Are we leading through example?

Hi, folks. I am rambling again. Just wanna jot down a few thoughts for the day. It’s 6.30 am now, just woke up, can’t sleep, it’s a freaking Saturday (why can’t I sleep?)! I am supposed to.. I am entitled to slumber and to laze! Well, I figure that I can use this as a time to write. Not a bad decision at all.

Voila! Le plat du jour:

I think our police squad can use a few pointers here.

a) Be more polite. I mean verbally and sub-consciously. Start by addressing us as Mr or Ms or whatever it is that you yourself want to be addressed as when flagged down by the police.

b) Stop your annoying snigger. No one is a convict before being proved as one. Do you feel superior to the rest of the population who are entirely (or so you think) at your mercy?

c) For Christ’s sake, stop hinting for bribes. We are already a poor lot who are facing other forms of oppression at the workplace, school, college, university, home, post office, other governmental department offices, on the road et cetera. Some of our policemen are righteous, but alas not many. Keep up!

d) Work out! You tummies are getting bigger by the day!

Hmm.. I think this is sufficient for the day. You wanna add more comments? Do so!

Teachers and lecturers can take a few pointers from here too! Well, I am not generalizing the whole industry here. This is just based on my personal experiences:

a) Look at your students as a whole. Not as separate entities that consist of different races and religions. That is just so plain unprofessional.

b) Don’t ramble about students not setting up a good example by being late to classes when you yourselves are not exactly the most punctual people on earth. Be fair. It is not fair for people who are always ahead of the time (e.g. moi-même)

c) Again, be polite. You don’t want anybody to call you be the name of “cow” or “piggy”, don’t you? If so, please refrain hard when you have the urge to do so to others. You have already done so. You are forgiven for this time, but not when you repeat this mistake again.

d) What is it with that ego? Is this what being an architect is all about? We have many other more important people around us, and doctors don’t walk around with their pretty noses held up high (It would be plain tragic to us all if doctors have their heads stuck in their pretty behinds)

Just fed up at how thinks work. Just wanna make the world around me a better place.

Love,
XXX