Saturday, November 30, 2013

“REFORM & UBAH”....IS A “FLIP-FLOP” WORLD!!



OPPOSITION LEADERS HAVE LOST THE REAL SENSE OF MORALITY AND RESPONSIBILITY!!!

By : Tan Tee Beng

Hi, my fellow Malaysians,

It’s really disgusting to hear the main opposition leader denied that the opposition had claimed 40,000 Bangladeshi were shipped in as phantom voters by the BN government for the concluded GE13. Anyone who knows simple arithmetic will tell you that figure of 40,000 is impossible to achieve within that short period towards GE13. What is more shocking is not the denial, but the  “putar-belit” act in the drama.

When the PM was going to implement the GST in the near future, his  good intention was to arrest the financial situation in Malaysia to be in a manageable and positive financial position for the future, the opposition tried to equate GST to national Bankruptcy. Let me ask you. Do you think the present government including the future government are going to wait until we experience a “fiscal cliff” like what the Americans went through before taking action? Ask the economic experts. They are bound to tell you how adversely the US economy has been impacting the whole world. How ignorant these opposition leaders are! Do they want their future generation to suffer or do they want a better life for their children and grandchildren? Can”t we have an honest politician these days?!

Who is calling himself the “New Tiger of Jelutong” when the exiting famous “Tiger” is still around”? This is Rude! I do not know what the “New Tiger  of Jelutong” think he is! He might thought he is now the greatest man on “earth” with his self proclaimed glamour name.....What a shame! And he thought with this “greatness” he has the right to summon the highest MPPP authority to attend to his constituency’s problem. And he called those officers sent by the YDP of MPPP as “Kucing kurap” and chased them away too. Even though, the senior officer who was sent to assist him is a very senior staff of MPPP. I can understand how bad and pissed-off Mr. See felt. I sympathized with him. I think the recent response executed by the  parties involved against the “New Tiger of Jelutong” is appropriate.

 This “Anjing Kurap” (Rude, arrogant, senseless) must be taught a good lesson. Why suddenly LGE is so quiet on this matter? Well, this “new tiger” had lost the real sense of morality and responsibility. Why? I think he is paranoid towards MPPP. Recalling some time ago before this incident happened, he attacked the MPPP on matters related to the approvals of public submitted projects in Penang. I would like to ask his intention. How on earth could submitted projects for council’s approval be delayed so long, like  >900 days? Who is holding up and for what reasons? Do the council follow the SOP? Does the “new tiger” have any particular interests in some of the projects because he seems so concerned?

The opposition controlled Selangor government had raised the salary of ADUN, Speaker and MB recently. Let’s say I jumped the gun. The Penang state government is going to hold their assembly soon. I am inclined to figure they will copy what the Selangor assembly did and follow suit.

Re-capping the recent events. The Penang government had recently bought a new fleet of Toyota Camry s for their official use. And soon after, an entourage comprising state government officers and some including their spouses shoot off to Hainan, China. Using the state coffer to foot their spouses’ bill is considered an Abuse of power. But, they claimed BN had done that before. Let me ask. Is the sitting government, the proud CAT (competence, accountable, transparent ) wished to turn themselves to a COPY CAT? Let me remind LGE that the voters voted them in was with the thought of UBAH that the opposition proudly declared. The voters thought things will not be the same or there are going to experience real change....  But, does it? Or maybe the CAT government is now out of ideas and becomes incompetence?

Well, Penangites! It’s your own fault.......because you were fooled to vote LGE and his officer to the State Assembly..... They had disappointed you! And they are going to use your hard-earned cash bit by bit to enjoy like there is no tomorrow. 

So, are you disappointed, disgusted, frustrated and pissed-off by the leaders of PR? For me, these leaders had gone paranoid, lack of the real sense of morality and responsibility and finally, I think they are not qualified at all to be called Ybs.    

(End note:  Tan Tee Beng was an ex-MP for Batu Kawan constituency who held office after 308 GE12 till 505 GE13 ended.  He turned independent MP when he was confronted with unacceptable leadership in the so-called PR riff-raff bloc despite he contested under the PKR ticket in 308 election. Now he’s Chairperson of a nation wide NGO. )

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Woeful Penangites!

Five years is a long time. Five years is long enough time to produce a kid to enrol standard one primary school.  Five years in Japan is also long enough time for their transport department to declare a Japanese car a scrap and throws it in limbo!

After 308, it came 505, and 5 solid years had past!

In Penang, the oblivious Penangites have begun to wake up a little, the aunties who suffered the charm of the 'tokong' have also stopped jerking and bounced back to the reality of life to discover they had been played by the back, by one they adored very much....!

Some Tanjung Bungah residents have forced to show their faces and disgruntles in the press interview easing their pent up emotions!  Readers could feel the smouldering were amid their comments, or rather great disapproval of the once looked innocent and smirking baby face, has begun to give people impression that - a smirking of fox - is so familiar!

In the name of green and clean environment fighter, and saviour, the hypocritical politicians of the day have never failed to spray pepper into the local residents' eyes with intend to blind their sighting of natural landscapes being destroyed to give way for developments.  So much so, more and more ignorant Penangites begin to agree that the so-called Pro Rakyat CAT is indeed another Pro Developer, good buddy to the greedy and unscrupulous developers they only see nothing of the rakyat's but, their own well beings!

Trees cut down from the hill slopes to make way for the concrete forests!  Rubbish dump site by the beach front has been made into construction site and diesel fumes of the bulldozers had made the fresh sea breeze no more!  Soon, residents will see more nuisance of strangers influx and the roaring vehicles to conquer their once a serene and unruffled dwelling village!

Only the hypocritical capitalist government and their cronies would pose with glee, hands on shoulders, intimate like swanker, cheekily proclaim - another people's project - it's all for you!.....

This is how they develop our Pearl of the Orient into a dying pearl which is losing its lustre day by day!

Shouldn't all the pea brains Penangites wake up now to tell the swankpot baby face what we actually want?!  Shouldn't we all tell him off - "Hey look! We need no 'tokong' here!  Roll back to lick Cheng Ho's toe and leave us alone!"

Woeful Penang, my homeland!


Thursday, May 9, 2013

To Hell All the Demagogues!

 

This is the beginning of a real nightmare our sore loser demagogues simply seduced the gullible fans into believing and questioning the so-called real mandate of the newly sworn in BN government!
 
What mandate this old fox was trying to mislead those juvenile young chicks and lads into believing his warped side of explaining the EC law where it's clearly stated that - it's he rights of candidates or their election agents to object any miscounting process and get it recounted there and then in the polling center - if any candidate is not satisfied with the result especially those with very slim margin simple majority votes!
 
What he meant by the 30 odd seats were rigged by EC without concrete evidence simply based on the report of their green and novice counting agents' cooked up story like EC Retaining Officers amended the tally sheets during someone sabotaged the switch box caused a black out that kinda of bullshits, baseless and low down accusations?!
 
If that incident really happened and gone unchecked by the candidate or his agent on the spot and made a vehement protest or objection, then sorry to say, as a two terms election agent myself, the integrity of that candidate and agent would have been questioned, and my advice is - go back to the school and get a pass first from the school of politics - before comes out to show his ignorance to cause as laughing stock lah!...So easy to be a YB?! Even one who knows nuts about his political rights?!
 
I agreed with the EC Director General that they had done their job without taking side in favour of any partisan, and my past experience confirmed! Once, Danny Low from DAP was given chance of the following day after his defeat, to call in his whole party gang to the tally centre at Free School hall and they left no stone unturned to retrieve all ballot papers from the boxes and did recount all over to his full satisfaction, then only he stopped whining!
 
The proper procedure is, the losers can still take up their appeals to court within 21 days with concrete proofs and evidence, they would have chanced to overturn the results and make themselves the winner provided the verdict is to favour them!
 
But then these demagogues and power crazy pollies will still cry - "The court is a private company owned by BN" ! Both way they are the bonkers! They will always be the 'top man' as i learned from one of my fren!
 
Sorry to say that, these demagogues are no 'demigod' to take us and our Nation to prosper but only to crumple it so that they can ride roughshod over us like the Hamas in the Gaza strip! They used the children as human shield when they cowardly fought the Israelis solders from behind the walls of the mosques!
 
Still want to be their cannon fodders and the low life pawn downs?!
Up to any of you but not for me definitely!
 
I want peaceful and a a united society where we can greet anyone by our neighbour with smiling face and expect returns of the same like my Indian neighbour will always serve me with the spicy Indian curry whenever she has any extra plates!
 
I reciprocate by watering their plants just divided by a low fence in return for his friendly gesture especially during when they were out to other place and leave the house vacant!
 
I do not want our Nation to turn out like Lebanon, like Libya, like Syria or not even like Thailand, they have coup d'etat off and on to upset our living, to threaten our children going to work!
 
To hell is 'the better future' when today we are suffering from the stinking shits of the demagogues who would make our lives unsafe and our society topsy-turvy!
 
SIGH for Bolehland!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Another open letter to the overzealous voters.....



You may call this a silly season.


I call this a madness where youngsters or even old uncles and aunties have been overzealously anxious to see the sky changed prompted by the unassailable charismatic idols they have almost been prayed like the real demigods!


My children flew back from Sing this afternoon partly to partake in the revelry of election heat and of course not forgetting that the grandpa has been grumbling for months to miss the adorable and cute granddaughter she could now call me 'yeah yeah!............


My niece married to a Singaporean will have fly back in the morning of 5/5 casts her vote and fly back in the afternoon. Does she deserve to claim from PR her air fares?!


Yeah...yeah, ''Ini kali lah UBAH!"....'Demi Rakyat kita Ubah'.....Pakatan Harapan Rakyat...tag lines like these digital printings on big PVC sheets nailed to gigantic billboards simply erected by the eye catching points by the highway ensuring to catch the eyes of each and every commuters including the blind's!


"Ini kali lah yang Last kita akan jadi Kerajaan" is the only one catchphrase that is printed in the heart of each and every PR candidates which should not be whispered out or else backfire will burn their backsides!

In this silly season, it's the politicians' D-Day but the common public's April Fool day!


More so this GE 13th in the State of Penang!


Just take a short drive in your area, the number of flags, the amount of politico rallies and the noise pollution, the quantum of foc food supplies, etc etc., all have been thrown out on the streets simply to woo voters patronize their stalls so that votes could be enticed come 5/5!


I should say, 70% or more of Chinese folks in this once peaceful Island States have been preempted and charmed by the bewitching demagogues of the day....Simply put, they have already lost their sense to think properly if the votes are thrown to vote their icons like voting the Korean stars or it's a vote of a better government with honest and service oriented YBs to form this so-called good government!


Instead they have been intoxicated to a state of delirious as if those have taken in ecstasy simply can't hold cool and composure but tumultuously frenzied!


It's a bad omen for the worse may still yet to come taking into consideration that the opposition Parties are only fanning up the people's emotion based on their astute marketing strategy to market their rhetoric's as the 'semuanya boleh' elixir to heal national cancers - for example the most hideous corruption as one top the list - but action has yet to be verified only upon they have successful sworn in to the 'new administration'!


When asked by the audience in a forum how corruption can be curbed, the oppositional MP had said they will use the role model of Penang's open tender policy and assets declaration by all Aduns as a norm for the 'new government' they would have successfully wrestled to their fold!


Being a contractor in Penang, the so-called 'open tender'  to me is a pretence and a swathe of smoke screen to blind the imbeciles who know nuts about government procedures of tender awards, and that they are not those in the trade who had had suffered losses due to any alleged manipulation which engineered to favour cronyism which ever has exist in any administration!


Again, in what way can assets declaration be an effective way to curb corruption when the Aduns or the EXCOs could simply provide a brief of their assets as fulfillment to a requirement only! Who are to be the independent auditors have not been publicly informed, nor delegated!


Change we must, yeas! More so an old foul rotten shoe which we have worn for long time 50 years which is enough time for any new design or new pattern to replace the old and obsolete old junk!


But be careful, when we change this time, the shoes of preference we must select are a pair of suitable size, good quality and they will suit our comfort to walk long mileage into our far future! We must not only listen to the flowery rhetoric of the politicians, use our brains to analyze their words!


Never change because of the hoodwink of the pollies who would tackle our psychology, use us cheap as their pawn downs to help change their political status quo as the oppositional Parties to that of the ruling powers!


When they have achieved to their kingdom, we remain their slaves, and that's when we ignorantly worship them as God!

Hence smart voters like us should not be overzealous as to be buzzed by the many dazzling buzzwords giving out all our votes to a single Party to form 2/3 majority, likened the Mahathir regime, it was the rakyat who gave them too much power to own 2/3 majority in the Parliament, hence an autocratic government which rode roughshod over the rakyat!

So remember, vote wisely, vote with astute prudence not to throw all eggs in one basket!  Not to allow the lopsided majority of 2/3 goes to any of the power bloc be it PR or BN so that we the rakyat stay as the kingmaker always to call for the shot!


Happy voting.

Monday, April 29, 2013

Press Statement from Concerned Malaysians.....

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Press statement of Group of Concerned Citizens on the General Election

We are a group of Malaysians from diverse ethnicities, religions and backgrounds including military, academic, business, professional and the not-for-profit sector. We have been drawn together by our love for our country and our concern that this general election may see further setbacks in our aspiration for a better society.
Malaysians need a better government and good governance, especially in these tumultuous times of heightened racial discord and religious hatred and extremism.

If we succeed, we can be a modest example for the rest of the world in the way we tackle our racial and religious differences and in our resolve and actions to ensure social justice and the fair distribution of the wealth of our land.

Past governments and politicians have too often failed us by abusing the public treasury for private gain, by concentrating wealth and power in the hands of a few, and by debasing our democratic rights. For some years now, we have been one of the top countries in the world in terms of illicit outflows of money. According to Global Financial Integrity, the total 10-year estimate of financial outflow for Malaysia was RM871.4 billion for 2000-2010. No country in the world can afford such a high level of capital flight.

The coming elections provides us an opportunity to exercise our individual and collective right to decide on who will lead this country in the next five years and manage our finances, economy and society in a fair and just manner. If we choose badly we will have only ourselves to blame.
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We wish to share with voters in this election pamphlet, which is being disseminated throughout the country, our concerns as well as our position on the principles and values that can propel our country towards that better society that we seek and which all Malaysians deserve and can be proud of. We believe that most Malaysians share not only these concerns but also our expectations of the high moral and ethical standards from the parties and politicians that will soon come into power. 

We hope that this election message – a non-partisan one – will be etched in the minds and memories of those who will shortly take political office as well as of all voters so that the promise of moral and good governance is in the forefront of national priority, not just during the election campaign period and particularly on election day but every day during the next four or five years.

Other citizens and civil society organisations wishing to endorse this or a similar message are free to adopt or adapt it, and disseminate in their own names.
Civil society leaders endorsing this message:
Ahmad Farouk Musa
Arshad Raji
Azmi Sharom
K J John
Koon Yew Yin
Lim Teck Ghee
Masjaliza Hamzah
Raja Petra Kamarudin
Ramon Navaratnam
Syed Ibrahim Syed Noh
Thasleem Mohamed Ibrahim
S Thayaparan
Zaid Ibrahim

The Malaysian Dream.

Like in US, in Taiwan, they have the real two Party system. Two major politico power blocs override the smaller non-alliance parties and compete to become the ruling Party, rein in the Government.
 
The people's power will be there like falcons piercing their razor-sharp eyes to keep the performing Party under their scrutiny as a very powerful check and balance mechanism.
 
It's a failure if the people simply used by any one of the divide bloc as the pawn downs to guard them to conquer the bastion of power, they become the Kingdom, we remain slaves!
Use our coherent powers wisely, we be the real bosses and they be our servants!
"Trust our ownselves more, the politicians less!"
 
Idolisation or extreme cult of a certain personality will ultimately lead us to awakening of our foolishness to have been used by the polly, charmed by his so-called charisma which is virtually the empty promises for our better well beings!
 
Vote wisely so that to prove our maturity!
 
We control our future, not that by the politicians!
 
Cheers!
 
Rgds.,
Frankie

Saturday, April 27, 2013

Dun ever behave like an Ostrich!

We shall not shun from facing the problem, more so one which is going to affect our descendants for generations! Just like hearing the footsteps of the big foot monster, we should have done enough precaution by getting ready the bludgeon, machete, or even the grandfather's walking stick to be ready for it, never take for granted!
 
Can you simply trust a crocodile your life when seeing that he's pretending to yawn fall asleep away, and cross the river?!
 
We are talking about Hadi Awang, not that the venerable Nik Aziz tok guru he'd ruled Kelantan for 2 decades whilst this bigoted Hadi ruled Trengganu only for one short term he was booted out by the voters who'd enough fear and torture in the minds that their limbs would be amputated by the brutal hudud law when they were to be implemented by this unpopular bearded old goat!
 
He has never stop reminding LKS to give up objection to his brain child - Islamic Nation - and many a times, he would not forget to blah it out to the press that PAS will not compromise with religious issues and that they have only one issue to push forward in the Parliament, if PR really wins, he will definitely lay the agenda (Islamic Nation) in the silver platter for serving to the speaker and the MPs in the Parliament!
 
And you know, if there is a will, there is a way! By push..push... push hard enough, the baby head would finally jut out from the vagina of the mother!
 
It's dangerous one is selling the idea that PAS will ultimately give up religious issue and focus on broader perspective of salvaging the faltering national economy! Neither DAP can give up politics after election since politicking is their only expertise to help pull thru their political lives! Haven't you seen them restlessly engaged in political brick batting in the Parliament, in the public domain and never even afford to come out a draft of their own for master plan to develop Penang State after 5 years had past! Talking about national economy, leave it to DSAI lah perhaps, but, he's laden with sexy video clips too, and will be busy defending them in the court...too bad!
 
The "Ostrich Syndrome" is what we should avoid, is what we should not pass down to our next next generations!
 
Dun ever cut our nose to spike our face, this is what i can remind... Period.
 
Rgds.,
Frankie

Friday, April 26, 2013

A reply to - Cutting your nose to spike your face.

Well said, Kaseng!
 
But it seems too late your clarion call comes in to endeavour saving our buddies from cutting their noses to spike their faces!
 
Damages have been done, if any, cuz most of the political virgins have fallen into deep bewitchment of the demagogues the like of these bigoted old goats and the foxy father and son in the guise of nation's saviours! Back in the scene is one morally questionable DC/AC hay wired 'abang' who sat with cool admiring the posterior of the duo fighting over the plate of halal or non-halal delicacies which should be best served for the whimsical rakyat!
 
The irony is, when we demanded a fair and square level playing field and that the goalie should open up his gate for the best shooter to put in goals thru the gate, there are people still believe that Islam is a key to achieve this! Then what about Hadi Awang has not less than a dozen times repeated, come what may, only Muslim can become PM in this nation and no one else!
 
Read it with more extrapolation, we tend to grasp the real meaning of what he tried to imply, unless you Chinese converts to Islam, you LKS or LGE will forever play your part as the second fiddler tantamount to Kaseng had quoted, the forever second citizenry for Chinese who are non-Muslim!
 
And this is so-called fair and just by PAS standard?!
 
Hadi Awang has never failed to give me chance to dart his one-eye like the bull's eye in the dart board play!...His flip-flop fly-by-night change of rhetoric has never failed its bit to amuse me like a clown is performing his feat to crack open all other jokers' mouths in the audience of the Royal Malayan Circus!
 
Today he will bang the mike and spit at all the journalists to ask them write exactly that he will not give up transforming our secular nation to that of a Shia Islam & the sharia law as decree, but just overnight, by tomorrow, he will have an abrupt change of utterance that - "In Islam preaching, no one is to be forced into a religion, let alone to force someone into taking hudud laws"!
 
Contradicting?! Yeas, it's more than that, it's hypocritically flip-flop to the highest order!
 
Why he behaved like a clown mainly is to appease his Muslim followers and supporters that he and PAS will die for Islam no matter how it appears when they are fanned into PutraJaya! In the other hand, when he flips his fork tongue, his intention to appease the gullible Chinese is obviously seen to be clumsy by eagle eyes like yours and mine!
 
Yet there are imbeciles believe that he would be a tamed friendly goat without knowing that its teeth can bite, its horns can gore when come to loggerhead with him! He is never a suave looking uncle who lives by your neighbour, watch out!.......
 
Yet there are people believe that DAP which in bed next to PAS will be our bulwark to defend Chinese rights and to bolster up our second fiddle role to equal the protagonist PAS doyen in this fake Darby and Joan charade!
 
Are these motley trio going to buy us a paradise for tomorrow it's only a dream, a fantasy, or a castle floating in the air! Not even the notable freedom fighter, the Lady Gandhi, Ambiga dared to swallow the bullets and gives us her chest, but merely cried out - "If PR is no good, kick them out as well after 5 years!".....
 
Still wanna walk the cable?! Up to you, it's yours choice anyway!
 
Happy voting!
 
Cheers for a better (or worse) tomorrow?!
Rgds.,
Frankie
-the ever old dud-

Cutting the nose to spike the face.........

I had been living in Kuala Lumpur for the past 33 years and seen it grew tremendously, in tandem with my own journey and lots of other young Malaysian's blossoming. Life was fast and all transactions carried a bit more speed and broader spectrum when conducted in KL. People travel, people learn. The city grew, Malaysian society becomes more sophisticated gradually. General public gets better informed and the general consciousness of self and society was further raised with the advent of Internet.
 
In all these time, we were and still is, a secular multi ethnic society ran by communal political parties adhering to a bias sets of rules favouring the majority group over all others. We grew, not spectacular, as other tigers of Asia, but at a rather slow, lumbering gait. By his own admission Dr. M recently said in a NST featured interview; Malaysia under his leadership was 30-40% behind our neighbours in economic development. We all know it’s a lot more then he will ever admit. But we grew. We did not have real turmoil that upset the political or social fabric of Malaysian society. The world wide financial surges, ebbs and crisis were adequately handled. We lived in peace generally except the occasion of May13; created by Najib's father for a back door coup de grace and kill off Tunku Abdul Rahman's leadership. We survived, we were made to lived under more stringent condition with the introduction of NEP. MCA and MIC did songs and dances and got away promising their fellow kinship year after year that tomorrow will be better while their family and cronies gleefully lapped up all the grease and fat seeping out of crooked government deals. 
 
The people starts to talk, more and more. We got worked up, we got angry. We want change! Year after years, the conscientious but poorly organised oppositions who had suffered the social and financial disadvantage and indignity of being treated as lesser citizen in Malaysia tries to defeat the vested powers of the ruling parties. The tricky Mahathir managed to elude all pursuer but finally released the helm to Dollah. This is the time! A strange and incompatible alliance was created to make the most impact. We supported and give BN a big black eye in 2008. But black eye do not kill. 
 
What did died on that occasion was the integrity of building a fair, just and harmonious secular society. For the sake of political expediency, DAP for years the champion of the common folks regardless of race, agreed to jump in bed with a powerfully partner who proclaims mandate from Allah to turn Malaysia into a syaria compliance society. An, god forbids, Islamic state! Are we to endure all those years of 2nd class citizenry for the ultimate price of a restrictive society where we would be the disadvantaged again! Not over my dead body!
 
What is happening? We as a people had instead of moving on from self centred communal politics to higher ideal progressive society construction, had in fact regressed to a spot in the bottom of society development by entrusting and appointing a xenophobic religious group lead by frail old man who believe he know better than me what's good for me or not, as our representative to knock off the corrupted BN! What's wrong with us Malaysians? What's our ideals? What is DAP selling? Are you aware that once PAS is given the national leadership, the hudud option will never go away. Any open conflict between PAS and DAP or PKR while at the helm of Malaysia will be view as Others against Islam for the international muslim brotherhood in the tussle for Malaysia. Malaysian Shiite terrorist trained in Pakistan; currently active in Indo and Phil will see this as the opportunity to gain extra foothold in the Sunni dominated Malay society by inserting themselves as the protector.
 
 The resulting events is just too painful to contemplate. Please, Please, Please give your vote to anyone except PAS. Corrupt old goats I can handle. Old goats with mandate direct from god is what I, we need to avoid!

Wong Kaseng

Thursday, April 25, 2013

A paranoia for all....

Hi Kha Sin,
Today's paranoia might be tomorrow's reality.
It was truly a paranoia decades ago that PAS could earn a place to rule until Kelantan fell into their hands they take it as a training ground and to preach Islamic value into the State administration.
It worked out well since Kelantan is a predominantly Malay State and all Malays are born to be Muslims abided by Malaysian law.
Chinese being the minority in the State, have livened in harmony so far with the Malay brethren and as we all know, we are a race quick to adapt to environment as long as it's a place we have ways and means to 'cari makan' and prosper! Being a EastCoastal State, it is far in the hinterland as compared to KL the capital city and therefore lives there are simple and tranquil. Development there slow maintained as kampung style to match the nearby Thai border State, with a little above par.
Life is traditionally mundane the Kelantanese are happy with the status quo so long as they have enough rice on the table, there are mosques for them to do their ritual and prayers etc. basic easements are all they require. I had been there several times and found myself as if in the tunnel of time reversed back 10 to 15 years Penang's scenario!
That's Kelantan and that's a State ruled by PAS. The supremo Tok Guru Nik Aziz is the MB and he's such a lenient and venerable pious Muslim even we from afar State would give him respect only to hear the eponym 'Tok Guru Nik Aziz' and his mild implementation of Islamic value into the State governance.....He justifies the adding of religious essence into his governance!
Hadi Awang is the national President of PAS (Parti Islam seMalaysia) and he failed once being the MB (1999 -2004) of the neighboring State - Trengganu!....Hearsay had it that he was way above more fanatic and aggressive than Tok Guru in implementing Hudud Law which was in contradicting with Tok Guru's preaching. Hence BN recaptured the State in GE 2004 out of fears of Trenggane voters against this formidable bigot.
Now that Hadi is the adamant proposer for Hudud Law to implement in Malaysia, she being a secular State having practicing common law, as enshrined in the Federal Constitution! It was the mamak ex-Premier who with evil intention on purpose riled up the status of Islamic State with the status of Islam being the national religion!
After tasting with limited power only in running a State, PAS is making a big way to conquer the whole nation by teaming up with their erstwhile rivals who have total disagreement with their preachings!
Kaseng described them as the motley trio (PKR+PAS+DAP) whereas i nickname them the riff-raff group till date they are still an illegal grouping as far as the Malaysian Law is concerned, they have no registration with the Registrar of Society as a political bloc!

Can this makeshift power bloc  be able to live by what they pledged in their manifesto and lead the nation to prosper into a blissful tomorrow worth our ponder over.......

(To be continued.....)