Netster 宅男

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Go Go Speedy cat! run baby run! — Netster

Pan­gaia in greek means “all earth” I love the idea of “Pangea Day”! You see, we are liv­ing in a beau­ti­ful world where every one wants to rules the world. When every one is busy try­ing to proof each and every one who’s the men, the poor and the weak who’s suf­fer the ter­ri­ble misery!

Pangea Day is a global event bring­ing the world together through film.

Why? In a world where peo­ple are often divided by bor­ders, dif­fer­ence, and con­flict, it’s easy to lose sight of what we all have in com­mon. Pangea Day seeks to over­come that – to help peo­ple see them­selves in oth­ers – through the power of film.

What hap­pen to the world today, you just can’t stop feel­ing sad and depress. So much for the ide­ol­ogy that kills women, chil­dren, our par­ents and the beloved. Of late, we have seen the worse nat­ural dis­as­ter ever recorded and coun­try like Burma allow their peo­ples to die with­out aids and foods. Peo­ple are dying every day and we wish to do some­thing about it! We want our wish to be granted to change the world to a bet­ter place! Jehane, TED, and the Pangea Day team have taken that first step.

4 hours of films and music was broad­cast live on 10th of May, 2008 from Cairo, Kigali, Lon­don, Los Ange­les, Mum­bai and Rio de Janeiro to mark the one day pan­gaia! Please watch the first 20 min­utes of the broad­cast below.

I am happy to have fol­low the 4 hours broad­cast, the expe­ri­ence is superb! This global cam­paign has touched me and mil­lions oth­ers. I hope you have enjoyed the story of Pale Blue Dot and The Ball! If the world we live in was undi­vided than earth is the heaven itself!

A Thou­sand Words is my per­sonal favorite. It’s not hard to love and be love but some­time I think that first move is the hard­est part of all. All the time we take thing for granted and only when it gone we regret­ted. Some time spe­cial things hap­pen around us, on us, we are just too blind to see but we even­tu­ally real­ize the mean­ing of life.

You may have real­ized I have a REMO free T-Shirt but­ton on my page. Yes, first T-shirt added to the cart is free – you pay only han­dling fees. You can order for your free Pangea Day T-Shirt through REMO. I show off mine below, I received the shirt on Fri­day.

The shirt is very com­fort­able, it’s 100% cot­ton and the order­ing would reach your doorstep from Syd­ney, Aus­tralia! You will also get a cat­a­log called Printed Thing. Cool stuff and please watch my video.

Please log on to Pangeaday.org to learn more about this human race event, films, news, and the lovely peo­ples who make Pangea Day happen.

There were so many good speak­ers on the event, one of those who inspire me with his story was Anthro­pol­o­gist Don­ald Brown. He talks about Brunei cul­ture where peo­ple who have lower rank­ing do not sit higher than the peo­ple who are higher rank­ing than them, it is con­sider impo­lite in Brunei culture.

Human are and must be sen­si­tive to dif­fer­ence but too much focus on dif­fer­ence lurks behind way too much human con­flict. Today, cel­e­brat­ing what we all have in com­mon you should find hope and real­iz­ing how rich and numer­ous those com­mon­al­i­ties are. — Don­ald Brown

At the end of the day, we just want to feel fine! Artist and com­puter sci­en­tist Jonathan Har­ris makes online art that cap­tures the world’s expres­sion. I wish the world be peace and lov­ing, last but not least, We Feel Fine

This is a writ­ing of a blog­ger friend check it out

Horn­bill illus­tra­tion, the sym­bol of Sarawak, the native peo­ple, the beau­ti­ful Bor­neo island, the mys­ti­cal for­est and the haunted river.

This illus­tra­tion was a taken dur­ing my stay at Impe­r­ial hotel Miri. The dec­o­ra­tion for the com­ing Gawai wasn’t that impres­sive but I was amaze by the illus­tra­tion of the Head Hunter and the Hornbills.

“Sarawak Bumi Kenyalang” or “Sarawak the land of horn­bill” use to be a head hunter land. “Is that the rea­son why we have lot of horn­bills?” “Meat eater…?” Okay no ideas about the bird, but I am very cer­tain that I have not seen one in Kuch­ing! Maybe due to devel­op­ment these birds have flown! Or it sim­ply hard to find, maybe you have to go deep into the Bor­neo island to find them.

Don’t worry, I am feel­ing lucky and I have track this birds in Malacca! I have never seen the real life Horn­bills and now I have. Beau­ti­ful isn’t it?

Rhi­noc­eros Horn­bill is pro­tected in Malaysia under the wildlife Act 1972. These birds live on dense low­land ever­green forests, exclud­ing swamp forests and hill dipte­ro­carp forests. Also found up to 1,200 m. Com­mon in pri­mary and sec­ondary forests. Very beau­ti­ful bird in deed!

1.   Black horn­bill with white abdomen and white tail with broad black band across the center.
2. Large orange bill and recurved casque distinctive.
3. Con­spic­u­ous and noisy.
4. Fly­ing with rush­ing wing beats and call­ing with loud bray­ing notes.
5. In cap­tiv­ity, lifes­pan of between 10 – 16.
6. Eat fruits, lizards, tree frogs, bird eggs, spi­ders and large insects. In zoos, the diet includes meat, fruits, eggs and day-old chicks
7. Clutch of 1 – 2 eggs. Incu­ba­tion period between 37 – 46 days nestling period 78 –80 days.

I was so stu­pid to think that there was just one type of horn­bill all the while. Read more see more, Netster!

This June is “Gawai Day”¹ or also known as “Gawai Dayak” how­ever Wikipedia also call it as “Dayak Never Die/DnD” sounds like James Bond. Any­way, I hope I would have time to do “nga­bang” (means house vis­it­ing in Iban lan­guage) dur­ing this fes­tive sea­son. My friend (he a Chi­nese Bidayuh) should be back from Sin­ga­pore but not sure if I can get few nice shot of long houses at night. Sounds like I have to over night… ermmm why I feel lazy already?

Happy Gawai to the Sea² and Land³ war­riors of Sarawak!

1. Gawai Day or Gawai Dayak’Dayak Never Die /DnD, a fes­ti­val cel­e­brated in Sarawak on 1 June every year is both a reli­gious and social occa­sion. The word Gawai means a rit­ual or fes­ti­val whereas Dayak is a col­lec­tive name for the natives races in Sarawak; the Iban, Bidayuh, Kayan, Kenyah, Kelabit, Murut peo­ple and a few more. Thus Gawai Dayak lit­er­ally means “Dayak Fes­ti­val” – Wikipedia.org [↩]
2. The Ibans are a branch of the Dayak peo­ples of Bor­neo. They were for­merly known dur­ing the colo­nial period by the British as Sea Dayaks. Ibans were renowned for prac­tis­ing head­hunt­ing and tribal/territorial expan­sion. A long time ago, being a very strong and suc­cess­ful war­ring tribe, the Ibans are a very feared tribe in Bor­neo. They speak the Iban lan­guage – Answers.com [↩]
3. The Bidayuh is a name of a tribe on Bor­neo island. They are a sub­group of the Bor­neo Dayak tribe. Bidayuhs orig­i­nally came from the west­ern part of Bor­neo. They were called Land Dayaks by the British who colonised the the part of Bor­neo called Sarawak which is now a state in Malaysia – Answers.com [↩]