Chinese School in exchange with Equality

Recent article in NEW STRAITS TIMES (government mouthpiece) talk about the irony in Malaysia regarding unity. I quote one of the important points : "Even the most 1Malaysia-minded and progressive friend I know, a Chinese, paused when asked if he would be okay if we were to abolish all Chinese schools."

I know that the ultra-nationalist Malay always retort whether they can take away Chinese education stream whenever the Chinese asked for equality. In my opinion, if the quality of education up to the par of Chinese school and selection/promotion of teacher is according to meritocracy (for example, good teacher will get increment, so on and so forth), why not?

The problem with our education system from primary to university is that all are dominated by one race. We see that our government does not bother to get good academic staff hired in University. Just go around our public university and see. It's very obvious. Hey, its the same with our public service sector.

So when the BIG question whether I'll accept equality with the condition of single national school, hell yeah. Just bring equality to everywhere including our education system. I do think having all kids mixed in single school system will encourage early integration. Plus equality all around, I'm sure there's no more suspicion between us. After all, we are all Malaysian. We all born here. This is the place I intend to die too.

Another perspective of communism in Malaysia

What is hot now is about communism in Malaysia. Our Minister for Information, Communications, Arts and Culture, Rais Yatim managed to "publicize" a blog for our reading pleasure. The blog is Kampung Perdamaian Sukhirin -> click http://matamin.blogspot.com/

Here, you'll get all sorts of information from communist side of the story. As we know, history is written by victor. Our history might change again if our government change. If our government really change, and if Anwar really open up, we might see all sorts of "truth" coming out. History will be rewritten. But for now, we can somehow depends on this website to see if what the communist said is believable.

There's an interesting video that we all should watch (I post it before and I'm going to post again):
http://10tahun.blogspot.com/

Illegal Assembly

One of the amusing laws that Malaysia have is any grouping of three people can be deemed an illegal assembly. Thus we see a lot of government dissenters got hauled up to jail ever since the watershed 2008 General Election. Sikit-sikit also got kena tangkap. Even the lawyers who want to see their client was hauled up at the police station entrance. I mean, come on. Its the police station for god sake.

Erm, I wonder if the police going to pick me up if I go out with two friends. No wonder crime are increasing. Police got no time to catch criminal because they need to pick up people who do peaceful illegal assembly. Facepalm...

Missing link found. God not exist?

Creationist is people believe in God's creation where Adam and Eve is our ancestor and Jews are the Chosen People (this is the believe of the book's People. Book's people are believers of monotheistic religion). While atheist believe in the theory of evolution. Creationist and Evolutionist always at 'war' with each other over Darwinism.

Today marked the first success of evolutionist after such long drawn battle of words. Even google.com marked it with a change of logo in its search engine:

How significance is this? Well, there's troublesome thoughts on how suddenly apes can evolve to become human. And this half ape half human explains it:
Tadaaa....this is your ancestor with human hand and ape-shaped head. No, this is not C4-ed of apes. I know what you think there...

Bumiputera for all Malaysian?

Well, that's what Manoharan said today in The Malaysian Insider. It's just so obvious isn't it? That everyone should be granted that status since we all born in Malaysia. Why there's a differentiation between us? I think this will rhyme with 1Malaysia expounded by Najib.

Too early to dream...........?

Pentax K-7 hold my attention

Sometimes, once a while, a product will caught my attention. This time is Pentax K-7. Although I'm no fan of Pentax (as a matter of fact, I'm brand agnostic ;) ), but I always think Pentax hit the right price with the right technology. I definitely like the Shake Reduction system not offered by Canikon brand. And K20d is the first time I see dSLR have lens calibration system built in. Another great thing about Pentax which you cannot find in other brand at such price is the weather resistance body and lens. You can only buy weather resistance Canikon dSLR system at cut throat price.

Now about K-7. It said that the noise is reduce and higher frame rate (5.3fps). Now this address the shortfall of K20d (although K20d itself is very capable). Also one of the bad things about Pentax is the autofocus speed. I wonder how K-7 AF performance like? But the thing I love most is the size. Look at this comparison:
So cute compare to D300 at the above. Yummy, is all I can say...

Peaceful May 13th

As expected, nothing happened in May 13th. Malaysia is full of people borned after 13 May 1969. Many have no recollection of what happened during that time. As a matter of fact, only certain area is hit with racial clash. So its not really a national crisis as being publicized. Everyone hope that the ghost of 13th May will be forever exorcised. Maybe we should denote today as Unity Day (Hari Perpaduan). There's no more suitable date than this one. Instead of running away, we should face it head on. That way, we can move forward. Of course, our leader also must be more Malaysian instead of just helping certain race. Instead, all Malaysian irregardless of race must be treated equally. Hopefully the day is not too far. I remember that it was just a silly dream before March 8th, 2008. But after the watershed election, it has become some sort like Martin Luther's dream which has high possibility to become true.

By the way, guess who is our equivalent political leader of the left and right side of the comic above?

Think and obsess too much leads to insanity

Just finished watching Flash of Genius. This is a story about Robert Kearnes who is the inventor of intermittent wiper where his patent was infringed by Ford, Chrysler and basically every car manufacturer out there.

He showed his invention to Ford and was praised for able to design something that they failed to come out with for so long. Somehow they enter into talk and some agreement was made in non-legal binding status. However, Ford decided to abandon the deal and Bob was left in the lurch.

Few years later, Ford come out with intermittent wiper and Bob was furious. He is now up against a giant company who infringed on his pattern. Because of the difficulties to prove his case, he think a lot and later diagnosed to having some mental problem. That's why, if there's no way we can solve a certain issue, we must not forced to think too much. Else, we'll get a lot of white hairs and probably will lose our mind.

Anyway, in the end, he won litigation against Ford and Chrysler. He passed away in 2005 while still holding grudges which is highlighted in this news of his death:
In his final years, he drove around in two aging vehicles: a 1978 Ford pickup and a 1965 Chrysler. Neither had intermittent wipers.

13th of May Significance to the Perak crisis

Everyone is talking about May 13th and its significance to the Perak crisis. From May 10th judge ruling on proclamation of Nizar as the rightful MB of Perak, the crisis is reaching a transition point. And May 13th being too close to comfort of a date to everyone comfort and so it is definitely being talked about. But personally, I don't think anything will happened on 13th of May. There's few reasons:
a) the opposition now has a de facto leader who is a Malay
b) Islamic party is part of the strong opposition coalition
c) people are now more cautious to do any sensitive demonstration
d) BN has too much to lose in economics/business if something like 13th of May happened
e) everyone is connected and its hard to contain any fallout from the incident. The world is watching too

So there's no possibility of incident like 13th of May is going to happen at all.

Related blogs:
Jeff Ooi : Four decades later, May 13, 2009, which is two days from now, and with Razak's son ruling as the current prime minister, will ugly history repeat itself?

Is Hee Yit Foong trustable?

Let me give you the scenario based on Malaysiakini:

Hee claims pepper spray not hers

Humayun Kabir | May 11, 09 4:58pm
She claimed that someone from the assembly sitting had thrown the canister in her direction and she had just picked it up from the floor.

Earlier news:
Denied using pepper spray on Yew
Earlier claimed it was hotel key-chain

Earlier, she said its not pepper spray but hotel keychain. I read somewhere there's claim of thumbdrive. And now, she said the pepper spray is not hers. I wonder how we pick our assemblymen? I think you all have the answer to the question in the title.

BN is in full damage control

After declared as rightful MB

The political fallout from Perak crisis hit BN badly. The image is severely dented that one day after the fiasco, there's immediate release of ISA detainee which includes the HINDRAF trio that has been a notorious group to BN. The Perak crisis not only posed credibility problem to BN, but has effectively "confirmed" that there's overlapping power between executive and judiciary.

That's why today, we notice the full swing of damage control in judiciary by ruling that Nizar as legitimate MB for Perak. Although this might not cement the power of Pakatan Rakyat in Perak, this might give chance for PR to hold a new election for new mandate. And for BN, this will pacify some anger Malaysian although we won't see the shifting of voting pattern until BN really does more. Majority Malaysian still does not believe the sincerity of BN.

Let's see how the Perak crisis goes with this ruling. We'll have more shows ahead of us.

Edited:
Najib: We will appeal against decision
From the headline, it seems like the judge decision has nothing to do with BN. But to me, it looks like there's a separation of power between executive and judicial. But whether this is a true changing faces of our judiciary or one off thing, we never know. This is because of previous judges ruling is not really impartial. But overall, this looks good on BN and Malaysia judiciary.

Does BN knows that they are in deep shit now?

Just read all online news portal that can be commented and also forum (except blog by politician themselves). You can see > 90% of the comment is against BN. Can't they realise how bad is BN image to the majority of the citizen?

For me, I think they do know. Although some said that BN still in their own world, but I do think they know how bad it is. If not why they start to do some damage control after the Perak crisis?

Even a lot of people said that before March 08, 2008 that BN is out of touch with people, they are actually not. I still remember I receive snail mail from then Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi asking me to vote for Barisan Nasional. I laugh at the letters man. And of course, how can we forget advertisement from MCA? Its on the TV all the time until I want to puke when they show the person they help. I mean, we as citizen deserve all this. We deserve school to be built. Please don't think that we're obliged to vote for you because you give us education etc.

That's why I hope that there's some changes in BN. I don't want all people supporting Pakatan Rakyat because during that time, PR will be too strong. And power corrupt. We deserve a strong two party system. Get rid of warlord from every component party in BN. You only have 3 or 4 years. Not much time left.


Not related to this post but nevertheless funny:

No regret selling my dSLR

Although I'm lying to say I totally no regret in selling my Canon 40D when in reality, I do a bit, but I'm really waiting for Olympus micro four third with IS. Even without IS, I might still go for it and the reason is the size. What's the point of having a good camera is I can't put in my pocket and bring it around ya? But probably my first priority is to get a good phone with a camera. Until today, I'm still contemplating Nokia N82. But its already too outdated. But still the camera the best. Sigh...


And here is the dSLR that I'll be waiting for..... Olympus Micro Four Third.
And look at the cute little lens...

Government release Hindraf trio to pacify rakyat's emotion

The Malaysian Insider carry a news item regarding the release of Hindraf trio. It seems like this news is to mitigate anger of rakyat towards government of the day due to Perak constitutional crisis. As in my previous blog, I think that majority of Malaysian already seen what happened in Perak. I would say the news of ISA release is to do damage control and get Malaysian mind off the current happenening in Perak.

Although this is good news for everyone, but unfortunately, the Perak crisis are not easily cooled down. No amount of good will from BN will able to undo the damage from the crisis. Its really kind of hopeless. The clock is ticking. Najib has to do something more. Operasi Lallang will not work now.

Updated:

Najib denies ISA release meant to calm anger over Perak fiasco
Oh no. Najib read my post. I'll be ISA'ed soon. Good bye my friends.

P. Waythamoorthy says it is a “blatantly obvious move to divert the attention of the public” from the Perak fiasco in the news titles "Samy says ISA release shows it is time to move on but Waytha says no".

I thought it was only me. But actually everyone knows...

BN is no more in control of Malaysia

1Malaysia value

As far as Malaysia after March 3rd, 2008, BN no longer a political force to be reckoned of in Malaysia. Eventhough BN still cling on to power, but everyday, we can see BN is losing it. The latest crisis in Perak shows that BN willing to do anything to remain in power and this scares of most of the people specifically in Perak, generally in Malaysia.

Najib ascension to power with 1Malaysia motto has been bringing us some good news such as children conversion of divorcee and relaxation of NEP rules. Its a welcome change. But unfortunately, for example of children conversion, there's no follow up. The victim (the non-Muslim mother) at first being given back the right to the child by the court was later has its decision reversed ( Back to square one for Indira ). Is 1Malaysia just another farce like the promised made by Pak Lah?

Whether it is farce or not, BN has started to losing its grip on Malaysian. When there's Operasi Lallang last time, I don't know about it at all. All I read in newspaper is just normal satire. That time I'm still innocent. But with advent of Internet and all, everyone can know what happened real time anyway by using their handphone. We now do not depends on government controlled mass media. We can learn a lot of secret/rumours of the government just by reading leaked sources from Malaysia-Today. No matter how many Operasi Lallang they do, as long as there's Internet, information/rumours will still free flow. With this kind of problem, BN will lose in GE-13 unless something is done. 1Malaysia must be executed flawlessly. Najib must be brave to face the UMNO warlord who seek to undo the damage from 1Malaysia. I wish him good luck. Or else, we'll greet a new Prime Minister in the next election in three or four years time.

Psychology is master of everything

I finally figure out that in order to win, you need to have strong psychology. You need to sell something you think its "not good to you" with high price. Note that I bolded the words "to you"? The reason is, what is seems bad to you might be very good to others. So when you sell at cheap price, you lose the value of your stuff (which might be valuable to others). So think about it before you sell cheap. Even you yourself cannot be sold cheap. You must have high valuation of yourselves (high self esteem) before someone can value you higher.

I wonder if Sun Tzu book got teach this. I believe law of attraction might have a hand in this too.

Rocky and Jeff ties?

When Rocky and Jeff being sued by NSTP, the ties between them were like brothers. A blogger's alliance were formed by the name National Alliance of Bloggers. The President - Ahirudin Attan and the Vice President - Jeff Ooi. Rocky Bru has been with opposition since Badawi was in power.

But guess what after Najib ascending the PM throne. Now, Rocky Bru is being given a job as CEO of Malay Mail. Wow wow. He is now official mouth piece of BN. I wonder how is the ties between him and Jeff? How's the lawsuit? If NSTP decide not to sue Rocky, will they continue to sue Jeff Ooi? And how is ties between them now? Is it still like brother since they are now on opposite site of the fence?

Politics can make and break someone. For example, M. Manoharan which part of Hindraf movement are now locked up in Kamunting. His financial now is in doldrum and family is in trouble. If he continue to be lawyer, he might be having a comfortable life now. So it depends which political side that you join.

Best advice that everyone should learn

This is the advice that I taken from theStar newspaper:
theStar advice on investment

From my experience, I can tell you that this is very very good advice. Let me
quote part of it:
"In our experience, in most cases, the moment we feel like buying stocks is the best time to sell them while the moment that we feel like selling them is in fact the best time to buy. We can apply this contrarian theory quite successfully in most periods."

And part of my experience got to deal with feeling of regret and here is the advice:
"One way to minimise the feeling of regret is to stagger our purchase and selling. We will only know the peak when the market starts turning downwards and vice versa. Therefore, by staggering, we will have an averaging effect rather than taking a one-time hit, especially if it is at the wrong timing."

I think 99% of the time you will be earning money with this way.

Jolin Tsai, I'm still available!!! And I'm 大丈夫 (Real Man)!!!

Jolin Tsai seeking Mr. Right

As she inches towards her 30s, Tsai is feverishly promoting herself as being available. Watching her friends Stefanie Sun and A-mei basking in love, Tsai looks forward to love but regrettably, her Mr. Right is still nowhere in sight. A religious man whom her friend match-made her with, shrunk back immediately on hearing her name. "I don't want a queen!" Afraid that he could not match up to her status, the prospective suitor rejected the match-making session.

With friends entering marriage and parenthood, Tsai is also eager to join her friends in the league. With no plans for children previously, Tsai only wanted to keep a pet with her boyfriend but has changed her mind and now has a burning desire to have her own children. "I have a dietician and determination. I'm sure I'll be able to shed the weight and recover my figure after giving birth!" she says, perhaps hinting at the reason for not wanting children at first.

Tsai revealed she hopes to hold her wedding at the beach with a simple ceremony and a celebratory party. After marriage, she may consider fading out of showbiz and refocus her career on perhaps a manicure and facial business.
Grab from Yahoo

Jolin, hope you read this. I'm still available. Call me when you're free....

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