Memoirs Of A SiaoKia

Had an exchange of ideas with a lawyer friend after playing indoor soccer just now. We were talking about the recent petrol price hike. He suggested that wouldn’t it be better to increase the price of cigarette rather than petrol? To me, his idea really makes sense.

Government is spending so much tax payers’ money every year for anti-smoking campaign and whatever “Tak nak” campaign. Why wouldn’t they increase the price of cigarette instead? Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak asked us to change our life style, but come to think of it car is almost a necessity whereas smoking is definitely not!

Come on, please tell me which lifestyle is easier to change? Use your vehicle less and ask the whole family to take public transport more or quit smoking? Oi, en tao eh, you thought public transport using solar power meh? Furthermore, the effect of the increment of petrol price is far greater than cigarette. Now every hawker have their so called reasons to increase the price of foods, every school bus driver will increase their service charges, every Tom, Dick and Harry is complaining every single day!

Increase RM0.30 for 1 pack of cigarette sounds reasonable or not? To me it is. No? Then quit smoking and live a healthy life. That’s what we call hit 2 birds with one stone, right?

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said :-

Such changes in lifestyle should be made so that even if there were increases in fuel prices, Malaysians will be able to continue having the good quality and comforts of life which they have been enjoying

Good quality and comforts of life? Let’s wait and see. I pray so much the percentage of crime don’t increase in coming years. Due to high living cost, bad guys will do more bad things to earn easy money, isn’t it?

Ah, perhaps I shouldn’t have asked so many questions. Price already increased, ranting can only express my frustration.

Saw these pictures in YihJeng’s post and felt like want to blog about it, so I took the pictures. There are two comments left in that blog entry, the first is about “heart & luck” and the second is about “hero & never give up”. However, I do not know what underlying meaning YihJeng was trying to tell. But from the 2 comments there, people may see the same situation from different perspectives and draw our own conclusions.

For me, I see it as knowing our ability before working on something. From the pictures, it’s not about luck or doing something impossible. My interpretation from the picture is just as simple as the snail doing something routine in its life. The snail knew its own ability to cross over then did it just like that. The Snail’s body is elastic, hence, it can reach to the other side of the chair without having a problem. Whereas it seems impossible to us as we can’t stretch our body like the snails do.

Very often, we judge some thing based on just our point of view.

In real life, we like to apply ourselves into situations and judge from our own point of view too. I suppose that’s the reason YihJeng came out with “Mission Impossible” as the entry’s title because he/she might think crossing to the other side is impossible if he/she is in that situation, while to the snail is just piece of cake or at least nothing special.

We might have come across situations like our boss or lecturer asked us to do something we felt impossible and yet they told us it’s just an easy job. Sometimes, I am really pissed when people are not considering enough to take our ability into account and judge the tasks based on their ability but not ours. If they are trying to boost our performance by pushing us to exceed our limit then it’s good, but if that task is really impossible to us then they are just being ridiculous.

Only we know our real ability and potential. However, we should always be prepared to go beyond our extreme.

I know quite a number of young bloggers are having SPM exam next week. For these people, I wish you all best of luck. Furthermore, I would try to widthdraw some of your pressure by telling you, “Only you and God know your real ability, no one else does. Do your best and meet your own target.” Chill !!