Not once...again..and ....again no more!!!

The siblings of Teoh Boon Hock performing the Buddhist ritual.


Teoh Beng Hock buried...again!

By Neville Spykerman

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 24 —Teoh Beng Hock was laid to rest again after Buddhist rituals were performed. His brother and sister were at the grave site while his parents stood afar, in accordance with Chinese beliefs that parents do not attend the burial of their children.

DAP’s Lim Kit Siang was also at the Nirvana Memorial Park, along with Teoh’s former boss Selangor exco Ean Yong Hian Wah, Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng and former DAP secretary-general Kerk Kim Hock.

Teoh’s casket arrived from the Sungei Buloh hospital at about 9.50am. Dozens of reporters and photographers were at the scene, along with several uniformed and plainclothes policemen.

A bed of white carnations was placed on top of his grave after the burial and his gravestone was put back into place.


Candid Comment :-

According to the old folk's belief - A man who has to be buried for the second time means that he has to suffer the torture of death for the second time, and it does not augur well for the family concerned!

After this round of 2nd time autopsy, under the many watchful eyes of the internationally renowned forensic experts, and the professional pathologists, should the Government is still unable to allow the justice to take its proper course, the wraith of the late youthful Teoh Beng Hock would definitely not rest in peace and closed his eyes willingly to rise to heaven!

Life is short. The death of an innocent soul, Teoh Beng Hock's case has testament to it! But, no matter how short is life, Teoh's life was wasted to the evil hands of the so-called authority, is a case of curse and condemnation of utter abuse, a criminal deprivation of a human's life and his right!

No one in this earth or planet has got this authority to have done such an animal characteristically act of brutality and uncivilized man slaughtering, only typical to the most backward and uncivilized Countries could find! And only the Talibans and the terrorists would find fit to sever their enemies' heads and the amputation of their limbs in the name of God to satisfy their animal instinct!

In a democracy Country like ours, it's puzzling to see the same man slaughtering act but in a freaky 'civilized way' of mental torture and trauma infliction to a victim in the sacrosanct name of - rule of law - virtually, it's clear cut 'political persecution' each and every decent citizens could have seen and understood!

Teoh Beng Hock was a law abiding citizen with no difference from him with the common people - that - he's only working for the bread as a political aide to a politician - who - was not the most wanted political rival to the fearful power that be of the day! But he was treated as one seemed to be the most unworthy life than a terrorist he who had been tortured and treated to his death - innocently!

Teoh Beng Hock died of sheer innocence and there's no doubt about it....And he did not deserve it, at all!

All the peoples of this Country are on the brink of holding the last straw - and on the watch - how will the most hypocritical politicians with absolute powers granted by the peoples, to act with conscience, or to continue with their animal-like foxy and fiendish characters - in due time, to break the camel's back with this last straw!

20 over millions peoples are not to be run over with roughshod just like the ants under the big foot of the wild and demented elephant!

This is the last warning from the PEOPLES!

Ce Sera Sera.....

STRATEGY - is the elixir to Umno for putting PR down as underdog in all the past and present jostling for 'positive' perception, created in the MMC and the cyberspace multimedia domain all these while. The Machiavellian Najib is comparatively a better strategic planner even the CEO MB Khalid is being shied away! Compounded with the baskets of goodies offered through the national resources and coffer, his proclamation that - before the end of 2010 - all the stimulus packages would be materialized is a powerful catalyst to induce and woo all the departed frogs from leaping back to the once under-greased umno den during the time of the lame duck Dollah, he only greased his SIL from head to tail!

These returning frogs consist irrespective of races, of course, Malay contractors are the majority which therefore pushed up the 55% and could be 60% by now upwards curve, in support of BN! The Chinese towkays, once after being promised some good soup, will also bend back to support BN again and dun ever underestimate their influence, look at that Mr Tiong, you know how powerful money is! About the Indians voters...hmmm....you know lah, worst than Teochew lang - 'ti ko liang, ti ko chor'! The Kugan case they themselves have already forgotten about it, with only little milk spilled into their mouths, and they would have swept the issue under the rubber mat!

The strategy PR harps on, is still based on the old dog's trick, ineffective! Which needs innovation from the regular splashing of saliva and their usual histrionic - 'pikin tak serupa cakap' juga! They have forgotten what BN/Umno had been bashed of flip-flop governance and the most despicable 'pikin tak serupa cakap' stance of hypocrisy! They are not for the rakyat, it seems. And, they are more concerned about their Party's ideology! PAS wants to be for the Islam! PKR wants Anwar to be the PM! DAP wants the little emperor LKS long live and prosperous his dynasty...blah blah!

As for we bloggers who would say No to ISA, soon enough, Najib will present a hamper, all the hardcore detainees will be unleashed from Kemunting, ISA rephrased! Hence all the mouths gagged, and the pens down!

The Singaporean oppositional doyen Dr Lim Hock Siew's video clip will be capitalized as the greatest asset and weapon to replace Chua soi-lek and Lingam's CD -- "There you see, our magnanimous Najib is so kind and compassionate....not like that LKY, can detain people up to 32 years one!"

So, nincompoops will begin sing hallelujah for the pink lips again! Dun be forgetful like the very forgetful Rakyat we have in Bolehland, money can buy everything including hearts and virginity! Democracy and justice is cheap to most of these types of mentality! Dr Lim will be enliven in Sing history book, but in Malaysian book, there's only the Guinness Book of record - a man with C4 could become a PM!

Sad to think of the consequence of the next GE or whatever! How about lets all again switch on our MyFM and tune to the channel for the nostalgic song - "Ce Sera Sera...whatever will be...will be ...(repeat chorus)!"....

Malaysia Boleh!

The unpeaceful soul, and irritated !

Teoh Beng Hock's body exhumed
UPDATED
By Syed Jaymal Zahiid

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 21 — The exhumation of Teoh Beng Hock’s body for a second autopsy, ordered by the inquest into his recent death, has been completed. The exhumation comes following the testimony of Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand that the death of the political aide was very likely a homicide.

A team of over ten police forensic experts had earlier cordoned off the grave area with the aid of several cemetery workers, who are helping with the exhumation.

Teoh’s family members arrived earlier, and began offering rites to the departed’s spirit. A feng shui master explained that the time of the exhumation had been chosen specifically to coincide with swallows beginning the day, for good luck.


Dr Pornthip (center in the picture) is also on the scene to observe the exhumation process.

Also present were two other forensic experts — Dr Shahidan Md Noor, who is chief pathologist at the Sungai Buloh Hospital, and UK pathologist hired by the MACC, Dr Peter Venezis.

Following the prayer rituals, the casket was successfully disinterred and displayed to the media present, before being covered in plastic sheets.

The family’s lawyer, Gobind Singh Deo, said that all parties involved were satisfied with the way the exhumation was performed and added that Teoh’s body was still in good condition for the second autopsy.

Dr Shahidan along with Dr Pornthip are expected to carry out an X-ray examination on the body later.

The casket containing the body has been transported to the hospital, which will be the site of the second autopsy scheduled to run from 9.30am to noon tomorrow.

Gobind said lawyers representing Teoh’s family will also be there to hold a watching brief.

“This is to ensure that no complications will come in the future, so it’s better to make sure everything is alright now,” explained Gobind, who is also Puchong MP.

Teoh’s former employer, Selangor state executive councillor Ean Yong Hian Wah, said at the cemetery: “I hope the second autopsy will reveal the truth.”

Yong also stated his desire to know how much the government spent hiring the UK pathologist, Dr Venezis — one of two foreign pathologists, along with Dr Pornthip, who will be observing the second autopsy.


[Teoh’s sister, Lee Lan, leads the procession at today’s exhumation.]

He said it was of public interest that the amount paid to hire the foreign expert be disclosed, as public funds were used to procure his services.

Dr Venezis, who serves as a director at the Cameron Centre for Forensic Medical Sciences in London, has handled over 2,000 autopsy cases involving sudden death, of which 1,500 were found to be homicides.

“The fact that they hired a foreign expert shows they have no confidence in the local pathologists,” Yong added.

DAP’s Lim Kit Siang and Ronnie Lie were also in attendance. Both expressed hope that a fresh autopsy will reveal who or what “killed” Teoh.

Lim also added that Teoh’s death may have been a contributing factor towards Malaysia’s worst ever placing in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index.

When the two giants meet.....

President Barack Obama visiting the Forbidden City at China

BEIJING, 17th Nov.,2009 – President Barack Obama and Chinese President Hu Jintao promised a determined, joint effort to tackle climate change, nuclear disarmament and other global troubles yet emerged from their first full-blown summit Tuesday with scant progress beyond goodwill.

After two hours of talks and a separate meeting over dinner the night before, the presidents spoke of moving beyond the divisiveness over human rights, trade and military tensions that have bedeviled relations in past decades.

"The major challenges of the 21st century, from climate change to nuclear proliferation to economic recovery, are challenges that touch both our nations, and challenges that neither of our nations can solve by acting alone," Obama said, standing with the Chinese leader in the Great Hall of the People.

Hu, who heads a collective leadership that often has preferred to go it alone internationally, said: "There are growing global challenges, and countries in today's world have become more and more interdependent. "

With each of those big issues — from global warming to the Iranian and North Korean nuclear programs — persistent differences bubbled up in the form of indirect barbs during the joint appearance.

Stung by new U.S. levies on imports of Chinese-made tires and steel pipes, Hu said he told Obama that given a still struggling global economy both countries "need to oppose and reject protectionism in all its manifestations in an even stronger stand."

Obama later called on China to relax controls that keep the Chinese currency relatively weak and thus help fuel exports — something Beijing officials have rejected in recent days. Obama also pointedly raised human rights, saying they are fundamental to all.


"We do not believe these principles are unique to America, but rather they are universal rights and that they should be available to all peoples, to all ethnic and religious minorities," Obama said in his only nationally televised remarks on the sensitive issue.

The mixture of promises and lasting differences underscored how intertwined the superpower United States and rising power China are, and the difficult task Obama faces in managing friction with an authoritarian, sometimes testy Beijing.

On his first visit ever to China, Obama said he was mostly striving to better understand China, a geopolitical force on its way to becoming the world's second-largest economy.

"Our relationship going forward will not be without disagreement or difficulty," Obama said. "But because of our cooperation, both the United States and China are more prosperous and secure."

Aside from his meetings with Hu, Obama received a formal welcome. He walked past rows of soldiers in dress uniforms and dined on chicken soup with bean curd, Chinese-style beef steak and roast grouper at a state banquet. He also toured the Forbidden City, the emperors' palace for more than 400 years, and met the head of China's legislature, a former mayor of Shanghai, the commercial hub where Obama started his three-day stay in China.

In a minor advance, the two leaders set a deadline of early next year for resuming an on-again, off-again dialogue on human rights. Charting a new frontier for cooperation, the two agreed to reciprocal visits by the heads of their space programs. Promises were made to step up visits by military leaders to help overcome years of distrust over a Chinese military buildup and U.S. reconnaissance missions in the seas off China.

Headway was made on climate change. The two committed their countries — the biggest emitters of the heat-trapping gases causing global warming — to backing a detailed political agreement at next month's climate-change conference in Copenhagen. In their formula, rich countries would commit to reduction targets while developing ones would agree to meet softer goals that would be monitored.

Yet the positions were not markedly different from those Beijing and Washington held before Obama's arrival.

So it also was with attempts to curb Iran's nuclear program and disarm nuclear-armed North Korea. Though Obama talked of continuing diplomatic efforts on Iran and North Korea, Hu did not endorse the U.S. leader's talk of sterner actions should negotiations falter. Beijing has strong interests in keeping North Korea stable and in maintaining budding energy cooperation with Iran.

"Iran has an opportunity to present and demonstrate its peaceful intentions, but if it fails to take this opportunity, there will be consequences," the U.S. president said. Hu did not mention consequences.

Keeping the differences veiled rather than open was a measure of success of sorts for Obama. With its economy still in trouble, U.S. international prestige still battered and China holding $800 billion in U.S. government debt, Obama came to the Beijing summit with a weaker hand than previous U.S. presidents. That makes the emphasis on practical cooperation all the more needed, Chinese analysts said.

"The Chinese leadership will not worry too much about the U.S. pressure. In the context of the financial crisis and George W. Bush's legacy on the issues of Iran, North Korea, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the U.S. needs China much more than China needs the U.S.," said Yu Wanli, an America expert at Peking University.

At their joint appearance, Hu called on the U.S. to respect China's "core interests" — code for ending support for Taiwan and for the Dalai Lama, in his Tibetan government-in-exile. Obama obliged by saying Tibet was part of China. But he urged China to restart talks with the Dalai Lama's representatives — something Hu did not mention.




SPIN METER: Did Obama grovel?

WASHINGTON – Some conservative commentators seized on President Barack Obama's deep bow to Japan's Emperor Akihito over the weekend, accusing the U.S. commander in chief of groveling before a foreign leader.

So did he?

While it may have been an awkward moment, it wasn't without precedent. And it appeared to be well within protocol guidelines that the State Department issues for foreign service officers working in other countries.

U.S. presidents from both political parties have often been criticized for their attempts at culturally sensitive greetings to high-ranking foreigners.

Former President George W. Bush, a Republican, was mocked for holding Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah's hand, a traditional sign of friendship in the Middle East, as they strolled together in 2005.

In 1994, former Democratic President Bill Clinton was criticized for almost bowing to Akihito. The resulting image, The New York Times wrote, was of "an obsequent president and the emperor of Japan."

Former President Richard Nixon, a Republican, can be seen in a Life magazine photo from 1971 bowing to Akihito's father, Emperor Hirohito, who ruled when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Obama's encounter with Akihito was a stumble because it mixed a bow with a handshake — something not normally done. And it wasn't the first time the president, a Democrat in office less than a year, has been criticized for his greeting of a foreign leader. Critics accused him of genuflecting to Saudi King Abdullah at a summit meeting of the leaders of the top 20 rich and developing nations earlier this year.

The current bow comes during a highly charged political moment in the United States. Conservatives are strongly opposing Obama's policies, especially his plan to overhaul the U.S. health care system, and they have seized on any perceived faux pas by Obama, carrying their message on talk radio and blogs.

An online video posted by the University of Connecticut College Republicans juxtaposed a series of upright handshakes between Akihito and other world leaders and Obama's low bow.

Andrew Malcolm, in a blog on the Los Angeles Times Web site, asked, "How low will the new American president go for the world's royalty?"

Obama's bow was compared with photos of former Vice President Dick Cheney giving Akihito a straight-backed handshake and Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who oversaw the post-World War II occupation of Japan, standing with his hands on his hips next to Hirohito.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly told reporters Monday that the bow was "a sign of respect to the emperor."

In an online State Department posting from 2007 titled "Protocol for the Modern Diplomat," envoys are advised to be aware of greeting rituals such as kisses, handshakes or bows and to follow a country's tradition. "Failure to abide with tradition may be interpreted as rudeness or a lack of respect for colleagues," it says. It's not clear whether the guidelines apply to the president.

John Park, a senior researcher at the U.S. Institute of Peace think tank, said it is a respectful tradition for visitors to bow to the emperor in a formal setting.

But, he said, "We're in an environment right now where everything is hypersensitive. Any type of move that you do, there will be some group that sees some sort of message within all that."

A nonsensical dimwit talks....

Hishammuddin: Demonisation of police main cause of high crime rate
[Hishammuddin’s statement drew criticisms from the opposition. — File pic]
By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 — Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein blamed the country's high crime rate on the demonisation of institutions such as the police..........

Now I understand what's the meaning of -'Laugh like a drain' - how lucky with my own experience, I read the news of our Home Minister who would have uttered such a humbug, so childish that he made me laughed like a drain!

Out of so many stupid reasons, he quoted one of the most ridiculous and idiotic reason - the Police force were being demonized to make them look stupid and incapable of doing a job to stifle the ever spiraling crime rates rampantly threatening the social security of the society! In contrast to the usual alibi of having shorthanded in the field force, this given reason of the latest one is even worth a better laugh than a laugh of the horse!

As a senior Minister, albeit the son of a venerable 'Father of Unity' he is still not weaned to be matured enough to match his late father, not even anything close to Him! After so many years drifting in Umno politics, he just didn't learn yet - how to become a real Statesman like his father - to have a demeanor closed to his father - to earn the respects of the common people, the Rakyat at large! Instead, he never fail to behave in his regular mischievous yet revolting pattern of a spoiled kid, let alone duty-bound! Instead of gaining respects through his mouth utterance, he's always fond of spewing bullshits, claptrap, and all the assorted nonsenses of the very cheap substance likened those deep in the invert of the sewerage manhole! Hence he was made to look cheap, and his pea brain lack of quality substance!

How would it be convincing for people to believe, the police force with their chief had just recently been pat on the shoulder by the Singapore police counterpart, one of the accolade of the much vaunted for - outstanding performance award - or sort, his boys and even the political boss now are blaming the public of being the main cause of the high crime rates exacerbated, and the efficiency of the police force declined to the contrary! According to the Minister concerned, he blamed the public of condemning and accusing his royal police force too often than always, to make his boys looked stupid and personalized them as demons. Thus it defeated their morale and caused them fail in performing an ethical job duty as the uniformed enforcement unit! Thus they claimed were scared by all these uncalled for curses and reprimands, allusively, they would rather prefer to do less, make less mistakes, and be fucked less!

They are scared to be fucked by the Rakyat when daily they are fucking up the Rakyat's lives by not doing their sanctity jobs, yet threatening the lives of the many innocent peoples by crowning them political dissidents against their political masters! They conveniently become the lackeys of the demonic politicians, those most villainous and serpentine in characters! And by such mentality, they are playing the risk game - the flying moth which fights the blazing fire!

Since the police are also guilty conscious of becoming the minor demons - nose-ringed by the bigger demon and the demonic political bosses they sub-consciously felt being demonized - whilst a phalanx of them still own some little conscience - they would have to indulge in some honest soul searching, on which direction they should stash their loyalty! The loyalty that they had all along misplaced on the political masters, isn't it now time for them to introspect - to rectify and redirect to the vows that they would have pledged - all and one only undivided loyalty to the Highness, the Supreme Monarch of the Nation - that - they are the guardians of rule of law, in lieu of otherwise?! And that is supposed to be the supreme law of the Country which has had spelled out, loud and clear!

"So, don't ever blame the Society. Neither should you blame the Rakyat of not co-operating with you, nor should you beg for any laudable merits you would have blamed the Rakyat of too stingy to bestow upon you! There will be only merit when merit is due, likewise, there will be only credit when credit is due! The Rakyat are always fair and square in granting the accolades when they are all due to you!"

Amid grouses, listen, Mr Policemen - "You all must open up your eyes big and round like the bulls to recognize who are your real bosses. Who are giving you the all livelihoods you now deserve - the hard earned livelihoods though, but, from the more hard earned livelihoods of the Rakyat!"

Never listen too much from the big mouths of the low life political bosses, they are enjoying easy lives though, but, they are not going to bother about your hard earned livelihoods, and the Rakyat's hard earned livelihoods, any single bit either! Don't listen to all the bunkum, claptrap and humbugs! These are not going to do you any good in portraying all your good image and reputation desirable of earning our credit appraisals and respects! More so, your dignity and the sacrosanct Royal Police Crest will be expedited deterioration in the process of erosion and tarnish, chemically, so long as you guys are willingly remain part and parcel of the shit scums, in the deep and stinking cesspool - or in other words - the filthy umno septic tank!

Fall of the Berlin Wall.

Day the Wall came down: History, what history?

A German historian who witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall explains why it did not feel like a momentous event at the time
By Roland Pietsch
FIRST POSTED NOVEMBER 9, 2009

It was revealed this week that Angela Merkel went for her regular Thursday evening sauna with a friend on the night the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989. While thousands of her fellow East Germans poured into West Berlin, the young physicist who would become an MP a year later and one day rise to be German Chancellor relaxed in an East Berlin steam room and went for a beer afterwards with a friend. "I figured if the Wall had opened, it was hardly going to close again, so I decided to wait," she told the Guardian.

As a West German, brought up on the other side of the Berlin Wall, I too was a little nonchalant that day.

I was 18, in my last year at school. The next morning, November 10, I climbed onto the Wall with some of my classmates and the pictures have entered the history books. "Sir, we didn't know you're already that old!’" was one the many excited responses when I pointed myself out in the photos to my students at Queen Mary University of London during a recent history lecture.

Those photographs have become iconic images of the 20th century. But was it really such a unique moment in my life?

Born in West Berlin, I lived with the Wall for my entire youth. My generation did not know anything else. We questioned the existence of the Wall as often as the British question the water around their island: never.

In fact, we hardly ever noticed the Wall in our everyday lives. West Berlin was our world, a village behaving like a metropolis. Though Westerners were allowed to cross the border into East Berlin by buying a visa, few were interested in what happened on the other side, in dull grey Socialism. In our eyes, the Wall was the Easterners’ own doing. To most West Berliners, the East was just a foreign wasteland we had to drive through to go on holiday in western Europe.

My own knowledge of the East was slightly more detailed, since my mother had absented herself from East Germany and her parents just before the Wall was first erected in 1961. So we spent our holidays visiting grandparents, aunties and cousins on the Baltic Sea coast.

In 1989, our lack of interest was suddenly overtaken by a buzz of daily news about the changes in Eastern Europe. Historic events became a regular occurrence, which is one of my explanations for the inexplicable calmness with which I watched the confused East German government spokesman reading out the press release about free travel for Easterners on the evening of November 9.

I was not alone: most of my friends went to bed that night surprisingly unbothered by it all. Limited free travel for the Easterners had already been debated a week before.

But perhaps we were also slightly stunned. Was there a misunderstanding? Surely free travel GDR-style would include long visa waiting lists, only one family member at a time, and similar restrictions? Nobody guessed that the Easterners would so dramatically exploit the communication breakdown and power vacuum in their government that night by simply overrunning the border.

In the pre-mobile-phone age, millions slept through an historic event undisturbed. My two cousins, by the way, had decided to flee East Germany via Hungary's opened border a few days earlier. By the time they eventually arrived at our home, half of East Germany had already been once to West Berlin and back.

The next morning at school the historic dimension of the event sank in. Our headmaster was talked into closing the school and instead collectively visiting the Brandenburg Gate. Not many pupils eventually made it to the Wall, the majority clearly preferring to enjoy their unexpected holiday by sneaking off elsewhere.

The atmosphere around the Gate was funfair-like; there was an apolitical light-heartedness that serious history books never grasp. Nevertheless, when my students ask me today how it felt to personally be there, then I have to admit: yes it was fun, yes the event was about to change my life. But I also have to say that there are endless events in my life that have had a bigger emotional impact. Even at the time, preparing for a school exam, or being dumped by a girlfriend, were more important.

Nothing illustrates this inferior importance of historic events for the life of a teenager better than the photo taken of me and my classmates (above). I am looking down at my camera. Just at that moment my film was finished. I had deliberately taken only one film with me – digital cameras were still a way off - not wanting to 'waste' too many photos. The result is I have 36 photos from the day the Berlin Wall came down - and 144 from my previous summer holiday.

Yet I also sense a little despair in my barely visibly face. It must have dawned on me that this was not the best moment to be saving money on film. How could I have guessed that my lacking sense of history would thus be preserved for eternity, leaving me having to justify my stupidity to my students today?

I finished my recent lecture by showing clips from a BBC documentary, a standard mixture of emotional images and music arranged in a way that fitted the dramaturgy but was historically not always accurate.

Yet at this point even I could not help being overcome by the power of the images and music. I thought how much heavier the events must have weighed in my mother's life. And I hoped that in the darkness of the lecture hall, no student realised that my eyes were becoming a little wet.


MY CANDID COMMENT :-


Today marks the 20th anniversary for the Fall of Berlin Wall. Since Nov, 1989, the Berlin Wall was torn down and it's today, only after 2 decades, East and West Germany both stand in one and proudly to show to the whole world how they would have proven to the world peoples that – through their borderless co-operation and merger, they are able to excel together as a whole! And Germany has become one of the world largest economic bloc, amidst the world’s most advance Countries!

Whereas here in Bolehland, we see only all the splits, apartheid policies, down the list, to further sub-divide the Country into sectarians! All due to not only the mediocrity of the mediocre leaderships, but also their lunatic and stuck up mentality!

How truthful is the one Malaysia concept and whether it’s based on the Rakyat’s agenda, or still is the self-seeking Najibised agenda, the N2EP in disguise is yet to be seen!

Mahathir gave more than 2 decades time frame for Malaysia to excel into one of the Asian (5th?)Dragon, until now, we see only all the tadpoles and frogs! Where to find a baby dragon, or its embryo?! Given another 10 years until 2020, I believe there’s still no baby dragon, only all the ‘cacing’ and suckling worms!

I personally have no faith in their leaderships and had been disenchanted by all their flip-flop hypocrisies and claptrap!

The real concerns of a decent Rakyat...

As a member of the common public, a civvy in the Civvy Street, I am not so concerned about the political imbroglio ever be ballyhoo happening in the Country. I am not so concerned either about the much ado of political conspiracy, the razz-ma-tazz of mud slinging, and the murky hands of the top brass politicians plotting for the witch-hunts and carnage of politico rivals with malignant wills and maneuver of the public servants as lackeys and all that!

I am tired of showing any concern to all those foul plays, hatchet jobs and monkey business not even the Great Britain Royal Circus would wish to include them in the program of rendition.

But I concern very much - the breads on my table - the basic 3 meals which I will have to ensure and provide for my children. To enable them to fuel their stomachs with energy, of which it's needed to propel them to take on the heap up load of school texts and the burdening home works, all in all constitute the heavy pressures! And they have enough pressure already, would it not irresponsible, being a father, to pass over to them the pressure of finding enough breads to fuel their stomachs and cause to neglect their studies?! Hence it becomes our pressure, as the bread earners!

While the National economy is still on the low, the hatch of the national coffer is still thrown wide open to meet the national development funds, the large quantum of public servants and their emoluments, the astronomical amount of administrative costs and all that are on the spiraling increase against the below par of deficits ever being caused by the world economic crisis. The Government have to emulate other advance Countries dilute the national coffer further by funding the domestic market with the so-called stimulus package as an aid to stimulate the local market and the GPI. Some institutions such as the Banks might have pitched into the lucrativeness and enjoyed as the beneficiary. But, as long as the general public are concerned, little or no feeling are being felt of any benefits befallen into our rice bowls despite the fact that the Governments are vaunting so much about its impact on the national home economy, the benefits had been spectacular and so on!

The corruptions and malversation of the bureaucratic public offices again contributed to a record high of abuses though the AG or PAC are keeping tab on such malpractices and reveal data for public scrutiny. To the dismay of all, no one in the so-called graft buster office takes any heed to curb such criminal offense consciously! It seems MACC is more of concerning about catching small political fish, and does only good services for the power that be in tackling their political rivals, with all intentions, they have cut and leave a hole in the drag net for the big fish to flee, with reasons best known to them!

The issue of vexation which concerned almost every citizen is that - they, the MACC are supposedly the public servants and social scum cleaners who would only draw salaries from the national coffer, in which - tax-payers' blood and sweat monies are stacked like a loaf of jumbo sliced Gardenia - upon them doing their jobs. But to the contrary, in the absence of it, they would also draw the pay packets without obligation, with or without doing the proper jobs! They would only come and pull a slice every month without fail, without appreciating who are the bread earners, have had sweated for it, and supplied in abundance for their enjoyment! Since they are not doing their sanctity job of cleaning up the society full of scumbags and sleazeballs, but only flirting around - by right - they do not deserve at all to enjoy the supplying breads than others who are more needing, and are beseeching for, but to no avail!

This is what I am concerned deep, for they have infringed into my opportunity of earning extra bread due to my decent and extra efforts to slog for it!

When looking at this scenario, and with only one example - by comparing the easy monies that are draining out so easily and rapidly from the national coffer to others' waist pouches - they're indeed our contribution of hard earned monies - and to find it so trifling in our decent earnings - how not it causes our furore which itself, is enough to make our hackles stand! What the kind of good governance is this - 1-Malaysia?!

What the heck is the Government doing?! We begin to curse them and that's the one and many reasons we all wish to teach them a lesson, and to change them for good should they not change for good by themselves!

I am not concerned either who would be a better PM. A PM who only lives by his lips, by propagating with his voluminous rhetoric, tons of histrionics and poseur as a great and gracious benefactor is not good enough to befit as my choice PM. Let alone he must be a leader of good virtue and morality! Being my/our choice PM, he must be one who would not bring shame and besmirch to the reputation of the Nation, a proud image which all Malaysians will be carrying in the hands, when in foreign land immigration counters, our identity in the passports will be either a pride, or a despise, by the gestures and gleaming eyes of the alien officers manning the counters, will tell!

My last but not the least concern is - when are they the fumbling and tricksy politicians going to cut it - all the lowly rated sandiwara (playacts) and randy soap opera of the day, and be vigilant and on the alert of the threat that our Nation is far lagged behind the Marathon run towards the glory of economic triumph amid the world competitors!

This again I believe - is the magnitude of concerns of all the decent Rakyat!

Don't I deserve my right to voice out a little my concern and demand for all that of a better Nation? Am I asking too much?!

700 million emigrant on the look out to move!

(Globe Staff)

From Wednesday's Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2009 9:02PM EST Last updated on Friday, Nov. 06, 2009 2:56AM EST

Some 700 million people worldwide, or 16 per cent of the adult population, think the grass is greener on the other side and want to move to another country, according to a new poll. Here are some of the other findings of Gallup's survey of people in 135 countries between 2007 and 2009, released yesterday after phone or face-to-face interviews with 260,000 people aged 15 years and older:

U-S-A! U-S-A!

Nearly one-quarter of these respondents name the United States as their top destination, which translates to more than 165 million adults worldwide.

We're No. 2

An additional 45 million say they would like to move to Canada, and another 45 million would choose Britain or France, while 35 million say Spain, and 25 million Germany. Saudi Arabia is the top chose for 30 million people, and 25 million want to go to Australia.

Get me out of here

People in sub-Saharan Africa are the most likely to want to move, with 38 per cent of adults in the region wanting out.

Homebodies

Asians are the most satisfied with their current homelands, with only 10 per cent expressing a desire to leave.

Boom and bust

If all the adults who wanted to move did so, some countries would be emptied out, and others would be swamped.

* Percentage by which Singapore's population would grow if it accepted everyone who wanted to come: + 260
* Percentage by which Saudi Arabia's would grow: + 180
* Percentage by which Canada would grow: + 170
* Percentage by which the Democratic Republic of the Congo would shrink if everyone who wanted to leave did so: – 60

Source: Gallup

Aladdin's lamp and the cave....

If I were to say - our Nation now is in the current state of political imbroglio, topsy-turvy and prevalent foul play of witch hunting is in its apex notch, 10 out of 10 people will not disagree to give their nods.

Even the retired old kid, the once formidable and unassailable ex-PM who had ruled the Country for over 22 years, seems like still ruling, and tail-griping the recently emerged supremo of the Country, once his protege when during his regime - the Mahathirism Regime. Yeas, Mr Mahathirism, more popularly known as TDM is still holding the choke chain. He stays behind the screen and continues to maneuver without sparing a millimeter of his ultra active cerebral nerve! More in his store, are still drums of venomous liquid whereby he can anytime use to spurt at those had been groomed by him, and trying to defy him! More so threatening would be, with all their skeletons and dirty linens stashed in custody in his many closets, which are likened the pustulating piles in the anuses they would be too ugly and expensive for remedy!

More popularly, people call it a Pandora Box and he is holding in his bearish palm, and hairy obviously, to reveal a typical feature of a beastly and powerful tool of a predator!

To the old kid - TDM himself - he is adoring it as his most precious Aladdin's lamp, which his beloved instrument it would answer all his wishes! He would bow only to his Aladdin's lamp for wishes of longevity and good health plus umpteen wealth that would be lasting for the next next generations of his family, mostly stashed in the Aladdin cave which he founded together with his Aladdin's lamp. He believes little in God, or his God is more of Aladdin's soul, than, the real God. That's the reason he's not scared of the so-called God punishment, and retribution, and he believes that his Aladdin's lamp is much more powerful than any curses, condemnation of karma from the Rakyat are all bullshits and rock music which, his deafening ears can immune.

For the sake of upbringing his baby in the cradle, a very much less politically calibrated son, a prodigal son, or a gigolo son, by all names from the society, he still needs to tirelessly continue driving his old cart to the market and hard-sell on his unwelcome and old stock branded Mahathirism amidst the return sales of rotten eggs and old shoes traded back on him! Such a pathetic old kid, and greeted as a mischievous old ET most of the time by the fair-minded Rakyat, the countrymen whom they had suffered the intoxication of venom in the past - branded Mahathirism!

But he didn't aware of that. Or he just pretends not to be aware of that!

By right he would have been living with a lofty and peaceful life of being a retired great man, likened the dwarfih yet greatest man in China - Teng siu-ping - and enjoying the reunion with his children and grand children, enjoying the hobby of horticulture in the compound of his luxurious mansion now the son is enjoying, listen to the nostalgic pop music of P Ramlee if Michael Jacson's 'The Thrill' is too thrilling for his low pulse mechanical heart!

Why all these hassles of uncompromising brickbats and nefarious activities of throwing them around?! Sigh....!

The most recent cry of the owl is his advocacy of single stream schools fallacy where he advocated that all Malaysian should go to one single-stream school in order to be a true Malaysian, and to foster unity amongst races and national harmony! How a piece of claptrap immediately the whole society of fair-minded citizens have already refuted with barrages of flak, caused him to burrow into the hole like a marmot!

Comparatively, his 1-Malaysia protege is playing a smarter game of vaunting for his respects to the minority groups feelings of their loves to the culture, the sensitive issue should be well threshed out before any of its concrete implementation!

The kudos is for his protege who would put the old mischievous kid to be looked like a nemesis to the downtrodden groups playing a cameo role game. The educationists are holding the last straw threaten to break the camel's back as their last bastion of defense for their thousand years culture and tradition, though such rights have been enshrined in the sacrosanct Federal Constitution!

The moribund soul will not give up such evilly fallacy of turning the Nation into an aggregate of assimilation of 'One Race and One Language', and that is his ultimate egocentric mentality of a tyrannic mamak who would burn all the books in order to record his greatness in the history! It's his sole intention to white wash the skins of the darker to the tan of the fairer, to a brownish tone!

That's all in his mind he wishes to accomplish through the witch craft of his Aladdin's lamp, without knowing, he's faltering fast and the Aladdin's lamp is smothering to a total eclipse by this fast changing era of the elites will cloak over! He's too senile to engage in this high speed race of intelligence and his venom won't work to conquer all the decent minds and perfect pulsating hearts of the intellectual and fair-minded Malaysians of all varied creeds and believes. Irrespective of races!

As a medical doctor, he should know fairly well than any of the laymen in the street, only a highly pure medicine will has its efficacy to pacify the most adamant virus. But, ironically, that doesn't seem to be the case! He's still reading his old manuscript paper from the archaic 'bomoh' prescription that the cheap root - Tongkat Ali - would be a better dosage to go well in 'zooming in' effect, and help to bring in the close intact of 'unity', and the contacting pleasure of 'harmony', than - the Chinese ginseng which has thousands of years rooting to the earth!

He just pretends not to know - the wedge which causes the racial splits and the forever disharmony in the Country is not the few books of other languages, but - the ever never subservient egoistic and hypocritical low life politicians are the only cause!

I say howdy to the old kid :-

"For your own good, slow down and count down - prepare for the good riddance and be always remembered by the Rakyat as a Father of Construction rather than Destruction!"....God bless!




(Note ; The writer is holding back by calling him old punk or old wanker due to respect due for his past contribution to the development of the Nation)

Single Stream Schools - extraordinaire?

Published: Tuesday November 3, 2009 MYT 7:58:00 PM
Single-stream schools: All must agree, says PM
By JOSHUA FOONG

PETALING JAYA: Malaysians have to collectively agree upon an education system that benefits all and which espouses the values that they uphold, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

“I have heard many have called for a switch to a single-stream system as a way to promote greater unity and integration among Malaysians,” Najib said on his blog on Monday.

“However, ‘many’ do not constitute ‘most’. I have also heard many who feel strongly for the right to choose based on the existing education system.

“I have heard these two different opinions and acknowledge them.

“Are we prepared to shun the right to choose and seek a compromise?” he said, in asking for feedback from the Malaysian people.

Najib also asked if those voicing their viewpoints had given thought to the differing opinions of others.

“While the public is still ambivalent and disinclined to make that collective decision, I do not wish for discord to arise within our society on a subject of great sensitivity,” he said, adding that even the noblest of intentions can be rendered pointless if all Malaysians are not prepared to accept and embrace it.

Earlier on Oct 31, Najib announced that a single-stream school system would not be implemented because Malaysians were not collectively ready for it.

In JOHOR BARU, several non-governmental organisations said they were against the implementation of a single stream in schools as they were worried that their communities’ “unique identities would be lost,” report NELSON BENJAMIN and K.C. CHAN.

They feel that the Government should come up with other policies to promote unity.

The 1Malaysia concept is a good one, “but education is something very important and we cannot do anything that would confuse our younger generation,” said Johor Baru Tiong Hua Association manager Eric Ku.

He said the Government had to consider other races in the country, including those in Sabah and Sarawak, before shifting to a whole new direction.

“I believe all races have their strong cultural and historical backgrounds and they should be given a choice of which education system they prefer,” Ku said.

The National Association of Religious Teachers of West Malaysia Johor branch president Samsudin Samudi said a single stream might not be necessary to unite Malaysians.

“The current multiple-stream system has been working fine. The most important thing is how we infuse the culture of unity in the younger generation,” he said.

He argued that the concept of 1Malaysia did not necessarily have to begin in school but should be implemented at “a higher level with fair and equal policies for everyone.”

“I am not saying we have a perfect education system but it does not mean that by changing to a new policy, we would become more united,” he said.

Malaysian Hindu Sangam Johor chief R. Ramakrishnan said his members did not want any changes to affect students studying in Tamil schools.

He said that if the Government was serious about promoting unity, there should be more opportunities for all races in the public sector.

“Minor things like serving beef during government functions should also be stopped as the Government must be sensitive to the needs of all races, even if they are a minority,” he said.

Last week, Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said he was all for single-stream schools to promote unity and 1Malaysia.

However, he said the issue should be looked at in its totality with views from all quarters, including those of the Chinese and Indian communities.