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The Darus Theories

Hey there!
It’s 2010 and a whole new year is here! Well, to kick off 2010, I’ll let you in on some theories I’ve been doing up in my free time :

The God Time Reversal Theory (GTRT) :

Allah SWT is all knowing and all powerful with infinite power. With that, it is entirely possible that He has actually reversed time before (for whatever reason of  His), this “rebooting” all of us. It’s not a theory because of whether it can happen or not (since it can) but rather, the word “theory” is there because I’m wondering whether it  has actually happened before. In any case there is no way to find out since we were erased when He reversed time. It can never been proven but still, it makes it an interesting topic of discussion.

The Periodic Time Reversal Theory (PTRT) :

This one is more complex but basically deals with the same issue : time reversal. It must be stated that there is still a lot in physics that has not been discovered and thus there might be mechanisms in time that we have yet to find out or understand. My theory is that due to some unknown phenomena, time can actually reverse.

The time reversal could be to any back point due to as of yet known phenomena, so it could have gone back 1 year, 10 years, 10 000 years, who knows?

Anyway, just like in the GTRT above, we are all “rebooted” when time is reversed and the universe goes ahead from the restart point and maybe things change slightly. For example, maybe some people who were present before time reversed don’t get born because their parents never met in the 2nd timeline and so on and so forth.

However there could be circumstances where part of the “pre-rebooted” history is “saved” due to some as-of-yet-known phenomena (my current best theory on this : Electrical activity in the brain during the time of the original memory recording that seemingly “shields” it from being erased when time does get reversed) and thus stored in the brain.

However, it doesn’t get unlocked until a certain as-of-yet-known condition regarding to space-time is reached and that is why we usually don’t remember any of it.

Looks pretty ambiguous right? First, it must be once again noted that there is a lot about science that we have yet to discover. Second, such a phenomena might actually explain why people seem to claim to have dreamt of future events. It’s because they’re witnessing the event that happened in a future timeline that was eventually erased when time reversed.

This opens up the possibility that we can actually reboot time, assuming we discover what the phenomena that can actually cause it to reverse. However, I believe that even if we are able to reboot time, we have to reboot ourselves as well, thus after being rebooted, there is no memory of what we did in the future.

Thinking of this, it actually gets interesting to think that this might actually be the 2nd or more time we are going through life. Maybe we have lived and died but the timeline was reset and here we are again. Who knows? Allah is all powerful, anything can happen.

(Side note : I am aware that Allah in the Quran did say that “..time passed will not return…”, but the Quran is contextual, meaning that, it’s not necessary straightforward as it might seem. I am not a theologian and I haven’t referred this theory to an Islamic expert, but it could be possible that “time passed will not return” still does ring true in the event time does reboot. How? Because if time is rebooted, we return to a back point with no previous memory of future events. Thus in that sense, we would not have known about the events in the future and as of such, we didn’t actually get back time because we have no idea of future events and thus can’t / could not move to change it knowingly. And the other part of having parts of the future seemingly “saved” in our heads, it could be Allah’s way of showing He is all powerful.)

The Dream Alternate Reality Theory (DART) :

This is kind of an old theory of mine really. Kind of mid-2009-ish. Anyway, this theory of mines states that sometimes (just sometimes, please do keep that in mind) when we dream, our brains connect to our alternate selves in alternate realities and thus we can see or experience what our alternate reality selves are doing.

This theory was based on several things :

• We always dream as ourselves. (I’ve never had a dream of me being Michael Jackson or Osama bin Laden).
• Notice how we can shake violently (and wake up) when we sometimes dream that we are falling down? Sure science has a theory on that already (about something we inherited from our ancestors that were tree dwellers), but what’s the harm in another alternate theory? Anyway, that aside, notice how our dream sequences can translate into real life actions?
• Some dreams are so photo-realistic and we can sometimes tell we are dreaming while we are in a dream. (Lucid dreaming). How can we think in our dreams if we’re just watching some auto-run video? And if you think hard enough, sometimes, you are vividly thinking in your dreams and carrying out actions as if you were in the real world.

This theory may be true or may be totally off the mark. But it’s always important to have theories and work out to see if they can ever be proved. Who knows, one day someone might prove these theories correct, but until then. I think it doesn’t matter if there was any concrete physical/mathematical proof to start with, science should always first and foremost encourage new ideas and thoughts and work toward proving or disproving them.

(Another Side Note : I’m pleased to think that all my alternate reality selves generally behave like me. It’s great to think that I’m existing somewhere else doing the very same things I’m going here. And I wonder if they also have though of the DART. Well, maybe one day we’ll know.)

Darus : The Adventure Continues

As 2009 has been a super year, I’m declaring 2010 as the Darus Year Of Adventure.

My hyperdrive engines are already roaring and my research into The Last Princess Of China, will once again take me to the Far East in February.

And not to mention the writing of Suleiman The Lion II  in addition to the making of Suleiman The Lion, 2010 is going to build on the momentum of 2009.

What a year 2009 has been, 3 things stand out above all :

Suleiman The Lion : The movie script that I have been talking (and actually, also doing) since January 7th 2006 finally gets completed with the printed script out on April 16th. And in August, the Perak State Government backed the project and finally on September 2nd, I travelled to Ipoh and got confirmation that the project is going to take off.

Jija : Okay, for those who really don’t know, (and I know most don’t) Jija is the name of my car, my beloved Perodua MyVi 1.3 SXi. She’s one fine girl and she apparently (like me) hates idling in traffic. She drinks petrol like crazy then. It’s quite odd but true. Finally, I got a car!

China : The adventure of a lifetime! For the first time, I’m the foreigner, not the local. Just me, my backpack and 10kg of various stuff. Pretty much on a “get-lost-and-find-my-way-back-somehow” mission. Travelled through Haikou, Hainan, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in Guangdong province. Can’t never forget this trip no matter what. China is a beautiful country with lots of charm and I’m going to be there again, hopefully in April 2010! Last but not the least, I want to say thank you to everyone I met, who befriended me and helped me during every step of the way. Yes, to the Chinese, the Hui’s, the Uighurs, the fellow Malaysians and even the Pakistanis, you’ve all made my China 2009 trip truly unforgettable.

And now as the Decade Of The Night recedes away into the pages of history, a new decade dawns with new adventures to pursue, new friends to make, new mountains to climb and new worlds to conquer! And as I said in my previous post : BRING IT ON!

Not enough RAM

If there’s anything that can describe me right now, or for that matter if there was an error message that could fit me perfectly right now, it’s certainly “NOT ENOUGH RAM”. There’s only so much I can jam into my head at one time.

Don’t worry, I’m still that psycho that most people have a love-hate relationship with. And with 3 jobs at one go, 2 pay-ing ones and one obsession-driven (you all know which one that is).

I really need to get this blog up and running again. 1431H is already here and soon a whole new decade will dawn too. I’ll be talking about this decade (which personally I call the o-o’s) in my next blog and I’m already all ready to turbo jump into the next 10 years. 2009 has been the most fantastic year ever despite all it’s shortcomings and all I can say for the next decade is : BRING IT ON!

Loaded & Ready

172 pages

28 000 words

150 000 characters

3 years and 3 months of writing

1 great story!

To the world, I present you : Suleiman The Lion I : The Tiger Trail

What I really think…

One of the bush fire wars away from the main theatre of war between the Barisan Nasional and the Pakatan Rakyat is the issue of whether the Communist Party of Malaya’s (CPM) former leader, Chin Peng (his real name being Ong Boon Huat) is to be allowed to return home or not.

I’m sick, so I’m not going to write a whole essay on this. So I’m going to make it as short as possible.

All-in-all, I think that Chin peng should be allowed back to Malaysia.

Why?

Firstly, is it his right to do so under the 1989 Agreement Between The Government Of Malaysia And The Communist Party Of Malaya To Terminate Hostilities.

Secondly, for Allah’s sake, he’s an old man. Let’s just forgive him and get on with it. He did take up arms to fight against the British colonialists (which a certain ruling party/coalition certainly didn’t) and he did profess to have an undying love for the country. Besides, what danger does he have to Malaysia?

From what I found of the 1989 Agreement from the James Wong’s site : http://jameswongwingon-online.blogspot.com/2006/12/1989-malaysia-cpm-peace-accords-in.html, all CPM members (my emphasis) are allowed to return to Malaysia.

Article 3.1 explicitly states that “Members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units, who are of Malaysian origin and who wish to settle down in MALAYSIA, shall be allowed to do so in accordance with the laws of Malaysia”, while Article 4 reads “With regard to Article 3, the Malaysian authorities shall assist members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units in order to help them to start their peaceful life afresh.”

Even more amazingly, in Article 3.2 actually states that “Members of the Communist Party of Malaya and members of its disbanded armed units, who are not of Malaysian origin, may be allowed to settle down in MALAYSIA in accordance with the laws of MALAYSIA, if they so desire.”

(All the emphasis to the articles above are mine)

This means that all CPM members regardsless of whether they were even Malaysian or not in the first place are hence allowed to settle and start a life in Malaysia. There should be no legal or political obstacles to this in any way.

However, statements from the Government that Chin Peng will never be allowed in Malaysia and the reasons that accompany them show the nature of the UMNO Government of deciding to play politics with an agreement that is explicit in black and white.  An old man is now a pawn in a political fire fight. How low can they go?

It also dents Malaysia’s credibility abroad. How would anyone trust us now to sign agreements with them and expect them to be honoured? Not to mention from an Islamic perspective. Isn’t it un-Islamic -or for that matter even munafik- to say something but do something else?

Let’s not make this into another race issue, as just about everything in Malaysia seems to be whether genuine or not. Let’s get past this. Let him come back. Malaysia, I believe at large has forgiven him.

May 7th 2009 : Perak’s Day Of Infamy

 

Firstly, no, I you’re not dreaming. Secondly, no, I didn’t doctor the pictures. Thirdly, yes, those events actually did happen.

Actually many other things did happen. Many, many, many other things that would make any sane and rational-minded Malaysian cringe in shame. But the icing on the cake – so to speak – was the enterance of  plainclothes policemen into the State Legislative Assembly and dragged the Speaker out by force, something that seemingly reeks of events that one would usually believe only occurs in dead-in-the-ground countries in a continent call Africa.

Actually, I think I’m being generous. I think even Sani Abacha, Mobutu Sese Seko, Idi Amin and Robert Mugabe would actually look at us in awe at the way everybody ”official” handled the Perak State Legislative Assembly today. Hey, we’ve always said ”Malaysia Boleh” right? Well, looks like we really “Boleh”.

Everything that happened today in the House was wrong. The swearing in of a new Speaker (using procedures that are clearly illegal by the way), the refusal of the Seargent-At-Arms to abide by the Speakers orders, the refusal of entry to people invited by the Speaker and the ultimate, the forceful eviction of the Speaker by people not authorised to enter has shown that the Barisan Nasional will use whatever means to not only get to power, but to cling on to power as well.

This is a huge disgrace to our country and it has shown that something is fundementally wrong with the way this country is being run. The fact that these events could actually happen alone shows to us that our new Prime Minister Najib Tun Abdul Razak is in no way a great reformer and he would like to think himself to be.

Instead, he is leading us to destruction and pariah-ism.  Todays event has told us one thing : We’re finished, we’re doomed. Unless we do something about it, it’s game over for Malaysia.

P059 Bukit Gantang : An icon is born

Dato' Seri Ir. Hj. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin

It’s very difficult to argue against the fact that Perak Menteri Besar Dato’ Seri Ir. Hj. Mohammad Nizar bin Jamaluddin is fast becoming an icon for the people of his home state (and mine too!) Perak Darul Ridzuan.

His victory in the P059 Bukit Gantang by-elections -which was triggered by the death of it’s previous MP, his party college Hj. Roslan Shaharun in Febuary- when he defeated the Barisan Nasional’s Ismail bin Saffian with an increased majority than one sealed by the late Roslan in March 2008.

Nizar polled 21 860 votes to Ismail’s 19 071 with an Independant candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris securing a mere 62 votes. With the even larger majority of 2 789 votes,  the Pasir Panjang State Legislative Council member has underscored the paradigm shift sweeping across the country that UMNO is fast becoming irrelevant and that the rakyat are demanding a fairer, corruption-free administration and less racially inclined governence.

While admittedly a risk putting Nizar in Bukit Gantang in the first place, since Bukit Gantang has perpetually been a Alliance and subsequently Barisan stronghold since 1955 until last year’s election, the risk paid off handsomely and Nizar is now set to set Malaysia’s Dewan Rakyat on fire.

All in all, congratulations to Nizar and I hope that this election will be a wakeup call to Barisan’s Gerakan and PPP to seriously re-evaluate their position in the coalition. UMNO, MCA and MIC are symbols of the past, a past that is long gone and shall never return. The days when UMNO, MCA and MIC were real good parties is over and what is left is a souless entity drifting through the passage of time.

I’m particularly fond of the PPP, a party which is in all honesty, a wonderful close-kit party with a family-like atmosphere but until they ditch the Barisan, the once proud party that nearly captured the Perak government in 1969 will be confined to footnotes in history.

Gerakan too has to realise that an UMNO, MCA and MIC-led Barisan is not a viable entity anymore and the best is to pull out of it. Until this happens, these two parties will find it very difficult to rise and win back the educated and urban rakyat once again.

Wait for a while more folks..

Hey folks, those who were waiting for my Stargate fanfic, Stargate : Andromeda, will have to wait a while more, at least till May 1st. I’m sorry but this delay is inevitable.

I’m busy with Suleiman The Lion, which as up to the time of writing is 99% done and has so far clocked up nearly 160 pages, 26 306 words and more than 120 000 characters. At the same time, my study loan which will carry me to The Lost Continent is also taking up my time and I won’t want anything else to get in my way.

I do have a story to tell (in Stargate : Andromeda) but the timing is very bad at this point. I’ll be back up and writing as soon as I finish up all my messy business.

I’m Innocent!

For those who know me close enough, she’s one of the few celebrities who drive me wild and for those who really really know me, My Best Friend (MBF) included, they would know I’ve been talking about the fact that she’s -now apparently used to be- 175cm tall and thus 1cm taller than me. If you’ve failed Maths and can’t seem to count, I’m 174cm tall.

Not that I find it a disaster. I happen to find some older women -as old as 40-something, but that’s another story- really hot and I do find tall/taller women particularly attractive. Not that I’m going to explain why, it’s my little secret..haha. Not even MBF can pry that out of the confines of my brain.

Anyway, apparently, Chi Ling has shrunk 1cm to be parity with my height so in case of any controversy, I would like to hereby deny that I’m responsible for the editing of the Wikipedia account. I would like to state that I would be wild about Lin Chi-Ling no matter what height, age or nationality she is.

And if you find this post of mine absolute nonsense, it is. I’m just passing my time = )