Mr. Buyot's Orgy Observations

January 22, 2010

Little black room

Filed under: Me, Myself & Eureka — Mr. Buyot @ 1:13 AM

At my old house in Kelana Jaya, there was this small dark store room under the staircase. You can only enter the room through this really small door that’s accessible from the outside. The size of the door reminded me of the doors that Alice had to choose to open to go to Wonderland. That store room was my perfect hiding place when I was a kid. Whenever I was in trouble (or trouble came looking for me), I would hide in that room. It was filthy. Cobwebs everywhere, smell of rat piss, cockroaches & other (not so) friendly insects. Even at night, whenever I couldn’t sleep (or trouble came looking for me), I would hide in the store room in total darkness, accompanied by the sound of crickets. By sunrise, I would quickly get back into the house & change for school. Sometimes, whenever I just feel like it, I would just go to the store room, locked myself & just stay in the darkness for hours and hours. While this may sound weird & strange to you, but that store room was my place of solitude. Even as a kid, I was already displaying some sort of eccentric behaviour.

I miss that store room right now. And I miss the strange places I hang out to just be in the dark for the simplest reason: To be at peace.

Even as a grown up, I still yearn for that time in darkness. And the sound of crickets.

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January 7, 2010

For the love of God

Filed under: Colors Of Muhibbah, Me, Myself & Eureka — Mr. Buyot @ 10:10 PM

Getting injured is a good thing. It forces you to stop and look back to realize that maybe it was karma hitting you back. Something that you did wasn’t right or something like that. I took the time to catchup with what’s happening in Malaysia from the tube. I’m not much of a fan watching TV, so with an icepack on my ribs I listened to how stories are being told on TV.

Looks like we’re fighting with each other about who can use the term “Allah”. Seriously, is that really an issue? I personally don’t give a fuck what God you pray to. As long as you believe that is your faith & that faith is good for you. All religious text in the world strongly profess that their religion is the best for all mankind. All of them. Including mine.

The real issue that I see here is that insecure people, people who stubbornly refuse to learn what makes other people different, are trying to deflect their own fears by using fear mongering tactics to the rest of the world. I recommend reading Erna’s strong affection towards the real Malaysian way, which kind of reflects my stand against the 1Malaysia concept. It’s an interesting concept and I believe it was a direct copy from Singapore. But we don’t need it to be shoved into our throats. That is because I believe in Malaysia. Critically & affectionately.

In my own life experience, I have seen what makes other people different in body & soul. So far, I can tell you one thing: we are praying to the same divine spirit. We just didn’t make time to catchup with everyone else. With these experience, my faith has grown stronger. Not the other way around.

Allah S.W.T is my God. Mohammad S.A.W is my Prophet. Al-Quran is my Holy scripture. These are the core values of my Islamic faith. And I chose to be liberal about it because I’ve also observed that almost every religion in the world has a similar structure: God, the Prophet & the Holy scripture. Only the names are different. Some added very good visualizations to represent their beliefs. These are differentiation in practical manners. Spiritually, they are almost the same.

It saddens me to see the rakyat wants to fight this out without any use of tolerance & any sense of thinking. They are feeding on fear and that makes them weak.

What do you believe in?

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January 5, 2010

Snuffing & slipping on a knot

Filed under: Weird Wild Web — Tags: slipknot, Snuff — Mr. Buyot @ 11:38 PM

As they’re already brilliant in music making, snuffing on film making is only natural. Snuff, a Slipknot film.

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December 31, 2009

A look back 360 royale in 2009

Filed under: Me, Myself & Eureka — Mr. Buyot @ 10:43 AM

That’s a trick name. 2009 was full of tricks. And treats. I’ve been thinking about this post; how to write it, what to say and the most difficult part, trying to remember in chronological order of what happened for the past 364 days. So, instead of looking for that “more” link in my brain archives, i’m going to try to reflect 2009, in order.

Still nothing.

Ok. Let’s make 2010 interesting shall we? Happy new year my friends!

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November 5, 2009

All Asian All Sexy!

Filed under: Colors Of Muhibbah, Weird Wild Web — Mr. Buyot @ 12:02 PM

You know, when I saw this tweet and watched the video, I knew I just had to post it up. It’s way to funny & fucking hilarious! Jen Kwok, the comedian/singer in the video speaks about how dating Asian men can change your life. Word to my Asians out there!

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October 27, 2009

RMS & me

Filed under: Me, Myself & Eureka — Tags: FOSS.my, Richard Stallman — Mr. Buyot @ 2:44 PM

Hehehe. I’m like a total fanboy ok! It was a dream come true to meet one of my heroes. He inspired me to live a life free of constraints and no masters. Thank you Aziz for taking this photo :-))

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October 26, 2009

Free your mind and your ass will follow

Filed under: Poetic Code — Mr. Buyot @ 12:30 PM

Photo by Sumardi.

And RMS will down a teh tarik for you. That’s Richard Stallman, the father of Free Software Movement.

Last weekend was the FOSS.my 2009, a conference for free, Open Source software enthusiasts. We had a lot of rockstars who were gladly to come over to our shores and share their knowledge & experiences with the local community. We had our own rockstars like John Lim of AdoDB & Dr. Yusseri of Omnilogic. It was the BOMB! Cantik menarik kau memang the BOMB!

But my FOSS high was flipped over when I saw this on Facebook (you need to be logged in Facebook to view the status post. You can view the tweet as well). That my friend, is totally not right.

That statement is misplaced because you are giving the impression to developers in OSDC.my to not to advocate the free software philosophy. That is just not right.

Without Free Software Movement, there will be no Open Source Software movement. That is history. True, proven, factual history of real life. Point one. 500 Internal Server Error.

RMS shocked a lot of people. He amazed people in the room with his own personal stand in the Free Software Movement. But after his talk, a lot of people have found themselves having a tough time to separate the man & the philosophy. Although the man is the founder, he admits that the philosophy was not built by him alone & him alone. He carefully use the word “we” if you listened carefully.

RMS is the most extreme example of a Free Software Movement believer. It is his personal stand that he doesn’t believe in the open source philosophy. That is his opinion. That is his opinion. That is his opinion. Point two.

There, I repeated it 3 times. We cannot take home all of his opinion just because he is Richard Stallman.

But we can take him as an example of how life as a software hippie can take us to different, greater heights. Do not confuse yourself with the debate between RMS and Brian Aker of Drizzle. Brian Aker already made millions by working on Open Source projects (aka MySQL) and RMS have millions of followers worldwide by advocating the freedom of software for all these years. These two are out of my league and yours too. Both have valid arguments & the necessary experiences to have that kind of fight. You need to understand that.

What is dangerous is that some people now sort of “realize” the differences between the free software philosophy & the open source philosophy. Referring to something a fellow peer have said, “Free Software is a philosophy. Open Source is pragmatic.” Which is true. It’s like Barisan Nasional & Barisan Rakyat. BR is a philosophical coalition party (welfare based state, remember?). BN is a pragmatic coalition party. And I literally support none of them. But I understand why each has to be different, although the same.

And what makes it more extremely dangerious is that some of these people can influence national policies. If you can’t grasp the philosophical concepts behind Free Software & Open Source at the beginning stage, then I utterly have no confidence in the policies that you will imply in the near future. That doesn’t worry me as much, but I worry for the developers because I am one of them. I am one of the guys from that room who writes code for a living. I really think that some of you must take the time to fully understand how this works in real life. Point three.

I will say this again: don’t confuse yourself. Learn more about the force. It is just sad to know that our Malaysian mindset is not ready for someone like Richard Stallman. And all these while you keep saying “Malaysia Boleh”. Funny. Point four.

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October 13, 2009

Let me know if you need some help

Filed under: Weird Wild Web — Mr. Buyot @ 6:27 PM

Any sizes is accepted. Muffin, Double Everest, Twin Peaks, Landing Bumps, any kind. You don’t have to specify. It’s open sourced. I mean, crowd sourced.

Haha!

This is what ears are for :-)

Via someecards.com. Love these guys!

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September 17, 2009

Sleeping with the enemy that has major herpes

Filed under: Colors Of Muhibbah, Me, Myself & Eureka — Mr. Buyot @ 11:48 AM

I agree with Raja Petra. We are our own enemies. Muslims have our own set of problems & issues that others don’t really understand & surprisingly, some couldn’t even believe the idea of a problematic religion. Muslims are getting major media airtime just because of the fear sentiments that has been put out about us. It’s the same tactic that some dirty Muslim quarters tried to expel to diss other religions. Sentiments of fear.

Time and time again, we defend ourselves by being ourselves. Over & over again, we’re either being ridiculed, made fun of or shamelessly being thrown insults & unfavourable comments. There is no harm if you want to understand why. It is not wrong for you to ask why.

But it gets dodgy if you try to act as one of us while you are not one of us.

I was with Kris Khaira last night, and he spoke about an unknown country in Africa, Benin. I told him I’ve never heard of it. He asked me do I know why I never heard of it. No, I don’t know I said.

He told me it’s because there is no civil war in Benin. No display of fear, poverty, trouble and nobody is killing each other.

It makes perfect sense.

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