Sibu By-Election....the embeded worries of PR.....

Winner of the Sibu Parliamentary by-election, DAP’s Wong Ho Leng waves to supporters at the counting centre in Sibu May 16, 2010. He managed to win a wafer thin majority of 398 votes which is said to be a break through in the historical stronghold constituency of SUPP/BN — Picture


Before i go into slumber, let me do up some night diary and the analytical work for the aftermath of this thrilling 'buy-election' once more, and again, after Hulu Selangor by-election which costs BN another big bomb in layman's lingo ........

Post Mortem

The Sibu by-election was said to have only slightly less than 60% turn-out rate of voters. The majority win line was contributed by the urban Chinese voters - but elderly - where the youngish voters seemed to be lackadaisical in fulfilling their responsibilities as the future bosses of the Nation!

It does not bode well for PR which fundamentally is based on the supports of the youthful and intellectual brains whom they were yearning for Change.

Why? There must be a reason and the cause of it is worth the electoral think tank of PR to drill into threshing it out on the table and to seal the gap, enhance politico KPI , undergo honest soul searching as has deemed necessary in order to entrench PR on a higher ground combating with BN in the 13th GE forthcoming!

Based on my analysis -- The cold response of the young voters did not come out to vote during a public holiday is a testament of a lack of political consciousness and/or probably, a silent revolt to the chaotic political scenario currently prevails in the Nation. Mostly felt by these novices in life is the very bemusing political stance whereby the high key of 1-Malaysia BN music and the drumming of change by PR have not truly penetrated into their mind-numbing reception, and reassuring it as a belief is still like rainbow casting in the air, so near yet so far, which is yet a whim and fancy they could have been offered thus far!

No doubt, in general, the whole of BN has been clearly identified as a group of hypocritical liars, corruptible and despotic in real life experiences by the fair minded youths, PR could also not be able to convince them that it is an effective replacement should they all throw in their souls to support it. So far, what PR and its coalition parties could prove for their witnessing is nothing better than the BN/UMNO but a close substitute as a lesser feudalistic regime which is also most hatred by them, and the decent rakyat!

Anwar as the defacto leader of PR, he's unable to prove his capability of being a leader for all with good moral and the nobility of a venerable Statesman who's assigned to salvage the Nation and the peoples' protracted trauma too long has been haunted by the protege of the old colonial master, UMNO and its other running dogs!

His reputation has been blemished, by far, his Sodomy II and the empty promises to engineer for Change did not speak louder than the real life demonstration of a topsy-turvy and a mismanaged group of fans they at best constituted a pool of frogs with majority, principle less!

3 years had since past, after 308, what has PR concretely casted to show a strong Pakatan for Rakyat rather than all they had been proving to be a Pakatan without a single emblem of unison in all differential creeds, ideologies, practices of governance etc. Amongst the many PR ruling States, tell me, which one has a unique set of governance which reflects the true PR spirit strongly adheres to a constitution, with strong principle, which crafted and designed for the Rakyat's interests?!

Is CAT governance the best?! Then can CAT be the tagline for PR and to cut across all States which have been within the staple of PR?! I doubt very much if the answer is YES.

I too had to a certain degree been disenchanted and the bewilderment of what is and where is the CHANGE forthwith PR has achieved has become more and more intense in my perceptive and cerebral mechanism! Neither is CAT doing anything to handsomely convince me of their outstanding performance other than they have their saddles on the same old horses lack of any innovation and proactive governance, not to mention any so-called big leap advancement!

This is the main reason, i have reason to believe, the many intellectual youngish voters nation wide are having the same perception against the PR and its co-alition factors, and fall short of confidence to continue supporting them into office! A less evil has since become an average evil and soon enough it will make no difference with the most arrogant, demonic and despotic evil, suchlike the most deprave UMNO!

This is what worries the rakyat most, hence causes the nonchalant attitudes or rather refusal to be lulled into hoodwink by the equivalent, old fashion and unscrupulous political Parties of the day!

'New wine in old bottle'. What difference does it make?!

My two cents.

The real winner in Hulu Selangor 'buy-election' is......

I am really cheesed off to see Zaid Ibrahim lost by margin in this Hulu Selangor 'buy-election' despite a very close fight with that 'Bachelor of Communication'!

That Bachelor fella did put full use of what he had learned into his profession to not only polish the apples of his bosses, but also fondled the cheeks of those kids and the 'hulu' women they chose to naively fall into the hoodwink tactics of the dirty trick-master BN!

Nonetheless, a winner is a winner and Kamalnathan is the happiest man in the world today which marks his accede to the cosy chair of becoming a MP henceforth!

From the result of this by-election, though blemished by the hanky-panky maneuver and the popular Umnobized tactic of money politics, these are still not the most despicable thing which causes my nausea! What is causing my disgust feeling is - those selling themselves much cheaper than 'kacang putih' settlers and the headless snakes akin to the black vipers they have no principle at all, set aside what's dignity and they would just simply trade off their long term well beings, for some cheap toddy, get themselves drunken for the rest of their lives.

I was not being 'kiasu' but just a little feeling pathetic for the ignorant lots - the Indians and the settlers - those are hill-billies they are so self-seeking to sell their dignity off so inferior that based on some very cheap verbal goodies and empty promises!

I feel sorry for Datuk Zaid, being so much a distinguished professional, and a Statesman, would have succumbed himself to all the abuse of character assassination, and vulgarity hurled upon him during the very unfair 'buy-election' amid the dizzy eyes of EC and the BN stooge MACC!

As i said, i may lose only a dozen of tigers as i had pledged but the hill-billies there in Hulu Selangor have just sold out the future of their youngish generation without knowing - satisfied just for a little goodies by the 3 king demons whom they are the proponents of NEP which helps to overdose them with toxic, and put them in the poverty stage they are currently in!

I do agree - lost means lost - and it's crucial time PKR and the whole PR coalition will have to conduct a deep soul searching amongst themselves and plan for a reboot for a good fight in the GE forthcoming!

Cheers for no winner in the 'buy-election'! Can you say that BN has won the race by throwing 60-M just for the extra 1725 votes to put a black horse in place, or rather, to check out the referendum to the supports of the gigolo PM?

Neither are the voters pro BN the winners cuz the promises for moolah to be granted may depreciate to just a lips service - syok sendiri only!

Corruption - A lethal social disease.....

"Corruption" - is a common term and the social ill could be diagnosed but could not be cured in all over the world! So long there is human being, there is corruption!

Even in Singapore, who dares to say there is not a least of corruption in practice?! Thus a common phenomenon of the mankind weaknesses!

Like it or not, in the mundane business circle, when we want our job to be smoothly done, get payment fast and prompt, we will have to succumb ourselves to bribery in order to get the objective reached! Our normal excuse is - 'What to do, this is part of the culture what!'

This happens more so in the public works when bureaucracy is still perching high on the hierarchy!

The next alibi is - 'We pay for the bribes not based on own initiative but under duress'!

The fact is, even we have the 'conscience' to remind us to rid of this evilly culture, it will be like a spook which is haunting us, where ever we go!

And the pretty part of the British law (extended to Malaysian law) - the one who bribes is the one who's going to face heavier punishment of corruption act! Hence the silence continues.....hush-hush!

One way or another, no one is perfect, and this is another alibi to keep away from blames of immorality.

Our Country at its status quo of faltering in economic terms was not only due to simple 'cultural corruption' but plagiarize from the penal code, a '1st degree corruption' has been the main evil which has haunted each and every astute greedy pea brains they consist of nothing but the $$$$$$ signs and powers!

"Absolute powers leading to absolute Corruption" are the twin brothers it goes without any objection in Bolehland!

The 1st degree corruption is tantamount to not only embezzlement, siphoning and looting of national wealth, but the raping of citizen rights via the discriminating laws - the affirmative action - in its guise all the crutches law, NEP or NEM have never been ending implemented like the shackles fettering our freedom and put all of us the decent rakyat under the evil captive of the wicked! Physically and morally not exempted.....

More so, we are moving retrospectively towards the 'Leviathan' feudalistic era where people's power is being sabotaged to sheer slavery to the equally and morally corrupt supremos of the day?! The hoi-polloi populaces are in the mist of lost as if in the thick smoke of the eruptive volcano! And this causes the 'ignorance' - quote.

Should we all still prefer to be enmeshed in this total ignorance and neglect the excel for a CHANGE, blame ourselves for asking the doom day forthcoming, and looming!.......

A Toad is not only ugly .........

When a person says - "You are like a toad"!

Meaning, you are someone ugly and 'toady'! Toady in the sense that you tend to behave like a toad which not only ugly but making a lot of noise which would annoy many people, and disturb their peaceful mind.

In the Bolehland political arena, particularly after the so-called 308 tsunami, the choppy wave brought far from the archipelago all the pariah toads in the disguise of pious religious bigot and talked so great about his religion, he's all for his religion, he will die for his religion blah, blah, so bloody noisy and polluting the whole Nation with such claptrap!

One amid thousands of these ugly toads, there is one nicknamed Zul Nordin which could be crowned the king toad which is also the most despicable and an irritating nuisance bug!

A hypocrite in the guise of a pious Muslim and when he was sacked from the Party he belonged to, he immediately turned toady and showed his true color tantamount to an apostate and impious Muslim could possibly do - to betray his belief and God's teaching that - thou shall not do evil! He's now confessing to his new found God that he is now regretting of having done something evil against the saintly couple, the demon and the bitch, by forging a SD under duress by someone influential!

Which is the truth and untruth is immaterial nor it's of any significance to the general public! Neither that toady frog Zul fella is of any weight-age the commoners are interested to listen to the croaking of the frogs as the most lousy orchestra in the animal's world! All we know, as a part amid the general public, he's just a mongrel which had been discarded from his dog house to the wilderness of remote, near to the cave of where all the jackals are, umno den, with all his sole intention of hobnobbing with the frothing jackals and wish to join them, that's it!

And this is what I called apostasy a most condemnable act by betraying his belief and his former master he had once pledged loyalty to!

Zul Nordin didn't befit to be a leader politically, nor religiously, and he's no better than a cheap and pariah toad which could be found in any cesspool filled with these ugly and big mouth creatures of the most pariah specie!

One who chews the chilli, feels the hot.....

Statement by Hon. Michael Danby, Chairman, Australian Parliamentary Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs

Share - Today at 10:08am


Tonight, I want to speak out on behalf of fellow democrats around Asia, who are flabbergasted at events unfolding in Kuala Lumpur. I refer to the trial which began today of the Malaysian Opposition Leader, Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim. For the second time, the Malaysian leader of the Opposition, Anwar Ibrahim is on trial for what they call in ancient grating English, ‘Sodomy’. For the second time, the Malaysian legal system is being manipulated by supporters of the incumbent government to drive Malaysia’s best known leader Anwar Ibrahim out of national politics. For the second time, documents are being forged, witnesses are being coerced, evidence is being fabricated.

This trial, like the first trial of Anwar Ibrahim, is a disgrace to Malaysia a country that aspires to democratic norms, where parties change power peacefully and political opponents are not persecuted by organs of the state. Perverting the legal system for political ends by charging Anwar with sexual offences is an affront to human rights. In the first place, the offences with which Anwar has been charged that should not be on the statute book. Australia abolished its laws punishing consenting adult homosexual acts decades ago, as did most advanced countries. It’s long past time that Malaysia also repealed these laws, which it inherited from British colonial times. If these laws did not exist, they could not be used for political purposes as we are currently seeing.

In the second place, everyone in Malaysia, and everyone in the international legal community, knows that Anwar is innocent of these charges. This week the Wall Street Journal published a first-hand account of how the Malaysian Special Branch police fabricated the charges that led to Anwar’s first trial in 1998. Munawar Anees recalled how he had been starved and beaten into signing a false confession which implicated Anwar. Now it’s happening again. These are the lengths to which the corrupt elements within the Malaysian ruling party are willing to go to frame Anwar and remove his threat to their power.

Malaysia is a long-time friend and ally of Australia. Over the past 40 years Malaysia has become an increasingly prosperous and successful multi-cultural society. We continue our friendly and mutually beneficial relationship with Malaysia, which is a deep economic, strategic and cultural relationship.

But Malaysia is also a country of 28 million people who have lived ever since independence more than 50 years ago under the rule of the same party, the United Malay National Organisation or UMNO. UMNO has stayed in power by playing on the Malay fears of the Chinese and Indian minorities. So long as Malaysian politics were polarised even subtlety along racial lines, so long as the Malays voted loyally for UMNO, then the self-perpetuating UMNO oligarchy, who have grown rich through long years of power and through their cozy links to business, would be safe.

That’s why Anwar Ibrahim is such a threat. For the first time Malaysia has a charismatic Malay opposition politician able to appeal to Malay voters and pose a real threat to UMNO’s hold on power. At the 2008 elections Anwar’s People’s Justice Party and its allies won 60 seats away from UMNO and its allies, creating a viable two-party system for the first time. As a result, Abdullah Badawi was deposed as Prime Minister and replaced by Najib Razak, but the threat from Anwar’s coalition continues to grow. So even though the first attempt to frame Anwar on these spurious charged had failed, the corrupt forces within UMNO have decided to try again.

I recently had the privilege of meeting Anwar Ibrahim when he was in Melbourne for the Parliament of the World’s Religions in December. He is an intelligent and articulate and passionate democrat. He is committed to a thorough reform of Malaysian government, to rid it of the cronyism, corruption and authoritarian tendencies that have gained ground since Mahathir Mohammed became Prime Minister in 1981. He is a great, although not uncritical, friend and admirer of Australia. If he were to become Malaysia’s Prime Minister our relationship with Malaysia would become even stronger.

I am pleased that in the last few hours the judge has suspended the case against Anwar for a day. I hope Prime Minister Najib and his ministers are not involved. The best way for them to prove that they are not is to intervene and have these charges withdrawn, and those responsible for fabricating them punished. Malaysia is a great country, and an emerging power in our region. It can do without the embarrassment that these disgraceful proceedings are undermining its newly won democratic credibility.
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Between a Communist and a Running Dog..........

But Lim Guan Eng is nobody’s running dog. He is not in office to serve Umno’s interest, or the interest of ex-Umno people who no longer have any future in Umno and are now trying to build a new future in PKR.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

When the Umno Malays attack the Chinese from the opposition, they would normally use the word ‘Communist’. To the Umno Malays, any Chinese who opposes Umno is a Communist.

And this is what MP Zahrain Mohd Hashim from PKR called Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng from DAP -- ‘Communist-minded’.

But then, Zahrain is Umno. Okay, maybe now he is in PKR. But that was only very recently. For decades he was in Umno and, furthermore, he was one of the key people in Umno Penang who headed various very important government agencies in the state.

In short, in true Umno fashion, Zahrain was one of the Penang warlords -- and he was so for a great number of years. But Umno warlords, even ex-Umno warlords now in the opposition, no longer carry any weight in Penang. And this must be extremely unsettling for someone like Zahrain, who practically had the power of ‘life and death’ over Penang -- and now has no power to even change the curtains in his office without the approval of ‘dictator’ Lim Guan Eng.

Another thing that is even more upsetting for Umno, even ex-Umno people now in PKR, is that, during the days of the Gerakan state government, it was Umno that called the shots while the Gerakan Chief Minister was merely an Umno running dog and in office merely to serve Umno’s interest.

But Lim Guan Eng is nobody’s running dog. He is not in office to serve Umno’s interest, or the interest of ex-Umno people who no longer have any future in Umno and are now trying to build a new future in PKR.

The ex-Umno people in PKR, in particular those from Penang, will have to learn how to adjust to the new ‘culture’. During the Umno days it was the Chinese who sat on the throne while the Malays were the power behind the throne who manipulated Gerakan and the Chief Minister. All Umno had to do was tell the Chief Minister to jump and he would respond, “How high?"

Lim Guan Eng, however, has a mind of his own. He knows what needs to be done (after all, Penang is the best run state, according to the Auditor-General). He understands the old Umno culture, which invariably has been ‘imported’ into PKR. No one is going to pressure him or blackmail him. He will not allow himself to become a puppet Chief Minister like the Gerakan Chief Minister in the days when Umno was running Penang with Gerakan as its front.

So we lose some ex-Umno people in PKR who decide to go back to Umno because they are no longer warlords like they used to be. Well, so be it. Better they go now even if we see a Perak situation in the other states as well. Spring-cleaning in PKR (and DAP and PAS as well) is long overdue anyway.

I have just about had it with all these ex-Umno people like Hassan Ali, Zulkifli Noordin, Zahrain Mohd Hashim, and many more who have been nothing but a source of problems for PKR and Pakatan Rakyat. If I were to list down the names of people like Ruslan Kassim, Ezam Mohd Nor, Lokman Adam, Rozaid Abdul Rahman, Hanafiah Man, and all those many others who came from Umno into PKR, and then left PKR to rejoin Umno after causing so much problems, this article would probably run into 20 or 30 pages.

It is time we bite the bullet and purge the party, even if we have to use 'undemocratic' methods, or else this nonsense will never end. Maybe Lim Guan Eng can teach us some of his ‘undemocratic’ tactics that we can use in PKR to clean up the party.

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Zahrain: Lim is a dictator

PENANG: Dissension within Pakatan Rakyat has spread and the simmering feud between DAP and PKR leaders broke into the open when Bayan Baru MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohd Hashim verbally attacked Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng.

Describing the DAP secretary-general as a “dictator, a chauvinist and communist-minded”, Zahrain who is the former state PKR chairman, said Pakatan should stop compromising with the leader who is from Malacca as Lim had failed to deliver its general election promises.

Stressing that he was not attacking the DAP, Zahrain said Lim would become a liability to Pakatan in the state if he continued the way he was now.

“Lim does not like to be criticised. He is quick to label those who criticise him as Barisan Nasional agents,” he said. “Even his own party colleagues do not have a say the moment Lim makes up his mind.”

Zahrain said among the election promises that were not kept were the introduction of local council election and an open tender system.

“Lim may be reluctant to push for local council election because it will diminish his power if Penangites use that as an avenue to pass verdict on the state’s performance.

“He also promised an open tender system, but he has made the process worse by personally chairing the tender board,” he said, adding that there was better check and balance during Barisan’s rule.

He said when he criticised Lim for his dictatorial ways of managing the state, he was accused of being an Umno agent.

“I am certainly not an Umno agent. I just do not want to see Pakatan going against its promises,” he said. “It is a shame for Pakatan and its principles when projects are awarded based on who knows who.”

Zahrain said Lim was not suitable to be Penang Chief Minister because he was not a local and did not understand local sentiments.

“He has failed to bring in foreign investments despite travelling all over the world to attract investments,” he said.

“Voters are watching. Penangites are very particular about economic progress.”

Zahrain also questioned why a third of Lim’s speech during the Pakatan convention was in Mandarin.

“As a leader of the Pakatan, he should respect people of all races and speak in a language understood by all.”

The attack by Zahrain comes in the wake of the open defiance of Kulim Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli Noordin against party orders over the ‘Allah’ issue.

This led to a feud bet­ween Zulkifli and PAS’ Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad when the former even lodged a police report against the PAS man.

Zulkifli even challenged his party disciplinary board which let him off with a slap on his wrist but this in turned angered PKR’s political bureau chief Datuk Zaid Ibrahim who had quit as an Umno member, minister and senator to join the party.

Zaid criticised the party for letting off Zulkifli lightly saying it was no more than a poor copy of Umno. - The Star

Candid Comments:-

If you want me to choose - between a Communist and a Running Dog - I will choose the former!

I do also concur with the commentators, if a tyrant likened LKY of Singapore who had always his subjects' well fares and well beings of the Nation in mind, more so like Chinese Communist Party in China - which both could bring great fame and glory to their Nations - it will rather be a God's blessing who sent these great leaders to the planet as though angles to safeguard and salvage the mankind from all sufferings, and lead all the blissful lives, deserving of the human beings !

Over here in our failed Nation, we will continue to fail and to fall into backwardness, with social immoralism and political trivialization at its peak, would only foredoom all of us into greater disasters, let alone the advancement of the Nation!.......

Sigh!

The war has to go on.......

Pakatan ready to go forward without Anwar...

ULU YAM, Jan 24 – Opposition strongman Lim Kit Siang again dispelled growing fears that Pakatan Rakyat would crumble in the absence of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim if the de facto coalition chief goes to jail for a second sodomy conviction.

The DAP parliamentary chief believed the federal opposition pact, which now controls four states, has flourished and are gelling well ever since its formation after the 2008 general election.

“Of course we are worried and we do not want to see him jailed for a trumped-up charge but (his absence) is of no major contention as far as PR continuing with its struggle,” the Ipoh Timur MP told The Malaysian Insider after a DAP campaign dinner.

“We are ready,” added the veteran politician who was first elected to Parliament in 1969.

Anwar is seen as the “glue” that brings the three PR component parties – PKR, DAP and PAS – together amid stark ideological differences.

But pundits and a large chunk of PR supporters believe all that could come undone should Anwar be convicted for his second sodomy charge in a decade, which PR leaders believe is staged to kill off his political career and the pact’s influence.

Anwar himself has been on “pre-emptive” mode in light of his looming trial, hinting at large-scale nationwide ceramahs staged to rally support for him that his trial may well end with a conviction.

His upcoming Sodomy II case, a major corruption crackdown and PR being painted as anti-Islam have pushed the informal alliance to hold rallies around the country to retain support against the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) federal government onslaught.

Lim, however, remain optimistic that PR and the voters – just as Anwar would have wanted – have matured and are leaving behind the “politics of icons” and will base their votes on who can govern best.

“Yes, Anwar has played a unique role of getting us together but after two years, I believe that PR has proven that it can stick together and we can go on without him.”

Lim and his colleagues believe that the PR’s Common Policy Framework (CPF) unveiled at its maiden convention last December is one the pact’s hallmark achievements and is a testament to its determination to work together.

The CPF is the pact’s common manifesto and formula to dethrone BN and wrest Putrajaya.

But observers remain sceptical that the CPF, which they believe is “too superficial”, will be strong enough to sort the differences between the parties particularly Islamist PAS and secularist DAP.

They believe that many questions are still left unanswered, including who will take over as the leading figure of the pact, a question which is a ticking timebomb that leaders from all sides have so far avoided discussing.

PR ideologue Datuk Zaid Ibrahim had once suggested the popular PAS spiritual chief Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat becomes the pact’s chairman but support for the Kelantan mentri besar in that role has been lukewarm.

Anwar’s trial starts Feb 2 after the Federal Court decides on his application to access more evidence before the hearing. The former deputy prime minister was freed in 2004 after being jailed in 1999 for sodomy and abuse of power.

Is cry baby enough......

My Condolences go to the traumatized families of the deceased!......


In our Country, with a little bit of observation, one would notice, each time when there is a mishap fallen upon some unfortunate victims, there tend to be a scene of concerto - where politicians would capture the front pages of the medias to cry over the victims' ill fates!

They would put up a show in the public place - like a cry baby, and cry their hearts out!

Then come with show time for all - the deepest condolences and the hugs around!

The recent tragedy of a dragon boat capsized while during a training stint had claimed six innocent lives amid the brilliant kids of Chung Ling High School, my Alma Mater, had also seen those crying faces on debut, immediately when the mishap happened, and during the life savers were still on their job to rescue the dying kids they had great ambitions in life.

Alas, God wish them back to be with Him, though it's unfair to their beloved parents and the families. I would sigh !!!

If the parents or the siblings were there on the scene crying, I can solely understand their sorrows and to burst into tears would be a natural reaction of one's true love and eruption of sentiments - grievously sad!

For an EXCO like Danny Low's position, why should he be there to cry together, seen to be captured in the snap shots of the journalists?!

He shouldn't be crying - at all - only after the mishap had happened and the several precious lives were drifting in the sea, under the whirl pool, with unknown destiny!

He should be there instead, hailing out cautioning orders to the ignorant kids upon seeing the disaster looming! He should even be there instead, not lonely, but with a herd of life guards or what not standing on close watch of the high spirited boys who had for the sake of the State function, had forgotten about what was - SAFETY!

When all these VIPs, EXCOs or what not going out to show their faces, even on the street, didn't we see there would be a phalanx of goons accompanying them, or their so-called aides?! And why there was none of these goons or boot lickers who were there with the Honourable YB, who is an EXCO some more, to do his duty of safeguarding the kids whom they were participating in the State event, at all?!

Doesn't Danny Low the EXCO in the portfolio of tourism, and such State event, is part and parcel of his department's baby? And why shouldn't he pay more concerns and be more responsible to the safety of the boys who would have known how to take orders since being disciplined enough when strict orders were being issued?!

In this context, I would angrily ask, did he Danny Low set out rules for the abidance of the kids while letting the leafy dragon boat out to the high sea, and try their luck?

In more advance Countries, the government officials from the meteorological department would have provided clues and alert, the dos and not dos for the public to when to get near to the calmly sea, or, when to keep away from the moody counterpart, whenever they have the capability to forecast and to forewarn!

Why was this not done, and without the least of tip off, here?!

Are we, and the Government we relied on, so fragile and impotent to this basic scientific approach?!


It's right, I concur with one of the boy's poor father who had just lost his beloved son cried out with tears and demand for a show cause of responsibility from our venerable EXCO Danny Low! And I do concur - Danny Low should answer not only to the father of the demised kid, but also, to the public at large!

Not only he should answer, how he monitored and regulated the safety measures and precautions on the training ground, by and large, should also he pledge all his best to step up, draw up safety guidelines and implementation to prevent another same or less tragedy from recurring, and no more next!

And this is his responsibility as the organizer of the State event, being an EXCO.

Having a charade like a cry baby in the public is not enough!

A Petition Against PICC

Following an online 'Petition Against PICC' which was written by one Mr Tan Seng Hai on the appeal and show of objectionable opinions reflected from the context, and the comments of the few hundredth signatories, which consist of multi-racial members of public, the following is the comment of a concerned rakyat, a senior citizen, and a typical Penangite:-

PENANG - Jan 10, 2010 - Posted by Concerned Rakyat.

As we all are aware, the original PISA was built with a MPPP allocation of RM200-million more than a decade ago, when Datuk Tan was the Council boss, the YDP!

The son-in-law of a tycoon Datuk too, was the designing Architect and because of this pet and pioneer project he had undertaken, his Architect firm is a renowned Consultant Architect in the Country. He is the first Architect in the State who could afford to drive an exotic sport car to the posh office. At the stage of Pre-Q, rumours had already been rife that the ex-YDP was dealing in black box, with the crony!

The initial cash flow was charted with a mere 100-million budget and along the way of construction, it was increased up to 200-millions or odd! The final project cost was under thick veil and a rough figure proclaimed by the so-called State authority!

With only 50-millions nowadays, when the construction cost is on the hike, to build an international arena, 50 millions is probably trifling only enough to install the M&E, air conditioners and the IT hardware etc. The final cost may be just like the original PISA building, shoots up sky high after the completion, which means, over the budget!

It's crystal clear that LGE is playing trick and juggling with the figures, and this is the so-called CAT transparency?! He had forgotten how much public funds he had wasted, or his government wasted, in quite recent time, for the unsanctioned construction of a shoddy grand stand at Esplanade green lung. The ultimate removal of the structures due to public odium had caused how much damages to the state coffer, and the much treasured public easement?! How much hard earned taxes from us, the Penangites, had gone into the drain, or the crony's thick wallet?!

CAT????! Does YAB LGE sincerely walk the talk??????.....

Whereas 50-millions, plus many more millions to be added as VO, it could be enough to make good the much deteriorated loopholes on the streets. It's sufficient to pay for the upgrading of the war-torn buildings in the middle of downtown they called it the heritage that the foreign tourists are paying for the air-tickets to patronize. The topographical and natural landscapes which could be enhanced to make it a garden in the city like in Hanoi where it could even become a theme park which will give back value for money for the many Caucasian tourists, foreign tourists, local tourists, and to attract revisits! More visits of the tourists mean more income for the State, and more laudable fame abroad, more brisk business for the domestic market, hence will generate more satisfying and appreciating voters!

Let alone those half way abandoned flood mitigation projects which the new CAT is supposedly to prove to the defunct BN that they could do a much more better job than just to bleach Sg Pinang into a place where even the EXCO could strip and jump into swimming! And many other improvement of infra-structures which Penangites who supported DAP/PR, including my family's, are sticking out the necks and longing for the accomplishment by the new CAT! And these were all in the election agenda and manifesto pre-308, and widely propogated!

Many fair-minded Penangites saw the spots of the leopard in the arena back stage, and i saw the tail too! LGE's way to prove to the BN his flair as a CAT CM is to do something different and not to adhere to the Gerakan master plan and agenda! What he had neglected is perhaps, he only proved himself to be an alien to Penang by not knowing the feelings of the true Penangites, our love to the luster of the Pearl of the Orient, and our uncompromising defense to the getting disarray traffic congestion and errant parking problems which had caused great and greater inconveniences to the Islanders - and all these - we are expecting the CAT to prove their credit points in the State's structural plan, and its implementation!

By placing a huge structural cage for the anticipated white elephant in the compound of PISA, it's only sort of sub-lease occupancy and that's not the distinguished difference we wish to see from the demeanor of our suave looking new CM! Had he looked into the existing condition during each and every fiestas at the location, when the vehicles were parking filled from within and outside the existing compounds, the commuters are fucking mad daily when bypassing the locale?! And he still wants to insist adding salts to the wounds of the getting furious Penangites?!

We want a cat which could catch mouse regardless of it being a black or white cat, and not a pussy CAT which can sing please!



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A Father of Lame Duck.....a Victim?!

Disappointment of the decade: Pak Lah as fifth Prime Minister
By Justin Ong

KUALA LUMPUR - Dec 30, 2009

— “Don’t work for me, work with me.”

That one sentence heralded what was supposed to have been a New Age for Malaysians. After over two decades of iron-fisted rule by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a prime minister who cared about what the country thinks was exactly what the doctor ordered.

Most Malaysians thought as much.

Together with the promise of a softer approach towards running the country was Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s image as “Mr Clean”. An image that he played up further by vowing to come down hard on a culture of corruption so entrenched that, far from being a crime, it was treated as an entitlement.

More than just giving Pak Lah — as he is popularly known — the benefit of the doubt, Malaysians handed him the keys to the country. In Election 2004, Barisan Nasional was given its most convincing mandate yet, winning 198 out of the 220 parliamentary seats. Whatever gains the opposition made during the 1998 Anwar Ibrahim debacle was all but wiped out.

But despite the overwhelming support of the electorate, it did not take long for it to be obvious that instead of using this mandate to implement policies that might have taken the country somewhere, anywhere, Pak Lah seemed content to rest on his laurels.

An administration paralysed by indecision, it was painful to watch what was essentially the most powerful man in the country being unable — or unwilling — to decide which direction the country should be heading. Instead, Malaysians were treated to mere rhetoric.

If ever there was an example of how indecision can be as harmful — and perhaps even more so — than bad decisions, this was it. National policy — when they made any — seemed to change on a whim, before being reversed soon after if objections were raised.

Dr Mahathir, “recalcitrant” as he was, was at least decisive. And once he made up his mind, for better or worse, he stuck by it. Pak Lah, in contrast, ruled with all the consistency of a limp noodle. And before long, some quarters even began pining for the return of his predecessor.

Anecdotal accounts now seem to suggest Pak Lah was more than happy to let the country run itself, rather than be bothered with the minutiae of administrating the day-to-day affairs of the nation.

It also did not bode well that the man who was in charge of the country brought more than a metaphorical meaning to the phrase “sleeping on the job”. In any case, rather than running itself, the country was quickly running aground.

Besides residing over periods of harsh “unofficial” inflation, when the rakyat was increasingly feeling the pinch yet kept being told that everything was, is, and ever will be all right, it was also obvious that Pak Lah was failing miserably at his earlier promise of combating national graft.

Not only was he not doing much to cut down on corruption, merciless insinuations and accusations of cronyism by Dr Mahathir also ripped Abdullah’s “Mr Clean” reputation to shreds. Allegations of corruption in the UN Oil for Food programme certainly didn’t help matters. Nor the unfortunate discovery of a nuclear smuggling network involving Scomi Group.

Given carte blanche to run the country, Pak Lah chose to play the bureaucrat at a time when the country needed a strong steward to guide it into uncharted waters. Promises of fighting corruption, an Islam Hadhari that no one understands till today, and stillborn economic progress all lie in the wake of possibly the country’s most ineffectual prime minister to date.

What had started with so much potential ended as a major letdown. Hounded out of office by the man who put him there and the man who would be there, Pak Lah cut a lonely and forlorn figure in his final days.

In the end, Pak Lah's years will be remembered as a lost opportunity to reform Malaysia by a man who was paralysed by indecision and manacled to the status quo demands of his own political party.