21st century breakdown
My generation is zero
I never made it as a working class hero
21st century breakdown
I once was lost but never was found
I think I'm losing what's left of my mind to the 21st century deadline
As we live a life of ease
Everyone of us has all we need
(one of us,has all we need)
sky of blue,sea of green
in our yellow submarine
in our yellow submarine
maybe you'll get a replacement
there's plenty of me to be found
mongrels who ain't got a penny
sniffing for tidbits like you on the ground
So goodbye yellow brick road
where the dogs of society howl
you can't plant me in your penthouse
I'm going back to my plough
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
food insecurity
the prices of food is going up so fast.10 years ago, a whole chicken can be bought for RM 8.Now RM 4 can buy only a slice of chicken breast.The price of petrol is going up so fast.My country is now turning into a high cost,low income country.
How can they depend on domestic demand to incrase economic growth when the price of food,the price of houses and petrol goes up and up but the salaries are not adjusted for inflation.
With interest rates going up,car and house motagage also go up again.
So what is happpening to the economic transference plan? transfer from the pocket of people to who?
Worse,the young are leaving so what we have is an export of brainoower and import the low skill pnes.So if the young stay and find out that know who matters more than know how to get up the career ladder,who would be so "loyal" to stay when they can hardly buy a house,pay off a car and now eat out?Soon Vietnam and Indonesia would catch uo'
Then we don't teach the youths current world geography and world history and they cannot compete in the international arena as they lack simple general knowledge.
Like the game of snake and ladder,we're sliding down the ladder
How can they depend on domestic demand to incrase economic growth when the price of food,the price of houses and petrol goes up and up but the salaries are not adjusted for inflation.
With interest rates going up,car and house motagage also go up again.
So what is happpening to the economic transference plan? transfer from the pocket of people to who?
Worse,the young are leaving so what we have is an export of brainoower and import the low skill pnes.So if the young stay and find out that know who matters more than know how to get up the career ladder,who would be so "loyal" to stay when they can hardly buy a house,pay off a car and now eat out?Soon Vietnam and Indonesia would catch uo'
Then we don't teach the youths current world geography and world history and they cannot compete in the international arena as they lack simple general knowledge.
Like the game of snake and ladder,we're sliding down the ladder
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The unconquerable world -reliving
I'm rereading Jonathan Schell's book "The unconquerable world" -clear,concise and well argued.Hope to be able to get hold of his other writings "The unfinished twentieth century and the Fate of the earth." I had just finished reading Murakami's "After the quake" when the catalysmic disaster struck.How ominous,a case of Life imitating Art.But even if there is a sliver of hope,let's learn something from it.
"At present most of us do nothing. We look away. We remain calm. We are silent. We take refuge in the hope that the holocaust won’t happen, and turn back to our individual concerns. We deny the truth that is all around us. Indifferent to the future of our kind, we grow indifferent to one another. We drift apart. We grow cold. We drowse our way to the end of the world. But if once we shook off our lethargy and fatigue and began to act, the climate would change. Just as inertia produces despair—a despair often so deep it does not know itself as despair—arousal and action would give us access to hope, and life would start to mend: not just life in its entirety but daily life, every individual life. At that point we would begin to withdraw from our role as both the victims and the perpetrators. …
We would no longer be the destroyers of mankind, but rather, a gateway through which the future generations would enter the world. Then the passion and will that we need to save ourselves would flood into our lives. The walls of indifference, inertia, and coldness that now isolate each of us from others, and all of us from the past and future generations, would melt, like snow in spring. …"
—Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth
"At present most of us do nothing. We look away. We remain calm. We are silent. We take refuge in the hope that the holocaust won’t happen, and turn back to our individual concerns. We deny the truth that is all around us. Indifferent to the future of our kind, we grow indifferent to one another. We drift apart. We grow cold. We drowse our way to the end of the world. But if once we shook off our lethargy and fatigue and began to act, the climate would change. Just as inertia produces despair—a despair often so deep it does not know itself as despair—arousal and action would give us access to hope, and life would start to mend: not just life in its entirety but daily life, every individual life. At that point we would begin to withdraw from our role as both the victims and the perpetrators. …
We would no longer be the destroyers of mankind, but rather, a gateway through which the future generations would enter the world. Then the passion and will that we need to save ourselves would flood into our lives. The walls of indifference, inertia, and coldness that now isolate each of us from others, and all of us from the past and future generations, would melt, like snow in spring. …"
—Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
when the dust has settled
When thedust has settled, how can we be sure that those supposed regulators are doing their jobs at not pulling the wool over our eyes? Couldn't robots be used in dangerous radioactive places to prevent endangerment of human lives? Shouldn't we ,the people living near nuclear plants be given automatic updates of radiation levels on mobile phones? What is the solution that can weaken construction materials so that rescue missions are made easier? When the dust has settled,what lesson can we get from this to move on with our lives?
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
www.go ogle.com
The seed of this story germinated whilst I was reading Banana Yoshimoto's Kitchen and Yoko Ogawa's the Housekeeper and the professor.aaah the love that is unrequited
My friends call me Andy the Randy.Beats me. I sure ain't have no super idol face -just those red angry mini volcanoes called zits that pop up on the tip of my nose or forehead.
I've set up this secret website to earn me some extra moolah.My mom is sure a meanie-what she gives can hardly pay for my girl's night out at that smashing club ,Cool chick.FML.
They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.Nope they know nuts about raging hormones.You strike them where the most blood flows to-works everytime,I make big bucks secretly filming with my spy camera in toilets and changing rooms.Yeah,I'm going to hit Hollywood big time director like that Steven S. Look out ,Hollywood here I come from the school of hard ons to the school of hard knocks.
You know,when dad left us for that bit***,the private detective that mom hired was wow so high tech.You would never guess where and how they tape people doing their thing.I learnt atrick or two from them when I set up my cash trap. Ha ! Ha!You wouldn't know .
My friends call me Andy the Randy.Beats me. I sure ain't have no super idol face -just those red angry mini volcanoes called zits that pop up on the tip of my nose or forehead.
I've set up this secret website to earn me some extra moolah.My mom is sure a meanie-what she gives can hardly pay for my girl's night out at that smashing club ,Cool chick.FML.
They say that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach.Nope they know nuts about raging hormones.You strike them where the most blood flows to-works everytime,I make big bucks secretly filming with my spy camera in toilets and changing rooms.Yeah,I'm going to hit Hollywood big time director like that Steven S. Look out ,Hollywood here I come from the school of hard ons to the school of hard knocks.
You know,when dad left us for that bit***,the private detective that mom hired was wow so high tech.You would never guess where and how they tape people doing their thing.I learnt atrick or two from them when I set up my cash trap. Ha ! Ha!You wouldn't know .
Monday, March 14, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
ordinary words
Ordinary words
coarse tea and plain rice
day in and day out
eat and shit
ordinary words
strip away the honeyed tongue
another dawn breaks out of the darkness
despair not
a new day has come
in hearts fire sears
on streets putrid flesh melts
exposing the skeletons
another life ripped out
a new day has come
the earth shakes
the people speak
ordinary words
coarse tea and plain rice
day in and day out
eat and shit
ordinary words
strip away the honeyed tongue
another dawn breaks out of the darkness
despair not
a new day has come
in hearts fire sears
on streets putrid flesh melts
exposing the skeletons
another life ripped out
a new day has come
the earth shakes
the people speak
ordinary words
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