After Eight with a chicken, goat & bag
Mmmmm... after a scrumptious dinner of German pork knuckles my stomach is to my brain what a ball and chain is to a prisoner!
Cruising Thro' Class
If there's anybody who does work it's me! hehe
For Bio we were to finish both the objective and subjective components of the 1997 A-Level Papers for our 11am class. Knowing me, well, I completed none of the questions. Don't even ask whether I looked at the paper at all. But there was no problem when it came to giving out the answers in class as I got the easy ones...
...until I pissed missy jeeva (of Ask Jeeves fame; you get superb answers fr jeeva I tell ya) off by taking a break when she said no way. So she sauced me with a tough question. Thank goodness I managed to worm my way out again. But if I were to answer like that in the AS, oh mana boleh dapat "A"?
As for Physics, we had lab with wan (not of the bapok chef wan fame) for another round of his famous oscillating rulers. Oh, and we had to evaluate wan's performance in class. Don't see why we have to do so; after all he's leaving next semester/year.
Samy Vellu
One of the old guards of the Mahathir era still in Badawi's cabinet, he is our incomparable Works Minister. Remember the chicken, goat and bag joke about him that invariably crops up every election? It goes like this:
Dr.M calls for an emergency Cabinet meeting and Samy is in India. So a telegram is sent after him. Moments later he replies with a cryptic message - 3 pictures from left to right, of a chicken, goat and bag. What can it all mean? All our eminent Cabinet Ministers scratch their heads. What in the Works Ministry's name could this joker be up to? Still @#$%ing in India, eh?
Dr.M guffaws at that thought (guffaw as in Ghafar Baba? not quite even though Ghafar made the news recently when he divorced his wife)... he seems not the least perturbed, much to the consternation of his fellow Ministers who are waiting for Samy to solve some highway problem - a problem that might sway the electorate to the opposition.
Dr.M: Apalah, dia kata "Ayam kambing beg"! (when pronounced sounds like "I am coming back", so he's not the least worried)
That badly told joke just goes to show what the rakyat, the Indian community in particular, thinks of the great Samy. He is one brilliant chap in the eyes of the rakyat. They should actually make a line of talking dolls in his honour. What with the Samy-isms he seems to be coming up with over the MRR2 fiasco.
The MRR2 -- Middle Ring Road 2 in Kepong, Selangor -- or to be precise its flyover section, cost us RM238,000,000. At that price you could buy around 30 Ferraris, and all of them would come to you in tip-top rip-roaring perfection. But not the MRR2. Of the 33 beams that hold it up, 31 are defective. The cost of repairs? A heart-stopping RM20,000,000. Wow! Now that could buy many a homeless dude food to last a year and equip them with the necessary skills to eke out a living (if our Welfare Dept. does its job).
And what has Samy to say about this? "Our office is always open to the ACA..." -- what! He has to tell the ACA that? They didn't know that? Wow. Lovely enforcement agencies we have. Even the rakyat thinks/perceives/sees that the ACA is locked out of the government agencies they are supposed to investigate. And with that reassurance, we have a transparent government, right? Words sure speak louder than actions. All this is still on the commendable side though as he continues, "...come in and take the relevant files". Ooooh-kay. Now that proves we have a transparent government/Works Ministry! >sigh<
We sure are a gullible bunch in his eyes for his next statement is, "Let the ACA investigate. Until then we stop work. We will not open the road [or touch it] for 3 months." Something fishy is definitely going on. When ever has the government had to resort to a workers union type strike when investigated by an independent Anti-Corruption Agency? Well, we have history in the making and let's all be proud to share a bit of it.
I wonder if Samy were PM? Would that kick-start his line of talking dolls? Bush has a whole line of them all saying "nucular" &etc. Wouldn't it be nice to own a Samy doll? (ah, a Sammi Cheng blow-up doll in the vein of wei-lyn's dirty thoughts would be nicer)
The government better get to the bottom of this silly affair before we all look like we are on Cartoon Network's "Cartoon Cartoon Show". Oh, one more thing. Samy sure loves the limelight -- the only one allowed to dish out a gag is himself after he issued a gag order on all staff of the Works Ministry ("Only I can talk!" refers). Maybe there are some whistle-blowers ala Enron who gag on nice thick you-know-whats that rhyme with thick? Well, they better keep quiet or face the wrath of Samy! Watch out, he's coming to get you, in a store near you (his dolls-lar).
Arnie, the T2, has his "I'll be back..."
Samy, the MRR2, has his "Ayam kambing beg..."
Posted at 8/19/2004 11:36:19 pm by nicholasaw
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