Rudyard Kipling"
āWhen you're left wounded on Afganistan's plains and
the women come out to cut up what remains, Just roll to your rifle
and blow out your brains,
And go to your God like a soldierā
General Douglas MacArthur"
āWe are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.ā
āIt is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.ā āOld soldiers never die; they just fade away.
āThe soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.ā
āMay God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .ā āThe object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
āNobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
āIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
The Soldier stood and faced God
Which must always come to pass
He hoped his shoes were shining
Just as bright as his brass
"Step forward you Soldier,
How shall I deal with you?
Have you always turned the other cheek?
To My Church have you been true?"
"No, Lord, I guess I ain't
Because those of us who carry guns
Can't always be a saint."
I've had to work on Sundays
And at times my talk was tough,
And sometimes I've been violent,
Because the world is awfully rough.
But, I never took a penny
That wasn't mine to keep.
Though I worked a lot of overtime
When the bills got just too steep,
The Soldier squared his shoulders and said
And I never passed a cry for help
Though at times I shook with fear,
And sometimes, God forgive me,
I've wept unmanly tears.
I know I don't deserve a place
Among the people here.
They never wanted me around
Except to calm their fears.
If you've a place for me here,
Lord, It needn't be so grand,
I never expected or had too much,
But if you don't, I'll understand."
There was silence all around the throne
Where the saints had often trod
As the Soldier waited quietly,
For the judgment of his God.
"Step forward now, you Soldier,
You've borne your burden well.
Walk peacefully on Heaven's streets,
You've done your time in Hell."
The mother of all defeats - MCA still talking about New Villages
Friday, May 18, 2018
As for the MCA, the descendants of Tan Cheng Lock and Tan Siew Sinā¦ Sigh.
Locked in the past, still talking about what they will do for new villages. New villages!New villages are from a time in the mid-50s when I followed my parents to the Lido cinema in Brickfields.
After the curtain was raised to reveal a cellotaped, faded still asking cinema patrons to be considerate and not smoke, the cue for smokers to light up and make loud rude suggestions, there would be a map of Malaya, just like the one we primary school kids had to practice drawing free-hand, except this one had black patches splotching it.
As a kid, I was only waiting for the three or four Looney Tunes cartoons, and didnāt really know why my country was blighted in this way, something to do with communists, cruel men hiding in the jungle.
Hello, six decades later still talking about new villages, terminology revealing minds caught in an inescapable past.
Like the shrinking power-base in clan associations. How many young Chinese are members of clan associations? Their clans are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. And their friends know them as Felicia and Steven, not Khoo or Lim.
MCA has become history. Its leaders can sheepishly talk about analysis and swear to continue serving the people, but they have been tainted by servile association with their corrupt Big Brothers for so long, who is going to vote for them? The Chinese? Malays, Indians and Others? Please, get back on your chairs and stop laughing.
