Random Thoughts

Do you know the saying ‘doing things religiously’, as in ‘he goes jogging religiously’? It means doing it very frequently. Well I think the phrase now has the opposite meaning. People all over the world have increasingly put religion in the back seat, with money in the front seat. Doesn’t matter who you pray to, or claim to pray to, religion no longer tops the priority list for many people. So really, I feel the original meaning of the saying doesn’t apply anymore. Maybe we should change it to ‘he goes jogging businessly’. Businesssically? Businesially?

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have always wondered why a fly cannot, or does not, fly at night. In fact, they turn sluggish and stupid. If you want to kill a fly during the day you will really need to put your efforts in. At night however, you can even catch a fly alive, and that with your eyes closed. It won’t fly away, instead it will just try to crawl away pathetically. I just don’t get it.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

My boss went to a function the other night that had all the top dogs from both political and corporate world. Our chairman, chairman of GUP, was the host apparently. And my boss told me that our chairman in his speech didn’t mention our name even once! I feel that was astonishing especially after he told us that he and the rest of the board of trustees are working hard for the survival of GUP. The function was a great opportunity for him as the chairman of GUP to let all those VIPs know about GUP and he didn’t. Why? To make it more unbelievable, he mentioned a project we are involved it, one of our most successful project I have to add, and he didn’t mention our name. He mentioned our partner’s name, the partner WE FUNDED for the project, and he didn’t mention our name! I can only come to one conclusion, he is embarrassed with GUP.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I like P Ramlee, not as much as a lot of other people seem to be, but I do like him. I don’t know the lines from his movies like I know the back of my hands and I don’t think I will laugh that much anymore watching his comedy, but I do appreciate him and I agree that he was a true genius. However, I just don’t get it when our comedians today try to copy his style and use it in their performances. They look so stupid doing it. His style was the best during his time and his time only. If you want to keep his work and style alive as a tribute to his greatness, of course you can but change it to suit it to today. Keep it fresh. Don’t be lazy and unimaginative idiots by doing it exactly like he did because like I said you will look stupid and classless. And worst of all, you will tarnish all of P Ramlee’s brilliant work. So if you can't do much better than you are doing right now, please stop doing it. It's better to start creating your own style and be original. Leave P Ramlee alone.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

English this, English that. We need to allocate more time for English in school. Let’s teach math and science in English, hell let’s teach Bahasa in English. In the mean time, just let Bahasa rot to die. It doesn’t matter that no one can speak proper Bahasa anymore, doesn’t matter that the written version is completely different from the spoken version. Let’s leave it that way because Bahasa is not relevant anymore. Right now I’m just waiting for an ‘expert’ to suggest we should change our official language to English, much easier that way.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I have a deep ‘disliking’ towards Sharifah Aini. Yup, The Sharifah Aini, the one who her adoring fans call Biduanita Negara. I can’t quite put my fingers to why I dislike her. I’m sure she is a nice person and all but still I just don’t like her. It was not that incident where she claimed she was ‘abducted’ and injected with a virus or a poison or something, I’ve started to dislike her way before that. Maybe it’s her big hair. I have always hated big hair. Maybe it was the constant talk about her moles, how many she has, how many of them are new. That just annoy me to the limit. Or maybe, I just hate the way she talks. Do you notice how she talks? It’s like she is the most important person in the world. And I hate her big laugh as well. “Hahaha me Sharifah me biduanita me important!”
Sigh….