i don't think i have anything substantial to write about. my mind is too chocked with biology and plants and marine science; there's no space for anything else.

i WAS gonna comment on some malaysians who were not averse to criticizing their own country. those who say that the only direction malaysia is heading to in the future is a downward slide to damnation and that it will only ever be a screwed up place. frankly, i love my country. very much. i love the culture. i love its people. i love the city's lights and sounds. i love it because that's where i grew up, where i learnt my values and where it moulded me into becoming what i am now.

i'm not saying that those who have such low views of Malaysia are traitors or ingrates or 'tak kenang budi'. i'm just saying that they should not judge their own country so harshly. so our government may appear to favour a particular race over countless others. so meritocracy might be starting to slip away. so WHAT? this happens EVERYWHERE. not just in Malaysia but throughout the world.

if you cannot even bring yourself to love your own country, you'll never be satisfied anywhere else.

*sigh*

i DID say i wasn't going to comment on the issue, so i'm not going to. it takes too much time to think up valid, sensible and rational points.

ANYWAY...in the midst of my Elliot Smiths and Death Cabs and Dashboards and Panic! and The Fray etc...my WMP (on shuffle, mind you) flips to JT-Sexyback. oh, the travesty. oh the incorrigible truth.

that's right.

Sexyback makes me tap my feet (and at one point induced some sort of freak second-toe cramp which made my toes on my right feet prong apart). But ain't no where in Hell is JT bringing sexy back. if ever, it's gonna be papayas and not bananas (words drawn from a highly-esteemed blog).

Damn Right.

And, just to make this post completely pointless:

More pictures from the Geology fieldtrip where i carved my name into the rock of eternal glory; by building a fire, Man's (and i mean that in it's most literal sense) first and for most function since time immemorial.

bwa.ha.ha.ha.



My lecturer, Derek Wyman, famed volcanologist/geologist, owns a sweet-looking hammer.



Where eternal glory was soon to be mine.



5 more reasons why i'll continue doing Geology next year.

Ok, Peace Love and Cocktails.

[p.s. YAY NIKKI! now we can ber-aviator together-gether! HY, you know what to do...bwahaha]