Culture? no not that yogurt shit

what is the malaysian culture? right now, being a malaysian, ive always wondered, what is 'our' culture... let me put it in a scenario aite... say a malay guy comes to me and ask me what is our culture, my response would simply be, well we drink sirap, we celebrate raya, we salam cium tangan and all that jazz, but if a chinese or indian guy comes up to me and ask me this simple question, i'd be puzzled for a few seconds or so...

now, after spending a few days just thinking about it, the answer couldnt be simpler. see the trouble arises when we mix our culture and our traditions and or adat(morals in a traditional sense) culture is how we lead our everydaylife, whereas traditions is our guidelines. now to the sense-making... our culture is simply how all of us, interact interacially, like hanging about at mamak stalls, thats our culture, playing pool with our buddies, thats our culture, watching football matches that takes place outside of our country together, that is OUR culture.

basically culture is everchanging, and tradiotion will be in our lives for eons to come, yes they run together like perfectly matching caligraphy lines but they are parallel, they do not intertwine and such.

i dont know why im posting this anyway, i thought my blog could use an intelligence boost....

gloat like a mofo

did anyone catch the ffm19 the other night? where only halfway thru the show are the winners be given the right to gloat and give their acceptance speech? i just dont get it man, like why give them awards when they cant take their time to appreciate and give their thanks and such... ok so maybe gloat is a harsh term but nevertheless, i find it weird at the fact that only halfway thru the show did they realise that 'oh crap, we have so much airtime left, maybe we should let them speak'.

the whole sharifah amani thing... damn man, in my opinion is completely bogus... from the moment she spoke, i knew someone was gonna make a big fuss out of it... 'i sound stupid when i speak malay' does not mean that my iq drops down 90 points when i speak or embrace my language, it just means that i am more comfortable when i speak english, geez man... and the other thing "kalau membuat filem mencemarkan budaya kita, lets do it more often", some may take this in and insensitive manner but if you think about it, it makes perfect sense.. alot of people mix culture with tradition, i am not saying that we should meddle with tradition, i am saying that we should meddle with our culture, lets provoke it, hell it makes great movies, our multiracial culture with a taboo for segragation(sp?) yet it is still there, we are all racist deep down, dont even dare to not admit it, lets destroy this culture... okay so maybe you are not getting me here, lets take a movie for instance, a prof madya movie... if you even bother to pop your head into the cinema how many different races do you see? okay now lets try it with a yasmin ahmad movie... how many different races do you see? ... i rest my case

besides this, i just hope that anak anak seni can blossom to what they really are, with the utmost freedom of expression without any whiplash, kalau tak, macam mana film industry kita nak maju...

anyhoots, if i dont post til next month, i just wanna wish everyone a good merdeka.. merdeka!!! merdeka from opression of censorship, merdeka from the narrow thinking that leads to chucking kulit durian out of a car window on the plus highway, merdeka everyone

the journey of a thousand durians

right so lets clear my concience for a minute, the results came out yesterday, i didnt do too well, but its ok, i have my leaving cert to back up on and stuff, to all my buddies who did well, good on you and congrats, go on lead a good life, and for my buddies who didnt do too well, its all good mates, no use crying over spilt milk right? and the sun will still shine tomorrow and all that jazz

went back to batu pahat last weekend, not much excitement there, tell me about it...

"thats how you get things done man, stick your balls out there" one quote worth taking out of jerry mcguire, its oh so true in the case of the unemployed; me and me buddy idzo stormed the fortress of tv3 the other day, it was worth it, got my cv taken in, got a bunch of contact numbers, met rina from 8tv, it was all butter and gravy baby yeah

right im sorry if this post is not long enough for your liking or no good rants and ramblings is present for your monthly feed, but its my blog and you can shove your monitor where the sun will not shine tomorrow if you dont like it.. till then ta ta