Pull up your socks!

I remember a mate in school who thought that his teacher was commenting on the loss of elasticity of his school socks whenever the examination results were out and he was reprimanded for the outcome! Of course, over time, he came to realise the real meaning of his teacher's message, and he is now a grown individual and a respected member of society!

For so long, the civil servants of the country have been working with a chip on their shoulder, thanks to the legacy left by the colonial master as CSR to the natives, knowing very well that their positions would not be terminated. At worst, they would be transferred to another department. It did not matter anyway. They were not there to learn or perform their delegated duties. It is their part-time job, really. Their real work begins after office hours. With so much comfort in life, and the powers that be bending over backwards to cast a safety net to cushion any form of hardship, they had it good.

So, when a crisis of enormous international magnitude occurs, they are caught embarrassingly unprepared, with their pants down. Many standard common sense protocols are allowed to slide by. The 40 years of dormancy in a stuporous, zombie-like state have been laid bare for all to see. If the civil service is already poor, the armed forces are unprepared to respond to an unidentified flying object in their airspace. It is reminiscent of a book that had no publishing licence for years but was only banned after its contents offended certain sections of society.

Wake up, roll call. As a true Malaysian, do you realise how embarrassing it is to showcase the country's brightest minds floundering while stringing sentences that confuse listeners about whether he is speaking in the present or past tense?

But, you justify... That it is a unified, organised plan to belittle and ridicule you.