Humanity and All It's Glory

The world was so beautiful. The world was so good. It was only always about who gets to be friends with who. And when you don't get to be friends with that group, go find a group who'll be friends with you. It was never about who you are and what color's on your back, but rather what was it you liked to do. Play game-books? Play court games? Football? Life was so beautiful and there were so much to look forward to. Teachers and parents would ask everyone their ambition, their dreams, their ultimate destinations. Everyone would think and analyse and study their likes and their don't likes. They would see which ambition suits them, and how they can get to where they wanted to be. Doctor? Pilot? Engineer? Business man? Everyone had awesome ambitions and dreams. 

What does a doctor do? They heal people and save lives. What does a Pilot do? They fly huge and sophisticated aeroplanes. What does an Engineer do? They are humanity's forefront in technology. No they're not. They create the sophisticated planes that pilots fly. What does a businessman do? They make a lot of money. 

Nobody knew the significance of race, and what it meant to anyone. Nobody knew why they needed to fill in the 'Bangsa' in all forms given. Nobody had much money. They were all given just enough to last one lunch and maybe one tea. Some would have more some would have less. It's okay. They'll all share. Everyday. Without any spite. Not the color, not the creed, not the class. Just that if a friends needs help, help will be given. Because it was the right thing to do. 

The older one becomes, the more wicked the world becomes. So the world is segregated by race and religion and class and creed. Why? Because the world is so diverse, with so many people from so many parts with so many different ideas. But instead of trying to understand each other, people shut out those who do not agree. They are called weird, they were labelled according to culture and teachings. They were opposed, suppressed, enslaved. Everyone wanted to have their own way at things. Nobody wanted to try to understand the mechanism behind a working method. Just that it did not come from any of their 'kind' it was automatically rejected. Who cares who's method you use, so long as it is for the greater good of all mankind? Everyone cared, because nobody bothered about the good of mankind. They were all only out to protect themselves.

Money became everything a person would live for. It became everything a person could live for. Face, dignity, glory, greatness. They all depend on how much money one has. Whatever it is you strive to achieve in this world, money is almost always the only answer. 

Humanity was a beautiful race. Kids were raised watching cartoons and Animes of people's sacrifices to protect each other and lesser beings. The kids had such high hopes for humanity and what it represented. They were all fake. All shit. Humanity is the one only thing that has been causing so much destruction to the world in the little time they inhabit it. Humanity is the smartest of all beings in the world, yet they are the most disappointing. They pillage, kill and conquer each other to satisfy their Egos. They hunt and torture and slaughter animal for sport. Disgusting and filthy humans. I'm embarrassed to be associated with humanity.

Remove Them Blinkers

I was driving in town, heading towards a traffic light junction. I was going to take the slip stream turning left, and there was a Singaporean car in front of me doing the same. As we were making the turn, I noticed a white couple waiting at the edge of the Zebra Crossing for traffic to allow them passage. The Singaporean car stopped for them. As they were crossing, another man reached the Zebra Crossing and was about to make the cross when the car suddenly moved and forced him to step back to the curb. That man appeared to be Bangladeshi.

At the end of 2010, parts of Peninsula Malaysia were struck by flood. News reported daily updates of the dead, stranded, and destroyed. Twitter and Facebook spread minimal news of the event. A week later parts of Brisbane flooded. Twitter and Facebook were full of daily updates on people inconvenienced by that flood.

Many years ago Asian ladies would die to be married to a white guy. It doesn't matter where they're from or how they look or how old they are. White was white was white. And white was superior. White was God Race. Well that was many years ago.

Nowadays Asians who study abroad get to know and mingle with this so-called God Race, and find them rather..... ungod-like. They don't breathe fire, they don't wield thunder striking hammers, they can't stare you to death. They're not even all that smart, come to think of it. They're human, they bleed red and they learn like us and make mistakes like us and die before 100 years old like us.

What was it that makes this kind of people so superior, besides the fact that they gave us The Renaissance and The Industrial Revolution and The Rococo and The Penicillin and air planes and trains and cars and roads and toilets and sewers and electricity and phones and Coke and McDonald's and The Internet and democracy? Nothing. They're exactly like any of us Asians, only fairer and fatter from climate and culture.

But I bet some would disagree. They are those who will talk different when with a white, drink all kinds of Monets just to look 'cultured', celebrate ID4 more passionately than 31st August, wish they could bleach their skin to look more 'elite' and do not let their kids learn their mother tongue so they wouldn't have the accent.

I say screw all who still worship selected races. Have some dignity, people! We are exactly the same inside. Our lack of influence in the world's history was not caused by lack of intelligence, rather lack of opportunities. So they were the first ones who occupied the world and discovered fire. Given us the same amount of time we'd get them done right too! And why was it that our leaders believed what Marx said?!

We gave the world fireworks ( which ultimately led to all wars known to Man) and mathematics and astrology . Not much, but not that bad considering.

Zombies R Us

Have you done something simply because everybody else is doing it? Have you chose paths in life you have no idea why you did? Have you made a choice that the only choice you will make is not to choose? Have you lost your nerves? I have.

Get yourself stuck in the traffic jam. Do you keep out of the yellow boxes? Do you leave a spot in intersections for cars to pass even when you don't have to? Do you readjust your car's position to allow motorbikes space to pass? Did you not do them because nobody do them and you'd look weird if you do? Do you beat that red light because everyone else is doing it? Spineless wimps.

You love Thom Yorke so much, when he farted you recorded it, psychoanalysed it and called it an experimental work of art. You love Apple so much when they launched the Face Talk which can only be used on Wifi connections as compared to Video Calls on 3G, you called it a revolutionary advancement in technology. You love BMW so much when they launched the ugliest 6-Series and X6 a few years back, you thought they deserve a spot in The Louvre.

People take a bloody stand! So what if nobody else thinks the same? So what if you're the only person in the world who's doing it? They may insult you or sneer or laugh at you. Deep down inside, I guarantee you, they admire you for having the balls to stand up for what you believe in.

Most of us go through the most uneventful lives any self-aware being on Earth can ever waste a century of existence on. Grow up, study and study and study, graduate or not graduate, work work work work work, get car get house get wife (husband) get married get kids, work work work work, retire and die. What makes life mean more than pathetic is when you have something to stand up for. A reason, a purpose, a mark, a goal. I'm not talking about making money. Money is only as useful as you are shallow. I'm talking about making a difference. Saving sharks or greening your lifestyle or going on a paleo/vegan diet or even stopping your car outside of yellow boxes when driving. It makes you you.

Tough Decision Making

Life sucks. It gives you the perception that you have the power to make a choice and decide for yourself, then gives you hell for making the wrong ones.

Sometimes the math is easy. Go to a 7-Eleven, ask for a Marlboro Menthol, get one, you're happy. Then there are times you don't get what you want. Go to a 7-Eleven, ask for a Marlboro Menthol, get lung cancer, you die.

Here are some of the things you may want to consider on your day-to-day decision making process.

1. Car Turn Signals
You're a good person, and you think your extra amounts of education sets you apart from those who throw rubbish and spit out of their cars. The Law and the radio tells you to use the car turn signal before changing lanes, coming out of and going into junctions. Good job.
You keep using your car turn signals when driving, and can't help but realize that whenever you do that, cars always quickly close up the gaps to not allow you a chance to change lanes. It's like there's a sticker stuck on the back of your car saying: I've got Rabies, don't let me pass.

In Malaysia this is what you do. You spot that space between some cars through your rear-view, wait for it to arrive. And once you're about to make the jump, turn your steering wheel while sticking your little finger out so that it conveniently flicks the turn signal lever too. That way you make the lane change while being able to sleep at night.

2. Traffic Light Lambada
You're stuck in everyday traffic congestion created by 5 traffic light intersections on a 1 km road. This happens a lot in Malaysia because it's the laziest way the Traffic Ministry 'solve' congestion problems. The light is red. It has been red for ages. You're the first in line, and cars from the other roads are zooming pass frantically.
Then the light on your road turns green. But there's a problem. The previous lanes' cars are not stopping for their red light. It went on for a couple of seconds before you finally decided to try to scare them by braving across the intersection. Then you see a car swerve pass yours, almost colliding, and you could've sworn you lip read him screaming at you " Cannot wait ah?!!!"

Really? Apparently he's the impatient one stealing your turn to use the intersection, and all he could say was "Cannot wait ah??"???

Here's what you should do. Buy a 15-year old Land Rover Discovery or Grand Cherokee and drive it to work everyday. When faced with these situations, brave it and see if anyone is stupid enough to challenge you. In case of an accident, tell the cops the light was green on your side, and remember never NEVER to quote Rant Sack on your decision to ram onto those cars. Oh! Walk up to those fellas you hit and ask them why they could not wait their turn.

3. Greener Us
I'll tell you why public transportation can never improve here in KL. It's not rocket science. All you have to do is take a trip to some other country with properly functioning public transport system, and try to adapt it into KL streets. They know how it should be done. But then nobody will buy those crappy little locally assembled and re badged Japanese cars and the companies will close down.

It's actually better to take public transportation, because it takes many cars out of the streets and reduce petrol usage and emissions. Provided of course you can accept the following:

a) Ghetto on Wheels. That's what some foreigners call our taxi service. The cabbies don't wash their hair, don't wash their shirts, and look like they haven't slept for days. What's worse, the cabs smell like the sewers. We haven't even began with the fact that majority of them don't use meters and charge a bomb for short trips. And that ladies would constantly have to have one of their hands in the hand bags, gripping that pen knife or pepper spray for the entire journey, praying for safe arrival half a kilometer away from home just so the cabbies don't know where they stay. And what if they start taking you into weird little roads and alleyways?

b) Factories on Wheels. More like 3rd-World Factories on Wheels. One wonders how they could ever pass the Puspakom tests. Maybe the good government gave the blind, deaf, dumb and smell-ability-less' opportunity to work in the department. Buses spew immense amounts of black smoke every time the driver floors the accelerators. Shanghai already have buses running on electricity. Very DIY, but effective nonetheless.

After weighing the pros and cons, the best choice is to buy that little crappy excuse for a car and park it in the middle of LDP every morning and evening, 5 days a week. Because you'll most probably not get raped, because it won't smell of the sewers, because you won't hear your cabbie telling you how they're being underpaid and have no money for their medical bills, and because one bus emits the same amount of carbon dioxide as 132 cars.

4. Plastic Supermarkets
Penang has officially turned No Plastic Bag Everyday. KL has just started No Plastic Bag Saturdays. Here's the thing. Do you not have rubbish bins at home? Do you not fill those bins with plastic bags? Do you not then throw them into bigger bins and wait for rubbish trucks to collect them once a week?
Previously households would use the plastic bags they get from supermarkets as rubbish bags. That was a very effective way of Reusing something. Now nobody accept plastic bags from supermarkets, and they buy rubbish bags from those supermarkets, which essentially ARE plastic bags! I don't know about you, but this is making me feel very stupid.

Alam Flora is going to implement a trashing system of only using black plastic bags. This doesn't mean we stop taking multicolored plastic bags from supermarkets because we can't use them for trash. It means supermarkets will have to start giving out black-colored plastic bags instead, to allow us Re-usage. But they won't. Because the smartest thing to do is to convince the public that taking plastic bags for free from supermarkets is wrong! That way they can cut some serious costs. On top of that, the public will have to buy those black bags from the supermarkets, which equals profit! Call it smart supermarkets of stupid consumers.

Remember: Rant Sack is written by a dumbass with no education qualifications whatsoever. Don't listen to what he says. He's just stupid and bored and have no friends to hang out with.

I Do It Because

I drink less water everyday because I'm afraid of getting lost in a desert someday, and not have enough willpower to go days without water.

I don't eat breakfast because I don't want to have a habit of eating it, then suddenly not doing it due to time constraints and ending up with gastric.

I don't eat Panadol because there will come a day when I really really need it, only to find myself immune to its effects.

I replace the expensive antennae on my new car with a cheap fake one which don't really work because I'm scared the expensive one would be stolen.

I don't buy genuine branded goods because I'm afraid someone might steal it

I leave the plastics in my new car on because that way the seats won't get dirty

I practice to poo once every 3 days because that way when I go camping, I can hold on a few days without needing to poo.

I drive like a psycho bitch every day because I know there will come a day when I need to drive that way when rushing to a hospital.

I hold pee in my bladder for hours sometimes because I'm training for days when I'll be stuck in traffic a long time. That way I'll be mentally prepared.

I still eat at dirty restaurants because I think that it keeps my immune system strong.

I'll borrow my friend's Manual Transmission car for a drive every once in a while because when there's a killer zombie chasing after me, and the only car available is a stick, I'd be able to drive off with it.

I hurt myself sometimes to train my resistance to pain because there will come a day of war and I might become a prisoner of the enemy.

I would skip meals every now and then to train my mental strength because there might come a time of famine.

I sometimes fill myself silly with alcohol and drive home because I'd like to train my perception to surpass the alcohol's influence.

I never watch the very final episode of all my favourite TV series because if I do it'll be over... Forever.


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