Going Back To Basics..

Hello again..after a long hiatus due to helluva workload..

The department held a 3 days eco-team building in Taman Negara August 8 to 10 2014. It was supposed to be a serious company's outing..but somebody made it their personal building of sort..hence..a lot of out of sync activities..

Anyway..a healthy change after the long hours of working & travelling..

Family Trip To Europe..

Sums up about our European winter holidays couple of years back.

Got to meet up an old friend who resided in Paris for years. She helped our group of a few families to go around the city for the 3 days we were there. TQ my friend.

Took the train from Gare Du Nord station to St Pancras London for 10 days of shopping for the ladies.

Is It ? .. or Is It NOT ?? ..

Part 2 of this cartoon story is getting HILARIOUS !!

And the judge had to stepped in to prevent a bad script getting worse .. with the international media laughing at us all. Why can't they just scrap it and let us get on with our lives ..

We all had enuff of the circus in our childhood days .. don't let our children puke at our government's embicile-like actions (if you can call it action ...)

'nuff said ..

Circus Is Back In Town ..

Media frenzy is the flavour of the month ..

With the local and international medias are stepping at each other just to get the best seat in the house, you just can't resist the temptation to know what's going on. Some of the juicy details slipped out from the courthouse to whet our appetite, just enough to make us forget about a more pressing issue that are plaguing our beloved motherland. Sidestepping the important ones, and give us this freak shows so that the naives and the blurred type of people just don't have the time to breath normally ..

Seen this scenario before ? ...

Target .. Selangor ? ..

Is Selangor gonna fall like Perak ?

That's the words that has been buzzing around for the past months. With all the machineries at their disposal and some civil servants that's been in the BN's paychecks all the while, nothing is impossible .. even if the high echelons of PR denying the facts. You can never dismissed the possibality of another coup is being cook up. Even with the in-house bickering of the ruling government or it component parties which seem to send ripples to the ground, but one can't dismiss the fact that it is all just another "sandiwara" to camouflage the true intention or to divert the attention.

Just hope that PR will be on their toes all the time not to repeat the same mistake ..

10 Years Jinx ? ..

I am not just talking about economy here ..

Lately, we've seen so many events that was mind boggling. Not to just the government, political parties and those bigwigs. Every now & then for the past 10 years, we've seen sort of reruns of events happened 10 years before ..

Coincidences ? .. maybe .. but not to those with conspiracy theories. Just look at the mainstream papers (which I'm not a fan) you just can't help to have the goosebump of reading the same kind of scenario years ago. Unity government ? Collapsing structures ? Party jumpers ? Death in custody ? Populist budget announcement ? Recycled government cabinet members ? .. just to name a few ..

As long as Malaysians don't do their homework .. we will stuck in the past for a very long time ..

WAKE UP PEOPLE !!

Royal Rumble ..

Yet another by-election is looming ..

But this time, it's right in the backyard of the opposition stronghold, namely PR's PAS & PKR. Smack in the middle of Anwar's outpost, BN will pull all stops to make sure it stamp its mark. This will include all the govt machineries + press mights. With the spats that was highlighted profusely by the not well "informed" journalists namely Utusan Malaysia & Berita Harian, they maybe got the upper hand. But still, PR got ammos of their own ..

Some of the high profile dirty laundries of BN was uncovered plus the rhetorics of races drummed up by the big wigs of UMNO, voters level mind & perceptions will be the order of the day ..

But a level battle field ? Only God's intervention will see the day .. with about 70% of Malay registered voters heart to be won .. it's gonna be helluva day of recounts & scars ..

Will the royals be taking sides ? That's another story ...

Come Play With Words ..

Nowadays, word games comes aplenty ..

We all thought after the public outcry for the Royal Committee (RC) for the mysterious demise of Teoh Beng Hock (TBH) in MACC hands, the govt. will set it up. Some may not realize that it was not what it seem to be as per announce.

Instead of the RC for the probe on the death, it was set up to look into MACC code of practice. For TBH probe, an inquest was annouce to look into it .. and will be head by a mere magistrate. What a croc ! I, for one, TRULY believe that THEY do HAVE something to HIDE. Why ? Because of ALL the nonsense excuses these SOBs been feeding us as if the Malaysians are nincompoops, and also THEY've been dragging their feet to act.

Guilty ? Cover-up ?

... and the plot thickens ...

Blinded By A Racist Mind ..

Reading an article of a Malay daily last weekend really made me sick in the stomach ..

Refer : http://www.bharian.com.my/Sunday/Rencana/20090719001247/Article/index_html

I just don't know whether this fella was really a senior journalist or just a plain ass-sucker who really took the BTN camp seriously .. to me he just a plain dumb-ass who took cheap shots at every opportunity arises to please his masters (.. extra dough maybe ..). Everyone knows it's a political matter whenever someone politically involved hit the headlines. And this fella still sing the race supremacy song .. off-key!

Come On!! Grow-up you fool .. we ARE all Malaysian of all races .. WE ARE NOT RACIST! STOP THE BULL AND FACE REALITY !

One thing for sure .. the dinosaur days are numbered ..

Money Still Don't Guarantee Anything ..

Manek Urai .. the aftermath ..

Even though PAS won with a wafer-thin margin, but that's not the whole story. Pointers from a blogger http://wandering-troubadour.blogspot.com/ shows quite an alarming picture of a desparate entity to hold on to power .. no matter what. An excerpt from the said article ..

" .. Armchair warriors who wrote comments on the Manik Urai by-election sitting comfortably from their study rooms based on information that they skimmed through the Internet at best hit the outer ring of the target if not missing hitting the board at all! It is interesting to note that many did simply just that -- write from afar basing their opinions on those who make a living on writing news.

I was there smack in the middle of the war, espionages and counter-strikes. And BN has never been dirtier.

The amount of money that changed hands with voters was simply unbelievably high that almost every household can have a one-month holiday to savour their fortune. Only the Almighty knows the extent of their guilt and no mortal soul can claim that what they did was immoral, as nobody knows who voted for whom, at least for most of us that is.

It is amazing what money can buy. Maybe RM50 per voter did not work anymore but RM500 hooked even the very hearts that loathe corruption. They reason in their heads that it was a gift and hence free from any sin whatsoever associated with it. It was a meagre sum to the haves but a windfall to the haves-not. For a household with three voters, they took home a month’s equivalent of a wage.

But in a climate of distrust alternative plans were laid in abundance. Coming from multiple sources, voters were spoilt for bounties. Some walked away with three sets of gifts each giving a person’s take-home present of RM1,500. All one had to do was to wait for the go-between to approach him or her. It was a case of supply outstripping demand.

Keeping people (read voters) at poverty level and on the brink of starvation almost always pays in the end. They can easily be bought. After all it is not often such a by-election comes their way. Opportunity comes-a-knocking, it is a gift from above.

RM500 per voter was at most RM5Million. Considering three sources each armed with RM10Million, a total of RM30Million were spent with RM15Million going directly to voters and the rest as usual fall off the gravy trains into the hands of local warlords ....."

Read the rest at http://wandering-troubadour.blogspot.com/2009/07/other-side-of-story.html

A Slave Right Till The End ..

Well .. Michael Jackson (MJ) .... is dead ..

With all the commotion circulating his demise .. and someone is making big bucks out of it .. not to forget rumours milling (and still does) surrounding his strange lifestyles .. one can not be overlooking his greatness in entertainment. For 40 over years of being in the business, he really do earned the tag - King of Pop. With all due respect, the world must recognize this achievement .. and rightly so .. they do.

But still I view him as a confused man, who were driven to the brink of madness by his surroundings. People whom he entrusted, people whom he adored & maybe people who he loved, never really do, really try to help him to keep his life on track. Right to the very end, I believe no one really put his mind in a real perspective .. just because he's the golden goose.

Whatever it is .. it's all over.

Rest In Peace MJ .. you deserves it .. the worlds madness is beyond you now ..

RM1 Million Is Peanuts ? ..

At times like now where people struggles for survival in our daily life, there are still some still oblivious of the situation ..

This particular report in the local daily caught my attention :

".. She said since Todt, who was appointed last month, was serving and promoting the country on a voluntary basis, it was only fair that the government covered his expenses.

“Just because he is volunteering his services, you cannot expect him to pay out of his own pocket.

“This budget is not for his personal use, it is for the expenses incurred when he meets top people from television and the media.

“Besides, RM1 million in Europe gets you nothing nowadays,” she said at the Parliament lobby..."

The ’she’ refered to here is a minister in charge of Tourism.

What an attitude. And the people she was trying to give our precious RM to are not those who were living in squatters, kampong houses even to the homeless (I consider those who rents are homeless .. don't get me wrong). They are jetsetters, celebraties, own an island .. Come on, in these hard times of economics & epidemic uncertainties .. we don't need to welcome the tourists excessively to the extend of bringing harm to ourselves and riches to those who already rich ! Try to be in the shoes of the common people. Try to look at your own face when you see your account balance of 1 digit in the bank .. every month. At the same time try to jostle yourself to get into the bus/LRT/komuter day in day out.

Then tell us, the common people .. do we deserve all that ? Or you just don't give a shit ?(no apologies neccessary)

Whole Lotta English For Math & Science ..

This issue to me .. was really close to the heart ..

Why ? Because my son was smack in the middle of it. So as for those whose child started primary six years ago. At that time, nobody really knew how it will turn out. I started to have doubt about it as soon as the teachers was struggling with the extensive courses to make them proficient enough to teach in English. The most struggling was Malay teachers who was caught off guard with the decision. But off they went .. with classes abandoned with other teachers struggling to reschedule their activities. It went on for quite some time ..

So, the teachers were back. But .. they still struggles with new vocabularies even to the extent that some of them never even heard of it before. So .. what did the children get ? Extra classes .. tuitions .. one-on-one teachers (some of them did make money out of it .. but that's another story). These children really on a lot of pressure (mostly suburbans) especially from the parents which was also on a lot of pressure (try to do math/science from their workbook then you'll know). The teachers was on the brink of frustration .. they were unprepared with these new kind of teaching approach, so .. they'll make do with what they know ..

So that's the cycle for our children & teachers as the guinea pigs for someone's half baked vision. But someone did laughed their way (all the way) to the bank at the expense of our future.

Daylight robbery .. is all I can say ..

English IS language ..

Language IS literature ..

Just keep it THAT way ..

Of Trojan Horse & Art Of War ..

The ante is UP ..

With their back against the wall, the powermonger is starting to use the oldest trick in the book .. state of confusion & trojan horses. With the unity talk was bloated up in the mainstream medias, they seems to have the upper hand. Those who were trapped with sweet talks & promises in the name of unity (I really want to believe those dumbos were duped .. alive) are lost for words & cracking their heads for excuses.

Well, fret not buddies .. damage has been done .. but not severe enuff to dampen the oncoming tsunami. Let this be a lesson for you guys not to underestimate a dying dinosaur .. they still have a lot of tricks left ..

Bolehland Turning To Confusedland ..

The drama now turns to a mediocre comedy series ..

With a whole lot of extras playing a lawyers & judges, the people now setting up the stage for the ultimate final act which will have a finale the most in 4 years. From the look of it, pacifying the masses will take the toll out of the present rhetoric system. With suspicious decisions, orders, statements even appointments .. who could blame the people.

It's either people's power .. or annihilation of the present with shame ... the signs are getting bigger & louder ..

Musical Chairs Anyone ? ..

Back to square one ..

Such a pity that the whole judicial institution was raped to the max. Such that it was ravaged to oblivion. A single junior judge to hear an appeal with such magnitude of impact to a state affair ? Come on .. give us a break .. Why it has to be so gulliable to the extend that it turns out to be a questionable verdict .. if you can call it a verdict ..

Most people had come to an agreement that the answer lies to the electorates of the Silver State. Why they chose to overlooked it ..

Phunked Out ? ..

Well 7th May come & go ..

After the dust was cleared, it looked like the evil had won. BUT was it ? I do believed by now the numbers have gone up by thousands & thousands of rejection to the "haram" govt. They loved to think that they have won. Well winning is everything for them anyway .. any which way .. but I do believe they won it by showing their true colors of greed & pea-brained senses.

Those who knows Sun Tzu's Art of War will have a big smile on their face. And I know the People will win BIG in the final act.

Have a good day ..

Circus Coming To Town .. Again ..

As expected, it was a disgrace ..

An outright misused of the security forces, the govt machinery and a waste of taxpayer money. Now the Siver State got 2 sets of everything. Funny though, the DUN seating was like a kindergarten, with the supposedly respected Legislatures acting like clowns and forced an unwanted govt down to the people's throat.

Bet they knew that their days as a "haram" govt are numbered. The people has awaken .. I bet N9 and Malacca are hanging by a thread right now ..

Impasse Coming To An End ?

7th May approaching FAST indeed ..

On that day we will see the true color of the Silver State, from the Ruler, the State Execs, the Legislatures and most importantly .. the People of Perak ! The men in red trucks was so busy nowadays practising some new stunts, the men in blue busy looking for excuses and PEKEMBAR will be busy looking for opportunity to discredit their opponent.

It'll be a heck of a day ..

Influenza A ? .. Swine Flu ? ..

Can't help but to have that conspiracy feeling ..

Of all the timing of an epidemic .. it had to be now. And the best part is (not a happy part) .. the stocks are going up again. Suddenly the greenback was appreciated again. The 3rd world ? Well .. we have to comply to the global market. All are scrambling for those flu shots. A mutating virus ? .. Or some unfortunate neighbour being an unwittingly involved as a guinea pig ..

Y'all also had that feeling huh ? ..