Another One Of Them ...

It's actually been a wonderful weekend for me thus far. Well, until this morning actually. I wasn't intending to really post anything for today but I just couldn't help myself after reading todays newspaper. Another classic example of the limited mentality of our esteemed government officials ... siggghhh ...

I woke up feeling pretty good with myself today. I had a pretty good Saturday yesterday which I will post about tomorrow. A childhood dream came through for me yesterday and that made my whole day. And today was turning out to be a great day.

Both wifey and me slept in today, woke up and decided to head out for breakfast. We decided to try somewhere different and found a nice little cozy Chinese restaurant that was surprisingly not too packed and served pretty decent food, well, at least for the boys and me anyway.

Wifey was adventurous and decide to try something totally different than was she would normally eat and so she ordered this dish called Taiwanese beef noddles and it turned out to be horrible. According to her, it was the most tasteless noddle in the whole entire world if not universe and she wasn't too far off the mark cos I tried a little and it sure was extremely horrible.

But overall it was a pretty decent little restaurant which I would definitely recommend to all of you especially if you were living in Subang or USJ but unfortunately I can't remember the name of the shop ... hehehe ... Anyway back to the point of this post. While having my breakfast, I was going through the newspaper and read this article about something our learned (and I use the term very loosely here) said.

I quote a small portion of what he said:

'In view of the rising number of women contracting HIV, every woman should carry a condom with her for her own protection, said Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr. Abdul Latiff Ahmad.

"this is not to debase them but to protect them. Women are the first ones to get exploited by their partners. But this is just a suggestion, it's up to them," he told the press after delivering his speech at the International AIDS Memorial Day here yesterday.'

Ok, that's fine and dandy with me. In this day and age you can't be too careful. I initially had no issues with the article. Well, not until I did a double take on the very first sentence he said. Why should the WOMEN be the ones that have to carry a condom with them? I once again shake my head in disbelief at such a ridiculous statement coming from a government official, a deputy health minister no doubt. Here we go again putting the responsibility on the women folk once more.

The article further went on to say that this is because there are some men who do not care to take precautions even though they know they have HIV. Yeah fine, so educate the men then that they should keep their lust in check instead of womanizing around. Educate the men that they should respect their partners in the first place instead of going around cheating on their loved ones. Educate the men that if they were going to cheat on their loved ones or even take drugs, that they should be the ones to carry a condom!

Why put the onus on the women? Why demean them by suggesting that they should be the ones carrying condoms instead of the men? So does that mean, the esteemed deputy health minister should be telling his wife or mother that she needs to carry a condom in her purse? (I mean no disrespect to his wife and mother at all, after all it was his suggestion anyway) Does that mean I need to go tell my wife that she needs to carry a condom in her purse too?

When I showed wifey the article she was raving mad with it. What kind of people do we have running the government she said. Why always target the women for everything? If they don't have anything intelligent to say, they should just keep their trap shut. She really was fuming that if the deputy health minister was in front of her, I'm sure she would have given him a nice black eye there and then ... LOL!

But she, being a woman has every right to be mad. I know the deputy health minister probably meant well (at least I hope he did, with our ministers you just can't be too certain) but he should keep his statements more generalized and not just targeted on one specific gender. In this country, it just seems that sometimes women are the root to all evil. Maybe we should just put all you women in concentration camps or something, then us 'men' wouldn't be tempted when you women (and don't forget the school girls) wear white blouses and maybe then you wouldn't have to be carrying condoms with you all the time.

I don't mean to be complaining a lot here but like I said, stupid people draw me in like a moth to a flame ... LOL! Anyways, besides that little small hiccup to my day, I don't have any other complains at all. It's been a beautiful weekend so far. Wifey and me are happily listing a few things that we want to get to refurbish our kitchen from IKEA next week such as a few wall mounted shelves, a new kitchen cabinet and some Quality Bar Stools cos our kitchen really needs a few new stuff. At least we've finally isolated and agreed on what we want so next week I'll be mounting a couple of new IKEA wall mounted shelves. Don't worry, I'll be posting some pictures too ... hehehe ...
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