Malaysians are funny lots. We have very weird priorities in life. When Israel started its invasion of Lebanon, Malaysians had bigger things in mind. I remember asking someone for his thoughts of the war in the Middle East and he replied, “Israel always bomb Palestine so what’s the big news? I don’t know what’s going on but I know Siti Nurhaliza is getting married.”
Sad but true. Most Malaysians were more concerned with Siti and her marriage. Thinking that this was just an isolated incident, I struck up a conversation with someone on the LRT when I mentioned Hezbollah and that person shook her head saying, “Oh, I think I missed that episode of AF (Akademi Fantasia)”.
As the glitter of Siti demises, the war takes center stage finally but attention is quickly taken over by reports suggesting that her wedding is costing RM12 888. Personally, I don’t understand what does our nation see in this champion of gold diggers.
Arriving in Kuching, I discover that the haze is back but it was never mentioned in our so-called national papers, The Star and The News Strait Times (who gallantly always gives 1 page for news in Sabah and Sarawak and charges 60cents more in East Malaysia). They were busy covering the Dr. M spraying incident.
Speaking of newspapers, it’s so annoying that our sports news is always ‘copy and paste’ material off the Internet. It has to be a copyright infringement. Apparently, plagiarism is not piracy. It’s something you can’t do in college but once you graduate, everything goes.
What goes through Malaysian minds? Nothing it seems.
The thoughts of the wild 