Bundle Of Joy

 

she arrived on the dot

but the tiny tot

has not enough strength

to make it

through the canal

doctors had to help 
delivered her through c-sect

just couple of hours short 

of May 13 day of the riot
[oldies like me
would know what the date means]
 

Bodoh Piang

Nonton video ini [sini] made my blood went upstairs lah.

Politik kita belum cukup masak. Harapkan kekuatan pembangkang mampu mematangkan politik tanahair tapi hampeh ... kokok berderai derai ekor bergelumang tahi.

Penyokong Bersih 3.0 bermati matian kata niat mereka bersih murni. Mereka hanya berarak aman menuntut pilihanraya bersih. Mereka yakin penuh bahawa setiap manusia atas dunia ni punya hak kebebasan individu. Bebas untuk berkumpul di mana mana bila bila masa. Segala sampah yang mereka buat masa mereka melaksanakan hak mereka tu adalah tanggungjawab kerajaan kerana mereka ialah pembayar cukai. Begitu juga dengan keselamatan mereka. Sekiranya ada samseng tak puas hati, maka polis kena lindungi mereka. Jika perlu tembak pengacau yang mengganggu. Kurang dari itu, maka hak mereka dikira terjejas.

Penganjur Bersih 3.0 tidak dapat kebenaran berdemo di Dataran Merdeka tapi buat jugak. Jadi apa nama nya 300 000 orang [kata deme lah] yang berkumpul 28 April 2012 lepas? Bukan babi [dibaca:HARAM] ke?

Ada polis tembak diaorang? Tangkap? Pukul?

TAK DE!!!

Habis tu apahal pulak mamat ni [sini] dengan sopan santun lembut gigi dari lidah MENUNTUT polis buat siasatan.

Sapa yang nak di bodohkannya?

Bersih 3.0 yang haram tu ditamatkan dengan RASMI pada jam 2.00 ptg 28 April 2012.

Kekacauan berlaku pukul berapa?

Polis tembak gas pemedih mata dan sembur meriam air pukul berapa? Sebelum atau selepas kekacauan bermula? Saja suka suka nak dera orang atau ada sebab munasabah?

Kalau lah mamat ni dan suku sakat dia tak buat apa yang mereka buat SELEPAS Bersih 3.0 diTAMATKAN dengan rasmi dan peserta Bersih haram di suruh bersurai, ada polis nak buat apa yang mereka buat?

Babi haram di makan oleh orang Islam. Kalau disembelih pun babi tetap haram di makan.

Bersih 3.0 tidak dapat kebenaran berdemo di Dataran Merdeka. Walau 300 000 orang menyertainya tidak menjadikan ia HALAL.

Kedua, isu kezaliman polis.

This FB posting is an interesting read [here] 


Ketiga, video [ini].

Tertinggal keretapi



 

Orchestrated Gambit

Read this on an fb acquaintance's wall.

 In a repeat of last summer’s protests, yellow-shirted mobs calling themselves “Bersih” have taken once again to the streets in Malaysia demanding “clean elections.” Their tactics and demands mirror similar movements that have come out into the streets in Russia and across the Middle East, and just like in Russia and across the Middle East, they are entirely funded, directed by, and working for the interests of Wall Street and London.

Bersih’s rank and file are responding to legitimate concerns regarding inequities that exist across Malaysia’s diverse population. Ethnic Malaysians are perceived to be receiving more benefits and upward social mobility than Malaysia’s large groups of ethnic minorities. Likewise it is perceived that Malaysia’s ruling government has an unfair advantage come election time. However, the movement’s demands and tactics seek simply to destabilize Malaysia politically and return known Western collaborators, and in particular Wall Street proxy and International Monetary Fund (IMF) functionary Anwar Ibrahim, back into power.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=M7u2xKtjihk

Video/Image: NED and Soros organized mobs clamor around Malaysia’s embassy in Bangkok, Thailand – with SEAPA executive director Gayathry Venkiteswaran explaining to a crowd why Western proxy Anwar Ibrahim and his opposition’s involvement in Bersih should not be condemned and for Bersih supporters to vigorously deny that the movement is “opposition run.” SEAPA  s funded by convicted criminal George Soros, and the US State Department’s warmongering, corporate financier-lined National Endowment For Democracy and Freedom House. Both within Malaysia and beyond, the Bersih mobs are demonstratively led by Western proxies insidiously manipulating impressionable, youthful crowds. 

 To understand why, it helps to understand just who is financially and politically supporting Bersih’s leadership in the first place. The Malaysian Insider reported on june 27, 2011 that Bersih leader Ambiga Sreenevassan “admitted to Bersih receiving some money from two US organisations — the National Democratic Institute (NDI) and Open Society Institute (OSI) — for other projects, which she stressed were unrelated to the July 9 [2011] march.” A visit to the NDI website revealed indeed that funding and training had been provided by the US organization – before NDI took down the information and replaced it with a more benign version purged entirely of any mention of Bersih. For funding Ambiga claims is innocuous, the NDI’s rushed obfuscation of any ties to her organization suggests something more sinister at play.
 
Bersih is indisputably serving as a political vehicle for Anwar Ibrahim and Malaysia’s opposition front “Pakatan Rakyat,” to return to power. That Anwar Ibrahim himself was Chairman of the Development Committee of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1998, held lecturing positions at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, was a consultant to the World Bank, and a panelist at the Neo-Con lined National Endowment for Democracy’s “Democracy Award" and a panelist at a NED donation ceremony - the very same US organization whose subsidiaries are funding and supporting Bersih – casts irrefutable doubt on their official agenda for “clean and fair elections.” Claims by Bersih members that Anwar Ibrahim is “hijacking” their movement ring especially hollow when looking at both his and Bersih’s entwined foreign financial and political backers.

Unlike during their 2011 protests, Bersih is now taking to the streets with the full knowledge of what “pro-democracy” protests have yielded in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Syria – chaos, destabilization, violence, and the inevitable installation of overt client regimes bent in service to Wall Street and London. They are now openly the recipients of convicted criminal George Soros'  Open Society Institute, which is quickly losing its luster as its vast global ties are exposed by an ever-expanding alternative media. ...

...

 Clearly it is not “democracy” that the US through its National Endowment for Democracy and criminal Wall Street speculator George Soros’ Open Society are spreading – but rather corporate-financier hegemony by destabilizing nationalist regimes and replacing them with client proxies. The recent wave of “pro-democracy” uprisings worldwide are a carefully orchestrated geopolitical gambit - neo-imperialism through 4th generation warfare. That the leaders of Bersih are demonstratively recipients of both the US State Department’s National Endowment for Democracy and Soros’ Open Society, and with opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim being a functionary of the IMF, it is certain that no matter how genuine Bersih’s rank and file may be, the fruits of their efforts will be the destabilization and neo-recolonization of of their nation – a nation that has fought long and hard to work its way out from under Western imperialism in the past.


The damage is done ... again!

CINA BUTA 2

Mula mula baca artikel ini [di sini] setuju jugak lah dengan pandangan penulisnya.

Tapi bila sampai di sini , terkedu pulak ... 

"I did not hear any anti-Lynas or anti-corruption slogans or anything against UiTM’s rejection of non-Bumiputera students nor about the pathetic academic standards of our universities today."

Masih tak reti reti jugak anak merdeka ni.

Bahawasanya, biasiswa ke, MARA ke dan yang sewaktu dengannya adalah termaktub dalam perlembagaan negara sebagai hak istimewa anak peribumi ini.

Malangnya tiada lagi lelaki Melayu di bumi ini. 

Yang tinggal hanya lah sida sida yang telah dikasi. [now wondering kasi semua ka kasi telur je]

Haihhhhhhh! [makcik tua hanya mampu mengeluh menghitung hari]

Hoorayyyyyy! Long Live 1Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 — Chinese vernacular education is guaranteed under the Barisan Nasional (BN) government, Datuk Seri Najib Razak vowed tonight following recent accusations from Chinese educationists that his administration was conspiring to end the use of Mandarin as a medium of instruction.

The prime minister also said on ntv7’s Mandarin talk show, “Chat Time With...”, that his administration was committed to ending the teacher shortage in Chinese primary schools and would consider recognising the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC), the Chinese school’s SPM equivalent.

“It (vernacular education) is provided for in the (Federal) Constitution that parents have the right to choose. I don’t think there is any need or cause for Malaysian Chinese to fear that we will close down Chinese schools.

“If we didn’t amend the Act, maybe there could be a reason. But the amendment is a clear manifestation of our commitment that Chinese schools are here to stay and education in Chinese schools is an integral part of the national education system,” Najib said, referring to the 1996 amendment to the Education Act when he was education minister.

The amendment had removed the controversial Section 21 (2), which stipulated that the minister could convert a vernacular school into a Malay-medium school. The section also specifically provided for vernacular education as part of the national education system.

“It once and for all removed fear about (the) future and survival of Chinese schools... it was a landmark decision we made,” he said on live on national television.

Vernacular education has been a longstanding issue, with Chinese educationists accusing the government of sidelining Chinese education for the past four decades despite being fully aware of the shortcomings.

During its March 25 rally, the United Chinese School Committees Association (Dong Zong) accused the government of compromising Chinese education by “deliberately” not training enough Chinese school teachers, resulting in a shortage that has lasted for up to 40 years.

Dong Zong president Yap Sin Tian told a crowd of over 5,000, who had chanted for MCA’s Deputy Education Minister Datuk Wee Ka Siong to resign, this was so the government could send in those without SPM Mandarin qualifications to fill the gap.

The MCA Youth chief was forced to defend himself last week by insisting that, when he joined the Education Ministry in 2009, there had been a shortage of 4,991 teachers in Chinese schools. This has been reduced each year to 1,870 this year, Wee added.

Najib also said tonight he was aware that “little Napoleons” in the government were a stumbling block towards solving Chinese education problems such as the shortage of teachers.

“We are aware of that... we have made a commitment... to see to it this problem is addressed once and for all,” the Umno president said.

Asked if the government would now give accreditation to the UEC since it recently recognised 146 universities from China, he said “we need to engage both sides” to discuss to what extent the curriculum can be made to be more Malaysian and the need for teachers to be proficient in Malay. [from here]

CINA BUTA

Ini berita dilapor Harian Metro hari Sabtu 7 April 2012:-

JOHOR BAHRU: Sekumpulan lelaki menjadi pak sanggup atau cina buta semata-mata mengidamkan imbuhan lumayan mencecah RM10,000 serta berpeluang bermalam dengan isteri ekspres bagi memuaskan nafsu selama sebulan sebelum diceraikan.

Dengan imbuhan serta pelbagai barangan mewah lain diberikan isteri ekspres masing-masing, kumpulan cina buta terbabit tidak kisah dilabel dengan gelaran itu, malah memberi alasan ia bukan perkara mendatangkan kesalahan kerana segala-galanya dilakukan mengikut syarak.

Bagi memudahkan pelanggan terdesak menghubungi mereka, kumpulan cina buta terbabit mendedahkan identiti serta maklumat peribadi berserta nombor telefon masing-masing dalam laman web.

Seorang daripada cina buta yang hanya mahu dikenali sebagai Ramli, 31, berkata, dia yang berasal dari Tapah, Perak, datang ke bandar raya ini enam tahun lalu sebelum terjebak kegiatan itu setahun kemudian.

Menurutnya, dia mula terjebak kegiatan cina buta apabila menganggur lima bulan sebelum ditawarkan peluang menjadi cina buta kepada seorang kerani yang tinggal di Kuala Lumpur. [Harian Metro]

 

Bukti - cek bayaran

Ini respon AHLI agama:- 
 
Penasihat Agama Islam Johor, Datuk Noh Gadut berkata, Allah SWT melaknat lelaki yang berkahwin dengan niat begitu dan sesungguhnya perkahwinan yang dilangsungkan walau untuk tempoh sementara tidak pernah mendapat keberkatan daripada-NYA.

“Memang nikahnya sah, tetapi ingatlah sekiranya perkahwinan diasaskan dengan niat begitu, tetap dilaknat Allah dan hendaklah mereka yang terbabit bertaubat dengan kadar segera tidak kiralah sama ada lelaki cina buta atau individu lain yang mengupahnya. “Dan kegiatan ini pun tidak sepatutnya berlaku dalam kita sedang giat berdakwah mengajak dan mendidik umat Islam. Saya mahu ingatkan semua pasangan terutama suami supaya jangan bermain dengan perkahwinan dan perceraian,” katanya ketika dihubungi, semalam.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas laporan muka depan Harian Metro semalam mengenai sekumpulan lelaki di Johor yang menjadi pak sanggup atau cina buta semata-mata mengidamkan imbuhan lumayan mencecah RM10,000.

Ini pula respon pihak berkuasa agama:-

“Perkhidmatan pak sanggup atau cina buta memang ada, namun ia tidak pernah dimaklumkan kepada kami,” kata Kadi Daerah Johor Bahru, Mohd Azman Mohsin ketika dihubungi di sini, semalam.
Azman mengulas berkaitan sekumpulan lelaki di bandar raya ini yang menawarkan khidmat cina buta kepada pasangan yang terlanjur bercerai dengan talak tiga.
Kumpulan cina buta terbabit menyediakan laman web khas untuk mengiklankan khidmat diberikan manakala pasangan yang mahukan khidmat mereka perlu mengikut syarat ditentukan seperti imbuhan mencecah ribuan ringgit.
Menurut Azman, pihaknya menyedari berkaitan kegiatan cina buta di negeri ini, namun tidak dapat mengambil tindakan kerana tiada sesiapa tampil memberi maklumat.
“Kami tahu ia wujud dan tiada siapa tampil kerana ia mungkin mendatangkan aib kepada pihak tertentu,” katanya.
Mengulas lanjut, Azman berkata, Islam melarang keras penggunaan khidmat cina buta, malah lelaki yang melakukannya dianggap dayus.
“Perkahwinan dan perceraian bukan perkara yang boleh dipermainkan kerana itu Islam membahagikan perceraian kepada tiga bahagian iaitu talak satu hingga tiga manakala kuasa cerai pula terletak di bahu suami.
“Nasihat saya kepada pasangan suami isteri terutama pasangan muda, jangan terburu-buru bercerai sebaliknya fikirkan kaedah terbaik untuk menyelesaikan masalah bagi keharmonian rumah tangga,” katanya.

Dah sedar tapi tunggu maklumat jatuh ke riba tu bukan namanya makan gaji buta ???

Yang ini pulak sapa yang buta?

It would be difficult not to draw an association between the proponents of vernacular schooling and the opposition parties after what happened at the rally for Chinese schools that took place last week.
ONCE again vernacular education has become an issue in Malaysian politics, though with much speculation about the date of the election going around at the moment, one cannot help but feel that the issue has been raised by some parties for the sake of gaining the popular vote above all. It would be difficult not to draw an association between the proponents of vernacular schooling and the opposition parties after what happened at the rally for Chinese schools that took place last week.
But the question remains unanswered by all: Can we seriously expect there to be some semblance of a Malaysian nation as long as young Malaysian children are taught separately, in different language streams? And are we naïve enough to think that nations invent themselves, without there having to be some form of intervention and direction by the state?
I have written about this so many times that I am close to giving up altogether, for fear that any more articles would simply amount to a waste of paper.
 But for the umpteenth time, let me repeat some of the things I have said before: If we were to look at the major developed countries of the world such as Britain, France and Germany, we will see that historically these countries used to be far more linguistically diverse than they are today. In France alone hundreds of dialects were spoken, as was the case in Germany, where each region had a dialect unique to itself.
As Robert Bartlett has argued in his work The Making Of Europe, the coming together of these small principalities and feudal states was only possible through the centralisation of power and the streamlining of language, giving birth to the national languages we know today: French, German and English. Bartlett notes, of course, that this did not happen without some degree of discomfort, but in the long run the sacrifices of the past seem to have paid off. Disparate communities (that may not have even been able to speak to each other) are now part of larger nations.
Malaysia is likewise at a stage of its history where it has to decide firmly and decisively if it wishes to be one nation or a number of nations living side-by-side but never really communicating or understanding one another. As elections draw close, my worry is that the political parties of the country will pander to the most exclusive of communitarian voices, calling for linguistic isolationism as if it was the only benchmark of identity.
Surely, in the midst of the economically troubling times we live in, there are other matters that ought to gain our attention, such as protecting Malaysia from capital flight, securing our human resources and talent, and so on.
This also means having to create the opportunity structures whereby minorities feel that they can succeed by remaining in the mainstream, and working upwards in society by using the same common national language that is the language of one and all. For more than two decades now, I have lived as a member of the minority, first in Britain, then in France, Holland, Germany and now in Singapore.
In all these countries, I found myself struggling to get into the mainstream in order to succeed and to be the best I could be; proud enough to say that at least one Malaysian managed to teach in some of the best universities of the world. In places like France and Germany it also meant trying to master at least some basic French and German. And in all these instances my struggle was for and in the mainstream of society.
My concern about what is happening in Malaysia today is that the continued existence of separate language schools means that we do not know where the mainstream is any longer. It beggars belief that in a plural society like ours, young children may spend their entire childhood in the company of other children of the same cultural-linguistic background, and need not meet or even shake hands with another Malaysian child of a different culture or religion.
Worse still, this trend towards linguistic-cultural exclusivism seems to be on the rise among all the communities of the country. So we are back to the original question: How can we build a Malaysian nation if Malaysian children don't even go to the same schools, together?
As the tone and tenor of political contestation heats up in Malaysia in the lead-up to the elections, I also hope that the parties in the country will not jump on the language bandwagon to further aggravate things and to drive a wedge between Malaysians. In other developed countries, even parties that are bitterly hostile to each other conduct themselves with one eye on the national interest, and put national interest first.
In any plural society there are bound to be both centrifugal forces and centripetal forces, at times working against each other. To build a Malaysian nation means necessarily seeking those positive centripetal forces that want there to be a Malaysian nation that we can all call home. Parties should actively seek these forces, and lend their support to Malaysians who want there to be a national language, a national educational system and a national culture that everyone can identify with.

These forces, I believe, are there and have always been there; but what baffles me is why the political parties of the country have not reached out to them in an effective manner.

 The aim, surely, has to be the creation of a common, inclusive mainstream; and then the expansion of that mainstream to make it even more inclusive and empowering for all.

Surely that is what education is for, and what smart politics is all about.

Read more: A common language to success - Columnist - New Straits Times http://www.nst.com.my/opinion/columnist/a-common-language-to-success-1.68172#ixzz1rHljD9IP

 

Bagai Belanda Diberi Tanah 2

Teka kat mana ni!

gamaknya tak de lah pelanggan yang beli Toblerone tu ye sebab deme tak reti baca

the one and only poster tergantung di dinding depan Public Bank Jerantut

Pepatah bagai Belanda diberi tanah mungkin lebih bermakna jika ditukar jadi "Bagai Cina Diberi Kerakyatan Malaysia"

Tebakor!

Adui la!

Dah pergi siram pokok bunga.

Dah cuci kereta.

Tapi bara tetap hangat.

Api masih tak mau padam

Baca ni [klik sini]

Hangat bukan sebab mamat MCA tu kena halau dan hampir kena penumbuk. 

Tapi sebab 5000 orang pendemo yang mewakili tak sampai 30% rakyat Malaysia rasa mereka cukup kuat untuk mendesak kerajaan menunaikan SETIAP satu kemahuan mereka.


Tak ada kah rakyat negara ini yang boleh berkumpul DESAK kerajaan menguatkuasakan Akta Bahasa Kebangsaan dan Akta Pendidikan?


Tak ada kah peguam yang berani bawa perkara ini ke mahkamah?


Konon 'tak Melayu hilang di bumi".


Kat Tanah Melayu ni pun orang Melayu dah nak pupus.


Macamana negara pulau seberang tambak nun mengubah nisbah penduduk sehingga penduduk asal jadi kumpulan minoriti. Tapi tak de pulak deme sibuk dirikan sekolah vernakular malahan mencemuh sekolah vernakular di sini.


Bukan keadaan yang sama berlaku di P Pinang?


Semua orang tahu Dong King Kong tak sebulu dengan Dapigs.


Tetiba jer dekat pilihanraya ni deme bersekongkol pulak. A truly marriage of convenience.


Dan masih pepuak Melayu liberal penggemar stor kunyit tak sedar diri yang mereka hanyalah kuda tunggangan.


Yang berjubah hijau berserban berketayap tu pun rela menyerahkan belakang mereka untuk ditunggang.


ABU konon!


Ya Allah ya Tuhan ku. Selamatkan lah anak cucu aku.

Domino?

On Mar 5, AFP reported Malaysia detains an Australian over drugs [full news here]. 32 years old Dominic Jude Christopher Bird a truck driver from Perth, Western Australia was arrested in possession of 225g [7.8ozs] of methampithamine.

It was believed that the Australian was involved in some sort of syndicate. 

On Mar 8, AFP reported that US State Department listed the Vatican as potentially vulnerable to money laundering. The department's annual International Narcotics Control Strategy report listed the Vatican as a "jurisdiction of concern" along with countries like Albania, the Czech Republic, Egypt, South Korea, Malaysia, Vietnam and Yemen [read full news here] 

Then 22 hours ago, AFP reported an Australian investigation into money-laundering and drug trafficking which has uncovered a powerful triad syndicate with top Asian politicians and police involved.

The syndicate reportedly has "three main heads based in Southeast Asia and at least 22 other primary seats (bosses)" around the globe [full news here]


Hmmm ... there's one item missing I think ... people trafficting


I been wondering how the tokey built all the shops and a new bus terminal in my small town when world economy was at the lowest. Plus all the housing estates mushrooming out of nowhere ... i was wondering who would buy up all those houses but i was wrong. They were snapped up like hot banana fritters.


The longer I been here ... the more convinced I am that this little quaint town is owned by one tokey.


I think I know where the money comes from.

Strawberry Tea

I was first introduced to strawberry tea when I visited Cameron Highlands in ...gosh I can't remember what year. I wasn't too crazy about it then. I saw many people buying lots of flavoured teas - strawberry, grapes, lemon etc. from the shops and the night market. I didn't buy any. I was only interested in Bharat Tea and a few types of green tea . I also came across 'chai' tea and I was dying to try it. Ayong wanted to get a box of strawberry flavoured tea for her friend. Succumbing to the trick of the trader, we ended up with a box of chai and two boxes of strawberry tea because 1 box was RM9 but 3 boxes cost Rm20.

At first I didn't like the strawberry tea. Ayong kept insisting it was niceeee and always brewed a pot of it. Slowly I learned to drink it and after the box was finished, I began to ask for more of it, much to Ayong's amusement. She managed to get another 3 boxes and I stopped brewing other tea. Well, each cuppa is a little luxury for me because strawberry flavoured tea can only be gotten from Cameron Highlands.

I thought all strawberry tea would taste the same so when I finished the last sachet, I asked a staff in school who was visiting his children in Cameron Highlands to get me some. When he gave me the boxes, they looked different from the one I was used to and the taste was different.

Looks like I have to get the tea myself.

All the way up to the highlands?

But weather has not been favourable lately.

Been trying to go up since Ayong's birthday in January but both ways were blocked by water then.

I have school break for the whole week.

How I wish I could just get behind the wheel and drive away into the sunset.

Like I used to do.

But that was a long time ago.

A long long time ago.

Sighhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Empty nest!

To Tuit Or Not To Tuit

Sending children to tuition classes is readily becoming a norm in our society so much so that if a child is not sent to tuition it is bordering on being abnormal.

When parents are TOO busy working, tuition classes more often than not are very convenient and usually cheaper.

NST today reported "more parents are sending their children, aged between 7 and 10, for private tuition" [read more]

Reasons cited :

1- competitive school environment
2- crowded classrooms
3- changing standards of language

Also reported is school authorities and parent groups generally agree that sending children under 10 years old for tuition is unnecessary.

Associate Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Ali Hasan, the President of National Collaborative Parent-Teacher Associations of Malaysia, believes that sending pupils for tuition too early could even be detrimental to their social development [from here]

Being a teacher for 30 years now, I see many students who are so tired and stressed out. Despite all the extra classes, I have had students sleeping during exams with unanswered questions.

They've been denied their natural development. Their social skills is so lacking. Their self drive is zero. They need to be directed and supervised EACH time.

I salute mothers who opted to stay home and look after their children themselves.

Perspective

BBC estimated 2000 people [here]

CBSNEWS estimated 3000 people [here]

MalaysianInsider estimated 8000 people [here]

Malaysiakini reported 15000 people [here]

Utusan reported 5000 people [here]

Berita Harian reported 10000 people [here]

Here is a picture from Facebook uploaded by Malaysiakini



Here is a picture from Facebook uploaded by PDRM

One event.

Perhaps different time.

But then ... it is not that difficult to doctor a digital picture.

We have seen how pictures were played up.

Even comments on both FB differs ... some commentors said ramai some said tak ramai.

I wasn't there!



Passing Away

My elder brother passed away on Monday 13th February 2012 at the age of fifty-three.

Apart from occasional headaches, he had no known heart condition, high blood pressure or diabetes.

He just arrived at his workplace and complained of tiredness to his colleagues who advised him to take a rest. He sat down and passed out. His colleagues rushed him to a clinic nearby and the doctor pronounced him to be dead.

He was far away from home.

My mother called in confusion. Took me few minutes to sort it out, thanks to the technology. That was about 11 am.

I took leave from work bracing myself for the task ahead.

This was my first experience handling the death of an immediate family member. 


First, locate the wife and her children. Next, deciding the burial site. Had to consider the wife's and the children' wish and the parents'. Apparently both parties had different places in mind.


Villagers started paying visits to my parents.

The time seemed to drag slowly. There was no news about the arrival of the body [about six hours journey away] and the grave site was not decided yet.


Somehow, my youngest brother managed to convince the wife and children to agree with the parents' wish.

The villagers started digging the grave.

The body arrived home about 9.30 pm. All taken care of.


Family members were allowed to take a last look at his face and say goodbye.


I was able to hold the tears until I stooped to kiss his cold cheek.


I was overcame by grief which I thought I didn't have.

About 10.00 pm he was laid to rest in a grave near the parents' home.

As I left the grave after the 'talkin' I was once again overcame by emotion.

Lay in peace my brother. Your tired bones and all your worries and concerns will trouble you no more. 

Rest in peace.


Innalillahiwainnailaihiraji'uun.

Jalan jalan

Kali terakhir naik keretapi ialah pada hujung tahun 1996. 


Sabtu lepas, ada undangan walimah di JB. Beli tiket Senandung Timuran online. Ayong pun ikut.


Dalam jadual, waktu bertolak ialah 3.18 pagi dan tiba di Kulai 9.10 pagi.


Sampai di stesen 2.30 pagi. Keretapi tiba 3.40 pagi. Berlepas 3.45 pagi.


Kabin 1. Habuk banyak. Bersin. Ada sinki.


Terus tidur. Sedar hampir sampai di Gemas. Subuh gajah. Melambung lambung menyusur koridor ke tandas. Keadaan tandas yang tak di urus dengan baik.


Sekejap saja shunting di Gemas.


Lajunya keretapi. Melambung lambung macam kena ayak.


Di Segamat, matahari baru nak mengintai

Tetiba keretapi berhenti. Kawasan ladang di Labis. Entah apa sebabnya. 

Terlena dalam menunggu keretapi sambung perjalanan. Tersedar ada nyonya bising bising nak turun di Kluang. Tak de sivik langsung.

Ke tandas lagi. Ada tukang cuci tandas sedang 'mencuci' tandas. Tapi dok sibuk ber SMS. 


Jam 11.00 pagi baru sampai di Kulai.


Epit terperangkap dalam jem. Kena tunggu sekejap di stesen Kulai.


Lepas kenduri pergi jamu mata pulak kat JPO. Tengok je!


Hehehehe!

One Day In Your Life

One day in your life
You'll remember a place
Someone's touching your face
You'll come back and you'll look around you

One day in your life
You'll remember the love you found here
You'll remember me somehow
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You'll remember one day

One day in your life
When you find that you're always waiting
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and I'll be there

You'll remember me somehow
Though you don't need me now
I will stay in your heart
And when things fall apart
You'll remember one day

One day in your life
When you find that you're always longing
For a love we used to share
Just call my name, and I'll be there.

flip flop lagi

Ketua Setiausaha Negara Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan mengesahkan pelaksanaan sistem Saraan Baru Perkhidmatan Awam (SBPA), yang dikuatkuasakan sejak 1 Januari lalu, ditangguhkan bagi membolehkan kajian semula yang lebih mendalam dijalankan.
Bagaimanapun beliau enggan mengulas lanjut sambil berkata, maklumat lanjut akan diumumkan oleh Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak kelak.

Rasa kurang puas hati dengan SBPA sebab gaji junior yang tak lulus PTK naik ratusan ringgit dan berada sebaris dengan kita yang berhempas pulas dapatkan 4:4 di DUA tahap PTK sedangkan gaji kita naik tak sampai RM50.00. 


Sebal je rasa.

Sakit je hati.

Tapi lagi sakit hati bila kerajaan ini flip flop lagi.


Agaknya diaorang ni memang sengaja nak sabotaj kot?


Supaya rakyat benci pemerintah. Benci Najib.


Diaorang ni dapat banyak duit dari 'luar' kot?


Macam bekas pensyarah tu?


Bukan dia sorang, pastinya. Ingat budak ingus yang kat universiti tu punya telur masak keras ke sampai berani menyalak kat pintu u, baring baring atas jalanraya kalu tidak ada yang mencucuk dan mengumpan. 


Risau mengenangkan satu demi satu 'Harimau Asia' dicederakan sang Helang.


Sedih melihatkan satu demi satu negara Islam dijatuhkan melalui 'suara rakyat' kononnya.


*Dugaa weh*

Ode to the Dove

looking outside my kitchen window

something moved in the shadow

as though taking a bow

in the afternoon glow

having only the phonecam

trying hard not to make any sound

adjusting to get into the frame

blooming orchids in the background 

took just one small click of the camera

for half a dozen sensitive creatures

to take off and disappear

leaving me with only pictures

taken through the window glass

of Zebra doves feeding in the grass

old lady and the south china sea 2

flashbacks

my son said

he would stay home

and take care of me

when i am old

now he's married

to a girl he portrayed

 doesn't mind 

making home as said 

then he got a job oversea

left his wife who is now preggy

i tot this would be a good opportunity

for bonding between her and me

guess what

when he got married

i thought

i would gain a daughter

looks more like

am losing a son 

FAMILIAR???

After the first day of the new year

Ya Allah

perbaikilah agamaku

yang menjadi sandaran urusanku

perbaikilah duniaku

yang menjadi tempat kehidupanku

perbaikilah akhiratku

tempat di mana aku dikembalikan

jadikanlah hidupku ini

tambahan setiap kebaikan untukku

dan jadikanlah kematian

sebagai ketenangan 

daripada segala kejahatan untukku

 

Amin