This entry is based on an article of an Elite media which I personally consider very seditious. The article is here. (Unfortunately in Malay language).
UMNO has called on PAS (a Malaysia Islamic Party) to unite the Malay political parties. No, they did not invite the Malays of PKR (People Justice Party) although those Malays in PKR are quite significant in the political scenario of this country.
In fact, this reminds me of an incident watched on internet. When an UMNO youth from Selangor suggested to bring back Anwar Ibrahim (the de-facto leader of PKR, an ex-UMNO member and an ex-deputy prime minister to Mahathir) for the sake of Malay unity, the reply from UMNO members particularly supporters of both Mahathir and Mukhriz booed him, said FUCK YOU to him and dragged him out of the assembly hall in front of both Mahathir and Mukhriz.
Now wait …
This young man gave a suggestion to bring back Anwar Ibrahim into UMNO for the sake of unity … I repeat this again, for the sake of unity … those supporters of both Mahathir and Mukhriz booed him, said FUCK YOU to him and dragged him out of the assembly hall.
Weird is not?
A young man gave a suggestion for the sake of unity and the best thing those UMNO members particularly supporters of both Mahathir and Mukhriz could do was to boo, to say FUCK YOU and drag him out.
What is this UNITY suggested by UMNO in the first place?
Is it for the sake of protecting power? Protecting projects for cronies? Protecting wealth – Rolex, bungalows, BMW, Mercedez Benz etc etc etc?
Unity with PAS? Want PAS members to behave like UMNO members – say FUCK YOU or whatever other nasty words those UMNO members are so good at? How about keris-waving? How about teaching PAS that the Chinese and the Indians are ‘kaum pendatang’? Not to mention to kill a human rather a snake too …
UMNO is desperate. Their kind of unity is filthy. You know, desperate people resort to desperate actions … like the article linked above :-)
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Elitism Exposed: Part 2 – Iblis a.k.a. Lucifer, The Greatest Trick
Please do read the Disclosure Statement before proceed.
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Showing posts with label I Voter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label I Voter. Show all posts
Saturday, May 16, 2009
I Voter: Unvote UMNO – Part 2/5 Unity ala UMNO
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
I, Voter: Unvote UMNO – Part 1/5 About Being Grateful
This entry is based on an article of an Elite media which I personally consider very seditious. The article is here. (Unfortunately in Malay language).
Right now, if I were to vote, I will certainly not going to vote UMNO (United Malay National Organization). Who cares right? I’m still waiting to be an official voter and I’m nobody important but that’s exactly the point.
Last General Election, there were about four to five million Malaysians who are qualified as voters but have never bothered to register. I’m included because for years I have never trusted the politicians and I’ve been running businesses successfully without any political connection whatsoever.
There are many factors why I’ve changed my mind but the result of the last General Election is major. Not because the ruling parties are losing strengths or the opposition parties are gaining strengths but because there is a major negative thinking particularly among my Malay friends that the future is doomed once what now known as The People’s Alliance is to be in power.
To them, Malays will always been taken care of by UMNO though they know UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
Wow!
Let me repeat this, Malays will always been taken care of by UMNO though they know UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
Wow! Again!!
As a Malay, I admit that UMNO has helped me a lot particularly education. At the age of 13, I was sent to a fully government boarding school under government scholarship where everything was taken care of – education, money, food, shelter etc.
Here lies the argument – I am supposed to be “grateful” because all these years UMNO has helped the Malays in so many ways and therefore I must be “grateful” by showing support or vote for UMNO.
Two questions then have arisen:
1) How do you define “being grateful”?
2) Do I have to support or vote for UMNO though they and I know very well, in fact admitted by UMNO itself, that UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
I have defined “being grateful” in so many ways particularly in this section (I, Voter). Being grateful is simply to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.
To vote for a candidate that they and I know is corrupted and claim myself “being grateful” does not make sense at all.
However there is this kind of being grateful too. For many years I’ve been taking care of my grandmother who stays with us and she is old, sick and forgetful. Sometimes she is very irritating. No matter how irritating she is, I am grateful that she is still around because she is my grandmother.
To ask me to apply this is kind of grateful to a political party like UMNO is ridiculous.
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Elitism Exposed: Part 2 – Iblis a.k.a. Lucifer, The Super Racists
Please do read the Disclosure Statement before proceed.
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Right now, if I were to vote, I will certainly not going to vote UMNO (United Malay National Organization). Who cares right? I’m still waiting to be an official voter and I’m nobody important but that’s exactly the point.
Last General Election, there were about four to five million Malaysians who are qualified as voters but have never bothered to register. I’m included because for years I have never trusted the politicians and I’ve been running businesses successfully without any political connection whatsoever.
There are many factors why I’ve changed my mind but the result of the last General Election is major. Not because the ruling parties are losing strengths or the opposition parties are gaining strengths but because there is a major negative thinking particularly among my Malay friends that the future is doomed once what now known as The People’s Alliance is to be in power.
To them, Malays will always been taken care of by UMNO though they know UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
Wow!
Let me repeat this, Malays will always been taken care of by UMNO though they know UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
Wow! Again!!
As a Malay, I admit that UMNO has helped me a lot particularly education. At the age of 13, I was sent to a fully government boarding school under government scholarship where everything was taken care of – education, money, food, shelter etc.
Here lies the argument – I am supposed to be “grateful” because all these years UMNO has helped the Malays in so many ways and therefore I must be “grateful” by showing support or vote for UMNO.
Two questions then have arisen:
1) How do you define “being grateful”?
2) Do I have to support or vote for UMNO though they and I know very well, in fact admitted by UMNO itself, that UMNO is full of corrupted people particularly the leaders.
I have defined “being grateful” in so many ways particularly in this section (I, Voter). Being grateful is simply to do the right thing and avoid doing the wrong thing.
To vote for a candidate that they and I know is corrupted and claim myself “being grateful” does not make sense at all.
However there is this kind of being grateful too. For many years I’ve been taking care of my grandmother who stays with us and she is old, sick and forgetful. Sometimes she is very irritating. No matter how irritating she is, I am grateful that she is still around because she is my grandmother.
To ask me to apply this is kind of grateful to a political party like UMNO is ridiculous.
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Elitism Exposed: Part 2 – Iblis a.k.a. Lucifer, The Super Racists
Please do read the Disclosure Statement before proceed.
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Death
Step 4: Ready for Death
“To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return”
(Quran 2:156)
The above verse beautifully encapsulated and gives meaning to our day-to-day existence in this world and thus simultaneously gives us direction, comfort, solace, anticipation, hope, courage and fear. Muslims basically utter the above verse during times of difficulty or when we are informed that someone has died. Some or maybe most don’t notice that the above verse is the reason why we are here in this world. It is our main goals. It is our ultimate function as humans. Our goals are to return to Allah. But in what way do we return?
Simple understanding can be done through followings:
Do you know where you are going?
No - Could be Heaven or could be Hell.
Do you know when you are going?
No - it can be at any time -usually sudden.
Do you know when you will be returning?
Never – one way ticket.
Do you know how long you will be gone?
Forever - millions, millions …years - Eternity.
Do you have the opportunity to say farewell to friends & family before you go?
No.
Do you know what currency to take?
Good deeds - but have I saved enough.
Do you know what provisions to take?
Yes - Few meters of white cloth only.
Have you planned adequately for the journey?
I don’t know. I haven't thought about it much.
Understand Death – Do the politicians understand it? What are their visions? Do they act as if they are aware that someday they will die? You see, those who are not aware tend to do whatever they like – murder people, put people to jail without trial, beat people to death, corruption, practice injustice, accumulate the nation wealth to themselves and cronies etc.
So whatever the missions the visions the politicians are talking about, my question on them will be on this - Death.
There! Four steps that I have to take as a voter.
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Elitism Exposed: Part 1 – Ancient Civilizations ... Symbolism
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Please read The Disclosure Statement before you proceed.
“To Allah we belong, and to Him is our return”
(Quran 2:156)
The above verse beautifully encapsulated and gives meaning to our day-to-day existence in this world and thus simultaneously gives us direction, comfort, solace, anticipation, hope, courage and fear. Muslims basically utter the above verse during times of difficulty or when we are informed that someone has died. Some or maybe most don’t notice that the above verse is the reason why we are here in this world. It is our main goals. It is our ultimate function as humans. Our goals are to return to Allah. But in what way do we return?
Simple understanding can be done through followings:
Do you know where you are going?
No - Could be Heaven or could be Hell.
Do you know when you are going?
No - it can be at any time -usually sudden.
Do you know when you will be returning?
Never – one way ticket.
Do you know how long you will be gone?
Forever - millions, millions …years - Eternity.
Do you have the opportunity to say farewell to friends & family before you go?
No.
Do you know what currency to take?
Good deeds - but have I saved enough.
Do you know what provisions to take?
Yes - Few meters of white cloth only.
Have you planned adequately for the journey?
I don’t know. I haven't thought about it much.
Understand Death – Do the politicians understand it? What are their visions? Do they act as if they are aware that someday they will die? You see, those who are not aware tend to do whatever they like – murder people, put people to jail without trial, beat people to death, corruption, practice injustice, accumulate the nation wealth to themselves and cronies etc.
So whatever the missions the visions the politicians are talking about, my question on them will be on this - Death.
There! Four steps that I have to take as a voter.
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Elitism Exposed: Part 1 – Ancient Civilizations ... Symbolism
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Please read The Disclosure Statement before you proceed.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Read Part 3/3
Previous entries on Reading 1 and 2, this blog did mention the importance of Acquiring Knowledge.
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood; Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful; He Who taught (the use of) the pen, Taught man that which he knew not.
(Quran, 96, 2-5)
The word ‘Qalam’ is translated as a pen. In Arabic, the word ‘Qalam’ is considered a progressive technological word related to documentation written by the utensils. Attention is put forward on documentation as this is how any knowledge can be preserved. Any documented knowledge then can be brought forward for further progressive developments.
Step 3 is not just about the importance of reading, acquiring knowledge and documentation. It also points out the importance of appreciating those who are knowledgeable because they are considered highly valuable.
Combined with Step 2 which prioritize morality, a learned person may possess personal qualities that may pave the way to have wisdom. Such knowledge allows one to be independent in earning one's living and will be the key which unlocks the door to worldly success. Thus, a voter has the responsibility to vote but equipped with knowledge does not mean a voter is dependent on politicians and politics.
It is important to be an informed voter. There are several important differences between the learned (who know only the theory of how to do good deeds but may not practice it) and the wise (who may not know much but use everything they know to boost their opportunity to do good deeds). Unfortunately, knowledge in the hands of a fool (or even a learned person) can be a dangerous thing. If our only knowledge is academic knowledge, no matter how clever we might be, there is always a risk of making a mess of our lives.
On Perak and Pakatan Rakyat
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Pakatan Rakyat who had served Perak well. As a businessman, Pakatan Rakyat have proven that Change Is Possible. Am glad that all I had to do was to fill up some forms, provide certain photocopied documents, some required payments and the best of all, in most cases I did not have to wait long and things were mostly done within 24 hours without 'extra costs'.
Perak voters did the best they can. After all, on March 2008, they voted The Elite Out :-)
Looking forward to seeing you serve again. If it's not too much to ask, come next General Election, take the whole nation :-)
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Merger and Acquisition.
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa.
Created man, out of a (mere) clot of congealed blood; Proclaim! And thy Lord is Most Bountiful; He Who taught (the use of) the pen, Taught man that which he knew not.
(Quran, 96, 2-5)
The word ‘Qalam’ is translated as a pen. In Arabic, the word ‘Qalam’ is considered a progressive technological word related to documentation written by the utensils. Attention is put forward on documentation as this is how any knowledge can be preserved. Any documented knowledge then can be brought forward for further progressive developments.
Step 3 is not just about the importance of reading, acquiring knowledge and documentation. It also points out the importance of appreciating those who are knowledgeable because they are considered highly valuable.
Combined with Step 2 which prioritize morality, a learned person may possess personal qualities that may pave the way to have wisdom. Such knowledge allows one to be independent in earning one's living and will be the key which unlocks the door to worldly success. Thus, a voter has the responsibility to vote but equipped with knowledge does not mean a voter is dependent on politicians and politics.
It is important to be an informed voter. There are several important differences between the learned (who know only the theory of how to do good deeds but may not practice it) and the wise (who may not know much but use everything they know to boost their opportunity to do good deeds). Unfortunately, knowledge in the hands of a fool (or even a learned person) can be a dangerous thing. If our only knowledge is academic knowledge, no matter how clever we might be, there is always a risk of making a mess of our lives.
On Perak and Pakatan Rakyat
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Pakatan Rakyat who had served Perak well. As a businessman, Pakatan Rakyat have proven that Change Is Possible. Am glad that all I had to do was to fill up some forms, provide certain photocopied documents, some required payments and the best of all, in most cases I did not have to wait long and things were mostly done within 24 hours without 'extra costs'.
Perak voters did the best they can. After all, on March 2008, they voted The Elite Out :-)
Looking forward to seeing you serve again. If it's not too much to ask, come next General Election, take the whole nation :-)
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Merger and Acquisition.
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Read – Part 2/3
This entry is a continuation of a previous entry.
Reading is a multi-dimensional cognitive process of decoding objects (primarily texts and symbols) for the purpose of deriving meaning. I repeat, it is a process to decode objects to understand the meaning. This is where the problem is – most people (myself included) don’t even bother to understand the meaning of what being read. The politicians know well this kind of situation and always take advantage of our reading disabilities. Therefore, there is no other way to read but to read critically.
There are many types of reading – text reading, reading through observation, psychic reading, comparison and contrast reading, reading via intuition etc BUT still no matter what types there are, it is about a process to decode objects for the purpose of deriving the meaning.
As said, we have no choice but to read critically as politicians can be very tricky:
Politicians – We are not telling lies.
This could also mean – We are not telling the whole truth.
A Politician – Not everything about democracy is good.
This could also mean – Not everything about dictatorship is bad.
A Politician – Our economic fundamentals are stable.
This could also mean – It is just that our economy is managed by the funny mentals.
Reading and understanding what is being read is IMPORTANT.
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Greeting Cards
More Greeting Cards at http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
.
YouTube
I have posted a new music video My Angelina Jolie.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO COMPOSE A NEW SONG FOR THIS ENTRY.
Reading is a multi-dimensional cognitive process of decoding objects (primarily texts and symbols) for the purpose of deriving meaning. I repeat, it is a process to decode objects to understand the meaning. This is where the problem is – most people (myself included) don’t even bother to understand the meaning of what being read. The politicians know well this kind of situation and always take advantage of our reading disabilities. Therefore, there is no other way to read but to read critically.
There are many types of reading – text reading, reading through observation, psychic reading, comparison and contrast reading, reading via intuition etc BUT still no matter what types there are, it is about a process to decode objects for the purpose of deriving the meaning.
As said, we have no choice but to read critically as politicians can be very tricky:
Politicians – We are not telling lies.
This could also mean – We are not telling the whole truth.
A Politician – Not everything about democracy is good.
This could also mean – Not everything about dictatorship is bad.
A Politician – Our economic fundamentals are stable.
This could also mean – It is just that our economy is managed by the funny mentals.
Reading and understanding what is being read is IMPORTANT.
.
Greeting Cards
More Greeting Cards at http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
.
YouTube
I have posted a new music video My Angelina Jolie.
UNFORTUNATELY, I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO COMPOSE A NEW SONG FOR THIS ENTRY.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Read - Part 1/3
I have registered myself as a voter (courtesy of The Fuel Price Hike). The study of socioeconomics to me then has becoming more important than before as a voter has huge responsibility.
The First Step in my studying, I understand that I am God’s perfect creation thus I am so not to be a racist. With that, I am not to vote for any racial based political party. The Second Step is to understand that I am created to worship God in order to be good. Therefore I must support candidates with good morality and political parties that prioritize morality.
Step 3: Acquire Knowledge.
So what is the basic foundation of a voter? It's a state-of-MIND! Anybody can induce it - but only if one is willing to drive oneself enough!
A good voter is always a knowledgeable or informed voter else a voter may just another mere follower. Mere followers are easily fooled by the Political Campaigns like:
CLEAN, EFFICIENT, TRUSTWORTHY
OR
VOTE FOR US, VOTE FOR THE COUNTRY
OR
CEMERLANG, GEMILANG, TEBILANG (whatever) …
The Living Contract
“Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),” (Quran, 96, 1)
Read is the first word in Islam and the above verse is the first verse in Islam.
So to read is the very first commandment from God because only through reading, one can acquire knowledge. I’m not going to point out types of reading here or else this entry is going to be lengthy. Anyway, text reading is a methodology of reading.
So reading yield knowledge which makes someone becomes knowledgeable or informed or educated. Unfortunately, having education is one thing but being educated is another thing. That’s why to me, even though someone is Oxford graduated but by saying that bloggers are BUNCH OF chimpanzees, that’s not an educated person. Racists, no matter what level of education they do posses are never educated people.
So what does it takes being a voter?
Anyone will be soooooooo amazed at how easy most things are if one just try to read first! The truth is: Most people don’t bother to read at all or worst – can’t read. Should a voter can’t really read...STOP BEING A VOTER. GO learn to read first. If you can't read, you SHOULD NOT BE a voter and forget about being a politician. Reading is the basic skill one must have to do EVERYTHING BEYOND ANY POINT.
So everyone has to start somewhere, and since voting will continue, there will always be new voters. Those new to the scene like ehem ehem … moi, to get started on their foray into voting, the best way to start, and continue, building knowledge base is to read up on material. I will try locating everything I can, on and offline, about politics and all - Read it. Study it. Understand it no matter what Puteri UMNO of a Racial Based Political Party and alike may say.
After all, no matter how much we have read throughout our lifetime, there is no such thing called KNOWING TOO MUCH.
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Greeting Card
I have updated the Greeting Cards at
http://a-cards.blogspot.com/
.
At Youtube
I have posted a new Music Video titled “Rosse”.
.
Wayang Kulit
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
The First Step in my studying, I understand that I am God’s perfect creation thus I am so not to be a racist. With that, I am not to vote for any racial based political party. The Second Step is to understand that I am created to worship God in order to be good. Therefore I must support candidates with good morality and political parties that prioritize morality.
Step 3: Acquire Knowledge.
So what is the basic foundation of a voter? It's a state-of-MIND! Anybody can induce it - but only if one is willing to drive oneself enough!
A good voter is always a knowledgeable or informed voter else a voter may just another mere follower. Mere followers are easily fooled by the Political Campaigns like:
CLEAN, EFFICIENT, TRUSTWORTHY
OR
VOTE FOR US, VOTE FOR THE COUNTRY
OR
CEMERLANG, GEMILANG, TEBILANG (whatever) …
The Living Contract
“Read! In the Name of your Lord, Who has created (all that exists),” (Quran, 96, 1)
Read is the first word in Islam and the above verse is the first verse in Islam.
So to read is the very first commandment from God because only through reading, one can acquire knowledge. I’m not going to point out types of reading here or else this entry is going to be lengthy. Anyway, text reading is a methodology of reading.
So reading yield knowledge which makes someone becomes knowledgeable or informed or educated. Unfortunately, having education is one thing but being educated is another thing. That’s why to me, even though someone is Oxford graduated but by saying that bloggers are BUNCH OF chimpanzees, that’s not an educated person. Racists, no matter what level of education they do posses are never educated people.
So what does it takes being a voter?
Anyone will be soooooooo amazed at how easy most things are if one just try to read first! The truth is: Most people don’t bother to read at all or worst – can’t read. Should a voter can’t really read...STOP BEING A VOTER. GO learn to read first. If you can't read, you SHOULD NOT BE a voter and forget about being a politician. Reading is the basic skill one must have to do EVERYTHING BEYOND ANY POINT.
So everyone has to start somewhere, and since voting will continue, there will always be new voters. Those new to the scene like ehem ehem … moi, to get started on their foray into voting, the best way to start, and continue, building knowledge base is to read up on material. I will try locating everything I can, on and offline, about politics and all - Read it. Study it. Understand it no matter what Puteri UMNO of a Racial Based Political Party and alike may say.
After all, no matter how much we have read throughout our lifetime, there is no such thing called KNOWING TOO MUCH.
.
Greeting Card
I have updated the Greeting Cards at
http://a-cards.blogspot.com/
.
At Youtube
I have posted a new Music Video titled “Rosse”.
.
Wayang Kulit
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Sunday, September 21, 2008
I Am Created
I have registered myself as a voter (courtesy of The Fuel Price Hike). So what does it mean being a voter? It means from now onwards, I am among those responsible in making decision on which kind of people should govern the nation. The study of socioeconomics to me then has becoming more important than before as a voter has huge responsibility. Though socioeconomics is a multi-disciplinary study, I prefer to take things a step at a time.
Step 2: Understand Why I Am Created
In Step 1 : Understand Who I Am, I have mentioned that humans are God’s best creation therefore I will not vote for any racial based political party because no matter what they are claiming, they practice racism. Obviously, they are the ones who have been giving the racial remarks.
Why I am created is already explained in my previous entry, The Dimensions. Only humans and Jinns are having the freedom to choose. Only humans and jinns are given this privilege to have the will power to choose be it good or evil deeds. No other God’s creations have this privilege. That is the main reason why Iblis and satans start having this inferior-superior things practically is RACISM. However, that I have the will power to choose good or evil deeds does not explain why I am created in the first place.
So why am I created?
The Living Contract: “I have only created Jinns and humans, for the sole reason of worshipping Me.” (Quran, 51-56).
So God tells that I am created to worship God.
This leads to further questions. What do I understand about worshipping God? How am I supposed to worship God? Why I am created to worship God?
Worshipping God
Generally, to worship is to honor and to love as a deity or to regard with ardent or to adore with esteem and devotion. So to worship God is to honor and to love God to regard with ardent full of devotion. Since I am created with uncountable blessings, I should worship God with so many reasons. One of the reasons is to show how grateful I am that I am created.
Worshipping involves acts integrated altogether – spiritual, mental and physical. That I am created to worship God, part of worshipping is to perform the worshipping rituals namely praying. That I am created, it is obligatory to me to pray 5 times a day like the animation below:
The physical ritual consists of four main acts: stand, bow, prostrate and sit. Simple graphics are demonstrated as below:
If you were into Arabic graphic writing, the actions present four Arabic words: Alif, Ha, Mim and Dal as demonstrated below:
Once combined, in roman it spells Ahmad which is an Arabic word for good.
Abstractly, to worship God is to be good. So I am created to worship God in order to be good. One who is into being good may become righteous. What is righteous? Righteous is to do good deeds and to abandon bad deeds. This elaborates further on why I am created. I am created to worship God in order to be good so I can be righteous.
What are the good deeds and what are the bad deeds? That’s step 3.
My Political Stand Based On Step 2
As a father of five kids, it is my duty to remind them that the main objective in life is to be good which may lead into being righteous. In short, to worship God. If they can achieve this, I can consider myself a successful father.
Politically, I will look at those political parties that emphasize high morality. Fortunately, all political parties in this country do prioritize morality in their political mission. Unfortunately, writing down policies is one thing, implementing policies is another thing.
.
Introducing Tom Norfolk
Tom Norfolk is a poet and a musician at YouTube. He took interest in one of my song, Lapa. He has created a very interesting version of Lapa (with my permission of course) which I thought is very interesting.
Do listento Lapa by Tom Norfolk.
Original version of Lapa at Cadenza MIDI Diary.
Music video of Lapa at YouTube.
.
Greeting Cards
Two additional greeting cards are at my other blog:
http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
All are welcome to copy and paste the HTML codes onto other social-connecting websites.
.
Pollution Now
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
About this song
Step 2: Understand Why I Am Created
In Step 1 : Understand Who I Am, I have mentioned that humans are God’s best creation therefore I will not vote for any racial based political party because no matter what they are claiming, they practice racism. Obviously, they are the ones who have been giving the racial remarks.
Why I am created is already explained in my previous entry, The Dimensions. Only humans and Jinns are having the freedom to choose. Only humans and jinns are given this privilege to have the will power to choose be it good or evil deeds. No other God’s creations have this privilege. That is the main reason why Iblis and satans start having this inferior-superior things practically is RACISM. However, that I have the will power to choose good or evil deeds does not explain why I am created in the first place.
So why am I created?
The Living Contract: “I have only created Jinns and humans, for the sole reason of worshipping Me.” (Quran, 51-56).
So God tells that I am created to worship God.
This leads to further questions. What do I understand about worshipping God? How am I supposed to worship God? Why I am created to worship God?
Worshipping God
Generally, to worship is to honor and to love as a deity or to regard with ardent or to adore with esteem and devotion. So to worship God is to honor and to love God to regard with ardent full of devotion. Since I am created with uncountable blessings, I should worship God with so many reasons. One of the reasons is to show how grateful I am that I am created.
Worshipping involves acts integrated altogether – spiritual, mental and physical. That I am created to worship God, part of worshipping is to perform the worshipping rituals namely praying. That I am created, it is obligatory to me to pray 5 times a day like the animation below:
The physical ritual consists of four main acts: stand, bow, prostrate and sit. Simple graphics are demonstrated as below:
If you were into Arabic graphic writing, the actions present four Arabic words: Alif, Ha, Mim and Dal as demonstrated below:
Once combined, in roman it spells Ahmad which is an Arabic word for good.
Abstractly, to worship God is to be good. So I am created to worship God in order to be good. One who is into being good may become righteous. What is righteous? Righteous is to do good deeds and to abandon bad deeds. This elaborates further on why I am created. I am created to worship God in order to be good so I can be righteous.
What are the good deeds and what are the bad deeds? That’s step 3.
My Political Stand Based On Step 2
As a father of five kids, it is my duty to remind them that the main objective in life is to be good which may lead into being righteous. In short, to worship God. If they can achieve this, I can consider myself a successful father.
Politically, I will look at those political parties that emphasize high morality. Fortunately, all political parties in this country do prioritize morality in their political mission. Unfortunately, writing down policies is one thing, implementing policies is another thing.
.
Introducing Tom Norfolk
Tom Norfolk is a poet and a musician at YouTube. He took interest in one of my song, Lapa. He has created a very interesting version of Lapa (with my permission of course) which I thought is very interesting.
Do listento Lapa by Tom Norfolk.
Original version of Lapa at Cadenza MIDI Diary.
Music video of Lapa at YouTube.
.
Greeting Cards
Two additional greeting cards are at my other blog:
http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
All are welcome to copy and paste the HTML codes onto other social-connecting websites.
.
Pollution Now
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
About this song
Monday, September 15, 2008
I, Human
Weeks ago, I have registered myself as a voter (courtesy of The Fuel Price Hike). So what does it mean being a voter? I t means from now onwards, I am among those responsible in making decision on which kind of people should govern the nation. The study of socioeconomics to me then has becoming more important than before as a voter has huge responsibility.Though socioeconomics is a multi-disciplinary study, I prefer to take things a step at a time.
Step 1: Understand Who I Am
I am a human, spiritually, mentally and physically. Some of you may think that it is stupid of me to start this socioeconomics study by defining myself a human. Hold your thought please because there are so many idiots out there who have been actively involved in politics and still fail to look at humans as humans. Trust me, just by understanding myself physically as a human, I can make a decision on who should rule the nation.
Let me explain …
You see, if you were into animation like … ehem … ehem … moi, you will have to come across this bone animation thing. Bone animation is the animation of skeletal hierarchical which can be roughly classified in four parts:
a) Head and neck
b) Chest and arms
c) Abdomen and Pelvis
d) Legs
The above parts are described as the animation below.
Now, let me adjust the animation to suit a situation.
You see, there is this behavior in humans called greeting. Yes, it is human nature to greet because it is human nature to wish another human to be in peace. Generally, humans shake hands to greet be it with a hand or two hands. Image below is a simple demo on how a human looks while greeting from side angle.
Now, let me adjust the image horizontally like below.
If you were into Arabic writing, the image spells four(4) Arabic letters as below.
The letters are mim, ha, mim, dal and once combined yield a word in roman as Muhammad or Mohamed. Muhammad is an Arabic word meaning ‘praiseworthy’. Coincidently, it is a name of a prophet. Abstractly, any human being is worth to be praised and it is human nature to greet.
The Living Contract
“Verily, God created man of the best stature.” (Quran, 95, 4).
So God tells that humans are His best creation.
My Political Stand Based On Step 1
As a husband and a father of five kids, one of the earliest lessons that I taught my wife and my kids is
“Unless you really know how to, do not judge people based on their looks”.
Why?
Simply because humans are God’s best creation. In fact, humans deserved to be greeted. I mean everybody no matter a Malay or Chinese or Indian or European or Bangla or Kadazan or Iban etc. So I made it clear to my wife and kids that it is important to greet everybody including ourselves, relatives, neighbors, friends and everybody else.
So from what I have taught them as based on understanding myself as a human, my political stand is very clear – I will not vote any racial based political party.
Why?
Simply because any racial based political party practices RACISM. Ever wonder why members of any racial based political party love giving out racial remarks?
A racist may say something like this:
“Oh, we are not racists. We just want to group among ourselves to fight for our rights. 51 years of ruling has proved that we have managed to work well with other racial groups in harmony and the nation has progressed very well”.
I will deal with the above statement much later as it requires further steps.
Greeting Cards
I have started a new blog:
http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
As to greet does make the difference, anyone is so welcomed to copy and paste the HTML codes from the blog into other social connecting websites like myspace, tagged etc. That humans greet, a study emerged from it known as … SOCIALOGY.
Below is a sample of the card:
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Greeting Card by Azer Mantessa
Step 1: Understand Who I Am
I am a human, spiritually, mentally and physically. Some of you may think that it is stupid of me to start this socioeconomics study by defining myself a human. Hold your thought please because there are so many idiots out there who have been actively involved in politics and still fail to look at humans as humans. Trust me, just by understanding myself physically as a human, I can make a decision on who should rule the nation.
Let me explain …
You see, if you were into animation like … ehem … ehem … moi, you will have to come across this bone animation thing. Bone animation is the animation of skeletal hierarchical which can be roughly classified in four parts:
a) Head and neck
b) Chest and arms
c) Abdomen and Pelvis
d) Legs
The above parts are described as the animation below.
Now, let me adjust the animation to suit a situation.
You see, there is this behavior in humans called greeting. Yes, it is human nature to greet because it is human nature to wish another human to be in peace. Generally, humans shake hands to greet be it with a hand or two hands. Image below is a simple demo on how a human looks while greeting from side angle.
Now, let me adjust the image horizontally like below.
If you were into Arabic writing, the image spells four(4) Arabic letters as below.
The letters are mim, ha, mim, dal and once combined yield a word in roman as Muhammad or Mohamed. Muhammad is an Arabic word meaning ‘praiseworthy’. Coincidently, it is a name of a prophet. Abstractly, any human being is worth to be praised and it is human nature to greet.
The Living Contract
“Verily, God created man of the best stature.” (Quran, 95, 4).
So God tells that humans are His best creation.
My Political Stand Based On Step 1
As a husband and a father of five kids, one of the earliest lessons that I taught my wife and my kids is
“Unless you really know how to, do not judge people based on their looks”.
Why?
Simply because humans are God’s best creation. In fact, humans deserved to be greeted. I mean everybody no matter a Malay or Chinese or Indian or European or Bangla or Kadazan or Iban etc. So I made it clear to my wife and kids that it is important to greet everybody including ourselves, relatives, neighbors, friends and everybody else.
So from what I have taught them as based on understanding myself as a human, my political stand is very clear – I will not vote any racial based political party.
Why?
Simply because any racial based political party practices RACISM. Ever wonder why members of any racial based political party love giving out racial remarks?
A racist may say something like this:
“Oh, we are not racists. We just want to group among ourselves to fight for our rights. 51 years of ruling has proved that we have managed to work well with other racial groups in harmony and the nation has progressed very well”.
I will deal with the above statement much later as it requires further steps.
Greeting Cards
I have started a new blog:
http://www.a-cards.blogspot.com/
As to greet does make the difference, anyone is so welcomed to copy and paste the HTML codes from the blog into other social connecting websites like myspace, tagged etc. That humans greet, a study emerged from it known as … SOCIALOGY.
Below is a sample of the card:
Song and Music by Azer Mantessa
Greeting Card by Azer Mantessa
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