Samy: Who will stand up for Indians?

KUALA LUMPUR: The time is not right for a single party system in Barisan Nasional as suggested by Gerakan, MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu said here. He said in today’s political situation, such a move would dilute the rights of the Indian community. Samy Vellu said a smaller community like the Indians have to fight for their rights and that could only be done through MIC.

Source: Thestar (Samy: Who will stand up for Indians? )

"Indians have to fight for their rights"? "Could only be done through MIC"?

Are malaysians really so vicious that we will ignore other races' plight?

I think if a similar thing is spoken in US/Europe, well, it would not go well at all.

We don't see anything like Obama saying, "Vote for me so that blacks' rights are protected", nor Hillary saying, "If you don't vote for me, whites will not have a big say in government".

Death Note?

I know this is old news, but for those un-informed, a certain infamous politician in Klang has died of heart attack, as reported by The Star.

This brings to mind a certain Japanese manga(comics)/anime/movie called "Death Note".

In the comics, the main character, Raito, was a very intelligent man whom happened to obtain a Death God's notebook, whereby by writing one's name on the notebook (Death Note), the man will die of heart attack within a few minutes.

Determined to use this book to create a world without crime nor corruption, Raito proceeded to use the Death Note to kill all the criminals daily using the name "Kira" (which is the direct translation of Killer in Japanese).

His arch-nemesis would be a detective with the codename, "L", whom somehow managed to link all the clues together to identify Raito as Kira. However, he (L) did not have proof of Raito's doings, and therefore L and Kira were engaged in a long but intense battle of wits.

Somehow, I think there the story is similar to the real life hacking battle story between Mitnick and Shimomura.

Penang Mega Projects

I am glad that Koh Tsu Koon has helped to appeal for the mega projects in Penang. It would be best if the projects are kept going since they had already been planned and approved before the elections.

I hope the gov know that cancellation of the projects would mean that they are just election gimmicks, which they emphasized are not.


‘Keep all mega projects’
PENANG: Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng found an unlikely ally in his political foe Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon when both leaders urged the Federal Government not to scrap all major projects in the state.

Lim urged them not to “cut their noses to spite their faces,” adding that if they wanted to punish the people for voting in the Opposition, “then you may end up punishing Kedah, Perak, Selangor, Kelantan and the Federal Territory as well.”

“They should also understand that the Prime Minister is not the prime minister of one political party but the prime minister of all Malaysians,” he said.

Dr Koh, who is Gerakan acting president, appealed to the Federal Government to continue with the implementation of mega projects in the state although it was now ruled by Opposition parties.

“These infrastructure projects are crucial for the future economy and quality of life for Penang and our neighbouring states,” he said in a press statement.

Among the projects he mentioned were the Second Penang Bridge, Penang Outer Ring Road, monorail and the public transport system.

“Successful implementation of these projects will also ensure that Penang will continue to grow as the hub of the Northern Corridor Economic Region (NCER) and the Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Growth Triangle (IMT-GT),” Dr Koh said.

Source: http://www.thestar.com.my/election/story.asp?file=/2008/3/15/election2008/20651540&sec=election2008

NEP under threat?

DAP decision will affect all Malaysians, says Hisham

Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin said The DAP’s decision to abolish the New Economic Policy (NEP) could cause national instability.

“Such irresponsible actions from DAP will only worsen the economic disparity of our multi-racial country.

“All the while the NEP has served to maintain balance in such issues.

“We cannot allow a large part of the country's economy to be ruled by the minority races while the majority race is abandoned without representation,” he said.

Source: http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/14/nation/20642620&sec=nation


Police disperse protestors in Penang
A big group of protesters, mostly Umno members and supporters, took to the streets around Komtar after Friday prayers to protest against Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's remarks on the New Economic Policy.

Chanting “Hidup Melayu” (long-live the Malays) and “Allahuakbar” (God is great), the protesters marched towards Komtar in Jalan Dr Lim Chwee Leong at about 2.30pm.

Ahmad Ibnihajar denied that the protest was led by the state Umno but claimed that the Malays had gathered in response to an SMS circulated on Friday.

Source: http://www.thestar.com.my/election/story.asp?file=/2008/3/14/election2008/20080314153313&sec=election2008

Call to scrap mega projects

The state Umno will “persuade” the Federal Government to scrap all the mega projects in the state in view of the people's clear rejection of Barisan Nasional.

Since Penangites do not want development, the Federal Government should not force it on them, said state Umno liaison committee secretary Datuk Azhar Ibrahim.

He said that this was not Penang Umno taking revenge “but we are actually giving the people what they want”.

Source:http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/3/14/nation/20641797&sec=nation

Is NEP really that important? Has it really helped all the Malays? Is this really good governance? Does voting for opposition really mean that we do not want development?

Malaysia's direction?

Source: http://business.theage.com.au/malaysian-voters-open-the-door-for-anwar-ibrahim/20080311-1yrf.html

As written by Michael Backman:

"The nightmare scenario for Abdullah is that Anwar's wife, who was again elected on Saturday, will resign in the coming months, forcing a by-election at which Anwar will be elected. He might then help to coalesce the opposition parties into a more unified and effective voice. If he were to lure the Chinese-based MCA and perhaps the Sarawak-based United Traditional Bumiputera Party away from the ruling coalition, then the opposition would have precisely half the members of parliament. And if just one more government member were to walk — Tengku Razaleigh perhaps — then the Government will fall after 50 years in office. The current 13-party ruling coalition would be replaced by a five-party coalition. Whether or not this happens, there will be constant tension from the fact that it might."

Perhaps MC* can really change its image, by doing the right thing this time. Too many times have we seen they defend the undefendable, and did not speak up for everyone.

New Malaysia (hopefully)

BN lost heavily in this election. I expected BA to get some seats, but winning 5 states is surely the beyond the wildest dreams of even Lim Kit Siang.

With BN forming government with a simple majority, it is hopeful that the national w*sting and c*rruption can end, with the opposition having more voice in blocking things that are not beneficial to Malaysia.

However, I am still in doubt as to whether DAP, PKR and PAS can form an effective partnership.
Case in point is Sarawak and Sabah, where they are not able to reach agreement on who to field against BN.

Anyway, I am hopeful that with this result, Malaysia can grow stronger.

My sentiment is that everyone regardless of race and religion, should be able to enjoy peaceful life.

In my opinion, in terms of secular country's governance, we should look at Turkey, where the country's is secular, with not much conflicts between Muslim and non-Muslims.

Scam email

I have just received the following email from stegroup@streamyx.com. Looks like I have won 516,778 UK Pounds. No doubt that this is another scam, but the fact that it was sent using streamyx.com email account meant it is just a spoofed email.

And the thing is, the scam letter was so badly written that it looks more like a primary school pupil's letter. It was stated that the email was written by Mr.CLARKE DAVIS of webdraws_101@hotmail.com, but at the bottom, it was signed by another Mrs. Lucy Baines
Co-ordinator. Who should we contact then? It looked like this Mrs. Lucy Baines just copied the Davis' poorly written scam email, and then just added in her name and some fields. Great, even scam mails can be plagarised now.


Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:48:28 -0800
From: stegroup@streamyx.com
Subject: Batch: 074/05/ZY369

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Ref: UK/9420X2/68 ,
Batch: 074/05/ZY369,
Lucky No:- 07-13-31.54-640

All participants were selected through a computer balloting system drawn from Nine hundred thousand E-mail addresses from Canada, Australia, United States, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Africa?and Oceania as part of our international promotions program which is conducted annually.
Mr.CLARKE DAVIS
Email:webdraws_101@hotmail.com
1. Full Names: 2. Address: 3. Age: 4. Sex: 5. Marital Status: 6. Occupation: 7. Phone numbers: 8. Fax number: 9. Country:

Best Regards.
Mrs.Lucy Baines
Co-ordinator