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 on the outcome! Of course, over time he came to realise the real meaning of his teacher's message and he is now all grown and is somebody in society!
For so long, the civil servants of the country have been working with a chip on the shoulder, thanks to the legacy left by the colonial master as CSR to the natives, knowing very well that their services would not be terminated. At its worst, they would be transferred to  another department. It did not matter anyway. They were not there to learn or do their delegated jobs. It is their part time job, really Their real job starts after office hours. With so much life of comfort, with 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 magnanimous international magnitude strikes, they were caught embarrassingly inefficient with their pants down. Many standard common sense protocols were let to slither through. The 40 years of hibernation in stuporous zombie like life form has been exposed bare for all to see. If the civil service is bad enough, the armed forces were malaise to react to an unidentified flying objects in its air space. It is reminiscent of the book which had no publishing licence for years but was only banned after its contents offended certain quarters of the society!
Wake up roll call. As a true Malaysian, do you know how embarrassing it is to display what is the best of brains in the country groping helplessly stringing sentence which confuses its listeners on whether he is speaking in the present tense or past?
But, you justify... That it is a unified organised plan to belittle and ridicule you.