Rudyard Kipling"
“When 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 soldier”
General Douglas MacArthur"
“We are not retreating. We are advancing in another direction.”
“It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.” “Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
“The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and be the deepest wounds and scars of war.”
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't .” “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
“Nobody ever defended, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.
“It 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 BM (Burberry Man) who promotes BM By Andrew Sia
Saturday, July 02, 2022
MS : Well written Andrew. For those who have yet to realize, the pencemaran bahasa, a sample of which you have listed here, is essentially the handiwork of the master race...to be exact the third rate politicians and their semi-literate lackeys littered across the country.
Their ketuanan krap was always designed to intimidate the minorities, to show them who is tuan while they, without any help from others, undermine themselves, their culture and their language by their own boorish, thoughtless and crude acts.
The "language" they now want to force feed on everyone has already been unrecognizably mangled with every misspelled English word automatically becoming Bahasa Melayu.
That is because they are simply too lazy to to coin new words, a laborious intellectual process requiring deep thought, cultural awareness and a knowledge of comparative linguistics and etymology. Wanting instant results, like instant riches, they prefer to co-opt ("steal") existing words from elsewhere to make up for the crippling shortfall.
We can understand that technical terms may pose challenges and adoption may be the only way. But substituting Dewan Makan for Dewan Bankuet reveals something troubling - deep insecurity. And a secret desire to be sophisticated and "western".
Malaysia's Burberry Man (BM) is too much of a country bumpkin to think all this through. Which is why he has taken a sledgehammer to the solve the problem of a corrupted, pidginized national language whose development has been retarded by primitive politics and a pathological need to keep up with the Joneses. (Which explains the "presint" in Putrajaya) . The man has not come far from Low Yat.
Malaysiakini : COMMENT | So, which BM is Prime
Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob best known for? His promotion of Bahasa
Malaysia? Or his recent “acting” role as the “Burberry Man”?
Our
dear prime minister has been waving the flag of language nationalism for
months. Fair enough. But if he’s truly patriotic, he should also be
promoting another BM – Batik Malaysia.
Instead, Ismail Sabri wears (and advertises) foreign luxury goods – an RM6,900 Burberry shirt – when Malaysians are suffering from inflation. Let me make three points here:
1)
It’s like having a banquet in front of starving people. How can a
politician be so tone-deaf to the people’s economic problems?
2) Why does he pay such big bucks only to showcase his poor fashion sense?
3) Dear sir, are you portraying yourself as the prime minister or as a catwalk model?
Such pretentious dressing is usually a symptom of the typical nouveau riche
(newly rich). They are still acutely insecure of their poor backgrounds
and thus overcompensate, for example, by wearing loud (and ugly)
clothes whose sole function is to scream: “Hey, look at me, I got class
leh, I got a lot of money you know…”
