The Retrocession

Alright it’s time for the third post, on 世态炎凉 (realities of life?). Don’t really know how to translate that, I think you should just google it. This post will be a lot more Chinese because… like I always say, English is a emotionally-deficient language.  Gunakanlah bahasa ibunda, sebab bahasa jiwa bangsa. I tak nak jadi Mat Salleh. Looking at how things are developing in Malaysia, I guess there are certain things that you could observe as part of human nature. Let’s take the former ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional as an example. In this coalition, UMNO is like a dai-lo and there are several smaller parties serving this dai-lo, as if they could not survive on their own. No matter how much humiliation they had to endure, because of the huge benefits they manage to reap off by acceding to UMNO’s incessant demands, they continue lick their dai-lo’s boots. Suddenly post-GE14, Barisan Nasional lost the elections and dai-lo UMNO no longer was able to keep its grip on the huge amount...

Okay many people has been bugging for my second blog post. Honestly I think it is not very nice if I publish something and it causes a big woohah before the next JCRC is elected. SO I WAIT. 这一天，终于来了。 Today I am gonna talk about the perfectionist behaviour I have. Many people think perfectionists must be damn atas. YOU ARE WRONG HAHAHA. Observe your friends carefully lah: You can drink three towers of beer , spur vulgarities in 4 dialects and skip all your lectures and still be a perfectionist. WHY? According to Wikipedia: Perfectionism , in psychology, is a personality trait characterized by a person's striving for flawlessness and setting high performance standards , accompanied by critical self-evaluations and concerns regarding others' evaluations . In its maladaptive form, perfectionism drives people to attempt to achieve an unattainable ideal , while their adaptive perfectionism can sometimes motivate them to reach their goals . In the end, they derive pleasur...