Culturally Preconditioned

E-Filling deadline extension

Again.. what message are we delivering to Malaysians? That it is okay to procastinate things and not be punctual. The police department have exercised this by giving deadline extensions when it comes to paying summons (and even rewarding them with discounts for paying late, WTF?), now the Inland Revenue Board is following suit by giving a one-month extension for the public to submit their taxes via e-Filling.

I’m a big hypocrite (oh like you don’t already know that) cause I’m no stranger to getting deadline extensions. You only need to ask my editor, and she will definitely vouch for that. It’s one of my major weaknesses but that’s a different matter…

Giving deadlines like these to the general public is just making the people getting more accustomed to the ‘Tidak Apa’ attitude. Teaching the public to be non-punctual in paying their taxes/fines is really just the Malaysian thing to do. If their reason behind this was people need time to learn how to use e-Filling, then they should’ve started to implement this system earlier, instead of giving out extensions.

Speaking of being non-punctual, I read a letter sent in by a reader to The Star a few days back, bitching about how she is constantly being ‘bullied’ by drivers who drive at top speed. She ended the letter with “after all, isn’t it better to reach your destination late, than a million light years early?”. NO IT’S NOT YOU STUPID FOOL. The right saying is “better late than never”. I’m not condoning to driving at top speed to get to your destination on time, just leave early so that you can reach ther on time. How she’s implying that it’s okay to be late (instead of being early) just shows the slacking attitude that we have when it comes to punctuality.

$4000 is worth it for Mawi

Don’t people know how to put their money to good use? I mean, seriously, this person spends $4000 to go on tour with Mawi and spend like a few minutes in person with him. Okay, I can’t fault her for being a fanatic, cause if I had $4000 to spend, I wouldn’t hesitate to watch the Stereophonics in concert either. The rest of the article was also quite funny, with her explaining she bought tons of Mawi CDs, one in her kitchen, one the living room, one in EACH bedroom (wtf?), one for her car. LOL But what made me laugh out loud was how she commented that Mawi should improve his PR skills, and also improve the way he walks (major WTF?). And she rambled on explaining that “maybe his mother didn’t bound his legs properly when he was a child”. Seriously WTFROFLMAOASTC. I know I’m super-critical myself, but I can’t believe they’d publish such statements in the newspaper. I mean, I can’t understand if this was publish in Harian Metro or the Malay Mail but this is the fucking STAR for crying out loud.

LPF Moving With The Times

The ancient times, maybe. The National Film Censorship Board have decided to be ‘more open’ and tolerable to new films by not adapting to strict defined rules as is currently being practised by Iran (can’t they use Iraq as an example instead?). The flaw in this is that the subject of being banned or not still falls in a really grey area, an area which are governed by old foggies who don’t know shit from shite.

They can say all they want in the press by trying to look favourable, but we all know what they’re like and how they think. I will never give these folks the benefit of the doubt. Surely they must know that they are indirectly promoting movie piracy in our country.

So what are the absolute no-nos for now? (1) homosexual themes - which is understandable, although they must’ve not registered the not so subtle lesbian theme that went on in Gol & Gincu, not that I’m complaining, of course. The dimmer they are in understanding the movie, the better. (2) Nudity - as long as it doesn’t take away the plot of the movie, I’m fine with it since I already get enough of them from internet pop-ups at home. (3) Swear words - “shit’, “son of a bitch” and “fuck” are absolutely prohibited, although my mind boggled as to how “cunt” was clearly heard in the cinema during V for Vendetta. Perhaps, the people there should get a fornicating dictionary.

Yes, I understand that we all have to maintain our culture and values, but for copulating’s sake, give us viewers some credit. We GET that it’s merely entertainment and not some sort of brainwash session that makes us want to engage in coitus the moment we step out of the cinema. We Not Bodoh, ya?
Gubra is too controversial

Now this article was taken from the Sun, but I think it deserves a mention. Some people *cough*RajaAzmi*cough* really does need to GIVE IT A MOTHERINTERCOURSING REST. They need to stop getting out of their way to find faults with Yasmin Ahmad’s film. My GOD! This is the worst case of sour grape I have ever seen. Ni la yang dikatakan “Melayu sendiri dengki kat Melayu.. macam mana nak maju”.

Apparently there was a forum or a debate or some turd on the television discussing how inappropriate the movie Gubra was, as it tends to give out the wrong message to Muslim viewers. Female dog, please. Now, I didn’t really enjoy Gubra because I thought it was ‘too deep’. I didn’t find the movie preachy at all, so I wouldn’t worry that regular movie viewers were gonna be swayed by the movie just because they’ve seen the movie. In any case, the arguments that they made was beyond silly.

(1) “A pious wife would not allow her husband to cook” - Now what kind of a bloody idiotic mentality is that? Does she really how mind numbingly stupid is that. I mean, I’m a guy and even I am offended by that statement. If I was of the female persuasions, I’d cut off my right breast and smack it up the head .. maybe that’ll knock some sense into her.

(2) “The guy isn’t fit to be a bilal because he is friendly with prostitutes” - I’m sorry.. was the bilal laying down red carpets from the prostitute’s house to the sex parlour? Again, these are the kind of folks who condone discrimination. They might as well be wearing a Ku Klux Klan robe during the interview. Discrimination, either racial, sexual orientation or otherwise, is just simply vile and it sickens me greatly. They must also have never heard of the Islamic saying of ‘If you can’t prevent it with actions, prevent it with words. If you can’t prevent it with words, prevent it with your heart’.

(3) “It was confusing for Malay Muslims when Orked, a pious Malay girl could fall in love with a Chinese kaffir who was a criminal” - I mean.. how fucking stupid and shallow can you be? I have no words to say to people who can even issue such a statement. What was wrong with falling in love with someone of a different race/religion? What in the hell is so un-Islamic about that? Falling in love, not sleeping with. There is a difference, people. The only thing that I thought was taken a bit too far was when Adibah Noor made that comment about cheese (but it sure did make me laugh).

To come out and argue this over the air (granted that the show was on RTM1 which has a total viewership of 15) just shows how silly and spiteful people can be. I mean, honestly, how stupid can people be?

All these things are so bloody Malaysian wan. tsk tsk tsk…

edited to add :  I just got back from watching the horror movie Fragile starring Calista Flockhart and I had counted 2 “shit”s, 2 “fucking”s and 8 “fuck”s unfiltered from the movie. Well done, LPF.