Learning from a masseuse

Thought of writing some serious stuff but after my last post, I was somehow bitten by the lazy bug.

So, for this one I'm just going to write something frivolous again.

Well, so many clever people had already written the serious stuff anyway.

This one is just about how I spent yesterday.

Woke up a bit late in the morning. Did the necessary and then some work.

After that I drove to office even though I was off yesterday because I have a meeting with a friend near the place.

After the meeting and lunch, I went to my usual spa.

Needed a massage because my body was aching over the past few days.

Been a bit of a stressful week, actually.

My current masseuse is a 40 year old lady from Roi Et province in Thailand.

I always requested for her to massage me at the spa because she's very good at what she's doing and I enjoy chit chatting with her.

Of course with her there's no annoying political talks.

She has a nine year old daughter back home and she is also supporting her elderly father.

We mostly talked about that as she massage me.

How's Aom doing at school? Is your father well? That sort of things.

Of course I never met her daughter, but now quite fond of the little girl just by listening to what she told me.

Whenever my masseuse went back to Thailand for a break from work, I would buy something for her daughter.

Anyway, from her story, I understood that her life has been a tough one.

She used to work in South Korea but switched to Malaysia after her father got really sick a few years back.

She needed to be nearer to home because of her father's condition, she said.

She wished she could go back to Thailand altogether but has to instead continue working here as she needs the extra money to fulfill her responsibilities.

I actually admire her for being such a strong woman.

She never really complained about her life and instead just told me her stories as a matter of facts.

I don't think I could ever be as tough as her.

Many of us Malaysians look down on foreign workers in this country, especially those such as my masseuse because of the nature of their work.

But we actually can learn from them, if we let ourselves be more open minded.

They are human being like us too, okay.

Some are actually even better people than us despite the kind of work they do.

They are definitely better than us who complain all the time over everything and blame others for our own shortcomings.

Well, at least now that PH is in power, I guess we Malaysians could stop blaming the government in the event we fucked up our own lives.

No more, Ini lah kerajaan yang kleptokrat sebab tu aku tak naik pangkat. Ini lah PM anak beranak dah curi semua duit sebab tu aku tak boleh nak kaya, Ini lah PTPTN, apasal pulak aku nak kena bayar balik pinjaman etc etc.

Yup, hopefully no more those sorts of nonsense.

Everything good about PH now.....not like that evil BN/Umno, right?

Eh, I'm getting serious pulak.

Sorry.

I better stop.

Here's a fun song instead for this early Sunday morning,

Cute, eh.

How I wish I had choosen a clarinet instead of the trombone when I joined my school band back then.

The lady playing the clarinet is so cool.

Okay, cheers and have a good Sunday guys.

Unfortunate rating of a Grab driver

I had wanted to get another Grab ride yesterday when the apps requested me to rate my previous ride.

It's the one I mentioned in this post,

• Getting Najib

I was a bit annoyed because I didn't feel like rating it.

But then again, I can't get another ride without doing so.

At first I had wanted to give just one star out of five for that ride because I really didn't enjoy the political sermon that the driver gave me throughout the ride.

Then I thought that would be quite mean. After all the car was clean and I reached my destination safely.

So I put two stars and submitted it.

However, the apps demanded for me to state my reason for giving the low rating for the ride.

I clicked on "others" and wrote a bit of "Please tell your drivers not to give unsolicited political lectures".

Really, it's so troublesome.

I wish Uber is still around.

Wahid Omar as an Uber driver back then. I don't think he gave political lectures to his passengers. 

It was so much more hassle free.

But seriously, why la people like that Grab driver have to force people to listen to such political lectures.

It's annoying, okay.

I know, I could have just told the Grab driver to shut up but I didn't like to take the risk of ending up quarrelling with him.

After all, I have bad experience with people like him.

They believe they were always right and those who are not with them are bad people....either Umno goons, racists or racist Umno goons.

Yup, I got those from people who commented in this blog.

I think many of you all PH people were quite nasty.

Either that or just plain condescending and annoying.

So, I rather not layan your comments too much.

The same case as that Grab driver.

What?

I also gave political lectures?

Hello, if I did that, it's in this blog of mine which is my own little corner of the cyberspace.

I never force anyone to come here to read what I wrote, okay.

I didn't even try to promote this blog by linking it to Facebook or twitter or even getting other bloggers to include it in their blog roll.

Well, there are a few other things I would like to write about but I needed to get this one done first.

I was just irritated that I have to rate that Grab ride and forced to give it a poor review.

I simply can't give the driver a good review instead because I really don't like him forcing me to listen to his political views and propaganda.

Still, I don't like doing that to people, and that includes even those whom I don't like.

Hopefully my review wouldn't affect him too much.

I know that he's simply want to cari makan driving Grab.

Okay, I'll write some more later in the day if I have the time.

Ciao.

Sympathy for Susanna and others at SPAD

This is quite unfortunate,

Gloomy days for SPAD staff

excerpts 1;

Around 30 per cent of the total current workforce of SPAD throughout Peninsular may not be absorbed into the new agency APAD (Agensi Pengangkutan Awam Darat), Road Transport Department (RTD) and Transport Ministry.

excerpts 2;

Back then, the announcement by Loke was greeted with huge sigh of relief among the commission staff. Today, the sombre mood in the commission’s headquarters is obvious.

I'm really sorry for the SPAD staff, especially those who are going to lose their job.

It's always not good to know that people are going to lose their job.

People got family to support, after all.

I can imagine the distress of losing my job and not being able to fulfill my responsibilities.

I'll probably end up doing this sort of things to earn a living if I lose my job;

Whatever it is, I do wonder why they have to make life hard for those SPAD people.

SPAD is after all not really a political agency like Jasa, that it needed to be shut down by the new PH government.

I'm quite sure some of the SPAD people who are going to lose their job voted for PH in GE14.

Well, that's just too bad for them.

Guess, they are whom PH people described as collateral casualties.

Personally, I don't think SPAD is doing a bad job.

They even promptly responded and acted on this posting of mine in March;

A terrible bus service

excerpts;

Anonymous27 March 2018 at 10:48

Hi Annie,
This is Susanna and I am an officer from SPAD. We have come across your blog post and have already proceeded to file the complaint as well as initiate investigation on the bus driver as well as the company. However, we would appreciate if your friend could get in touch with us if there is a need for further details to be added in this case. She can get in touch with SPAD through our Hotline SPAD 1800-88-7723 or e-mail aduan@spad.gov.my

Thank you

1. 
   Annie27 March 2018 at 12:00

   Hi Susanna
   Thanks to you and SPAD for responding to my posting. I will alert my friend about your request to get in touch with her. Cheers.

I hope Susanna and her friends at SPAD will be strong in facing this challenging time.

I pray that they will not face too much hardship.

Annie's bad habit and the stormbringer

A friend scolded me today.

"You was quite neutral for most of the Dr Mahathir-Najib fight, but how come you are now back supporting Umno and defending Najib? Are you stupid?," he said.

I told him that I was just writing what I observed and commented on them as how I felt.

"Come on la, it's clear for all to see that you are siding with them again now.Why are you siding with the losers?" he shot back.

At that point I was not really sure whether I should continue explaining myself to him.

It seemed pointless.

So, I just kept quiet.

My friend used to be a staunch supporter of Umno but he's now with Pribumi Bersatu.

He used to tell me that he switched sides to help topple Najib in order to save Umno.

But now he wants Umno to be shut down and all its member to join his new party.

Well, I know him well enough to know that when he got angry with me, I should just shut up.

Otherwise it would just become a shouting match between us.

I hate getting worked up like that, so I just let him ranted all he wanted.

Fine, he wins and I lose.

I'm okay with that.

I can manage my ego quite well, actually.

Anyway, I think I'm the way myself now because of

• My bad habit

Go ahead and click on that link and find out what's my bad habit.

I wrote that on March 3 2015, just about a month before the start of the Dr Mahathir-Najib fight which I marked with this posting on April 2 2015,

• A storm is gathering

Reading that post again made me sad.

Well, that's history now.

Hopefully the future would be better.

Here's a good old rock song which I should put with that post back then,

Nice, right :)

Najib's message

Getting Najib

Was waiting for Grab to get back to office from Bangsar when I received news of Najib's arrest today.

The Grab driver, a middle aged Chinese man was celebrating.

"Now we can throw Najib in jail and get back the billions that he stole. After that we'll get the others," he gleefully exclaimed.

Then he went on and on with the usual RM1 trillion debt, country about to go bankrupt etc.

I just kept quiet.

No point saying anything.

People like him have always wanted to see Najib going to jail.

It was after all a PH election promise.

One way or another they have to do this.

I just want to see how they are going to go about putting Najib in jail.

Next, it should be Rosmah, then Zahid, then the rest of those other people, as what the Grab driver said.

Well, that's how it's going to be over the coming days, weeks and months, I guess.

All these reminded me of the time when they first put Anwar in jail.

I was very young at that time but I remember the events well.

I remember that no mercy was shown.

They even brought to court the mattress on which Anwar allegedly had sex with Azmin's wife.

It was ugly, to say the least.

I wonder if Najib's case will be that bad.

Hopefully not so.

After all, Najib's case is more about money.

But still, anything could happen.

Well, at least the case is going to a real court instead of just public cyber lynching and trial by media as it is now.

However, if I have to bet on the outcome, I would not hesitate to choose where to place my money.

I just can't imagine Najib being found not guilty.

I think all the PH people would agree with me.

They have made up their mind about this.

Innocent until proven guilty....I don't think so.

Annie left the party

I decided to leave the party early last night.

I was simply fed up with it.

Further more, I was tired.

I'm not much into partying anyway.

Was there just because there's this white guy who invited me to be there.

Then everyone got drunk, which something I don't really like.

I know la that it was a bit of a beach party but the drinking was too much.

Well, white guys' beach parties are always like that.

So, I stayed there just for a while before claiming to the host that I was not feeling very well.

Managed to sleep early last night, which was good.

What?

Umno election results?

Err...it's like that lah.

Umno is a Malay party, so the results should reflect the kind of leaders that Malays want.

I think the other Malays dominated parties are also more or less the same.

Seriously.

The Umno people used to elect leaders such as Dr Mahathir and Anwar Ibrahim too.

Just like DAP being a Chinese dominated party.

That's why it has Kit Siang and his son Guan Eng as its leaders because Chinese prefer them to lead.

Same also in America. That's why they have Trump as president over there.

But I really don't have anything to comment about the Umno election results at the moment except to say that this seems quite good,

Zahid invites KJ, Ku Li to join new Umno leadership

That way they can get together to rebuild the party.

Hopefully Zahid really meant what he said.

Otherwise Umno will lose more good people.

Me?

I'm not an Umno member, okay.

I'm not even among those you can describe as good people.

So, that's about it.

Eh, here's this song to go with this Sunday mood;