Quotes from famous person

Judge not a person by his figure and speech but judge him by his heart and deeds.

If the persons who plead with the people to improve the nation, will only improve themselves first, then there will be improvement in the nation.

Wealth is no obstacle to true friendship. Nor is poverty.

Try again and again and you will never succeed, unless you put your heart into it.

The right and true kind of friendship is not made. Is cultivated.

Man may have created robots. But he is the immortal robot of God.

Selfishness, we must know, is the root of all evils. Not money.

To master life, don’t take life as a challenge. Regard yourself as a challenge to life.

If you ask me, the only thing common between men and women is ‘men’.

After all said and done the human race still can’t win the animal race.

Life will be kind to the one who aims for the best but expects the worst.

Money can make a friend. Money can also kill that friend.

The success of a speech does not depend on the way the speaker puts forward his ideas, but rather, on the way the listeners put forward their ears.

Just as food is necessary to keep a man alive, faith is necessary to keep his hopes alive.

Luck is pure coincidence. Good luck is good coincidence. Bad luck, bad.

Talking about pastimes, the safest, simplest, cheapest is still sleeping.

I am the Minister of Own affairs.

Be sure you are laughed with, not laughed at.

Look before you leap, and where you land.

Gambling - winning it all back, one day.

Here is ambition to you. If you have a driving license, you can only be the driver of a car.If you have a driving license and ambition, you can possess that car.

No other game is more hurting on losing than the game of love.

Man is still to learn from dog of gratitude.

It is the man with inferior complex who boasts – to make others accept him as one of them or even better.

The job of a magician is to prove that we are all fools.

You strike your dog and the next time it sees you, it will still come to you with a wagging tail. That’s loyalty for you.

Life hasn’t got a dull moment
When you’ve got a lot of money.

You should be wondering who is that famous person who said all of the above. It is me! (Smirk!)

The child in us

Short Poems

The sound

O’, What is that sound
That so thrills the ear,
Like the heart of a man
Which is in fear?

But not a man can I see,
No, not even a sign.
By God, it’s me!
The heart is mine!


Brave warriors

There go our brave warriors
To fight men like great barriers.
They carry with them only spears
But march with untold cheers!

Though their number is only ten
They can fight a hundred men,
For they have hearts of no chicken
And will fight like a mad lion!


The stars and the looter

Oh, look at those stars!
Just look at them!
See them shimmer, twinkle in a mass!
Ah! How content and happy and happy I am!
If only they can be mine,
No more will I steal.
I will sit here and watch them shine,
And no more will I kill!

Go and fight my merry man

Go and fight my merry men! Go and fight!
Fight the murderous enemies in sight.
Stop them from stepping on our land,
Teach them that they are not grand.

Chase them away far from here
And turn back proudly with cheer.
Be not afraid of your death;
God is there to care for your health.

Though one day you may be killed,
In our heart your courage will be filled.
So, go and fight my merry men, go and fight!
Fight the enemies of greed in sight!


The song of a beggar

Once went an old beggar, begging for food
To a large house, the palace of a king.
But the king was cruel and rude;
He mocked the beggar, laughing and teasing.

The poor beggar sang a song, so sweet, so wanting
That the stones began to melt, and the king cried!
His heart, too, felt the song and began melting
And the king wept, fell down and died!


The beautiful bird

There goes the beautiful bird
Flying in the air.
It is free now to see the world,
As long as it does care

Poor, bird, it has been kept in a cage
Made by expert hands.
Now it has an old age,
Too old to make young friends.


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Jokes

Teacher : What would you like to be when you are old Govind?
Govind : A young man again, sir!

Teacher : Govind, what is necessary for germination to take place?
Govind : Seed, sir!

Teacher : What are your favorite games, Govind?
Govind : Monkey and football, sir!

Teacher : Govind, can you tell me something about Abraham Lincoln?
Govind : Yes, sir. He is dead.

Science teacher : Govind, how will you prevent Malaria from spreading?
Govind : Eliminate all the people, sir!

Teacher : Would you like to be a millionaire person, Govind?
Govind : Yes, sir, please! My hair is getting less and less!

Teacher : Listen here, all of you. What will you do to share two apples between three of you
Govind : Buy one more, sir!

Civics teacher : Govind, suppose you have only one apple and there is a beggar looking at you. What will you do?
Govind : I will give it to the beggar, sir!
Teacher : And why?
Govind : I don’t like apples, sir.

Teacher : Name me a sense, Govind.
Govind : five cents, sir.

Teacher : Govind, why is Mt. Everest famous?
Govind : Many who go there ever rest there, sir!

Teacher : What do you call a man who can’t hear?
Govind : Nothing, sir. He can’t hear.

Dad : Your head is swollen, what happened?

Child : A post knocked me when I was not looking at it dad!

Judge : Do you want to say anything before you are hanged?

Prisoner : Yes, sir. Good bye!

Asami : Hey, Govind, I hear that guy is very tough and strong.

Govind : Yeah, when the guy’s head knocks against the post, the post gets swollen!

Man to robber : Hey, why don’t you tie me up? It will make nice headline tomorrow, “Reporter Tied Up And Home Ransacked!”

Robber : Well, it’s going to be better than that. How about “Reporter Killed” ?

Teacher : Govind, when were you born?

Govind : When I was much less than a year old, sir.

Friend of farmer : ‘Lo Bob! Your cattle and sheep, where are they? I can’t see any.

Farmer : Well, the kettle is on the oven. The ship is at the port.

Teacher : Why do fish live in water and not on land, Govind?

Govind : No legs to walk on land, sir.

Asami : How much did it cost you to see that show?

Govind: Four spanking from my dad and dried bread for lunch!

Magician to his helper : Get a rope and handkerchief.

Helper, sometime later: Finished, sir.

Magician : Finished what?

Helper : Got a rope and hanged the chief!

Jeff : You know something. My dad says he can smell my breath a hundred yards away!

Jim : That’s nothing. Mine says he can smell my breath through the phone!

“Oi,” said the rude boarder, “What’s the spider doing in my room?”

“Decorating, sir!” said the caretaker.

Feelings.....nothing more than feelings - 2

The speed of time
Days lead
And days appear
With such speed
That we wonder

Only yesterday
Seemed the new year
Today
The end is near!

Only yesterday
Were born the children
But today
They are men and women!

Only yesterday
Were clothes modern
Today
They are out off fashion!

Only yesterday
Were nations fair and just
But today
They are in disgust!

Only yesterday
Was the world in peace
Today
It is at war and mischieves!

Only yesterday
Did men fly to the moon
But today
They’ve walked on it, so soon!

Days lead
And days appear
With such speed
That we wonder.


Tears
Tears dropped down from his eyes,
In one drop…..
In two drops….
Then in a continuous flow of drops.
They rolled downwards
Like two tiny streams,
Along both cheeks.
They grazed the corners of the mouth
And converged
And collected at
The tip of the protruding chin.
Then, they dropped again,
In one drop…..
In two drops….
Then in a continuous flow of drops,
On to the heavy chest, where,
They seeped through
And soaked
The awaiting cloth.


The story of love
Love!
Poor love!
They say you are blind.
And yes!
How blind you are!
Grope your way you do,
So tiresomely,
So eagerly,
So searchingly.
Love!
Pitiful love!
Tender, suffering love!
Many a times do you
Enter
The wrong hearts
And get driven out,
Sometimes promptly,
Sometimes probationally,
Painfully!
Most of the times.
And yet,
Love!
Sweet, stunning love!
Glorious future
Awaits you in
The right hearts.
Embraced warmly you will be!
Enriched!
Beautified!
Given nourishment daily!
And made stronger till the
Gradual nonactiveness of
The hearts!

Parents to blame

 I can’t help thinking about the good old days, when, the newspapers were full of other stories, rather than crime. Girls can walk alone, without any worries. No bag snatching, no chain pulling, no kidnapping. 

Now, even the man has to look over his shoulders, constantly, to feel safe. Why? What has gone wrong? Is it the fault of the police? No! Definitely not! It is the parents! 

The police, only come at a latter part of a person’s life. Children should have had a moral upbringing, since young. Parents should have been stern, but understanding. It does not mean, punishing them for every mistake they make, but asking themselves, that is, their own selves, why they did it. Understanding them at their age, and acting, accordingly, is important. When a child is being disciplined in school, do not make police-reports, and create a feeling of animosity, between pupils and teachers. Children can only be brought to our way, when we start off with them, at a tender age, telling them what’s right, and what’s wrong, instilling in them a sense of pride, if they had done something remarkable or right, but disciplining them, correctly, there and then, when they go out of line. 

It will be quite difficult, and impossible, to control a person into our way of thinking, when he is older, and has a feeling of being having matured. There is an old Indian saying, “What can’t bend at five, won’t bend at fifty”.

Coffee Break 4 - relax

Who am I?
You find me in life, you find me in death.
I exist in your health and wealth
I am also in the middle of poverty
But alas! I can’t solve it, what a pity!
Though in nature, I come last
I rise to excellence very fast.
Without me, there is no love, or hate.
Why, I even conclude your fate!
Though it is me who begin the earth,
I, too, end up in grave, oh, no mirth!
And one good thing is, I start and end with ease.
Who do you think I am, answer please!


Answer : the letter e

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In reality, the peace that is worth achieving, by all means, is peace of mind.

If you want to know what regret is, just think of your past.

Boys will not be boys. They will be men!

God created man. Man created Gods.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but only when it has ink.

Life, I think, is not so miserable after all! It is worse!

He, who eats out of one’s hands, should not eat the one out.

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Humour : Crring…..crring

“Crring…crring……….crring…crring!” rang out the telephone, breaking the graveyard silence of the night.

Pete moved in his bed and turned around to a new position.

“Crring…crring!”

Pete groaned, “Who the hell is phoning at this hour, the un….,” Pete stopped. He had made a vow to his mother not to curse. Mumbling, he got up reluctantly from his bed and trudged up, still dozed in his sleep, towards the telephone. Anger from being ruffled from a good night’s sleep was deep in his half-closed eyes. Reaching the table, he groped, in the partial darkness, for the telephone.
“Hello,” he croaked angrily, after he had picked up the receiver, or so he thought it was.

“Crring…crring!”

Pete was shocked. Where was that ringing coming from? Surely he was holding the receiver? He then fully opened his eyes and stared at the thing he was gripping. It was the torch!

“Crring….crring!”

Pete threw the torch on the table ( which fell with a loud bang and rolled on the table, only to fall on the concrete floor with a thunderous crash, its glass smashing away into various pieces ) and snatched up the receiver.

“Hello?” he demanded.

“Hello, good evening,” said a polite, feminine voice. It sounded as “Hello, good smashing,” to Pete’s ears at that moment.

“Good ev… well, what do you want?” Pete asked.

“Can I speak to Mr. Pitt, please?” the voice wanted to know.

“Go ahead, Pete here,” Pete introduced himself.

“Is it really Pitt?” the voice queried.

“Yes, I am Pete, as sure as you can’t see me in front of you now,” Pete replied.

“But Pitt, your voice has changed! You used to have a…..”

“Well, well,” cut in Pete impatiently, “ you didn’t ring at this hour to discuss my voice, did you?”

“No, no, of course not. But this is something important and it should be told to Pitt only.”

“And I say I am Pete.”

“But your voice….”

“My voice, my voice!” Pete really was at the climax of his temper, now. Who is this girl, after having woken him up, daring to insist that he was not Pete! “Now, look here, if you want to speak to Pete, go on. If you don’t want to speak to Pete, to whom do you want to gossip? Is it Preet, Pit or ….”

“But I want to speak to Pitt,” the girl uttered, unaffected by his rise in temper, “P for pea, I for eye, T for tea and T for ….”


“Toilet!” Pete was really furious, “I say I am Pete!”

“Well, no need to be so impolite, Pitt,” the girl said, casually, seeming convinced, “here is the message.”

“Yes?” Pete asked eagerly, like a man who had just escaped the bombing of his town.

“You are going to America, aren’t you? Well, I heard you are going to visit your sick father and I just want you to give him my deepest sympathy.”

“Hey!” Pete shouted loudly, “ I am not going to America and I am not going to visit any sick father of mine!”

“You don’t lie in front of your old niece, Dora, do you?” the girl sobbed.

“Dora? Who is Dora? I don’t know any Doras around!”

“I wonder….,” the girl at the other side muttered, “Hello, can you tell me your number, please?” she pleaded.

“Well, this is three…six…one…seven…”

“Three…six…one…seven? But I wanted two…six…one…oh, I am sorry. I’ve got the wrong number!”

Pete gulped, and before he could come out with a howl, the line was dead.

Feelings...nothing more than feelings

Examination results
The face has an anxious sign
The heart throbs suddenly! Silently!
A chill runs along the spine!
Is it fear? Is it glee?

“Here are the results!” the mouth mutters.
The body straightens up, with excitement, with fear!
The eyes stare, gaze at some letters
They glitter, “I’ve passed! Oh, God! Oh, dear!”

The heart shrieks for joy!
The mouth is wide, it smiles!
The legs are suddenly strong, why?
They want to run a hundred miles!


In the morning
I hear the flap of wings
And a cock crows through the silence
A bird on a tree sings
A car starts in the distance
A gate squeals around the corner
A bicycle squeals on the road
A gander cackles somewhere
A frog croaks, or is it a toad?
The old man coughs, next door
My old man stops snoring
Fowls crow as never before
It’s morning!


The sparkle in the eyes
A smile,
Without the sparkle in the eyes,
Is just an elongation of the mouth.
A grin,
Without the sparkle in the eyes,
Is merely a display of teeth.
Laughter,
Without the sparkle in the eyes,
Is just a noise from the vocal cord.
That sparkle in the eyes,
Is an oasis in the desert!
A ray of light in the dark!
The diamond, beyond human grasp!

Coffee Break 3 - relax

“I swear not to swear again,” sweared the boy to his mother.

“Do you love me?” the girl asked her boyfriend.
“Yes, and I love mee hoon, too,” he replied.

“I will commit suicide, after the wrestling match on TV,” decided the wrestling crazed chap who found life miserable.

“Doctor,” said the man, “I am getting more and more worried by the day, people say I have no heart!”

There are people who fall in love at first sight, marry and divorce on second sight!

Optican: Can you see that tree, over there?
Man : Well, as far as I can see, that’s as far as I can see.

“My brother,” boasted the cowboy to another, “can draw faster than any other bloke.”
“Yeah,” drawled the other one, “ I can see his paintings all over the town.”

Taiping, oh, beautiful, exciting Taiping!

The town of Taiping, where I live, is a beautiful place. It has one of the most beautiful lake gardens in Malaysia, if not the world. It has many heritage sites such as the prison, muzeum, Kota Ngah Ibrahim, Port Weld (Bukit Larut), railway station, colonial government buildings, military camps and others. It also has places for entertainment and vacations, such as the famous Taiping Zoo, Maxwell Hills (Bukit Larut), Bukit Merah Lake Town, etc. Recently, shopping complexes, namely, Tesco and Giant had been added to the attraction.

As such, more and more visitors are making a leeway to Taiping. Unfortunately, they are not being given a reasonable and exciting welcome to the place. A food factory, mainly involving in sardines, near the roundabout of the Kamunting Industrial Area (near the Futsal building), is welcoming the visitors with a foul, pungent smell . What more, the roundabout itself is nothing to shout about, for an attractive place like Taiping.

Just look at the nearby town of Parit Buntar. It has eye catching man made landscapes and structures, at every corners and roundabouts of the town. A case in example, is the Durian Structure, at the roundabout going to the highway.

It is hoped that the Taiping authorities will make studies and make the Taiping roundabouts more inviting to the visitors' eyes. It is eagerly waited.

Coffee Break 2 - relax

Suffering is realized and felt when a good event is compared with a bad one, the good event being the bringer of happiness. Thus, there is no suffering without happiness. So sufferers, do not be disheartened. Happiness is next!

A lucky man, funnily, is one who does not believe in luck but gets it!

Jealousy is a wonderful thing to possess. Though sometimes it brings disaster, often, it urges a person to surge ahead. Be jealous!

War is one of the causes of poverty; poverty is one of the causes of war.

The trouble with pre-election campaigners is that they keep their promises to themselves.

Time and tide waits for no man. Nor for woman!

5Fs for life
Forget your past
Focus on your future
Form the right opinions
Follow the right path
Forge ahead in life

Road safety

Day in and day out, we are hearing, seeing and reading about accidents. Most of the time, it looks like these accidents could have been avoided, if it hadn't been for the buses, lorries, cars having faulty brakes, drivers having plenty of summons, motorcyclists without licences, speeding at breakneck speed, etc, etc. Lives are lost and people maimed.

I know the authorities are trying their best. Just go to the paying counters of the traffic police and you can see the long queues. It shows that the enforcers are doing their job.

Another cause of the accidents are the cyclists. One can see the cyclists, during nights, cycling in the dark, without any lights from their bicycles, endangering vehicles approaching them. The drivers can see them only at the last minute and try to detour accordingly, thus, endangering vehicles coming immediately at the front or back. I remember many years back, all the bicycles were strictly enforced to have front and back lights. I hope this enforcement is brought back again.

And also the checking and correcting of the other causes mentioned above, and the implementing of the enforcements should be more strict and persistent.

Coffee Break 1 - relax

Speech is silvern, but not when you are not needed to speak.

Always show your true colours. It will lead you to lead a truthful life.

Silence is golden, but not when teacher is asking you a question.

Humbleness is to be proud of.

Men have a new way of keeping peace. It is by talking and talking.

Never be lead by a tune unless it is fortune.

Success will lead to pride. Pride will lead to disaster.


Everyone, in this world, breaks something;
an athlete breaks record,
a dishwasher breaks the dish,
an angryman breaks his temper,
an ignorant person breaks the law,
naughty children break the silence,
politicians break promises.

UNITY AT THE TOP

IT IS, INDEED, PLEASING TO HEAR THE PM DATO SRI NAJIB ABDUL RAZAK, SAYING HE WANTS TO CREATE AND SEE A ONE MALAYSIA. I THINK HE REALLY MEANS IT. 

HE CAN START THE BALL ROLLING BY APPOINTING A NON-MALAY, 2ND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER. THIS WILL PULL IN A LOT OF NON-MALAY CITIZENS TO SUPPORT THE RULING PARTY. THE POST OF PM CAN BE RESERVED FOR MALAYS, IF IT CAN BE DONE IN MALAYSIA. WHO KNOWS, WE CAN EVEN CALL HIM THE FATHER OF UNITY.

NO. LATELY, I DISCOVERED THAT WE CAN NEVER CALL THE PRESENT PRIME MINISTER 'THE FATHER OF UNITY', BECAUSE THAT ACCOLADE HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE FORMER PM TUN HUSSEIN ONN. IF THIS PM WAS REALLY SUCCESSFUL IN UNITING THE VARIOUS RACES, WHY, WE CAN EVEN NAME HIM 'FATHER OF 1MALAYSIA!

Malaysian Indian

Let us say foreigners ask me what nationality I am. I just cannot say I am a Malaysian. They will want to know why I am black and others brown or yellow. I have to say my ancestors are from India or I am a Malaysian of Indian origin, that is, I am an Malaysian Indian. And the others Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Malay, Malaysian Iban, Malaysian Kadazan, etc - with the Malaysian in front. I think this is also what our PM meant when he said One Malaysia. We should never just say we are Indians, Chinese, etc.

Many people are for the idea of telling ourselves plainly just Malaysians. They want all the forms or whatever application papers to be filled as just Malaysian, rather than his or her race. This, I think, is impractical in the long run, where the restructuring of society is concerned.

Mahathir's Dilemma

The two bi-elections that the BN lost say enough. It's time for Tun Mahathir to fade away from politics, gracefully. I do respect him a lot and I cannot bear to see him attracting insults from the people of our nation. So do some others, who still try to show their influence, even though, they are not a force to be reckoned with anymore.

Looks like Mahathir can never lie low, as he had been too used to be in the limelight for 22 years. He had always wanted and liked his voice to be heard all over the world. That was why he insistently gave anti-western speeches, touching, especially, on the American administration, wherever he went.

However, it is time for him now to really realise his current situation and keep some sort of a control on his forays.