Sunday, February 04, 2007

Enterprising or Opportunistic, Resilient or Stubborn?

When the Traffic Light Bapaks start bringing out rubber dinghies to sell to cars stopping at the traffic lights - Enterprising.

When the Airport Bapak start 'helping' to push your trolley, 'directing' you to a taxi n then 'assisting' you to load your luggage before smiling n going 'tip,tip,tip' - all while you just got off a wee-hour morning plane feeling tired and groggy - Opportunistic.

When the poor scurries from their 2 meters flood-submerged homes carrying the barang-barang standing by the road, roaming the streets, waiting for the flood to subside before returning to the annual cleaning up and rebuilding - Resilience.

When it's common practice to use cheap imitation naval parts with expensive important naval components;when it's widely complained that airline engineers aint doing a thorough job in the checks;when the city spatial plan blatantly revealed demarcated water catchment areas being replaced with modern construction;when the sluice gates still can only handle max 80cm of water when the yearly flood's constantly at 230 and above - KNS, that's ultra STUBBORN, can?

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