So there I was, talking to my old friend on the cell-phone. As per courtesy, when he answered, I asked him whether it was a convenient time to speak. He replied in affirmative as he was just waiting to pick his son from school. My friend had 2 sons and a daughter. I came to understand that this was the second son that he was waiting for. The first, a 12 year old lad, had been packed off to stay with my friend's brother in law in Australia. Why? Has he been banished from our motherland for some unforgivable crime sentenced to the pleasure of the King or something like that? Of course not! They are staying in Klang, with dearth of quality international education in the vicinity, my friend thought that for the sake of his future, his son would be better off let to grow up in a foreign land away from his parents!
Well. this is not the first time I have heard off such a 'sacrifice' done by parents, all in the name of securing a bright future for the children (as if children educated here in Malaysia are only fit to sell nasi lemak; not to imply that nasi lemak sellers are educationally challenged and have a bleak doomed future). They forget that many a successful entrepreneurs the world over did not even have the opportunity to even seek shelter from rain in a school compound! Lim Goh Tong and Boon Siew (of Honda fame) are 2 living (deceased) examples.
There is a family friend (an Indian in Thailand), who, in the not that well globalized Bangkok of the 1970s was mercilessly sent away to study in a boarding school in India at an unbelievable tender age of 5years old (no kidding). After being traumatized by home sickness and peer bullying, lucky for him, he continued the rest of his education in a newly established international school in Bangkok then.
And yet another boy (another friend's early teenage son) who after failing to perform well in the Malaysian schools, was bundled off to a boarding school in Chennai.
Hey, am I missing something here? Have I been misinformed all this while? I have always thought that you are responsible to the DNA that you sow. Just like you cannot go around spilling and sowing your wild oats recklessly without taking responsibility as a man, you are also responsible for the product of the half of the DNA that you did not 'waste'. In the immortal words of MSM, anyone can be a father; a good father takes responsibility of his offspring and nurtures him through his financial, physical, spiritual and psychological needs. Nobody likes his little own to be associated with such a brilliant but sickly serial killer like Charles Sobhraj.
My take on this is, you left this carbon foot-print, it is your job to ensure that this isotope, even if it does glow like diamond, it does not burn aimlessly like charcoal in a wild fire! You would not want your mess to be other people's headache.
Well. this is not the first time I have heard off such a 'sacrifice' done by parents, all in the name of securing a bright future for the children (as if children educated here in Malaysia are only fit to sell nasi lemak; not to imply that nasi lemak sellers are educationally challenged and have a bleak doomed future). They forget that many a successful entrepreneurs the world over did not even have the opportunity to even seek shelter from rain in a school compound! Lim Goh Tong and Boon Siew (of Honda fame) are 2 living (deceased) examples.
There is a family friend (an Indian in Thailand), who, in the not that well globalized Bangkok of the 1970s was mercilessly sent away to study in a boarding school in India at an unbelievable tender age of 5years old (no kidding). After being traumatized by home sickness and peer bullying, lucky for him, he continued the rest of his education in a newly established international school in Bangkok then.
And yet another boy (another friend's early teenage son) who after failing to perform well in the Malaysian schools, was bundled off to a boarding school in Chennai.
Hey, am I missing something here? Have I been misinformed all this while? I have always thought that you are responsible to the DNA that you sow. Just like you cannot go around spilling and sowing your wild oats recklessly without taking responsibility as a man, you are also responsible for the product of the half of the DNA that you did not 'waste'. In the immortal words of MSM, anyone can be a father; a good father takes responsibility of his offspring and nurtures him through his financial, physical, spiritual and psychological needs. Nobody likes his little own to be associated with such a brilliant but sickly serial killer like Charles Sobhraj.
My take on this is, you left this carbon foot-print, it is your job to ensure that this isotope, even if it does glow like diamond, it does not burn aimlessly like charcoal in a wild fire! You would not want your mess to be other people's headache.
you left this carbon foot-print, it is your job to ensure that this isotope, even if it does glow like diamond, it does burn aimlessly like charcoal in a wild fire....
ReplyDeleteWAH THAT IS A GOOD ONE.
Hopefully no nasi lemak seller is reading this blog.
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