Trust. Truth. Lies.

I'm actually in the middle of drawing the anatomy of a human body but I just finished reading an article by Obefiend. In the article, he talks about how Hitler shouldn't be viewed as a hero in the Muslim world as he kills the Jews. He was severely bashed in the comment section. Malaysian truly can't keep their opinion to themselves. Calm down people, it's his blog. You don't like what you read? Buzz off. I don't think you can write any article that is worth reading.

Anyways, history is written by those who won. If you don't believe this, let's look at our own history shall we. We say that all those unsung heroes like Tok Janggut and the gang are in fact heroes. The saviour of our country, brave, brave people.They all deserve a pat in the back. Unfortunately, I don't think the British viewed them as such. If I remember correctly, they were all insistent on putting their heads at the gallows, saying that those 'heroes' disturb their charity work of making Tanah Melayu as a civilised country.

As a Malaysian, I would obviously sided with my other comrades that British is definitely wrong. i would say that at the time, we already have our own system. They say we are incompetent but they're forgetting that we have the best ports at the time and great rulers. We were rich enough. They say we were uncivilised because we did not practice the same religion ad system that they have. This shows that opinions that people have about something is different. we can't know for sure what happens because there's no such thing as an unbiased writer. we are human, so we would always side with someone. Sometimes it's beneficial, sometimes we were influenced by them. We cannot just dismissed something because we say that is untrue.

What I'm saying here is just try to respect people's opinion. I know truth is not a democracy but people kept debating on little stuff. I can't help it that I'm too liberal. I often questioned religion and history. Nothings absolute and things are mostly man-made. I mean, they can alter the bible easily, what makes you think they won't do the same to history. Some says faith is believing something without proof.

A hilarious thing about human:
When we say that there's God, people easily said they believe Him.
When we say the paint is wet, they'll have to touch it first to be sure.

Click Here to go to the article that I've read earlier. It's the misconception on how Hitler killing Jews will benefit the Arabs. Take it with a pinch of salt. :3

#12 An Abundance of Katherine

Title: An Abundance of Katherines
Author: John Green

Look at the cover will you, it doesn't look much right. They This book has a lot of recommendations but I don't think I like it much. (I like it, but not love it, get what I mean?)

The characters are interesting but not developed much. They say Hassan is interesting, and I agree quite a bit. He is exactly like a Muslim who don't really go by the Muslim rules, well much like other people with different religion. Youngsters nowadays really care less about their belief. Mind you, I'm not exactly above him since I'm almost as bad as him.

However, my opinion on Colin is just that he want to be someone in the world. he felt like he is a nobody even if he's a prodigy. He is a prodigy just not a genius. He knows a lot of facts and trivia but I see that he just remembers them but not using them in real life. If he can connect between the stories he read and his life, he could avoid all the teen angst and bullying. I suppose, that might have been the writers intention. I mean, people read but they simply ingest the word but not digesting them. It is like when we are studying, we can not simply read, we must understand.

It is quite absurd of him to date nineteen different Katherine and was dumped by most of them. It could be because he likes being different. Different is good but it is best not to be whole other dimension of weird.

What I can say is, this story is too simple but long. In the end he got a girl who is not called Katherine (what a shocker, note the sarcasm), his friend who stubbornly refuse to attend college finally did, and he somewhat learn how to make friends. I think this is suitable for leisure reading as it does not require much thinking and it'll amuse you with never-ending facts.

Here are the other covers... told you the book is famous. 

Sadly, I don't think all of these covers are published.

There are more, so if you're interested, just google the book cover, Adios chickas.

 

#11 Wake Trilogy

Title:1. Wake 2. Fade 3. Gone
Author: Lisa McMann

These books are quite interesting as it shows the heroine is both blessed and cursed. We have been spoon-fed stories that super powers are good but in this story, I only see it as a curse. Since she was a kid, she's been suck into people's dream and that always left her tired and hungry. There's more, it seems that the more she dream-walk, she'll be losing her life force. In twenty to thirty years, she'll be left blind and crippled. She did think of isolation throughout the book and almost go through with it if she did not meet her father. Ooops, you must not know the details yet.

Well, the main character lives with her alcoholic mother and have to take care of her. Her father left her mother since birth, meaning her father did not even know she existed. Her father is actually a dream-catcher as well (a term for people who can get into other people's dream). He left because he knows he could not function well being with people because he will be constantly be drag into other people's dream.

The books revolved around the main character's choices, hopes and fears. Besides, a young adult fiction is never complete if there's not at least a bit of romance. So, insert a drool-worthy guy here and we got Cabel that accept her just the way she is. he is far from perfect and have his own past but together they overcome many difficulties that this sadistic author can think of.

These books discuss about drugs and sexual harassment as well. They don't really do drugs but they became undercover teenager who works for the police to bust the drug dealer who sell them to other high-schoolers. Plus, they also caught some teachers who spiked food and drinks at parties to have massive orgies with them. They also use drug (also known as date-rape drug) to make you forgot everything in the morning and think that it was only an innocent party. The teachers involve also played with the emotion of the teenagers, manipulating them into thinking that it was them the one who lusted after the teacher instead of the other way around.

Alcoholism is also potrayed in here. The main character take responsibility of her mother instead of the other way around. In the end, she went to see a group therapist so that she understand that her mother's drinking habit is not her fault nor should she blame herself for existing.

There's a mild theme of abuse because Cabel got an abusive father. Even when he was dead, he still haunts his dream. This shows that the bully live within us and we should learn to escape from that. Forgiveness might be hard but thinking about it just cut open old scars.

In short, these books are about teen problems and how the characters overcome them. People might say that youngsters are carefree but we're actually in the road to depression.