Sunday, April 06, 2008
Sow the seeds of apathy
Yesterday, while chatting with a friend who is currently studying in the land of kilts and bagpipes about random things like the scottish hospitality, his girlfriend and education and such, we suddenly stumbled upon the topic which has been debated heatedly recently- Malaysian politics.
And you know what, for someone who has been away from the country for a year, he was really informed about the whole matter. Which I personally found impressive considering that a considerable amount of young local people dont even give a flying fuck about what is happening in our own dirty little backyards.
Instead they seem to devour all those hollywood gossip like it was laced with morphine.
Ask them who is our deputy PM and they give you a wtf face. Then the next thing you know, they tell you why should they care cause whatshisface najib has nothing to do with them (real story ok, I was mortified) Not some small fry minister, but.. come on la Deputy PM la wtf.
BUT THEN, when you ask them about whether bradgelina is adding more members to their little UN, or whether if britney shaved other parts of herself bald besides her head, or what J.Lo is planning to name her twins, they'll give you all the information you need in minute details. Enthusiastically. With a big fat smile plastered on their face.
Not that I am very well informed of the topic. Neither do I want to rub shoulders with them. On the contrary. However, I do take the trouble to read the papers from time to time and listen to my mom's constant ramblings about what she had read on Malaysiakini.com, notorious for their bashing of the local administration system. So I ended up walking around with the random bits and pieces of information stuck to me. lol.
Apathy is what I observed amongst alot of people. Sometimes when someone spontaneously brings out the topic, I see people look uncomfortable, flinch, look around distractedly, suddenly look interested with their nails and so on.
I dont know lah whether the apathy (tidak apa attitude) displayed has to do with our teaching since young-to not ask questions, lack of understanding or lack of concern for our futures. Maybe we are just generally disinterested people. Maybe we are just living in denial. Maybe we are just so bloody disappointed we just give up and save our precious breath and saliva. Maybe we are just gifted with huge tanks of thought but are cursed with gold in our mouths.
Maybe, I dont know lah.
Maybe could be anything and yet everything.
Point is: Generally, the voices of the future like to set themselves on silent mode.
Gosh its been awhile since I ranted on a topic like this. haha.
Yesterday, while chatting with a friend who is currently studying in the land of kilts and bagpipes about random things like the scottish hospitality, his girlfriend and education and such, we suddenly stumbled upon the topic which has been debated heatedly recently- Malaysian politics.
And you know what, for someone who has been away from the country for a year, he was really informed about the whole matter. Which I personally found impressive considering that a considerable amount of young local people dont even give a flying fuck about what is happening in our own dirty little backyards.
Instead they seem to devour all those hollywood gossip like it was laced with morphine.
Ask them who is our deputy PM and they give you a wtf face. Then the next thing you know, they tell you why should they care cause whatshisface najib has nothing to do with them (real story ok, I was mortified) Not some small fry minister, but.. come on la Deputy PM la wtf.
BUT THEN, when you ask them about whether bradgelina is adding more members to their little UN, or whether if britney shaved other parts of herself bald besides her head, or what J.Lo is planning to name her twins, they'll give you all the information you need in minute details. Enthusiastically. With a big fat smile plastered on their face.
Not that I am very well informed of the topic. Neither do I want to rub shoulders with them. On the contrary. However, I do take the trouble to read the papers from time to time and listen to my mom's constant ramblings about what she had read on Malaysiakini.com, notorious for their bashing of the local administration system. So I ended up walking around with the random bits and pieces of information stuck to me. lol.
Apathy is what I observed amongst alot of people. Sometimes when someone spontaneously brings out the topic, I see people look uncomfortable, flinch, look around distractedly, suddenly look interested with their nails and so on.
I dont know lah whether the apathy (tidak apa attitude) displayed has to do with our teaching since young-to not ask questions, lack of understanding or lack of concern for our futures. Maybe we are just generally disinterested people. Maybe we are just living in denial. Maybe we are just so bloody disappointed we just give up and save our precious breath and saliva. Maybe we are just gifted with huge tanks of thought but are cursed with gold in our mouths.
Maybe, I dont know lah.
Maybe could be anything and yet everything.
Point is: Generally, the voices of the future like to set themselves on silent mode.
Gosh its been awhile since I ranted on a topic like this. haha.
posted by hiddenmcky at 1:24 AM
1 Comments:
it's TRUE lah! don't you find it so repulsive when these people dont give two hoots about the fundamentals of their existence. how their COUNTRY IS BEING RUN! or who the hell is controlling the food they eat the clothes they wear the GROUND THEY WALK ON.
instead. they are more concerned about.which sibeh celebrated got a new tattoo.or who is reading their facebook profile.
ish.
great post. thumbs up!
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