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Online Petition : Give Yong Vui Kong a second chance

2010-07-19T12:59:00.002+07:00

Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:46 -0700
Subject: Online Petition : Give Yong Vui Kong a second chance
From: yaphwa@gmail.com

Please sign the petition in support of second chance for Yong Vui Kong. Forward!
签署网上诉求，给杨伟光第二次机会，传。

http://www.petitiononline.com/SaveVK/petition.html

http://2ndchance4yong.wordpress.com/

Give Yong Vui Kong a Second Chance to Help Singapore's Anti-Drug Trafficking Policy

View Current Signatures - Sign the Petition

To: The President of the Republic of Singapore, Mr S.R Nathan
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All Malaysian, Singaporean and Concerned citizens around the world that care about death penalty.

Please sign your name to make a difference.

The Date-Line of the petition : 26 August 2010
(The last day for Yong to file petition for clemency. After which he will be hanged at anytime)

Save Vui Kong Campaign
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To: The President of the Republic of Singapore, Mr S.R Nathan

We, the undersigned, appeal Your Excellency to exercise the powers conferred upon you pursuant to Article 22P of the Constitution of the Republic of Singapore ("the Constitution"), to grant pardon to Yong Vui Kong, a young Malaysian who has been convicted and sentenced to death.

1. We understand Singapore, like Malaysia, has a strict policy against drug trafficking which carries a mandatory death penalty. However, given that the Constitution allows clemency plea for persons sentenced to death means that no sentence of capital punishment is by default excluded from reconsideration for a second chance.

Singapore as a country that upholds the importance of due process and whose economic success is built on this principle nust therefore ensure that every plea of clemency by person sentence to death must be duly considered. After the honourable Law Minister K Shanmugam's controversial comments on the case, Singapore's reputation for abiding legal process is now in question.

2. We believe granting Yong clemency is in line with Singapore's interest including the strict policy against drug trafficking. His receiving clemency will not encourage more young persons to engage in the drug trade, as the honourable Law Minister suggests.

Yong is a changed person after his imprisonment. Finding a faith in Buddhism, he is using the remaining days of his life to counsel fellow inmates and also educate the general public on how drugs destroy life. Your Excellency's decision on his clemency plea is therefore a judgment on whether more lives can be saved by ending one life or by allowing him the second chance to make good for the damage he has caused to society.

3. We urge Your Excellency to consider the character of Yong in assessing the good he may assist in Singapore's war against drug trafficking. Yong is an honest person and owned up to what he had done. He even withdrew his appeal against the conviction and death sentence when it was first handed down by the High Court, on the false belief that by appealing, he has to lie in court. And when Yong was finally given the leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal, he chose to appeal only against the sentence and not the conviction. Granting him clemency will therefore not hurt the credibility of Singapore's Judiciary or its anti-drug trafficking policy in anyway.

4. We urge Your Excellency to also consider his family background, not on the grounds that anyone who has lived a hard life deserves special consideration, but on the grounds that he can connect with those with similar life experiences that drug-trafficking is not the way out. He was brought up in poverty and had taken on odd jobs at an early age of 10. He received very little education and was left alone without any real guidance. These have eventually led him to the path that damages others' lives. He now wants to live on so that he can tell others not to take the same wrong path and destroy others' lives.

We sincerely appeal Your Excellency to grant Yong Vui Kong clemency to stop more people from taking his path. Death sentences of previous convicts had not prevented him from doing so. Yong telling the lesson he has learned with his life may.

We appeal for a second chance for Yong and earnestly hope that Your Excellency would consider our heartfelt plea for clemency.

The undersigned,

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给予杨伟光第二次机会以增强新加坡反毒品贩运政策

敬致：新加坡共和国总统纳丹先生

我们，在以下签署者，至诚恳求阁下行使新加坡共和国宪法第22P赋予您的权力（以下称"宪法"），赦免杨伟光，一位已被定罪并被判处死刑的马来西亚年轻公民。

1. 我们非常清楚新加坡与马来西亚一样，在毒品贩运方面实行严格政策，亦即包括强制性死刑。然而，该宪法允许对死刑犯的特赦处理，意味着没有任何死刑判决应被排除其被给予重新考量的第二次机会。

新加坡作为一个坚持正当程序的国家，其经济成就亦建立在此一坚持上，因此她必须确保每位死刑犯的求赦权得到慎重的考虑。在尊贵的法律部长山姆甘针对该案作出具争议性的评论之后，新加坡坚守司法程序的信誉如今正面临考验。

2. 我们深信给予杨伟光特赦的举动将为新加坡带来益处，包括对毒品贩运的严格政策。他的得赦并不会如尊贵的法律部长所猜测的那般，将鼓励更多年轻人加入毒品交易的行列。

杨伟光在被监禁之后已是革心之人。他在佛法中得启发，并将余生投入于辅导狱友及警惕群众有关于毒品的致命性危害。阁下对杨伟光的特赦决定将是攸关结束一条生命能否挽回更多的生命，抑或给予他第二次机会去补偿他对社会带来的伤害。

3. 我们请求阁下慎重考量杨伟光的良好品格对新加坡反毒运动的协助。杨是一位诚实的人，他愿意承担他所犯下的错误。他甚至在高庭第一次下判他的死刑时拒绝做出上诉，只因他误以为上诉意味着他需要在法庭内说谎。最后当他被允许到上诉庭上诉时，他选择了只对判决提出上诉，而不是针对定罪。因此，赦免他绝对不会伤害新加坡司法的公信力或反毒品贩运政策。

4. 我们亦请求阁下考量他的家庭背景，这不代表困苦的人们拥有特殊考量的待遇，但他却可以让那些与他境遇相似的人明白，贩毒并不是唯一出路。他在穷困的环境中成长并在十岁之幼龄就开始打零工。他得到的教育少得可怜并缺乏真正的引导。这一切将他引到了毁坏他人生活的途径上。但可幸的是他现在想要继续活着以便能够告诉其他人切勿误入歧途以及毁掉他人的生活。

我们恳求阁下赦免杨伟光以便阻止更多人步上他的后尘。在他之前的死刑犯并没能阻止他走上这条路。杨伟光将会以他有生之年告诉世人他的所有体验与经历。

我们恳求给予杨伟光这关键的第二次机会并祈望阁下能考量他的赦免请求。

签署人，

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Peluang kedua untuk Yong Vui Kong agar Dasar Anti-Dadah Singapura diperkasa

Kepada: Presiden Republik Singapura Mr S.R Nathan

Kami, yang menurunkan tandatangan berikut, memohon dengan ikhlas kepada Yang Mulia untuk melaksanakan kuasa yang diperuntukkan di bawah Artikel 22P Perlembagaan Repulik Singapura ("Perlembagaan" berikutnya), mengampunkan Yong Vui Kong, seorang warga muda Malaysia yang dijatuhkan hukuman mati.

1. Kami memahami bahawa Singapura mempunyai dasar yang tegas dalam usaha membanteras dadah, termasuk hukuman mati mandatori, sebagaimana yang berlaku di Malaysia. Namun demikian, pengampunan kepada pesalah yang dihukum mati, seperti yang diperuntukkan dalam Perlembagaan, membawa makna bahawa mana-mana hukuman mati yang dijatuhkan tidak dikecualikan daripada pertimbangan untuk memberi peluang kedua kepada pesalah.

Ketegasan Singapura untuk mematuhi prosedur menyumbang kepada kemantapan ekonominya. Jadi, ia wajib memastikan hak untuk mendapatkan pengampunan oleh setiap pesalah dipertimbangkan dengan sepenuhnya. Setelah Yang Berhormat Menteri Perundangan K Shanmugam's mengeluarkan kenyataan yang membangkitkan kontroversi itu, reputasi sistem kehakiman Singapura yang mematuhi prosedur kini berdepan dengan persoalan.

2. Kami yakin pengampunan Yong Vui Kong sejajar dengan kepentingan Singapura, termasuk dasar yang tegas dalam membanteras pengedaran dadah. Pengampunan terhadap Yong tidak akan menggalakkan lebih ramai pemuda untuk melibatkan diri dalam pengedaran dadah, sebagaimana yang dikatakan oleh Yang Berhormat Menteri Perundangan.

Yong telah insaf dan bertaubat setelah dipenjarakan. Beliau kini mendapat kesedaran daripada anutan Buddha-nya. Beliau bersedia membimbing rakannya dalam penjara dan menyedarkan orang ramai tentang bahayanya dadah. Maka keputusan Yang Mulia untuk mengampunkan Yong atau tidak, adalah pilihan antara "untuk menyelamatkan lebih banyak nyawa dengan menamatkan satu nyawa", dengan "memberi peluang kedua kepadanya untuk memperbetulkan kesalahan yang pernah dilakukannya kepada masyarakat".

3. Kami memohon Yang Mulia mempertimbangkan sebaik-baiknya kelakuan Yong Vui Kong yang boleh membantu Singapura dalam usaha memerangi dadah. Yong seorang yang jujur dan sanggup menanggung akibat atas apa yang telah dilakukan. Malah, beliau enggan mengemukakan rayuan semasa Mahkamah Tinggi menjatuhkan hukuman mati pada kali pertamanya, kerana beliau telah tersalah anggap bahawa beliau perlu berbohong di mahkamah seandainya rayuan dikemukakan. Akhirnya setelah beliau dibenarkan untuk mengemukakan rayuan di Mahkamah Rayuan, beliau hanya merayu untuk mempertimbangkan semula hukuman, dan bukannya penghakiman bahawa dirinya bersalah. Oleh yang demikian, pengampunan terhadapnya tidak akan menjejaskan kredibiliti kehakiman atau dasar anti-dadah di Singapura.

4. Kami juga merayu agar Yang Mulia mempertimbangkan latar belakang keluarganya. Ini tidak bermakna orang yang miskin mempunyai layanan istimewa, tetapi kes beliau boleh menyedarkan orang yang berasal dari latar belakang yang sama, bahawa mengedar dadah bukan satu-satunya jalan keluar. Yong membesar dalam keadaan yang miskin, mula bekerja pada usia belasan tahun. Pendidikan yang diterimanya amatlah kurang, malah dibiarkan bersendirian tanpa bimbingan. Segala keadaan tersebut membawanya ke landasan yang membinasakan. Mujurlah, beliau kini ingin meneruskan hidupnya untuk memberitahu lebih ramai orang agar tidak terjerumus ke dalam gejala negatif dan memusnahkan hidup orang lain.

Kami merayu agar Yang Mulia mengampunkan Yong Vui Kong untuk menghalang ramai lagi yang menyusul jejak langkah seperti beliau. Hukuman mati yang sebelum ini gagal menghalang Yong daripada terjerumus ke landasan ini. Yong akan berkongsi pengajaran dan pengalamannya dengan yang lain sepanjang hidupnya.

Kami merayu kepada Yang Mulia untuk memberikan peluang kedua kepada Yong Vui Kong, dan menimbang rayuan pengampuannya.

Yang benar,

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Sincerely,
The Undersigned

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Online Petition : Give Yong Vui Kong a second chance

2010-07-19T12:59:00.001+07:00

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New Malay Proverbs

2010-04-30T13:44:00.001+07:00

Had a fun lunch with Mie and Lim and we discussed the rapid pace of development of Malaysia. Its agreed that old Malay proverbs will no longer cut it as we advance into the 21st century. This new millenium calls for new 'peribahasa' where we can relate to, while phasing out old ones.

Old Proverb : Bagai isi dengan kuku
Meaning: Inseparable, fast friends, 'bromance'
Example: Hubungan Winnie dan Pooh bagai isi dengan kuku.
Difficult to explain this concept without going into a scientific debate about the keratin content of nails with your Dumex infected Wonderkid.
New suggestion : Bagai petrol dengan kereta
New Example : Hubungan Khairy dengan Tony Pua bagai petrol dengan kereta

Old Proverb : Bagai enau dalam belukar
Meaning: A selfish person, not caring about others
Example: Orang MCA biasanya mementingkan diri, bagaikan enau dalam belukar.
Nowadays, you hardly see any enau trees around ( a palmyra family tree used for sap tapping). So it would make more sense to replace it with something else.
New suggestion : Bagai double parking tengah jalan
New Example : Si tolol tu memang pentingkan diri, bagai double parking tengah jalan.

Old Proverb : Padang jarak padang tekukur
Meaning: An empty barren wasteland
Example: Lepas disumpah Mahsuri, Langkawi seperti padang jarak padang tekukur.
With Mahsuri dead and gone and her generation passed the 7th, its hard to tell that to kids, especially with Kedah being such a hassle to drive to.
New suggestion : Bagaikan Cyberjaya
New Example : Lepas dibakar teruk, kawasan perumahan itu kelihatan bagaikan Cyberjaya.

Old Proverb: Bagai aur dengan tebing
Meaning: Helping each other out.
Example: Najib dan Ong sering tolong-menolong seperti aur dengan tebing
Its difficult when there are not too many aurs or tebings left and you can't Google either without a litany of explanations to your junior.
New suggestion: Bagai komputer dengan mouse.
New example: Samy dan KV Yes sering saling membantu seperti komputer dengan mouse.

Old Proverb: Bagai langit dengan bumi
Meaning: Worlds apart
Example: Muka Jennifer Aniston jika dibanding dengan Rose Mah seperti langit dengan bumi.
With the word 'bumi' becoming increasingly taboo and using it may make its user(i.e. your kid) a target of certain NGOs that rhyme with Raksasa, its perhaps more prudent to use a less sensitive approach.
New suggestion: Bagai Oldtown dengan Starbucks
New Example: Perangai Zamry dengan Gandhi amat berbeza sekali, bagai Oldtown dengan Starbucks.

Old Proverb: Bagai pelanduk dua serupa
Meaning: Two lookalikes, doppelanger
Example: Shrek dengan Wayne Rooney bagai pelanduk dua serupa.
Again, your kids supercharged Vitamin A-X multivits will probably cause him to give you the WTF look when you give him this old proverb,we suggest replacing it with-
New suggestion: Bagai Facebook dengan Friendster.
New example: Muka Wai Bee Kina Batang An dengan Doraemon saling tak tumpah, bagai Facebook dengan Friendster.

Old Proverb: Bagai cendawan selepas hujan
Meaning: Springing up everywhere.
Example: Parti politik cambahan Hindraf tiba-tiba muncul di mana-mana, bagai cendawan selepas hujan.
Chances are, only cendawan your kids see is neatly arranged and plastic wrapped in packets of six, so before he asks you the question of the year, we suggest this alternative.
New suggestion: Bagaikan gerai burger luar 7E/ Bagaikan gerai nasi lemak luar LRT.
New example: Depending on your time of day of the sentence, you can use either example above-
Pelompat parti suka muncul sejurus sebelum pilihanraya, bagaikan gerai burger luar 7E (night)
Balai polis berpayung segera muncul kebelakangan ini, bagai gerai nasi lemak luar LRT.

More to come.. :)

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FW: The 9 most annoying types of people on Facebook

2010-04-07T10:30:00.000+07:00

This is too funny!

Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 09:18:22 +0800
Subject: The 9 most annoying types of people on Facebook
From: rajedwards@gmail.com

Hey peeps, please note this..don't be one of them….. J

The 9 Most Annoying Types Of People On Facebook

Here are 9 of the most annoying types of people you will find on Facebook. Mayb u r one of them ;)

MEGALOL!!! THAT'S SO TRUE!!!
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New Blog Address

2010-03-25T15:04:00.000+07:00

Dear readers,

Please point your browsers to

emmanuelj.wordpress.com

Thank you :)

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Open Letter to Pakatan Members

2010-03-03T16:25:00.001+07:00

Dear friends,

We cannot let them win. We cannot let hopelessness and despair triumph over justice and truth. We cannot succumb to helplessness and self-pity. And most importantly, we cannot self-destruct.

It is convenient and most tempting to raise a finger and point out PKR as the weak link in the PR chain, to blame all that is happening today on Anwar Ibrahim. After all they clung on stubbornly to their allocated seats and placed postmen and washouts to contest instead of giving way to PAS' or DAP's more qualified, loyal candidates. But in more ways than one, it was also PKR and its leader Anwar Ibrahim that has raised Pakatan to the level it is now. PKR helped smooth things out between conservative DAP and hardline PAS in the shaky first few weeks, and subsequently PKR played the role as a stabilizing force in Pakatan, grounding the ideals of both its partners, and allowing PAS and DAP to cement their ties to the current warm levels.

It was the world's interest in Anwar Ibrahim's brand of moderate Islam that pressured the government into attempting to out-Islamise Pakatan's PAS, and in the process, alienate itself from half the Malaysian electorate. Anwar's profile in the international community, and his wide coverage in WSJ, CNN and IHT often has Wisma Putra scrambling to etch some cover story and often they are forced to 'summon' diplomats to 'explain' issues to them.When Anwar spoke, the world paid attention. And so did Malaysians.This newfound stability, mutual respect and trust, turned Pakatan from an uneasy alliance to a serious political force to be reckoned with. And eventually, Barisan noticed.

Dear friends,

Attempt after attempt was made to destabilize the alliance, starting with attacking individual Selangor's Excos and MB, the coup d'etat in Perak,the crossover of a Kedah assemblyman, the anti-Islamic allegations against Penang's state leadership, the oil royalty fiasco in Kelantan. Every trick in the book was used, lies, damned lies and statistics were thrown around, misleadingly named NGOs and 'NGO Alliances' were used, and the mainstream media was manipulated, all to break up this one credible threat that existed against Barisan.

When they realized going after the states did not work, individuals were lured, to defect, and for the first time in Malaysian political history, we heard the term 'BN-friendly Independent'. And this last few weeks, the BN-controlled media screamed headlines and painted a bleak, hopeless picture of Pakatan, depicting it as a fragile alliance falling apart, culminating in the multiple defections from PKR.In doing this, they hope to break the only thing that keeps Pakatan together, its spirit. It was this spirit that had PAS, PKR and DAP back each other at the risk of each losing support from their traditional bases.

It was this spirit that captured the imagination of the rakyat, brought back hope to a seemingly hopeless nation, renewed the strength of worn out social activists, and put the fight back in a generation that forgot how to struggle. And that is the spirit they want to kill. But this spirit must not die. It must live, spread and burn brighter.

Dear friends,

In their arrogance, the defectors spoke as if their voice echoed the views of their constituents. In their haughtiness, they spoke as though the party won because of them, and not the other way around. They spoke of betrayal, when in truth; it was the people that were betrayed. They spoke of loyalties, when it was peddled cheaply to the highest bidder. Eventually, the people will judge them. Eventually, their Creator will judge them. I am sure they have plenty to talk about, especially over their liberal use of His name.

Pakatan is not the only one beset with problems.Barisan has a party with two people claiming to be president.They have a party where two people wanting to be deputy president. They have a party where the party does not know what to do with the president. They have a party where a disputed president of another party has to step in to solve a dispute involving another two disputing presidents!And most of the parties don'd know what to do with themselves.And you thought DAP and PAS had problems?

As for the rest of us, we would do well and remember and remind each other all the things that happened in the last two years. Rolling cow heads, racially charged demonstrations, burning churches and suraus, deaths in custody, our dead ancestors being labeled as prostitutes and beggars, nonchalant crossing of political divides like it's a paddy field, fighter jets that don't fly and submarines that cannot dive, mysterious disappearances of individuals worthy of the X Files, rising taxes and cost of living and lower income and spending ability. We would do well to remember all this. We would do well to never forget. And we would do well; to never let them win again. Dust off the flags and banners my friends.Its not over yet.

Emmanuel Joseph
DAPSY Klang.

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Open Letter to ALL Pakatan MPs

2010-02-05T15:42:00.001+07:00

Dear Few Pakatan Rakyat Elected Representative (You Know Who You Are) Yang Berhormats,

I am writing this to vent my frustration, irritation,disgust,disbelief and anger on how many of you are acting recently.Its with sincerest and most honest intention that I am writing this, as a Pakatan grassroots 'small fry' member , who like the millions of Malaysians came out in full force to support you all when you were practically nobodies and put you where you are today, sitting in the highest decision making bodies in your own states and country respectively.Some of you were luckier than others, and been appointed to important government posts, some even head entire state governments.Congratulations, your long wait and tireless effort paid off.But please do kindly remember, it was not only your effort alone, but the effort and will of more than half the Malaysian electorate that put you where you are.You did not win entirely on your own charm, your education level, your profile in your respective fields of expertise or struggle. Frankly, most Malaysians who supported you did not even care who you were or what you did, as long as you were not donning a dark blue cap with a BN logo on it.That is the reason we had aircraft mechanics voted into power in the last General Election.

The next time any of you decide to foam in the mouth about lack of funding,lack of resources and other similar grumbles, please bear in mind these few facts. Firstly, you stood for the election on your own free will. Nobody put a gun on your foreheads asking you to run for elections, nobody begged you to contest. Out of your own reasons, rightly or wrongly you stood, representing the people, and because of that, the people rallied behind you and riding on this, you were catapulted into where you now are.Secondly, others have had far less than you,suffered much more than you and been doing it for far longer.Take a look at the likes of YB Dr Tan Seng Giaw, YB Fong Kui Loon, YB Dr Wan Azizah, YB Mustafa Ali, YB Nasharuddin Mat Isa and many more. What more YBs Karpal, Kit Siang and Nik Aziz? Who was there to fund them?Who supported their families when some of them were thrown into ISA?Most of you are only first term Yang Berhormats, so why can't you not sacrifice less than 5 years of your life if you are sincere in your cause?Thirdly, regardless of your previous political alignment, you are with Pakatan now. Its a people's alliance, not a cronies' alliance.If money, resources and a luxurious allowances is what you craved, you have the wrong party, maybe even the wrong country.And if you were in it for those express reasons, please do the honorable thing and resign.

Dear Yang Berhormats,

The next time you decide to shoot from the hip about party policy, please bear in mind these few facts.Firstly, you are not Pakatan Rakyat, you are a part of Pakatan Rakyat.The policy of Pakatan Rakyat is not your sole prerogative, nor is it yours, your father's or your grandfather's to decide.There's a hierarchy in place, and its there for a reason. You are a single member of Pakatan Rakyat, and as an elected rep, have the trust of the nameless, faceless, positionless Pakatan grassroots to speak on its behalf in explaining the policy to the people, not deciding on the policy for the people. Secondly, your opinions,however valid you perceive them to be, and your points, however salient you believe them to be, remains just that, yours.Not the party's , not the alliances' and hell, no, not the peoples'! If its your own opinion by all means say so, please don't confuse everyone by muddling and befuddling everything and everyone and turning what is clearly black and white into a giant grey mess.Thirdly, please remember that the media loves to give you attention even more than you love the attention it gives you.Especially when you shoot yourself in the foot. While you're busy shooting your own feet, the media is amputating the very feet Pakatan stands on, no thanks to the likes of you.If you don't like what Pakatan stands for, then by all means, do resign.

The next time you decide to bring out your personal vendetta against any Pakatan colleague, due to a long standing feud, a dissatisfaction over your appointments or that of your political followers,or just because you just don't like the guy's face, please try doing this steps instead. First, try talking to the person.Nothing clears the air like a good honest conversation.Second muhasabahlah diri . You are nothing near perfect, yet we still voted you in. Isn't that nice?Shouldn't you then be nice to your comrades? Third, remember that every action has a reaction. Call it a law of physics, or political karma, it will come back to haunt you one day!If you feel you are still right and Pakatan is wrong, then don't demand that Pakatan withdraw! Your own withdrawal from office will more than suffice.

Dear Yang Berhormats,

Please remember, the people who voted you in can as easily vote you out.The people who worked hard to ensure your victory can work as hard with a vengeance to ensure your loss.You carry the aspirations of an entire generation on your shoulders, please do not snuff out our dreams for a better Malaysia.There are enough elements out there that want Pakatan destroyed, so internal self-destruction is the last thing needed right now.And if you believe you don't need the Malaysian electorate, then, rest assured, the Malaysian electorate needs you even less.Thank you, and have a pleasant (remaining ) time in political office.

Sincerely,
Emmanuel Joseph,
(A Nearly Nameless,Faceless,Positionless Pakatan Member)
DAP Socialist Youth,
Klang.

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In Defense of YBs Khalid Samad, Dr Dzul,TGNA and Nizar.

2010-01-22T15:05:00.001+07:00

The Star Online today published what I think is a mischievous article here. In my humble opinion,it depicts YB Khalid Samad as either 'being forced to' or 'summoned' to the palace to be 'put in his place' by the Sultan. 'Embattled' was how Christina Tan chose to paint YB Khalid, but is he really embattled? I have not heard calls for his resignation reigning loudly other than from official UMNO mouthpieces.Its irritating to see The Star report the matter as though NGOs were leading the charge against YB Khalid today, when a Google search reveals a Star Report, just months ago, that the leader of the so-called Belia Bersatu Shah Alam chairman,Azahari Shaari,and the UMNO Youth Head of Shah Alam is one and the same person. Not surprisingly, En Azahari was also one of the four UMNO Youth leaders who mobbed YB Karpal and was fined a measly RM 1,000 for disrepecting Parliament, an elected representative, and a disabled person all at once.See Here

The way I see it,UMNO has taken extra pains to nail three PAS MPs- Dr Dzul, Khalid Samad and Ir Nizar.Now, they are attempting to take down Tuan Guru Nik Aziz as well. The reason is quite obvious- these are the MPs that the non Muslims have warmed up to.YB Khalid Samad has been labelled 'Khalid Gereja' for entering the church of Divine Mercy in his capacity as the MP for all residents of Shah Alam.Just because the previous MPs from BN never bothered to visit the church, YB Khalid's simple action earned him instant popularity among most Catholics in the country.So in all honesty, Pakatan MPs have an unfair advantage over BN. The overwhelming insensitivity and racism practised by many BN leaders have caused minorities like the Catholics, Sikhs and such, to hunger for simple actions and words to feel that they too, are a part of Malaysia.Back to the Khalid Gereja issue, what exactly is wrong with visiting a church?If it is wrong,what about the rightly guided Caliph Ali? History tells us not only did he visit the church, he ordered its reconstruction, and funded it! Even till today, the keys to the Church is held by two Muslim families,the family of Nuseibeh and another family, the Juebehs.The current key holder is one Mr Wajeeh Nuseibeh, you can actually call him if you would like to visit the Church.His phone number is 02-6285910 from Jerusalem.So is Mr Nuseibeh, who is acting on an old, multiple generational command by Caliph Ali , also a Wajeeh Jaga Gereja? Mind you, the Church of the Holy Sepulchure is a much more popular church than the Church of the Divine Mercy.

If Khalid is Khalid Gereja, can Najib be called Najib Gereja, now that he has visited Metro Tabernacle?Or could he labelled a step higher, Najib Pembina Gereja, as he also donated 500,000 ringgit to a new building for that church. What about Ir Nizar? If he is accused to be a tool of the Ngeh-Nga cousins, what about Dr Mah? Can Dr Mah be considered a puppet of the Zambry-Hamidah Osman team?At least with Pakatan, there was a balance in power, and all races were represented in the government. I, unfortunately cannot say the same about the current 'government' of the day in Perak.This name calling,that I see as part of a concerted effort to 'burn PAS' bridges' with the non Muslims, hopefully fails.Not so much for political reasons alone, but for the sake of national unity. Never would I have dreamed the day before March 8th, 2008, that I would see the picture of a Muslim religious teacher being worn by templegoing Hindu youth in a t-shirt. If that is not religious acceptance, I don't know what is. Granted, the acceptance mentioned has its roots in political reasons, but in the end, the end is more important than the means, no? Some people see an oppressed citizen idolizing someone who stood up for him. Some see an ignorant youth who does not know what exactly he is wearing, just following the hype. But I see a non Muslim, truly recognizing and accepting that a Muslim religious spiritual teacher is a good man,and worthy to lead him.All this, I believe was a direct result, rightly or wrongly, directly or indirectly, of the political tsunami of 308.

It is said that the strongest of relationships is forged only after thorough and difficult,strenous tests. And I believe that the new generation of PAS leaders have been been weighed, measured and judged enough to say they truly stand up for the minority, as what I would like to believe a good believer of any religion should do.And that, in today's Malaysia, is something to cheer about.

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2010-01-21T12:46:00.001+07:00

Check out this Japanese folk song damn funny.

Tan Tan Tanuki,
No Kintama Wa.
Kaze Mo Nai No Ni,
Bura-Bura.

Racoon-dog, racoon dog,
So idle,
When the wind comes,
Dangling

Pic supposed to show that.

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Posts and Comments from Insider.

2010-01-14T13:46:00.001+07:00

written by Emmanuel, January 12, 2010

I watched the Doha Debates television programme on BBC two days ago and contrasted it with the pathetic crawlspace we call free speech and was undecided if I should laugh or cry.Here people are allowed to be as open as they wish and lay an issue bare, and something concrete is formulated at the end of each debate- an actual result.The scale of topics is as impressive as the speakers themselves, often political, economic and social heavyweights.
Compare with the ultra polite 'intellectual' sessions in RTM where we have half baked 'professionals', 'economic experts' fresh from our local university,and 'religious leaders' often affliated to some government agency or another.In the end, the guests have only, if at all achieved anything, to confuse and befuddle and already confused audience.
Here you have Qatar, a country with a 98% Muslim population, a smattering handful of Christians, yet they are liberalizing. Last year, a Roman Catholic church was consencrated in Qatar. The only remaining Gulf state that officially bans non-mosques now is Saudi Arabia. Qatar has come a long way, the world too has noticed.Foreign investments have begun to pour into these countries, not that they need it.
Yet, at our home front, we see the opposite.We see rising intolerance for the minorities and difference are pointed out, instead of celebrated.The world is liberalizing,moving, accepting each other.And here, we are simply the opposite.'Pendatang' , 'bangsa asing', 'keling' , is used in no less than in the Parliament. Here in Malaysia, where we do rely on foreign investment, and should be mindful of their perception of us, these people do not seem to bother.After all, if everyone leaves Malaysia and the oil runs out, we can always eat sand, that is if they have not sold it all to Singapore.
People who lob Molokov cocktails into any building should be shot in the foot, left to bleed to death, revived and shot again.People who lob Molokov cocktails into places of worship ought to suffer the same fate, plus having to watch a rerun of Titanic while they bleed to death.
...+33

written by Emmanuel, January 11, 2010
There is a bigger issue worth considering here.If today, the government decides to tell me what to call (or rather, not call) my God, what's to stop this same government to tell me how to pray, what rituals I can and cannot perform, how my church design should look like and who my priest should be.
As the author mentioned Satan (or Shaitaan) , what if I am disallowed from using that term and asked to call the Devil 'Setan' or 'Syaitan Kristian'? Being Abrahamaic, Mosaic and Monotheistic,like Islam, we share too much in common. Our lineage of Prophets are almost identical.If we were to pick out all similiarities and be barred from professing whatever resembles Islamic teachings, we will end up with a totally different religion, maybe all that will be left of 'Christianity' will be Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.Paranoid?Maybe. But so is saying people will be confused over two words, or that 200,000 Muslims in Malaysia has converted to Christianity.
Come on la, we have been through so much together,Malaysia, I would be surprised if you could find me Muslims who actually read the Herald before this incident. So if something has not been bothering you before, why should it now?Arguments and points put forth by many 'instant' experts on religion are far from salient. Now, more than ever, Malaysia needs prayer, goodwill and patience. A whole lot of it.

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I am disappointed Dato Malakun

2010-01-11T10:38:00.001+07:00

Dear sir, you, as a Catholic and as an UPKO man should be at the forefront of this peaceful struggle.Why are you conceding?While in liturgy, only a small part of Peninsula uses it, why then do you, a participant in a full Bahasa liturgy have to change your tone?

This is not a confrontation as some paint it to be.It is not an act of provocation. It is simply one big provoked misunderstanding stoked on by misinformation in the media, egged on by illogical but passionate speeches, fed by malovalent , mischevious ommisions,suspicious and ill-intended play-ups and overall , all rounded confusion that has led to this pot of problems.

The solution is as simple as the reason. Someone messed with the status quo, and in a country as sensitive as this one, one should not do that.As mentioned time and time again, there is a bigger picture to be held, to be seen.A nick in the status quo will go a long way in the erosion of minorities in this land nearly 2 million Christians call home.

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Level Heads and Calm Minds

2010-01-09T08:38:00.001+07:00

When I was a much younger, I remember I was shuttled into the Agama class of my school for looking 'Malay'(my parents are Indian and Chinese, respectively, I look quite Malay) .I remember my old school friends were mainly Malay. I have attended a string of their weddings recently and we laughed together happily remembering the old times at school. Race then was just a field in our forms, just a formality, it did not matter, apart from the fasting month.In my two classes where I was accidentally placed in Agama, I remember one of the first lesson I learnt was the name of God, I learnt how to write Alif Lam Lam Ha. Alif is the first letter of the Arabic alphabet. When I entered Form One, I read a translation of the Thirukurral, arguably one of the best religious books written in Tamil.The first lines of it was 'A Leads the letters of the Alphabet. The Lord leads the entire World. The first name of God I thought of was Allah, naturally.Anything with the name of God in it sounded awesome to me. Abdullah, son of God, sounded 'complete'. Michael, 'Who is Like God?' sounded powerful. Fast forward 10 years later, we are faced with a potential ignition point that threathens our very social fabric and way of life as Malaysians.All in the name of God.

Religion, both my own or otherwise, is a topic close to my heart.Being born into a mixed family,with Muslims, Christians. Hindus, Buddhists and such, religion fascinated me as a child. Books by Swami Prabupadh, Peter Yancey, Ronald Tacelli, Karen Armstrong,Zakir Naik are scattered in my room. My KJV study bible sits next to my most prized book of all, a nearly coverless 1920 Longman published, Yusuf Ali translation English Al-Quran.So forgive me, if I really do not see the problem here.Much has been said about the history of the early Church in East Malaysia, the etymological origins of the word Allah, how it is used the world over, how its use is even mentioned in the Al Quran et cetera, et cetera. I am not a biblical scholar, nor am I a Coptic Christian. But I am a Semenanjung Catholic. I have been singing 'anak Domba Allah' in Doxology during Mass since I was in primary school. I am Selangorian.I have been singing 'Allah lanjutkan usia Tuanku' for 12 years in school, and in every state function.So I really did not see the deal in it.If there is a big deal with it, let's talk about it.

The way I see it, History thinks it is OK- Herald has been around for more than 10 years, why the fuss now?A political party whose raison d 'etre is Islam, says its OK. An influential Islamic magazine in the US, along one of its most influential Muslim association says its OK. Quite a few local religious figures, local and abroad says its OK.Christians believe it is OK. Sikhs thinks its OK. Bahais think its OK.Sabahan and Sarawakien Christians thinks its OK. So who exactly thinks its not OK?And if its not OK, tell us why. Why burn down our churches? Why bully us because we are small in number? Why intimidate us using scare tactics?It is disheartening.

One does not provoke with his left hand and attempt to reconcile with his left. Please do not throw a stone and then pretend to pick it up and scold the imaginary person who threw it.You look stupid, and more importantly, you are toeing a dangerously precarious line.Please, there's politics and there's political prostitution.Be a politician, not a prostitute.

A colleague today asked me not to worry, when I told him that two churches had been torched, and I worried for mine, my priest and my family. He assured me most Muslims would not march with Pribumi Perkasa and a few other government connected non government organizations.God, and the world is watching he told me.The day PAS moved to diffuse the tension created by some quarters, I sent an SMS to my good friend in the PAS committee, thanking him, and told him that I owed their leaders a big hug. His reply was ' We just say it as it is, but we always welcome a hug'

Somehow, all this made me feel a little better.After all, God, and the world is watching.

To my Muslim brothers and sisters,

Those who know me well enough probably know the respect I have for every religion. Please consider this a personal plea. Let's let dialogue and conversation, prevail over street hooliganism.Before you proceed with the 'we are under siege', 'you guys started it', 'this is provocation!', 'you guys are getting big headed', and 'This is a Muslim country' usual arguments, please please just ask yourselves these questions.

1. Which religion is growing in Malaysia, which is shrinking?
2. How many Catholic- Muslim converts do you know? And how many vice versa?
3. Whose places of worship got torched?
4. Whose followers got threatened?
5 Who is forced out of their places of worship?

Please ask these questions, and tell me, who should be worried about the position of their religion.

Peace to us all.There is no way to peace, peace is the way.And God knows best.

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Announcement On This Blog

2009-11-15T11:03:00.000+07:00

From this day forth, all political posts will go to
another blog of mine while all of my pic posts will go to yet another blog. My Daily Dread is hereby returning to its lighter vein.

I'm quite disturbed by the banning mentality of certain people in this country (and worldwide)
Ban SIS, they're a threat to our sovereignity
Ban alcohol, it causes you to beat wives and abuse your kids and drive into people on the road
Ban all missionaries they're a threat to our culture
Ban all languages except Malay and (insert your own mother tongue here)
Ban non religious films, they corrode our faith
Ban Starbucks, its an evil tool of the Jews
Ban all naked, half naked, semi naked and anything that resembles a little skin, it will erode your morals and cause temporary blindness

and the latest to join them was Dr Asri, yep ban him too! After all, he is destroying homes and wrecking lives with his nonsensical
spews on tolerance, understanding and progression!Imagine the chaos we will have if he is allowed to spread this alien concept
called love.
To all these monkeys, apes and fools.
May I draw your kind attention to the following, more worthy causes than banning everything your mother did not give you as a child?
-World poverty
-Panda extinction
-Terrapin conservation
-Cockroach education (i.e. educate people on how wonderful cockroaches are)
-Curing cancer
-Fighting Microsoft
-Suing McDonalds
-Keeping McDonald's in Iceland
-Fighting for both toilet paper and a bidet in all toilets.
What's up with you all la?Akon shows his well oiled body to the world and nada. Beyonce wants to come down fully clothed (I half expected
her to dress in a nun's outfit for her concert) and you kick up a fuss. Aren't we supposed to oppose homosexuality or something?
Sigh.I digress.

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JAIS has much to Answer

2009-11-02T08:09:00.001+07:00

If a former Mufti is deemed fit to be advisor to the Sultan on Islamic affairs, has a PhD in Islamic Studies, and people can relate to his lectures (I am a Christian, and even I like him!), who the heck is JAIS to arrest this guy?

I can understand JAIS' need to establish uniformity in mosque sermons and all, but this is ridiculous! In Christian terms, its like stopping a Singaporean bishop from talking in KL.Dr Asri has been at the forefront of clarifying a lot of things we non Muslims don't understand about Muslims, and he is one of the few people I know of that is trying hard to foster religious understanding rather than hatred and animosity. This should be emulated, propagated and encouraged!

Dr Asri, we stand with you!

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The Beast

2009-10-16T07:06:00.001+07:00

OK, you know that 666 is the Number of the Beast, but did you know that:

660	Approximate number of the Beast
DCLXVI	Roman numeral of the Beast
666.0000	Number of the High Precision Beast
0.666	Number of the Millibeast
/666	Beast Common Denominator
1010011010	Binary of the Beast
Beast1-666	Area code of the Beast
00666	Postcode of the Beast
1-900-666-0666	Live Beasts! One-on-one pacts! Call Now! Only $6.66/minute. Over 18 only please.
$665.95	Retail price of the Beast
$699.25	Price of the Beast plus sales tax
$769.95	Price of the Beast with all accessories and replacement soul
$656.66	Target price of the Beast
Route 666	Way of the Beast
666F	Oven temperature for roast Beast
666mg	Recommended Minimum Daily Requirement of Beast
Netscape 6.66	BetaBrowser of the Beast
i66686	CPU of the Beast
666I	BMW of the Beast
668	Next-door neighbour of the Beast

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The Crucifixion of PAS and the Resurrection of Isa.

2009-10-14T15:12:00.001+07:00

Pakatan members and supporters nationwide woke up this week to SMSes, emails and phone calls showing concern, scorn , provocation etc over Tan Sri Isa's resounding victory in Bagan Pinang.The mainstream media had a field day.Finally, they got to suck up to their bosses without having to massively spin stories, just by reporting the truth.Creative catchy headlines like "The Second Coming of Isa", "Faux Pas" and "Voters gave it a PASs" .I decided to throw mine into the hat (see above)

Why did voters squarely reject Pakatan this time?Its anyone's guess, but if you ask me, its a case of history repeating itself.One can draw small parallels between this 'mini-rejection' of Pakatan and the 'macro-rejection' of BN in the 308 Tsunami. Think of it as a small wave of discontent, but if left unchecked , would perhaps even spell certain doom for Pakatan in the coming elections. Of course, its going to be difficult for PR to keep the momentum going with a weakening 'push' factor, i.e. Badawi and his weak administrative policies.What Pakatan needs to do, is to strengthen their 'pull' factor, i.e. prove itself a better alternative.Unfortunately there are many problems in the executing this, not the least being the executors themselves!The State government machineries are still very much pro Barisan, and Pakatan's own feet-dragging in having them replaced has cost it dearly, as seen in the Perak fiasco, where the Mayor of Ipoh and the State Secretary snubbed their former bosses pretty soon after the coup de 'etat.

But for me, and people like me, voting is more an emotive affair than it is a squarely logical one.Feelings of betrayal, anger, disgust at the present day government is likely to cause an "X" in the opposition box more than any propaganda or policy explained thoroughly through the most effective media.As Maya Angelou once famously said, people can forget what you said, people can forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.That is why PAS lost Bagan Pinang.Isa Samad managed to capture the warm fuzzy feeling of the people who wholeheartedly embrace him as their leader.National issues ranked second to his personality.I believe, Barisan did not win the seat, and PAS did not manage to penetrate it. But Isa managed to shield the seat from the national issue onslaught by his personality.Isa Samad won the seat, not UMNO and not Barisan.Isa Samad, with his warm personality and local acceptance.

As for PAS, its time for PAS to stop dilly-dallying and make your stands known! You cannot have your cake and eat it too! While people like Khalid Samad, Husam Musa, Mat Sabu, Nizar and Tuan Guru Nik Aziz are perceived as 'non-Muslim friendly',statements like banning beer, wanting to sleep with UMNO,calling for the banning of this concert and that one will not be tolerated by non Muslims and more liberal Muslims much longer.Please,please,please stop disengage the 'ban' switch in your brains and engage the 'discuss' mentality. Previously, it was OK to have differing views, as the people were done evaluating, and judged BN as 'must go at all costs'. Now that BN is responding ,and the anger of the people against the Badawi administration has fizzled, and people are beginning to judge the two as equals. This is where the problem begins for Pakatan. It is not a single fabric entity. It has to decide , and decide quickly what it wants to do, and do it, before the people lose interest in Pakatan.As it is, the interest in waning. The Indian support base, which six months ago was very much still intact for Pakatan is slowly eroding. The emergence of Makkal Sakti,a party hell bent on hijacking the Hindraf struggle appears to gaining ground on ex MIC members who are less suspectible to PR's 'grip'. The rise of two personalities T Murugiah and S. Subramaniam is also to be watched. Their movements could further erode Pakatan's Indian support base.

While the Chinese vote bank appears less easy to sway, don't take it for granted.Chinese are pragmatic voters, and it would be wise to reciprocate their trust in you with some measure of fairness, which is all they ask for.As for the Malay vote, from how I see it, is split to three.The hardcore PAS supporters, the hardcore UMNO supporters and those in between. Clearly, everyone in PAS was trying to win the in betweeners, the difference lies in how. While the Erdogan group opted to go with education,engagement and demonstration of what Islamic virtues truly are, it appeared the other group opted to out-hardline, out-Malay and out-Islamize UMNO.If I have learnt anything, is you can beat people in their own game, but you cannot beat people in a game of their own mental creation.You cannot beat a terrorist with terror, you cannot beat a religious zealot by matching his zeal with yours, and you cannot out-thump a Bible-thumper.Likewise you cannot hope to defeat UMNO in their own game.You can however, convince the players that your rules are better, and lure their players into your game, then beat them at that.Would that not be wiser? After all politics is a zero sum game, and when as a force,you come across a force you cannot destroy, you destroy yourself.

Lets not forget about Sabah and Sarawak. The sidelined part of Malaysia that fuels in money so the 'other part' of Malaysia can enjoy even more expensive highways and new national capitals.

Decide, then Pakatan, the ball has always been in your court.Decide once and for all if Malaysia is an Islamic Nation or an Islamic State. Decide if drinking alcohol and having loose morals is more important than the looting of national wealth beneath your eyes.Decide if crosses in schools is more of an eyesore than a multi billion dollar white elephant project.Decide if building pig farms equates selling your soul to the non Muslims.Decide if Ibrahim Ali is in or out. Decide if having a Malay Muslim lead a company is more important that it generating wealth for all.And then after it all, let the rakyat decide if you are here to stay or you are to go.

Pakatan did not 'gain' power. Pakatan was 'swept into' power.Let us not forget.

Make no mistake, UMNO is very strong.It will take Malaysians, not PAS, or Pakatan to take them down. As long as they have an awesome machinery and cults built around leaders like Isa Samad, winning the next General Election is a tall order for PR.But for the sake of Malaysia, it must be done.And Malaysians must prevent the crucifixion of PAS,DAP and PKR and the resurrection of BN, even if it means saving PR from itself!

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Vellalars in Naruto

2009-10-09T08:47:00.001+07:00

After rediscovering my roots with Francis the other day, I decided to send him this email I did in my free time.Posting it here for all to read :P
To the uninitiated/blur/Indianophobes/castophobes/literarily challenged , Vellalar is caste/clan from India that is supposed to be this 'high caste' la. Unbeknowst to most 'Vellalars' who are happily calling themselves Vellalar (or Pillai dan gelaran yang sewaktu dengannya) , Vellalar comes from the word 'Vellam' , meaning floods. We were um, apparently floodkeepers.But we've since moved on to bigger and better things! See below.

Vellalar in Russia.

Vellalar who works in MacDonalds.

Vellalar who makes pots, also known as Panne Vellalar, lives in the deserts in Orrisa.

Blonde Vellalars in Europe.Vellalars were the first shampoo models for Pantene.

Vellalar children are known to be gentle, homo-ish and likes butterflies :P

Chinese Vellalars know how to be stylish, even when passing gas

A Vellalar named Benjamin Franklin Pillai founded electricity.He was superceded many years by a Russian Vellalar (see above) Nikola Tesla Gounder

Vellalar version of Hanuman.

Vellalars also discovered Kalari Payat.

To compliment their fair skin and flawless features, Vellalars also were the first Southern Indians to use Colgate.They also were the first to use bracers, many, many years later.

A Vellalar Brahmachari

A tired Vellalar after a day of heavy floods.

Loving Vellalar Mother

Vellalar making Vella Thosai

Vellalar Nai, the Famous Vellalar Hound

Vellalar Kanne, A medical condition prevalent among Vellalars.

Vellalar doing the traditional Vellalar Namaste

Vellalar Ulundai, a delicacy eaten every Diwali

Original Vellalars were much whiter.

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Toys for the Merdeka Season

2009-09-02T12:57:00.001+07:00

Was thinking of proposing the following sets of toys for Merdeka day to Hasbro..will make good gifts this Merdeka season..Maybe the Mangkuk "BPN" Sniper Blogs by KJ can use this to play and get some points into their thick skulls of theirs.

FRU 'All Season Protest' Policemen Collector's Set

Comes complete with water cannons, small bombs, 30 FRU trucks, a Black Maria and 30,000 protestors. Colours of protestors are customizable to black, red or yellow. Comes free with a complimentary mini 30 protestor set- "Pewaris", with its own marching music and police escort.Add RM 10 for link-armed line of Pakatan leaders.Water for water cannons sold separately.

The 'Kg Buah Pala' Cowboy Town 1 Dollhouse Set

Comes complete with little cows,29 collectible houses,and a Darshan Singh figurine.When pressed, the Darshan Singh figurine will say project a cute gurgly, incomprehensible sound .Also comes with alternative action heroes/villians - Hindraf Hunk, Sugu the Slug,Tharma the Thug and Victor the Dictator.

Mini Court 'Buat Kerja Judiciary' Set

A majestic collector's edition replica Jalan Duta court complex complete with cracks and uneven car park and Palace of Justice scale model.Comes with 'Buat Kerja' banner.To be included next fall in this collection is VK Lingam plush doll that says three phrases when pressed "Correct...correct...correct your head". "Looks like me and sounds like me, am I me?" and "Yo Mama so Fat, she cannot fit in this court".
The VK Lingam doll comes with 3 camouflages, but they all looks and sounds like VK.Judges sold separately.

SUK Selangor 'Under Siege' Set

Four piece building set comprising Dewan Jubli Emas, Anexxe, Bangunan SSAAS and DUN Selangor.Latest addition to this set is an audio ready yelling band of hooligans wearing miniature 'Bukan UMNO' T shirts.Also included is a cool cow with detachable head.Police officer figurines available but are immovable deadcast iron and for ornamental purposes only.

Loh Gwo Burne Edition Commemorative Camera

Would make an excellent gift to kids who are interested in photography.It comes preloaded with the actual photos taken by YB Loh and a handwritten manual by him on how to trap corrupt lawyers.Batteries and judges sold separately.

Plant-a-Democracy-Tree

Teach your kids gardening skills and patriotism with this gardening toolkit. Learn valuable lessons about nature, and if planted strategically, this small tree would maybe some day shelter a state assembly sitting.Comes in Casuarina,Dedap and Langsuir.Comes with its own pot and fill-in-your-name plaque.

But then again, if they could think, they would not be doing what they do, right? :P

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A Nice Weekend

2009-09-01T07:44:00.001+07:00

The long weekend turned out to be a pretty nice one after all.On Thursday night, met up with Shakir after the longest time, seeing he now can drive, after his freakish albeit comedic mishap (he tried to scratch his um, back, and somehow dislocated his arm). Met Prasad as well, my comrade from PAS and exchanged a lot good natured ribbing and news, mostly about the venerable Dr Hasan Ali.We had dinner with YB Charles, who has a thing for the nasi lemak below his service center, and another thing for Dr Hasan :P

Friday was even more eventful, went to the workshop with Danny whose car got into an accident, and left him wrapped up like a herbal wantan thanks to mummy-wrap and a skillful Chinese singseh.Had tea with him and YB Ronnie and YB Kit, who never fails to amaze me with his sharp-mindedness, and met up with Mandy and her very cute nephew. Listened to YB Teng and Khalid with their awesome jokes about BeEnd.

Then went and drank to Dr Hasan's health at Modesto's with Danny and Adrian. Spent Saturday and Sunday movie-ing,arcade gaming, drinking, eating, sushi-ing,DOTA-ing,photographing and finally talk-cocking at Tze Wei's impromptu farewell where I met Robert,Shin, Christine and Tze Wei, and the topics of cock-talk ranged from Jesus to MENJ to the Oxford Movement and priesthood, to apostolic succession to libertarianism to the Chinese press and whatever else bangau topic that could be fitted in a two and a half hour window.A nice way to end a parade free,nearly flag free, black wearing weekend.

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The Merdeka Post

2009-09-01T07:30:00.001+07:00

Merdeka came and went, and I felt nearly no whiff of patriotism in the air, at least the way BN makes out patriotism to be.To the current government's mindset, patriotism means the total absence of dissent, the total presence of undying, undivided loyalty to them, the utmost subservience to their agenda and the total swallowing of their propaganda.A loyal nationalist.

I feel pretty much the opposite. I feel like a rebel with a cause, and a pretty good one at that. The cause is the democratic replacement of the present government with a more competent, statesmanlike, transparent, fair and moderate government.And if that makes me less patriotic in the present governments eyes, then I happily shall remain so.Because the way I see it, Jose Rizal was not exactly 'Spanish-Patriotic', neither was Gandhi nor or Tunku Abdul Rahman 'British-Patriotic' Not that we are comparing ourselves with such legends of the past,but to highlight the fact remaining- that not all dissents are bad, nor not all forms of loyalty; good.

Ultimately, we all serve history in our own little way.Some grandfathers alive today tell of how the war forced them to eat tapioca, and some, as I learnt from my new friend Christine last night,forced them to create entire new families while abandoning their old.Some fighters remaining tell of how the fought alongside the British, and yet some, against them.Ultimately, history is written by the winners, and as such, we are fed with a steady diet of 'Perikatan' comprising MCA,MIC and UMNO did A-Z for Merdeka to happen.

So, 50 years from now, I'll be 75.It still remains to be seen whether I'll be reading about Pakatan taking over the government anywhere in Sejarah,but I will be able to tell my kids, I got sprayed with rubber pellets and chemically enhanced water more than a few times in our struggle. Whether I will be able to do so while saying I am a nationalist, or a 'negative, anti governmental element' , depends on the results of the coming elections.

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An Evening Long Pending

2009-08-28T10:04:00.001+07:00

I finally had a long outstanding coffee with my friend from PAS, Sdr. Prasad Hanif. Only what I thought would be quiet discussion over coffee about mobilizing Klang for Pakatan turned out to be a good homoured political ribbing session complete with our MP, YB Charles, his two PAs, a couple of social activists and a very cute nephew whose ultimate joy in life seems to be fried rice.

I brought the pseudo infidel Shakir along, coz he's been bugging me to meet some political people.

With all the heavy politicking going on, its nice to have a short breather once in a while, and remember that life is not all about politics, that we all need a breather once in a while. With all the negativity around us, constant harrasment, attempts on coup d' etat , one successful overthrow, race being played as commonly a card as development, 8 continuous by elections within a year and a half.The fact that we won 7 out of 8 of them, most with a trouncing, despite the odds, shows with all the brouhaha, the people still are with us, either out of spite for BN, or love for Pakatan.

And that, is a most reassuring thought.

Prasad was mentioning the counterattack PAS has planned for the Malay belt and its nice to know Dr Dzul and team still have not lost their magic.It will be interesting to watch the coming months.To me its simple. The issue is between race and religion. One cannot claim both together, for religion denounces racism and racism has no place in a religious agenda. The fact that UMNO has forged this two together is impressive, and what would be more impressive is for PAS to break this amalgamation of elements never intended to be uttered in the same breath.

And that,would be their sweetest success.

It would also translate to the abolishment of this silly notion of people speaking only for their own race.Then Chinese will no longer be suspicious of a PAS man supporting the building of a Guan Yin Temple, and Muslims will not be wary to accept some allocation from a DAP rep for the erection of a mosque.

And that, would be my idea of a 1Malaysia.

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Of Hassan Ali and Ronnie Liu

2009-08-27T08:25:00.001+07:00

I strongly disagree with with what Dr Hassan Ali said, but I also strongly support his right to say it.I also say that is not the weakness of Pakatan, but rather, our strength.

Many years ago, when I was with Project Disagree under IKD, I remember telling a friend of mine, Gwo Shin,from AMK , now an editor with a Chinese daily telling me that the ideal 'Opposition Pact' would have to be a loose, yet cohesive coalition.I also mentioned DAP and PAS would continue to be at loggerheads and that PKR would continually, uneasily try to mend our fences.I also jokingly told him, MDP, PSM and PRM would be virtually dysfunctional and get swallowed up by the three 'big' parties. That was in 1999. I never knew then how accurate these things would come to pass.

Fate has always desired DAP and PAS to work together. Our fates has intertwined as we both share a common history that neither side really realizes. People like Mat Sabu and Guan Eng has shared an ISA block with Khalid Samad,Lau Dak Kee and P. Patto. We have created 1Malaysia long before the overpaid people at the Fourth Floor in JPM Putrajaya coined the term.We are also bonded by the fact that we were, are and hopefully continue to be, vessels of the people's aspirations- PAS for the Muslim community, and DAP for the liberal community.And PKR for those in between.We've also survived 50 years purely on the goodwill of the people.The people kept us going when we were down and out and could hardly find people to fill in as vote counters.You can truly say PAS and DAP is a grassroots party, drawing strength from their people and supporters, all the more meaningful as the only payment you get, is seeing your candidate deny the other side a seat.

PAS has always stood for truth and equality, as has the DAP; though they both go about it in different ways, using different words.The problem has always been, the voices of Lim Kit Siang and Nik Aziz has always been drowned by the silly yells of the BN.

The image painted has always been the impossible-case-scenario. DAP supporters were told if PAS were going to rule Malaysia, we will all be forced to wear turbans and memorize the Quran, and PAS supporters were told if DAP ruled, pork and alcohol will be served in Malay kampungs.And along came RPK, and Malaysiakini, and blogs and told everyone how stupid they were being.People often believed what the needed to believe, and up till March 2008, people did not have a collective need to reject the government.Now they did; and they executed their collective need, with this new, untested coalition.

And so now the onus is on us to live up to their aspirations. The electorate of today is no longer the handlebar-moustache sporting,newspaper reading,Nissan Sunny driving, British educated BN-toting old people who thought that a government pension is the next best thing after RTM news. No, today we have the MyVi driving, degree holding, Starbucks drinking , Pakatan supporting young,who thinks RTM news is the next worst thing to a government job! And all of them are holding their cups of Venti Coffee Lattes, waiting to see if Pakatan sinks into what BN has become, decadent, vitriolic and archaic.

And thats why, what Ronnie Liu and Hassan Ali did keeps Pakatan on their toes, showing the electorate that,yes, we will continue to argue and bicker, and the formula will never be set, but that this is a good thing. This means your interests will always be at heart, whether your interest is drinking beer, watching MLTR, gambling or the prohibition of the mentioned, we will strive to find the correct formula to best serve the electorate.

And so, contrary to what our Home Minister had said, I believe the rakyat are not fed up of this brand of politicking, but would find it refreshing that in this coalition, every view matters.

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Morning Jogs and Dogs

2009-08-06T20:49:00.000+07:00

Went for a jog this morning as usual.It was darker as I left at 4.55 as opposed to 5.30 as usual (I had a morning appointment in KL). As one of the street lights were out, I did not see this black dog and accidentally kicked it.And the bugger yelped, surprised, followed by incessent barking.Stupid dog.Now I usually carry two small dumbells with me (to exercise my arms-need to lose weights la)So, I pretended to want to throw it at him.Next thing you know this stupid dog barked in 'reinforcements' and they surrounded me.

'Defeated', I retreated all the way around my normal route in an extra 3 km jog.I was late for my meeting. Stupid, stupid smelly dog. Next time I'm bringing a bigger dumbell, one that has bullet firing capabilities.

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Raja Nong Chik and His RM 200 Million Estimate

2009-08-05T05:13:00.001+07:00

200 million ringgit is not a small figure. Figuratively, that's RM 200,000,000.00. How can a gathering of 20,000 people simply roaming the roads of KL cost the government RM 10,000 per person?? In perspective, at the lowest point of the economic downturn, we only had 19 billion ringgit in foreign reserves, so a simple gathering of folks in KL has just cost the government 1% of its foreign reserves. Meaning, if the Opposition just organized 100 rallies with 20,000 people on average, our foreign reserves would've been drained, and our economy would have crumbled.

So if I decide to walk in KL for one day holding a banner up and yelling, the government is going to spend RM 10,000 ringgit to curb me? Wow, no wonder our country has not got it right till today!That being said, I am truly disappointed with the value the government got for the RM 10,000 per person. As I was in a few rallies before this (I more or less missed this one-left halfway , date with someone) I've had my bit of tear gas and chemical water la (for those belum kena tear gas is like rubbing wasabi and soy sauce in your face, and the water cannon water is like a mild jellyfish sting- as long doesn't splash into your eyes)

I barely got splashed twice the last time, and had nearly no police contact whatsoever (except for one Sarjan who shouted 'Pergi Belakang' and that also was directed at a hyper PKR guy next to me) so if that is all I'm getting for RM 10,000 I would be happy to lodge a MACC report on behalf of YB Raja Nong Chik; with the following arguments

1) -The water sprinkled on protesters was cheap pipe water laced with chemicals, not truckloads of Perrier water laced with lime , SK2 Miracle Signs Uplifter Water laced with ylang ylang extracts, or better still Coca Cola laced with Jack Daniels (or the other way around). Plus, if they source the water from Selangor, the Selangor Government actually subsidizes water, though I am sure their intention is not for the subsidized water be used to spray on their own people.

2) -The officers knocking on protesters heads with batons were mostly graduates from a local vocational academy, not PHD holders who charge RM 1,000 per hour.

3) - Police batons are made with wood, metal and plastics, not bronze, silver and gold.

4) -There was no lunch provided (even YB Teresa's '2 biji telur and kari' would be better than nothing.

5) -The police band did not play songs to entertain the protesters.

6) -No balloons, party favours, pit girls or DJ.

For the price he ended up paying, YB Raja Nong Chik should at least be getting the following

7) -Protesters ushered in by kompang playing men in blue

8) - The police band, police rempit squad a.k.a stunt bikers doing some 360 degree flips and interesting and creative formations

9) - A very, very good morning coffee, lunch, hi tea, dinner and supper for protesters by Ritz Carlton, served by Russian acrobats riding unicycles balancing an elephant on their backs. Menu should at least include caviar, lobsters, abalone, an albino tiger, a blue cow and at least one roasted flightless bird nearing extinction.

10) -An MJ tribute concert to serenade protesters

11) -Police motorcade escort for each and every protestor home to their house, a complimentary ride in a water cannon truck, and sightseeing in KL in a FRU Black Maria.

12) -A pair of Police sunglasses given free after it all, plus two complimentary 'Get-Out-Of-Jail-In-Case-I-Get-Arrested' passes and one free for life 'Gimme-A-Lawyer-Its-My-God-Damned-Right' card

Then OK la, 10K is still a bit pricey, but all the above, hey, I'd be happy to cash in my time deposits!

After all, 20,000 is not such a large crowd (of course I am going by MSM estimates, as they are always true :P) St Anne's Feast has a bigger crowd than this, and the church in BM certainly spends far less than 200 million ringgit (mainly because we use holy water to sprinkle on people, it only has a little bit of salt in it, and no chemicals. On this note, the Church would like to thank BN for subsidizing salt and water.)

Even Thaipusam in Batu Caves, where 1 million Hindus converge, does not use 200 million ringgit a year on crowd control. Sure, the incense smoke hurts the eyes a little but I can live with it. I have the following suggestions instead for the Federal Government to use the 200 million purportedly spent on peaceful protesters –

Save Kg Buah Pala
Save Paya Wetlands
Save Putrajaya and Cyberjaya
Save the MRR2
Save the Corridors
Save PKFZ
Save the Crooked Bridge
Save the MATRADE Building and finally
Save your Souls from Eternal Damnation.

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A Death That Must Not Be In Vain

2009-08-05T05:10:00.002+07:00

My heart stopped for more than a beat when I received the bad news yesterday. I had hoped it was a joke in bad taste, and was extremely disappointed when it turned out to be true.

I did not know the late Teoh Beng Hock very well, just the occasional hello and nods when we cross paths whenever I would visit my friend Danny or when I have forms etc to pass to Danny or YB Ronnie in the SUK. I also shared an apartment with him in a Penang trip some time back when Pakatan just took over Selangor.

Even in the few contacts I had with him, he always struck me as lively and animated. Seeing his lifeless body's photo must have been poignant for whomever who knew him. It was about 4pm when I got the SMS. My friend Danny, who works in the office next to Teoh did not know about it when I called him, neither did my friend Adrian, who coincidentally works in Plaza Masalam, only a few floors above the scene of the incident. According the press conference, they found his body at 1.30; yet no one noticed. His co-workers were unaware, neither were those in the same building. A little fishy, isn't it? All it takes is a car accident to drive most workers of a building to a window. We are after all, curious Malaysians.

There are a string of issues surrounding this death. First is the unnatural speed in which the MACC is conducting this investigating this allegation. From some of the people I spoke to, friends of mine who have been interrogated for the same case, the MACC seems hellbent on insisting many activities conducted are not 'Mesra Rakyat'

What is 'Mesra Rakyat?' People friendly. As long as people benefit, than what the fuck is your problem? Its only 5,000 ringgit la. What about the billions, maybe trillions of ringgit squandered by mysterious people? PKFZ? What about the various disproportionate spending vs. known income of so many BN people? Or the questionable allocations of hundreds of thousands of contracts in so many places? Or the volumes of encyclopedias worth of reports made by so many Opposition leaders from the time of the Seenivasagam brothers right up to the time of Lim Kit Siang?

Its almost as though you have someone you are eager to please. You know how prostitutes feel compelled to give you a good time, after taking your money?

Or how dogs vigorously wag their tails when they see their owners, well aware of the fact that their owners feed them?

I go to Plaza Masalam pretty often, and if you look up from the floors, you see balconies of the floors below. It does not look as though you'd die jumping down if you know what I mean (not like when you look down most skyscrapers)

Why would a careered young person who is going to get married tomorrow commit suicide? Why did it take so long to move the body? Why did they assign a tiga paku investigating officer? Too many questions with too few answers.

Too all people from BN with a heart, ask yourselves, what would have happened if it was an UMNO Youth Leader who died up there?

The deceased was a to-be husband, a son, a cousin, a brother, and a nephew. His death deprived many people of many things. What is the value of one human life? And how many more must die?

We can add this to the string of accolades the Malaysian government has collected in their stride towards democracy ala Gestapo.

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Response to Taming Sari

2009-08-05T05:10:00.001+07:00

My response to a self-bastardizing post by a certain blogger

Taming Sari is the name of the legendary kris belonging to the great warrior Hang Tuah. Hang Tuah was reputed to be a hero, one brave enough to face off mighty Jebat in a battle which is rather unbelievable, if you read the story (Hikayat Hang Tuah) either the Malay version (where Hang Tuah is the hero) or the Indonesian version (where Jebat is the hero).

Points of controversy aside, Tuah was someone with guts, who does not hide behind a mask or a pseudonym. Tuah did not hide behind his grandmother and throw poison darts at Jebat. Neither would he have the face to put up a half baked blog with articles and pieces that has as much literary value as a caveman's wall scribbling, or the artistic markings on a used piece of toilet paper.

If Tuah were alive, I have no doubt with commanding articulacy, and may even have mastered Chinese, Tamil, and most definitely English, so as to stand eye to eye with Rambo, Wong Fei Hung and other heroes produced by a global world. Its an utter disgrace therefore, that a bumbling, pathetic excuse for a blogger would have the tenacity to use the name of Hang Tuah's sacred weapon as the name of that person's blog, and definitely with poorly copied graphics and lamely stitched-togather HTML. As an IT person,I know my own blog is not exactly Pulitzer material, hence the name "Daily Dread". Should I have named my blog "Glamdring"(from LOTR) or "Excalibur" (From Arthur) or "As-You-Will-Golden-Banded-Cudgel" (From Sun Ng Hong) it would definitely be of a much higher standard. Unlike some I know.

Enough about talking about a certain blog's apparently below average IT knowledge and poor taste in HCI theory. And obvious thick racist agenda plastered in every corner of his blog, oozing as much hatred as a godless Nazi. But this post is not about Taming Sari.

Let's talk about this another person instead. Let's call this person Damning Sorry. Damning Sorry the Bastard. Damning Sorry is not the same person as Taming Sari, because Damning Sorry is a true blue bastard.

Because only a bastard would resort to speak ill of a dead person. Only a bastard and would resort to politically exploit a victim's death. A victim of a grossly unfair 'justice' system that bastard help put in place. Only a cheap, lowlife motherfucking bastard does this things. Now I am not saying the earlier blogger I mentioned in this post did it, I am just saying whoever did it, is really a bastard who deserves to burn in hell.

With blind worship and lack of ambition in life, only bastards born of an aged, herpes infected, dermatologically challenged prostitute would spew forth-foul lies in the hope of gaining cheap political mileage. That's like running a home NGV canister when everyone else is running RON97. It may get you somewhere, but eventually it will blow up with that same bastard behind the wheel. And you know what the bastard's liege lords will abandon that bastard then.

But then again, what can such bastards do? Because this bastard has probably been tasked by his liege lords to do their bidding, to spin, spin and spin some more to swing the angry masses back to their fold. Well, I have a few tips for such bastards. Stop trying. This is the age of information. Meaning as soon as the results are out, before the police finds the experts, locksmiths, building engineers, ex policemen, forensic specialists, lawyers and other people with knowledge matter on the subject would, within seconds connect on, read it, give their expert opinion and be viewed by the world. Which means the world as we know it, is getting smarter and smaller. Only some bastards rely on news from officially sanctioned party mouthpieces ,and thus, probably is forever stuck in Jahilliyah.

Sebelum saya dicerca sebagai rakyat import atau pendatang atau lebih dashyat dari itu dituduh komunis Cina, penoreh getah India, atau penjajah Portugis, eloklah saya menulis sedikit dalam Bahasa Malaysia.

Jika saudara-saudari secara kebetulan singgah di laman blog saya dan terbaca artikel ini saya minta saudara-saudari membaca artikel di atas dalam konteks. Bukanlah tujuan saya menghina keperibadian si blogger Taming Sari. Tujuan saya hanyalah mengetengahkan sikap acuh tak acuh sesetengah makhluk bergelar manusia yang sedikitpun tidak sedih melihat seorang lagi manusia kehilangan nyawa, malah turut menjadikan kematian tragic itu sebagai modal politik dengan cerita dongeng yang hanya dapat melipatgandakan kesedihan keluarga dan sahabat mangsa.Manusia bangsat seperti ini harus dikasi, direjam dan mayatnya layak dijadikan makanan anjing.

Cuma dikhuatiri, anjing sekalipun sanggup kelaparan dari mendekati binatang tersebut.

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Crunch Time:Pakatan

2009-07-15T21:13:00.001+07:00

Pakatan's Crunch Time

Some ideas for Pakatan to arrest the declining support base among Malaysians :-

- - Stop trying to politically assassinate members of your own party. Pointing out mistakes is fine, but all out smear campaigns based on little or no truth is not to be encouraged. And stop feeding us that 'my constituents complained to me' BS. Your constituents and the YB you're trying to kill off is often 3 states apart

- -Stop making stupid , racist, religionist, holier than thou, 'macauhai' statements, and if you absolutely must, do it in private, not over NTV7 and The Star. Its one thing to openly rebuke, stating the facts, but you damn well know the MSM is going to spin it faster than a motorized gasing

- - Stop having by elections every 48 hours. People have careers, family and a life. Its fine if someone died, otherwise please don't

- - Stop practicing similar practices to BN. Pakatan is supposed to be the antithesis of Barisan, not merely a milder version.

- -Stop appointing incompetent people to posts requiring a great deal of competency. Posts are there for us to appoint strong people to safeguard the people, not as a means of political reward.

- -Start creating a common identity now that you have a common platform.

- -Start giving more and taking less.

- - Start recognizing your talents and exploit it.

- -Start defining the current rather than going against it or following it.

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Love is a Many Blundered Thing

2009-07-15T21:12:00.001+07:00

Love is a Many Blundered Thing.

I have perhaps the worse possible luck where it comes to my love life. My two secondary school love interests dated me for periods shorter than theirs. Both become something la, one was a writer, another ones now working for an airline as an engineer.

Then in college I met this girl. We dated for 2 years and 11 months before we parted ways. The reason? She was an idealist and I was a ~~realist~~ moron. Then I met this girl in my workplace. It was all roses and peaches till the true colors came out and it turned out to be a black rose, and in an instant, roses and peaches became bunga tahi ayam and durian

The other day I saw this really gorgeous girl at a conference and was about to ask for her name card when I saw her hold another girls' hand.

And yesterday was at another meeting when I saw a very very pretty girl, and tried to get in the elevator with her, but there was a dude there. Then they started talking and she was telling him she needed a babysitter for the weekend, husband not in, she going out bla bla……sigh just no luck.

Enough about my misfortunes, lets talk about my friends'. Coz its always more fun to poke fun at people when you're down right?

Friend No 1: Metal Mouth.

Well this guy, lets call him Metal, clubs every night, and thanks to him, I nearly fell asleep at work. We went to this new place in Aman Puri, and there's this bunch of few girls there, and somehow they end up in our table playing drinking games. NOTHING happened, and so he was convinced it was OK to bring his girlfriend there. From my limited but deeply painful (physically as well, girls have long fingernails and are not afraid to use them) experiences, it's never a good idea to bring your lady to a club, neither for you nor the girl, so I told him so. Thankfully his girlfriend was not too angry about it, or my friend would probably require more than teeth braces :D knowing her height. Er, you two know who you are, sorry la but I could not help but blog about it :P

Friend No 2: Much Ado for Nothing

Its never a good sign when a girl doesn't like to be seen with you and always takes your for granted. My friend, Jason Statham A/L Joe Sathiam ( Not his real name) has had advice from me, his ridiculously funny cousin brother, his ridiculously perpetually angry cousin sister, my other friend Metal (refer above story) and half the known world advised him to stop it, but I guess love's not only blind, it makes you a little deaf as well. Flowers la, dinner la (he actually took cooking lessons from yours truly, and this lazy bastard never cooked a meal in his life) and Gods knows what else. Thankfully ( and God I hope this remains this way) he is over her.

Friend No 3: Never Say Never.

I was holding my friend through his breakup. He called his ex a million and one names, ranging from free-range chicken to prostitute. And that was harsh because I like calling a spade a spade, but I won't even call a prostitute a prostitute. And he vowed to the 36 levels of heaven and 18 levels of hell that he would never speak to her again.Fast forward 3 months later, who do I bump into in a shopping center? Mr Never Ever Date That Slut and his 'prostitute'. I just smiled and walked on. I had half a mind to walk up to her and ask 'How much is he paying you?' but thankfully decided against it la. But then again this friend has a history of backtracking, so I guess it was foreseeable. Eat spit. Never ever say never.

Friend No 4: Opposites Attract.

Being an Adonis sure has its advantages, but attracting the wrong gender is not one of them. A friend of mine , Optimus Prime, seems to be an instant dude magnet, only two problems here, he is a dude himself and he is so old school the very sight of the smallest gay-ish gestures makes him go Eeek and Aaak. So imagine the OMFG look on his face when someone stops him and asks for directions and ends with the question – "Are you a good boy or naughty boy?" If Santa asked me that when I was 12, I would know the exact answer immediately. At 25, and instead of Santa, you have a guy whose only commonality with Santa is their affinity for smooth skinned elves. So, no Optimus, I have no answer to your question, though I bet you felt violated :P

There, I feel better already. Now who said bitching is reserved for women

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Mob and Mop Politicians

2009-07-15T21:11:00.001+07:00

Mob based politicians and mop faced politicians.

There are politicians who are accused of being with the mob and then there are politicians who look like mops. (See if you've been used to losing your elections a few years straight, the sulk on your face goes longer and longer, especially if you're your party's sole candidate. Eventually the sulk becomes so long you can mop the floor). But I'll skip the latter and think I'll write about the former. After all, he who eats chili feels hot right?

A few days ago one politician from a different state and party, albeit in the same coalition accused another politician of being associated with the mob. Now there is nothing wrong with looking like a mop, but being with the mob is the highest order of betrayal of voter's trust, or so the mop politician seemed to be saying.

According to this politician, a state certain exco in the Selangor Government has

a) had mobsters over

b) let the mobsters use his office as a 'secret meeting place'

Curious minds are inquiring; how did this politician, sitting in his office far, far away have the time or even the need to spy on another politician, far, far away?

Doesn't his constituents need help with their issues? Wouldn't his resources be better spent serving his constituents? And what exactly is the crime here?

I am sure the MP is aware, there are 4 elected representatives in the same office, and an entire department based on the same floor as his targeted exco. The SUK building is teeming with security guards, police officers patrol daily there, high ranking police officers often file in and out for business visits, not to mention the many UMNO representatives also walk in and out of the area.

Apart from that, as that exco mentioned, there is the CCTV system and logbook.

With all this, EVERYONE there seemed to have missed this underworld figures, so I must be an idiot to believe an outsider, who admittedly has not been to the exco's office nor the SUK, presumably based on hearsay, openly and maybe stupidly tries to tarnish his comrade's reputation.

From this you can conclude either of these things

a) The MP in question possesses a hell of a good hearing/eyesight to be able to detect something that was missed so many people

b) The MP in question recognizes underworld figures that missed the eyes of so many people, raising the question- is he an underworld figure himself? If so, he should be investigated immediately. If he has a good eye, Special Branch should consider hiring him!

c) The MP has erred and is just continuing shooting his mouth off.

Assuming the exco in question really has had people connected to the underworld over, what exactly is the crime here? Is he a loan shark, prostitution syndicate owner, drug lord, or even used any of these services?

The same MP has also made noise before this on YB Lim Kit Siang's AP (later proven untrue) and YB Teresa Kok's job title.

Notice a trend here? On that topic of YB Teresa's job title, I can't help but wonder..

Suka hati MB la nak panggil dia Exco Kanan ke Exco Kiri ke, Exco Tengah ke, yang kau bising tak tentu pasal ni apahal?

The only crime, if proven, and if any, is keeping distasteful or questionable company. But if that is a crime, I suppose all lawyers are guilty of it. The MP in question, being a lawyer himself should know.

Those who live in glass lighthouses should not throw stones. They should grow some instead.

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A Good Weekend

2009-07-15T21:09:00.001+07:00

Weekend … Long Time Pending.

Had a blast this weekend. Well, to start off with, its my first weekend without having a callback on Sunday for weekend activities ;)

Spent Friday having more alcohol than I've had in quite some time. Ate Japanese. Spent Saturday with my ex colleagues that just started an ex-employees association: P

All but one was an ex employee, so Bubba (not his real name) you cannot be considered a full member yet, maybe an associate member. But please do keep us posted on the latest by Short Chinese Man (not his real name)

Karaoke at Neway now has become much cheaper. As expected, our ex boss was too busy too attend due to work obligations. The man works way too hard la. Alas, they removed the oysters.And the prawns. Just hope they don't remove the karaoke sets next.

Later we went for wine at a nearby wine lounge. It's been a while since I've done this so certainly was a pick-me-upper

Spent most Sunday with Milk and Blur. Since Lamp Post was not with us, we could eat Sushi.

I am now convinced more than ever than Lamp Post had slept with a Japanese girl, didn't like it and therefore hates Sushi in obvious retaliation. Its either that or he's not over the tragic death of his pet tuna.

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Kids These Days...

2009-07-15T21:07:00.001+07:00

People tell me I have a hell of a good creativity. Actually I have this huge problem. You know how they say that people are either left brained or right brained? I firmly believe I am middle brained. I am in a constant state of conflict. My job demands logic, and a lot of it. To escape from this pseudo permanent logical state of mind, I escape to illogical creativity. Since I was young, this has been an issue. At the risk of sounding a tad fruity, I enjoy creating worlds, characters etc in my mind.

Well its all true, and I have my parents to thank for that. My parents were probably the cheapest parents around. I mean, the only thing they had an abundance of was affection, which by the way is highly overrated. I've had people come up to me and say oh your parents love you so much bla bla. I had a few teddy bears and hand me down Barbies from my sister. Other than that I had next to nil. I had to work my ass off for stuff other children just got automatically. Hey boy, you wanna bike, get me 7As in your UPSR…. But I only got 4 subjects. I don't care…make an A. Heh, so much for Christian parenting. That dumb kid with binocular spectacles down the road only had to get no 37 class position out of 39 to get a motorized bicycle. I had to be in the top 3. When I finally got my bike, my dad bought me a bike about twenty sizes too big so my sister ended up using it. And people wonder why I grew up depressed :P

When you don't have much, the only thing you have is your imagination. My mum's vacuum cleaner became a high-powered 7 in 1 multi rotation machine gun. My dad's old wallet became an incoming bat-creature bogey and my sister's shuttlecock became an ICBM.

I used to drive my parent's crazy, all the cushions in my house would come down, I'd build myself a fort complete with a hole to fit my cannon. An old drainpipe outside my house became the cannon.

It wasn't till I was about 12 before I got my first 'real' toys. By then I was so old the toys didn't even fit much anymore. I remember I got this gun, complete with gunpowder rings, which you could fire out rubber pellets with. More rubber bullets than could possibly hit a Pakatan protester hit my poor, poor dog. I also got firecrackers which I would pretend was firebombs and launch liberally towards my neighbours cat. Hey, I was 12!

Among other things that were the garden tool-toy collection I had. No, it's not a kiddie gardening tool set, rather a set of garden tools converted into toys. Plant markers became poison darts, rolls of fence became barbwire, my dad's rake; became a bishop's crozier (or a guitar depending on my mood) and my dog's kennel was ground zero. God, I pity the dog in retrospect now, I must've launched a million projectiles at it.

So pardon my raw green jealousy when I see kids these days walk around with their 400 ringgit Transformers la. My 'Transformers' toy was this cheap tractor robot that came free with Vitagen circa 1993.We have 12 year olds now walking around like freaking Inspector Gadget!

What happened to working hard? The only values parents teach these days to their kids seem to be the value of money.

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Irritating internal sound bytes

2009-07-15T05:15:00.001+07:00

Once there lived a dude,
Caught up in a feud,
Between his party and he.

He went on his own way,
The flavour of the day,
And opened his own party.

He tried his hand at votes,
He barely could read his notes,
But held on selfishly.

Smack in the middle of town,
He canvassed like a clown,
Just seeking publicity.

He didn't fare so well,
Despite his head so swell,
Just a creaky political has been.

Many years has passed,
Since people remembered him last,
A kind soul passes him a lifeline.

He wins from sheer luck,
Coz people didn't give a ****
Who he was or where's he's been.

And what does he do?
He picks up his shoe,
And throws it at the first ex colleague he sees!

Such is the impression he sold,
A vengeful bitter soul,
Deserving of the title MP?

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Last Two Days in my Current Job

2009-05-22T15:19:00.002+07:00

Can't say I'm happy, can't say I'm sad either.
Its been a good two years, a further two in my previous posting, also in the same account.I've learnt so much from the seniors here, its quite disheartening to see me go.But then again, all good things must come to an end.

Well, so closes one chapter of my 25 year life, and in a couple of days, a new one opens.Greener pastures or a barren desert?Yet to be seen, but for now I guess change is something I could use.

If I've learnt anything at all in this company, it would be that sometimes, in life, if opportunity refuses to knock, we just have to build our own door and force her hand.

Things the Malaysian Government needs to learn

2009-05-12T15:09:00.003+07:00

They need to learn this, and quickly too, or risk being sucked into oblivion, to be forever forgotten along with pogo sticks and the Spice Girls.Well, at least the Spice Girls gave us hot music videos.

1)The will of the people cannot be denied.No court, no judge, no royalty, no political mastermind or all powerful overlord will be able to deny the will of the people. They can attempt to suppress it, try to contain it and move to quell any uprising, but they must learn that true dissent is not seen on the streets, in brochures, meetings, state or illegal assemblies. True dissent is just a tiny seed planted in the minds and hearts of the people and if ill-attended to, the seeds can and will be a bramble wall that impedes every single step of those who would try to drive a wedge between the masses and their wishes.

2)The people are not stupid. In fact, they are in many case even more well informed than the Ministry of Information. Bureaucracy means that bloggers and citizen journalists need not seek 8 approvals prior to publishing their news and views like their MSM counterparts.

3) The Opposition is no longer a weak punching bag. They are the legitimate state governments for five states out of thirteen and are a few seats shy of controlling half of the federal Parliament. This means foreign countries, investors, news agencies,people and benefactors take them far more seriously now. This also means more political and financial clout.

4) Angry people will never be silenced. Threaten them, arrest their lawyers, throw water cannons at them, in shake your giant oversized ego at them,sponsor 'rival' NGOs, they don't care. They will keep on talking the walk and walking the talk, and more people will join the march.

5) Patience is an exhaustive resource.Everyone has a limit.Gone are the ghosts of May 13, the days where people bought half truths and whole lies propagated by the MSM. By pushing the people's envelope of patience, by creating a false sense of fear, telling lie after lie, and suppressing people's desires, they are merely thinning this very limited, near depleted resource.

6)Struggles not based on just values always fails.Forming government to serve and forming government to be served are two very different things. People are no longer oblivious to this, they can no longer afford to be. While many would tolerate you licking your hands when handling the honey, proclaiming virtue while drinking from the honeypot now will be spat upon.

7)Might is no longer always right.Publicly flouting the rule of law and democracy sickens the executed and eventually, the executors.Even if you keep sending your pet Doberman to keep mauling helpless neighbourhood cats, one day the Doberman will turn on you, even if its not because of mercy, logic, or fear of God, but out of boredom and mental torture.

Learn it quick, or don't. Better the latter, so PR can have a shot at ruling :)

8)You reap what you sow.Sow love, get love.Sow hate, get hate.Pepper spray an SA, be prepared to get pepper sprayed back.

9)Vengea

Bandung through the eyes of a Malaysian Part 1

2009-04-27T15:20:00.003+07:00

There is a saying in Bandung.

"Paginya jalan berlubang-lubang,
Malamnya lubangnya berjalan-jalan"

As crass,uncouth and perverse as it sounds, it aptly, succintly describes what the 'City' of Bandung is all about.She is called the Paris of Java by the Dutch.But its my firm belief that drawing a parallel to Paris in the same line as Bandung is as accurate as drawing a parallel to Vegas with Genting Highlands.

It pales in comparison.Heck, its colourless in comparison.Nevertheless, by Indonesian standards, its a pretty nice town.A brief low-down , down below on my trip

Author's note: Parts, or rather, chunks of the trip has been omitted for fear of spousal reprisal, marital strife, wife attack,girlfriend hysteria, chick's hissy fit and other similar fears of my friends' significant others reading this blog.Such parts may or may not involve conversing, engaging or other varying degrees of mostly consensual, sometimes one sided affection between consenting adults that are above the consenting age.Wives, in reading, remember, I am the youngest in this trip and by extension of that, the most innocent :P

Day 1, 2oth April

Sat in flight to a very interesting Indonesian young girl.Discuss everything from Mie Kocok, the weather, Russell's teapot, Rolls Royce vs Pratt and Whitney and Ibn Rushd.Exchanged phone numbers and promised to get in touch.Touchdown at Hussein Sastranegara airport about 3pm local time. Rush to airport before realizing all money on me is in Ringgit. Count Indonesian coins, which is just enough for a Bintang. Down a 'welcome drink', wait for evil friends that left us behind to change their money first.After one and a half hours of waiting, the company arrives, and we head over 100m from our hotel to have Nasi Padang.

To the uninitiated, Nasi Padang is a showroom display of food items that looked like cooked versions of what we see in Fear Factor.Hey, if I can survive head cheese, buffalo knee cap and fish eyeballs, anything will do :). Abang Megat was piling up stuff onto my plate. There was one item , long and oblongish looking with a squirmy filling, that I asssumed was squid.

Me: Om, ini sotong ya?
Owner: Tidak, itu namanya sapi punya ...
Me: Stop pak, nggak usah dibicara!

So there, if I tagged team with Pravin, I could probably win Fear Factor Malaysia.That is of course as long as no Pedalaman Africans were competing against me la.

The night was pretty quiet, we head off to Braga Walk and walk around looking for clubsto hangout at.Found a few good ones, Caesar's Palace and Classic Rock was quite good. There was this unnamed bar we entered playing good music where many Singaporeans and Malaysians were hanging out.

Tired from the walking, we have an early night in

More to come..

Definitions of Moments

2009-03-20T16:28:00.006+07:00

"WWW Moment"- The second between the time after you type "www." on your browser window and the time you take to figure out which site you want to visit next to waste your company's time.

"WTF Moment"- (1) The daze you find yourself in when you cannot decide what to respond when you are asked by your other half if she looks better in champagne,mocha or chardonnay.

(2) The look in your face when a bicycle overtakes your car.

"UN Moment" - The temporary confusion stemming from being in the same project meeting as an Indian program team lead, a Chinese systems team lead, a German engineering team lead, an American financier, A Japanese joint partner, a Malay CEO, a Chinese contractor and an Indonesian cleaner.

"Tak Nak Moment"- The second of hesitation experienced before lighting a cigarette where images of posters you drew as a child against smoking come flashing past your brain.

"Chua Soi Lek Moment" - The feeling you're being spied upon when you undo your fly in a public toilet.

"Smoke Gets In Your Eyes Moment"- The few seconds in a street demo where you get to watch a smoke bomb right before it drops on a street in front of you and releases tear inducing chemicals.

"Nazri Moment"- A burst of anger you suddenly feel for no particular reason to suddenly get up and insult another person's ethnicity.

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2009-03-06T20:18:00.004+07:00

Abilities-Maika(Leak gold); Barisan (+HP to Pakatan);TalkCock(minus enemy life, reduce hearing) and Build Tollgate (erects a Tollgate, similar to Defense Tower)

Porn: Malaysian Style

2009-03-06T16:31:00.002+07:00

I think I am slowly finding myself again.I decidedly decided to make a deciding decision that from today on, I am not going to let failure or success get to me.I am committed to make myself and people I care about, happy.

Talking to Hizzad this morning, the topic turned to pornography. I wondered why Malaysia does not have our own porn industry.I mean all our neighbours have it, right? All we have are like lame duck ass productions courtesy of some hidden cameras, overadventurous flight attendants, and of course, 'political assasination' porn.

We should have our own 3 star soft porn industry.What better way to promote Malaysia then through sex, right?First we begin with a brief examination of our foreign rivals.Here is a breakdown of their typical porn.Oh and by the way, err, I do not watch nor condone the watching of porn.This is, err, purely educational information obtained from reliable third party sources that have since repented from their ways and converted to become Baptists.

Indonesian porn: Girl bathes for first 45 minutes of movie.Last ten minutes crams an oral session, a bang and slam shut.Oh and you cannot see her face.

Chinese porn: PRC ambassador who looks like a taugeh seller will be doing a fat tatooed dong that looks like a VCD seller.Recommended only for people who have a thing for taugeh sellers or VCD sellers.

Taiwanese porn: 90% of it features Shu Qi wearing a bathing suit, a night suit and a birthday suit prancing around like a nymph around beaches, hills and other scenic value.Looks more like a work of art than softcore

French porn: People buy this for the French conversation that no one really understands but sounds really slutty.

Thai porn: 30 year old Thai thats *supposed* to be a student is 'seduced' by two ugly Americans.Repeat process three times.

American porn: Take a butcherhouse.Add truckers/firemen/nurses/police officers/teachers.Add hookers.Add videography.You get this.

Canadian porn: Take American porn.Add British slang.You get this.

Japanese porn: Take one power packed gorgeous Japanese chick.Add 20 fat men with small dicks. Add a whole load of screaming.Add a whole load of slapping kicking that could convince you that you were watching a documentary about marital violence.

So how would Malaysian porn be like?

I would like to think it would be a Rempit- inspired one. I would like to see sex at 180km/h

Then and only that would I concede that Malaysia indeed Boleh !

At Crossroads

2009-03-06T16:12:00.002+07:00

Warning: This is a rant post.

I am at the point of crossroads in my life.Many, many crossroads.In fact I think I am at a highway interchange.

First and foremost I am thankful to God almighty for everything He's given me the last year.A great new job, very real and wonderful friends, a wonderful relationship that went 'boom' in my face.And now this.

This crossroads.Quite a few of them.

Maybe its His way to say slow down you jackass.Maybe its his way to repay me for all my dosa-dosa besar.But whatever it is, decisions are not an easy thing to make.

I went out with an old friend last night.She's nice and though we've known each other for a while, for reasons mysterious, I've never actually hung out with her.She's fun to be around with, and funny too.It was ackward for me at first, a bit, but a nice ackward.It was the first time I'd hung out with anyone of the opposite gender apart from no 2, without having people cockstaring me as the 'Malay terrorist cradle robber' trying to steal the 'poor Ipoh mari girl' from her hardworking chicken rice selling, BSN saving, attap house living parents.

Then there was this morning.It dawned on me.Like using a hack on your Bit Torrent, I got this rush.I realized, "Damn it, I am here.I made something of myself.I deserve something in return"

I realized I've been starving myself emotionally, financially and in many other ways.Maybe I'm still punishing myself.For the breakups, the breakdowns, the fuckups, the fuckdowns.I dunno.But this morning I was royally depressed.

I feel like I've been running this long run for so long, without end, only to finish last.And to find every single person who beat me there sitting down and sipping beer every 100m.

And that's a royally fucked up feeling.

True Colours Shown Inside and Outside Parliament

2009-02-26T16:16:00.005+07:00

YB Karpal Singh may be disabled, but he is perhaps on of the most able person in Malaysia intellectually.He is also one of the more principled MPs and definitely one known to stand his ground despite the odds.His lesser detractors, on the other hand seem to suffer from irrepairable brain damage from years of brainwashing, ego-stroking and an implanted sense of false moral superiority.This, coupled with a skewed 'tunnel vision' syndrome that enables them to see what the choose to see, 'i-Pod syndrome' hear what they choose to hear and 'RedBox Karaoke' syndrome that leads them to believe people actually enjoy that howling noise produced when they move their lips.

Yes, YB Karpal 'showed his colours' in Parliament today.He showed us he does not flinch, he does not waver, and that he argues for far, far more than raising your right hand during oathtaking time. For those tunnel-vision sufferers, "Singh is Kinng" is a fictional, highly entertaining, bhangra charged Hindi movie which marries James Bond to Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.YB Mukhriz, will due respect, please go to the movies more.Likening the usage of that term to an insult to the King is an insult to insults itself.

Why stop there?Why not condemn the usage of the 'Octopussy' for insulting , er, Octopuses?If Singh is Kinng is insulting, what about the King and I? For all its worth, I really don't know what possessed YB Karpal from proclaiming that movie title of all the movies.For movie-themed-jab-trading, I would've preferred any of the following- 'Jackass', 'Knocked Up', 'Kiss Kiss Bang Bang', 'Whale Rider', 'You Got Served', 'She's The Man','The Importance of Being Ernest' ,'Imaginary Heroes',,'The Benchwarmers' or many, many other quality titles that I could choose from.

Today, Malaysia witnessed two sides of politics, the way I look at it.On one hand we have the upside, the honourable politicians whose voice resounds our own, and who are willing to put aside their differences to achieve a common goal. For a MP as senior as Karpal to acknowledge Datuk Seri Anwar as Pakatan's leader demonstrates a great deal of humility, and simply denotes Datuk Seri Anwar is doing something right.

On the other side of the spectrum, we witness the 'other' side of politics. Scruffling individuals trying to score political cheapshots by intimidating a defenseless, bodyguardless MP whose only crime seemed to be exercising his democratic right as an MP to speak in Parliament.Not surprisingly,the immediate respondents to the issue, among the 14 Barisan components came not from one party, also one particular wing of the party, furthermore 2 of the 3 runners for the no 1 spot in that particular wing.Coincidence or potshot?I digress.

I cannot but help wonder,if the sanctity of the Parliament cannot be safeguarded against blatant displays of thuggery, what hope is there for the survival of the already narrowing democratic crawlspace?

Singh help us all.

In Defense of Eli

2009-02-17T16:08:00.002+07:00

Who died and appointed Khir Toyo as Selangor's moral guardian?She should resigns says Captain Botox.

Look into your own backyard,Dato'.

Those commenting on the issue shamelessly speaking on morality probably are the very same bastards who fuck shemales in Pattaya.

Never mind their personal lives, because personal sex life is just what it is, personal.Its amazing to see Wanita MCA do the right thing for once.Its sad to see so many judging the poor YB.

How many of us have at one point of time trusted someone who ended up misplacing the trust?

How many times have one of us slept shirtless?

How many of us can honestly say we are so holy we have not seen a shirtless girl or a lady in panties?

Show me one such person who is not a priest, and I'll show you a homosexual starfish.

People should stop judging Eli, coz really who the fuck are we to judge her?

No one.

Why the Different Yardstick?

2009-02-16T14:21:00.000+07:00

Quod licet iovi non licet bovi- Why the Different Yardstick?

The courts uphold a person’s right to association vehemently, even to the point of defending party hopping, yet another equally important right, the right to assemble is not defended with the same fervor. Quod licet iovi non licet bovi?

The enforcement agencies gives a higher priority to be minding what religious communities and political parties write in their own internal publications, occasionally flexing their muscles to these people who the boss is, yet does not seem perturbed with rampant misreporting, racially provocative material in some papers, or tabloid articles that make up imaginary stories about non-existent religious figures in Christianity, Hinduism and sometimes even Islam itself. Quod licet iovi non licet bovi?

When the Opposition and NGOs organize rallies, or in governmentspeak- “Illegal Assemblies”, the police are there to arrest them, throw them into ISA, and as if throwing the book at them is not good enough, sometimes other objects are thrown at them as well, including batons, fists, police shields, tear gas and water cannons. However when the Government organizes “Peaceful Demonstrations”, the police are there to escort them and if possible, they would be carrying their banners and distributing mineral waters to tired UMNO speakers. Quod licet iovi non licet bovi?

When an international rating , like the THES or the Democracy index rates us higher, which is not that high anyway, everyone jumps and praises our effective government policies that got us there.But as soon as we drop or when anyone condemns us, we dismiss such ratings as inaccurate, flawed and done with mala fide. Quod licet iovi non licet bovi?

Murderers, racists and slanderers are permitted to walk in the aisles of power while freedom fighters in democratic pursuant are painted as criminals and terrorists and treated as such. The Parliamentarian from the Ruling front gets escorted to functions and the Parliamentarian from the Opposition gets escorted to Kamunting. Quod licet iovi non licet bovi?

Quod licet iovi non licet bovi? Auri sacra fames!

* The cursed love for Gold.

All At Once

2009-01-08T13:47:00.001+07:00

Will be marathon typing tonight, so expect a few posts at one Go- New Year Post, Christmas Post and Post Post. :P

25...At Last...Groan

2008-12-03T19:36:00.001+07:00

I am finally 25.Quarter of a century old.Getting ancient.Time is ticking.And so on.

It was a nice day.Was pleasantly surprised when an uncle from Singapore remembered and even more surprised Mathan called from India.Apparently he was not shot down by terrorists as previously thought.
Thanks everyone for the greetings!On FB,MSN,Hotmail,Hallmark,SMS whatever the way, heartfelt thanks for it all.

Have good one guys.I did.

Love,
Emmanuel

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The Brilliant PDRM Strikes Again

2008-11-10T12:47:00.003+07:00

Yesterday evening I was coming down from the Klang DAPSY AGM at 11pm when Ean Yong who chaired the meeting received an SMS informing him that Tony Pua , Weng San and Way Kheng had been detained at IPK PJ. After a quick face wash, I called Uncle Sunny to see where they were. To my surprise, he had also been arrested.

Unsure of the way to get there,I called Uncle Francis and fortunately he was not detained. Parking, saw a large crowd waiting outside.Bumped into Sarah, PA to YB Charles, and learnt a lady had been pushed down and left with 4 stitches to the head and that YB Charles was inside helping her file a FIR. To my bigger surprise, Rosnizam, my friend from Suara Keadilan was also detained for asking questions. YB Ronnie Liu was also arrested, apparently only for calling the CPO unprofessional. YB Ronnie was not even at the protest, but appeared only at the police station.

We walked up the side of the police station where we saw some 30 armed FRU people surrounding this group of 20 something vicious, dangerous people in the middle who were armed with handphones mineral water bottles.If you didn’t know better, you would think they were in the middle of a police march for a National Day Parade.Then I got the shocker. Fr Leonard and Fr OC Lim were there, and to my bigger surprise, I saw a guy in a cassock walking up and down in detention. It was Fr Paulino Mirinda, parish priest of Divine Mercy Shah Alam. Great, now PDRM is up for detaining men of the cloth as well.

YB s Teo Nie Ching, Gobind Singh, Liew Chin Tong, Hannah Yeoh, Jenice Lee, Khalid Samad and Loh Gwo Burne were all there.

Met up with Shen, Aloysius, Chris and Terence had a drink with Sarah and concluded we had 24 detainees, including a councilwoman, an exco (of the state he was detained in), an MP( of the very constituency), an ADUN from a nearby constituency , a reporter who asked questions, a videographer who was just doing his job, and the bill for this whole shenanigan is passed on to the taxpayer.

Kudos, PDRM for yet another brilliant use of public funds.Now if you’d just do your actual job that we pay you for, viz catch criminals, fight crime and find missing children instead of kicking elected representatives and arresting citizens.

Was also wondering, the right corner of the crown in the PDRM logo is 'Alif Lam Lam Ha' and the left is the Prophet's name. I wonder what they think.

Why does this always happen to me?

2008-11-07T11:12:00.003+07:00

My beloved, trusty rugged Kancil, that I have been oh-so-reluctant to change has been thorugh hell with a devil like me driving it.Three flying rocks from lorries, two head on accidents and now to add to the list of 'Reasons to Change my Car', a stupid dog.

After yesterday's Anti ISA Run meeting, I drove over convoy style with Ching and Fu Haw to go grab something to eat at Bkt Tinggi.A dog suddenly runs past my car. I slam the brakes. Dog hits car. I feel a thud on my bumper, hear a whimper, feel something go under my car and a soft crack.Another whimper.I experience unbelievable heavy guilt for maiming/beheading/killing an innocent dog.So unable to pull over as there is no place to pull over (intersection) I drive off, feeling like well, a dog murderer.To top off this guilt is the fact that I am an animal lover and a dog person.

So when we pull over, I check my lights to see if there was blood, fur or maybe a decapitated dog's head with a tongue stuck out attached to my bumper.Ching parks his car next to mine and I asked him if he saw the dog die.

His answer "No la, the fella ran past you stop, stare at your car then run off"

I went blank followed by a loud WTF.Then I look at my car bumper. No blood, no fur, no decapitated body parts, but my license plate was broken.I went from guilty to pissed, and from 'poor dog' to 'idiot dog'.

For confirmation I asked Ching again "Did it limp?" "No, it was running".

Unless the dog was trained for the special pet olympics I think it was a safe estimate the dog survived. And I am RM 10 poorer for the license plate.

Stupid canine.Can cock stare me some more.Oh well.At least I am not a dog killer la.Then again I do like Korean and Vietnamese food....

From Jolin's FB Post

2008-11-05T14:24:00.000+07:00

Dear Red States:

We've decided we're leaving. We intend to form our own country, andwe're taking the other Blue States with us.In case you aren't aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon,Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and all theNortheast. We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, andespecially to the people of the new country of New California.

To sum up briefly: You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.We get stem cell research and the best beaches.We get the Statue of Liberty. You get Dollywood. We get Intel andMicrosoft. You get WorldCom. We get Harvard. You get Ole' Miss.We get 85 percent of America's venture capital and entrepreneurs. Youget Alabama.We get two-thirds of the tax revenue, you get to make the red statespay their fair share.Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition's, we get a bunch of happy families. You get abunch of single moms.Please be aware that Nuevo California will be pro-choice and anti-war,and we're going to want all our citizens back from Iraq at once.If you need people to fight, ask your evangelicals. They have kids they're apparently willing to send to their deaths for no purpose, andthey don't care if you don't show pictures of their children's caskets coming home. We do wish you success in Iraq , and hope that the WMDs turn up, but we're not willing to spend our resources in Bush's Quagmire.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80 percentof the country's fresh water, more than 90 percent of the pineapple and lettuce, 92 percent of the nation's fresh fruit, 95 percent ofAmerica's quality wines, 90 percent of all cheese, 90 percent of the high tech industry, most of the U.S. low-sulfur coal, all livingredwoods, sequoias and condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schoolsplus Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.With the Red States, on the other hand, you will have to cope with 88 percent of all obese Americans (and their projected health carecosts), 92 percent of all U.S. mosquitoes, nearly 100 percent of the tornadoes, 90 percent of the hurricanes, 99 percent of all SouthernBaptists, virtually 100 percent of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh,Bob Jones University, Clemson and the University of Georgia. We get Hollywood and Yosemite, thank you.

Additionally, 38 percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62 percent believe life is sacred unless we're discussing the war, the death penalty or gun laws, 44 percent say that evolution is only a theory, 53 percent that Saddamwas involved in 9/11 and 61 percent believe youare people with higher morals then we lefties.Finally, we're taking the good pot, too. You can have that dirt weed they grow in Mexico

Peace out,

Blue States

Black Man in the White House

2008-11-05T12:29:00.003+07:00

Three things that I never thought I'd live to see in local politics- Non Malays support PAS and Malays support DAP. And PKR to form an actual agenda. Two out of three has happened

Three things I never thought I'd live to see in international politics- Mugabe get knocked out of office, Musharaff embrace Christianity and a black man takes over the White House. Two out of three has happened.

After all that's been happening, people should not be so surprised at all. After all, the African Americans have basically beaten the Caucasian Americans at their own game. Morgan Freeman-Best Actor. Denzel Washington- Best Looking Actor. Halle Berry- Actor everyone wants to sleep with. Tiger Woods- Golf Player/Actor.Chris Brown.-Brilliant Comedian.And now Barack Obama.

Now I'm waiting for a black Pope, a black Ku Klux Klan leader, a black religion founder and a black lacrosse champion.

While we're there and since we already have a white rapper, we might as well add a white Black Panther, a white NAACP president.

We're halfway to racial equality :D

The tale of two houses

2008-11-04T15:37:00.003+07:00

A close friend of mine asked me the other day why am I in the DAP when earlier on I seemed closer to the PKR folk.Well, its simply because the notion of a Malaysian Malaysia fixates me.Sure, it may seem idealistic, lofty and even unattainable to many, yet I believe eventually people will see the wisdom in the idea, which is shared by many, yet professed by few.

Its almost taboo to suggest equality among races in Malaysia.The sanctity of Malay rights and the sacredness of the Islamic religion has been placed in such a high pedestal, yet one built on falsehoods, lies and ideas so brittle, a mere sneeze would send the pedestal crashing down, and leave the rakyat agape with what really lies behind the pedestal.

Sure, the Internet helped unmask many of these lies.The pedestal shook a little and many got an ugly glimpse of what was behind.The so-called Muslim champions of faith were not so holy anymore.PAS, the Taliban of Malaysia did not seem so radical anymore.DAP, the Malaysian Satan did not seem so demonic anymore.And PKR, the frail and meek party did not seem so fragile anymore.That was only with a small tremor.

A tremor that revealed that an Islamic state did not mean hosting the most number of halal conventions when the bosses making the money would use the money on bottles of Moet Chandon to celebrate later.Nor that did the Malay rights enshrined in the Constitution that many were feverishly fighting to defend did little to help the average Malay on the street when petrol prices skyrocketed last year.Yet Mercedes driving the 'Ketua Bahagian', 4WD driving 'Ketua Cawangan' and Toyota driving 'Ketua Puteri' did not seem much affected by the change in fuel prices.

So then the packs of lies begin to unravel, only fuelled faster by a dissenting groundswell and increasingly impotent government, only then does members of the government scramble to their feet, while trying to kick their rivals down.And together they try to rebuild the tilted shack once a mighty bungalow called Barisan.Yet on the other side, we see that the dilapitated shack called Pakatan begin to rebuild itself and rebrand itself opposite the road into what looks like a habitable dwelling place.Tenants are beginning to find the other house more attractive.

And suddenly, a Malaysian Malaysia seems a plausible idea.

Perhaps the day will soon come where people identify themselves by nationality first.I am a Malaysian Christian Chindian and not in the reverse order.The species is supposed to be before the genus.

Perhaps even the day where people stop being ignorantly redundant in saying 'Malaysia, termasuk Sabah dan Sarawak'. It sounds as stupid and ackward as 'Malaysia, termasuk Perlis dan Perak' or 'Malaysia, termasuk Johor dan Melaka'

Perhaps even the day where freedom of religion, including freedom from religion if one so chooses, will finally be commonplace in Malaysia.

Perhaps when people are judged by their merits and not the colour of their skin or the type of prayers he or she chooses to recite in the morning.Or if he or she starts the morning reading Nietzche.

Perhaps when the phony pedestal falls.Hopefully.Someday.Soon.

Malaysia: 2050

2008-10-15T15:05:00.002+07:00

In response to this ...

Lebih 40 tahun telah berlalu sejak Operasi Peti Sejuk tahun 2008. Tahun itu, Gagasan Angkatan Gerakan Asas Kaum (GAGAK) telah mengharamkan segala aktiviti politik.Setelah dipersetujui semua anggota parti komponen, termasuk Chinese Intranational National Association (CINA), Indian National Democratic Independent Association (INDIA), Malayan English Language Able Youngsters Union (MELAYU), berserta beberapa parti kecil mikro yang didakwa pelbagai kaum tetapi biasanya didominasi sesebuah kaum, serta beberapa parti dari Sabah dan Sarawak yang sering dilupakan GAGAK, terutama sekali apabila tiba waktu memotong pulut kuning dengan parang beriben selepas memenangi pilihanraya.

GAGAK bertindak mengharamkan dan menyumbat 5 ketua kerajaan negeri berserta 82 wakil rakyat yang disifatkan mereka anti-negara, anti-Islam, anti-alam sekitar, anti-Christ dan bermacam-macam 'anti' lagi.Oleh yang demikian, kesemua wakil rakyat telah disumbat kedalam sebuah bangunan besar berhawa dingin yang terletak di kaki bukit, sesuai sekali dijadikan tempat peranginan. Malangnya ia adalah kawasan penahanan.Walaupun ISA telah dimansuhkan semenjak 2010, tetapi ia digantikan dengan Akta Sekuriti Aturan Penahanan (ASAP). Ini berikutan kenyataan seorang menteri yang seorang wartawan telah ditahan dibawah akta itu untuk keselamatan dirinya.

Meskipun seluruh dunia membantah, Amnesty International telah mengisytiharkan kesemua tahanan tadi sebagai 'prisoner of conscience' atau tahanan nurani,GAGAK tetap dengan pendiriannya.Semenjak hari itu, tiada siapa berani mengundi parti-parti lawan lagi, termasuk parti Bulan Mengambang, parti Mata ,Parti Kapal Angkasa Lepas mahupun parti Buku Lima.

Hari Raya menjelang tiba. Seorang kanak-kanak memasang mercun di luar rumah teres kepunyaan bapanya. Keadaan jalan di hadapan rumahnya itu rosak teruk, walaupun rumahnya terletak di kawasan yang dikenali Koridor Barat Daya Utara, yang drafnya diluluskan Rancangan Malaysia ke-15.Dengan tiadanya kehadiran pembangkang untuk bersuara, kerajaan dengan ghairahnya meluluskan segala projek yang dianggap bermanfaat, termasuk mahligai berbentuk gasing, istana berbentuk wau, projek lebuh raya berbentuk keris dan sebagainya.

Tiba-tiba muncul dua orang diluar rumahnya, kaki mereka dilabuhkan dari kenderaan pacuan empat roda buatan Jepun, bercermin gelap dan mereka memakai jaket dengan logo kerajaan persekutuan. Besar benar kenderaan itu berbanding Kancil cabuk yang dibawa tuan rumah.

Disangkanya polis, tetapi rupa-rupanya adalah petugas pilihanraya. Senyum mereka sinis, bibir mereka meleret hendak menghulurkan tangan memberi salam kepada tuan rumah, ayah budak tadi apabila mata mereka yang ceria tadi bagaikan Johny Rainbow bertukar menjadi garang seakan John Rambo pula.Mata si ayah dan si anak mengikut pandangan mata si petugas pilihan raya tadi membaca logo di atas mercun yang belum ternyala tadi.

"Power Rocket" tertera di sisinya.

'Hoi budak bodoh! Sokong Roket ya?" Habis disepak diterajang budak tadi sehingga hampir bersepai gigi.

"Bukan bang....cuma mercun bang, itu cuma nama mercun!"

"Aaah, aku tak nak dengar.Budak setan"

Tapi sebelum si ayah boleh bersuara, budak itu sudahpun diseret kedalam kenderaan tadi dan dipecut terus ke bangunan besar berhawa dingin di sisi bukit tadi.Tanpa menghiraukan pekik lolong PBB, akta tersebut dipinda pada tahun 2025 untuk membolehkan budak-budak dan bayi ditahan selepas berusia 2 minggu.Ini adalah untuk membolehkan ibu bapa yang mempunyai anak kecil bersama anak mereka tanpa perlu berpisah.

Bunyi tangisan budak tadi sayup-sayup kedengaran.Lagu sayu Hari Raya berkumandang di latar belakang.

Response to Pembela Melayu

2008-09-16T15:09:00.000+07:00

"Saudara,

Jika orang yang melaporkan kenyataan berbaur perkauman yang dibawa oleh Ahmad Ismail ditahan dibawah ISA...adakah ia bermaksud orang yang mengapi-apikan isu ini juga wajar ditahan di bawah ISA?

Fikir-fikirkanlah sejenak, renung-renungkanlah sesaat.Jika DAP, PKR benar-benar begitu rasis,di manakah pekik lolong orang yang ditindas?Mungkinkah kerana ketandusan isu, maka isu yang kecil diperbesarkan dan isu tidak pernah timbul direka-reka?

Ikhlas saya minta, janganlah termakan dakyah golongan tertentu yang hanya menjaga kebajikan taulan politik semata-mata, tetapi bertopengkan hak rakyat.Yang mengapi-apikan sentimen perkauman dan menjolok sarang tebuan semata mata untuk mendapat publisiti murahan dan mengalihkan perhatian umum daripada masalah dalaman yang merobak-rabikkan parti sendiri.

Manusia dicipta dengan akal, boleh membuat penaakulan dan pertimbangan sendiri.Bila mendengar berita, cerita atau khabar angin, halusi sendiri, siasatlah isi kandungan sebelum kesimpulan dibuat.

Bukankah fitnah itu lebih kejam dari membunuh?

What We Can Learn From The BN Government's Latest Fiasco

2008-09-15T14:54:00.004+07:00

1.UMNO's punishment is adequate for governmental and legal purposes.There are three parallel legal systems in Malaysia, the secular courts, the Syariah courts and the UMNO discplinary commitee.

2.The ISA was introduced to deter communists, terrorists, people who wage war against the King, people who wage war against Barisan Nasional, unfriendly reporters, Jews, bloggers, intelligent professionals who call the government's bluffs, and against people who supposedly made remarks that someone heard someone heard someone heard someone who watched in on the TV hear someone sort of heard someone say.

3. Since there is no sufficient provision under the Witness Protection Program, we have now extended the use of ISA to protect innocent civilians from dangerous unseen, unreported, unheard of threats. Because the police intelligence indicates so. This is the same police intelligence that managed to drill drown crime, prevent kidnappings, allow BN to walk into a disastrous election.Samy Vellu and Teh Kim Poo, former ADUN for Pandamaran were reported in the news as saying their lives were threatened. I wonder if ISA can be used for seen, visible, heard of and reported threats, as well.

4.If a Malay BN paper reports something racist as an opinion piece, its done in the interested of Agama Bangsa dan negara.If a pseudo independent Chinese paper reports something racist done as a NEWS article, the person who reported it is deemed as a threat to national security, while the person who actually said it is severely and brutally punished with a three year suspension from political office, thus justifying his freedom.

5.A frail aging but very popular blogger is a threat to our way of life. He is a national security threat with our police, army, navy, air force, RELA, Rukun Tetangga, Maritime Enforcement Agency and Unit Amal PAS unable to control him. Therefore it is deemed neccesary to lock him down in an undisclosed location somewhere , which is crucial to deny him Internet Access.This blogger doubts that most BN ministers read that frail blogger's blog anyway, but joined in the bandwagon to look hip, happening and not Big Foot-like.

When Will they Ever Learn?

2008-08-11T09:25:00.003+07:00

When will the BN ever learn?That threatening Catholics and Christians with legal action after legal action is detrimental to their health?That they already have many people against them over this?

When will they learn, that we are turning to PAS as a moderate example?When will they learn that pushing into the same crawlspace of democracy with PAS would result in a strong friendship being forged between the two of us in the current political climate?

When will they learn that Malaysians do not generally respond well to threats?

When will they learn that you cannot go around and make stupid comments as a Minister and expect to get away with it?

When will they learn that the might of their government machinery cannot possibly hold back information via the various channels of communication available to us today?

When will they realize that people today are much more well informed, immune to propaganda, educated, demanding and discerning?

Will they ever learn?Not in the near future methinks.

The Bar Council Fiasco

2008-08-11T08:26:00.002+07:00

Late Saturday night, I received an SMS from Mahaguru stating that YB Zulkifli Nordin's been arrested under ISA.I made some calls and found out that most people by then had already heard that rumour (I read my SMS late-was at Modesto's) and no one could reach him.Well, I personally disagree if he is to be arrested under ISA.If he has done something wrong, charge him in court.Even though I also quite disagree with the 500 people who thinks holding a forum is disrespectful to Islam.

My two cents goes like this-

Its OK to have news items on new converts who also speak about their old religion
But its not OK to hold a forum about conversion to Islam

Its OK for Muslims to talk about non Muslims and their religions rather freely, as seen in quite a few publications you get at MPH etc
But its not OK to hold a forum about conversion to Islam

Its OK to convert to Islam
But its not OK to hold a forum about conversion to Islam

Let's objectively take a look at it, who were invited to attend the forum as panellists- Haniff Khatri Abdullah,K Shanmuga and Ravi Nekoo (lawyers involved in cases involving conversion). Two others , Federal Territories Islamic Department (Jawi) Syariah prosecutor Dr Mohd Naim Mukhtar and Institute of Islamic Understanding (Ikim) representative Dr Wan Azha Wan Ahmad were supposed to be there but pulled out last second.So basically we have 3 learned Muslims in the panel and 2 non Muslims who were involved in a case.And we had a moderator, Zarizanana Abdul Aziz who was also Muslim.Muslims (including protestors) could have joined in the forum, or asked to be panellists.Why the open conflict?

Are we not a democracy?

My Muslim friends and brothers, let's look at it objectively.We are all educated people here.I believe discussion and dialogue is the only way to move our society forward.Hopefully then, all distrust between our societies may be dispelled and a Malaysia Baharu emerge, stronger, united and one.

Dear Detractors.

2008-07-18T11:46:00.002+07:00

Yes, I happen to be a fan of RPK who enjoys being with and around him when asked.Yes I do happen to think that more Malaysians ought to see matters hrough his perspective.

Yes, I think Saiful Bukhari is an ambitious,stupid,wannabe student leader whose political connections is what motivated him to lodge what I believe is a pathetic attempt of political assasination.

Yes I happen to think whoever supports him lacks intelligence much like the person himself.

Yes I am a DAP member.Yes I support the Opposition,I have been since time immemorial.Yes I am proud of that fact.

Yes I enjoy being with and around politically inclined people and NGO idealists a lot.I enjoy the mental jog, I enjoy sharing their passion and idealism....their zest and refreshing views.

So...if you don't like it, cannot deal with it, or detest me or what I stand for...

You're most welcome to kiss my you-know-what and call me the Grand Daddy Bishop of Pandamaran.

Ops Lalang 3 on the cards?

2008-07-16T14:45:00.003+07:00

Datuk Seri Anwar has been arrested by the police, a couple of days after the RMP wrecked havoc in the national capital by creating a demonstration that never existed and setting up massive roadblocks at our tax dollar's expense.Then they come up with liwat (of all things) a second time and are trying to put DSAI behind bars again.And now RPK has been asked to go to IPK tommorow at 10am, where he expects to be arrested and charged.Looks like Ops Lalang all over again.Or 1998.

Or is it? In 1987, people were not as easy to mobilize.People tended to read less.People did not seem to know better.People had enough to eat, drink and petrol was cheaper than mineral water.In 1998, only the Malays pissed off.The Indians and Chinese were minding their own.And Sabah and Sarawak were happily BN.

Today, people are broke, pissed off and starving- all races included.Sabah and Sarawak are pissed off for being taken for a forty year ride.And to boot, 5 states under the Opposition means loyal supporters, resources, and media access.And Mahathir held a much stronger Government than the paltry excuse for a cabinet we have now.

I received an SMS from Sunny at 1.20 telling me DSAI was arrested, another at 3.50 telling me that the police refused to let Anwar see Saiful's report.What's up with that?

Enough is enough.Enough bullshit, soaring petrol prices,economic mismanagement and high handed bully tactics.The rakyat should not and will not be dogged on this time around.We walked in 98 and God willing, we will walk again in 2008.DSAI and Pakatan, the Rakyat is with you.You are , after all, our Alliance!

DAPSY Current Issues :Soaring Oil Prices Forum, Klang 12/7/2008

2008-07-09T09:46:00.001+07:00

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Pakatan Oil Forum

2008-07-08T16:31:00.001+07:00

What could happen in the coming days

2008-07-04T12:15:00.002+07:00

The number of statuory declarations being done, then being undone, the flip flop statements of those who walk the corridors of power and the sheer sensational nonsense of actions taken, or in some cases not taken by the present administration has left everyone, I guess prepared for any eventuality.

Here's what could happen in the coming days, weeks and months that would really not surprise me if it does happen.

1.Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor comes forward and says she was the one who sodomized Saiful.She does not specify how or when, then takes a flight off to London to buy some Jimmy Choos.She returns home as Datuk Rosman Mansor and disappears from the public eye.

2.PKR aides turns the tables on Saiful and accuses Saiful of sodomizing all of them.Some students from UNITEN also accuse Saiful of the same thing.Among other accusers of this includes an ayam kampung, a squirrel, a polar bear and a tree.The ayam kampung cries while relating this tale.

3.Pak Lah suffers from spontaneous combustion due to the heat of stress in a public gathering.Najib spotted behind the trees with plastic explosives.

4.Due to the commotion over Ketuanan Melayu and Arus Politik Baru, our founding fathers rise form the dead and roam the streets.But they cannot find their way around as BN has changed all the street names.Tired and bored, they return to their graves.

5.Some Malay words become banned in the Kamus Dewan. Words like 'sodok', 'sula', 'cucuk' are replaced, example "YAB menggunakan penyodok untuk menggali kubur politik sendiri" is replaced with "YAB menggunakan alat berhulu kayu disambung kepada kepingan besi leper untuk menggali kubur politik sendiri"

6.Parliament goes into a state of chaos after an MP accidentally apologizes to the Chair "Maaf, Saya Lewat' as 'Maaf saya Liwat'. The Speaker replies 'Tak apa, banyak orang hari ini Liwat'
The MP for Muar as usual calls for the poor guy to be faced to the Parliamentary Select Commitee for Rights and Privilages.

7.Jesus prepares for his Second Coming.He arrives at Malaysia, takes a look around and was last seen shaking his head, heading back to heaven and mumbling 'Guess I'll wait a few more centuries for all the Satans to die off'.

8.In an effort to remain united, Barisan MPs now gather in front of Parliament every morning and sing the Village People song "Why, MCA?"

9.Saiful Bukhari is declared the 6th Prime Minister of Malaysia.

10.We find someone more colourful, entertaining and less smarter than Saiful Bukhari.

A reply in Saiful's Fiance's Blog

2008-07-02T13:09:00.001+07:00

OK, so your boyfriends' really dumb and a college dropout, wannabe glamour take photo and camwhoring his face every nook and cranny with ministers to take photos and upgrade his social status.

Does this SOUND like a guy whose been sodomized repeatedly?First of all, look at DSAI.Then look at your boyfriend.Does it even look possible that Anwar can overpower your boyfriend.In the court of law, people need to justify motive and opportunity.An Anwar had very little motive.For the sake of argument, if DSAI really wanted to sodomize someone, he would have done it outside the country!Especially with his current social standing!!He has a beautiful wife, what does he want with your boyfriend?

Consider this website-
http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:nq8ESoE-msAJ:riwayathayat.blogspot.com/2008/06/awas-ada-musang-berbulu-ayam-3.html+site:http://riwayathayat.blogspot.com+musang+berbulu+ayam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=my

Wake up and smell the coffee, my dear, the noose was tightening around your dear fiance's neck, people were beginning to suspect him and instead of doing the smart thing and resign, which we would expect, but with someone with such a low CGPA( read: Pelajar lembap) I would expect nothing less of him.
Even before this stunt, why would you chose to be with someone who, at 23, does not even know what the heck he wants from life(political aide,student leader, engineer, now enrolled in flight school?)

Or perhaps he knew all along what he wanted to be- the next Ummi Hafilda or Monica Lewinsky, albeit a male version.I agree that you should not have been dragged into this, and understand that you think that the honourable thing is to stand by your man.
My take on this- its going to be ugly, and the evidence points heavily and unfavorably at your fiance.When Anwar vindicates/exonerates himself as he always does(1998,2008GE) you will be between a rock and a hard place.As you know Azizan is not exactly Mr Popular now.So make the wise decision.Think for yourself.May you have a good life.
And may all those who bear false witness against their neighbours darkest pits of hell.

A reply in Saiful

2008-07-02T13:09:00.000+07:00

OK, so your boyfriends' really dumb and a college dropout, wannabe glamour take photo and camwhoring his face every nook and cranny with ministers to take photos and upgrade his social status.

Does this SOUND like a guy whose been sodomized repeatedly?First of all, look at DSAI.Then look at your boyfriend.Does it even look possible that Anwar can overpower your boyfriend.In the court of law, people need to justify motive and opportunity.An Anwar had very little motive.For the sake of argument, if DSAI really wanted to sodomize someone, he would have done it outside the country!Especially with his current social standing!!He has a beautiful wife, what does he want with your boyfriend?

Consider this website-

http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:nq8ESoE-msAJ:riwayathayat.blogspot.com/2008/06/awas-ada-musang-berbulu-ayam-3.html+site:http://riwayathayat.blogspot.com+musang+berbulu+ayam&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=my
Wake up and smell the coffee, my dear, the noose was tightening around your dear fiance's neck, people were beginning to suspect him and instead of doing the smart thing and resign, which we would expect, but with someone with such a low CGPA( read: Pelajar lembap) I would expect nothing less of him.
Even before this stunt, why would you chose to be with someone who, at 23, does not even know what the heck he wants from life(political aide,student leader, engineer, now enrolled in flight school?)

Or perhaps he knew all along what he wanted to be- the next Ummi Hafilda or Monica Lewinsky, albeit a male version.I agree that you should not have been dragged into this, and understand that you think that the honourable thing is to stand by your man.
My take on this- its going to be ugly, and the evidence points heavily and unfavorably at your fiance.When Anwar vindicates/exonerates himself as he always does(1998,2008GE) you will be between a rock and a hard place.As you know Azizan is not exactly Mr Popular now.So make the wise decision.Think for yourself.May you have a good life.
And may all those who bear false witness against their neighbours darkest pits of hell.

Ezam, look within UMNO First!

2008-06-26T16:16:00.002+07:00

Ezam, stop pointing fingers at PKR, Pakatan and look inward.For starters..

-Putrajaya , a brand new capital city built with oil money
-Maika shares scandal
-Tekelom shares scandal
-5 million lesap from Balkis account
-Oil for food Program and its connection to KJ
-PKFZ
-Matrade Building

many many many more.

So...when u point fingers at others, remember, 4 points back at you.

My first post on DAPSY Klang's Website

2008-06-26T16:09:00.001+07:00

Malaysia is a country frought in imperfection.Wastage.Cronyism.Dirty politics.Corrupt officials.Lopsided policies.Biased government agencies.A public policy that does not favour the public.We are far from perfect.Really,really far.In the face of adversity , one has many options.When you place a hard carrot in boiling water, the carrot becomes soft.When you place a fragile egg into boiling water, it becomes hard.But when you place coffee seeds into boiling water, the water becomes coffee.In the first two instances, the situation changes the object.In the third, the object changes the situation.
That, my friends is our struggle.
We can opt, in the face of injustice and difficulty, to weaken, become soft and give up.Or we can harden our hearts and leave this country, or go against the odds and succeed.Or we can change this country.Forum by forum.Protest by protest.Heart by heart, slowly and surely.
We have enough politicians in this country.We have enough noisemakers.We have enough fiery speeches coupled with hollow bravado and strong language.What we do not have enough of, in this country, is heart.
In solidarity with each other, may we discover this heart, this humanity so that our very weakness, our humanity, can be turned into our strongest strength.May we live to see the day, that people turn to us for inspiration, for guidance and above all, for heart.
To borrow a quote from my good friend Shen, may we create history, build legacies and make a difference.
Let’s make every second count.Today.Tommorow.And always.
Here’s to heart, my friends.

The Malaysian Oil Dilemma

2008-06-19T17:40:00.000+07:00

Output rate. Rising global oil demand. Market forces. Economic instability. Price volatility. Big words meted out effortlessly by the small-minded Malaysian government daily in an attempt to appease an increasingly angry public. The public knows not economic theories put forth by Adam Smith or Thomas Malcus or John Keynes or the complicated formulae used in determining the price per liter of oil that they end up forking out for. Or how OPEC determines how much oil to produce per day. The public knows not these things. The public cares not on these things. Nor should they.

The public is made of Malaysian citizens. All these Malaysians want to know is why the accounts of Petronas, a Malaysian government owned body that digs out oil from Malaysian soil is not made public. They also question why, Malaysia as a net producer of oil (high quality, sulphur free oil to boot) cannot afford to subsidize her own citizens while ALL other oil producing countries seem to be doing it, with lesser problems, with at least one selling oil for as low as 16 sen per liter. They cannot comprehend why we keep comparing ourselves with countries that do not have this God given natural resource, and why, alongside high fuel, we also pay high road tax, and import duties sometimes up to 300% the value of the vehicle, and a high price for toll.

The public cannot accept, that while we are told to tighten our belts, the yearly excise and import duties collected by Customs goes up, Petronas profits are higher than ever and the toll concessionaires are raking in billions in profit.

While Petronas is a Fortune 500 company, and the Financial Times British business newspaper calls Petronas one of the new ‘Seven Sister Companies’ i.e. the most powerful oil companies in the world, rich enough to sponsor, among others, the once tallest building in the world, an F1 team, an international philharmonic orchestra, a full fledged university, but alas, according to the government it is too poor to help out with the suffering of Malaysians who pay high prices for fuel. Also according to the government, we are fast running out of oil, and soon we’ll become a net oil importer. We are also told we produce higher grade oil. Basically, in simple terms we sell gold, and buy silver. But the government tells us, when the gold runs out, we’re in trouble. The public wonders what happened to some 900 billion gained so far. The complicated, confusing answers given by the government using big terms and long accounts are beyond the public’s comprehension. It all sounds wrong.

The public cannot understand these things. Nor can it accept it. Nor should they. The problem, as they say, is the government’s. And maybe, in this case, the problem is the government.

Fuel Increase Demo

2008-06-08T00:42:00.004+07:00

Later this morning , DAP will be having a short ceremony/protest at Pandamaran Stadium, 11am, Sunday. We will submit a memorandum to YB Charles Santiago then.The memo is as above, with a Pakatan letterhead and followed with whatever signatures we can garner.Do come if you can make it.

Complaint to PM

2008-06-05T08:48:00.006+07:00

I sent two complaints to the PM's Office today, one through Warkah Untuk PM (part of the failed BN Internet campaign during the GE) and directly to his official email.

Subject: Re: Petrol Price

From: ppm@pmo.gov.my
To: emmanuel_83@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:08:18 +0800

Sukacita dimaklumkan emel tuan/puan telah selamat diterima di Pejabat Perdana Menteri Malaysia.
Sekian, terima kasih.

Doubt it will do any good, but hey, its our job right as Opposition.

Ooops He did it again

2008-06-05T08:22:00.004+07:00

Yep.They did it again.78 freaking sen this time, with a further 1.30 increase slated for August.WTF?????

Brings to mind the Pete Seeger song-"When will they ever learn, oh when will they...ever learn?"

Lost 5 states.Lost 2/3.Still making stupid decisions.This is only going to serve, if anything, to make Anwar even stronger than he is now, as he has promised to bring fuel prices down to RM1.42. Dear PM, let me help you do the math.If I were using 40 liters of fuel per week, I would now be paying 78sen x 40 x 4 = 124.80 extra. You are giving back RM 625, which will equate to 625/12 = RM52.08 which means I spend Rm124.80-RM52.08 = RM72.72 extra.How the hell is this supposed NOT to affect me?Mind you, I am using a bloody Kancil.What about those with higher cc cars?And you also conveniently increased the electricity tariff by 20%.Not to mention the amazing domino effect this is going to have, because EVERY SINGLE FIELD; manufacturing, service, medical, they ALL use the above two.So congratulations, sir, you just burdered your people further.

My heart goes out to the labourer on the road who earns RM 700 per month and will try to feed his three hungry kids after this.

My heart goes out to the orphanages, old folks homes, homes for the disabled that are already having a hell of a time to making ends meet.

My heart goes out to the fisherman, the paddy field worker, the rubber tapper and the palm oil plantation worker.

A protest is being held at Jalan Pasar, opposite RHB Bank and AmBank.If you can make it, please do support.

Of Cats and Dogs...and Why I'd be Happier as Either

2008-05-28T14:12:00.003+07:00

My girlfriend took a picture of this cat, and asked me if there's anything interesting to blog about it.Well, apart from the fact that this cat reminds me of Garfield with its ultra lepak mannerism, nothing much I can blog about this particular cat la.I wonder why the ancient Egyptians bothered worshipping cats la.Smelly, furball spitting, hissing clawy creatures.But then again, the ancient Egyptians also worshipped dogs.And owls.And well, you get the idea.Anyway this cat proves that we are so sueh to be born humans.Work, taxes, relationships.A cat eats leftover food we stupid humans work so hard for, and seem to enjoy it more than we do.Taxes?Cats take whatever they want and mark their territory just by pissing on an area.No housing installments, no interest rates.I wish I could go piss on an area and claim it for my own.Cats are oblivious to the fact they are living among giants(i.e., us), denoting they are much more pyschologically stable than us.If you were living next to creatures as tall as a 20 foot building, would you be licking your fur?That's why I would be happier as a cat.

Was leaving for work yesterday morning and this cat and dog caught my attention.The day before I saw this same cat and dog 'chillaxin' outside my house, and started fighting.the huge ass dog seems to be quite useless while the pugilistic kungfu cat was basically kicking the mogrel's ass.Then in the evening I saw this two chilling together like in the pic.This morning, I saw the same two animals together again, only this time, the dog was trying to hump the cat!I was like wtf? I've heard of interracial la, but interspecies??Something new, definitely.See, thats another privillage of being an animal.Nobody would call you an animal if you had carnal urges.Here in Bolehland, all you need to do is say you're gay and inside the 4x4 you go.
I think cats and dogs are wise, powerful creatures.Like Jedi.I think they're Force attuned and cats are Dark side wielders and Dogs are Light side wielders.Damn I wanna be a dog or cat.Sure beats being a Malaysian.

Rebranding Exercises by Barisan Hasbeen

2008-05-26T12:31:00.002+07:00

Once upon a time in the not too distant past, a political party got nuked in the elections.Hence, all the component parties decided to rebrand itself.Openness became the new buzzword and fallen politicians that weeks before were seen massaging their liege lord's feet were noted spitting on their faces.

This alliance of sorts stressed that Malaysia was so racist, so ethnocentric that only people belonging to your own race cared for you.Their raison d'etre was the concept of Malaysians being truly united is but a myth.The fact is, we are an uneasy grouping of races, and not supporting your respective racial party means to forsake your rights and shrivel, and die.And your offspring will be sent off to coal mines to work as slaves for the other races, as they are still in power, because they, being good members of their race, supported their racial party.

And so it came to pass that there was this extremely racist Chinese party that only accepted Chinese into its fold.Apart from the stray Indian or wandering Malay that stumbles upon their service center, it mostly helps Chinese.It was not doing such a wonderful job either, as the Chinese perceived this party to be weak and subservient to the needs of its bigger boss, another equally racial party.So the Chinese abandoned ship, and the Indians and a big chunk of the Malays.And so, now, the political landscape changed and so with waning support and a shrinking bank account, these parties need to do something quick before they disappear from the Malaysian history books, just like Chin Peng, ice ball ball and duit pokok pisang.

Malaysians watched, amused as police reports flew up and down, resignations were tendered, retracted, then tendered again, documents shredded, accounts magically vanish and politicians so prominent before seemed to fall off the face of the earth.Malaysians watched in awe when things became revealed that indeed,the level of corruption and flounted extravagance was but a tip of very very very big iceberg.An iceberg so big, if broken down, could chill the drinks of all clubbing Malaysians for a few months.And Malaysians watched as the extravagance continued with ceremony after ceremony and rally after rally was held for this so called rebranding, with NGOs strongly supporting this.And Malaysians wondered where the money came from.NGOs whose presidents, deputies and entire boards comprised of the former has-been parties' members and their wives, and their kids.If you were to add all members of this political party up, together with their allies, I am certain the number wil exceed the population of Malaysia a few times over.

And basically, it appeared as though the rebranding was what Malaysians thought it to be.A mere PR exercise.Pouring old wine into new wineskins, or in this case, lousy old wine into new wineskins.If we were to use the liquor anology, we could say they were pouring spoilt coconut toddy into new Blue Label bottles.

And Malaysia ponders at the stupidity of these parties and wonder how much more amusement we could possibly derive from their lack of intelligence.Cemerlang, Gemilang, Terbilang indeed!

Douglas' farewell Part 2

2008-05-23T15:30:00.001+07:00

The Lord hates Chindians, too.
Spot the gay Northern Indian contest.
No , we cannot make babies this way.
A sad attempt to prove I am NOT gay.
And we try to kill off the source of the gayness once and for all.

Douglas' Farewell at Waikiki

2008-05-23T14:52:00.002+07:00

Note to self: Oh GOD its been ages since I posted any photos on my blog.Iamturningintoatextbasedlongwindedfuckingassholewhotypestoomuchwhennotmanypeoplewannalistenorreaditanyway

Anyway..Douglas and Mrinal's farewell at Waikiki turned out to be a journey of self discovery for me...

Our Indian import,Mrinal, shares his gentle side with Chow.Eng Hoe practises how to press Mrinal's nipples.

Chow grabs something.People retaliate.
Its a free for all.An innocent bystander,Michelle is caught up in this err,male mating ritual.
Chow and I share a moment where I attempt to carry a tune but fail miserably.
A white pastor, Douglas Brown from the OSD Church preaches to the crowd on the effects of sodomy and how God hates people who takes it from the back.

A Tale of Two Teachers

2008-05-16T09:43:00.002+07:00

Today on the way to work was listening to FlyFM, and had a good laugh when Phat Fabes and Ben had a caller who wanted to tell his teacher something, and when they put the teacher through, basically this caller went , "Teacher, you have hot legs".I nearly died from laughing!I mean because running through my mind was this two teachers I had in primary school and secondary school which were polar opposites to each other.

My Standard One teacher, Cikgu Thalmiah was like an angel teacher.There was a time, unbelievably where I was thin.I was also bloody short.If you think I am short now, me at Standard One, I was basically a skinny midget.I probably looked like a cross between Gimli and Gollum.And I had an evil older sister, 11 years older than me who at that time was a giant( I think over the years our roles reversed, as you know, you become what you hate rite).Anyway due to the constant mental durress I faced as a child from my evil sister who would have fed me scorpions if she could,I was ridiculously timid.Firecrackers, Lion dances and Santa Claus were a few of the things that terrified me as a kid.So understandably I was also terrified of school.School then reminded me jail.Everyone was herded around by angry sexually deprived teachers (read: wardens), the food was served in small bacteria infected portions and the gates were locked except during visiting hours (read recess). Being terrified of school,my teacher noticed me missing one day and actually walked to my house after school and enquired about me.I mean how cool is that right?And so every year after primary school I would drop into my old school, just to wish her. Until she retired.

And then there was this secondary school teacher of mine, lets call her Mrs X. Mrs X was the embodiment of evil, even worse than my older sister.If my older sister was a rogue demon, this one was Satan Himself.She was so ugly, she made Jabba the Hutt look sexy.Her face was as lumpy as a toad's ass with warts and all and you could literally see a LAYER of 'blusher' which looked more like the applied Duluz Weathershield on her face with a paint roller.She had a 'daily theme'. If she wore red, her lipstick and eye shadow would be red.If she wore pink it would be pink.And if she wore lime green....well you imagine a dark skinned, large, hairy, pimply woman with a lime green tight jacket and lime green eyeshadow and lipstick smeared on top of a pale white oily 'foundation' and I would have successfully described Mrs 'X' to you.

And there was this day where this teacher gets PMS(or in retrospect, given her age, I believe it could have been menopause) and starts harrasing the Indians in class(apparently she's Ceylonese).I don't get it.The other Ceylonese girls I know are all hotties.I think, this woman would have lived at the border of India and Sri Lanka, and neither country wanted her.She probably got deported from her home country to Malaysia on grounds of fugliness.

She starts calling the Indians losers and all the crap you can think off, drunkards, wife beaters etc,etc.I wish there was a HINDRAF then.I would have sent them loose on her, and see what happens.Eventually I could not take it anymore and shouted "This is Malaysia!" or something like that form behind the class.Then we lodged a complaint and while waiting for the hearing by officers from the Jabatan Pendidikan, this other male teacher comes up and greets me.I end up banging Mrs X and complaining - asking why these Ceylonese hate us so much yada yada, and he ended up being Ceylonese.Smart me right?Anyway the teacher ended up in a rural Chinese school.So Cikgu, good luck finding Indians to harass there.

So yeah, thats my tale of my two teachers.One taught me patience, and in a weird way, the other one taught me to stand up for what isn't right.So maybe I have her to thank for joining a political party and being involved in NGOs.

So to Cikgu Thalmiah, Selamat Hari Cikgu.And to Mrs X, Happy Teacher's Day,Bitch.

Some Ideas for Malaysian Anime

2008-05-15T13:56:00.003+07:00

Being the typical copycats that we are, Malaysians are a, well unoriginal people.We have copycat cars, copycat buildings, even copycat gameshows.I have before this blogged about copycat movies and copycat drama so this time why not copycat Anime rite?

Nah, Buto!

-In a small village in Kampar, there was a hantu musang who always raped unsuspecting villagers and sodomized male glue sniffers that squat outside the penghulus house.It is said that besides molesting simpletons, the ghost had a much more sinister plan.Though how exactly a ghost is able to conjure such plans is beyond mortal minds.Anyway the day comes where this hantu musang tries to sodok the village headmans son.The village headman, a master in 'silat ghaib' which is a form of ninja art taught to him by the Japanese soldiers during the Occupation, however, used a powerful 'jutsu' and shoved the musang into the body of an unborn child (as the host needs to be a virgin, and people in this village were so horny, they were fathers at 10) through the baby's ass.

So this kid grew up wondering why he had a tail and whiskers, but the kids thought he was suffering from a weird disease.He also wondered why they called him Buntut Musang, and having an ultra hairy butt and two fangs did not exactly prove to be the chick magnet factor he so badly needed at his age.

Anyway, this kid also grew up to learn silat ghaib (a real watered down version of Jutsu) and tried to control his ass-powers (Kentut Ajaib etc).He then faces off with the evil Raja Ular.His friend ,Sesakit has a special eye condition known as Sepetan.Using his Spet eyes, he can confuse people.The strength of the Sepet powers are determined by the distance the pupil is from its orginal position.In its most powerful form, the pupil disappears completely, and the Sepet is then called Membuta.

Later they discover the Musang has got nine dicks.When the Musang gets angrier, one more dick would be stand up.When all nine are erect, something phenomenal happens.Exactly what happens is still a mystery.

I wanted to continue but this is becoming stupid.Off to my next post :P

Pet Peeves at the Office

2008-05-09T10:33:00.003+07:00

You know how a peeve gets to you accumulatively?The feeling is elusive.I mean its there, but its not really there.In the end, the result is , it accumulates into this ultra huge irritation that consideration for suicide becomes warranted.Being gainfully; or rather painfully employed (read : office drone) , I have a few of my own la.

Cafeteria- Honestly,they should just downgrade it to like prison canteen status or somethings.Simple breakdown of their cooking style- Green vege becomes white paste, red meat becomes black charcoaled hardened object, white rice becomes brown pebbles and curries/dishes become little more than lightly flavoured water with pieces of meat and vege(refer earlier description) floating in it.And the cancer-inducing coloured water they pass off as soft drinks add insult to the injury la.

Toilet-Are extremely clean but the cleaners are a bit too hardworking.I work in the least inhabitated floor in the least inhabitated building companywide- 8 people stationed and around 5 people actually around at any time in the entire floor.And still we get toilet traffic jams!! We have 2 toilets with 6 cubicles each, meaning, 12 cubicles for eight people.So logically, even if ALL of us had to piss at the same time, we would be alright right?NO...coz the cleaner likes to lock the damn toilet up and God knows what she does in there for 1 hour per go, THREE times a DAY!!

So basically the beautiful toilet is rendered useless for almost half of its 'operational hours'.At the rate this is going, I am going to have kidney stones in no time.

Pantry-Comes equipped with those nescafe machines that automakes making teh tarik, Milo, Capuccino , white coffee and like 10 more drinks.The problem is no one fills all the containers up, so most of the time my Milo comes out a pale white.Worse is then they mix up the drinks and my Milo tastes like tea, and my Teh tarik is being made using green tea!I am now convinced that such machines should only be used for ornamental purposes or for Feng Shui reasons.

In Defense of RPK..Our Hero!

2008-05-08T09:50:00.005+07:00

I remember the first time I saw RPK, about six months ago.My good friends Shen , Shin ,Francis and I were supposed to get Shen drunk and go clubbing.Shen was then supposedly an alcohol virgin.Yea, he was a debate champion and all, but stilla n alcohol virgin.So while in the car, I joke about calling Ronnie Liu as we had met him just a week ago, and he had mentioned to call him when we were in town.So Shen actually did, and soon we met and spent a really good evening.RPK thought I was Malay and kept asking if I was UMNO.Fast forward a few months later while we were following Ronnie around, Raja was ever ready to support the Pakatan MPs giving talks in Klang on at least 6 occasions, talking in Brickfields for Nurul Izzah, Puchong for Gobind and everywhere his powerful voice was needed.I still remember in Pandamaran, the kickoff point for our P115 campaign, the local Chinese even bowed down (mostly coz they were unsure of protocol) when they heard he was royalty.After the elections, RPK was constantly around giving good advice to the Pakatan people on good governance and warning them if they were to veer from the path, he would clamp down on them just as he had with BN.His favourite jest line seemed to be "I support to be Opposition, so when you are the Government, I can no longer support you.."

RPK rocks.And this time its not going to be so easy for Barisan to dog him around with what is obviously a misuse of power.If Najib feels slighted by the article, he already replied to it via his PA.And if you feel it does not do you justice, sue RPK (get in line..) but do not use an archaic oppresive law which ranks way down there with the OSA and ISA to oppress someone.

If anything happens to RPK in prison, you, Barisan Nasional, especially you, Dato Seri DPM will be accountable.To the 52% who voted Pakatan and to the 6 states which you lost thanks to the likes of Raja Petra.

We will stand by RPK no matter what. Raja baik raja disembah, raja keji raja disanggah.

There will be a candlelight vigil tonight at Dataran Merdeka, following yesterday's candlelight vigil.Do try to come.

Update(12.30pm)- RPK has just posted bail in PJ Police headquarters...

Good evenings

2008-04-24T11:49:00.003+07:00

Before I finished work yesterday, Syamsyer kindly invited me to a dinner with my ex group mates at Carlton Holiday's Meng Yuen.Was a nice dinner, especially as I really missed my old groups' guys' 'lawak-lawak spontan'.Halfway through the dinner, Sam Chong SMSes saying that he is in Uncle Lee's house and asking if I'd like to join.Well, RPK was there, so I would almost certainly never say no.Francis Chang, Dr Cheah and of course Ronnie .His newly installed PA, Shin was there too.

As usual RPK never fails to stun his audience with his flair for speeches and we were mesmerized till 1am.So after 1, by the time I get home with Syamsyer its about freaking 2am.I fell asleep at 3, only having to wake up at 6.Hence my current foggy state of mind and why you're probably wondering why my typing today makes little sense and is little more than drunken incoherent babbling.

Malaysianized Famous Drama Series

2008-04-17T13:20:00.003+07:00

I was walking in Aeon Bukit Tinggi last week when I noticed this movie KL Drift: Evolusi. If you have not yet figured,its a pretty gaudy ripoff of another similarly named movie originating in America and set in Japan.Which set me wondering, if Malaysian dramas were to take a turn to become shadows of their successful Western counterparts, what would they look like?

Pecah Keluar (Prison Break)-A Mat Rempit named Mat is arrested and harrased for not joining UMNO's Putera wing(not to be confused with Umnoputra) on fake sodomy charges.His brother, a Mat Motor named Jiwang realizes his brother was framed and attempts to break him out.After several failed dramatic attempts, they give up and just bribe the prison guard with RM 30 and some Gudang Garam cigarettes.Once out and staying a cheap hotel in Chow Kit, Mat falls in love with a prostitute who turns out to be a former child math genius. They are followed by a mysterious Indonesian secret agent trailing Mat.There could be more to this than Mat realizes..

Surirumah Jalang (Desperate Housewives)- In a posh neighbourhood in Uptown KL, there is a street known as Jalan G.Occupied by rich businessmen and politicians who were busy all the time, the houses became playpens to those rich but otherwise undesirable wives.One day, in an Esctasy induced fit, one of these housewives trips on her chihuahua and falls on a clothesline. Being a dumb blonde,albeit a fake hairdyed one, she gets confused and utterly, accidentally hangs herself.The PDRM is called in, but they come only three days later because they are too busy harrassing Opposition politicians, so by the time they do arrive, the housewife, known as Mia Ng passes away.The entire story thereafter revolves around Mia telling us about her slutty friends and how cheating in a marriage is justified as long as your husband does not know about it.

Jaguh-jaguh (Heroes)- People from different parts of Malaysia, unrelated to one another suddenly discover they have superpowers.There's a girl who can gross people out by breaking and reattaching her limbs, a guy who can cook Maggi mee without using a gas stove, a dude who can recite the alphabet backwards in 10 seconds and a politician who can make entire bank accounts vanish.A mysterious guy named Sial goes around killing this superpowered people , and about half of them die before anyone notices there are freakos dying.Eventually, they discover a mutant called Cicak Man who teaches them how to use their power for good.Unfortunately he dies before he actually does anything useful.He leaves our Jaguhs with the cryptic message.. "Save the Maths-genius-turned-escort, save the world."Hence, a certain political party's resolve to save all maths geniuses who turn to the Dark Side.Or was that turn to their back side?

Lesap (Lost)-300 strangers crammed up in an AirAsia flight discovers exactly what budget travel means when their parachutes do not inflate and they free fall into Sepilok.There they discover the Others who are actually government agents sent to clone Opposition supporters and kill the original to produce phantom voters.As the story unfolds, we discover stories through flashbacks, where we see one survivor to actually was a murderer, one was a disgraced doctor and another used to be a circus clown turned Buddhist monk turned politician.

Something silly with UMNOMICMCA

2008-04-15T15:39:00.002+07:00

I just started typing randomly UMNOMICGERAKAN and realized many word combos can be formed with it... some are below...anyone with anything to add, please add below then we can compile a list and 'bentang' in Parlimen

cagaran muka micro-men
mencari kamu orang mca
CO mari mencagarkanmu
mengkroni caramu a mca
n umno cream cagar kami
muka mca gian car,romen
muak mic cagaran romen

Please do add on :D

Less serious blogging!

2008-04-15T14:23:00.003+07:00

I had a nice conversation (read private messaging) with Bodi, Francis, and an old friend with whom I just got reconnected - Esther during my lunch hour today and I decided I am being way, way too serious.I mean I am already a moanful , mournful person at work , a morbid person at home and most of time I am too rigid for my own good.When I read back my blog posts from 2004-2007 I realized I went from carefree hippie to walking corpse, which would explain people trying to avoid me like a plague, or why some of my friends ears turn a bright red when I start speaking, or why I have an idiot friend like Francis who makes you cancel your appointment with meeting state Exco members just so he blow you off your lunch appointment.Bear in mind this is the same friend of mine known as 'Raja Janji Keling', 'Juara Omong Kosong' and 'Jaguh Gebang Besar'.Abdullah Ahmad Badawi would be proud of Francis.

I really ought to lighten up.I had a meeting yesterday with some of my bosses and clients, and I was so uptight, literally I felt like someone jabbed my face three times with Botox,my chest felt like it was on Viagra , that went down the wrong path, and I had to use mind over matter to get two ends of my lips to curve into a smile that probably looked more like a muscle spasm than a smile.So help me God.

So to take off some of the high pressure steam collecting around my neck, I'm going back to blogging about the more light hearted things in life.Like what Badawi can now do to save ailing political career.I guess with his political connections he can still manage to salvage something and maybe someday bounce back like an excited kitten jumping on a hello kitty vibrator.

1)He can marry Rafidah.Both of them can start another family together, but the only cabinet AAB will be in charge of will be the one full of condensed milk cans and dry groceries.

2)He can quit and with Mugabe, form a government in exile somewhere in Tuvalu.There he will give press statements via Youtube and call down curses from the African gods upon UMNO who deserted him.

3)He can in a dramatic twist of events, fall at the feet of Dr M and kowtow to apologize for not straightening the crooked bridge project.Dr M does not accept his apology and in a dramatic twist, calls the group of schoolgirls from that Youtube video to assault AAB.Matthias Chang records this on his camcorder and enters it into America's Funniest Home Videos and wins the grand prize.

4)He can join So You Think You can Dance as a celebrity judge, and use the judgment airtime to deliver a poem that hopefully wins over the heart of Malaysia.The title of of the poem could probably be Negarakuku(besi).

5)Call for the resignation of all known detractors.In a state of confusion, also asked for the resignation letters of Karpal, Kit Siang and Anwar Ibrahim.

6)Form a rock band and tour the country.Calls his band Bad Awie and the Fallen Devils.

7)To win popularity among youth, revives program to rehabilitate Mat Rempit at the newly built center in Sepilok, next to another world renowned rehabilitation center.Also builds similar centers for Mat Jenin, Mat Angau and Mat Keris.These centers are built to cure addiction to corruption, racism and Cinaphobia.As according to Dato' Seri, all this leads to 'Mati' so he reverses Mati into i-Mat(like i-Pod and i-Mac) and hence the name for this program.

8)Parti Satu Malaysia is formed by merging all parties under UMNO flag.The new party logo would be em, the UMNO flag.Parti Sosialis sues them for copyright infringement as the acronyms are similar.

9)Dato Seri becomes a sage in the hills of Bukit Tinggi and masters the higher arts of being able to answer a question and not quite answer it at the same time while satisfying everyone, kinda like Najib, and later a character depicting him appears in Diablo 3: Pendeta Bertanduk.

10) He could always resign from UMNO and form a new political entity completely different from UMNO, United Malaysians Yelling, Eating and Sleeping (UMYES) with a membership of 2 million and an active participation of fifteen.Then Pakatan Rakyat may not have to work so hard after all!

The Star Concedes DSAI as PM!!

2008-04-11T08:27:00.003+07:00

Check out the photos caption!

LOL...Hidup Pakatan Rakyat.

A longish political speech

2008-03-07T09:46:00.006+07:00

While helping out in Pandamaran, never had the time to stop and speak, though Shen was pushing me too and partially coz I wouldn't want red paint splashed outside my door for screwing up the opposition campaign I am supposed to help with.

But if I were to speak, I'd give a talk something along the lines below

Good morning and selamat sejahtera to my fellow Malaysians,

November 2007 was an eventful year for the Barisan.First BERSIH took to the streets, demanding and end to a ridiculously,grossly unfair electoral process.Then HINDRAF rose up and stood up against ridiculously unjust government policies that failed the Indians.Then the Bar Council romped the streets to protest undemocratic practices that insult the intelligence of educated Malaysians.

So,Abdullah,Ka Ting and Samy started to get worried."What to do?" Samy asked Abdullah."Never mind...we got so many gods in Malaysia, we go and pray"

So off they went to the Buddhist temple in Penang's Burma Road -The Sleeping Buddha temple (because Badawi likes to sleep).After burning some joss sticks and bowing a few times, Buddha opens an eye "Eh, you people ah?"Buddha sighed.Badawi asked "Buddha, please give us some help in this election....we getting hammered all angles".Buddha said "Sorry la, Badawi, my Mazu temple in Kudat you go and ban, my Tua Peh Kong temple in Penang also you go and kacau, not enough with that, my follower's dead bodies also you want to disturb!! I cannot help you man.."

So the BN trio goes Our Lady's church in Macalister Road.Prayed in front of the crucifix for a while when Jesus opens his eyes..."Peace be with you.....err oh you guys ah?" Badawi went "Yes Jesus, please tolong-tolong sikit la this election, if not scared we lose my Pemuda go beserk and start French kissing the keris pulak"

Jesus replied,"Sorry dude,cannot la.My church in Shah Alam after so long only you let them build, some more look like a shoe factory.So many of my guys you convert I didn't make noise, one of your girls want to convert to join me you give her Hell, My follower bring Bible from overseas you go and rampas, but FHM and Cosmopolitan you don't disturb.Worse is you kacau Buddha's followers' dead bodies enough la, my dead guys also you go and disturb!How la friend....anyway good luck and em, God bless."

So on they trudge and Badawi goes "Never mind, we go to Terengganu, there I build a nice new mosque, spent 300 over mil...come we go and pray there" So they reached Terengganu, but Idris Jusoh stood outside the mosque "Sorry la Dato, still not yet get CF.The town council said they don't know the appropriate bribe to ask for a crystal building, plus we never built it to pray what, just decoration for the Terengganu people's eye candy, compared to Nik Aziz's masjid papan."The three looked at Samy Vellu, who went "Never mind, we go for Hindu temple!" But they searched and searched for few hours, no Hindu temple could be found because Khir Toyo had bulldozed it all! At that very moment, thousands of Hindu gods appeared in the sky and chanted "Padan muka...padan muka..woom...padan muka...padan muka.."

So Ong Ka Ting boey tahan....he told Pak lah "Hisham said he don't need Indian vote, Ch'ng Toh Eng said no need Indian vote and Malay vote...never mind la we also don't need God's vote la...come we go and find some devils to help us"

And they called Najib, who brought them to a small pondok in Pekan which houses a powerful Bomoh who reportedly can also make powerful C4s.They pay the bomoh and he shakes violently for a couple of hours.Badawi waited and fell asleep.After he woke up, the Bomoh was still vibrating like an ageing Proton."Wei, kontrak NCER to halau semangat I gave you 2 million already 'consultancy fees', where is my jembalang wei?"

The Bomoh replied "Sorry la Dato', I tried Jin Kafir, Jin Islam,all the Mambang, all the hantu and all the Syaitan but all don't want to come down. "Why, what's the problem?" Badawi quizzed. "No la, they said the three biggest Syaitan is in front of me, they dare not come down!"

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I believe the Government's policy of teaching Maths in English has backfired.I say this because it seems that the ministers themselves don't understand Maths anymore! When giving out subsidies for fuel, Government said not enough money.But they have money for ridiculous and ill afforded projects like sending a space tourist to orbit the Earth, building a brand new capital city in a barren swamp,a multi million Pound sports complex in England that is used for a few days every 3-4 years.Let's take the Corridor projects, which run up a cost of 1.03 Trillion ringgit.

When the DAP says they want to give 6,000 ringgit per household per year, government says its impossible, but when they want to build a project that is worth so much, when divided to a price per citizen, comes to 43,000 ringgit per person ,or roughly 170,000 per household, they have the money.Isn't 172,000 enough to sustain DAP's promise for 26 years?????Let alone the revenue from petrol, palm oil, etc etc.And those are natural resources.Singapore, with zero natural resources are so so very much richer than us.Yet, we have not heard of a Singapore Corridor, a Singapore Roof or a Singapore Window project, yet the Singaporeans have much higher income per capita, much higher spending power, much lesser crime and much more contentment compared to us.The difference between us and them, is that for the past 50 years, Malaysia has been continously struck by tragedy after tragedy that occurs every 5 years on average.A tragedy called Barisan Nasional.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Never has Malaysia been so fragile.Never has Malaysia seen a police force so subservient to the government, an ACA that cannot act or perform thorough investigations, a Election Commision chairman that is so partial, he might as well quit and stand as a Barisan candidate in any Barisan stronghold.Never has the judiciary been so tainted, the government so arrogant and the people so sidelined.Never before has the powers that be lost this much connection to the ground to the point that its almost as though the government and the people are living in different worlds.

Pak Lah has big ears, but they cannot hear very well.When 30,000 people took the street demonstrations, he still denies there are problems in the country.When street demonstrations and opposition rallies drew huge crowds, the government did not see.When the cries of Makkal Sakti rang clear across the country, they did not hear.When the people demanded their rights to be heard in Parliament, in Cabinet and wherever else we are 'represented', they did not speak.We have a government that is deaf, blind and dumb!

But all is not lost.The Opposition now seems to have a very strong backing of the people.At the same time, the Government seems to have lost some ground to the people, and more ground to party infighting and inter party fighting.This would be the opportunity to send a resounding "No" to 2/3 majority and "Yes" to justice,freedom and equality for all.

Thank you.

Makkal Sakti!Reformasi!Barisan Mati?

The Sweet Promises Party

2008-01-31T16:00:00.000+07:00

Since everyone is going around about the election, I was thinking of starting my own party.I;m going to name it the ATK (Ayam Tanpa Kepala) Party.We will compete in all seats and constituencies, funded by an Israeli Christian Terrorist group called Jihadi Jesus.We will implement a Canon Magesterium in every district, but the non Christians need not fear us because we will be fair and we promise not to snatch any bodies.Even though essentially we are a Christian based party, we are extremely liberal.And we put forth the following promises so that believing(read:gullible) Malaysians everywhere can support us.

-Petrol in Malaysia will be free on the day we win the elections.In fact, you can claim back money in the form of tax rebates for any receipt of any oil purchase you make before the date we win the elections.

-Water will be free

-Electricity will be free

-We will pay you to use the phone

-We will make (insert name of your own hometown) the new administrative capital.So what if Malaysia has 140 administrative capitals?

-We will make your (insert your Taman name here) the new state capital of your state

-Cigarettes will be a non taxable item

-Alcohol is strongly encouraged

-Education is now both free and optional

-Tax rebates will be granted for food,shelter,booze,educational tapes (including p*rn),toys,chairs,tables and anything your pet consumes.

-Chicken rice shall finally take its place as the national food.Other items to be preserved to include a national animal (Gagak Klang), a national drink (Seamaster), a national hobby (eating) and national interest(gossiping)

-People can riot all they want.If they apply to the government, we will provide police escorts and transportation for them, including refreshments and light finger food.

-The ISA will be abolished, and a Patriot Act will be introduced.No more arrests will be made, but the Patriot Act will have provision for us to gun you down if you so much as look at us the wrong way.All MPs will be granted diplomatic immunity and extra allowance to buuy ammunition and bullet proof vests.Ministers will also be no longer driving Perdanas, but modified Humvees fitted with bulletproofing.

-We will use Barney as our mascot.Pangkah Dinosour!!!

Why Barney Should Stand for Elections

2008-01-29T14:05:00.000+07:00

-He has no race, so no one can accuse him of being from the wrong race.
-We have too many clowns in Parliament, a stuffed dinosour would be nice
-We won't have to invent election mascots like Rocket Kid or god forbid, a life sized walking keris, a fluffy crescent moon (like the Mc Donald's 24 hour ad) that looks like a banana, because our candidate IS a mascot
-Your opponent cannot possibly find anything evil about you
-He can btchslap the EC chairman and no one would be angry with him
-No matter how much the police bludgeons him, his head never caves in and pops right back into shape.
-Plastic bottles thrown at him hits the sender back in the face without any effort on his part.
-He does not have a reproductive organ, so scandalous videos are impossible
-To make your opponent mad you don't have to say anything, just dance arond him.
-All your oppnent needs to do is hit you and sympathy votes will win the seat for Barney
-He does not stop with a handshake on nomination date, he will hug his opponent and sing that irritating I love you jingle.
-Styrofoam suit makes for a soft landing when kicked off stage
-Thick costume resistant to backstabs

So Barney, P118 Klang awaits you!

Few more DVDs coming out?

2008-01-25T07:47:00.001+07:00

Hmm....if Harakah is anything to believe (and it has uncovered many unknown scandals before) , a few more sex DVDs of ministers are expected to surface soon, the next one in Kepala Batas involving a BN component minister but not from MCA.Interesting.....

After the Last Tango at Flamingo minister got framed (and I really liked him, and respected him) and was made to pay an unfair price for doing the right thing, looks like a few other ministers who spewed moral Islam Hadhari-style comments on him will have to eat their words la.

Harakah even goes to say the place where it occured(Singapore).

Interesting developments indeed.Year of the Opposition?

The Year of the Opposition

2008-01-22T10:43:00.000+07:00

I have a good vibe for Opposition this year.Last year, the rakyat showed the government that the trust we placed in them has really , badly eroded.The rakyat took to the streets while an alarmed government tried frantically to stage a pathetic attempt at damage control, which I feel made it even worse.Datuk Seri Abdullah, in my humble opinion is a far worse politician compared to Mahathir.When Dr M was at the helm, the people always felt safe. We felt good and he managed to gets this sense of pride of being Malaysian instilled in the people so that no matter how haywired the country is ,no matter how undemocratic the means he does it, the general sentiment is that he had the government under control.No Minister ,much less, no son-in-law of a Minister were going around making statements as they like.No one were kissing kerises and the racial card was played at a minimal.

I feel the Opposition had a hard time under Mahathir, with the only exceptions in his 23 years being the Semangat 46 uprising and the Reformasi movement.Even so, he weathered the storm and survived two strong uprisings against him.Even as he declared Malaysia an Islamic state, the backlash from the non Muslim community was minimal, as he did so extremely tactfully and with good political calculation.

Now that he is gone, it is obvious how much the Government had relied on him.Soon after the feel good euphoria and hope had dissolved, we are left in a messier political situation now.Every Minister seems to speak as they like, and even BN party leaders openly take jabs at each other in the media.The worse thing about this administration is that they respond to Opposition remarks in such a lackadaisical way that gives credence to the Opposition!

The people roped in (but not very well trained) by Dr M like Zainuddin Maidin and Syed Hamid often fumble for answers while the more veteran politicians like Najib brilliantly maintain an elegant silence over sensitive matters.

There are very few like Kayveas and Bernard Dompok who dares speak out against the government now, while many like Datuk Vijayratnam who used to speak out seems to have mellowed down.In 2003, I remember reading an article in The Star from Datuk Seri Vijay, who wrote on the Islamic State issue.One particular line caught my attention... "I would like to ask the Opposition, do they feel any difference before and after the declaration by Dr M". Since that article, to name a few, Rayappan,Moorthy and Lina Joy was just a few cases while the latest was 2 days ago also in The Star involving a dead Chinese man whose body was taken by JA.I have not read anything from Gerakan on this issue since.

Elizabeth Wong wrote a nice article on the start of a the new year on the swing feeling by the rakyat and as a rakyat, I personally know many people who openly critisize the Government for their flip flop policies.I would say that personally,I feel the Opposition have an arsenal of political bullets to choose from.Each ministry has something to be fired with o.O

Trade and Consumer Affairs- Rising price of goods, flour shortage, flour,sugar and cooking oil shortage

Education - Chinese school and tamil school sidestepped, SRJKC Damansara,rising school fees despite zero fees policies,leaking exam questions

Works-Leaking government buildings including Parliament house,rising toll prices despite PLUS being the richest and most profitable GLC

Health-Privatization plan of healthcare facilities, Medical insurance, and of course Chua Soi lek video

Culture , Arts and Heritage- Lion dance festival still not under federal funding,Mazu temple, Christmas carols almost got banned couple of years back.Whose culture, whose arts and whose heritage?

Ministry of Defence- Purchase of brand new equipment and patrol craft and PLKN deaths

Energy Water and Communications-Rising telco,energy prices.Still no free water.Lousy broadband.

Entrepeneur and Cooperative- Not many funds despite the microcredit scheme.Haven't heard much about the "Kami bukan Along Kami mau Tolong" scheme either.

Federal Territories-Traffic jams, taking 50 years to declare Thaipusam a public holiday!

Finance-Malaysian banks still cannot compete globally, insurance premiums going up, interest rates still low.

Foreign Affairs-Half the world who loved us when Dr M was heading the country now does not like us that much anymore.Singapore issue still unresolved and do something about Myanmar!

Higher Education-No one's on top in THES.Anyone notice we've got way too many colleges?

Human Resource-Unemployment at a high,labour union voices being progressively lessened, foreign labour crisis, siding with PAPA instead of workers.

I could go on and on and on.That's not even going into the numerous scandals involving Government people.

We are supposed to be a 'negara membangun'. In the US,former President Bill Clinton got impeached over ONE sex scandal.We've had t least 4 in the last 4 years, not to mention sexist statements from Jasin and Kinabatangan, 'Tutup Satu Mata", "Bocor",Lingamgate, the HINDRAF issue, body snatching by an overzealous religious department,Christian books getting seized, the word 'Allah' getting copyrighted and made exclusive,screwdrivers being bought at thousands of dollars,pigs getting shot down, people getting shot at,crime is at an all time high and the economy is at an all time low.

Its time to tell the Government- your elegant silence is not so elegant anymore.I pity the good people in the government.May they find political peace.

A highly political evening

2008-01-22T09:29:00.000+07:00

Last weekend, ended the week a bit politically when i dragged my old friend to a rendezvous at Bangsar.What was supposed to be a laid back relaxed meeting of old buddies, where we get together gossiping and making fun of our old college friends turned awry(for Francis) when it got a little too political for his liking.All started when Shen contacted Shin and invited him over for coffee.We met in Bangsar Village, went over to Alexis for dinner.We then contacted Ronnie Liu to ajak him join us.Meanwhile, two of Shen's friends,Marini (spel?) and another, leaders of AIC , and fellow members of UPP of which I am too, but as a lousy member I am not as active, so I did not attend many of the recent forums.Then one of Shin's friends suggested moving to Canteena, which we did and Ronnie joined us there.Amir Sari was there too, though he did not join us (WTF- Is Bangsar the next Bukit Damansara?)

Then we all moved down to Delicious, where Raja Petra and co was there, with some other political leaders which I did not recognise.One of them was V David's close aide.I think my dad would have known him, as he used to be close to V David, and an MTUC lawyer named Praba.All in all it was nice to hear these guys talk politics coz unlike the coffee shop version we always get, full of speculation, theories and poppycock, these guys actually know what they are talking about.They've been there and done it.

Anyway we hung out till like 3 with my friend restraining himself from bashing my skull in as politics obviously isn't Francis' cup of tea.Or in this case, watermelon juice.

The EC should be disbanded

2008-01-11T13:52:00.000+07:00

The Elections Commision is crap.That guy who looks like a ham sap kui with specs and always babbling garbage about how they are fair and unfairly made into a political target is nonsense.

Of course you can be made into a political issue.You were appointed by a politician, and to boot, you answer as a commision to Cabinet!Cabinet comprises elected MPs from the ruling coalition.Ergo, your boss is the BN!

You have the cheek to ask for evidence on national TV.Here is the evidence!Check these numbers on your electoral roll at http://spr.gov.my .Rakyat, you be the judge of it !

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The World's Greatest Government

2008-01-04T16:04:00.000+07:00

Seriously, the events of the last 3 years really is disappointing to say the least.After reading in the papers today that the Gahmen insists that 'Allah' is an exclusively Muslim term, I am convinced that this government is the most stupid in the world.For crying out loud, please, please read this. Obviously the Government is unaware that Christian Arabs have long been using the word before Malaysia was formed, or even in pre-Islamic Arabia!

Let's recap what the government have done so far in their four years in power

-Raise fuel prices because they claim they cannot take it (yet Petronas is the richest company in Malaysia and its profits are rising )

-Raise toll rates because they claim they cannot take it (yet PLUS is the most profitable GLC and is mostly owned by the investment arm of UMNO, and its profits are rising)

-Appointed a CJ thats a former UMNO council member

-Separated a mother from her child on the excuse of religion

-Separated a mother and wife from her 5 kids and husband, also on the excuse of religion

-Struck a raw nerve with Catholics when they banned our newspaper from using the word 'Allah' and postponed its license renewal to teach the Herald a 'lesson'.Apparently we Christians don't matter to the government, even though Bernard Dompok, Idris Jala, Nicol David,Tony Fernandes,Chua Jui Meng,Pairin Kitingan and a host of other prominent social leaders happen to be Christian.Obviously it also does not bother the Government that some 3 million Malaysians are Christians, and that one of the States is even Christian majority.

-4.6 Billion dollar in PKFZ wasted, even Dubai pulls out of project

-Multi billion dollar bailouts of MAS,Proton and God knows how many more underforming , fat GLCs.

-SCOMI awarded with multiple contracts openly and the PM says its because of their own ability.

-Ministers and Government servants gets increments while public service is still not up to mark

-Political assasination of the few Federal Ministers who are effective

-Samy Vellu sacks entire Cawangans to stay in power,dismisses 30,000 people marching down the street as 'a small segment of the Indian commmunity' and revamps MIC to make it relevant.Erm, someone remind me again, isn't this guy the oldest and longest serving Cabinet Minister?

-Najib tells us to lessen spending.How?

Salary=Same

Toll=Increase

Petrol=Increase

Everything else=Increase

-Set up Royal Commisions of Enquiry then absolutely ignore their recommendations

-PM getting implicated in UN oil-for-food program scandal

-DPM getting implicated in high profile murder case

-10 million pathetic ringgit for Chinese schools,compared to the billions made by PLUS and Petronas

Left unchecked, if this trend continues, I foresee the following if we return BN with a 91% majority again

-Toll and petrol to rise higher to our necks

-BN to continue to badger each other's parties

-Hishamuddin continues to kiss the Keris.In violent retaliation,MCA will keep waving the Constitution.MIC starts swinging machetes, PBS will wave banned Iban Bibles with the word 'Allah' in it and PBB will do the Ngajat.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

2007-12-14T08:02:00.000+07:00

Dear YAB Perdana Menteri,

I now find myself in a loss for words to describe how disappointed I am in your leadership, or lack thereof.In 1988 you went on record saying ; "If we want to save Malaysia and Umno, Dr Mahathir must be removed. He uses draconian laws such as the Internal Security Act to silence his critics."

Now I find myself thinking "If we want to save Malaysia and Umno, Pak Lah must be removed.He uses draconian laws such as the Internal Security Act to silence his critics"

I would also add these following statements to support the first sentence

-Under him, fuel and neccesities' prices have soared to the point of extreme burden to the rakyat.Even though we are a net oil exporter and our oil is premium grade, sulphur free and Petronas declares six months of bonus per year and is on Fortune 500.

-Under him toll prices have steadily increased and PLUS has been amazingly the top performing GLC for years running with over a billion dollars in revenue.

-The so-called 'room for dialogue' and media crawlspace have thus far only displayed brazen disregard for cultural sensitivity and gender awareness by broadcasting Barisan MPs making fun of women's monthly discharge ('bocor?') asking Christian schools to remove the crosses from their vincinities, waving keris during general assemblies, warning the Chinese and Indians that the roads will be soaked in blood.

Any critisism of the government, is played down.Amazingly, no matter how glaringly wrong the government is, it insists it is always right.The Barisan government is not mostly, not almost always, it is ALWAYS right.Take the recent protests for instance, at least 40,000 urban Malaysians think the elections are unfair.So did media watchdog groups, human rights groups, the US, Opposition parties, the Bar Council, NGOs.But ALL these learned people are wrong.After all, what do a bunch of lawyers know about law, right? Who are they compared to Pak Lah, a degree holder in Islamic Studies from UM who could not enter his preffered course of Economics because he failed Statistics.

In 1987 you said, "Laws such as the Internal Security Act have no place in modern Malaysia. It is a draconian and barbaric law"

Yet you did not see beating up poor, marginalized Indians and accusing them of being terrorist as barbaric.Neither did you want to hear what BERSIH had to say but stuffed everyone into the lockup.You sir, chose to use that mentioned law upon them.Barbaric laws are used sir, by barbarians.Draconian laws sir, are used by tyrants and dictators.

The conclusion I draw from this,sir is that either the truth that you want to hear is not reaching you, or that you do not want to hear the truth, after all.

A disappointed citizen,
Emmanuel.

Fun Things to do at a Police Controlled Rally

2007-12-06T18:28:00.000+07:00

Hi all.....its been ages since I last blogged.I think I netted approximately 120 new grey hairs since then.If I keep this up, lose some weight, gain some height and become gay, I could be Gandalf.

I was typing a longish reply on the HINDRAF rally (which really was what spurred me into typing into my blog again, but decided it was way too long and I would break it up into a few portions.Meanwhile I came up with (which is the best you can do with a frozen brain and a half frozen bank account)

By the way, before anyone sends me hate mail, please note I am a member of BERSIH by default of being in two signatory NGOs and that though I do not agree with a few of the more outlandish requests of HINDRAF,I do understand their plight and support their right to free speech.Besides, anyone who tries and lessen the BN majority sounds like a friend to me.

FUN THINGS TO DO IN A POLICE RALLY

1.Look up Elizabeth Wong and interrupt her asking her stupid questions about where to get the best rally fashion.

2.Pretend to be confused, smack a police officer in the back of his head and point to the guy next to you.

3.Show up in an entirely inappropraite rally (e.g when BERSIH asked people to wear yellow, show up in pink). And look for your photo striking out in the crowd in the morning papers.

4.Yell Power to the People every ten seconds.

5.Yell Jai Hind every few seconds.

6.Whenever you spot a bald guy, weep uncontrollably, hug him and go "Gandhiji...Gandhiji!"

7.Two words.Stink bomb.

8.When the police starts to spray water at you, bring out a bar of soap and start washing yourself.Or take out a water container and fill it up, shouting "Terima Kasih"

9.Just keep grinning at the police.

10.Wear a cap with bright yellow feathers in and talk into your shirt every few minutes

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2007-07-15T08:28:00.001+07:00

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Yet Another Malaysia Boleh!

2007-06-21T21:40:00.001+07:00

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Which Political Party in Malaysia?

2007-06-20T22:23:00.001+07:00

First up, apologies for the lack of posts on the Bali trip.To those who actually take an interest in whatever little personal life I have, well, I just got back from a trip to Bali, Indonesia.Its one of just two islands in Indonesia that is not majority Muslim.Hence, the cultural experience was a different and amazing one.I blame Photobucket, as I canot seem to be able to login, after dumping all my photos there and smartly deleting the originals.

I had another outing last night with the brilliant Shen and highly political Shin,this time meeting them in Telawi Bangsar for a couple of coffees.Having been involved in social and now kinda involved in NGO-ing, the natural path of progression seems of course to enter politics.As in the end, politics affects us all.All that we fight for eventually reflect on the decisions made by politicians.

Sometimes, as some argue, it makes good sense to join the ruling party.After all, what is the opposition in Malaysia?Apart from a few turbaned elderly gentlemen that quotes the Quran, throw in a couple of non Malay men and women with fiery speeches and a good grip of the Constitution,one or two members of a party with a cool name but with no clear direction, and one guy who missed the labour party bus to Cambodia.

Sometimes we see them as mere noisemakers with no real experience (running a state and running the Federal Government is miles apart) or people desperate for political mileage who makes mountains of molehills(which hand to raise while taking oath of office) and whose members seem to age faster than those in the Government.

Plus joining the government would fast track you to fame and riches beyond that of any normal class F contractor or at least help you escape police summonses in the middle of the road at 2am.But if everyone joined the goverment who would you turn to oppose any policy?

We follow the British system, as opposed to the American system of Parliament, where voting here is based on party lines (hence the term Goverment whip....no reference to BDSM tendencies of some MPs :P)So no matter how much you hate the policy, you still have to vote for it.Some call it party loyalty.Yet others call it having no principles.

Take for instance,if the ruling party insists on banning your own religion, and you belong to the ruling coalition, you'd still have to vote to destroy your own religion.That's the system we use.May not be much an issue in Britain as multiculutural and cosmopolitan as it is, the ruling side is pretty much belonging to a similar religion.In Malaysia this poses a much more visible problem, as we are diverse in its truest sense.

In short, what I am trying to express is, even though the members of the ruling coalition are many, the main driving influence would only be one party, the party at the helm, viz UMNO.Hence, the responsibility for check and balance on the government can only come from an effective Opposition.

But the Opposition is not without its problems.There is no gel to bring together the various struggles ad differing ideals of the various parties.I often joke that there is some 20 highly active political parties in Malaysia,with our population of 25 million and only 2 highly visible ones in the US, for its 250 million people.And if you calculate the total of each parties membership claim (MIC-1 million, UMNO 3.5 million, MCA 1 million, even the miniscule PPP claims 350,000 members) plus the Opposition,you'd get a total of MORE than the population of Malaysia, including every woman and child and illegal alien.

PAS is highly Islamo-centric, DAP is highly non-Islamo-centric and PKR is....well....um...somewhere in the middle without actually defining itself.A few more years of this and we can rename it as APAM - Ambigious Party of All Malaysia, with its slogan as BALIK- Bridging Atheist,Liberal, Islamic and Khalid (Ibrahim).

From PKR to APAM BALIK.Between the various opposition club members, I would go for the DAP.Having heard about Shen's meeting with Ronnie Liu and Shin's meetings with Po Kuan,its heartening to see their identity intact.The DAP is the only true blue Opposition party in Malaysia, apart from maybe PRM.Of the great 5, PPP and Gerakan and PBS have joined BN.PAS has joined BN but to its credit, left.The DAP, since Chen Man Hin to Guan Eng, has not done something like that.However, I do ask myself, do I really want to be a socialist?A social democrat is still a socialist.And in the Communist Manifesto,Marx call Communism 'scientific socialism'

Still, its the same form of socio-economic model used by Nehru to counter the growing foreign conglomerate presence in India, so it can't be that bad, can it?And its not too far from Christian Socialism anyway.Still, I digress.

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An Open Letter to the Government of Malaysia

2007-06-03T21:13:00.001+07:00

Enough is enough.Seriously.Stop pretending there is peace and goodwill and a great booming economy.Stop the lies, and handle it.For once.Please.And look at the problems at hand.

To the Minister of Consumer Affairs...

Stop walking around the supermarkets and performing cheap publicity shots by saying everything is under control then running and hiding like a mouse every time the prices spiral.Stop calling all the hypermarkets and mamak shop owners and make them promise to not raise prices.Its only gonna last a few months and you very well know it.Tell the truth for once, that we're screwed.That the prices will go up soon enough and catch up with us.Stop asking us to save money and change our lifestyle,and deal with it, because if we change it one or two more times, we would be hunting and scavenging for food.

To the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, the de facto ministers of Law.

Stop making Christians and Buddhists and Hindus go to the Shariah court for cross-religious issues.That's as bad as us asking you to go to a Magisterium ruled by Christian Canon Law, or an Indian village panchayam. Do unto others what you shall have others do unto you.The IFC is not all evil.Please don't take anything and everything people say about religion as sensitive and sweep it down the carpet.You're only worsening the situation as people's emotions are bottle up, and may explode someday.

To the Minister of Works

If the buildings are flawed, please do something about it.I worry and fear the day I walk into some goverment office and the whole roof comes crashing down my head.Stop blaming everyone else for a change.You'll find people will love you more.Coz everytime it seems its either the Health Ministry, the Education Ministry or the EPU.

To the Minister of Finance

Our economy is going down the drain.Inflation is up, prices of items are up, fuel prices are up, unemployment is high, wages are low and people cannot afford to live nowadays.Please stop telling us everything is okay, plug the revenue leaks in the government in the forms of corruption etc and restore our faith in your public office.

To the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister

Please look at the state of our country, take a real good look and then tell us everything is alright.Please tell us that race relations are all cheery and good when you refuse to have anything to do with the IFC, or any non Muslim event nowadays.Tell us this is not a bad sign.Tell us that Lina Joy's issue, and your disturbing silence over this, and your reluctance to give a clear direction as to the status of the Syaria and Civil courts in this country is not a bad sign.

Reassure us that you silence, which is allowing people to speculate on all this, is not a bad sign.

Malaysia is not at a crossroads.We have long past that crossroad and looks like we're spriralling down to the deepest pits of hell.A U turn is so badly needed now.

Your silence, the Government, will make this matters even worse.We need clear direction, not ambiguity and a lukewarm neutral answer.

I guess there is hope in it all.Finally, voices of reason are beggining to speak out against all this, and finally the world has woken up to the fact that Malaysia is not such a secular country after all.I am part of this country, and it greaves me so to see her make one blunder after the other to the point where now, she has so openly been mocked by the world.

And so the charade ends and the bubble bursts, and the curtain comes down on the stage play that has callled itself harmonious and just.Malaysia Boleh, indeed.

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My Comments on The Salary Hike for Civil Servants

2007-05-26T06:13:00.001+07:00

Originally from Hafiz's blog article comments section.

Note:Will be expanding on this soon.Apologies on the long hiatus.Was on assignment.

Its not going to solve the bridge of income between the civil service and private sector, only delay it for another round.The "Mendatar" and "Melintang" increment system is too outdated where even civil servants from the professional category only gets less than 200 per year, as opposed to as much as 400-600 in some private held companies,especially the larger ones like the one I am attached to.Also, this income disparity is further widened by the annual bonus payouts, which is in most cases significantly lesser in terms of quantum as well as gross amount,than the private sector.

Its a double edged sowrd situation where while the income per capita and disposable income level averages for the population increase, so does price hike occurences and so on.The biggest real estate hike in Malaysia occured during the last civil service salary increase.Those who benefit would be profiteering businessmen while the common man is left poorer.Unless they uniform out the civil service salary to a similar model to that of the private sector, this infinite loop of "Suffer 10 years-Attempt Leverage-Price Hikes/Inflation-Back To Square One" will continue.

Meritocracy should be introduced to the civil service as well.Rewarding the lazy and hardworking with the same amount, at least to me, is a mild form of Mao communism, all are given the same thing anyway.

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Fear the Light

2007-04-28T12:47:00.000+07:00

Fear The Light

To who would murder kill and maim,
To those who claim to use His name,
Fear the Light.

To whom who spits in His face,
To the man that judges man by race,
Fear the Light.

To whom would seek to hurt another,
To the man who betrays his brother,
Fear the Light.

To those who inflict pain of injustice,
To who would rule with prejudice,
Fear the Light.

To those too cowardly to speak up,
In prison and persecution find questions,doubt.
Fear Only the Light

And to those who have suffered for all truth,
Been pained , crucified, abused,
Rejoice and eternally be glad,
For you have found the Light.

Emmanuel Joseph,Klang2007

How to Irritate a Religious Zealot

2007-04-21T22:07:00.000+07:00

Below are some ways, some tested, some otherwise to irritate your local religious zealot.Its pretty much standard things you CAN do wherever you are and regardless of whether the inferred zealot is a gun toting terrorist kind, the Billy Graham preaching kind, or the holier-than-thou ..I-am-as-holy-as-the-pope-and-you-gonna-burn-in-hell-Ha-Ha kind.

1.Blow bubble gum in front of them.Punctuate every "pop" with a holy chant/song.

2.While eating, suddenly look towards the heavens and cry "Thank you!Thank you!". Try shedding some tears a little bit.

3.Order really sugary drinks (Coke with sugar etc) and preach on the virtues of sugar and how plain water is evil and how God's plan of salvation involves people dying sooner from diabetes (technically you are not commiting suicide)

4.Start a debate on wheter God would prefer Pepsi or Coke

5.Argue that Furbies and Tickle Me Elmos are unethical and equates trying to create new lifeforms and play God.

6.Proclaim loudly that you just saw a holy image in your food then proceed to eat it before anyone gets to see it.Then wear an ear to ear smile and say "Now God is truly in me"

7.Ask for God's email address so you forward him your complaints in life.

8.Keep asking him/her "If God created us, who created God?" and claim total ignorence to any valid points raised.Then make outrageous statements like "I think God lives in Mars"

9.Start praising how cool God is...just whent he zealot gets in the grooves, reveal that you were referring to the Death Gods in Bleach.

10. Lament on how pitiful the zealots ancestors are and how lonely they must be in hell (at some point the zealots ancestors would have been fire and rock worshippers)

11.Insist that you have embraced the zealots' ideas on God.Then pretend to start worshipping the zealot.Take a photo of the zealot, place some candles before it and place it in a very visible place in your house.Call the zealot over to your place and as he enters your home, throw yourself at his feet and cry "Oh Blessed One!"

12.Ask the zealot if God truly forgives all your sins.If he says yes, slug him.Then look up to the sky, and wave your hand saying "Sorry G"

The current state of Politics in Malaysia

2007-04-14T06:38:00.000+07:00

Yesterday, I attended a yum cha session with many interesting people from UPP, upon the invitation of saudara Shin. Among the more recognisable personalities that were there included Hazmi Hashim (candidate for PKR's Youth Wing presidency), Shen Yee Aun, Hafiz Noor Shams,
John Lee MK and Rozan Asen , PKR Youth Wing chief for Batu division.

Saudara Hazmi asked me over a Nescafe susu lembu....what I thought of Malaysian politics.My answer, was something along the lines of this...

UMNO-A party that stresses on and fights for , the need to be racially based, and racially biased.I believe that the notion that Malaysia is not yet mature enough for a multiracial political party to be only half true.The other half is that for UMNO to remain relevant, and by extension, remain in power,Malaysia must be divided among racial lines.UMNO is not racist, as long as you are Malay.

MCA-A party that stresses on, and supports an education agenda, as long as your dad or mum or uncle belongs to that party, and can get you into KTAR or UTAR.

MIC- A party that grew from mere estate workers and thugs that evolved into a party consisting today of, rich estate workers and thugs.

DAP-A multiracial party that boasts 700,000 members nationwide, including 2 Indians and 1 Punjabi.And a Malay whom I strongly suspect is either a paid actor or a senile homeless gentlemen that has been promised some food if he shows up in meetings.

PBS-A party of tribesmen turned tycoons.Friendly as long as they do not get tempted to board Air Asia's cheap flights to the mainland.

PAS-An ok party, but has a tendency to be biased to those who wear serban only.I could be a great scholar but as long as I do not wear serban, my thoughts are not quite relevant.

And finally the educated and gentle Hazmi asked me about PKR...

My response was....along the lines of..

"Even tainted as they are, all political parties mentioned have a warcry, a battlesong, a clear agenda.The focus of the party so far has been one man, Anwar.Now that he is free, what is your goals?What are your objectives?Are you liberal or pro-PAS?You are at a crossroads, and if you don't let people know what you plan to do and where you would take Malaysia, and do it soon, people will lose interest."

...To be Continued...

FAQ for all Malaysian Religious Zealots

2007-04-14T06:36:00.000+07:00

This goes out to all those religious idiots out there who wholeheartedly believe their god 'chosen' race shall inherit the earth,and heaven, and the stars, and everything in between and anyone who so much as sympthaizes for the other religions, us..the stone, moon, rock and tree worshippers should perish in an eternal flame while they run around naked around some holy nude photo of some porn star while they wank themselves to blindness,celebrating the death of their enemies....and their newfound freedom to well, wank themselves like a blind chicken .PLEASE READ THIS...I believe it answers most of the questions you have for us.Also applies to racist chauvinist bigots who believe their lack of capacity in bed can be compensated with hollow bravado and talking big cock instead of having the latter.

Q:Why do you keep interfering in our religion?Can you not mind your own?

A:Coz you made it our business by dragging our people to your courts, exhuming the graves of our family members because somewhere, someone heard the dead guy say something close to "I converted".When actually, all he could have said, in context, would've been.... "I converted all my Malaysian ringgit to USD coz I had it with this crazy country and I'm getting out of here"

Q:Why don't you just go back to China or India?

A:Coz I have as much as, if not more reason to be here.Only in this country, would the government take away a perfectly good, profitable GLC from a hardworking Malaysian, give it away free of charge to another, maybe not so hardworking Malaysian,maybe coz they're friends, then pump in millions of dollars to save it, give up trying and try and sell it to a foreigner, and call everything they have done as something 'in the best interest of the nation'. Coz it wasn't the Chinese or Indians who terjun into the pineapple plantations, cut off our power supplies or stole your grandfather's bicycles.Coz if we go, there won't be mamak stalls anymore.Worse still, you'll have no one to tax, and no one to alibaba your projects to.

Q:The DAP is a chauvinistic and racist party.MCA and Gerakan are also racist.Doesn't supporting them make you racist?

A:That does not justify waving a keris at us.If we are racist then the policies and social agenda implemented by the government made us so.The principles fought for by Gerakan and DAP are universal in nature.However supporting them and being a Malay somehow does not gel, perhaps owing again to the principles of national policy that makes it such that if you venture out of your ethnic gang, you stray and look like a traitor to the cause.

Q: We are clearly the majority, we meaning left wing fundies.The rest of you should shut up and abide by our laws.

A:Look, here is some simple math.Malaysia is an approximately 50% Muslim and 50% non Muslim country.Safely, all 50% of non Muslims will not want a theocratic state.And even if everyone else does, just one or two Muslims who don't want a theocratic state will already tip the scales in favour of a secular country.I can name a few here, Walski, _earth, Nur Hidayat Nordin,Malik Ilmtiaz Sawar, Marina Mahathir and Zainah Anwar.Prove it in the ballot box, not by annoymous postings on cyberspace or terrorist like demos on the street.We do not need another Libya or Indonesia.

Q:We've given you so much space to practise your stupid lowly religions.What more do you want?

A:Tolerance does not mean giving someone a 4 by 4 cubicle with a statue of a god in it for twenty people to pray.In a truly religiously free country, people do not have to wait decades to build a church and beg for their temples not to be abolished.Having the largest Buddhist or Hindu statue in southeast Asia means very little if the tolerance stops there.Having large statues only makes tourists happy as they can snap more photos.

Q:Even though we are a Muslim country, we still allow you infidels to taint this holy earth with gambling in Genting and build the largest brewery in South East Asia.This proves we still tolerate you worthless scum.

A:Go ahead and close both down.Guess who makes the most out of gaming tax and liquor tax?
..To Be Continued..

Sometimes...

2007-03-25T05:01:00.000+07:00

Note to the dear reader...sorry for the somewhat odd post that seems to be incoherent mumblings but its just one of those days where even we as guys feel like we're having a 'period'..

Sometimes

..............I wonder if ignorence should be frowned upon or sympathized with?
..............I wonder how can people be religious, yet hateful and bigoted at the same time.
..............I question if anyone can really claim exclusivity to own God
..............I wonder if you love to hate, do you hate to love?
..............I wonder if God were in the world, whom will He yield to?
..............I wonder if we evolved so perfectly, why do we bleed?
..............I wonder if emotions are supposed to be part of evolution?
..............I wonder if humans were designed to hate work and hate routine, why did we put into place this system in the first place?
..............I wonder if English is so universal, why do Indians in India call a restaurant a hotel, and Americans call jam, jelly, and Europeans call pickles, relish?
..............I wonder why do we hate visiting jails, hospitals and mortuaries yet fashion restaurants and clubs around those very themes?
..............I wonder if everything tastes like chicken to us, would chicken taste like everything else to natives?
..............I wonder why grass and tree leaves never made it into our diets?
..............I wonder how something as violent and vicious as a bear be made into soft toys and given the cute name "Teddy"
..............I wonder if God loved us so much, why didn't He just create us straight in Heaven?

Hmm By the time you read this I would be up in Genting Highlands for a 2 day escapade from the mad working world.Hopefully this time I don't end up camping in the casino again...

Much love my friends....much love.