If you don't know your destination, every road leads you there!

Ignorance is Bliss!

You are constantly bombarded with contradictory statements, that 'life is here for you to savour, enjoy, you only live once!' and 'your existence here is for a reason, your presence should spur the race forward or at least your family'.

Proponents of the former would insist that the most precious you have in this birth is your life. And it is your God-given boon to enjoy, develop spiritually and make preparations for the elevation of your soul to better heights in the next re-birth. It is as though your worldly duties are secondary and the one that matters is you. Period. You should live life to the fullest, explore beyond yourself, reward yourself, pushing yourself to the limit and beyond.

On the other hand, there would be people who have charted responsibilities for everyone. Everyone has a duty to his dependants, kins, society and nation, depending on the situation. In a situation when a situation warrants a decision need to be made between giving up personal pleasures of the flesh or of the soul to submission to filial duties, familial duties should be prioritised. Needing to live for the moment does not arise. A life lived for the well being of others is life well-lived!

You are aware these two options and are in a perpetual flux. You are in a limbo between doing the good thing and the right thing. There is cognitive dissonance between the 'heart' and the 'mind'. You develop bias perception just to convince yourself that you are on the right track as the conflict of uncertainty is simply too overwhelming.

My way or no way!

Beatles sang in their song 'We can work it out'... 
...Try to see it my way, Only time will tell if I am right or I am wrong
While you see it your way, There's a chance that we may fall apart before too long
We can work it out...

Fish head curry @ Muthu's

I remember a few years ago, I made a weekend trip to the land of Merlion to watch a musical show (We'll rock you) at the Esplanade with my better half, brother-in-law and his wife. The highlight of the trip (beside the play, of course) was the fish head curry that we had Muthu's Curry House and breakfast at Komala Vilas. Talking about fish head curry, this is a point of contention between Singapore and Malaysia on bragging rights on the origin of this local favourite delicacy. This debate is like the squabble for satay between Malaysia and Indonesia. Actually, one version says that this style of cooking was brought in by the Malayalees Muslim traders (much like Mahathir's ancestors) started selling this dish in stalls in Singapore and Penang in the1900s before the rest of the nation took fancy. Now the Peranakans are also putting their stake on this dish! 

My point I like to highlight is how both the restaurants are run almost 100% by  Indian nationals but they managed the premises and its surroundings in the true Singapore standards - spick and span, even the washroom was smelling of roses (scent, that is). The Singaporeans (government/enforcement) managed to dictate to the foreign workers - that is how we want things around here, shape up or ship out!

Auschwitz

Now, what do we have around here in Bolehland? We have Indian banana leaf rice restaurants in towns run according to Chennai or Chittagong standards. Service in much wanted - as if the customers are receiving handouts or they are doing charity work. And do not even bother to take a sneak peek at the kitchen to see how your mouth watering food is prepared - using recycled oil which looks blacker than the pots and pans, stirring their gravies with plastic ladles (you seriously do not expect them to know the detrimental effects of consumption of plastic and the effect of high temperatures on hydrocarbon and plastics and its carcinogenic effects!). And personal hygiene - don't even go there - body odour which emits the same mustard gas that Hitler used to gas Jews in Auschwitz concentration camps!

Talking about foreign nationals, have you seen the foreigners (students, yeah right!) moving around freely with our young college girls and promoting their style of lifestyles with detrimental consequences.

Points to ponder...indeed...