Stupidity That Surpasses The Greatest

And we Malaysians complimented his stupidity with our very own kiasuness.

That comment probably just stepped on quite a lot of toes. Yours too - particularly if you were one of those who rushed to the petrol station just to filled up the tank, while causing a massive jam on every road leading to a petrol station there is in the country. Even those stations that usually don't have much business were jam packed with cars, SUVs, lorries, motorcycles...you name it. And then leaving those who really needed the petrol stuck on the road, after whatever was remaining in their tank ran out while waiting for their turn.

Whose fault was it? Well, of course I couldn't blame it on the people since the government should really have foreseen this...and who would not have expected the reaction?? Malaysians in general are kiasu, even rivaling their southern neighbours on some fronts. (though some of us hate to admit it, but there are also those who wear it like a badge of honour - which I seriously wonder why). OK...let's not step on even more toes.

But in all seriousness, the fault lies with Uncle Lah, who in his supreme wisdom decided to raise the petrol ceiling by 78 sen - all in one go. He couldn't raised it over a few months. No, no, no, the past few months was too near to the elections...so it had to be done after the elections. And as a "reward" for all those naughty voters who voted accordingly, he wanted to dish out the "goodies", all in one shot.

I mean...come on lah...he could have made the raise incrementally, right? In my humble opinion, the petrol price should have been raised since last year - a bit at a time. Everyone hates price increases, especially when our pay remains the same - but if it needed to be done, it should have been done in a way that would have lessen the pain.

Unfortunately for us, with his unsurpassed wisdom, we will now see everything else go up in prices too - exceedingly high too. Not like it has not been going up and up and up for the last few months. But it's going to hit sky high now. With the price of chicken on the rise, looks like I'll need switch to pork - not like it's cheaper - with my porridge (remember someone's Deputy asked us to change our lifestyles?). Probably have to switch to bringing my own lunch now too.

Uncle Lah of course have to lead the pack by raising the price for electricity - by 18%. Whoopy! Now I need to eat my porridge by candle light. How romantic.

While in our minds we knew that we have stupid ministers...they have now removed any reasonable doubt - at least from my mind (I thought there was a cure...but...looks like that was my optimistic self speaking). Either that or the coffers has really shrunk over his tenure and he had no choice in this matter.

Whatever the reason was, the execution was once again a "first for Malaysia" and it was something no one could have guessed. Bravo Uncle Lah, bravo for the dumboness that puts us all into shame.