Social Justice

Discussing social justice in education and multiculturalism in class today. Some theorists says that in regards to education, multiculturalism is a recipe for disaster because it's hard to accommodate everyone's perspectives and opinions in shaping education. Some, however believe homogeneity as precursor to stagnancy.My lecturer directly said that to me, Malaysia never even seriously strive for multiculturalism in education and social justice. =P

A Random Thought out of Nowhere

I think the thing about actors and actresses is that we tend to associate them with their best character they ever played. Hugo Weaving is awesome; he's Agent Smith in the Matrix, voiced Megatron in Transformers,V in V for Vendetta and most importantly to me, Elrond in LOTR. Therefore I got the scare of my life when I saw him as a drag queen in 1994's The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Fabulously shocking!

V For Vendetta- an awesome film that explores the idea of authority, power and anarchism. 

The Matrix trilogy. I found the first two films to be of quite good , the last one, meh.

 

Hugo Weaving as Elrond in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Cool, caring father. Sigh, elves sure have it easy- being wise, fair and all.  

Now, I discover another side of Hugo Weaving I've never realised existed before. He sure was a versatile actor- daring to take on such a non-conformist role. Granted, this was 1994, when he was still particularly young- it's good to explore various roles. He reminds me of James Franco ( Spiderman, Milk, Pineapple Express, 127 Hours)  and Joseph Gordon Levitt here ( 10 Things I Hate About You, Mysterious Skins, Latter Days, 500 Days of Summer, Inception).All of them are not afraid to take up roles that are somewhat controversial, proving their acting versatibility and their talent charisma. 

This blog post is really random. Good night.

Tyranny

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive"

                                                           ( Lewis, 1952, as cited in O'Connor, 2007, p. 140)

Apa guna jadi "baik" selama sebulan?

I read in Twitter last two days: "apa guna jadi baik selama sebulan, waktu-waktu lain aku sama ja ? " ( atau perkataan yang lebih kurang sama intipatinya) daripada seorang blogger Malaysia yang agak dikenali ramai .

I'm not trying to say religious thing here,nor I'm trying to dispute much about the blogger's opinion anyway, but I just want to say to myself : " tak berguna ke jadi baik selama sebulan, at least, dalam setahun eh?"

Personally, as an average guy, I'm just being calculative : being horribly bad for 12 months versus being horribly bad for 11 months and a *bit* nice for a month. As a Muslim, we know all thing about hisab and mizan- it's perkara ghaib- one of the core pillars in iman is to believe in one. This is not the issue of Ramadan ada kesan ke apa. Personally, I know roughly how I spent my Ramadan- I am, we are at liberty in controlling, managing my/our Ramadan. I'm not gonna go all *regretful* or anything about how I spent Ramadan my whole life, I had chosen the way I want to spent all the time . We are basically all like that, and hence since it is highly manageable, ada kesan tak ada kesan is all about us anyway.

Whatever.

You want to stay the same, sure, please do. Be whoever you think you are. You want to be better, sure, please do. Human we are. In everything we need motivation. Nak kahwin pun nak kena ada motivasi these days.

Salam Ramadan, kalian.