white fourteen

i heard that..there will be another of those perhimpunan.

no its not the kind that haunts our schooldays waiting our name to be called up front to be caned/embarassed/ketuk-ketampi in public for the famous and 'chivalrous*' crime we all identify as fly-ing. or that weekly assembly in putrajaya.. its the sort of assembly made famous ..well...quite lately... by the advent of online-video-viewing-and-sharing site and mass-communication-network pages like kawanster and rempitspace..

yeah! maybe you got it by now. maybe..not. maybe im just being very lame as always by trying too hard to appear mysterious, dangerous yet plain silly. okay. those poly-tick-al perhimpunans-lah. doesnt matter who organized them..the gov, the non-gov, the not-yet-gov, the gov-in-waiting (riiiiighhht)

erm... i just...wana share my opinion on this sort of thing. it might not be important, it might get controversial (depending on this blog's popularity...well...since there are like half-million blogs owned by malaysians..)

well dont you think that we are actually overdoing it? it is actually allright to voice out your reason, to express your freedom of speech, blast off your point of view non-stop like an MLRS with infinite ammo or simply screaming out loud to tell the world that your recurrent laryngeal nerve is still intact despite that total thyroidectomy you just survived.

i know it is bad to question people.. but to make the case, i just want to query..is it allright to do it too often? i mean, we are still fresh from the GE a month ago.. and all those topsy turvy go round the eye on malaysia stuffs we have been through last year.. do we still need to talk about it?

we have spent too much time talking about politics. yes it is true. it does not matter which side you are on. we heard people talking about it everywhere. kopitiam-mapley-kedai kopi pak mat-starbux. its just..well..madness. "eh tau tak? dorang nak bukak ladang zirafah 1 billion rupiah kat negeri XYZ!!" "hahaha haritu kecoh sangat pasal nak lantik MB negeri ABC. MB negeri KLM pun tak setel-setel lagi" and so on.

come to think about it, since the GE in March, how much of our precious time did we spent putting our attention to other things in our lives? about our national hockey team's pre-olympic campaign as example, the badminton squad line-up bound for beijing? malaysian super league? (no. really)

all of the topics listed above belongs to the back-page of any newspaper in this mortal world. so..sports..what the heck? "alaa..malaysia tak bole pegi jauh punye.." so, is there only total insignificance about discussing these matters? dont you think that they can carry an impact?

I remember this one scene. I was at KL sentral the other day, bound for the lrt station. en route, i caught sight of a crowd, all of them had their sights and toughts transfixed on a screen. it was a badminton match involving our national pair. and the crowd itself were made of a rojak of cultures, a nano-community of the whole nation. despite their diverse backgrounds and ideologies, on that moment they were aiming for a common goal; malaysia mesti menang!

isnt it wonderful? i wonder if we the 27million children of the federation could all think the same.. "no matter who we are, all we wanted is for this country to go forward! to glory!" the way that we want it to be might be different, as none of us have the common platform. some are at the throne. others might be on the cement floor seeing his or her way through. but for sure each of us have a social role to perform.

as i said before, it is ok to voice our concerns. but one might ponder, what is our objective, actually? are we asking all good for this country, or are we selfish and ignorant enough to think about nothing but ourselves? to see whether our needs have been fulfilled or not.

i would not want to elaborate further on that and will leave it as it is. now, i want to attract your attention to another matter related to the whole thing. if we did not spend too much time and conserve our energy and efforts by minimalizing our 'contribution' in national politics, wonder what we all may do with the spare time we have?

i wonder, have we, as father, mother or simply an older sibling, sit together with our children to discuss about their 'fruitful future' i.e. homework? have we ever try to sit down and talk with our growing up children, burning with their teenage angst, trying to understand their rage and enjoy their joys?

had we as a husband, lovingly helped our wife in the kitchen? cleaning the vegetables, chopping carrots, washing dishes?

as children, did we ever think of asking our parents, can i make this day a happy day for you, father? mother? today, tomorrow, till the end? or are we to indulged in worldly matters to think about that?

nothing can be done easily as asked. we have to work things through. we. the pawn of the chessboard. we are the one who have to make the first move. a student who had consumed too much from PAMA inc. or any sponsors should study, get a degree, be whoever you are. a husband have to show his love to his family, to fulfill their needs before asking the country to give him what he needs. a child have to fulfill his responsibility to his/her parents. to let them enjoy the remainder of their life knowing that they will be leaving children worthy enough for heavenly redemption. not simply bashing here there and everywhere, snivling about being left behind and worse, being left behind, he/she was picked up and cuddled with love, but then bit the hands that fed him.

too many carpenters wont make the door work, a bhutanese proverb would say. in medical (haha) point of view, too many noises can turn your aditory system obsolete.... itll either make u deaf, or make you simply want to turn a deaf ear on the noises. hence, it simply wont work that way, by talking too much.

reap what we can sow. dont lay waste on it. maybe its time to stop thinking if this malaysia is malaysia enough for us malaysians. yet, think whether we have been malaysian enough for this beloved malaysia.