Only In Malaysia

Christmas is over and nothing really much is happening in my part of the world. Surprisingly, life is pretty good at the moment :D I hope it stays that way (fingers and toes crossed) for the rest of my life. I'm pretty happy right now but ... yes, there is always a but when it comes to me ... LOL!

I'm not intending to say much and ruin my good mood but two things struck me as being totally absurd and ridiculous that I cannot help but post about it. If you're planning on not ruining your day or anything like that please go no further.

But us humans are curious creatures so I'm pretty sure you'll all still read on no matter what :D Here it is in one of my usual short takes formats.

Take One - Censorship

I was watching  a rerun of Everybody Loves Raymond last night and there was this scene where Ray's father said to Raymond,

'You dumb bastard!'

Nothing wrong with that right. It's not vulgar or anything like that and it was quite funny in relation to the scene. And then, Ray's brother, Robert also called him a 'dumb bastard' but this time it was censored out and you could only see him lips move but he clearly said 'you dumb bastard' too. Then Ray's friends who were there also called him a 'dumb bastard' and once again it was censored out.

I'm not too sure if those morons in the censorship board really do have any intelligence at all cos first of all, why let the first 'you dumb bastard' go through and then censor the rest of it? What gives? Why not censor that line completely every time it's uttered?

And secondly, do they really think that if they didn't censor such lines (or words), we would all end up being scums of the earth? Maybe become some criminal that delves into immoral activities or worse yet, end up becoming a politician (LOL! I just couldn't help that!).

God, I really don't know what kind of people they hire in the censorship board but I'm pretty sure they're a bunch of morons with crap for brains. Some of the stuff they censor really boggles the mind. Words such as bitch, pig, pork (yes, I've seen occasions where the word pork is censored) and lots more are bleeped out.

Really, would just hearing those words make me go out and do criminal things? Have they even heard some of the words uttered by our 'beloved' politicians? This pales in comparison. And I'm not even going to bother talking about some of the ridiculously innocent scenes that are censored!

Well, maybe a little ... LOL! I once saw a show where an innocent scene of a mother pecking her son on the cheek being censored off (yes, really!) and a woman with a slightly plunging neck line had her assets pixelized.

Come you 'intelligent' people in the censorship board, if I wanted to see women with plunging necklines, there is always the internet and there is so much more than plunging necklines that I could find there. And it didn't turn me in some perverted monster.

Didn't you know that the more you stop or repress a persons curiosity, the more they would try to satisfy that curiosity of theirs? People are not as uneducated as you people in the government still think we are.

Well, only in Malaysia, Malaysia Boleh!

Take Two - Speed limits and express buses

This is a more sad but true take. Just recently, we had an expressway incident involving a double decker bus that crash along the highway and if I'm not mistaken at least 10 people (I really can't remember, it was too depressing to read) died and countless others injured.

In the past we've had a couple of seriously fatal disasters resulting in crashes that involved express buses. Here's the typical way it would always play out:

1. Express bus crashes killing god knows how many passengers.
2. Authorities make a big hoohah about it vowing justice upon all express bus companies.
3. We will take stern action on these bus companies, screams the authorities.
4. This op and that op and god knows what kind of ops will be carried out.
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9. Another express bus tragedy happens.
10. Repeat points 1-10 again.

And that's exactly the efficient way how our authorities work over here. Something happens, make a big fuss about bring the fear of the Lord to the culprits. We'll put the in jail, they scram. We'll get them some new auto insurance quotes, they'll holler, then quietly let it slide in oblivion with no action taken until more lives are lost.

Look, any of us who has a car has at one time or other seen the way these express bus people drive. There you are driving along at the speed limits of 110 km/h and the next thing you know, you'll see this big, huge, monstrous express bus overtaking you at speeds that would make even Michael Schumacher cringe in fear!

By the way, for those not from this country, our express buses are supposed to have a maximum speed limit of 90 km/h on highways. Many a time I've seen these behemoths in my rear view mirror coming up real fast and I'll ALWAYS move out of their way. They're like missiles on wheels. A disaster waiting to happen.

I pity the people who have to rely on these buses to get around. They place their lives in the hands of some maniac the moment they step into these buses. And I know the authorities will make a big fuss about this for awhile and it will slowly fade away with nothing at all done.

We'll just have to wait for more lives to be lost again. As horrible as this thought may seem, I have every confidence this is not the end of these senseless express bus deaths.

Malaysia Boleh!
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