Multiculturalism - Utter Failure

After 53 years, our attempts at becoming a melting pot of multiculturalism seems to be hitting a wall.


All the hard works at developing this beloved nation seems to have gone to waste.


I am feeling so desperately hopeless.


Feels like I am losing this motherland to the Malaysian Chinese. 


Read this today.


German Chancellor, Angela Merkel declares German multi-cultural society has failed. Her declaration is feeding a growing debate over how to deal with millions of foreigners who call Germany home.


Speaking to a gathering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, Ms Merkel said  


"At the beginning of the 1960s our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country," said Ms. Merkel at the event in Potsdam, near Berlin. "We kidded ourselves a while. We said: 'They won't stay, [after some time] they will be gone,' but this isn't reality. And of course, the approach [to build] a multicultural [society] and to live side by side and to enjoy each other ... has failed, utterly failed."


Note that the Germans have the luxury of "calling" the foreign workers to German to help develop the country. 


We didn't have such choice. 


Those colonialist masters brought foreign workers from China and India to help them PLUNDER the wealth of this country to take back to England. Like the Germans who said that the foreign worker wouldn't stay, the colonialist masters apparently had the same thought too. Hence the vernacular schools.


The difference is, the foreign workers in German who made the country 'more stupid' are poorly educated and unproductive Muslims with headscarves whereas the foreign workers in Malaysia are educated and rich and without their taxes, Malaysia would not have developed to where it is now.


TAIK KUCING!!!


satD dwelt deeper into this issue here

Citizen?? (3)

Well, what do you know. My observation is validated... by no less than Sin Chew's editor. Came across it first on Marahku then on Kata Kama

Sin Chew: Many Chinese here more loyal to China than Malaysia

By TAY TIAN YAN
Translated by DOMINIC LOH

Chinese Malaysians are funny.

If you criticise the Malaysian government, everyone will be elated, saying that you are right, just and courageous.

But if you criticise the Chinese government, you will be slammed as wrongful, ignorant and jeopardising.

I made the above conclusion from my own experiences.

For instance, after I wrote A Nobel prize China is not proud of, I received plenty of e-mails and faxes from the readers. They lashed out at Liu Xiabo as a criminal, and said I was anti-China. As if that was not enough, they even didn't spare Norway and Western "imperialism."

A reader wrote in: This article goes particularly well with Mr Tay's pro-Western democracy stance, ... human rights, democracy, freedom etc advocated by the West... He is not able to liberate himself from the confines of all these, and has been writing things that do not make sense yet still excessively conceited. I think he needs a brain swap."

What a lovely reader, with a string of well conceived adjectives!

I think it is good that some readers would seriously and diligently defend what they believe, or imagine.

But why do they always separate things into Oriental and Western when it comes to issues about China? China is unique in its own ways and does not need to emulate the West.

And when it comes to issues about Malaysia, they will invariably base their arguments on Western standards and specifications. Anything that deviates from Western values are unacceptable.

It appears to me that only China deserves to have its own ways, not Malaysia or any other nation on Earth.

Take for example, to China, human rights, democracy and freedom are all things belonging to the West, which are not only unsuitable for China, but are potentially detrimental.

But when it comes to Malaysia, human rights, democracy and freedom are all cherished as acceptable and essential, as these attributes have been successfully proven in the West.

Confucius said this was "own wish": a person can hold double standards towards the same thing. It is called hypocrisy in the West: You think you have your own set of values but in actual fact you don't, as you decide based on nothing but you personal liking.

As Liu Xiabo is a convict, he does not deserve the Peace Prize, but how about Alexander Solzhenitsyn during the Soviet era, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in prison and was lauded by the world as the Conscience of Russia?

Liu Xiaobo's Charter 08 was said to jeopardise stability in China, but the Charter 77 of Czech Peace Laureate Václav Havel, who was later elected the Czech president, was hailed as the Voice of Civilisation.

Right, those people only have one standard answer: China needs "stability."

Why is it that only China needs stability? Don't Malaysia or the United States need that same stability too?

In the name of "stability," anything ranging from autocracy, corruption, persecution, human rights violation, income gap, etc. will become rationalised, acceptable and tolerable.

Perhaps these people should team up to form an alliance and openly call for single-party politics in Malaysia by abolishing the electoral system, suppressing freedom of speech and advocating unlawful detention, all in the name of "stability."

Sin Chew Daily

MySinchew 2010.10.14 

Is It Valid?

A lawyer and three farm hands were charged in court today for the murder of Sosilawati and three others.

Read here

Stated in the news that  

"The charges against Pathmanabhan were read in Bahasa Malaysia while the charges against the rest were read in Tamil."  


I am wondering what is happening. 


I am so bad with numbers I don't remember which Article but I do know that it is enshrined in our Constitution that Bahasa Melayu is THE national language ... bahasa RASMI.

Is it valid then to have the charge read in Tamil?


Looking at how DSN treated vernacular schools, and now this reading of a charge in a Malaysian Court in Tamil, has the Constitution been changed?


Bukan main lantang calling for a stop on PENDATANG issue 

We need to put in more effort to improve our race relations and one way is to put a stop to this “pendatang” issue  [full news here] 


Put a stop to pendatang issue my foot!


Who started the issue?


Who played the racial card in the first place?


After 53 years of being  Malaysian, why are they still Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian?

More importantly WHY are they Malaysian Chinese and Malaysian Indian in the very first place??


In America, there are African American or Korean American ... American refers to their citizenship whereby African and Korean are adjectives used to show that they are descendants of families that originally came from those countries.


Doesn't Malaysian Chinese refers to CITIZEN of CHINA of Malaysian ancestors and Malaysian Indian refers to CITIZEN of INDIA?


Anyway, a citizen will SPEAK the TONGUE of the motherland. By deduction , vernacular school is for PENDATANG, isn't?

Charge should be read in official language. THEN, it is TRANSLATED for the benefit of the charged. Isn't?


Why does the court read the charge above in TAMIL?


Or is this a SPIN by the mainstream media? If so , the newspaper could be charged for sedition, couldn't it?


If it is not, is the charge being read in Tamil in a Malaysian court is valid?

Isn't it ironic?

PAS demanded authorities to cancel Adam Lambert' concert scheduled for Thursday.


Read here for full news.


I find it very ironic.


When PAS formed alliance with Anuar Ibrahim led PKR, the message conveyed to the mass was sexual preference is private. Whether the court will find AI guilty or not of the second sodomy charge, he was acquitted on the first charge because of some technicalities NOT because it was proven beyond doubt that it did not happen. With AI dodging the second charge with delay tactic, personally, I couldn't help but think that if one is not guilty, then get it done and over with.


The alliance is all about getting AI to Putrajaya, to be THE Prime Minister.


So what is this about Adam Lambert promoting gay culture? Isn't it already here?


If our people is liberated enough to want a change from BN to PR, aren't they matured enough to handle Adam Lambert?

Citizen?? (2)

I am lost for words. 


The MCA president in his speech pointed out that the younger generation wanted to be treated as equal citizens and “do not expect to have to be grateful because their parents were granted citizenship”.

Read the news in full here

Citizen?

If ever an alien from Mars come to Earth and finds that it likes it here, wouldn't WE the earthlings naturally expect the alien to 'speak' our tongue and go to our school instead of the other way around.


The Chinese and the Indians who made up 40% of the population of this country were first brought here by the British colonialist as labourers. The Chinese to work the tin mines which later evolved into towns and cities. Kuala Lumpur started out as a tin mine town. The Indians were brought in to work on banana and rubber plantations.


The colonialist master allowed the labourers to set up vernacular schools with teachers and curriculum brought in from their mainlands BECAUSE these alien labourers would eventually GO HOME. That was the argument they used to against the British master education policy. A policy which sidelined the Malays in tandem with their split and rule policy. A policy which eventually left the Malays in their kampungs, tending a few chicken, planting rice when there was enough rain, catching fish for the day.


Then came World War II. The British master left when Japanese occupied this land. The Japs had a lot of bones to pick with the chinese. When Hiroshima was turned to dust and the communists threatened to take over, the British masters returned. 


And then, the Independance. No blood was shed. The master, instead of sending home the alien labourers who had worked so hard at preserving their cultures and language just so they would not be 'alienated' when they eventually RETURN HOME, insisted that THEY be given JUS SOLI.


After 53 years, THEY stayed on, assumed citizenship and yet never letting go of their mainland. Instead of assimilation, they alienated themselves further from the people of the soil [read here]. 


Hence, I find this meaningless. 


I agree with Pure Shiite on the twisted hypocrisy here

Citizen???

BOGUS

With the murder of the cosmetic queen Dato' Sosilawati, it was found out that one of the alleged murderers was a FAKE Dato'.

Today The Star reported about a fake veterinarian.

And here is another report which I find very disturbing. Only in 2008 there was a drive to register the supposedly UNregistered citizens before the general election. I've forgotten the number cited by Khir Toyo the then Selangor Menteri Besar [will try to find out later] but it was surprisingly big number. And now, less than 2 years later, there are still UNregistered citizens [Malaysian Indian?]. Apperently, the FIRST such programme was carried out on August 15 which drew about 1000  Indians and yet, there will be another drive NEXT month.

Me oh my! This is 2010 and Indians by the droves have not been registered as citizens???

With reports such as here where this year alone, the Imigration Department managed to nab 7413  bogus tourists with 4430 from Bangladesh, 712 from India and 480 from Pakistan plus thousand others who PAY Malaysian men to marry them [here] something smells fishy somehow.

Sudah terang lagi bersuluh

Bukan pertama kali berita sebegini tersiar di dada akhbar. Semakin berleluasa seolah tiada sebarang tindakan menghalang kejadian dari berulang. Jelas terlapor di akhbar betapa kakitangan banci menempuh kesukaran dalam membuat bancian penduduk. Begitu juga bila dibuat gerakan mengesan "rakyat" yang tiada kad pengenalan. Berduyun duyun mereka yang tidak boleh berbahasa Melayu walaupun negara ini telah menyambut kemerdekaan yang ke 53, mengaku warganegara.


Cara khianat mengubah komposisi penduduk.


Lihat bagaimana Singapura yang asalnya sebahagian dari Johor; di mana penduduk asalnya tentulah Melayu, kini majoriti penduduknya adalah China sedangkan rakyatnya tidak dibenarkan 'beranak' lebih dari dua orang. 


Tak ada pulak mana mana pihak ke depan mengutuk kerajaan yang gagal menangani isu ini.


Amat menghairankan bila dilaporkan bahawa para suami seakan tak kisah isteri warga China dan Vietnam yang mereka kahwini hanya pulang ke rumah beberapa hari untuk urusan membaharui pas lawatan. Maknanya mereka memang bukan kahwin dengan wanita wanita tersebut untuk dijadikan isteri, malah mereka memang bersekongkol demi "gaji" yang dibayar untuk jadi suami.

MCA Public Services and Com plaints Department chief Datuk Michael Chong said these marriages of convenience came to light after local husbands sought his help to locate their wives who had run away.

Chong, who highlighted this issue in a press conference yesterday, said some of the men were looking for their wives because they wanted the RM500 payment to renew their spouses’ social visit passes.

“I feel like I have been used to find their wives,” he said, adding that he refused to offer any further help after discovering the scam.

Puak sendiri pun tak larat nak layan kerenah, apa tindakan pihak berkuasa?

Selamat Hari Raya AidilFitri 1431H

This posting is especially for Cik Nah. Nak tunjuk kad raya yang serupa ngan kat posting Cik Nah

53rd Independence Day

Despite a very late night, I woke up early today to catch up Independence Day celebration on tv. What a disappointment. Perhaps it was the fasting month but then where are the non fasting populations who is claiming equal right as citizen of this land? 


What a sad thing to be a Malay on this land today.


Syed Akbar Ali hit the nail right on the head "... become the sort of simple people who can be easily entertained by balloons, banners, bands and brigades marching to music on Merdeka Day.


We fit into Rudyard Kipling’s racist observation that the asiatics are “nature’s children”. Meaning we are childish. ...


... become prey to cleverer people amongst us who will know how to use balloons, banners, bands and marching brigades to keep us entertained. Or they will manipulate us by promising us the keys to paadise. We will either be dancing or swaying to their tune. They too may allow us to become servants in the master’s house."


After 53 years of breaking free from the bonds and chains of colonisation physically, here we are ... back to where we started and this time it is not the colonials but ourselves for it is us who as Syed Akbar Ali observed " ...elect people whom we believe in, who then go ahead and make these laws with our tacit approval. They are our wakil. They represent us."

Look who is calling the kettle black

It is easy to blow trumpet and beat gongs asking for transparency in everything. But when it comes to their own doing, the loudest voice in the country who has forever been calling for transparency, has the audacity to issue a gag order [here] calling it internal matter.

"More evidence has surfaced to implicate Selangor executive councillor Ronnie Liu over the issuance of support letters, even as DAP chairman Karpal Singh issued a gag order on the matter.

In his 12-page appeal letter against his sacking by the DAP, former Klang municipal councillor Tee Boon Hock is alleging that Liu personally issued a letter of support for a company belonging to Tee’s son only weeks after assuming his exco post, and four months before Tee’s own letter dated Aug 12, 2008.

In Penang, Karpal issued a gag order to all DAP members on the matter, which he admitted had smeared the party’s image.

He also indicated that issues surrounding Liu would be discussed at the party’s central exe cutive committee meeting on Thursday.

Tee was recently sacked from both the Klang Municipal Council and the party for purportedly misusing Liu’s letterhead and seal to secure business contracts worth RM1mil for his cronies and family.' [the Star]

Organised "tour"

Another report on Star today made my blood went upstairs again.

"It is an organised tour with a difference – the only item on the itinerary is a job in Malaysia.

However, the tour for over 7,000 foreigners, including Bangladeshis, Indian nationals and Pakistanis was cut short. All they got to see was the inside of the KL International Airport.

These foreigners, who had come into Malaysia on tourist visas purportedly for a holiday, were part of a syndicate with the ultimate aim of finding themselves jobs at the thousands of mamak restaurants throughout the country."  

...“Of these bogus tourists, Bangladeshis recorded the highest number with 4,430 people, most of whom were believed to be victims of agents or syndicates,” he said, adding that Indian nationals were the second highest with 712 people, followed by the Pakistanis with 480.

Mohd Zulfikar said that besides having forged passports and visas, these “tourists” did not not have return air tickets or even sufficient money.

“They have all been categorised as doubtful or suspicious foreign visitors, suspected of having the hidden agenda of entering the country to look for a job."

What irked me most is the thought that these people could eventually claim to be "stateless" because they have no identification documents for a number of reasons i.e parents too poor and uneducated living in remote estates, ID list in fires/flood/theft etc. There was even one case where a man claimed to be stateless [including his wife and children too (fogot how many children)] and took to camping in his vehicle in front of the palace of Sultan Perak claiming assistance. Big drama!


I penned my thought on this issue in a different perspective here


"Looking at the number of illegal immigrants in the country now, I read about the drive to legalized “stateless” Indians in Malaysia as someone’s hidden agenda.

"... about 3,000 application forms in less than two hours. ... It is unexpected to see so many people without birth certificates and identity cards here,” said Dr Mohd Khir ... their husbands had no identity cards. "


So is it much wonder to see them arriving in droves?


And the influx of African and Chinese arriving on student visa purportedly to enroll in private colleges. I wonder how many of them have graduated and went back home.


Hmmm ...

Lembu Punya Susu Sapi dapat Nama

Tertarik dengan satu posting oleh OpEd . Saya kongsikan di sini [dengan izin tuanpunya]. Saya selalu membaca pendapat OpEd kerana saya rasa OpEd  beri pendapat bersandarkan fakta bukan emosi semata. Disertakan juga respon beliau kepada komen saya.

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

Ekonomi Malaysia terus kukuh. Pujilah sikit!
 
Untuk Suku Pertama (Januari 1 hingga Mac 31), kuat sungguh ekonomi Malaysia = berkembang 10.1 peratus.


Suku Kedua ekonomi berkembang 8.9 peratus, kerajaan kata petang tadi. Slow sikit tapi tetap kuat.


Kebesaran dan kekuatan ekonomi diukur dengan menggunakan apa yang omputeh kata GDP, atau Utusan dan BH kata KDNK. Apa benda tu 'bang?
GDP = gross domestic product.


KDNK = keluaran kasar dalam negara.


Cakap mudah: pendapatan negara. Jika semua barangan yang dibuat di Malaysia, dan semua perkhidmatan di Malaysia diukur dengan matawang.


Dan dicampur dengan jumlah perdagangan/penjualan sektor pembinaan (KLCC Property Holdings, Gamuda) dan pertanian (Felda dan Sime Darby). Jumlahnya RMxx juta.


Di sana pula, syarikat Dell pasang komputer dan Zaitun keluarkan syampu berjumlah RMxx juta.


Dalam sektor perkhidmatan pula, Hotel Mandarin, Pos Malaysia dan Pelabuhan Klang sediakan bilik penginapan, pos surat dan kotak, manakala kapal masuk port kena bayar 'berthing fees'. Jumlahnya RMxx juta.


Jumlah ini semua dicampur oleh kerajaan dan menjadi KDNK atau GDP.


(Maaf, tapi Makcik Mah jual goreng pisang, Pakcik Man jual ayam percik di bazaar Ramadan Melawati, serta khidmat Kak Piah urut kaki di Carrefour tak dikira sebab terlalu kecil dan business tak berdaftar dengan kerajaan. Dan, ahem, tak bayar cukai pun!).


KDNK ni dibilang sebulan sekali apabila industri (Ikea, Carlsberg, Scomi, Proton dan Nokia) dan syarikat perkhidmatan (KFC, Bursa Saham Malaysia, Kontena Nasional, Suria KLCC, Firefly dan AirAsia, Genting Resorts World, Hospital Pantai) melaporkan jumlah dagangan dan penjualan mereka kepada Jabatan Statistik, Bank Negara, kementerian-kementerian.


Dan jumlah sesuatu period itu (bulanan, suku tahun atau tahunan) dibandingkan dengan period yang sama di tahun lalu - di situlah kita dapat peratusan sama ada ekonomi telah berkembang atau menguncup.


Jumlah KDNK Malaysia tahun lalu dianggarkan US$378.9 billion (RM1,300 billion) = iaitu jumlah dagangan/penjualan industri dan sektor perkhidmatan setelah dicampur.


Tahun lalu, ekonomi menguncup 2.8 peratus.


Untuk seluruh tahun ini, 2010, KDNK akan berkembang "lebih tinggi dari 6 peratus", kata Bank Negara!!!


Dan berita baik lagi, yang apabila saya baca, saya gembira tadi:


-Sektor perkilangan (manufacturing) berkembang kuat! naik 15.9 peratus, menunjukkan export terus kuat.
-Sektor perkhidmatan (services) naik 7.3 peratus.
-Sektor pembinaan (construction) 4.1 peratus.
-Sektor pertanian (agriculture) berkembang 2.4 peratus.


Satu perbandingan untuk tahun ini (saya membantu menyunting laporan dari buro-buro akhbar kami tadi):


Jangkaan KDNK 2010,


- Indonesia = 6 peratus.
- Thailand = 7 peratus.
- India = 9.1 peratus.
- Singapork = 13-15 peratus.


Harapan besar saya ialah apabila pembangkang menilai angka-angka ekonomi Malaysia ini, mereka tidak akan terus mengecam dan memaki hamun.


Sekali-kali, jadilah pembangkang yang memberi harapan kepada rakyat: ekonomi Malaysia ni baik. Memang ada banyak lagi boleh diperbaiki, tapi kita bersyukur bersama bahawa kita terus sihat di masa ekonomi negara Eropah seperti Greece, Portugal, Spain dan Italy lemah. Dan ekonomi US pun mungkin terus lemah.


Penat rasanya jika apa yang akan kita dengar ialah maki hamun saja.


Jika tak mahu, tak payah puji kerajaan Najib pun. Sebab tidak semua yang berlaku - seperti eksport terus kukuh, atau orang lebih kerap makan di KFC, atau tourist masuk hotel - kerja kerajaan secara langsung pun.


Tapi jika sekali-sekala semua bersatu padu, dapat sejukkan hati rakyat akan masa depan negara. Dan memberi kebanggaan kepada semua.

Ini komen saya

koolmokcikZ said...
Salaam,
Terima kasih atas angka angka yang tuan sertakan.
bagaimanapun, tidak kah mungkin angka angka tu semua disumbangkan oleh P Pinang, Selangor, Kedah dan Kelantan sahaja?
takut lembu punya susu sapi punya nama pulak.
minta izin nak salin posting ni ke blog saya
19 August 2010 01:05

Ini respon dari OpEd

remgold said...
koolmokcikZ,
meet Pak Chic = saya! hahaha.
atau kadang saya email orang panggil diri saya Pak Chick (bapa ayam?).
nak pinjam isi posting letak kat mana pun ok lah. blog postings are public electronic diaries. asal ada link dan mention source okay ler.
mokcikZ and Anon 03:23,
Selangor, Penang, Johor, Perak di tempat 1,2,3 dan 4 dlm menyumbang kpd ekonomi msia. iaitu ekonomi negeri2 terbesar (tapi mungkin Perak No.3, Johor No.4?).
nanti Pak Chic carikan pecahan data dari website Bank Negara, Dept of Stats, MITI atau FinMin - dah lama tak cari data ni, lupa kat mana ada.
nota tambahan: Port Klang di Selangor pelabuhan No1 di msia, diikuti pelabuhan Penang No.3, selepas Port of Tanjung Pelepas di Johor. jadi tentunya banyak business kat sini, tapi apa yg diimport dibawa ke seluruh msia pun.
harap janganlah digunakan data utk terus berpecah nak kata bahawa negeri pakatan menyumbang lebih dari negeri bn. sampai pagi tak habis gaduh nanti. setakat nak info ok lah, memang tak boleh disembunyikan pun data.
kita tak dengar pun ada orang kata negeri Republican (republican states) menyumbang lebih besar dari negeri Democrat di US, atau ekonomi provinsi di bawah Golkar atau PDI-P lebih baik dari provinsi Partai Demokrat (parti presiden Indonesia) di Indonesia.
kalau saya nak defend bn: sebab Selangor dan Penang popular dgn pelabur kini ialah kerana kerajaan bn-umno yg menjadikan petaling jaya tempat kilang2 didirikan. dan penang dijadikan silicon valley of msia oleh kerajaan bn-gerakan.
dan konsep silicon valley ini dikembangkan oleh dr mahathir dulu di kulim (kedah), kerana beliau orang kedah. banyak syarikat teknologi di kulim kini kerana dekat dgn penang port - kulim ni banyak tanah orang melayu.
kilang proton dibuat oleh kerajaan bn-umno di selatan perak (tg malim) dan kilang perodua di utara selangor (serendah) nak majukan kawasan2 di situ - ramai orang melayu juga. pembangunan pesat kerana kilang2 ni kat situ, terima kasih kpd bn-umno.
kalau saya nak defend bn lagi saya kata: lembu buat susu, sapi dah kebas nama.
eh wah, pandai saya lagakan orang.
let's not get provincial about these things, kata omputeh, but look at the Big Picture for the beloved country.
the economy is doing well, tx to everybody incl all of us whether we go into macdonalds nak makan, masuk hospital kena denggi atau terbang dgn firefly ke penang nak masuk hotel berholiday selepas penat kerja di kilang di pj.


19 August 2010 05:59

Malaysia oh Malaysia

Reading this article on the Star today really made my blood raced upstairs. It reminds me very much of my earlier thoughts [here]about Malaysian indians working on privately owned estates [mostly by Chinese towkays] who claimed being marginalised by the government. The towkays happily count their untung juta juta [profits] while they pay the lowest money to the workers and and spent even less money on the workers' welfare and yet the government is blamed for their dire state.


And here we have foreigners protesting the poor treatment they are getting from their employers while the employers are again counting their untung juta juta. I bet the politicians will not let this opportunity to rap the government go unnoticed.


The Indonesian government is demanding that their maids be paid RM800 monthly. I wouldn't be surprised if the governments of all the foreign workers who ran riot here would blame Malaysian government for the low wages their workers are getting and lack of health facilities on the factory compound.


It is sad to know that some Malaysians really believed that government is practically giving money to all the Malays [here]. Money gotten from the tax THEY purportedly paid.


Haihhhhh ....

Ramadhan AlMubarak 1431H

Marhaban ya Ramadhan

Ramadhan

di mana nafas kita menjadi tasbih, 

tidur kita menjadi ibadah,

dan do'a kita di ijabah

Kepada semua sahabat

jauh dan dekat

Sepuluh jari ku susun

ampun maaf ku pohon

atas keterlanjuran kata

perbuatan yang menyinggung rasa

salah silap segala.

Taqqobalahu Minna Waminkum, 

Taqoballahu Ya Karim,

Marhaban Ya Ramadhan

Allaahumma baariklanaa fi Sya'ban 

wa ballighnaa Ramadhan 

Amin

Old Lady and South China Sea

Baung Bawah Bangkar

Baru lepas menonton Galeri Nasional TV 1. Pasal jalan darat dari Kuching ke Miri yang sebelum ini dikatakan sangat teruk laluannya.


Wartawan GN melalui satu bulatan di Sibu - Bulatan RTM. Sakitnya mata dan terbakar perasaan bila nampak tulisan cina di bawah tulisan rumi. Seolah dua bahasa tu sama taraf. Biadab sungguh siapa yang buat kerja tu. Mana perginya pejuang bahasa Melayu yang terlentang tertiarap menolak bahasa Inggeris dalam pengajaran Sains dan Matematik?


Teringat isu papan tanda ni sebaik pihak pembangkang menang di 5 negeri dalam PRU 12 2008. Berebut rebut ahli parlimen pembangkang memacak papan tanda jalan sebab ramai cina kat Malaysia nih sesat barat bila berjalan jalan di KL dan bandar bandar besar lain di Malaysia sebab deme nih tak reti membaca atau bercakap dalam bahasa Melayu.


Celake!

Mahkamah Sesyen Tersilap

Astaghfirullahal'adzim


4 tahun lalu seorang bapa dijatuhi hukuman penjara 38 tahun dan 12 sebatan atas 2 sabitan merogol anak kandungnya yang berusia 14 tahun. [Utusan Malaysia]


16 Julai 2010 Mahkamah Tinggi menerima rayuannya dengan mengetepikan sabitan dan hukuman kerana mendapati Mahkamah Sesyen telah terkhilaf dari segi fakta dan undang undang semasa menjatuhkan hukuman tersebut.


Sewaktu membacakan keputusannya, hakim Mahkamah Tinggi menyatakan laporan perubatan yang dikemukakan tidak boleh diterima sebagai bukti kerana tandatangan padanya disahkan palsu oleh seorang pegawai perubatan.


Malah, pegawai perubatan yang sama mengesahkan mangsa tidak dirogol dan kesan koyakan pada kemaluannya akibat tusukan objek tumpul seperti belakang pensil.


Kesimpulannya pihak pendakwa gagal membuktikan kes prima facie.


Menggerunkan.


Bagaimana laporan perubatan dipalsukan dan dapat disahkan palsu kemudian. Kenapa kepalsuan itu tidak dapat dibongkar lebih awal oleh defenden? Kelemahan peguam bela kah atau kehebatan peguam pendakwa atau kelemahan sistem?


Bagaimana pula dalam kes berprofil tinggi yang melibatkan ketua pakatan pembangkang yang telah 20 kali ditunda. Kehebatan peguam bela kah, kelemahan pendakwa kah atau sistem dipermain mainkan?


Negara ini semakin kucar kacir.


Tangan tangan ghaib berjaya memecah belahkan keharmonian rakyat seterusnya menimbulkan prasangka terhadap sistem perundangan. Ketua Polis Negara telah lama berjaya dipalitkan dengan pelbagai situasi negatif. Perlembagaan ditafsir mengikut kehendak masing masing. Demonstrasi jalanan dirangsang. Isu perkauman digunakan untuk melaga lagakan rakyat. Anak muda diulit dengan budaya hedonisma. Seks bebas berleluasa. Kebendaan disembah.


Bangun lah anak bangsa ku. Jangan nanti jadi Pak Kadok, menang sorak kampung tergadai.

Hallelujah! Long Live 1Malaysia

China Press reported that there was a lack of Chinese-speaking counselling teachers in SMJK San Min in Teluk Intan, which has some 1,600 students.

The only Chinese-speaking counselling teacher had to take up 80% of the workload because students would ask for him.

The school’s board of directors chairman Chen Hong Ji said he hoped that the Education Ministry would look into the issue and assign more Chinese-speaking counselling teachers.

“Some students could not converse well in English or Malay, so they were not able to communicate with the non-Chinese speaking teachers about their problems, which in turn affect their studies,” he said.

> Nanyang Siang Pau reported that Kuantan might soon have its long-awaited first independent Chinese school.

Pahang Chinese guilds and associations had been looking for a suitable independent Chinese school in Klang Valley to open a branch in Kuantan.

Frankly, I think it will be difficult for the corrupted Malay chauvinist Malaysian Government to find a suitably qualified counselor locally. In the interest of the poor 13-17 year old students who cannot converse well in English or Malay after 6 years of primary education and without doubt are excellent students who scored perfect A in UPSR, I strongly suggest that they be sent to mainland China where they will get PERFECT education by perfect educationists who can speak perfect chinese.

Better still, in the interest of Malaysia's future generation, the government SHOULD built the whole school in mainland China. You know, with the chinese builders world class skills, top class building materials, the BEST qualified teachers, the most nutritious food available; SMJK San Min will churn out the best of the best students who will come back to Malaysia and prosper the country.

Hidup 1Malaysia!!!

Salute To Friends

Was blog hopping and came across this posting on Doctor2008's Weblog .

Love the academic approach to this write up. 

It ties my sentiments in many of my postings regarding friends especially here and here.

I have asked for permission to reproduce the article here. Thank you doctor. 

What Are Good Friends For? A Longer Life! 

By doctor2008

There has been countless quotes, poetry and songs on the virtues of a good friendship. In the song co-written by Burt Bacharach What Are Good Friends For? , these lyrics that often keep repeating in one’s mind:

Keep smiling

Keep shining

Knowing you can always count on me,for sure

That’s what friends are for..

The video below shows how Dionne Warwick, Stevie Wonder, Luther Vandross and Whitney Houston appreciate what good friends are for...

An Australian study on older people discovered that those with a large circle of friends were 22% less likely to die in the 10 years of the study. A similar Harvard research showed that strong social ties will promote brain health as one ages. 

I agree. The role of friends to one’s health has been under-appreciated, compared to marriage and family. Sure, there can be rotten apples in the barrel, but with good friends, they can bring a positive psychological impact on one’s well-being, as the above studies demonstrate. Another study of 3000 nurses with breast cancer even showed that friendship had an even greater positive effect on health than a spouse or family member.

Exactly why friends have such a big effect on health isn’t too clear – could it be the ‘feel-good’ factor? Or the physical and psychological support which lessens one’s stress levels? Whatever it is, the message that these studies point out is that friends do make your life better and healthier.