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The golden orb had long sunk, recalling its glorious luminous tendrils back to their heavenly domain. The massive energy of the day had turned into a comatose, a deep state of unconsciousness in the calm of a night. Eventually, I gave up, shutting down my computer and cleared my desk. My brain had slumbered along with the night apparently.
In a hurry, I hopped in a blue taxi, hoping to reach home soon without any major traffic at such odd hours. I planned to doze off once I popped in the backseat and announced my destination.
It was late enough, most cars have gone and the scattered street vendors around the city were about to close in. Everything seemed shadowed. Dark was everywhere. Yet, I saw the eerie night more beautiful in many ways sometimes. As the day often brought out the uglier parts of the buildings and the people, the night offered a refuge from it. When the Night took reign, there was peaceful solitude at last.
As I leaned casually trying to get some sleep, the cab driver kept ranting about trifling matters, playing as a hospitable host. I was a bit cheesed off. He incessantly talked nineteen to the dozen while I was so exhausted. Well, at least that was how I felt in the first few minutes before his outburst on politicians nabbing in late-night strip clubs really gave me a slap on the head.
“It’s so scandalous and shameful. I used to see him on TV screen preaching about morals and ethics.” He said nonchalantly.
Then, he blabbered about the ‘dirty’ politicians who cared less for people they claimed they represented. Power and money had corrupted their character. All the glitz and glamour of living in the ivory tower had turned them into political machineries to accumulate wealth. Their loyalty goes to their Party, not the people. Corruption or if you like recklessness in the Parliament today has become a norm where political office holder openly indulge in corrupt practices as a result of the feeble arm of the judiciary to impose heavy sanctions to stem this menace.
“Look at recent political drama! It is all so disgusting! Chairman of major political parties, are named suspects for alleged corruption case. Then, they claim innocent and vow to shed lights on corrupt practices within the Party. ” He said crossly.
“It’s all craps! Why now after they were cornered? Where in the hell have they been before? I am sick with all those intrigues. They have no RIGHT to claim as representatives of the people, let alone fight for our interest!” He burst in anger.
I was bemused by his forthright and candid standpoint. His was honest and true. Sadly, our representatives at the Parliament often turned deaf ears and blind. They talk instead of listen. They lead by dogma and creed only instead of by example. Their major problem is that they talk more and more without action. As long as our leaders keep playing to gallery, speaking like the most holy of all preachers in front of cameras and taking the opposite direction immediately they are switched off, their reputation will crumble that people no longer trust them.
Meanwhile, the judicial bodies have done a great deal of job unraveling the loopholes in the system and fishing out the corrupt politicians but they need to go a step further. As long as the law fails to impose harsher and severe sanction on corrupt politicians, the efforts to eradicate corruptions will be like chasing the wind. Our county will remain notorious as a country married with corruption and still heavily pregnant with its many off springs.
We concluded our conversation by the time the cab approached my home. Soon, midnight would cave in. The skies were lit only by twinkling stars, leaving me with the streetlights, and the dimmed houses, where people were asleep inside. The world was asleep.
It’s such an odd odyssey through the night, and the cab driver’s candid opinion lingered. His voice along with many others in the streets constantly reminds me that life is not a bed of roses, as some of the corrupt politicians are hell bent on emptying the treasury and looting the nation.
The golden orb had long sunk, recalling its glorious luminous tendrils back to their heavenly domain. The massive energy of the day had turned into a comatose, a deep state of unconsciousness in the calm of a night. Eventually, I gave up, shutting down my computer and cleared my desk. My brain had slumbered along with the night apparently.
In a hurry, I hopped in a blue taxi, hoping to reach home soon without any major traffic at such odd hours. I planned to doze off once I popped in the backseat and announced my destination.
It was late enough, most cars have gone and the scattered street vendors around the city were about to close in. Everything seemed shadowed. Dark was everywhere. Yet, I saw the eerie night more beautiful in many ways sometimes. As the day often brought out the uglier parts of the buildings and the people, the night offered a refuge from it. When the Night took reign, there was peaceful solitude at last.
As I leaned casually trying to get some sleep, the cab driver kept ranting about trifling matters, playing as a hospitable host. I was a bit cheesed off. He incessantly talked nineteen to the dozen while I was so exhausted. Well, at least that was how I felt in the first few minutes before his outburst on politicians nabbing in late-night strip clubs really gave me a slap on the head.
“It’s so scandalous and shameful. I used to see him on TV screen preaching about morals and ethics.” He said nonchalantly.
Then, he blabbered about the ‘dirty’ politicians who cared less for people they claimed they represented. Power and money had corrupted their character. All the glitz and glamour of living in the ivory tower had turned them into political machineries to accumulate wealth. Their loyalty goes to their Party, not the people. Corruption or if you like recklessness in the Parliament today has become a norm where political office holder openly indulge in corrupt practices as a result of the feeble arm of the judiciary to impose heavy sanctions to stem this menace.
“Look at recent political drama! It is all so disgusting! Chairman of major political parties, are named suspects for alleged corruption case. Then, they claim innocent and vow to shed lights on corrupt practices within the Party. ” He said crossly.
“It’s all craps! Why now after they were cornered? Where in the hell have they been before? I am sick with all those intrigues. They have no RIGHT to claim as representatives of the people, let alone fight for our interest!” He burst in anger.
I was bemused by his forthright and candid standpoint. His was honest and true. Sadly, our representatives at the Parliament often turned deaf ears and blind. They talk instead of listen. They lead by dogma and creed only instead of by example. Their major problem is that they talk more and more without action. As long as our leaders keep playing to gallery, speaking like the most holy of all preachers in front of cameras and taking the opposite direction immediately they are switched off, their reputation will crumble that people no longer trust them.
Meanwhile, the judicial bodies have done a great deal of job unraveling the loopholes in the system and fishing out the corrupt politicians but they need to go a step further. As long as the law fails to impose harsher and severe sanction on corrupt politicians, the efforts to eradicate corruptions will be like chasing the wind. Our county will remain notorious as a country married with corruption and still heavily pregnant with its many off springs.
We concluded our conversation by the time the cab approached my home. Soon, midnight would cave in. The skies were lit only by twinkling stars, leaving me with the streetlights, and the dimmed houses, where people were asleep inside. The world was asleep.
It’s such an odd odyssey through the night, and the cab driver’s candid opinion lingered. His voice along with many others in the streets constantly reminds me that life is not a bed of roses, as some of the corrupt politicians are hell bent on emptying the treasury and looting the nation.
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