American values

Disgusting! That was the first thought that came into my mind, on seeing the photo in an online media, yesterday, of two fully grown up men in coats, hugging and kissing each other, on the lips. The title above the photo read, ‘Prop. 8 judge strikes down same-sex marriage ban’. 
See, I am embarrassed to have any pictures denoting it above! May be I can just have a picture of a judge striking the gavel on his table!

Yes, in the USA, the California court has validated the same-sex marriage of these two men and they were expressing their happiness in public. Disgusting indeed, for the up keepers of traditional values.
By striking down the ban, the judge had also struck down the hopes of the people striving to maintain the traditional family values. Not only that. In my opinion, he has gone against the will and wishes of God. For, if God had wished for such a thing as same-sex marriage to happen He, in the first place, would have created only men in this world, and not men and women.

My old faithful TV

Watching TV can sometimes be such a pain. They keep on showing the same advertisements again and again. They also show advertisements that keep on asking us to change to the latest technically improved TVs.

Why must I change to the new types of TVs? The stories and news are going to the same in the new TVs, as in my old faithful, aren’t they? Will the hero live in the new TV and die in the old one? Is there going to be a difference in the number of goals scored in a game shown in a new TV? Will the goalkeeper save a penalty kick in the new screen and miss the ball in the old tube! If he does, then I am going to change!

They say that in the new TVs that they term as LCD, LED, Plasma, or HDTVs, it is possible to bring out the pictures in 3D images. It will be so realistic that I might feel that the settings are brought into my living room itself! No, sir! I like complete privacy in my home. I don’t want any Avatars or Conans coming into my living room! And again, I wouldn’t like to be tempted to turn my head left and right to see whether ghosts or vampires are hiding somewhere nearby! Neither do I want to duck my head to avoid an oncoming arrow!

Ha! Ha! You go ahead, please. Buy the latest type of TV. Just allow me to come into your living room once in a while. Don’t worry, I will fore-announce it!

Oh, another thing! In Malaysia, the old TV, that we also call as analog TV will still be available for several more years yet. So I am saved!

School bus drivers - A word of encouragement

Pity the taxi and school bus drivers of Malaysia. An earlier report of sexual molestation by a taxi driver and the more recent news of a student being molested by a driver of a van ferrying school children have put them in bad light with the public. The minute a parent knew about the matter, he or she would have surely, on instinct, started to wonder about the temperament of the driver who transports his or her child to and from school. Character analysis would have been made. Discussions would have made with fellow users of the school-transport vehicles about the disposition of the drivers. What an embarrassing situation for an honourable driver to be in!

To all those honest drivers this is what I want to say. “Please don’t be discouraged by the recent reports of the abuses. Your services are badly needed. Please continue providing your services diligently. And more importantly, keep on the lookout for drivers with suspicious behavior patterns and report immediately to the authorities.”

My! I have just posted this blog, and here comes out another report of molestation! A five year old girl has been abused by a school van driver in Cheras of Selangor State. It was suspected to have happened on Saturday, 31^st July 2010. This comes on the heels of the incident involving a ten year old girl on the 26^th. Barely one week! Lessons have not been learnt. The only new lesson that we can give these two legged animals is how to tie a rope around their necks!

Monsters on the prowl

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‘Ampang Monsters’ was the front page heading of The Star recently. The ‘monsters’ it was referring to were the two legged ones amidst us, who prey upon teenage students, and mislead them into believing that they are being helped, only to end up being molested, sexually. It just happened that the latest deplorable incident occurred in the Ampang district of Selangor.

Nowadays, the number of these ‘animals’ is found to be on the rise in Malaysia, endangering our young ones. The police and other enforcement authorities should not allow these,, atrociously, physical abuses to continue. More serious attention and actions in completely eradicating such monstrous acts should be unleashed now.

We were made to believe that the police have special undercover agents in their setup, to track down criminals. It is hoped they encompass a department or unit specializing in uncovering potential criminals, if they don’t have one already. Looking at the spate of the disgusting crimes occurring so frequently now, it makes one to conclude that they don’t have one.

Save the world!

Carbon footprint. For the rich, this means nothing to them. They may think that this is a new technology, used by the police to track down criminals, when the finger prints don’t help. Oh! You are rich? I am sorry! I mean the rich, who don’t bother what is going on the environmental world! (Phew! That was close!)

Well, who can blame them, when utility bills mean nothing to them, when they got loads of money? To them the bills are just procedural papers which their servants attend to, to get the utilities in their mansions going on smoothly. So unlike us, they won’t bother switch off their electrical providers of comfort, or turn off their water gadgets when they are not in use.

For us, it will be, “John, how many times must I tell you to switch off the light when you are going out?” Or, “Hey, you! Have you turned off the tap properly?” And “Aw, come on! It’s not so hot now. Switch off the air cond, will ya?”

Not that we are deeply conscious of the effect on the environment, or for that matter, are being seriously serious about the ozone layer depreciation. Ya, you got it! We just do not want to spend too much on our utility bills, for reasons which you and I know!

Well, it is time for everyone, be they be poor or rich, to take notice of the deterioration of the world’s atmosphere that we depend on, and the causes leading to it.

A little bit of info on the Carbon Footprint – It is the measure of the effect our daily activities have on the atmosphere. for example, our usage of electricity; it is made possible by the burning of fuels that release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, which will then have a negative effect on the ozone layer. Ozone layer is important in that it prevents the ultra violet light-rays, called as UV-B radiation, from the sun to reach the earth and harm both plant and animal life.

Right! Let's save the world! Let's begin now! Let us go to www.carbonfootprint.com first!