Trilogy 9

The Trilogue Continues.

The friends of the trilogue had been quiet for awhile. In reality they had, in their own personal way, been just laying by and see how their immediate world around them was moving on.


Heart : Hardly anything I felt made me feel good.

Mind : Except whenever our person sits on the porch at sunrise and sunset and gazes at the clouds, blue skies, the yonder hills and the horizon meets the sea way beyond.

Heart : Yes ..Yes. The view from the porch at the 26th.floor is heavenly.

Conscience : For sure. It is all GOD given !

Mind : And how many beings even look at it I wonder.

Heart : What a waste!

Mind : Waste? I just saw something just last week and I told what a waste!

Heart : You mean what you saw on the information board in the school office?

Mind : Exactly ! How did you know ?

Conscience : Because both of you felt the same.

Both : And what did that tell you ?

Conscience : That in this country there is no conscious effort to grow a nation.
All that talk of forging a nation is just lip service.

Brain : Woi ! Justify what you just said.

Conscience : What is there to justify. You guys saw it on the school notice board.
So glaring and yet not obvious to the many teachers, educationalists and who-have
you who visit the school.

Brain : I got it. I got it. And you are so right.

Heart : Tell me. Tell me. I seem to feel but I donno la.

Brain : You ‘kattu poochi ! (‘jungle insect’). Remember during our school days during the fifties
and sixties ?

Heart : We were a nation just born. We had just become independent. A new nation.

Brain : Correct. And remember the school notice which displayed the number of pupils in each
class by racial break down.

Heart : I remember….how many Malays , how many Chinese , how many Indians and how many
‘others’ in each class and in the whole school.

Brain : Yes. And that was in the 1950s and 1960s.

Conscience : And what did we all see on the information of that big school just last week in
October 2008 ?

Both : The racial break down by races in each and every class. So many Malays, so many
Chinese, so many Indians and so many ‘others’ !

Conscience : Why ? Each and every one of them was born here in our country after 1990 or 1991. At least 33 years after our nation was born !

Brain : And from day one in school they are branded by race and right through the higher schools of learning in our country.

Conscience : And so I ask ‘ Where o’ where is the conscious creation of one people ….of one nation ?

Brain : And preserving and practicing race and religion on their own within that identity ? Or am I saying what they who-are-in-charge know but it does serve their inner motive and interest…..and so ..don’t change. What a waste of so many precious years of potential growth as a nation.

Heart : Why come out of the box ?

Conscience : So you see guys….they freeze their conscience and I being just a simple lay man of conscience feel the pain silently.

Heart : But take heart my friend. They may not want to come out of the box…

Brain : And as history writes and re-writes….they will be boxed out ! In other words booted out.

Heart : In due time ?