I wish I heard the Rolling Stones song "Satisfaction" when I was doing my A's. But I guess
it's never too late to write another parody.


I can't get no education
I can't get no motivation
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no.

When I'm dozing in my class
and that man, claims to be my lecturer
and he's tellin' me more and more
about some useless information
supposed to fire my imagination
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say

I can't get no education
I can't get no motivation
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no.

Well I'm wastin' time indeed
while he makes a mess of GP
How good can my grades be?
Well I need a tutor who doesn't smoke
I'm dazed, he's confusing me
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say

I am driven to distraction
My tutor's got girly actions
But I try and I try and I try and I try
I can't get no, I can't get no

I'm gonna flunk my GCE's
cos I'm failing this and I'm failing that
Still I'm writing bad lyrics
instead of churning a thousand words on "Beauty's skin deep"
And I'm shooting hoops, from 10 to 3
I can't get no, oh no no no
Hey hey hey, that's what I say

I can't get no, I can't get no,
I can't get no education,
no education, no motivation, oh trepidation!

I dedicate this to a friend who's moving to an apartment near a cemetery (if I recall correctly) which I think is brave considering how she is afraid of ghosts.

There was a dame named Madona
Who had an interesting persona
She wanted a mirror with candles
to be placed facing the windows
but got scared that "hantu's gonna get ya."

To me, the conscience, as a part of a person's psyche, is an implanted concept. The idea that a person has morals in-built and manifests itself as the conscience is inculcated during one's formative years. Do not do this, do not do that, you must be righteous and fair, you cannot do what you want because it will hurt someone else. These are not hardwired instructions. "Innocent as a baby" is a simile at best misleading. Babies are not innocent. They do not do things to hurt people only because they are incapable of doing so and there is no payoff in doing so. They would give no thought to snatching another baby's pacifier if they want it. They do not show consideration for their overworked and exhausted parents and caregivers. I don't hate babies, i don't think badly of them, the point I am trying to make is that at birth they have no concept of morals as we do as adults. What we come to know as morals, or social rules, are drummed into us as part of our parental upbringing and largely state-sponsored education - remember Moral Ed? - so that we as a society do not descend into anarchy.

I'm all for Moral Ed. as a method of crowd control, and more importantly I believe that I would have died an early age in the hands of my peers without social rules. But as an adult in the working world, does it still serve our purpose? Society defines the norm, on which a loose set of rules called morals and laws are based. But to follow the norm is to BE the norm. Rational man by nature is simply an economist. Every decision is a choice between payoffs, even if the motivation may sometimes confound others but that's besides the point. "Being good is its own reward" is part of one's moral programming, and to tell you the truth, it does fuck-all for me even as a feel-good factor after I get suckered. Feel-goof factor is more like it.

Successful people, I have realised, mostly have the ability to step over people to achieve what they want. They have either modified or overcome their moral rules exhorting them to behave justly and equitably. What I am saying might sound like sour grapes, that successful people have sold their souls for their success, but think again - isn't this just another example of how moral thinking have become part of our psyche that we even use it to put down other people's ability to overcome their own programming? And think about this: By choosing to not do something that would benefit you, such as sucking up, simply because it is against your conscience to do so, it is a choice between maintaining an implanted abstract concept and a very practical benefit. Equitable behavior? To who?