So Lazy Can Die
Wonder if you’ve heard about this story back to primary school.
From what I remember,
“Once upon a time, [hello, story telling must have this to start off] there is a married couple staying at the little house. Husband was a very lazy fella, the wife will have to help him put on his shirt [è¡£æ¥张手], feed him [é¥Âæ¥张å£], do housework and earn money the family.
One day, the wife has to go to town for few days to do business. Knowing her hubby is lazy, she help him to clean his body, put on a clean cloth, thought that it might be clean enough for the days she away.
Being the smart woman, she also thought of an idea how to keep her husband fed! She tied up a very big size of biscuit around his neck, all he need to do is open the mouth and bite the biscuit. That seems like a great idea, isn’t it?
So, she happily away to town for few days.
When she is back from town, she saw her husband died on bed. The big biscuit was not even finished half. The husband only bite those around the neck, further down one, he is too lazy to pull up. Therefore he starved to death. “
Moral of the story:
1. Don’t be lazy to eat, especially you breakfast. :p
2. The wife seems pretty smart, but not smart enough, because ‘water’ is more important than food. Having no water for few days, you will die dehydrated. But that was not her fault at all, is the laziness kill the husband.
3. This story also reflected the certain issues, especially ‘I-cant-say-more-coz-it’s-sensitive-issue’ society. They have been spoon feeding for years, without guidance, support, protect or help, I guess many had died.
Wuching
on November 29th, 2006
hahahaha..my mum told me that story a long time ago! classic!
louyea
on November 29th, 2006
aiks…… i remember the version i heard is bout a “lazy women” wo?
cely
on November 29th, 2006
wuching: yup, the classic one… :p
louyea: hahaha, i remember it lazy man.. but at the end, the moral still the same ma :)
Boss Stewie
on November 29th, 2006
yes.. i am that lazy..
Reon
on November 29th, 2006
The question is, why would a woman marry to such a lazy worm in the first place?? Some story just don’t make sense at all, but it’s the morat that matters I think. Hahah.
andylkw
on November 29th, 2006
Heard it before. Dunno how long ago.
cely
on November 29th, 2006
boss: eh? who is feeding u all the time? hang fuk!
reon: yea.. not logic, but.. the moral of the story is more important .. hehehe
andy: very long time ago punya story…
Caker
on November 29th, 2006
You are talking about New Economic Policy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysian_New_Economic_Policy
earl-ku
on November 29th, 2006
no i believe this is what she is talking bout … or am i wrong …
hmm this sar lei ar … seldom see she talk bout stuff like this keh …
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/malaysia-bites-back-and-industriously-trades-the-insults/2006/11/28/1164476204980.html
Michael Backman
November 29, 2006
MY LAST column on wasteful government spending in Malaysia (Business, 15/11) generated a furore. I received more than 600 emails from readers, mostly Malaysians (both expatriate and in Malaysia) and nearly all supportive.
The column was the most emailed item on The Age’s website for six days straight and it was replicated in dozens of blogs worldwide.
My personal website received more than 50,000 hits. A Malaysian Government minister criticised the column publicly. And the Malaysian Opposition Leader issued a news release in its support.
The minister, Rafidah Aziz, Malaysia’s Minister for Trade and Industry, declared somewhat imperiously that she didn’t care what I said because I am a foreigner and I probably don’t know much about Malaysia anyway.
Rafidah knows her trade brief like few others. Her knowledge of the complex rules of the international trading system, with its many trade barriers, is remarkable. In meetings with other trade ministers, she rarely needs assistance from minders. Hard working and tenacious, I once thought she might make a reasonable prime minister.
But her technical abilities are marred by her mishandling of other issues, most recently her ministry’s allocation of much coveted car import permits. Most went to a handful of well-connected businessmen, including her own relatives.
The issue exploded in Malaysia late last year and she was lucky to keep her job.
And then there are the corruption allegations. In 1995, in a report to the attorney-general, the public prosecutor said there was a prima facie basis for Rafidah’s arrest and prosecution on five counts of corruption.
An opposition activist later acquired official documents that appeared to confirm this. He was jailed for two years under the Official Secrets Act simply for possessing them. Rafidah, on the other hand, was not even charged.
Rafidah added to her remarks about my column that no Malaysian should say such things. It’s little wonder that she doesn’t welcome scrutiny from her own people. But then the idea that Malaysians cannot comment publicly about how their country is run but a non-Malaysian can, is disgraceful.
Perhaps Rafidah needs to be reminded who pays her salary.
And as if to underscore my points about waste, on the day that my column was published, an assistant minister told the Malaysian Parliament that Malaysia’s first astronaut to be sent into space next year aboard a Russian space mission will be tasked to play batu seremban, a traditional Malay children’s game played with pebbles, will do some batik painting and will make teh tarik, a type of Malaysian milky tea, all to see how these things can be done without gravity.
The day before, the Government announced that a new RM400 million ($A142 million) palace will be built for Malaysia’s king, a position that is almost entirely ceremonial.
And the week before a groundbreaking ceremony was held for a second bridge between Penang and the Malaysian peninsular costing RM3 billion, a bridge that many consider unnecessary.
Where would the money be better spent?
Education is the obvious answer. But not on school buildings, for it matters less in what children are educated than how. And how children are educated in Malaysia is a national disaster.
Learning is largely by rote. In an email to me last week, one Malaysian recalled her schooling as being in a system all about spoon-feeding, memory work and regurgitation.
Students are not encouraged to think for themselves and they become adults who swallow everything they’re told.
Even the existing system fails many. It has just emerged that in Sabah state, only 46 per cent of the students who had sat the UPSR  the exam that students sit before going to secondary school  had passed. One small school actually had a 100 per cent failure rate.
But does the Malaysian Government want creative, critical thinkers? Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi said to the ruling party’s recent general assembly Malaysia needed to make students creative. But that means they must be questioning and thus critical; what hope is there of that when one of Abdullah’s own ministers tells Malaysians that they cannot say the things that I can and hundreds of them write to me to complain because they don’t feel that they can complain to their own Government?
Malaysia needs to do something. Its oil will run out soon and it has lost much of its appeal to foreign investors  recent UN figures show that from 2004 to 2005, foreign investment in Malaysia fell by 14 per cent, when the world economy was enjoying one of its longest periods of growth. One might wonder what the Trade and Industry Minister has actually been doing.
But, while politicians from the ruling party preach about Malay nationalism, there are at least some who quietly go about the business of trying to secure the country’s future. Not all of them are Chinese.
Two weeks ago, Malaysia’s MMC Corporation, together with a local partner, won a $US30 billion infrastructure deal in Saudi Arabia. That’s a huge undertaking for any company, let alone a Malaysian one, and just as well too  someone has to pay the bills.
earl-ku
on November 29th, 2006
Malaysia Bodoh Part 2 …
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lim0806
on November 30th, 2006
ooh… Cely had turn political! great that you shared. and I do agree that our government have some bad apples….
andylkw
on November 30th, 2006
walau. earl, do you need to post the entire article here? hehehe. It’s really sad that we need an outsider to critisize for us.
Joash Chan
on November 30th, 2006
what a odd story. I think the story was made up by a mother whose child she had to feed all the time. So she made up the story to scare him, just like the “if you’re naughter, police will catch you” stories…
Reon
on November 30th, 2006
That guy should be in modern hospital, treated like a koma man. Then he shall survive for long, I think. Hahaha~ Actually the moral of the story is, you need to take action on your own, even for the simplest things to be successful?? Hmm, somehow I feel it this way. :)
cely
on November 30th, 2006
caker, earl: i actually dun intend to reflect the ’spoon feeding’ fact… thanks for reminding…
kokhong: i m trying to avoid potical issues, will leave these to experts :)
andy: we are not good enough, sure ppl criticize..
joash: hahaha… did ur mama made up story like this to scare u?
reon: yes, simple story but meaningful.
Caker
on November 30th, 2006
You don’t have to be an expert to know about politics. All you need to do is - beside reading main-stream newspaper, you get news from alternative source eg. malaysiakini.com, malaysia-today.net, and merdekareview.com. Warning, the more you read from the independent news, the more you dulan about the Government. Also, you cannot avoid yourself from politics issues, no one can.
Mr. Billyham
on November 30th, 2006
i dun care, as long as i can fuck the gal i like, masturbate with both of my hands….i dun care…
yoyoyo, Richard Billyham!!!!
cely
on November 30th, 2006
caker: avoid from talking in my blog.. :p
mr.billyham: why no update ur blog?
Joash
on November 30th, 2006
My mom doesn’t have to make up stories to scare me. She has REAL LIFE stories!! And even if she doesn’t have any story, she can just nag & nag & nag….
earl-ku
on November 30th, 2006
Billyham: you mean u jack off with both hands? then how to fast forward the video? then how to hold the tissue to prevent any splurts?
wakakakakaka
Mr. Billyham
on November 30th, 2006
uku: yeah, cant hold it with single hand, too sad…..well, i dun watch porn, and no tissue in my room, ill cum into my mouth…ok? anymore question?luku jai
thiamhin
on December 1st, 2006
i must admit that most of us are the product of the spoon feeding by the government. cannot think and follow what the government told us. we should feel ashamed that a foreigner nationality can question our policies but our own citizens can’t. but i will always remember the 3 big word…ISA…this ISA have prevented many to speak up against anything deemed to be jeopardised the national security. i have known some ISA detainees in their 40s and 50s and most of them will tell me that don’t get caught or else. for now, we should keep our feeling behind when the time come… i don’t to be part of the statistic of jail bloggers…
andylkw
on December 1st, 2006
Hahaha, u got me wrong again. I mean very sad, we cannot critisize but an outsider can critisize.
cely
on December 2nd, 2006
joash: hahaha… most of the moms also nag :p
thiamthin: i agreed with u..
andy: oopss.. now i know..
Justin
on December 4th, 2006
lol..My mum told me about this story before =p~!
cely
on December 4th, 2006
justin: Hehe, yea, long time story that was…
Robert
on January 12th, 2007
This parable is the funniest story that I’ve read in a long time! While she was at it, she should have tied a bucket beneath her hubby since he is too lazy to go to the bathroom. Also, she should tie bells on him to alert the neighbors should he stray out of the house and be too lazy to return. The bells would enable the neighbors to locate him so they could lead him back to the house. Better yet, tie a rope around him to keep him from straying too far from the house - [i]The rope would stay attached because hubby would be too lazy to untie it.[/i] I love this story, lol.