Beautiful Butterfly

With all the normal schedule that I live everyday, one would sometimes ask ourselves what we are living for or what is the purpose of lives? Every morning I wake up at 6.30am and rush out of the house by 7.30am to beat the jammed to eventually get stuck in one, getting into office, have breakfast, read newspaper online, getting paperworks done, resolving staffs problems getting headache listening to the crazy phonecalls which is very bad to a pregnant woman (if you have been to my company you would understand what I mean), rushing to get home and get stuck in the traffic again, dinner, then fed my baby, bathe him, some tv and then battling with my baby to get him sleep and repeating the whole process again for the whole week is quite stressful and maybe too expecting to me.

But one day as I am to repeat to whole process, I happened to glimpse up to the sky when I got out from my house there high up in the sky partly hidden by the clouds is a rainbow with full complete colour arrangement. It’s such a soothing sight, as if to greet me and to let me know that lives is full of colour and worth living for. It brought a smile to my heart and the whole day is such a pleasant day. Even my driving is more polite *wink*. It is these rare phenomenons like sun esclipse, aurora (dying to see one), rainbows though we do see rainbow quite often or even a breathtakingly beautiful sceneries that brought us back to present from the hectic lives and wonder in awe. I can even remember once I saw three rainbows in three different places in one day.

We get enough madness in everyday’s work , of listening or reading about sadistic and heinous crimes in the news, of laughing at the dramas and childish remarks of our politicians who represented us in the government so there’s never short of sighting such beauty of the natures. That’s why we go for holidays to recharged.

Another happy occasion that I encounter is the wedding of a neighbour’s son. The happy energy that they created could even be felt by an onlooker. Hmmn, that brought memories back to my own wedding which felt so long but is about to be two years soon. Ok, enough of babbling. Happy holidays to all.

Read this from TheStar newspaper today. Of course any Malaysian will feel angry reading it but then it’s so true….who are we to blame? I only disagree the point where during World War II, China lack military resources to conduct any large scale military operation. I think the writer needs to study the Chinese history more before saying such words

Malaysia, look inward first

With reference to Elizabeth Looi’s ‘We are not the US’s lapdog’ (March 29), we’d like to first point out that many things in Malaysia are an emulation of the United States, such as the Malaysian flag, fashion, food and music industries.

Turn your TV on any day of the week and you’ll see “Malaysian (American) Idol”. Put on your favourite Nike item and you’re wearing something created by a US company, imported and sold in a Malaysian store which – guess what? – helps the economy.

These may just be aspects of pop culture but let’s not downplay their constant existence and importance in almost every Malaysian’s daily life.

Let’s not forget that one of Malaysia’s chief export destinations is the US next to China and Japan, and that the US is one of the biggest sources of foreign investment capital. ‘

People should do their homework before ranting about how Malaysia is not dependent on the US.

Secondly, it’s obvious that Elizabeth’s World War II history is less than perfect. As it’s known, extensive World History is not taught in most Malaysian schools.

By the time the Japanese surrendered to the US, the Russians were only beginning to combat the Japanese while the English were busy rebuilding their devastated country after the Germans surrendered. The Chinese and Australians lacked military resources to conduct any large-scale military operation on their own.

The effect of local heroes in driving Japan out was, let’s face it, minimal at best. The US victory over Japan was the only way Malaysia was ever able to gain independence by way of England.

Yes, as Elizabeth said, the “sleeping giant” was reluctant to enter the war because the US knew the costs after having fought the First World War. A country like Malaysia, which has never experienced what real war is like, wouldn’t understand the ramifications of it.

Before Malaysians criticise US foreign policy, they should realise that Malaysia’s own administrative bodies could use a serious overhaul. Corruption is everywhere and it doesn’t take a genius to see that, beginning with the obvious, the most frequently seen representation of government – the police – and moving all the way up the power structure.

A country like Malaysia could actually learn many things from the country they constantly criticise. The government in Malaysia, which favours its own ethnic group, claims to help all races equally but most non-ethnics understand this to be a facade. Ethnic segregation, though not actively promoted here, is predominant in everyday life.

In the US, as long as you’re a citizen, it doesn’t matter if you’re Chinese, Indian, black, white, Christian or Muslim, you’re entitled to equal opportunity financial aid for school, Social Security, and welfare programmes meant to aid the elderly and the poor. Walk into most restaurants in any major American city and you won’t see just Chinese in a Chinese restaurant or just Indians in an Indian restaurant.

Although this letter could continue forever, we think it’s safe to say Malaysia should take a look inward and correct its own flaws before pointing a finger at others. – C & J, Kuala Lumpur