Nothing very eventful to write about really, but only some perspective on music. I got hold of a very good Jazz album by Ahmad Jamal Trio, one of the people who revolutionize Jazz (instrumental), and I almost instantly fell in love with the crisp piano notes. Try 'The Awakening' by Ahmad Jamal Trio for a relaxing evening, with or without company.
There seems to be hoohaa around with the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, then this toxic mud in Hungary, at the same time the macaque killing a newborn baby news back at home. But I'm feeling, at the moment, very isolated with almost all of these. I think the only thing that got me jumping out of bed every morning for the last 2 days is the Nobel Prize awards. I'm very pleased that the graphene founders got the award instead of some random and yet to be experimentally verified (e.g. Higgs whatnot) things/assumptions. I'm not being cynical, it's just that I felt science should be awarded based on how it'll or has influence far-reaching community, not based on someone's quest to find the 'truth' to satisfy his/her own piece of mind. Last year was the year of Fiber Optics, this year was the year of Solid State physics... I stumbled upon an article in Nature recently that one of the winners for Nobel Prize in Medicine some years back had to retract 2 of her papers because they couldn't reproduced the experiments outcomes at all despite the identical background.. And no, the retracted articles aren't related to the Prize that she won, so that's phew...
A week or so ago, I've read some statement coming off from PM at Brussels meetings--something about Talent Corp. The figure that is going to be paid by the taxpayers isn't out yet, but apparently its task is to bring the Malaysian brains back home and help the locals. Incentives are there, bla bla... which almost made my nose bled. When I look into my situation with the govt at the moment, it's exactly the opposite of what they preach. They say, bring the talents home, make them grow here, give them enough space to conjure the magic and whatnot. Me? They close the door home right under my nose and left me out there in the cold. Yeah, so much for injustice rantings that I've to burdened you reading this that I think I should knock off already.
Comment: Surely the Malaysia Ministry of Education is shooting itself in the foot, nah?
There seems to be hoohaa around with the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India, then this toxic mud in Hungary, at the same time the macaque killing a newborn baby news back at home. But I'm feeling, at the moment, very isolated with almost all of these. I think the only thing that got me jumping out of bed every morning for the last 2 days is the Nobel Prize awards. I'm very pleased that the graphene founders got the award instead of some random and yet to be experimentally verified (e.g. Higgs whatnot) things/assumptions. I'm not being cynical, it's just that I felt science should be awarded based on how it'll or has influence far-reaching community, not based on someone's quest to find the 'truth' to satisfy his/her own piece of mind. Last year was the year of Fiber Optics, this year was the year of Solid State physics... I stumbled upon an article in Nature recently that one of the winners for Nobel Prize in Medicine some years back had to retract 2 of her papers because they couldn't reproduced the experiments outcomes at all despite the identical background.. And no, the retracted articles aren't related to the Prize that she won, so that's phew...
A week or so ago, I've read some statement coming off from PM at Brussels meetings--something about Talent Corp. The figure that is going to be paid by the taxpayers isn't out yet, but apparently its task is to bring the Malaysian brains back home and help the locals. Incentives are there, bla bla... which almost made my nose bled. When I look into my situation with the govt at the moment, it's exactly the opposite of what they preach. They say, bring the talents home, make them grow here, give them enough space to conjure the magic and whatnot. Me? They close the door home right under my nose and left me out there in the cold. Yeah, so much for injustice rantings that I've to burdened you reading this that I think I should knock off already.
Comment: Surely the Malaysia Ministry of Education is shooting itself in the foot, nah?
