Old Fox Panders to the Racists

Racist comments made by an elderly statesman in his blog recently are not the only worrying issue here. The equally flammable comments and opinion as posted by hundreds of his hardcore fans who share the same narrow view of this old fox actually sent chill down my spine.

They see him as a fatherly figure and would even address him as ‘Ayahanda’. They would seek “advice” and opinion from him, and would agree to every single view that the old fox would offer them, even if he were to tell them that the moon is square. What they don't know is the old fox is already getting senile (nyayuk) and pass him prime though he's still desperately seeking attention, like a rebelious child throwing tantrum all the time.

To this group of people, the only reason why their community is relatively “backward” in many areas is because other races took advantage of them. They blame and generalise the 26% as “penipu”, selling liquor and “empat ekor”, involved in vice activities like prostitution and “Ah Long” business, etc.

The 26% become rich because they are not honest and cannot be trusted. For the handful of hardworking and honest 26%, they should “thank” and “show gratitude” to their “master” by not complaining or demanding too much.

They also wrote ridiculous comments about the little-country-down-south and how they “mistreat” the minority there with twisted facts and/or quoting some fiery statement from selected “deprived” individuals. They warned that Malaysia should not allow itself to become another little-country-down-south because of obvious reasons.

The little-country-down-south is also an "apostate" country which is full of “maksiat”, “injustice”, “immoral activities” and etc. Hence, the readers want other readers and others in their community to be cautious against the 26% who is also their fellow countrymen. The “enemy” is within the country, not from outside. To me, the enemy is inside their corrupted mind rather than anything else.

In essence, they would blame the whole world for any of their shortcoming except themselves. I believe there are many who share their narrow view because they do not read Malaysiakini or views from other “opposing” source. They only read and listen the mainstream media and would start to propagate their view and influence others.

Sad to say, some of the 26% I know also share the same view and would support that senile fox in whatever he said or did in the last 22 years. In fact, some of the 26% I know also believe that Ah Hock actually committed suicide rather than because of some other yet-to-be-known reasons!

Absolute Retards

Once again, someone open her filthy, stinking big mouth, talking sheer nonsense and rubbish! Her damn shallow opinion:

(1) I'm very sick and disgusted with the opposition party because they only know how to "politicise" the entire issue related to Beng Hock's death

(2) The oppositions are good for nothing except making a lot of noise

(3) The oppositions are just putting up some publicity stunt to gain "political mileage"

(4) I worked with Beng Hock before, I "know" him. He was someone who "cannot take pressure"..., easily stressed out, etc. Hence, MAYBE he could have committed suicide due to the tough interrogation by MACC
(The truth is she only worked with Beng Hock on some very minor assignments previously..., i.e. hardly know him but still want to act as if she knows him well based on just few points)

(5) Aiyah, just let the police investigate lor, you cannot make assumption now (about the possibility of foul play)

Her cheap opinion is generated purely based on just reading some major newspaper (which are mainly controled by...you know who) headlines everyday and perhaps gossiping with some other females her age. Yet, she tried to sound intellectual, smart and different-from-others. Unfortunately, the more she tried, the more it makes her looks like a moron and idiot, if not pariah.

She's able to make all the above comments because Beng Hock is NOT her son. It is because the decease is not her children, family or loved ones. Everyone can make all sorts of general comments that may look "cool" and appear "civilised" because the unfortunate event did not happen to their loved ones. So, please...please don't ever think that such unfortunate things only happen to other people, or other people's friends and families and not you, for YOU may not guarantee that such event will not happen to your loved ones one very fine day. (I sincerely pray NOT of course, but only God will know.)

By the way, I still remember that on the first day of Beng Hock's death, this is the very same person who tried to jump into conclusion that Beng Hock actually killed himself! Huh???

Well, I want to make myself clear. I'm certainly NOT a great fan of the oppositions, and neither do I like those on the corridor of power. I'm a nobody anyway, or just a plain man-on-the-street like anyone else who just want to live in peace. We just want truth and justice. We just want fairness and safety to our love ones, family and children. And sometimes in order to acheive this, we need voice. But, who are we to voice? Even if we voice, who will listen? We need someone, don't care who they are, just someone who's capable enough to make a lot of noice and let the other party listen. If everyone were to be "patient" and "silent", who's going to reveal the truth about Beng Hock's death? Who's going to give justice to Beng Hock and his family? The police? MACC? It's not about Beng Hock or Chinese anymore. It's about fairness, justice, and integrity.

Back to this smart idiot. She thinks that the opppositions is "politicising" the issue. Hello, can you please be more precise and give some hard solid facts? Please go and read more (i.e. research), err, not only major newspapers but from other important sources as well, including news portal from so-called "neutral" and opposition parties. By the way, I think she won't because some of these new portal you need to pay $$ - she said not worth it. It is only after you read opinions and "facts" from all sources then you can start to analyse and form your own opinion. In fact, I love to listen to intellectual opinions based on facts, even if the opinion is different from mine, because at least he argues with facts (and not simple based on hearsay or being emotional).

Any sane people will know who's politicising and "racialisng" the whole issue by now. There's definitely something very suspicious and mysterious out there. We cannot make any conclusion yet, but the least we can do now as a Mr. and Ms. Nobody (i.e. the general rakyat) is to support any effort and voice that may lead us to a fair conclusion, hopefully.

I also hope people of such low mentality / IQ or perhaps retarded, will start to seriously reflect from now onwards (for the betterment of the society and nation). The country will have no more hope if more RETARDS like you were to surface. I really hope not.

Of Manchester United & Sports

The Manchester United craze and fever suddenly shot up in temperature over the last few days. Yes, the flamboyant and glamorous team swipped across the country like a hurricane. From their arrival to the field and their departure, they're acting like divas and superstars rather than true/real sportsmen in its original spirit. People are shouting and cheering hysterically. Hardcore fans queued overnight just to get their tickets which are not cheap at all. Some even flew in from neighbouring countries just to get a glimpse of their idols. People jammed the malls and hotel to get thier autograph signed. Young girls and boys, uncles and aunties, professionals, engineers, accountants, students, mat rempits, ah bengs, ah lians, etc. are some of these "hardcore fans" whom I'm talking about.

I can't blame these players as almost all of them are multi millionaires. Their salary in a month is equivalent to what most of us earn in a lifetime. They play golf, drink, eat, play and enjoy a luxury lifestyle when they're off the field. They live in big houses and drive sexy and beautiful sportscars. The true meaning and values of sports like in the good old days no longer hold, or should I say, has been conveniently forgotten.

People are idolising the players as if they are gods. Look at the so called supporters and "fan" of Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, or whatever, I would say none of them understand sports, let alone how to kick a ball!

The girls are supporting the players not because of the game / skill / etc. itself, but because of this thing called "hormonal reaction" in their bodies that attracts to hunky / handsome looking guys! Those girls, well, I would say most, know NOTHING about fooltball. To them, the players are merely "sex objects" that can be used to enhance their fantasy, that's all. Rude revelation, but that's the fact, admit it.

As for male supporters (some of them even look sissy and feminine), well, it's mainly because following the trend because it looks "macho" and "in" if you know "how to speak foodball". The true fact is most of these male fans (especially the younger generation) have not even kick a REAL football before in a REAL football field for a full 90 minutes! Looks at their skinny / flabby and fair coloured legs and you'll know what I mean! The thing that shock me even more is some of these male supporters actually idolise those good looking players...oh my!!

Sports are supposed to make us healthy - both mentally and physically. Sports are also supposed to teach us about values like teamwork, disciplin, honour, loyalty, determination, etc. When we actually play sports and involved ourselves in comptetitive sports like football, we actually learn those values I just mentioned. You won't learn all these by just glueing yourself to the TV set, or shouting at the mamak stall or stadium. Nor wonder the standard of our country's football is so disappointing over the last many years as nobody is serious about the sports anymore.

Football competition and all the major leagues nowadays are not sports anymore, no longer! They are just commercially arranged games or acting aimed at creating excitement to the unsuspecting "fans" worldwide. Reports in the past have even claimed that some of these games were even pre-arranged! While the "fans" are fantasising about their handsome hunks and/or cheering for thier heroes, those behind the scene are laughing all their way into the bank. Bookies (related to legal and illegal gambling), club owners, TV stations, businessmen, media agemcies, advertisers, etc. are some of these people I meant. Oh ya, don't forget about the players, managers, coaches themselves who earn millions and millions a year while the rest of the people around the world suffer. To me, these are not sports. I repeat, these are not sports but merely organised activities to make money! This is totally rubbish, I must say.

I used to love watching football on the TV and even stadium in my younger days but no longer anymore today. I've lost faith in the system, and interest in the game itself. I do play a lot of foodball in the old days, having even represent the school at my peak period. I do know the pain and joy about the game in its simplest form, and I appreciate every moment of it. In fact, it is the many sports activities that I involved in my younger days that mould some of value systems today. Thank goodness...

To those Man U fans. Go buy a ball at the nearest store today, form your own teams and start play. Appreciate sports in its true value and spirit. I'm NOT talking about futsal anyway, which is also another type of rubbish!

接受不完美就是一種美

很感動的短片...

我有位基督徒朋友說，"God makes us so perfect in His image but it was our soul which is imperfect but He makes it rememberable to many."

完美是一個錯誤的信念。生活中，有多少失落、痛苦和不幸正是源於它。誠然，追求美好和完善是人之常情，但正如俗語所說：“金無足赤，人無完人。”現實就是這樣的殘酷。若是過於執著且不肯變通，必然會陷入完美主義的心理誤區。完美主義者一定是失落最多的人，也一定是最痛苦的人。因為在他們的眼中看到的大多是不完美，因而一次次地與機遇擦肩而過，與成功遙遙相望，最終是落得兩手空空。

歲月如梭，人生苦短。錯過了鳥語花香的暖春，錯過了萬物蔥蘢的盛夏，錯過了碩果纍纍的金秋，只能在冰封大地之時徒然喟嘆。世上沒有絕對的完美。期望越高，失望越大。凡事力求完美的人，只能是跟自己過不去，讓旁人也跟著受苦，一生與快樂無緣。

反之，不苛求完美的人，美卻處處可見，因為任何事物都有值得欣賞的地方。學會接受不完美，則凡事都會完美，連殘缺也成了一種美。能接受自身的不完美，也能接受他人的不完美，這樣的人才活得自在、快樂、瀟灑。

從某種意義上說，不完美是老天爺賜予我們的恩惠。如果一切都是完美的，也就沒有了發展空間。如果世上真有十全十美的人，那他篤定是一個一無是處的人———從不知道追求、希冀為何物，完美得無以復加，這個人還有什麼活頭呢做人的最大樂趣就在於通過奮鬥去達到想要達到的目的。所以，有缺點、有缺陷、有缺憾，就意味著可以進一步爭取，進一步完善。有句廣告詞頗有哲理：沒有最好，只有更好。而這裡的“更好”，絕不是天上掉下來的餡餅，它是要靠努力奮鬥才會得到的。

接受不完美，是生存的智慧，是營造快樂人生的技巧。善於接受不完美者，必定會隨處有緣，擁有幸福的人生。

感恩王麗芳

開心

終于放下心理的包袱，彼此打開心結，真的很開心。
無限的感恩您哦~

冷靜，那麽簡單？

近日閙成滿城風雨的趙明福事件中，有人以爲自己是什麽“善知士”還是何方“神聖”，以爲自己很清高，竟呼籲大家要在此時此刻冷靜處理，安撫人心，以免產生更大的禍端。

冷靜，講是很容易，因爲不幸的事情不是發生在我們至愛的親人，當然誰都會講！當我們無法了解及體會當事人的真正心境和情況時，一切看法和意見頂多只能淪爲學術性探討(academic discussion)罷了。

政治本來就是一個非常複雜甚至“骯髒”的遊戲，身為凡夫的我們凴什麽去教化他們冷靜不冷靜，更何況我們這些凡夫或許也只不過是他們的棋子之一罷了。宗教和世俗往往是對立的，因此中古時代的歐洲以及中國歷代王朝，甚至今天很多囯家的治國方針都主張以政教分离政策(separation of church and state)，不允許宗教干涉囯事，當然國家也不會阻止宗教的活動，爲什麽呢？因爲宗教和政治是水火不容的，價值觀也互相衝突，簡單來説，其它宗教不講，就拿佛教為例，一個非常出色和成功的政治家或領袖很難成爲一個很好的佛教徒，相反的，一個非常典型、標準和虔誠的佛教徒也很難成爲一個很突出的政治家，仔細去思考看看吧！

冷靜處理？或許這樣會讓“有心人”有更大的空間“有機可乘”，把事實和真相淹沒掉。相反的，不冷靜、鼓噪的心或許會做出可怕的事情，還有“讓自己的修行受阻”等一大堆。

那該怎麽做呢？其實我也不知道，但我覺得不應該只是單凴“保持冷靜”那麽簡單。

Please don't give comments which are so GENERAL (普遍化) in nature. It doesn't help.

零判斷

做到了平等心，還要做到「零判斷」。判斷了，負向的能量就出來了，而且還會牽引更多四周圍和宇宙間的負能量，這樣的「平等心」已經不單純、不平等，更不用談什麽修行修慧了。或許，我們有時候太喜歡判斷了，習慣性的內心對話，說長道短、說好說歹，它必定障礙修行與智慧的成長。所有附帶條件和偏向的回憶、計畫、思考、批判和判斷，還有要不得的「自以爲是」習性都會打斷慧命，一定會打斷的，記得之前有位禪師也這麽說過，我沒記錯。

話説回來，其實這也跟禪修中避免打斷觸點的修行功夫倒有關係，比如六度、三箴並沒有判斷，純粹的六度、三箴沒有內心的對話。當你判斷某某同修不知量或懈怠，只要起一個判斷，負向能量就出來了，因為你並不了解，但是你卻不由自主地判斷了。你也知道你並不是那麼了解，但是，卻判斷了！情不自禁地判斷，沒辦法控制！一判斷，修行和慧命就可能因此而模糊了。

所以，就是有做到平等心，但是沒辦法做到零判斷的時候，還是功虧一簣了！我一定要謹記著這一個道理。

看

很多東西和事情需要我們去看，
先是要看清，
其次是看懂，
再次是看透，
最後就是看淡...

看透也好，看淡也好，
這些都已經不重要了。

English or no English?

The question is NOT only about:

"Whether to teach maths & science in English"

It is NOT as simple as that, mind you people out there!!

The real question or issue here is:

(1) Whether to teach maths & science in English or mother tongue language in Primary School

(2) Whether to teach maths & science in English or BM from Form 1 to Form 5

(3) Whether to teach maths & science in English or BM from Form 6 to tertiary level (university)

(4) (Focus on Cultural value vs economic value) minus racist view minus intention to gain political mileage

For those who don't understand and comprehend the REAL ISSUE, please don't bother to comment at all and act smart, as it only makes you look even more stupid than ever! Please see things beyond the surface value. Please argue with facts and not with emotion. Please read more and perhaps do your own research first before opening your big mouth.

(Some of these people can't even write or speak in proper English or their own mother tongue language when they voice their support for either opinion)

As for the politicians, the so called "educationists", media and some racist individuals/groups/NGO's, etc., please don't confuse the public further. No thanks to your misleading information day-in and day-out! There're simply too many out there, including parents themselves, who are either totally ignorant or being misinformed. People are getting more confused now, and more worrying is these people think they are not.

As for me, my vote & opinion would be:

(1) *Teach maths & science in mother tongue language from Primary 1 to 6 (see note below)

(2) Teach maths & science from Form 1 onwards, right through until tertiary level

(3) Enhance the teaching of English at all school level

(4) Make English a compulsory-to-pass subject for SPM

(5) Train more competent English teachers (including their trainer and the trainer's trainer, etc...)

(6) Bring back the teaching of English grammar in at all school level


Note:
*Don't tell me about the difficulty in translating the "complicated scientific terms" or lacking of such teaching material/resources. Maths and science in primary school is more about appreciation of those 2 subjects, as well as building a good foundation for their later years. There're no rocket science terms involved at this stage.