KoSong: Kids these days take instructions... literally

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

Friday, August 27, 2010

Kids these days take instructions... literally

Last night, my kids and I were sitting in the living room and I said to them, 'I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.'

They got up, unplugged the computer, and threw out my wine.

That wasn't my story, fortunately. But it reminds me of a time when a sister-in-law gave instruction to her older boy that the younger one could not join them at grandma's unless he had finished his homework or something. Imagine her shock when she asked him on his arrival at grandma's about his brother, and he replied, 'but you told me he cannot come unless...'!

That reminds me of another incident. My father told my second sister (who was a really 'straight' and honest person) that he wanted two spoonfuls of rice... and he got exactly that! He could not help commenting about her being too 'straight' in Hokien!

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