Merdeka
Two things. First, my internet is broken (and as usual I have been magnetically drawn to an internet cafe). Second, I am going to climb a 4200m mountain tomorrow, and will only be back on Thursday. Third (Math has never been my forte), I am going to Singapore on Friday, and will only be back on Sunday night. Cumulatively, the above factors are likely to result in a chronic lack of updates for the next week or so. I imagine that I will probably make up for it with some Super Long Posts and Lots of Photos when I get home. Until then, dear readers, you will have to content yourselves with a "not-quite-daily dose of not-so-idle ThinK". I am being unfaithful to my domain name.
I wondered today what makes things funny. I wondered what exactly humour is. It seems to me that most of the good jokes contain some element of either racism, irony or the misfortune and/or lesser intelligence of others. If that is the composition of humanity's humour, it's no wonder we can be such a nasty species.
I awoke to a iridescent, glazed sun razing its invisible fire from a forget-me-not sky. The world was glaring red through eyelids hammered into a pitchfork squint; outside, a blanket of heavy, hoary heat bore down mercilessly on me, like boulders.
Some days, my country is an inferno; other days, it is merely feverish.
But evil, hellish, it is not.
Happy Independence Day, Malaysia!