Revelation

Lately, there was a hot issue among the Malaysians studying in the U of M in Michigan – the coming of a famous ex-politician to the grounds of AA to give a speech.

Actually this event was already planned since weeks ago, but not only until a few days ago that I was revealed his visiting to our university. Such revelation, of course, was not a pleasing one; apparently efforts had been poured into insulating the exceedingly immature Malaysians from such devilish information that might put them into dire conditions. The veil of secrecy cast, although sickening, was surprisingly similar to the obscuration of news we once despised - bad information must be contained, as people do not have sufficient wisdom to handle them. Lack of transparency, was in fact a de-euphemism for benign-intentioned tales/concealment to prevent chaos.

Though the situation had been rectified, this serves as a reminder for those in power, who once decried corruption and sworn to create a utopia what their initial agendas were. Again, this is not to blame or to belittle anyone who’s leading the group. In reality, I salute those who bear the courage to take the responsibilities. We are just humans anyway, prone to a multitude of mistakes thanks to our omnipotent and omniscient creator.

Before ending this ramble, I would like to post a disclaimer: the writing might be partly apocryphal and is in no way meant to attack or hurt anyone. It is just a random thought put into words by a disoriented mortal who just screwed up his midterm. I certainly do not anticipate that the last thing I see is red laser dots on my body in the middle of the night.