wHo YoU cALLiNg FAt??

dear jess,

ive been hesitating about this letter for some time now. its probably because there is a myrid of things in my head and i don quite know how to phrase it. you see, someone made aware of a typical malaysian problem the other day, she aptly phrased as the middle class fat man syndrome.

apparently the education system hasnt taught us to think and secondly if we do think we dont do anything about it. this is true cos we all grumble but dont make that call, write that letter, say out loud what we should to make a change in our country, in our church and in the places we were destined to be.

she went on to use me as an example and yet contradicted herself by saying im not sayin u, "im taht way too, but u see if you were doing a thesis on this you wouldve bought the tickets to that performance weeks ahead, and you wouldve watch all the videos, but in reality i know you wont."

fellow malaysians, let me just say this, that until very recently i have been as detached from this country as someone who might as well be living in another country. yes, perhaps it is true that the greatest "achievement" is if the nation is one that doesnt think and just follows? i agree that most of us should say something but most of the time we dont..

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i learned the other day that the man who won one of the first local newspapers playwright competition and is until today famed for that, actually handed in an unoriginal script.

do you really want to know what the "country's problem" is?

perhaps it is that we dont think or we dont say our opinions cos we are afraid; but first and foremost i think we should just all be nicer. and then, and then we can work on the fat man syndrome.

yes, somethings are that simple.

yours,

jess