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Ketua Jabatan I dulu selalu suruh kitorang baca email, especially email yang boleh mengundang sakit hati, dua tiga kali. Boss kata, don't jump the gun yet, read again later...you probably look at it differently.

Selalunya betul. Well, I kan suka psychoanalyse. Word by word kadang2. Ambil kira perasaan dan situasi masa I tengah baca tu. Sometimes between us colleagues, clients and other healthcare professionals, we go locking horns too. Just because dalam review meeting clash, pastu kalau orang tu hantar email ka, buat statement ka, mesti kita akan emosi or defensive semacam. 

Kadang2 ya..dan kadang2 tak. Dengan homputis pun adakalanya kena pakai konsep husnodzon jua. Untuk tidak menjadi lebih gila. 

Tadi I terbaca satu posting FB, katanya, bangsa Melayu ni rugi adalah kerana malasnya membaca. Kita hanya rajin baca pesbuk. Baca update group sana sini yang kenkadang tak membawak hasil. Macam I lah, suka nau tengok update abangkak Ajuwan Ali, pasti dapat sakit hati yang chronic. Some of us suka baca menda-menda gitu. Pastu sakit ati. 

Ada benarnya kata-kata pompuan tu. Kita melayu ni suka benar tarik sodalam lelaju sampai bersimpul-tersimpul pastu naik anginnnnn. Takdanya konsep, agree to disagree. Especially bab-bab agama. Kalau Tok Guru kata camtu, kita ikut ja lahhh. Nama kita nak cari 2nd, 3rd opinion...jauh sekali. We don't care if its sahih or not. Kalau kena dek kita, maka kita pun iya kan aje. 

Macam kes anjing la. Kalau ikut Bani Melayu, perkataan anjing tu ja dah haram. Belum lagi ko nak belai-belai anjing tu. As if when you nampak anjing, ko bunuh la dia. Macam2 argument. Can bela, for but keselamatan only...as in, kalau ko bela anjing tu, ko takyah bagi makan meh? Ko tak yah praise praise anjing tu..gosok kepala dia cakap terima kasih la nakk jaga reta menda aku? Ko hengat boleh ka anjing tu ko layan cam Kunta Kinte?

Nohh. Anjing haram. Babi haram. So perangilah anjing dan babi. 

You remember pompuan G25 yang cakap pasal all this pegawai pencegah maksiat cannot just pi skodeng pembuat-pembuat maksiat? Something in the line, privacy is privacy. But the pembaca terus la naik hangat pungkok kutuk dia lah, even making rape threat. Well jantan, tu lah dia kalau nak tunjuk kuasa kat pompuan...buat ugutan yang rupa cenggitu. But read again...apa katanya. Did she say she condone maksiat? Far from it. 

In view of current affairs in Malaya over religious authorities (and self appointed experts) behaving as though they are THE ABSOLUTE authority on religion and have the right to dictate on how others 'must' practise their faith. The delights of religious bigotry, masked as righteousness.

Pastu dengan konsep puasa Bani Melayu yang terang-terangan salah...takleh jual makan time siang hari la...macam nak encourage orang makan curi-curi and kononnya tak respek bulan puasa. 

Puasa ni kan,  is about self control, not about other people respecting your puasa. This is the same as expecting the non Muslim to paham-paham bahawa seksanya kita berpuasa and respect bulan puasa by not eating infront of fasting folk. Kalau diorang abstain, their sentiment is greatly appreciated. If they don't itu u punya hal, not theirs. 

Kuat nya iman kita kann....sampai orang nak makan depan kita pun tak boleh. 

And for those yang tak boleh langsung puasa? Cannot eat lah?

Then we have makanan sunnah. Air zikir what have you. Ayam terapi Quran? I am sure that ruqyah healing can't be outsourced to dead chicken!

Talking about people exploiting religion kann for commercial gain but yang tukang membeli tu pun, satu hal la jugak. Kalau bersambut tu, maknanya makin adalah supply untuk ayam-ayam terapi Quran tu kan? Kitanya tak baca Quran tapi ayam yang nak masuk perut kita kena dibacakan Quran. When people say 'have faith' , I'm pretty sure it's not the sort of short cut faith you can buy off shelves and at a pasar. 

There's only one way to having an otak/minda tajam, that is to work hard at educating yourself, continuously. Read things that challenge you, have meaningful discussion and debates dengan orang yang equally knowledge hungry. 

Kenapa kita tak open minded eh? Ke kita yang sekat keterbukaan kita ni? Kenapa bila ada orang opinion lain sikit kita terus jadik serigala jadian?

Kita nak apa sebenarnya?