Sychophantic rantings

Desi has just recoverd from an eating binge, not much drinking except for soft and tehtarik, as you remember, I'm a teatotaller? If what I write the two days after does not make compleat sense, don't mind me -- blame it on the season 2B jolly though it be spiced with some wry humur and rumour.

First, there is a rumour of a Blogger who went MIA, then one month later appeared under new clothings but some made aerly judgments he has soul'd out! Desi's term of enderament is "Copulation", last of three-step politicisation by BN/UMNO, precede by Cooperation and Cooption. I'm not saying kickdefella has submitted himself into copulation, I was thinking allowed is he a victim as alleged by two prominent Bloggers, one a journalist veteran and another columnist and well regarded as Blogssworld "taiko". Don't mix up with susu cap Teko, do you still recall?

Oh, thou art to young an upstart, are you. Later a 16-year-old took on a 50-something lawyer-politikus and who do you term the Upstart?Read Why a Wipe-out is Inevitable Dec 23, 2006 @Raja Petra's Blog.

And lastly and thirdly, here's another para-by-para look at Brian Yap's column in the NST todie, if I may boroow an Oz slang. Do you know how to sing Waltzing Matilda, and do you know it's NOT about dancing the ballroom style? Bar-room perhaps but it's by an Mat RAmpit Down Under! Dear SweetSpirits, please be thou not offended as Desi's half drunk steal.


SR2: Surf to malaysia-today.net and read one Mahathie die-hard (or diesoft) lackey mouthing pie chart without attribution to cry Doomsdie when Y&A told him even a secondary pupil would know it's a line-chart.
Extract of my Mentor-mentee's succint comment to the Original which I deem too .... beyong my horizon to promote even as half-fiction!:(

"Comments

johnleemk wrote:

Uh...that's not a bar chart. It's a line chart.

That minor problem aside, I'm not sure what the chart's supposed to imply - is it that the developing countries are being stuck with a worthless dollar while developed countries are divesting themselves of the USD?

If so, the collapse of the dollar is predicated on a complete collapse of the US economy - something I highly doubt. There may be a severe recession, or even depression (although I find this unlikely) looming on the horizon, but something truly extraordinary would have to happen to make the US economy collapse completely.
23/12 20:17:47




SR1: Pulled from last Comments so you are See-ing Double. It's not Desi's fault -- Blame it on your Jolly Shandy!:)No, this is NOT a sponsored Post thopugh allofhelen.blogspot.com asked why Desi has not signed up on PPP. I told her to go ahead on my B-1/2, and I'd collect 1/3.:)

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Hi folks:

Pls spare some time to visit kickdafella at his NU'E site, now creating raging debate at both jeffooi.com and rockybru.blogspot.com whether the guy called sheikh soul'd out (Desi's three-step process of BN politicisation calls it Copulation, preceded by less harmfool Cooption and Cooperation:)
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Sheih on Sheih: selling my soul to Satan!
December 26th, 2006 · 4 Comments

Satan “The deal is RM 20 000.00!”



Sheih “Twenty thou? No way”.



Satan “Okay, name your price!”

Sheih “One M!”

Satan “One uhhhh…. Gila ke?”

Sheih “Wait, I haven’t finish yet…”

Satan “Uhhh…”

Sheih “One M plus One Million for my brother Paul for his Yayasan”

Satan “That’s already 2 M”

Sheih “No, I said One M plus One million for my brother Paul, and that’s not all…”

Satan “Okay, Okay, carry on!”

Sheih “Najib has to move aside”

Satan “Najib? TPM? Why?”

Sheih “I have my reason,”

Satan “But why, TDM wants him”

Sheih “Read between the line la bro, TDM admitted that he has the habit of choosing the wrong person!”

Satan “Okay, I let my boss know about it, 2 Million and Najib…”

Sheih “Did I say 2 Million…? I said One M and One Million Ringgit for my brother Paul and Najib has to move aside!”

Satan “Okay what ever…”

Sheih “Wait, I haven’t finish yet, why don’t you use the note book that’s with you, at least this meeting will end sooner as I do not need to repeat this all the time, jot this down. One M plus One Million Ringgit for my brother Paul and Najib has to move aside…”

Satan “Got that, shoot…”

Sheih “No more ISA!”

Satan “We managed to get rid of him ma….”

Sheih “I’m talking bout Internal Security Act not Isa Samad la”

Satan “Ooops so sorry, continue please”

Sheih “I will move to my new blog, as discuss last week but I will used the same title”

Satan “Done deal”

Sheih “No more hitting below the belt as we discussed, I respected that”

Satan “Kewl and no more posters right!”

Sheih “Agreed”

Satan “Is that all?”

Sheih “We finish when I said so, Rais stays in the cabinet”

Satan “That’s the prerogative of the Man, don’t you think so”

Sheih “Since when do I care about the Man”

Satan “But his the Man!”

Sheih “Nope, his the Lucifer, and ask him to stop Lucifer-ing with the bitch!”

Satan “Ooops cannot do that”

Sheih “Ok than, ask him to stop Lucifer-ing with the angel”

Satan “Sure, what about the half cut six series convertible”

Sheih “Keep it, I can’t afford the gas”

Satan “You can ask for Petronas to sponsor, The Man can endorsed your letter…”

Sheih “No… everybody will know that I cut a deal with you guys, keep it. Not for me”

Satan “Is that all, cause I’m kinda sleepy”

Sheih “Wait, Razaleigh should remain as the MP of Gua Musang come next election”

Satan “But you know we are ready to get rid of him so he will not qualified to be the next PM”

Sheih “Nope, Razaleigh remains”

Satan “Shall I say you are pushing your luck too far, one moment please, (on mobile) Hello, Satan here! What, Datuk Ron? He did the follow up on Aki’s blog… Okay Bai, I’ll be on my way”

Sheih “Wats up dude?”

Satan “The deal is off…”

Sheih “Hey dude come back!”

The End.

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8:57 AM


desiderata said...
dear ER (2):

I left my humble obs at kickdefella.wordpress.com~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"ylchong // Dec 27th 2006 at 9:02 am

interesting screen-play script but you leave in in suspense/suspender?
demand a sequel ASAP or there will be much speculation (already started at jeffooi’s and rockybru’s; and I have drwan my ER’ atteention to the fiireside too!:) as to the rumour that your/YOU–among Time’s Pick for Person of the Year — had sou’d out!:(
My word is Victim of ‘Copulation’, final step of 3-step politicisation by UMNO iblis, preceded by Cooperatiion, Cooption. Have YOU been copulated?
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PS: I hope my readers who have views can Post them here BUT also copy at the hoRSt's as well as at either Jeff or rockybru. The real story has not ended NYET...

and I think there are "INVISIBLE" HANDS at work here in cyberspace. Also Iblis with a capital I. Or izit U?


9:12 AM "





SR3:




Just Sayin': We have to try harder and believe in ourselves
27 Dec 2006
Brian Yap


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WE’VE forgotten how wonderful Malaysia is, and how much we’re capable of.

Our universities, in particular, Universiti Malaya, used to be some of the best in the region. The last Times Higher Education Supplement saw the former top school in the country continue to slide in ranking.

In 1990, Malaysia was ranked fourth in the United Nations’ foreign direct investment ranking. Last year, we dropped to 62.

A Citigroup report said our economy is "a pale shadow of itself compared with 10 years ago".

Indonesia, usually behind in terms of foreign investment, has been attracting more interest of late, as are up and coming economies like Vietnam. I think somewhere along the way to 2020, we forgot how great we actually are. We also forgot to try harder, and we forgot to believe in ourselves. Self-belief is important, because without it, all we can think of is making teh tarik in space.

At the current rate, the Internet revolution will probably just bypass Malaysia. For all the talk about WiMax, state-wide Wi-Fi, and now, the Malaysia Internet Exchange, nothing much has really changed in the past year. Which means it’s quite likely that no one really has a clue how to supply fast, reliable and affordable Internet access to the masses. That is somewhat unfortunate, because we have so many aspiring independent filmmakers making short films with virtually no budget and distributing them online.

The more people have access to affordable broadband, then more would get to watch some of these hit videos like nude squats in police lockups, UPM students and how good some of them are at imitating animals, schoolkids interpreting Fight Club, and current favourite, footage of couples caught in tangkap basah operations.

Elections are really overrated. Every five years or less, about 70-odd per cent of eligible Malaysians go out to cast their votes for their Members of Parliament and state assemblymen. Elections equal democracy, some say. But, unfortunately, our Parliament is better known for shouting matches and out-of-touch MPs who make racist or sexist statements.

More disturbingly, however, many of the people who have power over our lives don’t take part in elections, be they chief ministers, mayors, local councillors, or religious officials. So even if they build big palaces, abuse the privileges that come with their positions, or simply show up for work both late and sloppily dressed, it’s not up to us to dismiss him or her. So much for change through the ballot box.

All in all, despite my critical view, I think most of us agree Malaysia is a wonderful place to live. Food is good, affordable and aplenty. The weather, though a little too hot at times, is still mostly pleasant. And for all the restrictions imposed, we can all generally find ways to do what we need or want to. Fully enjoying these blessings, however, requires a certain amount of detachment and apathy.

Stick only to the entertainment section of the newspapers. Don’t find out about how the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council demolished Kampung Berembang, a village in the middle of KL with about 50 houses, leaving its residents homeless. Don’t be alarmed by the polemic and racial nature of Malaysian politics and how it is stopping us from living up to our potential. Instead, think about what to have for lunch tomorrow and where to go this weekend.

And yes, Khairy Jamaluddin is right: Openness is indeed being abused, just not in the way he claims it is. Instead, it has been modified from something Malaysians have every right to expect as citizens, to a political toy that we must be grateful for, something that will be taken away from us if we’re caught behaving badly. To which I quote Noam Chomsky: "If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all."

That’s why I don’t believe in freedom of expression — it’s just more satisfying to tell the people I despise to shut up and punch them in the face if they don’t listen.

To advocate a society that is open means to accept that people who are stupid, rude, ignorant, racist or sexist will be making their opinions known, as will those who have the nerve to think they can ask any questions they want about public figures. I can’t deal with all that acceptance.

Which segues into my final lesson. It’s a little more personal, though it’s something I realised from writing this column. Sarcasm is many things. Fyodor Dostoyevsky said it’s "the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."

Having no idea what he’s talking about, I’m offering my own explanation instead.

Sarcasm is how you can get away with writing critical opinions while still making some people laugh. It’s also how you can get people to completely misunderstand what you’re trying to say. But I have faith in the intelligence of the average reader, that they will be able to identify when I’m being serious, and when I am being tongue in cheek. Really, I do. Happy New Year, everyone.

DESI: Have run out of steam; maybe I did not input enough protein, mainly carbo. Can you come back A-live 24 to read my look at SR3, Insya-Allah if Desi is not eaten a-LIVE by one o those crocs let loose by the floods, or wayward rempit larger-than-lief Crocs from UMMNO-Putera , okay maybe even some Eat Drink and Be Merry MMCA counterparts ring-a-ling by the Lake Titiwangsa or Wisma MMCA...