DEDICATED TO MY DANNY

I dedicate this post to my friend, my neighbour, my buddy, my source of inspiration in times when I thought that everything was unfair. My neighbour Danny is wheel-chair bound but he always has a smile for me. Danny started a blog....no I did no arm-twisting although I am inherently inclined to this subtle art of persuasion in most circumstances. Go visit him at http://www.letswheel.blogspot.com. I am extending this invitation to all blog babes and blog buddies. Give him the traditional welcome.

I have always been a renegade; I have been labeled a maverick; nicked as a non-conformist; nailed as having bullying tendencies on bullies; I keep authority at a distance. I abhor patronising people who self-impose status on themselves; I have thrown my employee badge at my MD and told him to taking a flying fugging leap back to the US; I grew my hair long, against regulation, as a teacher to prove that how I look do not translate into ineffectiveness as an pedagogue; I smoked grass to prove to my kids that things done in moderation is basically ok. In short, I am a hard guy to get along with. I am a hard nut. But unbeknown to many I have very soft spots for the disadvantaged that make up our community and our lives. They are teaching us daily how to cope with our lives, but no we never want to learn from these our less fortunate. When I am enraged, I am learning to crawl into the skins of Yvonne Foong, Daphne's Aisya, our jamboree-bound Bukhori Ali and the irrepressible, deformed Muhammad Haziq to purge the demon within me. There are still many demons in me waiting to be tamed, but when these demons rear their ugly heads, people like Danny, Yvonne Foong, Aisya, Bukhori and Muhammad Haziq bring me back to earth-bound sanity. To Danny and these towering young Malaysians I dedicate this post. Tonight I rest my head on my pillow happy because these people have touched my life and if I am humble, will continue to be my rudder..