Friends have been wondering the sudden quietness in the blog. Well have been so busy on terra cotta than there wasn't time to see the 'real' world in cyberspace!
Work is becoming rather hectic, most of which are rather swirling in a whirlpool of verbosity and convoluted spin of simple things made pompous by a play of words to make it look important and buy-in. Having been into this churning out 'strategy' speak in volumes of decks, powerpoints and what have you presentations for too long, makes one feel comforted by the mass volume of verbosity - which are fluff really. These charts and bullet points and timing sequences makes one think that we are in a real world. Our security and comfort zones seem to be correlated to the number of impressive strategic speak, charts, diagrams and multi media presentations for bosses and who have you.
Just like this Pemandu fellows being so comfortable in their driver's seat because their journey seemed to be made clearer by the second because of the rate of powerpoints and media ads they put out there - simply to tell us common or rather the rural folks that everything is on track!
The one thing that seems on track for Pemandu is never failing to put up a great poster, billboard, powerpoint, above and below the line publicity and roadshows according to their publicity communication plan we can supposed.
So ever so often, we are fed with progress which is often told as 'successes' of the ETP, NKRA, KPI and other high sounding impressive acronyms that we believe that everything is on target or exceeding target.
Though some are skeptical of the rosy picture being painted with the success of 1Malaysia's pet projects, the second certain thing things are moving with this ETP is money, huge billions are going to be spent. Nothing seems too large a price nor huge a bill for 1Malaysia to make his pet projects a reality!
It's like the Pharoahs' of ole, sacrificing millions of poor souls and spending years on years to build colossal monuments and temples or pyramids for that matter, to get that shioksendiri feeling!
We read, it's not the destination that matters, it is the journey that matters! In BolehLand, it's the other way round. The MRT is what matter and the billions of ringgit spent is secondary. So too for satu lagi projek Barisan Natoinal on palaces, public utilities and new NKRAs which carry huge billions bill.
We are stomping our foot and getting all fumed up over some million ringgit loose change cow-dominum scandal compared to the gargantuan billions that seem to drop from some heavenly abode to pay for these huge high ticket items of 1Malaysia!
We are scolded for not reigning in our spending, for creating bankrupts unto ourselves, for asking government to subsidise this and that. We are told we are going to get bankrupt if we don't pay more taxes.
On the other hand, 1Malaysia is on a spending spree!!! There must be truth when UMNO tells certain racial groups that God favours and bestow the heavenly mandate on UMNO as guardian of this race, this religion and all things they do on Tanah Melayu. So that may explain how they seem to have endless pennies falling from heaven. God is providing UMNO the doe to complete their multi billion pet projects.
With such huge success which earns top top headline spreads to declare high speed successes, UMNO should not be bothered with character assassination or fight imaginary ghost to try and win the public's vote, right?
The public are not stupid, ignorant morons - well maybe the rural heartlands are. They can feel any change as well as difference. Right now, how concrete are the deck, posters, charts and powepoints that their nice looking graphical presentation of successes are real ones?!
Have we felt the changes in our lives with the setting up of 1Email, KR1M, 1Moblie clinics and the thousands of '1' thought up - 1 this and 1that initiatives at the expense of taxpayer's monies?
A consultant once reminded 'Do impressive decks ensure success?' We create an illusion of feel good when we create presentation decks. Our success seems to be gauged on how pretty our .ppt is, no?
But for some, even if they give terrible useless confusing ppt of their action or business plans, they still moo-ved the lenders to turn over green fodder to them to achieve their successes based on slide no 12a, appendix 3.1.23! Makes us all really think that God must really favour UMNO flushing them with cash and free money that it doesn't warrant accountability, transparency and ethical behaviour for millions given here, there and to whomever produces the prettiest '.ppt' presentation right?
But it pays to be connected and related to prove one's business point .ppt is really a brilliant idea that will put us on the world's map and free cash will Oh literally fall from the sky to the fortunate well connected and related fellows. Gosh some people, party that is, are so lucky to have such connection and related to the Man up there, right?
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