MERDEKA DI MATA KU

Payah nak dirungkaikan

Namun dipaksa juga

lidah yang berat

Agar kita bisa mengerti,

ironi merdeka sebenar.

Apalah ertinya merdeka

sekiranya kita asyik bertanya

tahun ini kali ke berapa?

Apakah nikmatnya kebebasan

kalau kita asyik

mengagungkan kebaratan?

Apalah maknanya perjuangan?

Jikalau kita gagal menebus

dan mengisi kembali

maruah kemerdekaan.

Apalah gunanya semangat?

Jika jati diri anak bangsa

luluh dimamah

kerakusan zaman.

Mampukah kemerdekaan ini berkekalan?

Harapan tinggi menggunung,

nyata dan luhur

Tapi mudah digoncang

akibat usaha yang kabur.

Usah persiakan

langkah pahlawan,

jangan perlekehkan

khazanah warisan.

Kerana ranjau kehidupan

pasti berliku

Tunduk kita jangan

pada pihak lawan

Walau terpaksa kita tangisi

setiap bibit penderitaan.

Lantas bertanya pada mata ku;

Inikah ertinya

sebuah kemerdekaan?

Andai diri penyebab kepincangan

Rela diserah nyawa sebagai taruhan

Kerana di sebalik kibaran Jalur Gemilang

Kain lusuh makna seribu

Jutaan nyawa telah terkorban.

Selamat hari kemerdekaan, Malaysia!

DUPED, ARE YOU?

Nowadays, most people is desperate to have degrees - be it Bachelor's, Master's @ PhD - because their importance is very much significant that it's likening to be some sort of a guarantee when one is in the hunt for jobs in the real world but the question remains - do you know what you gonna do with it, say if it's a fake?

Out of deprivation to be self-enriched and superior to others, one dares to spend on education - even if it's a bogus degree - Who cares anyway; I got the qualification, I do my job, get paid, my employee happy & end of story!

Some even desperately go for instant degrees - which popped out from now where - and the number of cases involved is alarming as reported in today's The Star. Click here.

According to experts, the sprouting of the rogue degrees are spurred by the needs of current demand especially in the career based line. People is indeed in the need of grooming so deeply that they even cut straight through ego for a better life.

The news started to sell like hot cakes when everyone rallies to see for themselves lists of institutions worldwide that had been band by JPA in that matter.

One of the victims mentioned that he's duped by the scam and the fact that some SPM drop-outs having MBA puzzled me.

A dupe is someone being a victim of deception intentionally, leaving him/her clueless. So, how on Earth someone's with a reputation of high achievements and better still, a PhD holder being duped? Is it not implying that the culprit is but a dork at the very first place - in his capacity as an academia, didn't he know his alma matter? How can he be clueless about the existence of an univ. who's going to confer him an honorarium later?

Then, there's this case of individual getting MBA from never-to-be-heard type of university oversea - who failed to sit for SPM let alone passing - consuming spaces and doing nothing in our already cramped career waiting list.

Are all of these portraying a good image to us? Seriously, no. Forget about image and other things, let's focus on reality; One can has hundreds of degrees, twenty master's and eleven PhD's but for what? Worthy to be in the hall of fame, that's for sure but to me one is still a wacko even with thousands of degrees qualification if one still can't tell between a truth @ lie. Worse still, what more if it's a fake one.

Einstein is no scholar in his heyday - being a patent officer and part time researcher in the Univ. of Zurich, Swistzerland before his theory is granted - yet, he is one of the greatest physicist ever. So, how many degrees did he have?

Nope, I'm not anti-education & harboring jealousy. In fact, the more people having post-grads degrees the better. In a way, it's in handy with the nation's vision to have at least a number of 60,000 PhD holders by 2020 not including Master's. Click here.

I'm curious about what's going to happen in the near future when bogus degrees begin to be rooted in our society. Somehow, the government is signaling a green-light to the invasion of rogue degrees by allowing underground colleges whose operating on money-business selling degrees to be established in Malaysia.

Sincerely, I would say, it's not how many degrees you have but how many degrees (successful people under your supervision) you produced that counts.

WE'RE ALL THE SAME ANYWAY

Now here's something for you guys out there to chill out on this fresh Saturday breeze. Some scenes from various caught-on-camera candid.

I like their world where law of gravity is void
allowing them to levitate.
But hey, guess this actor forget to unfasten his watch!

When a policeman point a gun
without pulling the trigger,
even I dare to become a mugger.
Would you? Ha2.

A scene from Troy starring Brad Pitt.
Hopefully, he'll not mistakenly differentiate
between a bird and a plane.

Sometimes you just got to do things in a shot.
You know, acting and modeling.
It's like having a cake while eating it too.
Maybe that day, ADIDAS had special
promo in the Caribbean.

Now, above all, let's have a stroll on down-memory-lane of the well known once highly celebrated international actor who blatantly kills thousands of lives in his capacity but nothing less a scum in real life. Have fun!

Bush: Where's Iraq? I can see nothing general!
General: Maybe, it's out of range Sir.
We'll get you a new one. (mitigated speech)
General: Knock it off... how can you see,
you are not even opening the lens!
(monologue to himself)

Best part of all guys, you'll be grateful to have sane leaders here in our country upon seeing this.

Bush: Child, what are you laughing at?
Continue reading and smile to the press,
it's crucial for my next presidential election.
Child: Excuse me, Mr. President, but I can't help
myself seeing you reading upside down! Ha3.

p/s This posting is not purposely intended to offense anybody by any means. It's just a reminder of who we really are - Humans! Between us, there's should not be any disparity and the notion of freedom and equality remained echoing flawlessly.

OF LATE

It has been a while since the last posting and as expected life has been mutely subdued in stems of projects & assignments, let alone lectures aside - such a bummer. Anyway, this posting should be lengthily null, so, it'll be gleanings from here and there.

Firstly, today's news in it's latest update stated that the current H1N1 death toll already hit 68 cases nationwide with the dismissed of a 33 years old pregnant lady who died in Johor yesterday. Click here for full report.

Considering the disease's vulnerability, the ministry had specially launched a website dedicated to guide and update people in dealing with the issue as an early preemptive measure. The site is available to be accessed here.

Last but not least, since Ramadhan is in the corner, I would like to have this opportunity to wish all my Muslims friends a happy and fruitful fasting.


p/s Hopefully there's a truce in this forgiving month.