Yet Another "Wise" Decision...

WARNING... This Blog Post is DEFINITELY NOT for fanatics such as those in you know what la... Just in case you want to sue me... I don't have anything to pay so don't bother doing so.

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Recently this has been up on the headline for like two days already. Yoga was BANNED! Not to all but to certain group of people only. I don't know why but these people seems to create most of the noise. Especially during parliament meetings. They are the one making racist remarks and yet they accuse people of making racist remarks. What are they trying to imply? Is it that they are the only race, therefore any remark regarding them is classified as racist remark while the rest are not considered race so those remarks made are not racist remarks? Up to you to decide.

Never mind about that, it is still a long time before Malaysia can reach High Tech Nation  if they are still fighting over who perli-ed who and why chinese are "pendatang". Eh MAHATIR! Your 2020 vision is not coming true. 11 more years but it seems we are not "ready" for it yet. I think we do stand a chance in 200200. Alright, let's get back to the main topic. Yoga. I wonder how did they come about making this decision. It seems the main reason is that Yoga has some religious influences in it. It is said to be some Hindu-Buddhist teaching is preached when learning yoga. To what extend this statement is true, I'll leave it for you to judge. However, before you make any decision, let me share some Yoga experience of mine with you.

First of all, let me describe my size. I'm 189 cm tall, weighing at almost 90Kg, you can imagine the tummy I have. All my friends know that I am not FIT at all. So by perception, I think I can't bend my body. But I can! To certain extend of course. I can't bend my body to allow my head to touch my knees while my legs are straight. (LOL). I first practiced yoga when I joined some novitiate programme back in 2003, 2005 and 2007. My mentor said yoga can help us stretch our body so that during our meditation session we can sit longer without experience pain on our legs and our back. So he taught us a set of yoga call "Worshiping The Sun". Not a very hard routine and also not a simple routine. I can do all the postures except one where I have to bend down forming a triangle with the floor. My feet just won't touch the ground. Never mind about that, I cheated my way through that. I actually enjoyed that because after doing that you really can feel the difference in your body. So I do think yoga helps.

Now here comes the question. In Buddhism, we actually don't worship any god or any human being. The Buddha (the statue you see in temples especially the famous one in Thailand - The reclining Buddha) is just our teacher. We pay respect to him for what he have been through and for what he had taught us. We do not worship him like idol worshiping. Therefore we are flexible for He said, " Come and see, if you think this benefits you, then practice it." In a general way of explaining this will be - practice whatever that you think is good for you and whatever that helps you to attain Nibbana (ever lasting peace). So we just learn whatever that helps us. We do not practice or learn anything blindly. So Yoga to us is just a way to help us. At least for me it is. I have never ever thought that yoga has religious elements in it. Who cares what "Worshiping The Sun" is for or really do we worship the sun? All I did when I was doing the posture is trying to ease my pain. Where got time to think about other things?

Well another reason I heard from my mom (she practices yoga regularly, I don't) was there is this meditation session included in the whole routine. (So there are other routines!!!) She thinks that this might be the cause that those people consider it a religious element. Well to me meditation is not a word solely for Buddhism. I believe other religion also have their set of meditation. They do meditate! Just that the ways are different. We believe in concentrating on certain things to realise impermanence, non-self and suffering. While Christians of course have their which I do not know what they contemplate on. As for muslims, if I haven't remembered it wrongly, it is stated in my Form 4 History Text that Nabi Muhammad "bertapah" in some cave. So he did meditate after all. He meditated based on Allah's teaching. I meditate based on Buddha's teaching. Meditation is a very general term. It doesn't mean that you are a Buddhist if you meditate. It doesn't mean that you will be influence to be a Christian if you meditate. It sure doesn't make sense that you will become a Hindu follower if you practice yoga. 

Things are amazing. A 100ml cup filled up with 50 ml of water could be half full and at the same time it could be half empty. Why choose to look at things in a negative way? Why complain that the cup is half empty? Why not we rejoice that the cup is half full? Why think of so many ways to restrict people? Why punish yourself for the things you have not done? Why want to dig something up to make yourself suffer? Is it worth it to build walls around yourself to make sure you don't go out of it to make mistakes when you can have beautiful sceneries outside the walls? I wonder why this body is making so much noise. They should spend their time thinking how to make Malaysia a better place and how to make Malaysia achieve Developed Nation status.

Heroes - VILLAINS

It's been 3 seasons already only I posted something about heroes. Hee... Now it's already season 3. Many things have changed and it's only 9 episodes. FOR THOSE WHO HAVEN'T WATCH PLEASE LEAVE NOW OR BARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPOILERS YOURSELVES. 

Let's start with some recap on what happened the last two seasons...

Season 1.

Our playground baddy aka Sylar lost is injured and lost his powers. (Hooray!) Our world savior - Peter Petrelli got red (literally) and was taken into the air by his brother, Nathan, and Ka-Boom! That's when everyone thought Nathan and Peter is dead. Our Sylar also died in the "Final Battle" so everyone was happy and smiling. :-) The End.

Season 2.

Our dearest Peter is not dead! (For those who cried over his death, he's got spontaneous regeneration with him remember?) As for our senator, he survived of course, was healed and the show continued with a larger plot behind it. Somebody is behind all his power power thing. He is even worse than our Sylar. More people were killed for that. The Company, who invented a type of virus that could wipe out the entire world's population, was behind that? Or is it Adam Monroe, Hiro's childhood hero? (Actually Hiro's hero is Hiro himself.) Adam killed nearly half of the Company's Board of Directors and he wanted to release the virus. Of course, our Peter came into rescue again. He destroyed the virus and Hiro sent Adam to Kaito (Hiro's dad), in Kaito's coffin, under the ground. You're right, Kaito is dead. So after all this thing, Nathan decided to reveal the "secret" to the public. Just when he's about to say it... HE GOT SHOT TWICE AND DIED! The end. By the way, Sylar wasn't dead and he is still collecting his powers. 

Here comes season 3 (Updated till episode 9)

Now things starts to get confusing. Guess who shot Nathan? Jeng jeng jeng! PETER! Yeah. PETER from the future shot him. Why? The show started with a cute brunette holding a gun pointing at the future Peter. Of course Peter avoided the bullet and took the gun to return to present day to shoot Nathan. According to him, if Nathan hasn't announced the "secret", the world wouldn't turn bad. People are having powers! Anyone with the ability to buy it will have it. So, again, he has to stop it! Then things just go crazy with Sylar getting Claires power, and Sylar turns out to have the last name Petrelli. Yupz. He is Peter's brother. No wonder they share the same kind of power right? The can learn other people's power. Now our playground bully turns out to be a hero after all? For awhile at least. The show is still going remember? As for Peter, he was brought to the future by Peter (you know which Peter I am talking about) and he acquired Sylar's ability and the next thing you know, Sylar from a goody boy, griefs over his son's death, blew up Costa Verde. So this present Peter now turns out to be a villain! Oh no!!! As I say, the show is still going, and the story is as confusing as this blog post. Everything is screwed up. Whimpy Mohinder is now a monster! I love Tim Kring for that. As for Peter's role... Stupid Tim Kring.

ps. Elle Bishop - Kristen Bell is so cute. She got together with Sylar.

That's some recap of what happened until today.

Personal Comment

Season 3 is damn confusing now. Heroes turn villains, villains turn heroes. However, one thing I am sure now is, the whole thing was caused by Peter's parents. They were fighting against each other. Many new abilities were introduced and of course there are recycles of abilities. 

The new heroes

1. Daphne aka Speedster aka Nemesis (Hiro calls her that). She can travel at the supersonic speed. Surprise! She is the only one besides those with the ability to control time and space to be able to walk free when Hiro freezes time. However she can't travel at supersonic speed during that time.

2. Knox. He turns peoples fear into his own strength and he uses it against you.

3. Flint. Human Flamethrower. That explains all.

4. Tracy. She is one of the Nikki series. Of course she is not Nikki but look exactly like her. She has the ability to turn things into ICE.

5. Arthur Petrelli. He can suck ability out of you and then acquires it. He took away all of Peter's abilities.

Well, there are more to come. The new Sylar is even more YENG than the old one. Trust me on that.

Till then. Next episode is on 24th Nov 2008.

  

What has GAYS to do with Crime Rate?

After reading Choya's post, it reminds me of the most recent ridiculous news. Gay party was raided in Midlands Park. For those who don't know where is it, IT'S the damn place where I stayed near to. Ahem! Not where I stay in ok? You might be wondering if Choya is straight or not but stop wondering whether I am. I am definitely STRAIGHT!! I have reactions towards girls ok.

According to yesterday's news (The Star 4 Nov 2008), two massaging parlours was raided for organising gay parties. So all of the party goers were brought back to the police station and questioned. Now at first I thought ok, they are doing some funny actions in there. (Hint: they found condoms. Both used and unused) Oops... What are they doing eh? I think satays in Pulau Tikus Market is very nice. However, when I read the whole thing, I actually found out that it already had some related cases months ago. Whenever there are complaints on rising crime rate, there will be operations on raiding gay parties. Now, what is wrong with gays? Nothing. Just that gay party is not acceptable, it's just like sex parties. Nothing is wrong with sex but when you organise sex party then it's wrong. Get it??

However, what has gay parties to do with our crime rate increasing? Do they rob or steal so that they can be gays? I don't think so. unless they don't have money to get some protection. Hee. Other than that I don't see reasons for them being related to crimes. So why waste energy on raiding this kinda things instead of patrolling the dark areas. However I prefer them to solve more cases such as murdering cases. For instance, the murder of Altantuya. I means come on, what are the police doing? Raiding gays?? So they are so useless to the fact that they can only deal with these harmless gays? This is sad! Few months back, a police station in Chow Kit Road in Kuala Lumpur was reported to have been  shut down. When asked why, our famous Home Minister (who got demoted from Foreign Minister after his interview with BBC) explained that the place is too dangerous for the police officers. HOLY SHIT? Too dangerous for the police officers? Yeah, the samsengs there were very fierce lo! They will do anything to harm you lo! BULLSHIT! If the police officers are afraid of them, then who is there to protect the residents there? If those police officers are that useless, they shouldn't have been police officers, they should have switch jobs. I suggest them selling satays or Ramlee Burger. Well, that's what they do  best isn't it? Danger free job.

I wonder what is next. To what extend can our minister be so idiotic? Please! I hope they will understand this and hopefully they will replace those incompetent ministers. ANYWAY, congratulations to BARACK OBAMA. 

IDIOTS FORMING GOVERNMENT?

First of all, still remember our hottie Bollywood star?? DATUK Shah Ruk Khan? I still don't see a bloody reason form him to be presented with this award. Is this a sign that our award worth shit? That anyone can get Datukship? That one we will have to forgive "The Idiot" that maybe he "accidentally" put Shah Ruk Khan's name into the list. How about this. People who marries single mother gets RM1000? Now this is really mind boggling.

Recently the CM of our beloved historical state suggested that those horny perverts who seriously in need of money should be paid when they marry some MILF there. I mean come on and wake up. If you think pedophile are sickos, the person who suggested this is neither healthy. First of all, we might be facing 2 problems now. More divorce cases and cheat cases. WHY??

You see, usually when people are committed and the finally got married. It is suppose to be a sign of love or an accident happened. Nobody can force someone to marry and now they create the loop hole themselves. Government will give you money if you marry a single mother. So let's con the tax-payers money. How about I hire some 5 single mother, and then I open a match making firm. I encourage guys to participate in match making. Good then when they got married, I take 20% of the money the got from the gov. They can later split the balance and divorce 3 months later. Then the process repeats and I am making money. Well, this money is ang pau money - TAX FREE!!! Those boys (especially drug addicts and beggers) you are welcome to my firm. You'll get a few hundred ringgit everytime you sign your name in the registration counter for marriage.

So this is why I call them stupid. The case above might not happen in real but part of it will happen. Which part? The drug addicts can actually marry and get the money to get more drugs. You might be thinking," Who wants to marry a drug addict?" How about another drug addict? They marry, give birth, divorce = single mom produced! Then they play pervertic games like wives switching and woo laa! Goverment pays for the drugs and the wives switching parties. Nice isn't it?

Pretty stupid suggestiong, I wonder what will they come up with next? Dato Seri for those who filmed the opposition parties' member in nude? Or maybe Tun for the one who manage to sentence ARRRNNNU-ah? Or Compentiation for those who volunteer to plead guilty for politicians especially when they are involved in bombing pretty ladies? I wonder what's next.