Blood Diamonds

Blood Diamonds is one of those rare movies that can really touch a raw nerve in today's materialistic world today. Just as Bush's farced reasons for invading the whole Middle-east today, Blood Diamonds tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a diamond-smuggler (Linado DiCappucino), a torn father (Djimon Hounsou) and your typical white-girl reporter (Jeniffer Connelly) that were brought together by a pink diamond. The crux of the story is not merely about finding a diamond and bringing back a family together, but rather it gives us a bird's eye view of what blood diamonds are all about. Blood diamonds fuel a bloody conflict back in the late 90's with several factions trying to control Sierra Leone. The war was fueled by a trade in illegal diamonds that gave arms and contrabands on all sides of the war that nearly torn the country apart. Emotionally gripping and touching, Blood Diamonds has one or two humourous moments that will make you chuckle if you pay attention to the movie. All in all Blood Diamonds is just one of the rare ones that make you want to watch it all over and over again.

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Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War

Perdana Global Peace Organization (PGPO) is currently having a conference and exhibition entitled Expose War Crimes: Criminalise War at the PWTC from the 5th till 7th February 2007. For your info, the picture of the guy being tortured ala crucifixion style that enraged the world today, Mr. Ali Shalah, will be there at the conference and is one of the speakers at it. For more info log on to the Global Peace Forum 2006 website to get more info. You can view the picture of Mr. Ali Shalah and and read a brief article about him here.

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Bloggers Sued!!!????

Erk...Gawwd wat those idiots in our mainstream presses are doing? Sueing people just because our fellow bloggers at Screenshots and Rockybru happen to be facilitating and giving us the actual analysis of what our country is to become? I'm not gonna mention anything too much here cuz my ass may be next but I will leave it to our readers here (if I have any) to do their own analysis and chew on their own thoughts about this case.



Civil liberties are being trampled on in many countries including the US of A but as far as this is concern this is a complete farce for a multicultural and multisocial country like Malaysia where ideas and thoughts should flourish if our country is to achieve Wawasan 2020. I will be presenting my thoughts and facts to my classmates about ethical issues here in ubiquitous computing in the next class. I'm probably gonna get my ass chewed by my lecturer for this.



Anyway wish me luck and hope that my arse doesn't get chewed later on.... :P