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Beijing pulled off a fantastic olympic opening ceremony. In fact, the best i’ve seen next to Sydney. However, all of this is marred by the fact that it was announced that Brunei was excluded from the march and the olympics because they could not register on time.
I watched countries, like the Cayman Island, Malawi, Papua New Guinea, Eritrea. Countries that are either too pissed poor to develop or are smaller than Brunei. As poor or as lowly populated as they are, they have managed to send in at least 5 people to every olympics to participate in several events. Olympics after olympics, we’re sending in only 2 or so. In this olympic, we’re not sending any because we’ve failed to register. As the IOC has put it “the IOC tried until midday Friday to have the National Olympic Committee of Brunei Darussalam register its athletes, but to no avail.” – China News
The IOC were the ones who tried to contact Brunei? we’re not even trying! This is ridiculous! Why are we the only IOC member not competing?
If we can’t even organise ourselves for this, such a simple thing to do, we could afford it even. What in the world can you do? You need a damn good explanation, especially that this bungle was witnessed first hand by his majesty in Beijing.
No more dodging issues, no more finger pointing, no more “sshh.. sensitive issue ni, diam diam saja”. Hard straight facts are needed and we’re not a bunch of nodding thumb sucking monkeys, oh no no no.
If it is incompetency, someone needs to go out.
Took a bloody long time but thankfully one of the 3 most evil men in the world has been captured. Radovan Karadzic has been captured, the first step to his eternal fate of hell. These men were responsible for murdering more than 7500 muslims in an ethnic cleansing act in the Bosnian War.
Bastard #1: Radovan Karadzic
The other 2 are none other than Slobodan Milosevic and Ratko Mladic
Slobodan Milosevic: Bastard #2. Dead.
One more piggy to go: Ratko Mladic. Still on the loose
I’m no American but this guy is an inspiration to me. It’s not just America that needs a wave of change
image credit: http://huffingtonpost.com
Nevermind the court charges Mr. Former minister, that’s fine. But didn’t you have a Ministry to run?
(Not involving the new minister of course. I await optimistically what changes could be brought)
The Imminent Danger
Did you know that the leading cause of accidental death worldwide is Paintball and Archery?
Faced with this alarming information, the authorities have decided to close 2 businesses in Brunei fearing that the activities associated with these sports would cause serious harm to the Brunei society. Skeet shooting, ironically a ’sport’ that Brunei enters for the SEA games, isn’t banned. Because skeet shooting isn’t dangerous. Bruneian law requires that all the shotguns used for skeet shooting purposes shoot out sugar, spice and everything nice. Upon contact with the targeted clay pigeons, chemical reaction causes the discs to explode into a wonderful mixture of candy drops and gum drops. Oh what a world it would be, standing with my mouth open wide, Aa’ Aa’ Aa’ Aa’ Aa’
Live entertainment banned, Paintball banned, Archery banned? Fuck it, I’m smoking, babe.
A Deterrent Action
And who wouldn’t get worried with bows, arrows and paintball guns? I would. On 16th April 2007, America suffered the worst university tragedy when Cho Seung-Hui killed 30 people in Virgina Tech University. With the availability of archery and paintball to the Bruneian public, how will i rest assure that no one will spray my children with paint balls and arrows?
As i recall back in my SMJA days when inter school fighting was still going around, the weapon of choice would have to be chains or wooden sticks. Heavens forbid if these kids carried bows and arrows and paintball guns, the carnage it would bring! SMJA Students with their light blue trousers would gather in formation from one side of the bridge, while SOASC students hurry up with their formation on the other side. As both leaders from SMJA and SOASC shouted to their soldiers to ready their weapons, and the back formation of the army stretches their bows and pointed it towards the sky.
Ajis was a famous and feared gangster from SMJA….
At the signal of attack, they release their bows and hundreds, nay, thousands! of arrows shot up to the sky. The thousand arrows in the sky block the sun and make day turn to night. The arrows land and strike students from both sides of the bridge. With another call of order, the men take out their paintball guns and started running over the bridge with the intent to kill. The soldiers trade paintball bullets and engaged in an epic battle over the pedestrian bridge of Jalan Sekolah, Bandar Seri Begawan. Some were blinded, more were killed by the bullets. The Brunei River ran red with blood…. and paint.
…But Haji Boy and his gang from SOASC and his whore girlfriend from STPRI showed no fear.
The question the authorities have thoroughly asked themselves was, “Would i want that to happen to my children?”
A Flashback?
Sometimes i do ponder that maybe it’s not about safety. Maybe it’s the grudge that we, historically, weren’t good in archery anyway. That goes the same for pretty much a lot of stuff, like Football, FIFA number 192 for our national team (now called BAFA XI, which i’m guessing is called that name because we’re too crap to proudly call it our national team) or maybe the music scene, live performances are banned because of local artists like Kyodai has crushed our faith.
“Why encourage the people to take up something that we were never good at to start off with anyway? Why can’t we focus on stuff we were historically good at?”
like rowing! how the 7000 warriors who paddled their perahus half way to the Philippines prior to Castille war is reflected by our gold winning athletes in the SEA games. Or Silat, our pride in the unmatched power and grace of centuries old developed stance of the legendary martial art. Or even lawn bowling, which i would guess derives from long forgotten practices of coconut handling.
Or perhaps, a more relevant example, despite the blatantly illegal nature of it, we still allow it due to the lingering legacy of our ancestors:
An Evolution: Bringing Back Piracy into the 21st Century
Can someone please shed some info on this? Or at least give some logical explanation behind the police’s (or whoever) actions?
Before i can smack the bitch up on this blog.
I came across this when i was in Melbourne last week at Syaz’s house. She had the program book for Brunei’s 20th national day celebration 2004 just lying at her dining table. I was flipping through the pages just to pass the time and i saw this unbelievable error..
“ehh.. apa ah flag Russia? ani kah?”
“eeeh.. atu holland tu… apa tu ah… ada bah pernah ku terliat masa anak ku main game Command and Conquer bah… aah ni naaaah!! Bah, print tia slajur, nda payah check lagi.. kul 3.30 sudah, kan ambil anak ku dulu.”
*smacks a Soviet Union flag*
I can’t imagine how people on the grandstand reading this actually reacted to this during the national day parade 4 years ago. LOL, man, i love this country.
I was reading up on Brunei Resources’ post on the legislative council. In one way, i’m real glad that we’ve kicked start a parliamentary. In other, i’m not really sure about having appointed members running for parliamentary.
One thing i really wish that they put up are HOT OF THE PRESS transcripts of what happened in the legislative council sessions, i mean, most of these sessions happen when people are working anyway so it’s not like we can just pop into the debates and skive work. Or maybe store videos of session online and broadcast them on late night tvs, just like American C-SPAN and the Australian ABC channel.
What struck me when reading Brunei Resources’ post was that the issue of that damned Muara to Temburong bridge was raised up in the council session again. This is what you get when you have appointed members, i guess. Who posed that question anyway? what a waste of time and a $100 million parliament house! what about questions crime, unemployment, crazy police raids, teacher and equipment shortages in schools or even bureaucracy of the system? Why didn’t he ask those questions? As soon as i get the right to vote, i’m voting his ass out, man.
What shocks me more is that the poll on BR’s site said MORE than HALF said build the bridge now.
Screenshot of http://bruneiresources.blogspot.com poll
Whaaaaat?
Are you people crazy?
Building a bridge, by the way, is expensive. Building a 25km bridge is very very expensive. Building a 25km bridge over a massive and deep stretch of water like the Brunei Bay is very very very very expensive. At least B$1 billion. In this case, it would probably be a good idea to not think using your asses, people.
I HATE it when people say “oh, it would bring in a lot of economic opportunity to the Temburong district”. The question is, to what extent? Unless massive oil reserves are found in Temburong, how can we really justify building a $900 million – $1.5 billion bridge? With people whining “EEEHHH MAHAL JUAAA” if a $50 toll was smacked on the bridge just to recover a fraction of that investment.
How much can that bridge achieve more than spending about a small fraction of that fully implementing e-access to Temburong for road users, a bridge for that freaking small river and having more organised boat services? Won’t that actually encourage more small and local businesses? as oppose to a $1 billion debt for a stupid bridge just because people are whining about it?
Do you know what you can do with $1 billion? You could…
- Complete roads and highways all across Brunei and maintain them for a very long time.
- Build a university, or expand UBD to offer courses, attract the best minds to teach and have much more money to build youth centres.
-Finance our HEALTH or EDUCATION system
- Capital to acquire foreign assets or massive tax breaks for businesses for killer growth
- Expand Petroleum Brunei to a full fledge Exploration and Production Company, get the best skills and technology, acquire exploration rights in other countries and maybe still get enough capital to develop it.
- For fuck sake, you’ll get more money back if you simply put $1 billion in a bank.
- So much more
So how the fuck does a 25km bridge top those options?
Kenya rivals agree to share power
I just read this news in BBC and phew.. am i glad that they got together, which will (hopefully) result in the end of Kenya’s devastating violence, which has killed about 1500 people.
For those who need an up to scratch explanation of the situation in Kenya (it’s quite interesting, so read up):
The main opposition party leader, Raila Odinga, has believed that the Kenyan elections was rigged. Pretty blatant, in my opinion. Even the electoral commission somewhat acknowledged it. As a result, Raila Odinga, who has won parliamentary elections, refused to accept defeat and acknowledge Mwai Kibaki (the president) as the leader. This has resulted in violence.
The main victims of the violence are people of the Kikuyu tribe. This tribe, which makes up 22% of the Kenyan population, are seen as the main supporters for the current president, Mwai Kibaki. The Kikuyu tribe are also seen as better off. They hold strong political influence on Kibaki, which favours them in economic opportunities. An example would be the seizure of land belonging to another tribe to be given to farming businesses owned by people of the Kikuyu tribe.
Under the new deal, Mwai Kibaki will retain his post as president. A new post of Prime minister will be created, which will be held by Raila Odinga. Raila’s Orang party will also be given the power to appoint HALF of the cabinet members in the Kenyan government.
Far from complete resolution, such compromise and sacrifices will hopefully pave the way for a more peaceful and brighter Kenya.
Now… Why the hell can’t such COMPROMISE and COOPERATION be showed by the Hamas and Fatah party for the Palestinian goverment? People are dying and they are still fighting over each other. Pathetic. It shows you that these people are in just for the power rather than making things better for everyone. I condemn the Hamas party of Palestine. I will do so until compromise and a vision for peace is materialised.
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