i know it has been ages since I wrote and definitely too long since our general election. what can i say!! Whatever happens, we are at the threshold of our country's history as the situation we have is not something we have experienced before. I bet the oppositions are going still dazed still thinking..."we bloody won??!?". Anyway, this had to happen with all the bullshit that we were getting from the Govt. If it didnt happen, we would have been royally screwed as well. The Govt will just say, "Look, let's just keep up our ways and screwing the people. 2 weeks before election, we will come up with some goodies and STILL win. That's how stupid Malaysian are.". Let's hope the 5 million idiots who registered but didnt vote and those who didnt register will change their minds now. See? You can make a difference.
So these results are good for the opposition because the pressure to perform is on them now. If they screw up, they know we are not going to vote them in again! Sure they got the job because the ruling party is a bunch of nitwits but they got the job all the same. So its time to perform. Having said that, I have mixed feelings about who won and lost. For example, I am really pissed that Khairy won and by cheating as well. Whether it is by army votes or phantom votes, it's definitely by cheating. Come on, he loses the first count by 80+ votes and on a recount wins by 3000+ votes??? This so called graduated from Oxford or Cambridge or whatever doesn't even know how to cheat!!! I am also upset that Rafidah won but happy she wasn't made a minister. She responded by saying if she knew she wouldn't be made a minister, she wouldn't have contested. I feel sorry for the people who voted her. Your MP just wants to be a minister and not to serve you. So sorry if you thought otherwise.
On the opposition front, I am very miffed that Anwar's daughter and wife won. I am sorry but I don't have sympathy for people who have been benefiting from the other side but now claims to be a hero or reformer just because she didnt get along and got kicked out. He was not shouting reformasi when he was in UMNO, he only did it AFTER he tried to challenge the leadership by getting "pal-ly" with the Americans. Also I find it very hard to believe that he didnt do those things. It is so easy to frame someone on corruption (pls dont even begin to tell me he isnt corrupted) than to mention sodomy. You can't make these things up. Mahathir and his cronies are not that creative. Now the daughter (who is too hot to have a father like Anwar and thank god didn't hook up with Khairy), is going to step down for him after April. Geez!!!
I am also sorry that Samy lost the way he did. I really dislike him but he has done a lot for Sg Siput and should have just gracfully stepped down like Ling Liong Sik, Lim Keng Yaik and all those who left before him. The problem with Samy is that all his good work is very personal and is not expandable. Sure he got us Indians a college (some got forsaken place in melaka. who the heck wants to go there to study??), some hardcore poor got some benefits and handouts and some folks got low cost houses and so on. He was unable to replicate it on a national level and make it big scale. He also did not groom a successor. There is no one to take over and now MIC is slowing becoming irrelevant. After all Hindraf got KL-ians a holiday on Thaipusam. I may have been a little hard on Hindraf in my earlier posting but looks like they made a difference for the opposition. I am still against violent protesting though.
I was also said that Chew Mei Fun lost. She has the same issues as Samy. Very ground level and very personal but unable to replicate to a higher level. She is so...so...aunty (no disrepect to the aunties). She doesnt really make any impact in parliament or MCA but she is a hard worker nonetheless. I am also sorry that Shahrizat lost and its the same for her. Too much in the shadow of Rafidah (who looks like a really ugly mutated bull frog....no disrepect to the bull frog).
I must say that the best loser or a real gentleman in all this is Koh Tsu Koon. I really didnt think he deserved to lose but there were just too many failures connected to his administration. I feel for him and he took it really well and was very calm and cool about it. He made a press conference citing a smooth transition of power, he introduced the council member to Lim Guan Eng and he was even in the swearing in ceremony. I think he would have been a good advisor and addition to DAP. Sorry Tsu Koon but you were just too nice and had bad advisors.
I am also SUPER glad that Khir son of Toyo lost the government in Selangor. It was cool that he won his seat so that he now has to start work at the state government but under Khalid! A former menteri besar reduced to to a mere backbencher. i bet he will have a lot of friends there. and wat about Zakaria Deros, the council member who built a RM8MM house on top of illegally acquired land? I am sorry that he died (i am never one to revel in someone's death) because that means he cant get down on his knees and apologize to all the poor people he swindled the land from and then go to jail for it.
Like I mentioned earlier, whatever it is, it is going to be a new era for us. We have never been in a situation where the opposition ruled and I think we will see some interesting things happening. I think Lim Kit Siang needs to shut up and focus on his work instead of just mouthing off stuff like boycotting the Perak's signing in at the palace. He has to remember that he is now in a position of power, something he couldnt do or achieve. So if they play it right, they can go far. Let's all pray and hope for a better Malaysia now.
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Guy Problems - Part 1
Some of us feel that men or more aptly guys don't seem to have many problems. For example, we are supposed to have facial hair. We dont need armpits and/or legs grooming. We can pee standing up. We dont need to care about window treatment or detergent. We can basically wear the same outfit all our lives-for work, dinner, church, wedding, party, graduation and even then be buried in it. All our socks are the same colour and we can pee standing up (in case you missed it the first time). Yes the lives of guys to certain other genders, seem pretty ideal and placid.
What a lot of you dont realize that we guys do have very inner sensitive issues to deal with. So inner that sometimes we dont realize it. In this first part (I dont know when the other parts will be shared), i want to discuss the problem in sports called "Sport Anguish".
Every guy is interested in sports. Guys who are not, are either too mundane or too inept or just too lazy. Either that, they are not guys. these are men....people who are too serious. we will discuss this later. anyway i digress.
When we say interested in sports, we are talking supporting a team to the point of life threatening support and you can see this whenever football (that's right, it is football, not soccer) teams from England play each other or when a major final is held. The biggest following are for teams like Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and lately Chelsea. Coffee places with large plasma screens will be filled with fans and their girlfriends (notice i didnt say wives. after marriage, sports is a diseased topic!) screaming for their team, shouting and high fiving when they score and groaning when they miss or lose. You can see the girls shaking their heads at them or smiling embarrasingly at each other wondering how the heck did we pass the control of certain important things (like the government) to this gender.
In more serious countries, ppl get hurt over sports and some are even fatal. I am reminded of a Columbian player, Pablo Escobar who scored an own goal in the Football World Cup and got his team eliminated. He was shot to death at his home a few weeks later. In another Central American match (I cant reminder which), the winning nation from the 1982 FIFA World Cup actually had a drawing of the foot of Jesus deflecting shots from the winning team's goal. From the drawing, the good Lord Jesus looks to need size 57 shoes!
I am one of these fanatical fans. I am a very huge supporter of Liverpool since i saw them play in the European Cup final when i was 10. Since then, my following of them have been near fanatical status. When they lose (which has been a lot these few years), i go into a mini depression bordering homicidal tendencies. The latest euphoria that I encountered was in 2005 when Liverpool won the European Cup for the 5th time but their first in 21 years.
We (when i say we, it means the team and I. Guys strongly believe that we are part of the team) were down 3-0 in the first half against AC Milan. They are the club with the best defense and have a fantastic striker in Shevchenko who only the year before was voted European footballer of the year. My friends and I were watching the match from pub in Subang Jaya at 3am. At the end of the first half, we were so depressed that we went home. I was praying that we didnt lose so badly to be the worst lost in Cup history. Needless to say when i was home, i couldnt sleep so i was playing computer games, XBox, reading, anything to try to sleep. Then at around 6am, when i was about to sleep, i kept getting SMSs for a 15 minute period. It was crazy....but the messages read that Liverpool had won. I raced downstairs and turned on the TV in time to see Steven Gerard, the Liverpool captain, lifting the cup after 21 years. Because we won it 5 times, we get to keep the cup forever. I wept like a baby. I wept like i never wept before. So much so that my maid saw me and thought some disaster had happened and freaked out!!!
Why do guys do this? Why are we so engrossed and fanatical about a bunch of guys who dont know you and who dont even care about you? Guys who never sent you a birthday card or stayed up while you a super attack of diarrhea and waited for you outside the toilet with free supply of toilet paper while you discharged at 3am. Women dont understand this. They are not likely to look at you and say, "Oh when you wept for your winning team, you look so sensitive and vulnerable that i just wanted to rip your shirt off and have you right then and there." or "Ohh, when you jumped up and shouted obsceneties at the opposing team's fan who is the size of a walking bulldozer and got into a shoving match so that you fracture your arm and i had to take you to the emergency room and missed dinner, I was so hot for you that i wanted you to rip my blouse off and have me then and there." They are most likely to say "You have the brains of an amoeba from a diseased Tibetan yak!".
And that's the difference between the 2 genders. Girls will support football teams but they are also polite about it. If the opposing team wins, they will congratulate and commend the players and say nice things about it. They will also more prone to support teams with better looking players or maybe just follow a particular good looking player. Guys dont understand this and when our favourite team loses and the world feeld like it is crumbling down while your gut feels as if ravaged by rabid wolverines, it is a pain that no other gender will understand.
What a lot of you dont realize that we guys do have very inner sensitive issues to deal with. So inner that sometimes we dont realize it. In this first part (I dont know when the other parts will be shared), i want to discuss the problem in sports called "Sport Anguish".
Every guy is interested in sports. Guys who are not, are either too mundane or too inept or just too lazy. Either that, they are not guys. these are men....people who are too serious. we will discuss this later. anyway i digress.
When we say interested in sports, we are talking supporting a team to the point of life threatening support and you can see this whenever football (that's right, it is football, not soccer) teams from England play each other or when a major final is held. The biggest following are for teams like Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and lately Chelsea. Coffee places with large plasma screens will be filled with fans and their girlfriends (notice i didnt say wives. after marriage, sports is a diseased topic!) screaming for their team, shouting and high fiving when they score and groaning when they miss or lose. You can see the girls shaking their heads at them or smiling embarrasingly at each other wondering how the heck did we pass the control of certain important things (like the government) to this gender.
In more serious countries, ppl get hurt over sports and some are even fatal. I am reminded of a Columbian player, Pablo Escobar who scored an own goal in the Football World Cup and got his team eliminated. He was shot to death at his home a few weeks later. In another Central American match (I cant reminder which), the winning nation from the 1982 FIFA World Cup actually had a drawing of the foot of Jesus deflecting shots from the winning team's goal. From the drawing, the good Lord Jesus looks to need size 57 shoes!
I am one of these fanatical fans. I am a very huge supporter of Liverpool since i saw them play in the European Cup final when i was 10. Since then, my following of them have been near fanatical status. When they lose (which has been a lot these few years), i go into a mini depression bordering homicidal tendencies. The latest euphoria that I encountered was in 2005 when Liverpool won the European Cup for the 5th time but their first in 21 years.
We (when i say we, it means the team and I. Guys strongly believe that we are part of the team) were down 3-0 in the first half against AC Milan. They are the club with the best defense and have a fantastic striker in Shevchenko who only the year before was voted European footballer of the year. My friends and I were watching the match from pub in Subang Jaya at 3am. At the end of the first half, we were so depressed that we went home. I was praying that we didnt lose so badly to be the worst lost in Cup history. Needless to say when i was home, i couldnt sleep so i was playing computer games, XBox, reading, anything to try to sleep. Then at around 6am, when i was about to sleep, i kept getting SMSs for a 15 minute period. It was crazy....but the messages read that Liverpool had won. I raced downstairs and turned on the TV in time to see Steven Gerard, the Liverpool captain, lifting the cup after 21 years. Because we won it 5 times, we get to keep the cup forever. I wept like a baby. I wept like i never wept before. So much so that my maid saw me and thought some disaster had happened and freaked out!!!
Why do guys do this? Why are we so engrossed and fanatical about a bunch of guys who dont know you and who dont even care about you? Guys who never sent you a birthday card or stayed up while you a super attack of diarrhea and waited for you outside the toilet with free supply of toilet paper while you discharged at 3am. Women dont understand this. They are not likely to look at you and say, "Oh when you wept for your winning team, you look so sensitive and vulnerable that i just wanted to rip your shirt off and have you right then and there." or "Ohh, when you jumped up and shouted obsceneties at the opposing team's fan who is the size of a walking bulldozer and got into a shoving match so that you fracture your arm and i had to take you to the emergency room and missed dinner, I was so hot for you that i wanted you to rip my blouse off and have me then and there." They are most likely to say "You have the brains of an amoeba from a diseased Tibetan yak!".
And that's the difference between the 2 genders. Girls will support football teams but they are also polite about it. If the opposing team wins, they will congratulate and commend the players and say nice things about it. They will also more prone to support teams with better looking players or maybe just follow a particular good looking player. Guys dont understand this and when our favourite team loses and the world feeld like it is crumbling down while your gut feels as if ravaged by rabid wolverines, it is a pain that no other gender will understand.
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