With what feels like the weight of the world upon your shoulders,
How do you proceed without stumbling a little along the way?
Though there is youth in age, you can't help but feel older,
When you have to concern yourself about how to get paid.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Life and dreams...
If we had no dreams or aspirations, our minds and intellects would merely be subsisting.
We would not really be living, only persisting in a state of existence which has no meaning or purpose.
There would be no destination to our journey.
No point in our life that we can look back at nor anything on the horizon of our future that we can see from a distance.
We would not notice or meet any interesting people.
And we would not say our fond farewells to them afterwards after they have become our friends.
So in spite of my situation that constantly threatens to jolt me into waking up, I will keep dreaming.
Not because I'm idealistic and blind to the reality before me.
But because I want to say fond farewells to people that have become my friends.
Because I want to meet interesting people.
Because I want to be able to look back at my life and laugh or smile at it.
I want to look forward to the future.
I want to find out where my journey finally takes me.
But most of all, I want to live.
We would not really be living, only persisting in a state of existence which has no meaning or purpose.
There would be no destination to our journey.
No point in our life that we can look back at nor anything on the horizon of our future that we can see from a distance.
We would not notice or meet any interesting people.
And we would not say our fond farewells to them afterwards after they have become our friends.
So in spite of my situation that constantly threatens to jolt me into waking up, I will keep dreaming.
Not because I'm idealistic and blind to the reality before me.
But because I want to say fond farewells to people that have become my friends.
Because I want to meet interesting people.
Because I want to be able to look back at my life and laugh or smile at it.
I want to look forward to the future.
I want to find out where my journey finally takes me.
But most of all, I want to live.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
We are doomed!!!
Saya tak nak Bahasa Inggris
You just have to wonder if this is the result of years of Mahatirism that has resulted in misguided ultra Malay nationalism, which when combined with the dumbing down of the education system has led to such a sad state of affairs. Ironically if that is so, Mahatirism may ultimately have achieved the exact oppossite of what he envisioned. As brilliant a man as he may be, perhaps he did not account for the fact that his people may not have seen what he was trying to do for the future of his people and they have been led astray despite the best intentions.
The burden of governance...
You just have to wonder if this is the result of years of Mahatirism that has resulted in misguided ultra Malay nationalism, which when combined with the dumbing down of the education system has led to such a sad state of affairs. Ironically if that is so, Mahatirism may ultimately have achieved the exact oppossite of what he envisioned. As brilliant a man as he may be, perhaps he did not account for the fact that his people may not have seen what he was trying to do for the future of his people and they have been led astray despite the best intentions.
The burden of governance...
Friday, March 6, 2009
Ideology is a poor substitute for kindness and decency...
"When democracy is failing you have to resort to any means necessary as long as it is peaceful and does not harm other human beings"
If throwing green custard on someone's face cannot be defined as harm to other human beings, then what is? How does one start to define harm then? Just because nobody is physically injured doesn't mean someone isn't harmed. And just because your opinion isn't the one that has prevailed doesn't mean you should freely act outside of the ideological system for which you had supported to be put in place in the first place.
The lack of basic decency and responsibility in the actions on the part of the comfortably well-fed left is probably the very reason why the basic principles for which the left had stood for, once upon a time ago, are being destroyed piecemeal.
After all, such behaviour can only exist and be tolerated in a political system for which there is little or no repercussion for an individual's actions as long as one asserts that one has done so in the spirit of the ideological system and has not caused harm to others, however dubious such an assertion is. Were it not for the 'evils' of the state and its operators acting on their behalf, these folks would never had been able to do so. They would not be free to live out their pseudo-socialist lifestyles.
So how can one of the comfortably well-fed left truly understand why socialism was necessary one time ago when their pseudo-socialist lifestyles today are supported by a system they are against nominally, but the lifestyle would disappear were the current system really removed as they claim they hope it to be?
It is fundamentally contradictory.
Also, I suppose if one were to go about a critique of the far right, one would likely conclude at the very same point that a critique of the left would arrive at. Both fall under the same umbrella of democracy, and it is not surprising that both are essentially not that different at their polar opposites. Neither the far left or far right are willing to meet at a middle-point in many cases, and hence the radicalism in ideology will precede common sense and be the root and cause of disquiet, which will ultimately harm our fellow human beings.
If throwing green custard on someone's face cannot be defined as harm to other human beings, then what is? How does one start to define harm then? Just because nobody is physically injured doesn't mean someone isn't harmed. And just because your opinion isn't the one that has prevailed doesn't mean you should freely act outside of the ideological system for which you had supported to be put in place in the first place.
The lack of basic decency and responsibility in the actions on the part of the comfortably well-fed left is probably the very reason why the basic principles for which the left had stood for, once upon a time ago, are being destroyed piecemeal.
After all, such behaviour can only exist and be tolerated in a political system for which there is little or no repercussion for an individual's actions as long as one asserts that one has done so in the spirit of the ideological system and has not caused harm to others, however dubious such an assertion is. Were it not for the 'evils' of the state and its operators acting on their behalf, these folks would never had been able to do so. They would not be free to live out their pseudo-socialist lifestyles.
So how can one of the comfortably well-fed left truly understand why socialism was necessary one time ago when their pseudo-socialist lifestyles today are supported by a system they are against nominally, but the lifestyle would disappear were the current system really removed as they claim they hope it to be?
It is fundamentally contradictory.
Also, I suppose if one were to go about a critique of the far right, one would likely conclude at the very same point that a critique of the left would arrive at. Both fall under the same umbrella of democracy, and it is not surprising that both are essentially not that different at their polar opposites. Neither the far left or far right are willing to meet at a middle-point in many cases, and hence the radicalism in ideology will precede common sense and be the root and cause of disquiet, which will ultimately harm our fellow human beings.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Random thoughts that don't make a whole lot of sense..
Politics is often not about ideology but just about politics.
Sometimes it is better to say nothing than to have nothing to say.
The bags I'm carryig are not as heavy as the baggage that I have.
The amount that I'll miss you is inversely proportional to the amount of time I've know you.
Loyalty binds those of us who wish we didn't need it to do so.
Sometimes it is better to say nothing than to have nothing to say.
The bags I'm carryig are not as heavy as the baggage that I have.
The amount that I'll miss you is inversely proportional to the amount of time I've know you.
Loyalty binds those of us who wish we didn't need it to do so.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Departure...
Rue not the missed chances, fate, or circumstances.
And leave without regrets, shame or debt.
And leave without regrets, shame or debt.
Monday, March 2, 2009
To love...
To love is to forgive,
and not to forget.
But the love that we give,
Oft in return we don't get.
To love is to heal,
and not to cause hurt.
But to love full of zeal,
Oft leave parting words curt.
To love is to say truth,
and not to tell lies.
But for love to be ruth,
Oft we fake smiles at goodbyes.
To love is to understand,
and not to ask why.
But by love we may stand,
Oft alone we shall die.
and not to forget.
But the love that we give,
Oft in return we don't get.
To love is to heal,
and not to cause hurt.
But to love full of zeal,
Oft leave parting words curt.
To love is to say truth,
and not to tell lies.
But for love to be ruth,
Oft we fake smiles at goodbyes.
To love is to understand,
and not to ask why.
But by love we may stand,
Oft alone we shall die.
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