Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Muhammad Ali
If today were confidence vote, all roads will be blocked except the route to the Parliament
Since yesterday were no-confidence vote day, all roads was congested due to the roadblock to Parliament.
*note: I was stuck on my way to Parliament around 2.50pm, even was raining but the dedication of the law enforcement to continue operate the roadblock impress me.
and I’m lovin’ it
Theodore Parker described democracy as ‘a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people’. Winston Churchill was perhaps more realistic when he called it ‘the worst system of government except for all the rest’. Whichever definition is preferred (and they are not necessarily contradictory), most of us who have experienced democracy would not want to exchange it for any other system of government. But what kind of economic regime is best suited to real democracy? That question is too often ignored by economists.
Democracy assumes that ordinary people are wise enough to elect a government. If so, surely they are more than capable of deciding how best to spend their own money. And yet in the western European democracies people regularly vote for governments that take between 40 and 50 per cent of their incomes in taxation. In so doing they are saying that fallible politicians know better than they do themselves how to provide the health, education and other services that they need. The Adam Smith Institute has calculated that for the UK Tax Freedom Day falls on 30 May.
Even those on very low incomes are taxed to the hilt. For example workers on the minimum wage of £4.85 an hour start paying income tax after 19 hours work a week. By the time they have worked 27 hours, they are paying 33p in every extra pound in income tax and national insurance. Gordon Brown, with the agreement of the electorate, taxes the poor into greater poverty! How did we arrive at this crazy system?
In short, because we expect the government to do far too much for us. And as that attitude developed during the twentieth century our democracy gradually changed into what Ralph Harris has rightly called a ‘demockery’. To reverse this trend will require radical, new thinking on the part of people and politicians and a very large reduction in taxation and government expenditure. If the government were to stick to its basic roles of defence, maintaining law and order and providing a temporary safety net for those who had fallen on hard times, taxation could be reduced to between 10 and 15 per cent of GDP and Tax Freedom Day would be in February. Many taxes could be abolished and others slashed. The UK would become the world’s most dynamic economy as well as the truest democracy.
taken from Adam Smith Institute Blog
or from Winston Churchill
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
~ Winston Churchill
and everything about Democracy
I still love Malaysia. Let’s go vote today
Yes! I manage to go to the exhibition yesterday. After all, all I have was time since I got another meeting in Puchong in the evening. So, I queued up for nearly 40 minutes before it was my turn.
Finally, I was been given the Cambodia’s version of the story. Narrated from the child’s view, it took me all the way back to Srey Mom younger time. From her birth to her teens, how she overcome struggles and being forced into prostitution.
The exhibit was impressively set up. Simple but good enough for one to see it from the children eyes. How they have endures this kind of life. Putting myself in their shoe, do you want your kids to go through that stages?
Location?
KL - DUMCwas the first to held it (until July 13 - Yesterday) and later Penang, Kuantan and Johor.
For those in KL, no worries. The exhibit will then be back to KL again. So, waste not these precious time and go to have a view of it.
Links:-
WorldVision - One Life Revolution
Terencelee
Facebook - OLR
Nice movie. Comparing to the summer blockbusters like Wanted, Journey to the center of the Earth or even HellBoy, I opted for the International Screening last night.
The movie walked me through the Cultural Revolution era of China. It has few familiar cast in it namely
Jaycee Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang and Joan Chen.
The movie by itself was intriguing. Nothing solid as the story line since it interconnects the 4 short stories, whereby all the characters coincidentally intertwined along their lives. The connection was revealed slowly as the stories progress. The background musics accompanying the movie was orchestra in a playful manner. In the 2nd story, Anthony Wong’s character opened up a different view of the Cultural Revolution. And his suicide death still remains as part of the puzzle.
I left the cinema feeling good and at the same time, puzzled still.
In the end, it doesn’t matter what the story told but knowing that the sun will still rises.
Some reviews can be found at the links below.
Other links
Screen Daily
LoveHKFilm
Variety
Did some house cleaning over the weekend.
Surprise surprise to find some of the work in college. Like this
Same goes to some photos that I never even thought it existed. Gosh!
Dennis Wholey says: “Waiting is an art… .If you can wait two years, you can achieve something you could not achieve today however hard you worked, however much money you threw at it, however many times you banged your head against the wall.” There are things you can’t have today that you’ll be able to have in the future. So it doesn’t make sense to drive yourself crazy and put your life on hold struggling to accomplish something now, that’ll be easy when the time is right.
Right now I believe that certain things to take place in my life is to teach us important principles. One of it shall be the ability to control my responses. Once I am done with it, I know I’ll eventually become stronger and wiser. And then I’ll have the maturity to handle what has in for you.
Maybe right now is not the time. Not yet.
Last night in the office doing nothing serious but then a partner called in.
His line was pretty bad that kinda jerk when I talked to him. Here’s our conversation (sort of)
Me: Mr. X, is there anything I can do for you?
Mr. X: Yes, I need a favor from you. Very urgent and important. It is Mr. Customer A whom…. this… that…
Me: Mr. X, I am losing you. The line isn’t clear. It’s got jitters
and the line got dropped by Maxis.
Next he returned call.
Me: Mr. X, what happened?
Mr. X: How do I know. I think it is your side that your place have no bar.
Me: No. I’ve checked that my signal here is good.
Mr. X: You lar no bar. I’m FUBAR.
Me: Huh? You FUBAR?
Mr. X: Yeah. I’m here FUBAR.
Me: Ok. Case close. You win
FUBAR (Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition)
I told Linpeh whether if I could meet up with him and ask him some questions. It was so serious that I wanted no one to be involved when I asked him those questions.
When I saw him the other day, the first question I asked was “Am I A Serious Kind of Person?” I looked to him very serious that he was practically speechless for few seconds.
The look at his face was priceless. He replied, “Fuck you lar. Faking the seriousness got lar”
I know why he said that. Because most of the time, my expression was “fucking stress. looked seriously” which is why at time people think I often acted cool. That because most of the time I seemed to be in deep thought whereas the moment was for me thinking pointless things.
Either way, I think I just got screwed big time.
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In the few days ago I was using the u-mobile to get online @ Setapak. Initially the line was good. I was getting the good reception with high bandwidth throughput. It was like having the road for myself during the Chinese New Year. Unfortunately, since Tuesday the line was down. I couldn’t get connected to the Internet despite that the signal strength was strong. Around 3-5 bars in between. I still couldn’t get connected. Here’s the snapshot of the U-mobile console.
Nope. I wasn’t being paid to blog about it. But here’s the comparison from my personal opinion.
1. The line was good until it went down. For days.
2. The customer service was very polite and nice. Drawbacks, they still sucks
Reasons:-
I went to U Mobile counter in Berjaya Times Square yesterday afternoon after having lunch with my customer. Ahmad was the one whom responded to my complaint pertaining the network issue. At first, he needs to check on the account status whether it is still alive and running or being barred due to the payment matters.
He informed that the account have no issue. So he need to check with the technical team. I demanded that I need to have at least an answer by that day itself Hence Ahmad called his superior to engage with me on that matter. They can’t tell much from what I provided so they told me that they needed 3-5 days before able to return on the call.
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