Seriously, I burst out laughing. I couldn't help it. I mean, I was in a mamak shop, with Jaden, and there were loads of other people around also, but i just couldn't help it. The headline of The SUN cracked me up and I burst into fits of laughter.
NAJIB: I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT!!
That was the headline.
Duh! What, were you really expecting him to say anything other than that? Lets just imagine for a minute that he had in fact said something else....
S (strinie): Dato', there have been rumors saying you know about the most recent allegations concerning Anwar Ibrahim (AI). Any comment?
DSN (Dato' Seri Najib): You mean the allegations of main belakang? It wasn't a surprise to me la.
S: You mean you knew about it?
DSN: Of course la I know about it, I am the Deputy Prime Minister... Everything also I must know, otherwise cannot survive la.
S: In that case, Dato', is there any truth behind the allegations? Is AI really into that kind of sexual activity?
DSN: I don't know la, I know my wife tak suka kalu saya nak try ngan dia. That one, you kena ask his wife la. But no, the allegations I know is not true punya... Macam last time also same, we just bikin cerita, bagi sedap sikit, rakyat also will believe...
S: But repeating the sodomy allegation again, Dato', aren't you worried this time the rakyat won't believe it?
DSN: Maybe, but maybe they also still believe. But tak apa, tak jadi masalah. I am the DPM, this is our government. Kita yang run the country, so kita boleh make the arrangements. Just put in the main papers and tv and repeat a few days or weeks, the rakyat can believe it.
S: But aren't the rakyat relying more on the internet for their news nowadays?
DSN: That one only in KL, Penang, Ipoh, JB, Kuantan, big cities only. The makcik and pakcik still believe the normal newspapers. For them, they will see the paper and the news about Anwar, and it is enough for them. Even if there is no court case ke, no evidence ke, apa pun takpe juga, the makcik and pakcik won't vote for him anymore because he main belakang....hehe...
S: But in the event there is a court case, don't you think it will be difficult to convict AI again for something that the court has already overturned?
DSN: Overturn, convict, evidence, judge, AG, is all belongs to the government la... So difficult for you to understand? We put our man to make the report, we put our man to investigate the report, we put our man to take action on the investigation, we put our man to charge in court, then our man is the judge also, how can the case be lost?
S: In other words, Dato', can you confirm that you and your government have everything to do with this allegations?
DSN: Of course! This was planned by us and done by us, so how can we say we don't know or don't have anything to do with it? That would be lying wouldn't it? Any you all know that the BN government doesn't lie to the rakyat.
S: Thank you, Dato' Seri.
This would have been one heck of a newspaper report wouldn't it? I don't know, we'll never know. What I do know is it wouldn't have made me laugh so much....
ps. the above is entirely a figment of my imagination and never transpired in actual fact.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Evil Spirits
I'm not so keen into numerology or name-orology or astrology, but I don't have any bones to pick with those who do. It's just that our Prime Minister's name struck me as something that is a bad omen....
Bad-Awi as a name probably has got some deep meaning in the Hadharic version of Islam, but if you mix a little bit of English and Tamil, the name means bad or evil spirit
Awi means spirit in Tamil so if you read his in tamil it would read "ketta aawi" which means evil spirit....
Bad-Awi as a name probably has got some deep meaning in the Hadharic version of Islam, but if you mix a little bit of English and Tamil, the name means bad or evil spirit
Awi means spirit in Tamil so if you read his in tamil it would read "ketta aawi" which means evil spirit....
Cravings
What goes around certainly does come back around doesn't it? Or would you prefer to say history has a knack of repeating itself? Aww heck, for the fun of it, why don't we just say that the "Bhai Style" is back in vogue again? Yeah....our political bigwigs are back at it again. They're taking the phrase "I'm gonna get your ass for this" to a new (ok, maybe not so new) and downright ludicrous level.
Oh no, not again, please.... Why are our politicians so unnaturally (or naturally) attracted to an act that is deemed unnatural by our law? What is it about Sodomy that gets our politicians' knickers in tight knots? Is that the easiest crime to charge someone with? Or is it a crime that effectively kills two birds with one stone? Makes the accused a criminal, because it is a crime in Malaysian law, and also makes the accused an outcast among the ordinary folk - waah...dia nie suka main belakang orang tau, jaga-jaga ngan dia, jangan toleh belakang atau bend-down depan dia....
I can't help but be amazed with the timing of the accusations man... Raja Petra says he was on the brink of receiving some damaging info from Anwar when this happens. The shock waves from the SD of last week hasn't abated much either. So is this a diversionary measure or a way of telling Anwar we can get your ass anytime we want to?
Then we have our flip-flop PM. Allow me to digress here a bit. Flip-flop in itself carries an image of inconsistency, doesn't it? So in the case of our PM, who's so consistent in his inconsistency (flip-flops), can we still address him as Mr Flip-flop? Just something to chew on...
Anyway, back to PM Badawi. According to him and his extensive knowledge of the law and how it works, together with his knowledge of Human Psychology, when someone is accused, he or she will definitely deny it. Here he was obviously referring to Anwar. Anwar has been accused, so he will definitely deny it. If this is his flop, then his flip must have been when he came to the defense of his deputy last week when the deputy was accused of being involved in the murder of Altantuya Shaariibu. When Badawi's deputy was accused, not only the deputy, but Badawi himself, his son-in-law, the Attorney General all jumped to his defense.
Anyway, I'm going to stop here for definitely there's more to crawl out from the cracks (not butt cracks) of this story...
Oh...and if you're wondering the connection between the title and the post, it's a 10 year old inside joke in Malaysia. What is the most famous mee (rice noodle) in Malaysia? Sodo-mee. And right now I am very hungry and am craving for, you guessed it, some Sodo-mee...
Oh no, not again, please.... Why are our politicians so unnaturally (or naturally) attracted to an act that is deemed unnatural by our law? What is it about Sodomy that gets our politicians' knickers in tight knots? Is that the easiest crime to charge someone with? Or is it a crime that effectively kills two birds with one stone? Makes the accused a criminal, because it is a crime in Malaysian law, and also makes the accused an outcast among the ordinary folk - waah...dia nie suka main belakang orang tau, jaga-jaga ngan dia, jangan toleh belakang atau bend-down depan dia....
I can't help but be amazed with the timing of the accusations man... Raja Petra says he was on the brink of receiving some damaging info from Anwar when this happens. The shock waves from the SD of last week hasn't abated much either. So is this a diversionary measure or a way of telling Anwar we can get your ass anytime we want to?
Then we have our flip-flop PM. Allow me to digress here a bit. Flip-flop in itself carries an image of inconsistency, doesn't it? So in the case of our PM, who's so consistent in his inconsistency (flip-flops), can we still address him as Mr Flip-flop? Just something to chew on...
Anyway, back to PM Badawi. According to him and his extensive knowledge of the law and how it works, together with his knowledge of Human Psychology, when someone is accused, he or she will definitely deny it. Here he was obviously referring to Anwar. Anwar has been accused, so he will definitely deny it. If this is his flop, then his flip must have been when he came to the defense of his deputy last week when the deputy was accused of being involved in the murder of Altantuya Shaariibu. When Badawi's deputy was accused, not only the deputy, but Badawi himself, his son-in-law, the Attorney General all jumped to his defense.
Anyway, I'm going to stop here for definitely there's more to crawl out from the cracks (not butt cracks) of this story...
Oh...and if you're wondering the connection between the title and the post, it's a 10 year old inside joke in Malaysia. What is the most famous mee (rice noodle) in Malaysia? Sodo-mee. And right now I am very hungry and am craving for, you guessed it, some Sodo-mee...
Friday, June 6, 2008
Reverse the Burden
The petrol price increase has spawned lots of interesting and eye-catching feedback, hasn't it? From right here in cyber-space to the sms columns of the newspapers and even the main columns and comments, there have been angry responses, angrier responses, and even more angry responses. The common theme among most of the response has been the anger, hasn't it?
No one can blame us folks for venting our anger out now, can they? I mean, on one hand we have to deal with the increase. Then we also have to deal with the inconsistencies of our government in relationship to the price increase. It's like that popular song "Jenny", where the words go something like, First you say you won't, Then you say you will, .... Jenny, what's the problem?
The quantum of increase is also something that we ordinary joes got to worry about. An increase of 78.4 cents (NOT 78 cents as announced by Badawi) per liter is no small or laughing matter to us ordinary joes. Believe me, or if you don't believe me, read my previous posting of an anonymous letter from cyberspace.
Then as if to compound our misery further, every sole trader, partnership, enterprise, sdn. bhd.co, bhd co, legal or illegal company will try to pass on the cost of the increasing prices to us, the unfortunate consumer.
So not only do we have to suffer the increase in price, but to cushion these business folk, we have to suffer the increase in price for them as well. What can we do? They have all of us by the balls. We need to cook and feed the kids, right? The gas man is going to increase the price because he can't sustain. The market guy is going to sell his greens for higher because he can't sustain.
I read in one of the comments in MT earlier that a school bus driver already asked for RM 9 more from each parent saying, yup you guessed it, I can't sustain. And it's been hardly two days since the announcement.
Today's papers quote some Datuk OK Lee as saying that manufacturers will definitely pass the cost on to the consumer because otherwise they won't be able to sustain and will have to go out of business.
So every fellow out there who has got something to sell is going to raise his selling price to the end consumer because he or she cannot sustain his or her business. And where does the end consumer go for recourse? Work overtime? Get a second job? Sell the car? Sell the house? Sell the kids? Heck, why don't you just sell yourself? I'm sure there're folks out there who'd pay good money for virgin arses.
Why can't these businesses sustain themselves? What is wrong with their fundamentals? Aren't they prepared for the uncertainties that come together with being in business? As far as I know, the only businesses that are financially risk free are if you run a brothel or a religious centre (Wow, imagine that).
These business owners should realize that they are punishing the wrong folk by increasing their prices and squeezing the ordinary folk. They should hit out at the government for this, not their customers.
Let me make a suggestion to you business folk out there. I don't care if you're a stall selling sweets in the pasar malam, or you're a giant cement producing corporation, this suggestion is for you. Instead of passing on the increased cost of operating to your customers, why don't you pass it on to the government instead for a change?
How? Simple, don't increase your prices. Sell at the same current prices. Your profits will go down, you say? How much has it gone down? If it went down by 50,000 ringgit, deduct 50,000 ringgit from the amount you need to pay the government in your end of year taxes. See how they like it then. Yeah, but it's illegal, you say? Well anything that brings about good for the people can't be all that bad can it? And anyway, the government's not going to become bankrupt by this as they are saving roughly 15 billion ringgit right?
Well, there you have it... Now do I see any corporation or business entity brave or selfless enough to take the first step towards this? Or is the plight of the ordinary people as important to you as it is to our government?
No one can blame us folks for venting our anger out now, can they? I mean, on one hand we have to deal with the increase. Then we also have to deal with the inconsistencies of our government in relationship to the price increase. It's like that popular song "Jenny", where the words go something like, First you say you won't, Then you say you will, .... Jenny, what's the problem?
The quantum of increase is also something that we ordinary joes got to worry about. An increase of 78.4 cents (NOT 78 cents as announced by Badawi) per liter is no small or laughing matter to us ordinary joes. Believe me, or if you don't believe me, read my previous posting of an anonymous letter from cyberspace.
Then as if to compound our misery further, every sole trader, partnership, enterprise, sdn. bhd.co, bhd co, legal or illegal company will try to pass on the cost of the increasing prices to us, the unfortunate consumer.
So not only do we have to suffer the increase in price, but to cushion these business folk, we have to suffer the increase in price for them as well. What can we do? They have all of us by the balls. We need to cook and feed the kids, right? The gas man is going to increase the price because he can't sustain. The market guy is going to sell his greens for higher because he can't sustain.
I read in one of the comments in MT earlier that a school bus driver already asked for RM 9 more from each parent saying, yup you guessed it, I can't sustain. And it's been hardly two days since the announcement.
Today's papers quote some Datuk OK Lee as saying that manufacturers will definitely pass the cost on to the consumer because otherwise they won't be able to sustain and will have to go out of business.
So every fellow out there who has got something to sell is going to raise his selling price to the end consumer because he or she cannot sustain his or her business. And where does the end consumer go for recourse? Work overtime? Get a second job? Sell the car? Sell the house? Sell the kids? Heck, why don't you just sell yourself? I'm sure there're folks out there who'd pay good money for virgin arses.
Why can't these businesses sustain themselves? What is wrong with their fundamentals? Aren't they prepared for the uncertainties that come together with being in business? As far as I know, the only businesses that are financially risk free are if you run a brothel or a religious centre (Wow, imagine that).
These business owners should realize that they are punishing the wrong folk by increasing their prices and squeezing the ordinary folk. They should hit out at the government for this, not their customers.
Let me make a suggestion to you business folk out there. I don't care if you're a stall selling sweets in the pasar malam, or you're a giant cement producing corporation, this suggestion is for you. Instead of passing on the increased cost of operating to your customers, why don't you pass it on to the government instead for a change?
How? Simple, don't increase your prices. Sell at the same current prices. Your profits will go down, you say? How much has it gone down? If it went down by 50,000 ringgit, deduct 50,000 ringgit from the amount you need to pay the government in your end of year taxes. See how they like it then. Yeah, but it's illegal, you say? Well anything that brings about good for the people can't be all that bad can it? And anyway, the government's not going to become bankrupt by this as they are saving roughly 15 billion ringgit right?
Well, there you have it... Now do I see any corporation or business entity brave or selfless enough to take the first step towards this? Or is the plight of the ordinary people as important to you as it is to our government?
Thursday, June 5, 2008
Open Letter
An angry rant from a Malaysian at the complete and utter ineptitude of our government leaders in utilising the resources available to this rich land. An open letter to our Prime Minister.....
Dearest Prime Minister...FUCK YOU!!
I'm fuckin' pissed. Like REALLY motherfuckin' FUCK YOU BASTARD sort of pissed, you backwater retard.
Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin' snarl watchin' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.
Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Cibai.
How, you ask? Shut the fuck up and listen.
It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a standstill. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck no.
Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.
We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have mega criss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which"supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of Klang Valley.
But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY.
Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.
Fuck all the talk about "winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.
So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is ... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from 12am midnight, petrol prices will increase to RM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. Only days ago the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike. But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day. If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.
FUCK THE PETROL HIKE. Unfuckinbelievable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.
Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.
But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40cents a litre over there. We're a fuckin nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!! And yet we're saying we can't do a thing. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!
Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback on the kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.
This is what happens when you take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top posts in the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the food chain.
This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol. CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.
FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.
YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore. GET THE FUCK OUT.
Now I wonder how if possible I can get the Prime Minister to read this.
Note - I do not take credit for writing this letter. Came upon it in cyberspace and felt it had to be shared with as many people as possible.
Dearest Prime Minister...FUCK YOU!!
I'm fuckin' pissed. Like REALLY motherfuckin' FUCK YOU BASTARD sort of pissed, you backwater retard.
Today I spent 2 hours caught in a fuckin' traffic jam coming back from work. As I sat in the fuckin' snarl watchin' the faces of other drivers who looked like they were ready to break stuff, I realised that how every single fuckin' thing that went wrong today all points at you.
Like a fuckin' Night Shymalan movie or finale of LOST, everything is related and all dots connect to spell a FUCK YOU BN. Cibai.
How, you ask? Shut the fuck up and listen.
It rained today. REALLY heavy. As a result, all roads in Kuala Lumpur came to a standstill. Why? Is it because all cars in the capital of Malaysia is made out of paper and will disintegrate in the rain? Fuck no.
Everything came to a halt because any downpour more than 15 minutes causes "flash floods" in the most traffic-heavy parts of the city. As fast as money disappears under Khir Toyo's administration, water levels will rise whenever it pours in KL. Causing many parts of the big city to become inaccessible. And jammed. Filled with angry motorists and stranded commuters.
We have a SMART Tunnel. Which "supposedly" helps to drain water out during floods. We have public transportation. Which "supposedly" means less vehicles on the road. We have mega criss-crossing highways littered with toll booths. Which"supposedly" provides easy access to different parts of Klang Valley.
But that's all our country is good for. Launching something and letting monkeys run it. NONE OF THOSE FUCKING THINGS WORK PROPERLY.
Simply put, heavy rains are beyond our control. How we deal with it is not. Or shouldn't be.
Fuck all the talk about "winning the 5 States back" when you can't even address the problems blowing up in your own backyard one by fucking one.
So with the fucking rain causing enough havoc as it is ... then came the fuckin' announcement that effective from 12am midnight, petrol prices will increase to RM2.70 a litre from RM1.92.
WHAT A FUCKING JOKE. Only days ago the PM's office gave a press statement saying the prices will increase by August. PM himself said before earlier this year that there won't be a price hike. But I guess we all know this is the same guy who CONVINCINGLY DECLARED on Tuesday that Parliament won't be dissolved on Wednesday when it actually did came the day. If he was Pinocchio he could represent Malaysia in pole vaulting in Beijing using his blower only.
FUCK THE PETROL HIKE. Unfuckinbelievable jam is but the beginning. Inflation is bound to hit hard at everyone's pockets.
Granted the price of oil is escalating globally. Granted the American economy crisis is having some spillover effect to world economics.
But we're a FUCKING PETROL PRODUING NATION!!! Like Saudi. It's 40cents a litre over there. We're a fuckin nation that produces motherfuckin' oil. OIL!! And yet we're saying we can't do a thing. Simple economics dictates that if you PRODUCE OIL, and OIL prices go up, you GET BIGGER PROFITS DON'T YOU?!?!
Petronas rakes in billions EVERY fuckin' year. Yet the government says it can't subsidise us without major cutbacks in other areas like healthcare and shit. FUCK YOU ALL. Just cutback on the kickbacks and under counter money and we'll have enough to subsidise petrol to be under RM1 per litre.
This is what happens when you take village-like, count-up-to-10-with-fingers fuckers to fill in top posts in the Government and Cabinet. This is what happens when you have a despotic party overstaying its fat stay at the top of the food chain.
This is a fuckin' joke I tell ya. First the price of flour. Then cooking oil. Then price of pork. Now petrol. CIBAI KHEONG KAN LEMA KA CHAO CIBAI.
FUCK YOU, you and you. All of you.
YES BARISAN NASIONAL, UMNO and the ENTIRE Badawi Administration. This is your encore. GET THE FUCK OUT.
Now I wonder how if possible I can get the Prime Minister to read this.
Note - I do not take credit for writing this letter. Came upon it in cyberspace and felt it had to be shared with as many people as possible.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Wasted Sperm
It was about eight months ago that a couple of brutes (i would like to use coarser words here, but my mother reads this) robbed me of my mobile phone. A month prior to that, my wife lost her mobile to another couple of the same kind of brutes. A year or so before that, my mother was brutally assaulted by yet another duo of the same despicable kind. I am not labeling them as yet, but you definitely get the drift of what I am referring to, right? And no, it is not an error that I have used 'what' to refer to them, instead of 'who'.
Yup, those brutes on motorbikes who used to terrorize the streets and other motorists with their daredevil stunts and devil-may-care attitude towards road safety. Call them what you like - mat rempits or snatch thieves or road devils (not to be confused with the brilliant Red Devils, of course), these bunch of ass holes (sorry, Ma) have now become the scourge of decent people all over Malaysia. I prefer to call them wasted sperm. No disrespect to the fathers of these animals, but if you had practiced coitus interruptus and disposed of the sperm that you impregnated your wife with into the nearest drain, we could all have been spared their torture.
Not only they scare the living daylights out of motorists, they have now turned their attention to robbing innocent, hardworking people of their belongings.
The latest attack by these bunch of losers on five girls in Bangsar has got everybody and his uncle plus his dog upset and concerned. Rightly so. This scourge or curse has been around for some time now, since 2004 to quote a leading afternoon newspaper. But the policeman incharge of giving statements to the press proudly states that his force have been actively hunting them down for the last one month.
Yup, you read me correctly, one month. Uno mese. Un mois. Una mes. Satu bulan. For more than four fucking (sorry again, Ma) years, the bastards have been scaring the living daylights out of the people and our sorry excuse for a police force has been actively on it for ONE MONTH. I guess this qualifies them to drop the cekap part from their Bersih, Cekap, Amanah motto. Oh ya, the bersih was bribed away a long time ago already.
The same police officer then proceeds to make it look like it is partly Joe Public's fault that the police cannot catch and charge these criminals. He insists that the public need be more proactive in apprehending the biker dudes and handing them over to the cops. He says that unless they are caught in the act, it is impossible to identify them just by stopping them at roadblocks. Agreed. You can't generalise. You can't arrest everybody on suspicion of being a Mat Rempit.
But maybe the police might want to get in touch with one Encik Khairy Jamaludin of UMNO youth fame. Apparently this dude has the contact numbers of a lot of these Mat Rempits on his speed dial. Heck, he even managed to get them to work for him during the recent General Elections.
When a deputy minister in our cabinet has such close links with what the public perceive as a menace to society, is it any wonder then that they seem to be increasingly rampant?
But I guess all this is too much work for our over-worked, under-paid and under-staffed police force. Most of them are also wasted sperm themselves. They'd rather stand on street corners to fine and issue summonses to the public than to arrest criminals.
Yup, those brutes on motorbikes who used to terrorize the streets and other motorists with their daredevil stunts and devil-may-care attitude towards road safety. Call them what you like - mat rempits or snatch thieves or road devils (not to be confused with the brilliant Red Devils, of course), these bunch of ass holes (sorry, Ma) have now become the scourge of decent people all over Malaysia. I prefer to call them wasted sperm. No disrespect to the fathers of these animals, but if you had practiced coitus interruptus and disposed of the sperm that you impregnated your wife with into the nearest drain, we could all have been spared their torture.
Not only they scare the living daylights out of motorists, they have now turned their attention to robbing innocent, hardworking people of their belongings.
The latest attack by these bunch of losers on five girls in Bangsar has got everybody and his uncle plus his dog upset and concerned. Rightly so. This scourge or curse has been around for some time now, since 2004 to quote a leading afternoon newspaper. But the policeman incharge of giving statements to the press proudly states that his force have been actively hunting them down for the last one month.
Yup, you read me correctly, one month. Uno mese. Un mois. Una mes. Satu bulan. For more than four fucking (sorry again, Ma) years, the bastards have been scaring the living daylights out of the people and our sorry excuse for a police force has been actively on it for ONE MONTH. I guess this qualifies them to drop the cekap part from their Bersih, Cekap, Amanah motto. Oh ya, the bersih was bribed away a long time ago already.
The same police officer then proceeds to make it look like it is partly Joe Public's fault that the police cannot catch and charge these criminals. He insists that the public need be more proactive in apprehending the biker dudes and handing them over to the cops. He says that unless they are caught in the act, it is impossible to identify them just by stopping them at roadblocks. Agreed. You can't generalise. You can't arrest everybody on suspicion of being a Mat Rempit.
But maybe the police might want to get in touch with one Encik Khairy Jamaludin of UMNO youth fame. Apparently this dude has the contact numbers of a lot of these Mat Rempits on his speed dial. Heck, he even managed to get them to work for him during the recent General Elections.
When a deputy minister in our cabinet has such close links with what the public perceive as a menace to society, is it any wonder then that they seem to be increasingly rampant?
But I guess all this is too much work for our over-worked, under-paid and under-staffed police force. Most of them are also wasted sperm themselves. They'd rather stand on street corners to fine and issue summonses to the public than to arrest criminals.
Monday, June 2, 2008
True Colors
It is said you see a man's true colors or characteristics in how he responds to a crisis. As long as there is no crisis, the carefully built up charade and facade can be maintained. But mind you, it can't be any old crisis we're talking about here, it has to be a crisis that has a direct bearing on said man. Reading about a crisis happening halfway around the world will force a man to reveal his true nature and colors as much as heavy rain in Singapore will cause crops to abound in Kedah.
Speaking of Kedah, true colors and crisis reminds me of our old Prime Minister, and yes I very much mean old, and the current jolly good mess he finds himself in. Can't blame the old geezer for feeling cranky and upset, though.
As any parent of a 2-4 year old will tell you, once a kid has your permission to play with a certain toy for a certain amount of time, any change of heart on your part about allowing him to play with it at a later date or time will cause the kid to become upset. Now the degree of upsetness can vary according to kid, but the fact is, the kid is used to that toy and your decision to withhold it from him will upset him. Some may sulk, others may disregard you and play with it behind your back, some others might throw a tantrum, some may roll on the floor and scream bloody murder - hoping you'll relent and give in, some will retreat in prolonged silence and i'm supposing as many other different reactions as there are different types of kids.
But what's this got to do with the old dude? Well, firstly, he's behaving like a kid who's toy's been yanked away from him. Close your eyes and pick any of the above levels of upsetness and I'm sure you can apply it to one or another of Mahathir's actions over the last year or so.
Here's a guy whose toy for 22 years has suddenly been taken away from him. Infact he thought the new kid was only going to play with it for a little while and, even if not give it back to him, at least then to somebody who'll allow him to play with it once in a while. But, as so often happens to even the best laid plans, it got screwed. someway along the line, the new kid decided that he liked the toy so much, he wasn't gonna part with it.
"Hey", you're asking, "what's all this children squabbling got to do with how you started the blog?" Doesn't it look like a mighty big crisis to you? Well, put yourself in the shoes of a 4 year old kid who's just had a toy snatched from him and is being told he can't touch it anymore, let alone play with it.
Suddenly the cultured, nehru-suit style of gentlemanly demeanor has flown out the window. In its place a malay warrior now stands. All of a sudden, all traces of bangsa Malaysia has disappeared from his speech and replaced by bangsa Melayu. He looked anyone in the eye and fought for his country, but now, although he can still look anyone in the eye, it's to fight for himself, and to a certain extent, his family.
This is by no means a Mahathir bashing exercise. I don't need a let-it-all-out-you'll-feel-better session here. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I almost idolised this man at one time. He was the Malaysian hero. He put Malaysia on the world map. I felt proud of this man when I looked up at the twin towers. But today, place this man next to someone like Raja Petra Kamarudin and you'll see for yourself who's the real MALAYSIAN hero. A man who knows what it is to be really MALAYSIAN.
At the end, if anyone reading this is disappointed not to read any character assassination of Mahathir here, my apologies. You read and come to your own conclusions about true characteristics and colors.
Speaking of Kedah, true colors and crisis reminds me of our old Prime Minister, and yes I very much mean old, and the current jolly good mess he finds himself in. Can't blame the old geezer for feeling cranky and upset, though.
As any parent of a 2-4 year old will tell you, once a kid has your permission to play with a certain toy for a certain amount of time, any change of heart on your part about allowing him to play with it at a later date or time will cause the kid to become upset. Now the degree of upsetness can vary according to kid, but the fact is, the kid is used to that toy and your decision to withhold it from him will upset him. Some may sulk, others may disregard you and play with it behind your back, some others might throw a tantrum, some may roll on the floor and scream bloody murder - hoping you'll relent and give in, some will retreat in prolonged silence and i'm supposing as many other different reactions as there are different types of kids.
But what's this got to do with the old dude? Well, firstly, he's behaving like a kid who's toy's been yanked away from him. Close your eyes and pick any of the above levels of upsetness and I'm sure you can apply it to one or another of Mahathir's actions over the last year or so.
Here's a guy whose toy for 22 years has suddenly been taken away from him. Infact he thought the new kid was only going to play with it for a little while and, even if not give it back to him, at least then to somebody who'll allow him to play with it once in a while. But, as so often happens to even the best laid plans, it got screwed. someway along the line, the new kid decided that he liked the toy so much, he wasn't gonna part with it.
"Hey", you're asking, "what's all this children squabbling got to do with how you started the blog?" Doesn't it look like a mighty big crisis to you? Well, put yourself in the shoes of a 4 year old kid who's just had a toy snatched from him and is being told he can't touch it anymore, let alone play with it.
Suddenly the cultured, nehru-suit style of gentlemanly demeanor has flown out the window. In its place a malay warrior now stands. All of a sudden, all traces of bangsa Malaysia has disappeared from his speech and replaced by bangsa Melayu. He looked anyone in the eye and fought for his country, but now, although he can still look anyone in the eye, it's to fight for himself, and to a certain extent, his family.
This is by no means a Mahathir bashing exercise. I don't need a let-it-all-out-you'll-feel-better session here. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I almost idolised this man at one time. He was the Malaysian hero. He put Malaysia on the world map. I felt proud of this man when I looked up at the twin towers. But today, place this man next to someone like Raja Petra Kamarudin and you'll see for yourself who's the real MALAYSIAN hero. A man who knows what it is to be really MALAYSIAN.
At the end, if anyone reading this is disappointed not to read any character assassination of Mahathir here, my apologies. You read and come to your own conclusions about true characteristics and colors.
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