Saturday, August 13, 2011

fakes

i heard this on the radio on the way to work, that imitation iPhone 5s are readily available in China now, even as Apple has yet to officially sell the phones. not at all surprising since even fake Apple & Ikea stores have been reported to operate there as well. read here & here.

before we shake our heads & go tsk-tsk at the Chinese, we have our own claim to infamy as well, like fake DVDs of movies that aren't even officially released yet. don't forget we have fake people as well, like bogus taxi & bus drivers who attack female passengers, bogus doctors who are actually medical assistants or med school dropouts, & bogus engineers who build leaking roofs & cracked support beams, just to name a few.

but i think the biggest fakes are the bogus politicians who do not look after the rakyat's interest. they make policies that don't benefit anyone except select groups - they roll out unity programs that disunite the various communities, build aesthetic but non-functional megastructures instead of schools & hospitals, & train undergraduates who are largely unemployable.

& in these difficult times, they prod us into austerity drive while they splurge.

this is the usual fate of seized fake dvds.....

















if only those uniformed fellas show equal conviction with fake politicians.

12 comments:

SOO [¥] said...

i think politicians everywhere are basically scumbags (just look at how the UK govt handle the riots - literally useless). they are just either big scumbag or small scumbag.

doc said...

Soo,

UK riots are a result of socio-economic factors & i thought the police handled the situation better than the PDRM handled Bersih 2.0.

at least the british PM convened an emergency sitting of parliament to discuss the issue.

SOO [¥] said...

Well, you can't deny that govt is also responsible for the socio-economic problems that sparked the riots. I was really surprised that they allowed the situation to drag on for so many days. And bringing in 10,000 extra police from other cities to London didn't seem like a smart thing to do. If it was my house/shop being looted or my vehicle burned, I wouldn't want my govt to spend so much time with namby pamby talks in the parliament. Just bring in the military troops to get it under control!

doc said...

Soo,

we might have the same problems too with many unemployed graduates, except that the civil service has absorbed all of them, which itself created a new set of problems.

the brits have always handled problems with dignity & in a civilised manner. even their cops don't carry firearms. anyway, the riots eventually burned themselves out.

Anny said...

Fake politicians are definitely more dangerous in the long run than fake doctors, even though it is dangerous enough :). Fake doctors cause the deaths of individuals but politicians decide the fate of a nation, can result in a demise of a whole nation/failed nation ;(

Unicorn Girl said...

Well said Doc . I couldn't agree more with you .

fibrate said...

Well said! :)

wenn said...

most things have gone fake..

doc said...

Anny,

so, fake politicians make failed nations?

doc said...

UG,

thanks for your approval!

;)

doc said...

Fibrate,

thanks!

;)

doc said...

Wenn,

some good things remain - true love, true friends, true God....