Japan Timez

The lunatic rantings of a middle aged young guy

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Why is my family so wierd???

You know, if the Simpsons were real, I think that the situations they face every episode will be very similar in wierdness to mine.





Why do I say this is because on Mon night, I recieved a wierd call and it went like this..."Michael???? Ah good morning.... no no no... I mean good evening".... and I was already starting to go "WTF??? Who the f are you???" then he handed the phone over to my energizer rabbit..... Aweeeeee.... f!!!!! Then she was asking if my sis was already as she could not get to her.... So the silly idiot did not want to bring her phone because she did not want to spend money, but she borrows someone else's phone.... What a freaking pest!!!!! Come one... she does not have to go on holiday and worry about my sis or me and if she wants to worry, then do not go for a silly trip!!! It is as simple as that.... OMFG!!! It is like the time when she took money from my nephew to pay for her bloody chinese medicine!!!





And when I complained to my sis, she was complaining how poor thing she was because energizer started to call herself Maria because she was doing the cooking.... Eerrrrmmmm... that is why I always freak out when energizer comes to my house to clean it because she will come back and say that she is so poor thing.... She is like a kid... and to top it off, we do not need her to do any cleaning...... Haizzzzzz...... Then sis was complaining how my energizer treats her and her family and you know something??? What can I say, the old bag is just wanting some attention, but she will not get any from the silly sister of mine.... For me.. I am fair... I treat everyone fairly and that is why most people will find it difficult to pin something on me... I live that way because if I say that we need to save money, we will.... If I say that we have to live a hard life, we will... But not the other side and that is why we have such a wierd family....

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

I came back to another country



I went to Sepang during the weekend. I picked up the eneriger rabbit and we went to vote... I will still not say who I voted for though.... And then sort of kept her company for a while. Then I rushed to meet my frens and we went to KL together.... It is fun when you drive an evo because it is meant to speed... 180 seems like 120... but of course if you use your brains, you know that it is a bit fast and so we took it at a leisurely pace.


Then on Sun, it was tracking in Sepang and it was fun fun fun.... After the event, I rushed back by myself because I needed to get back fast... Well when I came back, the political landscape was different. A veteran was voted out, we lost 2 ministers and a little girl came.... The opposition won a GRC, which was the first in history and I..... stamp stamp stamp my feet... do not know what to say.


But no matter what, life still goes on. My wifey and monster will be back next week and I have already turned my car back to a normal drive.... No matter if we vote opposition or PAP, it will still be the same... Many people are fearful that if they give the wrong vote, they will suffer and it is of course part of the way the gahmen controls us. But if I apply my usual frame of thinking, even if our vote is not secret, so what? We write to MP and he says I voted for the opposition and he will not help? That will be descrimination. We vote opposition and we do not get upgrading? So what? Our slums will never be as bad as some of the other hell holes I have been to in my life. So nothing really gets me afraid and since I live my life of only relying on myself, it really does not matter if I do not get anything from anyone.


Wednesday, May 04, 2011

A really Big Dilemma (Purely fictional of course)

I am in a Single ward, so it is a one on one fight. I am tempted to vote for the original because he helped me to get a PR for my wife and I also want upgrading for my home... But the big question will be that if the opposition come in, I will also have seem to have not voted for them. Now if this is the case, then will they come back and asked me why I did not vote for them??? It is quite an interesting question.... isn't it? Heee heeee....

Of course it is purely fictional as I will vote where my heart is and of course it will be a secret even to you guys. But seriously does it matter who comes in? We will still be taking our transport to work and also be living our lives in our dreary towns. Got upgrading? No upgrading? Got better transport or less price increase, it will always be cyclical. Yes, due to certain pressures, price will increase and sometimes this can be mitigated by gahmen measures, but seriously, will it really change?

What needs to happen is us. We complain of not enough schools and roads and so on. We talk about not enough space in MRT and so on, but it is all because we peg everything to profits. So of course to get the most bang out of what we have and also to be as profitable as we can, any enterprise will try to be as miserly about spending money and yet wanting more profits. Schools are being over-run by FT's.... well then we should build more schools. We have too much competition for limited jobs.... then create more jobs lor..... The opposition claims to want to take out reserves to give to our people, but then why draw down on our reserves? Why not open it to private enterprise where it will be profitable for all? For example schools.... I am not talking about those privates that are so posh that we need 5 figures to just go in... But a private school catering for students. Since it is a private enterprise, the gahmen should not need to invest too much. Just ensure that the proper codes of conduct and accounting measures come in. The school has to decide how many students it needs and how much fees to make it profitable. Then the number of teachers to give a good education so that the name of the school rises and more students want to enrol.

It is like roads and cars and so on. Build more roads? We already have too many roads. What we need is better infrastructure. Have a train station within 200m from your home and many companies providing different services. Loop lines, point to point lines and so on. Private enterprise will be left to find out its profit point and also its own value added service. Then you will see that it is so convenient that we do not need cars and are happy taking trains or buses.

How come I have to think about all these things??? Maybe I should be a politician??? hehehehehe

Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Its been a long time

It has been such a long time since I last blogged, I guess it is because I am tired and also busy. I do not know which is worst, being tired because you are busy or what? Anyway, the elections are around the corner and I am sort of glad that I am in a Single Member Ward, this means the fight is more straight, one on one... mano o mano... I really would not like to be in a GRC where you may support a certain person of one party but not the rest.

As to who I will vote, I will be keeping that secret. But seriously, I will only say one thing and it is something that I learnt so many years ago, you may be in hell, but you can make your own little heaven in whichever hell you are in. I lived overseas so many years and have seen so many hardships, so I guess I can say it with confidence.

As for the other parts of my life, when it comes to my energizer rabbit, she is really sucking the life out of me... She went to the eye specialist and now has to undergo an op to lift the skin over her eyelids. It is true that as you grow older, your skin is not as hard and muscles not as firm and so the op is to make her eyelids a bit tighter and she can see better.... It will cost 4k!!!! She is going for her trip still and she is thinking that next year, she wants to go back to Korea again........ Even my sis is kind of out of money because everytime the rabbit sees a doctor, either she or me has to pay.... She will go to another specialist tomorrow and I had to give her another 200 bucks.... good god... that is 400 bucks on top of her trip money and the bullshit about her trying to save money is just as I mentioned... bullshit because she was playing mahjong almost everyday during the weekend!!!!

I know that humans love to pamper themselves... But this is getting crazy... She does not understand that if you want X and there is limited resources, you will have to sacrifice Y... I am again going into debt just to give her what she wants. But this time, if the banks come knocking, I will allow them to make me bankrupt and then make my case to the gahmen that their policies really stink.... Forcing us to look after our parents and not helping and then after that if our parents are the high maintenance types... we will be left without any money to buy a coffin and to give them their last rites... I am already at that stage... Saving burnt out because of her op.... and her constant need for money and then again for her unreasonable fear of dying.... If she goes to a doctor, they will definitely say that she needs treatment for something... and who pays for it.... That is why I said that I am living with the undead... A vampire of the human kind... God bless me... for no one else will,.......