Leading you into celestial flight

On a starry, starry night.

If I were England coach tonight, I would send Mickey Rooney to stand 24 in the church corner.
For a few seconds of heroics, he was sent off the field to disadvantage his team by one man less than 11-strong Portungal.

The trait that is costly to young ones who think they reign supreme just because they are riding high.
But one momentary slip in discipline cost your nation its pride.

Okay, the INTRO was writ less than 15 minutes after the crucial penalties shootout which chucked England out of the World Cup. I would surv\mised had it not for Rooney's few seconds of misplaced heroism, England would have won the match in normal time of play. But this is all academic.

And in every individual's life on transient Earth, he/she would traverse through such crosswords, well envusaged by Rober Frost in his "The Road Not Taken".

Of copurse, purported croonie Frank SINatra said it similarly in his own way -- "REgrets I have a few, but then again, too few to mention..."

Rooney won't count the last hour's "indiscipline" as one such regret, among the few not to mention...

What's today's INTER:LUDE about, Helen may ask Desi, rambling about World Cup?

My answer is that YOUTHS who think they know everything, and that they are the centre of the world, just pause and ponder. You are nothing -- just a sum total of molecules which came together in mysterious ways in complex permutations to make one a human.

So let's enoble humanity in us. Progress up the lader of civilisation than to contribute to its slide.

Today I think I see a counterpoint to that Vincent that's worshipped in Starry, Starry Night.

Interlude this wickedend is made easier because i got permission to spend it at a fellow blogger's abode .
If you enjoy philosopical rumination -- into Pericles and other Greek teachers of olde -- and what Desi has been promoting, CRITICAL THINKING, then you have a good, new cyberhome to visit (But some of you are already his oldtime guests, like Howsy who I used often as my punching bag. I beg his pardon if I overdo it sometimes -- yes, lapses in discipline on my part, but my poet-aspirant status gives me special licence, NO?

I treat tonight's interlude (night because I'm scribing now at 2.00AM with an hour inter-val before the next World Cup pa at 3.00AM) as best discussed at http://xpyred.textfiend.net; so I advise my ER to visit the host there at the post titled:"malaysians: blog this blog that for fuck?

Sometimes, one's fate in life's journey is determined by a conjunction of the constellation of stars, and when it does, the players involved normally see a natural combination of their terrestrial energies in a grand combustion that leads to an explosion of lights. It lioghts up my own horizon. I don't know about the Others whether the conjunction of the stars lights up thine?


This present lighting up actually started with a "prettty conundrum" that descended on my lundun-based friend -- NO, definitely NOT FIEND! the minor or major r/R is crucial for Desi to maintain my welcome at his place. But soon similar visitations by that Vincent counterpoint I referred to earlier incited similar experiences of the celstial kind -- and today I take the liberty to share it with my ER who did not enjoy such an appearnce on their cyber horizons.

So without further ado, with the kind permission of someone I had the pleasure of engaging in occasional "intellectual" dialogue, comes a few-days-old Post: THANKS xpyred mate again for gifting us with thy thoughts; I raise a golden goblet of tehtarik minus the sugar to thee.


"malaysians: blog this blog that for fuck?


Just my two cents for bloggers like vincent and the rest of his ilk. After reading his latest blog post here, it deserves a proper reply.

I can't for the life of me figure out why bloggers who feel people who plog are socially inert, inactive and/or stupid. For starters, you don't really know what the hell we do in real life. You don't, for example, know if we're part of NGOs or not - or even if we're members of Opposition parties (you'll be surprised at just how many are…). You don't know if we help out with church, temple or NGO initiatives. You don't even know if we're environmentally conscious or not.

You don't know a damn thing about us.

Shit, we could be part of groups planning charity drives to help out poor indians or malays in rural kampungs and estates in Kuala Trengganu, or even in my own state of Johor, but you wouldn't know that at all. The fact that we don't publicise what we are or what we do does not preclude us from actually being or doing the very things you brazenly "exhort" Malaysians to be or do.

You're assuming without warrant, and you're making an ass of yourself.

Secondly, there's condemnation and then there's puerile blindness. Condemnation of what you see is wrong is the only moral thing to do. Ploggers who seem to "complain about Malaysia" are actually complaining about an incumbent that doesn't care - can you READ FIRST before mouthing off? it's usually the smart thing to do - but unfortunately, we're blogging to an apathetic group of Malaysians who hide behind spurious excuses like "you idiots are armchair hooligans", or "you so smart you go do it lah!", or in your case, "you don't talk lah, you SHOW you can do, then talk lah!"

You sound like Lee Kuan Yew and Lee Hsien Loong of Singapore: "you want to talk, join politics. Or else, shaddap or we'll ISA your ass". Talk about repression: you seem bred to it.

Thirdly, if you don't care about Malaysian politics, I say you're committing the worst of crimes. We are all citizens, and as citizens under the constitution, responsible for the direction in which our country is heading. Your being a citizen *inherently* makes you POLITICAL. You have a duty to VOTE. You have a duty to PICK the candidate(s) you feel have the best abilities to see this country through. You have a duty to make an INFORMED CHOICE.

And making an informed choice requires that you examine all the facts, discuss them if you need to, and form an informed opinion about your candidates, not be one of those zombies staring at the screen and voting according to which party the latest Akademi Fantasia winner endorses, nor scoff cynically and deride the "Apathetic Malaysian" and vote the incumbent because "everyone's doing it".

To be politically engaged is just as important as saving vast tracks of East Malaysia from deforestation, or championing good manners in Malaysia, or inculcating good driving habits, or being a little more concerned about your neighbour's well. It's being inherently Malaysian.

Here ends the Gifting of xpyred's inter:lude borrowed by Desi -- but I advise my ER to visit the ORIGINAL and better see the BIG PICTURE with all its attendant comments, from which I took the liberty (No, not of femails!) to extract some~~~~~~~



Comments (9) left to “malaysians: blog this blog that for fuck?”

howsy wrote:

It seems that he gains attention and gratification by doing this all the time. Just Technorati for his blog and you’ll see how shamelessly he got ‘admiration’ by some blog celebs.

Posted on 27-Jun-06 at 5:00 am | Permalink

xpyre wrote:

It’s not just him, I’m thinking. It’s a whole movement supported by mutual disaffection and cynical pooh-pooh-ing because, hey, disaffection and being so gen-X is ‘kewl’. It’s disgusting.

Posted on 27-Jun-06 at 8:20 am | Permalink

sigma wrote:

Hey man, you’ve hit the nail right on the head! Like you, I absolutely cannot stand smug idiots such as that vincent. Like what xpyre said, he belongs to this group of group of youths who have this misguided notion that being apathetic and cynical somehow makes them ‘cool’. Like he’s above politics, and that everyone else who’s informed on national matters are whinning idiots.

One day, when our mono-party politics suddenly decides on passing some idiotic legislation (with ease, thanks to their 92% representation) which adversely affects vincent’s life, then only he’ll come to regret his political apathy. He and his type reminds me of the poem ‘First They Came’ by Martin Niemoller.

Posted on 27-Jun-06 at 8:48 am | Permalink

Desi to sigma: I hope you'd "excuse" DEsi for not seeking permit directly from you for "reprising" your views here.

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(HERE I've removed the so-called counterpoint to Starry, Starry Night's protagonist
for my own privileged reason/s which my regular ER would be able to discern if they have had read my past feww days' Posts plus the comments that followed...Some were DELETED after a predetermined lifespan on cyberspace -- these were less hardy molecules!)

xpyre wrote:

@vincent: Um.. “Eh?” I don’t quite understand where you’re coming from. You seem to be saying that those who, um, participate in whatever enriching (always a subjective thing, eh?) activities never complain, nor have need to. Vincent, what’s with you and your penchant for all these sweeping generalisations? I’d like to know.

@sigma: I wonder what will happen then…

Posted on 27-Jun-06 at 10:49 pm | Permalink

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AS host of Desi's Place, I do indeed listen to feedback from my dear ER, as I noted in the previous Post's Comments in response to spyred's ***THREE POINTS as general advice on how to meet with some occasional "Crawlies" (Desi's term, not xpyred's) who visit in the still of the night.

My dear ER -- esp mGf in awe -- reflect on an incisive piece of writing of xpyred to whom I feel at ease and in harmony at discourse -- is it because we fly as a formation of little stars (starlets then!) in the celestial sky. On a starry, starry night. You want to come join the formation?

Go visit him often and absorb the right type of molecules. In all seriousness, as this poet-aspirant has examined the atomic structure of such Beautiful Minds.



The ***THREE POINTS are reproduced here, with my response:

(xpyred wrote:~~~~~~~)

"I say let them post what they want to post. Firstly, if they have good information, or wish to clarify, it is only to everyone's benefit.

Secondly, if they are merely 'talking shit', it will show.

As far as one-liners are concerned, their brevity may hint at some wit but it is, as with all wit, ultimately vacuous.

By xpyred, at 2:16 AM


(Desi's response:~~~~~~~)

"xpyred:

thanks for taking the time to lend your thoughts here.

I agree completely with two of the three points cited here, except this "Secondly, if they are merely 'talking shit', it will show."

No doubt it bespeaks the shit's source -- but when it pollutes the atmosphere, it's not just upsetting to this host, more son my ER who are my guests.

Blogging is supposed to be a learning and pleasurable journey, but taking potshots at others (esp when the MALICE is clearly premedicated, made more venomous when thrown here in concert with other parties), Desi has great hesitation, reluctance.

Guess I'd bear your advice in mind,
and act on a case-by-case basis. Yeah, hopefully, some parties learn in the growing up process.

What I don't have is the time to watch over my cyber-home 24; guess I'd leave it to the Almighty above to hold a watching brief, eh?

Thanks again xpyred, it has been some time enjoying a tehtarik with thee, offer thee an XtraXL one served on a golden goblet borrowed from a "silhouette" who often glides by here, minus the sugar.:)

By desiderata, at 7:58 AM "