While online, I constantly find myself distracted from my original purpose – for example looking for an image for a work project, and my attention almost always got hooked to another unrelated topic and websites.

Take today for example. I just wanted to look up a picture of the giant squid in order to put an image of it in my mind while I’m reading Dan Brown’s “The Lost Symbol”. After booting up my computer and connecting to the net, it took me 4 hours before I get to the squid’s picture! Nothing much else gets done during these 4 hours, as you can see from my must-have-social-networking ’rounds’ below. And needless to say I didn’t manage to continue reading the book~ huh…

I think the inability to sit down quietly and focus on one thing at one time is the biggest hindrance to all city dwellers that have a phone/computer that is connected to the rest of the world. Too much info; too little time. Thus too distracted; and thus took more time to complete a single task.

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Malaysiakini is running a four-part series where Malaysian diaspora are invited to share their reasons to leave the country.

There’s this one particular comment, which I think most of us felt it exactly the way he said it. So I’d like to share it with all of you below. The commenter is currently working in Australia as a consultant.

“When I fist arrived in Australia in 2007, the job recruitment agent told me that I am are highly skilled and a lot of people will be lining up to hire me.

This was just the opposite of what I was told in Malaysia, where people only looked at my weakness and looked for ways to put me down and exploit me the maximum that they could.

Fed up with all the racism I felt as an Indian in Malaysia, this motivated me to move to Australia, which I now proudly call home.

Unlike Malaysia, I can see great future for my children in Australia and have no worries about racism. I was very surprised when I found out that the former Australian rugby captain was of African descent while the vice-captain of the women’s cricket team was of Indian origin.

As for coming back to Malaysia, unless Malaysia is hit by a real tsunami which in turn makes Malaysians think that God created all human equal, then I don’t want to be part of a racist country called Malaysia.“

*The above paragraph is quoted from Article 129139, titled ” Leaving Malaysia A Necessity” , on 2.03pm 14 April 2010 at Malaysiakini newsportal.

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Last year, Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno – a Malay Muslim lady who was caught drinking beer in a nightclub – was sentenced to six strokes of the cane by the almighty Shariah Court, a parellel legal system that applies to Muslim only.

You must have known that this sparked international interest and serious concern over human rights in Malaysia then.

Before the previous wave died down and while we are all busy celebrating the new lunar year, came another shocking news that three women were caned for participating in illicit sex. Of course this news refreshed the international concern over Malaysia, albeit for all the wrong reasons!

You can read more in: MSNNine, CNN, and now this issue even has its own page in Wikipedia.

If you are a non-Muslim female who lives in Malaysia like myself, your first reaction will be to let out a sigh of relief as you are not subjected to this inane draconian law!

Then, you will feel sorry for the fellow females who were but 1 side of a party committing this ‘SIN’. Then, you will feel OUTRAGED.

Does having sex before marriage really warrant caning? What about those THE MEN whom without them, the intercourse will not happened? Why they didn’t mete out the same punishment to these assholes? Why so bias?

And how many stroke of canes are given to thore rapists, which in Malaysia common law is the one of the few things that warrant caning? Is having illicit sex comparable to raping?

What about corruption, misuse of public funds, fanning racial hatred, murder, and all those far more sinful acts? Do they get caned? They should be caned!

And oh, by the way, gay/lesbian act is also punishable by Shariah Law. Most vividly displayed by the headline grabbing DS Anwar Ibrahim Sodomy II trial case. Also, the hospital/clinic will refuse to let you do Pap Smear if you are not married. PLEASE LAH, who is still virgin nowadays after the age of 21?

It is a sad state for Malaysia women.

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