From Experience

I was rather weak from birth and due to the bad time during the Japanese occupation , I was rather undernourished. So I remember having to eat a lot of medicines and sometimes drink some sort of bitter mixtures like quinine etc. I recalled even after I started working, I still had a lot of flu and cold, still requiring to boil the water to mix with tap water for my bath. My health turned better when I started taiqiquan which really improved my health so that I no longer needed hot water for my baths. Later I did not continue the taiqi for some time and was not too healthy going towards late 50s but then after a major operation in 2000, I went back to be scrupulous in my diets and exercise. I found out that a cold treatment is better for health. I would try to take cold showers at leat once a day and with that I would say cold or flu no longer trouble me any longer. It is more so when the weather is warming up now and to add warm water to your bath would be uncomfortable enough so cold bath is my first rule of good health. Of course stop drinking alcohol, stop consuming butter , sweets, chocolates, cakes and event honey is not commendable as the sugar content is high too. With regular exercise, discreet diets and spiritual health, I feel rejuvenated and of happy in the golden years.

Lao Ma

Lao Ma  was the worst prime minister in the history of Malaysia. He has been rightly described as the greatest racist by no other than BN's spokesman, Nazri. Mr.Zhan Yung How , a lecturer in The Monash University has just written an article published in See Hua Daily today describing him as a total failure in his long realm and instead he has caused the chaos and deterioration of racial relationship and social cohesion during his dictatorial rule and even now he is still going all out to do more harm to racial relationship during the rule of the present Prime Minister by advocating Malay special rights which in fact are right and interest of Umnoputra and narrowed down to a few rich and powerful Malay super rich political gangsters who always try to cry for blood of other races with the Kris held high! He recommended a book written to find the true face and colours of the evil racist! In fact his own daughter, Marina  has also condemned the Racist Perkasa and declared that those are shameless evil minded narrow Malay racists who advocate racialism to promote their own interest at the expense of the national interest and she also pointed out rightly that Malays do not need protection or special rights as they are confident enough to stand on their own feet in the face of globalisation!

A Matter of Principle

It is not easy to make friend but on other hand it is quite easy to lose one. I have come across such a man who for reason that only he himself knows chose to break off with me just because I tried to reason with him on some articles he posted in his blog. A mutual friend suggested to me to stop arguing with him and leave him alone in his own blog but I think it a matter of principle that I should be given a chance to say what I feel right and he as a progressive element as he professed should at least hear what I have to say and not unceremoniously slam my phone call. Well I think if I give way to him and his despotic way, I would encourage his bossy ways. So I believe as a matter of principle, I would rather lose such a friend than kowtow to him like a slave.

An Experience of A Picnic

Early in the late 70s, I was once invited to go for a picnic. I was accompanied by a friend and we cycled for at least one and a half hours before reaching a small hut in a rubber garden somewhere in Upper Lanang Road. There were quite a number of youngsters gathered in the sitting room while I was given the honour of presiding over the informal meeting giving a sort of general talk on the topic of the world and local situations. At that time I had just read a book borrowed from SUDC Library on the movements in various colonies in Africa, Asia and other backward countries. I was rather nervous and inexperienced in making speeches so I requested a small makeshift black board for me to write some key words to explain more clearly. I recalled relating the revolutionary movements and struggles for independence of the colonies in Africa and Asia and after specific coverage of various movements and went on to generalize the world picture of global struggles against the Western Imperialism encouraged by the rise of the Eastern friendly nations. I did not know how the reception was and fortunately , later I had a chance to talk with one student who is now in her late 60s and she said she still had a vivid impression of me trying my very best then to paint a bright picture of the East Wind prevailing over the West. I just want to flatter myself with her praises whether genuine or not. Don't spoil good memory.

A Loner

After I know him better, I know now he is just a lone ranger who looks down on others. He had been an agitator in his school days and he did go to jail for his part in students movement in school time. But he is at heart a loner and a stubborn one hard to get along with. He has tried to portrait himself as a free thinker and leftist writer but when you have been with him for some time, you will find out he is just a vainglorious poet/writer who often imagines some beautiful girls in the past had chased him when in fact, because of his low e.q. he had never had any real girl friend except his small small pupils or a small sweat girl who also blushed when he had given her attention exceeding those other girls he also gave tuition then. All these are his imagination and self-consolation. The most serious thing is he does not tolerate any criticism nor even comments on his writings in books, news, or his personal blog. I now see him as a vainglorious frog sitting in his own beautiful pond, croaking away in the golden evening setting sun. Let's not disturb him. Let him enjoy his own kingdom! He had never taken any step to put into practice whatever he advocates. He attacks the corrupt ruling class but he also tries to assists in smearing the brave young politician in the opposition with black paint and fierceness not less that the ruling clique. He never joins any political party saying that all political parties make no difference. So it was good for him he was not captured and jailed or even killed because he did not join the actual underground movement though he was a strong sympathizer of CCO. That's why he sometimes attacks others branding them empty vessels while he thinks he has sacrificed much for his leftist leaning and stand.

A Nonconformist ?

He has been a leftist since his school days and has caused headache to his teachers with his leftist ideas and actions but he has not been a member of the leftist group. After he has come out to the society he has been a loner, fighting his own battle with his pen attacking the corrupted politicians and the authority but he has never been in any labour movement nor has he joined any political party. He is not easy to get along with and it somehow saves his skin also because if he were in any underground movement during the 70's he would long have been put in detention camp then. Now he chooses to stay alone not joining the opposition party saying that the opposition is no good also. So he prefers to be independent writer and even in his present position he does not welcome any criticism as he prefers to freely build his own blog into a private flower garden in which to nourish his dream of beauties, arts, crafts or whatever that comes to his fancy and taste.