vote for change [X]

I suppose to finish up my chapter 2 writing but goddamnit I can’t help but to write an entry about this. New theory: when the election is near, then you will see this ‘change’ word everywhere especially on the social network. Of course that word comes from fanatic freak of the opponent party. Around 3 days ago, I had tweeted something like ‘how about improvement instead of changing?’ Then most of people asked me back, “Why not try to change the government after 56 years we stay under the same government?” TBH, I’m not scared of experimenting new government. Or maybe we can have new leaders especially from the new generation (of course not all). My point here is I don’t trust opponent leaders now. Just look at the some states that they’re running. Seriously, is it I’m too blind to see or others that keep saying the word change is too dumb to realize? I did not say our government now is perfect either. They need a lot of improvement too (will be highlighted in another entry). In my point of view, it is better if the leader will be chosen based on their capabilities instead of what party they’re represent for every state and parliament. Okay now, how about instead of changing government, we change our mentality first. When I speak about changing our people mentality, most of my friends will say it is something that’s almost impossible to do. Oh well, I have to agree about that. That’s the ugly truth that we always keep avoiding. If nothing is impossible in this life, then why don’t we give a try? But first question here is where shall we start?     

to BR1M or not to BR1M? that's a question.

I’m not here to campaign for any parties. As usual, I just write my point of view on my blog. If you have something to say, you can comment below. So, here we go after BN manifesto out yesterday night. First and foremost, of course, let’s talk about BR1M since a lot of people point this thing out. My first question will  be why they want to increase the value of BR1M? If this is about one of their objective 'memastikan pendapatan isi rumah rm5k' or because increasing of product price? When I started to learn about economics, I found that BR1M is a brilliant idea in replacement to cut taxes if the government plan to speed up the economy and also it gives beautiful statistic data to our GDP. In additional, it helps poor people as I can see that for myself. But then with the increasing value of BR1M, it is not helping people anymore. It makes people lazier and thinks that the government will help them eventually (especially for Malay race itself). Sorry, I don’t mean to be a racist bitch here especially on my own race but sadly that‘s the truth. Let me put this in a simple situation… Have you ever go to mamak stall or some restaurants around KL, penang, subang or city center where you can find a lot of beggars come to you every 5 minutes? At first, you might feel sorry for them but after they keep coming to you, you’ll not feel sorry anymore. Yup, that’s pretty similar situation.

This thing mark a bad image of our country. I don’t say that it is wrong if the government really want to help poor people. Just make sure that they’re really needed and not using BR1M as a tool to buy citizen’s votes (which means everyone can applied without investigate their background as long as they earning rm3k or below). So, my conclusion here is BR1M is a good idea as long as it's given to people that really needed like OKU, eldest people and people that can't work anymore on certain condition. Just to share some informations that I found in this blog ( here ). Don’t take his point about job since that already include in manifesto. (http://news.abnxcess.com/2013/04/bn-manifesto-aim-to-create-3-3-million-jobs-and-rake-in-rm1-3tril-in-investments-in-next-five-years/)

Other than that, I also found this one brilliant status posted by a friend of mine on FB. He stated “Satu ada cara meyakinkan untuk jana kekayaan negara, tapi cara pengagihan kekayaan kurang meyakinkan (banyak kasi 'gula-gula'). Satu lagi ada cara pengagihan kekayaan yang meyakinkan, tapi cara menjana kekayaan pulak kurang meyakinkan (bersifat terlalu populist). Tiada perantaraan, dan undi hanya satu. Masa untuk pemerintahan dua parti seperti di kebanyakan negara demokrasi maju? Yang penting keuntungan berpihak pada rakyat”. Which mean BN can attract young people and ‘pengundi atas pagar’ votes if they not sounds too promising by giving too much and one of them is BR1M.

Nota kaki:

I still didn’t get it tho, people that keep saying we get our money back. Yes, you pay your taxes. Everyone does. But BR1M is given to people that earn rm3k below which mean that is only like a small percentage of taxes that you pay. FYI, people that earn more paid more taxes and they didn’t even entitled to apply for BR1M. Be more rational pls! (Unless you’re really rich and pay more taxes, then have a seat.) 

I’m with stupid

There was an incident happened to me yesterday where I caught in the middle of the situation but the good thing is it gave me an idea to write an entry. I was driving to buy some groceries and then at my first traffic light, there were a lot of people crossing the road. The traffic light for people to cross the road was green but then when it turned to red, there were still some people crossing the road. I had no choice but to wait until all of them finish crossing. The bad thing was the driver behind me not as patient as me. Well, to be honest I’m not that patient either (especially when it comes to drive) but I’m not that stupid to hit these innocent people. So, I did what rational people will do. I waited for them even he started to push the horn to me. What the hell though. Of course I will say that guy is stupid. Even if I drove pass the traffic light where people crossing, there’s another traffic light in front us and for the time being, that damn traffic light was red! I’m pretty sure he thought I’m stupid too because I didn't drive while the traffic light was green. So, the situation here is I think that guy is stupid based on my perspective  and through my observation and that guy may think the same too. As an audience you might think the same as me because you read my perspective only. 

Playing god is pointless. My point here is we need to do enough research and observation before make any conclusion. Everyone knew that our election is near and this is the time for us as citizen to open our eyes wide open to see which is right and which is wrong. And of course this time also you can see a lot of stupid comments from some people that want to show they actually know about stuff. For me, sometimes it is best to stay out of topic or say nothing at all than say something that will make you look stupid. Yes, everyone has freedom of speech, but that's not a license for you to humiliate yourself or say something that might not even true.   

RealLife.rar

My thoughts are quite random and fuzzy this few days. Thus, I  still can’t figure out what to write on my blog. Habitually, I observed people online but since my data plan was expired yesterday and I don’t think I will activate it soon, then these are what I did for last 24 hours without internet connection on my Smartphone…

1) I actually read a book while waiting for my takeaway food (usually I just read Twitter timeline)

2) Struggling to level up 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero'. I'm really bad at this! (Currently still at level easy. Noob!)

3) Try to finish up my writing and study. Oh well, after I write this entry maybe. :p

People said Smartphone without internet is useless. But sometimes all we need is to be away from the Internet. By that, we can feel real life and having a real conversation with family or friends. (I still can't believe I carry a book everywhere I go now. So not me!)

Hipster, I am.

While most of bloggers are busy typing an entry about the biggest event that had happened in our country yesterday, I’m here to write a review about Paramore’s new album.  Don’t worry. I will talk about that sooner or later. If you’re not a big Paramore fan as I am, you may skip this entry. If you do, you probably aware that they had released their new self-titled album in 4 days in a row. I just listened to the full album and I will say I love them all except 'Future' and 'Part II'. I still don't get it why Paramore did the sequel for 'Let the Flame Begins' and honestly it sucks! I mean their experiment on the new sound should be complemented but not a good thing to ruin your old song. Speaking of new sound, I really enjoy listening to 'Ain't It Fun'. I mean if you're not a Paramore fan and when you listen to this song, you will not believe that song actually from them. Totally new and sound nothing like the previous Paramore album and love it! Other songs like 'Grow Up' , 'Hate to See Your Heart Break' and 'Be Alone', I really adore their lyrics. Good job, guys! Last but not least, they also did something different by include short songs playing with acapella only (that's mean no drum and electric guitar). Songs like 'Moving On', 'Holiday' and 'I'm Not Angry Anymore' really cute and if you listened to these songs through vinyl player, it will bring you back to 1950s era. Oh, almost forget. They also had released 2 new songs that did not include in the new album. I just heard 'Escape Route' and I think it sounds like a little bit 'Ignorance' except it is not too loud.

Here is the official video of ‘Still into You’. So far, I can’t stop playing it repeatedly. Goth, I’m so in love with this! And Hayley looks so cute in this video! Does this make me a hipster since I’m writing about an album review instead of talking about politics? Lols.

New badge unlocked: Maturity.

How do we measure the maturity level of a person? Is it by his/her age, thinking, act or dress up? In this day and age, kid want to be an adult and an adult acts like a kid. I really surprise sometimes when I see some kids in the shopping mall with the dress, high heels and make up while I’m still wearing jeans, shirt and sneakers even though I’m pretty sure I’m 8 to 12 years older than them. It made me think that either I’m too scare to be old or is it them that are too excited to look matured. Either way, I hope that they will not ruin their face in another 30 years. In a different story,  there is a girl that used to be my student and I do follow her on Twitter. I don’t know why but she always tweets about motivation and giving an advise like she already experience everything in life while she just got her spm results. I didn’t say that’s wrong. I still remember when I was her age. The only thing that was in my head is class 8am till 6pm. Shit. I didn’t even know what love is. I don’t blame myself for taking too long to be matured. Well, at least I had enjoy being young, immature, my stupidity, and every mistakes that I had made. Even sometimes I kinda regret for what I had done in my past, but learning from our life experience is still the best compared to learn it through a book or someone else’s view. If being matured is a choice, then I can’t help but wonder why on the hell those kids want to be matured earlier than their age? Why they don’t want to enjoy their teenage years while they still can? What a waste! In my side of view, it should be a threshold in life where up to some level, someone should be matured simultaneously with his/her age. Not too early or not too late. But then, we can’t control it, or can we?

fool me once, fool me twice

How many times that I’ve been fooled on 1^st of April? Never. How many times that I’ve been fooled in my life? Incalculable. Frankly speaking, I’m pretty much easier to be fooled by others. Friends, strangers, guys. Guys. Hah. I’m still not sure if I’m too naïve or too stupid. Like seriously. I still remembered last year that I almost being fooled by a guy that I met online which turned out he’s one of the scam. If you ever read in a paper, news like “Grandma lost RM10k for the internet love”. Sounds familiar, right? Not surprisingly, most of the victims in this case are women. We, women can really fall by men’s words sometimes no matter how strong or how intelligent we are. Especially when we are alone and suddenly someone shows to us how much he cares even its all not true. Yeah, I didn’t see that coming even it was quite obvious. Anyway, I was still somehow lucky because the only things that I had lost were my dignity and 4 months wasted time that I had spend for him. This incident had made me become more cautious every time I want to know someone online or real life. Also, not to trust people easily especially someone that I just know. For the women out there, if you accidentally read this entry, please be careful if you want to find your Mr. Right on the internet. Do not, I repeat, do not give your money, credit card info, or any details of yourself easily. We can’t tell if someone really mean what he/she said or that person only want to make a fool of you.