Take Two

Gee, these days my posting frequency are getting too few and very far in between. Gone are the days when I wrote a post practically everyday! Work has been keeping me pretty busy and just finding the time to get online and write something is already an effort. Even finding the time to get to catch up with your blogs is getting to be so darned difficult.

I'm just glad it's Friday cos I really need the break. I've been working my butt off all week and the weekend is much welcomed. Now that I have the time to blog I'm just too drained to sit here for too long to write one of my infamous long winded posts so I'll just do two short takes. I can hear you guys breathing a huge sigh of relief ... LOL!

Take One

On the 26th of June, I wrote a post about the passing of Michael Jackson, well, the whole world practically wrote a post about him. And I received a comment from someone called Anonymous. It went like this.

Anonymous said...

I like how you discolored the MJ pics so as to lessen his horrific self-bleaching of the past 20 years.

You wouldn't have left your kids alone with this freakazoid in a thousand years, and you know it.

Give me a break.

Now, I'm all for constructive criticism and I gladly accept when people are bluntly honest with me. Now I wouldn't trust my kids with anyone let alone Michael Jackson but I did that post to honour the man's huge and undisputed talent, not his personal life. His personal life no matter how weird it was is his business.

We all have our quirkiness and failings, lets not argue about that but unfortunately we're nowhere near being as talented as MJ was in his particular industry and naturally when one is popular, every bit of your failings is amplified a hundred fold.

While I don't even have an issue with this, Mister or Miss Anonymous, you could at least have the guts (a more vulgar word came to mind but this is a family blog anyway) to put your real name instead of hiding behind a screen of anonymity.

If you're going to be sarcastic, criticize or leave biting comments like that, then be a man or even a woman and have the decency to leave your real name. If not, don't even bother leaving a comment.

I take issue with this cos I'm a huge fan of Michael Jackson and no matter what his failings and weaknesses were, we cannot deny the impact he made on the music industry and what a legend the man was, music wise! And no, Anonymous, I didn't discolor the pix to hide his horrific self-bleaching as you put it, I did it to give it a feel of nostalgia.

Take Two

On the 28th of February, I wrote about the how teachers in this country were complaining of 'going mad' as they cannot handle teaching Mathematics and Science in English. It was a huge issue and many quarters were calling for the teaching of Math and Science to be abolished and reverted back to out national language.

But there were also many quarters who argued that by doing that we would be taking our education system ten steps back in the wrong direction and the future geniuses we produce wouldn't be able to compete out there internationally, especially in the fields of Science seeing as how all scientific jargon and terminology is in English to begin with. I was one of them.

The government created all kinds of committees to look into this problem, which to me was pretty obvious what the answer was and deliberated for months on end. Then a couple of days ago, they made a decision that they're going to revert the teachings of Math and Science back to our national language.

I was appalled. I'm not even going to bother with the stupid reasons they came up with to base their decisions on but all I can say is I fear for the fate of the future generations of this country which would include my children.

Why oh why can't we vote for our own Prime Minister like what the REAL democratic countries do instead of having him forced down our throats. Maybe then we could get some much more intelligent people running this country instead of 'geniuses' like these ... siggghhh ...
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