PS: Seeing the formidable man who fears no one break when her coffin was brought onto the catafalque today was something I will never forget. Ahh… what a day.

Very sad today. When my grandfather died in IJN, Tun Dr Hasmah was taking care of Dr M there and she heard about my grandfather, who wasn't a politics guy or a Datuk, an army officer; she spent the afternoon consoling my grandmother even though Dr M had just gone through surgery.

People will remember Tun Dr Siti Hasmah as @chedetofficial wife but she was more than that and an awesome person long before that. The best interview I have ever had the privilege and honor to do, thanks to @jsadiq and the team at @msianinsight dailymotion.com/video/x63fug…

Salam takziah. Tun Dr Hasmah Mohamad Ali July 12, 1926 - Sept 28, 2026 #malaysia

Bluest September sky. Erinnerung an die Marie A.

اسرائیلی وزیراعظم کے خطاب شروع ہوتے ہی متعدد ممالک کے سفارتکاروں نے جب جنرل اسمبلی ہال سے واک آؤٹ کیا تو صاحب نے سٹیج سے ان سب کو Moral Cowards یعنی اخلاقی طور پر بزدل قرار دیا جس پر آئس لینڈ کی وزیر خارجہ نے جوابا کہا کہ ہم نے سنا کہ سٹیج سے ہمیں اخلاقی بزدل کہا گیا، میرے لیے بزدل وہ ہیں جو امن کے لیے بیٹھنے سے مزاکرات سے انکار کرتے ہیں، وہ لیڈر بزدل ہیں جو لوگوں کو اشد ضرورت ہونے کے باوجود ان تک انسانی امداد نہیں پہنچنے دیتے، اخلاقی بزدل وہ ہیں جو مسلسل بین الاقوامی قوانین کی خلاف ورزی کرتے ہیں۔۔۔

Selamat pagi. Selamat mencari rezeki.

In 1964, a 13-year-old student at London's Barbara Speake Stage School was hired as an extra for the Beatles' first movie, A Hard Day's Night. He was sent to the Scala Theatre and placed in the audience while the Beatles filmed their concert sequence. His job was simple: be one of the screaming young Beatles fans. When the movie came out, he looked for himself but couldn't find the footage. Thirty years later, producer Walter Shenson gave him the unused film from that day. He went through it until he finally found his 13-year-old self in the audience. The performance was "You Can't Do That," which had been cut from the finished film. The kid in the middle of this photo went on to have quite a music career of his own. That 13-year-old was Phil Collins.

One of the best podcast I have seen this year. A member of the Kedah royal family talks about Malay identity and Malayness, and how the British manipulated identity politics. This is the sort of real history Malaysians should be learning. piped.video/watch?v=lOvIy8Bm…

Whilst everyone is parroting the legal question as to whether a ruler can expel the Excos or not and/or what the wordings "serve under the pleasure" mean, it got me thinking, why did the AG say the sacking was legit? When I re-read the official statement issued by Seri Menanti, it was explicitly anchored on the principle of the absolute sanctity of the Oath of Allegiance. When you look at the wordings properly, it is obvious that they know exactly what they are doing, unlike the rebels' side who are blindly relying on a strict, literal reading of the text. To become an Exco, one absolutely needs to swear a sacred oath of allegiance and loyalty to the Ruler, do they not? The foundational question before us is then: when that oath of allegiance is fundamentally broken via an active cabinet mutiny, does the Ruler still need the advice of the MB to revoke his pleasure? I mean, when the Excos joined the coup, does a ruler need to wait for the "advice" from the MB to do anything? I like to believe the sacking didn't come from whims or fancies but was anchored on a profound structural forfeiture which the letter officially stated. Maybe it's just me. Wallahualam.

On a long train ride, a Han Chinese played the erhu, a Kazakh played the dombra, and three Uyghurs played the rawap and gijak. Together, they performed the Mongolian piece Horse Racing, bringing the dull journey to life with the sound of their traditional ethnic instruments

University debate, "Were humans built to eat meat?", same two chairs, same clock. Vegan: "Anatomically we're closer to the gorilla than the lion. Flat molars, long gut. A gentle plant-eater with delusions." Paleoanthropologist: "Then explain the acid." Vegan: "Which acid?" Paleoanthropologist: "Your stomach runs at a pH of about 1.5. A lion's sits nearer 3.6. Yours is stronger than the animal you've just been contrasted with, by a factor of about a hundred." Vegan: "Stomach acid digests food." Paleoanthropologist: "A cow's rumen sits at about 6.5. That's a compost heap with a pulse. Yours strips the zinc off a coin. Why would a gentle plant-eater carry that?" Vegan: "Protection." Paleoanthropologist: "From what? Lettuce doesn't fight back." Vegan: "Bacteria." Paleoanthropologist: "Which bacteria live in a leaf at a level that needs a pH of 1.5? Name the salad." Vegan: "..." Paleoanthropologist: "The animals that run acid as low as ours are the scavengers. Vultures. Things that arrive at a carcass on the second day and need to kill what's already living in it. We're not built like the lion. We're built like the bird that waits for the lion to finish." Vegan: "Flattering." Paleoanthropologist: "It's a picture of a species with a rock, a sharp flake and no claws. You don't get the fresh kill. You get the femur nobody could open, forty hours late, and you'd better have the acid for it." Vegan: "Acid that strong is dangerous. Look how many people are on tablets for it." Paleoanthropologist: "The only animal on earth that pays to switch its stomach off. You've spent sixty years pouring cereal onto a carcass digester and now you're medicating the digester for doing its job." Vegan: "So your argument is that we're vultures." Paleoanthropologist: "My argument is a number. Yours is a feeling about gorillas. The gorilla eats for most of the day and its gut is a fermentation tank. Yours is done in a few hours and runs on acid. One of you is designed for leaves." Moderator: "Thirty seconds." Paleoanthropologist: "She can keep them. I'm still waiting on the salad."

乌克兰最近把一架相对完好迫降的俄军最新型“天竺葵-4”（Geran-4）无人机，当场大卸八块。 拆完之后，桌上摆着的零件，呈现出一个既荒谬又无比现实的真相： 整架号称打得乌克兰防空防不胜防的喷气大杀器，除了最外面的机壳和总装螺丝是俄罗斯自己拧的， 里面所有的关键器官，几乎全是从外面运进来的。 先看动力。 过去老款天竺葵-2用的是活塞螺旋桨，飞起来像拖拉机一样嗡嗡响，时速不到两百公里，乌克兰机动防空队开着皮卡架挺机枪就能拦截。 但这次拆开天竺葵-4，机腹里塞的是一台微型涡喷发动机。 飞行高度直接从四千米拔到了八千米，是老款的两倍； 巡航时速干到了四百五十到五百公里，甚至还能更快。 这玩意儿已经能从克里米亚起飞，一口气狂奔七百多公里，直接扎进乌克兰西北部的卢茨克。 谁造的？ 拆开一看，中国产的微型涡喷。有些虽然标着俄罗斯组装，核心组件也全是中国货。 再看眼睛。 头部装了一套光电转塔，白昼、夜视、红外三合一。 十倍光学变焦，加三十二倍数码变焦。 八千米的高空往下看，地面车辆的轮廓一清二楚。 它根本不需要前线侦察兵冒死指引。操纵员哪怕坐在几百公里外的布良斯克、奥廖尔或者克里米亚的后方工位上，只要链路连着，就能像玩模拟器一样实时遥控它扑向目标。 那实时信号怎么传？ 专家从机身里抠出了两个普通的 GSM 模块，上面插着民用电话卡。 更离奇的是，现场技术人员在这些残骸里，不仅翻出了俄罗斯和白俄罗斯的 SIM 卡，甚至还找到了乌克兰本土运营商、以及欧盟国家的流量卡。 无人机只要一过境，直接蹭乌克兰本地民用基站的网络，把自己的实时位置往回传。 万一飞进没有手机信号的荒郊野岭呢？ 它还有备手。 拆解人员从里面掏出了一块来自中国的自组网 Mesh 调制解调器，通信半径三百公里。 几架天竺葵在空中编队飞，彼此之间能自动互相当中继，你传给我、我传给后方，直接在天上搭出一套无中心的移动局域网，几百公里外的视频画面照样掐不断。 最后拆到最值钱的机载电脑飞控板。 刮开主板上的涂层，芯片上的丝印虽然被磨去了一半，但剩下的英文字母依然清晰可辨： Texas Instruments——美国德州仪器。 现场专家给了一句很冷酷的总结： “这架飞机上真正属于俄罗斯制造的，就只有复合材料的机身外壳，以及最后的总装车间。” 这些零件最后运到鞑靼斯坦的阿拉布加（Alabuga）特区，工人们把壳子一合、螺丝一拧，就成了前线每天夜里呼啸而过的精确打击武器。 而根据乌克兰军情局的评估，像阿拉布加这样的工厂，现在每个月能量产大概三千架天竺葵-4和天竺葵-5。 打了四年多，制裁令签了一叠又一叠，结果最前沿的致命武器内部，流淌的依然是全球供应链的血液： 动力与通信来自成熟民用货架，核心控制芯片来自美国转道走私，连定位回传都在蹭对手基站的 SIM 卡。 这才是现代战争里最棘手的现实： 威权体制根本不需要在温室里从头研发一套自给自足的军工帝国。 只要民用消费级工业品在全球随处可买，只要洗钱通道和转口贸易依然处处漏风， 他们就能用极低的成本，把全世界的民用技术拼装成工业级的杀人工厂。 如果外部世界的制裁只盯着军品清单打补丁，却堵不住庞大的双用途灰色管涌， 这种廉价而致命的涡喷蜂群，在流水线上就很难真正停下来。

6 September 2026. YB Asna bin Mohd Amin, ADUN Lenggeng, datang membawa tepak sireh memohon ampun daripada Dato' Johan Tua Tahu, Wan Khairil Adli. Kenapa dia kena minta ampun?

How many deaths does it take before we really fix this shit? Kalau nak kena tunggu sampai ada anak kayangan dan elit mati kena bunuh kat sekolah, makbapak diorang tak hantar dah anak pegi sekolah orang kebanyakan. Diorang pegi private school, overseas. Nasib korang lah.

L'ambassadeur d’israël de l'ONU a été expulsé de l'Assemblée générale après avoir remonté l'allée centrale pour trouble et harcèlement contre l'orateur iranien. Il était choqué qu'ils l'aient arrêté, il pensait que l’ONU lui a été promise y a 3000 ans

Dah berapa kali kalah saman fitnah tu kan?