junk country...eh?

Why are them junks so popular especially among our youths? Why are they so popular despite having little or no nutritional value? Despite having ingredients considered unhealthy and even downright dangerous when regularly consumed? Despite them warnings given by them medical geeks? Despite them studies that were made public by medical journals?

Is it due to them being more convenient and easy to obtain and ready to be eaten? Is it because they taste good and our youths have developed the taste for them? Or have they been indoctrinated since they left them cribs, or maybe they are unfortunate victims of alien implants? Or is is just fashionable to follow the majority, and dumb down? Or is simply smart marketing and strategies by them producers of junks?

Guess them majority of our youths are ever ready to be duped. Sadomasochists. Deriving pleasures and gratification from physical and emotional abuses. Despite them warning signs everywhere.

Not unlike those yobbos in Pemuda Umno.

Duh...

country's crazy...eh?

Since everybody's going crazy over nothing and those who are supposed to assist their children doing them Maths and Science homework in English prefer to have a free shower on the streets instead, reckon I'll soothe me own turmoil by going to the night market. I just love the sights and sounds. People watching is another.

There's this one stall. Always noticed that his stall had this darker shade of green, thinner variant of long beans. Apart from the normal variant being sold everywhere. Having tasted both, the former is good for stir fry, especially with chilli paste and prawns or bilis. The latter is good as part of a stir fry combo with other vegies or them masak lemak dishes.

I know it'd be a tall order to expect answers about the difference of vegies from that young chap but what the heck. So I asked him whether the darker green variant is a separate variety, a new cultivar or just the same variety but sourced from two different areas. And why is it more expensive than the common ones.

'Tak tau pulak saya tapi yang ni Cina tanam, yang tu Melayu tanam' was his reply.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

journey in the sky...eh?

Sometimes.
The only things we are left with are just memories.
That too will be robbed from us sooner or later.
And we are left grasping at nothingness.
Gasping as everybody gawked.
Imagine the pain.
The lonesome.
Sigh.




caravan - kitaro & robert page

once a long long time ago
setting out to find our dreams
lost in memories of golden days
sometime rising in the spring
glowing shining came the sun
golden day beams come through to me now
those who know the fire burn
try to find forever the dream
try to find forever the way
my way...

caravan journey in the sky
as the sun comes out from the day
caravan we know who we are
we discover where we went
ooh ohh caravan
there we find the love
love shimmering
and soon our love
is through...

come with me and take my hand
memories of past unfold
and with you i live them once again
from my fading heart my hand
feel my walk in love within
and i wander when the spring will come
do we ever really know for sure
will we travel on and on
someday we'll be standing up
from today...

caravan journey in the sky
as the sun comes out from the day
caravan we know who we are
we discover where we went
yeah caravan
there we find the love
love shimmering
and soon our love
is through...

duh...eh?

Be patient, PSD tells govt servants

PUTRAJAYA: Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam yesterday hit out at Cuepacs for encouraging civil servants not to work overtime if the PSD fails to promote them.

He said Cuepacs should, instead, encourage civil servants to work harder to help the government to pull through the economic crisis.

Cuepacs president Omar Osman had said on Monday that some 50,000 of the lower level civil servants were threatening not to work over-time and would find a part-time job instead if PSD did not approve their promotions before May.

Ismail said civil servants should be grateful for their jobs as most of the people being laid off were in the private sector.
"We have their (civil servants) interest at heart but they need to be patient."
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Encik Omar Osman must be a very popular man. Among his cohorts, that is. To be seen fighting for a noble cause. To be seen fighting for the rights of 'lowly' paid servants. To be seen as brave and confident, giving the ultimatum to their master, promote or else.

Yeah. Them government servants definitely deserve to be recognised. They have been working their asses off serving us, the public. As our servants, they definitely need a lucky break once in awhile. What being harassed by us from 8.30am right till the damn door closed at 4.00pm. Oopsss...how can I forget them morning, lunch and tea breaks? And those breaks between breaks? And those komputer offline la and pegawai tiada la arini? Or sila datang besok?

My bad.

Err...wait a bloody fuckin' minute. You were saying? Fifty mothafuckin' thousand bleeding lower level sonafuckin' bitchin' civil servants wanna fuckin' moonlight if they are not promoted? The whole bleeding herd need to be promoted before May? To a higher level civil servants? And then do what? The usual?

Maybe it's a blessing in disguise. Fifty thousand vacancies for those who were retrenched during these trying times. No?

Err...wait another fuckin' minute. So these new herd gonna replace whose places at that higher level of government civility? Those terminated because of lousy performance indexes? Those retired? No? Just to be absorbed into the already bloated whatchafuckincallit?

And why didn't this Tan Sri Ismail Adam just raise that finger and give the salute? Instead of trying to pacify? Is he the numero uno or not? What? He may harbour some political aspirations and may need grassroots support later? No? He's not the number one man and there are others pulling them strings? Duh!

May God spare some change for the future of our children.