about me A loner, although do enjoy the occasional companionship, if you can handle it. Enjoys long term friendships, sensitive, ponders a lot about life and people. Friday, March 20, 2009
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[ 1:05 am ] Sometimes I get really sick just reading the newspaper, not because of the smell from the ink ... but from I read about our politicians. I've always wondered why there's a desire for power. Why do people hunger for power? Have a look at some of our politicians, why do they fight tooth and nail for power? It's all about power and authority and seldom about the welfare of the people. Look at the emotions involved and look at their supporters. What are they supporting? Are they supporting a person or a cause? What is the 'cause' then? Why are they supporting an individual and not a cause? Forgive my nooblet understanding of politics. To me, this is what I think things should had been. Politicians represent the people and are voted into power through our democratic system, right? Therefore their main role is to serve the needs of the people that placed them into power, and that includes their welfare. Why would I want to vote for you when you're not going to serve me. You are in the very beginning a public servant. You serve the needs of the public. You aren't placed high up on a pedestal to be worshiped and revered. I seriously wonder, do they genuinely care about people? I get really disgusted with photos on smiley VIPs at events ... especially a particular one few years ago about the cleanliness of public toilets in KL. We see the VIP and a few of his aides posing in front of the camera holding brooms as if washing the toilet. Wonderful photo opportunities. Why the need for this? Does it hold any significance? You know what would really amount to something? Seeing them REALLY cleaning a toilet and not for photo opportunity. Find me a person like that, I will vote them to office every election. I don't like politicians posing for photo opportunities. It's very fake and an insult to our intelligence. Politicians planting trees, visiting hospital wards, visiting the poor, while all these are noble ... these aren't real. It's all for show. I want to see someone REALLY planting not a tree but trees, without someone first digging a hole in the ground for you. I want to know that you visited a hospital ward and spent time with the hardcore poor without journalists being invited along. Matthew 6:1-4 1 "Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding. 2-4"When you do something for someone else, don't call attention to yourself. You've seen them in action, I'm sure—'playactors' I call them— treating prayer meeting and street corner alike as a stage, acting compassionate as long as someone is watching, playing to the crowds. They get applause, true, but that's all they get. When you help someone out, don't think about how it looks. Just do it—quietly and unobtrusively. That is the way your God, who conceived you in love, working behind the scenes, helps you out.Every morning that I read the papers and sometimes wonder to myself, what are these clowns doing? Aren't they suppose to be running the country and making sure someone like Ah Chong who lives down the road, Ahmad who has 5 kids to feed and Siva who has an ailing mother to take care of, still have jobs to keep. What is wrong with people? Since when have the roles changed?? Since when do people have to serve you, whom we voted. You are supposed to be serving us, not your own needs. Why do I have a feeling that most of them are motivated by greed rather than the desire to see a nation grow? 0 comments Archives nothing |
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