Political expediency among writers...

Drives many to Desperation -- to the extent that they compromise their principles, or nigh to selling their souls?
WritHe in ways quite common in a species called S....s,
but that would defame God's creatures without a human brain
that's supposed to be capable of thinking and thoughtful processing.

Desi is a writer most times, also a writHer sometimes, in order to survive this animal-infested world of politics and socio-political 'rites. Especially Malaysian politics where principles are in short supply, and selling even one's Mother's soul is much in fashion.

Don't believe me? Go ask UMNO General Assembly VICE-president contestants like former MB of NS?

Don't talk to me anymore about UMNO, MCA and MIC. Neither DAP. Same mindset. To rule their little kingdoms. Feudal chiefs. little Napoleons. BIG Napoleons. CHIEF Napoleon.

Service to the Rakyat? Sadly, too true when the Grim Reaper reaps the harvest early. More useful six feeeeeet under ground than on or above.

Don't believe me? Ask the late State Assemblymen of Machap and Ijok.

But my subject is about political expediency among writers, so why such a long Intro on politics?

SEE the first qualifier? "Political" No?
Sometimes the Adjective plays a more important role than the Subject, which is of course a Noun.
Now that I have rambled a little about the English language, let's see what challenges or ails this sub-species called WRITERS.

I lay claim to earn B&B from writing.
First journalistic, sometimes, PR-ish, sometimes outlandish.
"Outlandish" means to humour the paying clients.
I have to shut my mind for expediency. In other words, we are "mercenary" by degrees. No angel in Desi either.
A normal Homo sapiens member can not survive on air, sunshine and rain water alone.
He needs BREAD, manna from heaven; also that singing group called Bread, for Music
is the food of Love, No? And Love maketh the world go round.

Am I writing a Sundae Inter:Lude peice two dies early? I dunno, I don't care. This is my blardy Blog. This defence is borrowed; I plead guilty to Plagiarism, but who's the blardy Ori? You tell me, so I can tender my AP. I don't know if MITI is so generous as to hand me a couple. RM30,000 X 2.

If you LOST me on the foregoing, it's Okay. Jest stay with Desi with the Aftgoing. Be carefool, don't step on the writHer's toes when you go-stan!

Desiderata2000 -- YOU can own it if you pay Desi 20million okay!
SO THAT I can re-tire to that spiriteDEStination.
I'm coming back from digression NOW, so sorry for my indulgence. So sorry you have short fuse for patience. But I'm trying darn'd hard for thee to hone that Virtue. Miss Patience I mean.I also apologise if this last line suggests discrimination against the fairer sex. I actually don't agree WHY they label the female as the "fairer" gender. Fair I can accept. "Fairer?"
Have you heard how much Miss Nina Wang left to her fortune-teller, yes, female2. Desi the MCP is mighty jealous.

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I wonder how much the R, R and R got paid for writing such Sh*t...

Page 23, Opinion, The NST of April 27, 2007:

Exuberant energy at the North Pole

Comment By : Rehman Rashid


WHAT was the point of Putera Umno’s distinctly under-celebrated North Pole jump? I guess you had to be there.

They should all be safely home today, whereupon the rest of us might get a sense of what it’s like to jump out of a Russian military helicopter a couple of kilometres over the North Pole, into the whipping down draught of rotors whirling through thin air at minus 18 degrees Celsius, to plunge down through the Arctic ether and land at the Pole with enough breath left for a lusty rendition of Negara Ku.

Not the sort of thing normal people normally do. But that was the point of the exercise: These were not normal people. They were adventurers. Risk-takers. Daredevils; brave enough to tempt fate, laugh in the face of danger, ride the razor’s edge, and push the limits. They were Mat Rempit.







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DESI: Since I used the four-letter word, I shan't pollute my ER (X-steamed or EsteemedReaders-lah in +++DDC) by offering more than 4 paras, inclduding the topic's title because I like the word "Exuberant" -- so dainty and dandy... (By now you should know-lah, what +++Da Desi Code is; othervice, get the hellA outa hear!:( An "4" in Kantonis sounds like "Sei" which means the Grim Reaper cometh; paras is short for "paragraghs", yes. it has an Ass in the plural form. But not "pariah" Cos that's also an inherited word which has no asses for plural forms. Correct Desi -- for he's a humble student of Linguistics, or izzit Gymnastics? -- if he's wlong!:(

I similarly wrote a *CRITIQUE when the UMNO Youth Deputy Chief and his lackey UMNO Putera Chief tried to make a Rose of cow-dung, a more polite term for BullShit. BS for shorties. (*I will track it down from my ARCHIVES and Reprise hear later...)GWilling.) G stands for Goodwill, for I'm no holy/holey man.

I quoted Shakespeare, from Romeo and Juliet no less. A rose by any other name would smell just as sweet...somethin' like that. My arugment was applied to somethin' less fragrant, the groupies now popularised as mat Rempit. (NOTE: I have argued why the plural form has NO Ass as in Bahasa Malaysia words, there is no Ass, only donket like Madcap Roadies who endanger other roadusers' lives more than their own. And some politicians, and mercenary writers, think they can make Crows look like Nightingales. Or Devils angels.

But I enjoyed RRR's "EXUBERANT ENERGY" in his ballistical abuse of Queen's English: twists and turns, somersaults and backflips, and Wow, that subtle turn of face, s-miling at Rempit. Ooops, at the Ringgit.
But as a fellow writer, I can understand.
We need our three square, or round, meals a day.
Throw in a CON BF over the wickedend.

And a free trip round the world once a semester break.
Or a trip to the North or South, or East or West Pole once a holydie.
Sponsored off course.
Pray that I sirvive that landing.
Just don't let that Grim Reaper reap another early harvest.
Two SAs in two months is already a bonanza.
At the rate people kicked the bucket, Petronas' oild fields may run dry in SE7EN. Knot 17 years.
But look forward to at least RM50-billion net profit cometh end-April declaration of financial results for FYE March 2007.
Write some PR stuff for the National Oil Company (as churned out weakly?) one "Brit" woman long standing in NegaraKu she's sounding most times more patriotic than most Malaysians -- and you can taste the frangrance of the Blak Gold that the Almight blesses this Lucky Country with in abundance. To Spend In Abandonby Some Lucky Blokes/Blondies? US Dollars or in Ringgit, it's still Money what! Now blardy hella, where's my 20million?

UPDATEd Saturday April 28 @3.23pm:

Because one Commenter -- first-timer welcome with teharik!:)--Dek Mat dared ars(e)k for It!

"Dek Mat said...

desiderata: how about quoting a couple more paragraphs in the article:

"In the two years since its establishment, there has been no noticeable diminution in Mat Rempit numbers on the midnight roads, nor of their exuberant energies."

and

"But let there also be no doubt that a great many of their fellow roadusers in this country would still have no qualms about sending the whole lot of them there."

now that would make ur review on the article a little fairer as how the original article is ;)

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