Who cares?

I don't understand people who say they are patriotic and yet fail to join the fight for common rights regardless of race, religion and gender; protest against government wrong-doing and fearlessly act for a better country.

More and more I see that beyond most of my friends, there is little I have in common with the majority of Malaysians.

1. Today I read in the papers that the government, who is primarily against Seksualiti Malaysia (an awareness programme about the LGBT community), has said that there is no need to look out for the interest of minorities if it is going to upset the majority. If this is the policy we're meant to go by, then the nation is fucked.

2. Recently it was revealed that the government overspent the national budget on unnecessary and outrageous acquisitions. Examples quoted from an online news portal:

Bizarre overpricing — the National Youth Skills Institute (under the Youth and Sports Ministry) approved the purchase of a car jack that cost RM50 for RM5,700, a digital camera that cost RM2,990 was bought for RM8,254 and RM1,146 was paid for a set of technical pens with a market price of RM160.
Negligence — the Police Air Wing purchased two helicopters worth RM117.75 million, which could not be used, as they did not meet specifications. Another RM15.4 million was spent to train pilots to fly these helicopters.
Incompetence — Customs Department under-utilised its RM290 million information technology system but was planning to spend another RM451.30 million to develop a new one.
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I think there was a couple of days where the people went WTF and then dropped the subject. In a normal world where people care about their country and the future of their children, politicians should be held responsible for their actions and buck the fuck up or get out.

Instead we feed them with power through apathy and our fear to protest.

3. The rally for clean and fair elections was faced with persecution, abuse and threats, an entirely bewildering and frustrating episode in our nation's history. What's so shocking is that there ARE people who are against fair elections! WHAT PLANET ARE THEY FROM? Again, these are people who are so afraid to rock boats and are happy to sit in a pile of shit.

If you read the papers (like I unfortunately have to), you'll know there are neverending issues on various things (but hey, if you're Malaysian, you probably don't care).

If you don't read the papers, you'll just have to cross the littered pedestrian bridge to see 1- 5 beggars with a money plate for you to help fill. Or take a bus and witness migrants verbally abused by bus conductors because the migrant don't understand what "satu stengah" means. Then watch the same bus conductor giggle like a school girl as he tries out his English with the white man who has boarded a bus that he hopes will take him to his destination. See the man who has accidentally dropped his heavy plastic bag to spill the contents out be pushed about by irritated people going down the stairs at an LRT station.

Love thy country. I'll try not to scoff. I know there are some positives to this country. I'll write about them another time when I am not so angry about the un-awesome majority.

It's not hard to see that I live in a nation that lacks empathy, a people who will fight only for the interest of their own race and religion (not all, just one, and guess which one), and apathetic towards issues that are going to slap them in the face in the future.

Who cares?