Blogathon is a charity marathon event where participants will be blogging for one whole day (24 hours) in effort to raise donations for various charity foundations.
The Blogathon 2006 will begin at 0600 Pacific Time, on July 29, 2006. A total of 401 bloggers will update their blog every 30 minutes in an endurance test to raise funds for a specific charity organization determined by each blogger themselves.
Most Malaysian will know about our darkest history after independence on May 13, 1969.. the racial violence that claim hundred(s) of casualties.
Fact is however, how many of the younger generations know what exactly happened on that day? What triggered the violence? What happen to the victims? What happened to the villains?
University Putra Malaysia (UPM) has been under the spotlight lately, first with the ‘racist’ textbook and later on with the bullies video [link] just 2 or 3 days ago.
According to merdekareview.com report, a group of UPM Chinese students are setting up counters, fund collecting for the projects. Then came a group of Malay boys disrupted the event with some monkey act.
There’s always a debate for the usage of Manglish (Malaysian English) that is said to give bad impression to foreigners about our English level. I’m actually fine with Manglish, but more concern about the impurity in Bahasa Malaysia (M’sia national language) instead.
Was watching the 8tv’s reality show “One In A Million” last week, and totally annoyed by the language used by some judges.. they mixed Bahasa and English until you can’t really clarify whether they are using BM or English to communicate.
No it’s not me, I can barely swim. It’s a video I found from YouTube surfing.. a group of tourist (from KL?) scuba diving in Sipadan Island’s underwater.
It got to be one of the cooliest self-made video I’ve seen from YouTube, the underwater world is just so heaven-like.. enough to motivate me to learn some serious swimming and get a scuba diving license.