Today is the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz,
And today we choose to remember the 'Shoah'. We say never again and yet it is happening. we cannot keep our words. Oh, how fickle we are barely a month after the tsunami and it is already out of our consciousness. It is not that we should let us burden forever for death is such a common occurence. Look at the people who died in the train crash in California. They were probably pitying the tsunami victims and did their part little knowing their time came so soon.
We must a seek a balance be conscious but yet at the smae not let it drain the joy of our lives that we may appreciate which we have and they not. All men's life is but a slow march to his grave. Though he may resist and march he must and in he goes waiting to be reawaken or expecting never again. If go we must at least we as a brave. With music, fanfare like a band down the main.

This guy is a fellow lizard,
But I like his idea about stopping abortion. Here is the blog: http://wyattstorch.blogspot.com/2005/01/maternal-lien-real-world-solution-to.html however I amnot an economist so I can't really analyse the idea. Can someone do it for me and put the answer in my comment box?

People are really generous,
And I guess this should be the way but you know sometimes I ask why is the motive epople give? Is it to soothe their conscience? Like we all know that throwing money at anything has never sloved the world's problems. They are solved by people going in and doing the job on the ground.
I never really trusted all this impulse giving because you are just setting yourself up to be scammed and I can assure that there are plnty of opportunists out there. Hwy is everyone holding somekind tsunami fund-raiser? The worse would be the organisation of such an even costing more than the amount collected but I guess it happens. Some out of malicious intent, some people just naive.
But before you give this should at the back of your mind http://diplomadic.blogspot.com/ of course you should always get your sources from other places and not just one place but keep in mind that alot of the time alot of the funds don't reach the intended people.

It is nice blogging again,
Once you get into the habit and overcome the block there is no limit except the closing hours of the computer lab and the start time for my lectures.
You know every year there are literally thousands of gadgets put out for people who have all our senses but what about the blind, the deaf and both?
For years we know that producing Braille books are expensive and heavy because of the need for thick paper. You can't expect blind people lugging all these books. You know all this talk about getting every child in Malaysia a alptop is pipe dream.
Why not instead of such an attainable goal an iPod with spoken word recording of major textbooks for blind children so that getting educated don't have to be so diffcult for them and draining on their parents parts. This is definitely cheaper and more feasible.
We have eBooks why not an eBraillebook? A tablet size thingie that has movable points that up and down to form the Braille letters that make up the page of a book. Since all the information can be recorded as either 1 or 0 you don't need super memory though you might need a bit more power to generate enough current to moce the plastic or rubber points up and down. At least many books can be fitted into one and there is no need to choose between lugging lods of heavies or stay at home. Give the blind a chance to experience the society which schools provide.

Some people are really funny,
Like really they are funny. ( With no disrespect to the victims of the tsunami)
A tsunami hits a Muslim nation the hardest. The Muslims take as sign and punishment that they were not devout and pious enough. The Christian far-away and is safe from all this loses faith.
I don't know but sometimes I fell all these Christians are like the ones growing among the weed. They couldn't care less about God on any given day and hardly read the Bible but yet are quick to denounce God as powerless when bad things happen.
Here is my stand. God is all-powerful and could have prevented the tsuanmi if He wanted to.
He didn't because in His infinite wisdom if would have been better if it happens. We cannot understand it and the factors that led to that judgement but it is consistent with His nature. That was the crux of God's answer to Job. Have you seen this or that and did you know? Then how can you question what had happened.
I believe in the butterfly effect that the flapping of a butterfly's wing in Africa will lead to a hurricane in America. Like in an earlier post where I put the story of man who spared Adolf Hitler's life to the detriment of millions of others. We can never understand the implications of even the smallest of our actions and reactions. We can only believe God has the best and make the best of a situation and react as Jesus would in giving assistance.
If you think I am a cop-out then so be it.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion,
A body at rest tends to stay at rest. A blogger who blogs tends to stay blogging and one who don't will leave theirs unattended for months until prodded to do so.
Yeah from now on I will restrain myself from over-long posts that few will have the patience to read through so I will be experimenting with shorter posts that I tried earlier but abandoned.
The following is an article concerning Roe vs. Wade and also gives a nice summary of the case.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=6364

It is almost certain that when Spetember 11 happened,
Some Achenese was reaing about it in the news and pitying all who died little did he know that 3 years later on Decmber 26th he would be the object of pity for either he died or lost everything. People die everyday of unnatural deaths...fire, accidents, poisoning,acts of God...and yet they escape our notice save for a short mention in the papers.
This is not to denigrate the suffering of the tsunami victims but it so happened that God allow the Angel Of Death to harvest so many souls at the same time that somehow it moves us to part money, time, effort and prayer but even everyday someone dies of a heart attack..we don't notice or donate anything..but he may leave behind widow, orphans struggling to survive....people are still dying in Sudan and all parts of the world lest we forget..now we must not and even after the tsunami of 2004 is forgotten like the Bangladeshi cyclone of 1991 and other disasters..we must always be acutely aware that this im-perfect world will not find true peace until the Prince of Peace is King and all is His footstool..to imagine that there willl be utopia is naive...after this we must be ready for the next big one..it WILL happen...don't be shocked..though man is expert are forgetting unpleasant memories.

I am back after a quite long hiatus due to exams and holidays,
A word about the tsunami since everyone has an opinion. In a way the many foreigners were like me, going on a holiday. I went to the UK. Except the UK wasn't swept by a tsunami but I can imagine just like me before their eagerly awaited trip they were telling their friends excitedly about it not knowing that they will meet their doom. It could've have happen to me.
On a tragic note it is quite ironic that I do not know anyone personally who was affected but a church friend from Switzerland knows a friend from home who was missing and presumed dead. She was upset. I don't know but to be found dead would've been much better for at least it gives some closure rather than a nagging feeling that that person might be still alive. Witness the families of Missing In Action troops in Vietnam. They are still clinging to the hope that these soldiers are still alive.