Len, do you want a small house too?

I have a young boy named Len.
One of mGf's sonny boy is also named Len.
What I picked this name, I had in mind greats like Leonardo da Vinci and Leonard Bernstein.

I enjoyed telling the following story to all the Lens and Jens of the world of four-to-se7en-year-olds where life was indeed young and gay. And "gay" did not have terible connotations beyong "happy and fun-loving". Definitey not what you B'd, B'd Wolves in Koala Lumpuh have in mind.

THERE WAS once three litle pigs whose parents were getting olde so one day, Papa Pig gathered the three kids around the breakfast table and told them that they must now grow up. Mama Pig kissed the trio GOoDbye-buy and gave them some tools to build a roof each.

Papa told them it's a big, bad city out there, so each of them was told to go build a safe house each, and stand on their own two feet. They cannot depend on Papa and Mama for ever and a day. One night is okay.

Li'l Piggie W'an was a tad lazy, so he gathered the hay and straw and rotten mats from the barnyard and built himself a straw hut.

Li'l Piggie T'oo was a tad more hard-working, so he gathered some planks and sticks and cardboards by the roadside and built himself a wooden house.

But Li'l Piggie T'ree was not only diligent, he had fore-sight, far-sight and imagination. He gathered all the bricks and stones, zinc roofings and iron bars, and computer screens and televisioon monitors, and and built himself a rock-solid mansion. He proudly called It My Home.

That night, in the still of the dawning of Cinderella's curfew hour, Da BB Wolfe (BB stands for the Big Bastard, bad is ot goOd enough, K!) came A*-calling at Li'l W'an's.

Da BB Wolfe blew and blew, and within seconds, the straw hut came down. Li'l W'an ran to brother T'oo's for safety.

Da BB Wolfe came A**-calling at Li'l T'oo's. Da BB Wolfe blew and blew, and within minutes, the wooden house came down. So the brothers ran to T'ree's for safety.

Da BB Wolfe came A***-calling at Li'l T'ree's. Da BB Wolfe blew and blew. He huffed and puffed. He head-butted, side-butted and back-butted. But T'ree's My Home stood rock-solid. And tired and hungry, and angry, the wolf streaked a way. (I don't know if the word 'streak' in the past tense is right or wrong, but I like its connotation, as when the mad White mat salleh ran streak naked into the Cricket field on a hot summer night when his team scored a hattrick playing against the Black injun ...)

Then the three li'l pigs slipped out of My Home, saw Da BB Wolfe asleep, tired and hungry, beneath a coconut tree. The three Porgies poked and poked and poked at the wolf's stomach, then slit open the wolf's tummy with a kitchen knife as sharp as a bamboo shoot, stuffed the stomach with three coconuts like the size of Kenny's nuts. Finally, Li'l T'ree sewed back the tummy with yellow, red and white ribbons as symbols of PeAce, Light and *Harmoni."


PS: * Yes, this was how a B'g, B'd Corporate here in Koala Lumpur spelt this word in an English copy of its Deepavali greetings in a full-page advertisemnt!

From The Star, frontpage:



Second councillor builds mansion without approval



KLANG: Another Selangor municipal councillor has been found to be building a mansion without getting approval from the Klang Municipal Council (MPK).

Mazlynoor Abdul Latiff’s mansion at Kampung Raja Uda along Jalan Lengkungan (left pic) is about 80% completed and resembles the controversial four-storey mansion built by Port Klang assemblyman Datuk Zakaria Md Deros.

Zakaria, also an MPK councillor, was ticked off by the Prime Minister on Thursday for building his palatial house at Jalan Idaman 1, in Kampung Idaman, Pandamaran without getting MPK’s approval.

It is understood that both mansions are being built at about the same time using Javanese masons and are now near completion.

MPK president Abdul Bakir Zin confirmed yesterday that Mazlynoor had not submitted plans for the construction of the mansion.

“It’s a clear defiance of the Town and Country Planning Act 1974 and a fine will be imposed when he submits the plan,” he said.

Asked what action would be taken, he said all councillors would be slapped with the maximum fine.

“MPK will investigate how the mansion came to be built up to this stage without the enforcement or planning department imposing a stop-work order or even alerting me. Work should not have gone on until plans submitted are approved.


Mazlynoor: Says he submitted a plan in 2005
“It is time the council stopped the rot as it will shatter people’s confidence,” he said.

Earlier in the week, Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo said the authorities should impose the maximum fine of RM24,580 on Zakaria for the construction and seal the house “if that is what it would take to settle the issue.”

When contacted by The Star, Mazlynoor claimed that other councillors had also built mansions within the area without building plans.

“So, you visited the area. You took a lot of photographs. No reason for you to highlight the matter. Everyone is doing it, but my house is small,” he said.

Mazlynoor said that he submitted a plan to MPK’s planning department in 2005.

“It was returned to me as it did not conform to the sewerage infrastructure. As it involved costs, I went ahead with the construction. I will submit the plans after Hari Raya,” he said.



DESIDERATA: Everyone is doing it, but my house is small,” he -- not Da BB Wolfe, it's your Yang Berhormat, dedicated, hardworking, self-sacrificing Councilor in the most developed prescinct in the most developed state with the most foward-looking CEO -- said.

"Everyone is doing it, eh?" -- now our school teachers can teach that during Morals lessons after the Deepavali-Hari Raya Aidilfitri holidays.

"...but my house is small, eh” -- now our school teachers must re-define what's small, Big and HUMONGOUS!

OR is it that our Selangor Councillors have a pretty greAt sense of humour like Desi?

To all my Malaysian buddies, I hope you live in a "small" house.

To my sonny boys and gals, I hope you have a nice future living in a "small" house.


So Len, do you want a small house too?
For thy next birthday?



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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TO ALL MY MUSLIM READERS,
HAVE A HAPPY AND PEACEFUL HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI
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PS: I can promise you Tehtarik at my humble A-bode,
But I can't gift thee a "small" house, closed or open. ~~ DEsi