if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say anything at all

6.01pm


very good evening to you readers. well another week gone by and the weekend is approaching fast. aigoo. guess nobody can do anything about it but just live in the moment right?

regarding my topic for today. its basically what ronan keating sang - "you say it best when you say nothing at all." fact is this. sometimes people just talk for the sake of talking or they just love to hear their own voice rather than others. motormouth in my opinion.

have you ever come across your friends, family or even relatives who would ask you stupid questions like -

1) if you are not married - "so when are you getting married?" (not knowing the whole situation with your own love life or if you even have one. sometimes it can irritate a person when asked that question because its personal and whose business is it anyway, right?)

2) if you are married - "so when are you going to have children? don't wait too long ok, have them before its too late" (even lets say you have one kid already, they would ask you to have the 2nd or 3rd etc OR if you just got hitched, that's what they will ask the following year if they see you)

3) asking you to go on a holiday "hey, you should go on holiday when you can still walk bla bla bla". excuse me, is it any of your business if I do or don't go on a holiday? are you paying for me? who doesn't want to go for one I ask you? do they know that sometimes some people have got budget constraints, bills to pay, children to feed etc? so easy for them to talk. they don't know what goes on behind closed doors. they only see what they see or think that they are so smart by going on vacations. well good for them then if they can afford it. others cant. most of us have to prioritize. if I had extra cash lying around, don't you think I would be the first one in line to book a trip around the world, that I need you to tell me? try asking a beggar this question and see what his reply is.

to me, all these questions are private(especially 1&2) and its really none of anybody's business but between yourself and your significant half. my parents and even my own mom in law doesn't ask me questions like that. but some relatives have asked me why don't I have kids and well frankly I will answer them nicely and tell them that we don't want any kids. of course, I would then get follow up questions like why bla bla bla. ugh.. why should I explain myself to them I wonder. like I owe them an explanation. what? are they going to pay for the kid/s expenses and education and bring them up? like sponsors? if that's the case, hey I don't really mind then but I have to check with my hubby don't I? but in any case, Im not some charity case.

people talk rubbish all the time. and seriously sometimes it gets to me when such nonsense is coming out of their mouth. let me tell you, ever since I stopped work middle of 2004 and became a housewife, many have asked and told me "so what do you do everyday?", "go and find something to do", "since you are so free, why not look for some part time work?", "why not do some online business?" etc  honestly, do you even know what you are asking? is there something wrong in being a housewife? am I committing a crime here? and also do you ask any housewife each time you see her, "so what is it that you do?" helloooo..are you that blur??? or do you like talking for the sake of talking?

you know, I have gone thru stress when I was working. I know what stress is all about and mind you even when im not working I get stressed easily. my proof is that I have hair fall unfortunately and my body behaves strangely at times. perhaps its my hormones changing due to my age (sigh) but then again, I reckon its more to stress. now, you wonder, what kinda stress does a housewife have? go figure! until you are one yourself (or a househusband), then you tell me. don't knock it till you've tried it ok.

and trust me, I have not much regrets not working. its not like im some over achiever that I have and need to prove to others that im some hot shot CEO or GM etc. I don't need all those fancy smancy titles. god no! I just work to earn a buck or two and im thoroughly happy. I don't live in a chic and fancy uptown apartment, nor do I own a luxury car or go on expensive holidays. I lead a pretty simple life when I was working and even now when im not. I just try to adjust and learn to adapt wherever I am at.

the only tiny regret that I have is not being able to earn my own money when I was so used to it before I stopped work. other than that, I still enjoy life and what has been given to me by my dear old husband. it wasn't easy to uproot my whole life from my home country where I've lived for 30 over years and then moving to another country with just my husband. from being surrounded by family and friends to having none around and then starting fresh. how would you like that?

that's why I have grown accustomed to being by myself and not going out and even trying to make new friends. yes, when I first moved away, I wanted to try that but it was difficult. not so easy as you get older. having kids would have been a bit easier as that was an ice breaker in striking up a conversation with ladies. one can always talk about their own kids with another who has versus those who don't. different wavelength.

after all that's said and done, I wished that sometimes people would stop and think before opening up their mouth when they are talking to someone. it can be your friends or family members. so please try to give a thought  as to whether they would like what is going to be said to them by you (and how would you like it if it was said back to you). don't just talk for the sake of talking. you never know when you have offended a person(if they don't tell you) or if you have overstepped the boundary.

words can either hurt or soothe a person, therefore just mind yourself and think before you speak and try to be sensitive to others before speaking. nobody likes a chatterbox or an empty vessel . then you wont get into trouble, otherwise it will be like a foot in your mouth scenario. think about it.


ttfn


6.42pm

saying 3 very simple words - thank you, please and sorry

4.50pm

you know something, I realized(not recently but I just never bothered bringing this topic up until now) that plain common courtesy can go a long way for some people. what the hell Im talking about here you must be wondering?

ok. very simple. these words - Im sorry, thank you and please. just these few basic words can make or break a person. trust me. I know what im talking about here. for me, its automatic. when somebody gives me something or does something for me, I thank them. like when im in a taxi for example, after giving directions to the driver, I thank him automatically. I know im not getting any brownie points for thanking him but hey, whats the big deal if I say it? no harm right?

or lets say when I accompany my mother in law to the hospital and after her appointment, i would get dropped off at the mrt station, I would also thank her. (one would think that, hey shouldn't it be the other way round?). well it doesn't always work out that way im afraid.

saying sorry too can be hard on people. why? because of their big ego. because when they apologize for something, it means that they are admitting its their fault. that they are the culprit. people just don't get it, that by saying sorry, does not necessarily mean its their fault(although sometimes it could be but sometimes not, right?).  in the end, we just want to diffuse the situation so that perhaps it wont escalate further. saying im sorry is like gold, therefore so hard to come out of their mouths.

hey just so you know, not only men have their egos and pride, us women do too, ok. we are all human beings, so what makes the male species so special, talking about their stupid pride and ego hmm? men are not superior and neither are women. we are all equals. what men feel women feel the same. SAME, got it?

I have also noticed that with some people(I wont be naming names here), they rather listen to strangers or friends and wow....even thank them for their advice or suggestions given. but  there is no thanks given at all to the family members, who has been advising them, being beside them thru  all the thick and thin. come on, how bloody hard is it to say thanks?

these people would rather say please and thank you to strangers, whether you get a reply back from them is another story. there are rude people out there who just don't bother. like lets say walk into a building and as you go thru the main entrance, you noticed there's a few people behind you too so you be nice and hold it open for them to walk in right? I ask you, how many of them would thank you for doing that? more often than not, they think that its your job and you only wanted to do it, they didn't force you to hold the door open for them. what? are you the bloody doorman? 

there's also many times when I would get knocked by elderly ladies zooming by and not giving a toss who they have knocked into. they just stride away. not a word of sorry. or even better,  when their shopping cart knocks into you. completely ignore you. and there you are left standing with perhaps a bit of scratches on your ankle area.

that's why this world is so full of hatred and greed and there's just no more respecting one another or just plain being nice to one another. such a rare thing these days I tell you. what im trying to get across here is that we are AWARE of these words and we CHOOSE who we want to say it to more often than not.

ok for example let me ask you. if you did wrong at work and your boss lectures you. what are you going to tell him?  im quite certain you are going to apologize for the mistake that you have created right? you will own up to it right? but when you have done wrong to your loved one, im also darned sure you wont be uttering those words to them. why? because its taken for granted. you have taken them for granted. "aah, why should I say sorry for? she/he knows me. not my style to say sorry. just pretend and act like nothings wrong"...

touch your heart and ask yourself. how often to you utter those words? to me, if im wrong, I would say sorry. I thank people even though sometimes I feel they don't need to be thanked(but instead they should be thanking me). like I said earlier, it just comes naturally for me.

now finally the word please. I hardly hear this from anybody these days. its very sad. very rare I hear it. don't you think that, if you don't use the word please, it would mean that you are ordering a person around like a slave or something? as if they owed you or you owned them. its really very rude you know. how bloody hard can it be to add the extra word - please - when you are asking someone to do something for you? how would you like it if someone just ordered you around like that?

in fact, isn't all these that im preaching about here today the basic fundamental thing that our parents taught us when we were growing up and was even taught in school? im fairly sure that we all know the meaning of these words and yet why is it so hard to say it?

that's why I cant understand till today about peoples behaviour. from the old to the young ones, there's no more politeness in this world. soon it will be extinct, I tell ya. sad very sad. so my dear friends who are reading my blog today, make sure you save these words inside your brain. lets all try to make this world a better place to live in. one small step can make all the difference. love and cherish your loved ones and do not take them for granted.


ttfn


5.40pm

BigBang GDragon - One of a kind solo concert in singapore 29 june 2013

11.58am

wow wow...that's all I can say! I attended my first ever Kpop concert here in Singapore and i gotta say that it was effing awesome! its bloody Gdragon from the korean group famously known as Big Bang and GD is the leader of the pack. i couldn't wait to see him in the flesh. would be nice if i could get up close and personal with him but sigh..no dice. oh well. c'est la vie.

right then, the concert was scheduled at 7pm and I left the house around 4.30pm. ok ok, call me impatient. pfftt.. when I arrived at the stadium, holy smokes, there were loads of people, well doh obviously, im so silly! its a bleeding concert, what more its a GD concert! so anyways, the first thing that I wanted to do was to get my hands on some merchandise (before hauling my ass to where i was supposed to be, which was at the north entrance of the stadium) and when I looked for the queue, good lord, it was damn long! as if the merchandise was free!

i started to pace up and down the line, deciding whether to approach my  "victim" so I could ask her to do me a tiny favour by buying me just an item. hmm...now that didn't go as planned. I was thinking that if lets say I were to approach that person and ask her to buy me something, what would the people behind her think? would they beat me to pulp for "jumping" queue or would they be sacarstic and tell me to bugger off and no asking strangers for favors etc. so shit, scrap that thought out of my head.  decided to just walk away and console myself that it was ok, at least i'm at GDs concert and that's what really matters right. 

and then I spotted a large crowd gathered just by the side entrance into the stadium. hmm..whats this, whats going on here? i decided to ask a girl who was standing not too far from me about it. she told me that this crowd was waiting to get into the mosh pit area. i asked her how much did she pay to be in the most pit area because i noticed she had a colored tag on her wrist (different people were wearing different colors). told me was like $200 over bucks. wow..imagine that, pay $200 over bucks just to stand next to the stage and be mashed up against strangers and fans screaming into your ears!

apparently the crowd had already gathered in the morning(some over night) just to get to be the first in line inside the most pit area(they go by numbers) and it was a first come first served basis. and after you've been given a number then you can go off and come back again later (or not). long story short, im guessing that those fans had been standing for a pretty long time and on top of that to stand during the entire 2 hour concert is really no joke.

after watching the crowd for a bit, i decided to just go and wait at the entrance where i was supposed to be at and thankfully the queue was not long because when i purchased my ticket, i got to choose my seat (unlike the most pit area folks) and therefore there wasn't a need to rush to get in line and since yours truly was alone, i might as well park my bum there and just wait to bloody go in.

after standing in line for about an hour, at 6.15pm, they let us in. it was warm and humid outside but once when i got inside, thank god for the blast of aircond. GDs music videos were playing on loop on giant video screens. lucky thing i decided to bring my small binoculars so that i can see better and clearer.  i whipped it out and started looking around to see if i can spot any of the Big Bang members, in case they suddenly appeared. you just never know when they are around. sneaky lil buggers they are.

when 7.15pm came, that's when all hell broke loose. hahaha...yup time for GDs grand entrance, arriving in his futuristic glass looking car and he started his first song MichiGo.

sorry the picture i took was a bit far. that's the best i could do from where i was sitting. felt as though it was so near yet so far. and so the brilliant concert continues. mind you, there was never a dull moment throughout the show, even during the short interludes, the music that was being played(instrumental) was very upbeat. besides great music , there were also lots of colourful laser lights shooting about, tiny explosions of fire, mock up of huge butterflies floating around (when he belted out one of my favourite songs Butterfly)etc. it was just simply amazing. not only that, GDs costumes were really out of this world not to mention his dancing too.

GD sang songs from his One of a Kind album and 2 songs by Big Bang, which was Fantastic Baby and Bad Boy. Let me tell you he can work the crowd into a frenzy. no shit. this guy has got skillz. from having a 5 team member(including himself) during concerts to going solo can be daunting. you know when you've always had your members around you to being alone on stage and doing almost everything on your own is tiring as hell.

(these 2 pictures above i took from GDs official facebook page. so it doesn't belong to me). anyway, first picture is of GD and CL (from the popular Korean girl group 2ne1) doing a duet. 2ne1 consists of 4 girls who were special guests at GDs concert and they performed 3 of their popular songs. but only CL and GD did a duet. and lastly the next picture is at the closing of the concert. alas all good things must come to an end. it was euphoric though.

i shall never forget my first ever kpop concert and it was banging! im glad i went and  had a great time there, still cant believe i actually saw one of my idols in concert. now im just waiting patiently for Big Bangs next concert, hopefully one where they will do all their famous hits. fingers crossed. you know all these years I've scoffed at friends who were so into the Korean dramas or scene but now..look at me. ai ya ya. i have learnt a lesson here, to never say never. because one day, you just don't know what will hit you and then you are caught hook, line and sinker.

ok ttfn


1.20pm

haze

9.41pm

hi guys! how are you all today? for those of you who are reading this and living in Singapore or Malaysia, I hope you will take care especially now that the stupid haze is back with vengeance! never muck around with mother nature I say. cant blame this totally on mother nature but in fact, blame the humans who are causing all this problems.

every year without fail, there will be a haze problem and it usually starts from Indonesia. plantations there start these fires because planting season is over(or started or whatever, hey, im no farmer therefore I don't bother much about understanding all these things..) and they need to clear land for new crops or whatnots. plus there's also illegal burning going on too. and then theres some folks  who would take this opportunity to burn as well since the others are already burning so they too jump on the bandwagon.

indeed this breathing in of smoke is really bad especially for those who are asthmatic,the elderly or even kids/babies. lets not forget about our furkids too. im in kuala lumpur right now and the haze has been pretty bad for the past few days. before coming here, Singapore was bad but I reckon kuala lumpur is worst off. here, take a look at this picture, so you'll know what I mean when I say its bad here.

there we go. that's the sunway lagoon theme park which is closed to the public due to the haze.  you cant even see the buildings in the distance. lots of hawker centres around the city especially those open aired ones are having bad business because not a lot of people are eating out lately and today, most schools  in and around kuala lumpur are closed too. im not sure when they are re opening though. some folks here are praying hard for rain to come. me too!! a thunderstorm or two would/could help some.

Singapore and Malaysia are trying to help Indonesia tackle this big problem but alas, there's "finger pointing" and "arrows" flying around on whose bloody fault it is, saying that some of these plantations there belong to either Malaysian and/or Singaporean companies etc  ..bla bla bla.. honestly all this is really sickening and irritating to me. now, would you believe if I told you that one country called another - "childish."  i mean can you beat that? and lately the citizens of Singapore are pretty fed up and are voicing out their anger and frustration to the government because, as I've said before, this time round the haze is so bad there. and I also must add that the winds blowing just isnt helping much. seems to be loitering around these parts. *look at my blank expression*

I've been in kuala lumpur about a week now and the situation hasn't really improved. certain parts of the country have been hit pretty badly like in the state of Johor where I think the highest reading of the psi was 700 over. imagine that wow! and in Singapore couple of days ago, was more than 300 over psi. as it is with the mark over 300 psi is BAD but 700 over psi, that's effing EVIL!! how do the people tolerate it I don't know. its totally hazardous to ones health ok!! sheesh  folks are told to TRY to stay indoors as much as possible.

by having said that, staying indoors, you can still smell the smoke smell in the air inside your own home(speaking through experience). and your eyes get watery or dry even at times and then some may feel dizzy or nauseous. at the moment, the only thing im feeling is that my eyes feel dry and I do feel a bit nauseous(but it comes and goes thankfully). till today ive not seen blue skies.

I think the ministries from each country especially neighboring countries to Indonesia, should sit down and trash out everything once and for all and TRY to bloody rectify this annual problem which may/could get worst in time(like now). be it illegal burning or peat fires etc whatever it is, just lay it all on the table and have a bloody serious discussion about it and then sign all the damn documents and nobody gets blamed again in the future. geez!

ok ok I know by making that statement, I don't know what is REALLY going on when these officials have their talks and whose responsible for what etc but hey, im just a concerned citizen giving my 2 cents worth.  I only want what is  best for everybody. cant we just try to live peacefully and amicably with one another instead of always pointing fingers at each other? cant we try to come to a solution and work hand in hand, rather than arguing all the goddamned time? theres already so much evil and hatred around and war going on in this so called wonderful world of ours that  we live in, instead why cant there be love, warmth and happiness?  sadly, more often then not, its humans who create all this shit.

before I end here, I'd like to just to update you a bit about the haze situation -
 The air quality in Muar showed a slight improvement with the Air Pollutant Index (API) reading dipping from 746 at 7am to 507 at 5pm according to Department of Environment website. and for Singapore, as of
6pm today, the three-hour Pollutant Standards Index (PSI) reading was 76. The 24-hour PSI was in the range of 81-97.

well that's that then. until another day dear friends, do take care, please use your masks if you are in these parts and stay healthy!!

ttfn

10.42pm




p/s do not quote me on any of these ok! its just my opinion and thoughts that im sharing, geez!


 

noise pollution everywhere

4.11pm


arrgghhh...I cant even hear myself think! bloody hell. for the past few weeks it has been noise noise noise, nothing but noise pollution. sheesh! when is it ever going to end huh? driving me nuts!

when I first moved into my new condo there was peace for a short time. then, those buggers go and start digging holes and re-doing the drainage system outside of our condo and I think that they have to do up the entire street. so can you imagine the amount of noise and whatnots going on daily for 6 days a week? constantly you can hear the drilling coz they are "breaking" up the roadside(and 5 foot way) and then tractors going up and down, rickety old thing, non stop and the workers shouting at each other above these sounds. OMFG..please shoot me!

nevermind that, I can hear my neighbours upstairs walking. as if they are stomping around all day long. no doubt its not constant but let me tell you every few minutes you can hear their footsteps. I hear them  from my hall and even when im in my bedroom too. like bloody giants walking up there I swear! one of these days, im just going to go up there and give them a piece of my mind...but in a nice way of course. hahaha

so now coupled with all that noise pollution, I live relatively near the main road so I can hear busses , motorbikes and cars going by sometimes. what makes it worst is that  some of these drivers will be honking. there's a traffic light at the main road and so I reckon when it turns green, the  drivers in front of the lights are probably daydreaming or not fast enough to step on their accelerator to move, therefore the drivers behind them would honk loudly. OMFG! sometimes i can even hear the annoying speeders in their flashy fast cars(or bikes) zooming by, roaring away, not a care in the world. its like "whey hey look at me, see how bloody fast I can go! eat my dust!". bunch of idiots! I swear one of these days they will get into some serious shit accident, which sometimes I think they DO deserve it. nobody to blame but themselves.

im thinking life is already so damn bloody stressful, and then we have all these frigging  noise pollution added in to the equation, can really can make someone go bonkers. there's hardly any peace and quiet around. only after 8pm onwards, will the stupid drilling and digging stop temporarily mind you, until the next day, it will start all over again till god knows when. but this doesn't mean all noise cease to stop. I will still hear the stomping of feet from the morons above my unit and the idiots zooming by or impatient drivers honking at the traffic lights.

and finally there's my neighbour with their cute dog, a corgie named rocky, who barks at god knows what. we can hear him daily. but thank god he doesn't bark continuously. and when he barks, you can hear his owner saying "rocky! stop!" or "rocky, no!" or "boyyyyy...noo!". SIGH

sigh. can never win now can you unless I move to the jungle where the only sounds I will probably hear are the wild animals or birds. is there any button (even a mute button will be good enough)  where I can press to silence all of this out?


ttfn

4.34pm

precious time

5.54pm

what is time? what is it to you? how do you define time? I have no clue whatsoever. but I heard of that cliché thing that is - time is precious.  yes, I know that. but do you all realize that everyday, we are waiting. waiting for something or someone.

I was just having a chat with my husband recently and I told him that I have realized(trust me I had this realization a long time ago) we seem to be always waiting. waiting for a meeting to start, waiting for somebody to arrive, waiting for our flights to somewhere, waiting at the traffic lights, waiting at the hospital, waiting for death....just waiting. and time is just bloody wasted! don't you agree?!

hubby says - "that's why life is meaningless". I couldn't agree more. from the moment we are born, we are waiting for death to come knocking at our door and in the meantime, here we are, sitting and waiting around, going about our sorry lives(don't talk about those who are privileged or with a silver spoon in their mouths) oblivious to the fact that we just don't know when or how we are going to bid adieu to our lives on earth.

sometimes im quite fed up of all this waiting about. for example, I have to accompany my mother in law for her check ups and there we are sitting and waiting for hours on end. my day is just plain wasted, doing nothing at all. sometimes im bored to tears.

and today I was just telling my mom about it too and she told me that I should spend it wisely(huh?? how is that possible?) with the "time" I have left and each day that I get up I gotta thank God for another healthy day and that im alive. yes yes, I do give our Lord thanks but hey, meantime, I still have to wait don't I?

and after we die, then what? wait again for reincarnation?( altho I don't really believe in it). but curiousity gets the better of me.  I often think of what I was in my previous life, if I ever had one. where do I go after I die? will I see my loved ones? how will I die? when will I die? aaagghh...all these thoughts run thru my head and I know nobody out there can give me an answer to all these questions. meantime, im still sitting and waiting.

oh well, that's life I guess. its the waiting game. so guys, I hope you spend it wisely and whatever you do, do it to your best ability, ok? make the most out of your life and make it worthwhile when you are still able to. no regrets yes?


oki doki ttfn


6.08pm

so near yet so far

5.22pm

hello hello hello. whats been going on with you guys? i hope you have been well and things are going the way you want it. as for me, well, on the job front, i have been doing my bit, by looking in the papers as well as online. now is the waiting game, so i'll just have to sit back and wait patiently. actually, come to think of it, I've been waiting patiently for like 7-8 years now. hahahaha

ok what exactly did i mean by so near yet so far. well, in my humble opinion, there's some difference between Singapore and the neighboring country Malaysia. some things that we all have in common is - our weathers are the same, we have multi ethnic groups living together and the food. other than that, i think the buck stops there.

i must say that actually kuala lumpur is a beautiful city to live in but unfortunately, some parts are just plain filthy. trust me i have seen it with my own eyes. at a market for example, after the stall owners have packed up and gone home for the day, OMG, the pong/smell around the area stinks to high heaven. on top of that, you see flies and rats running about in broad daylight! you can also see fruits and veggies strewn on the ground. yes, there's a road sweeper that comes and cleans up but do you really think he's doing a good job out of it? no way!

now when i go to the market here in Singapore, its clean and its orderly and not all the time you can smell the bad odour. and plus there's usually the hawker centre next to the markets. and that too is reasonably clean.

another classic example is visiting the public toilets. OMG!! you can die in there. its perpetually wet and the toilets are clogged up. i have seen even candy wrappers thrown into the toilet bowls! can you imagine what these women are doing? or even those bringing in their kids into the toilets and letting them throw whatever rubbish down the bowl??

i mean come on lets face it, these people wouldn't even do it in their own home but they dare to do it outside. why? because its not theirs! they don't own it therefore," if its not mine, why should i bother right?  im not paying for the damages". yes, that's the attitude of the folks there, generally. i hardly see a dry toilet in the ladies bathroom unless you go to a high end place or mall.

for the life of me, i cant understand why they would want to wet the floor( or their own bodies) in the loo. is it necessary, seriously? nevermind wetting the loo, most of the stalls do not even have toilet rolls!! but you can see the toilet roll holder though. but its usually empty. so, just a warning, do not forget to bring your own tissues or toilet roll along with you whenever you wanna visit the public toilets in Malaysia and i mean anywhere! just in case!! 

you know this is a very bad habit of  society. it reflects on the citizens. what would tourists think if they saw what i saw? wouldn't you be put off? if the authorities don't put a stop to this and take it seriously, how on earth are they going to attract tourists to come visit your country? look at china for example, people can be super rich or whatever, but they have their bad habits like spitting and littering in public.

speaking of littering in public, the other time when i went to penang for the Chinese new year, as i was driving behind a car, the person from the front side on the passenger seat, threw out an empty bottled water. can you beat that? so blatantly they did it. i was like telling my husband "did you see that? did you see that?" . really astonishing!

over in Singapore, you'll get fined if you litter!! and the toilets at public places, cant go wrong there. relatively clean and usually it has toilet rolls inside each cubicle. trust me on this. of course I've not been to each and every toilet around Singapore, you must be crazy! Singapore definitely is a FINE country. anything and everything you can report to the authorities and they do take it seriously, each complaint made.

like snatch thieves for example. I've seen signages being put up at places where the police have caught snatch thieves and telling the public to be aware. in Malaysia, if you went to the police station and lodged a report of your stolen bag, they would tell you the same old story which is daily they have people coming in to make a report of stolen bags or snatch thieves but nothing they can do about it and tell you to be on your way. unless you have seen the faces of these thieves. many women especially have been in coma or broke their legs, hands, scratches over their bodies .. all from these snatch thieves! police aint doing jack if you asked me. and mind you folks, this is just the tip of the iceberg. i do not want to go into more details which my friends/family have experienced. too much to tell you.

but anyways, these are just my point of view and what i think. that the proper authorities and citizens should work together hand in hand to sort this crap out. otherwise, things can only get worst. (which in my opinion it already has). it has to start from the TOP, if you know what i mean. if the TOP cant control the bottom then how? rules will be broken. i think that the authorities can LEARN the good things from Singapore and apply it especially in the bigger cities like Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Ipoh etc. by taking small baby steps and slowly im sure in time it will hopefully get better, but until that happens, things will ever change.

well, that's about it i guess. im just harping. i know i cant change things. but i know i can do my part which i already am! people ought to change their mentality, their mindset. the world is already filled with filth, death, evil, poverty etc, isn't it time that we TRY to change a little bit, to make this world a slightly better place to live in??? if not for us, for the sake of your kids, for their future.

fruit for a thought, hey folks?


ttfn

6.10pm