Monthly Archives: April 2011

Guantanamo Files

This is the way the world works. The United States employs agents to arrest people based upon laugh­able reas­on­ing, sends them for tor­ture, extracts a con­fes­sion, then keeps them detained in Guantanamo Bay. Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi (ISN 212), the emir of a mil­it­ary train­ing camp for which Abu Zubay­dah was the gate­keeper, who, des­pite hav­ing

Beard

SMBC has found another way to per­fectly describe my feel­ings regard­ing the fungal out­growth infest­ing my jaw. Thank­fully, I am not emo­tion­ally burdened with a mate (yet). Indeed, the num­ber one reason excuse I use for not shav­ing is the rate of growth that neces­sit­ates daily trim­ming — a risk to my skin I rather fail

Submitted!

It’s over. At least a large por­tion of work related to my thesis is done with the sub­mis­sion of my final draft for eval­u­ation. Now I can sit back, and thor­oughly enjoy the finale of Puella Magi Madoka Magica within a day or so. And while we are on about shows I like, Doc­tor Who com­pan­ion

Not Dead.

Just a simple mat­ter of pol­ish­ing my thesis. Also donated blood today, after pulling an all-nighter with the aid of green tea yes­ter­day. And cycled 2.2 km back from uni­ver­sity. Prob­ably not the best med­ical decision that could have been made, but I feel sur­pris­ingly well. And guess what? This means my vegan blood is just

Man Thinks Tsunami is a Sign

of the apo­ca­lypse. The fol­low­ing art­icle was ori­gin­ally writ­ten for Unscientific Malay­sia, and is archived here in its author-preferred form. — Haji Abdul Subky Latif is a writer to ignore When I was dir­ec­ted to the art­icle “Tsunami tanda dekat­nya kiamat”, I had an ink­ling that I would be review­ing a stu­pid art­icle about how

SPCA-KK AGM 2011

A bit of a shuff­ling around of the com­mit­tee this year, the pres­id­ent remains Mohammad Iskandar Ali. The most vis­ible change is the new vice pres­id­ent, who is singer, song­writer Amir Yus­sof, who has decided to make fun­drais­ing his num­ber one pro­ject, since SPCA-KK is offi­cially broke. As such, a major fund-raising event  (in addi­tion

Laura Hocking Month

I think I will make Laura Hock­ing (Face­book page)my offi­cial song­stress of April 2011. A beau­ti­ful voice with intriguing lyr­ics which kick­starts the Johann Hari Pod­cast called Tal­en­ted Tailor.