Does it Offend You, Yeah?

pure eargasmic experience! this song is pure energy condensed into four minutes! if you want more of them, check out their sites: http://www.myspace.com/doesitoffendyou http://www.youtube.com/user/doesitoffendyou

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18 candles (tags: music, 18, the sessions, indie)

  
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i would like to dedicate this song to all who turn 18 this year, like me >:D

Open Letter of the Gaza Freedom March

We are making a public entreaty to Mubarak to let the Gaza Freedom March into Gaza. Text below.

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT MUBARAK FROM THE GAZA FREEDOM MARCH

December 26, 2009

Dear  President Mubarak;

We, representing 1,362 individuals from 43 countries arriving in Cairo to participate in the Gaza Freedom March, are pleading to the Egyptians and your reputation for hospitality.

We are peacemakers. We have not come to Egypt to create trouble or cause conflict. On the contrary. We have come because we believe that all people — including the Palestinians of Gaza — should have access to the resources they need to live in dignity. We have gathered in Egypt because we believed that you would welcome and support our noble goal and help us reach Gaza through your land.

As individuals who believe in justice and human rights, we have spent our hard-earned, and sometimes scarce, resources to buy plane tickets, book hotel rooms and secure transportation only to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza living under a crushing Israeli blockade.

We are doctors, lawyers, students, academics, poets and musicians. We are young and old. We are Muslims, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and secular. We represent civil society groups in many countries who coordinated this large project with the civil society in Gaza.

We have raised tens of thousands of dollars for medical aid, school supplies and winter clothing for the children of Gaza. But we realize that in addition to material aid, the Palestinians of Gaza need moral support. We came to offer that support on the difficult anniversary of an invasion that brought them so much suffering.

The idea of the Gaza Freedom March—a nonviolent march to the Israeli Erez crossing– emerged during one of our trips to Gaza in May, a trip that was kindly facilitated by the Egyptian government.  Ever since the idea emerged, we have been talking to your government through your embassies overseas and directly with your Foreign Ministries. Your representatives have been kind and supportive. We were asked to furnish information about all the participants—passports, dates of birth, occupations—which we have done in good faith. We have answered every question, met every request. For months we have been working under the assumption that your government would facilitate our passage, as it has done on so many other occasions. We waited and waited for an answer.

Meanwhile, time was getting short and we had to start organizing. Travel over the Christmas season is not easy in the countries where many of us live.  Tickets have to be purchased weeks, if not months, in advance. This is what all 1,362 individuals did.  They spent their own funds or raised money from their communities to pay their way. Add to this the priceless time, effort and sacrifice by all these people to be away from their homes and loved ones during their festive season.

In Gaza, civil society groups—students, unions, women, farmers, refugee groups—have been working nonstop for months to organize the march. They have organized workshops, concerts, press conferences, endless meetings—all of this with their own scarce resources. They have been buoyed by the anticipated presence of so many global citizens coming to support their just cause.

If the Egyptian government decides to prevent the Gaza Freedom March, all this work and cost is lost.

And that’s not all.  It is practically impossible, this late in the game, to stop all these people from travelling to Egypt, even if we wanted to.  Moreover, most have no plans in Egypt other than to arrive at a predetermined meeting point to head together to the Gaza border.  If these plans are cancelled there will be a lot of unjustified suffering for the Palestinians of Gaza and over a thousand internationals who had nothing in mind but noble intentions.

We plead to you to let the Gaza Freedom March continue so that we can join the Palestinians of Gaza to march together on December 31, 2009.

We are truly hopeful that we will receive a positive response from you and thank you for your assistance.

Tighe Barry, Gaza Freedom March coordinator
Medea Benjamin, CODEPINK, USA
Olivia Zemor, Euro-Palestine, France
David Torres, ECCP, Belgium
Germano Monti, Forum Palestine, Italy
Ziyaad Lunat, Gaza Freedom March, Europe
Ehab Lotayef, Gaza Freedom March, Canada
Alessandra Mecozzi, Action for Peace-Italy
Ann Wright, Gaza Freedom March coordinator
Kawthar Guediri, Collectif National pour une Paix Juste et Durable entre Palestinens et Israeliens, France
Mark Johnson, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Thomas Sommer, Focus on The Global South, India

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Strawberry carved into mushroom!

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so cute! looks like them characters from super mario, haha!

Delivering a Package

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what singapore could do to tackle global warming

this might be a crazy idea, but i really think its feasible

impose crazy tax on jackets

make it super super expensive, so that you wont need a jacket in singapore

a few reasons why you dont need a jacket in singapore

• singapore is hot and humid, lies on the equator
• more often than not, you can avoid using the jacket by turning up the aircon
• even if its rainy, you dont really need a jacket cause its still damn humid
• mat/minah start using jacket like no tmr

so, by making jackets super expensive, no one will want to buy jackets. i foresee a day where no one in singapore carries a jacket around anymore. :)

you dont really need it, just turn up the aircon a few degrees and you'll stop freezing.

of course, to those in the industries that need sub-zero temperatures to keep your machineries in optimal conditions, you can haz them jackets. and this, i suggest making the company pay, muahahhaha.

Avatar the movie, what a way to end 2009!

i was never interested in Avatar despite all the media attention given to them, until after i watched the show

and if you plan to watch it, pls watch em in 3D. you'll be amazed at the wondrous CGIs. 

it started like this: 

my group and i were stuck in school, doing project when it was supposed to be a 3-week term break (yes i know it sucks), and we were kinda tired of it. so one of them proposed that we should watch avatar. and i was free, so why not? i never regretted my anything-goes choice ~

ok, enough of the drama pre-movie, 

*disclaimer*

words after this paragraph might spoil your whole movie experience of watching avatar if you haven't watched it yet. i suggest you to just read on anyways, cause you certainly asked for it :P

as some of my peeps mentioned, the movie avatar was bits and pieces of a lot of movies – apocalypto, terminator, aliens vs predators, resident evil – with similar actors and monsters. what is most brilliant about avatar the movie, is the night scenes. the whole ambiance was breathtaking! its not like earth's forest, where its dark and black, but its really out-of-the-world illumination of the plants and animals. its really really colourful and is so picture-perfect on every frame of the night scene. what i really digg is that the ground/branches/plants/organisms illuminates whenever one touches it. if you like neon stuff, you'll jizz in your pants watching the night scenes! 

the storyline…mmm, i think its good. a tried concept, but it works nonetheless. i just love tribal-themed movies. and this is no exception.

it is quite sad, that the main character gets overly connected with the Na'vis that he thinks that his real body is like a dream, and that his avatar is making him feel like tomorrow is worth living. and the whole drama about the backstabbing incident after mating, again tried, but still works, so i guess its cool. another thing i like about this movie is that the supporting characters died. call me sadistic, but i think its necessary for supporting actors to die to make the whole story more realistic.

watching avatar makes you feel how awesome it is if you were inside the avatar. it makes you disconnect to the real world, makes you imagine that you want to be in there. its a real fresh movie experience. whenever the Na'vi shoots an arrow, i feel like dodging the arrow. whenever the main character rides the dragon-like monster, i breathed as if i was breathing fresh air from above. when the goddamn tree is down, i feel the sorrow the Na'vi felt. 

tribal-theme + great CGIs + 3D glasses = epic movie experience!

i'll easily rate this movie a solid 10/10!