the observatory

Found this gold. As i'm trying to detox myself all from the normal Netflix woke offerings and the crap mediocre Disney commercial capitulations, i need to express my gratefulness to Ruben Östlund.   A set of comedic and situational mishaps, we are guided by two young female and male model, slowly introduced unto the terms of responsibilities, being opportunistic, victimization in regards to gender on responsibilities to foot the bill. Then we are off to a luxury yacht ride. Wide, painstakingly cleaned by workers of the third country, Nutella flown and dropped in by helicopter, the yacht is filled with socialites, capitalists, millionaires. Ruben, goes all out turned the pages of communism and capitalism, serving us a non-stop sharp, scathing critic on gender, social and class critique. As the air filled with idealistic quotes of Lenin, we witness the rich tourists swinging and tumbling around, vomiting and shouting in terror as their yacht going through a turbulent violent waves....

 just when we thought we are running out of ideas for the rest to get angry, then we have another local film hitting the airwaves with a "controversy". Titled as PULAU ( Island ), we going to have those urban shit, fair skinned, trust fund Bangsar teenagers who doesn't listen to elders, decide to pay a visit to the island and as usual will face the spirit and it's related wrath ( preachy justification ) of the island.  how literal you can get with a horror film when you have a tagline of  #SiapaPergiDiaMati The trailer showed literally the whole movie  Since people have nothing else to do, they love to be angry for any reason. Triggered they flood the comment section saying that it looks like a soft-porn film, apparently more afraid of the bikini's and skins rather than the hantu itself.  again, asking the obvious Pity the make-up department team and the actors. So lets see how it the hantu looks like? Only in our local film,we have the hantu's have adequate ...

A concept in social theory that asserts that the values of people experiencing poverty play a significant role in perpetuating their impoverished condition , sustaining a cycle of poverty across generations. Perpetuating = make (something) continue indefinitely .   The Tidak Apa Attitude so when a group of urban poor families who experienced hardship for 15 - 20 years, their mental and habits will ( persist ) continue to the next generation - unless one of the kids married off to a better family ( social or economic background ).  or if you are lucky, your parents battled out for 20 years to finance your studies so you can break the vicious cycle and go somewhere. From there you slowly upgrade to another level.  explanations of poverty must analyze how structural factors ( education/ economic / behavioral ) complementing with social and physical condition of an individual characteristics.       

It's plain ridiculous knowing a tropical country, free from any natural disaster unable to cater demands and needs of a population of 31.2 million.    what is the relation of chicken distribution got to do with the Ukraine - Russia war?   Its wheat.   while highly paid government officials continue to bullshit about the importance of technology, disruption, IR 4.0 - reality is that the we cant solve issues of telur ayam. .  The poultry business is saddled with controlled price ceiling, while the cost of maintaining one is getting higher, the controlled price ( subsidized ) is making things difficult.    As everything imported ( from workers, football players now eggs), might as well we import a new Prime Minister and the whole cabinet.    So imagine if our MYR conversion rates against USD goes downhill.....   How you want to be world champion, or wanting a local film to win a bloody OSCAR when you cant even manage the basic necessities....

Quran 29.17. " You worship only idols instead of God, and thus you invent a mere falsehood (by deifying some things and beings such that it is impossible for them to be Deity ). Surely those (beings whom you deify and make statues of, and idols) that you worship instead of God do not have power to provide for you; so seek all your provision from God, and worship Him and be thankful to Him. To Him you are being brought back. "                                                                                _____ Exodus 20:3   “You shall have no other gods before me.  _________   ...

Disclaimer - i seldom post anything - but when it strikes my conscientious and consciousness of seeing what is wrong, then it will justify what im  going to say here.  1. mind you, where me and the rest of the countrymen busting our hard ass paying tax to help the ruling govt to fund their machinery and thousand of other related agencies to manage our country. Just when we already knew we are servicing endless 1MDB debt,cost of living skyrocketed to a record high, chicken and egg shortage and what not. 2. the first rule here is the govt need to crack their head to do to service the public. But no, we are entertained with numerous news, reports of issues ( not solutions ) and what made me write is - a national "art" institution parked under the Ministry of Tourism , paraded their circus act ( fully paid by the public ) labelled as "eco tourism " or "communal art" experience.  3. flying a group of artist from Point A to Point B to interpret an communal iss...

Come, lets glorify a "warrior" who ran and hide away for years after his failure to attack the British.  His plan was thwarted by the ones who are comfortable with the Brits. Q - why Mat Polish decide to go against the Brits?  A - "oppression" and unfair "tax" crap imposed.  never mind, forget about the context - lets feed the audience with silat moves, tanjak and keris and what not. Rub their sleepy mind with repetitious dialogues unto their simplistic mindsets and most importantly offer them a space to claim, shout about their sense of belonging.  ( Director Syamsul Yusof hopes Mat Kilau will install a can-do spirit among Malays, costing which cost about RM8 million , motivated him to further elevate the Malay "film industry" ) offer the distressed spirits of the B40 an escape.  so after years hiding, using a "nationalistic" alias MAT SIAM, not MAT MALAYA, he appeared again , welcome and celebrated as a rebel.  just like how rich ki...