How should we judge a government?

In Malaysia, if you don't watch television or read newspapers, you are uninformed; but if you do, you are misinformed!

"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." - Malcolm X

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience - Mark Twain

Why we should be against censorship in a court of law: Publicity is the very soul of justice … it keeps the judge himself, while trying, under trial. - Jeremy Bentham

"Our government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no
responsibility at the other. " - Ronald Reagan

Government fed by the people

Government fed by the people

Career options

Career options
I suggest government... because nobody has ever been caught.

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?

Corruption so prevalent it affects English language?
Corruption is so prevalent it affects English language?

When there's too much dirt...

When there's too much dirt...
We need better tools... to cover up mega corruptions.

Prevent bullying now!

Prevent bullying now!
If you're not going to speak up, how is the world supposed to know you exist? “Orang boleh pandai setinggi langit, tapi selama ia tidak menulis, ia akan hilang di dalam masyarakat dan dari sejarah.” - Ananta Prameodya Toer (Your intellect may soar to the sky but if you do not write, you will be lost from society and to history.)

Thursday, April 29, 2010

A taste of traffic jam after a slight downpour in PJ

I had been quite lucky avoiding the traffic jams when travelling between Petaling Jaya and Kuala Lumpur, especially when my friend leaves his house to fetch his wife before 5.00pm and I head back to PJ.

But having to fetch my daughter from Uptown at 7.00pm yesterday evening, I left at 6.30pm from Section 14. What normally takes 20 minutes (after carefully chosen off peak time) took 1 hour 40 minutes! It was bad right from the start at Jalan Utara near Hussein Onn Eye Hospital. I cannot remember exactly the times but she called when I was yet to reach Rothman's roundabout, then RHB Bank at junction of Jalan SS2/75, then before the traffic lights next to Lebuhraya Damansara Puchong. Later I was told, she was giving a running commentary to her seniors who stayed behind knowing she was waiting for her father!

Of all days, when I was stuck with the massive traffic jam (the vehicles seem unable to disperse and there were no obvious reasons why, apart from a short spell of rain) my son arranged with some relatives to have dinner together. It was a general feeling of helplessness when one cannot even get back and just call it off. So it was a chain reaction of being late from one person who I had to fetch to another and having to apologise to those at the end of it. The only consolation was that I am not living here but I pity those having to travel to and from work in Klang Valley.


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