Advertlets and Nuffnang are 2 Malaysian blog advertising networks that launched in beta recently.
James Yeang has an interview with both of the founders, pretty good read, kudos to James.
After visiting their websites, I found some questions and ideas about the 2 networks; here is my review for both projects. (I don’t know both of the founder in person, thus no bias intended)
Watched “Hotel Rwanda,” an inspiring (or rather disturbing) movie about the Rwanda Genocide in 1994. It makes me wonder… what it took for a person to take the other life; what could trigger a massacre; what can you do to prevent something bad even if you saw it coming…
It reminded me that despite lots of unfairness and stupid stuff in Malaysia… we are still a lucky bunch of people to be born on this land. It’s a pretty rare occasion that I felt really good to be in Malaysia, or to be a Malaysian… lots of the other time I was rather pessimist about our future, couldn’t help it.
Btw, I watched the movie in a hospital… any other weirder places to watch a movie?
Malaysian censorship board has banned 2 movies produced by Malaysian directors lately.
The first being axed was “Village People Radio Show” (Apa Khabar Orang Kampung) by director Amir Muhammad, who also had his movie “The Last Communist” banned last year. Amir blogged about why Village People Radio Show was banned, read it.
If communist related movies are judged too sensitive for Malaysians’ viewing, the 2nd banning is rather peculiar. The movie is “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone” by international renowned director Tsai Ming Liang.
“The Malays are not a lazy indigenous group, having proven themselves over time in numerous fields,” said Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. [NST]
Not all Malays are lazy. In my 3+ years of study in local university, I met some of the most diligent people that are Malays; but majority of the laziest students I have ever met are Malays.
Don’t want to be discriminative here… but unless there are massive improvements over the past few years, large groups of Malays are still being lazy in local varsities.
I don’t want to jump into conclusion that they are lazy by nature, Najib could be right to say that it’s not ‘indigenous’; perhaps some Malay lazy graduates have reasons like not being able to catch up with the studies and low English proficiency (English was a huge problem for lots of local undergraduates).
My point is however, that government leaders like Najib could look into the large problems more seriously instead of being proud with some small achievements. Things cannot be improved if they cannot accept the fact that they need improvements.
Dinner with mum and sister at Sunway area yesterday, jammed for an extra half an hour because of the protest at Sunway Pyramid against the hike of toll rate.
I wonder why the protestors chose to demonstrate at Pyramid… it’s private property and as far as I am concern, Sunway Group has nothing to do with the toll hike. I wonder why they didn’t held the demonstrations at the toll instead?
The protest disrupted the businesses nearby, the boss of the restaurant I was dining told me that their business could drop by 30-50% because of the protest. It just showed that the protestors were being inconsiderate in some sense.