Okay, bye bye

It’s been a week since I’ve been back in Malaysia. Have stuffed myself with all types of yummy food, from good ole’ bak kut teh to banana leaf rice. Yum… I can’t believe that I’ll be flying back to Bahrain next week. I mean, I knew I would be going back but just didn’t think that it was going to be so soon. I thought I’d have at least one month to chill here. But no… came in to work on Monday morning all smiles and BHAM! I got called into my director’s office and she told me the ‘good’ news. Oh well. All in the name of work. So I technically only have 2 working weeks and one weekend before my flight out. The highlight of this trip would be the little holiday I will be taking when I’m in Bahrain. Will update more of this trip once I’ve gotten my flight ticket. Right now, it still feels a little too hard to believe. Why didn’t I find this out earlier! Damn! I could have gone to so many other places! Anyway, am supposed to get my ticket on Monday. Keeping my fingers crossed till then!

Anyway, there are still people griping about the fuel price hike but I think we’re all kind of resigned to the fact that it’s happened and there’s nothing we can do about it right now except maybe hope that the govt will actually stick to their word about improving the public transportation system. And that we, the public, will remember this thing as well as all the other things they have done when the time comes for the next general elections.

Then there’s the news about rape and incest cases. For me, the one that really stood out was the case where two brothers raped their younger sister after watching porn. I was like “WTF?!” If you’re going to offer an excuse for committing rape, at least give a better one than that. But then again, what kind of excuse CAN you give for raping your sister or anyone for that matter?! Anyway, I’m pretty sure after this case, there’s going to cries of “porn is evil” etc all over. What I don’t understand is why we can’t be open about sex and sexuality? Why do we have to hide the subject away and censure everything related about it? Again, this points to our attitude of ‘ignorance is bliss’, ‘better not to talk about it since I’m so uncomfortable about it’ etc. Sigh… somehow, it’s just so sad when you hear of incest rape cases… if you can’t trust your family, who else CAN you trust?

All I can think of right now is how much will the public remember when the time comes to vote? Will we then forget all the past mis-deeds when we hear their empty promises come election time or will we still vigilantly hold on to our opinions and feelings when they continuously mess up. Will we hold them accountable for what they’ve done and to want more transparency? Or will we once again succumb to their sweet words and empty promises which works time and time again? Will the blogosphere change our attitude towards accepting these kind of deeds or will we continue to bend over and accept everything and anything they do? Will we demand for a more transparent govt and a more accountable govt?

I’m just hoping that when the time comes, we will do the thing that matters.