Open Source software, anyone?

Just read it on The Sun Daily, it got this piece with the title:

Software piracy in M'sia worrisome, says software analyst

Hello! Don't you know there are practically at least one open source software for every single possible application? From OS to web browser, to wordprocessor, to office suite, to DTP, not to mention games, all are free for download and distribute, provided the distributor only distribute the verbatim copy of the software, along with the open source license. So why is the BS fussing about only 228 are recognised out of 2000 companies that had joined the government's Genuine Corporate Award?

We need to have a free software awareness campaign in Malaysia. Especially the fact that the open source softwares are actually less buggy than Microsoft products.

http://www.gimp.org/
http://www.libreoffice.org/
http://www.redhat.com/

There are so many out there, just google for them.

在英文的太陽報看到，軟體專家說在馬來西亞的軟體盜版情況相當嚴重，加入政府的使用授權軟體公司認證的兩千家公司中只有兩百廿八金家合格。這數字是怎麽得出來的？

這些人是那裏不對勁，如此沒見識？現在互聯網上那麽多免費軟體供下載，各種用途的，連操作系統都有，誰還要去 盜版？那專家真的有問題。馬來西亞人該向所有人介紹甚麽叫免費軟體。

Bersih April 28

Well, I just read it online, that Bersih  is going to have another rally on 28th April. This time it will be multiple locations. And the Malaysian government think they can silence Bersih? Only in Malaysia.

Government lies openly.

不要怕犯錯。要學語言，就一定要學造句。錯了再試，到對才是學會。不論學甚麽都是一樣的道理。
 To learn a language, one is bound to make mistakes while learning, so learn from mistakes.


今日　は　水　曜　日　です。
きょうは　すいようび　です。

Anyway, on to the weird Malaysia, it is weird to read in a English daily that according to Deputy Finance Ministe that the only two out of twenty-three shop-owners along Jalan Sultan have not yet accepted the MRT Corp offer. The same news is also reported in Chinese daily. But according to the one Chinese daily I read, the shop-owners had come out to say that none of them had signed any agreement with MRT Corp, rebuking the Deputy Finance Minister.

The same Chinese daily aslo reported the statements from the shop-keepers along Jalan Sultan, Petaling Street and the nearby areas. Those shop-keepers asked, as the tenants of those shops, what are they going to do for the publicised 6 months construction period? And not just along Jalan Sultan, as in the big advertisement placed by MRT Corp, but Petaling Street and a number of other streets nearby will have to be closed too.

There you have it, the very same issue, one newspaper give it an in-depth, statements from all party involved wide coverage, another give it a little oblong box, and clearly bias report. And to think that a high ranking Federal officer actually lies openly, only in Malaysia.

They always omit the names of the businesses.

It happened on 29th Mar, but I only saw a news referring to it on newspaper on 2nd April. The news was about fire broke out in a restaurant at KLCC. The name of the restaurant was not mentioned. It was a Chinese daily. Yes, this is what goes on in Malaysia, when something happened at some business that made it to the news, the newspaper always neglected to mention the name of the business. And English dailies almost always mention the names, there are cases that even the English dailies omitted the names as well.

So I checked online. And found it on yahoo.com.my that it was Chinoz at KLCC that was in smoke because something was burning in its exhaust system in the kitchen. And that is like a scandal that the name of the person involved needed to be protected? Only in Malaysia. Or the same happens somewhere else too?

在馬來西亞，中文報通常不會報導那家店發生了火災的。４月０２日看到說在３月２９日在ＫＬＣＣ有家旅館發生了火災，可是沒說是那家。我上網找，在雅虎看到原來是Ｃｈｉｎｏｚ的廚房起火。有甚麽店上了新聞，中文報是不會報導是那家店的。英文報則大部份時間會，也有過店上了新聞，英文報也不報導店名的。只在馬來西亞才會如此？

Those news really got to me.

Housing projects undertaken by unlicensed housing developers? 195 cases of them?

I set myself to post 1 entry per day as a record of my learning curve on Japanese, but when I see the news on newspapers, I just had to post some more on the web. This had to be in Malaysia only. How could they go on unchecked until like forever, because I do not see any action from the government, no mention of the list of those unlicensed housing developers, no mention of how to bring them to justice. Just nothing.

STOP LYNAS 4.13 is coming, and the words on the street in Malaysia is that General Election is coming this June. Now this kind of well now you know kind of news, and the street lamps along Jalan Kepong, near Jaya Jusco Kepong is out for nights, I guess the GE is not a strong enough motivation for the government to pretend they are doing something.

Even general election is enough as a motivation. I guess The Najib is firmly believe he will rule indefinitely, and the GE is only a shame. After all, if he happened to lose the majority seats, he can always call the state of emergency and round up all the people he wanted to round up anyway.


沒準證也能蓋房子？見到今天的報紙，忍不住要上網貼文。

反萊納斯4.13快到了；民間傳說國會改選要在６月舉行，甲洞佳世客外的路上的路燈壞了好多晚，大選也沒法子推動政府改善報務。
沒準證也能蓋子，這是上星期的大人物的專題會議上披露的。上星期，４月０２日才在報紙上看到？而且到現在也沒看到政府打算怎麽對付這種局面。大選也沒用的。

只在馬來西亞。納米級人物只能自求多福。

Another 'in Malaysia only' news.

Now I am getting to know the interface of blogger. I did not know how to use a lot of the features before, but as I posting more entries on my blog, I started to familiar myself with the features. So I made more tuning to my blog.

Malaysians were killed in car-bomb explosion in Haadyai, south of Thailand, and so far Malaysian seemed pretty calm about it, no high ranking officials made any public warnings or announcements on tv or anything other media. What is wrong with them? Only in Malaysia, right?

I just mesmerized another Japanese word.
tameiki ため息　ためいき

Made in another country at the souvenir shops

I just hit the local souvenir shops. Those at Pasar Seni, Kuala Lumpur, I mean. I was a little surprised to realised that a lot of the shops there actually carry the stocks from Indonesia, Thailand, and China. Now, who is not made in China?

But to have them in souvenir shops, passing as souvenirs from Malaysia, this is still disturbing to me. But then again, who make those souvenirs in Malaysia anymore? Unless you go to those stalls that sell the customized mugs, plates, that sort things.

A little sad, but now souvenir out-sourcing is the way in Malaysia too. And souvenir out-sourcing is not in Malaysia only.

Back to my Japanese study.

I just learned that there is 2 kind of readings for kanji in Japanese:

On-reading (on-yomi) and Kun-reading (kun-yomi).

On-reading (on-yomi 音読み　おにょみ) is the way the kanjis were pronounced when they were introduced to Japan from China, as it happened during Tang Dynasty, like in really ancient time, the pronunciations may be quite different from Standard Mandarin today.

NOTE: For the kanjis developed by Japanese, they have no on-reading.

Kun-reading (kun-yomi 訓読み　くにょみ) is a kanji that has its meaning being associated with the native Japanese reading. Or to put it in another way, 'native Japanese sentences are written in Kanjis, and their readings had been associated with the actual way the Japanese sentences were spoken.'

The Kun-reading (Kun-yomi) is the native Japanese reading associated with the meaning of a kanji. 

 還真的要有恒心。今天還是在皮毛的皮毛階級。