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)