The Black Monster

I once visited a friend at our neighbouring country. I stayed at her place for a couple of days there.
Once day, she took me to mall for sightseeing...
And suddenly, her 2-3 years old baby girl shrieked "MONSTERRR !!!"
My friend quickly gave her baby a hug and say... "Yes! Black Monster... It's OK, mommy is here"
They were referring to a Bangali cleaning service guy - whom were busy mopping the floor and did nothing to scare the baby.
Apparently, my friend has been teaching her daughter "to-hate/ to-be-scared" those Bangali people. The code name is "MONSTER"... "If u not eating your food, Mommy'll call the Monsters to catch you (pointing at a Bangali worker)" or "Don't run, walk with mommy, later got Monsters, how??" etc etc
The sad part is, almost all the family members named those people as "Monster". Even the grandma told me proudly "Since very young, she already don't like those Bangali. Smart girl, you know. Those Bangali are scary and filthy, like Monsters, right?". So wrong.

In my neighbouring country, it's very common to see South Asian immigrants doing "unwanted" job, ie. Cleaning service, janitor, construction worker, etc. Although, you can find some other races doing unwanted job too.

But teaching a toddler to love and hate a certain race by judging skin colour is so wrong. 

She's so young, and they started to feed her unnecessary fears. And these kids will keep in their minds and develop hatred for ridiculous reasons for the rest of her life.

Why "RESPECT LEVEL" is inversely proportional to a "MELANIN LEVEL"?

Though seems trivial, these "RACISM" issue may cause a bigger problem in longer run. Learn from us, please :(

Look, In Indonesia, despite being colonised by Dutch and Japanese for centuries, I never seen any local Indonesians hate them as much as they hate Chinese. Odd, isn't it?  (Although, I believe those jugun-ianfu will have different opinion about this)
And vice versa, Chinese hates locals. Looking down on them.

I don't know how people in the pasts whipped out this hatred. Some said, the Dutch used to give more benefits to Chinese, so the locals got envy. Some said it's the sin of our former President Suharto. I dunno how true it is, but it seems to be deeply infused until today.
And sometime it blew up, just like 1998 incident.
Both races' morons fought for someone-else's victory! They don't even realised they are being used for military for a coup trial. Stupid...!

Yet it still happens...
Local kids will call Chinese by "mocking" names. Local government official will anyhow ask for more ciggy-money form Chinese, anytime, anyhow.
When I was young, my parents forbid me to speak Chinese in public, they are scared that locals will harm me by showing Chinese traits. I think, no matter what I speak, my skin and my eyes already shows my race. Being mute won't help much.
I don't understand Indonesian Chinese either. Those super hard-core ones (I met some who can mistreat and swear about locals' race) are hardly "Chinese". I mean, they are 3rd-6th generation Chinese that no longer speak Chinese, they know nothing about China, and they never ever set their foot in China. What's China about them is merely diluted gene and their cheap mobile-phones!!!

I won't teach my younger generation to hate someone based on unchangeable things, like: you can't change your skin colour.
Ehm... (I see what you do there... OK OK, I'll rephrase it)
I guess, the proper way to say it, it'd be better not to hate anyone or anything :)
Easier said than done. But let's give it a try, shall we?

Silence of the (un)Wise men

"Silence is Golden"
Somehow, we were taught from young age, that silence is golden. 
We are groomed to the idea that say nothing is preferable than speaking.
Esp. in Asian countries, to confront someone is considered a taboo. 
It's rude to comment, to question and esp to oppose someone...
In some circumstances, this might be true...

If you know your friend is being bullied, would you stand for him/her?
If you know your neighbour is hiding a fugitive, would you report it?
If you happened to know a terrorist plan, would you tell police about it?

Many of us, wouldn't.
I have to admit that, once you step in, sometimes it'd be messy. 
You might mean well, but you might end up in the bottom of the well.

But does it mean, that we should shut our eyes, close our ears, sealed our lips?
Remember:

"The world suffers a lot, not because of the violence of bad people, 

but because of the silence of good people"

It's so easy to say:
As long the bully doesn't hurt me, I don't care
As long as the fugitive doesn't come to my place, I don't care
As long as the terrorist doesn't blow up my train station. I don't care... Let them blow airport, I don't take planes

"It's none of my business"
Is it, really?

Here is a cut of legendary comic for thoughts... 

what do you mean, it is not?!!! :D

"When choosing sexual partners, remember: Talents are not sexually transmittable"

Tina Fey, Bossypants

LiuBei vs CaoCao

Who would believe that a bloody story of wars-wars-and-wars in 14th century China would still be captivating, even for today.
Romance of Three Kingdoms is probably one of the literature staple for every Chinese beings at school.
I didn't have that chance, we don't have Chinese school here, rite?
Anyway, I know we are 3 years late, but the TV is playing the series now. It's cool!

So, my mom seems to favour Caocao (the antagonist) rather than LiuBei (the protagonist),
The reason is because LiuBei always-always-always reluctant to do things that it's not morally correct according to him.
Everytime he doesn't listen to his wise advisor-ZhugeLiang, he would always fail.
LiuBei somehow very dependant to ZhugeLiang. Without him, LiuBei's name would end in the first chapter of the story.
While Caocao, an ambitious man. He would do anything, everything, anyhow to achieve his goal.
Even if he need to kill innocent men, which he did casually.
Not that mom fond of a murderer. But she simply adores the strong and determined character of Caocao.
When both compared, of course Caocao seems to be more superior. Somehow all villain are superior than their hero. Don't you think?

I replied mom this way:
LiuBei is not stupid. He is smart in his own way. In today business world, LiuBei is a portray of a CEO
He might be weak, but he has 1 ultimate strength: he knows how to choose great people in his team. 
He particularly choose people who are more skilful and capable than himself. But, he knows how to utilise them.
Even a brilliant ZhugeLiang faithfully defend him after LiuBei is long gone.

I regard CaoCao as a business owner. Someone who is capable of anything - in military strategy, in poetry, in arts... in everything.
He is a one-man-show person. Everything is centralised to 1 person, himself.
Yes, of course he is more capable than LiuBei, but he need to do everything himself; while LiuBei can just sit and delegates all the chores.

Here to read more about CEO vs Biz Owner
Who is better? It's very hard to judge.
Both have their strength and their own weakness.
But it would be unfair to say one is a complete idiot, cos none of them is

Hehehehe... I think I answered it wisely and cleverly.
I was impressed too. How in the world could I say such thing. Hahahaha

At the end of the story, none of them become the winner.
The one that have all the power is grandson of SimaYi - advisor of Caocao.
SimaYi is a very smart, cunning and yet very patient man, he planned and plotted his own path right from the start. By the time, he strike a coup d'etat, he is already an old frail man.
Fate churned everything into his descendant's plate.
Without much blood on his hands, the grandson became the emperor, ending the long battle of 3 kingdoms.
Now, that's what I call "Lucky You"

Behind Religious Curtain

this brilliant comic are taken from here

It's not a rare thing to see a headline where corruptors wearing religious attributes, quoting religious verses, and speaking as if he/she a martyr. Happens in any religion, without fail!
Borrowing God's name has become a compulsory formula when you got into deep shit; it's the golden rule when you have fingers pointing at you.
We all know they are all covered with lies, yet, as a compassionate human-being, we took a pity on them.
Nodding at the ridiculous excuses, twisting brain-wire to find a loophole to escape - let's be a bit lenient, everybody has made a mistake, right?; and at the end, you just forgive because you have fallen into their melancholic drama plot.

For a conduct to be right or wrong, it's not because how correct the particular action is.
It's determined by one's mind - the way we see it

For example...
It's politically correct for a soldier to kill an enemy
But it's not correct, when a stranger killed a member of your family (for whatever reason)

For US government to have Snowden in their custody is the correct thing - that rascal has leaked US dark dirty secrets. He need to be punished, or maybe wiping him out from this world would be a better option.
But for those who loathe US' bullcrap preaching on human-rights, Snowden is their hero! They'll be cheering for Snowden's escapes. God speed, Snowden!!!

It's all in your mind. Your own illusions.
There's no absolute correctness in this world
Tweak it a bit, and you'll find million ways to twist the so-called-truth

Let the time speaks, the truth will reveal itself.

God will protect me and punish you all for the injustices you've done me.

- stated by a proven corruptor