today we celebrate our independence day..

such a dramatic line from a major blockbuster movie. the line the president said before leading a bunch of rag tag patched up fighter pilots on a suicide mission against a seemingly insurmountable alien horde.

we all know what happen after right. despite the odds. mankind prevailed. and the aliens got their collective asses whooped.

mankind prevailed. because they shared a common enemy. they shared a common goal and that is survival. it takes something as drastic as that for man to be united and work together to defeat them pesky aliens.

but if the circumstances were different..

how difficult would it be to achieve unity.

unity. such simple word but such a strong underlying concept. what does it mean to be united?

the answer is easy. the answer is always is. but the willingness to achieve that which the answer requires might not be so easy.

something's gotta give though. will we be around to find out tho?

entah la.

Blogging is dead, long live twitter..

Before the explosion of twitter, blogs were definitely the medium of choice for shameless self expression. I'm sure u probably come across a bunch of blogs where the main topic is the writer's life and how they are like the center of the universe. How their life either sucks or is da bomb. How they have important jobs and how they jet set and travel the world. How the office would just cease to function if they were to go on leave.

How this colleague was clueless, and that boss was a fat bitch. And how the rest of the world was simply jealous of their famousity.

All those blog have similar motive and probably something in common. The common purpose of making the writer feel good about themself and in a way justify their own existence. Yeah i'm generalizing a lot here.

Nowadays, the advent of twitter and other similar micro blogging/social media tools have made it more and more easy for people to blurt out random thoughts and statements with the clear intent of making them sound more important than they really are. There's nothing wrong with it. Heck i've done it a bunch of times. Macam bagus twits yang seem so profound, yang make it sound as if i'm busy working my ass of when in fact i'm just chilling in front of the telly watching chuggington with lil jj.

U kinda get it when u follow some important govt person or random politician. They see it as another medium to relate to their audience and potential voters. And u kinda understand when u follow them hollywood stars. These people really do want to feel important to their followers.

But i sometimes wonder with some of the people that i chose to follow la kan, are these guys losing the plot somewhat? U get instances where u openly discuss internal company policies. Make disparaging remarks about someone u work with. Borderline racist innuendos masked behind so called wit, and that's just scratching the surface aje.

I get the whole freedom of speech argument and all that bullshit. I really do. I guess people are becoming more and more open about stuff. Then u just have to accept la if people start judging u based on these micro outbursts. Which would definitely be sad la in a way kan.

Don't let a mad '140 characters' tweet define how people see u as a person.

Entah ler.

Don't make it too easy..

There was a major disruption on the kelana jaya lrt line yesterday. Got delayed for quite a bit. Told the senorita that i was going to be late because of work, it turns out i was made even more late because of the lrt. Dude, i love u and all but sometimes u just like to have delays at the most inoppurtunate moments. Is that even a word? Entah.

Anyways, whilst i was waiting for the train, i asked this chatty mak cik what was going on. She explained quite laboriously on how the trains were delayed, how u need to change trains at kampung baru and change again at pasar seni. How u need to keep ur ears open for the onboard announcements coz trains were not going the full trip but rather a taxi'ing service was scheduled for kampung baru to pasar seni.

What the fuck. As i'm writing this, the train is stalled for yet another unscheduled delay. WHAT THE FUCK.

But that's public transport for ya. Or rather that's Malaysian public transport for ya. Because there's only one service provider, all delays and cock-ups get magnified la kan. I'm digressing.

Anyways, in the lrt yesterday, i believe it was just after pasar seni. This girl walked in and stood in front of me. I notice she was wearing her company tag and u could clearly read out her name, department and company name from the tag. Mebbe she didn't mean to do it la kan. But it got me thinking. How much info can one gather out of someone's real name and company like that.

I did a quick googling. And lo and behold, just from the name, i manage to get her office number, her designation and some other details. Granted it would depend on ur individual online footprint but that's a bit scary to think that it's not that difficult for people to find out about u from just googling ur name.

If u don't like that kinda attention don't make it easy for people la kan. My company pass doesn't have my full name so that's okay. Plus i seriously doubt if anyone would be interested to google me out pun.

That got me wondering, what is my online footprint? What sorta information have i been sharing to the world. Does anyone give a flying f...??

Train service will return to normal in 1 hour time?? What the fuck!!!!!!!