Skippppy in Grampy!

Time: 10:41am
Date: 23 March 2010
Location: Computer Lab, Campus Centre, Clayton.

hmm, updates.

The Carnage was totally AWESOME! maybe my body just couldn't sustain the constant sleep deprivation and forced me to sleep a whole lot in the Grampians. Sarah and Audrey were totally awesome bunk buddies... went rock climbing.. bush walking in Mount Hollow and Mount Zero. Though jia yeng, pei chin, leng seng and I did go to Gramps in January but it was an entirely different experience, I met many friendly nature-loving people there... and REALLY hardcore thrill seekers man... Got some bruises as souviners as usual, accident prone me... We stayed in Old Smith Road campsite last time but stayed in Stapylton Campsite this time. We were woken up by kangaroos in the middle of the night!! how COOL was THAT?!

anyways, yea, I gave a shot again, final shot actually in trying to get into MUISS and it paid off. Today's the first AGM, i think. we'll wait and see how it goes... hope I can learn something out of the experience =)

Anyhoo, I read this email this friend sent about the 'malay origins'... was *wow* to say the least. SO, orang Melayu are people who ranaway? don't really know how true is it but... according to JS Mill's On Liberty, Freedom of Speech is a fundamental human right. hence, I turned to my nexe very reliable source.. wiki.

Read this...

One Straits Chinese leader asked, "Who said this is a Malay country? ... When Captain [Francis] Light arrived, did he find Malays, or Malay villages? Our forefathers came here and worked hard as coolies — weren't ashamed to become coolies — and they didn't send their money back to China. They married and spent their money here, and in this way the Government was able to open up the country from jungle to civilization. We've become inseparable from this country. It's ours, our country..." Malay intellectuals objected to this reasoning, claiming that such reasoning is totally absurd and proposing an analogy with the Chinese as masons and Malaya as a house.

replace the word Chinese with immigrants, and the word Malay with slightly earlier immigrants, it could be anywhere in the world. It's like the same tune over and over again... What do people actually learn from history?