2012. In fact, it's already mid-way through the year 2012, and pretty soon, it'll be 2013. Yup, that means we are already well inside the new millennium, that it would be somewhat awkward to label it as new anymore.
In this 'new' millennium, we have seen or heard various inventions and products, amazing, weird, or simply unthought of by the general masses in the last millennium, even as late as in the 1990's.
However, it is sad to note that some population are, even as this piece is written, still way behind, not only in the apparatus that they use or do not possess, but also in their way of thinking. Really saddening. How uncivilized. How unfortunate.
******* From New Malaysia with wong chun wai (26-09-2009):
This has to be the funnniest story I have ever read. A group of Indonesian vigilantes calling themselves Benteng Demokrasi Indonesia (Bendera) has been busy gearing themselves up to invade Malaysia, the country's latest news online website Daily Chilli reported.
According to the group - the same one which recently set up roadblocks in Jakarta to look for Malaysians - they would travel to Malaysia via sea, land and air. When asked by the Jakarta Globe on how they intend to carry their weapons on board a plane, their spokesman said they had a way of doing it but did not elaborate.
Their weapons, which they claimed they have been collecting, included bows and arrows, samurai swords and spears. Yes, they would also be using Indonesian black magic. As part of their reconnaisance, they claimed to have sent 10 Indonesian "spies" to Malaysia. They claimed their countrymen, migrant workers and students, would be backing them. Bendera claimsto have 1,000 odd registered members - the "warriors" include 40 men without limbs and 10 on wheelchairs!
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2012. Malah, sekarang telahpun pertengahan tahun 2012, lalu tidak lama lagi mucul pula 2013. Maknanya, kita sudah lama melangkah masuk ke alaf baru, hatta agak kekok untuk masih menggelarnya sebagai baru.
Dalam alaf 'baru' ini, kita telah melihat atau mendengar pelbagai rekaan dan barangan, yang menakjubkan, pelik, atau semata2 tidak terfikir pun pada orang2 kebanyakan di alaf dulu, walaupun sudah menjejak 1990-an.
Namun terasa sedih bila didapati ada juga manusia, walau di saat penulisan ini dibuat, yang masih tertinggal jauh, bukan saja dalam peralatan yang mereka guna atau tidak miliki, tetapi juga corak pemikiran mereka. Cukup menyedihkan. Cukup tidak bertamadun. Cukup malang.
******* Dari Malaysia Baru dengan wong chun wai (26-09-2009):
Ini mesti cerita paling kelakar saya pernah baca. Suatu kumpulan pengawasan yang menggelar diri mereka Benteng Demokrasi Indonesia (Bendera) telah bekerjakeras menyiapsediakan diri untuk menakluk Malaysia, menurut laporan Daily Chilli, laman berita2 dalam talian terbaru di Indonesia.
Mengikut kumpulan itu - yakni kumpulan sama yang baru2 ini membuat sekatan jalan di Jakarta untuk mengesan orang2 Malaysia - mereka akan bergerak ke Malaysia menerusi laut, darat dan udara. Bila Jakarta Globe bertanya bagaimana mereka akan membawa senjata2 menaiki kapalterbang, jurucakap mereka cuma mengatakan mereka ada caranya tanpa mengulas lanjut.
Senjata2 mereka yang dikatakan telah dikumpulkan, termasuk panah, pedang samurai dan lembing. Dan ya, mereka juga akan menggunakan ilmu sihir Indonesia. Sebagai sebahagian dari tinjauan mereka, mereka mendakwa telah menghantar 10 "perisik" Indonesia ke Malaysia. Mereka mendakwa rakan2 senegara, pekerja2 pendatang dan juga para pelajar akan menyokong mereka. Bendera mendakwa mempunyai lebih dari 1,000 orang ahli berdaftar - para "pahlawan" mereka termasuklah 40 lelaki tanpa anggotabadan dan 10 lagi yang berkerusiroda!
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