院中文系讲师）
论题：战前马新南洋研究的中译现象概述（1930-1941）
（2）发表者：周丹尼博士（砂拉越大学东亚研究所高级研究员）
论题：英国殖民地政府对砂拉越华人实施的政策（1946-1963）
（3）发表者：朱敏华（砂华协历史组主任）
论题：拉者詹姆士‧布洛克：一个引进西方文化到砂拉越的统治者
（4）发表者：蔡增聪（砂华协执行主任）
论题：海丽蒂·麦陀尔与砂拉越：一个维多利亚时代妇女的异邦书写（5）发表者：苏燕婷（新院中文系讲师）
论题：1950年代的现代思潮——以《蕉风》、《文艺新潮》和《中国学生周报》为例
（6）发表者：伍燕翎（新院中文系讲师）
论题：战后马华现代诗之颉颃——以《蕉风》（1955-1959）诗人群体作研究个案
（7）发表者：黄琦旺博士（新院中文系讲师）
论题：殖民后的语言焦虑——谈叶谁小说《1964》的华裔属性
（8）发表者：吴诰赐（砂华协副秘书）
论题：《砂拉越曙光》中的马来民族主义与华人图像
（9）发表者：何启才（新院马来西亚族群研究中心研究员）
论题：独立前马来亚共产党与马来左翼组织的关系
（10）发表者：杨佳佳（拉曼大学中文系硕士研究生）
论题：砂拉越华文教育的发展：探讨由英殖民时期走向独立时期的演变
Basic Maths.. But How Many of Us Care?
I had just scolded by a good friend. Let’s do some simple mathematics.
How old is your parents? xx years.
How many times you go back home and see them in a year? yy times.
Let say human average life expectancy is 90 years old. So how many years you will still have your parents around? 90 – xx years = zz years.
So, how many times you will still have to go back home and visit your parents? zz years * yy times = ??
You ask yourself — do you feel that’s many or too few for you? I am not sure for you but I strongly feel that I should go back more often.
Gunning Down Robbers
Another case.
Should we celebrating the police as hero? Or rather, we should ask a few questions.
1. What kind of situation at the particular moment which force the cops to fire? Did they have alternatives for example, to just injure the robbers and arrest them alive?
2. The news says that the robbers were equipped with parangs, non of them armed with fire weapon. Therefore, it must be in a very situation which forced the policemen to start the fire. Could it be the robbers were so stubborn and try to fight with their parang against cops’ pistol? Or there was publics around and the wild robbers might be a big threat to them?
3. After the dead of the robbers, how could they so sure that they were linked to so many other cases happened around? How smart the cops are to identify the robbers guilty for another 17 cases, why they failed to arrest them earlier?
Are we right or are we getting more and more out of the track of being justice, fair and respect human rights?
