Monday, November 3, 2008

Sabahan Bloggers - let's make a difference... now!!

Good for them.. at least they have an Olympic to change their habits – read - (and oh my!! It needs an Olympic to change them!!)..

But what about our Sabahans ‘bad habits’ (or Malaysian generally)? Will it take an Olympic or perhaps the World Cup to change us? If that is so.. then I won't be able to see Sabah without people with bad habits... duh!!

I don’t think KK will one day host an Olympic… well, not in my lifetime I guess!! Then, if we need a world event to change us… that sounds really bad isn’t it? Even a world event like Mount Kinabalu Climbathon fails – as I’ve read in the news recently that they are still rubbish all around Kinabalu Parks and Kundasang etc...

“Bulih bah kalo ko…” – we always hear that and I’ve seen a T-shirt with that words printed on it in Greg a.k.a teekay’s of Kupi O Kaw Kaw – bah, kalau bulih tu, marilah ramai-ramai tukar itu ‘bad habits’ – starting with all of us Sabahan bloggers and let us just spread the ‘anti-bad habits disease’ (or whatever you may want to call it) around….

Just a list of those bad habits we usually encounter (or do it ourselves!!)

  1. Jumping queues – cars on the road or people queuing up (e.g. when going for food during wedding receptions)
  2. Driving slow on the fast lane
  3. Talk loudly on the phone including in the cinema during movie
  4. Throw rubbish indiscriminately – even from moving vehicles!!
  5. Spitting everywhere
  6. They don’t put their rubbish in a plastic, instead, they just throw it into the public rubbish bin without the plastic bags!! (for those people who lives in housing estates especially apartments)
  7. many more.. it's and endless list..

The list could go on and on… so I won’t list them here. I believe you know or encountered many of them…

In the last general election, blogs proved to be a powerful/ influential thing… so I am hoping blogs will again prove to be a powerful/ influential thing to ‘educate’ Sabahans, particularly and Malaysians in general – not just as political tools.

You can see more and more politicians on the blogs nowadays.. well, I hope politicians too can help ‘educate’ the people and not just post something for their own benefits… hey you, politicians (even the ‘kedai kopi’ politicians – do something ‘lah’!! – don’t just talk and talk and talk bah…)

So what say you my friends? (even better if a politician read this… or perhaps they polticians just don’t care about these so-called little things?)

Bah!!!... bulih bah kalo kita? - can we make a difference?

4 comments:

rin-chan 린- 찬 said...

Hombi, semua list of bad habits yang ko kasi memang pernah sia encounter, especially yang bikin sakit hati yang number 1 tu. Some people are just so impatient, overtake guna emergency lane macam dorang ja yang mau balik rumah or pegi ofis.

Attitude very hard to change la. I guess not in our lifetime juga (either Olympics, WC and er..the bad habits).

KaDusMama said...

me share the same sentiment with rin-chan..just hate the Q jumpers the most. Macam dorang saja bah mau p keja..orang lain nda payah keja..bikin panas betul!!
At my apartments compound kan..ada lah manusia bodoh yang nda pakai otak buang saja sampah di tepi2 tangga..memang marah oh sia tingu..padahal tu big bin is only 20metre away saja bah..

carolchs said...

bad habits die hard they say.... :(

Lab papa said...

Boleh bah Hombi,

Ni ada few of us bah yg buat cam tu.

I think apa yang kita ble buat for a start is to educate our family first. Good families will produce a good comunity. IMHO.