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Before the elections
I’m having a nice peaceful drive in KL, and out of the frickin’ blue comes a bunch of motorcyclists carrying party flags weaving in and out of traffic like as if they stole money from the ATM. I mean riding like a bunch of monkeys isn’t going to make me feel any better about voting for which ever party?
Then if that wasn’t bad enough, a few more days later I’m leaving the house in the morning for work, late, and bad enough that I was rushing but when I reached the nearest traffic light junction it looked like a bloody jungle of posters, and due to the ‘excellent’ job of the people who tied the banners to the traffic lights lah, lamp posts lah, trees lah which ends up falling 3 hours later anyway, there’s now crap all over the road and people are so afraid to run over it as if they’ll be charged under the ISA for doing so, sheesh! Don’t even get me started on the rallies!
After that people start asking me about the elections, questions like who should they vote for and crap as if I’d know who someone else should vote for, then when I let’s say suggest them to vote for XXX party for YYY reason, they come back at me with a dimwit face, shooting assumptions at me like XXX party is full of racist people lah, corrupt people lah and this shit that shit. Ma hai, if you know already don’t ask me who to vote for la tiu!
During the elections
How hard can it be? Draw a damned X next to the party you’d like to win, then go home and wait for the results. Damn it, is that SO hard to do? It’s bad enough that your other 500 friends voting at the local hall with the same size as a basketball court, what’s with the public rallies and illegal acts of stopping buses with voters of other parties, like that’s going to do you any better? Of course you know what I’m saying, STOP MAKING ME ARRIVE LATE FOR WORK!!!
All of a sudden everyone’s paranoid, everyone’s filling up gas, everyone’s buying enough milk powder to survive through WW3, EVERYONE’s out of the house at the SAME, DAMN, TIME!
After the elections
The time when I really, really, really do HATE elections. Every single day I step into the dreaded kitchen and from 30 feet away I can hear my chefs going "blabla.. DAP.. blabla.. PAS.. blafuckingbla.." and I know, I knew that I won’t be learning shit today. Why? Well kids, in the hotel line, especially in a quiet lil kitchen like a banquet kitchen, there’s not much work to do most of the time except for talking, and you know what topic is best for a 10 hour conversation other than different ways to bang your wife right? Exactly, elections. Do they know that it’s over YES! Do they know that talking about why DAP is going to take away the bus system is a waste of time because Kit Siang’s son is going to do it anyway YES! But most importantly.. do they know that all this talking is resulting in me not being able to learn anything from them about cooking? I rest my case.
Add the annoying people from paragraph 1 who ends up regretting who they voted for due to god knows what, and hooray I’m having a blast breading shrimp nuggets for 400 pax since they couldn’t find me anything else to do which wouldn’t involve me interrupting their politic talk for the rest of the day.
Touching.
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But on a more serious note, I’m not that pissed about elections, I’m just finding a reason to update and also feel like telling off some people about their opinions about this country.
YES, this is a multi racial country. YES, it’s your grandmother’s grandmother that was a foreigner, and you were born in SJMC so why do you not have the same rights as the native race? Ok. I know what most of my chinese friends would counter me back with after I imply this, they will dish out the classic America tale. Why do the whites claim America if the Red Indians were the first there? Simple my friends, yes the indians were there first but think about this.. Did the indians ever do anything to form a formal government? Who were the first to start such a body, to govern a district, to collect tax and so on and so forth?
It’s no different here, who was the first to do such an act? Wait, wait first, I know Parameswara is from Indonesia, but he was not a one man army. He had influential native associates and they started the Pte. Ltd. together. Shortly after he married a native too. They formed a government, so technically if it wasn’t for them we probably wouldn’t even be like this now. Who knows what we would have been?
Come on people, if people like the British and Dutch can act sensibly and respectful back then when even when they first arrived, the first agenda was to speak to the local government. Even an entity as powerful as them wouldn’t just waltz into the country with weapons blazing, eventhough they can. Why can’t we just respect that if it wasn’t for Malays yesterday, Malaysia won’t be the same today.
Even so, it’s not that the government shortchanges any other race in favour for Malays, they just state a rule that everyone should be treated on an equal ratio, but the Malays get benefits like a discount for buying property. It is called a discount for a reason folks, it is a reduction on behalf of the constructor, not a subsidy by the government. Don’t la say my cousin got 8A1s also cannot get scholarship la and all because these are not terms stated on paper. You won’t find a rulebook in the JPA building stating a criteria for approving scholarships related to race or name, it’s the bad hats that are racist and favour certain races. Blame them.
Normally I would just forget annoying assumptions like this, but I couldn’t help but enlighten just a little bit (there’s a LOT more to explain, trust me) some mind provoking thoughts which linger in many Malaysians, who aren’t Malays, who wants a Malaysia for Malaysians.
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actually its jonathan here. couldn’t been said better. totally agree with u..
berny 03.20.08 @ 9:21 pm