A Spider on the Perimeter of its Web

When society is dissatisfied with its own expectation and need for luxurious living, it sets more rules and bureaucracy designed to improve the quality of life for the few. They prefer slavery or something that resembles a uniformed standard of living and refined obedience. Accordingly, they will hesitate to reduce anyone to a state of […]

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SKULL

Prophetic eyes that peek at Bangkok

One can’t deny the oddity of this snapshot, which I took on a Saturday afternoon in Bangkok. The “skull” cloud seems to be peeking at the inhabitants of this city, watching… a bad omen? I don’t believe in such, but who knows. Some of my Thai friends seem to think so, wrapped up in their superstition […]

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Our society: whitewash of hypocrisy and lies

An establishment strives on a set of governing principles or what they would term as “core values” within the Great Hierarchy. These are to ensure a logical, predictable outcome to what the stakeholders desire. Life, to them, must conform to the ideals of their creation. Dogma, supersedes life, and thus the Institution expects everyone to […]

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709 – This is OUR land

An inspiring, empowering video of the BERSIH protest in Malaysia.   ZashnainAn avid blogger, twitterer and photojournalist, Zashnain Zainal suffers from an incurable addiction to social work, helping marginalised communities since 1989. Nowadays he travels from the plantations of Malaysia to the slums of Thailand. He can be found at zashnain.com and @bedlamfuryMore Posts – […]

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Conforming to society or be deported from humanity!

Diplomacy is one of the traditional accomplishments of a corporate gentleman, along with good educational background, driving a vehicle, a knowledge of music, a passion for football, and etiquette. Society expects such fine breeding of men and women to propagate their tradition, religion and family honour. Such is the culture that harried relentlessly by their […]

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What does the Great Social Order expects of us?

The leaders of our society are continuously carrying on territorial feuds with one another, or waging vicious character-assassination campaigns against neighbouring rivals. Equipped with social media, a smart phone and the spark of lies, these modern day warriors rode forth in Twitter-chariots lavishly decorated with the deception of truth. Mainstream media recorded the deeds of […]

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A flawed-hero is at the mercy of society. Why?

Many times a flawed-hero staggers, stumbles, and sometimes that stumble causes a fall. Unfortunately for her, most societies do not want to understand the concept of forgiveness or even redemption. When a hero falls, she is judged by society on a moral perspective. She would not have a chance to prove herself on her commitment, […]

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