Wow Kelly...the bugs start chirping already? Thank god I live in Ibaraki....we don't have that noisy bug here, or at least not yet. I've always wondered, what do the environmentalists think of them? Them who always "preserve trees, save nature from mankind". Will they change their mind about trees that harbour a legion of noisy bugs that god created to irritate humans during summer or not....
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Just in case you're wondering, my exams is not over. It's just that a recent news highlight caught my attention and my fingers are just itching to comment about them.
Have you guys read the news about the flight to Kota Kinabalu that got canceled due to 'mechanical problem'?? Well, it was a MAS flight that Transport Minister Datuk Seri Chan Kong Choy was supposed to be on. When I first read it, it seemed to be just a random piece of news. But then suddenly, I thought "What are the odds that the ONLY flight canceled, or the only one reported in the news (which only serve to point out how significant a domestic flight was to be headline in the international papers) was the flight that our dear Transport Minister was on??" Being a Malaysian who's used to all kinds of mischiefs....I did my own little investigation.
You see, a few days before that delay, MAS announce that they will be giving one month bonus to their employees.....but what they failed to mention was that the bonus was to be given ONLY to 'selected employees'. Of course this unsurprisingly irked those who were excluded from the money list. So, according to my brother, who were supposed to serve on that flight.....it wasn't a mechanical fault, they deliberately delayed that flight!!
So, the mechanics were like.....
"Aww...it looks like we might have a screw loose on this one plane our Transport Minister is getting on. We, the dedicated mechanics can't shirk our duties and we must make sure this flight is save. We won't want our dear minister to be involved in an airplane crash now do we? Ali and Abu, you guys go on and check the rest of the plane...the rest of us are going out to buy karipap and teh tarik." And they took 4 hours to check that plane!!!
Well, what happened next was the announcement that ALL MAS EMPLOYEES are getting their bonus. All following flights were on schedule after that. Hahaha....good old Malaysians. Always getting our way. Congratulations to my brother too for getting his bonus.
But what really interest me is that in the international news, our dear Transport Minister actually lauded their actions. Now, since when did a Chinese minister ever praised a delayed flight before? And not only that, the newspaper here in Japan always report good stuff about MAS...how diligent and productive they are under the administration of Idris Jala.
WOW...journalist in Malaysia must be damn good in their job!!!!
