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i, as a voter of bayan baru, penang  (among thousand others, i’m sure), called upon zahrian to step down from his MP post, representing us in parliament, as i voted for PKR, not for him. i don’t want an independent to represent me.
(read the letter by another voter)

the bayan baru constituency in penang now has no MP.

The Umno-dominated government stubbornly sticks to the same old tricks to try to sink the Opposition. One such stale attempt is to label as “traitors” those who refuse to suck up to its spent elite leaders.

And so Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid (AZ) who apparently ran out of steam to shut the Opposition up on the Scorpene submarines scandal, resorted to calling Nurul Izzah a “traitor”.

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“Penang for Beng Hock”: Support Teoh’s family, justice for Beng Hock!

After 1 year of Teoh Beng Hock case happen, this tragedy making Malaysians cannot ignore this issue. During the year, Malaysians can easily see the judicature cannot bring justice for him, the recent‘suicide note’ and the Royal Commission of Inquiry not set up is more confirmed this.

In such circumstances, Beng Hock had become the sacrificial lamb of a distasteful power struggle fuelled by greed, hatred, and the thirst for revenge as the nation is experiencing democratic transition. Therefore, we appeal to the citizens of Malaysia to attend a forum name: “Penang for Beng Hock”. Support Teoh’s family, justice for Beng Hock!

Date : 5/9/10 (Sun)
Time : 2:30pm
Venue : Penang Island (Tentative Han Jiang College, TBC)

Speakers : Teoh Lee Lan, Toh Kin Woon (Campaign advisor,former Penang Exco), P. Ramakrishnan (Aliran President) & Ng Eng Kiat (Suaram Penang)

Jointly Organized by : Suaram Penang, Aliran, Sembang-Sembang Forum, Penang Liaison Committee of LLG Cultural Development Centre

NO! IT’S…

merdeka? (independence?). hardly. can’t celebrate merdeka when i’m constantly reminded to ‘balik cina’. can’t celebrate merdeka when now it seem we can’t escape racism anymore in school and on the road. and so man other stuffs that’s happening… like in namewee infamous ‘negarakuku’ video.

namewee’s negarakuku video hit the raw nerve of truth as to how malayisa is… the truth rapped out in a song but the govt can’t take the truth… also the govt don’t allow free expression (of truth). yes this happened in 2007 but it is still relevant now and will always be relevant… until we kick umno ass off come the next general election. i’m posting the video here as this is an honest view of an ordinary public about malaysia. gee… will i be charged for sedition? nah… the video is still up on youtube.

kk

if you feel the video move too fast for you to read the lyrics, no fear, click on ‘read more’ to see  the lyrics, literally translated by nicole foo. for the translation including interpretation (kind of like explanation, esp. for those not familiar with stuffs ala malaysian, please visit this blog. there is also the malay lyrcis there).

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nothing! when we came across so much double standards and hypocrisy from the government! i don’t want to talk more but  i’ll post some articles from malaysiakini that says it all. i will highlight some parts that i need to stress and also comment on some parts (in italic).

today,  i’ll be working anyway – not in my office but at a big church gathering where i’ll be with the secretariat. lots of work to do at secretariat. prior to that, already did a lot of ground-work e.g getting ready the documents, participants list, folders and so on.

ok, do click on ‘read more’ to read the articles from malaysiakini. sorry yah, malaysiakini for the CnP again but i feel that i need to share them to more people.

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yippy! thanks to umno for making me happy again. the double standard. they hypocrisy. they are at it again.

the saga of DAP MP teo nie ching entering the surau. umno and perkasa boss,  the loud-mouth ‘shit’ ali boy, jumped up and down, pouncing on teo. why? because she is from DAP. opposition. someone said sometime back a non malay, ng yen yen from BN visited a surau too… and without the tudung (veil) no umno people condemn her, MAIS keep quiet. if you recall, our ex pm’s wife always go around without t tudung, even to the mosque (if i’m not mistaken).

then the latest – our beloved information minister is quick to jump on namewee for the video clip he made regarding the racist principal from johor. puteri umno too  (and soon, mark my word, of course perkasa ali boy will jump at namewee’s throat too).  why all along utusan malaysia had been so… so… very much bit time super damn racist, and yet not even a whimper towards them from the govt/umno. and  perkasa.

rais yatim said ‘action to be taken against video containing racist slur’. i was fortunate to have seen the video before namewee canned the video and i see no tinge of racism in it at all.  in fact, he was hitting out at a racist (the principal) and for that, puteri umno made so much noise. why? was it because namewee is a chinese, the principal is a malay and puteri umno don’t like the fact of a chinese hitting out at their own race?

of course there are many other instances of double standard e.g. the cow-head protest, the anti isa protest, hindraf gathering and so on and so on.   it happened so often that i’m already numbed by it. used to be very angry over it but not now anymore. now, i’ll be happy instead – because this is a good signal for us to know what to do come the next general election.

argghhh!! look what i found in the fried indonesian mee i ate this morning for my brunch.

some kind of insect…. grasshopper?

today being a public holiday, i don’t have to go to work. so usually during public holiday, my mum when she went to the market, she will buy back food for me.  too late for breakfast – since i woke up late, and too early for lunch – so consider it brunch. yeah every public holiday (or sunday) i only take brunch (food bought outside).

i asked her to buy the fried indonesian mee today. i have eaten this fried indonesian mee before several times. it is from one of the stalls at the bayan baru food court (just behind the market and next to sunshine square). beside selling fried indonesian mee, the stall sell other type of food too.

well my mum bought it back for me, i pout out the mee from the plastic bag to a plate – it was very full (big plate). i ate and ate until about 1/4… then i saw this something which i thought look like sotong. i bite it, found it hard and spit it out and to my horror…. saw it was an insect!

goodness gracious me!! what the hell!!! how did the insect appeared in the mee? maybe it flew to the frying pan when the man was frying the mee? i was not eating the mee there in the food court itself, so i can’t point it out to the seller. my mum said she wanted to pack the insect and showed it to the mee seller tomorrow when she went back to the food court (she went there everyday for marketing) but my sister said not necessarily. she said just go and tell him verbally about it.

luckily it is a grasshopper and not a cockcroach since i fear cockroach a lot. think i would have puke if it was a cockroach. although very mad, i take consolation in the fact that in thailand and philippine, they do eat fried grasshopper. haha.  all the same, i can’t imagine what would happen if i do eat it! well, of course i’m still very mad at the ‘extra ingredient’ i found in my fried indonesian mee this morning.

i’m posting this in facebook too and putting up another 2 pictures. i’m sure i’ll receive some  comments from facebook.

this post was supposed to be up this morning but i had forgotten all about it. actually 3 days ago, i had received email from cahayasuara communications centre about it and had wanted to post about it this morning but due to, too much work on my mind, it slipped my mind. anyway, never too late, as it is not pass midnight yet (only thing is people knew of it, if they haven’t yet, late).

i’m just going to CnP what i received from cahayasuara. it will be very lengthy but worth the read especially if you are one who admire mother teresa, like me. the media release talks about a film festival (4 & 6 sept) to celebrate mother teresa’s 100th anniversary, and the media backgrounder talks about herself and her work.

yes i do admire mother teresa tremendously.  how she walked the streets looking for unwanted homeless people.  the thing i remember most about her was when she brought home a dying man, a fellow nun said to her that the man is dying already, why brought him into the home (their missionary of charity home) and mother teresa replied that the man has to die with dignity. she even cleaned and dressed up the man… then the man died. mother teresa also came out with many sayings that are very meaningful and the one that touched me most is “the greatest poverty in the world is the feeling of being unwanted.”.  i also like her poem “love them anyway”.

speaking about poem, ah yes, a few weeks after her death, i wrote a poem dedicated to mother teresa. i based the poem on the popular song of old blue eyes (frank sinatra, for the uninitiated) – my way and titled it ‘god’s way’.  read about it in my poems corner (but since i feel so proud of it, i’m going to copy it here too right at the end. ahem.)

do you admire mother teresa? what is it that you like about her?

(above picture taken from CNN, where there is a write-up about a celebration in india)

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… bullshit!

“Today we see a lot of Malay NGOs trying to defend the Malay position. Invariably they have been labelled racists,” said Mahathir (picture) on his blog today. “The unfortunate truth is that those who labelled them are equally racists because of their advocacy of meritocracy.”

“If ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ conjures equality between races, ‘Meritocracy’ implies something stronger,” he added referring to the DAP’s old slogan.

“It implies dominance by the race with the greatest merit in every field; in education, in business and in all fields of human endeavour.”

Dr Mahathir said that the campaign for meritocracy is not a campaign against racism but a campaign by racists against racists.

“The meritocrats are as much racists as the Malay NGOs, and Perkasa,” he said. “Incidentally by writing this I know the meritocrat racists will condemn me as racist. So be it.”

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“That is why today we have Perkasa and other Malay NGOs who are as openly concerned about the Malays as Umno once was,” he said. “The condemnation by those said to be advocating meritocracy is because they see the racism of the meritocrats, just as the Malays of 1964 saw the racism of ‘Malaysian Malaysia’.”

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“There are quite a large number of Indian Muslims in Malaysia but they do not figure in the political party said to be Islamic,” he said.

“The party, by using Islam, knows full well they are appealing to Malays almost exclusively. But the intention is not to defend the Malays but merely to gain their support. One can say they are not Malay racists. Rather they are Malay political opportunists.”

the winner:-

“The meritocrats are as much racists as the Malay NGOs, and Perkasa,” he said. “Incidentally by writing this I know the meritocrat racists will condemn me as racist. So be it.”

my dear dr m, correction. long long time ago, when you were ruling for 22 years, people had already labelled you as racist. we don’t have to wait till now when you came out to support perkasa, to label you as racist.

read further ‘dr m says meritocracts are racist too’ (where above quotes taken from).

then the racist went to show further proof of his racism when he told malays to unite or else they would lose the country but… he said he is not racist! what the $@^!?(^!

“I’m not a racist who wants to incite Muslim hatred towards non-Muslims but we have certain rights that other parties must respect.

is he senile or what?

he must be, for this takes the cake:-

“And respect only comes if we are strong and in power.”

respect works both way. if you want people to respect you, you got to respect others too. it’s not a one way traffic thingy. just like being sensitive and respecting people’s rights – all these work both ways.

my dear past PM of 22 years, we don’t respect people just because they are strong and powerful. in fact, instead of ‘respect’ the appropriate word would be ‘fear’. we fear those who are strong and powerful! and that is because the people who become strong and powerful…. has become a dictator!

it is no surprise at all that these word – “And respect only comes if we are strong and in power.” – came out of dr m’s mouth, right?