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I can't believe only a few weeks ago I was counting down to the starting of exams - with lots of help from Kenth, gee THANKS Moony, such a harbinger you are...- and now I'm counting down to the end of exams!! One more paper left!! Yeah baby, the number of plans I have for after this; have to go visit Roy in Langkawi, mamaking in Puchong, thanni sessions all night long, yong tau foo after yong tau foo in kl... AHHHHHH. Any time after public exams is THE LIFE lah... But firstly it's World Human Rights Day on Dec 10th, so people who are writing letters, please keep it up; those who are marching with the BAR Council, YOU GO DUDES! I must say, one piece of good news that I was looking forward to is the inauguration of Prime MInister Kevin Rudd in Australia. That dude is the bomb. Seriously. Like up the dilly yo and all. Howard rhymes with coward. Isn't that suggestive? When C/Howard becomes an ally to my Prince Charming Dubya, he goes along with him in his Coalition of the Willing in return for a fantastic FTA( Free Trade Agreement, for those of you who don't take Economics. Smirk.) Or rather, the Coalition of the Un-Willing, Bribed and Coerced, as Mike Moore puts it so very succinctly. He also dogs Bushie's footsteps in NOT ratifying the Kyoto Protocol which every other industrialized nation in the world has signed and ratified. In come Rudd. Within a week, seriously, like, the same day he announces his cabinet, he assures the citizens of the world that Australia WILL indeed take steps to ratify the Protocol. I'm quoting Star News Asia, by the way, so if I'm wrong about this, go sue them. Not me. What's more is that he's appointed a woman as his deputy. I wonder why it is that Third World countries such as India and Pakistan can have lady PMs ( Indira Gandhi and Benazir Bhutto) but some so-called G7 countries have never had a woman at the helm. Makes you think. The infamous aggression would be countered if they had a woman President, no? What's amusing is that Rudd's put a former rock star as his environmental minister. It's not that funny; people like Bono have used their celebrity status to publicise ongoing crises all around the world. Its only funny if you think of Ronald "ketchup is a vegetable" Reagan. Anyway, the crux of the matter is, I LIKE THIS GUY. He's a sincerely good person and well-equipped to be handling one of the mover and shaker countries. I only wish that Americans will take a leaf from Australia's book and elect someone who's half as good as Kevvy Rudd. (Hint - Go Barack!!) P.S. I know I said women should be running the show, but come on, who can resist that delish caramel colour on Obama?? :) I wonder if they have Puteri DAP. I'm so joining if they do... Go Kit Siang (future PM of Malaysia)!!! I really don't want to comment on Hindraf. I just think that people should go into this with their eyes open. Don't take stands that you'll regret later on, when you find out how things really are. If Hindraf is just a front, if their administration is just taking Indians for a ride, if their only purpose is to discredit the current government. One thing that they've done well is to highlight the situation that a lot of Indians are in. The squalor can be described as close to pathetic. On the other hand, I truly believe that some poor people don't deserve to be helped. Because they don't know what to do with that help. Their only reason for existence is immediate gratification. They don't want to better themselves, give up the blue-collar jobs, etc. I went with my dad for one of his hamper-giving ceremonies in Klang. The people receiving them are classified poor, as in, their per capita income is much lower than that of the country's average. What do I see, but women with straightened hair. Gee, I wonder how much that set her back. Maybe her son's tuition fees for that month? Or extra revision books? Or nutritious food for the whole family? Poverty must be a fallacy. That's all I can say. I just checked. They don't have Puteri DAP. *face falls* Let me cheer myself up; In light of too much Grey's Anatomy on our prime-time cable television, I take away thy title of Prince Charming Dubya and henceforth dub thee, McPoor-Linguisty. Now that just sounds like an Italian addition to the Golden Arches menu. I should so get a job there and share with them my brilliant insight. Hell, I'm free after my post-colonial Lit paper! I CAN do that!! cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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As most of us are painfully aware, the word "liberal" is a pejorative epithet (largely through Lee Atwater's "Willie Horton" ads for Bush 41 in 1988), although others have contributed (often unknowingly) to the same end. But "liberal" was everyone's word in 18th C. America and until recently; it's the hallmark of every Western democracy and liberal state today. So what happened? I suspect it is the casualty of other linguistic abuses, such as the pejorative connotations of "hedonism" and "Epicureanism." (I'm confining my examples for brevity, but they are legion.) Hedonism is a very simple, and I would suggest unquestionably desirable, stance. There is pleasure. There is pain. According to hedonism, one pursues pleasure, and avoids pain. What in the world is "pejorative" about that? (Okay, sadomasochists might disagree, but not really, in that pain is pleasure for them.) Epicureanism is another pejorative. Through a tortured inversion, it's come to mean the precise opposite of its original meaning. I suspect we associate it with lavish living, sophisticated tastes, self-indulgence, etc. At least that is how it is now used. The original Epicureanism is as ascetic as a Trappist monk (forgive the anachronism). Epicurus taught that simple hedonism (pleasure over pain) is to be pursued, and all luxuries avoided, as they blind us to the beauty of the natural world. Moreover, he birthed ataraxia (emotional detachment/indifference) as a stance against our inner perturbations, to generate a stable and calm mind. Since Epicureanism is named after Epicurus, how did its meaning become so inverted (and perverted)? The ordinary-language philosopher J. L. Austin termed these "changes" linguistic abuse. Like Wittgenstein before him, he was committed to the proposition that "use determines meaning," and spent his career cataloguing "uses" in what many consider un-ordinary language to prove this point conclusively and decisively. He not only agreed that the meanings of words evolve, develop, take on added connotations, his cataloguing of "uses" serves to demonstrate this very point. What Austin would not suffer is linguistic abuse. Abuse occurs (1) when words are used "as if" they have meaning, but don't (his favorite example was "sense data"). Many of the positivists used this phrase relentlessly, but it was an "empty" phrase; there was nothing "behind it." Not even a cogent idea or idea of an idea. The other type of abuse (2) is when the meanings of words are deliberately sabotaged for ideological purposes of subversion. Here, I suggest, liberal, hedonism, and Epicureanism are perfect examples. (There's a good case to be made for "conservatism" too, but most sane minds still know what it means and "use" it properly.) Austin was no linguistic purist, but he had tired of his own discipline's neologisms (particularly acute in the German language) that "used" a privileged (not "private") language rather than "ordinary" language. If a proposition can be stated using the language we all use everyday, why, he pleaded, are we making new words up? What is it we're trying to conceal, by our obliqueness? And that obliqueness, in turn, he insisted, confuses matters, not elucidates them (this was a resident theme in Wittgenstein, too). It goes without saying that the French structuralists and postmodernists paid Austin no attention. Their entire project is built on linguistic abuse. But the Anglo-American world (outside some Humanities Departments) very much did. Austin's contribution to the field is already well-absorbed, but he will probably be forgotten (except, perhaps, for those who study linguistics and rhetoric). His How to Do Things with Words has remained in continuous print since publication in 1962 (from lectures in 1955). The real "meat" of his philosophy is contained in his collected essays. This excursion into the philosophy of language is only meant to raise consciousness on how (and why ) we "use" words deliberately for linguistic abuse. It is the surreptitious principle of every ideologue from every walk of life to undermine our stable meanings to coerce a bogus and perverse sense of things. And it need not be as overt as the postmodernists. Marxists have done it. Religious zealots have done it. Politicians do it. Usually with more "modest" appearances, but no less toxic effects. But, if "we can't mean what we say" (in Austin's great phrase), we won't be able to understand each other. And for some of us, that is precisely the purpose. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Class is always interesting and I realize that I spend the whole day working on things for my class. My friends find it hard to believe that I am taking only one class this term because it seems I am always busy until it is time for work! So today we talked about Adobe photoshop, I am so interested in it because there are lots of photos that I would love to edit, especially my wedding photos!! I have never worn a Haloween costume because in Nigeria we do not have Haloween celebration, and last year I was just not in the mood for it. But if I should wear a haloween costume I would love to dress up as an Egyptian, The Queen of the Nile,(cleopatra) to be precise. It would be interesting to wear all that makeup, I really like the eye liner and beaded headpiece stuff, of course the whole dress up for cleopatra would be so so cool. Imagine me in a white satin gown with attached waist sash, gold apron drop, sequin collar and a long cape!! I can see all eyes on me in that outfit. cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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Everyone loves gemstones right? Well, I had an opportunity last two weeks to visit a Pegmatite mine and I went home with lots of samples; an emerald, quartz crystals, tourmaline crystals, and lepidolite samples! I have them all displayed at home, but the best of them is a large quartz crytal which has a little tourmaline crystal attached to it and an edge of cleavlandite. It looks really beautiful, I got it for cheap too. I love jewelries so gemstones are interesting geologic samples for me! cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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My favourite cereal is frosted flakes. Back home in Nigeria we used to have flakes and Quaker oats for breakfast most of the time, and there is something else we call pap (it is made from corn, we would add lots of milk and just enjoy! But when I got here I have had no time to think of making oats so I just settle for flakes. I really like frosted flakes because it tastes nice without making any effort to make it taste so, some cereal are either too tingy or without any sweet taste, I dont like the idea of addding sugar in my cereal and the milk here is practically tasteless so with frosted flakes I can enjoy a cereal breakfast. Before I found about frosted flakes I did not like to eat cereal but now I can eat cereal anytime. cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Yesterdays class was really fun, I realize that we have lots to learn in so short time and sometimes I get lost while trying to figure something else out. But it is really nice because Kirsten(the proffessor) is always willing to help us when we get lost, sometimes she has to say the same thing over and over before we finally get it; Adobe illustrator sure has lots of ups and downs but I am enjoying learning the tricks around it. I do not think I have weird dreams, I hardly ever remember details of my dream, I try really hard to but I only have vague recollections in the morning. But I had this one dream about 4 days ago and all I can remember is that I was dressed in a Clergy robe in the catholic church. Weird hah? I find it really funny because I have only attended the Catholic church when my Cousins had activities they invited me to. Well so that is probably weird to have such a dream! Last night I had a dream about my favourite Bishiops' wife but I can not remember anything from the dream, only her face! cheap microsoft office cheap corel draw

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I love eating anything that has oats, so I love raisin oatmeal cookies, they are really yummy and healthy which is good. I don't like sugar and I dont eat cookies made with lots of sugar. Oatmeal cookies is really good. You can have nuts, raisin, or even chocolate chips in your oatmeal cookies! I also like peanut butter cookies but oatmeal is my favorite. microsoft office cheap corel draw

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Class today was really interesting, I learned alot about using Adobe illustrator; being in control of the pen tool and all the other pallet! I think the gradient, blend and arrange tools are really great! Hopefully with practise I can do lots of stuff with them. Well I am not a joke freak, I like to listen to jokes but I can't tell a good joke myself, I can tease but not tell a good joke so I think I would borrow one. A man was driving down the interstate at 22 miles per hour. He never went above or below. An officer noticed and followed him a while and then pulled him over. Before the officer could even get to the window the man was saying "I was not speeding, the speed limit is 22 miles per hour and that is exactly what I was doing, I was not speeding". The police officer said, "I didn't pull you over for speeding, I pulled you over for going to slow". The man said "But the sign says 22". The officer told him that he was on Interstate 22. As the man shook his head, the officer noticed that there were three women sitting inside the car. All of them were sitting with their mouths hanging open. Their faces were very white and their hair was completely messy. The police officer leaned toward the man and said "What's wrong with them?" The man said "Well, we just came off of Interstate 134". That is not my joke, I got it from http://geography.about.com/library/misc/blhumor.htm cheap corel draw cheap microsoft office

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As of this moment I am accepted to Young Harris College, I need money to pay for this and lots of it. So for the next four(ish) months I will be working and posting the dark secrets and necessary survival skills of the food industry. What to look forward to: Crop dusting (the beginners guide)

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