“It’s heartening to know that there are still good people like him in this world. Thanks to people like him we can continue being a**h***s”.
Iqbal Abd Ghaffar
The lights of the urban skyline heading towards what essentially is the backbone of Peninsular Malaysia where the only casino in this country lay perched look brighter than usual today. The velvet colored dark sky hosts a bluemoon (not literally k). Now I know how the phrase “Once in a bluemoon” came up (click on the link).
The first decade of the new millenia has come to an end. What a wacky decade!
Have you ever had one of those hit the forehead with “Oh I get it!” moment? Well I did, a few days back. I think it was Mix.fm’s old tagline, “playing today’s hit music from the eighties, nineties, and noughties”. Hearing the last word over the air, made it sound like naughties. And I thought naughties? That doesn’t make sense at all! A few days back, as I stumbled upon some articles of reflections of 2009, I came across the word noughties, and then I realized, “I remember my English (as in England) maths teacher called zero nought (or was it not)”. And so it hit me faster that you can say doodle-my-chicken-before-it-poops, “Oh! This is how this decade is referred to!”
Where am I going with this? umm…oh yes! A decade past by so bloody fast. I didn’t notice it right until this morning that we’re heading into a new decade.
It was exactly 10 years ago that mankind and you, me, and the rest of us were all hoping that the new millennium would usher in a new era of hope for mankind. Hopes of peace, end to war, hunger, poverty, more prosperity, equality, green peace (and the list is endless). But 10 years into this new decade and we’ve got a world paralyzed with a war on terror, the imminent danger of climate change and global warming on overdrive, global scale pandemics starting with SARS, bird flue and now H1N1, major natural disasters becoming as common as a mamak in every taman, and a systemic failure of capitalism driven to the extreme by man’s insatiable lust and greed that has costed governments insane amounts of money to fix (pump priming will in-debt future generations).
But all is not lost. All is not gloomy. Despite the doom and gloom that seems to prevail in society today and the amount of negativity that is portrayed in the media (hey, bad news sells), there is still hope for mankind. There are still people who for the love of god would go to extremes and fight for the survival of this planet. There are still people who care about the poor children of africa dying of hunger. And there are still good samaritans who would go all out to put a smile on a strangers face.
I remember a funny story shared by a friend of mine who probably never really cared for any of the above. The story goes that one day he and a female accomplice drove up to a petrol station to refuel. At one corner was a dumpster and there were probably a dozen cats, loitering around and playing with each other and scavenging for food. A couple of minutes later a pickup drove up to the dumpster and a man walked out from the car carrying a bag. This bag was not a garbage bag but was in fact cat food (friskies maybe). The good man spread a sheet of newspaper, poured the cat food on to the newspaper and a dozen or so cats came digging in the nutritious feast.
The friend of mine said to his lady friend (as he got into the car to ready to drive off) “It’s heartening to know that there are still good people like him in this world. Thanks to people like him we can continue being a**h***s”.
The above story folks illustrates… nothing. I just wanted to share that with you. I liked it because its hilarious. *ROFL*
Back to the story…one decade has gone by so fast. That’s 10 years! We’ve added 10 years into our lives. I had just finished high school at the end of the last millennium. I think its pretty awesome that we’ve lived to see the turn into a new millennium, a new century, and a new decade. Thinking about it…the next millennium won’t be here until 989 years from now!
So one decade down, nine more to go in this century. How far are you with your hopes and dreams?
I think that’s the beauty of time. With time, comes experience and hopefully wisdom (sadly some people never get it). I’ve always thought that events in life are nothing more than mere experiences worth recalling, reflecting or worth deleting from your hard drive!
Last year alone, I’ve had quite a roller coaster experience. And I’ve seen events on other people that have impacted my perspective and view on life. But I must admit, a lot of time was spent on soul googling (a new term i coined for soul searching *laughs*) and soul refining (I wonder if there’s ever such a term). And I’m pretty sure the friends and people I know go through the same s**t and had done their own soul refining and soul googling. Perhaps that may just be Google’s next big project!
Moving on to the 28th year of my existence, I’m beginning to comprehend and appreciate the overly used and taken for granted advise that can be summed up in one word: “Bersyukur” or “Be grateful”. Okay, that’s two words in English. Thanks for pointing that out captain obvious.
Go on try it yourself. Reflect on these two words. And I really mean deeply reflect upon it and let it sink in! For some of you, it won’t hit you on the head the first time, it’ll probably take some time. With all good things, it comes with time and patience.
New year party’s over folks. Fireworks are finished. Its the morning of first of January Twenty Ten. Frankly, new year celebration is getting ever more boring. Its repetitive with MC’s and TV announcers having to be hyped up on TV yelling to the audience behind them “SAY HI TO THE CAMERA! IT NEW YEAR! WOOOO!” (what a retard). She made a complete fool of herself.
There’s probably 10 tonnes of waste created from last night’s celebration at KLCC alone (my guess is as good as yours). Its back to work for the hard toiling labors who clean up the mess you’ve made from last night. Respect to these unsung heroes that we take for granted.
Point is that, everyday can be a new year. I don’t see the point of celebrating new year, when on the first day of work come monday, you’d feel all depressed saying to yourself “SSDY (Same Shit Different Year”.
Life is short. Life seems much more shorter now since time doesn’t fly, it travels at warp speed 3.
Anyways, the noughties is gone. Its a new decade. When this decade is over I hope that it won’t be just another 10 years added into your age.
Now…I wonder what’ll this decade be called…the teenies?
Merry New Year and a Happy New decade!
IAG