Category: Daily Whatevers

I did not get to sing this song as requested because the band did not have the score for this song. So here’s the dedication, ten days later:

THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT – FRANK SINATRA

Some day, when I’m awfully low,
When the world is cold,
I will feel a glow just thinking of you…
And the way you look tonight.

Yes you’re lovely, with your smile so warm
And your cheeks so soft,
There is nothing for me but to love you,
And the way you look tonight.

With each word your tenderness grows,
Tearing my fear apart…
And that laugh that wrinkles your nose,
It touches my foolish heart.

Lovely … Never, ever change.
Keep that breathless charm.
Won’t you please arrange it ?
‘Cause I love you … Just the way you look tonight.

Mm, Mm, Mm, Mm,
Just the way you look to-night.

I know I’ve put this one up before, but I love parts of the lyrics – it reminds me of something, someone, sometime:

I particularly like these parts of the song:

“Shuo bu shang wei shen me wo bian de hen zhu dong, re ai shang yi ge ren shen me dou hui zhi de qu zuo”
(Couldn’t really say why I became very filled with initiatives, if you fall in love with someone anything is worth doing)

“Wo xiang da sheng shun bu dui ni yi yi bu she, lian ge bi ling ju dou cai dao wo xian zai ge dan shao”
(I want to say loudly that I cannot bear to be apart from you, even the next door neighbours can guess my feelings right now)

And this is of course, my favourite part of the lyrics:

“Wo xiang jiu zhe yang qian zhe ni de shou bu fang kai”
(I want to just hold your hand like this and never let go)

“ai neng bu neng gou yung yuan dan chun mei you bei ai?”
(Can love forever remain innocent without sadness?)

For that, is a valid question now…

This is what the Facebook application says about my birth date:

July 9, 1966

Lucky Color: Turquoise
Personality Strengths: Savvy, Wit
Personality Weakness(es): Over-confidence
Successful Career Path: Information Technology
Sense of Humor Style: Cliched
Adjectives to Describe You: industrious, adventurous
Description:
Mature and understanding – you are the wise person of the group. Cautiously optimistic by nature, you have a better and more balanced perspective on things are you as compared to the people you associate with – everyone turns to you for advice, as they should!

Isn’t she cute?

That was what I thought when I saw her pics in the papers. I have my vote hught to myself, “Wow! Finally DAP has wised up and has put pretty young candidates instead of dinosaurs like Kit Siang and Karpal.” I mean, hey! She’s pretty, and cute, so I am entitled to admire her, right? Sorry, Honey. But you are cute too.

Then I drove past Taipan tonight and saw a group of DAP supporters walking down shouting their slogan while dishing out posters of Hannah. I slowed down as this pretty young thing tried to past me some posters. Okay, I am an UMNO member but I have the right to my own thoughts and speak my mind if and when I have to. After all, I am known as the opposition within the party for my dissenting, yet true, views on things. Then I realised it was Hannah herself, and there she went all sweet and smiling saying to me, “Please vote for DAP, please vote for change.” With you looking like that, you have my vote anytime, dear.

But realistically, how is DAP able to bring about any change at all, if any? I do believe in having a stronger opposition voice as it is healthy for democracy; however, I do not believe any of the opposition parties have done itself any justice. I saw a DAP banner hanging somewhere near TTDI that says CRONIES PROSPER, CITIZENS SUFFER. That exists everywhere, in every political party. That cannot be helped as power corrupts absolutely. And there has never been real constructive opposition: no one party has actually come up with a comprehensive plan to tell the voters how they could better the current policies. Instead, they will just criticize policies for the sake of criticizing and getting political mileage. Show me a political party that is different for once, and I am sure there will be followers of the middle-of-the-road kind of politics.

I also agree that there should not be any discrimination towards the building of houses of worships in (new) townships. The local housing law says that a certain number of area in acreage has to be met for churches to be built, but in biasness, it also states that an area for a surau/mosque must allocated. This is unIslamic. Islam does not prohibit others from obtaining the same rights to worship, and to build their houses of worship. However, this could be done in a better manner. An area within the township should be designated, preferably on the fringes of the estate for this. While different sects of Islam can pray together in the same mosque, this rule does not apply to Christians. There are rites non-Catholics cannot do in a Catholic church, and Protestants do not believe in invoking the saints like Catholics do. Okay, I shall not go any deeper into this as (1) I’d leave it to the Christians to dwell upon this matter (it’s okay for a black to call another ni**er, but it won’t be safe for a white to call him so), and (2), I’d be writing more on theology than on the cuteness of this DAP candidate of ours. So what I am trying to say is, while there will or may be one mosque for all, there will be at least 5 churches sprouting in a residential estate; not that I have any problem with that – but that would propel this somewhat tolerant nation’s malays (I won’t term them as muslims) to turn this country into another Islamic Republic of Iran, or Talibanistic Afghan, by swinging their support over to PAS. That would be disastrous – what more when you have one senile senior office-holder calling others orang utan, and the President of the party snubbed an opposing candidate by refusing to shake hands with the latter – so unIslamic is their behaviour.

So, DAP will really have to work hard to convince the general voting population that they can actually come up with a better plan(s) for this country other than crying foul all the time. Voters are not stupid anymore, nor are they emotional as they were before.

Now, going back to our pretty and cute DAP candidate, she was born and bred in Subang Jaya, a true Subang Jaya thoroughbred, which makes her more interesting as she would be very conversant in the peculiarities of the township. She is a lawyer who graduated in Tasmania in 2001, and prior to becoming an election candidate, worked as an event manager.

All that makes her very attractive to me and from not wanting to vote, I wanted to score DAP = 1: BN = 0
(well, the looks count too). Then came the clincher: she is married to an IT engineer.

The lucky guy.

DAP = 0: BN = 0

Time to figure out where to dive when others vote.

It’s nomination day today.

798 Parliamentary and state seats are now up for grabs.

Whoever wins, I still lose.

I will never ever have faith in any of those elected to represent the people because after 50 years and 11 previous general elections, all of them forget that they actually represent the people and not to become the people’s boss. Be they from either side of the political fence, they always forget they are there.

My mom and her 7/8 of her siblings when she was 17 years old. Missing from this picture is her eldest brother, Hamidon

Today is my mom’s 69th birthday.

Some brownies will make their way to her house later today.

My mom and 6/8 of her siblings. From left: younger sisters Rasidah and Rodziah, elder brother Hamidon, my mom, younger sister Fatimah. Seated in front is her youngest brother, Jasmin. The two deceased are her younger sister Zahariah (passed away in 1991) and younger brother, Nadzri (passed away in 2002)

This is the first time that I have returned to the sea since my trip on board the Kaleebso to Pulau Sembilan. Two months it has taken me to overcome.