I can't take it. Seriously, I can't take it anymore. There is a limit to how much my little brain can take. I can still take oppression, intimidation or even brutal injustice. But seriously, there is only so much of stupidity that I can take.
For those living overseas, someone in Malaysia (no prizes for correct guesses) just lodged a police report against an opposition MP for… insulting eggs. Yes, you read that correctly. Egg… telur… ‘ji tan’… ‘kai tan’…
I relayed this to a friend currently working in HK and her reply was… “So damn embarrassed to say we are Malaysians”. I couldn’t agree more.
I remember during the Namawee saga some time last year, we learnt of this law called the National Anthem Act. So now, we have an Egg Protection Act sitting somewhere? Akta Perlindungan Telur 2008, not a bad name I must say.
If you ask me, our country desperately need a new law called… Akta Kebodohan Maksimum… Maximum Stupidy Act… just to make sure morons are kept at bay.
I can't take it. I need to leave… Off to Singapore for the weekend…
Do you still remember during merdeka period last year when there was a call for us to wear yellow as a sign of ‘civil disobedience’? It was to show that we the rakyat are loyal to the king. Many dropped comments in Malaysia Today (MT) claiming that they will put on a yellow shirt and show the world that we are united.
As far as I remember, I was the only one in a yellow t-shirt when I went out that day.
Then there was a time when MT was distributing car stickers for a particular reason and comments flooded in to ask where people can get it and how many claimed they will put it up in support of MT.
Until today, I have yet to see a single car with MT car sticker. Heck, I don’t even know how it looks like!
Now that RPK is in jail, some quarters are asking the same kind of ‘civil disobedience’ to show our dissatisfaction towards the detention. Some have gone bald and have actually put up their bald heads in their blog. Kudos to them!
Then there is the call to drive with the headlights on during the day. Relatively easy I must say, I am sure we can all do that. But deep down, I wonder, if I will see cars with their headlights on during the day in these few weeks.
The bravest call is to ask people to wear the ‘Free RPK’ T-shirts. Now, if you look at the comments that have been flooding in to MT in the last few weeks, you will see that people are totally entirely wholesomely behind RPK. But will people actually let their action speak louder than their words? Or will this end up just like another call to wear yellow or the MT car sticker fiasco?
Personally, I don’t think all these driving cars with headlights on during the day or put on a specific t-shirt is going to achieve anything. In fact, I don’t even believe in the online petition, they are all a waste of time to me. What have all these achieved? Anything fruitful? I know… some will say, don’t give up just because we have not seen any result. Fair enough… why don’t you try our public transport and don’t drive? Don’t give up just because you have not seen the public transport turned good!
And, let’s just admit it. When it comes to the crunch time. A lot… and I mean a lot of us do not have what it takes to get down to real business. We are still a bunch of people who only know how to talk big. And even that, it only happens on internet. Therefore, I think all these are just going to fail, miserably yet again. If you think I am wrong, then prove it!
I once talked about a friend of mine whose ex-fiancé called off the marriage 3 months before the wedding date because she fell for another bloke. “Maybe she has her reason”, “maybe the guy treated her badly” were the notion of the comments from girls. And sure enough, during that ordeal, the girlfriends of that girl stood by her side.
Was my friend a bad person?
Well, he was once branded the “model boyfriend” by the ex-fiancé’s sister. And when I said model, it’s role-model, not one who graces the stage. He was also once said to be the nicest guys around. I do not need to elaborate further. But I know, girls will still have the “maybe there are things we don’t know” ringing in their mind.
Allow me to quote the exact word said to me by one of the ex-fiance’s friend (girl of course). She said… “Yes, what she did was wrong, but as her friend, I will support her”.
I cannot elaborate this story further because this friend of mine drop by AZAIG occasionally and I do not want to bring back the hurtful time he went through during that torturous ordeal, not to mention the clean up of the wedding stuff that he had to do… by himself.
Leave this story aside for a while…
A friend of mine just got divorced. The reason is that ex-wife decided to stay in the land of greener pasture while my friend has a business here and is unable to fulfil the migration dream. It was a mutual agreement.
Now, this friend of mine has got a new gf. Lo and behold… girls are bombarding my friend with comments such as… “shame on you”… “what happened to graciousness and respect?”
Before I continue, I would like to reiterate that I do not condone what this friend of mine did. The timing was indeed a bit too rush. Nevertheless, there is nothing technically wrong in what my friend did.
Further, some of us found the comments made by the girls very hypocritical. In fact, it’s damn hypocritical. Do you know why?
Because, the person who made the “shame on you” remark is the ex-fiancé of the friend in the first story, the one who dumped my friend a few months before the wedding to go with another guy. And she wants to talk about shame.
As for the one who talked about graciousness and respect, she is also an ex-gf of another friend of mine. While this friend wasn’t the best bf around, she too wasn’t the most respectful gf during their time.
Jesus said, let those who are without sin cast the first stone. This is why I neither support, nor condone what my friend did.
Currently £1 = RM6.31, making it the most expensive currency in the world. Do you know why the British £ is so strong? No, it’s not because they have Manchester United or Liverpool. And honestly, the British economy is not exactly one which is booming. But why is the £ so strong?
To cut the extremely long and complicated story short, all currencies are supposedly backed by gold, or at least they used to be. This means if you want to print money, you either destroy some of your old notes or you have more gold reserve. And since the once great British Empire conquered so many continents, they have amassed quite a substantial amount of gold reserves.
Someone once told me that Britain is actually surviving on her war reserves. Come to think of it, that wouldn’t be to far fetch, isn’t it?
But anyway, that’s the basic principle of money, it needs to be backed by gold. This principle does not apply anymore.
But the big tai-ko in the world just like to do things differently. First, they owe a lot of countries a lot of money. Then, when they needed money, they just get some paper, went to the printer and started printing money… US$.
Now, the American govt wants to bail out some leading investment banks at the verge of collapsing. The bail out plan is said to be around USD700b. Makes the bail-out of our very own Port Klang Free dunno dunno what zone such a dwarf.
How are they going to do it? Are they going to it? Are they going to take USD700b out of their coffer? Are they going to conjure up USD700b worth of gold? Makes me wonder.
But why is the USD still stands at a relatively strong rate then? That is a story for another day. One thing for sure, the USD is backed only by faith and that faith is quickly depleting.
But the news of the day has to be the call by our International Trade and Industry Minister asking the govt to study on re-pegging the Ringgit. I don’t care what the exporters are saying about pegging it to minimise hedging. To me, if the pegging is against the USD, then it is a very bad idea.
Last but not least, because America owes so many countries so much money, other countries will not let her sink. The morale of the story… if you want to start a business, borrow big, the bank will not let you die.
The very least that you must do is to strip, that’s assuming that you already have a willing partner. Thereafter, you must get into the mood. The guy must be hard aroused while the girl must be wet well lubricated. Otherwise, things might get complicated.
Assuming that you got that right to that stage, the guy has to make sure he thrust it at the right hole entrance. Wouldn’t want to end up in another sodomy case, would we? Then, when you want to cum reach orgasm, you must keep fucking thrusting for at least a few minutes before it happens.
It freaking takes time…
Now, how easy do you think one can change fuck screw the govt?
And so Project 916 turned out to be only a press conference where he announced that he is trying to meet up with the PM and thereafter, the Agong. And so he kept going like a broken record… “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”, “we have the numbers”….
Do you believe him? The other contingent certain don’t as they too go like a broken record… “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”, “Anwar is a bluff”…
To me, he has really taken things to the limit. I sat down and thought to myself, what would he gain if he were really bluffing? Absolutely nothing. Does that mean we can believe him? And I wonder why the sudden change of portfolio between Badawi and Najib?
Whatever it is, time is running out and if there are a few more such NATO gatherings and NATO press conference, I believe many, in true Malaysian fashion will begin to turn on Anwar.
The clock is certainly ticking, but one would ask…. Whose clock?
Just to digress a little, Alternate Investment Group (AIG) is also currently under distress, joining the likes of Lehmann Brothers and Merrill Lynch. With this and our wonderful political blockbuster, our stock market is going to have a wonderful diving trip. Time to pick up some cheap blue-chip counters perhaps? I most probably will.
And by the way… crude oil hits below USD90 per barrel lately… when is petrol going to come down!!!???
P/S: For those who don’t know, NATO = No Action, Talk Only.
Someone asked me if I have been ISA-ed via sms. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t be able to reply the sms, would I? Hehe…
Anyway, I have not been feeling too well for the past few days; top that up with 2 weddings over the weekend means blogging activity has to be restricted to only reading. Also, things are happening so fast; blog topic in my mind just kept changing.
By the way, I was so busy till I missed the match between Liverfool and Man U. And I am too numb to feel the pain.
And so we are here on “the” day, the self-imposed deadline by the so-called “messiah”. Everything seems to be rather quiet. I don’t feel the excitement that I had a few days about Project 916. Is it going to happen? I am sure we all have that burning question in our minds now.
Someone just told me that the process has started, that thing are already moving as we speak. We need to be patient. But put it this way, I personally think that the rakyat has seen enough that even if Project 916 fails to materialise, most will still be behind the “messiah”.
If nothing concrete happens by the time the clock strikes 12 tonight, the comics newspaper will literally crucify Anwar tomorrow; as some are already doing it today. But then, the sentiments now are such that… anything and everything the govt does is wrong while anything and everything that Anwar does is right. As irrational as it may sound, but that seems to be the way for now.
I am not going to make a big fuss if Project 916 is revised, are you? Nevertheless, I have a feeling that Anwar knows, if he fails to deliver today, the repercussions might be damaging.
Amidst the current political blockbuster, some of us are keeping a very close eye on things happening across the globe, one that will most probably impact our wallet. The US govt announced they are going to bail out Freddie and Fannie, once reported to have 2/3 of US’ mortgage portfolio. Those in the financial market will know that US is going to do this by just printing more $$$ and according to some reports, this is going to caused massive inflation.
Sorry I don’t have articles to back-up my claims. You can always try to google it.
But the one that takes the cake has to be Lehmann Brothers, they just filed for bankruptcy yesterday. A 150 year-old investment bank, one of the best in the world, is now bankrupt. Coming in as first-runners up is Merrill Lynch, which has just been taken over by Bank of America. The collapse of these 2 giants is causing a market meltdown across the globe.
Just to put things into the right perspective for those who are not familiar with the financial world, we are talking about the collapse of companies like Microsoft and Apple.
The reason behind the collapse?… Sub-prime, a phrase which many are familiar with now.
But if you were to ask me, it’s all about the middle class trying to make it big by helping the rich to get richer. To achieve this, the middle class squeezes the poor to make them poorer and when the bubble finally breaks, when the poor cannot be squeezed anymore and just run away; everything collapse.
And all these bail-outs, bankruptcy cases, take-overs are just going to protect the interest of the rich while the middle class will be out of jobs and the poor… totally screwed. Welcome to the real world.
I can't take it. Seriously, I can't take it anymore. There is a limit to how much my little brain can take. I can still take oppression, intimidation or even brutal injustice. But seriously, there is only so much of stupidity that I can take.
