Malacca! Oh, Malacca!

SMOKING HAS ITS REWARDS!

I wish I am a government servant in Malacca, and am a smoker. 

For here is a chance for me to get some rewards, if I stopped smoking. 

According to the statement given by the Chief Minister of the state of Malacca Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam, to a popular daily, on Sunday April 24, 2011, if I am a state government employee, and if I stopped smoking within a fixed time frame, I could get promoted! Wow! What a pleasant shocker in the month of April! 

There are more goodies! I could also go on vacations. (Paris, wait for me)! Read further! Electrical appliances are also dangled. Oh, I mean offered, for the smoking-halt. And cash! There is also cash to be had!

Alas! I am a Perakian. Never mind I will encourage my son to smoke and send him off to Malacca. Hope he gets a government job!

Please don't divorce!

People please, oh please, don’t divorce! 

Why did you marry in the first place? Why did you invite hundreds, if not thousands of people to witness your marriage? Sure, you wanted to let them know you were becoming life partners! You exhibited yourself as very happy and loving couple! Grinning teeth to teeth. All for what? Why didn’t you be prepared for all the shortcomings that you will face after your marriage? The misunderstandings that will come your way? Did you stop for a second to think what will happen to your child or children when you separate? The uncertainties, the mental torture, the wrong conception of life, the urge, the inclination towards sin! No, you just want to look after number one, yourself. You, and only you, want to be happy. So selfish! So very selfish!

Oh, so you still want to divorce, eh? Why don’t you again invite all those people who witnessed your wedding, to also witness your divorce? Let them know you are no longer husband and wife. No guts, eh? Shameful, eh? Then don’t marry in the first place! So there will be no such thing as divorce! And no child is going to suffer!

Great scandals make great politicians

In Malaysia, there is another way for the politicians to become heroes. If you are a politician in Malaysia and your name is mentioned in some sex scandals, you should thank your lucky stars! It is immaterial if the person in the photo or video was really you or not. If it was really you, all the better! Just look at the MCA’s Datuk Seri Dr. Chua Soi Lek now. He has become the president of that party and a full minister, has he not?

The next in line, to benefit greatly, seems to be Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. So it is okay if the person portrayed in the latest scandalous video was not him! He shall profit from it all right. Well, congratulations!

We, Malaysians are an understanding lot!

Changing the Malaysian government

OK, we vote in the opposition party in to form the government with a very big majority. What, then? Will the new administration, finally, put an end, or at least, lessen the following complaints and grievances?

1) Treat all Malaysians as equals. Term all Malaysians born in Malaysia as Bumiputras (sons of the soil).

2) Ensure the quota systems of the Malaysians of various races being followed in all the employment sectors, government or otherwise (private businesses) including the military.

3) Eradicate corruption, both in the government and the private sectors.

4) Ensure the top posts in the government and private sectors including the military go to the persons able and qualified, disregarding race.

5) Implement a fair and just education system so that the endless frustration felt by the vast majority of the Malaysians just fades away.

6) If they cannot make the poor people rich at least don’t make them poorer by increasing and adding in new taxes and tolls.

7) Don’t segregate the races by building housing estates with houses separate for each community. (The people are tolerant by nature. Do not poison their minds)

8) Really bring down crimes, not beating the breast for the few percent achieved.

9) Make our land a clean Malaysia. No necessity to pinch noses and grimace when entering a washroom anywhere, any time.

10) Let everyone freely practice their religion without any propagation and hindrance.

Can the opposition address the above state of affairs? Think carefully. And then vote!

Egypt - the side I didn't know, sob!

After 18 days of street protests by the people of Egypt, and about 300 deaths, on 11 February 2011, the president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, relinquishes his post. On hearing the announcement the people of Egypt scream in joy, jump about in ecstasy, cry out in happiness, wave the Egyptian flag frantically, kneel on the ground and express gratitude to the God Almighty, and generally have a generous feeling of relief, excitement and anticipation!

Why? Have I missed something? Have sinister and nasty events been happening all this while in Egypt, that I have not read in the papers, and also missed seeing in the visual media? Have the Egyptian people being suffering that much? To such an extent, that some were even moved to shave off their head, and offer the hair to the heavens above, as a sign of gratefulness? These are the questions that nudge in my mind ever since the over throw of President Mubarak by people power.

To me, the local and international media have not sufficiently, if not at all, portrayed the Egyptian people as suffering greatly under Mubarak’s rule. Only now, I see the word ‘dictator’ being mentioned everywhere regarding the president.

My mind has always been tuned up to think about Mubarak as a strong ally of USA in the Middle East, a great dignitary who is flexible in regards to relationship with Israel and a man well respected by his people.

Oh, how could I be so wrong!