Looking away from pain.

Just dropped off my daughter at the bus station for her trip back to Cyberjaya - University Multi Media (MMU) and jst before she left she showed me a text message from her roommates complaining of getting eaten alive by bugs, ranging from mosquitoes, cat fleas, bed bugs, mites; still no determination made which. So the cat Olly is the culprit or so it seems and my daughter is left to deal with the issue in her mind  while travelling all the way back to her apartment shared with a few young ladies. There are the dramas in life to be expected as we grow and interact with others especially those we care most about. Most of our miseries seems to be brought upon us by ourselves like the raising of a cat in an apartment full of girls! I hope my daughter can deal with the situation with skillful means and greater more adult understanding than getting sucked into petty squabbles between friends who have spent many years growing up together through schools.

                                              We just Voted! Indelible ink proof. Who did i voted for? Ha! Ha!

Marissa had put in fifteen hours of work a day since she arrived at the China House on Beach Street in Georgetow where two Australian ladies ran the place as part of the Bon Ton hotels chain. It is a high class establishment with good Western Food and Ambiance. Marissa has been working with the establishment ever since they had set up their operation in Georgetown and has the confidence of the owners so much so that she is allowed to work there every time she is back in Penang. I got to know the young adults who work the place from bar tenders to clean up guys and all are most friendly and respectful of me while I sat and draw at the table every time i picked her up from work It is pleasant to watch them run about serving customers or teasing among each other while at work.I am glad that Marissa has been able to stay with Bon Ton - China House for quite a few years now and learned the tricks of the trade which also help in her self confidence. She has made many good friends at the place which makes it like a retreat for her to rejuvenate her energies with 'Real' people whenever she comes home.

There' s shrimps under the News papers! A Modern Malay saying.

At home it is like living in an oven in the day time and incessant traffic noises as the house is located at one of the most busy junction. I sometimes feel suffocated with the whole environment but i managed to work with it by staying most of my time at the Museum like I am a paid employee while enjoying the air conditioned office space and the availability of the PC which I share with one of the staff members. and it has been more than five years now as this blogging can testify. I sleep late in the morning and take a little nap whenever i can but stay up till early in the morning doing my stuff outside by the dining space where ample lightnings and table and chairs are readily available. This is when there is peace and quiet with hardly any traffic and no one to bother me. I usually read and meditate, do my art and work out my ta Chi and breathing exercisers. This has been my life mostly between home and the Museum. In the evening i would drop by the Taman Sadon Food Court and have tea and a bite to eat while hanging out with one of my close friends who sells 'Kueh' (like sweets) there. I know most of the people there as i have been frequenting the place over the years, Later on the way home i would drop by the 'Pondoks' by the sea where I would take it easy winding down sitting in one of the fisherman's huts built on stilts over the water contemplating life and resting from the humdrum of the city.

More floors are being added for further expansion into the sea; this is the symbolic fate of the Penang Malays; driven out into the sea. None to blame really but the Malays themselves in more than one way they sold the land right from under the feet of the citizensc           - or at least those they have been electing to run their lives for over fifty years - the snakes and the monitor lizards.

The Malays in Penang owe it to themselves to pull out of this rut they are in and the sooner the better and as not too many Malays were elected from the Opposition party (the BN) the wellbeing of their future is signed and sealed; in Penang; in the Chinese' hands.(for now). I do not see anything wrong with it as a matter of fact it is a hidden blessing for them as only patience will tell. Having close friends who are Chinese and having grown up among the penang born Chinese, i dare safely say the Malays in Penang are in safe hands if they can see better instead of acting out of ignorance or influences.

The Chinese on the other hand will have to come to a term with themselves with regards to the fate of the Penang Malays; how to coexis for the benefit of one and all. For over fifty years Penang residents have existed alongside of each other perhaps a whole lot more if we were to lokk all the way back to our first generation of Penangites. Our forefathers and mothers forged this State, this island into what it is today. It is imperative that the Penang Chinese will 'care' for their Malay counterpart and so too the Indians; to act otherwise will spell a long term disaster for us in all forms; we will never attain peace. We suffer in the meantime economically, environmentally, mentally and physically simply because those who we had elected to care for us had let us down;Badly. Now we have a new chapter of Governance for the Nation let us see how they fare compared to their predeccesors. Will they too drift into the pit falls of Greed -Hate - and Ignorance like those before them. Will the newly elected leaders keep to their vows of serving the people or will they forget and become self serving just like the many before them?

                                          Let us Learn from The Masters, let not their knowledge and wisdom go to waste. Their chilvalry and honesty, their skillfull means in handling our affairs all these years too must be acknowledge and given a favorable space in our history and this espccially those who had been the Leaders of the Opposition.  H>H.The Yang di Pertuan Agung should offer to these individuals their highest titles as offered direct from the peaople to these men who had been a intergral part of our nation building. THis is Not an offer made by the Government or any Ruler of States, this is the wish of the People. Do I need to start a campaign on this?