Whip 'em up real good !

It would be most appropriate for a school principle to exercise caution, proper understanding and the urge before yeilding the cane on pupils ? More so if that 'student' was actually a teacher !( read here )

It may sound hilarious but the teacher in question is not laughing as she claims, she had been embarrassed in front of her charges and is seeking redress for the incident ! Will there be any investigation by the Education Ministry in the first place as the newly transferred (two weeks old) school-head had apologised to the young teacher in question, for 'mistaking her identity'. Now may I suggest an absolute 'win-win' solution to this whole matter ? Yes, this 'cane-worshiping' school-head, whom I personally and highly recommend is to be transferred to the Malaysian Parliament with immediate effect...where her fetishes can be put to great if not better use...whipping.....to her hearts content all those little "monkeys-in-suits" hurling abuses, calling idiotic names at each other (not that the name not befits them !) and behaving/protesting worst then 10 year olds !

It is a circus everytime the parliament meets and to think WE (the decent, tax-paying, joe/mat/thamby/pangyau!! ) are resposible for this cheap show which is being played out and viewed by thousands all over the country during prime-time news !! Can anyone tell me what the criteria is, to belong to the back-benchers club?? These are the 'chimps' who are most 'wild' ...like they have not been "broken" or house-trained (a term one would use loosely, to tame a wild horse !) Very soon our so-called parliamentarians would be 'apeing' their counter-parts from less civilised countries like Taiwan and Korea...right?

So there you go... with one stroke (a few tabs of the keyboard, actually !) I have resolved and concluded the "investigations" and action that has to be taken, of this over zealous new school-head and her love for canes !

To all Malaysians of the Sikh and Hindu faiths and also to the Singalese race I wish you and your families a "Very Happy Vasakhi", "Varusa Parupoo " and "Subhalluth Avuruddhak Veva " respectively. Godbless !

Breast fondling Beast !

I read and had to re-read this article(here) in disbelief as to the trust-worthiness of our guardians in an emergency...ohhh....boy ! This nightmare is happening again !

How can this gross and vile attitude permeate from these very people whose sacred responsibility lies in taking care of the helpless patient or victim of an accident... ??

And even more despicable is an accomplice who enjoys a good laugh at the lewd antics of a colleague ! Where have all the morals gone ?

From now on, I would view with suspicion at all ambulance with wailing sirens blasting in a similiar situation, right...yes of course I'd be dead suspicious of 'what goes on in an ambulance from now on'... and I should not be thought of as paronoid! Why shouldn't I reserve the right to think so...even if the damn authorities claim that this is an isolated case ? There is no bleeding excuse for this type of behavior at any level of public service. Now what's the name of that ambulance service provider, again?......while you are at it, wonder why so many cases of patients die enroute to the hospital...huhhh...were they "silenced" ? Was there an act of crime commited aboard the moving vehicle and that the "patient" had put up a fight..? Not properly sedated ? Afraid the 'groggy' patient might "spill the beans" on them ....eerh ....?? I'm just toying with these ideas and scenarios for the rest of you who are dying and who dread to "picture this" ! No more hand-phones with cameras for these sickos on duty, please ! The authorities always very casually dismiss this as " awwhhh..this is only one case lah"....but hey !.....stop this rot now ! Why should there be even ONE case...huh ??

You know, we were 'once' a beautiful Malaysia, where friendliness, love and respect earned us a reputation as the country where the most wonderful and mild- mannered people lived !! I want that feeling again ! I'm not going to put up with this crap and I'm sick of this daily crimes ! Sheesh...did I say 'sick'... opps... oh no...please do not call for an ambulance for me ...I'll walk ...thanks !

MISSING - BOY NAMED YIN, AGED 5.

Have you seen this boy ?

I beg you all Malaysians , help this boy be reunited with his family. Today is day 6 and Shamsul Ghazali Shamsudin of Chemor,Perak is scouring the streets (here) of Kuala Lumpur desperate in the hope of finding his son who went missing while shopping with his family in Sogo ( a department store in Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman ).

At a time like this , alot of crazy thoughts would come into the minds of the parents, like what is little Muhammad Nazrin or Yin as he is affectionately called, eating, who is keeping him, is he safe , is he sleeping on the streets,is he still in our country or has he been taken out of this country ( it is quiet easy to come in and out of this country......ask all those who are here illegally...go on ask any Bangla, Myamar, Indian or Indon how many times he's come and gone out undetected... it is sickening but its true... and yes... call me a liar and being unpatriotic..But that is the real deal... folks !!) , has anybody done the worst to him...like these days of crazyness in our once safe country,which even I shudder to write about but you try and picture it !

What would my first reaction be when I see a child alone, maybe crying and lost ? I would coax the child to tell me if he is lost and that if he remembers any telephone numbers of his family , if not then I'd alert the security personel of that establishment and make sure the kid's predicament is publicly announced over the PA system and if no one appears then a police report of the child's whereabouts (as in this case Sogo) and then follow up with the police to ensure that child is properly cared for before, and maybe say a little prayer for his reunion with his family !

But the above scenario is not to be in this little boy's case.....PLEASE TRY AND KEEP A LOOK-OUT... ALL YOU CARING MALAYSIANS...! Even a few of Shamsul's collegues have taken leave from the bank to help distribute flyers in the city urging the public's help to locate this helpless child !

I also heard the shopping complex management has no CCTV footage of the the incident at the material time and location and also at all exit/entry points of the complex, which does not help the police much to work with and which so leaves us to believe maybe, little Yin is still somewhere in the complex, perhaps ? A stream of "worst case scenario" flashes through my mind !

Today almost all shopping complexes in and around the city is manned by "foreigners"-right from the cleaners to security personnel and No... I not saying or pointing a finger on anyone ...but give it a thought, please.... we have heard many stories of children abducted, sodomised, threatened and maimed physically and mentally, just so to be used for begging purposes by some scumbags for their daily financial support for drugs or supplement their income....it's frightening but it is REAL !

This holy week of Lent, I pray for the safety and safe return of little Yin to his emotionally distraught mum and dad. God bless this family please !

You in the meantime pray for little Yin and help pass the word around... Thanks and Godbless!

*Update(7-2-07) BLESSED EASTER TO ALL CHRISTIANS AND GOD BLESS MALAYSIA !

Goodness NPC Gracious!!

Yes , the National Press Club's AGM was held last night and boy am I still nursing a heavy head, 'hic', from all that guzzling !

This is an exciting motley of seasoned journalists who will serve as the EXCO for a term of 2 years ending in March 2009 !

And yes the out-going President, Rocky( who had served 2 terms or 4 years) was indeed pleased with the selection of the EXCO members under the new leadership of Mokhtar as President.

All members present had a great time merry-making before and after the free and transparent voting was over and for the benefit of my blog readers (you deserve that privilege... actually !) I list below the new Honorary line-up.

1. President- Mokhtar Hussain of Bernama

2. Deputy President- M. Veera Pandiyan of The Star

3. Vice President- Joe Fernando of The Star

4. Secretary- Jugjet Singh Randhawa of the NST

5. Assistant Secretary- Jane Ritikos of The Star

6. Treasurer- SP Manivasagam of Movie News

7. Assistant Treasurer-Lum Chih Feng of the Oriental Daily

and the 8 Executive Councillors (in no particular order) are 1) T. Ananthan of Bernama 2) Anthea De Lima of Mediate Publication 3) Farrah Naz Karim of the NST 4) Ghazemy Mahmud of ADJ 5) Jaiarajo Letchuman of Bernama 6) B. Kaderas of Malaysian Nanban 7) Krishna Rao of Malaysian Progress and last but not least 8) Shamini Darshni of the NST.

And looking at this list.... hmmmm.... 4 ladies in the midst...that has never happened before ! Me thinks this is going to be a year full of changes and rearrangements..and excitment... power to the women !

Congratulations to all for your new appointment in the National Press Club !!

And the music plays softly as I quietly continue to sip my beer 'hic' in one cosy corner at my favorite drinking 'hic' hole.........cheeeeers !!

Mat Dohfus Pt. 2

"Focus on training and ignore the critics.." UMNO Youth Chief Datuk Seri Krishammuddin Tun Hussain advices the 10 selected "rempit-sympathizers" of UMNO Youth (here) who will jump from 6,000 ft above sea level over the Artic in -35 degrees Celsius temperatures between April 15-20, 2007.

Why is the minister so vehemently trying to prove these 10 youths' credibility? In my earlier post (read here ) UMNO Putera Youth Bureau Chairman a certain Datuk AAAR (se) said something similiar and now our good minister is 'lip-syncing' like a canary that same tune ? Does the future of UMNO Putera rests on the "sucess" of this jump ? Surely this minister's got his expectations of our youth in a confused 'mode for success'!

So excuse me Mr. UMNO Youth Chief, don't you ever say this 'expedition' is not funded by me, you( hmm... you..I'm not so sure !!) and all tax-paying citizens of this country ! Every thing UMNO does IS with public funds, so stop saying we have no right to know how "wisely" our taxed ringgits are being used ! And how much is all this going to put us back with... huh...1 million, 2 million or is this running into the billion ?? (these days the word million has become 'loose change' and billion is the norm!)

Is it, also true the team leader 'broke' his leg recently during 'practise ' jumps ? And that he won't be leaving or leading his charges to the North Pole ? How much will these choosen 'princely kids' be paid after the expedition ? Who's paying them ? Or will they all be given branch chairman positions in UMNO Putera ? Is our honorable Datuk AAAR also a part of the contigent...?( of course meh.... there should only be 10 youths plus a couple of extras following the expedition but then you know... this is Bolehland lah ....so must take 150 supporters, sympathizers, hangers-on, pachiks, machiks, ketua kampongs, leeches, machais, cameramen and not forgetting the make-up artists and stunt- doubles for comfort..heh...heh! )

Questions, questions, questions... and I need answers babe... you think I have no right to ask ? Now go on, you tell me..!

*(masterpiece- courtesy of Mob1900)*

" Oie... Jangan buat lagi tahuuu...?"

Ahhh...yes , the Ampang Jaya Municipal Council (MPAJ) is 'stealing' the limelight in the Malay Mail again( here ) and it's got me all worked up ......so pray, tell me, are we going to be detoxed of this highly lethal and poisionous 'cancer' that has grown so comfortable in our midst, dressed in dark blue uniforms, walking shamelessly as enforcement and up-keepers of laws/regulations ?

Laws created first, in the parliament ,then translated/misconstrued at state councils and modified/misconstrued/misunderstood further at the local councils and enforced upon tax-payers.....these laws (if you may want to call it that !) at local councils are nothing more then rules and regulations, translated and modified from council to council, state to state and applicable and revokable at the whims and fancies, and by the pleasures of the top dog in the council and /or state !

This is the ROT !

So 19 MPAJ government servants (I use the term government servants always,because they are, whether directly or indirectly, are paid by you and me, as rate/tax payers and who should be doing what we expect of them to be doing in their respective capacity as government servants !) were issued show-cause letters over negligence for not carrying out their duties in closing down a theme park which operated without a license for 8 bloody years !!

After "some" investigations from within the council "which deliberated for 3 hours on the fate of the 19 government servants", each government servant was issued a 'warning' and the whole controversy was concluded and considered closed ! Now how about that ???

Oh yes keep your focus as we have such a transparent government and we are governed by a Islam Hadari PM... and Datuk Ramli Mahmud, Selangor State Secretary, "thinks" the decision was okay ,when asked to comment on the out-come of the 19 corrupt government servants ! And yet another moron hopes that the 19 will be more careful the...errhh... next time !! ( oops ...did I say 'corrupt' ?...I am not supposed to say such things as they were not proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt !!)

Just goes to show how deep-rooted this corruption has set in the system whilst the government preaches about openess, democracy, transprency and all that bloody bullshit !! Surely this decision of a 'warning' is a joke and yes, I'm pissed off !!

Syabas UMNO, Syabas Barisan National and Syabas to our beloved and holy PM !

"..from cockles to mussels to lye...de...lye...lyyyee "!!

To all the people of Ireland from Donegal to Galway to Cork, and all things Irish, or anyone who's had the good fortune to visit Ireland or have had any contact/association with the Irish people or Ireland and have been adventurous enough to part-take in their customs, rituals or habits or even drink in an Irish pub outside of Ireland( like here in Malaysia) or even lift a glass of Guinness's goodness in a coffeeshop 'hic' and to all Irish persons living outside of Ireland ..."Thanks for the memories"...'hic'...and "Happy St. Patrick's Day"..!! Cheeeers !!!

Cheers to Benny, Deirdra, Antoine, Greg, Diendra, Martin, Bernie, Sophie, Charlie and Grace...'hic' .........from Stephen and family- Malaysia.

My Apologies to all Lady Bloggers !

I want to apologise to all lady bloggers here in Malaysia and the world over! Please do not include/associate the rest of us bloggers/and males, with that moron who's chauvinistic remark has riled all lady bloggers....as a royal politician, Tengku Adnan should exercise tact and good manners and not take a cheap-blow at bloggers - we are not liars... men or women bloggers ! Our Mr. Tourism Minister spoke like a true Malaysian UMNO politician.... through his arse !

Now I demand a public apology from this dimwit ! In fact only in this "bodohland" can a Minister of Tourism, get away with such stupid, disrespectful and biased statement against the many women whose very votes put him where he is today ! What a poor excuse for a minister !! Shame on you...Tengku ! (did I say.....Tengku ??) Can anyone in Parliament demand a public apology from this Tengku ? eerh... Mr. Prime Minister.....sir..?

And Tengku, you're calling my 13 year old god-child a liar too ? She is a responsible blogger and she writes about things the way a 13 year old sees (here) and I believe every word she prints (even if they are misspelt...! ) as opposed to the lies you spew from your mouth ! Shame on you...NOW apologise !

I wonder where this joker gets his facts from ? ( from PAS..huh..?) I wonder what he thinks of his family members especially girls ...if they ever blogged ! He might even have told them it is "haram" for girls to blog !! This cave-man attitude is what's making us (the rest of us-decent Malaysians !) the brunt of jokes all over the world...for our visitors to take back to their home-lands.

This clowns never cease to astound me time after time .....!

*Photo-courtesy of Sheih "Kickdefella"-

"tell" - News Unglossed !

Today was the launch of the latest magazine "tell", and boy what a splash it was...at least for it's dear publisher, Wahti Mahidin of "Waht's up" fame.

Yes darlings, I did have a great time at the party and I want to say "Thank You" to all at 'tell' (funny I cannot even use a capital letter to spell this mag!!) And I'm not telling you why !
Good and glossy and this mag's got some real 'heavies' at the helm with Sharifah Sakinah, Dina Zaman, Adam Lee, Michelle Gunaselan... just to name a few.
Targeting readers above 30 and 'thinking', I'd say this mags' got attitude !
Once again "Congra..ku..ku..lationss" to the whole gang and thanks for the invite !

Cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeers !!!

I'm not "tell"ing anything more.. 'hic'...go get one for yourself 'hic' when it hits the news-stand tomorrow ! Good night .......hic!!

"Happy Chap Goh Meh"

Well looks like the Chinese New Year celebrations (if you can call it that because I cannot tell by this 'deafening silence'...less the fire-crackers !) are finally over and tomorrow it will be back to the humdrum called work, for most of us.

Overheard at a gaming outlet, this afternoon that there was a van being driven around the Happy Garden housing area, off Old Klang Road in Kuala Lumpur, with four to six men in mufti, looking out-for any persons, gambling in the privacy of their homes...How much more sneakier will these authorities get ? If they really are from the government enforcement agency( and not some bogus crooks posing as such..) going after illegal gamblers, why do these morons peep into peoples homes to make arrests when all they have to do is plant themselves near the many licensed gaming outlets and arrest all those Muslims going in and out of these outlets ! Gambling for Muslims is wrong but to sneak around private homes of Malaysians of Chinese descent is ridiculous. Gambling during the Chinese New Year season is an integral part of the celebrations.....just as fire-crackers is as to wading off "evil spirits" !

Notice how this 2 major activities/customs have been slowing phased out in our society... and don't forget the "lion dancers" and the throwing of oranges....by this actions ( whatever reasons given by the authorities) they are just an excuse, from a bigger master plan, to further eradicate cultures and practices of other fellow races in this country ! And I am neither a racist nor a religious bigot, in all honesty ! I am a Malaysian, period !

Shouldn't the practice of all 3 major races of this country be encouraged and put in full gear to enhance unity and respect most especially during this "Visit Malaysia Year 2007" ? Why do all foreign visitors think we (as in Malaysians) are UNIQUE ?? Why do you think foreigners come to our shores ? To see the millions of illegal Banglas and Indons living in harmony here in Malaysia ? Of course not, it has everything to do with the different way we (as in Malaysians) practice our 3 different major races, religions and cultures in harmony..... that's why !!!

Next year will see the banning of "Yee Sang" during Chinese New Year ...and eerhh...the drinking of whiskey by Hindus during Deepavali..... mark my word ! And the government spends millions in all those cockamanie projects thus creating instant millionaires in the pretext of good governance under the guise of promoting racial harmony, tolerance and respect !

My family and I wish all a "Happy Chap Goh Meh " and to Rocky "Congratulations " on being cited in Wikipedia...another first, man...and..YOUUUU have arrived and here to stay !

Dracula Sucks ... Part ll

This one's courtesy of Mob's Crib.

Blood-y Awesome, man.

Dracula sucks.. So does Sammy !

Dato Seri ( loosely equates....Count ) S. Samy Vellu-click here -hehehehehe... I'm still in a fit just looking at this guy and I actually thought be was wearing a 'french-beret' ! You too.....go ahead and enjoooooooy !

Actually I did this posting just so you can see this sucker in the different angles and man... it is funny and aptly worded "he's speaking his mind"... erhh...duh.. man has none after the " hair-planting " season was over ! Che wannabe, hehehehehe.. ??
Come to think of it ...with all due respect, don't bother reading the exclusive... it's the same crap he gives in every interview... Just enjoy the visuals..if you can 'read-visuals', in one of the shots, he's index finger is saying "up- yours"(my interpretation) to all the tax-paying and voting rakyats, who dare disagree and question his level of reasoning (does that make me "anti-government" ??..Rubbish !! ).....and now.....that's entertaintment !!

Have a great Monday...and to all Malaysians, good nite and God bless, where ever you are..!

I am Tagged !...you are"deleted"!

This is like saying "choope" ! remember the game of "achi-choope " anyone...??? helllooo....??
Well,... when my dear Nuraina tagged me on her blog, yesterday I was wondering...what?? what in the world was she talking about.. in fact I even thought tag meant I was linked to her blog... BUT wait.. I WAS already linked to her blog.. thanks to TV Smith.....so why did she sms me, to say she's tagged me on her blog ??? Is it like saying "YOU ARE DELETED"??

Well after last night's meeting with her at my favorite "watering-hole" and a little unwarranted imput from Rocky I finally got a clearer picture of this game of TAG ! Me thinks it's a lot like "a feel-good" post once in a while (away from the morbid mess that surrounds our miserable everyday lives !) to bring the curious readers' attention to the blogger him/herself confessing to some dark, juicy and wierd (6 ?) things....whoa...help me here please.. cos I don't think I got 6 'weird' traits to write about... in fact I can't think of even ONE !

Well... ehhm...maybe one...okay.. I snore in my sleep!...well... is that bad or what..? everyone snores right ? yes.. but loud enough to wake you up ?Ehrr.. No.. but I do sometimes wake up and wonder who's making all that noise to wake me ..only to find IT was my own snoring that woke me up in the first place....Oh. No...why am I saying all this bedroom secrets for anyways !!! choope !... folks thats all... and the other weird things as Rocky readily suggested were 2.)I'm weird that I don't remember I'm supposed to cite 5 more weird things, 3.) wierd I'm not a "weirdo" 4.) even weirder I can't recognise the wierd company I keep... 5.)Now...what's wrong with the company I keep anyway ? If you see my links on this blog ....NOW there's a wierd link already !!! 6.)...but seriously... this may sound WEIRD.... they are my BEST brothers and darlings and I'd think this screwed-up world needs more people like them anyday !!!

Now over to you... malay-male,tell them all, Amir... stand-up philosopher, Tony, vapourising crap into intelligence,... zorro-unmasked, Bernard the si-fu,... skthew, another blog savy brother, sheih,.... needs no introduction in cyberspace and lastly BUT definitely not the least... Rocky... heh...heh... try and wrangle out of this one bro !!

YOU GUYS ARE ALL TAGGED !...don't ask me ...ask Nuraina , she started all this, guys !!!

What the heck... I'm just warming-up and am beginning to enjoy this...sheesh... !!!

"Happy Birthday- Bloggers United " !

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY BLOGGERS UNITED"- YOU ARE ONE MONTH OLD TODAY !! and come the 22nd of February 2007 @ 2.30p.m. at the High Court in Denmark House - ROCKY ! we will still be walking with you bro ! You are not alone ..as the whole blogging world is watching us... man!

*help....this is where I'd need sheih's or mob's flair to do the lay-out ...but the message is clear and will be written on the walls of the High Court of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur ! Cheers !!

Ai...yo..yo..Samy !

He wears his "hair" like a crown ( clown ?) and is the mouth-piece(with an unmistakable accent!) of a major group of Malaysians of Indian decent...the longest serving (surviving !) cabinet minister in this country or probably the world... A post he will cling on to, for all he is worth, to his grave I believe !

With all due respect(?).... Sammy to me, Semi-Value to some and names too obscene to be printed on my blog, by the masses ! Yes, he is the ever infamous, Minister of Works, Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu- A very Godly name too !

And now that our beloved jet-setting PM has agreed .... in principle to allow toll concessionaries agreements to be made public...Sammy's dancing a different tune( here ) ! He's making it look like it was our beloved and pious PM who was responsible for not allowing the tax-paying citizens from peeking at the agreements.

Why the about turn of events suddenly ? Only recently we, the law abiding and tax-paying citizens were threatened with ISA and OSA if found with a copy of the toll concessions agreement....why ? Ah ha!... Elections coming near, right ? Because our beloved PM said so..yes ? Come on Sammy, you can do better then that lah, stop this hippocrisy !...every time I pay the unrequired highway toll-tax at toll-booths I curse you and the people who elected you to this position,and for the unnecessary hike in toll charges, YOU have imposed on me and the populace! Can't you bring down the price of road-tax at least ? And kick those motor insurance companies (your friendly GLCs) to reduce the premiums on our vehicles ? Are you out of your mind.. with all that foreign agents sticking out of your scalp ???

Don't do this crap just to garner votes Sammy...don't just review toll charges in desired places only.. like Sungei Nyior, Butterworth... just to apple-polish the PM's neighbourhood/constituency or in Sungei Siput...! Did you not hear the cries of the rakyat at IOI recently or at Sungei Long or in Cheras et cetera...et cetera??? Are the voices of the rakyat falling on deaf ears ? You got a problem hearing, Sammy ?

The rakyat and I will be watching you this coming elections, Sammy ! (and so will God !)

Chastity Belts and Dick Sheaths !

It never fails to amaze me of the many "moronic" remarks, so called scholars and moral-guardians of Islam come up with ! Take this suggestion mooted by Islamic scholar Datuk Abu Hassan Din.. !

Come on lah...you I'm no religious scholar and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to rebut this 'mother of all "idiocy"- cock-eyed view on women' in this 'Islam Hadari' country of ours ! And I tell you, it is these same men of "cultured" religious backgrounds that hold the same dick-eyed view of a rather "simple" and "honest" gesture of a clean hand placed on an exposed arm of a famous international starlet !... ahemmm..more so if that hand belonged to an honest and pious leader like our beloved jet-setting PM !

To thwart the rising rape and incest cases in this country (and NOT only in the east coast of this peninsula) and as to what the 'holy-cow' had suggested... I pronounce ...IT is time to castrate all men found guilty of the misdeed instead and not blame the women only. Maybe an iron-cast dick-sheath bolted round his waist and weighing 10 pounds to be worn by this sex-fiend for eternity ! Sheesh... this Datuk Abu Hassan Din has taken our fast progressing country, in the name of religion, smack !...back into the Dark Ages ! We are independent 50 years today and this is the dung we have to put up with...hhmmm... Shame on you "Datuk"!!

You don't have to go to university to learn to protect and respect your family ! For God sake they are your own flesh and blood man....respect life.. guard them from the evils and protect them from all dangers.....NOT rape them ! And you really don't NEED religion to tell you that, you idiot !

This should not be the topic today, I'm upset and I apologise I have digressed... To all Malaysians here and to all Chinese the world over, my family and I would like to wish you a Very Happy "Gong Xi Fa Cai" and speaking of wishes....... how come in the old days we spelt it "Kong Hee Fatt Choy " huh ? Well I guess thats in keeping with the times and not the reverse ! Learn Datuk !

YAAAAAAAM SEEENNNNG !! Go easy on that nasty stuff, folks ...hic......hic !!

Mat Dohfus !!

Mat-Rempits are in the spot-light again, going by what our UMNO Putera Movement Chief Datuk Abdul Azeez Abd Rahim says ! Go on click here and choke yourself with a good laugh at what this "dohfus" has to say !!

For the life of me , how is a parachute jump ( by 10 mat-rempit sympathisers) from 1,500m over the North Pole, on the 19th of April, going to make our "princely youths"(i.e. Putera UMNO) into "glocal human assets" as this Datuk AAAR ( I'm tempted to add a se ? ) claims, and as what our beloved leaders say and expect of, of them, beats me ! 'An expedition like this would instill a sense of responsibility and resourcefulness in them' ....hmmmm (money wasted on this fool-hardy expedition, can be used for the many still suffering families of our recent floods ! ). Where do our glocal politicians learn to talk like that duh !... my...my...?? Oxford ? Cambridge ?

For crying out loud, who's paying for these goons in the first place and why can't these UMNO princes do something more responsible like "KICKING THE ARSES OF OUR MAT REMPITS, OFF OUR ROADS AND STOP THEM FROM TERRORISING AND ENDANGERING THE INNOCENT TAX-PAYING AND RESPONSIBLE MOTORISTS, WITH THEIR BLOODY IDIOTIC STUNTS" !!!

These mat-rempits are brave only in numbers and roam the streets all night, like 'scums-on-a-high', usually without any legal documents or drivers license and a majority are illegals from neighbouring countries masquarading as Malaysians, and if these "princely" youths want to do anything resourceful "GO WEED THEM OUT ", and then we can have "cemerlang, terbilang and temberang"! Yes Datuk AAAR, please don't give us this kind of crap and maybe you should change your speech-writer and PR person too...!

Like make them all go and donate blood....to the victims of accidents they cause, on any given night ! ....now that will be responsible and resourceful, right? (oops... sorry... cannot lah ...must take blood sample first, right ? and then maybe, just maybe,can find traces of prohibited elements in blood sample......opps... sorry bad idea !)

Well, Datuk AAAR, do think of something stupid to keep me 'in stitches' again , as you are after-all the new "glocal comedian"...ha..ha..ha..ha..ha..!!!

Shanghai'd !

Time and again many have curiously asked this question as to my blog name... "why Shanghai Fish "? From my first ever "Hello" post (23rd. May 2006) I did try to explain something to that context.

Well to begin with I'm a darter and a pretty unpredictable one at that too ! See in dart terms there is such a thing as , if you finish a game with the last 3 darts all in one number or slice of the dart board i.e. the triple, normal and double of say a certain number then you have done a "shanghai-finish" e.g. if the balance point was 120 and you threw a first dart on a 20 then a second dart on 60 (triple 20 ) and checked-out in 40 (double 20 ) .

On the 4th. of September 2005 in the 6th. Merdeka Invitational Darts Tournament championship hosted by the Royal Lake Club, Kuala Lumpur, yours truely did just that and it was reported the following day in the Malay Mail that, yours truely ( representing the National Press Club) was the only one in the tournament who did a "Shanghai Fish" ....yes, maybe it was a typo error, I won't know, but that was exactly what was reported and printed in the papers. See the photo- clip and story above !!

So you see folks I did not realise this but that name stuck on me. There you go......hokay ??
P.S. By the way I've got a name and my name is Stephen Francis, and yes, I hope I am a responsible blogger !

"With blazing guns"

Wow.. I already like this lady lah... the way she's taking on this heads of government who are either irresponsible and/or corrupt ! I'm talking about our newly-appointed Perak Anti-Corruption Agency director Samsiah Abu Bakar.(read here )

Imagine the gall of some of these heads of government departments who "close one eye" to the perpetrator of graft and refused to take action against them for lack of evidence, et cetera, et cetera !! Were they in partnership with this scum of a government servant, or were they related or were they from the same kampong or were they threatened in the first place ? Or were they afraid if they took any action against these crooks, these crooks might spill the beans on them because they are crooks themselves.....sort of 'blackmailed'?

Oh......we could work on a thousand theories. But the refreshing thought is there is now someone "new" who is going to change all that and open a few old 'cans of worms' that has been quietly concealed and hopefully forgotten by the powers of our corrupt little 'napoleons'.

This gutsy lady was also born in the same town as I was, Kuala Kangsar, and I'm sure she's gonna clean up my kampong state Perak, with the same passion as I have for Perak if in her position !It's not like I want to preach but "Walk in the path of rightousness and God walks with you"!

Welcome and "Cheers" to this good lady !

No Geography lah!!

This is simply amazing how our esteemed Ministers announce the setting-up of "committees" to a fairly , straight and honest answer to a problem, any man in the street can give in 2 seconds !

Read this and you tell me, do we need a 'technical' team of experts to study the recent cause of floods in the country ?? As far as I can remember, Kelantan was always flooded every year around December !

Blaming God has always been our "divine right" as nobody will admit to the blatant abuse of our enviroment for monetary profits by the respective authorities in cahoots with their crony, as the real answer to the floods itself ! How much of raping of our hills, forest and entire green-lungs have been ,with a quick stroke of a pen (and with always an expensive and branded pen !) turned these nature's gift to mankind into residencial, industrial and commercial prime property ??

Of course it rains the year round here in Malaysia. Thats a fact, we live close to the equator, where there are lots of countries with lots of 'green' . How else can we have so much 'green' if not for rain...huh ? And we are used to tropical storms in some parts of this region, yes ? Funny how once an Irish visitor actually came to our country to witness a "torrential thunderstorm"(his words ) as he had heard so much of it back home !!

But for the last 20 years or so we have had mega projects and massive population build-up or influx of immigrants(our country offers great 'dreams' for foreigners!) and we have seen this growth and demand in every state and at all levels in local councils through-out the country.

Stop wondering please... our drainage system is from the 50's era (built for a country with about 5 million then !) and our highways and roads linking towns and cities with towering building structures are from the future...you go figure out where all this crap is choking its way to.....!!! Go tell your local councillor to stop screwing "mother nature" !

Have you also noticed, we do not have the NE Monsoon from November to March and the SW Monsoon from April to August as in the past and was documented in our geography books ?

Still need a "technical committee" to figure this out ? Gimme a break ! Maybe with "Visit Malaysia Year" we can quickly turn these flooded places into water-theme "Venice of the east" tours for tourists and even make a quick buck in the process !( just kidding lah... my heart feels sad for all those families affected!) As my dear late 'amachi' (grandma) would always tell us when we were growing up ..."no geography lah"...wise words, now you ponder on it too !

God Bless Amachi and to all city folks "Happy City day" and to all Malaysians all over the world, "Happy Thaipusam" !

Sub judice?

Rocky vs NSTP + Kali-Hisham-CEO-Brenden
Blogger Ahirudin Attan, who runs Rocky's Bru and is the President of the National Press Club, will return to the High Court at Wisma Denmark tomorrow (9 am) to respond to the plaintiffs' claim of sub judice (with regards to comments left by posters in response to two of his postings made between the time he was served the writ to the hearing of the case last Thursday).

The people at Shearn, however, might have overlooked something very serious in the case.

It seems moNSTer blog, the NSTP's contribution towards the blogosphere, has been discussing the case quite actively. No prizes for guessing who the "commentors" in the NST's blog are rooting for.

Did someone say sub judice?

Click here for what NSTP has been up do in print. And here, too.

In the case against 2 Malaysian Bloggers !!

The wheels of justice will be put into motion starting today!! And this morning I'm lighting a candle for 2 Malaysian bloggers !

Rocky of rockybru fame and Jeff Ooi of screenshots , both independent bloggers in Malaysia have been sued by a mainstream newspaper 'piggy-backing' 4 other individuals, for defamation and libel or so they say...!.

What happens after this morning's press conference scheduled for 11'clock by the bloggers is going to go down in blogging history and forever alter our 'obsolete' cyberlaws and that of laws everywhere in the blogging world ! All eyes are on Malaysia !

The entire blogging community NOT just here in Malaysia but the world over is rallying behind these 2 NOW very famous Malaysian bloggers, as this has already been dubbed by many a "David(s) and Goliath case".

To bloggers the world over..."stand tall and we invite you to walk with us as we walk with Rocky and Jeff and as ONE !!!

"Long live our bloggers and God bless "! Amen.

Who killed Cock Robin ?...another "first" !

"Happy Maal Hijrah to all my muslim friends"

It is indeed trying times here in Malaysia, where we are once again creating another 'first' and as usual for all the wrong reasons ! We the "thinking" citizens and bloggers apologise to the rest of the world for drawing so much of cheap attention with this national stunt!

Imagine a mainstream newspaper The New Straits Times (NST) is actually suing two very popular and independent bloggers Ahirudin Attan@ Rocky and Jeff Ooi Chuan Aun, who collectively have a bigger readership, if not individually ! This cheap stunt was the work of one of five plaintiffs in a legal suit, who,I guess, jealous and afraid to go it alone dragged the NST, which employs him and 3 others into the fry, to make a grand 'killing' of these two bloggers! In my opinion I think the newspaper was a party solely to foot the huge impending legal costs for this suit !

And me thinks the masters (UMNO) that run this paper have got their hands tied behind thier backs and the share-holders have "no say" in this matter !

Newspapers should be the information tool for public opinion where the citizens can read , comment, criticize and/or compliment news and newsmakers alike and not to sue anyone for writting about the truth ! This is our right !, right ? It certainly goes against the very purpose of free speech and freedom to speak your mind and all those other international conventions, our country's highest lawmakers attended and proudly put their signatures on ! Ha ha ha !!!

In that light I think the NST( I have very dear and honest friends employed now,with this paper !) should never have been dragged into a personal fight by an individual against another individual, be it a blogger or a tax paying citizen !

On this end the NST has made 2 bloggers very famous, and whatever the out-come of this legal suit is, the reputation of the newspaper (if it does have any !) will be tainted as the bullying bad boy and these bloggers the 'heroes' of cyberworld !All because of one man's frustration and craze for power !

While this is "Visit Malaysia Year" we can now divert tourists and visitors to the High Court of Kuala Lumpur on the 25th. of January 2007 to show them what we are good at but not boasted or bragged about in the travel brochures - making another ..... "first" (read)!

To Rocky and Jeff... I am with TRUTH and.......Godspeed !!

STOP PRESS : My family and I take this opportunity to congratulate Datuk Syed Nadzri Syed Harun Al Jafree (NST Group Editor.) and his family on the bestowing of Datuk Setia Diraja Kedah in conjunction with the 79th birthday celebration of the Sultan of Kedah, today ! Syabas Datuk !

Rocky ! Rocky ! Rocky !

" It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head than to crawl on one's belly in order to be able to save one's head."- Gandhi (1925) or

"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history"- Gandhi (1938) extracted from "Quotes of Gandhi" by Shalu Bhalla.

My brother, Rocky has been served with some court papers restraining him from blogging by 4 persons (behind a mainstream newspaper) who feel he talks too much..! Well... why not if it is honest and true ? You go on.... man !
Are we to be deprived of the truth ? Can we rely on the government run newspapers and electronic media alone ? The government of today brags of promises of democracy, freedom to practise of faiths, transperancy, freedom of speech and equality to all men....errhmm.
We the bloggers here in Malaysia and the whole world ( yes, the whole world, brother !) are closely following the oppression of Malaysian bloggers by the powers that be ! And thanks to the Malaysian government, Rocky, you are now WORLD FAMOUS in Malaysia !!!

And in closing this one by the great Gandhiji (1924) is very appropriate..

" For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion"

Cheers ! And keep your head up Bro !

815, Maxwell Road, Assam Kumbang, Taiping, Perak.

There was Kamal and Sharif @ Yape, at the start of the road, Hussain (this guy actually looked like a young Paul MacCartney!) and Nordin, across the road, in front of our house, the twins Dorai and Thava living next door to Kamal and Norman and Gee further round the bend and there was Kasi too, close to where my brother, Georgie and I lived. And during the school holidays my cousins, Benny and Martin, from Pokok Assam, will join us. We were all, the below 15 group, then.

At any point of time or day, anyone of us could walk into anyone of our neighbour's houses,( we never had any use for fences or gates or locked doors !!) help ourselves to the food in the kitchen, 'lepak' with the rest of the brothers or sisters, greet uncle or aunty in english (everyone spoke english back then !) and then head to the 'padang' to play football or kite or gasing or shoot with our "lastick" or catapult ( mind you, we made our own "lastick" and gasing (tops), from the, now near extinction, "tebusu tree") or marbles or just ran like mad kids all over, then when tired-out, head back home to bathe, eat, study (very little) and drop-off to sleep (hardly any family could afford a television set back then- remember we were kids of government servants !).

Not one of us actually noticed or emphasised our religious or ethnic background ! In short no one was even questioned or spoken to of our religious beliefs. But every family had an unspoken care and respect for all the kids on Maxwell Road.

It was a typical road, housing families whose parents worked with the government, and that was where I was brought up, in the formative years of my life, back in the 60's. The boys would be playing together, the girls will meet every day in the evenings to talk. And there were different groups doing different things together, not by race but by the age group they belonged !

Most of us walked to school together and we were never taught anything about unity in school because there was never a need to do so. Unity was ours for FREE ! We were all, only taught "moral" in our school !

Wherever you are, God bless the guys who lived and played on Maxwell Road !

Today we have this !

Renovations, face-lift or make-over.....anyone?

Ahhh...this is so good...hmmm... and even as you read this post... YOU have been checked-in on my site meter, and here you don't have to pay a cent to surf, unlike old Samy's toll-metered, traffic jammed highways.....ahhahh.. yes, as you can see, my blogsite has had a major face-lift . Decorated with a site meter, linked to some really good blogs (beleive me !), has even been fitted with a 'stop press' link of ever changing hot and latest head-lines from Mysen News. And all this renovations/make-over to my blogspot, took place at my favorite watering hole, around 2 a.m. today ! That's really cool !

And you can now comment or read the comments by clicking 'comment' or without closing the page by clicking on the permanent link i.e. click on the time at the end of the post !

Hey, why am I telling you all this ? You probably know all about blogs already ,...but I must confess this is all so new to an old man like me and I'm really excited, you know !

And now a great big "THANK YOU" to Terrance V. Smith or more popularly known as T.V. Smith of Dua Sen blog fame, my site designer !

This must be mid-life crisis I'm experiencing or what ? Speaking of which, anyone heard whats brewing on in rocky's and jeff ooi's blogs ??

Holding our kids at Ransom...again !

Who dictates the education system in our country and why do we have to disclose personal information( here ) to heads of schools ? Why do I have to pay to private companies ? Is not education a responsibility of the government too? Is someone else cashing-in on the innocents ?

I had the same questions when I went to pay my 10 year old daughters' school fees yesterday at her school in Old Klang Road.

Why do the Education Ministry people make Takaful Insurance (a private insurance company ) payment of RM1.50 per pupil mandatory ? Is not Takaful Malaysia a private entity ? And was this entity not the same body who decreed muslims from wishing/greeting other races during the various religious festivities ? Are they not ashamed to now go and collect millions of ringgits from school children of "other" races ? And why do we have to pay to Takaful in the first place when I have provided for my daughter with more than enough insurance coverage? Many a parent are too tired to question the PTA as they are afraid of adverse victimisation of their kids by teachers and heads of schools ( trust me... everything happens in Malaysia.. lets not pretend it does'nt...okay ??) !! That's why for my daughter's sake, I cannot mention here, the school or the head-master I spoke to !

Who in Takaful dictates the Education Ministry these terms and policies as mandatory ? As the head-master of my daughters school lamented to me "If you don't pay ah... I must pay from my own pocket...... you knowww... ahh? diswan is directive from the ministry lah...surely I kena... I must comply or else.... !"

Looks like someone in Takaful has a damn good grip of the Education Ministry...or someone in the Education Ministry has his hands well greased and pockets,well, lined !...nepotism.... cryonism........ ?? You tell me !

Wake-up Malaysia ... where is the clean and efficient government we have been bitching about ?? Grow-up Malaysia, 50 years on... and we are still reeking with corruption ?? Don't demand the rest of the world to shape-up! It is these little screw-ups by little "napoleons" that lead to total ruin in our 'once decent' system of governance !

Where is my elected representative? Where is that 'towering' kris weilding Education Minister ? Where is my clean and efficient PM ? Where is the opposition ?? Heeeeeelp me...!

Of flag-poles and Poles !

Call me ignorant, but yes, can anyone please tell me how many support personnel accompany Datin Paduka Sharifah Mazlina Syed Abdul Kadir on her expeditions to all these poles she hikes and ski-sails "solo" and now has been honoured and immortalised in the nations postage stamps ?

And why does she have to be funded by the everyday' tax-payers' and not by private corporations like everybody else, for her expeditions with a portion of the sales of stamps and first-day covers ? Look here I'm not being critical or as some will label me "unpatriotic". But seriously I do certainly support any 'daring' and darling of an adventurer undertaking such a dangerous mission just to get our flag, the 'Jalur Gemilang', planted on a barren, god-forsaken sheet of ice where nobody else but fellow adventurers visit. So what are we actually gaining from all this ?

As the DPM said, the government supports anyone trying to boost the country's image !Maybe we should let our "masconaut"(a malaysian astronaut!!!) to float our Jalur Gemilang in space to infinity, when he is out there on his space-walk instead of playing 'chongkak' !

Pray tell me how is this so ? And is she on her own though-out the entire journey or as a little bird told me, she's got her medic, luggage-carrier, publicist/communicator and photographer tagging along her "solo" trip.... otherwise how else can she get all those beautiful shots of her ski-sailing the ice on her own..!!!

The government should really take a damn long look at their priorities and grant due recognition deservingly, and not to anyone embarking on ambitious 'record breaking' feats !

Just wondering-lah....... why that 'sailor' Datuk Azahar or that whatshisname 'English Channel' conqueror or even that Everest climbing duo where not given the same accolade-lah ......hmmmm, thats all..... to all my muslim friends and brothers "Selamat Aidiladha" and to all a very "Happy New Year"!!

"Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year"

This certainly is a cost saving idea too..... this blog of mine! cos you can never say I didn't wish you this Christmas and the new year.

As long as you have been to this site....... "Merry Christmas and a very good New Year"to you !
And even as we celebrate this blessed occassion lets bring to our minds and hearts the less fortunate fellow Malaysians who are in great pain and misery in alot of states with heavy rain pouring everyday and flood-waters not letting up and to all those who have lost their loved ones in the floods.

It is times like these that we are put to our greatest test for genuine humanitarian help from those who lend a helping hand and it broke my heart when I read (here) there was looting and break-ins and hopefully an isolated incident where a rescue boat demanded money for ferrying a family of 9 stuck in the floods !

And that, fellow Malaysians....... we shall keep in our thoughts this Christmas !

Do'a for SUCCESS !

Helloooooo NSC, Doha was a success and you are happy with the results...huh ? (read NST report here and Bernama report here ). Just goes to show how easy it is to please director-general of NSC, Datuk Dr. Ramlan Abdul Aziz.

He should be held accountable of this shame !! 8 gold,17 silver and 17 bronze and that makes him so happy ?? You and I know what great sports facilities we have here in Malaysia, curtesy of the already, poor tax-paying citizens.

War ravaged countries with little or no 'world class facilities and ammenities' have produced better athletes than us ? How come Kazakhstan has 23 gold, 19 silver and 43 bronze and they are 4th in the medal tally?Or Iran has 11 gold, 15 silver and 22 bronze making them 6th and Malaysia is NO 10 !!! And this man expects the rest of us, to be "elated" like him while he brags Doha was a SUCCESS ! Helloooo......Datuk, we are number 10-LAH and we are soooooooo happy ???

As usual, we are always fed with lies by these poor excuse for officials and are told the same 'semuanya okay' spin to pacify us, lest we raise the question of 'how much ringgit' of the poor tax-paying citizens' or "public funds" was spent in total to entertain the "entire" entourage to Doha!! Stop it, shape-up or ship-out, all you free-loading excess baggage! We won't accept No. 10 to be a proud and "elated" nation!!! We are Malaysians... remember we have to be NO 1, so go... and make me proud! I'll not settle for anything less !!!

Sleep well, Datuk ! Say your prayers and "Good night" !

A Truely Malaysian Celebration ?

With great interest and renewed hope I read about our PM's wish (here) for next year's Merdeka Celebration as the nation turns 50 !

Indeed this is a very noble gesture coming straight from the man himself but on reading further I see him "instructing" the Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Tun Hussein to ensure racial unity be forged and nutured at the primary school level !

You gotta be kidding me,right?... this kris weilding, fire-breathing, wira melayu thinks he gives a damn about national unity ? Did an exemplary role model thinggy (with a dangerous weapon too !) for all the nations kids to see and exemplify !

Did you also hear what he and a few "young and ambitious" up-starts said in their speeches at that same UMNO meeting ? Or was everyone fast asleep while they bragged about the greatness of their kind for no apparent reason.There was no necessity to touch on racial issues in the first place..let alone talk of the malay race! This is Malaysia..man... land of multi-ethnic, multi-religious,multi-cultural and multi-coloured nation living in almost perfect harmony! The rest of us citizens in this country are fully aware that only muslims and/or malays belong to UMNO ( we are not morons!).........or maybe that was for the televised live coverage bravado !

To get the desired results for unity at all levels of our society, you gotta clean at the top and if need be, remove or replace these shit-stirrers. I am still reeling from Hishamuddin's oooohh so recent theatricals at the UMNO meeting!! You think he is going to dance to a different tune now?

Sending Donkeys to Doha !

Malaysian football is a damn joke!!(read Bernama report here ).And I am not at the least bit amused !!

And to think our esteemed Sports Minister has got designs to spend millions if not billions of hard-earned tax-payers money on this bunch of maggots who pose as footballers (not to mention the entourage of trainers, officials, therapists, politicians, machais, girlfriends, hangers-ons, make-up artists, parasites, relatives, orang kampongs et cetera et cetera...)

And another clown says we can only improve if our boys trains with the best (that was the reason we HAVE to train in that mega-ringgit sports complex amidst English footballers). Now are the English the best footballers?... I know that the best players are ALL in Brazil ! (oooops! ...now we have to source for a sports complex in Sambaland !!!)

Scrape this dammed sport and let us use the money to finance an English language, sports channel on our local and free tv station, like RTM, giving 24 hours coverage on only sports to educate and entertain that poor kid in that remote kampong or estate, from anywhere in the world BUT here! (not on the other stations, where you have to pay to view! ) At least we will know where our hard-earned tax money is going to !

Are we sure we actually sent a MALAYSIAN team to Doha ?? Just looking at the list of players(correct me if I am wrong) I feel, we sent a 'Thai' and 10 Malays to represent our plural and diverse nation. With all due respect, I'm not a racist- but honestly, is that the composition reflecting our great Malaysia ? Now.... come to think of it, now the world will know of only 1 type of people who play such lousy football !

As I said in one of my earlier posting...."you just can't make race-horses out of asses "!!!

(Datuk) Nicol David?

Surely, surely, this Malaysian world champion, not once but twice, deserves something more than just a pat on the back. Lesser people have been given a datukship. Let's make her, if we are really proud of her as the PM says here, the youngest Datuk.

At least she will bring back the shine and the pride to the title "Datuk".

"Special Committees"

"We will set-up a special committee to look into this matter !"...........Whoaaa... this is the most popular line used by all (almost all the time, by those who, when being interviewed, by the media) in the government (read any enforcement agency !) when they can't get a grasp of what went wrong OR they don't have the slightest clue whatsoever, of what is going on!!

Why in the first place are they, there for ? You see, by pronouncement of this phrase, they are stalling, in answering the curious (need more time to know 'what the hell, is going on' from their underlings), wasting more tax-payers money, and at the same time, buying time, to cover-up or to clean-up, the so-called 'good' name of that department (as if there is ANY !) and apart from looking stupid ! Not that, we , the humble tax-payers, don't know of this SOP(standard operating procedures) but all avenues are blocked (fire-walled ??) from persons probing further into the matter as there is a gag order from 'way up there' !

For every misdeed, crime or corruption, reported by the public, against a servant of the government,(again, read, any enforcement agency !) the public relations officer-in-charge of that department , dutifully announces, with the same response ! Why, are we, as citizens and tax-payers, deemed not entitled and/ or qualified enough, to judge and point out the mistakes of the government (read whatever you want !!) ??

Give us a break-lah ! Try some new lines-lah, or JUST set -up a special committee to create new catch-phrases, okay ??

"Farewell Fredo-my friend" !

This morning around 5.10 I had a very distressing call on my cell phone, from my friend Tony, and come to think of it, any call, that early in the morning, is never good news !

Yes , Tony called, between sobs, to say his brother, Fredo, passed away a few minutes earlier !Oh my God , this can't be... but I only saw him the other night, at the National Press Club, his usual self, maybe a little slow ( because he had been sick of late with swollen feet, but hey !... nothing too serious !), but still so full of witty remarks and crazy jokes and he was not even having his favorite shot of whiskey or mug of beer !

Fredo Gayondato or 'Dato' Fredo to everyone who knows him, will attest that this is one helluva guy to have in any party ! Always so quick with his jokes and a damn good entertainer, be it singing or stand-up, off-the-cuff, bar-room kinda comedy ! When I asked him what was the out-come of his last visit to the doctors he replied " You know ....these doctors always say I'm very generous and have a BIG heart "!( he actually had an enlarged heart ) Yes...Fred you are a big fella with a big heart..Bless you !

So now...... it hurts...... it really hurts, when you loose someone, who has becomes a 'habit' to you, but I guess God too is bored and depressed, up in heaven,seeing and knowing the mess we are creating here on his good earth, and he needs a really fine entertainer up there, to cheer him up!!!!

To his 2 boys,who also lost their dear mother about 4 months ago, my family and I wish them strength and courage to face the future as they still have the families of uncle Tony, and aunts for comfort and should they seek us, we are here !

Your time is over, here on earth, Fredo but you will always be in our hearts and midst, everytime we raise a glass or two !! Cheeeeers, God Bless and farewell my friend Fredo !!!

World Champions-us Malaysians!!!!

Malaysia must be holding the world record for the most number of world record attempts and entries in the world !

We are so obsessed with creating a name in the Guinness Book of World Records that we will stop at nothing to get a mention there !We even created our own Malaysian Book of Records, remember ?

Why or why is it so important that we strive to hold/set the record to have the most number of people playing "gasing" in media, building the tallest building, cooking the longest lemang, largest dodol, highest flag-pole, largest satay, longest bridge(crooked?), most corrupted councillors , first developed state, most number of people playing chongkak, most number of "solo" journeys (of course accompanied by a tv crew!) to the south pole ,north pole,...(climbing up the tallest flag-pole??) most number of people doing the 'line-dance' in one padang, most number of 'mat rempits' on one single night doing the 'willie' with a 'pebonceng'(or pillion rider!), most number of illegals, deported and returning the very next day with a new and assumed passport, legally and NOW....yesterday, most number of people attending a training session in CPR at one venue or location !!!

What do we expect to acheive by all this crap ? Can all this, change our mind-set when we still over- take on the 'emergency lane' on highways ? Or will it stop us spitting, throwing things like soiled baby's pampers, used tissues, et cetera, out of moving vehicles? Smoke in a 'No Smoking' zone especially in goverment buildings ?( most times the culprits are goverment servants themselves), Honking for no damn reason at the car in front of you if he drove a wee bit slow from the traffic light that just turned green ? "Think" in our ethnic language and curse the rest of the population or still classify each other by our religion or race when filling up all goverment/official forms ????

I remember one year when a foreign poll listed Malaysia as the No. 27 th. "most corrupted country" in the world ! And boy ..or boy ....were we so pissed-off........yes, everyone was, cos we were No. 27 ...... we cannot be 27th.......we have to be number one... yes,yes.. ...surely, we are Malaysia and as Malaysians we HAVE to be............. "numero uno" !! Now you tell me why we have to be number one for all the wrong reasons !!

Of Palaces and Protesters !

Happy Deepavali and Selamat Hari Raya to all my friends !

Why should Zakaria Md Deros be made to pay a fine for not submitting building plans and not have that illegal construction, demolished and he be hauled to court and stripped of his "datukship"for being so arrogant and defiant to the Sultan ?

Shouldn't he be made an example so as to deter others from gross abuse of power now that they have got him for a scapegoat?
And to add to this fracas he still has a lot of supporters to disrupt the peaceful DAP-Lim Guan Eng-led demonstration at the illegal "palace". Were they hired/paid by someone to create a diversion ?

Wonder what the MPK and the self-proclaimed 'developed state status' MB are doing about the other "third world mentality" little Napoloens who are running fowl of the law OR are they actually thinking they ARE the law !

This is my country and I am so in love with !!!! Sighhh so help me God.......! Maaf, Zahir and Batin !

"Happy Deepavali Takafool Malaysia" !

Yes the morons are at work again !

Going through the posting on rocky's bru, wherein, being Muslim, it is against the syariat to wish your Hindu friends 'Happy Deepavali', I think this time, these idiots have gone over the edge to total stupidity !

To all those in the Syariah Department of Takafool Malaysia,, what is wrong with you morons, to come out with such a declaration? What were you thinking ?(if you can actually think ?) Have you guys got no brains ? Look around you fools, and can't you see this plural society that we live in ? What have your parents taught you from childhood -NOTHING ?

Damn you bigots, after all this years of living as Malaysians, YES, Takafool idiots...49 years as independent Malaysians......as in Malays, Indians, Chinese and a host of Indegenious Orang Asli , you have come to take this beautiful country to the Dark Ages in the name of Islam !
It is so sad and unfair that Takafool has decreed this, in the name of religion !

I am indeed grateful to bloggers that this kind of evil-preaching is exposed and condemmed even before it is accepted and practised as norm. Wake up Malaysians ! We don't have to take this shit lying down !

In the meantime, to all my Hindu friends "Happy Deepavali" and to my Muslim friends "Selamat Berbuka Puasa"

Islam or Bukan Islam ?

Now the system has got me really pissed-off and I am so sooooooo shocked !

What is the rational behind stating one's religion in the PMR question/answer sheet?
And worst still it says "Islam or Bukan Islam". Pray tell me, is this necessary, in this year and time, for these morons in the Education Ministry, our elected representitives, to segregate and identify young students by their religion ? Is this also the reason for the National Service to florish when these kids reach 17 ? If need be why not mention 'What type of muslim? e.g. "Sunni or Shi'te" ! Or why not state muslims, hindus, buddist or christians ??

Come on you idiots in the Education Ministry, STOP this bloody bigotry classification of innocent children who are barely 12 years old !Doesn't anyone respect each other anymore unless they are of a certain religion ?? My best pals are Muslims or Hindus or Buddist or Catholics.... and I don't even care if they were communist... they will be my friends. Try not to loose sight of the forest for the trees !!!

I was also made to understand, (I am yet to verify this !) the reason for such indentification is that, the passing marks for those who put down as 'Islam' are lower then those who are not !
Is'nt this the most ridiculous form of marking an exam paper ? How then, can those who are 'Islam' compete with those who are not ?Surely those who are not 'Islam' are superior in terms of intellect going by this rule ! Do they,those who put down as 'Islam', want to be inferior delibrately ? Surely NOT ! With all due respect, do the muslim parent know of this rule ? If I was such a parent, I'd be ashamed , that my child is not competing on a level field, because, I have to know my child scored marks or passed exams because he/she sacrificed,slogged and studied, not because the marks were lowered for him/her because he/she was a muslim !!

If this was true, stop this rot NOW, please, for God's sake!...... before we start regreting later, as is seen in the current state of affairs of this country !
Be proud to be Malaysian but MOST of all be a decent human being !

Keep holy the Ramadan and to all my Muslim friends...
" Selamat Berbuka Puasa " !

Who wants to take the Rap ?

Does anyone know how I can get a hockey coaching license ? Just so I can also be on my way to Doha for a holiday with a bunch of losers, who masquarade as, hmmm... the national hockey team.

' German Paul Lissek joins high perfomance director Stephen van Huizen as the latest addition to the coaching staff.' I'm counting 9 so far...coaches and monitors, NOT the asses...oops...the hockey players, I mean..!
Is Paul going to help a team of under- achievers who are nothing short of morons, reach greater heights and continue wasting, good tax-payers, money ?? We've seen it all before, so what else is new ?

The national team already has 3 assistant coaches, under Wallace Tan. Not to mention the four-man panel set up to monitor the national team's Doha preparation, which is headed by, MHF deputy president, Laksamana Tan Sri Mohamed Anwar Mohamed Nor, amid a lot of confusion as to who appointed who, to do what ???

Even as I write , I can't help but wonder, how so many coaches and 'high perfomance' tacticians are going to dish-out orders and who is going to counter that order as each one of these coaches would think, theirs IS the best advice. ......and if things really get screwed,(and believe me, you... they will!! ) they can always point their finger, at the other fellow-coach !

As I have said in an earlier post, no amount of expertise or professionals, can change the attitude of this so called, national team. See.... just writing about the coaching staff alone can get my b/p up,what if I actually have to write about the players !

"You just can't make race-horses out of asses" !

To all those involved in this Doha project... "Happy Holidays"!