raya open house at a big house
Post on Oct.28, 2008
it might be too late to talk about raya open house? well i went to the open house on 23 oct, and on 24 and 25 no time to blog about it and then deepavali was approaching already too so out of respect for deepavali, i decided not to blog about it until deepavali is over.
the host of this raya open house was a couple who were MAFREL (malaysian for free and fair election) members. i got to meet them during the permatang pauh by-election MAFREL training sessions. they are cikgu aliasa and dr zasmani. they invited a number of MAFREL members. btw, dr zasmani was the one responsible for taking THIS photo during the permatang pauh by-election campaign – the photo that became so popular, spread to so many places, and the photo that, i believe, contributed a lot to anwar’s big win. 
i went to their open house with 2 other MAFREL members, ong and howie. wow! when we reached their house, we were spellbound to note their house is so big! HUGE, in fact! really! i was shocked. it was huge big bungalow house at the corner of the 
end of the road. the living room itself is the size of our humble flat unit! imagine! think the size of the house is 5 or 6 times bigger than our flat.
ah they had nice real raya food prepared. see the first picture here (only show part of the food) – ketupat, rotil jala, lemang, satay, ayam – all good food that i like.
after our makan, dr zazmani took us on tour of their house. i took lots of pictures of their lovely house and would like to share a few here.
2nd picture shows the living room. the picture you see on the right, is 
the picture of the couple.
ah the plates you s
ee at the 3rd picture were not found on the table… but hanging on the wall! this is a close up of the lovely antique decorative plates. the next picture shows where the plates are hanging – at a passageway after the living room, next to the dining hall, which you see at the following picture..
terima kasih to the friendly humble couple of cikgu aliasa and dr zasmani for the invitation. i enjoyed the food, i enjoy being in your big lovely house.
October 28th, 2008 on 2:29 AM
OK……… so is this where Dr. Zasmani will speak up and say, “Where got Chinese and Indians are so much richer that NEP has to continue to help only Malays?” Mahathir and the UMNO people keep saying there is income disparity between races. So you mean Chinese and Indians have houses 5-6 times bigger than this? Or when will they realize how selfish, greedy and stupid their reasoning is that all Chinese and Indians are rich and all Malays are poor? You mean Chinese hawker selling chee cheong fun has house this big? Indian newspaperman has living room the size of the flat?
Will Dr. Zasmani do the right thing and show Malaysians that he has made it, or will he keep quiet, let NEP continue to enrich cronies, just like how all moderate Muslims kept quiet while terrorists bombed and kill innocents in the name of Islam?
October 29th, 2008 on 6:34 PM
dav
i believe you are not being fair to dr zasmani (who btw is the lady. the man is the cikgu). sure i see malays richer than me but i also see malays poorer than me. same thing goes for other races.
you don’t know their true situation eg how they become rich (they might not help anything to do with NEP at all – their own efforts that they are rich), or how they might have helped many people of all races and so on or who knows they might have already spoke up.
i agree with your views though… what you are trying to say but i just don’t agree that you should pin-point this lovely couple out, asking them to ‘do the right thing’.