Ants & Grasshoppers

My first blog post of the month, found a very good story to share and something for us to ponder again. No point for me to list what ugly things happening here, it's everywhere on the internet you can read the news. But one point to stress here, check out the moral of the story at the end of this post.

Older Version
An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the ant was warm, comfortable and had no shortage of food. The grasshopper had no proper shelter, no stored food, and couldn't find anything to eat from the snow-covered ground. So it died and the story ended.

Moral of the story: Be responsible for yourself!



New Millennium Version

An ant worked hard in the sweltering heat all summer, building its nest and laying up supplies for the winter.

A grasshopper thought the ant was stupid not knowing how to enjoy life. It spent its days laughing, singing & dancing thoroughly enjoying the summer.

Came winter, the shivering grasshopper called a press conference and demanded to know why the ant should be warm and well fed while he was cold and starving.

TV1, TV2 & TV3 showed up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper alongside to a video clip of the ant in his comfortable home with a table full of food.

The majority of the Malaysian Parliamentarians were stunned by the sharp contrast. How could this poor grasshopper be allowed to suffer?

Khairy staged a demonstration in front of the ant's nest.

Nazri went on a hunger strike along with other grasshoppers demanding that they be relocated to warmer climate area during winter.

The Malaysian Government immediately passed a law forbidding all ants from working hard in the summer so as to bring about equality of poverty between ants and grasshoppers.

Hishammudin increased 'More Special Reservations' for grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & Government Services..

The ant was fined for failing to share 30% of his food with the grasshopper. The Prime Minister announced that this was part of the NEP. No ant should question it. (Don't forget, Tax Audits were introduced and targeted at certain individuals who were eventually penalised heavily for not contributing enough to the well-being of the grasshoppers).

Many years later...

Some ants migrated to the US and set up multi-billion dollar companies there.

Hundreds of grasshoppers still died of starvation despite the 'More Special Reservations'.

Losing significant number of hardworking ants and free-loading the grasshoppers, Malaysia remained a developing country, despite its abundant natural resources.
All because the remaining ANTS were still doing their work.

Latest findings showed that almost all the grasshoppers in the political arena and civil service were hoarding corrupt wealth which they refused to share with fellow grasshoppers.

Moral of the story: Be careful of how you vote in 2011.


PS: Had been neglecting blogger for a bit, partly thanks to Twitter, had been microblogging more. So if you haven't sign up for Twitter, get one and follow me at http://twitter.com/mikemmery

Will You Go Back To Your Ex?

While driving to office this morning, I heard this interesting discussion over The Breakfast Show on mix.fm and events happening lately did triggered me to think about it on this beautiful Tuesday morning. I do not know whether I got the discussion topic right or not but it sounded like this, "Will You Return To Your Ex If He/She Comes For You?"

Hmm... that discussion got me think quite a bit. What is the possibility? I do not dare to write it off myself frankly. I had 3 relationships and all ended well, there are no sour notes between myself & my ex-gfs and we still very much keeping in touch. It had been 2 years though since my last relationship, I nearly got myself committed again mid this year and unfortunately in the turnaround of event, my heart & instinct told me that she is not the one and I decided to move on.

Going back to ex-flame, I believe it is very much depending on how that relationship ended. Will I go back to my ex-flame or will I ever find someone new? Or will I be better off being a single soul? Hmm... got to go back to my thinking again...

How about you? Will you get back to your ex?

Who Is Insulted?

This is a picture-less entry. It had been a real good holiday. For readers who are not Malaysian, 31st August is Malaysia's Independence Day, so it is holidays to all. I had a good mahjong session with my family, ate a lot of home cooked food, blasted the toilet many times. And today, my colleague & his family came down to my hometown, Melaka which I am proud to say that this historical city had just been listed as a prominent World Heritage Site of UNESCO recently.

Ok, I will put my posting on my hometown to another day when I compile more great pictures to share to all. I had just read the latest posting from Malaysia-Today which had been "blocked but not censored" by the Malaysia government. In case, some of you are finding difficulties accessing the original Malaysia-Today site, here is the optional link.

Ok, here's what prompted me to write the above title, if I were to call someone a pig, does that mean I am insulting the person or am I insulting the pig instead? Let's be fair, pigs are mammals too, at times certain people just made me felt that I am insulting the pig instead of them. Perhaps pig is more respected than them. Hmm... worth thinking...