Just Feel Better
Posted by rotidua at 01:39 AM on February 3, 2006.
Posted by rotidua at 06:04 AM on February 7, 2006.
Heat,
It could drive you mad. Bonkers. Little stuffs that normally would not bother you would seem extremely irritating.
Tempers flare. Stuff that you would not normally say would be said. On a higher decibel to boot. Stuff that you would regret later.
In an asbestos/zinc roofed house sans air-conditioner, the temperature seemed to be higher a few notches. Now not only you are short-tempered, you are sweaty and lazy too. All you want to do is be somewhere else.
So when someone does not do the stuff you want themm to do, you snap.
Regrettably so. hopefully.
Posted by rotidua at 06:21 AM on February 7, 2006.
Aku yang tengah sedap menjilat jari jemari mimpi, tersentak oleh satu pijakan ke perut ku.
Sekarang bukan sahaja perit bahana makan sisa nasi goreng USA yang mamat indon tercicir ditengah jalan semasa Operasi Boyan Boleh Belah XXVI semalam menelinjang dalam perut aku, kini rasa senak ditambah dengan sukarianya oleh budak berhingus nih.
Dalam larian aku yang tak berapa comel menyusup masuk dalam lubang longkang bawah rumah, terdengar laungan budak tuh mengazankan kesan cakaran dan gigitan aku pada mak dia. Aku tergelak kecil (tak boleh gelak besar, sakit perut) puas dengan kerja aku hari tu.
Lain kali jangan pijak perut kucing ok?
Posted by rotidua at 02:24 AM on February 9, 2006.
Once, Upon A Time – Pearl Jam, An Absurd Theatre
Kumata
Father
Mother
ACT 1
A living room. Afternoon
Father is sitting in his lazy chair, flipping through a newspaper.
Enter Kumata:
KUMATA:
(rushes in) Oh Father! Jeremy spoke in class today!
FATHER:(incredulously) Once?
KUMATA:(nodding, still out of breath) It’s been two years, and counting. (calling out to someone off stage) Mommy dear! Jeremy spoke in class today!
FATHER:This could be the day, hold my hand, walk beside me. (Kumata looked at him as if the father has some terrible disease) I will walk…into your garden.
KUMATA:I won’t be taken, yet I’ll go.
Enter Mother, carrying a mop.Ah, hey foxymophandlemama. Jeremy spoke in…
MOTHER:Everything you imagine needn’t be stuck in your mind. I got scratches all over my arm. (pointing the mop handle to father) It was you, you. And f--- me if I say something you don’t want to hear. And f--- me if you only hear the treble in your head. And you’re not leaving here without me. (spotted something) Cigar box on the floor! Whiskers in the sink! Vacate is the word.
FATHER:I did what I had to do. What to say, what to say. Escape is never. (turning to Kumata) She don’t want to leave this way. (pleads with Mother) Hold on to the thread. The currents will shift. You don’t have to stray. Hold tight the ring.
MOTHER:Why would you wanna hurt me? (getting tearful) But I guess it was the beatings that made me wise. Fool to your crown. Fist on my plate, swallowed it down. Saw things so much clearer, once you (sobbing now) once you were in my (sobbing) rear view mirror. (drops the mop on the floor and starts to exit)
FATHER:(panicly) Please don’t go out on me now. I swear I never took it for granted, don’t go on me now. Now you’re getting sharp.
Silence.
Mother exits
Father and Kumata does not move.
Curtain
Posted by rotidua at 03:36 AM on February 14, 2006.
Rumours that a major upheaval in the cabinet line-up is making its rounds lately. Although not much of a political observer, I have great hope that Pak Lah would actually pick the 'best man for the job'*
Hopefully, the person that Pak Lah would pick does have some understanding of the position that he/she is filling. It is just frustrating to wade through some of the smoke and mirrors that some ministers put up when trying to give light on a certain problems. We, at least for me, had enough of the 'We will look into the matter / I have no knowledge of that matter / Let the police do their job first' etc. etc. comments.
And if they do reply, it is filled with enough hot air to blow up two Hindenburgs. They're either skipping gingerly around the issue, or touched upon it, but not getting to the crux of the matter.
It is a long shot, but hopefully, the ministers wouldat least have some credentials in their respective posts. Thus, the Information Minister would have some backround in TV production or something; the Finance Minister is a former Bank Negara Governor etc. etc.
Although an aristarchy government is virtually impossible to set up, the idea of it is quite irresistable. With it, we are assured that a matter would be headed by a qualified or experienced people. The Minister would know in depth about the subject of the matter thus would be able to make the correct or best decisions. The least an informed one.
But then, Plato did envisioned the aristarchy government in his quest to seek his utopia, so I guess we would still end up nowhere.
Posted by rotidua at 01:15 PM on February 18, 2006.