How do you tell a genius from a stupid person? If both remain silent, the task is very difficult. The moment they speak, it’s pretty obvious. Well that’s from speech. What about behavior? Well, the genius tends to learn from mistakes and NOT repeat them. The stupid, however, not only repeats his mistakes but tends to make bigger ones.
Would it take a genius to tell you what RM 5 billion can do to improve the general quality of life of Malaysians? Would it take a genius to figure out that that sum can go a long way in alleviating loads of the ills in our basic infrastructure? Public transport comes to mind, education comes to mind, medical facilities come to mind. A host of other important things should come to mind. Heck, even the bloody petrol prices could be brought down.
But no!! Not in Malaysia apparently!!
It takes too much of brain cells to think these things out. So, let’s just blow the RM5Billion on putting up a VERY tall building instead. A building that doesn’t serve any normal Malaysian’s interest in any way, a building that’s only gonna increase the traffic congestion in that already overly congested area and the pockets of some very connected people.
Let’s do that!! Yay!! Let's rob from the poor and give to the rich.
Then some old geezer pipes in with their 2cents worth that spending money is the best way for the economy to grow. Yes, let’s spend money. On the basic necessities for every citizen. On basics that will benefit the people. Not on some mumbo jumbo-project that is gonna strain and drain our (read ordinary citizens’) pockets for the next three generations.
You don’t need a genius telling you these things. This is common sense. No need for delusions of grandeur when you can’t afford it.
Oh, and speaking of ‘delusions of grandeur when you can’t afford it’ brings to mind something similar, happening closer to home…...
It’s a god awful shame that there are certain quarters who believe in style above substance. If you’re a bad singer, it can be excused. But if you’re a doctor then you’d jolly well have more substance than just style. If style is all you’re looking for, then that’s when the delusions of grandeur come in.
For example, if you need to borrow money to get married, why don’t you put off your wedding for a bit? Until you have enough, maybe? Unless of course there’s pregnancy involved and the guy wants to be a man and do the right thing.
Or if you wanna have your wedding in the Palace of the Golden Horses, but find that it is way out of your league in terms of cold hard cash, just find another cheaper alternative. Even if you have to get married in your own home, do so. Or do you go borrow money just so that you can have your wedding at the POGH? Delusions of grandeur, no?
Could it be that because your wedding is the first in the family, so it must be a posh affair at the most expensive venue? Why? Wouldn’t the guests see the same couple getting married even if the wedding was held at some hut or at your own home?
Well anyway, it’s too late to wonder about the genius or stupidity behind holding a wedding way beyond your ability and capability. The cards have been printed, the guests have confirmed, the band’s been hired, the caterer’s been informed, the money’s been borrowed, the show must go on.
Who cares if the whole thing is an exercise in stupidity? Stupidity needs exercise so that it can grow to its limitless potential.
It’s genius that has a limit, remember?
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Si Mata Sepet? Si (Kaki) Botol? This has gone too far, no? Every other day, there is some things that are said or done or quoted, that stinks of racism.
This generalisation that all Chinese are sepet (is that even true?) and all Indians are drunks is stupid. It shows the shallow nature of people. It shows desperation.
So what if my friend has got slightly narrow eyes? As long as he can see the big picture. So what if my friend likes to indulge in drinking? As long as he's not bugging me to buy him his drinks. The eyes are a physical trait. The drinking is a habit.
If you need to refer to this kind of name calling to "stand tall" then you're going to remain very short (and short-sighted) for a very very very long time.
This generalisation that all Chinese are sepet (is that even true?) and all Indians are drunks is stupid. It shows the shallow nature of people. It shows desperation.
So what if my friend has got slightly narrow eyes? As long as he can see the big picture. So what if my friend likes to indulge in drinking? As long as he's not bugging me to buy him his drinks. The eyes are a physical trait. The drinking is a habit.
If you need to refer to this kind of name calling to "stand tall" then you're going to remain very short (and short-sighted) for a very very very long time.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Awakening Malaysia Requires Integrity & Trust, Awakening Malaysia Requires Intelligence & Talent
It has become a sad fact of Malaysian life that the malaise affecting this country cannot and will not be eradicated with a clean sweep of the broom. For starters, the bloody broom is not functioning properly. Then we have the fact that corruption and the corrupted way of life has seeped itself too deeply into the very grain and fabric of our society that it may take 2 or 3 generations to cleanse this land. That too, can only happen if the corrective measures are started today.
To start today requires loads of intelligence, integrity, trust and talent. Don’t we have this? Don’t we have men and women, boys and girls who want to achieve? Achieve on merit, that is. Boys and girls who are willing to put aside physical pain and perceived prejudice to challenge themselves to improve? We have truck loads of them. Men and women who won’t buckle under pressure and give in to find the easy way out?
We have star loads of them.
They’re all around us actually. I know of them personally. In fact I know of one such person very well.
We met late, this person and I. We were probably not supposed to meet, or were we? We’ll never know will we? Anyway this person walks into my life late and nonchalantly and has been attached to me since.
There wasn’t any dramatics about being late, just apologies and outright honesty. The actual details about the truth surfaced much later and perfectly corroborated what was said. How we yearn for this level of honesty in people who claim to be upright and integrous yet lead us with packs of lies.
If sickness was a wealth, then my friend would be a charitable person who wants to give it all away. It is crippling at times, and these are the mild times. It is a stumbling block to duty. Yet the grit and determination shown in overcoming this mind numbing pain is awe inspiring at worst.
You’d want to see this kind of grit in those elected to lead us; putting aside personal pain for the greater good of duty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is often said. But how often does one come across someone whom every beholder beholds beauty? Well from my experiences in Malaysia, pretty much none actually. When someone is described as a beautiful person, there’s another somewhere who’s ready to pounce and denounce. And I’m referring to physical beauty here. Call me shallow.
But when one is beautiful on the inside, and then that beauty is transferred to the outside, there can be no debate as to the actual beauty of the person. This kind of person inspires every beholder to behold beauty. And I’m glad to be among one of the beholders privileged to see this in my life.
Spontaneity creates excitement, doesn’t it? Well being surprised in your own workyard pleasantly was one major spontaneous act which still holds a dear place in my heart. I don’t know what inspired it, what triggered it, but it was something just, well, spontaneous and exciting. Which is something you can never say, in a positive vein, about the leadership of this nation, can you? They’re so predictable that even people with half a brain can guess and surmise what they’ll think and say and do way before they actually do or say anything.
What is it that makes my acquaintance a perfect role model for what can be right with this country? You’ll have to make the acquaintance to find out. From what I can see, we need more people in this country with the outlook my friend has. Add to this a love for the nation and a desire to see this nation change for the better, and you’ll have the kind of people that can move mountains. What more this nation?
There’s a change in direction every now and then that either brings good or bad with it. Or it can bring both good and bad. Sometimes they feel like two steps forward and one step back, at other times it’s like one step forward and two back. But it’s the steps forward that count and bring the most joy isn’t it? So in order to feel the exuberance of that forward step, we endure the steps backward. We build on them. We make sure that forward steps are worth more than the steps back, no matter how many back steps come. This is as true for the nation as it is for friendships or relationships of any kind.
This change in direction can blow with or without fierce gales and storm winds. The ones that are with fierce storm winds can be frightening to say the least.
Friendships, relationships and nations are tested when there are doubts. Doubts can be major stumbling blocks for any relationship. God, when they appear, especially in forms that are hard to dispute and especially when they are in forms that you do not know of. You know what I mean. Then you ask yourself if you wanna give up the fight. You tell yourself no. That’s when you want to stand your ground.
Dispelling doubts amid cynicism and sarcasm is no small feat. But when you love, u want to believe you can conquer it all. No?
Well let me assure you that it can be done, has been done and will continue to be done as long as creating confidence and dispelling doubts is required. Just throw some love into the mix. It’s powerful.
Third party interferences pose a headache whenever there’s imminent progress. What could be considered normal for some people, can be considered abnormal for others. When I said ‘nope’, it was because I thought it was a ‘nope’. Yet it seems that in the ‘nope’ the seeds of doubt get take root yet again.
To start today requires loads of intelligence, integrity, trust and talent. Don’t we have this? Don’t we have men and women, boys and girls who want to achieve? Achieve on merit, that is. Boys and girls who are willing to put aside physical pain and perceived prejudice to challenge themselves to improve? We have truck loads of them. Men and women who won’t buckle under pressure and give in to find the easy way out?
We have star loads of them.
They’re all around us actually. I know of them personally. In fact I know of one such person very well.
We met late, this person and I. We were probably not supposed to meet, or were we? We’ll never know will we? Anyway this person walks into my life late and nonchalantly and has been attached to me since.
There wasn’t any dramatics about being late, just apologies and outright honesty. The actual details about the truth surfaced much later and perfectly corroborated what was said. How we yearn for this level of honesty in people who claim to be upright and integrous yet lead us with packs of lies.
If sickness was a wealth, then my friend would be a charitable person who wants to give it all away. It is crippling at times, and these are the mild times. It is a stumbling block to duty. Yet the grit and determination shown in overcoming this mind numbing pain is awe inspiring at worst.
You’d want to see this kind of grit in those elected to lead us; putting aside personal pain for the greater good of duty.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is often said. But how often does one come across someone whom every beholder beholds beauty? Well from my experiences in Malaysia, pretty much none actually. When someone is described as a beautiful person, there’s another somewhere who’s ready to pounce and denounce. And I’m referring to physical beauty here. Call me shallow.
But when one is beautiful on the inside, and then that beauty is transferred to the outside, there can be no debate as to the actual beauty of the person. This kind of person inspires every beholder to behold beauty. And I’m glad to be among one of the beholders privileged to see this in my life.
Spontaneity creates excitement, doesn’t it? Well being surprised in your own workyard pleasantly was one major spontaneous act which still holds a dear place in my heart. I don’t know what inspired it, what triggered it, but it was something just, well, spontaneous and exciting. Which is something you can never say, in a positive vein, about the leadership of this nation, can you? They’re so predictable that even people with half a brain can guess and surmise what they’ll think and say and do way before they actually do or say anything.
What is it that makes my acquaintance a perfect role model for what can be right with this country? You’ll have to make the acquaintance to find out. From what I can see, we need more people in this country with the outlook my friend has. Add to this a love for the nation and a desire to see this nation change for the better, and you’ll have the kind of people that can move mountains. What more this nation?
There’s a change in direction every now and then that either brings good or bad with it. Or it can bring both good and bad. Sometimes they feel like two steps forward and one step back, at other times it’s like one step forward and two back. But it’s the steps forward that count and bring the most joy isn’t it? So in order to feel the exuberance of that forward step, we endure the steps backward. We build on them. We make sure that forward steps are worth more than the steps back, no matter how many back steps come. This is as true for the nation as it is for friendships or relationships of any kind.
This change in direction can blow with or without fierce gales and storm winds. The ones that are with fierce storm winds can be frightening to say the least.
Friendships, relationships and nations are tested when there are doubts. Doubts can be major stumbling blocks for any relationship. God, when they appear, especially in forms that are hard to dispute and especially when they are in forms that you do not know of. You know what I mean. Then you ask yourself if you wanna give up the fight. You tell yourself no. That’s when you want to stand your ground.
Dispelling doubts amid cynicism and sarcasm is no small feat. But when you love, u want to believe you can conquer it all. No?
Well let me assure you that it can be done, has been done and will continue to be done as long as creating confidence and dispelling doubts is required. Just throw some love into the mix. It’s powerful.
Third party interferences pose a headache whenever there’s imminent progress. What could be considered normal for some people, can be considered abnormal for others. When I said ‘nope’, it was because I thought it was a ‘nope’. Yet it seems that in the ‘nope’ the seeds of doubt get take root yet again.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Fuck me!!
Having sex. Making love. Fucking. Doing the dirty. However you may call it, however many times you've done it or not done it. However many styles or positions you may or may not know. Whatever your outlook on it is, your theological perspective, your social view, whatever the fuck la. To do it still takes TWO fucking people. Whether it is illicit or licit or illegal or illegal. You still need TWO fucking people to have sex. Period.
Any fucker, even those with only half a fucking brain, would be able to tell you this. If 1 person is doing it, it is called masturbation, not having sex. Whether male or female, masturbation is NOT the same as having sex. You CANNOT have sex when there is ONLY 1 person involved. Whether it is legal sex or illegal sex or licit sex or illicit sex, you cannot do it without another person to do it with.
So tell me please, since the above facts have been established, how the fuck can you punish a woman alone, for having illicit sex? Who the fuck was she doing the dirty with? Herself? Then charge her for masturbation la, not illicit sex. If you insist on punishing her for having illicit sex, then charge the other person involved as well. It's pretty obvious that when she was caught with her knickers down, there'd have been at least 1 other person (a guy most likely) in the room with his boxers or briefs down as well.
So what is his contribution to this crime of illicit sex? Why isn't he being punished as well, since he is a part of the act of having sex, illicit or illegal or whatever the fuck.
And to quote our "honourable home minister", it is done as part of "executing our responsibility". Really? Then why the delay in "executing your responsibility" with Kartika? It is so fucking clear what has happened here that it is fucking pathetic to listen to people, ministers no less, trying to fucking justify it.
In case my two (oh sorry, it's three now) readers still can't grasp what the minister is asking you to read between the lines as he's holding three fingers up to you, he wants you to know that he has played his trump card to get his sorry government out of the Kartika predicament. If you recall, the problem was caused by the over eager government controlled judiciary to prove their over-religiousness.
This backfired when they got caught -not literally with their pants down though- by moderate folks who questioned the rationales for the caning, the expertise required for it and the potential loss of image to this progressive moderate modern nation. So they begged her to appeal, thinking that they could have squeezed their sorry asses out of the predicament, granted her the appeal, and not caned her. The spanner in this plan was when Kartika refused to appeal.
So "honorable" minister, just for your information, we can see through this backdoor ploy of yours. Quietly cane three chics for having sex, and proclaim loudly and proudly that Kartika is a non-issue as we have been already implementing caning. You're so predictable!! And pathetic!!
And speaking of backdoors, which i think is the only thing your rotten government is good for, your "Backdoor Drama" involving Saiful's unlocked backdoor has gotten from bad to worse, hasn't it?
What kind of court proceeds with a sodomy trial when there's been no sodomy (since sodomy is loosely defined as anal penetration & the doctor's report clearly says there's been no penetration) ?
But, let's save that for another day shall we? Let's get back to the issue at hand, which is the caning of the three women for allegedly having illicit sex.
Please get the three men who they had illicit sex with and duly charge them too if you're fucking serious about this "protecting the sanctity of the religion" bullshit. Otherwise just shut the fuck up and leave whoever wants to fuck whomever, wherever, whenever, alone. Cos it definitely is the responsibility of both males AND females to protect the sanctity of any religion.
Get it?
Any fucker, even those with only half a fucking brain, would be able to tell you this. If 1 person is doing it, it is called masturbation, not having sex. Whether male or female, masturbation is NOT the same as having sex. You CANNOT have sex when there is ONLY 1 person involved. Whether it is legal sex or illegal sex or licit sex or illicit sex, you cannot do it without another person to do it with.
So tell me please, since the above facts have been established, how the fuck can you punish a woman alone, for having illicit sex? Who the fuck was she doing the dirty with? Herself? Then charge her for masturbation la, not illicit sex. If you insist on punishing her for having illicit sex, then charge the other person involved as well. It's pretty obvious that when she was caught with her knickers down, there'd have been at least 1 other person (a guy most likely) in the room with his boxers or briefs down as well.
So what is his contribution to this crime of illicit sex? Why isn't he being punished as well, since he is a part of the act of having sex, illicit or illegal or whatever the fuck.
And to quote our "honourable home minister", it is done as part of "executing our responsibility". Really? Then why the delay in "executing your responsibility" with Kartika? It is so fucking clear what has happened here that it is fucking pathetic to listen to people, ministers no less, trying to fucking justify it.
In case my two (oh sorry, it's three now) readers still can't grasp what the minister is asking you to read between the lines as he's holding three fingers up to you, he wants you to know that he has played his trump card to get his sorry government out of the Kartika predicament. If you recall, the problem was caused by the over eager government controlled judiciary to prove their over-religiousness.
This backfired when they got caught -not literally with their pants down though- by moderate folks who questioned the rationales for the caning, the expertise required for it and the potential loss of image to this progressive moderate modern nation. So they begged her to appeal, thinking that they could have squeezed their sorry asses out of the predicament, granted her the appeal, and not caned her. The spanner in this plan was when Kartika refused to appeal.
So "honorable" minister, just for your information, we can see through this backdoor ploy of yours. Quietly cane three chics for having sex, and proclaim loudly and proudly that Kartika is a non-issue as we have been already implementing caning. You're so predictable!! And pathetic!!
And speaking of backdoors, which i think is the only thing your rotten government is good for, your "Backdoor Drama" involving Saiful's unlocked backdoor has gotten from bad to worse, hasn't it?
What kind of court proceeds with a sodomy trial when there's been no sodomy (since sodomy is loosely defined as anal penetration & the doctor's report clearly says there's been no penetration) ?
But, let's save that for another day shall we? Let's get back to the issue at hand, which is the caning of the three women for allegedly having illicit sex.
Please get the three men who they had illicit sex with and duly charge them too if you're fucking serious about this "protecting the sanctity of the religion" bullshit. Otherwise just shut the fuck up and leave whoever wants to fuck whomever, wherever, whenever, alone. Cos it definitely is the responsibility of both males AND females to protect the sanctity of any religion.
Get it?
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