Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Putrajaya vs Bureaucracy & Idiots


Today for the 1st time, I visits the nation's capital today damm its a lovely place..... its beautiful..... so big so spacious all centralized hmmmmm but all that beauty could not mask the idiots working there... the front office is super welcoming everyone with a smile...peel that layer off...taaadaaaaa!!!

I have a bone to pick with Bureaucracy and idiots..."Bureaucracy is an organizational structure characterized by regularized procedure, division of responsibility, hierarchy and impersonal relationships... In modern usage, bureaucracy often equates with inefficiency, laziness, and waste." That’s the extracted scientific explanation.

"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."


Today, bureaucracy has become synonymous with unacceptable delay to most of our minds. To us, if the election happened on Tuesday we want our results on Tuesday. We also take this and apply it to all forms of bureaucracy in the government and want everything to be taken care of immediately without all of the paperwork or "red tape." I can definitely sympathize with one of our most common snafus with bureaucracy: the department of motor vehicles. No matter the time of day or day of the month, there always seems to be a delay. After waiting in line for hours, the long list of procedures to do even simple things becomes even more tedious for someone already fed up by the wait.

Of course, most laws and procedures have loopholes and emergency procedures when quick action is needed. There are several other examples of "cutting through the red-tape," but many procedures are set up to either create an efficient means of completing all the work or just a way to finish the enormous workload. Though everyone wants to cut straight to the top, there are people and positions set up to attempt to slide everything along on greased skids.

I hold strong (and oddly enough, generally fence-sitting) positions on politics and economics, and enjoy debating them...I hate discrimination, even if it's "positive", such as affirmative action. It's one of the few things left in the world that arouse any passion in me at all. I've become extremely cynical in recent years and ever more recently ( growing old la), but I think discrimination is one of the very few things left in the world that I feel strongly about. I can't stand it when people discriminate against other people for reasons out of their control. Surprisingly, I subscribe to most fundamentalist beliefs that can be verified and proven; However, I'm not the kind of person who will picket at rallies;

I went to war with the Ministry of Finance…talk about red tape in meeting a processing officer….I got to fill out forms why I want to meet him and etc etc maybe coz they thinks to avoid corruption and put steps in place to rectify that…..GRRRRRR…went to war and presented my case after 2 hours of end to end rambling presenting the chronology no less then 3 !~! $#%$#%# times they finally gave an inch. To finally hear them giving an inch was a bloody miracle. I won!!! Whew

Took a walk around the nation’s capital and snap some pics…it is cool and spacious and tons of tourist….the PM building it self is majestic and breathtaking huuu haaaa

The lake was lovely too…then back to the dog work!!!!! the smogy traffic infested snarling KL!!!!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Food For Thought

Main Entry: dis·crim·i·nate
(http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=discrimination&x=20&y=15)

2 : to make a difference in treatment or favor on a basis other than individual merit -discriminate in favor of your friends

we choose to champion the 'discrimination' that does not benefit us
YET
we choose to be oblivious to the 'discrimination' that benefits us...if and when brought to light what reasoning do we give will we admit we 'discriminated'?

darthvadai said...

whoever you are i think you are on the wrong forum to be deliberating with me on what discrimination benefits me or does not benefit me

taking cue the outsider wil hardly realise or understadn the choices one makes in the fight that have to face

i make my choices and i stay with them if for what ever reason it may seem oblivious to the outsider

Life is filled with baffling choices to the outside and this probably is one of them

Anonymous said...

Mr.Vadai in 'Putrajaya vs Bureaucracy & Idiots' you say
'I think discrimination is one of the very few things left in the world that I feel strongly about. I can't stand it when people discriminate against other people'

'Oblivious' is one who discriminate

Choice can become the end result of discrimination.

Choice made out of unequal test unequal game unequal time unequal space unequal opportunity etc etc aimed at a specific group/person/race....is called 'discrimination'.