The President Is Black But The House Is Still White

Hi peeps,


Well, since American had change its regime, which I believe the first black to become the United States of America's president and after finished reading his inaugural, I've decided to write a letter dedicated specially to Mr. Obama. Our world today is facing many problematic and serious issues. However, there are some issues that I think every president in each country have to concentrate. There are 194 countries in the world including the Vatican City and Kosovo that are independent but not members of the United Nations. United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights and the achieving of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League Of Nation, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions. We know that the world today is not the same as the world that our ancestor lived before. 50 years back, our ancestors fight for the independence to free Malaya from British Colonies. However, today the fight is different. We fight for many reasons. Some are silly, some are serious. Global warming and climate change is one of the serious matters in today's world. Not forgetting racism. and world's war. Honestly, I don't understand why we people of the new era wanted to bring back the South African system of racial segregation or also known as apartheid. Today's apartheid is not only involved the African, but it also involved the 'under-developed countries' or third world countries. Thus, as the leader had change in America, I do hope the world will change as well. So, here goes my letter.

Dear Mr. President,

I did not vote for you in the Presidential Election because I am Malaysian.

But I consider myself one of your constituents because what you do or say will affect me and my country as well.

I welcome your promise to change. Certainly your country, the United States of America needs a lot of changes.

That is because America and Americans has become the best hated people in the world. Even Europeans dislike your arrogance. Yet you were once admired and liked because you freed a lot of countries from conquest and subjugation.

It is the custom on New Year's Day for people to make resolutions. You must have listed your good resolutions already. But may I politely suggest that you also resolve to do the following in pursuit of Change.

1) Stop killing people. The United States is too fond of killing people in order to achieve its objectives. You call it war, but today's wars are not about professional soldiers fighting and killing each other. It is about killing people, ordinary innocent people by the hundreds of thousands. Whole countries will be devastated.

War is primitive, the caveman's way of dealing with a problem. Stop your arms build up and your planning for future wars.

2) Stop indiscriminate support of Israeli killers with your money and your weapons. The planes and the bombs killing the people of Gaza are from you.

3) Stop applying sanctions against countries which cannot do the same against you.

In Iraq your sanctions killed 500,000 children through depriving them of medicine and food. Others were born deformed.

What have you achieved with this cruelty? Nothing except the hatred of the victims and right-thinking people.

4) Stop your scientists and researchers from inventing new and more diabolical weapons to kill more people more efficiently.

5) Stop your arms manufacturers from producing them. Stop your sales of arms to the world. It is blood money that you earn. It is un-Christian.

6) Stop trying to democratize all the countries of the world. Democracy may work for the United States but it does not always work for other countries.

Don't kill people because they are not democratic. Your crusade to democratize countries has killed more people than the authoritarian Governments which you overthrew. And you have not succeeded anyway.

7) Stop the casinos which you call financial institutions. Stop hedge funds, derivatives and currency trading. Stop banks from lending non-existent money by the billions.

Regulate and supervise your banks. Jail the miscreants who made profits from abusing the system.

8) Sign the Kyoto Protocol.

The Kyoto Protocol is a legally binding agreement under which industrialized countries will reduce their collective emissions of greenhouse gases.

9) Show respect for the United Nations.

I have many other resolutions for change which I think you should consider and undertake.

But I think you have enough on your plate for this 2009Th year of the Christian Era.

If you can do only a few of what I suggest you will be remembered by the world as a great leader. Then the United States will again be the most admired nation. Your embassies will be able to take down the high fences and razor-wire coils that surround them.

May I wish you a Happy New Year and a great Presidency.



-nur dhiya abdullah-

Eye soring entertainment

Hi peeps,

In despite living in the world of modernization and technology not to exaggerate on the millennium era, I still couldn't understand why some of earth citizens chose to live uniquely and creatively which differs from a normal human being. My one and only question here is: Should we legalize transgender or even worst, gay marriage in Malaysian Law System? To be frank, I do have friends where to a certain extent confused of their sex orientation which later contributed to the man to man relationship. I'm not trying to discriminate them or set them aside from the public. I know that every people have their own point of view however, I do found that having them kissing in the public or even a mere holding hands is quite harmful. Even though watching a drag queen or drag king competition is mesmerizing and overwhelming, literally, and silly yet funny which-make-me-laugh-all-the-way, I still believe that it should not be publicize. Imagine two people of the same sex consenting adults and they want to stand together in public and say 'I'm going to be with this person for the rest of my life'

I know that some of the countries in the world have already enforced the law to allow same sex marriages. A big applause for the queer people eyh? Take United States Of America, one third of the district in America including Iowa, Massachusetts, The Republic of Colombia, Vermont and Connecticut has allowed same sex marriage and even though in some districts, gay marriage is not granted by the state law, man-to-man relationship is still been performed. I'm not trying to be a closed-minded person, but what is the value of marriage where one women and one guy fall in love, get married, have kids and live as a happy family like Adam and Eve were banished in order to legalize same sex marriage. Is it fair? I clearly do not want to be like Blair Waldorf in gossip girl where her dad divorced her mom just because of a male model. Pathetic. Watched Brookback Mountain. You will understand exactly my point. How two families have been destroyed by the defiant man that would rather chose to have relationship with guy rather than women.

Ah! Not forgetting the entire gender queer out there. The memory is still clear as pure water when the first time I went to Lorong Haji Taib in Kuala Lumpur at 1 a.m in the morning. The view is truly breath-taking. I saw shemale everywhere. It is quite funny though. Watching them wearing red bareback dress with super duper low V cut in the front of the dress to persuade guys into sleeping with them. Oh! come on. What actually do you have to show off? Your straight as a ruler shape with flat on your chest with no curvy-licious butt like J.Lo? To my surprise, these unique people are very choosy. They tend to chose foreigner or to be exact, english guy rather than Malaysian guys. I once saw an english guy heading to the Shangri-La hotel with two shemale. Not one but, TWO. One for each side of him. Left and right. When the clock hit 2 a.m, I later when to the Beach Club in Jalan Sultan Ismail to watch another scenario and special scene from them. Well, all I can say that I saw Marilyn Monroe with her blonde hair, Britney Spears with her super short skirts and Beyonce Knowles with her unbutton clothes. I give two thumbs up for their bravery and daring-ness.

One week later went to one of the gay club with my gay and bisexual friends to watch how do this group of people socialize and have fun. Well, we all know how do they have fun right? So, I'll skip that part. It turned out that they are not that bad. They just want people to accept who they are regardless their appearance and attitude. I know that many of Malaysian citizens discriminate and isolate this type of people. What I don't understand is why? Who give you the rights to isolated them? Yes. Even though what they did is wrong and against our law in both Islam and Civil but, discrimination is not the way to solve it. It is true that I strongly oppose to gay marriage and trans gender but, I still believe in human rights. Some people might refer them as "Dr. Jackyll and Mr. Hyde" Transforming themselves when the sun set. I however refer them as the "Transformers" without knowing why.

All I wanted to say here is, no matter who they are, what they did, we do not have the rights to treat them like one big group of black-sheep in the farm. Everything starts from home and school. So, to moms and dads out there, I do not ask you to watch every movement of your kids. It is enough when you know where they went, who their friends and please treat them like one of your best friend. If you don't have one, find one. Your kids may be the first.

-nur dhiya abdullah-