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Cow, Bull Gored Ox Year - 2009 and a Decade in Passing

2009-12-31T12:59:00.004+08:00

In less than twelve hours, I'd be among the thousand revellers ushering in 2010 in the heart of downtown Kuala Lumpur - The weather is at the moment overcast, perhaps the heavens is passing its judgement on how BolehLand has fared the past year and decade - the cheer, hope and peace seems to have gone dull, grayish, the sunshine overshadowed by dark clouds. The unkind weather some say man's own doing, slowly strangling its own piece of earth, perhaps the only living planet in this part of the galaxy!

Just like in BolehLand, the past year has been overshadowed by some of the darkest unimaginable events and incidences, man's doing that any act of God though some seem to always attribute it to fate, a fatalistic and easy way to disregard responsibility and blame it on the Almighty.

If you ask me the 10 things or issues that hit me, the most significant in the past year, I'd like to list it as it comes flash instantly in the mind, no pause, no reflection, just instant recall. These are:

1.Political crisis and Dirty politics - Perak, Pakatan, MCA, MIC, UMNO

2. Selective prosecution against demonstrations, gathering and personalities

3. Corruption and Scandals, PKFZ, AG's Report, Missing Jet Planes

3. 1 too many 1Malaysia

4. Statutory Declarations and Countless police reports

5. Racial and religious sensitives - cow head, face stomping, Allah & Herald, Ketuanan, Pendatang

6. Hypocrisy of politicians, ministers, moral squad

7. Education and Language - demise of English Language

8. Flip-flop policies

9. Deaths, Murder & Conspiracy - MACC & TBH, Altantuya, Sujitha, Kugan

10. No change even with promise of change!

2009 BolehLand was like a jungle, an animal farm of sorts.

2009 a year of bullheads and butting in BolehLand

Though it was the year of the OX, the amphibians, basically frogs and snakes ruled causing havoc in a tin state taking away the sheen from Pakatan's sliverware they won in 2008.

The smell of old rot permeated the Pakatan camps with demands based on race and religion and those vying for greed and power honed their 'silat' skills to vanquish opponents within and in opposing party.

It was the year of the OX, when cow heads were paraded and the cow-wa-banga squad were absent against those who raised religious and racial sensitivities.

Official explanations on controversies revealed more cow brains and bulls*#% that came out of the mouths of ministers, politicians, top cop, top MACC, religious heads, with a convert or two forgetting their ancestry origin.

It was a year, when the bullheads herded the communities into a 'ketuanan herd' and a 'pendatang' herd and trampled on basic rights of communities who were given equal rights and opportunities under the Constitution.

It was a year of by-elections, buying people and a good bye to all the billions promises for the losing party.

It was a year when opponents showed their power based on the police reports filing being made even for the slightest of utterance!

It was a year when transgressions exposed the hypocrisy of the voyeurs, perverts and moralists.

Seems there that BolehLand fellos preferred horn butting, butted derrier, rage, murder and disasters to surround them, than grab the bull by its horns and resolves the problems and issues affecting everyone.

Were there happy moments, yes certainly but sadly these were shared only at private and personal levels. Happy moments seemed boring and uninteresting to BolehLand. Even wanting to share joy and laughter also has risks, the biggest is the fear of moral squads striking without warning and without timing, of snatch thieves zapping away an innocent live over pittance of material gain.

Has the nation moved forward in terms of projecting a harmonious, tolerant, understanding and peace loving society? A cm perhaps and that may be a great KPI achievement considering that there was always fear the nation is backsliding into chaos and disunity.

Soon 2010 dawn of another decade and it is pointless to try and make new year resolutions when most of them are unachievable or rather like last years.

So given the past year and decade experiences, seems we are taking care of ourselves at least those who prefer not to continue using their crutches or those who have no choice but to depend on themselves. It's like living each day at a time in BolehLand these days and if you managed to see or get five good positive hugs, you would have done Eric Berne proud!

Here's good riddance to a year when the people was the matador, trying to avoid the cowdung, mad cow disease and the cows, bulls and oxen that were trying to gorge us and inflict us harm!

And in a bullfight the matador ultimately wins killing the bull, patience then right?

Happy New Year 2010 then and see you and thank you for visiting me and your comments, etc. Check out my new location in 2010 at YAHMEH!!!

A Prayer of Thanksgiving

Thank you God for Giving Me Life and Love

Forgive me for my wrong doings

And bless those who have gone before me

May You Give us Peace, Joy and Happiness

In this Land I call Home

Amin.

Foreign Investors Fear is Beyond Petty Crimes, Sir!

2009-12-30T17:04:00.007+08:00

Who would think that part of the orientation for foreign investors (FIs) is a briefing by the police.

Anyone studying marketing or banking will be able to list out the kind of risks that must be taken into account when starting a business or giving loans to borrowers, undertake risk assessment, look at sovereign risks which all aspects including political system, politics and government, laws and the judiciary systems,taxation polices, financial institutions, even literary level and issues of safety and security.

FIs will have their own risk assessments and draw upon authoritative sources, such as rating agencies, even the CIA Factbook!, local news media as well as the embassy for information on the country they are going to invest in.

In BolehLand, the police is now part of the PR machinery to attract FIs and they are giving briefings on the safety aspects in the state. See story below.

This is good because at least the FIs will know the state of safety in the country and state, whether what they read about unexpected 'cow-head' demonstrations, rapes, deaths including accidental deaths, killings or injury by bag snatchers, terrorizing by rempets, road accidents, mayhem by killer motorists even landslides and collapse of man-made structures are really what happened. Or are only on sided bias reporting by anti-government or Pakatan bloggers!

Kudos to the police for their civic duty to correct the misconception FIs have on the state of safety in BolehLand and Johor. Pakatan States should also take the cue from Johor to hold similar briefings to FIs since the complaint is there is declining FDIs into Pakatan-held states. Safety concerns must be one of the major factors driving away FIs. Seems all the worse things occur or come out from the Pakatan States!

The odd thing about this briefing is what are the Malaysian embassies doing to correct those CNN, BBC, al-Jazerra, Malaysian Today, MalaysiaKini, Free Malaysia and the zillion blogs that, to the government are spreading lies and incorrect picture of 1Malaysia?!

BolehLand's government has Bernama newswire. This mouthpiece of the government should be the source of authority, trustworthiness and confidence to the FIs for their 'correct' and balanced picture of what's really happening in BolehLand, right? But somethings not right if FIs are still getting the 'wrong' picture and 'confused' by the other sources. Surely if you believed something is the truth, say a Christian has strong faith in Jesus, he isn't going to be swayed by other Gods, prophets and Dan Brown right? Unless Bernama or the online MSMedia websites are something else to these FIs!

Compared to southern neighbour which has an efficient diplomatic services where it scans for anything published and negative reports on the Republic will trigger an immediate response and PR campaign on damage control as well as their famous 'suing' the pants off on anyone they think is maligning the Republic and leaders. Senior Lee is a stark example of the efficient squeaky clean and 'can-do-no-wrong' plastic-Republic's response to negative news on the nation.

For the police to do the diplomatic corps work suggests our PTD fellos are not doing what they should to project the 'true' picture of what 1Malaysia is, you know the 'Truly Asian', harmonious, open-house, eating satay, ketupat, smiling, happy multi costumes dancing image tourists are also shown in brochures and above the line ads.

If one can recall, there was a campaign to use the foreign embassies to give a true picture of what is really 'behind' the 'rear-end' issue concerning a defacto Pakatan leader.

Yes, as a FI, it does makes sense to know the kind of assurances on safety and security where one is investing or live in including bringing their family in.

But do FIs fear the petty crimes or show more fear for other issues like, what is the nation's transparency, corruption, efficiency level compared to world's ranking?

FIs from developed nations, which usually is the case, may feel upset with the inconvenience of road blocks, smell of tear gas on demonstrations seeking for abolition of draconian laws or fair and free elections or injustice against the tribes and other social issues. But they may show more worries on how the state respond to demonstrations, peaceful gatherings and vigils compared to what they experience back home.

FIs may face discomfort by demonstrations but will certainly cringe in horror on the way they have been told the nation as a modern moderate model religious states but gets to see the most despicable acts done at demonstrations, like the cow-head, off with the heard, effigy burning incidences. They are worried of the harshest of actions, such as whipping and they feel insecure over the moral policing on everyone irregardless of one's religious belief. Yes FIs do fear embarrassment and humiliation on a night out in a pub or restaurant may end in being picked up for urine and drug testing, or worse treated like an illegal or 'whore'!

FIs will not oppose to state action against disorderly behavior but they are alarmed over the state exercising selective prosecution against some groups over others.

FIs delight in generous incentives but it is meaningless if the government agencies and institutions are ineffective in their delivery. They bemoan the long length of time to start operations compared to neighbouring countries. And they are equally confused at the one too many one-stop centres being set up to reduce bureaucracy but lead to even more confusion and bureaucracy!

FIs seek a pool of local experts and competent professional educated workforce. They are not worried about quotas if the human capital they get meet their job requirements. FIs fear they have to import expertise from abroad or employ those who cannot communicate in a global language. They do not care about what language policy is used in the education system. China is all Mandarin but their FDIs is the envy of all nations. FIs need assurance that when they look for local human capital, they are able to find the best is still in the country than have migrated elsewhere or incompetent fellos forced upon them by some quota ruling!

FIs accept corruption exists anywhere and everywhere, but they are skeptical of the state's will and determination to reduce or eliminate it even with all the slogan shouting and promises to eradicate it. If they see it is ingrained in the political system, worse still in the parties that government the nation, how confident are they that corruption is absent in the private sector? FIs want to avoid being sucked into this culture as the order of the day to get their business going?!

Do the FIs fear more the crimes that are supposedly rampant because of false reporting or 'rumours spread by irresponsible people'? Reports of crimes, corruption and what have you are published in the MSMedia. Are we saying they are spreading falsehood.

Isn't the media playing it's social responsibility role by reporting on the state of crime in the nation or state so that it will help BolehLand fellos to be on the safe side and also evoke a call to action by those responsible for security, i.e. the police?

The public's cry over crimes committed is showing their concern that if nothing gets resolved, they can be also fall victims to similar crimes and can expect not to get protection or justice!

Yes, while safety aspect is given top priority to attracting FIs, do look at equally other issues that FIs place more importance when they undertake their own risk assessments before deciding to put their money here than elsewhere!

If BolehLand fails in the FIs initial risk assessments, the Johor police will not need to carry out any special meetings with FIs because there will not be any new FIs to speak to, right?

Heard at a special briefing in Johor

Officer: Today, I will ajar (teach) you on keselamatan.(safety) How you can selamat diri (protect yourself) against mat rempits and handbag thieves. I will nasihat (advise) you on how to identify rempits and where handbag thieves strike.
FI: Excuse me, can you speak in Ingrish, I cannot understand Bahasa.
Officer:: Kita di nasihatkan cakap bahasa supaya tidak dianggap 'ganjil, ''weird-lah' oleh kerajaan. (We are advised to speak in Bahasa so that we are not considered 'weird' by the government').
FI: Hmmm, ehhh
Officer:: After habis (finish talking about) mat rempit and petty crime, I will ajar you on other keselamatan
FI: What other safety?
Officer:: When banjir (flooding) in Johor how to be safety. You know we got banjir in Johor, not only Johor, semua (all of) BolehLand when hujan (rain)....
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Johor Police To Brief Foreign Investors Of Safety Aspects In The State
JOHOR BAHARU, Dec 30 (Bernama) -- Johor police are expected to organise a special meeting in January with foreign investors to brief them of the safety aspects in the state.
Johor Police Chief Datuk Mohd Mokhtar Mohd Shariff said the meeting was aimed at elevating any wrong perception on the safety aspects in the state.
"A special team headed by me has been formed to brief the foreign investors. I hope they (foreign investors) will not be influenced by rumours spread by irresponsible people," he told reporters at the Johor Police Headquarters here on Wednesday after presenting Excellent Service Awards and Appreciation Certificates to officers and members of the public for providing excellent services throughout last year.
Mohd Mokhtar said foreign investors are very valuable individuals to the state as they help stimulate the economy and provide job opportunities for the local population.
As such, safety aspects must be given top most priority to encourage and attract more investors to the state, he said.- -- BERNAMA

Feeling Nutty After An Operation

2009-12-30T09:49:00.006+08:00

Kuala Lumpur, 29 December 2009: Victim Tan Khai Yien 29 showing the x-ray during the press conference at Michael Chong office this morning.A private hospital here left a nut in a woman’s body during spine surgery with metal implants using nuts and bolts last year. ... Sun, Dec 30, 2009

And we thought that private hospitals are better than government ones. Someone should drop a screw into the nut-case or rather check if he has a loose screw to let this happen! Seems she will be in distress and agony until it gets removed later, a year - ouch!

Government surgeons are actually better as they managed to discover this when an employee from Sungei Besi two year's back on route to Argentina complained about chest pains in two spots. Doctors sent him to a government hospital and the x-ray revealed this shocking image below.

Latest report is somehow the man managed to later board a flight to Argentina as doctors said the discovery was not life threatening. Doctors advised the man to remove the two objects after landing in Argentina as when they are extracted, it would bring millions of dollars in fortune!

It can only happen in Bolehland - Why Lie-dis n Lie-dat?

Teoh was murdered? - Murder And Cover-up Conspiracy?

2009-12-29T23:24:00.003+08:00

Once again BolehLand is in the global news, not for any world feat that does the country proud but rather one of notoriety, shame, humiliation and embarassment to the people, the family members and the government.

It is on a murder most foul comparable to the shocking C-4ing of an innocent Mongolian Altantuya.

The concluded second autopsy is being revealed even before next year's official hearing of it in January. See story below.

So the second autopsy is revealing something which BolehLand fellos all along suspected that Teoh mysterious plunge to death in MACC vicinity was not 'sudden death' as the government sought to conclude when his body was discovered in July 2009. Teoh was very likely MURDERED.

Does Dr Prontip's conclusion point to a Murder And Cover-up Conspiracy that will further tarnish the public's faith, confidence and belief in the MACC including the government?

So what do we make of those who love to use the word 'jump'.

... and how would we know that he would jump out of the building?" Nazri, the de facto law minister added...Nazri also said that since the circumstances surrounding the death remain unclear, Pakatan Rakyat should not jump to conclusions..." July 16, 2009, Malaysiakini

... Hishammuddin said he was disappointed that certain parties had raised baseless accusations over the matter although investigations were ongoing. “We must not jump the gun on this matter. Let the police complete their investigations first,” he said.July 19, 2009, Star.

SHAH ALAM, July 16 – Selangor CPO Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said tonight the authorities had classified the death of Teoh Beng Hock as sudden death and do not see any evidence of foul play so far. “So far the police do not see any suspicious circumstances in this case and will wait for the report. We will carry out the investigation properly and thoroughly,” he said...July 16, 2009. Malaysian Insider

So what's the next step now with this latest verdict? Who's going to and should we not jump up in rage at those responsible for not carrying out a through investigation in the first instance?

“,...On the Royal Commission... We want to establish the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The process of investigation will be forthright and transparent as we regard every human life to be sacrosanct and civil liberties to be firmly upheld.” The inquest, Najib said,would determine the cause of death, adding that he would personally meet Teoh’s family to inform them of the findings. “I will personally see his family to let them know the outcome. Most importantly, we want to find the truth.” ...July 23, 2009, NST.

If the truth is found Teoh was murdered, will 1Malaysia do what he promised, personally see the family to let them know the truth. And also find the killer(s)?

Whether Dr Prontip's findings and conclusion will be 'conclusive he was murdered' is still left to be seen. After all, this is BolehLand and any shred of doubt can overturn a 'majority' finding! In such instances, 'majority' rule game does not apply compared to other issues. Perhaps murder and the right to justice isn't a sensitive issue to some while racial and religious rights are?

And out of respect for the pain Teoh's family and fiancée must feel, this posting will not deliberate on any more speculation or course of action needed.

We all know what must be done. Whether they get done is another matter. Perhaps to lessen the frustrations and digust, it is better not to mention the next course of actions that need to bring this to a closure. Suggestions and the murder may be considered 'frivolous' like the previous one!

God forbid it does not remain unresolved for the peace of mind of the family as well as the fate of the BN government!

But it is not too presumptuous to call for this:
Justice to Teoh Beng Hock! and all those who have been murdered and the killers not found or punished.

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Teoh Beng Hock murdered
Tue, Dec 29, 2009, http://freemalaysiatoday.com/english/?p=5638
KUALA LUMPUR: Teoh Beng Hock was murdered. Top Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand has sufficient evidence to prove that he was killed.
The Parti Keadilan Rakyat organ, Suara Keadilan, reports in its latest edition that her forensic report will be presented at the January 7 inquest into Teoh’s untimely death.
The weekly quotes unnamed Health Ministry sources as saying that Pornthip reached her conclusion after a second postmortem at the Sungai Buloh hospital.
The report adds that Pornthip has made known her findings to all TBHock 1 relevant groups, including the Teoh family and the Selangor government, which commissioned her services.
Teoh was the political secretary to Selangor executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah. Yong is the Seri Kembangan assemblyperson and a member of DAP, a member party of the ruling coalition in Selangor.
On 15 July, the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC), investigating allegations of misappropriation of state allocations, raided Yong’s office. Teoh was questioned as a witness at the Selangor MACC office later that day.
At about 1.30pm the following day, a janitor found Teoh’s sprawled body on the fifth floor of the building.
The coroner’s court allowed Teoh’s remains be exhumed on Nov 21 for a second-post mortem.
Earlier in October Pornthip told coroner Azmil Mustapha Abas that based on photographs of his remains, she was 80 percent sure that Teoh was murdered.
The second autopsy was witnessed by British pathologist Prof Dr Peter Venezis acting for MACC, Dr Khairul Azman Ibrahim and Dr Prashant Naresh Samberkar.

Trusting the AG's Chamber more than a Royal Commission?

2009-12-29T19:02:00.008+08:00

The Malay Mail frontpage today, 'Forget it, says Nazri', Dec 29, 2009, finally puts an end to the debate if Royal Commission will be set up for the missing jet as well as allegations of Tun M's RM100 billion spending spree during his Premiership.

"If everything has to go through a Royal Commission, then what's the use of the A-G's Chambers?", said Nazri.

Yes indeed, everything does go through the AG's Chamber, all those allegations of dirty politicians, judges, cops, heads of states, cheat...I mean chief ministers, government leaders and officers and also a whole lot on the oppositions. Bet there is a mountain high of police reports by both BN and Pakatan fellos as high as the Petronas Twin Towers.

But does anything come out from the huge pipeline of alleged scums and dirt that land in the AG's Chamber? Mostly a trickle gets through and most of these are related to Pakatan fellos!

One can interpret Nazri's statement as Nazri seems to have more trust in the Attorney-General's Chambers than in any Royal Commission.

It is like telling the public, at least those who are not the pro-government camp, that they should trust more in the MACC, than the RC on the TBH case or in fighting corruption!

Perhaps the AG is more trustworthy than a Royal Commission. Hey, the AG Chamber even dismissed the RC on the Lingam case, which can be interpreted as the AG is smarter and has a more acute sense of what is truth and falsehood that those RC's fellos!

And the public was also made to trust the AG to act justly and quickly on the 'black eye' incident some years back, remember?

Perhaps the problem is not the AG's Chamber, rather the top fello who is the problem. After all, we are certain there are decided fellos there who still believe in justice or at least how they perceive it depending on who is involved or what party affiliation the allegations are made against.

Perhaps it's the issue with the No1 fello in the AG's Chamber, a controversial fello who is as believable politician whether from the BN or Pakatan party.

The AG's Office reputation hasn't been that all trustworthy looking at some of its decision on important cases and issue. Granted that in law one shouldn't be swayed by the court of public opinion, the decision of the AG on some highly controversial case defies even those who are learned in the law.

The difference between an AG making a decision and a judge is the AG seems to have more definite powers in his decision. Once he says 'NO' it's a 'NO' or 'YES' it's a 'YES', whether it deals with death under police custody or the ISA.

The judge on the other hand when he gives judgement, it can be overturned, a see-saw decision as we saw on the Perak case as well as even relating to a religious issue on the use of the word 'Allah'.

And who really believes an AG's decision is based on the rule of law or justice, independent and free from any influence? Does he decide without fear or favour?

BolehLand fellos suspect the AG is not always independent and most times under the dictate of the government who appointed him and pays his salary!

If the AG can be entrusted to give a through explanation of the missing jet planes and then decide to go all out to nail those responsible, kudos to him.

And the AG's Chamber will improve its credibility further if it decides to investigate and call for an RC on the missing jet engines as well as on allegations against ole Tun.

But that would be asking too much of the AG Chamber's right?

To regain the dignity and honour of the AG's Chamber, perhaps an RC should be formed to really unclog the scum dirt reports that have clogged the Chamber and flush out those in the Chamber responsible for hiding away all the dirt blocking them from ever flowing out into the open for the public's knowledge.

Meanwhile, Tun M's alleged billion ringgit 'scandal' would be treated as just 'fiction' similar to what Tun himself feels of Wain's Malaysian Maverick, 'a fiction as well".

No Cheer on Credit Card Service Tax

2009-12-29T14:53:00.007+08:00

The imminent imposition of credit card service tax is going to affect the number of such cards held by an individual.

The Star report today on how the issuers are going to settle the service tax for their cardholders.

Star, Dec 29, 2009

The conclusion is banks are not going to pay for the cardholders as otherwise rumoured. It would be interesting what those banks who are asking customers to pay will handle it tax. Maybank for one has already said that the rewards points can be used to offset the charges and the Star report confuses customers if they have changed it to disallow customers to use their rewards point to offset the tax! Their website at Maybank2u said that rewards points can be used. Why the difference in the Star report and their website?

A check with RHB also said they allow for rewards points to offset the service charge. Wonder why the Star report is giving conflicting reports and confusing the public? Someone must not be telling the truth!

So how many reward points to use to offset the service tax? Seems an average of RM500 spent monthly will be enough or a total of 10,000 points to get a RM50 rebate. And if the cardholder has to pay for the annual fee for those kiasu bank who still charges such fees, it will mean spending about RM2000 a month or so to use your points to pay for say RM125 annual fee if it is not waived as well as the service tax! It means getting you to spend more and incurring lots of debts for someone who wants to enjoy using the reward points to pay for the annual fee and the service tax? Which defeats the whole purpose of the service tax, right?

Have surrendered two cards and keeping my charge and three other cards, one of which is in the safe for autobills. The cards were offered free anyway and no fee waiver so it's manageable. Besides, since I settle all my bills before the 3rd or 5th each month, they is more than enough points to pay for the service taxes.

The cardholders' request is for the banks to absorb the service tax, after all, especially those who have been good customers and spend so much and not owe them a sen. Talk about appreciating loyalty. When the loyal customer is a good customer he is often ignored and forgotten. Only when you forget or pay one sen less, they will come after you, sending debt collectors and legal letters threatening your life with more debts!

Looking at the generous rebates to entice customers to spend, it seems the banks are already paying for the customers as each rebate the cardholders receives, the card issuer actually pay out to the merchants! Which means they are paying the service tax for the customers on top of also giving reward points. So it's like a double rebate! So that makes sense and if the cardholders don't save the rebate to offset the service tax, they are only to be blamed.

If that's what the rebate is meant to help in the service tax, besides encouraging cardholders to spend, spend, spend, then the card issuer and banks can say they are actually paying for the customer. But they can't because it will defeat what do they call it, the 'spirit of imposing the service tax by 1Malaysia!'

And the 'spirit' we are told is to reduce credit card debts by reducing the number of cards held by an individual. But we all know the real reason is to tax innocent and good cardmembers to make up for the shortage in revenue collection.

If one is a spendthrift, even if he holds one card, he will still spend. Those who need more 'overdrafts' will hold more than one and what is paying the service tax if they can get money upfront for whatever they need? It's like gamblers, you can't kick the habit by closing down the lotteries and gaming shops. They will just find other outlets to gamble!

If everyone keeps one card, 1Malaysia isn't going to get his over half a billion ringgit and very much less if the whole card population is reduced to one or two cards per person. It doesn't even reduce the current huge credit card outstanding debt owed by those who hold multiple or even a single card. They will take the same amount of time to settle it with one or five cards as the amount only gets accumulated into one card!

Instead of only imposing the tax on the bank that the cardholder has taken the card, 1Malaysia has decided on individual cards. It will mean the demise of many co-brand cards and perhaps the Islamic credit cards because the cardholder will only hold one card that offers the best value for money. This may be good in the long run so that the card issuer will give a fair better deal on benefits and privileges to every cardholder than offer it to those who hold this or that card!

Will we see more benefits and higher value attached to one card now? Card issuers are really terribly slow in showing innovation. Instead of offering 10 cards, one for petrol, one for shopping, one for travel, one for electronic benefits and so on, why can't they offer such privileges attached to one card! Offer it like a seasonal benefit, one period for household, one for travel, one for eateries, etc. That way you need one card to enjoy the different seasons of privileges and sale. That way you do away with so many co-brand cards!

1Malaysia is really targetting the wrong people to make up for the extravagance the government is indulging in and the increasing debt they incur with their grandiose programmes as well as 'leakages'. They are actually worse than the recalcitrant credit card fello. They spend beyond their means and get away with it by taxing others!

If they imposed this service card to curb excessive and debts among credit cardholders, shouldn't BolehLand fellos also impose a tax on them for being bad spenders and creating huge debts that our future generation will suffer more? Since we can't impose a tax on them, perhaps remove them in the coming GE then! As they have taken away so much cheer in our lives, it's time they feel the sufferings as ordinary folks in the next GE!

Tak Erti Ertee's Rantings

2009-12-28T14:59:00.018+08:00

The year of the Ox, bull to some is drawing to a close and many BolehLand fellos would like to leave this eventful year and move on to a fresh start. But there are some who are clinging on to the tail of the bull and try to reign it in for a longer period so that they can continue raging out their loads of ‘bull#$%&” on BolehLand.

One such cowboy seemed to be this convert by the name of Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah.

The confusion between ethnicity, race, religion and ancestry is evident with this fello, a senior lecturer in the National Defence University Malaysia..

Firstly, as a Muslim convert, he is a staunch defender of his religion, rightly so, even talking about graveyard sizes, places of worship as well as right to certain political seats.

There have been a lot of buzz, brickbats as well as admirers of his ertee’s latest post ‘Accused as criminals better than being evil’

The gist if one can ‘erti(ee)’ (understand the meaning) what his gripe is, is that Muslims seem to be giving in to non Muslims demands and this should stop mainly because of a simple mathematical formula he uses – the rule of the majority. Fair enough if one don’t think that justice or fairness has anything to do with numbers.

You see, using the majority rules and Constitution protection gives him the right to dictate to others, the lesser majority their rights and freedom it seems.

While in BolehLand, the majority happens to be of the Malay race synonymous to Muslims, they can do what they want, how they like because of his mathematical formula.

So if money, energy and resources are over 70% if not 100% directed to the Malays, viz Muslims, it’s their right and the other races and religions should just shut up and face the fact!

So if the number game is the only way to ensure the existence of their race, one can expect them to become baby machines and perhaps achieve the 70 million advocated by their former beloved leader!

The belief is no matter how many they produce they are probably doing God’s will, two to replace the parents and two more to propagate the umat. Nothing wrong with that. And of course they will expect the government to go on ensuring the many they produce will have a place and a comfortable supported life in BolehLand. Their belief in God is unquestionable as no matter how many they are, God will take care of them.

But if their socio-economic needs are not fulfilled given the larger numbers they have, heaven forbid they start blaming the ‘pendatangs’ for making them poor or not moving up the socio-economic ladder compared to the few children other families choose to have as they are being realistic they cannot afford more than two nor can they expect the 'majority' rule BN government to help them, even with the 1Malaysia policy and slogan promises and all that!

Our Tee seems to already have his ethnic ancestry China-apek DNA assimilated by the soft blood, by virtue of conversion than any biological intercourse! Which supports the ‘theory’ once you are a Muslim you somehow naturally lose all your previous ethnicity and ancestry and you become a Malay! Only in BolehLand this biological miracle can happen!

So if the majority is to always get their way due to his mathematical formula, it’s ok to exhibit supremacist attitudes and join the ranks of the KKK and neo-nazis and ultra right. After all, you can’t taint your pure majority can you?! And he should not get overtly worked up if say the majority in a Swiss town don’t fancy tall minarets or some nations majority don’t think the ‘veil’ is allowed in school or that the call to prayer ‘decibel’ is rather stressful to others. It’s majority rights and privileges remember Doc right?

Tee, or Abdullah as he prefers to be called may not think his ‘Chinese’ name and Chinese-ness any useful or important to him now since he is converted. After all, like the MCA they don't get handout and are viewed as second class. So why be with the losers 'Tee' name right Ridhuan?

Our Mohd. fello seems to think that only the Malays and Muslims are allowed to increase in numbers and that the other race or religions cannot have any increase in number as it may interrupt the ‘balance’. So when these other groups increase in numbers, they ask for space to increase their house of worship as well as burial plots. Is that too much to ask for?

Is he asking the other races and religions to kowtow and bow before the supreme UMNO and BN government for granting them a piece of land in a muddy swamp to build their house of worship or erect an ‘idol’ in their property?

What has size of cemeteries and grave got to do with threatening Islam? Hey, more land has been given to cronies and the corrupt than given to a community to bury their dead! Hiyah, probably he thinks it's better not to give them away for graveyards or house of worship since it might deprive their 'side' and 'politicians' from getting a piece of dirt cheap earth!

Christians at least have long accepted they won’t get land to bury their departed. They have long began cremation and building columbarium. Christians believe their God is omnipotent and He is able to piece you together even if you are ashes and dust when the resurrection comes! Why bother with thigh bones connected to the hip bones and all that right?

The Hindus have always cremated. And the Chinese have always sought to give their loved ones an affordable send off. What’s wrong with that? If the authorities thought that the Nilai Memorial Park is offensive, they should not have approved it! Let the Chinaman send their ashes to another country!

Noone questions Muslims burial ground right smack in the middle of town and new townships. The one at Sec 17 sits on prime land, surrounded by housing estates. Noone is complaining. Noone questions more Muslim burial sites so why is Tee using cemeteries and graves to raise a sensitive issue like as if the other religions are encroaching on their burial groud, nneeds or customs.

Noone is stopping this Tee fello from building grandiose cemeteries. The rulers have great mausoleums. If his religion disallows such practices allowed in other religion, why take on a holier than thou attitude and look down on the practices of the other faiths! If Tee is unhappy, he should dig up his ancestors graves and dump the bones or burn them all and scatter them away! Why not he launches a crusade to dig up ole Malacca Bukit Cina and build mosques and convert it to Muslim cemeteries. After all, those fellos there have been dead for so long and their cemeteries seem an ‘insult’ is it to him?

And what’s the complaint of 9% Christians seemingly monopolising the festivities in BolehLand. Christmas overshadowing the other festivities? Perhaps this Abdullah doesn’t watch national channels on festivities to see the time slot allocated for celebrations related to Islam and the other religions. Perhaps he doesn’t go on Muslim festival marches to know Muslim processions are larger and receive national broadcast like the whole day and night!

What’s his gripe about Xmas? He can’t enjoy the haram turkey ham or champagne is it? Does he think Chinese New Year too noisy even without the firecrackers or he misses the lap cheong or XO. Will he next question Chinese wedding as too noisy ‘yam seng’ and liquoir and mahjong? The Lion and Dragon Dance too 'tong,tong, chang' for his ears!

Let’s hope he does not feel disappointed by his parents for being Chinese than a Malay! But at least now he believes himself a Malay courtesy of the Constitution!

Rather than enjoy the rich cultural diversity, he is making it into an issue of infringing on the rights of the Muslims huh is that what he is trying to say?

Noone is stopping them to use kompangs, cymbals, drums or break coconuts like Thaipusam if they want to! If a religion allows such practices, pehlease spare us the holier than thou attitude. Is he advocating for a ban on Thaipusam or even the 'Hungry Ghost' noisy stage shows, smelly joss sticks or Chingay celebrations, confusing cultural from religious ceremonies. Even the Catholics Corpus Christi celebration is now confined to the church compound. And to say that other religions are encroaching on his religious celebrations is telling of the bigot world Tee stays with, not even knowing how other religions are restricted in celebrating their festivities.

Even advocating for a Muhibbah or 1Malaysia celebration is also frowned upon. Remember Deepa-Raya being haram! Even extending well wishes seemed ‘haram’!

The childish manner in which our Dr seems to want to justify grabbing everything and all because of his bigger number shows he has a rather big ego and bigheaded bigot in bringing up sensitive issues of other religious worship and practices. On one hand he seems to respect other races and religions are given their due rights and freedom accorded by the Constitution. On the other hand, he whacks them for following their beliefs!

His subtle questioning of larger than life ‘statutes’ smacks on ala Taliban mentality! Idols to him probably. Like new found Christians I know frens included who after having found Jesus, and Jesus loves you and Jesus says this and that, returns to parents home and become an iconoclast smashing away the ‘kun yum’ throwing away joss sticks, removing ancestral tablets and pictures of forefathers and breaking away the altar!

After this destruction, this new Jesus follower, Catholic in this case puts up an altar that looks like a miniature chapel, a Mother Mary picture is placed inside, rosary on the picture, a small receptacle for the holy water, probably a statue of St Joseph in the altar to keep Mother Mary company and yes a framed Scared Heart with Jesus showing his wound and shining halo and the crucifix on the wall. The last bit probable an Ikea candle set and tea candles and God is finally in his home!

Hmmm, what was all that about and just happened right?

But don’t blame our Abdullah who is a fervent Muslim and destroying statues or being an iconoclast like our Christian fren is not his own doing really! It’s God’s will you know!

Religion also seems synonymous to politics to our Ridhuan! Perhaps he isn’t schooled in local politics, BN and UMNO actually to know that the many voter delineations were done to ensure some BN friendly majority is added to ensure election victory!

Let’s hope his thoughts are not shared by the UMNOputras in thinking every sq cm of BolehLand must have a Malay majority or else they will have too a grand Christmas and Santa Claus celebration and we wouldn’t want that in a Muslim nation would we!

Gosh he should have spoken out against Halloween as well as Valentine’s Day then, even Merdeka which really is huge than all other religious festivals! Now there are two Hari Kebangsaan cum Merdeka!

If educated Muslims like our Mohd Ridhuan can write such defense of Islam touching on sensitivities of other religious belief and using the majority formula to tell others to not question what the majority does and decide for the minority, - think of how their followers will behave if they are fed with such simplistic and often emotional ‘arguments!’

Let’s hope our dear Dr isn’t one of the BTN lecturers. Seems to him only the BN party and his formula is salvation to his race, Malay, his religion as well as his job probably.

As he ended his chauvinistic masterpiece warning against being “taken advantaged by those with the attitudes of foxes in sheep skins and scissors in the fold. To them their race strength must be defended even with whatever reasons and challenges given. Who are the real criminals and more evil?,” he has made himself the shepherd to those foxes and bulls he rears and keeps!

One isn’t sure if his writing is of any evil intention on his part, similar to the ultra kiasu party he takes pot-shots. He seems not to want to accept the diversity and reject the needs of the minority in BolehLand. Dear Dr pehlease don’t get into the fallacy of equating the part as representative of the whole. A few wacko Pakatan or BN politicians don’t necessarily reflect the thinking of the majority. So too of learned fellos views. And BolehLand can't afford to have criminals and those with evil intention to lead the people or call themselves the learned to guide the people too.

Yes indeed the Muslims are sensible, sensitive, soft and rationale fellos. So too the non Muslims. Cannot we share our commonality to live in peace and be enriched by our differences than to try and make one a more superior race, religion and being either by default or conversion!

More Painful Reminder by a Tsunami Memorial

2009-12-28T09:11:00.011+08:00

Five years on since the tragic Tsunami hit Asia including Bolehland and victims continue to remember loved ones lives lost as well as struggling to rebuilt their lives and livelihood.

And with many tragedies, memorials are erected to remember the incident with hope the there won't be another repeat in the future.

Bandar Acheh the worst affected in SEA built a memorial and museum, a unique memorial and provide an atmosphere of serene, quite and calm providing a peaceful ambiance for the visitor to be immersed in their own thought, offer a prayer and reflection upon the power of mother nature and the human spirit to rebuild their lives

Acheh Memorial

In BolehLand, a Tsunami Memorial in Kota Kuala Muda was also erected by the State government. Called bot bertindih (piled-up boats) it consist of a deck of boats stacked up located next to a memorial exhibition area.

The memorial has earned both praise as well as brickbats. See attached news

Star, Dec 25, 2009

Not to sound unpatriotic, it's better for readers to see what it looks like below:

Tsunami memorial
Sailing into controversy?

Remember learning fine arts in the university days that art can tell a story better than a picture painting a thousand words.

Ok considering that councillors are no artists or have any sense of art sense, like those in the capital city Kuala Lumpur where grotesque looking structures they call 'art' eg, the cement pitcher plant, it is not surprising that the tsunami 'sculpture' is being about controversy to both local and tourists.

So what it's a heap of sampans (boats) at least its a memorial right? If the sampans are to reflect the livelihood of the area, then a suitable memorial for Kuala Lumpur perennial flood (even with the billions spent on stormwater management) must be a heap of rubbish plus a few unidentified death bodies. Or pile of rubbles including the logo of the Works Ministry should do fine for a Bukit Antarabangsa memorial right?

The difference between the pile of boats and the pile of rubbish memorial if one is built for Kuala Lumpur is the former is more colourful! But both looks like thrash nonetheless!

Sure, the heap of sampans it will attract the curious and tourists perhaps to admire the uniqueness of BolehLand art or to bring it back as a souvenir to show frens how tasteless and ugly it is as if there is a dread of local fine arts fellos.

The least the councillors could have done is to hold a competition among the art schools and to select one that best reflect the incident and dignified to respect the victims too! Perhaps they did, we are not told. But if they did, then it shows our local artists are anything but artistic.

Ok, considering art is a matter of taste, particularly 'abstract' art, the memorial must mean anything to anyone or nothing at all to everyone!

Looking at the monument, even a person of piety or a monk needs to call up his years of training to be inspired by it and put oneself in a state of reverence to offer prayers for the departed.

The monument at least to this yours truly is hardly visually pleasing and evoke emotions of turmoil, distress as well as bad taste actually.

Ok perhaps they want visitors to remember the chaos and turmoil when it first struck. But isn't a memorial suppose to give hope for the future than to be reminded of the horrors of the past.

If artform is the least of what building memorials is about but more on practicality and a constant rewinding of the tragedy, 'Ground Zero' in New York should have a sculpture of a plane diving plunging into a tower or the faces of those who did it right?

The Kota Kuala Muda Tsunami might as well add in death bodies and dead cows and dead chickens then if the artistic aspect is disregarded.

Is it that there is insufficient funds? Noone is asking for a memorial like the Acheh one. All the folks want is something that will bring them closure of the tragedy and hope for the future going forward.

Not a memorial that makes them feel uneasy and keep rocking their lives each time they look at it.

Decking the place with sampans is no art or a respectable memorial pehlease!

Ok as the art lecturer would challenge the class to come up with an alternative than to only be a critique, I took the liberty to propose a memorial - call it 'Rebirth' that depict the wreck of half a boat and a tree of life and birds to signify rebirth, reborn after the Tsunami tragedy.

Rebirth!- copyright mine!

Honey, They Found the Stolen Jet Engines not the Thieves Yet!

2009-12-27T19:35:00.014+08:00

There seems to be more missing parts to the mystery of who stole the two f5e jet engines!

Their PR statement clarified the the brigadier-general and other fellos sacked happened before the loss of the two engines. See story below.

It took them SO LONG to clarify the persons involved were not connected! Bad PR really!

And one odd reason they were sacked was due to inefficiency and work performance. If that being so, KPI Minister must really learn from the RMAF how they really go about sacking fellos because of this and enforce it in the civil service. That will mean trimming about 70% of the over million civil servants which will be a good thing as it will save taxpayers money from pay, benefits and the endless perks they get, particularly those higher officers!

But it's also bad if you sack 70% civil servants as they have been BTN you know - 'Brainwashed Totally Nowadays' to be pro BN and losing them will mean losing the vital BN voters! a sad indication these civil servants have developed crutches so dependent on the government they think they can't survive as private workers!

Earlier it was reported elsewhere that the job was the work of lower officials. If that was so it would mean these lower officials are smarter and got more brains than the officers and Generals. Wonder if the top brass were playing golf while the engines were being stolen!

And for the AG to want to a futher probe on how the engines got abroad, now we are told in Argentina. But shouldn't you be arresting people first and then interrogate them to find out how they succeeded in stealing the engines?

The engine has been traced so it should be easier to backtrack to find out the crooked trails right? If the engines were not found, that would be a different matter!

Either they have caught those involved or they have not! If they had, they would have made it public as probably the former Defence Minister must want some positive results as any delay only raise public's suspicion that something is amiss in the theft as well as the investigation.

For the police not to reveal the names may be their strategy not to let those who have not been caught to know what the police is up to. Provided they have caught someone or some people.

So while the police does their work, the public is warned not to speculate. How does one make speculation and assumptions that are in conflict with the facts to avoid confusion when one does not know what the facts are?

The facts being admitted this far are; two engines got stolen, the fellos sacked are not related to the stolen engines, the police is investigating and it happened during the time of the former Defence Minister, two in fact!

The fact that everyone is interested in right now is after so long, has anyone been apprehended, even a suspect?

When the RMAF investigated the theft, does it mean they didn't find anything that they needed to hand it to the police for further investigation? If that was the case, then BolehLand has much to fear because if the military intelligence can't even find out thefts in their own rank and file, how would they be able to gather intelligence of foreign threat?

Unless, the military has found the culprits and have handed them to the police for further action. But then the common belief is the military has its own court to try its people, for offences within their compound! If their men committed offence outside the base, it becomes a police and civil matter isn't it?

Unless the jet engines got stolen elsewhere not in the military compound. But that can't be because you don't send your sensitive engine like you send your kancil to an ahmad or ahkow workshop in Cheras or Balakong right? Unless they were trying to save money and use 'kereta potong' parts to replace the jet engine parts!

So if they knew the engines are in Argentina, then the modus operandi should easily be determined if the perpetrators are caught already.

And still no word on MACC if they are going to be involved. Are they still celebrating the year end holidays? or they didn't get any public filing a complaint to them about the missing jet engine. If that is what is needed for them to act, senior Lim should file one immediately since he is the one asking for a Royal Commission!

It will be interesting to see how the BN fellos wrangle themselves out of this. None of the BN partners are coming out forcefully to seek answers. They are leaving it to the good hands of their No1 chief who will somehow be able to let everyone 'amiss' on the truth when it matters! They will have to do more than having missing immigration records. It would mean missing export shipment and declaration of goods forms including the many paper trial needed to take out such huge engines.

Is it that the Customs & Excise fellos didn't detect the engines parts as they were too busy peeking into Southern neighbour cars to make sure they don't defy the petrol quota or are only familiar with scrap metal to know what a jet engine look like? Or they were not trained in identifying jet engines, thinking they must be some water turbines or Toy r U's engines bound for Argentina? This latest incident should cause them to revamp their training curriculum on identifying things that are being shipped out or shipped in say like jet engines, submarine torpedoes, maybe even uranium?

And blogs have reported of missing birds, i.e. aircrafts purportedly undelivered and sitting in the desert somewhere in US of A. But will such 'speculation' cause MOHA and MACC to at once start an investigation to see if the claims are true! After all, they acted as fast as the speed of light in cyberspace when an anonymous blog mentioned something about some PKR fellos for having some underworld connection!

As each day passes and there is no news if the perpetrators are caught, the morale of the RMAF may be affected with public's growing negative perception of them. The longer the delay, the more the credibility issue of 1Malaysia gets eroded!

The public is not questioning the investigation nor want in any way to interfere in the investigation. Their concern is the length of time it is taking!

The AG has been many times quick to bring closure to many cases that involve the Pakatan fellos. The minute a police report is made against a Pakatan rep, the next instant action is taken! Well they have shown their efficiency in fighting against those who are suspected of causing sensitivities and affect the security of the nation.

The RMAF theft is way above that of MPs being investigated for causing sensitivities. And because of this the public expects even quicker action and faster answers and not to use the law to threaten anyone who questions the delay.

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Officer And Men Sacked Before Engines Loss Discovered
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 24 (Bernama) -- A brigadier-general and several other personnel were sacked before the loss of the two F-5E aircraft engines was discovered.
The Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF)'s public relations office in a statement today said the actions taken were more related to inefficiency and work performance and were normal measures implemented to prevent repetition of undesirable matters.
"With this statement, the RMAF hopes that quarters will not speculate and make assumptions that are in conflict with the facts to avoid confusion.
"The RMAF is always aware of a asset management and operation system to ensure the preparedness of the RMAF is highest at all times," the statement said.

On the case regarding the loss of the engines as reported in the media recently, the statement said it was handed over to the police for further investigation.
"The RMAF understands that the case is being studied and awaiting instructions from the Attorney-General for further action," the statement said.
The statement said as such the RMAF will not make any statement that can disturb investigation and prosecution and hoped all quarters would wait for feedback from the Attorney-General's Chambers before making any statements.
The RMAF began operating the F-5E in 1974. In 1999, the air force made a decision to terminate the aircraft's services and its role as a frontline fighter jet was taken over by the MiG-29N and F/A-18D.
However in 2003 the aircraft, then aged 29 years in the RMAF inventory, was re-activated as a training and reconnaisance aircraft to meet current needs.-- BERNAMA

Royal Commissions or Royal Con-missions

2009-12-27T15:54:00.016+08:00

According to Wikipedia,

A Royal Commission (RC) is created by the Head of State (Sovereign, Governor-General or Governor) on the advice of the Government and formally appointed by Letters Patent. In practice—unlike lesser forms of inquiry—once a Commission has started the government cannot stop it. Consequently governments are usually very careful about framing the Terms of Reference and generally include in them a date by which the commission must finish.

Royal Commissions are called to look into matters of great importance and usually controversy. These can be matters such as government structure, the treatment of minorities, events of considerable public concern or economic questions.

In BolehLand the past RCs were

- Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip (2009)
- Royal Commission for Police Reform (2004)
- Royal Commission to investigate alleged injuries suffered by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim while in police custody (1999)
- Royal Commission of Inquiry into the fire at the Bright Sparklers factory in Sungai Buloh New Village (1991)
- Royal Commission of Inquiry to investigate a fire at Sekolah Agama Rakyat Taufikah al-Halimah in Padang Lumat, Yan, Kedah (1989)
- Royal Commission of Inquiry on the collapse of the upper deck of the Pengkalan Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal in Butterworth (1988)
- Royal Commission on the Teaching Services (1971)
- Royal Commission of Inquiry to Investigate the Workings of Local Authorities in West Malaysia (1968)
- Royal Commission on Salaries and Conditions of Service of the Public Service (1965)

Of late, there seems in BolehLand for the slightest of issue, there is a hue and cry for a Royal Commission ((RC) of sorts.

The latest is on the RMAF and the missing jet engines. Not to be upstaged by this is the one on the former ole sage Tun M for multi billion ringgit squander. Another for racial and religious tolerance.

Besides that, there were requests for Inquests on murders most foul such as the TBH case, the c-4ed Mongolian lass, 'accidental' weedkiller death of former tv star, billion ringgit scandals such as PKFZ, even on the use of English for Maths and Science and a whole lot of issues that are considered a 'scandal' at least to the opposition and NGOs.

Rarely do we find the pro government groups advocating for an RC. Which means, they either see nothing wrong with what had happened or think it's just one of those ordinary days in BolehLand. Or are they afraid it will unveil the web of deceit, wrongdoings and dirt that is connected with their leaders or on themselves too!

If RCs and inquests are going to be formed now and then, don't be surprised there will be more of these than say the Ministries in the government.

It shows there is lack of adherence to a high level of corporate governance, transparency and ethical practices in the government institutions! Are the government leaders, officials and even the civil servant all adopting a 'couldn't care less attitude' and hope mistakes and hiccups will just go away and the taxpayers will just accept it as what government is all about?

Or accept that all natural disasters are an act of God? Definitely not my God who does not punish guilty fellos by killing innocent ones! If at all my God wants to punish anyone, the tragedy should befall those who caused it to happen in the first place!

Crooks in BolehLand seem to get an escape of God's punishment while the innocent ordinary folks get hauled up for the slightest whimsical reason by the 'soldiers of God' in the form of religious fellos who seem more interested in sins of ordinary folks like drinking or their clothings, even their R&R activities than high collar or high office wrong doings!

Even with the forming of RCs or inquests, there is no guarantee that justice will see the light of day. The RC on the Lingam tapes and even the Police on improving its image each has finished its work. Has there been a serious attempt to implement the advice of these RCs?

For the Lingam case, it's considered closed as there is no evidence! Which means the judiciary is as pure as the first fallen snow including the blizzards affecting Europe! It also means the decision is like shafting a 'lingam' up our derriere telling us 'up yours' for thinking the judiciary has been compromised and 'tainted'

Since the case is closed, does it make BolehLand folks now think the judiciary is anymore cleaner, fairer or have judges they perceived as people of integrity, impartial and really sit on the bench without fear or favour?!

If there is a need to set up RCs and the findings point to the fault of person or persons, the salary of those 'guilty' ones should be reduced in relation to the cost of setting up the RCs and the end of its lifespan. In fact, the salary of all those who were supposed to do their work and didn't do it to cause the tragedy to happen and the RC to be called should all have their salary deducted to pay for the cost of the RC! That way, leaders will be reminded they can t screw up anyone's lives for their incompetencies and lack of ownership and responsibility for the mess or tragedy they create!

What's the point of RCs if their recommendations are not carried out? If the RC is appointed by Her Majesty, it would mean there must be weight in what they do and recommend right? Don't their advice is equivalent to by the 'Order of His Majesty'? If their recommendations are not carried out, does it mean that there is disrespect and disloyalty, committing 'treason' against His Majesty?

If no such relationship exists, then why call it 'Royal' at all? And if nothing comes out of the RC, then the disobedience makes it a rather 'Disloyal Royal Commission' because noone gives the hoot what those RC members say right?

If past RCs have been just to appease the anger and frustrations of the citizens, what's the point of even setting one up if nothing comes out of the findings!

Even if the verdict vindicates the government while the recommendations are ignored, does it mean that everything the RC recommend is merely as they say 'academic' and can be rejected as well?

Besides RC's there have also been no shortage of White Papers being done. And with the RCs they remain as 'white elephants' too! All hype and hardly substance that will elevate the government and the nation to a higher level of competence, accountability and what have you.

If RCs don't bring about any change or betterment of what they were supposed to address, like the Lingam case, might as well call it a Royal Con-mission, as in the eyes of the public it's really a con job to try appear to be on the side of justice by setting up one, only to discard it after it has finished its work!

If the RCs and White Papers have served their purpose to effect change, they should be a reduction in the scandals and alarming incidences happening in BolehLand lately. Especially so, post GE12! But have things really improved?

Is it like a Murphy law thingy that bad things seem to happen at the wrong time particularly for the BN government post GE12!? Or is it that BolehLand folks are being more mature and have enough of 50 over years of seeing the same hogwash used as whitewash to cover up the decay and rot seemingly in the government!

Will an RC on Tun M's supposedly billion ringgit 'waste' or even the missing jet engines bring those responsible to justice?

Does the government have the courage to be on the side of justice than blood or party affiliation to charge a former head of state? Does even calling for such a probe tantamount to 'sedition' or become a racial issue? Will the BN government especially UMNO start a clampdown on all those who call for such a probe?

Will UMNO behave like what they did when their ex No2 was sacked! Or will we see them taking on a different stance now as it involved their former No1?

Time will tell on what UMNO fellos reaction will be against those who is calling for an RC probe. But except UMNO to take a united stand to kill any attempt to have a RC.

It's suicide to even think of agreeing to an RC, because of the 'you scratch my back I scratch your back' bond ever so strong in the UMNO family at least if you are on the side of those wielding the power!

Supposed, given the change agenda, there is a possibility of an RC to probe former No1, it may turn out to be 'you scratched at my wound, i'll scratch your back till your ugly wounds show too!

Perhaps one on the missing jet should be set up to find out the extent of internal security threat happening in our armed forces. That way, the next Auditor General report may not again show that the screw and nuts still cost like the tag of the missing jet engines!

The Hunt for Rebel RPK

2009-12-25T15:41:00.007+08:00

After a nice relaxing Yuletide celebrations, it's back to reality, getting a hangover, no, not from the Shiraz or over indulgence of excesses , but rather the rancid frothing of idiotic and moronic happenings in BolehLand.

Who said BolehLand is a land of bores and the mundane. There is so much excitement including sex-citement that most who don't migrate want to experience a 'Truly Assed Up' nation they can't get anywhere. After all one is often reminded that money isn't anything in life right? Who wants a boring life in a western democracy where it is about your own interest, your own comfort, your own ego and all that.

Here in BolehLand, folks are concerned about the bigger pictures and issues affecting almost everything and everyone, even issues of God, at least the use of His name. Even over Christmas greetings, using 'Allah' to send greetings of peace and goodwill is considered offensive to God. That's why the politically correct way to remember Jesus Christ's birth is this truly universal and less controversial name, Santa Claus.

So now one should not be surprised why there seemed to be more Santa Clauses and about Santa as well as display of opulence, richness and extravagances for Christmas than one is reminded of the squalid and poor beginning of Jesus and his message of Peace, Goodwill and Love were not connected with what the celebration of Christmas is today.

And yours truly is one guilty of being sucked into good ole Jolly Santa's merry making than be reminded of humility and message of peace and love.

And in BolehLand, while the world grabbled with the unkind weather and sought to enjoy the festivities, there is no shortage of stupid things happening even during the holy season.

The one that would certainly bring even more smile to Santa's face is the Hunt for the 'fugutive' Raja Petra, who have been playing a cat and mouse game with the MOHA and police to arrest him.

With all their Interpol connection, they first thought he was down south so down they went and were sent on the wrong grease pole returning with 'noughts' in their groping around down there!

Now it seems he is in Her Majesty QE's abode and that has sent top cop as well as a Deputy Educated Minister to join in the Hunt for Rebel RPK. And the other fellos joining in is MOHA and the AG. Everyone so focused on getting RPK seems to have forgotten taking care of things back home.

Perhaps what's the loss of sensitive, military jet engines or national security issues, criminals raping, killing and terrorising innocent victims some in broad daylight. Catching corrupt officials and even reducing rising racial and religious insensitivity, isn't that important than focusing on 'Get RPK!'

Why, in the words of our educated deputy educated Minister it sums up the obsession of getting RPK, “He is a controversial writer who is daring in his attack on the government and making claims that could undermine national security,”

Seems RPK is more dangerous than the Ahmad terrorists fello who wreaked death and mayhem in Indonesia before being killed.

So the need to reign in RPK is the fear of the BN government losing the next election from the expose that RPK is posting in a blog! But if the BN government claimed they are all rubbish and fiction, why bother right? Just prove what he publishes wrong. There is no shortage of pro government blogger and their advantage of MSMedia and national broadcast channel to smear the reputation of RPK right?

And now they are going after those who harbour RPK, to expose them.

“It is of national interest to ascertain the motives of the people who sponsored Raja Petra"

National interest? Whose? Many fellos know it's the survival of the BN government that is as stake, as RPK had openly campaign for the removal of the BN government not through any force but by his writings and exposure so that it is the people who will decide in the next GE if RPK is all hogwash and lies or he spoke the truth!

The GE is the best indicator of the credibility of both RPK and the BN government right?

There have been many BolehLand fellos who have 'escaped' and have caught less attention than RPK. Those BMF swindlers remember?

Hey even the 'missing' PI Bala who made terribly damaging unofficial Third Statutory Declaration is conveniently not found and brought back!

The issue is again as in other things in BolehLand, selective prosecution!

So what happens to RPK is perhaps now at the behest of which country is harbouring him. It would be interesting if that government will see things differently than BolehLand's. And if RPK is found whether in any 'back-side' name area, the image of the BolehLand's government will truly be tested!

Meanwhile, perhaps our deputy educated minister Dr Puad could also direct his attention to his ministry to do their work too especially this time of the year when parents are enrolling their kids for schools.. Seems the age ole stress of registering is still happening as relayed by this anxious parents.

Dr MP instead of trying to bring in loggerhead RPK and see so clearly the tiny speck of RPK in some 'back-side; sounding place, can you also look at all those blockheads in BN and in Bolehland first ah? Pehlease show your concern by also joining in the hunt for those who cheated, are corrupt, incompetent fellos in the government. Expose the 'crooks' in your own party first and all those who harbour such crooks in cheating the nation, wasting taxpayers money and getting away for their 'crimes against the people!'

If our educated fello is not doing such crusade at the back of his yard, then what BolehLand fellos think of his Hunt for Rebel RPK can best be summed up below:

Probably where RPK is hiding eh?

Peace, Joy & Love to All Mankind - Merry Christmas

2009-12-25T11:13:00.005+08:00

Wishing You and Your Loved Ones

A Very Merry Christmas

Peace, Joy & Love to All Mankind

Especially in BolehLand!

Joy to the World, Santa... opps

The Lord has come!

No posting today as it's time to relax and celebrate over a bottle of 2004 Shiraz Barossa Valley. Be safe and go relax. Don't let the pollutics spoil your day today as they did the past 12 months and more to come in the new year!

Cheers then!

Tun's Forgotten Origin vs Najib's Origin Reminder.

2009-12-24T14:25:00.023+08:00

Ole aged Tun M seems to have a better idea of what 1Malaysia concept is than 1Malaysia himself the present PM 'N'.

His comment or is it a belief? "Everyone in Malaysia have to set a side their origin country and start calling themselves Malaysians for the success of the 1Malaysia concept", is probably the most important ingredient and component of 1Malaysia and ensuring it's success really.

It's meaningless to say 'People First' 'Performance Now' when they are laying claim to be the rightful 'tuan' of a race and trying so hard to instill in them their 'ketuanan' over the rest of the 'pendatangs'.

But one can't really fault 1Malaysia for not knowing or finding it difficult to remove the ROO (Race of Origin) tag from every single aspect of BolehLand society. It has been ingrained so long it becomes like a new DNA strand that defines what a 'Malay', 'Chinese', 'Indian' or 'others' is and mean.

If one must put their race of origin, indians who converted to Muslim seemed to have forgotten their origin and miraculously take on a new racial identity? Are they considered 'Malays' or 'Bumiputras?' Chinese or Indians who convert to Christianity still know they are Chinese or Indians. So it's rather odd that such ethnicity seemed to disappear once someone becomes a Muslim. But a Thai or Mat Salleh who converts, even natives in the 'deposit' states don't seem to experience such miraculous transformation! This can only happen in BolehLand!

The odd thing is why should an Indian converted to Islam need to choose if he is 'Muslim' or 'Indian' first? He is Indian who happened to be a Muslim rather than the other way around right? Unless the holy ones always think themselves 'the religion' first before the ethnicity. Like most Christians who say they are Christians first then eg Chinese. For me, I still know my ethnic origin, whatever religion I take, I can't rub of my Chinese DNA!

Tun must have forgotten that he added a new code into the 'Malay' DNA but encoding 'bumiputera' into their race identity. So when something is for the bumi, it is synonymous to for the 'Malays' not 'Muslims' which is more a religious tag, though the religious coding is also an important link chain of the Malay DNA.

Confusing, it certainly is! But even in this chaos, there is order in BolehLand that defines who a Malay or Muslim is and also lately, who can be a Malay even after becoming a Muslim! Confusing, it certainly is!

So if you have an opportunity to peek into a Malay DNA they don't share the same DNA code! Those UMNO Malays seem to be the purer Malay and non-traitor and has and extra 'ketuanan' DNA code over those not UMNO members, such as Pakatan or PAS Malays.

The DNA of an UMNO Malay

It's sad that only now Tun M is asking BolehLand folks to forget about their origin. It's actually an ole concept which was mooted so long ago. The founder of UMNO lama dulu, Dato' Onn Jaafar, was the first to recognise this and even tried but failed and was rejected by his own kind! So no credit to Tun M for saying it now!

Wonder why Tun M didn't advocate that when he was the PM, but introduced the 'bumiputra' code to further polarise the people!

Does everyone believe in the 1Malaysia policy if he cannot be told he should or rather must see himself/herself as lMalaysian first? Calling for the drop of race and call ourselves a Malaysian won't work simply because there is a majority who feel or rather believe they are the 'ketuanan' and the others 'pendatang'. Now do we really think the hawks in UMNO and the supremacists want their race to be tainted and be on par as least in a national identity with the others? It seems the name Malaysian is so haram and evil to them! A mark of a BTN attendee.

Nevertheless, at least an UMNO veteran member dares to brooch this Malaysia identity. It would be interesting if the likes of KJ and ultra right Zaid will call on their 'geng' and go on a legal illegal demonstration and scream 'treason, treason, treason, sedition, sedition, sedition' against ole Tun to have touched on their sacred Constitutional distinction!

So shall we see a revision of the 1Malaysia tagline to be 'Malaysians First' 'Performance Now'?

Wonder why 1Malaysia didn't think it was important. to use 'Malaysians' in the first instant. Because of this oversight or was it intentional, he has to spend so much time trying to convince everyone they are Malaysians. Which is kinda ironical as most at least over 30% know and believe they are Malaysians first and they can't speak for the rest of the majority can they?

While one is asking for all of us to forget our origin, another seems to want to remind us of it!

Confusing, isn't it.

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Forget The Origin Country, We Are Malaysians - Mahathir
PENANG, Dec 23 (Bernama) -- Everyone in Malaysia have to set a side their origin country and start calling themselves Malaysians for the success of the 1Malaysia concept, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
The former prime minister said they had to put aside their origin country such as India or China and start calling themselves Malaysians. "They must put aside their origin country and call themselves Malaysians for 1Malaysia to be successful," he said during an appreciation dinner with the Association of Muslim Kadayanallur here Wednesday.
Tun Mahathir called on the people to help realise the government's aspiration of strengthening racial unity and harmony in line with the 1Malaysia concept.
He said people in Thailand and Indonesia called themselves Thais and Indonesians respectively but this did not happen here. To a claim that the Indian Muslims in the country had been neglected, he said they should choose to either become a Muslim or an Indian. "The country is very liberal and I think they (Indian Muslims) will be accepted by all if they can pick either to become a Muslim or Indian.".
Tun Mahathir said there was no difference between the various races as everyone were Malaysians. "The federal constitution also defined a Muslim very clearly. If they want to become a Muslim then just follow the constitution."
He said if Indian Muslims in the country still called themselves as such, others might think that they still had links to the origin country.
"The problem of Indian Muslims will be resolved if they can decide and choose to become either a Muslim or an Indian," he added.- -- BERNAMA

Taxpayers Save RM200m for Government in RPGT Exemption!

2009-12-24T11:37:00.004+08:00

Another Flip Flop on Real Property Gains Tax?

What is it with the way BolehLand’s Budget is planned that it gets changed now and then even when it got passed by a near miss three votes?

The retraction of the Real Property Gains Tax (RPGT) for property sold less than five years brings cheer to many who already felt it was a terrible idea to deprive those who owned a first property after years of saving.

Granted that there are those who speculate with property to make quick gains will profit from it, they are those who genuinely sell it for other reasons such as perhaps use the money for their children’s education or to get a better quality of life buying another property elsewhere.

But the issue is why is there is a need to flip-flop on such decisions? Does it show bad planning or is the government using it as a ‘populist’ strategy to win ‘votes’ if they find out that their popularity is on the wane because of sometimes ridiculous and stupid tax policies?

Why impose it in the first place if you know it’s going to be a really bad idea?

Sure, BN will use this flip-flop as a PR exercise to prove it is listening to the people. But do we really believe that? Or are they just saving the derrière of the rich fat cats in the industry who can wield immense political clout on the population?

Wasn’t there pre-Budget meetings with all sectors to get views and reactions? Surely if the government was serious to impose this, they would have broached this RPGT tax at these meetings or was it decided by one fello just before Budget reading? Seems the credit card tax caught the financial institutions by surprise, which can only mean it was a secret decision. If it’s only going to be the decision of the MOF, why waste time to get views from the public or ask them to email into blogs blah2. Is it just a show that they are living out 1Malaysia?

So seems they are going to loose RM200 m in revenue! Tsk, tst, we must surely feel sad for the governemnt right?

But actually, it is RM200 m in SAVINGS of taxpayers money! Isn’t it better for the taxpayers to spend their own money than to let the government have it and see it being ‘leaked’ and wasted on some grandioise scheme or end up in cronies contracts and all the shocking losses they are really good at?!

So, should we be grateful for 1Malaysia’s Christmas or New Year gift? Perhaps they should thank the taxpayers for avoiding them waste RM200m instead!

What’s next the taxpayers can help the government to save instead of losing, removing the credit card tax perhaps?

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Thursday December 24, 2009
Property tax only for sales within five years of purchase
PUTRAJAYA: The real property gains tax (RPGT) announced during the 2010 Budget will now only apply to property sold less than five years from its purchase, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
The Prime Minister said the 5% tax would now only be imposed on property sold within five years of the date of purchase.
He said the decision would cause the Government to lose about RM200mil in revenue, adding the move was made following appeals from the Federation of Chinese Associations of Malaysia (Hua Zong) and the business sector.
“This was also decided upon as the Government wants to see a stronger growth in the property sector next year. We are willing to forgo a substantial amount of revenue so that the sector can expand and grow.
“The property sector has shown signs of improvement but we feel that it requires further impetus so that it can continue to grow from strength to strength... extract from media sources.

The Brouhaha of Bak-Kut-Teh Halal

2009-12-23T20:12:00.029+08:00

Now even food is put into the boiling pot of controversy and about to become, like all other things in the so called melting pot of 1Malaysia - become a hot politicised, made a sensitive racist and religious issue.

Apparently the efforts of Madam Tourism to entice visitors to Bolehland is to promote its rich cuizine diversity. The Fabulous Food 1Malaysia attempt to catalogue the many types of food, has hit some controversy with regard to those that qualify as 'halal' (kosher) and those that are outright 'haram' ('banned') - at least by the name of the food.

The Bak Kut Teh (BKT) name is a popular herbal soupy dish of the Chinese with pork and a concoction of herbs as the main ingredients served with steam rice and sometimes with yew ca kui a kind of oil fried flour dough. The herbs are supposed to be good for health. But then if it's often the greasy fatty pork that ends up in it, it would cancel out any medicinal value right?

Its popularity even spreading beyond the Chinese community has made it an indisputable BolehLand dish. It has found also its way even in Vietnam where the locals are taking a delight in it with vegetable being a widely used ingredient!

Some think BKT is heavenly while others think it reminds them of eating something rancid or medicinal, the odour even worse than the king of fruits, the durian or the missing unwashed socks!

BolehLand fellos being the adventure sought is game on trying anything that is edible including the Malays as long as its halal, with preference a halal certificate displayed on the eateries so that they can also relish the food of other communities with no worries of going to hell or worse being arrested by the religious authorities such as Jakim! Yes, it's sometimes very dangerous to eat (not necessarily related to hygiene or health!), besides doing other things like enjoying in a pub, in BolehLand.

So as with many dishes, there is an interchange of ingredients to cater to different tastes. And for BKT, pork has been replaced with chicken long ago to 'halal-fied' it so that Muslims can also enjoy it and at the same time improve their health!

And the way out is to name it Bak-Kut-Teh Halal, something that reflects the ingenuity of BolehLand fellos. Just add an extra name everything 'kau tim'.

Not so to the Jakim fellos. See story below.

It's odd that this BKT Halal name is being singled out as controversial. Wan Ton Mee (WTM) remains unchanged and Muslim eateries are using it still even though the ingredient is everything else except using the original ingredient which is braised pork (babi) with minced pork for the wanton filling! If Jakim take offence the dish origin is associated with pork, then they should have forbidden Malay eateries to even use WTM in their stall. Perhaps call it Wan Kilo Mee since BolehLand has gone metric! Perhaps it's the 'Wan' there which is also a Malay name that saved the ori Wan Ton Mee retaining it's name even if the original ingredients have been replaced.

And there have been many Chinese restaurants offering 'halal' dim sum which was not a contentious issue as BKT. And everyone knows dim sum is a Chinese highly 'babi-fied' dish with oink, oink here and pork pork there in their many 'dim sums'

What about chow kuew teow, wat tan hoe, cantonese and hokkien fried which are now popularly offered in the Malay warongs (eateries) too?

Chinese cooking their curry dishes have also used pork particularly wild boar to make rendangs. Is Jakim going to ban them from calling their dish curry babi?!

Will changing the name makes it a less local or hala dish? It's like calling the hamburger a 'doughnut' and it should not matter what it's called right as long as it has ingredients that constitute it as 'hamburger'!

But then one looses the essence of names in food dishes! Even calling it chick-kut-teh if chicken is used or beef-kut-teh if cow will still let the dish be attached to the original recipe!

If the word seems to sound too associated with babi then 'barbecue' sounds rather piggish and if you hold a barbecue does it mean the meats are 'babi-fied' haram?! And if no pork is used but chicken, lamb or beef do you call it ayam-cue, kambing-cue or lembu-cue so that it doesn't sound too 'porky'?

Cocktail is a concoction of different spirits and beverages and it can be called anything and everything. After all if having too much of a cocktail makes one forget his senses anyway even if the person can't remember the strange name it makes no difference.

So, why are we going 'cocktail' on the name of the BKT halal dish! Let's not create a brouhaha on bak-kut-teh pehleaseee.

There are now sparkling grape juice, beverages being drunk from champaign and wine glasses - it's like going 'cai' on entertainment. You know being like a vegetarian, make believe you are enjoying not missing out on the goodness of meat so you eat vegetable based 'meats' prawns and meat-look alike cai!

So you toast on sparkling red grape juice served in champagne glasses in a make belief pleasure of a 'Moet & Chandon' (which is really an excellent champagne though!).

Nothing seems to escape these orthodox fellos in BolehLand! They should ban eating with chopsticks as it's associated with the Chinese using it to pick food including babi!

Is the BKT Halal issue going to blow up into another sensitive religious issue, as if there are not enough problems and controversies in BolehLand already?

Call it Herb-Kut-Teh? And depending on the ingredient call it Chick-Kut-Teh for chicken, Biri-kut-Teh short form for kambing/biri-biri (goat/lamb) and Lembu-kut-teh for beef, no?

But then to those stubborn purist the 'kut' and 'teh' still retains the 'babi-fied' association and connotation. So change the 'kut' to 'ko' instead but retain 'teh' as it sound acceptable 'teh' as in tea. Which will resolve it not taking on the original spelling but yet sounds like it, looks like it and taste like it too minus porky in it of course!

So if a Malay BKT will be called 'Bumi-Ko-Teh', the Mamak will take on 'Ma-Ko-Teh' and the Indian effort 'Tambi-Ko-Teh'? Sounds good enuf for Jakim?

If it sounds offensive because it sounds is still too 'haram', perhaps call it 'F5e Soup or F5e Special? That would be great as the recent missing F5e jet engine is uniquely BolehLand. Eating it will really 'hilang' (lose) all your aches and pains! Wouldn't that be really a 1fab of a new name and uniquely reflects 1Malaysia right? Your woes and aches disappear, go missing after consuming it!

After all there is already topedo soup and gearbox generally accepted names for rather exotic Malay soup dishes, yah!

Heard at a warong
Customer: Want something to 'hilang' my stress. What's your house special ?
Waiter: F5e Biasa (Basic) and F5e Special
Customer: What's the difference Biasa and Special?
Waiter: Biasa one piece chicken; Special you get two pieces.
Customer: Harga? (Cost?)
Waiter: Biasa only RM5; Special RM10
Customer: Ok Special
Waiter to chef: Satu F5e Soup Special for table no1!

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Jakim: Use another name for bak kut teh halal
THE use of the term bak kut teh halal will not only confuse Muslims but it is also against fiqah (Islamic way of life and practices), reported Utusan Malaysia.
The daily quoted Islamic Development Department of Malaysia (Jakim) deputy director-general Lokman Abdul Rahman as saying that bak kut teh could not be deemed halal because it still carried an “illegal name” under Islamic law.
He stressed that the dish would not be issued any halal certificate based on procedures set by Jakim.
“There may be people who will apply for the certificate but Jakim will not certify the food as halal because it is very clear that it does not comply with Islamic law.
“We are worried that the Muslim community will misunderstand that the food is halal if we issue the certificate,” he said.
Lokman said the name bak kut teh referred to soup and pork used to prepare the dish.
“My recommendation is for the relevant parties to use another name for bak kut teh halal,” he said.
He was commenting on bak kut teh halal introduced at the Fabulous Food 1Malaysia — Malaysia Restaurant Food Festival ceremony at the Putra World Trade Centre in Kuala Lumpur recently.
Bak kut teh halal ingredients include chicken, seafood and vegetables, in place of pork, which is normally used for the dish.
Marriot Hotel executive chef Zaffar Abdul Samad said the dish was 100% halal in terms of its recipe and ingredients.
Muslim Consumers Association of Malaysia secretary-general Datuk Dr Maamor Osman also disagreed with the introduction of bak kut teh halal.
“I am worried that misusing the term will slowly reduce the disinclination of Muslims towards pork. I hope Jakim can take strict measures to ensure that the food does not get halal certification,” he said.

Demystifying Mother Nature’s Myths

2009-12-23T17:19:00.009+08:00

Lately there have been some rather amusing scientific findings that demystify some of the assumptions about mother nature’s gift to homo sapiens.

One was the bigger one is endowed in the mammary glands department, the smarter it is supposed to make the gurl.

Now the latest it seems is the more ‘male hormones’ – testosterone that is, one has, it makes one more reasonable and friendly, doesn’t matter if it’s in the male or female!

And we thought giving our man an overdose of hormone will give the lady blissful hours of ecstasy. And we believed an overdose could also turn him into an incredible ‘Hulk’ with a bulk load of angry and aggressive behaviour!

So a man’s aggressive behaviour got to do with the grey matter up his head as well as what exudes, the amount actually, at the lower level department, the two things that ‘matters’ so much to differentiate his gender as well as his masculinity from that of a guy or gurl!

Guess now men can’t attribute their macho-ness and masculinity solely on their two ‘beads’ or blame them for aggressive behaviour!

So when our Bung, taking care of a ‘batang’ who had used his ‘tangan’ to stop some ‘bocor’ in a house, his behaviour should be blamed on the lack of ‘testos’ than anything to do with his physical assets! - because he has just proved that he can still plug a hole even if his ‘testos’ level get the better of hi, at least the assets he houses in his private garage is still in up and running order!

So does it mean those who are branded as softies, gentle, less aggressive and feminine ala Fatine have more of these ‘macho hormones’ in them compared to the hunky bods bulky American footballer frame guy?

Since the belief is that a guy’s crown jewels are the factory that produce the ‘macho hormones’ and if seen from a production point of view, the large the plant capacity, the more output right?

And if we combine the output amount based on size and capacity, and take the logic of the scientific survey, it means more friendly and reasonable people must be endowed with larger crown jewels than those type A personalities!

Used to be the 'same'
So who has more & less of 'it'

So there is no more speculation of the secret that lies beneath a Beckham who is not the typical mad-dog-n-Englishman football fan but more a gentle, well behave and well mannered metrosexual lad! There might be more than a Porsche parked in that garage that managed to spice up the gurl in his life this long!

If the findings are true, then there is no correlation in relation to size for that matter between the high decibel Harley Davidson machine and the burly rider on the humongous two wheelers they throttle around. Hugh machine and huge guy is not necessarily a display of true blue raw male masculinity!

It might just be the opposite, that the huge twin cabs sitting under the rider’s seat is perhaps to compensate for what is lacking in size in between the legs of the giant rider! Their perceived aggression has nothing to do with the size of their hardware, the bike of course, but rather the rate of how the two important ‘small nuts’ churn out the testos!

The study also dispels the stereotypical assumptions and cruel judgement macho men, including a certain BolehLand immigration chief, pass on those males who they consider feminine- thinking they are missing a ‘bead or two’ or their crown jewels are ‘fake-ish’ that cause them to have same-same gender preference, female behaviour tendencies and exhibit less aggressive behaviour, too gentle and more rational than the straight macho guys!

On the contrary, the study will now surely scare the wits of macho guys to know that these supposedly less macho soft-men may literally have larger and valuable precious jewellery on them because they are more friendly and level-headed. The aggressive, often idiotic irrational muscular Samson lacking in vital testos, are sadly the ones who may have to live with their ‘peanuts’!

If the study is accepted as proven, then forceful removal of the ‘testo machines’ won’t solve those sick minds who like to force themselves upon helpless women or men against their will!

But before the macho men start to wonder if the lack of size is the cause of their stupidity and hot temper behaviour, the consolation is the study was conducted on women! Ok considering that the female species are not testo factory producers lacking in the ‘two’ vital ingredients, it is not conclusive perhaps that if the male was the subject, increasing their testo may produce similar results as that of the female subjects!

So for the males, guess, yes for the moment, they heave a sigh of relief that the size of their crown jewels is still a symbol of their masculinity, macho-ness, aggressive behaviour and all those type-A Darth Vader Mannerism.

If they are caught behaving irrationally or proclaimed temporary insanity while they go berserk or carry out their sadistic acts of violence and murder, they can still blame it on their overworked ‘nut’ factory’ for making them behave like juvenile delinquents!

So there you have it macho guys, the more endowed your are, the testos we mean, the more it maketh you a gentleman and a ladies man. But remember, gurls do look beyond the physique and prefer well mannered and rational character than those exhibiting nut cases behaviour. Besides, having to consume nuts every day can be a bit revolting right? After all we spend more on emotional connection to actual physical contact and proximity.

So gurls, the next time you see a guy acting stupid, ill mannered and irrational, go nuts, and acting like a defective normal person, blame it on ‘testos deficiency’. And you can guess the capacity of the ‘factory’ that produces it based on whether he display type A or type B personality.

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Study says testosterone makes people more friendly and level-headed
According to a study published in the journal Nature, administering the so-called macho hormone Testosterone to women promotes the qualities of level-headedness and fair play in women!
The study, conducted in part at the Royal Holloway Hospital, north London, by the University of Zurich scientists noted that if the testosterone treatment was administered to the women without their knowledge, one single dose is sufficient enough to have the mentioned effects.
Underlining the suggestion that the mind can win over hormones, the study also noted that if women realize that they had received the hormone and not an imitation drug, they may turn to greed and egocentricity.
The observations of the study were based on tests carried out on a group of 121 volunteers; half of whom were given a testosterone pill, and the other half a placebo.
Upon involving them in a behavioral game about sharing out money, it was found that the testosterone group was not only more likely to propose fair offers of sharing, but was also more co-operative in case of unfair sharing.
Refuting the aggression-related myths about testosterone, Michael Naef, of the Royal Holloway Hospital, said the new findings reveal that “the popular belief that testosterone makes you aggressive is inaccurate. People use it as an excuse.
It appears that it is not testosterone itself that induces aggressiveness, but rather the myth surrounding the hormone.” ..TopNews, Dec 9, 2009
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Protecting Loan Absconders From Debt Collectors

2009-12-22T23:54:00.007+08:00

Those who take loans and do not pay may be from a number of reasons ranging from genuine inability due to job losses, including most times arising often from their indiscipline in their financial planning and affairs. And if the borrower does not pay usually three months continuously, the financial institution (FI) is going to chase them to repay even sending in third party debt collectors who have been label as the FI goon boys or ahlong thugs!

And recalcitrant ones will try and avoid their car or home or other items from being repossessed by the FI or debt collectors appointed by the FIs.

There have been many instances where the debt collectors harass, intimidate, threaten loan defaulters, behaving like thugs and ah longs to try and get back as much as they can so that these collectors will get to laugh their way to the bank collecting their commissions. Leaving the defaulters at times traumatised or humiliated depending on the kind of treatment meted out by the debt collectors ala 'thugs.;

Each 'victim' has his or her own stories of the terror, stress, fear and most of all humiliation they receive when their bad 'record' is being aired in public by the FI goons! A fren sometime back had related how these fellos looked like they had just finished a 'cat and mouse' protest march and behaved in such an unruly manner, making threatening remarks and airing the debt he owned in front of his house gate for the neighbours to hear.

A debt collector even boast that they have their ways of getting defaulters to repay, sometimes acting as detectives to spy on the defaulters movements and then confront the defaulter of telling lies while living a luxury life at expensive eateries or entertainment centres. They even go to the defaulter's office to look for them or linger around often enough and then casually tell the guard, secretary, reception or the whole work place, so and so is in heavy debt and owe a lot of money and all kinds of character assassination and the harassment will stop if the defaulter paid the 'ransom'!

There are stories of defaulters who while getting into their car are literally pushed away, grabbed from behind during the 'car-napping' incident! Left stranded, not knowing at that time if the car had indeed been stolen or repossessed!

There was also one tactic they would come after dinner, knock at the gate and then start their verbal threats and broadcast of the debts owed, the shame the defaulter brings to the family members and all kinds of psychological and thuggery techniques to get their commission if the defaulter pays or surrenders the repossessed items.

The FIs cannot plead ignorance or claim innocence when the debt collectors resort to such high and dirty threats, verbal abuse or even physical harm to defaulters. Rightly as FIs punish customers for not reading the fine prints, the FIs should be jointly charged with the debt collection agency if the latter uses threats intimidation and criminal force on defaulters.

Just as families will blame the maid agency if the maid they provide turned out to be a problematic one or run away or can't work at all, FIs should similarly take the major blame if they do not do their homework in hiring the right debt collection agency!

It's an irony that FIs are taking great efforts and making a good show of how they are world class organisations practiciing transparency, corporate responsibility, customer centricity and offer excellent supreme customer service, they are an angel when they sell a product to you.... and a demon if you miss on your repayment. What happened to all their CSR and customer centricity?

Accepted that defaulters are no angels or saints either as they are being unfair to the FIs should they refuse and fail to service their loan. Remember, the FIs are using our savings with them to lend and they want to ensure the money don't go to 'waste' if the account turns sour and become a toxic account awaiting a 'write-off' which means the customer's money loaned to the defaulter cannot be claimed back, it is lost forever!

Defaulters seem to justify their amount should not matter to the FI since they make billions anyway. But if they know some balance sheet understanding, they will shudder how many billions have been lost, written-off, the bad loans kept for so long in the FIs' bad books! And if we add the many defaulters and their outstanding default or even one large corporation, the written off amount can buy back probably 100 new jet engines and military fighter jets for the RMAF!

One needs to be reminded how the failure of the MacDonald's counter service fello inability to service his loan, sank the world into a near depression disaster! The recent subprime bubble and bomb is a result of defaults including FIs greed too, that brought about an unprecedented collapse of giant global financial institutions.

Do we blame the bank for trying all ways and means to ensure loan takers keep their part of the bargain? After all, mutual respect is two way right?

So Bank Negara is upping the ante on the FIs in the use of debt collectors. Most likely the many complaints on the high handed tactics of these debt collectors and giving the government a bad name for not protecting the 'helpless' victims might be the reason for the latest ruling.

Should defaulters rejoice by this latest face saving ruling and don't fell morally liable and responsible to repay their borrowings? Is the 'protection' a passport for them to continue to be recalcitrant and delinquent loan takers?!

It seems that the government is being rather inconsistent as is their practice in dealing with defaulters who don't repay their loans to the FIs, and those who have not settled JPJ, police traffic summons, municipal council licences, assessments or fees, even quit rent!

Have we not seen arrests warrant being issued and defaulters being handcuffed led away in the middle of the day or night, their premises sealed, FRUs being called to give protection to the enforcers in sealing premises or tearing them down. When all these are happening, the defaulters and victims are left helpless and protests are usually met by being dumped into FRU trucks and being charged in court!

So when the authorities use force and act like thugs, they are protected by the law to carry out their 'debt collection'. But FIs are told they cannot do that and probably don't have the privilege over the legal boys in blue who bring along the police and FRU for protection together with chainsaws or locks or even caterpillar tractors in their 'debt collection' rounds!

Sure they are not using 'violence' but they are certainly harassing and intimidating the defaulters or recalcitrant trader with their show of force and determination to get the job done. One victim even got charged twice for the same offence!

It's a 'catch 22 situation' FIs face in appointing debt collectors. When they use them, they are branded ahlongs, and if their profit don't show astronomical billions and their NPLs (non-performing loans) is on the rise due to unsuccessful debt collection, they get whacked from their stakeholders and customers for not protecting their money and interests! Even sending a legal letter after repeated appeal and warnings is considered a high handed form of intimidation, insensitivity and inhuman act FIs have committed!

And the public gives a hue and cry and a loud sigh condemning those who refuse to settle study loans. But odd, the FIs loan defaulters are a 'precious golden fellos' who should be treated with dignity and respect when collect the payment. Not so the scholarship defaulters - they get their names published in the newspaper! Try doint that to house and vehicle defaulters and see what response you get!

Sure those in default may be in a precarious position and the future of their own life and that of the family can be threatened if debt collectors behave like thugs! There must be a closure on outstanding debts. Too often the debtor refuse to come to an amicable solution with the FI and vice versa. Too much pain as well as unnecessary cost to the FIs are being expended if there is no closure. The debtor turns himself into a fugitive, the FI is faced with the possibility of brickbats from shareholders for incurring high NPLs!

Debt resolution is a tedious, slow and at times a painful process for all parties concerned. And both the defaulter and FI shouldn't need to complicate the recovery process and heighten the suffering and pain by using debt collectors who really don't give a damn about the feelings of the debtor as long as they can get the fello to pay, they get their commission!

And this is where Bank Negara may be the last resort to reduce the complications and defuse the tensions caused that may even drive the debtor to retaliate by refusing to even bother to try and repay or save his house or car! Lives then get ruined!

When FIs succeed in repossessing the property, they may think their nightmare has ended in avoiding losses. But for the debtor, it is where a new tragedy, struggle or misery may start being left without a home and getting nothing from paying a certain length of time.

So there is wisdom in this saying purportedly by the ole sage Confucius "When you lie down and rest at the end of the day, make sure you have done what you need and not have to fear the knock on yur door in the dead of the night!

And when the pretty customer financial executive or whatever canggih title they call themselves these days approach you and ask with a smiling face and show you a Mother Theresa looking face "Sir would you like to take a housing loan, it's the best in town and let you own your dream house or mercs'.... there is some element of truth at least in the 'dream' part because it becomes just that if you fail to settle the RM450k mortgage you took a year ago!

With this latest directive will we see a new branding of debt collections come the new year who may dress up like going to some prom nite and greeting you like what you get when you enter a sushi restaurant. And while politely serving you the reclaim notice will also serve you a cup of tea and muffin, perhaps?

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Debt Collectors Can't Use Violence
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 21 (Bernama) -- Debt collectors appointed by financial institutions cannot use violence and harass loantakers, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said.
He said this was included in the debt collection fair practice guideline and should be followed by the appointed debt collectors.
"Financial institutions can use the service of debt collectors but they must follow the regulations in the guideline approved by Bank Negara Malaysia," he said in reply to a question by Senator Dr M. Malasingam in Dewan Negara here on Monday.
Other than forbidding violence and harassment, debt collectors should be ethical and were not allowed to call loantakers more than three times weekly.
"This is in line with efforts by Bank Negara Malaysia to strengthen the protection and professionalism structure of debt collection."
Chor said loantakers unhappy with the action of debt collectors appointed could complain to the financial institutions.
"As for those unhappy with the financial institutions, they can report the mattter to Bank Negara Malaysia," he added.- -- BERNAMA

Honey, I Stole Two Jet Engines Actually!

2009-12-22T10:13:00.012+08:00

Are we missing something when BolehLand folks thought only one humongous RM40m jet engine was missing, i.e. stolen!

Now it seems another bombshell is dropped. 'Sungai Besi, we have lost another engine'.

So a 'strike two' led to 21 fellos being sacked over their alleged involvement. 'Alleged' which means it's not proven they did it right? So there is nothing wrong in returning them their benefits and pension as you cannot accuse them if there is no proof. So there should not be any public outcry or concern that these fellos walked away freely without losing out anything. So case should be closed right? Why all the fuss of thinking 'it's an inside job' when none was convicted of any crime!

But things have a knack of disappearing under the watch of someone with so may 'Cs' connected, like ' defenCe minister, including a few unpleasant, unfounded deadly allegations that are 'c' related, 'Corruption' and a certain (CH₂-N-NO₂)3 formula.

But there are also other positive 'Cs' credited to this fello, especially those related to the 1Malaysia thingy such as 'Change, transparenCy, aCCountability, performanCe' and all that.

Seems a full scale, comprehensive, detailed investigation is underway. And 1Malaysia said there will be 'no cover up' of the theft. But judging from past scandals and fiascoes, yes it may end up being a verb cover-up to become 'no, cover up the theft!'

But why is this only revealed now! Okay, it's still under probe and noone must know about it you know or else the crooks will escape. Never mind if other types of alleged corruption of politicians are splashed front page even before the investigation has started. Some 'crimes of alleged corruption' such as donating av equipment to mosques, sugar cane machine or buying jalur gemilang or holding vigils are deemed more urgent to be public information the instant a police report is filed by members of the public.

But no, RM100 m is probably just like the cost of a screw or nut missing compared to the billions of ringgit lost in some sea port or rail project, even collapse stadium and structures!

But then, screws and nuts besides maggi mee supplied to the military are astronomically expensive, like the cost of a jet engine, no?! So a missing screw and nut is serious in the military, especially the air force as it could crash a multi million ringgit expensive top-gun Russian MIG fighter jet you know!

Even if it's a police case as it is a theft, shouldn't MACC be also involved as it may smack on corruption! Has MACC lost it's engine being unable to power-up their fellos to fly in and dig up the 'rot' that may be infecting this 'Iron River' (Sungei Besi) RMAF base!

This Really eMbarrassing Air Force fiasco has further tarnished the nation's sense of security and we thought there was nothing beneath the carpet. But hey, after 52 years, what's swept under the carpet is more than a molehill, a colossal mountain really, with two missing jet engines thrown in for good measure!

And the good armed forces chief admits that these two huge engines case is 'just tip of the iceberg!' BolehLand doesn't need any COPS15 to combat climatic change! There is enough of 'sh*#' it generates itself to corrode away Iron River and so much heat generated from all the heated up frustrations the common folks feel with this latest scandal!

Are we all going to be surprised anymore what will go missing next, if the boots supplied land up in Siberia, maggie mee in Thailand, or canned ayamas on sale in Balakong night market? Or the new sub lands in somebody's living room aquarium!

Isn't military equipment and things considered highly sensitive and secret stuff? Shouldn't it be an ISA issue as national security and safety is compromised with such theft? Doesn't it show that the military has been easily infiltrated?

In other nations, including banana republics, if the top brass is found to be negligent and embarrass the government and the nation, they including whoever is the minister are sacked! No brownie points for guessing if this will ever happen in BolehLand! They would rather convict the buyer than the seller, the one who commits the crime than the brains behind it, no?

Perhaps during this festive season where JPJ roadblocks are set up to prevent people killing themselves and each other while driving may be advised to be on the alert for a pimped up SLK that sounds like a jet engine of sorts! It wouldn't be surprised if the open the bonnet of the Super Light Kancil to find the third missing jet engine. And you wonder why some cars have sticks that reads ' There is a Tiger in my tank'! It might not be the Tiger we think it is... not the wounded Wood one but for that tiger that once flew in the sky with its engine missing!

SLK 5E Tiger
Yup possible where the two stolen jet engines went!

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It's two engines stolen as Najib pledges no cover-up
2009/12/22
KUALA LUMPUR: Not one but two jet-fighter engines, each worth RM50 million, were stolen from the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) base in Sungai Besi.
Both engines served as powerplants to the F-5E Tiger II fighter and RF-5E Tigereye reconnaissance jets.
Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail said the two engines were discovered stolen in May last year. RMAF had lodged a report with the police on Aug 4 last year.
Gani, speaking to the New Straits Times, said police investigation papers would be returned to the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department today with additional directives.
“They will now focus their investigations into government procedures with regard to the transportation of the engines, the private defence contractor handling it and several other individuals, including Malaysian armed forces personnel.” The A-G’s Chambers had received the investigation papers last month.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said there would be no cover-up of the theft, adding that the Defence Ministry had lodged a police report in August last year.
Police had sent Gani a note on the case in May this year. He had given the nod to proceed with investigations in June.
Gani will also ask police to furnish more details on the stolen General Electric J85-21A turbojet engines.
He said the first engine was transported out of RMAF’s Butterworth base to the Sungai Besi base in June 2007 while the second engine was moved out five months later in November.
Both engines were to be kept in a warehouse at the Sungai Besi base before being taken out for maintenance.
The engines were taken out of the Butterworth base by the same private defence contractor handling its maintenance.
Both engines were only discovered stolen along with their maintenance records when RMAF officers wanted to service them in May last year.
RMAF lodged a report with the police in August last year after searching for the engines at all its airbases.
The case was later handled by the Federal Commercial Crime Investigation Department in Bukit Aman.
The New Straits Times fir st highlighted the case of the stolen jet engine on Saturday.
It was learnt that the eng ines were sold to arms dealers on the black market.
Intelligence reports suggested the engines were later transported to a US-sanctioned Middle Eastern country that was keen on developing its own fighter jet.
Armed forces chief Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin, in confirming the case, had also said that the case was the “tip of the iceberg”.
An audit launched after the case also showed that equipment worth several millions of ringgit were missing.

UMNO's Obsession for a Chair In their Desire Over a Pearl

2009-12-21T22:29:00.014+08:00

After taking control of the tin state from Pakatan and striking 'silver' courtesy of the Ruler of Perak and the courts, UMNO is turning their rod, setting its sight on other precious jewels, specifically a precious stone called, Pearl of the Orient.

But the way UMNO plans to own it is a wee bit perli to the former owner of this pearl.

As we know, this pearl was the crown jewels of Gerakan, but they are now the impotent member of the BN family, having been decimated in the last GE12, losing their marbles... pearl actually to DAP and the Pakatan fellos.

And their leader KSK, the KPI Minister while Kicking Semua Kementerian to meet the KPI set by him, has forgotten to have his own KPI to get back his lost pearl.

So, UMNO sensing the weakling of former pearl owner, is plotting to take it away from ex owner, some think execute a daylight robbery to grab it not from Pakatan this time, but rather from their insignificant cousins in the BN family, Gerakan.

So, when Penang State UMNO's Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi argued that since UMNO has the majority of seats, it should have the right to the state's BN chair, which Gerakan has held and sat on it for 35 years!

But since Gerakan were humiliated and scored a perfect 'zero' as round as the pearl, according to the 'law ( UMNO's law actually) of winner takes all', UMNO deserve anything and everything held by ex pearl owner.

UMNO believes that if they had the chair, it's to restore the confidence of the people for BN. Considering they lost two by-elections, that should be a hint itself of the people's confidence in the BN, including UMNO itself!

It can be seen that their plot to get the chair is because it's easier to stand up on the chair and grab back the pearl which is currently out of reach and under the care of their arch foes.

So while they desire for the pearl, they are actually obsessed with getting the chair first and if they gain possession of it, one can imagine this Ahmad fello being lifted on the dais chair, like the colonial tuans of old where the servants and slaves are made to carry this 'tuan' wherever he beckons. Isn't that a great way to symbolise and reinforce the 'ketuanan' concept they perpetuate right?

Finally the naked raw ambition of UMNO to add the pearl to their UMNO bag is now so glaring. So is this a shining example of what 1Malaysia policy is all about within the BN itself? Considering it's about respect, blah2, it's back to the majority winner takes all political game! It's back to UMNO is and must take the lead and they seem the only one qualified to lead while the rest are followers!

Gerakan instead of fighting for the chair to get back the pearl is leaving it to the wisdom of 1Malaysia! Which shows they probably know they don't have a case to retain their chair! If this is the kind of power and influence Gerakan is showing to the Penang people, they have shown themselves to be a toothless, powerless and inept lot.

Shouldn't they make a firm stand they want to maintain the status quo, speak out, then leave it to the 'wisdom' of 1Malaysia.

If they can't show they have the clout and wield power and influence to retain their chair, how will the Penang fellos, the Chinese in particular, respect them for easily 'losing face' and giving up!

1Malayisa is called upon once again to decide. And being a shrewd and seasons politicians, he has closed the debate on this issue and is said to leave it to consensus to decide. So the 'no debate' does not mean status quo and Gerakan can breath easier. The operative word is 'consensus' which is a clever way for 1Malaysia to not make himself make any controversial decision or seen as being dictatorial in deciding on the issue.

Consensus makes the chair a bit more wobble for Gerakan to sit on, they can topple off the chair if the rest of BN consent to push them off. Zahidi may get his chair after all which will allow him to aim for the prize 'Pearl'.

So does Pakatan need to worry? The present musical chair situation may work to their advantage as it reinforces the arrogance of UMNO is whacking their siblings more when they have failed miserably than helping them regain their strength!

Pakatan will surely use this opportunity to ensure that self vested interest and greed for power is minimised or eliminated in Pakatan, something which was prevalent when they began their experiment at governing for the first time post GE12.

Exposing UMNO's uncompromising greed to assume control over the rest than live to the spirit of BN or even 1Malaysia may enable them to retain the same number of voters to let them continue for another term in the next GE. That would mean that even if Zahid gets to sit at the head table in BN Penang, his chair isn't going to get him nearer to his Pearl.

Zahid's overzealous ambition may cause Penangnites to allow their Pearl to stay in the Orient belt where Pakatan resides than to let the Pearl be under Orang Lain where UMNO wants to behave like the Mother of Pearl when it can't get their hands on the real one.

Only the Penangnites can decide who gets to keep the Pearl, not Zahid, not junior lim nor 1Malaysia.

But in BolehLand, tin cans can turn into silver under the spell cast by BN's No1. And if the 1Master decides to get the pearl, it could be retrieved by just using a fishy rod!

It Pays to Steal a Jet Engine?

2009-12-21T10:26:00.003+08:00

So action was taken against those who were connected with the missing jet engine according to the MSMedia today. See story below.

Should BolehLand fellos rejoice that those found guilty got the punishment they deserved?

Based on the supposedly 'punishment' if one can call that because noone seemed to have served any jail sentence. Those found to be involved cannot be labelled as 'guilty' because none got jailed! Instead they walked away free with the main 'culprit' even getting his benefits reinstated!

Call it 'kangroo' court justice or whatever, the lesson of this is, it does pay to steal a jet engine and you get to walk away freely!

Now do we sympathise with a fello who stole a RM5 ringgit slipper and slapped with a long term jail sentence. Ok, he may be a repeat offender that warrants a long term jail sentence. But think of the sentence he would serve if he stole a billion flip-flops equivalent to the value of the stolen jet engine, RM50m we are told!

Even a lass is awaiting canning for taking a cup or two of 'haram' drink.

But those involved in the loss of a jet engine didn't even get a smack on the hand but walked away free!

1Malaysia for the moment is declining comment saying as reported in a media report Najib declines comment on missing jet engine as the incident is still under investigation. ""Investigations are underway...if anyone is found to have committed the offence, action must be taken against them"... It was reported on Saturday that the turbojet engine, which powered the single-seater F-5E Tiger jet, went missing from the RMAF airbase in Sungai Besi late last year. Also missing was the maintenance and service records...Sun Dec 21, 2009

Surely as a former Minister of Defence and No1, 1Malaysia must surely know about the case right? Or is it going to be another deja vu of 'swearing on the holy book of not knowing about any missing parts again'!

If other news report have reported that the people involved have been identified and action taken, what investigation are we looking at? A reopening of the investigation? That would be good for everyone and credit must be given to 1Malaysia for doing that, provided that is what 'investigations are underway to mean' right?

Wonder why MACC seems to be so slow in swinging into action and fly into the investigation! Are they still thinking they can only start their interrogation during office hours and on official working days? Hello, the court has given back your terror-merro investigation tactics and techniques to squeeze the life out of witnesses to get to the truth. What are you waiting for, a court order or instruction from No1 boss!

Let's hope MACC will start interrogating the general and the rest and piece the missing pieces on the missing jet engine and take action to once and for all 'kill any speculation of the cover up'...MACC remember 'kill the speculation ', no anyone okay?

What is it with our military fellos lately? Submarines they want to buy got controversy, maggie mee and boots supplied to them AG Report also got controversy and now their jet plans also embroiled in serious security lapses! Is it in the name of 'national security' that the goings on inside the barracks are all kept secret and under cover or covered up?

Let's hope BolehLand's men in arms maintain their dignity, honour and pride by not being tainted by the 'ringgit' or protected from public scrutiny under the pretext of 'national security.'

Though the common fellos seem to have gripes against all other government institutions including the police force and FRUs, the men in uniform have been considered discipline and cleaner than the rest outside the barracks. We must give credit to these men and the armed forces for maintaining their independence unlike those of neighbouring countries where a men in M16 or AK47 is a common sight in a civilian environment. And we don't want BolehLand to ever reach that state right?

Let's hope there are no more missing military parts elsewhere, that when our men in uniform take to the sky the latest MIGs or make tracks on the road in their new tanks or descend into the depths of the ocean in their 'new' subs, they won't be in harms way from the 'enemy' within who have compromised on the security of their comrades by stealing and causing equipment to fail and putting precious lives in danger! How embarrassing to have been hit by the 'enemy within' than a foreign enemy! It's not about friendly fire, it's about unfriendly criminal behaviour!

So the missing jet engine incident is surely unnecessary to shake the confidence and trusts of the people towards our men in uniform! The investigations must therefore be quickly concluded and those found guilty must deserve the punishment in accordance to the law. Unless there is a different set of laws applicable to the army, the public will expect that the flip-flop common thief is not made a worse criminal than those who knowingly planned and stole a RM50 million jet engine, erase records and covered up their tracks!

To the tune of 'Leaving on a Jet Plane'

All my bags are packed
I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside my office
I hate to wake them up to say 'I stole'

But the dawn is breakin'
It's early mornin'
The missing engine's
It's on board the plane
Already on its way to South Africa

So kiss me and smile for me
Tell me that you'll wait for me
Hold on to my money like you'll never go
Cause I've stolen a F5 jet engine
Don't know if it'll ever be found
Oh babe I love my money

I've stolen a jet engine
Don't know why I wasn't arrested
Don't know why I got my pension again
Oh babe I got my millions

I'm leaving on a jet plane
Don't know if ever I'll be back again
Oh babe I love the air force!

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Missing jet fighter engine: Top general sacked
2009/12/21-NST
A brigadier-general and 40 other armed forces personnel were sacked late last year
over their alleged involvement in the case of the missing RM50 million jet
fighter engine belonging to the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).
The brigadier-general was a department head.A source said he may also be one of four men whom Federal Commercial Criminal Investigation Department deputy director I Datuk Nooryah Mat Anvar identified as the main players in the case.
Their services were terminated by an internal inquiry and disciplinary committee following an audit of RMAF assets by then air force chief Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin, who is now the armed forces chief. Twenty were subsequently reinstated following appeals.
Those sacked lost their pension and other benefits as former servicemen while others had to opt for early retirement. The punishment was based on the severity of their involvement.
It was learnt, however, the brigadier- general retained his pension and other retirement benefits.

The Day the Earth Stood Alone and Betrayed!

2009-12-20T23:50:00.004+08:00

The world leaders once again showed that economic greed rule than any regard for the welfare of the billions of people who may suffer due to climate change.

The UN Climatic Change Conference or COPS15 in Copenhagen is a final cop-out by world leaders especially the big culprits of carbon emission, the factor that contribute to global warming.

The UN has a history and tradition of anything but a United Nation in dealing with global issues, from security to climate change, even trying to save endangered species. And the accords and communiques they 'proclaim as success' is just an expensive PR show (given the amount of money spent to accommodate the Heads of State) drafted from most times as a result of Unfair Negotiations, with the super powers dictating the language, content and tone of the final document.

So the COPs15 Accord only served to heat up the frustrations and disappointment of especially the NGOs who were left out in most of the discussions, the poorer nations and smaller island nations whose population crowd the low-lying shores and islands!

There are no specifics, the fund is minuscule compared to the seriousness of the problem and a media commentary said this ...The Copenhagen Accord has pledges to cut emissions, financing for developing countries and a framework for monitoring and verification. But it falls short of the science and fails to set a clear pathway for emissions. As it stands, it will not solve the climate crisis...

The US of A spends billions in its military adventurism in the Middle East and Afghanistan, using its killing machine to destroy human lives. China spends equally that much to suppress opposition in its nation, those opposing the economic policies that take away the livelihood of the rural poor and territories it annexed such as Tibet. And don't forgot the billions to save the Fleet and Wall Street fat-cats!

For planet earth, they do not want to spend to protect their only living planet they can survive on but prefer to use money to slowly destroy it.

China is practicing its art of face saving by hailing it a 'success'! And that means noone is going to monitor or verify if they are keeping to the accord. No sir, the commie Chinese using their supposedly economic might is arm wrestling the world to do things their way. And noone really believe or trusts these commie leaders to stick to their word! They tried so hard to 'kill' the bad news of the melamine milk poisoning and abuses before the Olympics, toxic point ! And those who reveal the true picture of what is happening are given the harshest of punishment!

Further negotiations are planned next year to talk about detaisl. So before anything really happens, the world is adopting a 'Suffer Thy Neighbour in Climate Change'. Their abuses of mother earth in their land has dire consequences to communities thousands of km away.

The weather is warmer, the ice is melting, the water rising and the ecology of mother earth is being threatened. All in the name of economic progress. China to feed its ridiculous high growth so that they can prosper at the expense of others.

The US of A thinks their technology will save the day and continue to be the biggest culprit of carbon emission!

What does it take for world leaders to act in concert that the worsening climate change will affect everyone? It will cost more billions of money to rehabilitate flooded areas and shift huge population to higher ground than to take corrective action now.

Perhaps the developed nations and China think they have enough land to prevent them from wetting their feet. Or they have too many people and what is losing a couple of millions or a billion or two? Blame it on mother nature's way of balancing overpopulation is it?

People talk of green technology, churning out millions of sentences and reports on their pcs, like blogging now which is also contributing to carbon emission. Electricity needed to power the pc, fossil fuel to churn out electric power, factories to produce components and build infrastructure and by products that are toxic and dumped elsewhere threatening the earth.

It seems a vicious cycle in trying to save ourselves and mother earth. Even simple green practices like separating our thrash is not implemented. Instead of throwing away tin cans or bottle, I'd save and give it to the recycle fello. But how do we discard our food waste, the gravey, curry, soup and food we don't consume? Into plastic bags or flush down the drain which then flow into the river!

There is little political will to enforce and practice eco friendly green living. Very expensive real esates are being built but little attention is paid on using solar, retaining pool and places to separate your thrash!

Billions are spent on infrastructure and inspection sites. Vehicles still spill out smoke. Even attempts to retire old vehicles were met with resistance and reversed!

Perhaps BolehLand fellos think they are in the tropics and a 2 degree rise makes no difference. But if they see their plants getting scorched, their car paint fading in a year under the sun and they develop skin cancer and health deteriorates due to heat, then they will feel the pain, too late in fact!

So if the world leaders stood by and let mother earth down, do you expect the ordinary folks will play their part in saving the lives of those communities millions of kms away going to suffer because we don't think we have a part in it.

The dismal outcome has led those hoping for a positive resolution to brand the leaders as 'climate criminals'. Greenpeace made an unapologetic comment of those conference participants for failing to achieve a meaningful deal and likened the representatives to criminals "fleeing to the airport in shame."

Perhaps we humans need a wake up call from mother nature to wreak havoc with her wrath on the human race by flooding lowline areas, making fertile lands turn desert, creating a big hole where the oil sinks into the molten lava and bring pestilent upon the earth when the animal kingdom is threatened by man!

That will be the day where man will stand alone and start accusing each other than themselves for their self inflicted suffering!

Playing God on Transgender Shame in BolehLand?

2009-12-20T21:27:00.004+08:00

The Sunday Times' report 'Embrace diversity of transgenders', Dec 20, 2009 sheds light on the inhumane treatment according to this group of people, not only in BolehLand but the world over.

Much that the western democracies particularly the so called liberal ones may want to put on a public face that they accord respect and non discrimination against these people, the ugly fact is that transgender do not receive the kind of support, freedom as well as recourse to the law to protect themselves against harassment, discrimination and physical abuse.

Being made a butt of joke as neither here nor there, their treatment is neither fair nor humane.

Even if everyone want's to put on an empathetic show of care and concern, the reality is the so called normal fellos would prefer not to be seen or have anything to do with them, except invite them to do a 'paper doll' act for the entertainment.

Yet there are fellos who proclaim themselves 'normal' but get kinky thrills lusting after them and yet these fellos are pardoned for their 'unorthodox sexual desires and acts' simply because they are considered 'normal man?'

Sadly, transgenders are treated like circus freaks and their lives seem to be for the entertainment and to entertain of the 'normal' fellos. Society labels them as 'whores' and expect their only purpose in live with some thinking a deserving punishment for them is work as 'whores'. That way, society can justify the kind of treatment they deserve because of the sinful professions they all seem to only know how to do!

Even if the editorial seeks to want to show compassion, the stark reminder at the end of the editorial sums up how BolehLand treats those branded as doing things against the holy book."While we sympathise with their predicament, there are no tow ways about interpreting the law of the land. Until and unless Parliament and the religious authorities see it fit to decide otherwise, Malaysian in the 'grey sexual areas' have to abide by the laws and keep their sexuality to themselves.'

So it is ghetto kind of life we sentence the 'grey sexual areas' group, transgender, gays and other 'unorthodox sexual practices fellos to. Why, because such fellos are frowned upon and 'condemned' by the Bible and Koran.

So if it is about orthodox religious beliefs, who can question God right?

The Nazi must surely be the first to go to heaven even overtaking the Momons who believe that only their select few are saved while the rest condemned and the Jews who believed they are the chosen and favoured one by God!

Hey the Nazi did God a favour by eliminating, not the term should be exterminating and committing genocide against those they deemed practicing unorthodox sexual acts!

Have frens who are transgender and hearing them relate their discrimination and humiliation they face makes one think that the kind of values we hold for ourselves and towards others we think less 'orthodox' than normal fellos. Pets are given more love, care and warmth compared to how we treat the transgender. And we wonder who is the animal and lesser human!

"We are not ashamed or humiliated by how we fell inside us and who we want to be. Our humiliation and embarrassment are caused by those who judge us without knowing how we feel," one would lament.

It is not that they have not attempted to want normalcy in their lives. They do. It's just that they feel they can only do so after they 'switch'. Even if those who saved enough to 'change', they are even in a worst position as they now face the direct onslaught of the law and the holier than thou religious fellos!

One did unergo a change in Thailand and is now happily married in Spain and life has been finally peaceful and worth living for her. A new life she said. 'It's unfair that when we get married to a guy, the person is seen as pervert and he married me to fulfill his kinky-ness!," she once said when asked if the guy really married 'her' for love or the 'novelty' of it all!

As those who practice 'unorthodox sexual act' are advised to do it on the quiet, the state will close one eye and pretend they don't exist. Now and then they will carry out a 'cleansing' to earn some brownie points from God for their passage to heaven.

So live on the quiet and everything will be fine is it? It's the best advice for those who refuse to want to fight for the dignity and respect for these fellos. Except if you are a politician on the wrong side of the coalition, the state will try and pretend you don't exist.

The report had a section on 'What the religious leaders say' where the religious leaders gave their politically correct views, even the Christian leader knowing that the Bible condemns such people! And if one thinks that the Perak mufti was being harsh and hard, he can't be faulted because you really can't question religion you know!

It's not God's fault you know, it's you, don't blame nature or nurture! it's you. Because God must know what He is doing, making one a 'screw' and society declaring this a 'male' and the other a 'nut' which makes this nut a 'female'. So no point trying to be a nut when you are a screw or else the religious authorities will really turn the screw on you! And declare you a nut case for trying to be a nut cracker.

And vice versa too!

It's odd when we starting using the holy books to justify our action against those considered sinners! When we conveniently select those acts that God says it's sinful while leaving the other deadly sins aside. Is it because it's easier to deal with a smaller group of sinners than a larger one say those who cheat or are corrupt?!

Extra martial sex and the other deadly sins seem lesser sins and given more compassion and forgiveness than one who drinks or is a transgender or gay!

So are we going to shame and be shamed by this group of fellos because we want to protect our orthodoxy and get a place in heaven?

When one has not been able to 'emphatise' with how these fellos feel, like the other time when an editorial asked moral vigilantes to emphatise with the 'snatch thief', can we truly justify our actions are morally and ethically justifiable to punish this group of people?

If my God judges me based on what man thinks God is saying, he ain't a loving God, period!

Honey I Stole A Jet Engine!

2009-12-20T13:36:00.008+08:00

Ok, it's a jet engine not a proton potong, any surprise? See story below.

It's BolehLand remember where thousands of BolehLand cars are being stolen and end up in foreign countries!

Considering that the authorities admit that the stolen protons, toyotas, even luxurious beemers and 4wds managed to be 'exported' than the thieves being caught! It does reflect the kind of monitoring at the exit points in BolehLand! Should not a KPI be also imposed on the Excise and Duties fellos to reduce such illegal exports by 90%. If they admit that this is going on, having they have any success against those who ship or drive stolen vehicles away!

A jet engine is stolen and sold! Gosh even if you tell us security officers can only stay in their territory, it should make such theft more difficult right? Each part of the process is undertaken by different fellos and if each section does their work, it would raise suspicision unless everyone in the chain in command is either so blur, unintelligent or there is a common denominator in the different sections, 'money to be made?' at each of the chain process right to when the engine finds its way to South Africa!

KL we just lost an engine!

Did they steal it a the LIMA show? You know so many things happening there, removing an engine and shipping it out may be seen as part of dismantling the exhibit after the show and it gets shipped out right under their noses!

If it's an internal job as claimed and it involves a highly sensitive military piece of hardware, how does that reflect the security and military intelligence of BolehLand's military! Well at least we can praise them for keeping it a military secret it got stolen and sold for this long!

But isn't such expose of military thing considered sensitive intelligence and military secrets? So will anyone be accused of exposing military sensitive secrets in exposing this loss. A breach of OSA perhaps? Well so far it's allowed to be publicly known, at least the admittance it was stolen and sole and an 'inside job?'

But will more be revealed if the investigation trial comes up with more crucial and prove too sensitive as it may implicate some important fellos? At that stage, will it be considered OSA and kept under raps on the pretext it's suddenly considered highly sensitive information that may compromise the security of BolehLand. If that happens it may only serve to increase public's suspicion of covering up and embarrassing some high officials?

If the theft was done by lower officers in cahoot with crooks it does mean our lower officials are really smarter than the lieutenants and generals to have pull off such a job!

With the old MIGs being retired, will they be the next to be conveniently shipped out!

What were the port officials thinking when the engine was being 'exported'. Proton parts to South Africa or scrap metal!

Since it's so easy to steal a jet engine, don't be surprised one day when BolehLand fellos wake up, they'd find one Petronas towers missing! Is that any surprising at all!

One less noone may even notice!

Welcome to BolehLand where big things appear small and disappearing is a normal thing!

Hmmm and we should ask who was the Minister of Defence when the theft occurred?

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Missing RMAF jet engine discovered sold
BAGAN DATOH: The Royal Malaysia Air Force (RMAF) F-5E fighter jet engine missing since 2007 was sold to an international company based in South Africa, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
He said the company was believed to have hired an agent to bring the RM50mil engine out of the country. “The ministry will take legal action at the international level to charge the company involved.
“Stern action will also be taken against RMAF involved for betraying the country,” he told reporters after launching an environmental programme here Saturday.
Ahmad Zahid confirmed that all documents pertaining to the sale of the engine had been obtained by the police.
“The international company was interested in buying the engine because the price was cheap, as it was a spare part categorised as faulty and would be repaired,” he said.
Local dailies reported Saturday that police had arrested four individuals, including RMAF officers, in connection with the missing F-5E fighter jet engine. -- Bernama, ... Star Dec 20, 2009

Opening up a Closed Mind by Shutting Up?

2009-12-20T12:46:00.008+08:00

Closing Up the Mouth of a Closed Up Mind?

So Zaini has decided to take an early Awal Muharam and long year end leave from his editorial write up in Utusan!

It is by no means a victory for anyone at least for Zaini, Utusan and the far right ultra Malays who think he is their 'ketuanan' champion!

While some papers and journalist bloggers like Rocky think that stifle journalistic freedom and appreciation of critical appreciation, others think there is double standards in why some are given freedom and immunity while others are not!

DAP officers have been raided for posting 'sensitive' write-ups, Pakatan MPs hurled up for making seditious and racially sensitive statements. And police action against these fellos seemed to be on the pretext of police reports made by this group and that group, fellos who may not have even been at the scene where the alleged sensitive statements were made but based on what was reported in the MSMedia!

And those being investigated seemed to have made racial remarks about the bumiputras or Malays and the urgency and publicity of such arrests and investigation is given maximum publicity by the MSMedia and broadcasting stations.

But here you have someone writing an editorial, not once but a number of times against certain races and seemed to be given immunity and even praised for reporting the 'facts' about a certain race based on their land of origin!

When loudmouths and noisy Indians want more fairness for them, they are accused of raising sensitive Malay issues and questioning their Constitutionally protected rights and privileges.

When leg stomping and effigy burning equally loudmouths Malays do their stuff even under the watchful eye of the police, UMNO politicians defend the action as justified! Doesn't matter if they utter racist remarks, they are defending their rights, huh?

So to BolehLand fellos, what they see is when it comes to sneering and smearing any race besides the Malays, it is defended as journalistic freedom, true and worse, justifiable and seen as champions of defending the 'ketuanan' of the Malays. And only a few brave UMNO and BN fellos speak up against the direct reference or insinuations against the Chinese, Indians and other pendatangs!

Why is it that some are given more licence to make racist remarks and proclaimed a hero and champion while others are branded as defying the sacred Constitution?

Would WCW of the Star get away if he does an editorial on Malay sensitivity?

Isn't maligning any race against the Constitution? Or if Tamil Nesan wrote how the Indians have been deprived based on the unfair racial formula in business?

And if those who defend and attended the BTN that it is about creating civic minded Fellos and it is all good than what the opposition make it out to be, these BTN fellos should speak out strongly against racism by anyone not selective prosecution, accusation and immunity!

Zaini's shutting up is by no means a sort of time out for him to feel remorseful for what he did! In fact BTN fellos should force him to attend their courses to prove all critics wrong and to make our Zaini a more 'civic minded fello'!

So Zaini shut his mouth temporarily. But doesn't mean a thing if he still has a closed mind!

Expect him to draw his racist keris and making stabbing remarks about other races and get away with his silat lucah he makes of other race.

Exposing Danger Slopes

2009-12-20T11:35:00.007+08:00

It is commendable for 1Malaysia to declassify at least Klang Valley's landslide 'hazard map' which according to the Work Minister as stated in a MSMedia. "We decided to make the report public because we want the authorities to take remedial action immediately. This is necessary to prevent further landslides." Star, Cover off danger slopes', Dec 20, 2009

Seems with the rainy season causing fears of more landslides, the Cabinet has decided to make public the report that covers 100 sq m in the Klang Valley.

Seems it takes mother nature than man's willingness to uncover the hidden dangers that affect public's lives. So, those killed and injured in such landslides have not died or suffered in vain. But these could all have been avoided had the government been proactive in letting the public know where danger awaits them before they invest their life savings including their own lives into buying property in hazard hills and slopes!

Why is there actually a need to OSA such information?

Not that we are in a North-South Korean situation where due to military reasons the enemy is going to bore tunnels to invade the Klang Valley?

Or is it a strategic reason that they are hidden minerals and rich resources in these hazard areas to prevent people buying up the land to strike it rich!

Or is it because of monetary reasons such information is hidden from public view?!

Say if the hazard map is an open report, subscribing to KPI Minister as well as 1Malaysia's promise of more transparency, available on the Work Ministry's portal, the public will definitely take the necessary measures to ensure they do not risk their lives and their loved ones by buying a home in such areas.

Or if they are already in danger zone, to be ready with their suitcases and leave at moments notice!

Now, what would this 'hazard map' mean to developers? It means noone will want to even buy such area to develop into housing area!

If the public knew about the hazard areas, it will be a man-made disaster to the developers and their business will slide and sink if noone wants to buy that million ringgit bungalow or condo perched on a hillside named 'Bukit Antarabangsa' or even below it!

So the question in the public's mind is, why the secrecy and OSA on the hazard map?

Did the authorities know about the hazard areas when they gave green light to the developers to start raping and denuding hillslopes to put up precarious looking stilts and promise of a panoramic exclusive view?

If they knew of the hazard, why was the green light even given to develop the hills!

But still at least the 'hazard map' is being made public. Wonder if it will give more comfort to those knowing that the 'Medan Damansara' hillslope will come crashing down in the near future with or without construction undertaken!

Imagine if you get to look at the 'hazard map' and find your property sitting underneath a potentially danger hillslope or bed of limestone gullies! What remedial work can you do as an individual or even the municipal councils? Already the house or condo has been built, add more piling? build more retaining walls?

But we know how powerful mother nature is. A landslide cuts a hill away together with what sits on top of it! So what remedial action is the government expecting house owners and the municipal council to take?

Stop existing project and future ones? Who is going compensate the house buyers or developer? Who should they sue? The government for OSA-ing the report, the reasons best know only to them why they need to keep it a secret, or the municipal council or the developer?

Often the municipal councils are being blamed! But how can you sue the municipal council knowing that most of the councilors are bunch of ordinary folks with some having great political ambitions than soil engineering or structural engineering expertise? And if they are kept in the dark out of the lack of expertise or intentionally by the report being sealed by an OSA tag, are they liable?

The developer? But if they only depend on the government, its geological department for information and don't conduct an independent survey, they would surely point the finger at the government for misleading them?

Who knows there is an underground stream under your home? Palm oil plantations converted to housing areas are known to be the cause of termite infestation and houseowners don't even know termites are lurking beneath their marble floors! Judging for the many termites and pest control advertisements, such natural disasters add to the hazard of owing a home!

Does the report smell of some 'dirty deal' between the approvers and developers to make a fortune by hiding the safety concerns and risks from house buyers?

So if you find your home is a hazard area, what do you do? Not that one can shift out like playing a sim game you know!

But are hills only the hazards Klang Valley folks live with? There is the like monthly flood which the multi billion ringgit storm management system called SMART, a clever idea thought up to mitigate flooding doesn't seem that smart to reduce the incidences of flooding in Kuala Lumpur!

And why only the Klang Valley? What about Penang, or Ipoh? Are lives in Klang Valley more precious that the folks in other areas? Or is it that there are more Datuk's and VVIPs in Klang Valley with their castle and mansions on the hills that their lives are more valuable than the rest of the country?

Rivers that once flowed seemed to have disappeared. Those who remember the Damansara Village 'cowboy' village that gets flooded after every heavy downpour without fail, is a thing of the past now. The Kiara Damansara condos are of varying height because of the physical properties of the soil not becoz of any aesthetic appeal mind you. The river has been diverted, huge rainstorm tunnels have replaced the river that once flowed and there has been NO flooding since the river was covered up a few year's back.

Those who live in the area must wonder what happen to the river and if anyone is paying attention to the tunnel, if there has been siltation and who is minding the tunnel is not blocked! Now Glomac is going to a business centre next to the condos and when it's completed, it would look new and inviting!

Let's hope the engineers did their homework correct in diverting the river into a made made underground tunnel and that it will never happen one day, the memories of cowboy town will bubble up from the road if the tunnel is blocked and the water must find its way upwards!

Exposing the danger slopes is one thing. Making sure that remedial work or even future development take place over the mighty ringgit profit is another matter.

Will this 'revelation' mean in new S&P agreements, there will be even finer prints that will mention the hazard risks and should natural tragedy happens, the owner is to be blamed that the developer or the authorities?

Is the report a way to safeguard the interest of the government, councils and developers from being sued or take the blame? After all, when the facts are laid before one's eye and you still sign up your are effectively and willingly placubg yourself in the 'eye of the storm' right? 'Ignorance is no bliss as you willingly take the risk at your peril'.

It will be interesting if mother nature wins in the end in preserving the greens or the 'hills will be alive' - with the sound of bulldozers, chainsaws, pounding and construction instead!

Oh well, we are living in BolehLand, everything is a risk and no one wants to take the blame!

1Messy 1Malaysia, Deficit, Debt, Taxes and Worries!

2009-12-18T21:23:00.011+08:00

This month, Khazanah sold 86.7 million TNB shares to EPF and 1Malaysia plans a small international bond issue next year to part fund the budget deficit.

1Malaysia has announced in the Budget as well as brother's Nazir's sponsored New York trip that one way to attract foreign investors to the local market is to reduce the government's stake in the GlCs, divesting by paring down holdings in listed entities to improve liquidity.

Khazanah’s sale of the TNB shares helped it raise gross proceeds of RM702.7mil that will be used for re-investments and repayment as dividends to the Government.

But the way the TNB shares were sold to institutional investors, including the Employees Provident Fund (EPF), was as reported in the MSMedia, 'to prevent a depression in the utility’s share price, said a spokesman for the government’s investment firm'.

And the bulk, it seemed went to EPF. So right pocket to left pocket specifically the cash cow EPF!

Considering the government admittance of outflows of portfolio money totalling RM55.3bil in the first three quarters of 2009 worries the government, the so called favorable 'liberalisation' has really not gotten off!

If most of Khazanah's disinvestment in GLCs is only moving the piece of paper between government institutions and GLCs, it's just milking from the cash cow and channel some of the sales to the Government as dividends repayment.

So it's basically like dipping the government's arm, Khazanah being the investment arm into the cash cow GLCs to pay for the government debts!

Over the years, there was never such a constant government repeat and reminder that they don't have enough money and they are introducing new taxes to pay for the debt and expenditure of the Budget and stimulus packages.

In the past the government can be said to be the spend, spend, spend, fellos to buy votes. And pump priming is also indirectly again to buy votes and the debt were kept away from the public's ear. It was the opposition who were the ones talking about debt, deficit, leakages, wastage and corruption. To the government it was about lack of experience, poor investment and the western democracy and Wall Street conspiracy!

Today, 1Malaysia is ever so often reminding BolehLand fellos of the debt and deficit and the taxes and removal of subsidies are justified. In not so many words, 1Malaysia is telling us the government is nearly broke or broke is it? Not surprising due to the many broken promises unfulfilled.

So with the forthcoming tax this, tax that, tax back, 1Malaysia can be said to be a tax, tax, tax government. Very taxing on all BolehLand fellos to be blamed that we are the cause of it because we wanted development and the good life probably!

Why now, are we told to dip into our pockets to bail out the government, while the billions being lost didn't seem that worrying to them, simply because there has been not will power to bring the culprits responsible for the losses to the books?

Only now action is taken in the PKFZ scandal, due more to the political realities of the day than a genuine desire to plug the leak! Why was it not declared a scandal by them and handled it at an early stage? If they admit it was a scandal in the beginning and they really wanted to prosecute the crooks, they would have nip the bud and kicked butts so much earlier and not when it became a Pakatan crusade and national disgrace!

1Malaysia may take credit his maiden Budget by cutting operating expenditure by almost 14 per cent and over 4% for the development expenditure by over 4 per cent hoping to cut the deficit down from 7.4 per cent of GDP this year to 5.6 per cent in 2010.

But he has is going to introduce some worrying taxes, the GST for one, then there is the fuel subsidy and the meager millions from the unfair credit card service tax and more subsidy cut for essential items - all these supposedly to help pay for the debt.

While 1Malaysia is trying to find ways to take away money from taxpayer's pocket, the taxpayers must be wondering how are they benefiting from the supposedly development expenditure particularly transport where it is focused on the Klang Valley folks.

There will be gripes for those in the real property. While the property gain tax will impact everyone, the buying of homes is still very unfairly distributed. The race issue being used in the purchase of homes will be a sore point for many non bumi new houseowners. It is a known fact that those who are not given the 8% or so discount are actually paying for those who are getting the discount. The discount is really outdated and unfair as bumis particularly those who work in the government and banking sector are given the same amount of loan and pay similar rate but the non bumi is unfairly treated in the price of the home.

It makes no sense when residents of say a RM300k or RM400k condo can well afford it but some get discount just becoz of race! And the argument that they are poor, economically disadvantaged or to strike a racial composition balance is outdated and simply a fallacy. If economic disadvantage is the argument, then they should not be buying such pricey condo! The same goes for those rich bumis who gets a discount on their home! And if you peek into their homes, the deco or the car parked outside the low cost home, they are anything that reflect they deserve the discount!

If racial composition is the issue, then Shah Alam is a stark example of what is radically wrong with this argument. Or those low cost flats and homes where a majority race is given preference over others!

But odd, when it comes to buying an automobile, the racial unfair discount is not considered! Wonder why? Both cars and home use a combination of local and foreign components, but strangely only the house gets the discount!

The present generation is suffering from the excessive and wastage of the past. And the amount of taxes being paid is still unfairly spread out.

The operating budget are paid to the civil service that is made up of a majority of one race. The expenditure budget contracts favour one majority race. So it is a wonder that the other races who pay taxes and even more because they are often accused of being the richer ones, feel they are not getting their returns from the taxes they pay? or feel unfairly being reminded they are disloyal or pendatang or second class citizens. When struggle, sacrifice and save often without government aid to give their kids a future, they are perceived as being better off!

Back to 1Malaysia's way of milking the BolehLand fellos drier to pay for the avarice, mismanagement and often wastage of the government. Since the liberalisation is to attract the foreign investors, these foreigners are being pampared and given many incentives. And when there is liberalisation, it is often perceived as taking away rights, privileges, subsidies and crutches of the bumiputera and the scapegoat seems to be the other races, nowadays boldly reminded as pendatang and second class citizens, who will be blamed and accused of taking away their rights!

1Malaysia probably knows he is walking on a thin thread in 'liberalising' the nation because it will have consequences on UMNO's hawks and BN's survival! But there is hardly any effort made to prevent backlash on the non bumis when the liberalisation actually favours the foreigners than the local fellos!

So it is not only the 1Messy debt 1Malaysia needs to tackle. Selling off stake in GLCs may be seen as diluting the power, control, influence and probably 'face' of the bumis who see such institutions as a symbol of their power as well as 'safe haven'!

If after imposing the taxes and selling the assets, the debt and deficit don't seem to shrink but the economic power of the bumis have shrunk instead, 1Malaysia will have 1Messy 1Malaysia!

Who should worry more on the deficit, debt and taxes? 1Malaysia or the bumis or non bumis?

Bung Sizzles with ZiZie

2009-12-18T20:43:00.007+08:00

So congratulations for having proven he's not a sexist or un-glam Bung Mokhthar.

All seem's forgotten of his known dislike for women, at least those Pakatan lass.

And at 50, with four kids and one wifey, he still found time between his hectic and sometimes headaches he gives to everyone he feels like crossing swords, hands included and putting down almost every Pakatan fellos, our romeo has his heart fluttered by a new lass, Zizie Ezette.

Known for 'lying' conveniently when he misbehaves in the august house, he was still denying the strong rumour of his impending taking on a second wife! But credit must be given to the man who was able to keep his romance under wraps and fooled everyone!

Hmmm, was the rumour intentionally leaked so that it makes it easier for both of them to feel less embarassed! But hey it's their God given right to marry more than one for the man and for the women, legal to be number two!

And now it's on every lips of every envious fello that he is not so belligerent and hotheaded or has a heart of stone!

Even with his hectic schedule he still found time to woo, romance and win a new love in his life!

Noone should be envious at least the Muslims because you are allowed four official ones! So to all those jealous men and gossipy women, pehlease stuff it and stop being so pathetic and hypocritical that you are a one man or one woman person!

If it's God given and you don't want to use it, stop complaining your marriage now is such a bore and unexciting. Go do a Bung too!

So now, Bung must really be able to divide his time, two wives and children and parliament. But since he has shown his capabilities of still wooing a dame's heart, he must have an abundance of energy and libido too!

Why all the denial, it's not that there was any scandal before the official thingy!

Now that we know his heart is not as hardened as his hothead, and we hope he'd also not be a yes man to his chief but also soften his hear as he did for his new no 2 wife and listen to the needs of his people than tell them to shove it as what his chief says or does is the truth and nothing but the truth.

So a since congratulations to the newly wed...

In UMNO then, there is an additional person to join the league of those who have been married twice and more. Bung must really stand tall now with his chief!

Here's 1Malaysia to Bung, 'Zizie first' 'Performance Surely Matters Now!

Greetings to the tune of Twelve Days of Christmas

On the ninth day till Christmas, it's not true Bung said
I'm not taking a second wife.

But on the eight day till Christmas, Bung Mokhtar said to Zizie
I want you to be my second wife

On this day to everyone's surprise , Zizie said to Bung
Yes, let's get married
So everyone knows now
You will have to share me
With your first wife
And your five kids
Together with your constituency!

Made in BolehLand Brand

2009-12-17T14:38:00.003+08:00

An interesting read in brandchannel looked at how China is rebranding its brand image for ‘Made in China’ label that is now increasingly being tagged on many a branded attire in shops the world over. See story below

The next time you look at the manufacture label it will read ‘Made in China with software from Silicon Valley’, another way of telling you it has got brand affinity, association or licencing from the ori fellos.

As Original As It Gets

Which makes the product more than just what we call ‘ compatible’ (a startling example is buying a Mucci or Guzci bag in Petaling Street that is an exact copy of a Gucci making the Mucchi or Guzci a ‘Gucci compatible’! Those thinking they got a money for value LV or Louis Vuitton is mistaken because if they read the label closely the LV is actually 'Lu VTiong' which in local vernacular is 'We cheated you!

Will this new brand tagline raise the confidence of the consumer that they are getting the ori real deal? The ‘Made in China’ stigma of substandard or suspicion it is a perfect copycat is still very much at the back of the mind of those brand conscious consumers.

Remember some time back how buying a ‘Made in Taiwan’ was associated with low cheapo copycat and these items were shunned by consumers. But Taiwan the ‘Made in Taiwan’ has been considered as high value products, thanks to their success with PC especially!

And with China making effort to improve their brand image, it would post a challenge to ‘Made in BolehLand’ items!

BolehLand has great products actually and we have made it to the global market. But they seemed to be confined to shoes and clothes only and expensive ones too! Consumables and those that appeal to the mass market and fast moving ones are strong locally but are not able to compete outside our borders. And no ‘Maggie Mee’ is not a BolehLand ori… it’s a Nestle brand!

Perhaps BolehLand manufacturers can take the cue from our Chinese brand strategy and tie it some ‘brand’. Among some may brand affiliation that can be used to raise its international image might be the following: ‘Made in BolehLand with …’

- … approval from Pfizer’ for Arif Café tongkat ali and kacip fatimah
- … with rice from Thailand’ for the packet of Adabi ketupat nasi
- … with spices from McCormick's’ for Ayam Mas nuggets
- … with curry powder from India’ for Adabi curry beef

Or, upgrade BolehLand’s famous expertise in brand compatibility, ‘Made in and endorsed by BolehLand 100% LV design compatible'

As Original As It Sounds!

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Branding Campaign Tries To Improve Image Of "Made In China" The Chinese government is finally acknowledging that the phrase "Made in China" has regained many of its one-time negative connotations. Many Chinese brands have earned their poor perception: Consumers in the US and elsewhere have heard alarming reports of Chinese-made products scandalized by poor quality and deadly oversights. These have included everyday products like pet food, toys, and milk. and the bad publicity has done nothing but damage to the country's image. So China has launched a new television ad campaign. Seen first in Asia, the campaign is now airing in the US, and features products with the "Made in China" label -- with an international twist. Each "Made in China" example highlights Chinese manufacturers' collaboration with other countries. For example, MP3 players are shown with the phrase, "Made in China with software from Silicon Valley." Clothing carries the label "Made in China with French designers." According to China Daily, the campaign is intended to demonstrate that "Chinese companies work with overseas firms to produce quality products." The campaign was developed by ad agency DDB's Chinese affiliate, under the direction of China's Ministry of Commerce. With a lot of ground to make up, some critics are already saying the new campaign may be less than effective. "Wouldn't it have been better if they had touted the millions of things being devised and made in China?" asks one blogger. The Telegraph's Shanghai correspondent, Malcolm Moore, adds, "Does it make you feel better about Chinese quality? Not really." Or at least not yet. Ironically, the campaign was ready to launch in 2008, but it was delayed due to the recent tainted milk scandal that caused the deaths of at least six children and sickened 300,000… Brandchannel, Dec 3, 2009

Only Three Whiskers To Win Budget Passage and Defeat Pakatan!

2009-12-16T09:08:00.008+08:00

The 66-63 vote that passed the Budget on Dec 14, 2009, nearly caught BN off-guard, thanks to the alertness of Nazri in sms-ing BN MPs to the august house in the late hour of the night, 11.15 pm as reported in the media. See story below.

It was a surprise at the Car of the Year award on Dec 14, when the guests were surprised the Deputy PM had to leave mid way the event! The buzz among the captains of the automotive industry was some VVIP Parliament matters DPM had to attend. So it was nothing rude on DPM's part as it was as they say 'duty calls' and meant the survival of the BN government

It goes to show that the BN can still muster their MPs and that they have a sense of urgency and responsibility to make sure they do not betray the trust of the people.

Now considering the Pakatan MPs had a chance to create history by defeating the Budget, this is the second time they betrayed the trust of the people.

It is certainly a mockery and a sham to Pakatan for having opposed the Budget and all their loudmouth argument in Parliament to not even be able to call their members to a show of force that they are the alternative government in waiting.

Kudos to Nazri for having smelled Pakatan's trap and for keeping the fort and defending it!

Should the Budget failed to make its passage on Monday nite, it would have certainly created history and a reminder to BN that the Pakatan is a force to reckon with! It may also reverse some of the unfair taxes especially the service tax on credit cards and the property gain tax when a new budget has to be tabled!

But the Budget passing even by three whiskers, shows that BN is the force to reckon with and Pakatan is still a band of misfits not fit even to be discipline in putting their vote where they have been loudmouthing and foot stomping in the house each day the budget was being debated!

Now doesn't Pakatan MPs deserve to receive a barrage of flip flops for having flopped their voters!

Pakatan can claim they are the alternative government in waiting, yes indeed they will have to stay in their own shadow for a long time to come and probably disappear in their own shadow, never to see the light!.

Even at the dead of night on Dec 14, they had a chance to shine and outshine the BN, the MPs who were absent must have been already asleep in the dark somewhere away from where they mattered most!

BN wins the day again shows the BN MPs willingness to put party first and let differences dissipate when it mattered most.

For Pakatan it showed that when it was a time for them to show their force and relevance and let BN respect them, they did a disappearing act at least the other 20 or so. Do they deserve another chance? Certainly hope so. Only the voters can decide seeing their terrible dismal performance and let down.

So shall the BolehLand folks recommend a RM100 cut for the salary of each MP who was absent during the voting as he/she didn't think the Budget is important enough for them to attend!? Thought the Budget is a national issue that affects everyone!

'14' in Chinese is akin to demise which fitted nicely for Pakatan, they missed their deadly chance to deal a fatal blow to BN's Budget.

'14' to the Malays is akin to getting something and BN certainly got what they wanted, their Budget passed.

And on Dec 14, it was more a lucky number to BN and an unlucky one for Pakatan.

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How BN escaped opposition 'trap'
KUALA LUMPUR (SUN, Dec 15, 2009): THE government said it knew what the opposition members had up their sleeves on Monday when Budget 2010 was going to be passed at the committee stage.
Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said the Pakatan Rakyat MPs’ attempt to defeat the budget at its final vote would not have succeeded since he had anticipated it last week.
“There will be some work of ambush on their part. Since last week, I had told my cabinet colleagues to ensure they were near the House or arrange for their deputies to be around,” he said at the parliament lobby.
Nazri was commenting on the Opposition’s attempt at derailing the budget, which was finally passed with a 66-63 vote at 11.15pm on Monday.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak and his deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, had to leave their functions to be present and cast their vote.
Nazri said he "smelled a rat" earlier at about 8pm when he spotted the three opposition leaders -- Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim (PKR-Permatang Pauh), Lim Kit Siang (DAP-Ipoh Timur) and Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang (PAS-Marang) -- "lingering around in the lounge".
“By that time, they usually are not around. Many of the opposition members were also here. So we decided to round up our members and started calling them to be present here,” he said.
Nazri admitted that the BN members had engaged in some filibustering while waiting for others to come to the house.
“Yes, we used every avenue available to us to stall the vote. But there is nothing wrong with this and it is accepted practice in legislatures all over the world,” he said.
He said that despite the passing of the budget, there was a lesson to be learnt from Monday's close vote.
“We can’t push our luck all the time. We have to think one step ahead and be prepared in the future. We just can’t take it for granted that we will win all the time,” he said.
He did not discount the possibility that BN could lose a vote in the house.
Asked if it would be a vote of no confidence against the government of the Opposition had succeeded, Nazri said: “It can be interpreted in any way. It is up to the public.”
Anwar side-stepped talks that they had planned the whole thing.
“It will force them (the government) to respect the Dewan. Put them on guard at all times,” he said.

Black Sheep Also Produce White Wool Tun!

2009-12-13T23:48:00.020+08:00

There we go again, reminding everyone that what is done for the Malays is Constitutionally mandated as well as being the majority a natural right too!

By now, everyone already knows that whatever the government does for them is to improve the Malays so that others can have a peaceful life too! Why because if there is inequality, there will be trouble and the BolehLand fellos are being reminded now and then of the negative implications and why is it that it's always a wish for the return of May 13 if the imbalance is not corrected?

Is chopping people up the answer to exercising one's right over the others? The US of A wants to move beyond 9/11 than see it as a tragedy. In BolehLand 11/5 seems to be glorified and awaiting a second tragedy as reason to maintain the status quo than MOVE BEYOND and MOVE ON!

And Tun has once again defended the affirmative action and the quota is not racist because it served to correct the disparity in many areas of BolehLand society.

Even if the intention of the affirmative action is to help those disadvantaged, the majority of those at this level seemed to be the Malays, so they deserved to be assisted and given quota from education to business, the civil service and everything, every sector of society where others have made it and succeeded!

The argument is always, because we are more, this majority needs to be reflected in everything! Meritocracy is compromised even among the Malays because we want to make the numbers. So we fill up the quota, never mind if these people are suitable for that profession!

It is really a simplistic argument to use statistics and create a quota for everything simply because we are the majority! If their population continue to rise while others decrease or stabilise, the equation will shift again right?

Why is there a need to compare the race composition in private universities to justify the quota in public universities? There is no quota in the private colleges and universities unlike the public universities simply because they operate firstly as a business entity. Meritocracy is a high criteria because it is the bread and butter for the survival of these private institutions of higher education (PIHE). But don't be surprised that in some future date, the PIHE will be forced to also create a quota formula! It's QuotaLand remember!

And Tun is unfairly using the private PIHE to justify the necessity of quota in public universities. If the non bumis cannot find a place in the public universities are we saying to hell with them and let them rot because what is the 30% non bumis to us if they fail to study in public universities. We got to make sure we correct the disparity or else all hell breaks loose for the country is it?

Where do we expect these non bumi kids to be given a chance for higher education if they can't enter the public universities? The PIHE's of course. If most can get into public universities, there won't be that many PIHE's today won't there be Tun?

And because the non bumi parents know the reality and accept it, they sacrifice for their kids and the kids themselves try to be among the best of the best to compete for the limited scholarships available. They will mortgage their homes, their business, borrow to give their children a good education. What is the use to grumble? The non bumis have learnt to be resourceful and self supporting and should they be faulted for sending their kids to PIHE's or their kids do better in public or PIHE's?

Instead of praising and supporting those many non bumi parents who sacrifice and most often given no government help, even if they pay income tax, their children are not given support! - the non bumis self reliance is being used as a reason to maintain the quota system?

Why is it that the bumis are made to be seen as incapable, unable or is it because of the crutch mentality the government has enslaved them? Is using the quota the only way to ensure political support? Is constantly reminding the Malays that they are incapable without government support to ensure that they remember they owe their gratitude to the government for making sure the quota system stays in perpetuity so that they can make it in life and be on par in terms of wealth and success like the chinaman?!

Even 1Malaysia's attempt to create self reliance by the Malays is more of shifting the scaffolding and crutches elsewhere when they are removed from one. It's like shifting the support beams to another side of the building than ensuring you build one section well and strong, remove the support and be confident the building stands, not shift it round the back to prop it up!

After nearly 30 years, efforts to relax and reduce the subsidies, privileges and quotas have not been easy if not nil. It's now too entrenched and call it the BN wall the Alliance and BN government has built where like the Berlin Wall, only the will of the people and brave and bold leadership will tear down the walls of quotas, privileges and susidies that is dividing the nation. 1Malaysia knows he can't even remove one brick in this BN wall or it will result in his power collapsing than any fall of the BN wall!

No one dares dispute the rights and privileges as BolehLand fellos are reminded of ever so often it's a right accorded in the Constitution of the nation as well as UMNO the ruling party in the ruling federal government.

And was there any guilt felt in maintaining such rights, imposing quotas and according privileges to the Malays? Not at all! After all, it has been their right as they claim and being reinforced in the recent comments of right wing UMNO politicians, ultra Malay like Ibrahim Ali as well as NGOs like the recent comment by BBPU who proudly and publicly declared as reported in an online news, "Chinese and Indians are second-class citizens. Don't question Malay Supremacy. Malaysia belongs to the Malays"

When will such claims to natural, hereditary, party and Constitutional rights end and everyone has a fair place in BolehLand?

What is this parity or on par 'with the other races' that Tun and all those who defend the quota system talking about?

Education? Hey more government scholarships have been given to one race than another! So where is the parity?

Registered contractors with the government? How many percentage are a majority group registered?

Doctors? What is the composition in public hospitals? It's more than in private?

Why should parity be confined to the private sector? Why not both?

Transportation, plantation, fishing, rice planting, what parity and numbers are we looking at?

Wealth? Why use a few rich chinaman to argue the rest are equally rich?

If the Malays or any other community do not think meritocracy is important the one who will lose in the end is everyone because if engineers are not up to mark and we have quack doctors, who suffers?

Why is it that those who didn't get any support due to the quota system and has to sacrifice and work hard to achieve success be asked to share with others and branded disloyal and ungrateful if they choose to migrate elsewhere?

It is about time, we stop generalising that Malays are incapable of independence and cannot afford fees or been exploited by the colonials or that 30 years of affirmative action is not long enough and must go the way the colonials were here or they being the majority group in terms of population be given a higher percentage quota and assistance.

It is about time we stop generalising that non Malays are rich, have an unfair advantage and disloyal or unpatriotic and will migrate or taking away opportunities from the Malays to succeed.

There are so many new townships and business centres coming up. The Malays have been given generous quotas for licences, loans and thousand and one incentives to set up businesses or prime locations for their businesses, franchises and what have you. Go make it a success.

And please don't blame the other races, the chinaman who sets up a 'pop shop' or motor repair, laundry or chow mee or soya bean business or the Indian with his cendol or murtabak or northern indian cuizine cafe at one or two locations in such area as stealing away your livelihood!

Why are we still making the non Malays scapegoats if the Malay or bumi run enterprises don't succeed, if even their contractors cannot get job, or their engineers or doctors, or insurance agents, or multi level marketing agents, or retailers don't seem to be successful!

Don't look with envy with anyone who has made it without indulging in corruption or patronage or ali-baba-ing or even with government subsidies and support. We should be happy and rejoice in their success instead of feeling envious with jealousy like 'robbing' your wealth and richness away!

In the first place, what is there to rob as customers decide who they want to do business with as it all boils down to trust, reliability, value for money, quality and so on!

Look at the eateries, noone argues who the owner is if the food is great and value for money. The chinaman will travel far to eat a good curry mee or nan bread or fish head curry or rojak!

The fast food outlets are all foreign franchise. We don't see anyone complaining they are taking away traditional local cuisines businesses!

We don't see anyone complaining the company holding the franchise for the LVs, Guccis and branded stuff are run by one race and depriving the mak ciks and ah sow from owning such franchise!

Why is it of late there is so much envy and jealousy of one race doing well, another thinking one is robbing or threatening one's opportunities to succeed?

It makes a mockery of the 1Malaysia policy when groups get away with uttering 'ketuanan' supremacy, bring up fear of riots and chaos!

The Chinese and Indians know that they will lose in the end if they question anything about the 'ketuanan' of the Malays or their privileges and rights and thousand and one things that seem to be exclusive for them. They can't have their say or way because the government and its institutions are all stacked against anyone who rocks the 'status quo' and threated their political survival!

If the race issue is allowed to fester and boil over, even unrelated issues and things will be brought up. Take probably cuisines, if nasi lemak belongs to only one race, noone can adulterate the pureness of their nasi lemak. Take 'satay' too which is accepted as a truly BolehLand national dish. If we have purists wanting to claim 'satay' is indigenous to only one race, then anyone who deviate from the original recipe can be accused of insensitivity, degrading and humiliating the race who has laid claim it is their rightful dish. It means those who sell 'satay' using rabbit meat or other non-halal meat can be accused of disgracing a race! See the absurdity that the race issue can turn out to!

It's time to stop thinking one race deserves rights more rightful over others and using the majority argument to justify equitable quotas and percentages! If one wants to stick to percentages, the minority races should not seek for fairer distribution of opportunities right? Should the minority race feel guilty and blamed for becoming doctors or engineers or motor mechanics? Should they be accused of having a better opportunity and advantage if they get more patients visiting their clinic or more people eat or shop at their outlets or ask them to renovate their house or rewire their homes or repair their roof leaks? If that is where they feel they find a place and opportunity to progress can they be blamed for their choice of professions?

If you have a great or natural chance to own land to grow rice or licences to fish, or operate taxis, or petrol stations, will you not venture into the business!

Quotas are never racist if you don't remind others that it is reserved only for one race. If you give a quota say in university to those who cannot afford not based on race but on meritocracy and income, noone will argue it's race based.

Same for schools, primary education is free for everyone. Noone blames the government for being racists in accepting a legitimate kid to a free education in school.

It only become racists if special pre-exam classes are only reserved for a race, if the markings are manipulated, if scholarships are given only to a race while the other poor kids can't get any because someone decided that one race qualifies while the other is rich so they don't deserve it. It become racists when teachers belittle other races and religions, when kids are forced to wear only one type of costume or perform only one ethnic dance on concert day. It become racist when Malay parents are questioned by the Malays why their kids are in chinese school.

It becomes racist when people like Tun compares race intakes in government and private IHTs!

Tun M, bumi quotas will never be racist if you keep arguing on numbers and the population keeps on growing and growing and the expectation is correspondingly going to grow with the population numbers!

And the other races are not forcing anyone to be left behind. Instead they feel being left out than left behind in so many areas of life in BolehLand. They do not feel sidelined, rather most often been asked to stand behind the line way way back and wait to be allowed to cross over. And when they do, they are reminded they are given great favours and be grateful to be allowed to cross over.

Please do not look for scapegoats elsewhere for one's own complacency and failings and see them as black sheep thinking they only produce black wool!... baaaaaaaaaa?

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Dr M: Bumi quota not racist
KUALA LUMPUR: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said yesterday the opportunities given to Bumiputeras to enter public universities should not be disputed as a racist act that favours one race at the expense of the others.
The former prime minister said the move was to ensure that Bumiputeras were not left behind in mainstream education as this could have negative repercussions.
He said at private institutions of higher learning, Bumiputera enrolment was very low, only about 10 per cent, while the rest was made up of students from other races. This was because many Bumiputeras could not afford the fees.
"If we conduct a census of the number of students in private universities, there are more non-Bumiputera students.
That's why we give attention and more places to Bumiputeras," he said in his keynote address, "UUM 25 Years Expectation vs Reality", at the Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) Alumni Convention 2009 here.
"So, we should not feel guilty because we reserved places for Bumiputeras. We have a right to attain a position that is on par in this country." Dr Mahathir said the affirmative action policy of bringing Bumiputeras into the mainstream of development in the country was not something extreme because although they made up about 60 per cent of the population, the quota was only 30 per cent.
He added that the extra attention and opportunities given to Bumiputeras did not mean the other races were sidelined. He said it was important for Bumiputeras to have knowledge to run a business because many of them did not use the money as capital or to invest but to shop.
"We must change the Bumiputera's mindset. The money will bring returns when invested and this can enhance their wealth. Normally, they will spend when they have money.
"And very often, it is more than the money available and this causes problems." -- Bernama, Dec 13. 2009

Wounded Tiger, Hiding Woods

2009-12-13T17:04:00.020+08:00

What the similarity between a Tiger and Tiger Woods these days?

Both are in danger of getting extinct.
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What is the difference between a Tiger and Tiger Woods these days?

One is in danger of extinction by man, the other is in danger of extinction by women
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The world of golf today is shocked to hear that their supremo in golf, the Crouching Tiger is going to hidden away from the world of Golf.

He has decided to hang up his clubs and remain in hiatus in his hideout to save his marriage, his family as well as his dignity after his confession of 'transgressions'.

Between the club and the one who wielded it at him, he has opted to leave the greens and to try and start anew with his family.

That is the price one pays as a great sportsman. Somehow, sportspeople get the worse when bad news of infidelity, substance abuse, abusing or taking a life or greed gets the better of them.

On the other hand, politicians who do worse stuff than sportspeople usually get away with it and still get to stay on as the most powerful person in the world or nation or go on to become one! Like in BolehLand, those in power think any attempt to dig up the past and discredit them is considered 'frivolous' and can get one locked up instead than getting justice due. It pays to be a politician as it seems the snakes, frogs and crocodiles have a better change of plundering the forests and surviving that a Tiger in the wood.

So he got his head clobbered, his pride ripped apart by the damaging revelation of the birdies he scored and the tiger maniac has been turned now into a headache that won't go away for him and his family and children at least not till the firestorm and cinders in the wood has extinguished and the wood-worms have all crawled out of the wood!

Over last week, the attention in the cafes and work place seemed to be on poor tiger and the worms that have crawled out and the other cretins still waiting to burst out of the wood and scream, Cheetah at the Tiger!

Even if the game of golf and rules may exceed the 18 holes, however many eagles or birdies Tiger will score when he returns to the green, the non sporting fans who now know a bit of golf will always think he has overshot his hole too many!

And sinking a hole in one will not longer be an amazing feat for Tiger, just as the many birdies he will get. And if he misses a shot or putt, bet it will be associated with one of the 'mistress' who distracted him, perhaps one for each hole!

Sadly golfing will never be the same, nor Tiger ever be the same image the world has made him to be. He's like the late MJ of the golf world, misunderstood now with so many mistresses in the game!

And there is no shortage of Tiger jokes either. Not so much on his transgressions, but those who claimed to be a part of his woodwork. The talk is always on the number of score he made and how many of those "transgre-see" will behave with dignity. Before all the exposé, these transgre-sees were just a chip of the block, a wooden pug. Now it seems they want to be part of the woodwork and behave like innocent pussy cats, purring their tales to get a piece of fame and make fortunes from the misfortunes of the man himself.

One even didn't seem remorseful or deserve any blame believing that if it wasn't her it will be the next. But instead of not playing ball in the same game, she decided she might as well be part of the team, which makes her in the same company of birds who should be flogged for pecking on somebody's club or is it the wood!

Looking at the names of those supposedly lovers or mistresses, their names somehow makes them sound more like cretines than gals with dignity. See below the lexicon of names these transgres-see seems to be associate with!

Of course it takes the man, his club and the ball to play golf and if the game isn't up to par, the one with the club should take the responsibility too right?

Golf has lost its glamour for the time being and we hope those 'glamour' gals would stop milking the Tiger and won't destroy Tiger's life, family, career and deprive fans of seeing world class play on the right greens and pitch okay!

Among frens, competing for the most original distasteful tiger joke were:

Me : When Tiger hits the ball now, it's no more shout of 'fore' but 'whore'
Me: After finishing an impressive 9 holes, you could hear the tiger roar, raring to take on the rest nine with a 'You ain't seen nothing yet!
Me: After a grueling nine holes, the next nine should get easier!
Me: I'm improving with each hole I advance!
Me: What's the difference between Britney and Tiger?
Britney gets to only sing 'Womanizer, Womanizer, Womanizer;
Tiger gets to be it!
Me: And the two at the beginning of this blog!

Now that puts me in the company of cretins of Tigress that tanked a tiger with dubious sounding names in the likes of; Rachel U-b**ch and tell, or Rachel U-itch and tell; -Jaimee's Grubs; -Kalika porn-queen; -Jamie Juggers; -Mindy Low-down; -Cori Risky; -Folly Samson; -Joslyn Games; -Low-down Jolie:

And a deserving jeer from frens who asked for compassion and forgiveness for behaving lite nitwits 'holier-than-thou whores', 'let it rest, give the wounded tiger a break and allow him to hide in the woods'. And with a nod in agreement our hypocritical group sought forgiveness as we finally hit the last nail in the woodwork to stop mauling the tiger and let him be a peace in his own jungle.

And when the tiger returns, pray no more bogeyman or women to haunt him!

Nazri-Tun Spate Turns 'Taufo'

2009-12-12T17:36:00.018+08:00

Nazri ain't no Jung Ji Hoon a.k.a. Rain, a.k.a. Raizo, a.k.a. Ninja Assassin.

Nazri has been called by many a name, even Germanic sounding if the 'r' is removed, simply because he shoots from the hips without drawing his guns from the holster. His fearless character has earn him among the media fraternity as the 'Last Samurai.'

So when a former 'Look East' admirer, who wanted BolehLand to be a copy-cat of the glory of the 'rising sun' elevated to an 'emperor' status of sorts after reigning for three decades, drew 'first blood' on the 'last samurai', sparks flew in a 'katana versus tachi verbal clash.'

Though the 'retired ole emperor' and the 'last samurai' belong to the same clan with a common 'bushido' code, a 'racist' one we were told, the sanctity of the code was rattled when these two had an 'open combat' deemed uncivil and unbecoming over a 'civic programme.'

When the Shogun returned from his foreign visit, the big 'S' called on the last 's' to 'back' off attacking the retired 'emperor'. Our last 's' must have felt like a small 's', no? See story below.

So following the tradition and convention of this class, our Malay Samurai has to listen to the Shogun and needn't have to commit a 'hara-kiri' on his political career for his outburst against a 'sacred' icon of BolehLand!

As we know, 'Hara kiri' is a code of honour reserved only for the samurai to die with honour than surrender to the enemy. Our Malay Samurai if he believed himself a true warrior will commit a hara kiri on his political career if he stuck to his principles!

But since, he said he's a malay samurai, they don't commit 'hara kiri'. He is like a fake samurai really with fake samurai code, a silat palsu than silat pintar code perhaps? So if one is not a real samurai there ain't no bushido code to follow or live up to, probably more all bull-sh**o code perhaps? And that goes too for the party and clan he belongs to?

So brave 'last samurai' turned 'taufo' in obeying his Shogun's command. Perhaps there is truth in Utusan Malaysia's Zaini's theory that this race has 'soft blood' that can soften brute raw behavior to servitude faster than it takes the taufo to cook in a steamer!

For the moment our fearless samurai is keeping his katana away, but not for long as soon he will draw it again to do battle with all those 'ninjas assassins' from the other camps, whose weaponry include arsenals of rockets, with a white and blue moon competing for limelight to lead the battle and don't forget with loudmouths and noisy fellos also in the rear!

But BolehLand folks know that such 'kow towing' or their version of 'samurai code' is confined only in their party. Beyond that they expect the rest from including from East BolehLand to bow to them and their Shogun master!

Ohhh, Raizo, go get 'em, hah, slash, cut, chop, whizzz, blood all over.... gosh I love ninja assassin even if it's a B grade movie, slash, cut, chop, chop, chop, whizzz, blood all over, the bad guys and the fake ones too can't escape.. ninnnn-jaaaaaaaaa asssssssaaa-ssinnnnnnnnnn!
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Nazri to back off from attacking Dr M after talk with Najib
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz said he is bringing a closure to the stormy episode over the National Civics Bureu (NCB) issue that had him crossing swords with former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department was summoned to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak’s office in Putrajaya early yesterday for a meeting over the issue.

He declined to elaborate on what transpired between him and the Prime Minister but said he had given his word that he would not speak any more on NCB or argue about it with Dr Mahathir.

“What I can say is that the Prime Minister is very concerned that some quarters may think that I am being used by the leadership to criticise Dr Mahathir. That is not true at all. What I said and did was on my own free will. You know me, I am my own man.

“I agreed to end this whole thing because I do not want to make things difficult for the Prime Minister, I don’t want to hurt his image,” he said,

Alluding to media reports of him as the “Last Samurai” or the last of the fearless politicians, he said there would be no hara kiri.

“Muslim Samurais do not commit harakiri,” he said.

Referring to Najib as the Shogun, he added: “My Shogun has spoken. As a Samurai, I have to do as he says.”

Najib, 57, and Nazri, 56, were contemporaries in the Umno Youth in the early 1990s.

Nazri’s war of words with Dr Mahathir over the NCB issue erupted earlier this week. Dr Mahathir defended the NCB system, saying it was useful in promoting values like discipline, honesty and rejecting corruption.

Nazri argued that the system should be revamped because it promoted racial sentiments and was out of tune with the changing political landscape.

However, Nazri came under severe criticism from Malay nationalists and pro-Mahathir quarters when he used the word “racist” on the statesman
Referring to Najib as the Shogun, he added: “My Shogun has spoken. As a Samurai, I have to do as he says.”...Star, Dec 12, 2009.

Malay 'Soft Blood' - The Antidote to the Loudmouths and Noisy.

2009-12-11T20:04:00.015+08:00

BolehLand has made, rather the editor of UM, Zaini, has made a great DNA discovery of the Malays that will be the answer to your problems created by loudmouths and noisy fellos.

Seems Zaini discovered the 'soft blood' trait on his visit to India where civilisation existed long before his 'soft blood' was around probably. See story below.

It's the unique 'soft blood' that the Malay race seem to possess that will surely lead to a new industry for BolehLand and turn it into the world's international hub for 'soft blood' supply, perhaps overtaking the Red Cross/Crescent!

Even if he tended to think the Malay 'soft blood' is the antidote that can tame those loudmouths and noisy Indians into mellow and gentle people, eventually transforming them into Malays, his remarks have created a ruckus with those having 'loudmouth and noisy blood' making them see red and screaming for his 'blood' being such a 'soft blood racist.'

The are those who see themselves as hardcore original Indians or whatever race after being deliberately mixed with the 'soft blood' through sex of course, (legal or illegal doesn't matter) believe they will retain their ori behaviour, whether its 'loudmouth' or 'noisy' in nature or has 'khinzir' flowing in their veins.

It might be a good idea for Zaini to use his 'soft blood' to calm his overtly hot tempered racist remarks.

Yes, in BolehLand, one CANNOT EVER NEVER question Islam especially non Muslims. Even Muslims cannot question Islam without a licence of course. So Kulasegaran has ruffled more than Zaini feathers and his 'soft blood'. After all, as BolehLand fellos our duty is to pay our taxes and shut up and never questions where the money goes or how it's spent, even for building mosques.

Kulasegaran is asking stupid wrong questions. He should have asked how much has been spent building places of worship other than mosques! It would be better to have more mosques than todi shops and emat ekor shops right?

Perhaps the non Muslims fear the more mosques are built the more tolerant non Muslims must be towards the Muslims, not the other way round. You cannot even hint for a lower decibel for the call to prayer or the traffic sucks in your neighbourhood on Fridays or have your church and temple stay put or if forced to relocate to a more convenient accessible place!

No no you should not question God, at least not yours! If you did, there will be countless police reports and you find yourself behind bars under the Sedition Act or ISA for insulting the sensitivities of the Muslims and their religion as well as the Constitution.

Even if you try and stay put in your century old religious abode, you'd still be considered insensitive to the will of the majority and if you refuse to shift or relocate to a place they say is OK, you find yourself behind bars under the Sedition Act or ISA for insulting the sensitivities of the Muslims and their religion as well as the Constitution. To add injury to your insult, you may get your pix on a headless cow and get stomped and pee-d upon by the 'soft blood' fellos!

Back to the 'soft blood' Malay theory. It might not be that true, seeing the behaviour of some of them lately with their effigy burning, stomping and peeing on posters of Chinese faces as well as Malays who oppose the UMNO Malays. Perhaps these fellos may not be true soft blooded Malays as their blood seem to boil easily and their hearts hardened just as fast and get roiled up to have done what they did! Which puts them in the category of the loudmouth and noisy blood fellos!

Perhaps they are pure Malays where their 'hard blood' has caused them to become hardheaded bigots and racists and behave like they are some 'tuans' without fear of recriminations or arrest by the 'soft blood' police force or AG or Home Minister!.

But if one is a moron and never can learn, they will never believe or know they are endowed with 'soft blood' to behave like civilised people compared to loudmouths and noisy fellos.

So the next time the august animal house is in session, Zaini could be there to know who has 'soft blood' and who are those hardheaded fellos who has 'impure' and 'hard blood' by the way they behave!

Meanwhile, since Zaini's 'soft blood' has caused other fellos blood to boil over, perhaps he should go for a blood transfusion instead, as well as a brain transplant too!

Is he only suggesting that loudmouths and noisy fellos need a 'transfusion' of sorts to calm their overreaction?

Zaini believes in Soft BloodLand, where soft blood fellos rule and no tainted 'hard blood' is going to pollute their land, race and religion particularly those loudmouth and noisy blooded fellos.

The often reminded 'pendatang' cina apek must now fear if this soft blood Zaini pays a visit to Beijing and discover that the other 'pendatang' blood is full of 'lard and khinzir' which may be even a greater threat to his 'soft blood'. Even those who have mixed their blood through marriage have not been fully assimilated, synthesized and transformed into 'soft blood', including those from Sabah and Sarawak. That is why these fellos are not considered 'soft blood' race and have problems getting scholarships for one!

It is remarkable these days in BolehLand, when racism rears its ugly head and when everyone is asked to rally around the 1Malaysia totem pole, there are those who still want to distinguish themselves different and with their 'soft blood' seems to demand they qualify to be the first in line queue to get handouts, freebies and supposedly a better advantage and handicap to come out as 'winner takes all'.

For the rest of non 'soft blood' creatures as they may be referred to, they actually don't mind being at the back of the line. They may not have the furry or slimy legs or provided with crutches to leapfrog because they see themselves the tortoise, a 'cold blooded' specimen really. And like the fable of the tortise and the creature with long furry legs, we know who will end up winner in the end, right?

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Cuit: Alkisah India di India dan India di Malaysia
Oleh Zaini Hassan (yang berada di kota raya Hyderabad, India dari 29 November-4 Disember menghadiri Forum Editor-Editor Sedunia) BERADA di kota raya tua India, Hyderabad selama seminggu minggu lalu amat memberi kesedaran kepada diri ini. Setiap inci persegi tanah di kota-kotanya dihuni oleh ratusan insan.
Setiap kilometer persegi dihuni oleh ratusan ribu insan dan setiap bandar raya di negara keramat itu dihuni oleh jutaan manusia. Dan India ialah tanah bagi 1.2 bilion umat manusia. Angkanya bertambah setiap saat. Berada di India bererti kita berada dalam satu realiti kemanusiaan yang sebenar. India ialah tanah bagi manusia ramai.
Jurang hidupnya adalah antara langit dan bumi. Yang papa terlalu papa, yang kaya terlalu kaya. Yang kaya, tidak pandang ke bawah, yang bawah tetap di bawah. Kasta, darjat atau keturunan masih diamalkan secara tebal di seluruh India. Ia semacam satu agama. Kasta atas tidak boleh bersatu kasta rendah. Jalan rayanya haru-biru.
Suasananya hiruk-pikuk. Bas, lori, kereta, basikal, teksi roda tiga, kereta lembu, kuda bersimpang siur. Bunyi hon adalah wajib. Pegang sahaja stereng, bunyi hon dulu.
Di belakang bas dan lori tertulis `tolong hon’. Tiada siapa marah jika dia dihon. Hon ialah nyawa. Semasa dalam perjalanan menghadiri makan malam perpisahan di Istana Chowmohalla (dibina pada 1780 oleh Nawab Nizam Ali Khan, Asaf Jah II), pemandu bas yang membawa kami tiba-tiba turun lari meninggalkan bas yang dibawanya.
Hilang dalam lautan manusia dan kenderaan. Kami terpinga-pinga. Dua lelaki preman masing-masing memegang submesingan jenis sterling yang mengawal keselamatan kami dalam bas berkata ``jangan bimbang’’.
Pemandu tadi sebenarnya turun untuk meleraikan kenderaan-kenderaan yang sudah berpintal di atas jalan raya. Dia bertindak menjadi polis trafik. Sambil dia menyelesaikan kekusutan itu, saya melihat di seberang sana seorang penumpang turun dari teksi roda tiga yang dinaikinya menolak kenderaan itu yang mati di atas jalan raya. Tiada rasa marah pun di muka penumpang itu yang menolong menolak teksinya yang rosak. Tiada siapa peduli apa yang berlaku di sekeliling mereka.
Polis trafik pun menjalankan apa yang terdaya, tanpa memperlihatkan sedikit pun kekerutan di dahinya. Trafik lalu lintas tetap berjalan lancar, walaupun dalam suasana kekecohan. Sebelah malam, di tepi-tepi jalan insan-insan tidur merata-rata. Ada yang telah nyenyak membungkus tubuh dengan kain selimut daripada kedinginan kota itu.
Yang belum tidur, duduk mencangkung sambil memandang ke satu tujuan yang tidak diketahui. Hampir dua jam bergelut kami tiba di istana bereka bentuk masjid itu.
Di sepanjang dinding tembok istana tertulis tulisan dalam bahasa Inggeris ``Ini tempat suci jangan kencing’’. Kencing berdiri sambil si anunya memancut ke dinding adalah pemandangan umum yang biasa. Mungkin kerana terlalu ramai manusia, tandas bukan lagi pilihan.
Awas, setiap pagi berhati-hati berjalan di kaki-kaki lima kerana terlalu banyak jerangkap samar dari isi perut manusia berlonggok di sana-sini. Suasana serupa juga juga khabarnya boleh dilihat di bandar raya lain termasuk di Mumbai. Sampainya di istana itu, kami dibawa masuk ke dalamnya. Satu suasana antara langit dengan bumi.
Kawasan istana lama itu diwarnai dengan lampu-lampu berwarni yang menyenangkan perasaan. Bagaikan berada dalam kisah Hikayat 1001. Tarian-tarian Bollywood dari era 50-an hingga kini dipersembahkan kepada kami.
Selesai persembahan kami dijamu dengan juadah Hyderabad tersohor di dunia, nasi beriyani. Kami makan beriyani kambing dan ayam, tanpa mempedulikan apa-apa lagi. Ia terlalu sedap tanpa boleh ditandingi oleh mana-mana restoran Malaysia, waima Hameediah di Campbell Street, Pulau Pinang mahupun Mahbob di Bangsar.
Di luar tembok sana, suasananya adalah terlalu kontras. India yang penuh warna-warni. India yang penuh dengan drama. Di dada-dada akhbarnya konflik di mana-mana.
Di Parlimennya pun haru-biru seperti di atas jalan rayanya juga. Televisyen memaparkan bagaimana seorang speaker dewannya tidak diendahkan oleh ahli-ahli Parlimen yang memboikot sesi soal-jawab.
Akhbar Deccan Chronicle dalam karikatur muka satunya (macam Senyum Kambing) keesokan harinya mencuit: Mengapa mereka tidak mahu buat sesi soal-jawab dalam kantin saja, kan di situ tempatnya ahli Parlimen selalu melepak?
India tetap India. Orang India ialah masyarakat yang begitu unik. Jika kita sering tengok wayang Tamil atau Hindi, itulah budaya mereka. Kecoh, kecoh dan kecoh.
Namun, kita di Malaysia pun ada orang India. Kecohnya pun lebih kurang sama. Mereka ini rata-ratanya terdiri daripada ahli-ahli profesional, peguam dan kini menjadi ahli politik. Di Malaysia hanya orang India yang pandai-pandai sahaja yang sering buat bising.
Mereka menguasai Majlis Peguam dan kini mereka sudah ramai di Parlimen, bukan mewakili MIC, tapi mewakili DAP dan PKR. Kerana mereka lantang dan suka buat haru-biru, suara mereka sering kedengaran. Salah seorangnya ialah N. Kulasegaran yang kini memegang jawatan Naib Pengerusi DAP Perak. Beliau lantang mempersoalkan hak-hak orang Melayu.
Katanya, beliau tidak faham mengapa setelah bertahun lamanya masih ada kelompok manusia percaya kepada warna kulit atau penampilan yang lebih tinggi daripada satu kaum lain. Kita tidak pasti apakah beliau ikhlas dengan kenyataannya itu. Dia tahukah apa yang dia cakap? Tapi yang pasti kenyataannya itu cukup sensitif dan akan membuat kumpulan lain marah.
Tapi seperti biasa orang Melayu marahnya tidak lama. Tak apalah. Orang Melayu tidak seperti orang India, walaupun ada juga Melayu yang darah keturunan Keling (DKK), tapi darah Melayu yang lembut banyak menguasai mereka. Jika di India, mungkin kita akan sentiasa dikawal oleh pengawal bermesingan.
Kulasegaran perlu mengambil cuti. Pergilah melawat ke India, dan hayatilah erti kehidupan di sana, hayatilah erti kasta dan darjat, miskin dan kaya, seperti yang saya alami minggu lalu. Seburuk-buruk Malaysia, inilah tanah tumpah darah kita. Utusan Malaysia, Dec 9, 2009.

Face value stuff when 1Malaysia Twits

2009-12-11T14:12:00.004+08:00

Facebook and Twitter the new Dot.com hype and buzz touted by those who seem to have not real life except in cyberface or seek safety in cyberspace, is the new 'you are somebody status if you got Facebook or Twitter' in the social networking hype. A sort of must have if you don't want to be considered old snail mail school and ageing netizens like your's truly who are still stuck in the bog blogging than broadcasting yourself to billions what you are doing or not doing in between your breaths!

And BolehLand no1Malaysia is an ardent Facebook and Twitter fan letting BolehLand fellos know what he's up to at least the visible part, like visiting a school or having chicken rice!

At least BolehLand fellos know at the tip of their fingers what their 1Malaysia is doing and up to even his official programme which must be a nightmare to his security fellos to safeguard him. Thought for a Head of State his schedule is usually P&C for security reasons! Perhaps our beloved 1Malaysia is much loved by the world after all he did call for the 1World, or is it 1Globe or is it 1Universe thingy. This should land him the Nobel Prize for High Visibility but they don't offer such an award. But there is a chance for the Nobel Peace Prize though but they don't give it to peace loving people first Head of State. They prefer those who can send 30k killing men machines to faraway places to wage wars!

But back to our no 1Facebook and 1Twitter fan.

While the zillions of Facebook and Twitter fans will talk about the different type of chicken they ate, or chickens they visited including new chicks that pecked on a Wood today and the rest of the day, as they also said it probably yesterday, a week ago and will still talk about chicken tomorrow or a week from now (save the Woody Wood that got Pecked issue) - these are very face value stuff like I woke up at 7.00 in the morning!

But if your are a no 1 person, you'd visit it hoping to get more interesting stuff that will change and shape the destiny of the nation and your life, than know what type of chicken went with the rice or how pedas the tom yam is or going to visit a village-- yawn!

Unless you are like a kinda of Ashton Kutcher, Jeong Ji-hoon or Robert Pattinson or Tiger Wood fan freak, who want to know what you eat or breadth, touched or ate every moment of your day or night? But himm, perhaps 1Malaysia considers himself as in the same league with these fellos!

But then being a leader and we the loyal fans would like to know how he felt about the BTN wars, the rising racism, fellos stomping on cowheads and given its 3 weeks more before good credit card holders are slapped RM50, right?

How is knowing your leader eating chicken rice or tom yam going to impact you and your concerns of bigger issues? Increase the sale of chicken rice?

It would be great if the 50k fans will be instantly 'twitted' with stuff like, 'It is a disgrace what the Penang, Ipoh and Shah Alam fellos have done, I have directed the IGP to take immediate action'

or, 'I am annoyed with the N and M fight over the BTN issue, I have asked both to stop the tirade' or 'this PI is again making frivolous statements.

Wouldn't such things be fantastic and shows the great leader is in touch with what's happening on ground and reassuring the folks he got things under control when he is at his keyboard!

Tell us how you feel than what you ate or your mechanical action or programme runup pehlease!

Now that will earn him more fans to be on the 'twit' with 1Malaysia, even those who think him a 'twi't will admire him for being the rational mind in a growing mindless action happening in BolehLand these days!

Odd that there is a dread of 'twits' from 1MalaysiaLady, 'Bought two plane loads of designer bags at Chatuchak, and will be going for a facial or spa do in downtown Devarana!

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Najib Stays Connected With Netizens Via Regular Updates On Twitter, Facebook
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 10 (Bernama) -- Despite his tight schedule, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak still manages to find time to update his Twitter and Facebook Fan Page, ensuring that his fans, friends and Netizens can keep in contact with him regularly.
An aide in the Prime Minister's Office disclosed that Najib regularly "twits" and updates his Facebook status.
The prime minister has also personally asked members of his Facebook Fan Page to suggest ideas on what type of activities they can do together next year.
"He (Najib) has personally asked for suggestions via Facebook to get ideas on activities that the fans and he can do together in 2010 to roll out some programmes to communicate with his fans. He is looking forward to getting new ideas and feedback from the fans," the aide told Bernama.
Currently, Najib's Facebook status states: "Dear friends, I have been taken aback by the continued interest you have shown in my updates on this page.
"As a result, I would like to interact more closely with you, so that we can learn from each other. I invite you to share with me practical suggestions for improving our interaction, whether online or events/programmes. Feel free to be as innovative as you like! I look forward to your comments."
His fan site, which was launched on Nov 16, has been well received by Netizens and Facebook users as it reached more than 50,000 fans in just three weeks.
His latest update, which was done at midday, stated, "NajibRazak: Just finished recording a special video message. Now having chicken rice for lunch."
In a space of three hours, it has received 132 comments with 156 people stating that they liked the update.
The prime minister has also communicated his thoughts on his recent trip to Thailand: "Concluding Thailand trip today with historic joint visit to Narathiwat. Visit to include schools and a handicraft village."
As well as: "I will look forward to working with Thai PM Abhisit Vejjajiva during joint visit to the Southern Province Narathiwat."
On the whole, each of Najib's updates receives some 100 to 200 comments.
At times, Najib even takes time to update his thinking and activities a few times in a day, reflecting his keen interest to stay connected with his fans.
Netizens interested in knowing the prime minister's latest thoughts and activities can access them at 1Malaysia.com.my

Brits Driven to War by Cab Driver

2009-12-10T15:59:00.006+08:00

The invasion of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003 on what we know now on a deliberate falsehood and Weak that SH has WMD.

Remember watching the UN proceedings 'live' on CNN on the, at that time, rather impressive and convincing verbosity, interspersed with diagrams of WMD sites, mobile bioweapons even wriggling a 'vial' of deadly white stuff to impress on those 'warmongers' they should blow the Saddam off the face of Iraqi soil!

And to support their case and make is sound too true not to believe, they referenced to their trustworthy intelligence report. Even if they knew, at least those who prepared the reports, they were presenting Weak Military Defective intelligence, these arrogant, warmongers just wanted to prove they are the greatest military power and whack Saddam for humiliating them!

These warmongers have been coginating on getting rid of Saddam since Bush senior was snubbed by Saddam after losing his Kuwait!

And so, the supposedly most technological advanced nation with the latest techno gizmo to listen to even your breathing when you use your cellphone in Timbuktu (if there was a signal) or count the number of gray hairs on your head in a jungle (as they did using their spy satellite to snoop on Uncle Ho and his band of Vietcong in the 70s)started a 'shock and awe' war based on some 'Curveball' sources and cab drivers. After seven years, the coalition of 'democracy' is it? continue to spend billions of dollars, fired salvos of missiles, dropped tons of bombs, killed countless innocent lives and practically is destroying a once proud civilisation in Iraq.

The world have witnessed some of the most shocking abuse of human rights as well as destruction of human lives that has brought about an absence of awe by the people of a return to peace and end to their civil religious conflict or to the greatness of the once mighty and Babylonian civilisation.

Time and again, wars have been started by jingoist belligerent warmongering statesmen at their own whims and fancies based on the 'lies' they deliberately create to justify their actions.

Let's hope the world do not once again be tricked by these cohort of self-vested interest demagogues and war mongers, be they fighting for freedom and democracy or believed they are the new Crusaders and army of God against infidels!

And in BolehLand, we no longer need to wonder why even anonymous blogs and websites are used at the whims and fancies of powers to be, to protect their own interest to put some people away 'legally' by relying on 'illegal' unsubstantiated sources. While other sources, whether ex-PI's or confirmed 'leak sources' are considered 'frivolous'.

Who says there is no 'truth' in fiction to warrant man to act believing they have a legal right while disregarding any moral or ethical issues? After all we all live in a mad mad unreal world!

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Iraq-WMD Claim Came from ... a Cab Driver?
By John Byrne, Raw Story. Posted December 9, 2009.

News in the UK: Iraqi cab driver was source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

A British parliamentarian claimed in a report published Tuesday that an Iraqi cab driver was the source of an infamous claim made by Prime Minister Tony Blair that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

The member of Parliament, a member of the conservative British Tory Party, claims that he was told by a British intelligence official that the claim actually came from an Iraqi taxi driver, and that it was considered highly unreliable but was tacitly backed by Blair's government in public statements anyway.

According to the report, the taxi driver worked near Iraq's border with Jordan. The cab driver is said to have made the comments while transporting two British intelligence officers.

"Under pressure from Downing Street to find anything to back up the WMD case, [British intelligence services] were squeezing their agents in Iraq for anything at all," MP Adam Holloway wrote in his report, leaked to the British Daily Mail. "One agent did come up with something - the [claim that chemical weapons could be launched on British forces in Cyprus in] '45 minutes,' allegedly discussed in a high-level Iraqi political meeting."

British intelligence officers "were running a senior Iraqi army officer who had a source of his own, a cab driver on the Iraqi-Jordanian border. He apparently overheard two Iraqi army officers two years before who had spoken about weapons with the range to hit targets elsewhere in the Middle East."

Iraqi cab driver was source for Iraq WMD claim, British MP says

... Rest of story here

An M and N 'racist' tiff?

2009-12-09T20:13:00.007+08:00

When two supposedly 'racists' or each name calling the other 'racist' and considered sensitive issue, better to say less and let these two 'ketuanans' slug it out or else those who including bloggers who are not UMNO fellos or in the ketuanan race may be accused of raising insensitive issues and worse get your pix on a cowhead and getting stormed! See news below.

So the best is to let these two, a N(azri) and M(ahathir) to slug it out their tiff on each other for the whole of BolehLand and the world to hear and see!

Battle of M and N
And in this ketuanan korner!

Tsk, tsk, for a BN youngster to say such things about an elder UMNO and ex PM, seems to suggest that there is a change in UMNO, at least on the 'adat' aspect of respecting the elders.

Haven't Bolehland fellos have been reminded for decades that respect of elders is the traditional, Malay, Asian culture and way! Looks like one change a coming is to belasah the ole fello and let the ruling now rule according to their way, not the M-way!

So did M out stepped his way and meddled again in this administration like the previous one?

Of course Tun being himself does not mince words when he said some 'truths' about race based parties being racist. And N too has his score points on BTN, whether riding to the anti sentiments against BTN is stlil too early to tell.

But then race based party does not necessarily makes one racist right? At least that is what the 1Malaysia policy seeks to dispel the main party in BN is what they tell us in an 'inclusive' Malay party than and exclusive excluding others one! Except you don't question their sacred Constitutional man given right you are kinda safe and left alone.

N's remark or outburst must be the strongest and harshest that an UMNO member has said towards his elder and ex leader and ex PM! And it's brave of him too! Yup times have changed but the manner in which the altercation is being played out must have surprised not only UMNO itself but the nation and those who think N is a rigid ultra-racist! Surprisingly he is speaking 'against' the BTN!

Thought not so long these fellos were giving their big brader's advice to the recently or is it still Mauled Chinese Association on not washing their dirty linen in public and to keep family affairs as internal and settle it internally!

So N's outburst must tell us some serious rumblings in the high echelons of UMNO leadership, some power struggle? or they have been made to look silly by an ole Tun!

Perhaps the next day, forgiveness and all that will happen, someone will say they have been misquoted except ole Tun doesn't believe he misquotes himself and attribute such boo-boos on the fault of the listener who perhaps is not smart enough or just plain anti-M to know what clever wisdom the ole sage is imparting!

So take up your seats and try not to be sitted ring side okay in this 'Father of all racism battle royale'. You might be accused of starting a conspiracy!

If M is the 'Father of all racism', does it make N the 'son of all racism'?

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Nazri: Dr M is ‘father of all racism’ Nazri said he would never resign because of the former PM. —
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 — Minister in the Prime Minister Department’s Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz attacked Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad again and called the former Umno president the “father of all racism” as the row between the two men over the controversial National Civics Bureau (BTN) continued.
Nazri criticised the former prime minister for being a hypocrite and said: "Who does Mahathir think he is?”
“If he can comment on others, why can’t I comment on him? Who is he? People kept telling me that he’s been in the government for 22 years. Yes but that’s not right for him to abuse people the way he abused the former PM. You mean to say he was the former PM for 22 years he can do anything he likes? I cannot agree and he’s no longer in the government.
“Last time he told us you must support the government. He was a perfect PM, I never complained. It was only after he retired, he started to attack us. He used to tell us, if one day we become a candidate and if we are dropped, we should not be angry because once that person supported us, now it’s time for us to support them.
“What is he doing now? We all supported him before through thick and thin and yet when he retired, he attacks us even worse than the opposition.
Today the opposition doesn’t need to do work. Dr M is the only one attacking us. Everything is not right.
During Tun Abdullah’s time, everything was not right but he’s a gentleman, he didn’t argue. Now with Najib, there is something wrong. Does he (Mahathir) want to become a PM?” Nazri told reporters at the Parliament lobby.
Nazri said he would never resign because of Dr Mahathir. “When he wanted to resign before, we told him not to but he wanted to step down.
Now he has stepped down, he’s asking me to resign. What for? I’m not going to give him the pleasure of resigning to make him happy because I’m not stupid to fall into his trap,” he said.
Nazri pointed out that if he belongs to a racist party, then Dr Mahathir is the “father of all racism” because he was the president of Umno. “He’s saying I’m in a racist party so he confirms what I said about him. If he says I’m in a racist party because I’m a member of Umno, then he is the father of all racism, he was the president of Umno for 22 years. It confirms that I said he was a racist. Please give him some other argument lah. As the ex-PM, he should give better suggestions. I feel sorry for him but I will continue,” he added.
Nazri maintained that he was not being disrespectful of Dr Mahathir but pointed out that the former premier should accept that he is also open to criticism. “This is democracy and free speech. I meant no disrespect to him. It’s just counter-argument to his criticism. There is no need to write to papers to say I’m disrespectful. This is a way out of the argument. Although he is an old man, he got himself involved in a matter that invites criticism from others. Don’t say when I criticise him, I’m being rude,” he said.
He added that Dr Mahathir also criticised the first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman. “When he criticised Tunku Abdul Rahman, that’s not rude? He taught me. If he does it is OK, but if we do it then it’s rude? In the 1960s he criticised the then PM, so if people do it now, don’t get angry. He’s my teacher,” he said.
Nazri also wondered why Dr Mahathir did not like him since the former premier was the one who appointed him a minister. “I didn’t force him, I didn’t put a gun to his head and force him. He knows I’m a good minister and I’ve been a minister for three terms. Each time a new PM takes over, there are rumours that I’ll be dropped. I’ve been a minister for 10 years. I only serve the rakyat,” he said.
The former premier and the minister in the Prime Minister’s Department have been at loggerheads over the need to revamp the BTN, which critics charge with cultivating racism instead of its original purpose of nation building.
Nazri had earlier called Dr Mahathir a “bloody racist” for defending BTN courses while reasserting the Cabinet’s earlier decision to overhaul the programme in line with the policy of 1 Malaysia mooted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
Nazri also lashed out at Dr Mahathir yesterday and described the former premier’s call for his resignation from the party as the “most stupid statement” that he has ever heard.
Dr Mahathir said that Nazri should resign from Umno because if he was against racism, he should not be in a racist party...courtesy copyright Malaysian Insider.

Holy Cow-a-Bang-a-DAP by Cowhead Protesters

2009-12-09T00:11:00.012+08:00

So we thought that the cowhead issue that had reared its ugly head has ended and the residents having apologised and all that was the end of it.

But today, there was as reported in the Malay Mail (see story below), a herd of cows had turn into raging bulls when the cowhead protesters caused a cow-motion outside the courts when they unfolded a banner that had the hallmark of all that is 'ketuanan melayu (even if we are recently told according to BTN version at least it's actually about the ruler and sultan, which is actually 'ketuanan kesultanan?' which gets more confusing what it means each day!).

And with the three rocket man faces on the cow is a clever montage carefully spliced in not to make it into an offensive religious insensitive poster into an acceptable cow-a-bang-dap-bashing video! With the feet being stomped for a 'kau-kau' treatment!

Stomp-troopers attack rocket with feet!

And no it's not that time of the year when shepherds tend to their herd, cows and sheep and await for God to spread joy, peace and love!

And one can't relate what this so called 'amok' action of lim-bashing is related to their earlier protest over a hindu temple location. How the frog stomping poster in Ipoh is related to the Shah Alam Hindu temple only these cowherds will know!

Cows aren't stupid towards this group of Malays for thinking that their cow-ard action of these fellos reflect the sensitive Malays in general.

Malay sensitivities about many issues such as race, places of worship, scholarships, licences, wealth, even the eating and praying habits of others are all like sacred cow issue to them. And rightly so. But if it is only going to be mine, mine, mine and anyone who has ouched on such sensitivities will result in the kind of action that these fellos did as their right, then God help us all in BolehLand.

If the majority of peace loving and rational Malays see their action as justifiable, so much for 1Malaysia dream of tolerance, blah2. But then, a large majority of Malays will surely be disgusted by the actions of these few who are giving a very wrong impression that the Malays share such similar cow herd mentality like theirs!

So is this what 1Malaysia or ketuanan melayu is all about as this group of fellos understand it to mean? Diversity in their form of action to gain respect for the ketuanan? Is this how a warning is given to those who are insensitive towards the Malays and how treatment will be meted to those who step on the sensitivity of the Malays? worse than the cows we supposed judging from what they did today!

So it's perfectly ok to put up Chinese faces on cows as now that makes it less sacred to another religion? So DAP goons deserved what they got tis time because of what they did earlier, even if the case in question seems unrelated though the message is related to the Ipoh incident? But these fellos must have completely developed mad cow disease as to have forgotten about the effigy burning in Penang!

And it shows its always about their sensitivity, their rights over all others. And their right to protest anywhere, anyhow without being afraid of police action.

Perhaps they thought what they earlier did was nothing wrong to them since their rights are more rightful than other religion or others? They may think their action tis time is to reinforce their earlier one that they are justified to use cows and call all others 'cows' other than themselves for not understanding or accepting that what they did was not an insult to any religion, race or government.

This time since DAP and Chinese heads are used, are they sending a strong message that their protest is not religious related or insulting to the Hindus and Indians but more DAP and nothing to do with the Chinese. One would have thought Khalid face may be there but then probably these fellos must be consistent, can't step on a Malay face as sensitive you know, mooo?

Are they thinking they will be let off and holding an early celebration to taunt who? The DAP. the Chinese or Pakatan, or safeguarding Hee's and the two BN friendly independent fellos now on a corruption trial... mooo?

Are they thumping their fists at the government for taking them to court or are they blaming the DAP for asking the government to act?

Let's hope the chinese and DAP who may feel insulted not go to their level and start another round of animal insults!

This is a sad day for MOHA to have failed in their intelligence gathering of what these cowheads are going to plan. They didn't know a protest would occur here but they are able to know when a candle light vigil is being organised. Oh forgot, the latter were brave enough to state their stand. Can't say about this group's action today, whether it was an act of bravery and show of what ketuanan is or a cow-ard act!

We leave it to the good hands of MOHA to see if it warrants any further action. Hope they don't act as a reaction to public's disgust and outrage in the first instance when they got away with it when they held their cowhead protest!

If the protest is not seen as also causing injury to the rest of BolehLand fellos or the Chinese, the rest of us must really be as the posters say 'stupid as the cows' not to guess what the many messages and insinuations their action is meant to convey!

Let's not pretend some section of BolehLand society is hurt by such insensitivities and that most rational mind BolehLand fellos are disgusted by their action and all those who behave worse than cows stepping on any person's face, or a flag of another nation or burn effigies.

Are we all going to stand by and say yup DAP deserved a taste of their own medicine, let's give them a rah rah rah, send them home and we all go home too?

If we do that, then expect chickens and goats and pigs to be used next to insult human beings. And we thought we were not descendants of some Darwinian theory or primates and call ourselves children of God with some claiming to be 'holier than thou' or more godly or godlike, God themselves higher than those considered 'kafirs' and infidels.

In Bolehland we can't seem to face man to man, face to face as civilised human beings. We prefer to use animals to do our dirty work!

Any revision to the BTN arising from this lastest cowhead incident...mooo?

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Commotion outside Shah Alam courts after trial date fixed
SHAH ALAM: The "cow-head" protesters turned rowdy outside the Shah Alam courts after their trial date was fixed this morning.
The 12 accused and their supporters created a commotion at the court's entrance as they yelled slogans, and kicked and stepped on a banner depicting caricatures of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, DAP leader Lim Kit Siang and Perak DAP secretary Nga Kor Ming.
Later, at 11.30am, the demonstraters followed one of the accused, Ibrahim Sabri, 43, who lodged a report at the Section 11 Shah Alam police station against the DAP leaders, including vice-president and Ipoh Barat MP N. Kulasegaran, for remarks on Malay sovereignty.
Earlier, the trial date for the "cow-head" demonstrators was fixed to begin on April 12 next year. Deputy public prosecutor Datuk Razali Che Ani told the Shah Alam Sessions Court the prosecution would be led by deputy public prosecutor Ishak Yusoff.
The judge was Hasdi Hasan, while Razali was assisted by Harris Ong Mohd Jeffrey Ong.
The 12 demonstrators in the Aug 28 "cow head" incident in front of the Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Building here are Ibrahim, Ahmad Mahayuddin Abdul Manaf, 36; Eyzva Ezhar Ramly, 31; Mohd Azmir Mohd Zain, 35; Ahmad Suhairy Zakaria, 30; and Mohd Hilmi Ni, 40. They were represented by Hashim Ibrahim.
Ibrahim and Ahmad Mahayuddin are jointly charged with stepping on a cow's head, Eyzva Ezhar with bringing in the cow's head, and Mohd Azmir, Ahmad Suhairy and Mohd Hilmi with bringing and stepping on a cow's head in an illegal assembly.
They are charged under Section 4(1) of the Sedition Act 1948 and face a maximum of RM5,000 fine, or jail of up to three years, or both. All pleaded not guilty.
They also pleaded not guilty to an alternative charge of wounding the feelings of Hindus at the same place and time, and face up to a year in jail, fine, or both, under Section 298 of the Penal Code if found guilty.
Ahmad Mahayuddin and Ibrahim are the chairman and deputy chairman, respectively, of Section 23 residents' action committee which led a demonstration against the relocation of a temple to the area.
They and six others — Jainuddin @ Zainuddin Md Yusuff, 67; Mohd Jurit Ramli, 39; Mohamad Nordin Zakaria, 46; Jamil Mohamad Isa, 40; Rahimuddin Md Harun, 39; and Azhari Shaari, 39 — are also charged with taking part in an illegal assembly...Malay Mail, Dec 8, 2009

Air Asia Fleecing Customers over Unfair Convenience Fee Charges

2009-12-08T16:48:00.015+08:00

There is outcry that retailers are charging customers using credit card for their purchases, charging the extra %, depending on the amount the bank charges the merchant for credit card transaction. This thereby increases the total cost of the good or service, the price higher than the displayed retail price.

This is really an unethical and unscrupulous practice to pass on the credit card charges to the customer, often unsuspecting card holder! While the government seems adamant to impose the RM50 service charge, they are not bringing such retailers to the book. In the end, the consumer suffers!

Everyone who buys a pc at Low Yat Plaza, or any IT and most electronic outlets at least in the Klang Valley, knows that he is slapped with the credit card charges over and above the price of the hardware. Bought one last month and had to pay the 3% or so credit card charges. The pc outlets will tell you that their margins are actually small, not sure how many small 'zeros' they are referring to the 'small' profit they make.

This is similar with those zero interest plans where the cost is hyped up as the financial institutions have already calculated the cost of funds if the payment is stretched over a period of time.

And with other retailers, there is a suspicion if not already a known fact the merchant card charges have been inbuilt into the total cost. If the item is say RM100 and to make than 100% gain if cards are used, they'd probably sell at RM103, so that the 3% merchant fee is actually paid by the customer! So effectively, the merchants if they are smart with pricing wll not pay one sen to the card issuer! And they make more if you pay cash! And extra RM3!

When GST gets implemented, the one paying and at the losing end is still the consumer!

And Air Asia seems to get away with the convenience fee and ridiculous to charge for per passenger viz ticket than a one time charge for full payment of the total bill! It's seriously daylight robbery, the charge is perhaps more than the bus ride to LCCT or even the fare itself if you manage to get cheap fares!

Why is it that the card issuers are not penalising Air Asia for contravening the t & c if we are told that merchants cannot impose charge on credit card payments else this infringement will result in termination of the contract? Is it that the card issuer is afraid to lose the business as there are other card issuers out there who are willing to be in cahoot with Air Asia to break the rule and play foul?!

Where is the governance and ethics of it all Air Asia? All your awards means nothing when you impose this nonsensical fee. Air Asia is winning awards for every imaginable type of operations and for this convenience charge, they should also win the award for being 'cheats'! It's surprising they are not getting government rebuke and ordered to stop this practice! Is Air Asia showing their arrogance that at the end of the day BolehLand fellos are actually cheapskate and will complain but still want to save like RM10 on fare compared to MAS.

But MAS is giving them a run for their money and offering the works for a price difference of RM10 more expensive over Air Asia for the same route. And I've always preferred MAS over Air Asia after all it's so much less hassle getting to KLIA, the taxi fare seems cheaper, the seats more comfortable, the f&b so much respectable and there is more leg room! And you are not charged for convenience payment fee!

Already Air Asia is charging for everything the moment you step into their low cost carrier. Don't be surprised that to maximise profit their loo will be coin operated one day!

What is the convenience charge they are paying to the card merchant? Thought it is the card issuers who are bearing the cost of the terminal and infrastructure? And the government don't think it's anything wrong? Air Asia is smart knowing that travellers have no choice if they want to be cheapskate! So it's like ringgit wise, credit card foolish fees!

If Air Asia is allowed to get away with this special fee, what is there to stop MAS or other airlines to follow suit? Soon it becomes like a cartel type of charging! Who looses? It's always the consumer who has to pay?

What cost of payment are they paying unique to them compared to the sushi outlet or hair dresser who also accept card payments without their convenience payment fee? Is Air Asia using something very different? Hey they don't even need to have a physical reader to swipe the card! It's done electronically like the million of other e-commerce sites that don't charge special fee! Come up with an acceptable excuse pehleaseee!

Air Asia cannot think that passengers will just keep quiet and grumble with the fee as they make traveller like some desperate person who has no choice but to use Air Asia if they want to travel cheap even if it's 10% cheaper than the rival! Has Tony got big headed after winning more trophies than the cups in my kitchen?

It is surprising the government is not stopping Air Asia or the card merchants are being responsible in asking Air Asia to stop imposing such charges. The mighty ringgit is mightier than all the talk of good governance and all that corporate responsibility Air Asia or the financial institutions who are card issues claim themselves to be practicing.

As Air Asia keeps telling us they are a low cost budget airline, their unfair convenience charge shows the low ethical standards they apply towards their budget traveller!

Hope Air Asia, stop showing their 'airs' and arrogance and really lame excuse of the fee being used to subsidise the payment system. Travellers should stop booking for a month and let Air Asia feel that travellers have choices too just as they have choices on charging customers!
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AIR TRAVEL: Special-fee burden
AIRASIA says its "convenience fee is to subsidise the cost of the payment systems" and is "applicable for all online payments made via credit, debit or charge cards". It goes on to say that "the fee is charged per guest for each way."
My complaint is this: Why does this fee apply to each guest and not to each transaction? I did an online booking for two adults and intended to use my credit card.
I was surprised to see that the "convenience fee" was RM20 (that is, RM5 per person each way. How does AirAsia justify a per person per way fee as being necessary for a single transaction?.. Star Dec 8, 209.

Size 5 Ball Game Too Big for BolehLand Women's Soccer Team

2009-12-08T15:17:00.005+08:00

Ok call it soccer or football, the BolehLand women's soccer team kena socked by Asean neighbours for a 14 and and 8 by Thailand and Vietnam respectively.

And we thought our women are tough, smart, professional, you know coming from a more developed, modern and football crazy nation with like 24 hours football in the air on the celestial channel. Coupled with modern facilities and also probably the best of sports pampering, they would be a force to reckon with to blow off opponents, than being blown away!

While the men's team can still kick balls and save some dignity for the nation, the lasses got whipped and definitely 'tak boleh' in kicking balls Size 5 Ball Game (the size of the football). But then the guys did get whipped before by the likes of Myanmar and Laos! So are what size ball are we good at squeezing or playing?

Well the Thai and Vietnamese gals seem to be able to prove that they are just as good as their men's team in winning over BolehLand. Can't be said for the BolehLand's gals team. They are being consistent with their men team in losing!

Looking at the score line, one may think they were playing badminton!

Yes, we empathise with them. We are sure they tried their best to kick the ball and score. But such high scoreline?

Is it that they didn't get to train in UK or was just formed? Or the women don't want to break a nail by playing aggressively! Or heading the ball will mess their hairdo and contact means 'haram'? Or were they wearing attire that restricted their movement and agility in line with the strict moral codes we practice even if we are playing on or off the field?

Gosh thank goodness for banning them next year and spare them and all of us the embarrassment! Embarrassment is an understatement. Humiliation and disgrace the more horrifying reactions, no? Coach should be sacked together with the FAM fellos, eh?

But rather than sack them since they can't kick or handle balls and they must eat, sleep and think football, perhaps let them be the men's football team cheerleader squad? At least if the guys lost by similar terrible margins, the pom pom gals would have scored with the crowd with their squats, flips and flirts!

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FAM bans women's team from all international meets
PETALING JAYA: The FA of Malaysia (FAM) have decided to ban the national women’s football team from international competitions next year.
The move comes in the wake of the two huge defeats they have suffered in the ongoing Laos SEA Games.
The Malaysian team lost 0-14 to Thailand and 0-8 to Vietnam.
FAM deputy president Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar said after a meeting at Wisma FAM in Kelana Jaya yesterday that the women’s football and futsal teams would not be allowed to compete internationally, except in friendlies, in the future.
“After two big defeats, which are an embarrassment to Malaysia, the priority now is on development programmes to strengthen the women’s football and futsal teams,” he said — Bernama, Dec 8, 2009

Don't ask frivolous questions!

2009-12-07T16:52:00.006+08:00

"I don't entertain frivolous statements," on

- the liar PI Bala as I had already sworn on the holy book
- where PI Bala or RPK
- reducing the RM50 credit card tax as these people are rich enough to own a card they can pay the service tax
- the GST which will be imposed on everyone including those who don't earn enough to pay income tax
- removal of sugar subsidy as it has caused many people getting diabetes
- removal of fuel subsidy that is going to happen to help repay for the debt
- giving oil royalty to Kelantan as it is our oil not theirs
- my decisions I ask MCA to take
- why I did not promote Sarawak MP to be Minister
- why Perak is legitimately BNs
- why the debt is increasing
- the PKFZ
- MACC
- reports in the Auditor General Report
- 1Malaysia policy
- ketuanan Melayu
- BTN courses
- 3 language education policy
- banning of religious books
- why we voted against rebuking Iran
- Anwar charged for acts against nature and Saiful is not charged too!
- any other frivolous questions about UMNO and BN

Ok now would you like to ask how me and first lady's New York, Port of Spain and Thailand trip were?

Stupid Government Policies Push Factor in Migration?

2009-12-07T12:07:00.001+08:00

It's this time of the year when BolehLand fellos with dual citizenship or new found PR status of their new found country do their 'annual' migration from their new abode to their 'ole home.' Some to see family members or relatives, some missing their favourite ABC and chow kuey teow while others to do 'shopping' and some just want to be on familiar ground to chill out and spend their new found richness. Yet others want to tell us how 'free' they are compared to what we folks here are experiencing.

And met a schoolmate over the weekend back from down under, the annual Christmas 'vacation' in BolehLand. She has been there umpteen years and now an A-gal, i.e. Aussie gal having got her PR after graduating there and working there. She is among the 70% of my classmates who have decided to migrate overseas.

Me: So how's everything down there?
AussieCitizen: Ok, lots of work, same like before?
Me: Same? Tot it's great with all those freedom there and high pay that allows you spend here like a duchess!
A-gal: Rudd sucks, behaving like all the former PM, backtracking on his promises!
Me: Oh, you mean they like BolehLand government!
A-gal: Heck no, pehleasee, the blokes here are nothing compared to back home. At least we get to shaft their a******s if they behave like morons and don't fear being like here what you call it, ISA, Sedition Act and moral squad at your back like some 27 hour convenient stall.
Me: Yah, it would be great if our fellos here like 7-11 fellos, available 24 hours to safeguard us.
A-gal: Safeguard you, more like hoping to be your guards while you are behind bars!
Me: There you go gain, thinking we are some banana republic, this white man tutti fruitti mentally typical of so called free democracies, arrogant cina-apek kangaroo koala bitch you (LOL)
A-gal: So what we hear about more people migrating? You know why I migrated, it's the stupid government policies! more BodohLand than BolehLand?
Me: I tot you said your fellos were morons! What stupid policies are you referring to? Which means we are equally stupid fellos to follow them since we didn't migrate!
A-gal: Stupid here means, racist politicians and policies, everything is race and religion and privileges, preference, nepotism. You need to be connected to do anything or get anywhere? There is no religious freedom. Children don't have a future here!
Me: But you where rich, such things didn't matter to you as your parents could send you away. Not like me, poor and made the best of support we could get
A-gal: Yah and you couldn't even get a scholarship or loan even though you were the smarter one in class. But you can’t complain becoz you had a choice you could have migrated if you wanted. So you can’t complain now if you want to suffer here
Me: Who said I'm suffering if I am complacent? If I just accept how things are am I suffering?
A-gal: Silent suffering? You are a coward not to leave right?
Me: Guess so, but we spoke last GE right? And we are not cowed into what they ask us to do!
A-gal: Oh really, are things better? You are unsure if the law is to protect you or protect the establishment! Even candle light gatherings rattle them and you find yourself in shackles, and they decide what you can drink or even what to use in your prayers!
Me: Better in what sense? At least we can speak out now! Do you go to church there how is it?
A-gal: Oh I free thinker now! Better like in more freedom of worship, less racism in application for scholarships, business licence, housing, etc. Speak out as far as they allow you! They even censor your websites, yours might be next (LOL)
Me: Actually still the same as now it gets highlighted what was silent or rather people were afraid to speak out for the last 3 decades or so?
A-gal: You mean 5 decades, eh?
Me: But what about you, what have you done to reduce what we hear happening in Australia, racism against foreign students? and the natives are still getting a raw deal? taxes increasing
A-gal: Oh nothing to do with me.
Me: But you said you migrated because you believed such things happening in BolehLand and no justice and discrimination. And while you are there now, you didn't even fight the injustice, racism there? What's the difference then? I still can eat at teh tarik shop anytime, drink, be merry and feel unsafe at times. Don't you get that there too?
A-gal: Well yah, but you don't feel you are discriminated against?
Me: Huh? But you complain about the taxes there, the new and supposedly poorer and darker than you cinaman skin migrants taking over your space, even the rabbits and wild camels. Are you not a coward if you have such gripes and don't fight for your rights? Let me ask if the dust storms worsen and your home is now turned into like a desert what would you do?
A-gal: We can't protest because it will be seen we are racists! So we blame the government and if the dusk storm becomes a permanent thingy, supposed migrate back to BolehLand if it turned into a desert. After all with money I have why should suffer when I can migrate anywhere who wants my money right?
Me: What about the Malays who migrate there?
A-gal: Well they all have to compete like the rest of us and no point complaining because if you think you can't make it, it's not anyone's fault but yours. You don't expect handout from the government.
Me: Don't they feel discriminated like their religion? The religions tension there?
A-gal: Well when in Rome do as the Roman do. If they felt religious discrimination, they should have migrated to the Middle East or Iran or Pakistan or Afghanistan or stayed home right?
Me: And your kids okay there?
A-gal: Giving them a good education is real tough, so expensive and I want to give here the best and not have her sit with those lazy fellos. Those Aussies fellos are kinda pampered. Damn racist, think we taking over their country!!!
Me: Oh same here!
A-gal: Hey let's de-stress and go for retail therapy? Things are so cheap here compared to back home. And I can't get authentic wan tan or mee rebus or rojak!
Me: Things are so expensive here compared to Thailand?
A-gal: You think of migrating there ah?

And so it is not unique to BolehLand but generally accepted the world over one principal push factor of citizens leaving their homeland is the stupid policies of the government!

While political, economic and social policies are the push factors, they are equally the pull factors.

So the increase of BolehLand fello preferring the green pastures in another patch of earth so according to the government is in the order of 'better education, brighter career or business prospects and marriage.'

Didn't the Deputy PM and Educated Ministere, mooed that other fellos are looking at BolehLand for their education model and that the first to adopt a world class benchmark for educators. Plus having three languages in the education model must surely be something good if one talks of diversity. And even if English seemed 'weired' to be spoken, the institutions of higher learning are using English as the teaching language.

And to not be able to give the total outflow and according to race is rather odd, considering BolehLand seems the leader in race identification considering that the moment one is required to fill in a form, the mandatory 'race' is a prerequisite.

But we should not single out any race for leaving, even if the Malays seem to be on the rise. Odd, the ketuanan party is not grumbling and hurling 'ungrateful, disloyal' accusations against those who leave after the government has spent millions making them somebody in the hope they will return back the favour!

If the government officials are not convinced of what BolehLand can offer in terms of education, sending their kids overseas to study, business, where foreigners seem to be courted and given more incentives than local fellos, politics still stuck in the pre 1969 and post 1969 era, democracy vacillate between a secular and theocracy, civil rights at the whims and fancies of a Minister, judiciary system that is judgemental and seen leaning towards the government than making good judgement, security institutions as 'bouncer' boys of the government, then how do ordinary BolehLand folks have faith in themselves?

So am I the stupid one making a stupid choice to stay put or my frens the stupid ones thinking they made a clever choice to migrate only to find that there are equally stupid government in the new green pastures than the ancient forest she left where the law of the jungle seem to rule than man, rational man at least!
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Two-fold increase in Malaysians giving up citizenship
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 1 – The number of Malaysians who surrendered their citizenship has almost doubled in this year, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Senator A. Kohilan Pillay, who revealed today that about 3,800 Malaysians have given up their citizenships to date compared to 2,000 last year. This figure, however, is much smaller than the 304,358 Malaysians who were reported to have migrated from March 2008 to August 2009.
Kohilan clarified that the number of “Malaysians who migrated” consists of those who are working abroad and registered with the respective Malaysian embassies.
There was nevertheless a sharp rise in the number of Malaysians who registered themselves as having moved abroad with 210,000 of them doing so from January to August this year compared with 94,000 from March to December 2008. He also said that between 45 to 55 per cent, or roughly half, of the Malaysians working abroad are professionals.
The volume of Malaysian talent moving abroad is a potentially damaging brain drain and a matter of concern as the country is attempting to remake itself into a developed high-income nation.
The most common reasons given for migration were better education, brighter career or business prospects and marriage.
Kohilan also pointed out that the government is taking some steps to attract talent to the country, including making it easier for foreigners with desired expertise to obtain permanent residence.
Kohilan, who is from Gerakan, also criticised the Penang state government currently under Pakatan Rakyat, saying that they should stop using the shortage of engineers an excuse for the recent loss of an RM10 billion electronic factory investment and should instead find ways to overcome it.
“Penang should not blame others if there is no investment,” Kohilan told The Malaysian Insider.
“What professionals would want to stay there if there is only push factors? There must also be pull factors. They must think wisely and make sure the state also has pull factors.” Kohilan said that there was no breakdown by race for Malaysians who have moved abroad but some migration agents have noticed a rise in applications from Malays to migrate over the past few years.
Robert Chelliah, who runs a migration consultancy in Petaling Jaya says that he has seen a noticeable increase in interest among Malays to move to Australia. “These are educated Malays and they feel frustrated with the system of governance and they have a global frame of reference to make comparisons,” he said.
“Generally, the push factor from Malaysia has been on the rise ... people feel pushed away from the country. They feel alienated and they feel that their prospects are limited by factors that they have no control over,” he added.
According to Kohilan, Australia had the most number of Malaysians registered with the Malaysian embassy with 274,000 and the US second with 31,000 and Taiwan third with 14,000. He added that there were about 50,000 Malaysian students now studying abroad. copyright Malaysian Insider

Declassifying Bukit Antarabangsa Landslide Report

2009-12-06T15:07:00.005+08:00

So finally the BN government has decided to declassify the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide report as reported in the MSMedia today.

Thanks to Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) application, the government's decision was made to "safeguard the interest and safety of the residents."

Weeks before, the Pakatan government seemed to have hit a landmine in wanting to declassify it and the government was trying to find the worm who leaked it in cyberspace.

The validity of the report in cyberspace was confirmed by the government because they wanted to trace the source of the leak. Now why would you want to comment on a report and go all out to get the culprit if it is false, right?

Wonder if Pakatan government didn't 'declassify' it or BN controlled the state government, the report will ever be declassified. It would probably be buried under layers of bureacracy and officialdom and sealed permantely by a piece of OSA legislation!

The public has always argued that reports of tragedy affecting public safety should be made public so that they can take measures to safeguard themselves as well as advocate for better government responsibility to prevent such tragedy from happening.

A friend's near million ringgit property at the area was affected and was anxious hoping that the report be made public so that he knows if he can return or sell his property! Suggested to him as somebody bumi to gather resident's to voice up to release the report as his status does carry weight and the government not think it as a Pakatan request.

But why should it be seen as an opposition or whoever request? It is public interest and should not be politicised like what it was made to be when Selangor said it will declassify it two weeks back.

Phone my fren and he is anxious to get a look at it to see if it is similar to the one in cyberspace. At least he will have peace of mind finally!

And in the interest of the public, let's hope the MRR2 and other projects that have collapsed, like the Terengganu stadium or even new highways experiencing landslides. Better to expose any shoddy work by the contractors to avoid them getting future contracts that will endanger more lives than bury such reports which only raise speculation of cover up, scandals and corruption.

When it is about public safety, please don't use the OSA to endanger the lives of the people and protect the culprits! Are lives more dispensible over greed and money?

BN should have used the report as an opportunity to show that they live up to their 1Malaysia than 1Contractors policy by considering 'people first' and release the 'report now'. The delay only serve to give the impression of a reactionary decision to 'protect some cover up, person or persons first'. They can't claim credit that the declassification is about 1Malaysia!

What about the PKFZ and the super rail track project? Why should the public or the Sun or Pakatan reveal problems faced in projects that affect the public or may have impact on the common good of the people and their safety? When will the government be the first to take the initiative to reveal something is amiss than to have to do a 'Putrajaya we have a problem' and then scramble for 'damage control' and call the foreign PR agency to work out a 'spin' that gives a roundabout to the public?

DAP Out of Step on Stepping Fiasco

2009-12-06T14:01:00.006+08:00

The DAP fellos action last week stepping on the face of the Pakatan turned BN friendly elected statesman is just as disgraceful as the effigy burning of their LEG. They have set their seats and feets on fire actually by this walk-over fiasco!

Their actions does lend credence to the hunch that the Pakatan party are a bunch of wackos, misfits and backstabbers, with a few using their feet to do the talking!

The 'ditto' act is no excuse and for them to now spin that the leaders should not be blamed is political hypocrisy than mastery at its best. The apology is also a plea to blame the Perak leaders in the likes of this Ngeh, who in the past have exhibited rather rowdy ala 'thuggery' behavior after being ousted as the state government. Mind you, this fello is not a video recorder or a stand in comedian but a legal eagle! Blinded by hate or frustration is no excuse for him and the party to act irrationally and threat it lightly like a circus even if they thought those three frogs-hee-teers stabbed them on the back!

Veteran DAP leaders can't absolve themselves, particulalry veteran Lim from the blame as he could very well have stopped, asked them to remove it and then continue. No, he was 'caught' by surprise and his brains couldn't connect at that time to think rationally probably due to his old age catching up on him or he agrees with the sentiments of the DAP fellos. The 'blind leading the blinded?'

Steppin on own foot eh?

So no point trying to blame the Penang thugs for stepping on their leader when the DAP fired salvos at three heads! They make themselves worse brat kids effigy burners! In this tit for tat, the DAP is behaving like a twerp, with brains looming on looney behaviour. If this is the alternative Bolehland folks are being presented, thye are all screwed!

So should they be forgiven for apologising for what they deliberately did? If you want to do something deliberately, the apology is pointless. It makes the audience like some moron stupid fellos thinking they should 'empathise' with the snatch thief at the point of the crime and allow it to happen because the crook was 'justified' in doing what he did?

It's a pr thingy the leaders quickly issued an apology before the Penang fellos apologised first. But even if the DAP issued the apology on the next GE campaign, it won't be too late, considering it's quite difficult for the BN fellos to apologise for most things as they believe they have the right to do what they did!

But the DAP have overstepped their boundaries and let the hopes of those who see them more rational and intelligent people. Only diehards will condone their action. But to the rest, it makes putting an 'x' for them more difficult.

This is probably not the last one will see from this Ngeh and his cousin. There must be truth that these two are the cause of the downfall. They are the WMD in the arsenal of DAP rockets - the Wacko Misfits Destroyers of the DAP. Each salvo they fire is a rocket aimed at their own feet!

If the DAP continue to go irrationally ballastic in the future, the voters may well decide to kick them off as a party who can't seem to be the better alternative than the BN and for them to better mark an 'x' for the other brat instead!

KSK don't know meaning of 'ketuanan melayu'?

2009-12-05T18:40:00.008+08:00

It's odd when 'ketuanan melayu' is openly used, debated and talked about in the open and especially so at UMNO assembly and by election campaigns, teh tarik shops, pubs, market, offices, demonstrations, it's deemed too sensitive to discuss it in the august house!

We would have thought that in the highest institution of democracy as well as creator of laws that decide the fate of the citizens, such issues will not be deemed trivial or sensitive in Parliament!

Perhaps the KPI minister REALLY didn't know what it is so he avoided showing himself a silly moron if he gave a kind of 'omong' senseless explanation, like "there is no ketuanan melayu actually, it's thought up by UMNO as their 'truth' so that the race will believe them as the rightful political party who is defender of this 'truth' and vote them so that they can win the elections and I can still keep my job even if i lost..." or something like that?

Or he could sound very intelligent, as he was a former university lecturer, ex educator and ex chief minister really and said something like "'ketuanan melayu' is real and you better accept it if you want to stay here and the one asking for a stupid definition must be deaf and living elsewhere as he has been reminded so often enough by the party who created this 'truth' where you stand and your place in BolehLand based on this 'ketuanan melayu' concept and policy..." and to 'Amin' that would be the maverick Ibrahim who would shout out, (he did actually shout it out) 'Tan Sri, this is a Malay country!"

Enough said and the wise Speaker is wise to give an 'exceptional' score to Koh's KPI for not answering the question or it will provoke the fellos who defend this 'ketuanan melayu' concept, mainly his boss!

So the next time anyone ask what is 'ketuanan melayu?' there is no need to explain the historical context or go into a lecture of BolehLand's political polemic or ask a chinaman minister supporter of it to try and explain.

Just remember the five magic words is enuf, 'This is a Malay country!' and we can dispense with the millions or is it billions of ringgit BTN spend on lecturing on 'ketuanan melayu.'

We must thank Ibrahim for doing a noble civic minded deed explaining it and saving tax payers money on such civics minded BTN courses too!

So Pakatan fellos must stop entraping non-Malay government ministers and officials for an explanation please? To change or reverse the 'truth', remove the institution or body that perpetuate it.

Hmm.. wonder why noone is asking why there isn't 'ketuanan cina' or 'ketuanan india' or 'ketuanan 1Malaysia'?
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National unity issues spark heated debate
KUALA LUMPUR : National unity issues sparked a heated debate when Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon avoided answering a question on Ketuanan Melayu (Malay Sovereignity).
His decision, however, was commended by Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia who said he has advised Koh not to entertain the provocative issues raised up by M. Kulasegaran (DAP-Ipoh Barat) in his supplementary question.
However, others like Datuk Mohamad Aziz (BN-Sri Gading), Datuk Ibrahim Ali (Ind-Pasir Mas) and Datuk Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan) were unhappy and urged Koh to respond to Kulasegaran's allegations.
"Ipoh Barat asked a nasty question but the minister didn't reply. He asked about Ketuanan Melayu. As a responsible minister, he should answer the nasty question but he was trying to play safe," said Mohamad Aziz.
"I am sad that the minister did not reply in the interest of the Malays," he added, followed by Ibrahim who shouted: "Tan Sri, this is a Malay country!"
Pandikar Amin then asked them to take their seats and said: "The question was important and it has been answered nicely by the minister. But, with this kind of attitude shown by the MPs, how can we tell the people to be united? Please act as parliamentarians. Avoid provocations."...extracted from Sun Dec 3, 2009

Shameful 'shame' & sham

2009-12-05T16:35:00.013+08:00

It seems in BolehLand there seem to be an abundant supply of shameful hypocrites passing around judgement of shame to people they deemed as less human than them.

The DG of Immigration's Abdul Rahman Othman shameful remarks on Fatine as having 'brought great shame upon us', for overstaying in the UK, the 'us' probably to the holier than thou group he belongs to, the BN government and all those hypocrites who see people of different gender preference or 'unnatural' to them as 'shame' to them.

Even if he wants to correct himself to refer the 'shame' as an immigration offence, the general perception is it smacks on his transgenders-phobia. He's behaving like some Nazi moralist who think the 'final solution' to rid the earth of such 'abnormal' people is to lock them up or hope the die away than taint their clean souls and earth they live in!

Now we know who are those BolehLand fellos who would like to migrate away?

Let's hope the UK are more humane fellos and show more acceptance, compassion and tolerance than the supposedly holier than thou creatures in BolehLand.

What a sham on some shameful behaviour of BolehLand's officials and religious officers. To them probably the local Pink Triangle and LGBT are misfits to these fellos who deserved to be Locked-up Given a-Bashing Totally!

Remember a case early this year in a 1U mall with a fren, when we were walking behind an old fart father most probably out with the family of a teenager boy and a swt. This daddy , pointed to a group of slim boys window shopping and said loudly for those around and the group of boys to hear 'Itu dipanggil lelaki lembut!" It was during a period that the 'lelaki lembut' scourge was being highlighted by the Malay tabloids expressing concern of the rising 'lelaki lembuts' which they infer as 'likely gays or definitely gays! in the Malay community.

And what did the boys replied? "Kami lebih cantik daripada anak awek kau. To his son, they did an azwan, 'amboi, amboi, amboi budak ini cun dan hansem, ehmmm amboi, amboi amboi!'

Now that caught the self righteous bapa off guard and probably in a state of shock because the boys blew kisses at the son, who was slim like the group and 'soft ala lelaki lembut' looking too! and the three sauntered away like they were doing a catwalk for the audience!

"Padan muka to him" must be on the minds of the onlookers! The old fart must have felt so embarrassed and certainly deserved what he got for trying to 'bring shame to others' but in the end he was the butt of joke for his 'shameful' act!

The report in the Star today tells of a Mara student in Wales on bail for molesting a 15 year old Brit girl. See story below.

Now it would be interesting if the DG, the Deputy PM as the Educated Minister, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs are going to scream 'shame, shame, shame and shameful' and we get to read it in the MSMedia tomorrow that they will take action against this fello for 'bringing shame to us.' The 'us' is the whole of BolehLand in this case right?

And we thought such fellos who go overseas are given some ala BTN type of course, No? If they did so much about BTN bringing up the image of BolehLand. The only thing it managed must be the 'bringing it up' on foreign young teens gurls!

Nah, probably they would say anything and dismiss it as just what growing up horny fellos would do, you know being sent out there alone. Hey, they might even wish him success in his studies to do his race proud!

And Mara recently complained it needed RM2 billion next year to sponsor their MARA students and said not enough money for fulfilling all applicants for study.

Well they use taxpayers money to send fellos like this Izzarul character to study overseas and looks like he is really study hard, more on getting HARD than studying in this case! What a shame!

And we thought there was an ounce of meritocracy in MARA to select those who can study. Everyone who apply gets accepted? No wonder not enough money! And how many of them really pay back the loan and how many do not return! What a shame!

It's too shameful to bring out more shameful things that we BolehLand fellos do overseas. If we want to talk about those shameful things we do even in BolehLand, we'd be awarded the Mother of All Shame and Shameful nations!

Bet Fatine must sigh a relief that she is not the 'abnormal' BolehLand fello in UK! At least she didn't outrage anyone's modesty, except some 'holier than thou' BolehLand officials and religious fellos.

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Malaysian charged with molest
CARDIFF (Wales): A Malaysian student was charged in a magistrate’s court yesterday with molesting a 15-year-old British girl.
Izzarul Asyraf Ibrahim, 24, was accused of committing the offence at the Ynysangharad public park in Pontypridd town centre, about 32km from here, at 7pm on April 25 this year.
He was produced before district judge Jill Watkins at the Pontypridd magistrate’s court at about 10am.
Izzarul, a Mara scholarship holder, is charged under Section Three of the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
He appeared calm when the judge ordered the case to be committed to the Pontypridd Crown Court for hearing on Jan 8 next year.
Watkins also allowed Izzarul to be released on conditional bail but he had to report to the Pontypridd police station every Thursday and that he could not apply for another passport.
Izzarul is represented by Stewart George from the Public Defender Service while the prosecution officer is Alex Dubljevic from the Crown Prosecution Service.
The case was originally slotted for July 10, before being adjourned to Oct 22, and postponed to yesterday for committal proceedings.
Izzarul, from Negri Sembilan, is pursuing a degree in aircraft maintenance at the Glamorgan University, near Pontypridd...Star, Dec 9, 2009

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Postscript comments
To Jeg. Apology if it is a generalisation. And yes I accept that many Mara students (frens included) have done well.The point is the response of the authorities and their seemingly selective 'persecution'.

To Anon (Dec 6). Let's hope that it is NOT TRUE for the sake of him, his family, the alleged victim and BolehLand. Either the MSMedia reported a falsehood or I read it wrongly. Perhaps if it was reported in a Malay MSMedia, there must be truth there. So till now it hasn't been reported in the Malay MSMedia, there must be untruth in what the above MSMedia has reported, even on the Sunday edition, Dec 6, 2009. Anyway, if the MSMedia reported an untruth, there is money to be made suing them right?

To the next Anon (Dec 8). Will not indulge in exchanging expletives (akin to what Wikipedia terms as "meaningless word filling a syntactic vacancy" in short inability to articulate an intelligent discourse). And yes agreed person is innocent until proven guilty. Hope that applies in BolehLand too, if you know what this means. The issue is still on selective 'persecution'. We hope that just as there is so much eagerness and enthusiasm to whack at people who are trying to judge this fello in UK, these defenders should also be equally passionate to advocate for not judging those accused of sodomy, corruption, snatch thief, rapists, incest or killed people in custody back here in BolehLand
There are those who make it in this BolehLand with clutch mentality as well as without support. They should be admired for being successful than failures than being branded as ungrateful or cheaters or migrants. And to not accuse those who succeed in either of these two ways as being ungrateful or leave if not happy and all such 'colonial' and medieval thinking.The issue is still selective and convenience prosecution and judgement when it suites the agenda!

Bible and Beer Ban a Setback for Global Religious Tolerance

2009-12-05T11:00:00.005+08:00

An interesting comment by BolehLand's Foreign Minister on the Swiss minaret ban shows how foreign the FM is to affairs in his own land. See bottom story by Blurnama, opps Bernama.

Not to be upset by BolehLand's comment, the Swiss news agency in Bernie SWISSNAMA responded with their comment that kinda puts a burn on BolehLand's comment it seems. See immediate story below

Bible and Beer Ban A Setback For Global Religious Tolerance, Says Unconfirmed Swiss sources

Bernie, Dec 4, after BolehLand's comment (Swissnama) -- Unconfirmed Swissland sources is dismayed at numerous BolehLand's decisions banning the importation of Bahasa Indonesian Bibles, beer, the cow-head incident among others, describing these as paranoiac behaviour and a serious setback to the promotion of global religious tolerance and peaceful co-existence.

"Swissland and the world community hope that the BolehLand government will take every effort to reverse the act of intolerance that would serve to generate negative consequences on society, especially right minded Muslim and other non Muslim communities, as a result of these actions," the official unofficial Swiss authorities said in a statement here Friday after the reaction from BolehLand's foreign ministry.

They said such ban were a serious blow to religious freedom and would infringe on the rights of a minority to practise its religion and favourite beverage, etc.

"In stark contrast to the belief of voters that this initiative will stop radicalism and weaken Islam, it is the Swissland and world communities including communist nations, taliban and al kaida, belief that these decisions and indecisions will segregate non Muslims from mainstream society, and will be a setback to global efforts to promote religious tolerance and peaceful co-existence," they concurred.

The Swiss and global community were deeply concerned that this had happened in an era of globalisation and in a country that had long declared it is a model of a progressive Islamic nation and supported fundamental human rights and continuously advocated peace and understanding between the Muslim and the non-Muslim world.

We hope that the BolehLand government would continue to take proactive measures to promote understanding, tolerance and respect for the beliefs of peoples of differing faiths," they quoted.

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Minaret Ban A Setback For Global Religious Tolerance, Says Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 (Bernama) -- Malaysia is dismayed at a Swiss referendum banning the construction of minarets, describing it as a setback to the promotion of global religious tolerance and peaceful co-existence.
"Malaysia hopes that the Swiss government will take every effort to reverse the act of intolerance that would serve to generate negative consequences on society, especially the Muslim community, as a result of this referendum," Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman said in a statement here Friday.
He said the ban was a serious blow to religious freedom and would infringe on the rights of a minority to practise its religion in Switzerland.
"In stark contrast to the belief of Swiss voters that this initiative will stop radicalism and Islamisation, it is Malaysia's belief that this decision will segregate Swiss Muslims from mainstream society, and will be a setback to global efforts to promote religious tolerance and peaceful co-existence," he added.
Anifah said Malaysia was deeply concerned that this had happened in an era of globalisation and in a country that had long supported fundamental human rights and continuously advocated peace and understanding between the Muslim and the non-Muslim world.
Malaysia hoped that the Swiss government would continue to take proactive measures to promote understanding, tolerance and respect for the beliefs of peoples of differing faiths, he said.
-- BERNAMA

Million Ringgit 1MBs

2009-12-04T16:04:00.008+08:00

What is it with the Chief Ministers of BolehLand, being filthy rich!

This 1MBs club are so rich, they can get away with literally carrying or shifting millions of money denomination around, actually the roundabout way than what normal fellos like you and I are subject to - You know must declare to Bank Negara if you want to send anything more than the equivalent of RM10k or so.

But these MBs send millions out and nothing seems to happen to them.

The latest is the one from the special abode state , Negeri Sembilan Darul Khusus, alleged to have sent RM10 million via money changer to London to buy property. Ok it's his money right, doesn't matter if it's legit or not as in the BN, having millions ain't any more surprising any more - sigh.

While Madam Tourism and her coterie of foreigners traverse the globe to sell the MM2H or 'My Malaysia Second Home' campaign, we have other government fellos buying property in London, Sydney, New York and any abode apart from BolehLand.

Doesn't it make a mocker of accusing those who migrated and stayed away or prefer to invest elsewhere as traitors, ungrateful sell-out, anti-patriotic, anti-Melayu?, when the very fellos who rebuke you are having a summer palace escape in London?

Even if it's not about flight of capital, it's the behaviour that smacks on double standard and hypocrisy that we should decry about!

And why is it that his 10million ringgit MB issue is highlighted by the opposition instead of the MSMedia exposing a snoop story on how clever a clever political leader manage to go around the legal net to send money out?!

Ok, considering that there are many who play the forex market, i.e. buy foreign currency when its low from money changers and then selling when the exchange rate is high! - from politicians to those school leavers recruited by fly-by-nite illegal forex traders, a lot of black market and underground money can be made and is flying all over BolehLand and out of it too!

Bank Negara seems to operate in a very secret manner on disclosure is it because they function like a financial institution where third party information cannot be disclosed! Or is it because it involve high profile fellos, or they fear being sued?

But hey, many high profile fellos are being exposed in the media, even police cases of allegations. The sodomy allegation is one such example. So what is it that the Central Bank's investigation is shrouded in secrecy?

The lack of publicity against those who contravene the laws under the purview of Central Bank will not make the crooks fear of being caught. Instead it will make them bolder knowing that the law doesn't seem to prosecute such illegal criminal activities!

There is still no official explanation by the Negeri Menteri Besar if the allegation is true. Playing an ala tight lipped tiger wood, eh?

If the allegation is true, let's hope he doesn't make himself another innocent kindergarten kid, like a former MB who was in Aussieland, who don't know a language to understand the basic legal requirement when dealing with foreign exchange.

The interesting development of sending money via money changer as report in a local daily is "...Bankers also said the growing number of capital flight cases is a reflection of the unease over Malaysia's political and economic future, stemming from rising crime rates and the country's increasingly chaotic politics.
“At one time, the main people taking out money were the Chinese. But these days, a large number of them are the rich Malays,” said one money changer in Kuala Lumpur, who asked not to be named. — The Straits Times, Dec 4, 2009

So it's no more the chinaman and they have been accused of unpatriotic, ungrateful by the ketuanan fellos. Wonder what they will say of their rich bumis sending out millions? Probably to praise them for having made it, most likely courtesy of taxpayers money via the crutch NEP policy, and as evidence of the rich Malays now going global and investing overseas for the good of the umat and nation!

These fellos are pretty smart, migrate the money overseas first and then when things are not ok for them migrate out! Wonder what ole Tun will say of his hard work enriching them and condemning those leaving and migrating as 'traitors' if he would similarly be as damming towards the 'ketuanan group' than he did of those who left.

So there must be truth in the reasons why there is a flight of human capital as well as capital out of BolehLand, i.e. no faith and trust and fedup with what's happening and don't see any future for them and their future generation.

BolehLand fellos await the outcome of the 10million ringgit alleged MB's leap above regulations. Given the way the Central Bank as well as the Attorney-G or MACC fellos work, they will have to wait a long time, even if he become an ex-MB he will not worry for having broken any law. The ex MBs have already been given a precedent to keep their million ringgit palaces and whatever they made while being MB, so what's any different to how the MB of Negeri Sembilan will live now and when he retires?

Would there be a Wood Break-up?

2009-12-04T11:56:00.010+08:00

The Tiger Wood who decided to put his 'tiger' in other tanks and tanked his marriage making him land in a bunker, is churning out more scandals than sand from a golfer trying to hit his ball out of a bunker!

Did Elin use a 5 or 3-iron? even if Tiger's fren Jesper preferred she used a driver! Whatever the club, the latest in this 'tiger-gate', 'golf-gate', 'wood-gate' or whatever affair involving names that like sound like grubbs worms, itchy rac(h)e(l), tequila drink or morphine drug, the fearful one is rumour of a wood-breakup.

And there is a prenuptial agreement which is rather simple sounding as reported elsewhere in a newswire:

...Elin Woods originally would receive $20 million after 10 years of marriage if she and Tiger Woods split up. They've only been married 5 years and it appears as if Tiger has slept with several night club employees from Las Vegas to New York. Elin Woods is not a happy camper. Needless to say, Tiger Woods and his wife are undergoing some serious couples' therapy.
According to Yahoo Sports, Elin Woods received an immediate $5 million payout from Tiger plus approximately $55 million added to her $20 million pre-nup agreement. The length of time the couple must be married has allegedly been shortened.
Sounds like a great deal, right? The deal is great for Tiger Woods, too. In order to qualify for the pre-nup, Elin Woods must act like nothing happened and show up with Woods to social events. In addition, she has to sign a non-disclosure agreement preventing her from ever "telling her story."
If Tiger Woods and Elin Woods ever split up, that means there will be no teary Oprah interview, no best-selling memoir, no guest appearances at self-help seminars. The payout Elin Woods will get for the marriage will surpass any gains she could have gotten elsewhere...The Examiner.com, Dec 3, 2009

In the US of A, seems marriages last longer in the movies they make than in real life!

The Yanks don't actually believe in marriage and all those stuff really. The pre-nuptial makes it looks like that way! Protect each other's interest so no one suck or got sucked off if the marriage breaks up.

Isn't pre-nups like a whore-deal than a whole marriage deal. It's like hiring a 'whore' for a period of time and paying up after the services are done!

Ok maybe it's too crude to put it as that! But it does make sense especially if relatives or religion comes in the way.

Why is the media pushing for a wood break-up? Why are they deciding how much ex wood will get from the tiger?

Maybe money or pre-nup in this case, really shortens real marriages. But to some, though the fairy-tale marriage has ended, the millions they receive could well afford for them to buy a castle and make their dreams come truer million over times!

To others, the fairy-tale will still linger with the millions they receive, except that in fairy tales, you do have the rich becoming a destitute and don't forget there is also the wicked witch receiving her dues too right?

Ex-top Cop's Millions - Of natural rights vs legal right to Inheritance!

2009-12-04T09:07:00.024+08:00

The bitter legal tussle for the estate of the late Deputy IGP, Tan Sri Jaafar Abdul has unearthed the wealth of an ex-cop. To be precise RM47 million!

The eye brow raiser is not so much how the wealth was amassed, which include landed property as reported in the NST 'Battle over ex-top cop's RM47m estate', Dec 4, 2009. It's a tussle for his wealth between son versus brother!

Before anyone or Pakatan fellos point a finger or challenge MACC to probe, one must admit that the ex-cop was holding Directorships in several listed companies. So the huge wealth is legit than anything suspicious right?

So all those bond and blood links do not matter when it comes to wealth. Money is thicker than blood or any DNA connection! What is it with children and siblings who think it is their right to their parents or sibling inheritance especially if there was no will?

Have seen enough of how money has destroyed lives instead of being a joy enabler it is a kill-joy menance when money becomes the centre and God! Sisters against only brother, brothers among brothers, converted against not converted, all because of money!

The rumour of Genting's founder of his religion status is circulating in blogsphere of claims by a converted son to LGT's billions. If it is true, the other kids will have to surrender his billions to the converted son? Seems the solution is for the rest to convert and stake a claim too! That's how the greedy can use religion for material gains than salvation for the soul of the deceased! Odd that during his living years, the converted son didn't mentioned a word about his dad's religion status but only after his death?

One doesn't need a law degree or knowledge in religion to give an opinion which is nearer to the truth of it all why such religion revelation is importance now than before. And who would give more credence to what the converted son and a juvenile 'preacher' seem to swear upon the dad's religion status than the lifestyle the old man lived when alive to indicate he was a convert or otherwise?

Odd too, such a billion ringgit LGT's saga didn't see the daylights in the MSMedia. Is it because of the sensitivity it could blow up as often the case in BolehLand into a race, religion issue and may impact on the ruling party votes in the next GE? Or most likely if it does appear, it will create more controversy and hint of double standards of the religious department over taking action against their faithful who do not follow the tenets of their religion, at least those who are high profile and wield immense political (more BN political power) or economic power.

BolehLand fellos are reminded of, ever so often daily by the religious department fellos, selling beer seems a more sinful act or working as a masseur is a more sinful illegal business than say, running the largest official sanctioned gambling vice den 'up in the clouds' in the heartland of an Islamic nation!

Which brings to the question, how is it when the old man or woman was alive, none had the bravery, gall or balls to ask the old folks for their inheritance? Isn't it not better to squeeze the old folks before they die than to do battle and perhaps loose everything when they die?! Why show your callous, hypocritical, greedy evil nature after they are dead!

It does make sense to demand and state your claim to the old folks when they are alive so that they at least know whether the love-show is a genuine heart of gold kind or a heart 'yearning for their gold'! And it helps to avoid all the legal tangle and accusation of greed as what is probably seen with this ex-deputy IGP case.

If these money grabbers survived when the old folks were alive, why do they think now that the old folks are gone, they become handicap and invalids to make a life on their own but need to depend on the easy way out to grab the dead folks hard earned wealth.

Agreed, there are exceptions if the kids are in partnership with parents and seek to now take over to continue the business. But most often, the wealth accumulated is solely the sweat and hard work and tears of the parents!

The same goes too for surviving parents who all do battle with their kids for any of their child who died leaving behind inheritance. In this case, the other siblings should not even think of fighting their parents for the wealth unless there are exceptional cases!

Inheritance is a privilege not a right only if the living is prepared to write a will! But if one dies 'inter-state' than it takes on the reserve, a right as decided by the state or religious body depending on one's religion status! This is when the fallacy of 'blood is thicker than water' begin to emerge.

Depending on the value of the inheritance, it will determine how fast the 'blood heats up and boils away the water' viz family relationship between the contesting parties. And in cases of fighting over inheritance, it holds both true that 'money is relative' and 'money is absolute'. One one hand money does bring alive many relatives one never hear of. On the other hand, contesting parties want all the money 'absolutely' for themselves and not willing to share if they have their way.

The humourous thing about inheritance war even if it is heard in a religious court, makes a mockery of the believers. If they believe there is a God and the soul of the departed is watching over the living and knowing what is in their heart, it is ironical the living are willing to 'kill each other' for a few dinars and spoils of their court battle! Brings out the barbaric animal in us, making us like one of those fellos of History Channel's Battle BC series! Which shows that to the living, it's let the 'dead bury the dead' and let the living enjoy the spoils of what they managed to pick from the deceased!

A realistic single parent told his two kids that should either fight for the share of the property, it goes to charity. The best way is to settle who wants the property. If one wants it, he pays off the other half of the total cost. If neither wants it, sell it and divide equally! If within a year both can't decide and both fight, court gives to a charity. Simple right?

There is truth and very practical to 'enjoy your kid's inheritance' after one has fulfilled his or her parental obligation. It's the parents right! Children should not be selfish spoilt brats to think their parents are their perpetual ATMs while they behave like credit cards!

In this ex-deputy top cop case, it may just be intriguing and interesting to know how he accumulated so much wealth and who is gonna accumulate his wealth!

Will it be the son, rumoured to be adopted, which will invalidate his claim so it seems, and he may never even get one sen of the largess or will it be the brother who will be the one laughing all the way to the bank?

If only the dead could speak out! Nah, when it comes to money, we often wish the dead is better off 'really dead and gone' than believe in an after-life - isn't this a fair assessment?

Crocs Infringes on a Porsche!

2009-12-03T14:33:00.005+08:00

Read an interesting report on trademark infringement. Imagine a marquee is unhappy being stepped upon!

Porsche Sues Crocs Over Trademark Infringement
Allow me to clear up some confusion.
The Porsche Cayman is a sexy 2-seater sports coupe born of German engineering.
The Crocs Cayman is a snug-fitting lightweight clog, allegedly modeled on “Italian design,” by Americans in Colorado. I understand if you were confused though, they’re practically identical!

Porsche, fearing consumer confusion and the dilution of their established brand, notified the clog manufacturer in May of their alleged infringement. In late July Porsche filed a trademark infringement suit against Crocs in a German court. Crocs plans to “vigorously defend” themselves in German court.
Footnoted expects the suit to be an “expensive distraction for Crocs, which had to find a law firm in Germany to represent its interests.” Both brands' actions are considerably foolhardy. Porsche may be overreacting, assuming that consumers will associate a beach clog with their relatively young sub-brand and not a group of islands.
Crocs could follow a more prudent method of settling; perhaps by removing or renaming the line in Germany.
They do have more important struggles ahead of them, like turning a profit.
Do you think that brands help themselves by pursuing legal action in trademark cases? Especially when the products are so different?

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It would be interesting if the following BolehLand similarities will also be engulfed in trademark suits.

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Grabbing the Tiger By His Club

2009-12-03T11:11:00.013+08:00

Ok, he finally confessed to his 'trangressions' and letting the people he loves down.

"I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect."... Tiger's statement in his website

Tiger may have scored a wrong birdie or put his tiger in the wrong tank. At least, he confessed even if he chose to deny (a lie?) about it in the first instance. And at least he is man enough to admit he did wrong. At least he came out of the woods. At least he or is it she? clobbered the 'tiger' that let him down.

Even if it is a personal affair and not only unique to the rich, famous and infamous, the issue takes on a huge media frenzy and publicity because Tiger is greater than the California redwoods simply because he is No1 in his game, golf at least.

Tiger did not elevate himself into a global name and brand. He is not the one who goes all out to seek media attention or publicity unlike the overrated Wie. The media made him a celebrity and his life is now an open global book. He played his best in what he loved, sadly too in his transgression. He will need to accept as a celebrity, the best of him and the worse of him will be on the world's stage. The public will shout his name out loud to praise his sportsmanship while every lips will now whisper his transgressions.

Tiger's endorsements of world famous brands and earning millions in the process, does in a way makes him a public figure. And being a celebrity especially one who is seen as a role model, true mentor and exemplary sportsperson, his fans expect him to be the 'Mr Clean' and all that. Tiger can't escape the constant watchful eye on his behaviour and life off course. And if he strayed off course off the greens, he can expect a bliss of publicity especially from the shark-hungry tabloids that feed on scandals to increase sales!

And so this is the sad fate that Tiger faces today. One can only hope that there are no more birdies coming out of the woodwork!

Fans may be forgiving, but the issue is if Tiger and Elin can find forgiveness in each other. So too the rest of the hypocritical tabloids and moralists.

Tiger may have wished he stuck to golf getting his ecstasy for his hole in one, thrilled by shooting an eagle, relishing his birdie, satisfied being on par and agonising getting a buoyed - than getting these off the greens.

Pray that Tiger leaves this terrible episode behind and show his roar and mantel on the greens once again.

We hope Tiger will continue to thrill us on the greens and concentrate on getting his birdie on the right course from now onwards.

Go Tiger, Go! Get out of the woods! Show us you are King again! We are sinners and hypocrites too but we always love you.

Fire Power 1Malaysia

2009-12-03T10:52:00.007+08:00

Protecting BolehLand

Now who would wanna mess with the firepower of 1Malaysia!

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PM: National security strength should grow with economy
LANGKAWI: Malaysia intends to continue balancing the need for socio-economic development with the importance of strengthening national security, said the Prime Minister.
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the country could not allow its defence and security capabilities to erode.
“As we progress as a nation, our defence capabilities should also be commensurate with the overall development of the nation.
“That is the concept of balanced development. We are not talking only about the economy, but social and security aspects of the country which should also be developed as a whole,” he told reporters after witnessing the signing ceremonies of several MoUs and agreements on defence-related programmes at the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace (Lima) 2009 exhibition here.
Najib expressed his satisfaction at the turnout by international exhibitors, saying their participation showed the importance of the Lima exhibition in the region.
“The response by the foreign exhibitors and the high number of booths is encouraging despite the global economic slowdown,” he added.
Najib declined to give details on the Government’s next priority for the development of the local defence industries and procurement of equipment.
He added that local companies like Boustead, which is completing the construction of its sixth new-generation patrol vessels, needed new orders because about 2,000 vendor companies were depending on it for business.
The army also needs new replacement vehicles.
Najib said the increasing number of Malaysian participants showcasing their products was a good example of the Government’s support to local companies through the vendor development programme.
Najib added that the procurement policies, which gave priority to capable local companies, were another factor in the success.
“The success of our approach is based on how we develop projects as a national programme.
“Local companies like Sapura Bhd have been able to compete in the international stage, while a local company has been able to buy a South Korean shipyard.
“These are examples of the local companies’ increasing growth through technology transfers and vendor programmes,” Najib said... .Star, Dec 3, 2009