Ethic of Reciprocity

Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you

Yelling at little old men never felt so right. It's the Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." It is the ultimate norm of high morality in our culture especially in Malay's cultures. Sure there are other morals by which we live, but this one phrase embodies our most cherished value: that we should treat people as we would like to be treated.

I hope you learned something from the letter that I sent to your younger brother. If you felt angry, think how angry I was when you involved a third party? What happened between the two of us should stay between us only, but you think you're doing the right thing when you involved others.

I don't mind if you called me a liar, that I'm up to no good, that I expected to be paid for whatever deeds I've done for you, that I'm boastful when I blog about how I've drove all the way from KK just to fulfill your wishes when you're not death yet! I really don't mind when you shared my emails with your friends and have a good laugh about it. Then you laughed about the way I walked, about my face (yeah I know, I'm just a silly old man and not handsome like your dear husband), I really don't mind at all.Just because you think you're always right, doesn't mean that you don't have to apologize when you do something "wrong."


I just may lie to make you feel good. Don’t be angry about this. You really weren't looking for the truth anyway.

And I know you've been praying everyday for my downfall so that I shall be imprisoned for the rest of my life. So that nobody gonna love me anymore. I really don't mind either. You can prayed, you can called me by whatever name that suited you, you can even spit me, but when you called in my beloved wife and got her involved, that when I got mad. "DON'T MAKE ME ANGRY, YOU WOULDN'T LIKE ME WHEN I'M ANGRY" - I could turned green, just like the Hulk. You wouldn't like me when my underwear (sapenda in Malay) got all torn to pieces! See image below;



But of course you're always right. I'm not the type who could do anything good. Anything that I do, you've got to pay for it. I wouldn't do anything without getting any recognitions from you. Yeah, that was a very good example, telling the whole wide world (www) that I was the chosen one who had done a very good deed for his Little Mermaid. Nobody in his right sound mind would drive all the way about 200Km plus just to pay for something his Little Mermaid forgot to pay! And the best part was, he started to blog about it. Sound boastful, huh? Yeah, that's who I am (if that's what you want me to be)!

I know you would never do things like that, let alone buying something for me. Anyway, let the world knows that now I'm thanking you very much for buying me the sexy swimming trunk (sapenda in Malay) even though you're using my own money to buy it. I would still thank you even if you didn't buy it but took it from your beloved hubby many collection of swimming trunks. I would still appreciate it very much especially if it comes from you.

I'm really sorry, I still can't bear to break my dear wife's heart if I told her about the pearl bracelet. Let her think that pearl came from you because she really love the pearl bracelet. I don't want my Darling to know that you've bought that pearl using my money. Till now she only talk about how you have a heart of gold, you're such a sweetheart and all that. I don't wanna spoil her perception about you. Let her think you're such a sweetheart like I've always thought of you no matter what you feel about me.

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