This is an actual letter sent to the Australian DFAT (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) Immigration Minister. The Government tried desperately to censure the author, but got nowhere because every legal person who read it could not stop laughing !
Dear Mr Minister,
I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this.
How is it that K-Mart has my address and telephone number, and knows that I bought a television set and golf clubs and condoms from them back in 1997, and yet the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born
and on what date ?
For Christ sakes, do you guys do this by hand ?
My birth date you have in my Medicare information, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 40 years.
It is also on my driver's licence, on the last eight passports I've ever had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off planes
over the past 30 years.
It's also on all those insufferable census forms that I've filled out every 5 years since 1966.
Also... would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Audrey, my father's name is Jack, and I'd be absolutely bloody astounded if that ever
changed between now and when I drop dead !!!
SHIT! What do you people do with all this information we keep having to provide?
I apologize, Mr. Minister. But I'm really pissed off this morning.
Between you and me, I've had enough of all this bullshit!
You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my bloody address!
What the hell is going on with your mob? Have you got a gang of mindless Neanderthal arseholes working there!
And another thing, look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I can't even grow a beard for God's sakes. I just want to go to New Zealand and see my new granddaughter. (Yes, my son interbred with a Kiwi girl). And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit whether or not I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? In the unlikely event I ever got the urge to do something weird to a sheep or a horse, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!
Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other side of Sydney , and get another bloody copy of my birth certificate - and to part with another $80 for the privilege of accessing MY OWN INFORMATION!
Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot, to assist in the issuance of a new passport on the same day?
B: As in roti or gabenor or the rock band?
Q: (grits teeth) How about roti?
B: Either white or black.
Q: (eyes widen). I'm astonished. Ne'er thought you're a racist.
B: (sighs). I was meaning white bread which is somewhat less healthy but goes well with anything, or black bamboo charcoal bread which has a nice flavor.
Can i make you a sandwich of one slice white and the other slice black? Like the ivory and ebony keys of a piano?
Incidentally, take either one off, and music can't be made harmoniously from that instrument.
But you already knew that, didn't you?
Q: What's in between your white-black sandwich, then?
B: Nothing. Aren't we not supposed to talk about gabenor?
Q: Umm. Back to this gardenia versus massimo debate. Where do you stand?
B: (looks at the ground sheepishly). Sini?
Q: Seriously and surely, there must be some issue in it all?
B: Ok, but only if you insist.
I think if we widen our mental horizon, the matter is all about people and principles.
Now if we converge people and principles into a complex and extend that complex upwards to an absolute end, then we reach a certain Destination which carries a certain message.
Take me for instance. I am now doing what i was doing ever since the country started. It's like the message is saying, go back to remedial class and relearn the lesson. A second chance before exit, perhaps.
Q: Hmm. That either sounds sad or encouraging, or both.
B: Yes, life is about choices within the swirl of destiny. People can choose the principles they want to practice. However the outcomes may turn out other than expected.
Now, what is the principle behind this bread equation?
That value for money should be independent of race.
That if we continue to see everything through the lens of race, then we will only extend what we want to end.
Because the other principle of life is all about action and reaction, and it operates continuously.
You react by race and i will act by race to counteract your reaction.
Then you react to my reaction and the cycle continues, enlarges and deepens.
And that because those who want to keep this cycle in order to justify their own importance will be more than willing to lend a mischievous hand to make it happen perpetually.
Somehow, someday, somewhere, we must cut this gordian knot that is snuffing out our instinctive predisposition for kindness, compassion and goodwill towards all fellowmen and women.
(especially women).
Because an eye for an eye makes all blind and the world a monochrome of darkness. Mehr licht, mein kinde getan!
I think it's long overdue, and GE12 and GE13 have shown as much that the Rakyat of Malaysia realize it is not about being civilized to one another for just political expediency which is the solution.
In fact, it is the problem, for it strengthens the very structure that must be dismantled because that structure propagates differentiation and division in order to usurp power from the people.
So that when people are weakened by that, principles suffer as well and the long hard path to the absolute end becomes harder to discern.
No?
Q: Can i make you a cuppa coffee to go with the sandwich you're going to make me?
B: Why don't i make both for you, and you can add something in between the sandwiches for both of us?
Q: Ah, i get what you're not saying.
B: Right now, who is really running the country? The gabenor in a piece of paper. The value of that paper has been dropping. Meanwhile the functions of commerce and industry have been propped by subsidies denominated in that currency. This actually double erodes the fixed deposits of reserves for future generations besides raising financing charges that swallow up any hard-earned gains.
Therefore one cannot escape the conclusion people who are thankful to a government just because it gives subsidies forget their own future generations will be the ones paying for those subsidies utilized today, in too many cases just to survive. Yes?