Beyonce and Burma

If you watch TV or read the newspapers, what you get is nothing but news that really get you upset most of the time. Bad news sell big time, good news are nothing but a big yawn. Funny how the world operates. You do feel like switching off sometimes.

If you are a music lover, how do you feel now that Beyonce decided not to proceed with her concert in Kuala Lumpur? Of course, there are many spins to this, from tight scheduling to other reasons. Basically if you ask me, she does not want her art to be compromised by all the funny rulings about dressing and all that.

If I were her, I wouldn’t come either, you accept my art in its complete package or you can forget about me helping your visit Malaysia Year.

Malaysians are well informed enough to know that you only need to turn on MTV or surf the internet to see sexier things than Beyonce’s exposed tanned skin or beautiful figure! So what’s the big deal about the dress rulings for visiting Western female singers? It’s not like they are dying to come here. Beggars should never be choosers.

It’s bad manners to force people from other cultures to comply with our way of doing things. What is happening to our own upbringing? Please don’t do unto others what we don’t wish to be done to ourselves.

I wish some of our people would get their moral compass more focussed, with corruption, drug abuse, HIV carriers, and others, there are more things more important in this country than somebody’s flesh or the way they dance on stage.

Now, what must be the biggest upset for me is definitely the way the Burmese junta handled their own people.They even butchered their own unarmed Buddhist monks for leading peaceful demonstrations. How cruel can you get?

It’s very hard to digest their ruthlessness and their desire to stop democracy from being established in the country.The fact they look so entrenched and the people there are suffering enough to make any human being despair.

If it helps the Burmese people’s cause, just expel the country from ASEAN. All this buddy- buddy talk of non-interference in member’s country is a waste of time. Put our foot down and teach the rogue member a lesson, kick them all the way to hell.

It is also sad to note that influential Asian countries like China and India can close one eye on the Burmese people’s sufferings. I don’t expect much from China but from the biggest democracy in the world, I expect some principled leadership . Maybe, I expect too much.

Then, in this world , there is no such thing as free lunch.

For Beyonce’s fans, cry your heart out.

And, as for the Burmese people though life is nothing but suffering as taught by Lord Buddha, however, I believe there is light at the end of the tunnel. Maybe, Nirvana is just across the road!

Can we switch off from this world, when we are very much a part of the total sum?