Friday, October 24, 2014

Big, fat liars.

There's some things (and/or people) that I absolutely loathe.

#1: There's this phrase that I've learnt during my five-year-stay in Kedah that I actually love so much: "sembang kencang". I mean, the moment somebody sarcastically throw this phrase to your face, the impact will be like as if somebody slapped you hard while you were happily cheating in a game. I mean, it's like a straight-forward brutal honesty there.

Together with my family, we went to this part of Germany that doesn't have any speed limit. Even the GPS thing, Tom-tom didn't show any speed limit on its screen. Like seriously, people. You can drive 250km/h or even 350km/h, if that's even possible, and not get any summons. That's how awesome that route is.

Yet, I don't see any selfish (European mostly, I guess) drivers hogging the overtaking lane (<-- I have some direct translation over here). But it's true, tho. Nobody, I repeat, NOBODY was driving on the fast lane except for those who were, well, overtaking other cars. But I didn't see any drivers who drove leisurely, or worse, slow-as-a-muthaff, with no obvious intention to overtake other cars which were on the slower lane.

That's what exactly I found when I was on my way back to my home from Sepang this evening; people hogging the fast lane while driving as slow as fish. Tbh, it's the complete opposite of what I've seen in Deutschland. I mean c'mon people. I got totally nervous when I have to overtake people and at the same time, there's a faster car approaching from behind. I have this need to like "shit, i need to overtake this guy and get back in the slower lane because this car behind me is faster than me". Ya feel me?

Don't you feel anything when there's this big, bad, obviously a more powerful car is inches away from your ass because you're driving like a freaking tortoise? And here we are, talking about making big changes for our country, being a better generation, creating an intelligent and considerate society but still there's selfish ass who thinks that it's okay to hog the fast lane and create a massive line behind him/her and probably, if we were to ask him/her, "why do you drive in the fast lane if you know that you're slow?", we'll be getting "you stfu this speed is the fastest my car can go so you back off and don't tell me where to drive."

Pfft. Sembang kencang.

#2: I came across this few people who apparently shares articles with doubtful sources irresponsibly lately. So here's the thing. I rarely, like seriously RARELY share articles. It doesn't matter; factious, about religion, conspiracies, hadiths because in my opinion, in this century, this era, facts are twistable. Quotes are manipulable. Conspiracies everywhere. And here we are, the youth, trying to figure out our way to get out from all of this mess we are in now.

Those so-called factual articles could be conspiracies. Or a way to bring people down. Those fake hadiths one, those were the most ridiculous ones. I mean, how could people do something like that? It doesn't matter really what religion you are practicing. But how could some people do something as disgusting as fabricating facts to suit your own, idk, preference?

Well, that's for the writers. Those sick people whose hobby is to twist little bit of story to make this fake articles and stuff and asks other people to spread the shit like Nutella. (Hello, Struck by Lightning reference hereee).

For us, the readers, the evaluators, we need to examine and to make sure whatever we share, we share em responsibly. I mean, what's the purpose you share it to your acquaintances? Because you think it's the truth? But is it the truth or is it just something you want to believe that it's true but you have not idea if that's THE truth or not? If it's a lie, especially those religion-related ones, would you want to bear the burden of those who believed the articles you shared since you're too eager to share a doubtful article just because it is what you WANT to believe? Or because you're too lazy to search the authenticity of the article that you're about to share?

See how massive the responsibility behind that simple "Share" button?

I don't know man. Those two stuff had been bugging me for quite some time now and I think I want to let it out and at the same time, warn the others about how serious these two things are, regardless how simple they seem. Which brings all of us to this post.

So people, be responsible. Be considerate. How we're gonna change our own country with this attitude, eh? We need to change what we need to change. But stay awesome, tho :)

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