Mampu kah Kita jadi rakyat Negara Maju?

Kalau kita pernah ke luar negara khususnya negara-negara maju kita akan dapati sikap rakyat negara maju yang membezakan mereka dari rakyat negara kurang maju. Walau bagaimanapun bukan rata-rata rakyat negara tersebut bersikap demikian, biasa lah dalam setandan pisang bukan semuanya elok, akan tetapi terdapat peratusan yang tinggi rakyat mereka mempunyai ciri-ciri sedemikian.

Kalau di lihat negara kita Malaysia sikap rakyat kita masih belum mampu untuk kita bergelar negara maju. Antara nya adalah:

1. Tidak menjaga kebersihan. Tandas biasalah kotor. Banyak juga restoran yang kotor melainkan restoran francais luar negara yang rata-rata datang dari negara maju. Juga kalau kita ke pusat perlancongan semula jadi seperti kawasan air terjun memang rakyat kita juara meninggalkan sampah sarap.
2. Tidak tepati masa. Rakyat kita dalam era digital hand phone, Palm, Blabberry masih tak tau baca jam. Satu jam lambat tu biasalah. Excuse yang biasa adalah kesesakan jalan, lambat bangun tidur, banyak kerja dll. Hello! kalau dah tau jalan jam keluarlah 1 jam awal.
3. Tdak sopan di jalan raya. Saya kesian akan warga emas dan kanak-kanak yang tidak selamat langsung di jalan raya kita. Lagi besar kereta mereka lagi kurang ajar rakyat kita di jalan raya. Yang lain-lain tak payah lah saya sebut sebab semua dah maklum.
4. Tidak hormat orang tua. Rata-rata orang kita hanya hormat orang-orang tua yang kita kenal dan ada pertalian darah. Bolih jadi malu kot nak kurang ajar. Tetapi kalau kita jalan-jalan di luar kita dapati dalam LRT tak ade pun orang muda ni yang nak bagi tempat duduk kat orang tua yang dah lama berdiri, perempuan mengandung ke dll.
5. Tidak ramai yang membaca buku. Rata-rata rakyat kita tidak membaca. Kalau dalam LRT, stesyen bas, dalam pesawat dll, jarang sekali saya lihat orang kita baca buku. Bolih jadi kita malu nak membaca atau diri kita dan cukup pandai.
6. Banyak melepak dan buang masa. Rata-rata rakyat kita suka berkumpul dan membuang masa tak tentu sebab. Memanglah kita di galakkan bersosial akan tetapi di negara kita tahap bersosialnya lebih tinggi dari rakyat negara maju. Dengan satu cawan kopi kita bolih duduk 3-4 jam. Ynag hairan nya kedai mamak tak bengkrap pulak.
7. Kita jarang ber-riadah dan bersukan . Rata-rata rakyat kita tidak pandai bersukan untuk menjaga kesihatan kerana peratus yang berbuat demikian amat sedikit. Ada yang mampu bermain golf akan tetapi tidak putus-putus menghisap rokok ketika bermain. Jadi saya faham kenapa tidak ramai rakyat kita mencapai tahap dunia didalam sukan.
8. Kita tidak mencapai ranking yang baik di sukan olimpik. Kalau kita lihat secara kasarnya negara maju akan mencapai keputusan yang baik di sukan besar seperti Olimpik. Dulu negara Korea pun begitu akan tetapi setelah mencapai tahap negara maju kita lihat prestasi ahli sukan nya juga meningkat.

Jebat-Siber

When in Foreign Land it Pays to Knows the Local Dish

A tourist in Madrid went to a local restaurant. Being a snob, he wanted to try the costliest dish, but the manager apologetically explained that he could not have the dish on that day because it was sold out.

"So make more! I will wait as long as it takes!" said the tourist.

"But that is not possible, senor! the special dish is is a fried bull testicles serves in a special Italian sauce. Only 1 bull dies a day. Today's dish is already booked and paid for in advance"

The snob as ever pulled out his wallet and paid for the next 5 days in advance.

The next day he was served the dish. It tasted good and worth what it cost. On the fourth day he was in for a surprise. That day the meal were smaller in size, shrivelled and tasted awful. While he was chewing the bits that he started with he summoned the manager and complained. The manager smiled and explained, " Senor, we are very sorry for this. It is not always that the bull loses, sometime it wins too!"

Most of us have faced such situation in life when we have to compromise under certain circumstances and feel cheated.

Jebat Siber

Is the Glass Half Full or Half Empty...ask Angel Cabrera?

During the play off with Kenny Perry and Chad Cambell in the recent US Masters golf championship Angel Cabrera hit his drive on the 18th Hole, par 4 at Augusta into the woods. He hits out onto the fairway and from there hit 3 onto the green. He duly made the putt and with Kenny Perry making bogey Angel Cabrera was the first Argentinian to have won the US Masters. It was a remarkable win and he received a heroe's welcome in his hometown in Argentina.

After his win the press interviewed Cabrera about his drive into the woods at hole 18 and asked how he managed to get back into fairway when it appeared impossible. Cabrera responded that he had about 1 foot (by showing the reporter the gap with his hand) in between 2 trees and had a go nevertheless as the gap was certainly bigger than his golf ball.

( To non golfer to hit out from a 1 foot gap between trees in US Masters is like asking David Beckham to score in a world cup match from standard free kick into a goal half the normal goal span and with Petr Chech in-between the post)

Cabrera definitely saw a half full glass instead of half empty. The next time we are in a spot see it as "half full" and not "half empty".



Jebat Siber