Why Floods?

Why floods?                                                                     5/1/12

          If you think like fools, act like fools and behave like fools, you will be treated as fools.  For years we Sibuans (the Sibu people) thought like fools, acted like fools,  behaved like fools and treated like fools by SUPP-BN political thugs as far as floods were concerned.  Sibu is a low-lying area and they attributed it to be the cause of floods since Sarawak jointed the federation. 

From 1990s until 2009, we often had flash floods here and there and receded in a few hours when it rained.  We had medium floods that covered 50% of Sibu whenever there was heavy rain and king tides and they might took a day or two to recede.  We had heavy floods that inundated almost everywhere and reaching up to 3 to 5 feet whenever there were lots of rain in Sibu matching up with king tides and heavy downpour upstream.  They might took 3-5 days to subside.  We had floods of different natures many times a year and even many times in a month. 

Before 1990s, we had floods once a year usually at end of the year when there were lots of rain.  We fools took it for granted that it was a natural phenomenon due to the low-lying location of Sibu.  So no political thugs cared to deal with the problem.  No fools in Sibu thought about the possibility of solving the woes of floods then.  We fools relied and trusted our leaders so much so that we were more or less oblivious about our rights and responsibility as an individual.  We fools never thought that solving woes of floods bottom-up until after 1990s when the floods were so frequent that we fools were awakened and became enlightened.  We realised that it was impossible to rely on these cunning, mean and vulture-like political thugs to solve the problems.

          They only enjoyed showing up themselves in floods to show how much they cared to fish votes in water.  They enjoyed the shows so much so that without realising that we fools had become wise through years of unresolved woes of floods.  We collectively studied, investigated, observed, gossiped, discussed and condemned these political thugs.  Then we collectively came to the full realisation and enlightenment of floods.  We collectively knew how to deal with the woes of floods.  We requested, pleaded, suggested, recommended, then screamed and shelled them for their inaction and inability. 

We realised that they were only capable of  bluffing and boasting and  locking horns with the opposition party.  They advertised themselves through various mass media.  They failed to prove themselves in actions.  We then became more mind-focused and discovered even more how  aggressive and abusive political thugs were.  We realised that they were spoilt rotten by us, the fools.  We fools elected these political thugs all the time to fool us.  We fools were to be blamed for the woes of floods.

          We became wise in the process of floods so frequently that we people relayed and decided to flush them out.  Hence we flushed out 6 SUPP-BN political thugs in 2004, we rejected them on 20May 2009 by-election, we flushed out even more of them on 16 April, 2010 and ……….

          I repeated the history of floods in Sibu because I want the fools to realise how foolish you are if you are the victims of repeated floods in ever heavily than ever before since independence of Malaysis.  Well, do you see the familiar actions of the political thugs rushing to the scenes of floods to help you to clean the mess like Shahrizat, the minister of ……… (woman whose family conned us in the business of cattle)?  In the latest floods, I  saw her holding the bloom to clean up the mess aftermath of floods with a family.  I remind you fools not to be touched for the actions.  She should be condemned for the inaction to moot the construction of flood mitigation infrastructure like us in Sibu in the constituency because you fools are treated like fools. 

          Did you notice that now floods are repeated in areas where most so called “privileged ones ” live?  I often wonder how come these so called ‘privileged ones’ are so deprived of basic flood mitigation infrastructure and other infrastructures like a good road system to travel where they like easily, the water and electricity, easy access to good medical services……….  Do you agree with me that you are fooled since time immemorial?  You are privileged in words only because they need the fools like you to get votes to stay in power to steal at will.   Who has become really so well-off and wealthy without much effort but scribble to sign?   Find out, you fools!  The woes of flood are more or less resolved in Sibu, why can’t yours?  Sibu will be flood-free when the flood mitigation projects have been completed in time to come. 

          Of course, we have to stop the plundering way of development permitted by our greedy, mean and evil political thugs who scribble to sign for a lot and a lot of cash for themselves to resolve the soil erosion and floods in the long run.

          We need enough reservoirs to contain excess water.  We people are also expected to tank up 1000-2000 litres of rainwater from our rooftops.