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| Wednesday, 14-Jan-2009 07:30 |
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Holocaust of the 21st Century
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Many books were written and movies made of the WW2 holocaust. An shamefull human tragedy which happened before my time and should not befall unto any nation anywhere to anyone anytime anymore. As we look at the photos and read the testimonials, we say to ourselves no this can't have happened, people can't be doing all these cruelties and it can't be allowed to happen again.
Yet it happened again in many parts of the world. In Cambodia, in Rwanda and at the beginning of this 21st century in Gaza, Palestine. This time committed by the children and grandchildren of the WW2 holocaust.
What moves these people to commit such inhuman act. Killing innocent people including children at the early spring of their lives. Children so innocent they cannot yet understand reasons.
Whatever it is, what moves them must probably be the same with what moved the Nazis. The Nazis must probably have thought that the world would be a better place to live without the Jews and now the Jews are probably thinking the same thing about the Palestinian.
One thing for sure the world will definitely be a better place without a holocaust and for that I call for the condemnation and boycott of Israel and US products for this act of terror no words can describe, no reason can justify. It is not a punishment for no punishment can be just enough. It is merely a symbolic show of disapproval on behalf of the human race. We can never suppport those who commit such barbaric act. We will not want to be associate in any way with such people and we will not forget Gaza as they have not forgotten Auswich.
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| Sunday, 11-Jan-2009 17:20 |
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Outing Makro 2009
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| Sunday, 11-Jan-2009 16:49 |
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Koleksi Macro Pertama Tahun 2009
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| Saturday, 3-Jan-2009 12:49 |
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Jalan-jalan cari subjek
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Tadi buat pertama kalinya saya menyertai ekspedisi anjuran FMDC tengah untuk mencari subjek macro. Ekspedisi yang dianjurkan saudara emran memberi saya peluang untuk berkenalan dengan rakan-rakan baru sebab saya ni jenis jarang ikut acara-acara sebegini. Terima kasih untuk nasi lemak, McD dan kereta wangi yang saya tumpang ke Bukit Tinggi.
Minggu depan insyallah kami akan ke Kemensah pula.
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| Friday, 10-Oct-2008 06:36 |
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Raya - Balik Kampung
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I know this is a bit late. Last Raya the whole family went back to Kuantan for Raya. We took off from Kuala Lumpur on Saturday and stayed until Thursday. Then we extended for 2 nights in Cherating staying in a nice small resort in Kampung Cherating. The resort have two swimming pool, one for adult and one for children. It's beach front and we took two unit facing the beach. The rooms are airconditioned and spacious with two queen sized beds in each unit.
#1: The team
#2: My 3 princess
#3: Yasmin
#4: Lily
#5: The 4 children
#6: Sand weavers
#7: Hop the Box
#8: Yasmin, Emir and Lily
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| Thursday, 9-Oct-2008 09:28 |
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Navarathri - Nine nights of celebration
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'Navaratri' is the festival of worship of Goddess Shakti (feminine manifestation of the cosmic energy). The Goddess fought evil Demons over nine days and nights and destroyed them on the tenth day.
Answering an invitation of a friend who were performing as part of a dance school, on the 8th night we went to the Lord Murugan temple in Batu Caves. There weren't many people there contrary to our expectation and I was very much relieved to be able to park my car inside the temple compound. Our friend who is working in the same office as my wife will be performing at 9:00pm. I was quite amazed to learn she have been taking dance classes since she was 6 years old. It reminds me of some friends I know in Turkey who have been taking Islamic calligraphy classes, Mevlevi dance, sufi music, etc since very small. How strong they hold to their ways is what amazes me. So what is Navarathri? To accompany the photos, we googled up some information and try understand what we watched and recorded. So the dance performed throughout the nine nights is actually a 9 night chronology of the fight betwen good and evil.
Navaratri means "nine nights". What does the nine signify? There are nine planets (grahas), according to astrology. The human body has nine openings. If a deep inquiry is made, it will be found that mankind is dependent on the planets. Although astrologers speak about nine planets, in reality, only two "planets" matter: attachment (raaga) and hatred (dwesha).
In the worship of the deities during Navaratri, one of them is worshipped each day, not externally but with one's heart and soul. Bodily actions are ephemeral. The body derives its value from the spirit within. Hence it should be regarded as a sacred temple. During the Navaratri festival, for the purpose of eradicating one's own demonic and evil tendencies, the deities are worshipped with sacred powder (kumkum).
Therefore, the Navaratri festival is observed by contemplating on God for ten days, cleansing one's self of all impurities, in order to experience the divinity within. The last but one day of the festival is dedicated to what is termed "worship of weapons” (ayudha puja). The weapons to be worshipped are the divine powers in man. When the divine is worshipped in this way, one is bound to progress spiritually.
During Navaratri, the energy of Sree Durgadevi is intensely active in the atmosphere.
The Celebration
Navratri is divided into sets of three days to adore three different aspects of the supreme goddess or goddesses – Durga, Lakshmi and Saraswathi. Their esoteric significance is represented by three potencies (shakthis): will power (ichchaa shakthi), the power of purposeful action (kriya shakthi), and the power of knowledge (jnaana shakthi).
First three days
The goddess is invoked as a spiritual force called Durga also known as kali in order to destroy all our impurities, vices and defects.
When the divine Goddess is in dreadful rage to destroy the wicked elements, she assumes a fearful form. To pacify the dreaded Goddess, we her children offer worship to Her with sacred red powder (kumkum). Seeing the blood-red kumkum at her feet, the Goddess feels assured that the wicked have been vanquished and assumes her benign form. The inner meaning of the worship of Devi with red kumkum is that thereby the Goddess is appeased.
Second three days
The Mother is adored as a giver of spiritual wealth, Lakshmi, who is considered to have the power of bestowing on her devotees inexhaustible wealth - not just money but intellectual wealth, the wealth of character, health and others. She is the Goddess of wealth!
Final three days
Ashtami is the day devi is enlighetened, she kills the asura who is the embodiment of samskaras, he assumes diffrent forms as one samskara when suppressed becomes another. On namavi day siva comes to serve her. On dasami her enlightenment is celebrated. Enlightenmnet is the point of transtion between beast and man - between instinct and intellect - that is the birth of intuition.
The final set of three days is spent in worshipping the goddess of wisdom, Saraswathi. She bestows intelligence, the capacity for intellectual inquiry, and the power of discrimination on us.
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| Sunday, 14-Sep-2008 14:41 |
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Natural Light
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#1: Lily
#2: Emir
#3: Yasmin
#4: Fauzan
#5: Group
#6: Salina
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| Monday, 28-Jul-2008 16:03 |
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Macro War Trilogy Volume 1: Aerial Dogfight
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Introduction:
Early July, a macro war broke out between Red, Ikelah and myself and later joined by Halamanku and probably a few others.
The first of the three phased war is named Aerial Dogfight where each macro warlord is to submit a maximum of 3 macro images of flying insects before the 29th July. All readers and viewers are invited to choose the winner at Red's fotopages : http://tramontina.fotopages.com. Voting will only start on the 1st August and end at 11:59pm the 3rd of August.
In evaluating a macro image, sharpness often is the most important criteria however you should decide based on your personal preference.
#1 Assault : Closing in for the strike
Trying my luck at Taman Tasik Perdana during the last day of Expo laman, I couldn't find any insects to silence the other macro warlords. Wandering further away from the main attraction area, I found this flower bush and noticed something flying from one flower to another. That's where I built my air base to recruit these fast flyers.
#2 Assault : The First Wave
The main objective is to soften Red, Ikelah, Halamanku and the other marco warlords on the ground.
#3 Assault : Precision Strike
The objective is to pin them down deep inside them bunkers.
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| Sunday, 13-Jul-2008 06:54 |
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Macro War: Air Strike
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I'm still waiting for Ikelah and Red to submit their entry photos but till this moment none have done so. So I'll just continue with my second posting and later from these posting choose 5 of the best for the final submission.
6 images of a small type of dragonfly: Aethriamanta aethra
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| Thursday, 10-Jul-2008 14:09 |
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Saper hok sokmo gelok ngeh ngeh tu?
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