Tongkat Ali of Life

“I’ve made a few mistakes in my life,

I learned from that mistakes,

Keep my head up high,

Pretend that I’m still standing,

Yet, thank God for giving me the strength ,

Without Him I don’t think I’m able to be here today,

For those who tried to take me down,

I am sorry to say that you have lost,

Sooner or later,

I’ll be coming,

I’ll be hunting,

Searching for you,

So you better run,

Run as far as you can,

Cause by the time I get you,

You wish you never been born,

You have been warned,

Hide your family,

Hide your little cute hunny,

When I get them,

I’m going to cut them into pieces,

I’m going to cook them up & eat it,

You don’t have to cry for help,

Cause there’s nobody is here to listen,

You can scream as loud as you want,

Cause there’s nobody hear to listen..”

Before you are reading this, I would like to tell you that I am not into politic or in any political parties. I wrote this down because I would like to express my neutral view on my beloved country, Malaysia.

Wow! After readying and analyzing the rally last Saturday on The coalition for Clean and Fair Election (BERSIH), as the citizen of Malaysia which have little knowledge about politic; it makes me confused. 

I am not into politic and I haven’t used my right since puberty. Democracy is a nice word to hear. Let the rakyat decide. Let the rakyat choose who is capable of leading this country towards peace & prosperity.   

I always believe that non-violent approached is the best answer to solve solutions. Until the last Saturday incident, it changed my mindset.

I no longer trust the local media. It is like a brainwash machine watching the prime time news. Seeing is believing. The local medias plays a vital role in telling the rakyat that everything is under control but the international medias shows otherwise. 

All the blog that I surf and the pictures were taken by the people and media last Saturday shows two-difference scenario.  The release of tear gas & water cannons by the authority. If the rally was not violence, why did the authority have to do so? 

Again, I am confused with all the political agenda that these opposition parties has.  On second thought, what does the opposition parties gain from joining this rally?  The one and only thing that the opposition parties’ want is clean & fair. 

The opposition parties did not ask for money or power. Is it the rakyat calling out for help or it is a political agenda from the opposition parties? Is it 60 non-governmental organizations or the six opposition’s parties setting up the rally? 

In actual fact, rakyat have been crying. Crying out for help, wishing & praying that someone is listening to his or her plea. The fuel price has risen tremendously. Soon, other stuffs like chicken, flour, sugar, cooking oil & God knows what else will goes up..?! 

The rakyat is crying, hoping that Yang di-Pertuan Agong is listening to the rakyat plea. 

My personal opinion, I don’t think that the rakyat or opposition parties is trying to drag the Yang di-Pertuan Agong into politic. 

Reminds me the history of Julius Caesar when he rules Rome.   

After a conversation with one of my friends, he told me despite taking 2 jobs, he brings back barely above 2K per month, he is happy as he is. 
 
I wonder how he can be as happy as he is considering he has to skimp his life with the low pay to support a pair of old parents, in-laws, a wife, 2 daughters and the many bills of a household. 
 
He explained that it was through one incident that he saw in India… that happened a few years ago when he was really feeling low and touring India after a major setback. 
 
He said that right in front of his very eyes, he saw an Indian mother chop off her child’s right hand with a chopper. The helplessness in the mother’s eyes, the scream of pain from the innocent 4-year-old child haunted him until today. 
 
You may ask why did the mother do so; had the child been naughty, had the child’s hand been infected?? No, it was done for two simple words - - - TO BEG! 
 
The desperate mother deliberately caused the child to be handicapped so that the child could go out to the streets to beg. Taken aback by the scene, he dropped a piece of bread he was eating halfway. And almost instantly, a flock of 5 or 6 children swamped towards this small piece of bread that was covered with sand, robbing bits from one another. The natural reaction of hunger. 
 
Stricken by the happenings, he instructed his guide to drive him to the nearest bakery. He arrived at two bakeries and bought every single loaf of bread he found in the bakeries. The owner was dumbfounded but willingly sold everything. He spent less than $100 to obtain about 400 loaves of bread (this is less than $0.25 per loaf) and spent another $100 to get daily necessities. 
 
Off he went in the truck full of bread into the streets. As he distributed the bread and necessities to the children (mostly handicapped) and a few adults, he received cheers and bows from these unfortunate. For the first time in his life he wondered how people could give up their dignity for a loaf of bread that cost less than $0.25. 
 
He began to tell himself how fortunate he is. How fortunate he is to be able to have a complete body, have a job, have a family, have the chance to complain what food is nice and what isn’t nice, have the chance to be clothed, have the many things that these people in front of him are deprived of… 
 
Now I begin to think and feel it, too! Was my life really that bad? Perhaps… no, I should not feel bad at all… What about you? Maybe the next time you think you are, think about the child who lost one hand to beg on the streets. 
 
“Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, it is the realization of how much you already have.” 
 
When the door of happiness closes, another opens, but often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one that has been opened for us. 
 
It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives. 
 
The happiest of people don’t necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way. 
 
The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.