tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-285981732024-03-18T15:20:33.429+08:00shanghai fishwtfShanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.comBlogger950125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-69587025776724433812023-10-31T22:44:00.002+08:002023-10-31T22:50:51.181+08:00fish rots from the head down (Pt. 3)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">The education system in our country under Anwar and his Madani (whatever crap that means) government, needs to be urgently addressed. The attachments below were from my daughter's school and my concern is why are primary school children being coerced in promoting one politician's personal agenda to remain relevant? And when our economy is hitting rock bottom while Anwar is the new Nero.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGpmc7-wJI6gl9rOVM5SY2ygncFxmTarcHo48VfqTRIIuWOz84XOmlt2xYoBvy4RWDCt0Q5xhpk2cxuoAbV0AkVsK4trdgw2w25d0zejYBRb7MydXW4Fcxph0vB4DQRBTbFLc82GWdFXgPxW6pPpFyfKVdn9m6yj8uw49vV75NvQi3KTC9LEY/s1080/Screenshot_20231031-065233_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="1080" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYGpmc7-wJI6gl9rOVM5SY2ygncFxmTarcHo48VfqTRIIuWOz84XOmlt2xYoBvy4RWDCt0Q5xhpk2cxuoAbV0AkVsK4trdgw2w25d0zejYBRb7MydXW4Fcxph0vB4DQRBTbFLc82GWdFXgPxW6pPpFyfKVdn9m6yj8uw49vV75NvQi3KTC9LEY/s320/Screenshot_20231031-065233_WhatsApp.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0eL_TMmb6gppSukrBbvcmhzVz7zuDlrgU4ZaZthPrlmThzAEQvZXGVbxGAxF8qgdVuRvugRNaVtZG4Hf9JKIl71jH_gCg4Ij8OdizmEvJe_O3IMbJkmU5G8TPXwK3OVlLmGp4IasLfRk9pTo-9Lp2_c6kBCX2_yUADA2O-XDnNc0oBlV8gezf/s1574/Screenshot_20231031-065315_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="864" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0eL_TMmb6gppSukrBbvcmhzVz7zuDlrgU4ZaZthPrlmThzAEQvZXGVbxGAxF8qgdVuRvugRNaVtZG4Hf9JKIl71jH_gCg4Ij8OdizmEvJe_O3IMbJkmU5G8TPXwK3OVlLmGp4IasLfRk9pTo-9Lp2_c6kBCX2_yUADA2O-XDnNc0oBlV8gezf/s320/Screenshot_20231031-065315_WhatsApp.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;">Here is the letter I wrote to my daughter's school headmistress, pleading her to exempt my daughter from participating in this political and religious activity of a known egomaniac politician. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For God's sake my kid is ONLY 12 years old! Don't use my daughter for your political survival, Anwar!</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOTGzCPy8AYK8H3HWwDNKPJ33aRPGds3MjA3lFcQuf1vMBjuzJ-OvbxBTb39TnlgHbw0ZD3tgKlHlW2QCux03pVAT0ZDPjEnHdYZeOkpsy1cv5k-8X9ZCdip1k9WSqsujPSIGXyXIIz1VYmlLgBmwY6yQjWFew9jZXYlI9Edm7B3fXawFKexhY/s2650/20231031_071519.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2650" data-original-width="1854" height="350" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOTGzCPy8AYK8H3HWwDNKPJ33aRPGds3MjA3lFcQuf1vMBjuzJ-OvbxBTb39TnlgHbw0ZD3tgKlHlW2QCux03pVAT0ZDPjEnHdYZeOkpsy1cv5k-8X9ZCdip1k9WSqsujPSIGXyXIIz1VYmlLgBmwY6yQjWFew9jZXYlI9Edm7B3fXawFKexhY/w257-h350/20231031_071519.jpg" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And a bonus video clip of what went down in one school today. Teachers seem to be in a state of euphoria playing "warriors" with scarfs and flags and sloganeering for a country that's not our concern, instead of teaching little children morals and life lessons about respect and love. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='329' height='206' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxhSgBgZMieLZnC-23t04WL0C81FJlx_KFzL92YI-Lm7GxUmt4_dGDPQxca-r97sHPDb705DlnIvEs' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I know it's been a long while since I took to blogging because I've been fairly active on other social media platforms like X (formerly known as Twitter) and Facebook. I apologise. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div>In case you're wondering why this post is titled as Pt.3, here's the earlier parts of: <div>"<a href="https://shanghaistephen.blogspot.com/search?q=fish+rots+from+the+head+down"><span style="color: red;">fish rots from the head down'' </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">(pt.1)</span></a> in September 2008 and </div><div>"<a href="https://shanghaistephen.blogspot.com/2011/06/fish-rots-from-head-downpt-2.html"><span style="color: #990000;">fish rots from the head down" (pt.2)</span></a> in June 2011</div><div> <br /> <p></p></div></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-59800963792186284992023-05-01T15:20:00.016+08:002023-05-01T23:50:17.211+08:00Sam Haris. This is not a eulogy. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrUnQNPMBIZUY8TdoNlzNGzm8Ep8pDTqC6lg3Gu-2VIHemZcQehZ4EWlrwLHRKFvpeGWGxIAG6HNkplTC-tQSbnCbrM3ZxAf8VwZwUmBFWlJa53MbXnh5JxfbkhT1HBsz1ZLuqf0AoExnCS2Op5MiOCfX0duy9VIPtKfLhulRjnEjfaQLYA/s1626/Screenshot_20230318-004822_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1626" data-original-width="1079" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLrUnQNPMBIZUY8TdoNlzNGzm8Ep8pDTqC6lg3Gu-2VIHemZcQehZ4EWlrwLHRKFvpeGWGxIAG6HNkplTC-tQSbnCbrM3ZxAf8VwZwUmBFWlJa53MbXnh5JxfbkhT1HBsz1ZLuqf0AoExnCS2Op5MiOCfX0duy9VIPtKfLhulRjnEjfaQLYA/s320/Screenshot_20230318-004822_Facebook.jpg" width="212" /></a><i style="text-align: center;"> </i><i style="text-align: center;"> </i></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><i style="text-align: center;"> This is my favourite photo.</i></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><b>UPDATE: Just realised my last post is exactly 1 year ago today!</b></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">This post was started on the 22nd June 2022 and I've been adding photos to build up a good story but I just can't seem to further the story each time and so it goes into abeyance again. He is Haris to some, Sam to others or even Singaram to a few. Few may know but I have actually seen his full name written and plastered right across his identity card that ends at the back with Ibrahim or something. But he is a brother to me. We met for teh-tarik near my condo and talked for about an hour or so about many things including the excruciating pain in his back and how he was coping with pain-killers and all. My family joined us for a bit and then he took his leave. </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">4th July 2022</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It was about this time Haris told me of his health condition casually like he was announcing another Spurs win. It didn't sink in at first and then it hit me like a ton of brick. Here was my brother who tells me his days are numbered and he's been undergoing massive treatment and losing weight and looking frail. Will stop here to add more photos.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1st May 2023</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Its close to a year now since that news of his condition and I don't get to see him as much as I'd love to.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I've been gathering photos of my run-in with Haris over the years together at by-elections and drinking sessions and what you see here are randomly arranged photos and not in any timeline sequence. There are also photos of some people who have been close and I thought it befitting to be added in this post too. And the quality of some photos are grainy and blur (what did you expect from cheap camera phones of yesterday?) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And to Haris if you are reading this, it is certainly my honour to be of acquaintance with you brother. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">All these years you fought tirelessly for the little man and you are the reason we have a change of government since 2018 and if PH screws it up royally again, its not your fault but their own fucking arrogance and ignorance for not listening to the voices of the rakyat on the ground. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Each photo must be viewed with a smile and a happy memory of what happened during that time. From candle-light vigils to protest walks to by-elections and social gatherings and sharing personal stories and many more, it was all good. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Today being Labour Day, I think its also befitting to publish this post for all that you have struggled with all these years. Thank you Haris.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Cheers and peace to you bro.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rb5Cz65TCp7DkGu2I0lrF_Ba2OttaTNwoVIheLPca8vrUgELmX5voWCwRpubMMEJI35n29xKiFdDw2oGwvmj9OSfg3mGGXKNV881fmWW2opRPdEg8uHPTOzTLx-zcmUb9vEK-bHMA-p4d5C1P7L0JGBUjnsFPsppSfKfVNwjsXVNj2CCdQ/s564/8.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="410" data-original-width="564" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rb5Cz65TCp7DkGu2I0lrF_Ba2OttaTNwoVIheLPca8vrUgELmX5voWCwRpubMMEJI35n29xKiFdDw2oGwvmj9OSfg3mGGXKNV881fmWW2opRPdEg8uHPTOzTLx-zcmUb9vEK-bHMA-p4d5C1P7L0JGBUjnsFPsppSfKfVNwjsXVNj2CCdQ/s320/8.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Striking a pose of a gun-slinger as Bernard's counsel.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbZ4PfIQe11ZHCLIG_pxkPGFDMb0Kt42oaKvpOYSLqpqmRlLA_3rPuZ9s3oHsSFT7ge4kRmja8UYXdF5umLL_xCrNDLyzlN133W4x4qrPCjI6I7ilX1uqYNgf5TD7zLBjxftalE53NaeR2f1ZriBsm5q6p7-FYsTH64FTf1CcLzKZHrUs1Q/s1040/20230316_003405.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="1040" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBbZ4PfIQe11ZHCLIG_pxkPGFDMb0Kt42oaKvpOYSLqpqmRlLA_3rPuZ9s3oHsSFT7ge4kRmja8UYXdF5umLL_xCrNDLyzlN133W4x4qrPCjI6I7ilX1uqYNgf5TD7zLBjxftalE53NaeR2f1ZriBsm5q6p7-FYsTH64FTf1CcLzKZHrUs1Q/s320/20230316_003405.jpg" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Sometime in March 2023, I had breakfast with him in Jaipur in TTDI</i>.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1taEcZfS3Kmk6TJMH5tGtqsNoKuNwO_3T2pNPgSM3573psVLAdBRaJ3Nuuu7SfC5pBI32yj2TxlU2CZtqXe1-cb97BJCNpLvaRhLDYI2d6TTa3HQ75QpvqCShAUlC3D4BSFRuHykSX292gW42TQdeOxiEFIFZyqP8Mj9BTWBiZwXfr9cuAg/s3624/PB040004.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="3624" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1taEcZfS3Kmk6TJMH5tGtqsNoKuNwO_3T2pNPgSM3573psVLAdBRaJ3Nuuu7SfC5pBI32yj2TxlU2CZtqXe1-cb97BJCNpLvaRhLDYI2d6TTa3HQ75QpvqCShAUlC3D4BSFRuHykSX292gW42TQdeOxiEFIFZyqP8Mj9BTWBiZwXfr9cuAg/s320/PB040004.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Jaya and Ismail Boom in attendance on Bernard's release.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQRTogg9VJoVBATOVcqDl88jV9-QjzmlAfEU13tGQ7qa0UbLCDNXNbLYxrXk0R7j1MHELqNEW-LozdZD0dHQZcylUwg2NJA-4mD-25tMHsfFjE6al9aVsOnt6wT1KvDGM8ZwsP7VvJK9pztt4Z0Hv3nDYySppaWtuG4JmDPDVx5Eh-Digv5Q/s1230/20230318_104327.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1230" data-original-width="1078" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQRTogg9VJoVBATOVcqDl88jV9-QjzmlAfEU13tGQ7qa0UbLCDNXNbLYxrXk0R7j1MHELqNEW-LozdZD0dHQZcylUwg2NJA-4mD-25tMHsfFjE6al9aVsOnt6wT1KvDGM8ZwsP7VvJK9pztt4Z0Hv3nDYySppaWtuG4JmDPDVx5Eh-Digv5Q/s320/20230318_104327.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><i>As recently as March 2023</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkseAKGp3pln2f9OB-6sV4w_XIvJExoyGAQ3kLIuuYAa7Rq4aubjDPd23jpskJmid4bF0BJ_Yul7fVH-hE9sN5gFeL161HyJYgq3-vd9BGrk25Xk9yJcDDEWCRz4wzx8frV_tA-zByknIf-g1If_SzlqlUeI1ZGWVHIouFeFOnfnalARD_w/s3648/PB040107.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2736" data-original-width="3648" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSkseAKGp3pln2f9OB-6sV4w_XIvJExoyGAQ3kLIuuYAa7Rq4aubjDPd23jpskJmid4bF0BJ_Yul7fVH-hE9sN5gFeL161HyJYgq3-vd9BGrk25Xk9yJcDDEWCRz4wzx8frV_tA-zByknIf-g1If_SzlqlUeI1ZGWVHIouFeFOnfnalARD_w/w320-h240/PB040107.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Talking to reporters outside the police station after Bernard's release.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2GO98luG3GK_SaiI-hvNjtd7ADEmon1tx83zCV7ttKbASLqgBxolnJSHeFY0zWDmDMp5nbjNzmaY39BvE8PNCN_EATtfc1HwOkT5RnB_haVaRcc7XUcfkRGy10EOqwK9GKDw-z6tKODknVk8d8U8tx75cp9HsQ1AEHlJ-wKTrEzhymKz4g/s564/9.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="564" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs2GO98luG3GK_SaiI-hvNjtd7ADEmon1tx83zCV7ttKbASLqgBxolnJSHeFY0zWDmDMp5nbjNzmaY39BvE8PNCN_EATtfc1HwOkT5RnB_haVaRcc7XUcfkRGy10EOqwK9GKDw-z6tKODknVk8d8U8tx75cp9HsQ1AEHlJ-wKTrEzhymKz4g/s320/9.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Just from another angle...</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ojIxX47wKCK7RlXBBxJZOipZKj0lJR8DzDZSMNkTA5cVIb8mURytLAdUYQpEuuDfwvi7MS61yniK6nVs93ts6lkD9n8wKSLlLSCJmF8Bm35YW5VLP_8SEG5KQwZhVVwIRXoxTA40qfNYp-6XymWfhk16dMd_wwzpmOVvZpUDeID7AC9uRw/s3264/photo%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2234" data-original-width="3264" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5ojIxX47wKCK7RlXBBxJZOipZKj0lJR8DzDZSMNkTA5cVIb8mURytLAdUYQpEuuDfwvi7MS61yniK6nVs93ts6lkD9n8wKSLlLSCJmF8Bm35YW5VLP_8SEG5KQwZhVVwIRXoxTA40qfNYp-6XymWfhk16dMd_wwzpmOVvZpUDeID7AC9uRw/s320/photo%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>In Bernard's den plotting the next move.</i></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9LgeF6oc8GtvgSS6f6Qfw1JSb-ggwgla7mKGMSTP8DGsWMBdF9X-6gXj368CI_MqQIQgQmD2_jH4Dch1jpLdDtW66u6vYy9avYmZAmcrTvRk2Ap7DMMZMEmjNCH6it6YowLMf3Ez1ff5Ooab5tgTzJ4jSiGzrxJX-cFI_DoY8MFuQTsugA/s706/1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="706" data-original-width="696" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo9LgeF6oc8GtvgSS6f6Qfw1JSb-ggwgla7mKGMSTP8DGsWMBdF9X-6gXj368CI_MqQIQgQmD2_jH4Dch1jpLdDtW66u6vYy9avYmZAmcrTvRk2Ap7DMMZMEmjNCH6it6YowLMf3Ez1ff5Ooab5tgTzJ4jSiGzrxJX-cFI_DoY8MFuQTsugA/s320/1.jpg" width="315" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Well it has a date here. At the Mahasiswa sit-in at Dataran Merdeka.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnD4BQ6Vp8NuQaq8pXyzJRELieIguBEoThIKoiXbv1NbBHqi3UZUlROZD18fuQdkP_r1sPUVcKnjE2chYg_HSTdUVXldEggW7PqrqyNlVSvEjlkyqghkedgmy7p5qGFUQDdbqRZfXXE--MmR3YJJyqwXLpGjju41lOJ-bzXj7gUZ950eJ6g/s720/16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="720" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnD4BQ6Vp8NuQaq8pXyzJRELieIguBEoThIKoiXbv1NbBHqi3UZUlROZD18fuQdkP_r1sPUVcKnjE2chYg_HSTdUVXldEggW7PqrqyNlVSvEjlkyqghkedgmy7p5qGFUQDdbqRZfXXE--MmR3YJJyqwXLpGjju41lOJ-bzXj7gUZ950eJ6g/s320/16.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Estrelita or Lita at the Blog-house after a SABM gathering. </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i> </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVOc9M6LJyyIU7HQfFaV4aqPt6h1OEObbBgSbkmSgIQk2f0QWgByRfXLCQazGt3BLFUFRwJhUwAYdh0DCDwvLZVqk1aYauDJ1duHK2DS_rq3JGNQYwjtjeTjBPbhIG71EIdLTH8qtQ8rG6iaKOaUzbhW9G4EEqg5pxd7XrRNBa6OmJB_GRQ/s720/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="720" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNVOc9M6LJyyIU7HQfFaV4aqPt6h1OEObbBgSbkmSgIQk2f0QWgByRfXLCQazGt3BLFUFRwJhUwAYdh0DCDwvLZVqk1aYauDJ1duHK2DS_rq3JGNQYwjtjeTjBPbhIG71EIdLTH8qtQ8rG6iaKOaUzbhW9G4EEqg5pxd7XrRNBa6OmJB_GRQ/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>At KL High Court for another of Haris' case. Pictured here with him are his 2 biological older brothers and Arthur.</i></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUxvPn-qOS2aK8DCh-VoaB9D9jlNeFnuXr2UdmaBSzGlD00eqsf3RILYARqrDg-9_u-ftg3m_4R1KyleJHFUC_5ULlWl-RyK3BmQJEi28hwHaPc8eopr5Y7n4FJ27j40nvXK462o-cERq5gQ3-us7wbHwZj00Z6z07m5HDOD-zEvaGPa0FQ/s720/b.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="720" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUxvPn-qOS2aK8DCh-VoaB9D9jlNeFnuXr2UdmaBSzGlD00eqsf3RILYARqrDg-9_u-ftg3m_4R1KyleJHFUC_5ULlWl-RyK3BmQJEi28hwHaPc8eopr5Y7n4FJ27j40nvXK462o-cERq5gQ3-us7wbHwZj00Z6z07m5HDOD-zEvaGPa0FQ/s320/b.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Read the info.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKn12NudSFqSPiaU2SQcQcWIbz_ez9iJniNffneBuDuOYzbj6Wk3AiWi8KcB9TRCoBhtIcCCn93XwyBwLjFuqdkRELIOWkiiE-LuOEfnE3PUBOO0RCyN2F5bUntSeEp5kVW_qd-8b9JM7PWpSs2Xs9WhHi9czPdVMW2ReJovoT1X3gxh96g/s676/14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="463" data-original-width="676" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWKn12NudSFqSPiaU2SQcQcWIbz_ez9iJniNffneBuDuOYzbj6Wk3AiWi8KcB9TRCoBhtIcCCn93XwyBwLjFuqdkRELIOWkiiE-LuOEfnE3PUBOO0RCyN2F5bUntSeEp5kVW_qd-8b9JM7PWpSs2Xs9WhHi9czPdVMW2ReJovoT1X3gxh96g/s320/14.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Rare photo of him actually listening. </i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIomKvMZJUK3WFvJUxhZQeQFHjXRpygKO4mQWSEWwS1tYm1scYNs3iT1utL1B74fAcnOZ4uG7XlyZUgAGWUmOrGLsOAx067k0gpY3UNiCteiZCnY9oVqJY2OahIzXSMpyTfZ3GTpgKurziBQkHA_NmZ46ZYG9oj0_kGgx2WUNQ1Y8ywZ56sQ/s721/17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="718" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIomKvMZJUK3WFvJUxhZQeQFHjXRpygKO4mQWSEWwS1tYm1scYNs3iT1utL1B74fAcnOZ4uG7XlyZUgAGWUmOrGLsOAx067k0gpY3UNiCteiZCnY9oVqJY2OahIzXSMpyTfZ3GTpgKurziBQkHA_NmZ46ZYG9oj0_kGgx2WUNQ1Y8ywZ56sQ/s320/17.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Listening to another fishy joke of Bernard's at my condo balcony during one of those drinkie nights.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CLRZAsa8CJcRDoxFJQHmSWm7tfQava6LKzoaho-CbhuA8TIrAj-ruN1gclhTzRl4I59w7nXf-4gQdasxv73ESrSdTKFAceopO3Zxll-_rVZMh-P9MGbFGv5kkxKDWefuprnF0-bijiNA41eLcxeFDF60IuKf1AxgmpDlEyB8RuYwwBhHAg/s720/18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2CLRZAsa8CJcRDoxFJQHmSWm7tfQava6LKzoaho-CbhuA8TIrAj-ruN1gclhTzRl4I59w7nXf-4gQdasxv73ESrSdTKFAceopO3Zxll-_rVZMh-P9MGbFGv5kkxKDWefuprnF0-bijiNA41eLcxeFDF60IuKf1AxgmpDlEyB8RuYwwBhHAg/s320/18.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>At one of the Bersih walks. Can't remember which one as we have walked in all</i>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5zFftNUN2U4WWi7kaZ6_X-lsSfMuyWMvm7AY20WZ6oNHVf9kkwhYNDEsIDap8smyg-A_QlZzrmeTh1Z2k4NR3HG2gIk8-oFcs13y83pGkdEDprMbeazBK46pXhg0q1ka2BJzJ1r0MrS1f4jWqmePcelruthcSmQX6T7_UdGhzNyDJj9rBg/s720/c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="552" data-original-width="720" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK5zFftNUN2U4WWi7kaZ6_X-lsSfMuyWMvm7AY20WZ6oNHVf9kkwhYNDEsIDap8smyg-A_QlZzrmeTh1Z2k4NR3HG2gIk8-oFcs13y83pGkdEDprMbeazBK46pXhg0q1ka2BJzJ1r0MrS1f4jWqmePcelruthcSmQX6T7_UdGhzNyDJj9rBg/s320/c.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Making a toast to the newly married couple at the NPC.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i>With a fan at the Bloghouse during the launch of SABM.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMb9t9nefmrE2B73f-fzbLBZ_3xhXQ-oau185-pLIVRyMBpcL_RXBVK1gV9TL8PoTucrLPGbTY2av1Jb_8pBd-ANxjAUHMdAZ67irbcP8yEpzSUxzu80NPank4zyUMluKv-oW6_uh9AvQCFkuQWeNUxnnyy2MwJ8R3ueRkLRv4hjLX9A4AQ/s720/13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="720" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaMb9t9nefmrE2B73f-fzbLBZ_3xhXQ-oau185-pLIVRyMBpcL_RXBVK1gV9TL8PoTucrLPGbTY2av1Jb_8pBd-ANxjAUHMdAZ67irbcP8yEpzSUxzu80NPank4zyUMluKv-oW6_uh9AvQCFkuQWeNUxnnyy2MwJ8R3ueRkLRv4hjLX9A4AQ/s320/13.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Breakfast in Kampung Baru after one of the earlier protest walks. Don't ask me which one. Can't remember.</i><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrohjnbhkrIqhDglUwhQxCahQl0BBsrWO9xLe9B3FK7YRBzAZYYb1XAwxxPfSuwHpzRGzAfNPQCjSc9YKlDDwDYGrFS5YnUPJX9Dn16RLUtZawzO8t2lM9--8HzHEvc_QIk2lHR-EDlN6wLCQXUvunJHK5XX6J04XfEB0yjWb8ociyMKULg/s720/7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIrohjnbhkrIqhDglUwhQxCahQl0BBsrWO9xLe9B3FK7YRBzAZYYb1XAwxxPfSuwHpzRGzAfNPQCjSc9YKlDDwDYGrFS5YnUPJX9Dn16RLUtZawzO8t2lM9--8HzHEvc_QIk2lHR-EDlN6wLCQXUvunJHK5XX6J04XfEB0yjWb8ociyMKULg/s320/7.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>This I remember is sometime in mid 2000s. The time Jeff Ooi was inducted into DAP politics and after a small makan.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>(l-r: Nuraina Samad, yours truly, Haris, Jeff Ooi and Rocky) </i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUe3mXBLE7UH9JO-T5CpmKfVkMhoLNzc4lSUDhrhXwIYXIaN6nRc_Oi-dnHNpsUyQQmXrHm-SEk6RKod9q3eIoGlmBwqk8RiOGMKnMdJ14CJpWWZS6JuE4IdOiSf-S2meJ4icXyo4q1iV6BdZSeB1UKYRUbI7RNX5sm4qeQLKFGMff-Ua3w/s720/4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="720" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigUe3mXBLE7UH9JO-T5CpmKfVkMhoLNzc4lSUDhrhXwIYXIaN6nRc_Oi-dnHNpsUyQQmXrHm-SEk6RKod9q3eIoGlmBwqk8RiOGMKnMdJ14CJpWWZS6JuE4IdOiSf-S2meJ4icXyo4q1iV6BdZSeB1UKYRUbI7RNX5sm4qeQLKFGMff-Ua3w/s320/4.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>At the Saints with publican Jerry Chong.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGImqTfxw9C1xkzSGDiyEex6XG3O6-pMCDOefbmYA0KSdqmrIXGkUnriwKTcBZqXeeVYORNvcr-O3eNP2MUrZa4UAh8urpjGr-GSGsuHlKEbg7E-ChyYUkad-XQ6b4GGjjKVoMkEGVKk39m7YTNIgR5ZsieV3EaISd4atWATg2mQuy9lCi4w/s720/a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="525" data-original-width="720" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGImqTfxw9C1xkzSGDiyEex6XG3O6-pMCDOefbmYA0KSdqmrIXGkUnriwKTcBZqXeeVYORNvcr-O3eNP2MUrZa4UAh8urpjGr-GSGsuHlKEbg7E-ChyYUkad-XQ6b4GGjjKVoMkEGVKk39m7YTNIgR5ZsieV3EaISd4atWATg2mQuy9lCi4w/s320/a.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Yet another Bersih walk I think with Jason T. Ahhh....how I miss those smoking days.</i><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYXS_4UrdZ7grqx5t0SexZc_ou_Osbg8renYkx5qYSMYStngpScoea0N2Eq1ZWW9B0ZYyqdp6OzR0stwdORJLcAFuM0kjkWlH3bRYzyWMviirlRpD1ONiZ-wP2MC79LR9Y1EhcBm0uieXU7ix02YxGg_6xHKL2elcLP891DsUp8QSACszzg/s902/4-4-2022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTYXS_4UrdZ7grqx5t0SexZc_ou_Osbg8renYkx5qYSMYStngpScoea0N2Eq1ZWW9B0ZYyqdp6OzR0stwdORJLcAFuM0kjkWlH3bRYzyWMviirlRpD1ONiZ-wP2MC79LR9Y1EhcBm0uieXU7ix02YxGg_6xHKL2elcLP891DsUp8QSACszzg/s320/4-4-2022.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>About a year ago below my condo.</i></div></div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lPBMyMffqc4MWUN6eVSYgBA9MnxtI7evVbD3u1sZNtdQAJGg0BfLfDCka21vpW_zMOoS1hn6PsvnLPZPfaSrirw4Fc5LHQVej0JrlxL6D3tL_cfzhms01xu5LlFJ6PNA_uBYMYb2rwTcvqjvuX2k7juYgVG3ekoZBL5d6diTyC7Y0mtb5Q/s1080/Screenshot_20230318-170322_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="1080" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7lPBMyMffqc4MWUN6eVSYgBA9MnxtI7evVbD3u1sZNtdQAJGg0BfLfDCka21vpW_zMOoS1hn6PsvnLPZPfaSrirw4Fc5LHQVej0JrlxL6D3tL_cfzhms01xu5LlFJ6PNA_uBYMYb2rwTcvqjvuX2k7juYgVG3ekoZBL5d6diTyC7Y0mtb5Q/s320/Screenshot_20230318-170322_Facebook.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Arthur and Haris having lunch recently. </i></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaIezE4Hvx9-Fbz_HeKKJEa4Re7vnrO6nmoiu1o8pR2JsTE52G6wHVqxCwU9wD05v19866sJKOQYwpj9aTqAqsvOBfrzHNDdAYz5LRrAXDSruvTquGPjmjieYxtUIEMoR8RsT72hDGrUd7DpSvzi4dw03oaqzRu1PPQ2GuOUvWMDM2zGAxQ/s704/100.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="704" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEaIezE4Hvx9-Fbz_HeKKJEa4Re7vnrO6nmoiu1o8pR2JsTE52G6wHVqxCwU9wD05v19866sJKOQYwpj9aTqAqsvOBfrzHNDdAYz5LRrAXDSruvTquGPjmjieYxtUIEMoR8RsT72hDGrUd7DpSvzi4dw03oaqzRu1PPQ2GuOUvWMDM2zGAxQ/s320/100.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Ashok Kandiah and his lovely family too are close to Haris.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVMuh8n-gT9jh6FOTZRsgEeJpQ4ZeUC2Uyl7paIAABjRsiBVzaGhy14QMHprVowCCDcOaiTJxCP3OYNvJuw7SsH3DyuHyCx0IjH3F6nRxvkHkhNLqM_qNEPo3DzQV5zQJr9OEQrP3LcCSJARjrAljh_2Fm6acnF8mAuN4FwNvek_PtKfMPg/s2057/Screenshot_20230320-090821_Chrome.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="647" data-original-width="2057" height="126" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPVMuh8n-gT9jh6FOTZRsgEeJpQ4ZeUC2Uyl7paIAABjRsiBVzaGhy14QMHprVowCCDcOaiTJxCP3OYNvJuw7SsH3DyuHyCx0IjH3F6nRxvkHkhNLqM_qNEPo3DzQV5zQJr9OEQrP3LcCSJARjrAljh_2Fm6acnF8mAuN4FwNvek_PtKfMPg/w394-h126/Screenshot_20230320-090821_Chrome.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>This is the Special Bunch. </i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgBNPFayHpGVJR_YxvAxbQ7hpXZTpswWVbwWjdY8TZAZk9wQwFR_u1DaGIZRvBZ5_ebFVuV9kgEmbTYheSdFLvcyTeESry3OpyThxY0csASJJ0t_7PghiHK9MnkpPkHBbWz4kX1MLI-xJkOlo-WFVmfi2P8DtU0hKoU4Q3dqIV2fcYQ4EwQ/s1441/Screenshot_20230201-093754_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1441" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYgBNPFayHpGVJR_YxvAxbQ7hpXZTpswWVbwWjdY8TZAZk9wQwFR_u1DaGIZRvBZ5_ebFVuV9kgEmbTYheSdFLvcyTeESry3OpyThxY0csASJJ0t_7PghiHK9MnkpPkHBbWz4kX1MLI-xJkOlo-WFVmfi2P8DtU0hKoU4Q3dqIV2fcYQ4EwQ/s320/Screenshot_20230201-093754_Facebook.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Another very recent photo of Haris. </i></div><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-78347228937009495852022-05-01T19:42:00.003+08:002022-05-01T19:42:58.511+08:00Drug mules, NGOs and a donkey. <p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK2zzRKW4okVREfl6fHigzomb9u7qt2NLoceWuW6NlyknhcSXlIgVqXv0K0uiSDIynHjA0gL75MiLMehb94Qu-CPyXud6WWsGiXw-TXOEyvoYFfeMNDwzgxBvkYa2ZUfjNTIfmfKM8xD0EClNjS06K4tmnbbo0b5kk-X4vjJ7-WphGnfG_w/s464/Screenshot_20220501-172142_Google%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="464" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcK2zzRKW4okVREfl6fHigzomb9u7qt2NLoceWuW6NlyknhcSXlIgVqXv0K0uiSDIynHjA0gL75MiLMehb94Qu-CPyXud6WWsGiXw-TXOEyvoYFfeMNDwzgxBvkYa2ZUfjNTIfmfKM8xD0EClNjS06K4tmnbbo0b5kk-X4vjJ7-WphGnfG_w/w257-h177/Screenshot_20220501-172142_Google%5B1%5D.jpg" width="257" /></a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">There are 9 drug related Malaysian prisoners in death-row in the Changgi Prison in Singapore at the moment. All awaiting their appeals and if the Singaporean courts rejects their appeal, its game-over for them. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Despite having the strictest drug trafficking laws in the world, why would these traffickers knowingly try their luck as mules and couriers to smuggle those illegal substances into the tiny but rank 4th. least corrupt nation in the world (tied with Sweden and Norway and according to Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index(CPI) 2021) and Malaysia is ranked 62 out of a 180 countries (a surprising figure in the same report, if I may say so!) for love of monetary rewards? Yes, the lure of making fast and easy big money is irresistible. And the greed consumes these mules or traffickers into taking that risk. All in death row will swear on the holy book it was their first offense BUT how would we know how many successful trips they would have delivered their merchandise and collected huge returns? How many children turned out as addicts in Singapore? And these same mules will also now plead insanity as a final resort? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now in Malaysia we have 1,042 in death-row including 413 foreign nationals. (I can't say how many are for drug related crimes) Does it not reek of hypocrisy when so many Malaysians and NGOs are joining in protesting the death verdicts dished out in Singapore by their courts when they don't give a rats arse of the same sentences being passed out here like sweets? Perhaps these fakes and frauds feel up-lifted to be in the same protest as Sir Richard Branson and some Hollywood personality joining in the same cause? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-nHp4Mnqyd-HeFzHzY1dIPRE-SdducJRfTuKH2ha9b-dyQcmLE2S_lEHjqygPipoMdMq29jRlceHRhUhGJ_3m4FNE_pX8_7RhnLPQV_sNX6mEVnhZ8FhW6Twx-kqguX53tI-YLM39I3p8qZOfyVBmb5KsguM7LEAKx1v2u3R5eIIJGbK5g/s588/20220501_180700%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="322" data-original-width="588" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2-nHp4Mnqyd-HeFzHzY1dIPRE-SdducJRfTuKH2ha9b-dyQcmLE2S_lEHjqygPipoMdMq29jRlceHRhUhGJ_3m4FNE_pX8_7RhnLPQV_sNX6mEVnhZ8FhW6Twx-kqguX53tI-YLM39I3p8qZOfyVBmb5KsguM7LEAKx1v2u3R5eIIJGbK5g/w229-h125/20220501_180700%5B1%5D.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Let me ask you a question. Do you have a drug dependent member in your family? Simply put, an addict or junkie with serious drug problems? If you don't, good and thank your God for that. But do you know of someone who has a junkie in theirs? Have you spoken to them about that one child of theirs who turned out a junkie? Did you ask how they are coping? Once a child of teenage age is a junkie, chances are he/she is either kicked out of the house or he/she chooses to live off the streets scrapping from dustbins and stealing anything they can get their hands on to sell and support their daily addiction. I am talking of the ordinary person's child and not the children of the ultra-rich with strong political connections. A ride around the back roads of Chow Kit will give you a general idea of what I'm talking about. Parents who cry every night to sleep thinking how their kid got into this habit of drug abuse. Blaming and cursing others will not suppress their torment. A child who steals money from pockets and purses of parents or steal anything from their house to sell to maintain their addiction? The family is shattered and broken and nothing can stop their grief of having a stray child. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Yet recently in Ipoh, the funeral of one such mule was given a hero's burial with much celebration. Only one other rogue on the same token, (I digress here and it's not drug related!) who is still alive and free is given an even more carnival-like pomp for stealing insane amounts running in the billions from the rakyat's coffers and seemingly treated like a king is Najib the ex-premier and a convicted felon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">It just begs questions on where our morals compass points and the future of this country is heading when so many idol-worship criminals, drug dealers and gangsters as role models! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Perhaps the parents of these death-row mules and all NGOs who protest to end the Mandatory Death for Drug Trafficking laws (I'm not against their protests because its their absolute right, even as I agree to disagree, to their cause) should go and seek forgiveness from all those families whose lives and families have been displaced and hearts broken because their child became a junkie! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><i>*I do apologise for the long absence from active blogging but today being Labour Day let me salute those who do an honest days work and have perfect families to celebrate with. Cheers! </i></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-75729346820621361192021-11-17T20:41:00.002+08:002021-11-17T20:53:07.338+08:00Rogue's Gallery (Pt.II)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbiAbdoSQaVZSPrhy5acKgmNjqeloBGJUPRO8k71-7QxtJyX9LMrHf8_mI7Z2ElsiPkf7Bs4pYI-AcwvzrzYqwN2jEUPnOvp9f-aUejrcsG4Xuft3q5qgF01pRLbP1NNXO3CO2/s526/Rasuah.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="526" data-original-width="526" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbiAbdoSQaVZSPrhy5acKgmNjqeloBGJUPRO8k71-7QxtJyX9LMrHf8_mI7Z2ElsiPkf7Bs4pYI-AcwvzrzYqwN2jEUPnOvp9f-aUejrcsG4Xuft3q5qgF01pRLbP1NNXO3CO2/w391-h343/Rasuah.jpg" width="391" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I can honestly say this is the BEST political joke for the year 2021! </span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The face of the world's greatest kleptocrat Najib and his band of brigands in modern times are asking you to join them in their fight against corruption! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Surely they have absolutely no shame or self worth even though they are known to be not mere millionaires BUT billionaires through corrupt acquirement and who have got the entire judiciary and enforcement in the country their pockets. Its also ironic these same thieves always begin their speech in any <i>ceremah</i>, reciting phrases from the Holy book as if all they have done is quiet halal. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps in their own interpretation whatever they have done is considered kosher only because they've been led to believe by their partner in crime, a green-robed towelhead named Hadi, the <i>"spiritual"</i> leader of the Islamic party PAS. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Its about time the 2 thieves in the middle Najib and Zahid (both with numerous criminal charges for corruption and embezzlement already passed by a court of law - whatever that means in Malaysia!) be thrown in jail to rot for the rest of their pathetic lives instead of parading themselves like peacocks in heat! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">ABU! ABU! ABU!</span></b></i></p><p> </p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-11906446020039334752021-09-17T14:42:00.005+08:002021-09-17T15:39:54.185+08:00Stupid parents OR failed government?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzgw_LG4_ffPWMrDWTx_pYbY86fjBJbOFI1Yrl2BFY3Qqnc-KvreQqCdCHXrBLfzrhMBMWjc5KL4S0' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><p>Of course as the header goes, both will deny and be the apologist for one and the other. </p><p>Are these parents so hard-up for a holiday at the beach, rivers and water-falls in the middle of this dreadful pandemic? We hit a high of 592 deaths in a single day! Still not afraid, aye?</p><p>As the saying goes, a few moments of pleasure and a lifetime of regret and sorrow. How then? </p><p>Opps...am I talking about shot-gun marriages? No, seriously to the folks who were there on the beach, rivers and water-falls, ask yourself this. Will it be worth it, if God forbid, you or any of your family members , especially little and innocent ones contacted this deadly virus in that crowd? How? </p><p>Still not afraid?</p><p>That being so, you better start praying. </p><p>Happy Malaysia Day.</p><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-38424570723690131872021-09-07T09:13:00.004+08:002021-09-07T09:13:52.539+08:00Pay heed, morons.<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dxjasojItgj6_lx4KdQ0rgF09BS4noI-I6NKydSn1XbsMztn2wF5FwqAw_VFZivk7vNo0nWDN3dn6s' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /> <p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-70215380137678515792021-09-04T15:06:00.006+08:002021-09-04T15:17:37.637+08:00Queen's English anyone?<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: left;">Time and time again I have been bitching about the FAILED education system in our once colonial ruled nation wherein our leaders spoke the Queen's English eloquently and could even throw in a hilarious off-the-cuff joke injected in a speech during a serious world matter on an international stage full of foreign dignitaries without embarrassing our country-folks who are watching on some remote electronic black and white screen back home. </span><span style="text-align: left;">That was in a time before instant technology and smart phones. That was back in the 60s and early 70s. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes, there are still a handful today who can sway an audience of foreigners in a forum or convention hall with their good English but they are certainly not representing the government but maybe some international company or firm who had head-hunted them here in Malaysia for their intelligence, proficiency and command of the English language. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And do you want to know who represents us today at international forums and conventions where cameras from all over the world are focused on the speaker and broadcasted to their respective countries, who were never once ruled by England nor did they even speak English as a second language. What became of our colonial English standards? Who do you blame for this rot since the mid-70s onwards? I blame the racist old MahaFiraun and his then lackey Anwar for this rot that's both beyond repair and redemption. They were the belligerent recalcitrants who did away with English and altered our colonial history in our schools text-books to instill a false sense of <i>"shiok-sendiri"</i> Malay pride that denied the Malays of a good English education instead while they, the elitists sent their children to boarding schools in Europe and merry old England to study. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, Malaysians are embarrassed by the likes of ministers who fumble pathetically in front of a hall full of foreigners and cameras, and who's only medium of getting their country's message across to the wider world is in ENGLISH! Plain simple English would suffice. No need for bombastic words even you cannot pronounce. Is there any chance to better our education system? You tell me.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Kindly listen to 2 such embarrassing moments and an extremely bungling signboard below, wherein our so-called highly educated but non-elected ministers struggled to appear like bright sparks! The entire speech itself sounded like that off-the-cuff joke I mentioned earlier above. Sheeesh!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzaoi6eO7aNifqjO3RtwRckul59ds_odvJWNlgHmETrTxj1Fun1ZgPoLVFs05v_f17TDj-ZOfMjC90' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOSdmdJRTAfmQmJJj1HgGPzwj_QPKXr2P1Po9B9Io1xIkZCJvdsL4nMG91MITIVa0C_qXqfhBlQ_9znQj3Dn5Hg5AuWJC6qrbiLDGMGJ6zDZ3P1Xi5bAMSQ0fB9to8wEUY1qhY/s657/0.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="657" data-original-width="602" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOSdmdJRTAfmQmJJj1HgGPzwj_QPKXr2P1Po9B9Io1xIkZCJvdsL4nMG91MITIVa0C_qXqfhBlQ_9znQj3Dn5Hg5AuWJC6qrbiLDGMGJ6zDZ3P1Xi5bAMSQ0fB9to8wEUY1qhY/s320/0.jpg" width="293" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzdKz16E109Pi9N5tToTYrui7VvZJ1iMFV-M5FcoLPlCDni_3loyma7MphYliQ9HZ8QfxJVlIn-EaY' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Enjoy your weekend. </span><span><span style="text-align: justify;">God bless Malaysia. My Malaysia! </span><br /> </span></span><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-71054677740976593132021-04-30T13:56:00.002+08:002021-04-30T15:16:25.410+08:00My April 'ghost-writer'.<br />From: Owen Jones <div>To: Anwar Ibrahim: <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCuBadTZeOiE7P4rn6YqUy7Dd0ys6sOnbSWWblA6q_FhJksCmlgiAaBZ3jUrAnAbp9yX8LnTg8BvOFzdXlT0_Y1AzUotO6HhkP-RFdIBFktpR8c-16GCcEcCipLXLMaBiqWgk/s500/Guy-Fawkes-mask.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxCuBadTZeOiE7P4rn6YqUy7Dd0ys6sOnbSWWblA6q_FhJksCmlgiAaBZ3jUrAnAbp9yX8LnTg8BvOFzdXlT0_Y1AzUotO6HhkP-RFdIBFktpR8c-16GCcEcCipLXLMaBiqWgk/w107-h106/Guy-Fawkes-mask.jpg" width="107" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Don’t talk cock. I am a stout defender of you but I am certainly not averse to giving you a piece of my mind if it is needed.</i>
First and foremost Anwar Ibrahim - Why were special privileges for Malays written into the Federal Constitution? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>It was simply because the Reid Commission which drafted it believed that the Malays were backward and needed particular attention for them to catch up with the rest. </i><i>The British had not seen the Malays do hard work as they had seen the Indians and Chinese do.</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
The fact is Anwar Ibrahim there is racial and religious discrimination even in the most advanced societies. Why do you think the ‘Black Lives Matter’ and ‘say no to racism’ campaigns are happening? It is because of racial discrimination.
But what is worse is that in Malaysia - there is not only racial and religious discrimination but they are official policies. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>If a country has laws that promote racial discrimination that nation is labelled as one that has an <b>APARTHEID</b> policy. The truth is that the Reid Commission had included a moratorium on the ‘special privileges’ - they were to end in 1990.
But the CC with a two-third majority in Parliament amended the Constitution to read as “for as long as deemed necessary” so that he and his cronies could continue the rape and plunder of the nation indefinitely. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Please do not pretend that you do not know this Anwar Ibrahim. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes there is racial discrimination by other communities. But this is at the individual level. It is not policy. But why is it happening? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Those who studied in the English medium schools never saw their fellow students as anything else. But all this changed when the conniving chameleon Mahathir became PM. English went out and in came a racist brand of education clearly intended to segregate the people. What Mahathir started in the 1970s is what we see today and what most of us including Tommy Thomas have seen. It was so easy for TT to make a comparison because he worked with the crème de la crème in his legal profession and law firm. When he entered the civil service the disparity in standards shocked the life out of him. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is what the CC’s racist policies have brought about. Malays in high office and high positions who are there simply because they are Malay. When people are given positions by virtue of ‘special privilege’ and not out of merit for their knowledge, experience and intelligence then we know the nation is in trouble. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Don’t forget Anwar Ibrahim that you were tried and jailed by an incompetent judiciary that was just acting on the instructions of its political masters. And pray tell me, Anwar Ibrahim, how many Malay lawyers defended you?
Y<i>es the bloated civil service is full of unqualified people who are otherwise unemployable outside.
The mediocre education with low marks earning high grades has produced Malays holding certs that are not worth the paper they are printed on.
Pray tell me Anwar Ibrahim, how many non-Malays are employed in the civil service? How many non-Malays are holding senior positions in the civil service? How many non-Malays are holding senior positions in GLCs? Why are the GLCs all such financial disasters?
Why is it that only Malays can lead GLCs and govt depts? How could you expect TT not to talk about the Malays only when there is practically nobody else in the civil service? Isn’t the absence of non-Malays itself damning evidence of the prevailing racial discrimination in this country? </i><i>TT has stated it as it is. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The civil service and the GLCs are prime examples of the blind leading the blind or where mediocrity is the order of the day.
Don’t try to defend the indefensible Anwar Ibrahim. The fact is that truth is often the most bitter pill. TT is a brave man to stand up for it. So, Anwar Ibrahim please do not lose the respect of non-Malays and right thinking Malays by attempting a puerile cover-up of the truth just to score some political brownie points.
Anwar Ibrahim - today you have sown the seed of doubt as to your leadership qualities.
<i>Perhaps the MC is right after all - that you have no idea at all about what to do next - apart from theatrics that appeal to the gallery. I am truly disappointed.</i> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">OJ!!</div><div><br /></div><div><i>NOTE: </i></div><div><i>Posted as received via WhatsApp.</i></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">MY TAKE: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Okay, folks, here's what I really think. This posting may actually be a Malaysian using a pseudonym of the Guardian's columnist's Owen Jones' pen name. If only, for the life of me, some one can tell me what CC means, then perhaps I might get a clearer picture. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">As much as it may ruffle more then just a few feathers, mainly by those living in denial or are too young to have followed our "REAL" history, a lot of what this ghost writer writes about Anwar and his then "master" the MahaFiraun I concur, they both had a big hand in altering, amending and skewering the Federal Constitution with a Malay agenda uppermost in their list of priorities. That's a given. But let's not lose sleep over what we, the non-Malays have come to understand the true nature and lip-service of our politicians. We don't need a "mat salleh wannabe" or a poser to tell us what we already know of. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Thank you. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></div><div><br /></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-65514823603707151712021-02-24T21:35:00.008+08:002021-02-24T23:15:41.330+08:00Betrayers of the Rakyat - 1st. Anniversary. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Presenting the entire <i>"out''</i> cast of the tragic downfall (<i>in order of appearance</i>) of what Malaysians, the gullible and naïve tax-paying rakyat, who only 20 months before a year ago, were made to believe, with hopes dashed, a year today. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And I had warned years before this day (<i>if you care to go and read my earlier postings from 2007!</i>) of why everyone was especially so forgiving of the numero uno character in this dastardly produced <i>'play'</i> who I continue to focus and refer to as always, The MahaFiraun. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a most painful day for many a year ago like me, who had tirelessly fought the system ala 'David against Goliath' for years and had taken to the streets like me too, so many many times, I forget now, only to be betrayed by a fork-tongued racist, who cleverly conned every politician of the then PH to appraise him up to the highest position in government again. And to have all their trust sold and their <i>"hopes"</i> betrayed by this same scheming old man! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have never forgiven Anwar and Lim Kit Siang nor their families who fell prey to this lying old man, the MahaFiraun. I noticed the unease and fore-brooding body-language of both Anwar and Kit Siang every time they were in this monster's presence. A hypocrisy of sorts. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But then, so too were the entire PH politicians and their supporters taken in and pitied this harmless old man with a <i>'blurred-vision'</i> when he cunningly released the photo of his dear old wife, Siti Hasmah, (<i>honestly, I have nothing against this fine old lady.</i>) seated with her head hung low during an investigation in a police station and bingo!... all hearts was <b><i>"SOLD"</i></b>! And that folks, is how the devil works.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But who'd have been bothered to have taken a mere blogger's views, thoughts, warnings and voice in the wilderness, seriously then? Really!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">P.S.- <i><span style="font-size: x-small;">I don't know who created these posters below, with an apt summary therein but I, for one, tip my hat to this candid literary critic. Remember thine faces. 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Zainun<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FrWUeI89dVUkTZM-pBUI9vbzLeuC2xD5pyDqcDj0jRUkWRViNx0Sh1X1SS0i0oGSF54qV9h2zAnxXe3o7xxjUxH7wDluGhxTKDVwnmZcPAXKTiDwLGZZaLahRjv4FLhk-odC/s308/Rahim+Zainun1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="308" data-original-width="269" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5FrWUeI89dVUkTZM-pBUI9vbzLeuC2xD5pyDqcDj0jRUkWRViNx0Sh1X1SS0i0oGSF54qV9h2zAnxXe3o7xxjUxH7wDluGhxTKDVwnmZcPAXKTiDwLGZZaLahRjv4FLhk-odC/w161-h185/Rahim+Zainun1.jpg" width="161" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="text-align: left;"><br /></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large; text-align: left;">Nafsu and the Malays</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Because of nafsu<i> </i>some people became very resourceful - nafsu nak bini orang (other people's wife), some would seek the help of bomoh siam, nafsu nak cepat kaya, they work around the system, beat the system, and became corrupted. Nafsu nak jadi cantik, they resorted to susok.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Its all <i>"nafsu"</i>. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">So, what is nafsu? Its quite difficult to describe nafsu in one word. Goggle says its <i>"lust"</i>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yes, if we talk about sex. Some says its greed; but then I think greed is a direct result of nafsu. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">To me, nafsu is the strong desire for something - (either material or emotional) - beyond ones means or ability to handle such desire.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">For example, a person yearns to own a brand new Mercedes Benz despite ones low monthly income - thats nafsu; spending way above ones income - its nafsu; having meals more than what is normal - its nafsu.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Having wild, multiple sexual relationship - its nafsu buas. Nafsu made an ustaz 'terlajak' to another nearby opening. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">According to a dear friend, some aunties, while already have a cupboard full of tupperwares, would still insist on buying more whenever they attend a parti tupperware; that too is nafsu. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As earlier mentioned, nafsu led to greed - nothing seems to be enough; nafsu made people lose their common sense and forget their purpose in life. Nafsu brings out the worst of a person. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yes, nafsu is a global thing, but in this write up, I am confining myself to the Malays.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">A dear friend shared with me an article on how, in early 1906, nafsu bankrupted my home state, Kedah. It was said that HRH Sultan Kedah at the time, held a three months long wedding celebrations for a few of his children. In doing so, he bankrupted the state when he borrowed heavily from Siam to cover the cost of the said celebrations (amount borrowed: about three million dollars). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">That three million dollars in 1906 is probably worth hundreds of millions of ringgit today. If that is not nafsu, what is it then ?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Its sad; when the English were negotiating with Siam towards Anglo Siamese treaty 1909, Kedah was made to cede a big chunk of her territories to Siam.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It was implied that there was no way Kedah would have a say in that agreement; she had huge debts to settle with Siam.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I have always wondered; the Malays, from a young age, were brought up with Islamic indoctrinations - that nafsu is the mother of all evil, and yet corruptions, abuse of power, drugs and rape cases among the Malays is so wide spread.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">The number of ongoing corruption cases, or ongoing investigations gives you the full spectrum of the Malays involved; ministers, deputy ministers, senior politicians, KSUs, heads of departments, DOs, army and police senior officers, right down to the lower district level administrators.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another friend reasoned out that though Malays were exposed to Islam from the early age, most of such exposures were limited to rituals - how to pray, how to puasa, how to take wudhu etc - very little is done to inculcate the deep understanding and appreciating of why certain things were done in a certain way. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">As we were bombarded with rituals, we forget about values of being a good human being and a good Muslim. Thus, the Kelantanese has no qualm about distructions to their eco system, which led to a near non existence of proper supply of clean water for the last sixty years.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Today, Kedah is sliding down into that direction. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It surely doesn't help when the political party forming state government in Kedah and Kelantan are fast becoming the political chameleons of the country - interpreting basic islamic principles at their own whimps and fancies, conveniently suiting to their position and environment - what was unislamic yesterday is OK today. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I too have always wondered; why do petty corruptions are almost non existance in certain advance countries. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">I meant, do you dare to offer "duit kopi", say £50, to a UK cop who caught you speeding? or some of the country's commitment towards eco system and environment related issues. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Another dear friend cautioned me: do not run down the Malays....well, I do not run down the Malays. Its just that I am so very sick and tired of some Malays who are destroying the Malay society.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">From the days of Bank Rakyat scandal early 70s, to Bank Bumi scandal in the 80s to todays scandals in Tabung Haji, Felda and MARA, its all the doing of the Malays - its self inflicting - to the extend that others in the country are making fun of the Malays.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">It all boils down to nafsu of wanting to get rich in the shortest time possible that some, have no qualm in selling ones dignity and principle in life. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Yes, the Chinese are corrupted, and the Indians are equally corrupted as well, but using that fact as a reason will never never justify why the Malays should also be corrupted. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Ketuanan Melayu is never about the keris but its all about how one conduct himself in public office, and how one respect law and order, and how one control ones nafsu. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Nafsu made people do the unthinkable, and when nafsu rule, everything can be bought. Its just a matter of how much.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Rahim Hj Zainun</span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;">Alumni 2nd College, UM</span></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-35975359231762285642021-01-28T10:06:00.001+08:002021-01-28T10:09:06.779+08:00My January Guest Writer - Sukhdave Singh<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ohON3PG1zqUA1T_bT3WgnX-WBl44Cdd5VBBSvLSrhdwEEbl7zKlQXVdxYqKICFyM-64kKfThhzNACDGSIu73j2HbuBgTbYh8bdlunpNQTc3w0G3mtH4iAnSV8nt8BmacPuQd/s312/20210128_093115.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="232" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ohON3PG1zqUA1T_bT3WgnX-WBl44Cdd5VBBSvLSrhdwEEbl7zKlQXVdxYqKICFyM-64kKfThhzNACDGSIu73j2HbuBgTbYh8bdlunpNQTc3w0G3mtH4iAnSV8nt8BmacPuQd/w149-h200/20210128_093115.jpg" width="149" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Burden of Privilege on the Malaysian Economy</b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Published on January 27, 2021</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Sukudhew (Sukhdave) Singh</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Former Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Malaysia | Former Independent Director, Khazanah Nasional Berhad </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are three systems of privileges that are operating in Malaysia: race, religion and titles. All of them are intended to confer privileges to certain groups and come with exclusive economic benefits for those who are favored by these systems.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is no problem with earned or deserved privilege because such privilege is based on a significant contribution to society and the economy. Such privilege is justifiable given the contribution to the greater good. Also, extreme inequality never benefits a society and cannot be justified. Therefore, extending certain privileges that would enable the economically disadvantaged groups in a society to progress and make a better living are also justifiable. What is not justifiable is when the system of privileges is abused, as is clearly the case in Malaysia, and unearned and undeserved privileges are bestowed. There are social and economic costs to any privilege system and the abuse of these systems only increases those costs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Privileges of Race and Religion</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me deal with race and religion first, which by design, have fractured Malaysian society and created a system of privileges that is hard to justify. Let me illustrate with a couple of examples:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When a Malay tycoon can buy a string of houses in Malaysia at discounted prices while middle income non-Malays have to pay full prices to buy their family homes (effectively subsidizing the tycoon), such discriminatory and unwarranted privilege is justified by a system of privileges related to race.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When a Muslim man can walk into a supermarket and demand that it removes the section containing the <i>“non-halal”</i> products consumed by non-Muslims, there is a religious privilege system that is empowering such inconsiderate and uncouth behavior and its associated belief that the customs and practices of one part of society supersede those of the others.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Race and religion have been used to enshrine a privilege system that has created different classes of citizens in the country. Political shenanigans like the large-scale giving of blue ICs to foreigners in Sabah have elevated those foreigners, because of their religion, to enjoy privileges that are denied to other long-standing citizens of the country. When race and religion are the determinants of privilege, merit has a much smaller role in society and in the allocation of economic opportunities.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As it is, the privileges of race and religion have elevated mediocre minds to where they can tell the rest of society what it can and cannot do. The privileges of race and religion have lifted unqualified and incompetent individuals into positions of leadership. The privileges of race and religion have provided opportunities for individuals to enrich themselves through dishonest means, to betray public trust, to loot public funds – all with impunity. The privileges of race and religion have legitimized rent-seeking as an economic activity. The privileges of race and religion have allowed exclusive access to economic resources through institutionalized discrimination. It is primarily to safeguard these privileges that Malaysia has been unwilling to sign up to some very basic international conventions on human rights, including the International Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), and International Convention on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The New Economic Policy was misguided. Instead of focusing on economic need, it decided to focus on race. Had it focused on economic need, it would have achieved superior outcomes in reducing all forms of economic inequality, it would have led to far less distortionary policies, and it would not have entailed the massive waste of taxpayers’ funds. Most important of all, it would have cemented a Malaysian identity where all citizens in need are treated equally. By making the NEP race-based, it has allowed unscrupulous individuals to hijack the benefits to enrich themselves while enacting self-preserving policies that are definitely not in the interest of the Malaysian economy, and may not even be in the interest of those that the NEP was supposed to help.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am very pessimistic that the Malaysian economy will ever be unshackled from the fetters of the NEP. It has proved to be too profitable for those who have hijacked its benefits and a large deluded sector of our society continues to be fed the narrative of <i>“us against them,”</i> that has been the foundation of such policies. This means that the economic distortions created by these policies will continue to undermine the Malaysian economy at a time when the global competitiveness of the Malaysian economy is being challenged as it never has been before. It is a burden of privilege that the Malaysian economy can ill-afford.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The privileges of Titles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have nothing against titles and I do believe that a well-managed system of awards can help better society and the economy by recognizing and highlighting individuals with outstanding character that have done great service to the society and country. It provides a beacon for the rest of society by highlighting the behaviors and values we want to encourage. Regrettably, this is not the case with Malaysia’s system of titles. There are certainly deserving individuals who have served the country and continue to do so even today and I personally know a few of them. However, they are just a few drops in a bucket full of title holders for whom no one can tell why they carry the titles they do.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is the consequences of profligate and undeserved privileges of titles that worry me, certainly due to the effect on the economy, but also in terms of the type of society we have become. Let me mention a few personal experiences:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I recall when I was a deputy governor at the Central Bank, people who did not know me will often call me <i>“Datuk”</i>, implying a safe assumption that anyone in my position must have that title. When I went to meetings in Putrajaya, some staff there will invariably refer to me as <i>“Datuk.”</i> At first, I tried to correct them but after a while I gave up and so I was often a <i>“Datuk”</i> without the title ever having been conferred upon me.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On other occasions, someone will call me <i>“Datuk”</i>, and when I told them that I was not, the consistent response was to try to console me with words like: <i>“Don’t worry. Your time will come. I am sure that your contributions to the nation will be recognized.”</i> They seemed to be embarrassed for me. Nobody ever asked me if I wanted a title in the first place. It was just assumed that I did, and the fact that I did not have one, was a matter of embarrassment.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I also recall experiences at dinners and functions where someone will introduce themselves in this way: <i>“Good evening, I am X,” </i>and then leaning closer as if sharing a secret, <i>“That is, Datuk/Dato/etc. X.”</i> I presume that these individuals were trying to impress me with their modesty by not announcing their titles out loud, but yet not too modestly in still wanting me to know that they had a title.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, in Malaysia, the definition of success is the type and number of titles attached to your name rather than the real effort you have put into achieving professional and economic success. Even an unsuccessful business person with a title can be seen as successful. Successful businessmen/women and professionals are unsatisfied unless that success is complemented with a title. The likes of Elon Musk and Steve Jobs will be nothing in Malaysia unless they have a <i>"Tan Sri" </i>attached to their name. It has perpetuated and exacerbated the high level of hypocrisy that we see in our society. For example, individuals who have no problem accepting a title, or have put great effort and expense into obtaining one, then make a great public show of not using that title in a false display of modesty. Individuals who claim to be religious and to be <i>“man of god”</i> show no hesitation in embellishing their names with <i>“earthly”</i> titles. It has led to sycophantic behavior among the population with frequent chanting of <i>“Datuk, Dato Seri, Tan Sri, etc.”</i> at any function or event. More insidiously, it has created a culture of subservience and unquestioning obedience to people with titles, even when witnessing their misdeeds and criminal acts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">From a broader societal and economic perspective, it is worth asking if these titles incentivize individuals to great achievements and whether they are a recognition of such achievements. My sense is that they are neither. Let me illustrate with a few examples.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Why should civil servants with guaranteed incomes and lifetime employment, and guaranteed pensions upon retirement, need to be rewarded with titles? What outstanding service beyond the call of duty is being recognized? Why are politicians showered with titles when they are clearly failing in their responsibilities to the rakyat that elected them? Why should businessmen who have done nothing but enrich themselves be given titles? What societal achievement of theirs is being recognized? Why do academics have titles? Have they published academic work that has brought global renown? Have they produced outstanding students that are the pride of the nation? What is exactly the merit that is being recognized? Does anyone know? So, when there are so many individuals walking around with titles and no one can say why they got them, how can such a system be the basis of recognizing and inspiring great achievement?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">No one can deny the proliferation of titles in our country, and if they were indeed all based on merit, we are truly blessed to have so many meritorious people among us. We should be one of the top performing economies in the world and our society should be the envy of the world. But we are not the top performing economy and our society is not the envy of the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What the proliferation of titles has done is to create a caste-like system of social and economic hierarchy. If you do not believe that, just attend any official function and listen to the speaker rattle of a long hierarchy of titles of attendees, and only at the bottom of the ladder will come <i>“tuan-tuan dan puan-puan”</i> or <i>“ladies and gentlemen.”</i> It is a system that has a clearly defined hierarchy and differentiation based on your title and where you got it from. You may joke about the large number of people in Malaysia with titles, but jokes aside, what it also means is that we have a large vested interest group with a strong interest in defending and perpetuating the system. As with any caste system, the underlying rational is always economic. It is not the only reason (ego and status are also part of it), but it is the key reason. People primarily want titles because of the economic benefits that are presumed to flow from them. This has had the sad outcome of making us a superficial society. Instead of seeking fame through real accomplishments, many are fixated with getting a title, and hoping to achieve fame and fortune through that.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a common perception in Malaysia that there are two sets of rules in the country: there is a harsher set that applies to ordinary citizens and a more lenient set that applies to people with titles. If this was not apparent before, numerous incidents during the current pandemic should have made this fact very clear. Titles have also created a sense of entitlement and over-inflated egos. The social media is rife with examples of people with titles behaving in an uncouth and brutish manner in their dealings with ordinary people. It is the same sense of entitlement that makes some think that they can take what is not rightfully theirs. Reflect on the major corporate, political and financial scandals in our country. More likely than not, a person with a title, or often a group of people with titles, were at the heart of these scandals and breaches of public trust. Is it any wonder then that even with so many people with titles among us we are still climbing the rankings of global corruption charts?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The caste-system of titles has, in my view, worked against creating a dynamic competitive economy and has added to the inequality of economic benefits and opportunities that exist in our society.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Burden of Privilege on the Economy is Heavy</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It is unsustainable when a large class of people demand privileged access to the resources of an economy. The largest burden always falls on those who are excluded from these privileges. Great societies have fallen into decay when the excesses of the privileged class behaving in an opportunistic manner created an unbearable burden on the economy and intolerable misery on ordinary citizens. Only last week I was reading about the decline of some Mayan cities. In these civilizations, the size of the ruling class and elites swelled in size with each generation to the extent that the elite become increasingly parasitic as they hogged an ever-increasing share of resources. While the kings and nobles were busy enriching themselves, competing with each other, the peasants and lower classes had to work harder and harder to provide for the ever-increasing demands of the elite while they themselves suffered from hunger and deprivation. The consequent depopulation of the cities was further motivated by the environmental degradation (deforestation, erosion and soil exhaustion) that resulted from the increasing demands of the privileged class.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To Malaysians, this story should have some ring of familiarity. Today, we are similarly seeing our large class of <i>“nobles”</i> fighting among themselves for a share of the slower-growing wealth of the country. The ordinary citizens are bystanders watching this spectacle even as their lives become harder. Talk about GDP growth is meaningless if the fruits of that growth are captured by the privileged class while the rest of the population see their standards of living stagnate, experiencing very little of the benefits of that growth. Like the Mayans, we are also seeing environmental degradation all around us to feed the rapacious appetite of our <i>“nobles.”</i> We are seeing an ongoing <i>“depopulation”</i> in the form of a brain drain of those unwilling to waste their talents in a system where the odds are stacked against them and when there are better opportunities outside the country. We cheer when Malaysians who have made other countries their homes are recognized for their achievements, but feel no shame and do not weep for similar talent at home that is being wasted away because our privilege systems deny them opportunities. Over the long term, a sustained <i>“depopulation”</i> by talent fleeing the country will have only one outcome – the rise of mediocrity leading to a mediocre society and mediocre economic outcomes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Unearned privilege based on race, religion and titles has transformed our society in a negative manner. It has corroded our value systems (with widening divergence between what we profess and what we practice). It has legitimized rent-seeking. It has given the loudest voice to mediocrity. It has calcified economic inequality. It has weakened us economically; indeed, it has exacted a heavy toll on the Malaysian economy. This is nowhere more evident than when those in power start comparing Malaysia not to countries that are better than us but to those that are worse than us. We are no longer providing a vision of progress but rather trying to explain away our under-achievement. It is an open admission that the Malaysian economy has a problem and that it is not advancing competitively.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The question now is whether Malaysia can overcome its addiction to privilege and reset the economy on the right path? I doubt it, but I would be happy to be proven wrong.</span></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-40033451357764138662020-12-12T12:14:00.004+08:002020-12-12T12:37:54.310+08:00My December Guest Writer-Yusuf Hashim-<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7coDJ25FxQnOWMAhCCcMfB70VSYQaDL5sBCGxIRe7wnEhzYuqbK-f-jFZY0vb_42jOkAzQYz49YLsysBWS0XJKPEeTzsgq57CY4blWBGTVFWAUz641cqfXQ4U3lK4x51eeqpG/s712/Screenshot_20201212-113714_Facebook.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="697" height="97" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7coDJ25FxQnOWMAhCCcMfB70VSYQaDL5sBCGxIRe7wnEhzYuqbK-f-jFZY0vb_42jOkAzQYz49YLsysBWS0XJKPEeTzsgq57CY4blWBGTVFWAUz641cqfXQ4U3lK4x51eeqpG/w95-h97/Screenshot_20201212-113714_Facebook.jpg" width="95" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Yusuf Hashim</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">HAIL, THE PRIME MINISTERS OF MALAYSIA</span></div><p></p><p>I am really getting a bit tired of the antics of our Wannabe PM, our Backdoor PM, our Ex PM & our Convicted PM, and all our Frog Master CMs. </p><p>I am at a loss to find sub-flattering adjectives to describe them. Seems to me they are all a lot like the insane Nero, playing his fiddle while Rome burns. </p><p>Our country is in dire straits from this Covid menace, yet our not so honourable PMs think nothing of precipitating by-elections, snap elections, and flaccid dick erections to further their selfish, dishonest, dishonourable and even immoral objectives. </p><p>They are a terrible example to our children, as to what Leaders (I hate that word) and Leadership are all about. They will resort to everything, and anything at all, to further their selfish interests. Nothing is sacred. I suspect, they will probably even consider selling their mothers too, if it contributes to their objectives. </p><p>I believe none of them really have our interests, and our country’s interest, in their black hearts and warped minds. </p><p>The Backdoor PM’s methods of buying support for his shaky government by creating one of the world’s biggest cabinet (last I checked about 70 ministers and deputy ministers), and appointing sycophants, frogs and incompetent MPs as heads of our GOCs and GLCs, are not easy to forgive. How he came to be the PM should be a textbook lesson in treachery. </p><p>The Ex PM burst into the scene on an enthusiastic wave and hope of Reformation and Renaissance, but sadly, he failed to pluck even the low hanging fruits. His over riding aim seemed to have been to stop the Wannabe PM from ever becoming PM, and under the cloak of a new Malaysia, he was still the same. For crying out loud, resigning without first discussing with his PH team about what is in the best interest of the PH govt and the country, apart from resigning, is what I would have done if I were the PM. But no, he had to resign, and in one fell swoop, he destroyed the hopes of all those Malaysian people who elected him and the PH government. Downright silly, I would say. Sadly, history will now remember him for his failures, rather than what he did for our country.</p><p>I have nothing to say about the only Malaysian PM who has been charged, tried, and convicted. You have heard it all. But in some countries like Japan, not only would they have immediately resigned, they would have committed hara-kiri in shame, as a last mitigating act of honour. But what amazes me even more, are the hordes of mindless and unthinking people, who continue to kiss the ground he walks on, zombie-like, chanting, “what is there to be ashamed of, my boss.“ What on earth have infected these people? Even Covid won’t make you lose your mind like this. The Convicted PM says its dedak, whatever that is. As to his position in Parliament, I will simply draw your attention to the provisions of Article 48 (1)(e) of the Federal Constitution, and leave it at that.</p><p>My last observation is directed to the party hopping MPs and ADUNs who are easily enticed to hop from one party to another, causing the collapse of governments, no doubt for substantial financial and other gains, and nothing to do with honour and what is right. They are called frogs, but I sincerely believe this is an injustice to frogs, because the behaviour of these MPs and ADUNs, are definitely sub-human, sub-animal and sub everything that is despicable. The polite term for them is, they are snollygosters.</p><p>Please pray. Our country is in dire straits. What we as individuals can do is, to remember the names and faces of these people. </p><p>Don’t ever give your vote to them ever again. You should vote for anybody, even a lamppost, if the lamp post is the alternative to them in the next election.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>*every now and then I upload an article that may be educational, informative and useful for the masses as I share this month's guest Yusuf's article in toto. </i></p><p><i>I am not able to ask permission to share as I am not connected/acquainted with this fine free-spirited and much travelled gentleman personally BUT I admire his flair, honesty and experience in matters of all who dream for a better Malaysia. </i></p><p><i>Thank you Yusuf Hashim, sir!</i></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-41577819519150020422020-12-05T19:52:00.009+08:002020-12-06T09:32:24.159+08:00Define Malay. <p style="text-align: justify;">By now you must have heard the news about the stupid idiot Selangor state assemblyman who had sent an official memorandum written on his official office letterhead to one Jaya Grocer's in Punchak Alam in Selangor. If you have not, read the whole story <a href="https://www.therakyatpost.com/2020/12/04/non-halal-section-in-brand-new-supermarket-boarded-up-after-protest-by-local-assemblyman/" target="_blank"><i><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></b></i></a> . </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I do not want to promote this fucking idiot nor even dirty my blog space with his picture or name but my nagging questions are:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">a) How do you, my learned, peace-loving and humble Malay friends, even want to qualify this 2nd. generation off-spring of an Indian or Bangladeshi or Pakistani looking idiot, a Malay? Go on and take a good look at his face <i><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10217787423548427&set=a.1455363515206" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: #cc0000;"> .</span></b></i> </p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">b) Does being married to our local Malay girl makes this sinister Indian or Bangladeshi or Pakistani idiot automatically become an instant Malay? You know what they used to say about a certain <i>"instant metallic" </i>mentri besar of Perak a long time ago, right? Go ahead and see for yourself below!</div><i><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VtegmKgIvcys1gBgo5yiYt0rpfvUZo25qPSLzSYFwAIMT6QKK50cldRcHP8_huaBcDBd2QHEtRu5w3z4_6xdbMq3HgVzAXpRqt3weadBWyZJ7L7g44K_2mMDv2bLCW867AmA/s540/Metallic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="388" height="161" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8VtegmKgIvcys1gBgo5yiYt0rpfvUZo25qPSLzSYFwAIMT6QKK50cldRcHP8_huaBcDBd2QHEtRu5w3z4_6xdbMq3HgVzAXpRqt3weadBWyZJ7L7g44K_2mMDv2bLCW867AmA/w130-h161/Metallic.jpg" width="130" /></a></div></b></i><div style="text-align: justify;">c) So if you added off-springs of mixed marriages, won't the most inherited and striking feature of the graceful, polite and peace-loving Malay become somewhat mutated? Is it then <i>fair </i>(pun intended) to even consider these mutants, Malays? We have also seen many in UMNO Penang who's skin shades are <i>'about 10 minutes past midnight'</i>, thumping their fists in the air shouting <i>"Hidup Melayu"</i> when DAP took control of Penang since 2008, no? </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">d) Now how is this idiot even going to promote UNITY, a word so many of us Malaysians think of as what is non-evident in Moo's government? Isn't that what every prime minister should work first in unifying all fractions of society to get a strong and popular mandate? Just where is <i>"Abah Moo"</i> in all this hate and divisive behavior of his idiotic <i>"yang berbodoh's"</i>??? Has he actually lost his grip on this renegade Indian or Bangladeshi or Pakistani looking idiot behaving like a thug and giving the REAL Malays a bad name? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">e) Now I sincerely hope that the 90% Malays living in this fucking idiot's constituency does not have any case of incest, porn, snatch thieves, bribery, gambling, wife-battering, baby-dumping or camel-humping. And I also hope not one of that 90% Malays in Punchak Alam aka <i>"Malay Territory"</i> are also employed by Jaya Grocer's in case they all get <i>"virtually high"</i> going near the non-halal section. Makes one look like a fucking fool to clearly read a Non-Halal sign placed and then still go in and complain, no?? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">How utterly frustrating can it also be, as this idiot does not give a shit to the 10% non-Malays in his <i>"Malay Territory"</i>? But you can take a good look at his face now and wait for the next General Election to get your sweet revenge, then, right? Don't loose sleep now, folks. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cheers and have a good weekend. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-60047440059172964492020-11-09T10:52:00.001+08:002020-11-09T10:55:35.263+08:00Guest Writer: Bakri Musa<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7WzYxuKZE7pqR88w4ejickxWIyWqMnrSlQjHEPPIEpjXuBpHhNVNuTkuBMr87Pxl_F5lQkjsiomZc0CDmVTwrXhyphenhyphen_DUTtzfFEXKefBEs8-70Qqk2WjtRUffYdsXqQY_sl77E/s993/Screenshot_20201109-105224_Facebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="993" data-original-width="720" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7WzYxuKZE7pqR88w4ejickxWIyWqMnrSlQjHEPPIEpjXuBpHhNVNuTkuBMr87Pxl_F5lQkjsiomZc0CDmVTwrXhyphenhyphen_DUTtzfFEXKefBEs8-70Qqk2WjtRUffYdsXqQY_sl77E/w145-h200/Screenshot_20201109-105224_Facebook.jpg" width="145" /></a></div><br /> 2021 Budget – Lessons Not Learned!<p></p><p>By: M. Bakri Musa</p><p><br /></p><p>The 2021 Malaysian Budget repeats the same old mistake – the erroneous belief that throwing money at a problem would solve it. As in the past, billions are again being allocated to Bumiputra institutions like JAKIM and JASA, as well as to MARA and UiTM. Despite such generosities, now and in the past, there has been no appreciable improvement in Bumiputra competitiveness vis a vis non-Bumiputras.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stripped of their fancy acronyms, JAKIM and JASA are but public works programs for otherwise unemployable Bumiputras. Those institutions go beyond. They are responsible for Malays not being competitive. There is little incentive to; the likes of JAKIM and JASA are ready to employ you. If you want Malays to contribute to the socioeconomic development of the nation, as is the aspiration of all Malay leaders, then get rid of those institutions.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the billions for MARA, they will continue to squander that by sending Malays to third-rate universities abroad, though thankfully not in the same massive numbers as in the 1970s and 80s where they sent Malays abroad even for Sixth Form! As for UiTM’s bountiful windfall, none will be used to recruit English and Philosophy Professors. Then we wonder why our students have abysmal English fluency, and are incapable of critical thinking.</p><p><br /></p><p>The “help” Malays are getting from their government reminds me of an old Reagan advice to ranchers in the west. “When you hear, ‘I am from the Feds and I am here to help,’ run to the hills fast!”</p><p><br /></p><p>With JAKIM distracting Malays to be obsessed with getting into Paradise, there would be that much fewer left to ensure that we do not suffer our own collective Hell right here and now in Tanah Melayu. For every Malay consumed with revealed knowledge or prophetic traditions, that would be one fewer to do research on Covid-19, or clean the environment.</p><p><br /></p><p>What Malays need are better engineers and architects, not more exquisite Qur’an reciters and mesmerizing ulama with their fire-and-brimstone sermons. Consider Malaysian masjids. One showpiece mosque in Kuala Lumpur has acres of open marble floors that are unwalkable because they are exposed to the blazing Malaysian sun. I suppose, to be charitable, that was part of the design – a preview of how hell would be like! Even with recently completed masjids, there are extension cords everywhere as the designers did not anticipate the electrical outlet needs. In Kelantan, the most “Islamic” state, you cannot get clean water to do your ablution.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we do get those few Malays away from this obsession with religion, we do not let them practice their craft. Instead we seduce them into doing something else, like administrative chores.</p><p><br /></p><p>It breaks my heart to see those few Malays of my generation who were trained in the sciences being seduced into becoming pseudo-ulama. I would have thought they would have served as much-needed role models for the young in the kampungs by being productive in their respective fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is sad to see the first Malay PhD in mathematics now touring village mosques giving khutba (sermons) on the supposed past glory of Islam in the Malay world. A more worthy legacy would have been for him to establish Institutes of Mathematics to encourage the young to pursue the subject. Another, also of my vintage, abandoned his doctoral work in mathematics at a prestigious university to go into religion.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am also saddened to see the few precious Malay scientists and professionals not being rewarded and honored, not for their sake but as a societal statement to inspire the young. The honor of Emeritus Professorship is being heaped upon not on those few precious Malay pioneers in the sciences and professions, but in Malay and Islamic Studies. We already have a glut of them. Meanwhile we keep harping on the lack of Malays in the sciences!</p><p><br /></p><p>My late father had an apt observation on that misplaced priority: Membajakan lallang (adding fertilizer to lallang–a particularly tenacious weed).</p><p><br /></p><p>A Christian cobbler would best show his faith, wrote Martin Luther, not by carving crucifixes on the shoes he makes but by making them durable and cheap so the poor could afford them. Likewise Muslim engineers would best demonstrate their faith in Allah not by carving intricate Qur’anic verses on the bridges they build but making sure that during floods more water would flow under than over, and that there is no unexpected right angle turns at mid-point.</p><p><br /></p><p>Islam is a great faith. It has withstood hordes of Mongol invaders as well as Stalin’s brutal suppression. The faith does not need defenders, least of all from these characters in IKIM and JAKIM.</p><p>Islam cannot advance in Malaysia if Malays are overrepresented in the socially dysfunctional categories. Getting rid of JAKIM and JASA, as well as MARA and BTN would be a great first step. Thus far that reality has not even registered on Malay leaders.</p><p><br /></p><p>Non-Malays should relax; quit worrying about all those goodies showered on Bumiputras. Heed the wisdom of Plutarch: The man who first brought ruin upon the Roman people was he who pampered them by largesse and amusements.</p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, when Malays holler “Tanah Melayu untuk Melayu!” (Malaysia for Malays!) that is not a threat, it’s more a desperate cry from those betrayed by their leaders.</p><p><br /></p><p>*Spot on, Sir! 🍻🥃</p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-49714081314996636742020-10-07T22:22:00.002+08:002020-10-07T22:26:17.110+08:00So who's your daddy?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJejIy-frxOeal4Gv65zhIHut5k7-amjaEniku94L2_oF89RqQMrNmxXHAnRVcHgDvc4ORwjsmBmCC25bnM1XPZ_aBPRS-dkBP15-xC-BkkovCd_8hMBcOGR1PUxMgblpD8_i/s676/politics.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="676" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDJejIy-frxOeal4Gv65zhIHut5k7-amjaEniku94L2_oF89RqQMrNmxXHAnRVcHgDvc4ORwjsmBmCC25bnM1XPZ_aBPRS-dkBP15-xC-BkkovCd_8hMBcOGR1PUxMgblpD8_i/w520-h105/politics.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Just who is actually running our country, right now? Is it Muhiyuddin Yassin, the kleptocratic Najib Razak, Ismail Sabri and/or Anwar Ibrahim....or is this country cruising on </span><i style="text-align: left;">"auto-pilot"</i><span style="text-align: left;">? And if there is anything to remember this year 2020 for, it will certainly NOT be for that old racist's failed and blurred </span><i style="text-align: left;">"vision"</i><span style="text-align: left;"> but may be remembered as perhaps the year we had 3 prime ministers. That is if Anwar, the bookie, even comes in close with his claim of 130 numbers plucked from thin air. Which in turn then begs Moo to reciprocate Anwar's bluff with his 92 members?</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Everyday we, the ordinary tax-paying and voting citizens are asking this same question. Everyday we yearn for some strange voice or someone who is well connected to some one up there, to tell us something new. Nothing! Each new day brings us closer to the brink of an abyss we're not sure of, or if we should take that next step and find out if indeed that was our last step to doom. That's how uncertain our journey is. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">We don't know what tomorrow would bring after yesterday's all time high of 691 new cases of Covid19 and nobody knows the gravity of shit we are all in! This pandemic is taking its toll on families and households in ways that are absolutely new. Some pretentious wannabes say this is the new norm, but who actually knows what was the normal in the first place? We the common citizens of this country have grown accustomed to their crooked agendas and adapted ourselves to the many changes these past 20 years have shown, both in politics and in our environment that we no longer know what was norm and what's the new norm, right? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm losing hair, patience, trust and faith in the half-baked politicians from both sides of the divide for their lies and bullshit and I am so not looking forward for a better tomorrow either. Tell me something I don't already know instead. Sheeesh! </p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-7341952880428852442020-09-25T20:30:00.006+08:002020-09-25T21:30:08.036+08:00Anwar ohh.... Anwar!<p style="text-align: justify;">Only a liar and a bloody hypocrite will ever say <i>"I forgive"</i> to the one who screwed up your life, sent you to prison and erased so many years of your life with jail sentences and tormented your entire family. Can you ever forgive or even forget someone who did that much harm and pain to you and your family? I say bullshit!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anwar Ibrahim...<i><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-16440290"><span style="color: red;"><b>(here)</b></span></a></i>.....was one such man who was side-lined for so long and even imprisoned for charges he insists that were trumped-up by his then <i>"master"</i> the MahaFiraun. A man who once as recently as 2017, said he had forgiven the corrupt MahaFiraun for throwing him into jail. And all that time NOT once did that old racist MahaFiraun even asked Anwar and his family to forgive him, if indeed as insisted by Anwar, he was innocent! So there you go. Anwar the man who's waiting for his day of glory as premier of Malaysia, is but still waiting. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">He loves the game of numbers. Not the 3 times a week numbers game played in KTM (<i>Kuda, Toto and Magnum</i>) but with numbers of politicians enough to form a new government. The latest being yesterday when he called for a press conference to yet again announce he has those numbers. An announcement of a phone call made the night before to the King, that sent our poor Agong to the heart hospital. But he won't reveal any figures but insists he's finally got some really big numbers. But in that press conference he made a damning blunder. He said he's got a solid Malay-Muslim majority support to his claims. And he goes on to say he's got politicians EVEN from UMNO! What the fuck was Anwar thinking off? What is your stand with the voters? Are you with UMNO or are you with Warisan and DAP and Amanah? Can you be a man, for once? Was he afraid the rakyat may favour Shafie Apdal over him for pm, so he wanted to be one-up and fast with his numbers? Prison life must have really screwed his brains, perhaps. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here we are a few days ago in Sabah, where Anwar was campaigning vehemently with his Warisan partners to kick UMNO out of Sabah and be rid of race-based parties parroting Shafie Apdal's clarion call about <i>"building a nation and not building any one race or religion"</i> and like the hypocrite he is, back in the peninsula, Anwar's back as champion for Malays and Islam! Hey Anwar, tell me if there ever was a non-Malay majority party ever running this government in our entire history? How dumb do you think we are? But we wait lah....tunggu, sabar lahhh...until we see those numbers okay? Can you give any forecast numbers to <i>"pau"</i> for tomorrow's race ah? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">With your new brag about UMNO members joining you, do you think your partners in DAP, Amanah, Warisan and even from your own PKR will sit back and welcome these frogs from UMNO with corrupt track records to be a part of the PH coalition? Do you think we, the voters will vote for you or anyone going along with you on this? We will punish you when the time comes. We will punish you in GE15. We will make sure you never become a pm. We will crush your pm dream forever! That we the voters WILL vow to do just that!</p><p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">While we are on the subject of UMNO, even if they are kicked out of Sabah after tomorrow or from Anwar's fairy-tale press conference revelations, I for one will stand for fair-play and for truth. Of course cyber-troopers on both sides of the divide are in over-drive mode dragging their respective opposition with their gutter politics in Sabah today. But I want to set the record straight for one <i>"fitnah"</i> that's in circulation these past few days, and that is as below:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-lntM-WekJXX4-2iu16yOB4IFNrnYZW45Ak7fXZP962HUz2xFFfd5y4AK5xFDKZ7jeIxd_hcVbu2M_qYdyZEzrM5lnTKxf7w47-iAyD1Hh7mJkZaijp4bo87dU0_MhRiY4tf/s2220/Ir.+Shahelmey+Yahya.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje-lntM-WekJXX4-2iu16yOB4IFNrnYZW45Ak7fXZP962HUz2xFFfd5y4AK5xFDKZ7jeIxd_hcVbu2M_qYdyZEzrM5lnTKxf7w47-iAyD1Hh7mJkZaijp4bo87dU0_MhRiY4tf/s320/Ir.+Shahelmey+Yahya.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This UMNO guy Ir. Shahelmey Yahya never vowed to tear down any church. Its a dirty lie by some under-paid, shit-stirring amateurish cyber-trooper. This is so wrong on so many levels. And I'm against all and any posting like this. Give him a fair chance in his campaign, please, even if he is an UMNO man. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Happy casting your votes tomorrow, Sabahans and vote wisely with your head for change as change IS good while we in the <i>"Semenanjung"</i> will wait and wait and wait and wait and wait......aiiyooo...for Anwar lah! </p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-11493800655562914872020-09-18T23:05:00.188+08:002020-09-19T18:54:40.639+08:00Ode to MAJU!<p><br /></p><table cellpadding="0" class="Bs nH iY bAt" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; display: block; padding: 0px; position: static; width: 1038px;"><tbody><tr><td class="Bu yM" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 0px;"></td><td class="Bu bAn" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; display: block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div class="nH if" style="margin: 0px 16px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nH aHU" style="position: relative;"><div class="nH hx" style="background-color: transparent; min-width: 502px; padding: 0px;"><div class="nH" jslog="20686; u014N:xr6bB" role="list"><div class="h7 ie nH oy8Mbf" role="listitem" style="clear: both; max-width: 100000px; outline: none; padding-bottom: 0px;" tabindex="-1"><div class="Bk" style="border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-radius: 0px; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(239, 239, 239); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 0px; float: none; margin-bottom: 0px; position: relative; width: 1022px;"><div class="G3 G2" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: 0px rgba(100, 121, 143, 0.12); border-image: initial; border-left: 0px; border-radius: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div id=":125"><div class="adn ads" data-legacy-message-id="174a0fd0345b9603" data-message-id="#msg-a:r-7193096736699198498" style="border-left: none; display: flex; padding: 0px;"><div class="gs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 950px;"><div class="ii gt" id=":128" style="direction: ltr; margin: 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="a3s aXjCH" id=":127" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.5; overflow: hidden;"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i>At the outset, education has been a subject very close to my </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i>heart </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i>that I have been bitching about for years now. </i></span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">All the ills </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">of society </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">is the by-product of a failed education system. A lack </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">of education </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">brings forth the bums, cons </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and in some cases, </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">politicians! So to </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">look sharp and smart, the privileged ones can </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">today "buy" a piece </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">of paper </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">accreditation</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> to frame on his/her </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">wall and perhaps secure </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">positions of great power, even if it is </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">from a Christian </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">University </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">that churns out degrees and </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">theologians to become Christian pastors </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">and priests. </span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">And when </span></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I say education, I mean a good education in </span></i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">math, </span></i></span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;">science, </i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;">fields of </i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;">technology </i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;"><i>and </i></span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red;">in the</span><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red;"> world's </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red;">preferred </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: red;">language, the </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;">Queen's English! </i><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: helvetica;">Nothing less.</i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you Siti <a href="https://www.facebook.com/majumalaysia/" target="_blank"><b>(MAJU)</b></a> Kasim. </i></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;">*My 2sens hereinafter in red parenthesis. </i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; color: red;"><br /></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">PRESS STATEMENT <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBzxyb9g5MJ60BijRtXcrypxPkRYffe1Aw0sRYqGbFV7UEe3_6CU2IxjR-cj98jmYerd8Phf7NyF_aOcjA1ZgfqbhFynWa1g-bb5ocySez7EE8scOF2DBcHMJekMtagf6nHHzz/s275/Siti+Kasim.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBzxyb9g5MJ60BijRtXcrypxPkRYffe1Aw0sRYqGbFV7UEe3_6CU2IxjR-cj98jmYerd8Phf7NyF_aOcjA1ZgfqbhFynWa1g-bb5ocySez7EE8scOF2DBcHMJekMtagf6nHHzz/w151-h100/Siti+Kasim.jpg" width="151" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">MAJU REFUTES NUTP CLAIM THAT SEKOLAH </b></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">KEBANGSAAN </b><b style="background-color: transparent;">HAS NOT BECOME TOO RELIGIOUS </b></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">National Union of Teaching Profession (NUTP) president </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Aminuddin <span style="background-color: transparent;">Awang has been quoted by Utusan </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Malaysia on 15 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">September 2020 </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">rejecting claims that national public schools are </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">“too Islamic”. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">This fellow Aminuddin, was the Deputy Secretary General in the </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">2017-2021 season and now has by-passed </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">his then </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Secretary </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">General Harry Tan Huat Hock and his then Deputy President </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Chan </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Thye Choon to become </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">President! </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Were those two </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">non-Malays not </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">good enough to be President? See chart from </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">November 2017 <b>(<a href="http://www.nutp.org/new/NUTPOrganisationChart" target="_blank">here</a>) </b></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Therein you can see the rot in leap-frogging</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"> patronage based on race </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">and religion. But this trend of patronage </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">as </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">been going on since the </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">time of that corrupt old racist </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">MahaFiraun </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">who came to power in 1982.</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">So who </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">started </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">this shit? </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Still living in </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">denial about race and religion?</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">MAJU cannot believe that NUTP as represented by its above </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">president <span style="background-color: transparent;">can make such a claim whilst at </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the same time citing a </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">litany of </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">religious practices that were unheard of in Malaysian schools </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">during the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">70s. Examples include: reading doa during exams, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">maulidur rasul </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">celebration, </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">playing and competing in </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">nasyid, Quran </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">readings, and </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">story-telling of prophets.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">All this is happening even in Christian missionary schools today, </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">such as SK Convent and La Salle which once </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">used to </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">have a </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">chapel for solitary prayers and catered for all faiths. Again the </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">elitists and ultras will choose to </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">send their kids to expansive </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">private schools in faraway lands where English is the medium </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">for teaching and </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">communicating. Again I say the privileged ones </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">need not worry about the state of our education system, right? </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">There are many more blatant examples such as having ceramah </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">by external ustazs, practicing circling <span style="background-color: transparent;">the kaabah with a model in </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">the school itself in some places, mandatory group prayer sessions </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">at various </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">times in such schools including the constant encouraged </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">peer and teacher pressures for religiosity on the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">students. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Today I cannot understand the need for ALL schools to employ </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">an </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">ustaz but</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"> the bigger worry is when </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">ustazs </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">are invited from war-torn </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">countries and are allowed to preach to </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">young children in our </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">multicultural schools. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">A very dangerous </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">appeal if they might </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: black; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">implant </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">the wrong ideas in restless young minds. </span></i></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Dec 21st 2018 news reported, "The government will revise the </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">curriculum <span style="background-color: transparent;">in national schools as they </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">have become “religious </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">schools”, says Prime </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad”.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">The failed "visionary" who thought developing the country with </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">mega </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">structure and bridges would bring </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">us to 1st. world status </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">BUT instead </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">completely dragged us into the 3rd. world desert-</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Arab country status. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Developing people and investing in building </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">good and decent citizens </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">is what gets you to be 1st. world status, </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">not mega buildings </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">It is not MAJU that made this assertion, it is the ex Prime Minister </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">of <span style="background-color: transparent;">about 26 years who made this </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">iron-clad claim. He should know. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">He has seen the devolution of Malaysian education throughout his </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">tenure, after, and more. A change from a progressive and </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">science-led <span style="background-color: transparent;">education system up until </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">the 80s, into one that is </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">now enveloped </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">with uncompromising and overt Islamic religiosity. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">The creator of this Islamic </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">educational module himself did jack-shit </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">in </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">that 22 months </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">of a "second-chance" </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">he had to </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">redeem himself </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">as he </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">has failed so badly even as 2020 has dawned on us </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">and is </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">almost </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">"Game Over".for this blurred 2020 Vision </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">of a corrupt and </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">frustrated </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">old man. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Here we have the Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">wanting <span style="background-color: transparent;">Malaysia to produce Nobel Prize winners </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">but the environment </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">majority of our schools does not nurture such ambitions. There </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">is no </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Nobel </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Prize in Religion. And there is no developed nation that </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">attained </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">such status via religion. They all get there </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">through science, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">as the data </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">clearly shows. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">This man Moo is still in Lalaland lah if he is thinking of a Nobel </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">Prize. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">A man who dares not to reprimand his </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">rabid mongrel from </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">PAS who </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">by an </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">unholy pact for political survival, spew </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">venom on </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">Holy books of other </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">faiths and cause so much suspicion </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">and anger </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">instead of unity. This man </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">is </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">also so afraid of loosing votes by </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">taking the popular stand of self-denial. </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">A slick and sick man with a </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">limited shelf-life. Sometimes I feel sorry </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">for this man who is actually </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">powerless against </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">his political partners lurking </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">in the shadows to </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">stab his back a</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">nd abandon him when the hammer falls.</span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The fact is that from Year 1 to Year 3, our students spend on </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">average 96 <span style="background-color: transparent;">hours per year on Pendidikan Islam </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">including Tasmik. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Science on the other </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">hand gets 48 hours per year. If we count </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Bahasa Arab - which the </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">majority </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">of the students are being </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">pressured to take - that would add up to a whopping </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">176 hours </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">per year </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">on Islamic studies alone. The numbers for Year 4 to </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Year 6 </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">does not change much with science increased </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">to 64 </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">hours vs 96 hours for </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">religious subjects. These data is based </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">on Ministry of Education own facts. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">Today simple Malay words have been given the Arab flavour, </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">whilst the </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">Arabs are turning to English to escape </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">from </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">their </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">3rd. world leanings. T</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">his camel herder language is not </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red; font-family: helvetica;">represented in the world stage. It will </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">embarrass </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">the </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">A</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">rabs even if they did not speak good English on </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">international </span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">platforms. So when did our "educators" go </span></i></span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">wrong </span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">by abandoning good old </span></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Indonesian/Portuguese/Sanskrit </span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Bahasa Melayu for Arab- tainted Bahasa </span></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Malaysia? </span></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Our </span></span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Bahasa language used to be a checkered language </span></span></i><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">before </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: red;">and we were doing just fine, until 1982. </span></i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: helvetica; font-size: small;"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So just looking at the curriculum, and putting aside the religious </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">environment <span style="background-color: transparent;">that the national schools tend </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">to cultivate, what is </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">the NUTP president talking </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">about? What holistic education is </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">that? This is called </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">cognitive dissonance. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">And when the </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">president of the teacher's union has this in his head, you know </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">that our </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">children's education is in deep trouble.</span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">Pray tell me if a bunch of kopiah and tudung clad "educators" </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">sitting in the </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">committee of teachers would ever </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">deny their political </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">masters urgent need </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">to fish for votes by manipulating and </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">championing the rural folks </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">wishes? </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">This social-engineering of </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">our diverse multi-</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">cultural fabric has been in motion </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">for a long time </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">by the </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">MahaFiraun </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">was his then blue-eyed side-kick and </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">partner-in-crime Anwar Ibrahim! </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">We imbue interest in subjects through the quality and quantity of </div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">time spent <span style="background-color: transparent;">on them when they are young. </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Is it any wonder that </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">today we have a </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">proliferation of ustaz and ustazah, and a majority </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">Malay youth population </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">so religiously bent on judgement instead </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">of engineers and scientists that </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">can contribute to Malaysia being </span></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">a </span><span style="background-color: transparent;">developed Nation. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">If all these "religious scholars" teach only about the pleasures in </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: red;">the after-life, </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">then, why don't they just die en masse </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">now </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">and go </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">to heaven and enjoy </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">their wines and their virgins of their heart's </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">desires that they so fervently preach about? </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">We have all these </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">clowns to the left </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">of us and jokers to the right, still here we are, </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">the non-Malay Malaysians, stuck </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">in the middle </span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;">with you. Cheers!</span></i><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">MAJU rests its case. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3qfJhee485OPZ9FZNzzINzeyzR3YnOJbLGN744mdkYX__cGDNIVybBVQRw0HOaY679v4fcyM4X5ej_Bj-UZrgfpim8HFdAB1h471eZK1PPn3aZIN3RFJEQGlqkmy4LBExWSI/s225/MAJU.png" style="background-color: transparent; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="105" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht3qfJhee485OPZ9FZNzzINzeyzR3YnOJbLGN744mdkYX__cGDNIVybBVQRw0HOaY679v4fcyM4X5ej_Bj-UZrgfpim8HFdAB1h471eZK1PPn3aZIN3RFJEQGlqkmy4LBExWSI/w105-h105/MAJU.png" width="105" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Siti Kasim</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Founder</div><div dir="auto" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Malaysian Action for Justice and Unity<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td><td class="Bu yM" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #202124; font-family: Roboto, RobotoDraft, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; width: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-634765256677899332020-09-17T20:25:00.002+08:002020-09-17T22:15:48.227+08:00THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT....and my 2sens.<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcfw0VhEHzlDEwZ9CwR73Ui-mg1hHcxVzyQohWvOWrRAhri-xEJjsfclm8fRO8E9YWtoUWeB-qkVllZPzdulaCK2qEORNieFQHuMPTnzc2Kplv3B2r7v_t7c-FT9Nraz3Wi8i/s590/SPR-SABAH.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="590" height="136" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjcfw0VhEHzlDEwZ9CwR73Ui-mg1hHcxVzyQohWvOWrRAhri-xEJjsfclm8fRO8E9YWtoUWeB-qkVllZPzdulaCK2qEORNieFQHuMPTnzc2Kplv3B2r7v_t7c-FT9Nraz3Wi8i/w235-h136/SPR-SABAH.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: right;"><b style="color: red; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> </b></div><p></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dear pastor/father/community leaders, </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #eb0e0e; font-size: medium;"><b>Free Air-tickets for Sabahan Voters to Fly Back to Sabah to Cast Votes</b></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">========================================================= </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sabah snap election polling date falls on <b>26 September 2020 (Saturday)</b>. In view that voting is the responsibility of every citizen/voter, BorneoCare managed to get some sponsors to support Sabahan voters (particularly students & lower income workers) in peninsula Malaysia to fly back to Sabah to cast their votes. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please encourage Sabahan who can’t afford to buy air-tickets to Sabah to send their particulars to: *<a href="mailto:borneocare2013@gmail.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>borneocare2013@gmail.com</i></a> * </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The particulars we require to purchase air-tickets for them are: </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Name as in IC;</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. IC number;</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. AirAsia Flight schedule the applicant wishes to fly to Sabah; </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Returning AirAsia Flight schedule; </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. The constituency of the applicant; </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Email of applicant;</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">7. Mobile No. of applicant. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Applicants can contact the following persons if they have any query: </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><i><b>1.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Alice 012-2929839 </b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>2.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Maria 011 26135788 </b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>3.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Gwen Ng 012 200 6243</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>4.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Joel Jalleh 016 2212 088</b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>5.<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Edmund 011-1208 1030 </b></i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you. </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yours sincerely,</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spencer Klumai </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chairman </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">BorneoCare</span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="color: #38761d;">*Posting as received-courtesy of PK.</span></i></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">If I may add my 2sens to this brilliant</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b>FREE OFFER</b></span><span style="color: #7f6000;"> sponsorship by some generous soul who is serious about </span><i style="color: #7f6000;">"change"</i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> in the poorest rich state which has been ruled for so long by greedy thieves of UMNO disguised as </span><i style="color: #7f6000;">"leaders"</i><span style="color: #7f6000;"> over 57 years, NOW is your chance to kick them all out of your shores and later to bring these rogues to justice in a proper court of law </span><i style="color: #7f6000;">(and NOT some bullshit court as conjured up by that "nyanok" old racist MahaFiraun and his dubious 'rule-of-law' translation).</i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><i> </i></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And while you are at it, you can also teach that idiot minister of PAS not to ridicule the Bible and refused to apologise with his zilch knowledge on the subject to all Christians in Malaysia and in Sabah where they are a majority! Not one minister in PN or PAS or BN even once told Moo to sack that bigot. That's their brand of arrogance or so they think. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Now is your chance to return that </span><i>"favour"</i><span> Sabahans!</span></span></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">So guys when you vote come 26th. September 2020, your one single VOTE can kill 2 <i>"mocking" </i>birds! </span></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #7f6000; font-size: medium;">Go for the jugular and Godspeed!</span></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-77051658925618352882020-09-11T19:41:00.003+08:002020-09-11T19:49:41.035+08:00To the movies we go today! <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Well, its Friday again and its time for some light entertainment. For starters this poster below in Sabah is a winner in so many ways to the ordinary man or voter. And I'm guessing nobody in the peninsular has the balls to so boldly declare his promise in a billboard and in English too! But then Sabah (...and/or Sarawak) is a different kettle of fish to fry unlike the peninsular, no? Well we'll just have to wait and see if this proclamation will indeed ring true when the State elections are over later this month OR if this is mere lip-service from politicians and their <i>"politikus-speak"</i> rhetoric we have heard once too often before! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZGs_UeSIfOT6lo-scWNeEBvW40q8gjGb__54JW28dYbvrBeEmQsNw2eZo5kHhTUQmfoug8M88m15VFFmsiAZEcawx1MVQnKMbNqhnnHUlWrgUdePpO_jq75fClcyCNTxGLXU/s960/poster.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="376" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUZGs_UeSIfOT6lo-scWNeEBvW40q8gjGb__54JW28dYbvrBeEmQsNw2eZo5kHhTUQmfoug8M88m15VFFmsiAZEcawx1MVQnKMbNqhnnHUlWrgUdePpO_jq75fClcyCNTxGLXU/w500-h376/poster.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Then as I promised you entertainment, here the latest mishmash movie of some really funny "actors" who'd bring so much laughter, you just might pee in your pant...ies! But I must warn you this movie is Rated 18+ and can be quite graphic. Oh....and its in ENGLISH okay! Enjoy the 1st. movie offering of the day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyupD-q8JduL4Pt7lgyvQh-hyYCFieOPQtkltk1K53IWWl62iL7bygzz448Y95X7iS6L008OINYIz0' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">And as you cannot stop with one for the day, this 2nd. movie below is a VINTAGE CLASSIC! Nominated for Best Lead Actor, Best Director, Best Story-Writer and Best Everything in the World lah... so many, many times since 1982! And still the lead actor ended up a FAILURE. That's the showbiz news from UMNOWOOD today! But keep chanting the old mantra - Yukenduit, Dongibap and Kipidap! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwturFugz4TDkCvNbbRtPvHeU5KZfKU-It8W2Ri3EM7IqesINz4fDTG0QXYJqRLLgw2MM-_J18S3i8' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">I must say a big <i>"terima kasih"</i> to the independent producers of both the clips above. They have my utmost respect and I give them a <i>"tabik" (salute)</i> for their artful editing and presentation. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Enjoy the clips as I'm going offline now. All this laughter made me very thirsty too lah. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Cheers to the weekend!</div></div><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-43553207653527965982020-09-08T22:47:00.001+08:002020-09-08T22:58:29.075+08:00The "creme de la creme" in our parliament, today.<p style="text-align: justify;">What is wrong with this PN government and their ministers today and in the past the BN government huh? Every business idea that is from some small and hard-working entrepreneur in some company becomes eye-candy for them. Going back further during the corrupt BN era was the forced and coerced payment for <i>"halal"</i> logo. Who were the ones who had to fork out more and loose from their profits but none other then the individuals of small enterprises and who profited from this?....the BN of course! The BN government with its bloated agencies reaped in millions from the sweat and curses of many who had no reason to pay for <i>"koshering"</i> their products in the first place. It still baffles me to this day why mineral water bottles carry that halal logo. Why ?? Even gathering rainwater in jars will one day need an approval seal from this dubious government agency created by none other then that old racist and corrupt MahaFiraun himself! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then there was Uber which started out here and that too the BN government eyed it like green-eyed monsters for being a good business entity and immediately launched in with crony-related Grab and health-checks and guide-lines to claim a percentage for their participation as they threw in their brand of lazy and spoon-fed taxi drivers for good measure to be absorbed by Grab. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Now, today in the news, I read some idiot minister in PN wants to impose a fee (I don't care even if it 5sens or 50sens) on an online shopping idea that is indeed great! Why?? Have they no bloody brains to be more creative then <i>"parasiting"</i> on someone elses' idea all the time? Typical <i>"rent-seeking"</i> leeches in Muhiyuddin's cabinet of lying and lazy politicians, no? Why go and tax on a workable idea that, in the past 6 months, has been the most ideal way to shop while staying home and away from crowded supermarkets and in compliance with the advice of the Health DG's SOP? Why, why, tell me why??? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Below I've randomly uploaded some <i>"not-so-bright-sparks"</i> who hold top positions in the Moo government line-up. I don't need to name any of them. One thing they all have in common is that they may all have an IQ that's on par with my golf handicap, perhaps. If you're Malaysian and in touch with today's politics, you'll know what I'm talking about.....and that frog-in-red-beret lower down has nothing to do with this post and is simply thrown in here for personality comparison sake! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmF0VLBY0DtoR23ZJVk4HIMYGLkyulNWDJVa34i55XVCmaYmDV0DufSCrnDI1FFfGXigCA0pjtjfVnSaIWyIiVf0U8PCBMWWSZPFJCaokEd_Jj5YJdGJdxSfB03ZN7ZcglrRy5/s800/MOHD+KHAIRUDDIN+AMAN+RAZALI.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmF0VLBY0DtoR23ZJVk4HIMYGLkyulNWDJVa34i55XVCmaYmDV0DufSCrnDI1FFfGXigCA0pjtjfVnSaIWyIiVf0U8PCBMWWSZPFJCaokEd_Jj5YJdGJdxSfB03ZN7ZcglrRy5/w164-h103/MOHD+KHAIRUDDIN+AMAN+RAZALI.jpg" width="164" /></a></div><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikAPgSsgnPw-9tnDHzQKLJC0Jov3A-aeTauTzNx1V0PWxBLiypaI0lqjLEUaHg3i1rRbmwkEblspxb4xQYiTdHTn0DxOWScumQk35ZEd0Le_y5Zz5gOo_qdjGQArvPXjZchIXf/w164-h103/Zahidi+Zainul+Abidin.jpg" width="164" /><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="648" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-HrG-Rhyphenhyphen3F6oZ9wKuc8khTKmVi7aPtXh5PnPz6Meh-FHxGZy8aJzBOscMpS7SJUgwXnd5tVuuc8SsPVmH39Wgd5lA9PAi7PAqhfVYyPWmQbP5PdRjrak51HVI-rFslhBlJRl8/w164-h94/Tuan-Ibrahim.jpg" width="164" /><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="800" height="83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkolju55pWUNsAnqNV7J0swzXqUIFe3kkA_OnPai72txeCjKbDaFqDAywa3UmX6ea9m-C-XAh5gQv-R16kvWb7H9n9jKgPfHIYwAB1q3Bs8_xi7Lvtz7xYQ4VyB7Dzt7wDS_Y/w131-h83/NIK_MUHAMMAD_ZAWAWI_SALLEH.jpg" width="131" /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUuAVJhnplouj5ISIXPbje9mWcydGuFfK7_qeQXKX-cXHRTDzmyEPRsUtA19tVZ9wQXpHVjADkmzQ0xgQ7nf-8KsOKmHFB7EewDWlfUdsHA5z5-8kbCtDyKe4CxY-19QHTyhG/s648/Rani+Kulop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="369" data-original-width="648" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGUuAVJhnplouj5ISIXPbje9mWcydGuFfK7_qeQXKX-cXHRTDzmyEPRsUtA19tVZ9wQXpHVjADkmzQ0xgQ7nf-8KsOKmHFB7EewDWlfUdsHA5z5-8kbCtDyKe4CxY-19QHTyhG/w205-h118/Rani+Kulop.jpg" width="205" /></a></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-78354314412882904372020-08-31T11:16:00.000+08:002020-08-31T11:16:44.714+08:00A Merdeka marred by "sensitivities"!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWrZFi2TWKf9aoaRjn3rIJys8ONTT5zF0_2jhriwoysDVXIsB1rXWq7G7rJJ2WVGSECoTl_7jFaSfDB0A2tADt4z4hHgHm0ybBePmquQMfsY9MwcxinCq53r1VIwMCWebfp3F/s1440/Merdeka.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1440" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmWrZFi2TWKf9aoaRjn3rIJys8ONTT5zF0_2jhriwoysDVXIsB1rXWq7G7rJJ2WVGSECoTl_7jFaSfDB0A2tADt4z4hHgHm0ybBePmquQMfsY9MwcxinCq53r1VIwMCWebfp3F/w328-h146/Merdeka.jpg" width="328" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">On an auspicious day like today, the 31st. August 2020, after receiving our independence from the Colonial masters 63 years ago, we are still grappling to live in harmony as our founding fathers envisioned. The key word is <i>"sensitivities"</i> of provoking the 3 Rs. (Race, Religion and Royalty.) </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm very sure all Malaysians have the utmost respect for King and Country as enshrined in the 5 pillars of our RukunNegara and the Federal Constitution to protect each of the rights of the various cultures, races, religions, ethnicity that we have shared with the original natives of Malaya, Sabah and Sarawak. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">That's a given. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today sadly, we have politicians and religious fanatics who have crossed that border of decency and respect for king and country to deride both king and country in seeking to create a caliphate within our multi-society citizens and propagate hate within the masses. This has to stop. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Within a few months of an unholy pact with the dubious government of Muhiyuddin, PAS the Coalition partner has flexed it wings more than once already. For a political party that strives on the principles of religion, this party has gone on to belittling other religions while ignoring the sensitivities of a good 49% of non-Malay population. This has angered the predominantly Christian natives of Sabah and Sarawak's sensitivities tremendously and perhaps will also surely reflect with punishment in the up-coming Sabah state elections. An arrogance (<a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/08/27/takiyuddin-govt-doesnt-owe-anyone-an-explanation-for-withdrawal-of-bill-for/1897690"><i><b><span style="color: red;">here</span></b></i></a>) to be regretted by the Muhuyuddin government surely. Read <a href="https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2020/08/30/sarawak-dap-seeks-sedition-probe-against-pas-mp-who-claimed-bible-distorted/1898636"><i><b><span style="color: red;">here</span></b></i></a> about this so-called religious man who refused to apologise for his insensitive remarks on Christians of the Bible.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">(<i>I do not want to name and shame this PAS idiot as his very name might defile my blog just as I have also never named a very racist and corrupt ex-premier but refer him as MahaFiraun only, always! Very jijit lah, yukks! </i>) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Then there was the earlier stories about one liar with a kopiah and his official/non-official trip to Turkey and Holland during this restricted movement time of the Covid-19 pandemic and attending Parliament sittings without being quarantined as per the SOP of 14 days and which caused him to add more lies as added value to his first lie. Herein the rakyat screamed for justice over the soft-tap on the wrist and a small fine as there was a clear case of double-standards between the voters (<i>who paid hefty fines and even jail terms</i>) and the elitists in UMNO and PAS, both commanding coalition partners of Muhiyuddin's shakey government. And of course that story about some <i>"no economic sense"</i> and attention seeking PAStard in pushing for a total alcohol ban in the entire country. Again hurting the <i>"sensitivities" </i>of all who enjoy a <i>''pahit"</i> and chilled ambers like yours truly included! Damn these PAStures! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But you'd never hear off these same morons screaming for the end of corruption, porno, drugs and illicit sex against the order of nature. These activities are their favorite PAStime in their stronghold states of Kelantan and Terengganu! Double damn!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">This new found arrogance of PAS will also be their demise in the near future. After all we have our sultans of each state as head of Islam but these <i>"kampung"</i> simpletons in suits and kopiahs of PAS seem to have other plans. It was never the same as when the good man Tok Guru Nik Aziz was alive. Both Tok Guru and my blogger buddy Bernard aka Zorro-unmasked (<i>Tok Guru's number 1 fan!</i>) will be rotating in their graves now! These young PASturks today are <i>'hell-bent'</i> (pun intended) in calling for an Islamic state and a caliphate for the whole of secular Malaysia. How dare they! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><img border="0" data-original-height="327" data-original-width="498" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNoaukHH7UxHAwjT_xcIYUMWAaOZLWHnpvTCLB975sBa_asd-vxBHnhR0LUNUG4dXMCEO8iCEPzkgEHtsmqJx-mjiGPN26NA5TM7JGfjCeBVQRblP5kfzoHfgzc1mSAmQqchAi/w203-h134/nik-aziz-nik-mat1.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="203" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">Perhaps these PAStards are getting too big for their jubbas and kopias with their cavemen mentality but I implore for some authority above to step in and put an immediate stop to this wanton spread of hate and disunity inciting the various lovely people of Malaysia. I weep for my country. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">With PAS in his stable, Muhiyuddin will surely also lose the non-Malay votes. And he has not said a single word of comfort or reprimanded and sacked those under-mining brigands of PAS. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">The sensitivities of ALL Malaysians are to be respected as clearly enshrined in our Federal Constitution. And UNITY is a word merely spoken by vote hungry politicians as damage control is out of Muhiyuddin's power as leader for now!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;">A (<i>not so</i>) happy Merdeka Day to all Malaysians, wherever you are! </span></div><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-2233211943562798472020-08-23T09:56:00.003+08:002020-08-23T10:02:09.028+08:00Malaysians, know your real enemy!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have always known about this manipulation of our social fabric by the racist MahaFiraun and his dodgy UMNO first and now his <i>"Malay Only" </i>Pejuang agenda from way back then in the 80's. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">And neither can I sing praises about this former Harris Salleh too, but what he says now in his twilight years holds a lot of truth. Funny how only in their end days of their shelf-life, these fellows <i>"grow some balls"</i> to spill the beans and say what IS wrong now BUT never when they were in power! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Read on this Daily Express (Sabah) news below and you'll understand the dirty game-plan of that corrupt MahaFiraun and his predecessors and successors had in their racist minds to screw up our country and all that our founding fathers worked for.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Please read the attachments in boxes first (I hope the sequence is correct) to fully understand the reason for my rant.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrvbAvulxwedIbgIE-1beEExqFM6KKj8ujssJgd9NDzEmfbN95ERQKE9nxq_SUoYa9Vkc12d1m17eXxNSd6YJyaHDoBK5wc_jSQanhw_h5JchlKUSaxJb6EKE055kXqhkoiLCG/s1574/Screenshot_20200822-180516_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1574" data-original-width="1079" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrvbAvulxwedIbgIE-1beEExqFM6KKj8ujssJgd9NDzEmfbN95ERQKE9nxq_SUoYa9Vkc12d1m17eXxNSd6YJyaHDoBK5wc_jSQanhw_h5JchlKUSaxJb6EKE055kXqhkoiLCG/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180516_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa8OrDHlnsZG6axv22kHT6rLPZZEnoN4RNPZAXYkTIXRyFIW6zvjDmHM4-2oeKsX0I5wqaRvuoDrqc0MUjs5azBvOECMqrwDmCDAmWcqDmC129OmYXFOmpEdmIQfXnE2Z7QFf/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180757_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIa8OrDHlnsZG6axv22kHT6rLPZZEnoN4RNPZAXYkTIXRyFIW6zvjDmHM4-2oeKsX0I5wqaRvuoDrqc0MUjs5azBvOECMqrwDmCDAmWcqDmC129OmYXFOmpEdmIQfXnE2Z7QFf/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180757_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; text-align: justify;">Long before PH came into power, many of my blogger friends and I have <i>"bitched"</i> on numerous times and platforms about sacking the entire staff in the government departments in order to clean out the corruption that has been built up over 60 years of UMNO rule, should the Opposition were to win in an election. We had repeatedly told any in-coming government to completely remove all traces of UMNO before starting up. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; text-align: justify;">If only these arrogant idiots listened to the small voices on the ground! And if only Karpal was alive, sigh, he would have told that racist MahaFiraun to get lost and NEVER have allowed him to lead PH! But that is all now wishful thinking and its back to the drawing board for those in DAP, PKR, Amanah and Warisan. But make bloody sure guys, Pejuang, the Malay ONLY party of that old, corrupt and hypocrite MahaFiraun, remains dead and buried as of today! Unity my arse! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrFcsb0yhNzTrJdU3GuegFoXh_xJRyqnCdXRL7GgrdLSYsmC7zYt0Jr-rjqLhzsK70i1SgGpXPXmM8dwHuOtt8Z4_ni5yQAfO__R2laju-tLa3AAB4fAukRerKzcbN6mBOYsS/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180631_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyrFcsb0yhNzTrJdU3GuegFoXh_xJRyqnCdXRL7GgrdLSYsmC7zYt0Jr-rjqLhzsK70i1SgGpXPXmM8dwHuOtt8Z4_ni5yQAfO__R2laju-tLa3AAB4fAukRerKzcbN6mBOYsS/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180631_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJk0ei2RtdeYzg0Vxy1VdhvRZVcs3_aGGtcmQoFuMdq_qzPGia2V4tmhLt_ivWUKVFrH2hvEWQcOacGbI4CiFiclDM8Xx9sNSpJjvsNuEktthPGsar2dSHLd9mNExVL5zI4EY1/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180611_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJk0ei2RtdeYzg0Vxy1VdhvRZVcs3_aGGtcmQoFuMdq_qzPGia2V4tmhLt_ivWUKVFrH2hvEWQcOacGbI4CiFiclDM8Xx9sNSpJjvsNuEktthPGsar2dSHLd9mNExVL5zI4EY1/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180611_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgz13dUbkYUMf2HAIaIRvvsDtHs8-z-B0jwpwumjBF-zrhVwrYS54nuGg03QakVSZQBx1n18EoJksgAfgrrCIdnYeDj_HKBCaeOMFu6wMO28MmZGzhZfQKBtCeoJfaZsmMEzYs/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180540_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgz13dUbkYUMf2HAIaIRvvsDtHs8-z-B0jwpwumjBF-zrhVwrYS54nuGg03QakVSZQBx1n18EoJksgAfgrrCIdnYeDj_HKBCaeOMFu6wMO28MmZGzhZfQKBtCeoJfaZsmMEzYs/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180540_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div></div> <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-iqvWpmnGcq2ztiOS1iKacOeoCzkyORkuF4IeWZF7K0-r0r_CO3YdnJdgGtgQJ_D9KBoZC7V3mfToFGaMwH2slvVe_XHT5LaOCqoubrWhoIXVtr6-iNAl4gMqCpFU6HXQCJvp/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180744_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-iqvWpmnGcq2ztiOS1iKacOeoCzkyORkuF4IeWZF7K0-r0r_CO3YdnJdgGtgQJ_D9KBoZC7V3mfToFGaMwH2slvVe_XHT5LaOCqoubrWhoIXVtr6-iNAl4gMqCpFU6HXQCJvp/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180744_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHo5Xkn5YIbkj7YMojw91UaqfeQJxw76kW8g9taOY_8EEKlbZR66GR7qrMFZw4T7_vCP6XcXP91h8S8T2DsuFZewUYyKWmd4J_9JUgwJjUeWt0wFmFfEoqFaGsxxoVV2jo3iG/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180813_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNHo5Xkn5YIbkj7YMojw91UaqfeQJxw76kW8g9taOY_8EEKlbZR66GR7qrMFZw4T7_vCP6XcXP91h8S8T2DsuFZewUYyKWmd4J_9JUgwJjUeWt0wFmFfEoqFaGsxxoVV2jo3iG/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180813_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">This Malayan-Malay warlords as refered by Harris, sitting on the top of government service both here and in East Malaysia are the real culprits and the real decision makers. The last non-Malay department head was in the Bentong District Office and upon his retirement was replaced by a Malay. These was also the reason why so few non-Malays cared to join the government service. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Today Harris is parroting that same dilemma Sabahans and Sarawakians have been facing. And he's spot-on on all counts. Can we have a really integrated employment of peoples of all skin colour and faith incorporated as a truly Malaysian Government Service Staff that will understand the needs of ALL and not of 1 race of Malaysians? You may call me a dreamer , go ahead!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I have advocated a long time ago, to always stress on education. A good English education for all. Not the <i>"sekolah agama attap/pondok"</i> for rural children and renowned foreign institutions of higher learning for <i>"anak menteri". </i>The divide is too vast for equality! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">For further reading on corruption and education, read <a href="https://shanghaistephen.blogspot.com/2017/09/being-politically-correct-and-living-in.html"><i><b>here</b></i></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqxc3BlT6TMRH3R9sNO1-iIF8TR_EttHmw-bHkTGIWPsTw7-EAHQnQkNHGSEYoQestYACGiSdk9C1nTJshrFc4NHhQyqd5_C9vtOaDdywx7IiryggGIG7BxWnGiv3L5ZsY99k/s2220/Screenshot_20200822-180645_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2220" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqxc3BlT6TMRH3R9sNO1-iIF8TR_EttHmw-bHkTGIWPsTw7-EAHQnQkNHGSEYoQestYACGiSdk9C1nTJshrFc4NHhQyqd5_C9vtOaDdywx7IiryggGIG7BxWnGiv3L5ZsY99k/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180645_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">I remember in the old days when government offices had a racially mixed set of staff (well at least it was not 99.9% like today) during festivities of any particular race, the staff celebrating would take leave and the rest of the department would carry on working at a normal pace, because there were other to carry on. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Today do you see how the entire country's already bloated government machinery grinds to a halt for almost every festival of any race? Who made them so lazy? So who wanted the government to be less productive? The very man who enjoyed writing about the Malays being lazy in his book <i>"The Malay Dilemma"</i> and to satisfy his depleted ego by saying <i>"I told you so" </i>and go on to blame the Chinese and Indians and everyone else and never himself for all the hopeless failures he dreamed of! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Did you also know this racist old man does not know how to say <i>"I am sorry"</i>?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLCA3BN5SWDx-WzBxMTxtaZKch3ijbE1yo3xQdsFhwjX5tSYoVsI0_Zqs2R0d-DP8lXbTmfw2V_G_r6kl9503pizZnGgzZpceRM0f8w2sm5t8LPPNdDs4rfJutpe1EM3OQpGm/s1474/Screenshot_20200822-180708_WhatsApp.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1474" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghLCA3BN5SWDx-WzBxMTxtaZKch3ijbE1yo3xQdsFhwjX5tSYoVsI0_Zqs2R0d-DP8lXbTmfw2V_G_r6kl9503pizZnGgzZpceRM0f8w2sm5t8LPPNdDs4rfJutpe1EM3OQpGm/s640/Screenshot_20200822-180708_WhatsApp.jpg" /></a></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-61307128209443631162020-08-07T21:43:00.006+08:002022-09-13T05:18:10.224+08:00Of hate and racism.<div class="separator"><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">He is old, really old and with skin like that of an aged leather-back turtle but at 95 he is still not repentant nor has he given up trying to secure his son, who is yet to grow a spine, in pole position in government, to succeed in his name. A name that has no more respect and way past his shelf-life, since the Covid19 pandemic. He is the MahaFiraun. I wrote kindly about him 9 years ago <a href="https://shanghaistephen.blogspot.com/2011/05/hate-machine.html"><i><span style="color: #990000;">(here)</span></i></a> He has never changed. </p></div><div class="separator"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxbAj0k9QGsZYp2eR0h0YGwbdajL5FjPW29cqMctAxi9uug4jhpKM1WjyW48JrpySjJapz4iY_HkRG7gaGEGK0Y5YCyk-jPoxirVZ_PjJG0ajY-4FdI4a4SWUNftiDFKtaY-c/s300/satan.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="193" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxbAj0k9QGsZYp2eR0h0YGwbdajL5FjPW29cqMctAxi9uug4jhpKM1WjyW48JrpySjJapz4iY_HkRG7gaGEGK0Y5YCyk-jPoxirVZ_PjJG0ajY-4FdI4a4SWUNftiDFKtaY-c/w123-h192/satan.jpg" width="123" /></a></div><p style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: justify;">When in the height of power he called bloggers <i>"jobless lying ladies with nothing much to do"</i> until much later in the mid-2000s, when he himself was out of favour in the then BN government who refused to give his thoughts any space in the mainstream media, became just that too! A frustrated old man who dreamed about flying cars and crooked bridges and a vision that got blurred and shitty by the year 2020! We also know then the racist streak in him as he cleverly enriched his family with the help of a few associates who acted as proxies. He was sneaky, plotting and scheming always. You can ask his former deputies. In short he was like the devil himself! </p></div><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXxclspLM8gcQH_-vCGeM6sDLglIjo3JJ88ZRd_xRxjhVJ02v4RKpjcSjANrdZlyebvNdWZYuN6PESxI89Sym9AsfJUStm9GAfRi2G8pIOAXRUAfiKmiYqLjobGLz9N_jJdZr/s2048/mamak2.jpg" style="clear: right; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="118" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdXxclspLM8gcQH_-vCGeM6sDLglIjo3JJ88ZRd_xRxjhVJ02v4RKpjcSjANrdZlyebvNdWZYuN6PESxI89Sym9AsfJUStm9GAfRi2G8pIOAXRUAfiKmiYqLjobGLz9N_jJdZr/w211-h118/mamak2.jpg" width="211" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">In May 2018, after the surprise win and a change of government, he somehow managed to con the PH coalition into letting him be the prime minister for the second time in his life with a party with the least seats in GE14 and which he created with his obedient son, a Malay Only <i>"Pribumi"</i> party. Still he was plotting and scheming against his own PH coalition members who are damn fools to have allowed him in the first place. Instead of being a catalyst for unity he continued plotting and scheming. Then overnight under cover of the Covid19 lock-down, he was sacked by his deputy who hijacked his Malay only party to form a new PN government and left this old man in the lurch. So much for a plot that back-fired. This evil man cannot help being what he is through out his entire political life. He is the grand-master of hate and racism who never took the blame for all his failures nor did he ever once apologise for all his misdeeds. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today I hear, the MahaFiraun has formed yet again another racist Malay ONLY party which is not named as yet, with his still faithful and spineless son, in preparation for the 15th. General Election. Has he not done enough damage to this once wonderful country of ours? Does he not know when to quit? Don't you think this old man has over-stayed his welcome? Perhaps it is his karma at play, that he should live to see everything crumble and fall to dust all that he thought he built! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="1280" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvExFVKY3fx3mcEsoKWYljp1elG2H57s-6udJ43pIz_HO_VVU56rIfDxp4ojuddbjMiD06Jeol0_HQ1ZVM4M6LDQiyn04v7w0-8iDTmBEiechBE45AY5HaNBASy3LF9-01Oo-A/w413-h231/mamak.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="413" /></p><p></p>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-36501035334167886942020-08-01T15:53:00.007+08:002020-08-01T16:44:52.927+08:00Brother asks a very good question....<div style="text-align: justify;">Recently my Grab-sharing and drinking buddy, brother Raman <i>"the Bahman" </i>KK asked me a very good question regarding the 70% discount (<a href="https://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2020/07/28/jpj-offering-70-discount-on-all-summonses-during-merdeka-month"><font color="#cc0000"><i>here</i></font></a>) accorded to repeated law-breaking motorists with summonses for the entire month of August in conjunction with Merdeka by that idiot Wee again, of the Road Transport Ministry or JPJ? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZk17Krvjtv95FWLbxdL5Ju1yItknq-6j4G1Xz4CJCVOL1MQF57OVMH7F2U6WNTeKG_uTBDLeHKsgDLHzLeOHhwFLjZenscW_yPq2j61M4SASFFfYPY6Dgb6N8UOwofnQT4JC5/s800/bicycle.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="445" data-original-width="800" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZk17Krvjtv95FWLbxdL5Ju1yItknq-6j4G1Xz4CJCVOL1MQF57OVMH7F2U6WNTeKG_uTBDLeHKsgDLHzLeOHhwFLjZenscW_yPq2j61M4SASFFfYPY6Dgb6N8UOwofnQT4JC5/w210-h117/bicycle.jpg" width="210" /></a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">His question was, "What about those of us, citizens who are law-abiding and with no summons to show? Don't we get rewarded in any way? Like DISCOUNTS for every year on their Road-tax and Insurance renewals for being worthy citizens?" Why must this Wee, who incidentally also drafted that dubious <i>"drink-driving"</i> laws (<a href="https://shanghaistephen.blogspot.com/2020/07/tonight-i-drink-to-that-arse-lick-wee.html"><i><font color="#cc0000">here</font></i></a>) with harsher penalties targeting drink drivers enforced recently, now offer such huge discounts to summons collectors? What's his shallow game plan?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYl1pRs2f7-pBcWWRy2ZoKTWyjdB0ZB84aA9csWFzFWUoN22pwpb5-oWle1X5ZDxpdOEQIMFNXnrJ-H4h-eWAjP03dZLo71q-bJ_WwIwLMgOJzmJ9ClW8lEAGsQPM3NDLmvk_o/s225/saman.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYl1pRs2f7-pBcWWRy2ZoKTWyjdB0ZB84aA9csWFzFWUoN22pwpb5-oWle1X5ZDxpdOEQIMFNXnrJ-H4h-eWAjP03dZLo71q-bJ_WwIwLMgOJzmJ9ClW8lEAGsQPM3NDLmvk_o/w115-h114/saman.jpg" width="115" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What kind of message is this MCA stooge sending out to hard-core repeat traffic law violators? That they can break as many traffic laws as they want and if summoned the fines can be negotiated and reduced so long as he earns some <i>"good-guy"</i> brownie points, some bragging rights at ceremahs, a voter base and perhaps some mileage in his flagging political career, no? This type of pampering of rogue law breakers breeds corruption in a subtle form. How desperately pathetic! </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Instead this MCA goon should start arresting and jailing repeat offenders with more then a certain number of summonses, just as harshly as drunk-drivers are accorded or maybe worse. Now that would take some balls to do, right? And do you think he has? Laws are formulated and passed to be followed, not negotiated and discounted.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskQQ5izZ3BJqs7UhDSFaaAzU0SGKSkJPmzg5EK23pqqSI2Ok0LLoGTgjdx8wfNwovcV9xqlHfTZqvQGePAClNoOfx33DWJoOUujq6hwXMzPmIaVNOGqEmWAfKhZxTu9JPle7B/s275/traffic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjskQQ5izZ3BJqs7UhDSFaaAzU0SGKSkJPmzg5EK23pqqSI2Ok0LLoGTgjdx8wfNwovcV9xqlHfTZqvQGePAClNoOfx33DWJoOUujq6hwXMzPmIaVNOGqEmWAfKhZxTu9JPle7B/w176-h117/traffic.jpg" width="176" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="text-align: justify;">Like anything that is mandatory, only the corrupt in the various enforcement authorities get to gain in monetary rewards. And as for the righteous amongst us, sorry lah, you shall continue to be screwed with your eyes wide open if you were expecting any form of reward or discounts. </span></div><span style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3gulZbf9GGeYuJp-jS-64wAO6VucJ6sB3Vm_4EMPqOB3emINKNP4qcqoL8nAz6NWjKb1aEC1RD1dZ-wUX2TexneFP6vvLyc0tx9dCnvuOz0G7AqNxNlvz14DI9wcSId2Epww/s270/dbkl1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="270" height="149" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ3gulZbf9GGeYuJp-jS-64wAO6VucJ6sB3Vm_4EMPqOB3emINKNP4qcqoL8nAz6NWjKb1aEC1RD1dZ-wUX2TexneFP6vvLyc0tx9dCnvuOz0G7AqNxNlvz14DI9wcSId2Epww/w216-h149/dbkl1.jpg" width="216" /></a></div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"> .............Dream on lah, dude. </span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div></div>Shanghai Fishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13128603875616796471noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28598173.post-90920606099182356752020-07-26T15:26:00.000+08:002020-07-26T15:37:52.150+08:00The FUTURE is NOW!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">The future is now.</span></span><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">It's time to throw out all the old ways of doing politics – and spearhead a new democratic movement driven by next-generation ideas.</span></span><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; vertical-align: inherit;"><a class="oajrlxb2 g5ia77u1 qu0x051f esr5mh6w e9989ue4 r7d6kgcz rq0escxv nhd2j8a9 nc684nl6 p7hjln8o kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x jb3vyjys rz4wbd8a qt6c0cv9 a8nywdso i1ao9s8h esuyzwwr f1sip0of lzcic4wl py34i1dx gpro0wi8" href="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thestar.com.my%2Fopinion%2Fcolumnists%2Fall-the-pieces-matter%2F2020%2F07%2F26%2Fthe-future-is-now%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2i3kX9WsmZH1hbXiUNp96zPv9Ko-s6wLlvP_gPKQOU0zrzTBzdMez-alY&h=AT2dhNu6-rqeNRwjKLZp99UTeUtsTWeAs5QUVZfEGLoU23JsIRA_QX69EAXnPRDiSuCAY5chayQSwbdGmo80BHGm1mKkyh2ntHxrCQG4P8bBKIJXi4ueIdINgY5JWmEQ7UO9z8dvux4tB4LDDA&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT2XGLvhUbBXJnJ9gVzX-DLj84ZK3Zxo_q05tA6uhK5foQRzTw5eYE77PxvC7wnB0Y0zfrUCNw4B67txT1iOmW6yUDTTj64uZStb7T7YvyqNPGNY31XkaGXUQU3tvjePBP8j29PGJEgZe6KYhuTWRA" rel="nofollow noopener" role="link" style="border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit;" tabindex="0" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/all-the-pieces-matter/2020/07/26/the-future-is-now</a></span></span><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">IT'S happening.</span></span><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I don't think there'll be any announcements around the corner, but it feels like things are cooking. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Last week I wrote that Malaysia's future hinges on breaking with our past. Today, I hope to describe more carefully exactly what that might look like. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I believe that the many problems with government stem from the way existing political parties are structured, and prevailing political culture. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I for one am tired of trying to influence politicians from the outside. They don't listen. The older generation seldom does. It's not something either of us should lose sleep over. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Significantly changing the way the government behaves requires being in government, but changing political culture can be done by founding our own democratic movement. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I use the terms “democratic movement” and “movers” in this article to describe a movement and organisation that intends to contest in elections under a common logo, but otherwise leaves behind many, many aspects and characteristics of political parties and politicians as we know them. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I'm certain many will say these ideas are hopelessly naive and impractical, but to paraphrase The Man of La Mancha, perhaps madness is seeing the world as it is, and not how it should be. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">To say ideals are impossible to reach is to give up before starting, and to hand Malaysia back to those who have bled it dry. We are all fallible humans, but that is no excuse to avoid building a strong moral compass – one that we can turn back to, even when we go astray. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Coming back to the question at hand. If political culture and structures are indeed the root of the problem, then we must be clear about exactly how, and how we can do things differently. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">For today, I will sketch out three main areas: the role of core values and ideology; internal structures; and replacing the zero sum approach to elections.</span></span></div>
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<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><b><i>Old</i></b>: Current major political parties here are effectively built around race, religion, individuals, or some combination thereof. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">In the era where Umno and the Barisan Nasional model were dominant, racial narratives driven by race-based parties were like a massive center of gravity which reshaped other political parties around them. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Even parties that were not founded on racial ideology like DAP and Gerakan started being shaped fundamentally by the race game. This has become coded into their DNA to the point where changing how these parties operate and are perceived is fast becoming near impossible. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">If a party exists for the wrong reasons, it can never go in the right direction.</span></span><br />
<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><i>New</i>: A democratic movement should be founded on clearly articulated shared principles and values. It should be a movement where the slogans are not just slogans, but something felt deep in each mover's heart. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">A democratic movement is not about'defending the rights' of any one particular subset of Malaysians; it must be about defending all our rights together. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">A democratic movement is not about making person X or person Y Prime Minister. People will come and go, but the quest is not about individuals; it is about ideals-and ideals endure. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">The first task then is to gather the right group of movers, and to sit down to hammer out exactly what those shared ideals are-no matter how long and difficult the process.</b></span><br />
<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><b><i>Old</i></b>: Almost all political parties have similar structures. There are Presidents, Deputy Presidents, Vice Presidents, Women's and Youth Wings, and so on. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">People invest a lot of money into winning these'lucrative' posts because a Deputy or Vice President of a political party can claim that their seniority entitles them to become say Education or Defense Minister. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Such ministers control massive budgets, which they often use to feed a patronage network within their parties, in order to ensure that they have the internal support to remain Deputy or Vice President. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">This is an extremely toxic cycle of money politics and feudal patronage that ensures that the Education or Defense minister is expert in neither Education nor Defense, but an expert in playing party politics. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">This single phenomenon and the ripples it creates may in fact be the biggest problem in our current system and structure of politics.</span></span><br />
<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><i>New</i>: A democratic movement should only have functional posts, where internal competition is minimised. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Instead of posts that are generally non-functional and exist to unproductively indicate rank and hierarchy, there should only be posts with specific, necessary functions and portfolios. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">The central committee that decides most day to day operations of a democratic movement can consist of a small group of individuals of essentially the same'rank', who have clear SOPs for resolving differences of opinion. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Should these be designed well, then in the context of contesting elections, the only question that remains is to identify a candidate for Prime Minister (<i>since this is unavoidable in our current electoral system</i>). </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">On this note, in a democratic movement driven by individuals that have bonded and built enough trust in one another over time by struggling for the same ideals, it won't matter whether person A or person B is chosen to be the leader, because we all are committed to the same goals. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Besides functional portfolios such as communications, finance, and so on, another innovative idea is to found a movement that has something akin to a shadow cabinet right from the start. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Shadow ministries need not be led by individuals alone, but can be led by committees of competent experts, from which the movement will commit to selecting future ministers from. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">The idea is to demonstrate a seriousness about new ideas for governance, rather than treating ministerships as political rewards to be doled out by the Prime Minister alone in a last minute process devoid of any transparency.</b></span><br />
<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><b><i>Old</i></b>: In our current system, politicians are incentivised to tear down and demonise their political opponents at every turn, no matter what. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">This creates a toxic, adversarial, and most importantly, counterproductive zero-sum political atmosphere, where it is always a free for all season to'whack' one another. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Indeed, the words 'partisan' and 'party' appear most likely to be related to the word “apart” – cementing the notion that old politics is in essence about divisiveness. Does it always have to be that way?</span></span><br />
<span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;"><i>New</i>: A democratic movement should recognise that everyone in Malaysia has a part to play. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">Yes, we may compete against one another in elections, but that does not mean we should spend every waking hour trying to 'kill off' one another. We could instead use that time and energy to talk about how all involved can do their part in contributing to a better Malaysia. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I expect politicians will scoff and laugh, believing this to be impossible. As the saying goes, however, (<i>wrongly attributed to Nelson Mandela</i>)-it is always impossible, until it is done. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">I believe a young, fresh breed of democratic movers can move beyond this blind partisanship that overrides everything else, and practice a new way of doing things – one that doesn't involve tearing down future electoral opponents at every opportunity. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">All the above ideas will strike many as hopelessly naive. </b><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem;">As the saying goes (<i>correctly attributed to John Lennon</i>), you may say I'm a dreamer. Whether or not those of us working on these ideas are in fact the only ones will pretty much depend on you.</b></span></div>
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