Wednesday, March 25, 2009

SINISTER - A RE-VISIT

1.Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

2.Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.

3.Bureaucratic Socialism

Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

4.Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

5.Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

6.Real World Communism

You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

7.Militarianism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

8.TotalitarianismYou have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.


9.Pure Democracy

You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

10.Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.


11.BureaucracyYou have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

12.Pure Anarchy

You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.


13.Pure CapitalismYou have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

14.Capitalism

You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows,because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

15.Political Correctness

You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

SLOW DOWN?

Slow down, take it easy. "Rome wasn't built in a day." Impatience is one of the killers of enduring success. We are different, so why bother about looking or even fighting for similarities? Can't we just appreciate the differences and treasure the journey of our own until patience becomes a fixation?

I chose not to hate politics.

Saturday, March 14, 2009

ANIMAL FARM

1. Che Det puts it reasonably well. Language is not all about language per se.

2. He says, "Yang boleh meningkatkan taraf dan kemajuan bahasa ialah matapelajaran bahasa itu sendiri dan diperingkat yang lebih tinggi mata pelajaran sastera."

3. Again, this is about making choices. While some people feel that PSMI should be re-visited, there are indeed many people prefer the policy to stay put.

4. I opt to stay put.