Rambling Insanities of a Bear’s mind

Its that time of the year again, everyone’s hopping on the commercial bandwagon to celebrate our Hari Merdeka, or in English, Independence Day. Independence? Yes, the day we celebrate the official signing over of the country’s rights to our forefathers who fought for it, to free ourselves from the yoke of oppression from the British Empire.  Yes, we celebrate the 31st of August as the day we were free! Free! Yeah right, free… It will be the 49th Anniversary of Malaysia’s independence from being just another foreign colony, what do we have to show for it? Where is our pride in our nation? Where are we as a people? Now, we have ‘Merdeka Sale! Only until 31st
August!’ every freaking year for the whole freaking month of August. Don’t get me wrong, to some people ‘SALE‘ is a good four-letter word. But I feel that we’re not as patriotic as we used to be, we’ve lost the pride in the nation that has put us on the world map, we’re no longer a developing or a 3rd world country, I mean come on man, back in ‘97 we just thumbed our noses at the IMF and the World Bank (biggest thieves on the whole planet I tell you) due to the strength of our leader (then). I for one, am proud that we managed to stand tall  despite the  hardship we were facing with the Asian Economic Crisis of 1997. But I’m talking about way back when, when people still remember that some people DIED to make this country a real country, that we’re nobody’s lapdog (a couple of 1st world nations come to mind) and that in this region, we’re the most politically and economically stable, and hell yeah! I sure wanna keep it that way! So have pride in yourself and this fine country we live in (no fines, duit kopi only, but even that is changing), revel in the fact that we can get piping hot, FRESHLY COOKED food at any damn time of the day or night that we want, that its a bloody short walk away, that we can insult a friend of another ethnic group with a racial slur to his face and have him laugh his ass off and insult you right back, that we have freedom to practice our religions (or not) as we see fit. That we are  MALAYSIAN! Have a good and happy Hari Merdeka ke-49 or as they say in the lingua franca of the world: 49th Independence Day.

*SIGH* So, like yeah, this is my 3rd time trying to post this here blog post, hope it works, 3rd time lucky and all that stuff eh? As I was trying to say in my previous two attempts to blog this ramble… I was sitting in the living room with OtherHalf watching what else? Cartoons! Hee! Ah, not the animated japanese stuff though, we were watching the 5:30 to 7:00 PM cartoon block, Totally Spies followed by Kim Possible on Disney, and then switching over to Cartoon Network for Justice League Unlimited. And she says I watch too many cartoons, which hence brings us to version 3 of this post which I bloody hope I don’t delete by accident again!!! Yeah, on with the rambling… that comment made me think back to when we were all lil kiddies with nothing like Justice League or X-Men Evolution style mixed artistic style cartoons. We instead had cooler ones like Transformers, M.A.S.K, G.I. Joe, Robotech (the English mish-mashed one thank you), He-Man, She-Ra, Centurions and the like, then you had some obscure but totally cool ones like Visionaries, Starcom and Sky Commanders, and Bravestarr and Thundercats (lame now, but so totally rocking back then). Needless to say, I know add new toons like Gargoyles and Lilo & Stitch and all these new fangled ones to my cartoon repertoire, which reminds me, I have the entire collection of Robotech on DVD somewhere in the house, boxed set too. And reminds me I need to get the Clone Wars Animated Series Collection too. Anyway, here’s to the trip down memory lane and early Saturday morning’s on TV3!!! (Since we didn’t have Astro back then eh?)

‘Work‘ Now that is a bad 4-letter word. But without ‘work‘ you won’t get ‘cash‘ which is a good 4-letter word, so you gotta take the bad with the good, or was it the other way around. Anyway… I get ‘paid‘ (yet another good 4-letter word) soon, so I guess I just gotta live through a few more days of ‘work‘ which has been lately driving me up the wall. You might think ‘yeah, why is he complaining? he’s got a cushy job sending people far and away’ Well, I send THEM far away, not send ME far away, see the difference? THEY pay ME to send them far, far away, but like boomerangs they come right back. Well rested, well fattened up, and well roasted by that big shiny thing in the sky during what is called the ‘daylight hours’ To me, it just means sitting in the office taking calls, idling on the mud, dealing with idiots, musing on my various trips taking me on the journey to insanity, and writing down said voyages since I’m on the blogwagon. Anyway I’m rambling… which is what this is about, so there! *razz* Long story cut short, I need money and I need a vacation. That is all… Thank you, and good night.

Okay, so here I am, like getting on the blog-wagon thats been trundling along, I guess you could say I got bored of walking along behind and refusing to climb on. But yeah, I got tired and bored so here I am. My first ever blog post. There. Thats it. I’ll share the depths of my insanities later later when I get REALLY REALLY bored and plumb them for juicy bits of random thought that flitter through that empty space between the ears. Meantime, I’ll keep you posted.