Nothing To Be Cynical About.

Hell isn't the place where they send middle age blog writers like you who suspect everything, bitter with the world, and at war with the decadent society. And I'm sure it is not a sin to be suspicious of every government project under the sun if you were at one time in your life, a Chief Operating Officer of a GLCs who had to make way for the new generation of managers who took over your job which left you with no choice but to accept the VSSs. And so you rack your brain for a way of starting a profitable business to sustain the lifestyle you were used to. But day after day you began to realise that it is not easy to go into a business with a mindset of a guy who are so used to monthly salary, fat bonuses, profit sharing and stock option. You also realise that friends who promise to back you up in your future plans are busy with the politics of insulating themselves from being taken over by the newer generation of managers.

And so you retreated to your own corner of the world with bitterness and hatred in your heart, ready to pounce on anyone with a different view, or to find fault with everything around you. Under such circumstances, it is only natural that you find solace in religion, to substantiate your argument with this ayat and that ayat which you have just discovered in the translation of the Qur'an. You began to take an interest in the hereafter and develop a mild aversion to things duniawi, and to find fault with everything, including the Smart Tunnel.

You are angry. You've been had, by none other than the very people you voted in the last general election. And so you figured why is everyone so stupid not to see the big picture? Why is everyone so docile, not as angry as you are with the issues that have been bugging the country the last couple of years. Why is everyone willing to allow this country to go this far down in cronyism and nepotism? Why isn't everyone willing to take their anger to the street to bring down this government and replace it with a new one? Why?Why? Why?

And you look in the translation of the Qur'an and arrived at the conclusion that you are the 'ya ayyuhallazina'amanu...' and the rest are the 'munafiqun' 'fasiqun' and 'kafirun'. And boy, that makes you feel good. Because you are not the corrupting kind, or the sucking up kind, or the kind who make a lot of money on the side fleecing the suppliers and the contractors blind for cash or kind. And you fill your heart with the ideals of salvation. And how this world is heading straight for destruction at break neck speed.

You are angry.

And so when the big guy says, The-Tunnel-Works-With-The-Rest-Of-The-Components, you get even angrier, feeling once again, you've been had for the third time and there's nothing you can do about it. And you bet tomorrow, the big guy is going to say, we are going to increase the toll to RM400.00 one way, and we are going to build 40 more tunnels and one of them will run right under your house. By this time your blood goes up and well, well, well, what have we got here? Congratulations, mate, you are now a Cynic. It's not the same as Bionic but it's quite close, phonetically, that is.

I'm not the kind who dispense advice to angry middle age guys like you. Neither do I care if your blood goes up, but as fellow bloggers, I gotta show my human side and say what John Lennon used to say when he was an angry middle age guy: ...all we're sayin', give the tunnel a chaynce...

Whaddaya say?