An Instant Democracy in 10 Minutes.......

Apart from having instant noodles, normally an instant 2 minutes noodles Malaysians had been pleasantly introduced with an instant democracy ..... The prime news on 22 March 2013 were focused on the announcement by the "Courteous" cum "Internet" Minister that RTM (read as "Radio Televisyen MALAYSIA" - it has to be in capital letters as "Malaysia" means ALL OF US!!!!) would allow all political parties including the Opposition Parties to have a 10 minutes slot on air explaining their election manifesto... I bet the following comments would appear in all electronic and printed media, be it from the opposing sides of the political parties, certain academicians cum "part time lobbyists including from the small fraction of the "mentally impaired historians" in the Majlis Professor Negara (MPN)and so on: 1. Politicians from the government of the day, including the "Internet" Minister will say that the 1o\0 minutes air time slot shows that democracy is thriving and breathing healthily in Malaysia. This just shows that the government of the day is being fair to all political parties as they are being given a fair and equal treatment in airing their election manifesto. All of them would appear to be mentally hypnotised by issuing somewhat similar comments - just like their comments every time when the YAB PM had finished the yearly tabling of the Budget with a monotone standard comments: " Belanjawan tahun ini adalah belanjawan rakyat..." Another slightly different comment " Belanjawan ini adalah bukti kerajaan sentiasa memikirkan kepentingan rakyat jelata ..."; 2. The few selected academicians from the MPN will echo similar view as per No. 1 but will try their best to differentiate themselves with the politicians under No. 1 by using superfluous academic "big words" like " Ini menunjukkan iltizam kerajaan dalm memperkasakan (not that "Perkasa" yea!) serta membudayakan proses demokrasi ...." whatever that means!!! or quoting quotes from the Athens/Rome era. There might be a possibility of them comparing our latest instant product with those in Communist China or other autocratic states not realising that even in China they changed their Premier every 10 years!!!! 3. Those from opposition will surely say "What can we do in 10 minutes?" or commenting that " It is inadequate as the government of the day has 365 days minus 10 minutes in bragging about their manifesto with BR1M, TR1M, SL1M and so many 1s!!!!" 4. Not to mention the "Listen! Listen! Listen! Lady" who will of course consult the animals before issuing out her comments; and 5. Last but not least, the "great Old Man" who always wants to be different and might most probably say " Apa pun kerajaan buat ... apa nama .... pembangkang tak akan hargai. Pembangkang hanya tahu membangkang saja, dia tak tahu mentadbir negara ...." My dear Sir, that's what "pembangkang" is all about anyway and your comments/statements have come in full circle over the years .... My comment? ... Well at least it's 8 minutes longer than the "2 minutes instant noodles" and there is no such thing as an instant democracy!!! .... Till we meet again .....

Remember "Ali, Tong Seng, Ah Moi, Ramasamy and Salmah?

All of a sudden, I recalled when I was in Standard 1 way back in 1970,there was a Bahasa Melayu textbook with the main characters namely Ali, Salmah, Tong Seng, Ah Moi, Ramasamy and Kumari. I will tell you why my being so nostalgic later .... Ali and Salmah are siblings so as Tong Seng and Ah Moi as well as Ramasamy and Kumari. The texbook even had pictures of these characters ... Salamah with her long hair and the pony tails and her "baju kurung", Ali wearing a songkok while Ah Moi and Kumari wearing the good old days dark blue uniform ... In the textbook, these multi racial characters went to school together, they play together and had their "adventures" together ... There was an incident of Ramasamy climbing a tree to save a trapped cat but he ended up trapped and could not go down.His friends managed to get help and Ramasamy was saved by the "orang kampung" ..... It's a simple and ideal multi racial story for us in the primary school though I have to state here that 100% of my classmates were Malays .... Well, there's nothing wrong being an idealistic anyway. Each one of us should emulate the traits Ali, Salmah, Tong Seng, Ah Moi, Ramasamy and Kumari - they learn, play and having fun together. By the time, I finished my Form Six there were so many textbooks which I had to "digest" and I would say those textbooks made sense to me ..... The textbooks had somewhat gave me the idea of how to be at least a good and civil member of our society. Fast forward, in 2013 last week I was frowning and frowned hard I was when Tun Mahathir was reportedly as suggesting the 180 pages biography of our PM's wife to be made as a textbook in schools ..... He was quoted as saying the RM150/ (Note: RM here denotes "Ringgit Malaysia" and nothing else!!!) biography could be served as guidance for generations 100 or 200 years from now ...... Given a choice between this RM1.28 per page biography and the texbook about "Ali, Salmah, Tong Seng, Ramasamy and Kumari" ... I would definitely opted with my eyes open the latter!!!!! Have pity on our kids please .... Till we meet again ......

Light and Free Flow Posting ....

Amidst the hot news on the Sabah being intruded, the following news which appeared in the SUN 1 March 2013 edition really caught my attention ... It was reported from Lima that a leading Peruvian football club, Alianza Lima is considering the possibility of giving its players Viagra during matches played at altitude in the local championship. It was the club doctor who explained that Viagra could help improve the physical conditioning of players at altitude. The club's coach said that if result showed the male potency pill enhanced on field performance (read as playing football!!!!)then "the club would use it". The club's doctor, Dr. Blacido further explained that Viagra helped the heart pump more blood, thus allowing better oxygenisation without it falling foul of anti doping measures. it is also reported that a Brazil football club, Gremio had already use Viagra for matches played at altitude. Hmmmmm..... this is interesting!!!! This is what we termed as "multi tasking" of Viagra. The only thing there might be a day when the noble intention of improving the sport via Viagra would be abused ... Well, what say you FAM? Perhaps a good option to improve our Malaysian football world ranking, I reckon... The second news is from Jakarta ... A tragic case of a murder by a mother who drowned her 9 year old son in the bath, claiming she was worried that his "small penis" would affect his future. She was reported to have drowned her son in a bathtub filled with water then dressed him and laid him on bed before surrendering to the police. I have no comment on this Jakarta news but my heart goes to this little angel....... The third news came from thousands of kilometers from Jakarta where it was reported that a Union boss in New Mexico embezzles to pay for plastic surgery. A Ms. Elba Esther Gordillo, who is the head of Mexico's teachers' union and one of the country's most powerful union has been charged with embezzling USD$200 million to fund a lavish lifestyle of shopping spree and plastic surgery. Apart from plastic surgery and shopping spree, the 68 year old also used the "ill gotten" money for acquisition of real estate and artworks. This what we called "Harapkan pagar, pagar makan padi" and if she is a teacher - she might be (if she is a fully employed union staff)or she might not be a teacher - the "perumpamaan" would be "Kalau cikgu kencing berdiri, anak murid kencing berlari" .... Till we meet again .....