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星期日, 十月 03, 2004

Weekend Notes

1. I am able to instill self–control when it comes to retail therapy.

A potential purchase of a very fetching pair of Zara suit was thwarted not because I could not find one I like or because I do not have enough of a figure to spend, but because I realized (more like reasoned in my brains for a few hundred times) that I simply do not wear suits that often. I can live without another pair.

Hence, I indulged on a pair of glasses which makes me look even more geeky than I already do...

2. The New Police Story is worth watching.

I like two things about this flick. First, the rarely–toyed–with idea of extreme hatred towards the police — exhibited by the five–men gang who killed all of Jackie Chan’s nine teammates in one legendary case which turned the once proud senior cop into a helpless and hopeless alcoholic. Second, the notion that a video game developed based on a true case of cold blooded violence and murder may exist in reality. We hear enough of the stupidity of assuming potential violence being put to practice as a result of violent games. A reverse effect is welcoming and refreshing.

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Alright, alright, there is a third reason. Daniel Wu. Not just for the sake of Daniel Wu looking like Daniel Wu and being Daniel Wu, but his bad–boy role and lousy Cantonese and... well, let me just stop right here.

3. Jeff Ooi’s already heavily reported on, responded with and rebutted against case.

I have just one angle to look at this one from — free speech.

How effective can laws be used to put a gag on us? In the real world, not very much. People will talk out of hatred, others will listen out of hatred. Hatred towards next door neighbors, colleagues and one’s brothers are spread just because they have different colored skins and have different faiths. It happens right next to your breakfast table at your local mamak, in that car across the road, on the phone in that cubicle behind you and you choose whether or not to be a part of it, with or without the ISA. Jeff owns a blog and performed his responsibilities to the best of his judgement. It is his decision not to delete inflaming comments and also his very right to do so.

It is obvious to many of us exactly who is exploiting a two–paragraphs comment on the Internet to provoke more negativity and potential chaos among the general (and dare I add mostly unassuming) public (who may not even know what a blog is). Until there are explicit Internet laws in this country to govern Malaysian content, both Jeff Ooi and ‘Anwar’ are responsible to no one but themselves for what they publish online. If all of the press, interested publications and Pemuda UMNO are truly concerned about the image of Islam being jeopardized or tarnished on the Internet, those two paragraphs on Jeff’s blog are not even close to dangerous.

posted by Pick Yin @ 10/03/2004 10:14:00 下午