Being Duh...

I have a new source of entertainment on telly. Come 8 PM I would be sitting on the couch in front of the idiot box.

Forget America’s next top bim… eh… Model, this one’s even better.

Yes, I watch TV3’s ‘Buletin Utama’ like, religiously now. as a matter of fact, I am going to rename it to ‘Malaysia’s Next Top Idiots’, starring… the MPs at the parliament house and the Deputy JKR fella who unknowingly read from whatever it was that he was reading out from without knowing (Or even noticing) the implication of his statement.

Now the media is frenzied over building specifications and if the government knowingly decided to swerve from the correct specs in order to be more cost effective ie cheap skate-ish. Anymore wrong statement, it would definitely backfire.

Oh yeah, not to forget the security guard yang tersangat over. For heaven’s sakes, your job requirement does not include being emotional. I can’t really blame the reporters, everyone loves a huge scoop, especially those involving the government.

I know I do.

Another one of the big stories last night was also of how about 40 plus of the government buildings in Johor never had the Fire Department’s safety approval. Upon inquiries, at least all of us Johoreans would sleep soundly at night knowing that the government’s office on Bukit Timbalan is deemed safe for occupation. That leaves some 39 other building that are maybe not that safe.

Any Ali, Chong and Muthu who are Johoreans know that the Wisma Persekutuan is not exactly the safest building in JB. The area will be flooded everytime during heavy rain. I have been stuck there twice, so when it was announced yesterday, we were smug about the whole thing… we had the ‘as if we dunno’look plastered on our faces.

All that water has got to affect the foundations of the old building somehow.

This issue, I believe, was brought up after the ‘Bocor’ agenda in the parliament when one of the MPs highlighted the leaking ceiling in the very hall they are childishly arguing in. After making the sexist remarks, the two bozos apologized. I thought Dato’ Shahrizat Jalil, in her composure, would maybe want to slap the two of them silly.

‘Tak malu. Mulut tak bleh jaga. *piak piak* Cakap je ahli parlimen, tapi otak macam budak tadika! *piak piak* Budak Tadika pun lagi pandai daghi hang berdua *piak piak*’

Our ever so ‘charismatic’ leader, then came out with a statement that the leaking ceiling should be seriously looked into. And not 5 days later, the Jalan Duta courthouse was ‘Bocor’.

Good timing, I say.

Which brought my attention to the other star of the 8 pm ‘show’, the MPs. When the government launched the ‘Tak Nak Campaign’, I wonder if they actually properly briefed these MPs beforehand, not that it needed much briefing on, it’s only a campaign that involves people not smoking. All that education and the MPs still could not decipher a simple very visible ‘No smoking’ signs in the parliament building itself.

Apakah?

What does it take really, for them to say ‘tak nak’? A billboard in the hall?

One small detail that the media seemed to miss is that why is it that ashtrays are still in ‘abundance’ in a no smoking area? D’oh!?

As if being sexists is not enough, they have to be dumb as well…

This is truly an idiocracy. And if they are doing all this to purposely invite controversy in turn for cheap publicity, quite frankly, I don’t get it. I don’t think anyone would.

Yo! My IQ’s being challenged herela.

We are halfway to ‘Stupidville’, no thanks to middle aged bozos.