Lights Out! Votes In!

People, sometimes, are weird. They may appear like believing one thing and yet just in a blink of an eye, they do the totally opposite thing of what they believe in. Apparently principle and dignity are strange concept, and all thrown out the window in the name of self-gratification.

Case in point, last Saturday, 28 Mac 2009, 8.30pm to be exact, the whole KL was in the dark. Supposedly to show support for much published the Earth Hour. We, the so-called children of the world, tree-hugging, cow-eating earthlings or whatever you might call it, were encouraged to switch off the lights for a mere one hour to show our dishonest grievances towards our dying planet.

Noble indeed.

But, sigh, as someone famous might has sung it before, ‘we are only human, made of blood and flesh’, human actually are not capable of being faithful, they are not good in keeping promises, or living in inconveniences, let alone, eating in the dark, o yeah I know that cause I am one.

See, I was having my dinner at Kampung Baru on that we-love-Earth-so-much-we-try-save-our-electricity-bill night. The whole ‘kedai makan’ was lights off. They put all sorts of candles on every table to make ‘the eating experience’ more bearable. I wasn’t really complaining - that would be the worst of time for anyone to become a big-wig Diva. It’s our mother nature we are talking about here, so I guess it’s fair enough.

Then, after 30 minutes of good, quite meal, I couldn’t help but noticed that, the candlelight wasn’t the only thing that shines brightly on that night, the TVs were suddenly on. So I squinted my eyes and couldn’t believe what I saw was on.

“Dik, naper buka TV, belum lepas 9.30 lagi?”

“Ada AF bang, banyak customer nak tengok”

I was stunned, never a fan of the program itself, but I couldn’t help but wonder…

Some kids are so lucky, not only they robbed our money and dignity, they depleted our much-conserved energy, melted our polar ice cap and drove humanity to extinction…and managed to away with it triumphantly.

I am not hating, but I’ll vote Mother Nature anytime.