Y U NO MANNERS?!

I've never felt such pain in my life. Every muscle in my body is aching. Damn you, rock climbing. LETS GO AGAIN!

You know why most of the youth in Malaysia (or Asia, possibly) can't wait to grow up? I'm not talking about the 14 year old girls who wears blue eyeshadow or the 14 year old boys who smokes outside the school compound.

I'm talking about our typical Asian society where age is superiority. In fact, age is so superior in our social norms that I'm surprised that the senior citizens in Malaysia gets so little benefits compared to other countries.

Before I get to the bad part, I would like to clarify like I find certain old people quite cute to watch, especially when they are 80 and holding hands with their spouse (also 80, not some 23 year old China gold digger).


I think one of the main reasons why people just can't wait to grow up in an Asian society is because no matter how right you are in something, if you're younger than the other, you're still wrong.

But haven't you (since you're reading this, I assume that you're at least 18 and above and have most probably been through enough situations with the elders to know) come across a situation where that particular elder person is wrong beyond his/her soul and he/she will still ask you to "shut up" because you shouldn't fight back with an older person or how the so-called argument ends up with you being labeled as "no manners" just because you viewed your own opinion to them once in your whole life?


I've dealt with plenty of self obsessed old(er) people who think that they own the world. Their ultimate usage of their age would be to push in crowded areas and when you tell them off whether nicely or sternly, they would tell you how you don't respect old people and that kids nowadays have no manners. Well, where's their manners when they are shoving everyone beside them?

And when you argue with them on a certain topic, its heading to the point where they are obviously proven wrong, what do they do? Raise their voice and claim that we, kids, have no manners. But them raising their voice to show superiority and to protect whats left of their ego is well mannered?

If any of you old uncle and aunties are any sort of what i just described, and you view the younger generation as ill-mannered (Not claiming that we are all saints because there are some really assholic people among us, but I'll get to that another day) maybe you should instill some respect for other people around you then maybe you'll get the respect that you deserve too.

Respect doesn't come with age, you fucking earn it.

(If your parents are like that, feel free to let them read this. But please don't give out my phone number or email address. Haha. No, i'm kidding. Bring it on, bitch.)