Of Aging and Politics

I have been in hiatus for more than a week and guess its time to make a post on my blog with my most recent thought. Today's posting will consist of 2 parts mainly aging and my view on malaysian politics

As i went for a haircut yesterday, i can't help but to notice that my hairdresser's son is already Form 2. many years ago when i was there  cutting my hair, her son is only standard 1 but without realizing time has been ticking away, that same boy is now in Form 2. Its really a reminder to me that i myself am no longer as young as i perceive myself to be. A trip to Secret Recipe shop near my house reminded me that i am growing older. It began when i started calling the staffs there "kakak" as i usually address Malay staff in retail outlet. Then one of them started to ask me how old am i and upon me revealing my age, a few of them told me they are younger than me. That pretty much jolt me to a new sense of realization that i am no longer the young boy as i always see myself to be. When i went to the organic shop yesterday to but some bottled fruit juice for my mom , perhaps it may be the way i dress myself but the shop owner asked  me if i have any kids and i had to tell him i am still studying. i can go on giving various examples but my emphasis is that i am in the sense old and beside i would be turning 21 this year. Given my hypothetical lifespan to be 80 years , i basically had lived one quarter of my life. Probably by now some of you may have the notion that i am fearful of aging but really i am not fearful about it but rather gracefully embracing it. As one grows older, one realizes that things around him/her change. many of my friends are already in some sort of stable romantic relationship so to speak and in saying this i am patiently waiting for my turn. Some of my friends are going to complete their study within this year and enter into the job market. Others are having plans as to how they want to advance their career. Though i am of no exception in all these matters, yet i can vividly remember my childhood days, where i played with my neighbors, go to primary school loaded with lots of homework thanks to Chinese school culture and all these things seem to be just like yesterday. When we are younger, some of us hope to be older so that we can be like our older relatives or siblings enjoying certain things in life like driving and etc but when you are at that stage, you suddenly turn back and realize we  prefer our younger days. When in those days we think secondary school suck but now when we are in universities and colleges we wish we are in secondary school . Life always has this way of making you emotionally miserable. Probably by now you would say just move on forward with life but just give a thought, are we moving forward or moving in a circle. After there is this idea that life is nothing but a cycle. You born, grow up, grow old, and die. So far no one ever conquer death so that pretty much makes life a cycle still. It is now i realize that life is a sandbox we how our life turn out to be is how we shape them along with divine intervention if you believe in God. All i wish is that  i start to break free from my exiting bad habits and not acquiring new vices as i grow older and may there always be a justified cause for me to live everyday. i shall stop here on the aging and growing old process and hopefully some of this will stimulate your thought about what does it really mean as you grow older in life

Malaysian politics,probably you would be wondering how is this related to the title of my blog site "thought about life " Well lets just say thought about life may not simple just be opinions about how one should live their live and building and changing perception of what life is about but also to be critical and aware of what is happening around us. As the recent sex video featuring Anwar, while i do not intend to judge the authenticity of the video myself, i am more concerned about the motive of the release of the video and its implication. I find that Malaysian politics is like a killing field where you brandish your sword and upon having chance of using them, you slay off your political opponent. i find that this show the absolute childishness and primitive nature of human being our leaders of country are showing. i think childishness is not even the term to use be used to describe them as children are behaving better. i find that rather than bickering, new generation of politician should come together to settle the many issues that is plaguing our relatively young nation of 53 years. Do more and speak less and give me a justified cause to happily pay my taxes in the future. Stop dominating headlines with the dumbest of news for i don't give a damn what is happening . Stop making statements claiming superiority over others or claiming your  so called rights but be ready to be humble and learn, to admit that you are wrong when you are wrong and learn to give and take with the most genuine and sincere spirit. Stop paying lip service and learn to toughen yourself to reform the country for the better even if it is against the tides. Stop using intimidation but learn to listen and rationalize things with the intellectual ability God has given you. These are really the things i wish our politician would listen and act on them accordingly.