Monday, December 31, 2007

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Human Rights Walk and Street Protests

The recent street protests and Walk for Peace, Walk for Justice were unusual for Malaysia. How did they come about?

Why were there protests? For folks who rely on the mainstream newspapers for their daily feed of news and information or misinformation, they must have brushed aside these as annoying events that disrupt their daily routine and lifestyle.

Today is a Selangor Public Holiday but not for folks working in KL but the jam into the city was so bad. It started at 7.30am from One Utama all the way to Jalan Parliament. All of us were caught in the massive jam from One U and thought that it might be due to an accident. But no, it was the numerous road blocks reducing the many highways and roads into one lane!

I did not see the police checking on any cars at all. They just stood there watching us struggling to jostle from 4 lanes into one lane. Infact, I dared say I noticed sinister smiles from our friends in blue!

So After queuing for more than 40 minutes, I decided to turn back and headed back to One Utama and used the MRR 2 and it took me less than 20 minutes to reach the office which is just outside the city centre.

Why were the police so determined to frustrate and cause hell to us working folks, I don't know. May be they are trying to portray to the public that it was due to the protests by BERSIH or the Human Rights Walk, and we should all get angry with these groups?

I hope I am wrong.

Thursday, December 06, 2007

Q. E. D.

Q.E.D. = Quite Easily Done?

At least this is what I have been taught or told.

In actual fact, as it turns out, Q.E.D. is the acronyms of a Latin phrase:

Quod Erat Demonstrandum meaning "this is what I set out to prove"

Example of Q.E.D. being used:

".....thus, the
square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs. Q.E.D."