Keng Yaik Said, "Don't Bullshit The Rakyat...!"

At the opening of a conference after all the  pleasantries, Tun Dr Lim Keng Yaik  read a line which said that a programme his ministry had implemented had been received well by the rakyat. As soon as he finished the sentence, he blurted out the word "bullshit" which shocked the audience. 

He looked at senior ministry officials and asked "Who vetted this speech?" There was silence. He said, "I disagree; let's tell the truth and not put words into the rakyat's mouth."

                                          by S,Paul

Read more here. 

P/S: I believe the late Tun Dr.LKY was the only head of a party in BN who was not severely ridiculed by the rakyat. This speak volume of his calibre and integrity. He might have regretted chosen a successor who seem to have destroyed PGRM he built up over a long period of his stewardship.

Long Live The Fools...!

Can't agree much with the edited parts of this interesting article.

Edited from Tay Tian Yan's article.

Read more here.

Many think of themselves as being smart. Few would want to be seen as fools. 

Everyone wants to act smart for the sake of power, interests and influences; no one would act foolish because you are bound to lose in real-world if you do. 

Smart people know not how to draw a line between personal gains and public welfare, while a fool knows the boundaries between what is public and what if private. 

P/S: Just because they think they are smart people, they think the world owe them all and they can just wallop anything they want. Fools are looked upon as their servants and be humiliated.

Smart people will not mind sacrificing their beliefs and public well-being for their own gains, while a fool cares only about the nation and community, often at the expanse of their personal interests. 

The problem is, this world was created by a bunch of fools who cared not their own gains. They had dreams and aspirations, all geared towards the well-being of their communities and the world. 

Just because there are too many smart, calculative people around, dreams and aspirations have been smothered. Our environment will be a much better place if we have more fools than smart people.

Merry Christmas 2012

R.I.P Tun Dr Lim K.Y.

“We lost a great statesman. He was a Malaysian-minded leader. I can still remember this quote he used to tell me: 

The day when the Chinese accepts an Indian leader or the Malays accept a Chinese or Indian leader, then this country will be truly Malaysian.” 

Penang Progressive People’s Party chairman, 

Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan.

Read more here and here.

Future Impossible Tense...?

DAP Delegates Do Not Walk The Talk...!

All eight DAP Malay leaders lose badly in CEC polls

GEORGE TOWN: All eight Malay DAP leaders who contested for central executive committee (CEC) posts lost badly at 16th DAP Congress here.

The results show that the party, dominated by the Chinese, does not make room for Malay candidates including Zairil Khir Johari who served as political secretary to DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng. Zairil only received 305 votes while his boss, Lim garnered 1,576 votes. 

A total of 1,823 delegates voted to choose 20 DAP leaders for the 2012-2015 term. The other Malay candidates who lost were Penang DAP committee member Zulkifli Mohd Noor (216 votes), Senator Ariffin SM Omar (748), Johor DAP vice-chairman Ahmad Ton (347 votes), Pahang DAP deputy chairman Tengku Zulpuri Shah Raja Puji (121), Desa Manjung DAP branch chairman Solaiman Op Syed Ibrahim (98), Roseli Abdul Ghani (39) and Harun Ahmad (28).

Zulkifli Mohd Noor, one of the DAP Malay candidates said he fought for 25 years for the Malays to be elected as CEC members but failed. "When we say 'Malaysian Malaysia,' we must represent all religions, all races...balance. The message I conveyed did not reached the grassroots. They are still choosing leaders based on race," he told Bernama.

He said that the election was also not based on ability and experience of the candidates in fighting for the party.

"There is no change. The results is a setback for Malay candidates. Perhaps the top leaders who contested want to take care of their own interests, not the party's interests." - BERNAMA 

Read more here.

P/S: Disappointed with the delegates who did not take the opportunity to put the thing right. As expected The Star, MCA controlled news organ has blasted it first salvo with this report. Soon that infamous big-mouth 'crazy' fellow will make his present with his crazy remarks which is really hurting, perhaps not you but me and all those who do not agree with the way you voted in your leaders.

DAP delegates, you have given away the bullets for 'these people' to shoot at you and your partners in PR and we the non-ketuanan. Surely a few thousand votes will swing back to the other side, then bye bye Putrajaya.

It does not matter whether the above report is correct or distorted, the reality is DAP's delegates themselves are practicing their kind of 'ketuanan' and arrogance.  

Do not blast the other side of their arrogance, ketuanan, 1Malaysia blah..blah..blah when you are also practicing such behaviour! What Middle Malaysia when you cannot accommodate others who you arrogantly think you are superior than them thus you think you have the right to monopolies everything.

Please walk the talk that you are a multiracial party and practicing Middle Malaysia..!  Do not say the other side is racist when you also have it.

Tidak Perlu Risau - Keistimewaan Orang Melayu Tidak Boleh Dipinda Tanpa Perkenan Raja

Ini kerana Perkara 153 (mengenai kedudukan dan keistimewaan orang Melayu, Bumiputera serta juga hak kaum-kaum lain) dalam Perlembagaan Malaysia itu tidak boleh dipinda tanpa perkenan Majlis Raja-raja Melayu walaupun mendapat undian dua pertiga di parlimen.

Demikian menurut pakar perlembagaan, Dr Abdul Aziz Bari.

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Interesting Story About Nutmeg - Buah Pala

Nutmeg: A Spice with a Secret That Isn’t So Nice

• by Jan Cho

It’s a spice whose aroma evokes warm memories of the holidays for many — baked into pumpkin pies, kneaded into sausages and sprinkled atop mugs of eggnog. It has a pungent, earthy and slightly sweet taste, making it versatile for use in a variety of foods and beverages. You can find it just about anywhere these days and especially this time of year. But that wasn’t always the case, as Allison Aubrey of NPR recently reminded us.

Until the 18th and 19th centuries, nutmeg was a lot harder to come by. Indigenous to the Banda islands, part of the Moluccas (the Spice Islands) of Indonesia, this was also once the only place in the world that nutmeg grew. And once European spice traders learned of its existence, they began to battle for exclusive rights to the spice.

In the early 17th century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) seized the islands from the Portuguese and moved to monopolize the trade with what Oliver Thring, writing for the Guardian, described as “paranoid brutality, banning the export of the trees, drenching every nutmeg in lime before shipping to render it infertile, and imposing the death penalty on anyone suspected of stealing, growing or selling nutmegs elsewhere.” The Dutch, in fact, perpetrated a massacre.

When some native islanders dared protest, the head of the VOC “ordered the systematic quartering and beheading of every Bandanese male over the age of 15. The population of the Banda islands was around 15,000 when the VOC arrived. 15 years later, it was 600.” An entire population decimated, and for what? A bit of flavoring for food?

Nutmeg wasn’t just a spice, though. It was also used as an incense as well as a medicine that was supposed to cure stomach ailments, headaches and fever. It was even thought to ward off plague. At one point in the 1300s, a pound of nutmeg cost seven fattened oxen.

At any rate, the Dutch clearly wanted the monopoly on nutmeg, which it just about had but for one nutmeg-producing island held by the British, called Run. After decades of skirmishes, the two companies agreed to a swap in the mid-17th century. In handing over Run to the Dutch, the British got a trading post out west that we now know as Manhattan.

In 1769, a French horticulturist named Pierre Poivre managed to smuggle some nutmeg from the Banda islands to Mauritius, ending the Dutch monopoly at last. The British East India Company brought the tree to Penang, Singapore, India, the West Indies and Grenada, which is now the second largest producer of nutmeg.

What people do for food — or, I should say, what people do to make money on food. To a degree, the Dutch East India Company is not unlike today’s food corporations, whose pursuit of profits comes at considerable cost to people and planet. But the story of nutmeg has come a long way. As sordid as it once was, today there’s a nostalgia for nutmeg as a spice for the holidays, and we might as well enjoy it.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/nutmeg-a-spice-with-a-secret-that-isnt-so-nice.html#ixzz2EtuR95Yy

Aduh....Jatuh Lagi....Nape...?

Malaysia edging to bottom in maths and science, survey shows

December 12, 2012

Malaysia has consistently underperformed over the past

three TIMSS assessments.

 

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 12 ― Malaysian students trail their global peers in mathematics and science tests, according to the results of two international benchmarking studies released yesterday, with secondary schoolers also showing a decline from their predecessors.

 

Malaysians scored an average 440 points in mathematics in Form Two ― the equivalent to eighth grade worldwide ― in the latest Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2011, lagging behind Korea, Singapore, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong and Japan, which occupied the top five spots worldwide.

Malaysian 14-year-olds performed worse than their counterparts in Israel who chalked up 516 points, Lithuania (502) and Lebanon (449), but beat neighbouring Thailand, which scored 427 points on tests by a narrow margin.

In science, Malaysians scored 426 points, tying with Syria and just pipping Palestine, Georgia and Oman, which totted up 420 points each in the tests.They were bested by top scorer Singapore (590), Chinese Taipei (564), Korea (560), Japan (558), Israel (516), Kazakhstan (490) and Thailand (451). 

The average score in the TIMSS is benchmarked at 500 points, with countries scoring above that considered to have improved their performance in the two subjects while those falling below that mark are regarded as underperformers.

TIMSS is a four-year global assessment of the mathematics and science knowledge of fourth and eighth graders worldwide, or Standard Four and Form Two according to Malaysia’s education system.

However, Malaysian students were graded only at the secondary level in the survey.

The TIMSS showed that Malaysia has consistently underperformed over the past three assessments in the two subjects considered necessary in the country’s race to break into the ranks of high-income nations.

In 2007, the average Malaysian 14-year-old scored 474 points in mathematics and 471 points in science in the TIMSS survey. And in 1999, the average score for mathematics stood at 519 points and 492 points for science. 

Education lobbyists, including the Parent Action Group for Education (PAGE), have blamed the government’s flip-flopping education policies ― especially in the teaching of mathematics and science ― for the drop in education standards.

The government recently launched the National Education Blueprint 2013-2025 with the aim to be in the top third of the Programme For International Student Assessment (PISA) test within the next 13 years.

The country is currently ranked in the bottom third. But in its recent Budget 2013, the Barison Nasional (BN) government also slashed its education allocation from RM50 billion in the last budget, to RM38.7 billion, raising doubts about the ability of the educational blueprint in addressing the nation’s flagging education standards. 

Analysts have also suggested that Malaysia’s aim of boosting its education standards through an ambitious overhaul of the national school system will not happen as long as politicians continue to be involved in drawing up its policies.

Read more here.

Sistem Sangat Pelik...?

...Kadangkala penjawat awam tidak naik pangkat kerana mereka baik. Itu sebabnya ramai pegawai yang kotor imejnya sekarang naik pangkat setiap tahun atau dua tiga tahun sekali. Dalam sistem di negara ini yang sangat pelik ialah, yang buruk perangai itu kekal dan naik pangkat dengan cepat.

Aspan Alias

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One Chosen By God...!

“there are those who have recently claimed that they are the chosen people, and that their party has been chosen by God to rule the country”.

P/S:  Sound like a Zionist doctrine....that many at the first opportunity would use it to bash the Jews. And now the one who is politically known to use this opportunity is saying his party is also like the Jews, the one which is chosen by God...

OMG... You are the best cover use by those self proclaimed righteous to disguise themself.

"Dallas' J.R. (my most hated villian but loved) Is Dead

Larry Hagman (J.R. Ewing) is dead 

Larry Hagman, who created one of American television's most supreme villains in the conniving, amoral oilman J.R. Ewing of "Dallas," died on Friday, the Dallas Morning News reported. He was 81.

Hagman died at a Dallas hospital of complications from his battle with throat cancer, the newspaper said, quoting a statement from his family. He had suffered from liver cancer and cirrhosis of the liver in the 1990s after decades of drinking.

Hagman's mother was stage and movie star Mary Martin and he became a star himself in 1965 on "I Dream of Jeannie," a popular television sitcom in which he played Major Anthony Nelson, an astronaut who discovers a beautiful genie in a bottle.

"Dallas," which made its premiere on the CBS network in 1978, made Hagman a superstar. The show quickly became one of the network's top-rated programs, built an international following and inspired a spin-off, imitators and a revival in 2012.

R.I.P Mr. Hagman.

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Racism Is A Devil - Fifa Boss

GENEVA, Nov 21 ― FIFA president Sepp Blatter has described racism in football as “a devil.”

In an interview with the London Evening Standard yesterday, he again underlined his stance on racism, saying a simple handshake was not enough.

“What you can do by a handshake is try to make peace. You cannot eradicate racism by a handshake. To eradicate this devil is an educational problem. The problem is, if the school is not educating, if the family is no longer educating, sport must educate. But sport cannot do everything.”

Chelsea captain John Terry was given a four-match ban by the FA for racially insulting Queen Park Rangers defender Anton Ferdinand although he was cleared of racism in the courts in July after the saga had dragged on for a year. Blatter said the whole process had taken too long.

“The Terry affair should have been handled much quicker. Such matters should be dealt with as soon as possible, especially when players are concerned. Our sports authorities should deal with these matters directly. If afterwards the political authorities also intervene because they think it a very important case, that is up to them.”

“But to wait until the political authorities intervene and then take a decision on the sporting side, this is not the right procedure.”

Read more here.

P/S:  So when someone higher up mentioned "better to have a devil we know..." does it refers to a racist power that be?

Sapu Tanah Rakyat ...??

"....  fought for independence... So what's wrong with .... taking those land" 

Tony Pua's Twitter

SHAH ALAM 20 NOV : Kes pemilikan tanah di Selangor oleh .... akan dilaporkan kepada Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) dan Polis Diraja Malaysia (PDRM) kerana didakwa terdapat penyalahgunaan kuasa.

Ia melibatkan .... di mana .... tersebut hanya dikenakan bayaran premium RM 1 satu meter persegi.

Katanya, semua kawasan tersebut melibatkan nilai lebih RM 20 juta dengan saiz setiap lot antara satu hingga tujuh ekar yang mana .... menerima 14 kawasan, ... (lima), ... (tiga) dan ....... (satu).

“Semua 23 kawasan tanah ini adalah tanah dengan nilai tinggi iaitu tanah komersial.

“Semua kegunaan untuk perniagaan seperti rumah kedai dan bangunan perniagaan. Bila mereka dapat tanah ini mereka akan buat usahasama dengan mereka dapat dana keuntungan,” dakwanya lagi.

“Inilah antara contoh dan wajah sebenar ...... tetapi hakikatnya mereka ialah pihak yang Sapu Tanah Rakyat.

“Rakyat didahulukan tetapi dalam kontek ini merekalah yang didahulukan.”

Read more here.

Paradoks Perkauman Di Restoran Mamak

oleh Zulhabri Supian

 

... restoran mamak menyerlahkan sisi negatif masyarakat kita yang terpecah belah mengikut bangsa dan juga bahasa percakapan. Meskipun kemajmukan Malaysia dapat dilihat di mamak, namun sangat menyedihkan tiada interaksi bermakna di kalangan bangsa yang berbeza. Jika di satu meja terdiri dari pelbagai bangsa, seringkali pandangan-pandangan yang terlihat hairan akan kelihatan.

Paradoks “kemajmukan” di mamak yang sangat menghiris adalah kebiasaan untuk mengutuk bangsa lain walaupun jarak meja di antara satu sama lain tidak terlalu jauh. Perkauman di meja makan yang sering dipraktikkan di rumah keluarga dipindahkan ke meja makan mamak. Restoran mamak berubah menjadi wahana penyebaran kebencian dan prejudis ala Malaysia iaitu secara aman tanpa pergaduhan dan pertumpahan darah...

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P/S: Satu pandangan dari pemerhatian penulis yang tidak dapat dinafikan. Adakah situasi ini akan berterusan tanpa sebarang tindakan pembetulan dari semua pihak khasnya pemerintah sehingga negara hancur kerana 'ketamakan dalam pemburuan kuasa' dan 'kelazatan dunia' oleh semua pihak yang berwajib ...

Salam Maal Hijrah 1434H

                   Wish All Readers

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A Chinese Education Minister...???

Am I dreaming....?

Kucing dah bertanduk ke....?

But... perhaps possible... just for a short period ... prior to GE13 only...!!

Anyway, what's different if the role is just like the leaders of the Money Collecting Agency to decieve the community.

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Selamat Deepavali

Deepavali adalah satu perayaan yang mengingatkan kita pihak baik akan mengalahkan pihak jahat. Oleh itu, saya percaya kita yang membawa perubahan dan kebahagian kepada rakyat akan mengalahkan pihak jahat dalam pilihanraya akan datang. 

Tan Sri Abdul Khlaid Ibrahim,

Menteri Besar Selangor

Don't Bully Others With Your Advantages..!

A very good real example - Never try to bully others with your advantages, soon the bullied would stand up to 'turn the table' to eliminate your threat and become better than you..!

Jangan riak dan mengugut dengan kelebihan dan kekuatan kamu, nescaya yang diugut akan bangun untuk menangkis ugutan kamu malah menjadi lebih kuat dari kamu..!

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Can't Understand This, Do You?

One commentator from a popular local blog has written this:  Money Collecting Agency  belongs to D_ _s as most of them are liars and cheaters and porn star leaders? They are more interested in WWW 15, AES, money-making in PKFZ, Australian PR, Porn Actor, Swindles, enriching themselves and family, etc etc...

Read more here.

What is this???

P/S: Don't they like to 'buy' the TanSeli, LatukSeli, LatukBaluka, Latuk...blah blah blah... too? And then they or cronies pay or collect a huge sum  of money to advertise their newly acquired titles in the papers for few weeks...! Later they take their titles as symbols and to be treated as 'feudal lords' in their community...!

Change...?

A new coalition government was sworn in the Netherlands on 5 November 2012 after the Dutch  opted for changes to give the new coalition to win the election on 12 September 2012.  Read more here. 

And the Americans have retained President Obama for another term of four years yesterday 6 November 2012 to carry out the changes he promised four years ago prior to his first election win.

What about us? Are we going to make the changes too at Putrajaya and to retain the new state governments elected for the first time in 2008 to continue with their proven good work?

Debt Soars...

Government debt soars and to touch RM502 billion 

or 53.7% of the GDP at the end of the year.

This is not a main-main situation...!

Read more here.

He Who Knows All

God knows all, 
Therefore He will take action, 
Not you, me nor anyone else,
What so the power crazy ruler.

Why Listen To Elders

What's Ego...!

The Cinakui...!

Edited from here.

.....

This brings us back to the subject of stereotyping all Chinese as being racist, which I believe is more cultural than actual racism. 

To the Chinese, anything they find repulsive will constitute name-calling, which bring us to Chinese against Chinese.

Insults swirl as Hong Kong Chinese called mainland Chinese locusts and complained that mainland tourists bring their less-than-refined social habits and women on the verge of childbirth into the territory. 

The Hong Kongers only want their bulging wallets but not their fetishistic bad manners.

The common Chinese term for anyone not Chinese is kui,  the lesser beings to the Chinese eyes. No other races are spared from the kui, including the kwailos that once ruled Hong Kong from 1841 to 1997 and one that have taught social finesse to the Hong Kong Chinese, who now feel, theirs, are of superior culture than the nouveau riche mainland Chinese.
 

P/S: What to deny when it's a fact! The most interesting part is the Chinese fight Chinese....

Grateful To Whom?

Specially to government monetary or award recipients 

Answer:  

 Rakyat!

Why?

The nation's wealth and resources are shared by all the rakyat.

The government of the day is elected by the rakyat to represent them to run the government.

The rakyat pay income tax and all the other taxes imposed by the government of the day.

The government of the day is responsible and to serve the rakyat.

The rakyat has the power to kick out the government of the day which failed to run the government according to the supreme rules of the nation - the Constitution, at most every 5 years.

Secrets of Living to 100

1.  Do your own house and yard work, go up and down your stairs with your laundry, knead your own dough. Incorporate more movement every hour. 

2.  Know your purpose. Take time to recognize your values, strengths, talents, passions and gifts. Reflect, and work on yourself. 

3.  Down shift. Relieve chronic stress by finding time each day to nap, meditate or pray. 

4.  The 80% rule. Cut 20 percent of your daily calories with proven healthy practices: Eat a big breakfast, dine with your family, and begin each meal by expressing appreciation. 

5.  Plant slant. Eat mostly plant-based foods, and small portions of meat no more than twice a week. 

6.  Family first. Living in a loving, thriving family can add up to six years to your life. Work on a positive, committed relationship and stay close to your aging parents and grandparents. 

7.  Belong. Those with the most social connectedness tend to live longer. Be part of a group of healthy-minded, supportive people. 

8.  Right tribe. Good friends have a positive effect on your longevity. Support them and adopt healthy behaviors together. 

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Lidah Bercabang

..... Lidah Bercabang Orang Politik .....

 Apa benda ini.....?

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Devils or Angels!

Better to have DEVILS we know or ANGELS we don't?

Devils - are those who always have evil intention and do bad things, that's why they are called devils!  And because we know they are evils that's why we labelled them devils! Then what better do we need them?

Angels - are those who we believe will do good things even we don't know who they are. That's why they are called angels, if not then they are devils too!

Who you prefer...?  Devils you know or Angels you don't!