UNGENEROUS

Today was the second day of uni and it has been an experience that lies down right in between stressful and a smooth sail. It's just the beginning and i am not going to jinx it. In my course, we are digging in deeper in the area of politics and the study of attaining good governance. Social life in Brunei, as usual has been quite controlled from my point of view. In reality, the area of Social Policy has been a well kept secret. I don't know whether that i have been ignorant or it was meant to be hidden from public eyes, but there are some cases of extreme neediness in Brunei. Whoever said EVERY SINGLE one of us are living with the luxury of subsidized oil and food? We do have hardworking social workers trying to keep in the contact with the people who away from the focal centre.

Straying away from the first paragraph of this text, I would like to point out one characteristic that we all should agree that every single individual owns. It is what we Bruneians call 'KARIT'. It's simply 'Stingy' in English, or in some contexts 'SELFISH'. I personally think it is ok and may even be good when one possesses this KARITness but given the right scenario that he/she is faced with. But it's the unreasonable KARIT that bugs us. And it's the unreasonable form that really creeps up and makes your heart feel like its crumbled. And most of the time it initiates anger. It isn't hard to identify when one is being unreasonably KARIT. You'll just know it.

coming back to the first para...

And when there are too many of these people running around, the gap between the rich and the poor widens! :D But isn't that what you all are striving for?