The Bold & Bountiful

Okaaay... so it has been a long sabbatical from blogging. With all the happenings around me I decided to kick back and enjoy the drama. I was also enjoying working so much and being a slave to make ends meet that I had no time to blog.

Okay, that was a joke. No seriously, its a cry for divine intervention...

Anyways, I was actually enjoying myself by just kicking back and watching the drama unfold between our government and the opposition. It's really interesting to note how each one of them are carefully balancing their effort to deny any accusations and to spurt out propaganda and words to try and gain the support of the people. This unfortunately have caused the people to be more and more confuse.

I started off writing recap on the happenings to our country's politics, but then decided to delete what I've written cos' I'm not going to repeat it in my blog today. If you haven't been reading the papers or watching the news, then you're really an ignorant bastard! Pick up a paper today and read it! Know what is happening so when the time comes, you know which side you want to be!

Today's news on TheStar, Najib says that he is not weak or scared. That he has a good set of track records to prove it. Owh reeeaaallly? I bet a hudreds of other businessmen who have done business with the government that has you involved knows that to just make an appointment to see you means chipping out another few grand. Good track record? So far the good track record  I see you are goo

d at is saying 'yes' to the PM all the time. It seems thats what you're very good at. He was saying how his overwhelming vote from the last election shows his integrity, well if you want to put it that way... lets see you try that again now... I bet your feet will feel so cold and your spine will be chilled.

Last night I was watching the debate between Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the de facto deputy prime minister of Malaysia and YB  Ahmad Shabery Cheek, the Information Minister for Malaysia. The topic was titled, 'Form the government today, reduce fuel prices tomorrow'. It was quite entertaining really to watch even though the whole debate was in Bahasa Melayu language. I did not watch this live as I did not have any television at home. I read about this debate yesterday in TheStar and thought it'll be something interesting to watch. Indeed it was.

In the debate, Anwar was pretty good. He was on track and kept to the topic and he handled the questions and attacks professionally with f

acts to support his views. This was no surprise about him who used to be a lecturer at Oxford and John Hopkin's College. As for Shabery, he was pretty much put to shame from my point of view. As an 'opposing' side to this debate, being that it was Anwar's challenge, Shabery has failed to defend much of the governments policy on the recent fuel hike. Not only that, it seems like he keeps deviating from the main topic and did not actually answer the questions that were asked to him by Anwar's panel or side was never even answered. Throughout the whole session he was twisting and turning words to return them back at Anwar. Even the person from Shabery's side who was supposed to ask the question was out of line. When it was his turn to ask a question to Anwar, he made a speech instead, or more accurately voicing his point of view. It looked more like he wanted to be the main debater himself! Anwar then later corrected him which caused the few people in the audience to giggle at the fool. So did I. All in all, at the end everyone knows who won that debate. Anwar made alot of points while Shabery... well honestly, what he was saying or why he was there for... he really did not made much points, and most were personal attacks towards Anwar and his past. It seems like BN's side of a debate was to take pot shots at the other. If this was a school debate, undoubtedly... BN would have lost.

Video of the Debate brokened into 8 parts in Youtube.

Dearest Prime Minister...

This was from another blog.

It was too good to ignore... now for your viewing pleasure...

Dearest Prime Minister...

Malaysia's Prime Minister aint too popular nowadays. Which may be something of an understatement.

The following was emailed to PI's inbox from one of our Malaysian readers. It is a letter supposedly sent recently to the Malaysian Prime Minister's website. I cannot vouch for the veracity of this information, but the letter is way too entertaining to ignore.

By the way, if you are offended by 'purple' language, I advise you to read no further.

Enjoy!


Dearest Prime Minister...,

FUCK YOU!!

Since the disastrous March 8 elections, I haven't bothered attacking you much. Well, why should I when the Pakatan Rakyat, Raja Petra and your own Ministers are already doing such a thorough job. And oh, not forgetting all the salivating vultures waiting to push you down the UMNO ladder. There's also the issue of this bloody old mamak who used to be your boss... but that's a different story.

I may scorn at your intelligence (or lack thereof), amaze at the voodoo spell your Son In Law has you under, laugh at the blind arrogance of your Government and shake my head atyour cluelessness in private, but as far as this blog is concerned, I took a break from whacking you and all that you stand for.

Well it ends today.

Coz I'm fuckin'pissed.

Like REALLY motherfuckin 'FUCK YOU BASTARD' sort of pissed, you backwater retard..!

Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin'snarl watching' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.

Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Realisation hits me that the fuckin' 2 hours of my lifethat I could NEVER get back boils down to one simple fuckin' fact: The country got it SOOOO fuckin' wrong in 2004 when they put you as the gaffer of this country.

Cibai.

How, you ask..? Shut the fuckup and listen.

It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a stand still. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck, no.

Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.

We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have megacriss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which “supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of KlangValley.

But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY. Or at all. Is it so surprising? No. When they fuckup the basics like having a proper drainage system so that water does not accumulate during heavy rainfall, what more can you expect?

Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.

Fuck all the talk about “winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.

So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is ... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from12am midnight, petrol prices will increase toRM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.

WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. They couldn't have timed it better. Only days ago one of the lackeys from the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike.

But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day.

If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.

So right after the Govt assured us that petrol prices won't go up, it did. And the timing of it. Announcing it will go up tomorrow. It's like a man coming into a building shouting, "HEY GUYS RUN. I HAVE A BOMB AND ITS BLOWING IN A FEW SECONDS".

The announcement, as predicted, sparked a fuckin frenzy on the roads. Every bloody motor owner drove out all their vehicles to quickly fill up their tanks while it's still pre-hike`price. This caused the laws of the jungle to quickly emerge as lines after fuckin' lines zig-zagged into jam-packed petrol stations amidst the blaring of horns and cursing of profanities in a multitude of languages.

Snarling, bustling and frenzied traffic from every petrol station overflowed onto highways and unflooded roads already under massive burden of having to carry extra vehicles as a result of other flooded roads which become the link between a tired worker's office to his home.

The result?

A FUCKING ROYAL RUMBLE OF ROAD MADNESS which lasted 2 hours for me when it usually takes me 20-30mins to reach home from office.

FUCK THE PETROL HIKE.! Unfuckin believable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.

Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.

But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUCING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40cents a litre over there. We're a fuckin nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!! And yet we're saying we can't do anything. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!

Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback onthe kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.

This is what happens whenyou take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top postsin the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the foodchain.

This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol.

CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.

FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.

YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore.

GET THE FUCKOUT

Equilibrium Extremist

Today the political party, PAS(an Islam for Islamist Party) has just made themselves sound like fools again. Just when you think after joining the Pakatan Rakyat coalition of opposing government party help with their image. But nooooo... they just had to go about declaring stupid bans and statements on petty social issues.

Last Monday, the PAS Youth group from Selangor submitted a memorandum to the Selangor Menteri Besar’s office to protest against plans to have Ella and Mas Idayu, two local singers to perform at the football match on July 6. State PAS Youth chief Sallehen Mokhyi said the movement felt that performances by the singers were inappropriate as it would be attended by many youngsters. The youth wing threatened to stage a demonstration at the Shah Alam Stadium if Ella and Mas Idayu were allowed to performed. Sallehen’s call came on the heels of a statement by national PAS Youth vice-chief Azman Shapawi that the party wanted all the Pakatan Rakyat states to implement Syariah laws. (The Star - Read More Here )

Yes! exactly...! Your expression right now is the same as mine when I read it! WTF is wrong with these people?? Even the Sultan of Selangor state sounded like he was fucking pissed off! He called these statements as “hypocritical” and “trivial”! As he also puts it, there are more important issues that the party could focus on!

The Tuanku of Selangor also said that the state of Selangor is not only comprised of PAS members and Muslims, but also other races, religions and political parties! He said sensitivity of other races and people must be taken also in account! What a leader! I must say, the Tuanku now has my respect! It really shows how much of a wise ruler he is! We need men like him!

Honestly, the people did not vote you into power to deal with petty issues! Why are there so many statements and memos on stupid petty issues like these?? You are trying to push racism and religion into non-Muslim people? People vote you to help the people! Not to FUCKING NAG ABOUT WHAT WE WEAR, EAT, DRINK, SLEEP, ENTERTAIN and so on! You fuckers think everyone is as sexually depraved as you?

Sigh... the political figures of our modern day... the childish mind in them just never stop to amaze me, of how stupid and ignorant they are.

This is 337 signing off with both my middle fingers up!

The Matrix of Our World

A revelation occurred to me today. It seems like our world itself is a living cyberpunk world. Now, some of you may know what I meant and some may not. For those who don't know what cyberpunk means, I will explain the basics of what it is.

The word Cyberpunk came into our languages long ago and was first used to define futuristic movie genre. Back then when science fiction movies were he buff of many storytelling, they were only placed in a single main genre which is of course Sci-Fi. But soon, a line of futuristic movie were being made and told. People started seeing movies that emphasized on a dark futuristic world, a corrupted world where people are seen to have advanced in field of technology. In that future everything is different from the way we talk to the way we walk and e

ven to the way we have sex. Examples of movies that portrays a cyberpunk society is Bladerunner, Robocop, Tank Girl, The Terminator, Total Recall, The Fifth Element, Equilibrium, V for Vendetta and the well known, The Matrix Trilogy. 

So how does one passed to be called a cyberpunk society?

1. An Ominous Body or Government that rules and controls People in that Future.

In a cyberpunk society, the citizens are being rule by an every power hungry and corrupted government entity. Sometimes its a singular being in power or a corporation that holds absolute power over the society. They control the  resources and decides who can have them and who cannot. The people of that society will constantly live

 in fear and they mostly hate their ruling power. The most common factor among most cyberpunk governments are that they will always tell you what they do or are doing is for the good of the people(doesn't that sounds familiar?). A world where the rich and powerful gets away with almost anything.

2. Technology brought more Bad than Good.

The futuristic world of cyberpunk will most prominently display a world that is advance. A world that has produced countless sophisticated technology. But the irony is that the technology that is supposed to help us made 

our society worst. The world runs wild from the misused of technology and the crime rate is ever high. A dystopian future where society is divided in several classes. The primary class will be always living in luxury and benefits while the lower class will constantly slave to survive in that world.

3. Ubiquitous access to Information.

The storytelling of cyberpunk movies always tell of an ever streaming line of information. There is always a form of philosophy used to reflect how and why things happen. The citizens are constantly being feed information randomly where ever they go and activist will constantly churn out random messages to awaken the society to stand up against the ru

ling power. (bloggers anyone? )

Those are just three points . Theres about a few more points in describing a cyberpunk society but I think this three are enough to compare with our world today.

Our country is now, as it seemed, ruled under a singular government that is near the verge of chaos. The leader of this government as we know, controls the countries resources and riches. That leader had given a false hope to us before we voted for him(as in V for Vendetta). Once he had received power, he keeps making decisions that do not seemed to be in the people's interest. He would keep making these anti-people decisions and keep telling the people 'it is for the good of all' or 'its for our future'. 

Next we find that today in our world we have and are nearly covered with technology. People everywhere have the means of communicating thanks to hand phones. We can fly to anywhere around the world in airplanes. We protect our country with counter-weapon technologies. But even with these technology, evil found ways to misuse it. Technology that helps us to fly can become a weapon. Technology that is used for medicine has been used to farm toxins for subway attacks. Technology for information has become a hacking tool. Technology made to protects ourselves have become weapons on the unprotected. Technology thats suppose to help us live longer is slowly shortening the life of our Planet.

Who will listen to the cries? Who will wake up to fight this dark future? If you believe what I believed. If you see what I see. If you know what I know... then we must change and wake up from this coma we are in and realize that as an individual, we are powerless, but as a whole, we are victorious.

Artist use lies to show the Truth while Politicians use lies to cover it.

Well well well... Its my third day at my new job and so far so good :P This morning while fiddling on my home PC before going to work, I found myself starting to use Mac shortcut keys on my PC ..zZZ Oh well... it was expected. After each long day at work using a Mac can do that to you :P

It seems like our government has gotten the big idea to cut cost by taking away percentage of our tax deductables. Things like entertainment, computers, education... yep all that getting as much as a 10% deducted from original amount. This means paying more tax each year! The statement given was that this move will help the government to save up to 2 bil. WTF is that??? You want to really save??? STOP SPENDING IT ON USELESS PROJECTS... ONE OF THEM WHICH IS SENDING SOME MALE MODEL TO SPACE!!! Why do they need to send one of our people to space?? Is there a pot of gold in space for us?? Is there a cure for cancer in space?? WTF man?? You rather spend billions on the astronaut program by asking another country to send our man to space but expect us to bow down to tax??? And then you call it trying to help the government save 2 bil off it??? Fucking mother fucker can go fuck yourselves!

Today the news tells that the governments wants us to maximize our weekends by taking part-time jobs other than our day jobs, specially for the government civil servants. This statement was release from the Prime Minister's Department. Oh wow... the man still has the guts to tell us to go fuck ourselves??? Yeah! Thats what this is! He's telling us that fuel hike is here to stay and if anyone who doesn't like it can go fuck yourself! Thats my honest opinion how this is translated. Worked part-time??? pfft! Have you been under a rock lately?? Have you ever done any real jobs??? Gawd!! People like us (who are not up there accepting money) have to work at least from 8am-5pm or 9am-6pm everyday or maybe worst! Then some of us will have to work half a day on Saturdays! That leaves us like 1 1/2 days of weekend left... and you expect us to go work part time???!?!?! WTF kind of insane statement is that???

During our day jobs we're already working our butts off to pay off our bills and tax. And now you're telling us to use what remaining off days or time to work some more?? WTF?? You want us to be like robots and work 24/7?? You think we all have no lives to live??? WTF??? Why don't you try to work and labour all day and weekends?? And I'm not talking about sitting in office all day issuing ridiculous statements like these! Fuck sake, have you every tried thinking a bit?? Are you so spoiled from all that money you're getting??? You think everyone in Malaysia fucking sits in the office all day smoking cigars???? Man... this is like worst than the statement he gave about asking people to plant vegetables in their homes to save cost! If they really still want to save what patriots they have left in the country, they best shut up. Everytime they say something, it seems to make them more stupid and disliked.

Dying is the final Adventure

Today is another boring Saturday. Public holiday and our King's birthday. I spent part of afternoon watching The Mist. Its a movie directed by the director of Shawshank Redemption & Green Mile. The story as you can guess by now, is by Stephen King.

The Mist left me shell shocked! Its fucked up... in a good way. A movie that is supposed to be of a supernatural horror that seemed to show us that the most horrifying thing is not the monsters but us humans. This is I guess among the few Stephen King stories I liked. Together like The Stand, it shows how we humans can be far worst than all the monters or zombies you can ever put together.
The things we do, the things we can or will not do seems to show how much we don't realize the darker side we all have.

Anyways The movie was very good in my opinion. The ending will leave you shocked and mouth opened. If you get the chance, you've gotta read it. It has murder, prejudice, agonizing death, insanity, mob rule and human sacrifice... and thats only from the humans. Then there is the monsters too.

Today as I was ready news from The Star's online homepage, there was a news that caught my eye. A man from Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) president S.M. Mohamed Idris said that a recent test by CAP on 18 samples of bak chang bought in markets in Penang, Kuala Lumpur and Ipoh found boric acid in all of them. He's trying to urge to restrict people from buying bak chang. WTF??? The dude is a Malay and a Muslim who has never tasted bak chang, and you're telling us to stop eating them just because you've found it contained a small amount of boric asid??? Who am I going to listen to? My self? My culture? My tradition? The years going back centuries? Or to a man like him who's forbid to eat PORK? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the Malays are bad or Muslims are bad... but really... wtf?

What if we tell them the ketumpat they make also contains boric asid. How does that feel? How are you going to react?

Get busy Dying or get busy Living

AAAaaaalllrite. Its been days since I've wrote again. Partly cos I got lots to do and secondly cos my PC had problems and everytime i try access google or any other sites and sub sites by google I will timeout in the process. Yeah yeh... I know what you're thinking... its spywares and viruses... which I have too say you're correct. Its been a while since I've formated my PC I guess those bugs from daily visits to pornsites have accumulated. This went on until two days ago when I decided I could not take it anymore and its either I re-formated my PC or download a solution. I opted for the latter. So I downloaded the latest AvG (not to be mistaken with Aliens vs Greg) anti-virus to scan thru my PC and damage control the spywares and viruses until when one day when the planets aligned and the stars are shining brightly that I decided to re-format my PC.

Anyways, many things has happened, will happen and did not happened in my short cyber-tical. Get it...? Cyber-tical... Sabbatical ...? yes? no? OKAY OKAY... my absence has left me with a short indulgence for lame jokes. Either that or someone has taken over my blog and this writing it is actually not me. Hahaha. Okay to get the ball rolling, I've already terminated my job with my company! All heaven rejoice! Joy to the World! The world is at peace once again! Well.... mine at least. Well, to make long story short, I decided it was enuff so I decided to show it practically. Thats pretty much when I wrote my resignation and waved 'adios amigo' to my old company. Strangely enough today I woke up with a strange dream I had last night. In my dream, my company... well... (ex-company now! hahahahahahahaha -insert other kind of evil laugh) was caught being a fraud and closed down! Then on the day it was closing down I went over and laugh out loud at them! Gawd! It was the best 'weird' dream I ever had in a long long time! I remember waking up looking at the wall remembering what my dream was with a smirk on my face... a very evil smirk heheheheee.

Anyways, back to topic, yeh I wrote, tendered, and left. That was last Friday. The good news is after that, interviews and offers flowed in and one left me with a decision to make :P One of my old company called me back again wanting to hire me back. Ok, a little background on this company and what happened. This was about a year ago. Back then, I was the in-house designer for the company. The company receives a deal with the government to implement a new classroom technology to the local schools in Malaysia as a way to improved both teacher and student's experience in schools. The idea was pretty revolutionary when I think now. Without letting much spoilers out, the tech basically helps improves teacher's time in teaching and marking student works. It also cuts down time to compile reports on students and at the same time gives almost instant statistic results of every student's performance. This is where you will be saying.. ''Hey... I've heard of this tech before....'' Yes! Its almost the same technology used by big player companies to keep a tab on their resources as well as their employee performance. Well, they don't really look alike but the similarities are pretty much close in that point.

Back to my old company, ok I have to correct my previous statement when I said the company was 'given' the project. Lets just say they pursued the project and which they got it! It was approved and promised funds by government by the millions for it all under our good minister Najib! Then the company spent thousands and maybe a million or two? to prepare mass production to get things done and ready for the implementation. Then it came, a new minister was appointed as the head of Education, which was Hishammudin. As far as I know, he's 'gang' and Najib's 'gang' are not in good terms and just to spite Najib, ol' Hisha decided to fucked with Najib's legacy or projects. Which in returned fucked my old company, which in return fucked me and my colleagues. A project that was supposed to be finished a year ago got prolonged till now. and due to the tons of money already spent to the commitment of the project, my old company fell into a financial downturn, which ended up having need to retrench us all. Yup... thats our so great FUCKING government! Honestly, I felt they deserved it when the BN party sucked so bad this time round in the elections. Alot of people I'm sure have experienced this with me. People are already fed up. We had enough of the lies, deceit and corruption. Its time to throw out the old hat and get a new one. This is how the rakyat (people) of Malaysia say '' FUCK OFF! ''.

Anyway, back to my dilemma, I've been called and asked if I wanted to return again (because now after the elections, I guess the project finally sees the greenlight). I was told that my old boss wanted to get old staff back cos we would know what to do and what is needed to be done. This was to avoid training new staffs. Partly the reason was also that they were given a time of 5 months time for this project. I was offered to return to the company for a huge pay increase. My dilemma is, to go for MONEY or CAREER... sigh. It's also weighted cos' my old boss was sort of an asshole... (in a good way i think.. if there was such a thing). He's a bit of a china-man style company boss dude. YES... I can hear some of you going 'oooooohhhhhhh.... that kind... nowonder...' Plus what will happen after 5 months? Anyways I am close to deciding to go for career. Friends have told me in the long run, its a better choice. As opposed to needing fast cash :P OH woes is meeeeeee...!!

Ok I think this is pretty much enough for now this early in the morning. I need to rest my brain and enjoy the sunshine and count my 'brush strokes'. Life's a bitch and then you Die.