Sunshine On A Gloomy Day
The good news is, there is some encouraging movement in the stock and property market. The bad news is, experts warn that these rises are not sustainable as businesses continue to fold up or retrench workers. But that doesn’t mean that nothing laughable is going on in the world.
1. Why Mas Selamat is being held in Malaysia and not extradited to Singapore?
Malaysian Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said: “We know his background, the details of his plan, network and contact with militant groups. He is arrested under the ISA as the government finds that he not only poses a threat to the country but also to neighbouring Singapore and Indonesia.”
Sure. We all know how dangerous (and smart!) Mas Selamat is. We all want to see him behind bars until he can’t climb out of toilet windows and swim across the Straits of Johor. But why is he held in Malaysia after we’ve printed and pasted so many posters of him that he might be more recognisable than the late Michael Jackson?
Hishammuddin explains: “We did not extradite Mas Selamat as we are concerned it will undermine the country’s peace and put the people’s safety at risk.”
My goodness. Malaysia is putting itself at risk to protect us, but I’m really not sure whether to laugh or to be moved to tears.
2. The Yellow Shirts movement, or PAD in Thailand has renamed itself the New Politics Party. Not only that, they are going to give the textile industry a boost by changing their shirts to yellow and green. Yellow stands for loyalty to the monarchy while green stands for new politics, which really puzzles me as they have always opposed sweeping reforms and liberalisation policies to preserve the status quo.
The Election Commission, which has disqualified politicians for hosting a cooking show or giving out ang pows, has approved the new political party which, less than a year ago, caused tremendous shame and loss of revenue to the kingdom by blocking airports in Bangkok, leaving half a million international tourists stranded. It’s amazing that many people are forgiving them and putting all the blame for their current woes on someone who has fled the country since the Beijing Olympics.
3. Finally, I can’t forget the women who vehemently blasted men who married across the border and those who married “downwards”. One of them said: “It seems that the lower your education, the higher your chances of getting married.
Really? I humbly and sincerely beg to differ. Men do not deliberately avoid intelligent and well-educated women. However, they do turn away from those who are obnoxious, arrogant and thoroughy spoilt. Take a look at the findings below:
It’s not the men who are avoiding well-educated, high income women. It’s the women who want equality and still reject men who earn less than they do. Now isn’t that funny?
