How much is a piece of your mind?

We have come across people giving someone ‘a piece of his mind’ to indicate that he let go of what he had in his mind without holding back anything. ‘No holds barred’ like what Raja Petra’s column is called.

For ‘peace of mind’, I think it is priceless because many people will go a long way towards achieving it.

To me, not having financial commitments helps a lot. My 25-year old BMW 728i is now idle, saving me Rm2,000 a year in road tax and insurance. Now there is hope of Rm5,000 if the proposal becomes a reality, assuming there are no strings attached apart from having to buy a new car (the cheapest will do). Just wondering if it is transferable.

Actually I meant to apply for classic car status but the requirement of 2 other cars in my possession put paid to it. I hope YB Ong Tee Keat can look into the plight of retirees owning big old cars, which are actually unwanted in the market. The policy presumes someone would take advantage of the cheap road tax to use it as everyday car instead. Please be realistic, it would cost a bomb to maintain. So please try and get rid of this silly requirement please.

In the popular website, Mudah.com, I have actually come across an advertisement for sale of an unregistered re-conditioned BMW 645 with a note indicating ‘cheaper road tax can be arranged’! Just wonder on what basis, can anybody be able to do that?

In the same website, I have often come across advertisers mixing up Mercedes Masterpiece with Masterpeace. Honestly, with my deteriorating memory, sometimes I get confused too, not knowing what is real or surreal, or what is correct and what isn’t. Like they say, if you repeat a falsehood many times, people might take it as the truth!

Again, using the advertisements as examples, I have even come across a house with 2 stories (to tell?) for say, Rm140,000.

This reminds me of a late mechanic who mixed up ‘cancer’ with ‘cancel’ and described someone with cancer as having a death sentence, using his hand to gesture crossing out with a pen. Fortunately, with the advance in medical science, cancer is not necessarily a death sentence.

When someone drifts into a coma, does he know what others around him, say? Will a coma lead to death, like a comma in a sentence ending with a full stop?

Just my mind wondering and wandering, with my fingers doing the talk.