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            <title>(NSFW) Once you see it.....</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2237291</link>
            <description>shat brix incoming.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[edit] indeed, brix has been shat. 7 days off.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:42:06 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>This is how you advertise a college</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2232286</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]4Am7oKBD3PU[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THis is an ad for an Australian University.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is how you do it. Take note, Taylors/INTI/KDU/SEGI&amp;#33;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:10:55 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>LOL Nikka &amp;amp; Asian r winning Aussie Beauty Pageant</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2230538</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='http://info.thewest.com.au/miss/index.php' target='_blank'&gt;http://info.thewest.com.au/miss/index.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The two leading contestants in the Miss Western Australia are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;&lt;img src='http://info.thewest.com.au/miss/images/girls/asunta-b.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Asunta: African girl from Perth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5808 votes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting fact: I would like to travel the world and help orphans all around the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;&lt;img src='http://info.thewest.com.au/miss/images/girls/cara-b.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cara: Eurasian Chinese Girl from Fremantle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5825 votes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Interesting fact: I have represented Australia at the World Cheerleading Championships in the USA&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Results will be in March.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See? Not everything in West Australia is white.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:53:40 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>This is why i hate Aussie Festivals</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2230338</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]YNVFL-OQ1WM[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look at all the faggots trying to sound like Skrillex lol.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:27:16 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>R.I.P. Heat Legend</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2228299</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/lU6k1.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;XDXDXDXD</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:05:09 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>A &amp;quot;Japanese Perkasa&amp;quot; Tokyo Drift meeting</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2227026</link>
            <description>Whereas a typical right-wing UMNO/Perkasa meet includes throwing cow&amp;#39;s heads at hindu temples, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;the typical racist japanese nationalist holds meetings like these:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-005.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-010.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-015.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-020.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img2.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-022.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img3.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-027.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://img1.sankakustatic.com/wp-content/gallery/safe-misc-xii/kashihara-shrine-propaganda-trucks-037.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sos kicap:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/02/14/gaisensha-at-kashihara-shrine-itasha-for-crazy-nationalists/#comments' target='_blank'&gt;http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2012/02/14/g...lists/#comments&lt;/a&gt;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:33:31 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Seriously, stop making music videos like this&amp;#33;</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2221452</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]_X6ct5qN8AM[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;THE MOOD OF THE SONG DOES NOT FIT THE VIDEO&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously man&amp;#33; When i did my part time at video production company, i&amp;#39;d get fired for making videos like this if the song is a ballad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously, do ppl in HK think that &amp;quot;cool hip dancing&amp;quot; video is perfect for sad love songs?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:28:18 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>The world needs &amp;quot;Ignorance Laws&amp;quot;</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2216560</link>
            <description>We see people getting offended everyday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know what? If you don&amp;#39;t like it, then ignore it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There should be a law that says &amp;quot;you should ignore anything that will offend you or your people&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You know there would be less wars if people became ignorant instead of being offended?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:54:36 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>To those suffering from depression &amp;amp; self-esteem:</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2214324</link>
            <description>&lt;span style='font-size:16pt;line-height:100%'&gt;&lt;b&gt;Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ~ W. Gibson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think you are depressed or having low self-esteem, then try and see if everyone around you is a prick or not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you stop having friends who tease you and start getting friends who shares your hobbies, you&amp;#39;ll be much happier.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:18:56 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>So i was watching SNSD performing at Letterman....</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2212842</link>
            <description>Suddenly this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/hcDIy.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BONER WIN&amp;#33;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:18:57 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Bill Murray (Ghostbusters) loves K-Pop</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2211056</link>
            <description>Here&amp;#39;s a photo of Bill Murray with a K-Pop group:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://www.imgur.com/IV3KY.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:36:44 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Are Malaysians too Extroverted?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2210432</link>
            <description>In the early 20th century, Carl Jung created an idea of two types of people:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introverts and Extroverts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introverts are people who are quiet and would rather sit down and read a book than socializing. They would only socialize when needed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extroverts are people who are lively and prefer talking to other people and socializing than sitting down. They would socialize non-stop.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, i noticed that in countries i&amp;#39;ve been to, i can sense whether one is introverted or extroverted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Introverted People:&lt;br /&gt;Japanese&lt;br /&gt;Singaporeans&lt;br /&gt;British&lt;br /&gt;French&lt;br /&gt;Finnish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Extroverted People:&lt;br /&gt;Americans&lt;br /&gt;Australians&lt;br /&gt;Indonesians&lt;br /&gt;Chinese&lt;br /&gt;Malaysians&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, does it hold true that most of Malaysians are extroverted? or too extroverted?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m doing a research on nations and Introverts/Extroverts and i wanna see your thoughts on Introversion and Extroversion amongst Malaysians. Are Malaysians too Extroverted?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:09:06 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Why Obama will win this year</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2208671</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/mYyfH.png' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Problem?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:51:34 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Muslims in NY help Jews host synagogue</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2207300</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion/88849/a-bronx-tale-3/' target='_blank'&gt;http://www.tabletmag.com/life-and-religion...a-bronx-tale-3/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://cdn1.tabletmag.com/wp-content/files_mf/bronx_synagogue_012912_620x.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;Near the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in Parkchester, just off the elevated tracks of the No. 6 train, Yaakov Wayne Baumann stood outside a graffiti-covered storefront on a chilly Saturday morning. Suited up in a black overcoat with a matching wide-brimmed black fedora, the thickly bearded 42-year-old chatted with elderly congregants as they entered the building for Shabbat service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only unusual detail: This synagogue is a mosque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or rather, it’s housed inside a mosque. That’s right: Members of the Chabad of East Bronx, an ultra-Orthodox synagogue, worship in the Islamic Cultural Center of North America, which is home to the Al-Iman mosque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“People have a misconception that Muslims hate Jews,” said Baumann. “But here is an example of them working with us.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indeed, though conventionally viewed as adversaries both here and abroad, the Jews and Muslims of the Bronx have been propelled into an unlikely bond by a demographic shift. The borough was once home to an estimated 630,000 Jews, but by 2002 that number had dropped to 45,100, according to a study by the Jewish Community Relations Council. At the same time, the Muslim population has been increasing. In Parkchester alone, there are currently five mosques, including Masjid Al-Iman.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Nowhere in the world would Jews and Muslims be meeting under the same roof,” said Patricia Tomasulo, the Catholic Democratic precinct captain and Parkchester community organizer, who first introduced the leaders of the synagogue and mosque to each other. “It’s so unique.”&lt;!--SPOILER BEGIN--&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilertop&quot; onClick=&quot;openClose('10111c663274ed6bccfc06c547ec60d8')&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;raquo; Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... &amp;laquo;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilermain&quot; id=&quot;10111c663274ed6bccfc06c547ec60d8&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER END--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The relationship started years ago, when the Young Israel Congregation, then located on Virginia Avenue in Parkchester, was running clothing drives for needy families, according to Leon Bleckman, now 78, who was at the time the treasurer of the congregation. One of the recipients was Sheikh Moussa Drammeh, the founder of the Al-Iman Mosque, who was collecting donations for his congregants—many of whom are immigrants from Africa. The 49-year-old imam is an immigrant from Gambia in West Africa who came to the United States in 1986. After a year in Harlem, he moved to Parkchester, where he eventually founded the Muslim center and later established an Islamic grade school. Through that initial meeting, a rapport developed between the two houses of worship, and the synagogue continued to donate to the Islamic center, among other organizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But in 2003, after years of declining membership, Young Israel was forced to sell its building at 1375 Virginia Ave., according to a database maintained by Yeshiva University, which keeps historical records of synagogues. Before the closing, non-religious items were given away; in fact, among the beneficiaries was none other than Drammeh, who took some chairs and tables for his center.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Bleckman and the remaining members moved to a nearby storefront location, renting it for &amp;#036;2,000 a month including utilities. With mostly elderly congregants, Young Israel struggled to survive financially and, at the end of 2007, was forced to close for good. The remaining congregants were left without a place to pray. During the synagogue’s farewell service, four young men from the Chabad Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights showed up. Three months earlier, Bleckman, then chairman of the synagogue’s emergency fund, had appealed for help from the Chabad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The boys from the Chabad said they came to save us,” said Bleckman. “We were crying.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this point, Chabad took over the congregational reins from Young Israel, with members officially adopting the new name Chabad of East Bronx. Still, for the next six to seven weeks, Bleckman said they could not even hold a service because they had nowhere to hold it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When Drammeh learned of their plight, he immediately volunteered to accommodate them at the Muslim center at 2006 Westchester Ave.—for free.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They don’t pay anything, because these are old folks whose income are very limited now,” said Drammeh, adding that he felt it was his turn to help the people who had once helped him and his community. “Not every Muslim likes us, because not every Muslim believes that Muslims and Jews should be like this,” Drammeh said, referring to the shared space. But “there’s no reason why we should hate each other, why we cannot be families.” Drammeh in particular admires the dedication of the Chabad rabbis, who walked 15 miles from Brooklyn every Saturday to run prayer services for the small Parkchester community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the first six months, congregants held Friday night Sabbath services inside Drammeh’s cramped office. As more people began joining the congregation, Drammeh offered them a bigger room where they could set up a makeshift shul. (When it’s not in use, students from the Islamic school use it as their classroom.) Inside the synagogue, a worn, beige cotton curtain separates the men and women who attend the service. A solitary chandelier hangs just above the black wooden arc that holds the borrowed Torah, which is brought weekly from the Chabad headquarters. A large table covered with prayer books stands in the center, and a picture of the Lubavitcher Rebbe is displayed prominently on a nearby wall. During Shabbat, when Jewish congregants are strictly prohibited from working, they have to rely on the Muslim workers at the center or on Drammeh to do simple chores such as turning on the light and switching on the heater.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At first, it did not make sense, said Hana Kabakow, wife of Rabbi Meir Kabakow. “I was surprised,” said the 26-year-old congregant who was born and raised in Israel. “But when I came here I understood.” The Kabakows have been coming to the service from Brooklyn for the last two years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Harriet Miller, another congregant, said she appreciated the center’s accommodating the synagogue. “They are very sweet people,” said the 79-year-old Bronx native and long-time resident of Parkchester, who added that she welcomes the new Muslim immigrants in her neighborhood: “We were not brought up to hate.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drammeh also understands the importance of teaching tolerance more broadly, and for turning the school—which was itself founded at the nearby St. Helena Catholic Church on, of all days, Sept. 11, 2001—into a model of sorts for religious tolerance in New York.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“We’re not as divided as the media portrays us to be,” Drammeh said. “Almost 90 percent of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian teachings are the same.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His latest project involves introducing fifth-grade Jewish and Islamic school students to each other’s religious traditions. Other participants of the program, now in its sixth year, include the Solomon Schechter School of Manhattan, the Al Ihsan Academy of Queens, and the Kinneret Day School of Riverdale. At the end of the program, students organize an exhibit that shows family artifacts of their respective cultures and religion. The principal of the Islamic school, who is also Sheik Drammeh’s wife, said that even after the program ended, the participants became “fast friends” and would visit each other’s homes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“They would have birthday parties together,” Shireena Drammeh said. “When someone invites you to their house, I mean, that says it all right there and then.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While the Jewish congregants are thankful for their new home, they hope that one day they can rebuild their own synagogue. That day may be far off: Even now that they have space to worship, they still struggle to operate. They don’t have proper heating inside, and the portable working heater could not reach the separate area where the elderly women are seated, forcing them to wear their jackets during the entire service. Congregants are appealing for financial support from the Jewish community and other congregations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But Leon Bleckman and others say they now also have loftier goals, including reviving the Jewish presence in the neighborhood and reaffirming the positive relationship with their Muslim friends. “We are able to co-exist together side by side in the same building,” said Assistant Rabbi Avi Friedman, 42. “That’s sort of like a taste of the future world to come—the messianic future where all people live in peace.”&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is what interfaith should be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Proof that there are good people everywhere.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:36:55 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Can a traveller date a non-traveller?</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2207180</link>
            <description>&lt;a href='http://matadornetwork.com/life/can-you-date-the-non-traveler/' target='_blank'&gt;http://matadornetwork.com/life/can-you-dat...e-non-traveler/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://cdn1.matadornetwork.com/blogs/1/2012/01/must-love-travel-600x400.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;HE HAD DARK HAIR and a cute smile. He was smart, loved babies and animals and had cried when his pet lizard died. He was a good cook, a loyal friend and a truly nice guy. I was in love with him. I was also about to break up with him. Because great guy though he may have been, there was one problem: He’d never owned a passport. Worse, though he lived a seven-minute drive from an international airport in Las Vegas, he’d never been farther east than the Colorado River. Yes, I was dating every traveler’s worst nightmare; I was dating the Non-Traveler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“This isn’t going to work out,” I said jokingly as we pulled up to his apartment complex. It was only our second date and back then, our differences still seemed funny. I’d just finished rattling off the long list of places I’d lived, finishing off with “And then I spent a year studying in Eastern Germany,” when he’d uttered: “I’d never want to go there. It seems too dangerous.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I considered arguing with him but then thought better of it. I knew there was no point. Trying to convince a Non-Traveler that the world outside their bubble wasn’t the scary inhospitable place they thought it to be was like trying to persuade a cat to jump into a swimming pool.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You never want to leave the country and I’m such a travel addict, I’m like the Jehovah’s Witness of travelers.” I paused, imagining myself preaching to a congregation about the wonders of Malaysian street food and the healing powers of a camel safari. “If I could, I’d go door-to-door with travel brochures and read aloud from a guidebook.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER BEGIN--&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilertop&quot; onClick=&quot;openClose('5b2a0387dd1fd7caf49b5348aa1306a5')&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;raquo; Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... &amp;laquo;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilermain&quot; id=&quot;5b2a0387dd1fd7caf49b5348aa1306a5&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER END--&gt;We both laughed. I was exaggerating of course, but there was some truth to that. Many a co-worker, friend and date had politely listened through my “travel changed my life” speech, as I tried in vain to convince them that the path to salvation lay in cross-country road trips and study abroad programs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Later, after he’d made me lunch and we’d watched the sun set from his balcony, I wondered if I was overreacting. After all, it was just a hobby, a six-letter word not even significant enough to list on a resume. I never would have considered ending the relationship because he didn’t like karaoke or Will Ferrell movies, was travel really all that different? What did it matter if he didn’t appreciate the thrill of flinging open the hotel curtains that first morning in a new country, the promising smell of airplane exhaust on an airport tarmac, or the satisfying sound of roller bag wheels clicking against an airport moving sidewalk? So what if he’d never experienced the pride and enormous self-satisfaction that comes with placing an order for new passport pages? After all, it was just a hobby.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or was it? In many ways, travel had become a part of my identity. It was in the way my hair smelled like the coconut oil I’d bought in India or in the cherry blossom tattoo I had inked to my ankle in Japan. It was in the foreign language dictionaries that lined my bookshelves, the photos of Prague, the Himalayas and the Caribbean that lined my staircase and in the way that I occasionally caught myself thinking in German or dreaming in Spanish. Moreover, it was in the way I saw the world. My entire outlook had been shaped by years of experiences to which my homebody boyfriend couldn’t even begin to relate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;He, on the other hand, was perfectly content spending weekends in front of the PlayStation with the same friends he’d had since 5th grade. Being a guy who worked in the family business and lived three blocks from his parents, happiness was home. To me, a girl who, in the span of 10 years had lived in 10 different cities, happiness was anywhere but.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The night I broke up with him, we were sitting in a restaurant with a bowling alley and a fire pit in the middle of it. I’d ordered the two strangest things on the menu: mashed potato soup and tequila-flavored tacos. Both tasted incredible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Try some&amp;#33;” I offered him a spoonful. He made a face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“No way.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“You won’t even try it?” I stared glumly down at my plate. This isn’t going to work out, I’d thought, only this time I wasn’t joking. “I think we should just be friends?” I said, phrasing it like a question.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s been eight months since then, and though I’ve tried to tell myself that it was for the best, sometimes I wonder if I made a huge mistake. When you live in a country where only 30 percent of its citizens own passports, sometimes it seems like this “Must Love Travel” requirement I’ve placed on the dating profile of my life has condemned me to an eternity of spending nights watching Anthony Bordain: No Reservations alone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But mistake or not, it might be too late to do anything about it. He has a girlfriend now and I hear they’re talking about getting married; they’ve even adopted a dog. In two weeks, I’ll be jetting off to a vacation in Jamaica (a country which my non-traveler boyfriend once said he’d never visit because he “didn’t want to get stabbed”). I imagine that while I’m on a plane by myself, he’ll be cuddling on the sofa with a girlfriend who doesn’t dream in postcard pictures. And I’ll be jealous.&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This begs the question:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are non-travellers assholes if they refuse to travel with a girlfriend who likes to travel?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Can a traveller really date a non-traveller?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:57:11 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Japan &amp;amp; America less advanced than Singapore</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2206296</link>
            <description>&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/bhb3x.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:flex:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/flex.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='flex.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;  &lt;!--emo&amp;:flex:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/flex.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='flex.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:45:00 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Please don&amp;#39;t say stupid things at nightclubs</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2204928</link>
            <description>I found this from Reddit&amp;#39;s Dance Music page:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://i.imgur.com/ZxMGO.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you. i got sick of ah bengs saying &amp;quot;Hey DJ play something different la&amp;#33;&amp;quot;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:29:05 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>The sound of hell</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2202272</link>
            <description>[YOUTUBE]pC2AAmIC6f0[/YOUTUBE]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Play this to﻿ someone tripping. Welcome to hell.</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:45:56 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Meleis should stop writing TL:DR shit like this</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2202206</link>
            <description>Someone kept spamming me with this shit&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src='http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/379096_258962517500786_100001611193178_784095_1701797242_n.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--QuoteBegin--&gt;&lt;div class='quotetop'&gt;QUOTE&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class='quotemain'&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEBegin--&gt;TOLONG BACA KAWAN-KAWAN DAN SEBARKAN KEPADA SEMUA UMAT ISLAM TAK KIRA DIMANA BERADA.&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER BEGIN--&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilertop&quot; onClick=&quot;openClose('886d216e943372206f10b58bc940b0cd')&quot; style=&quot;font-weight: bold&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;raquo; Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... &amp;laquo;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;spoilermain&quot; id=&quot;886d216e943372206f10b58bc940b0cd&quot; style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER END--&gt;Pertubuhan Melayu Murtad telah diluluskan&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;persatuan Melayu Kristian telah SAH ditubuhkan di Malaysia &amp;#33;&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;Injil telah dicetak &amp;amp; di edar...&lt;br /&gt;IFC buat RoadshoW besar-besaran sokong kebebasan Beragama...&lt;br /&gt;Bersedialah wahai saudara - saudari ku yang amat disayangi...&lt;br /&gt;BERDOALAH SEMOGA UMAT ISLAM SELAMAT&lt;br /&gt;tolong sebarkan kepada yang cintakan AGAMA ALLAH&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Agama Islam)....&lt;br /&gt;gambar Lina Joy ( belakang sekali ) &amp;amp; Para peguamnya ISLAM DIHINA DI MALAYSIA&lt;br /&gt;Baca sama-sama...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dunia akhir zaman semakin menakutkan bila&lt;br /&gt;berkait dgn soal akidah. Nak jadi apa dah ni??&lt;br /&gt;Patut laa ada yang kata tak nak ada anak.&lt;br /&gt;Bukan takut nak beranak, tapi takut&lt;br /&gt;ada anak yang terpesong akidah.. baik tak de langsung&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mufti Perak, Datuk Harussani Zakaria bangkit dalam isu ini dengan&lt;br /&gt;membuat kenyataan akhbar bahwa umat Islam wajib isytihar perang&lt;br /&gt;terhadap pertubuhan IFC itu dan minta 50 ahli politik Islam yang menurunkan&lt;br /&gt;signature sebagai menyokong penubuhan IFC itu bertaubat kepada Allah swt&lt;br /&gt;kerana dibimbangi aqidah mereka sudah terbatal [3]. Datuk Harussani juga&lt;br /&gt;minta kepada semua penceramah, semua ustaz-ustaz yang mengajar&lt;br /&gt;kuliah-kuliah dan semua khatib-khatib, supaya jangan lupa cakap benda ni&lt;br /&gt;dalam kuliah-kuliah dan di atas mimbar-mimbar Jumaat bahwa pertubuhan&lt;br /&gt;IFC ini adalah musuh Islam di M`sia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tuan-tuan tau depa minta apa kat PM?...&lt;br /&gt;Depa send memorandum kepada PM meminta 15 perkara berhubung&lt;br /&gt;dengan Islam supaya dimasukkan dalam perlembagaan Malaysia.&lt;br /&gt;Antaranya:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Setiap anak yang baru dilahirkan di Malaysia jangan dikaitkan dengan&lt;br /&gt;mana-mana agama sehinggalah anak itu berusia 18 tahun&lt;br /&gt;- Tu dia tuan-tuan. Ini apa cerita ni? Maknanya, anak-anak kita langsung tidak boleh&lt;br /&gt;dididikkan dengan cara Islam. Kita tak boleh bubuh nama Islam kat&lt;br /&gt;anak-anak. Sampai umur 18 tahun, baru boleh duduk bincang di mahkamah,&lt;br /&gt;tanya kat anak kita, &amp;#39;Hang nak ikut ugama apa?&amp;#39;...Kalau dia kata nak&lt;br /&gt;jadi hindu, maka jadi hindulah dia. Kita tak boleh nak buat apa sebab dah&lt;br /&gt;digazetkan dalam Perlembagaan Negara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Di dalam dokumen pengenalan mykad dan passport dihapuskan kolum&lt;br /&gt;identiti agama - maknanya, perkataan &amp;#39;Islam&amp;#39; yang ada kat mykad kita itu,depa&lt;br /&gt;minta di&amp;#39;tiada&amp;#39;kan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Mana-mana orang bukan Islam kalau nak kahwin dengan orang Islam, dia&lt;br /&gt;tidak perlu masuk Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Mana-mana orang Islam yang nak kahwin dengan orang bukan Islam,&lt;br /&gt;mestilah dia tukar agama kepada bukan Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Sebagaimana kerajaan Malaysia menyalurkan dana kepada masjid-masjid,&lt;br /&gt;begitu juga kerajaan Malaysia mesti menyalurkan dana kepada semua rumah&lt;br /&gt;ibadat orang bukan Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6) Peraturan sekolah yang mengizinkan anak orang Islam menutup aurat&lt;br /&gt;hendaklah dimansuhkan, kerana ia menghina agama bukan Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7) Hapuskan mahkamah syariah kerana ia juga menghina agama-agama lain -&lt;br /&gt;mahkamah syariah kalau takdak, habih la kita tuan-tuan. Walaupun la ni&lt;br /&gt;bukannya perfect, tapi itulah satu-satunya mahkamah yang defence agama&lt;br /&gt;kita. Kalau mahkamah syariah disingkirkan, masalah faraid pusaka, masalah&lt;br /&gt;nikah kahwin, cerai talak apa semua tu macamana?...Kalau tak dak mahkamah&lt;br /&gt;syariah, maknanya, perkahwinan tidak akan berjalan di atas akad nikah,&lt;br /&gt;sebaliknya, perkahwinan akan dibuat secara berdaftar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8) Mana-mana orang bukan Islam yang masuk Islam, semua hartanya&lt;br /&gt;dikembalikan kepada waris yang tidak beragama Islam.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9) Mana-mana pasangan yang bukan Islam, apabila masuk Islam, maka hak&lt;br /&gt;penjagaan anak tidak boleh diberikan kepada mereka.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10) Sebagaimana program-program di radio dan tv yang menerangkan tentang&lt;br /&gt;ajaran Islam dalam bahasa ibunda masing-masing, begitu juga&lt;br /&gt;ajaran-ajaran lain daripada Islam juga perlu diberi ruang.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11) Sepertimana Quran, hendaklah kerajaan Malaysia turut mencetak bible&lt;br /&gt;dalam bahasa Melayu untuk diedarkan di seluruh negara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12) Apa istimewanya Islam sehingga ditabalkan sebagai agama rasmi di&lt;br /&gt;Malaysia? ...lagi 3 ana tak ingat, anta boleh refer dalam Majalah Millenium&lt;br /&gt;Muslim&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ini dia tuan-tuan, Islam diludah depan mata kita sendiri, so mana&lt;br /&gt;sensitiviti kita terhadap agama kita sendiri?...Datuk Harussani tegur PM&lt;br /&gt;dan 50 ahli politik Islam yang sokong pertubuhan tersebut supaya&lt;br /&gt;dibatalkan pertubuhan itu. Tau 50 orang Islam tu kata apa?...Depa kata kat&lt;br /&gt;Mufti Perak, &amp;#39;Ni lah kalau dah terlalu tua jadi mufti, tak open minded&lt;br /&gt;langsung&amp;#33;&amp;#39;...Datuk Harussani balas dalam majalah &amp;#39;Millenium Muslim&amp;#39;,&lt;br /&gt;katanya, &amp;#39;Di atas sikap open-minded rakyat Malaysia yang terlampau lebih,&lt;br /&gt;maka inilah hadiahnya&amp;#33;&amp;#39;...&lt;br /&gt;Ini dia kata-kata seorang ulama di Malaysia. Yang lainnya sunyi sepi termasuklah akhbar-akhbar,&lt;br /&gt;macam ada benda dalam mulut sampai tak boleh nak buka&amp;#33;&lt;br /&gt;-------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;Kata Al-Imam Ibn Kathir didalam tafsirnya: &amp;#39;Sepertimana yang Tartar&lt;br /&gt;berhukum dengan berteraskan sistem pemerintahan yang diambil daripada raja&lt;br /&gt;mereka Genghiz Khan yang telah mencipta untuk mereka undang-undang Yasak&lt;br /&gt;yang merupakan sebuah buku menghimpunkan hukum-hakam yang diambil&lt;br /&gt;daripada syariat yang berbagai, iaitu Yahudi, Nasrani, Islam dan lain-lain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dalamnya juga banyak hukum-hakam yang diambil daripada fikiran dan hawa&lt;br /&gt;nafsunya semata, lalu dijadikan undang-undang yang diikuti oleh anak&lt;br /&gt;cucunya. Mereka mendahulukannya melebihi kitab Allah dan Sunnah&lt;br /&gt;Rasulullah, sesiapa yang berbuat demkian maka dia adalah kafir dan wajib diperangi&lt;br /&gt;sehingga dia kembali kepada hukum Allah dan Rasulnya dan tidak berhukum&lt;br /&gt;selain daripadanya dalam perkara kecil ataupun besar (rujukan tafsir&lt;br /&gt;al-Quran al-&amp;#39;Azim oleh al-Imam Ibn Kathir jld. 2, m.s. 70. Cetakan Beirut)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allahua`ala `alam.&lt;br /&gt;27 SEPTEMBER 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;**SAPA YANG BACA ARTIKAL NIE &amp;#39;DIWAJIBKAN&amp;#39; POST KEPADA SAUDARA MUSLIM&lt;br /&gt;LAINNYA... KERANA INI SEBAHAGIAN DARI JIHAD... SUPAYA SAUDARA MUSLIM KITA DAPAT&lt;br /&gt;TAHU TENTANG UNSUR-UNSUR MENGHANCURKAN ISLAM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--SPOILER DIV--&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEnd--&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!--QuoteEEnd--&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TL:DR BE AFRAID FELLOW MELEIS&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;&amp;#33;</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:40:45 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Why SOPA &amp;amp; &amp;quot;copyright infringement&amp;quot; is BS</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/2200834</link>
            <description>My friend said this about SOPA and copyright infringement:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Suing or jailing someone over copyright infringement or &amp;quot;Intellectual Property&amp;quot; is like a Mother trying to beat up her neighbours because they&amp;#39;re making the same cupcakes she&amp;#39;s making.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It makes no sense. Why should someone go to jail because he or she posted a video on Youtube?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Should an entire kindergarten close down because they draw Mickey Mouse on a wall?</description>
            <author>TwoThirdsMajority</author>
            <category>The Museum Of Kopitiam</category>
            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:32:52 +0800</pubDate>
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