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."
Last night went to a noodle stall for dinner. Saw a young man walk in and ordered 2 bowls of noodle.
One for himself and the other bowl left at opposite seat with no one sitting there. While he was eating, he was mumbling "time flies ya, we didn't see each other for more than a year". Then he continue eating while engaging in a conversation with an empty seat with a bowl of noodle in front of him.
Being ghost month festival, the customers around were having goose bump while having their noodle.
Suddenly the young man stood up and said to the empty seat "you wait hah I go to the convenient store to get us drinks". All customers begin to flee the noodle stall after seeing the scene.
Five, fifteen minutes later, the stall owner was having chilling feeling and asked the empty seat "where is your friend ah ? "
Suddenly there is a big smack at his head and he heard his wife shouting at him "nut head ... This is new trick to have a free meal lah"
While is lunar 7th month joke... the moral of the story is :
1. The young man is like umno and pas, creating something out of thin air for free meals. Labelling DAP as racist party, claiming Chinese is gonna take over the country, bumis are losing their rights etc etc. But at the end he conned the rakyat for a free meal , including the bumis.
2. The customers of the stall are like rakyat, especially the kampong folks, fell into the "story" under specific conditions (ghost month with made up ghost stories), i e. racism games etc .
3. The stall owner of the stall is akin to the tax payers, always taken for a ride by the corrupt regime. We need more people like the wife to be able to poke the story