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MARIAM
MOKHTAR
ARTICLE
I
love reading
Mariam Mokhtar
and Tunku Abdul Aziz for two
reasons;
the beautiful
English,
which I need to learn and familiarize
and the
sharpness
of their
minds. Tunku Aziz
ceased to write since he
left DAP,
leaving Mariam
with
her voluptuous article worth perusal.
Not
many young
Malays can
write good and simple English that
enfolded
with sophisticated
idea. She is one
of the most talented lady
who was
born in Ipoh. To find
more about her
just type her name on the
web
search.
For those
who are learning
English like me
reading her articles is
interesting,
fun and
thought provoking.
I assure you that she is better
than 98%
of
UMNO
women.
A good
article
with a
good
English is good,
either it is pro or anti
establishment.
The
analysis
must
be convincing and profound. Reading
their
ideas made us
realize our status,
mental ability and where we are.
I feel so
base and
inferior
and need
a lot more to learn.
It is a
pity many
smart Malays
are not in line
with government leaving
the g*****e
tip-toeing
for
office and
recognition, so much so Najib has
to engage
foreign
writers
to discredit
the opposition.
A pity.
18/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
CONSCIENCE AND
PRICE
Price differ from
place to place.
Panaflex cost RM21,
RM25 and RM14 at
three different
locations distant
less than 2 miles.
Lena pampers sold at
Giant is about
RM23 and at
another place
RM17. A jelly for skin growth
was RM150
on one brand and
RM19 on another. A
can drink at
Mydeen
is RM1.30
and at one Seng grocery
priced at RM1.00.What
I need
to do is just to
go to the cheapest
shop.
Thank God that
some people are still humane and full
of conscience and considerations, understanding the
burden they could cause by maximization of profit.
A
businessman who can charge a ceiling price but sells
much more cheaper with the feeling of compassion towards
others are rare. Let us be reminded that
good hearted people do not lie in their
skin, race or creed. One
Malay lady in her
face book said she paid RM27.00
for a dry chilly in
a Malay shop and RM19.00
in a Chinese.
Greedy people are found in all communities. Money is
never enough. When they robbed they took millions. If
found guilty would face 2 years of jail term.
Ask
around for prices. It is good to jot them down in the
555 book. Don't complaint if the price is high. Just go
to the shops that sell them cheaper. Some shop keepers
are still humane and conscientious and will not cut your
throat.
19/06/2013 |
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MISCONCEPTION
AND
PERCEPTION
When people talk
about
corruption they do
not merely imply to the malpractices of the government
servants but they are
focusing on big
money from the
government coffers being divided among the members of
UMNO under various
guises like
mega-projects and
project cow-combo. Whatever was in the court proceedings
captured by the
public formed perception. They are therefore true and
there is nothing of misconception. People being
robbed and killed
by the thugs
were real and not
a misconception.
The robbing away of vital farm land and water catchment
areas for individual
profits were real
and factual.
Those who are not
blind and understand
the fiscal manipulation
did not vote BN was not because of distorted perception
but it was based
on concrete data.
There were
money lost in PERWAJA and PKZ, the bankruptcy of Bank
Bumiputera and the
killing of Jalil,
the arrogance of
UMNO leaders were all real.
A
few can trace the
creation of
fallacy by UMNO and fed to Pakatan; when Pakatan fell to
the trap and
announced them true enough Pakatan spread fallacies
which were created by UMNO and cleverly fed to Pakatan.
Eventually people will be aware of these tactical moves
too.
UMNO managed to hold to the straw after spending
billions to brainwash the JKK and young people brought
to Putrajaya. It fed fallacies and lies about opposition
members, and put phrases like 'go somewhere else if they
don't like this country' was fed into these people. We
heard the same phrase from the low class gangsters to
the Ministers.
BN
could win the
hearts and minds of the people
if they really tackle all the grouses and of what people
think of the party. There
were talks of UMNO's
arrogance, and proven by
Shahrizat and Zahid's finger pointing, facial
countenance and
the loud vicious voices. The
perception formed in
people's minds is that UMNO think it is invincible and
will live
perpetually.
The
culture of lies
within UMNO is not
a misconception too. Among the certainties are the
indelible ink, the discrepancy of
voters tally, and the
crime data.
I
am of the view it
is UMNO's perception
of those Chinese who did not vote for MCA and UMNO is
always wrong. A few
UMNO leaders are talking
about the
Chinese wanting to become the Prime Minister and hence
want the political
power. The question APA
LAGI CINA MAU
implies the hidden perception of the leaders.
Time and again we
heard the grass root
Chinese were talking about high corruption, abuse of
power, bad education system,
manipulation of judiciary,
crime and arrogance.
Even a day before election a Chinese still mentioned
Shahrizat rm250
cow-condo project.
The
intended war of
perception will open
up to more lies
and fallacies. 'Thinking people' will get angrier.
UMNO must be
totally overhauled to
change the conception
and perception of the
citizens. If nothing is done to the existing criminals
and corruption.
UMNO will be
facing more
tougher time.
18/06/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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WORRY
ABOUT
SICKNESS
How
sick are you ? Ham radio operators who have to go for
dialysis
treatment or suffering
from diabetes and heart diseases tend to shy
away from
ham radio and everything else as if he is going to die
the
next hour.
There are million
others who
suffer
the same sickness,
some know and some
are not
aware of
sickness
they have. A big
number
just ignore and
go their living as
usual
as if noting
happen. They are
not worried about
it or about death
at
all.
Once the Malays
and the Muslims
believed our
lifespan
will not
exceed our Holly Prophet.
it was estimated
most
people
will die before
60. If they are now
55 they don't
have to worry about
their fate and
destiny. Just go
on living like
a normal life and
don't
take to much
note about your heart,
kidney
or diabetic
problems.
Take the medicine,
go for dialysis and
enjoy
your remaining
days which
may extend
20 more years.
What I am
worried about my
sickness is
when I
can't help
another sick and disabled
people. I need
to help
my wife,
daily nursing and
lifting her
to fulfill
the vital tasks.
Even
a simple
flu
drauned away
my strength and
I felt so very
weak.
When
this
happen I had
a difficult time in
helping her.
Friends always
popped
us with
a question,
"Are you healthy ?
" My answer is
always
YES. As long
as you
can
move around,
driving a car to
super-market,
attending feast
and funeral
and manage yourselves
then you
are healthy.
If
you are medically
defined sick then
take the medicine
and go for the treatment.
But you
need
to define healthy
by yourselves. If
you are a ham
operator then
come on the
band and
talk
to your friends.
Enrich your
living
while you are
still
breathing.
Moroseness won't
io cure you.
17/06/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
FAKE
DEGREE
?
Lately we have been hearing un-intellectual
and
stupid
statements
either from university kids or university teachers.
Sweeping statements are stupid and not intellectual. It
is similar to the half-baked proposition such as '...a
Malay who support DAP' is a traitor. It is halved
because it hid the other half, about the Malays who
support MCA.
Coming from people with university degrees especially
the teachers or professors is a shocking event. More of
the stinking statements from the Head of such
institutions would automatically degrade the university
and the people inside it.
Would a head of a university support corruptions and
power abuse ? And called the citizens who criticized
malpractices and injustice to migrate to countries they
like. Such a base statements and words only belong to
the drop-out and uneducated.
Doesn't those stupidity creates doubt on the quality of
their degrees ?
Many a time I came across persons with an A in computer
programming who could not produce one descent program.
Prompted with how the A was obtained, the answer it was
a group work.
Fake degrees can either be a real fake paper certificate
produced without any exam sat, or the none-quality grade
given to unqualified person. A night stand with a
lecturer gives a free A to a beautiful student.
I
would like to advise university graduates especially PHD
holders not to be analysts in the public TV. More often
than not they make fools of themselves with stupid
analysis and conclusions.
The
best for Professors to do is not to give their views or
opinions but to state facts base on real and solid data.
Let the viewers derive their own conclusions. But it
must not be the 'half-baked' and one sided like
supporting DAP is a sin and quiet about supporting MCA,
Gerakan or greedy businessmen or even liar and robbers.
No
wonder the boys of Pol Pot regimn shot and murdered
teachers and university teachers during the Communist
revolution in Cambodia. |
UMNO
LOVES TO PAY MORE |
WHERE ARE OUR
BUSSES ? |
The
bussing experience I am about to tell may
not be there anymore. The system might have
changed or replaced. It was the experience
in Buena Park California where I used to
stay whenever I visited United States.
It is
about a bus or busses that could take to
places I wanted to go. The motel where I
stayed was at Beach Blvd, Gaslite Motel now
turned to be Hometown Motel. If I
desire to feel the cool air at Huntington
Beach I took a southbound bus tillI reach
the destination which is farther than the
Disneyland. Though this bus did not go to
the theme park, I could stop at a junction
to take another bus using the transfer
ticket without having to pay extra. Of
course there is a special bus to the
entertainment park.
The
city of Los Angeles is father in the north
and outside the county. The ticket cost
USD2.50. It went through highway and state
roads, entering small towns, loading and
unloading passengers. The journey had been
more than one-half hours.
Irvine
is on the other part. So is Southgate
Mall. I could go to any of those places by
exchanging busses using a transfer ticket or
the day ticket.
For two
weeks at my son's house in Irvine and taking
the bus daily to various locations, the
driver and the people on the bus came to
know me. They would greet me 'Morning
Malaysian...' whenever I boarded it. And
they bid me good-bye on my last day riding
the bus. All same people, going to offices
and old-folks home everyday.
Here
back home, we have bus stops along the road
but without busses coming. In many areas you
could not go anywhere without your own
transport.
What if
we were to ask UMNO leaders why there is no
bus anymore in many localities and roads. I
fear the answer would be, "Go to USA and
live there la...."
16/06/2013 |
|
UMNO simply love paying
more for everything. A few attempted to
force the car makers to
sell their cars cheaper, which was denied.
High car price is not the
fault of the car makers. UMNO put a high
levy on them. Now the
happy UMNO supporters are happy to pay car tax
to their beloved
government.
The
FELDA guys get thousands of ringgit. What is there to
pay a few
percent more to food
prices and other sale taxes. I heard the poor
mamak get the scolding
for charging more. "Semua sudah naik
harga," the reply from
the mamak.
May
be UMNO members' skins are so thick that they do not
feel the
pinch of rising prices.
Or they have pride in serving their chosen
leaders, and the
fantastic insurance premium for motorcycles they are
riding.
I observed BN does honor
the pre-election promise by celebrating the
winning with big feast.
Crowds flocked for free food. The promise was
honored. They dance and
sing with joy.
To me it is a great
tragedy for the Malays and the Muslims. They 'aye'
to the rising
price, to the higher insurance premium, to the high tax
on
cars, to a high price of
home. And they said covering the head for
Muslim
women
are
not
Islamic
but
the
Christian
practices,
and rejected
God's law.
What is
the critical
issue
in reality
? Stupidity ?
Lack
of morality
? Shamelessness
? Innate slavery
mentality ?
The concern of
PERKASA, the treason law and current phobia are all
the making of UMNO.
Nobody rules this country for the last 53 years.
IF the Malays lose
their right, nobody took it away from them. IT HAS
TO BE UMNO'S
DOING. The thought of ousting Royalty was from
Mahathir. Blame
NOT the others but themselves.
16/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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RAIN
OR
SHINE |
|
It is no joke. People still go
jogging during the heavy rain. They either bring
umbrella or wear the rain coat. What is noticeable
during the rainy days the number of joggers are much
smaller and hawkers do not make themselves present to
sell rojak and ice-water. |
Seeing joggers and
walkers with rain-coats and umbrellas, I too would go
out of my house under heavy rain, carrying with me an
umbrella. Nurses at the medical center where my wife go
for treatment seemed to be amaze, "Uncle, you still go
jogging during the rainy days ? We saw you." I would
just smile and said nothing.
During the summer
time the West coast of Peninsular Malaya is having the
South-West monsoon. Cold air travels from Sothern
hemisphere to Northern hemisphere. Rain clouds lingers
the sky everyday until it gets heavy in the evening to
bring the downpour.
I just bought a few
pairs of cheap Bermuda trousers and a pair of BATA
shoes. With the attire I brave the rain or shine to push
away minor body ache for an hour or so. But the others
took 2 or 3 hours o stringent exercise.
Really I had never
thought that people would still take the track on the
wet days. Seeing is believing. I choose to follow them.
In no time the crowd will be getting bigger under the
rain.
I don't know why
they do it. I do it because I follow them, no specific
reason of my own. After all it takes me only an hour. It
completes my daily routine.
|
On the sunny day
the crowd is so big that it is hard to find a parking
space. About 65% go by car and 34.999% by motorbikes.
About a couple use bicycles.
But I always heard
the 90 plus lady grumbling 'Juak...juak..chut si tiam
juak si..' (hot...hot..come out at 4pm it is deadly
hot). But during the wet days the lady is absent.
There are two
jogging tracks; the inner and the outer. 4 rounds of
walk at the inner track took me 45 minutes on the
average. Three rounds of outside track gave me an equal
time to the inner one. The inner track is shaded. There
are many trees but it is slippery. It is a bad track for
the rainy days. Yet I saw people walking in this track.
May be the sole of their shoes provide better friction.
Mine is a fifty dollar shoes, theirs a few hundred.
A few shows
discipline in their attires. One man would wear a hat
and white gloves in both hands. One woman wears a tennis
cap and an arm slings to both arms. A few Muslims would
cover themselves from head to foot. The last won't be
there during the rainy days.
Rain or shine I
will be there with an umbrella. Later I might change to
rain-coat.
15/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
NOSTALGIC - THE
GOLDEN AGE OF HAM
RADIO |
|
I
have a fuzzy memory on my past ham radio activities
especially the timeline of my contacts and chats with
fellow Malaysians. But I know it was a nostalgic period,
the golden age of amateur radio in this country. |
If only my log book
was not destroyed by the termites, I could trace and
track the past and put back the pictures of the daily
activities. The past is totally vanished. Penang, Perak
and Johor where active hams were vocal with words and
chirping of the Morse are dead. The guys from Penang
were either dead or migrated to Australia; Malcom, Leong
and Eustace made the VK land their home. The CW man,
9M2CF, is in Kuala Lumpur but the interest disappeared.
Perak was once as
dominant as Penang and Selangor with at least 4 hams on
the band each day is now diminished. Where are the rest
beside Nadesan, Hock and Ari who left us for the next
world ? Never heard and never know what happen to them
now.
The number of hams
were small then, about 300 in numbers but the percentage
who were active were high on the local band. The spoken
language had been English as ham radio was regarded as
international and the exam was in English of essay type.
The best English speaker was 9M2FZ, Leong, an English
teacher from Penang Free School.
From time to time I
heard Eshee talked in Japanese with Idris. We laughed
and enjoyed the fun. Both of them and Rajamani and Tunku
Archibald, 9M2AT, were in a team. Ari would be late
everyday joining the group.
Council meetings
were run on 40 meter band on Sunday. The rest would be
listening to the discussions and decisions. Nothing was
a secret. We listen with solemn and commented nothing
when the meeting was over and opened for any comment.
Again it was in English. |
I can't compute the
phase of the demise of Tunku and Azkan's sprang up as a
ham. 9M2AT belonged to Tunku and later owned by Azlan.
Again only the log can tell.
The later group
were Chew (9M2HC), Rusli (9M2RB), Aziz (9M2AU), Lim
(9M2LC) and Zainal (9M2ZA), Selva (9M2SD). Both
Chew and Rusli were in Alor Setar before and I got to
know them while they were SWLs. And Rusli later married
my 5th college mate, Robetoh to my surprise.
Stations that I
don't remember of their first existence were 9M2FZ,
9M2MP, 9M2SB, 9M2DS, 9M2SH, 9M2RS and a few others.
I began to fade
from the ham radio starting in 1982 and came back later
in 2002, to discover the shock of my life, MCMC has
replaced the Telecom, license B and national repeaters
were almost alien to me, and my regular buddies had
passed away.
With the new system
and people which are better and smarter no amount of
re-creation will bring back the golden age of Malaysian
ham radio.
The additional
factor of the joy was the long excellent band condition.
I started with a dipole but the local and DX
communications were superb. That low dipole took
me to the edge of the world.
14/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
|
WHAT
IS
TO
BECOME
OF
THE
RELIGIOUS
WORLD
? |
|
Haji Nik
Aziz was called The Father of Infidels by UMNO Muslims
and there were a number of clerics going around to
condemn as one. Many Malay Muslims were lead by UMNO to
believe the party is ordained by God. And on the other
part of the continent the Christians are saying the
Vatican in Rome is anti-Christ and Satanic. Pope
Benedict and the current Pope Francis were 666
anti-Christ and spell the end of the world soon. |
The attack on religious figure need to be in detail to
find out what is behind the agenda. For an atheist to
attack and criticize religion, it is something
considered obvious. So is an attack of a religion on the
other.
But for an authority in religion like the Muslim clerics
and priests to do so smell something fishy and not
right. On the other hand there was almost a mum or
agreement on free sex and same sex marriage.
Do we need to be god and play the game to give the final
godly judgment as to who is infidel, anti-Christ and the
future residence of hell ?
In my early age my mother used to tell me not to call
anyone infidel regardless of his race, for we don't know
what was in his heart before his death.
Observing the severity of the attack on Vatican by the
American Christians made us wonder the truth and the
sanctity of Christianity. What is happening among the
Muslims in Malaysia would surely leave a similar impact
and perception among the non-Muslims. |
The war of the Christians is very
interesting to note because it involves the concepts of
the aliens, Lucifer and the coming of Jesus Christ.
Stories of aliens visiting the earth, the UFO are being
broadcasted by the media. Even the American Presidents
announced it. One alien, Amunarki, will make a visit and
received by the Masonian. The Lucifer, the Satan, is the
anti-Christ.
With the numerous UFO sightings and the possible aliens
in the form of Vatican Pope the end is near. Rupture
will happen soon. Iran-Israel war will come to light
again.
On our side nothing significant is worth a special
attention other than the making of Kafir out of Muslims
who are anti-government. And from UMNO we hear that head
cover by women is not in the Quaran and it is a
Christian practice.
What is to become of UMNO and what is to become of
religion in this country ?
And what is to become of religion in the world today ?
13/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
INDON
5
KC
APART |
I
NEVER
ENCOURAGE
PROFESSIONAL
FOOTBALL |
I really
had a tough time with my soccer teachers
when I was working because I didn't allow
the teachers to take the students to have
the training during the school hours. In the
Sports School the students spent most of
their time in the playing fields.
Teachers
argued that their boys all became state
players and they became professionals. I
wanted the students to give prior attention
to academic and studies. I called a parent
whose kid was chosen to go Korea and talked
about the importance of education and left
to the parent to decide. The parent chose
Korea.
Economic
life in soccer is short, I would tell them.
The longest they can be professionals is at
the age of 35 whereas jobs can go till 55 -
65 years old. If they are injured at the age
of 21 or 22, that will be the end of their
carriers.
My
argument fell on deaf ears. The teachers and
education department were betting on the
glamor of being professionals.
Before the
professional soccer in Malaysia players were
employed either by the government or private
agencies. The jobs were secured. And those
who were good in sports and games would
easily get the jobs base on their academic
qualifications.
Indeed I
am very right with my contention. It is hard
to find players above 30 today. State teams
prefer younger players. My students were
either moved to play for other teams or
cease to play for any team. Once a star,
Akmal Rizal, moved from team to team and now
sit on a reserve bench in Kedah team. His
future will end as his age catch up. So are
the other players.
Sportsmen
and women who brought fame to the nation
were all forgotten, even in badminton. The
legend of Tan Aik Huang is tottally
vanished. Who still remember Angamah,
Mubaraq, M.Jegadesan, Rajamani and even
Ghani Menhat ? |
|
40
meter band could be considered as Indonesian band.
Almost all the time when switching on the radio we will
hear the Indonesian stations on 7030, 7035, 7040,7045,
7050,7055, 7060, 7065, 7070, 7075, 7080, 7085,
7090, 7095, 7100 and upwards till 7.2.
The
5 kc distance won't cause interference to the next
stations. The experience of the Indonesian hams cannot
be matched by the Malaysians. They know the system and
what they are doing.
Down below 7.030 are also Indonesians on SSB. Malaysian
too joined their counterparts using Indonesian lingo.
40
meter band has always been the band for the local
because it lacks skip. Some hams prefer local
communications to the distant stations because it
facilitates rag chewing.
Malaysian hams find it a problem to find a clear
frequency. Frequencies in-between would cause splatter.
My using 7043 made people using 7045 felt uncomfortable.
But that is the place where I used to stay since 2002.
Where else can I go ?
A
few Malaysians went against the authority by going above
7100 which is not allowed at this time because the
broadcast stations are still there. Slowly they found
the frequency was occupied once they left .
I
don't monitor the Indonesians except on 7.025 where I
can enjoy listening to Morse stations. The Indonesians
are excellent in CW and I just love to listen to their
contact.
13/06/2013 |
|
THINKING
PROGRESS |
|
When China sent another three
astronauts to space with Shenzio-10 on 11th June 2013
who among the UMNO members will be asking 'What else the
Chinese want ? Mahathir and Zahid would team up and
asked the Malaysians to migrate to China. |
Who realized
that the Malays were treated like morons ? Otherwise
they won't sell the submarine that could not submerge
and second hand military aircrafts to Malaysia. And now
we are making billion dollars contract with the West on
media and communication.
We are not
anti-American nor Western nations but we should be proud
of Asians' achievements to dispel the concept of Asian
Barbarians and savagery. Even the yellow skin people
were not spared.
There is already
somewhat a twinning educational program between Chinese
school in Malaysia and China. You have to be well verse
in Mandarin to follow the Chinese education. And China
never give an easy path at the university education.
While the
Malaysian Chinese is focusing on progress in technology
the Malays are busy with brewing the young to be violent
racists, hooligans, and anti-Chinese. We saw these
before the elections; the attack on PKR busses and
vehicles, the throwing of stones and shoes in the mosque
and the but-dance.
What is to
motivate the Malays to leap through the fast moving
technology as compared to the Chinese ? Each day we are
hearing degrading and stupid statements from our
politicians as if bashing and lashing are the main part
of our lives. That's what we are good at.
How many percent
of our mind is allocated to building a progressive and
respectable nation as compared to planning to divide our
wealth among the UMNO members ? Shahrizat's family
cow-condo project is clear enough to depict the tip of
the iceberg on mental agenda.
Do we see the
PBS system in our education could lead our nation to be
a little behind Korea, Japan or China ? |
Born on January 27,
1980 in Yantai, Shandong province, Wang Yaping is the
second Chinese woman to fly in space.
She was a cargo plane
pilot before being selected to the taikonaut team in
March 2010. She was a Captain in the People’s Liberation
Army Air Force.
Wang Yaping was an Air
Force cadet at the age of 17 and became part of the
seventh batch of female pilots to fly four kinds of
aircraft.
She participated in
several readiness exercises such as the Wenchuan
earthquake relief operations, and the “cloud extinction
operations” during the Beijing Olympics to create less
rain. In May 2009 she passed the selection process to
become China’s first female astronaut.
12/06/2013 |
|
THE JOGGERS AND
WALKERS |
|
I don't call myself a jogger. I
only walk for about one hour a day. Someone said it is
about 6.4 km. But I am not the only walkers. There are
about 20 to 40 more, of all ages. The youngest is about
4 and the eldest 90. 98% of the workers are faster and
always overtook me. |
There are two
types of joggers; the slow and the fast ones. Lately the
fast joggers got into a group and run together at almost
a high speed jogging, men and women. By race they are
Chinese, with full stamina and ever ready to beat
Ibrahim Ali at any race anywhere.
The slow ones
beat all the walkers; men, women, young and old,
comprising all races.
Outside the
track lane, on the roads are young Malays riding
motorbikes without helmets. I don't know what they were
doing. If they don't ride they would stay at a corner
and smoke cigarettes.
I see the same
people almost everyday. They never seem to miss even a
single day. I don't know how long they have been
running. I was absent for the last two weeks when I was
down with flu.
A form one kid
told me,"Cikgu jogging needs discipline." I don't know
where she plucked the idea from. She must be intelligent
enough if it came from her own observation.
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I believe her.
It really takes people with discipline to do the
exercise daily.
If there were to
be brawling between the local police and these joggers I
am sure the police would be subdued in no time. The Home
Minister should make it compulsory for the police to
have daily exercise.
Exercise for the
police would keep them in shape, preventing
hyper-tension. It is this sickness that made them
aggressive and emotionally outburst at the public and
prisoners. People like Zahid Hamidi and Hishamuddin
should go for daily running around the Putrajaya
playground.
You will be
surprise to find a few Muslim women did the running with
the full Muslim attire complete with Hijab. Since they
like it that way the let them do at their way, as long
as they are not ashamed to join the rest of the joggers
and walkers.
The pleasure is
in the sweat and the feeling of fitness.
11/06/2013 |
THE
RACIST MALAYS |
ROGUE PEOPLE IN
HAM RADIO
What we hear
on the band today is totally alien to the old
hams. We heard it here and even the Americans
were mumbling of the idiots on every band. Those
are indicators as to the number of sick people
getting involve in the hobby.
Pirates who
stay on frequencies outside the ham band and who
do not disturb the hams are not categorized as
emotionally sick. Those who find pleasure in
inflicting pain on others are called sadists.
There are numerous of them in Malaysia, who
found it fun to drive people away from the
repeaters.
Listening to
the CB in the United States we could conclude
that many Americans too suffers. No wonder each
day we hear of people being killed by gunmen,
the latest of which is in Santa Monica.
Why there are
disturbances of the ham band today than before ?
As I have said before the main reason is the
shift of radio authority from the Telecom to the
MCMC and secondly with the influx of the new
hams without police screening.
Thirdly the
decline of morality and civility. Many
Malaysians who do not have the feeling of
shamefulness, moral responsibility. Criminals
and robbers parading themselves in public
without any guilt, fear or shame.
The fact that
severe exchanges among the Malaysian hams today
prove how intense the split is.
They are just
murdering the sanctity of amateur radio. The
evil and the moron want to rule.
It is a pity
that those who throw stones finally found the
windows in their homes were broken too hit by
the people they created. Would I say it again
'Serve them right' ?
The trend does
not look good. People can always fight back.
When it happen it will be too late. Then there
will be talk on reconciliation, ethics and
responsibility. They should have done so several
years ago. Those who met the MCMC discussed
something else, not on the ethical point and the
effectiveness of enforcement.
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I got real fed up with the UMNO racists who are using
harsh words against the Chinese on the Facebook and
elsewhere. We all know that they called the Malays to
boycott all Chinese businesses.
Why call the others to boycott the Chinese ? Call the
UMNO guys not to buy anything from the Chinese. Wear the
BN cap and T-Shirt everyday wherever they go to show
they are hero enough to run the boycotting.
Else the Chinese take action only to sell to non-UMNO
Malays. There is always a way to do that. The
wholesalers must join the action. After all it is the
wish of the UMNO group. The first person to lead the
rest of the boycotting should be Ibrahim Ali.
When I saw hundreds of Malays flocking the Chinese
grocery shop each day I felt like shouting 'UMNO guys
get out of this Chinese shop and go somewhere else..'
Remember UMNO called for the boycott.
Cursing the Chinese do not erase the multi million and
multi-billion corruptions and crimes done.
Sins created by UMNO are slowly shifted to the others.
Wasn't that Mahathir who wanted to do away with the
Malay rulers. But UMNO is shifting it to the DAP ?
Inciting hatred and making the Chinese angry would
backfire. The ordinary Malays were made to victimize
themselves. The daily interactions will not be in their
favor. They might to pay more or do not get the best of
the quality. Or the existing products are not made
available. And even the possibility in job
discrimination as a tit for a tat.
What choice do the Malaysian have other than living
together in peace and harmony, We are all having the
same problems, the basic problems of living; affordable
home, reasonable cost of living, the future of our kids,
jobs and security. The number of the poor Chinese and
the poor Malays are almost the same except for their
different localities.
UMNO has to remember that the government does not merely
impose taxes on UMNO members only. And for every action
there is an opposite and equal reaction.
10/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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WHEN
OLD IS STILL GOLDEN |
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Right now I
am listening to a music called Apache. It is a YouTube
clip on Cliff Richard. Many of you do not know who he
is. Singers like SM Salim, Rafeah Buang, Orchid Abdullah
might appear strange to the young people. Cliff is now
about 73, but his voice still stun me and the crowd. |
The team broke up in the 70's. It is amazing how the
team get back together and did not lost the touch of the
'60's. I was still green and young then, and every
Saturday I would listen to the Top Tune not from my own
radio but from our neighbor who would put on the full
blast to share the fun with those without radio.
If you ask me the new singers and actresses I only know
Siti Nurhaliza, and Sharifah Ainee.
Apache is an instrumental, a guitar track was originated
by the Cliff group, the Shadows. To me it is beautiful
and nice to hear. 33 years later the melody never change
a bit, still firm and beautiful. |
What is old is not necessarily for the museum.
Confucius was thrown out and cast out the country,
facing hardship and sufferings. He was sought when the
country was in turmoil, but he was too old and tired and
rejected political involvements.
The Haji, Lebai and the old are only useful to fulfill
what many could not perform, like the tradition of death
and marriage festivities. AND when kids need money and
properties.
But here it is even hard to hear Sharifah Aini anymore.
09/06/2013 |
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HAMS GO COMPUTER
RATHER THAN HAM BAND |
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I was
trying to figure out why hams prefer to use computer
communication rather than coming on the ham band. Some
go for daily or nightly eye-ball. I can't imagine
whether similar phenomena would have taken place if PCs
were available in the years before the '80s. |
One of the oldest chat program was IRC developed in the
early '80s. There weren't sophisticated soft wares as
what we have today; Skype, Yahoo and other audio-visual
stuffs.
Are we trying to acknowledge the superiority of computer
over ham radio ? Why not, when Hairie's activity in
Makan and Madinah were kept up to date with high
definition pictures published on the website ? He didn't
have to carry a rig with him.
May be we are thinking of the privacy factor. Talking
over the radio is heard by everybody.
Some repeaters are not used at all. The term we used to
use was 'hantu pun tak ada' (not even ghost exist)
Beside eyeballing and using computer chat programs there
are people who use their telephone to talk to the other
ham for hours on end. This too made me wonder about the
modern perception of amateur radio.
BUT This is a free country. Everyone is entitled to his
own method and style. We can't force our will on others.
My failure to figure out is just a matter of different
world view.
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in my mind private chats are usually malicious and
venomous, painting bad characters of other fellow hams,
some create stories which were made real. Some have
habits and find satisfaction in telling tales.
Giving first priority to the ham band does not imply one
cannot touch a computer or go for an eye-ball. There are
things we don't want others to know.
Something is not right somewhere when repeaters are not
used at all. Something is not right when old hams who
used to be very active shy away from the ham band.
Neither do they spend their time on computer chat.
Probably the whole world is experiencing the same
phenomena. It is dangerous to say it is a sign of
regression in amateur radio. The increasing popularity
of computer may not be perpetual. People just want to
experiment until they get bored.
Will they get bored, with either one or both, computer
and radio ?
Probably when the time come everyone might jump back to
ham radio. We never know.
09/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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SANTARIBOT |
BACK
STABBING AND HARBORING HATRED
I don't have
people to stab their back because I don't
have many friends. But I do hate people
without harboring the feeling. Most of the
time we are busy with our chores. And there
are seas of knowledge that we have not known
before which occupies much of the time
seeking for them.
In my room
there are two set of laptop computers which
are set to ON most of the time, one for
writing programs and typing essays, and
another for downloading movies and browsing
websites. I don't go to read blogs. And
there are two sets of transceivers, the HF
and the small VHF. The HF is parked on 7.043
and the VHF is for monitoring lorry drivers
on the trunk radio. A 14 inch cathode ray TV
is sleeping 99% of the time. And at the
corner is a washing machine.
I wash cloth
but never iron them. I wear the non-iron
attire all the time wherever I go. After all
I don't need to be or look smart smart.
I don't lie
down to think about people or friends. Why
should I ? I have not been ambitious from
the beginning. There was no ambition of
promotion or go for a better job
during my working days.
That does not
mean I don't care about the world and
people's issues. Political and racial issues
bother me much. I want to see progress and
civility, friendship and peace, secured
future for Malaysian generations.
Those do not
provide me with any chance for back stabbing
or harboring hatred for nothing.
08/06/2013 |
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At the age of five,
every Friday I would sit up at the brim of the door of
my silt house waiting for SANTARIBOT to spray mosquito
insecticide using sprinkler around our kampong. The work
was between eight to nine in the morning. Once a month
someone would come and cut the long grass and wild
plants.
My mother would
always ask from the kitchen whether the SANTARIBOT had
arrive.
That was the days
when we depended on rain water for cooking, bathing and
washing. It was always ample because we had plenty of
rain then. We didn't have even a gasoline lamp yet. And
we slept under mosquito net with windows open, no fear
of thieves or robbers. Life was very peaceful.
In our kampong only
one house had a radio. The volume was so loud that we
were able to hear news and music. The owner knew he was
entertaining us.
We only know what
the word mean a few decades later. It was a SANITARY
BOARD. During the era of colonial ruling there was such
a program by the government to go into the kampong area
spraying insecticide. Today the people from the health
goes around to issue summons and fine people if mosquito
larvae are found around our houses.
I doubt whether the
old type of santaribot aka sanitary board still exist.
It is a trend now to make the job easy by punishing the
public and made laws of similar nature.
08/06/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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WILL
HAM RADIO BE BETTER IN MALAYSIA ? |
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A ham said
nobody can tell the future. Only God knows. You can
argue with the educated group but you waste your breath
arguing with the lesser educated ones. |
Nations make predictions base on the dynamic data, which
we call trend. Some prediction is as simple as one two
three, base on a simple common sense. What will happen
if we legalize drugs ? What will happen if there is no
religious education at all ?
The number of schools and teachers to be built and
trained now is based on our young population. We don't
wait until they grow up to find land for school
buildings and start searching for teachers.
Projection is based on the past and current trend. The
manpower planning involves university education. We just
don't built universities just for the sake of increasing
the number of graduates.
Looking at the current trend in ham radio and the type
of people in the community I don't see it will be an
enjoyable hobby anymore, no matter what they think and
say. The number of 9W call signs heard on bands that are
prohibited for them do not seem to cease. It is said
even the 9Ms seem to support the operators. |
Don't blame the pirates when ham bands become polluted
and filled with filth. We have full pledge hams who talk
to them and fought the right of the pirates.
Moreover MARL can never come to term with MARTS.
Each will claim for supremacy for helping the 9Ws to be
on 40 meter band. MARL will say it has more members than
MARTS does.
I also predict that more political people will join the
fraternity and in my view will cause havoc, dragging on
new concepts and putting pressure on the MCMC to approve
their demand.
BUT I know there are 90% of Malaysian hams have a
positive outlook at the future. And they will pray for
the best. May God be with them.
07/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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INDISCIPLINE AND
INSOLENCE ON THE HAM BAND |
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My many articles on Malaysian Ham
Radio has been based on the observations of human
behaviors. In the '80s when America suffered from
economic downturn American sociologists were examining
comparative work culture of people in several countries
and sustain their economy. |
The problem of
workers are not only in the government sectors but also
the private sectors. The numerous human problems flood
the whole human society from the beginning of human
history.
If all mankind
is good then there will be no prison, police, lawyers
and law and punishments.
If you are
running a business you need to think of the type of
workers to employ. Would you just employ every Tom, Dick
and Harry ? Even if you are very careful in choosing
workers you still have to keep an eye on them.
We should make
our business to know people whom we call friends or
those to be our acquaintance. We need to trace and
observe the hypocrisy in them. Friends steal your
things, borrow your money and never return.
Ham Radio
enthusiasts should know amateur radio was once 'the king
of all hobbies', not because of it's uniqueness but the
members were of respectable standards. They should guard
the sanctity of the hobby, making sure no rogue
individuals can slip through.
But that did not
happen. License Bs started with crime and indiscipline,
flouting with all radio communication rules; breaking
into repeaters of other agencies, allowing non-licensees
to use their call signs, non-licensees were allowed to
check nets, selling transceivers to whoever want to buy
them. |
They join and
support illegal stations. AND they would confront those
who disagree with their practices.
Those who own
many HF rigs but incapable of learning Morse push for
free entry into all ham bands without CW. When the 9Ws
are supposed to only own 10 meter rig, they have several
multi-band transceivers with linear amplifiers. For what
?
I had predicted
of verbal wars between BN and PR supporters on ham band.
Lucky it did not happen. Otherwise there would have been
more stringent measures on the part of the authority to
deal with Malaysian hams.
Old hams stay
away from VHF repeaters because of the rude and insolent
people access to ham gears.
Of course there
are extremely effective ways to deal with rogue people.
I called it ' Fardu Kifayah' to mean if bad thing happen
on the ham band that may be caused by a pirate or any
ham, all hams are responsible for the happening, until
the culprit is brought out by any existing ham.
It is harsh but
it works well. It has been tested before and the result
was fantastic.
Radio authority
must be firm and understand the consequence of being too
relax and do nothing to deal with the rogue behaviors,
reported or not.
07/06/2013 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
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EGO DOES NOT PAY |
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When Kelantan and Selangor
played against teams from Maldives who expect both
Malaysian teams would be ousted. We lost by a big
margin. |
We can never
know the strength of our enemy. Underestimating them
could be fatal. Our method and mode of thinking is
identical, applying to all, sports or politics,
education or general administration.
Doesn't UMNO
ministers possess the same structure of thinking,
underestimating the ability and the mental strength of
Malaysian citizens, and other people ?
I observed that
UMNO engaged university teachers and administrators
doing the thinking for them before the election. The
team was supposed to think and discuss every area,
leaving no stone untouched. But the comprehensive
strategies inclusive of gangsterism did not take account
of what the opposition and the people are thinking.
When the enemies
are driven under ground we won't know what their plans
are, and how they will strike and in what manner. |
UMNO has no
choice but to leave the cocoon and think intelligently.
If the party and the ministers are so obsessed with it's
power and mental acuteness it could end up in great
frustration as the two soccer teams that were tamed by
the people of Maldives.
The Malays are
so much lacking not competitively but in the basic of
Islam and morality that can lead them to cultural
disaster. There are thousands who can't perform prayers
at the high school level, indiscipline on the roads,
kids smoking in public. They are also lacking in
positive attitude, not wanting to face hardship and
strive for excellence.
But they think
they are great.
Leaders should
not show bad examples.
And never think
others are not prepared to strike back if they are
attacked. Avoid challenging them.
07/06/2013 |
DEFENDING THE WRONG |
UMNO WAR
DANCE |
Defending the wrong
under the name of civility and liberty can never be
right. Almost all criminals especially the murderers
never plead guilty. Defense lawyers always try to create
doubt and alibi.
It is not the public to decide whether a
person is guilty as charged. It will be decided by
court.
Rather than saying 'no
case' without investigation the procedure of finding the
evidence must be done. We do know about one of the death
in police custody. The initial report was to imply the
heart attack. Taking it as a truth without further
investigation would allow the cops concerned go free
without bringing them to justice. Then we can expect
more death to happen with the same excuse.
A past records though could not be used
as evidence can help the investigators in many ways. We
group them under one category to study human behavior.
We want to know whether people with strings of bad
habits will deliberately continue to do wrong things.
criminals caught have bad past records and were arrested
before.
Don't ever think defending the wrong is
noble and respectable. Neither we do help the lazy
people. Making
heroes out of bad people will victimize good people. I
mentioned about 'king-upstairs' before, where a
department wanting to get rid of a bad worker by
promoting him so that he would be transferred out. And
of Mat Rempits who were once given special treatments.
The law breakers were awarded. Or Dr Mashitah who said
thieves should be given jobs leaving the good jobless
people unemployed.
What pretext of not knowing the law is
not acceptable in law. What more if a document in his
possesion already prohibit him from doing a certain
thing. School
teachers have been frustrated with the school
administration who let the rude and students who broke
laws to go scot free without any punishment. So much so
many decided not to mind students indiscipline.
Chaos and problems
will mount without enforcement. If problems are not nip
in the bud they will grow to the unmanageable
proportion. When all else fail people will join the
group. Bad things will be a norm. That's what we see in
the legalization of drugs and same sex marriage. They
are becoming a norm in Western society.
05/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
The
war of words between Zahid and Kit Siang is getting
louder. What the public had never known has now come to
light. It was about Zahid's legal record. Kit Siang
called it a criminal record, but it looks more like a
civil case. I believe more secrets will be out. Some
people in the government just do not like the Minister.
Consistent attack on DAP will invite an equal response.
Both sides are looking for foreign support. But Najib
and Zahid do not seem to move towards the same
direction. Najib wants to show to the world that
Malaysia is liberal, free and non-oppressive, Zahid is
performing a war dance, pushed by the new IGP.
Some external powers are watching and studying the duel.
For a certain favor they will praise Malaysian
government though it is contrary in their minds.
In
today's world we don't see many politicians parading
their arrogance. Malaysia has some. minus Najib.
Shahrizat, Zahid and a few personnel from EC,
Immigration and the police are flagging their characters
haughtily.
Instead of consolidating the resources for nation
building we are utilizing them for political ends,
planting instability day by day with racist statements
and the instilling of hatred towards the Chinese,
ignoring the current turmoil in the other part of the
world. The latest is Turkey. ( In Turkey the Communist
party is strong and from time to time took to the street
protesting against the government ).
UMNO is facing a gigantic problem because the Malays do
not find it a party for the Malays anymore. The
petro-dollars for the Klantanese Malays were not given
to the people but enjoyed by the UMNO group. UMNO took
the Malay land under the name of development driving the
future generation to landlessness and homelessness. UMNO
politicians are building wealth for themselves.
There is also a great fear of some of UMNO members being
dragged to court if the new party takes over.
UMNO only depends on Sabah and Sarawak to survive. Many
believe both countries run their states using threats
and put fear among the uneducated voters.
There have been voices that the only way to change the
corrupt government is by overthrowing it. UMNO is
working hard to ally the total Malay support against the
Chinese, the effort which is known to have failed. |
9W2HDK |
BAD HABIT DIFFICULT
TO WASH |
Someone asked me about 9W2HDK. I said
I don't know. I was told he worked on 20 meter band. It
was by DX stations but not the local. I don't know, I
said. If it is true he must be a brave man, because in
the old days his ticket would be forfeited. Some people
heard him and put it on the Youtube.
I don't know. The MCMC allows the 9Ws
to own the all band HF rig when they are only suppose to
have a 10 meter rig. Ask the MCMC then. Ha ha Malaysia
BOLEH.
04/06/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
Tracing a person
doing a wrong thing could show us one of the two things.
Firstly he did it without consciousness and secondly he
had a track records of doing bad things. To him his
actions were never wrong.
Lending money to
people or someone labeled as friends need detail
scrutiny. There are people who borrow but never pay. He
met you and pretended he did not know you or nothing
happened between you and him.
Therefore make
it a business to know someone who you plan to be your
acquaintance.
05/06/2013 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
BUY
RIG LOCALLY |
OBSERVING FACEBOOK |
To be a ham 30 -
40 years ago was really tough. One of them was to buy
equipments and accessories. I have to depend on the old
hams for coax plugs and cables and used rig from a ham
that acquired a new one.
When words
spread that Sim Lim Tower was a heaven we have to plan
trips to the island. It was really a hassle.
Thanks God
Malaysians can now enjoy hamming without much pain as
far as rigs are concerned. There are shops in Malaysia
that provide stuffs that we want. The price is
reasonable. You pay a little more but you rid yourself
of hassle and head-ache. You just order from home, pay
today and get your stuff the next day.
In my previous
article I mentioned a little about running a ham shop.
It is a hard job that has to cover the operating cost of
electricity, rental and labor costs. These shops can
only survive with the helps from local hams. Supporting
them help the hams themselves.
03/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
What do I see in
the facebook ? The smartest of the facebook are those
who sell their things. This venue is free. They don't
have to pay a bit for the advertisement.
I saw groups who
share technical knowledge and improving each other on
many subject matters, namely the radio amateur group.
Questions and answers enhance knowledge. Remember, no
question is a stupid question.
Most use the
flat-form to release emotional tension, frustration or
expressing happiness and joy. In between secrets are
exposed and we read characters of people, and we can
guess the educational level and conclude their mental
capacity.
Those who are
politically motivated too find space to express their
feelings. From what they wrote we would know how smarts
or stupid they are, who use brain and who does not.
Tracing the speech to find out the education and
profession we would discover, we tend to come to the
right conclusion.
But we have to know
the world is judging and assessing us on what we do on
the facebook. |
WHAT
A MENTALITY |
Early Retribution |
Things that we had
heard what the police had voiced before; women are not
to carry the hand bags to prevent the snatch thefts, if
kids are being kidnapped the parents are to be charged,
house owners were to be blamed if thieves broke into
their homes. TODAY - motorbikes must be banned in
cities to prevent crimes.
Good. The
government promote all the police to JUSA posts. Police
are trained to combat street protestors and opposition
members.
Some people just
don't know and do not have shame to expose their
mentality to the public and to the world.
Why not ask Dr
Mashitah Ibrahim how to prevent crime ? She has been
telling everyone that give jobs to the unemployed, and
thieves. If not the Home Minister can ask the
Indonesians how they dealt with snatch thieves.
Crimes among other
thing has some correlation to politics. During the era
of Taksin of Thailand crime rates drop substantially.
Crime in Singapore is lower than that of Malaysia.
Crimes increase
when law enforcers sleep or in clubs or enjoying life,
reduced or on the run when the police hunt and eliminate
them. The ban on motorbikes won't change a thing. The
vehicles will still be used in the operation.
Banning arms you
don't see them around. But people are still shot using
the banned weapons.
02/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Drone attack kill people far away from the United
States. Mission accomplished. United States is too
strong and nobody can beat her. And nobody dare to send
drone into the country. It is a feared Master.
But
there are people who cry and remorse at the death of
their siblings and pray for God's retribution.
Sometimes we have to wonder the happenings in America.
People are murdered almost everyday by the Christian
Americans. Kids shot fellow school mates and even their
own parents. There are cyclones , floods and wildfires,
grave and devastating. Sufferings have been great. Those
do not come from Pakistan, Iraq, Vietnam or Afghanistan.
North Koreans are said to be starving. There were
sanctions faced by many countries that keep food and
medicines away. While in America thousands of people
lost their homes, trying to migrate to Canada and
elsewhere. Joblessness were too great and drove people
to crimes.
Does Obama ever wonder about God at all, and the
receiving of sufferings inflicted upon the others, the
retribution by God ?
You
read the daily misfortune that befall America, many are
tragic.
The
Americans are not all rich and wealthy as the Asians
used to think. There are beggars everywhere. People
struggle hard to survive and to make a living.
The
sins are paid back by early retribution. Surely Obama
does not believe it. Then continue to fight God and defy
the Al-Mighty. 03/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
WHAT IF
GANGSTERS RUN A COUNTRY ? |
YOU
CALL IDRIS JALA A PROBLEM BUSTER ?
Idris Jala style of raising the money or
reduce spending does not need a genius
stroke. Really. Any fool can do it. To cut
spending sack as many workers as possible.
To raise funds just increase tax. And this
is the type of Sabahan employed by Najib. I
think he must be sacked as soon as possible.
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ALOR MALAI INDIANS
Alor Malai
Indians are still flying BN flags within
their premises. Now another Indian was
found dead under police custody. I am
sure with the police involvement in
politics more Indians will be found dead
in police lock up. Isn't the Alor Malai
Indians like it that way ? We already k
now the Malays like their lands to be
taken away under BN's enacted law of
land acquisition act, and now the
Indians seem to love BN that much too.
02/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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I can't describe and
answer the above question. Can you try to imagine ? But
you may say it is an impossible for such a case to
happen.
In democracy anything
can happen. To be in political arena and to climb to the
top post you need money to buy yourself through. At some
point it is hard to know what has really happen; the
legalization of drugs and marijuana is a sure real, a
real real. Is it not possible the man at the epicenter
is a mafia and also a politician at the same time ?
The basic operation of
crooks and gangsters are the creation of fears by
threatening, murdering of traitors and those who dare to
challenge, corrupt and control the law.
In such a situation a
small warlord can grow up to be a big time politician
and rule a country.
Please check the mobs
who run mayor offices in the United States.
If I can't answer and
you too can't imagine then try to ponder over it some
time later.
01/06/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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THE
RIGHT TO TRANSMIT |
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People like to be a DJ or TV anchorman. Who do not want
popularity and be known to all ? In USA and elsewhere
some people set up their own radio stations. A basic FM
radio station can cost below 10K for the whole system; a
FM transmitter, a lap top computer and an antenna. But
you need to have a license, which is almost impossible
for a layman to get. Operating without a license is
illegal and the transmitting premise is called a Pirate
Station.
The recent event in the United States pirate
broadcasting stations were raided by the authority, the
FCC. But it was not without opposition. There are people
who support the stations voicing against the suppression
of the human right. It is the right of a human being to
do whatever he likes as long he doesn't harm anyone. The
FCC holds to the regulation and do not vow to
pressure.
There are ham radio operators and people using ham
equipments use the machines to broadcast like a DJ. It
also happen in Malaysia.
What's wrong with those stations ? They do not disturb
anyone.
The wrong is in the eyes of the government because there
is a law prohibiting piracies. It is a man made law
after all. It is not divine. The choice to accept or
reject it depends on each individual.
The discussion in several forum was more on the 'idiots'
who are causing disturbances on the radio band. Someone
said 'there are idiots on every band' , exposing the
current state of amateur radio. There is an indication
that the 'idiots' is also referred to ham operators who
do not welcome new hams beside those stations that never
mentioned their call signs from the beginning to the
end.
Those who can tolerate stand and those who can't quit or
look for a new ground to get away from undesirable
people. And why monitoring pirates or rogue stations ?
Why monitor stations who are rude and practice
lawlessness ? Just switch off the radio or stay away
from them.
The prohibition of the right to transmit is just to
control the radio spectrum for the ease of usage by
authorize agencies, to ensure clarity of transmission.
Otherwise the whole spectrum will be jammed with chaotic
radio broadcasts. A frequency with 10 stations robbed
away the comfort and peace of listening.
It is argued a limited power and limited distance signal
would not cause interference to other service and
station. True, our authority understand this. The
illegal stations in Bukit Ibam areas among enthusiast is
within a small boundary, unheard somewhere else. The
authorities close their eyes. In Medan only there are
numerous home radio stations transmitting music and
local information escaped the law. I am sure they will
hunted down if they were to go 10K of power.
If the law is deemed civilized then we have to obey and
recognize it. All law curtail freedom and human right.
The right to transmit will be met with the right to
arrest, the right to exercise and impose restrictions.
And as to the community of idiots the world is
unfortunate to have persons of such sick mentality.
22/05/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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PLEASING EVERYONE ? |
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Everyone wants
to be rich and wealthy, low level workers want equal pay
their counterparts, everyone want freedom to do what
they like. Are we all not born free and equal ?
Looking at the
world we find classes of people, split by religion,
jobs, economic status and educational achievements.
Communism has long tried to establish a classless
society, where everyone is equal. Animal Farm criticized
the communists 'every animal is equal but the pig is
MORE equal'. There is a resistance against the ideal
even today in mainland China. And Communist Russia broke
to pieces. Not everyone in those countries love
communism. Communism cannot satisfy everybody.
In the liberal
and capitalistic America the battles in congress never
end. What Obama wants to do are oppose by the
Republicans. People are losing jobs and lodgings. Crimes
never cease to rest, people were shot almost every other
day. People took to streets to protest and hauled by the
police at the wee hours in the morning. Some claim that
liberty is dead in USA.
The
impossibility of perfection is natural because no two
person think alike in every way and time. Fairness means
differently to different people. If I give my ten cent
away to you my kid will ask me why I gave away to
stranger. If I gave to my son you may say why I gave it
to my family.
There are people
who questioned the fairness of God, of why some are rich
and others are poor, why some die of quake and Tsunami
and others are enjoying a happy life ?
Now let us all
go to England and claim it is the land of God and no man
can claim England belongs to the British, what do you
think the British will do ? They already stopped people
from entering their country for no reason given. How
about going to India and doing the same thing ? What
right of a country to say the country only belongs to
them ? Are we all not the citizen of the world ?
What right ? The
right of occupation and claimant is the strength, either
military or manpower. With a strong power the United
States can walk into Iraq and Afghanistan, using the
excuse of terrorism. Israel goes to take Palestine
because the land is stated in the Torah. The White
Australian says to the natives that in numbers Whites
are more than the natives.
All lies in the
human greed. The rest is just justification and the
rhetoric. I want what is mine and I want what is yours.
And the pocket is never enough and the stomach is
without bottom.
Can the
government give us some millions as given to Shahrizat's
family for cattle-condos ? We cried foul. Shahrizat
cried foul too because we cried foul on her.
20/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
YOUR
KID EDUCATION |
My body is susceptible to flu virus.
These few days I felt tired and my joints are aching. I
took a little cough drops and slept almost the whole day
yesterday. But I cannot allow my body-ache to ruin me. I
have to nurse my wife and take her to dialysis center.
Sometimes I felt frustrated and sometimes I felt fated.
Usually it took me about a week to
recover. This time I don't know. Probably by making
myself busy I may forget that I am sick. But sitting on
my chair and leaning against it would take me to sleep.
This happened several time this morning.
Somehow I could go to the airport
after sending my wife to the dialysis center, to see
9M2GET and his family flying off to Meca. He will put up
a night at Concorde Inn tonight before departing KL to
Jedda by NAS tomorrow. Hairie will be away for two
weeks.
If I got flu I am sure many others
are suffering from the same fever. So far people are not
scared of flu unless it is announced as deadly. Bird flu
is something new to us. If I were to go to pharmacy to
buy flu drugs it is put 3 in a packet; the one for
fever, one for cough and another the anti-biotic.
I don't feel that very weak to go for
drugs. The cough syrup was the remnant of the last one.
The only advantage is that I could
not come on phone on ham radio. I can go CW but
Malaysians seem to loath the mode. So these few days
people will not hear me on ham radio.
24/05/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
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You should know
that the way your kids go in schools today are totally
different from yours. Your might not heard about
'bands'. Bands group students according to ability. If
your kids don't learn and improve they will not move
band. Then they have modules or packages in some
schools. Students follow package to the letters from end
to end. A teacher must make sure the package contents
are followed till completion.
The decision of
the streaming should be made very carefully. Get the
book on courses in Malaysian universities and their
requirements. if the desired programs are not offered in
Malaysia then get the information about foreign
universities. You have to study the job market and our
future national need.
Some parents and kids are not
ambitious. What they care are jobs for their kids after
form 5. After all all jobs offer good salaries. Nobody
compute inflation and the future. The rest is left to
the Almighty to take care of everything.
The decision should be based on the
future opportunity. Pure Science students have more and
wider openings from an architect to a scientist.
Technical school channeled your kids to be engineers.
Trade schools prepare for skill labors.
Lawyer demand a good knowledge in
history and English and other arts subjects. So are
other administrators.
Competition is getting tougher and
stronger. Those who can't compete join UMNO or join
somebody strong in politics. UMNO can do almost the
impossible thing to you. Those who can but sees no
future in the current system seek education overseas and
hope to get jobs outside the country.
When jobs are
difficult people would go for illegal and immoral jobs.
Drugs and pimping are very lucrative. Even the law
enforcers find comfort in closing their eyes.
Some Muslims with properties chose
religious schools with a simple object, to make their
kids good Muslims to escape hellfire in the next world.
Remember a good Muslim is not equivalent to a terrorist.
A good Muslim is good to all races and religions. I was
surprise when my doctor friend sent his son to an Arabic
school.
Parents with children who obtain straight As must
avoid vocational or technical school. Open the eyes on
the various other professions that are highly demanded
or will be demanded in future. Decide just before an
entry to a university of your choice; a doctor, an
engineer, a physicist, astronaut, a pilot etc.
Wealthy and affordable people who
send their kids to professionals schools have better
advantage of job security. Ministers prefer to send
their kids overseas.
Poor parents follow their kids'
choice.
19/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHY POPE BENEDICT SAID CHRISTIANITY IS NOT THE RELIGION
OF THE BOOK ?
The clip shown is too brief for us to
conclude what the Pope was trying to say. Surely he did
not mean that Christianity is fake as what the video
maker had concluded. The shattering of the Christian
faith among the White skin people is due to the
conflicting versions of the different bibles of the
conflicting versions of so called word of god. Bibles
are therefore tainted. It is highly possible the Asian
version will soon be changed. The word Allah will placed
the word Jesus.
If all those bibles were put together
and we ask the Pope to choose the correct one, he would
not have known. How then the Pope said Christianity is a
religion of the book ? The changes will continue, even
on the concept of
trinity.
18/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DISHEARTENING |
There
is a river full of crocodiles and your boss
ask you to jump into the river would you do
it ?
In
administration anybody can go for the office
but only persons of a certain caliber are
chosen.
We want
people who can make judgment and dare to
make decisions for the benefit of all.
If
things do not seem right then tell the boss,
provide concrete reasons. Or tell him that
you are not happy to follow some
instructions and ask for demotion, or even
resign from the job.
I am
the type who won't vow for anything and
prepare to face the consequences, even if
they are very bitter and deadly.
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It has been almost 13 years since I left my school, my
work place. The same institution underwent the change of
name for 4 times. Presently it is called College
Vocational Alor Setar. Five years before I left it was
made a bench marking institution where all vocational
and technical schools throughout Malaysia were
instructed to visit and learn something from it. But
non-technical schools from other states too stepped into
our doors.
We won awards, prices and competition almost every other
year from 1985 at the state and Federal level. It was a
grand and colorful school.
Yesterday I visited the school again to find out about
the RFID cards that I published teachers data. I didn't
realize it was the Teachers Day. Walking from the office
to the hall where there were presentations by the
students I found there was a vast transformation in the
environment and the landscaping. But people say 'beauty
is in the eye of the beholder'. After me there were four
principals, each with his own personal touch. What I saw
as beautiful was seen as garbage and were torn off. I
didn't see climbing plants with twinning flowers
anymore, artistic resting areas constructed by the
students, sparkling arches and colorful structures. The
toilets went back to the old toilet concept 'a dirty
place'.
I heard from school's principals that the role of
schools is to educate not to beautify the structure and
the land, or the toilet.
My heart sank, and fill with frustration on thinking why
administrators fail to see the relationship between
aesthetic value and healthy emotional growth and
development, and how they correlate with academic
achievements; the relationship between beauty and good
discipline. And they don't know what the School
Character means, the importance of morale and future
leadership.
I remember we were invited to Sarawak to talk about
excellent school. I didn't go but I sent a few teachers
and workers to narrate our school. Our programs and
activities are too long for this space. The more I
talk the more people say I brag. But all the successes
were not my doings. The staffs were just excellent,
hardworking, initiative and find the work place
fulfilling. I just shared their joy.
I rang up a teacher who molded the school landscaping
and asked 'What happen to your school ?' He agreed.
Teachers were saying the same thing.
I knew there is some deep problem that started after I
left. The small dirt accumulated little by little over
the years. It is becoming worse when school finishes at
5.30 instead of 1.30 of the primary schools. Students
are tired after 1.30 pm. Frustration mount when teachers
feel they are a mere slave.
I was in Disneyland and American Dream. The land was
well utilized; the garden, lamps, structures and
everything that we see are all well design, unique and
artistic. Civility can be gauged by beauty and
functionality. If others give attention to environment
and beauty, why can't we. Education is not just teaching
and learning, it is to shape humanity as well.
Retired people are to rest. Live the nation to the
younger people. Let them manage their own way, whether
going to heaven or hell. It is none of my business
anymore.
Some of the
things above aren't there anymore
17/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
GOD IN JUDAISM AND
CHRISTIANITY
Judaism rejects
Christianity because the Jews do not recognize Jesus as
God. The priests and the ministers address Jesus as
'Lord Jesus'. central belief of Judaism is
the absolute unity and singularity of God unlike the
Christian's beliefs of trinity ; Fundamentally,
adherents of Judaism believe that God, as the creator of
time, space, energy and matter, is beyond them, and
cannot be born or die, or literally have a son. Judaism
teaches that it is heretical for any man to claim to be
God, part of God, or the literal son of God. The
Jerusalem Talmud (Ta'anit
2:1) states explicitly: "if a man claims to be God, he
is a liar."
It is interesting in
the later part of the century the Christians say Jesus
is the re-incarnation of God. None in the bible God is
referred to Allah but to Jesus Christ. The most to
change to suit time, argument and itself was the
Christians with many versions of bibles with some
conflicting contents.
In the prayer of
Christianity the sign and actions clearly show of
trinity. The Jews believe that God is indivisible.
17/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
Religious morality is dead in the West.
States are legalizing gay marriages and
drugs. Sex and drugs is become a norm. Even
churches submit and trying to fit to the
changing society. Or are we hearing that
Christian legalize gays and marijuana ?
Faiths Allowing Same-Sex Marriages
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United Church of Christ:
The United Church of Christ was the
first mainstream Christian church to
fully support same-sex marriage and
perform marriage ceremonies.
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Metropolitan Community Church
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Unitarian Universalist
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Unity Church
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WHICH IS WHICH |
I have three
card readers; to read data from our IC, to write and
read data for security uses and the ACR120 the RFID.
RFID is mostly used among the other two. Teachers data
were kept in the RFID cards of Kolej Vokasional Alor
Setar.
KVAS use the
attendance system that record attendance either using
finger print or RFID. The later could be used as the
school/college ID, when present to hotels would get
reduction as a government servant.
Every year
teachers and staffs come and go. For the last two years
they used only fingers to register. This year they want
a new card.
Browsing through
my files and folders with titles as Rockey, ACOS and a
several others, I don't know which is for the RFID and
which is for other cards. I don't even remember the
right application to write data manually, not using the
database.
The current
laptop does not have the program for RFID reader. All
applications for school and education are in the old
Acer. I hate changing computers, so I decide to install
the ACR120 soft ware inside this one.
After a few
hours the reader refused to function. Checking with
Sperskey showed there is a malware inside the driver.
Suppressing the malware means the hard ware could not
run. I could install in other computers. I guess it is
the Spersky that stopped the installation.
I had to find
the driver from the website. After downloading it
and installed the reader's light blinked. It is
working.
After several
searches I found the right stuff to start writing data.
I cheated by only entering the IC numbers and the name.
If data is taken from the database I don't have to type.
There is
something that I learned, that I cannot trust the vendor
of any hard ware at all. The drivers they provide steal
data and information from our computers.
17/05/2013 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
CONGRATULATION MARY YAP |
HARD
LIFE IN PEDDLING RADIO |
The best news of the day to me is Mary Yap is chosen to
be the Deputy Education Minister. She was the only
Principal who ever sent me encouraging messages when I
was a Principal in Alor Setar, and whenever there was an
award giving ceremony in Kuala Lumpur she would come and
seat by me. Like my school she won prizes every year and
with sparkling uniform they went up together proudly to
receive the awards.
When I left my school my successors revolutionized, to
make it more excellent and threw awayt what we had
set out for years Till few years later they were
instructed to visit Mary Yap's school to learn from her.
I followed her carrier and had always been proud of her
success. Whenever I visited my old school we highlighted
the brilliant lady.
Surely I believe she can transformed schools in areas of
management. Education administrators today are always
proud of themselves, haughty but the total vision is too
narrow. Many brag and simply refuse to learn from
others.
Being a VIP, I hope she will not forget her root, and
will not change her educational methods and philosophy.
She must not allow others to command and bully her. She
is there to put stars to the education system.
I wish her all the best
15/05/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
Peddling radio to make a living is hard when radios are
made to last and when population is small with static
growth. Wherever hams are poor new products with
enhanced facilities would not attract buyers. Equipments
are expensive.
There are 2 categories of people who think hard about
survival; the manufacturer and the distributor.
They always wish for new hams coming to the hobby.
The threat was further increased by the coming of the
hitech gadgets which facilitate global communication
either at no cost or minimum charge. Information of the
globe is ever ready available at any time.
The
business community has to push for the policy change
using some form of smoke screen to hide the real agenda
under the veil. They lobbied and they won.
Vendors of ham equipments incur costs; renting of space,
utility bills and paying salaries. With the minimum pay
the burden is getting heavier. There is a minimum number
of sets must be sold every month to cover the
expenditure.
To
cut cost one has to use his own home as a premise and
run the show by oneself.
Nasi lemak and cendol sellers earn more than people in
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MY
BODY DEFEATS MY MIND |
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I think most of
us, the old men, are the same, in ways of our thought
and thinking. We think we are as strong as ever, sharp
in our thinking and perfect in prophesizing the future.
That's why I keep on with my computing, joining the chat
group, trying to learn programming language, write blog
and even develop soft wares.
We feel we can
exercise and do heavy work like any other young men. We
tried to beat the young people in walking and jogging,
stretching our strides and to quicken our steps. Our
mind say we can do it, overtaking the young boys and
girls.
But it is a
mental exasperation. The mind has to submit to the body.
We can't do what we think we can.
I remember of
occasion when young woman gave away her seat to me, She
saw me as a tired old man. I did response by thanking
her and said I was strong enough to beat her in a race.
Only Dorian Gray
never grew old. The rest, even under stringent medical
observation and care, pant after a short workout
and get sleepy under the hot sun.
One of the
things I am trying to do at this age is teaching myself
English to compensate my idleness during the school
days. I downloaded free E-Book soft ware and get a few
free books. These are old books written in either 18th
or 19th cetury. I discovered that people in the past are
brilliant in their thought, the philosophy was high and
the arguments were superb.
I thought I
could improve my English. Nay. My memory is poor and
rusty. I can't remember simple words and expressions I
come across. Surrender means a suicide. Only rusts will
occupy the brain. A body is dead when a mind is dead. I
have no choice but to think and do as if we were still
young.
The only useful
treasure that I have is the comparison of the various
Prime Ministers of Malaysia from the first to the
current one. I know who is the worst of all. And in the
ham radio I can compare the yesteryears and now.
15/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHAT
IT FEELS LEAVING HAM RADIO FOR SO LONG ? |
BOYCOTTING CHINESE SHOP ? A BIG JOKE
Many a time a Malay car outlet disappointed me for
numerous reasons. My last car was bought from a
non-Malay outlet. Actually we avoid a business premise
not base on racial reason but because we do not like the
attitudes and the system therein.
At
least 95% of the commodities found in the Malay shops
are supplied by the Chinese. They gave good prices to
businessmen regardless of races.
The
NGO that call the Malays to boycott Chinese business
must be naught, brainless like Zul Nordin and Ibrahim
Ali. What if it is the other way round; the Chinese do
not want sell to the Malays. If you threaten them, they
too could threaten you.
Do
these people ever survey how many Malays work with the
Chinese and under the same people ? How many of them
prefer Chinese employer to the Malays ?
We
go to whichever shops we like as long as we got a good
service and things are cheap. It could Malays or Chinese
or Indians. How about the Chinese shops do not
sell things to people they know as UMNO ?
15/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Without my logbook I cannot recall the exact time I left
Ham Radio. In those years I so very engrossed with IRC.
Home computer came into Malaysian market in the '80s. It
was my kids who told me that we can chat using computer
like the ham radio and showed me how to do it.
My radio lay somewhere in the store but my bamboo mast
was still intact. I had a rotten apple as my company,
opening a new world through internet chat. Months passed
into years. Ham radio did not exist anymore in my mind.
Never give even an iota of thought of the activity and
the people I used to talk to.
After more than 14 years later, I wanted to see whether
my radio still work. After much hassle I heard Zainal
and Choo. The first thing I asked myself was 'People
still talk on ham radio ?' I realized then that
unknowingly I assessed the world according to myself.
When I stopped Ham Radio, the world too followed me.
That was the feeling in me, lying dormant without my
knowing it.
A few friends have left amateur radio for good. I know
thy won't regret it. They have found a new world that
gives them more happiness and satisfaction.
14/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WHO
PAY THEIR SALARIES ?
Is
your money part of the salaries paid to BN
Ministers ?
You may
not pay an income tax but you are paying
other taxes. Each time you buy something
from a shop you are paying tax to the
government. BN or PR do not grow their own
money trees. You must have hard of BN
refusal of building roads in areas belonging
to PAS. Forcing the public to pay high
insurance premium and other forced
collections are brutal and savage if they
are not returned to the people in term of
services or goods. Mahathir was fond of
saying ' the people must pay back to the
government '.
When
Menteri Besar Trengganu announced that
affordable homes are for UMNO's supporters
only he forget that he is paid by everyone.
Of course he can choose to be what he likes
and do what he wants. The best he could do
is not to accept salaries and live on his
wealthy properties. Let every Minister
reject salaries and allowances and live on
the money they get somewhere else. People
like Taib Mahmud doesn't need government's
money. He has a sea of timber within his
possession.
A Minister
can say that he was there not because people
put him there. The unsound words from the
conscience are ' I am here because of
fraud...' The people read the leaders
through their words and deeds, the show of
arrogance. So far the Mamaks who have no
shame to expose the hated character.
Talking
about affordable home there is nothing to
crave about. It is just a place to bath and
sleep, not for the emotional development of
school going children. It is a home for a
small family. It also shaped the sentiments
of the adults living there. And the really
poor people would not be able to buy one.
Those who can afford to pay will have to do
so almost their whole life.
The UMNO
BARU is different from the old one in ways
corruptions were given to the people. They
gave a hard cash by the millions to stay in
power. FELDA people got the most. It is
really very attractive for the drug peddlers
to have their centers around FELDA.
14/05/2013
- Abdul Rahman Raof |
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COVERING THE SINS |
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Pak Lah was still a Prime Minister when pillows were
sent to him, rudely telling him that he was sleeping. My
mamak neighbors were slashing Pak Lah for the great lost
of BN seats and Mahathir did a nation road show to throw
slur on him. I was telling a few close friends Mahathir
wanted to oust Pak Lah because the Prime Minister said
the mega project would have to wait.
If Pak Lah was responsible for the decline of UMNO then
his replacement could put UMNO back to the peak. All the
think-tanks and experts gathered to plan for UMNO. The
first slogan was Rakyat Didahulukan. And I heard
complaints parking in Putrajaya was difficult and there
was no sign of Rakyat Didahulukan. All the slogans that
we hear like 'a vote for PAS is a vote for DAP', 'DAP
wants to destroy the Malays' etc including the racial
slurs were all planned. I happened to bump into several
of BN's meetings with other agencies to gear the big win
for the next election (ie GE13). The target was to kill
PAS and draw the Malays to UMNO.
Najib planned on corrupting the voters, which he called
gifts, aids and helping the needies.
No stone was left unturned. Money bombs were dropped.
The Chinese were promised with equity in jobs, schools
and financial aids. Words followed 'TERIMA KASIH' ,'You
scratch my back and I scratch yours'. Ustaz, Imams and
mosques were utilized to promote Najib and BN. Nik Aziz
was broadcasted as infidels by UMNO clerics.
There is no way that BN could be worse than before. Pak
Lah slept but Najib was on the TV days and night, on
every tree, busses and trains and even toilets.
When election results were announced the parliamentary
seats decline from 140 to 133 including the fix deposit
seats of Sarawak.
Najib was stunt with disbelief. It could not happen when
Gelang Patah fell, Ibrahim Ali was kicked out and Raja
Nong Chik had to stop grinning. It was not him. Even the
word Chinese Tsunami was prepared.
So Mahathir followers were not bright after all.
Mahathir get back the mega projects. They did not see
Mahathir's design and they were wrong about Pak Lah.
Even shameless men felt a big shame.
The words Chinese Tsunami was an attempt to cover the
sins known to many. Rosmah was never popular among the
many for many reasons. People see her as lavish and
arrogance. If PAKATAN had exploited the character and
pressed hard on her in the campaign probably more seats
would have been lost to the opposition. There was a sin
of Shahrizat's family and Najib was seen as a protector
of the family. There was the sin of the death of Teoh
Beng Hock. There was a sin of Lynas.
The racist campaign of Utusan and BN is nothing more
than a mere effort to covering the sins.
14/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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THE
EX-JUDGE BITTER STATEMENT - CHINESE CONTROL THE ECONOMY |
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To
put it bluntly - the Chinese control the economy because
they have the survival mentality and the Malays have the
subsidy mentality. Secondly the Chinese are more
independent to think whereas the Malays were taught to
obey what were being told; someone else did the thinking
for them and put the concepts in their mind.
Ask the Malays who are doing business starting from the
ground upwards the struggle they have to do. They didn't
get 250 millions to start a business. Several get help
from the Chinese who provided goods on credit ( take
first pay later ). For many years graduates from Chinese
schools did not get jobs in government sectors. They
only have one choice to survive ie to open up a
business. Shahrizat;s husband could easily get RM250
millions but to one Ah Moi, she only start with a
seamstress. I took my trousers to sow buttons she
accepted the work. Her husband opens a workshop to
repair motorcycles.
Pak Rashid started with selling 'kueh' from house to
house during his school days. Before marriage he learned
how to make a simple batik used for circumcision. He
accumulate the small profit margin for more than 25
years before he venture into supplying science
equipments to schools. Now he is almost 70, had had a
long sufferings and hardships.
The ex-judge is a learned man. He must not let emotion
rules.
A person has the right to vote for any party he likes.
That's why we choose democracy over communism. If you
want to continue ruling you don't have to have election.
There are voters who do not like Rosmah and Shahrizat
and therefore they won't go for BN. You can't force
people to love Rosmah or BN. Even the ex-judge has his
own preference of foods, friends and women.
Would the Chinese forget the death of Teoh Beng Hock ?
Would the Malays forget the murder of Jalil Ibrahim ?
People believed in what they want to believe like BN
wants the Malays to believe that Anwar Ibrahim is a sex
maniac and a Jew. The ex-judge should not be surprised
if the Malays reject a Malay Prime Minister in favor of
Lim Guan Eng. At the lower level there are Malays who
prefer Chinese boss to the Malay.
The Chinese had given a landslide for BN before. If they
are bad now they were bad before. Were they bad when
they voted BN for the landslide ?
The Malay intellects are losing their intellectuality.
Nobody discuss corruptions and power abuse. Who
discussed Mahathir privatization and the buy-sell (
sell-buy) of profitable agencies, Tajuddin
Ramli-Mahathir epic, the mega project and petroleum of
Mahathir's family ?
When people called for the government to learn from
outside the response was disheartening 'Go and stay in
those countries'.
May I ask the ex-judge; is it true that it is easy for
UMNO to cheat the Malays than any other races ? Does he
remember what Mahathir said about selling the land and
buy shares ?
Putting in simple words the Chinese are politically more
matured than the Malays and they used to think by
themselves whereas the Malays generally asked the
government to think for them.
13/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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TOWERS |
LAND OH LAND |
The taller your tower
is the more pleasure you will get. Coupling with yagi
distant stations could break your meter. How could I
compare my 20 foot dipole with the 70 foot tower using a
6 element yagi ? I have to beg for the mercy of the band
condition.
Hams maximized the
usage. Some add flags on them either flying PAS or
Barisan. Mind you the flag is not a pin sized. They are
king-size, may be bigger than the bed sheet. Flying a
PAS flag won't guarantee you of a cash because to be a
PAS supporter you have to pay. Flying UMNO's generates
an income.
If you have money then
get a tower, the higher the better. It costs you between
a few hundreds to a few thousands. The value it provides
is much more than the money. You call, come the reply.
What more if you go CW. You can get the whole world in
your palm.
I don't have tower
from the beginning. The beginning of my hamming was with
years of excellent band condition. A 30 foot bamboo mast
worked like a giant, punching out signal that reach the
whole globe, and receiving DX stations just like a
neighbor.
I too had a desire to
fly a flag. I prefer a moon to an eye or a weighing
machine. The moon cause tides. The Chinese believed
there is a monkey god residing on the moon. The eye
belongs to human beings and it peeps at sinful pictures
and movies. And the balancing machines can never be
balanced. You go and buy a kilo of meat and weigh it
again at home and find it is less than 1 kilo.
What are towers for ?
Putting up antena and flying colored flags.
12/05/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
Land will become a big issue when people do not have
place to stay. It is a scarce commodity in relation to
men population. When it is scarce and highly demanded it
fetches up a very high price. The greed will do anything
to influence the politicians, painting rosy pictures on
nation's GDP, employment and an immense profit.
Water cathment areas on hills and mountains were turned
into housing lots driving the people to seek rivers as
the water source. Farmlands experience similar fate.
Which minister ever know what water shortage is ? Which
of them know what homeless is ?
The
United States, Great Britain and China have plenty of
land for farming. They understand the importance of
agriculture for national security. And New Zealand is a
green country with a few buildings in towns, and with
cities smaller than PJ.
In
the United States once the land in Nevada was very cheap
but now has turned into gold.
Landlessness is not a Malay problem. There are as many
poor Chinese and Indians as the Malays. They too can't
afford to pay for a 500K home. Ah Hua who has been
helping me in domestic maintenance has to struggle hard
to make a living.
Acute problems could be solved if we want to solve them.
Greedy people prefer hardships befell on the people.
They can make more money. they would use racial cards
for their own benefit. The more corrupt they are, the
more crimes they committed the more fire they fanned to
split the populace. When the lower echelons fight among
themselves, the greedy and the corrupt are at ease.
At
the same time they will find more land to grab. |
F-car |
BURNING AWAY CORRUPTIONS AND NATIONAL LOOTING ? |
Flying car is here. Do I live long
enough to see a few of them roaring our sky ? But it is
no more a dream. The fantasy has turned into reality.
Again it came from the Western Hemisphere, too far apart
from the reach of our Malaysians.
We are crawling at snail's phase
because we are busy with something else. We can't even
manage cattle and quietly turn to buy condos. It is not
to say we build jet engines, we can't even kept what we
purchased and let it be stolen away. We are good at
buying things like the sub-marine that could not find
it's way beneath the water.
Though there are several proto-type
of the flying machines the Terrafugia TF-X is made easy
for the driver using the computer automated landing
system.
One F-Car already crashed in British
Colombia but the technology differs from that of
Terrafugia.
Mind you we do have Malaysians
working with NASA before in building space shuttle. He
was jobless when he first returned home and ended up as
a teacher, the work he didn't like, at the time I was
still working. What become of him now only God knows.
May be he can't stand the pungent of
Malaysian politics and went back to USA.
12/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Do
we hear NFC-Condos RM250 million or the PKZ or
Businesses run by Mahathir or Rosmah anywhere anymore ?
Like before election Najib's pictures start to reemerged
' I love Najib and I love BN' stuffs. Everyday we only
hear about the Chinese that and the Chinese this. It
sounds unanimous with what Mahathir said about
riots if Kit Siang wins Gelang Patah.
The
whole issue is about protecting people whom some
described as criminals. Land grabbing and other
siphoning of public money seem to diminish and does not
happen at all. Those who keep the long list cannot be
bluffed. Those who recorded the past history of Bank
Bumi, PERWAJA, IMP and other robberies could never be
deceived.
The
last bomb dropped was 'the Chinese want political power,
having have the economic power'. Was it not seditious
and trying to totally erase names like Shahrizat's
family and Altantuya ?
Anyway for the sake of argument let me pick up the
question of political power. If the Chinese who vote
against BN want political power, what do the Malays who
vote against BN want ? These are not a small number. Let
the people who love BN answer this.
And
what had UMNO done to enhance the economy of the Malays
? Asking them to sell their land and buy shares ? Giving
the unpaid loans to Mahathir's friends and other UMNO
members who have no knowledge or experience in business
? ( check Bank Bumi history ) Open up wine factory ?
Take away their farmland at a low price and later drove
them to poverty ?
Now
things are getting complicated. People are seeking the
help of the foreign nation. This is never a good sign
and Najib is never smart at all in dealing with the
citizens of this country.
We
don't have to talk about intangible concept. Just talk
of the indelible ink. We are taken for fools. A major
was transferred for nothing. |
FANTASTIC MALAYSIANS |
A
BODY OF GOODNESS
Malaysians and the rest of the world no longer recognize
goodness and lost the sense of moral values. That's is
seen in the ever disagreement among them to what is the
body of goodness. At a glance Nik Aziz is a holly and
pious person but he was called a Father of Satan by
another religious cleric. In the world of Ham radio such
ability to distinguish between good and bad has
vanished.
To
create a body of goodness in ham radio is near to
impossible. There is an absent of mechanism to only
allow people with ethics and able to recognize between
good and evil to join the radio community.
What we call pirates and illegal operators are dismissed
by another group. In such a case effort to build ethical
hams would be futile.
In
the West there is a total rejection of religious
morality because it curtailed freedom to act in ways one
likes. Law of churches was over ridden by human right
and individual freedom. In Malaysia there had been a
strong protest when religious body was trying to impose
religious laws like sexual intercourse and public
drinking. Rais Yatim indirect words were hell and heaven
is one's own choice.
We
have to prepare boxes of goodness and badness and take
our time to select each item one by one putting them in
respective boxes. That too won't be an easy task. What
is a corruption to one is considered a gift to another:
in which box should it go ? It is left to a group to
value the value of goodness and badness, and to form a
body of ethics and wisdom. Failingwhich this we will
just be the walking upright animals. |
I would say Malaysians are generally matured and
sensible. On the civility threshold it ranks among the
highly civilized nations of the world. Despite the anger
and dissatisfaction there was no attempt of violent
riots or protest aka Arab Spring. To date only a few
UMNO supporters were known to hurl stones and burned
cars belong to the opposition.
Secondly not all the Malays buy 'the Chinese is bad' and
reject the racialism fanned by people like Ibrahim Ali.
They voted him out and they voted Lim Kit Siang. The
aggressive fanning of anti-Chinese by UMNO failed to
unite the Malays against the Chinese. The degree of
emotional control and the use of rationalization is
high.
Malaysians could be militant if they want to. No amount
of brainwashing and persuasion could stop them. But they
were fair to all including the government they may not
like. In many ways we are better then the Americans who
lose their jobs and homes. So far nobody dies of
starvation yet. Even beggars have plenty of money.
The opposition took six cases to court instead calling
the people to oust the government by force. The hated
Ministers can go about even without body guards.
The protest held at Putrajaya ended well. Imagine if it
were somewhere else, you can expect the participants
would tear glasses and burn vehicles after a gathering.
Public rage can occur at police brutality as seen during
the last Bersih's gathering where a police was trying to
ram the protestors with the car. But there was no call
upon the crowd to fight back. Imagine what could have
happen if only 10000 of crowd strength took to fight
back. a death of 100 or 500 could force the government
down.
It is not the people are scared but the people do not
find it necessary to change the government by street
protest, violence and militancy. This does not mean UMNO
can continue with it's abuse of power.
12/05/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
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THE
INVISIBLE GATE |
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We
are familiar with one way mirror. from one side you can
see yourself and on the other side people can see you.
The invisible gate I am about to tell you is just like
the mirror, you see the gate on one side but you can't
see it on the other.
It
was way back about 10 years ago when we drove to the
Mexican border, Tijuana, on the southern part of
California. I had been here before in the '80s with
Reliance Tour, entered the town and came back to the
United States without our passport being checked.
We
(Rusli, Rashid and I) found a parking place and were
looking for the immigration entry point. I was the
leader because I had been there before. While walking we
saw a gate where Mexicans went in. I told myself it was
an easy way to enter the South American country. We
followed the Mexicans and there we were in Mexico.
We
took a leisurely walk, strolling and peeping into the
line of stalls but bought nothing. After some hours we
got tired and decide to have a snack. We settled at a
restaurant. It wasn't a snack. We ordered grilled fish
with rice. I was amaze at the taste of the food. The
rice was just like briyani and the fish was very
delicious. After paying for the food and tip we decided
to go back to where we came from.
We
searched for the gate. It wasn't there. It was
unbelievable the gate could disappear. Or was the gate
invisible on one side ?
The
continued searched took us to the immigration point. The
queue was very long. There was one lane for non-Mexican.
The
immigration officer asked for our passport. In my
previous visit our passport was not seen even. The
officer was furious to find there was no entry into
Mexico. I had to explain how we get into Mexico and
where we parked our car. I tried to convince him that we
were not lying, showing our entry point at LA airport a
few days ago, and we have to be in USA first before
going into South America. It finally made sense to the
officer and it took almost two hours to process the
database.
At
last we were on the way back to our car. I wonder
whether the gate is still there today.
12/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
STREAMYX 4MEGA STILL SLOW |
ARE WE EXPERT ? |
Remember we all
started with 256K with streamyx ? It was a hell of a
crawling. Some how when the internet users increased the
crawling was getting worst. I left the service provider
and opted to Celcom 3G. Years later Streamyx came
out with the 4 Mbps with a free modem. There was no
limit. Celcom had a limit and will slow down above the
given amount of data.
It wasn't streamyx
people who came to install and set up the new package.
It was farmed to the third party. For the first year I
found there wasn't interruption or jerking on the
Youtube. But lately it slows down.
I didn't trust the
speed test program. I remember checking the speed by
opening the modem page. My Hyundai showed the speed
perfectly. I recorded them and sent for a complaint.
TMNET reimbursed me my loss. So I thought of checking
the present day performance using the DSL Modem provided
in the package.
After the 192.168.1.1,
I entered the username and the password admin. It
didn't work. It took more more than 5 hours trying to
figure them out but to no avail. My solution was to
reset it.
It puzzled me when the
admin still did not work out. I started combing
for the CD and literature for installation. I got the
CD. The installation CD gave errors after several
attempts. Looking at the CD I saw a few PDF files. One
of them instructs the use of tmuser instead of admin.
TM really made life so very difficult for me.
I did not find
anywhere on download or upload speed. The contents were
too brief. Hyundai was better and easier. The
frustration was intense and painful. Now I cannot
connect to the internet. I have to enter the internet ID
and the password. Both were written on the modem. But
nobody could make out what was the ID. Again it took
hours trying several combinations and possibilities. I
slept at 4 am. I told myself that I would go to TMPOINT
to install.
At 9.00 am I was at
the TM office. Soon enough my number was called and a
lady officer attended me. I narrated my agony and showed
her the ID, hoping she would be able to comprehend it.
She gave me a new ID and a password, asking me to
install at home.
After one hour and
several tries nothing happen. The modem light was red. I
called 100. An officer gave me a new password and guided
me step by step. The light was still red. He told me to
wait for half an hour and ensure me it would be OK then.
One hour later the light was still red. I called again.
Another officer attended me. He himself tried on his
side and informed me it did not on his side either. Then
he asked me to try to wait another half an hour.
One hour passed. The
internet connection still fail. I called again. The new
officer found it did not work either. "Make it work this
time and now," I said. He asked me to wait on the phone
and after 5 minutes later the red light turned green.
But the internet is
still slow. There was an offer for an upgrading to 8
Megabit. Would I trust TMNET anymore ?
03/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
How expert are we ?
When I heard one Ustaz with a PHD, a Dato', gave a talk
on democracy and leadership over the IKIM radio I really
felt sorry for the Malays who will swallow the words of
the Dato'. He was talking of the Parliamentary Democracy
as Islamic and the best ever system of a government. He
condemned the Arab countries whose rulers are
hereditary.
I remember more
than 25 years ago while I was having a meal in London at
a Pakistani restaurant, a worker approached me asking
where I was from. Hearing that I was from Malaysia the
man said,"Malaysia ? It is not an Islamic country...." I
was taken aback and argued back. "Your country is using
the Western and Christian system," he said.
To know who is
right it is not too easy. We need to study and
understand the dynamic of democracy and parliamentary
democracy or even the congressional system. The ideal
and the static theory is not the same as it's dynamic.
We even have to go
into the conception of values and morality. What is good
and bad , and what is the real truth. If robbing,
killing and deceit is considered good then under
democratic system we see people will be championing
leaders who approved and upheld that murdering of
innocent people.
There were ancient
kingdoms which brought happiness, wealth and tranquility
to the populace. There were the absent of thefts during
the short reign of Japanese rule in Kedah. Ghadafi is
much better than Mahathir.
The dynamic of
Malaysian democracy is corruption, deception, cheating
and the use of gangsterism. The Prime Minister is not an
Imam, not a Khalifatullah. Hence our system is not
Islamic. And the system of choice by election contains
the element of threatening, lies, corruption and illegal
voters. The wife of our head does not observe Islamic
tradition.
The Dato' preached
the supremacy of parliament, hiding the real power
behind it. The Speaker is the most powerful and the
power is almost absolute. The Parliament belongs to the
government and not vice versa.
Please read more on
the Tyranny of Democracy to grasp the idea how the 51%
of the population can impose their will on the 49% of
the population. And understand on the judgment by public
opinions rather than the real scientific data. To put in
a simple way,
"The public say he is guilty therefore he is guilty"
If it based on the
real valid and concrete data the accused was not even at
the crime scene or away in foreign countries.
That's how
atrocities on the Muslims are taking place today, based
on the public opinion. The Americans are fed with the
idea that Muslims are murderers and terrorists.
I think it is bad
if our intellectuals think they are the expert in
everything. Throw away the PHD in the drain. |
TAKING A FLIGHT |
|
I have a fuzzy
memory of my first flight. Probably it was more than
fifty years ago. It was a direct flight from Alor Setar
to Kota Bharu, using a plane with fans unlike the
current 737 jet. The 45 minutes journey hit me with the
a terrifying experience when I felt a sudden fall and
the sudden rush of the whole organ to the head. Later I
was told that was common among the Fokker aircraft to
lose altitude abruptly when passing an air pocket.
The second flight
was in the 80's. It was the first international flight
to Jakarta with Rusli to attend a SEANET convention in
Jogjakarta. It was from Subang. I felt so great and
ecstatic the first time stepping on the bus to the
aircraft. The flight to Garuda was normal but at nearing
Jogjakarta the pilot 180 degree turn was just like on a
coaster. We nearly felt had not saved by the belt.
The subsequent
plane travel did not make me a 'JAKUN' anymore. I did
not feel like a wealthy or a great man . I would
call it a maiden DX flight, the first to USA by MAS to
visit my two friends who were studying in Hollywood
California. I was anxious to see how Hollywood looked
like. From Kulala lumpur to Japan MAS stopped at Hong
Kong and Taiwan. Food was good and plentiful. In Japan
the transit was a few hours. On the way to Los Angeles I
stopped at Honolulu, staying at YMCA for a week. Every
morning I went to Waikiki Beach to buy a breakfast from
a hawker I recognized as Asian, either Vietnamese or
Chinese, and enjoyed the free Kodak Hula Dance Show.
After the enjoyable Hawaii stay I proceeded to Los
Angeles where I was met by my two friends.
The first huge
carrier I took was Northwest Orient. It was in 1982 when
I was to go to school in Athens Ohio. The trip to
the United States was from Kuala Lumpur to Narita and
Narita to Seattle Washington. From Seattle I took an
American Airline to Los Angeles. KL to Narita was by
MAS. At that time MAS was superb. I felt it was the best
airline in the world. The service was excellent. It was
Narita to Seattle that the carrier was the Northwest.
I never saw such a
big plane before, cool and very comfortable. The pilot
once said 'we are going to fly through turbulence,
please pray....' and we all laughed. I didn't feel the
plane moving at all and never felt even the turbulence.
I don't exactly
remember how many time I went to the United States. One
carrier worth mentioning was the Thai Airline. Comparing
Thai to Singapore, Cathay, China and Malaysia the
uniqueness of Thai was the ever changing of dresses by
the stewardess every now and then. The traditional
dresses were beautiful and elegant. It was just a
fashion show. And I had a fantastic briyani meal as soon
as the plane leave Bangkok.
I was in Florida
for at least four time. I enjoyed most in Orlando and
Cape Kennedy. I think I went to Disneyland at least 10
time.
Only the trip to
London gave me the only experience and taste of a
business class. It was on MAS. The seats were on the top
cabin. I was a real JAKUN, a real moron for not knowing
how to watch the TV and to use other utility attached to
the seat. I remember getting souvenirs even before the
lift off and the nasi lemak plus sate Kajang soon after
the plane leave Kuala Lumpur. That was not from my
pocket money but from the reward of several services I
sacrificed.
Pondering back the
past, I could recall some of the flights that I already
enjoyed; Vietnam Air to Vietnam, Lankan Air to India and
Sri Langka, British Airline to Heathrow, Gulf Air to
Turkey, Brunei Air to Brunei, Qantas to Australia, Air
New Zealand to New Zealand and a few more small planes.
How not to thank the Great Almighty for giving me a
chance to fly though I am just a normal man doing just a
normal job.
01/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
In London around 2002
In Belgium around 1984 |
HOW
NOT TO USE THE WORD BASTARD
I
paid for my internet mainly to watch Youtube. On opening
a movie there came BN's clip calling to vote for Barisan
Nasional. How could I not use the word BASTARD to the
party and to the head of the party.
I
have the choice not to watch Najib on TV channels. From
a respect to man it developed to a deep hatred owing to
this dirty act. Putting Najib's picture on every tree is
not only great but also a joke. Even that one I can
avoid.
But
forcing people to see on the web page as soon as they
link to Yahoo, Facebook or e-mail is too much. Deepening
my only hatred is alright for Najib but how many others
felt like me. What sort of psychological warfare is BN
deploying ?
My
friend who was inclined to UMNO made a final turne to
vote PAS in the last GE12 because he was fed up seeing
Umi-Hafilda's nightly campaign against Anwar on the TV.
BN
knows no respect of a person's privacy. After resorting
to gansterism now it is doing a bastardly act of
meddling in people's privacy.
29/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
AFFORDABLE
HOME |
What is an
Affordable Home ?
It is a home you can afford to buy
because you can afford to pay. The monthly payment is
low. A long time ago my wife bought a terrace house, she
retired 8 years ago, and her payment is still continuing
until a couple of years more.
Today business people prefer you to
make loan to paying cash. Try to compute the amount you
finally paid for a seventy five thousand bird's nest
home.
A home is a home. You may think it is a place that
protect you from rain and shine. It is actuality to it.
When I had students with
disciplinary problems among other things I wanted to
know about their home and family size. A few drug cases
came from students who live in a flat and the family
size is rather big. The home is too congested, there is
a lack of room to study and rest.
Affordable home is not a mere bait
to win an election. When Raja Nong Chik promised more
conducive environment the people forget who started the
inconvenience, Wasn't it of BN's ruling policy ?
01/05/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MICE CAN BE A THREAT |
A
CHARACTER OF A MAN |
Mice in your home
can cause a big threat. Beside the disease it can bite
your legs, fingers and even your eyes. Some cats still
hunt and catch mice while others just saw the animals
passing them. The biggest mice seen was in town, as big
as a cat, loitering for food around the food stall.
One common weapon
to fight mice is the mouse trap. The normal one costs
RM4 and the black painted costs RM8. The question of the
trap is what do you do when a mouse is trapped ?
I saw people
pouring hot water on the pest to kill it. I also saw
people sank the whole trap in water to drown it, which I
used to do. But later I discover I didn't have to do all
those. I just put it outside the house, exposing it to
the sun. When I came back home the mouse was dead and
covered with red ants.
Once there was a
red biscuit which rats like to eat. After eating they
feel thirsty and went for the water anywhere and dies
after drinking. Food poisoning could be a problem
because we do smell dead rats, very pungent but we don't
know where it is.
If your house is
rat free you can thank God that you live in peace.
Why can't UMNO or
PAS say 'If you vote use we will free you of the rat
threat'.
29/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
CW is still
mandatory in Malaysia. And there are three categories of
hams that response towards it.
The first who fight
against it, and detesting those who have it. The second
are those who wouldn't care at all, no fight and no
support. It is the what will be will be style. And the
third is the specie that is worth analyzed for the
willingness to go against all odd.
While people crave
for the easy way, money from the sky, and life without a
struggle, there are people who want to go the hard way,
challenging the terrain, the wild rapid braving
themselves with the wild beasts. They waive all the
teasing and ridiculing to go ahead with the CW test.
What a character
each of them possess if not the innate leadership
specie. It is not the CW that is important but the
attitude of wanting to be themselves without fear of
consequences. Nations need people of strong character,
able to solve problems.
If the three type
of people are attending an interview for a certain
office, I would always go for the last type. They don't
need much explanation to carry a certain job. They would
find ways to solve problems. And they are dependable
individuals.
The greatness of
the sky diver is not so much on the diving but the dare
to take the challenge.
29/04/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
INCONSIDERATE SMOKERS |
GOD WILL GIVE US ANOTHER PIECE OF
LAND
Each day the
Malays are losing their land. Many could not buy even a
small piece to build a home because the price is too
high. The government encourage property business saying
it is a boost to economy. Land grabbing was a rush. UMNO
opened the gate.
Land and
properties was one of the reasons for the Communist
revolution in China and Soviet Russia. Common folks were
slaves of the rich. The Jews wanted the land which they
said belong to them by the Torah. The Palestinians sold
their land before the war to the Jews. In New Zealand
land control is very strict to ensure the people will
not suffer of landlessness in the future.
UMNO and
developers are happily taking away the Malay land by the
Act approved by the Malay Party. By another 20 years
those who supported UMNO will regret but will be too
late. You want to know what will happen to the Malays
you look at what happen in Gaza and the remaining
Palestine.
Najib and
Mahathir will not suffer. Taib has billions. So are
Mahathir and Najib. The future generations will be
hunting for the RM900 jobs and will even bargain for
lower pay. I already saw school leavers doing odd jobs,
families hunting for garbages for salable items like
plastic bottles.
This is what
UMNO means by Rakyat Didahulukan.
They pull the
noses of these poor people to do the dirty jobs of
protecting their unending lust for money.
But the Malays
always leave their fate to God. People take their land
and God will give them another piece. So they let
themselves to be pulled by the nose. |
Cigarette smokes
made me sick. Watching soccer in a stadium is sickening
with volumes of smoke occupying the air, attacking
kids, women and people like me. We do know that smoking
is banned at public places especially at crowded area
like the stadium. So much so I have to bring a face mask
to cover myself.
Why made law when it is not imposed
?
I remember an
occasion when we were on the express bus to Kuala
Lumpur. All of a sudden the bus driver halted and
shouted, "Which idiot is smoking. Get off the bus now."
Everyone kept quiet. I was sure the smoker must have put
away the cigarette immediately, probably in his pocket.
The driver with an angry face walked to the back as
though he was checking the culprit. He again gave a
stern warning that he would throw out anyone who try to
do it again.
That was a bus.
What if it is on a plane ? Would the flouter be thrown
off the airline ? If he is the rest might give a
standing ovation.
If a law made but
without enforcement, we made a mockery of the law. It
depicts our civility. How could we expect the rakyat to
respect a government ? Enforcement officers are paid to
execute their jobs. An officer is is lazy, inefficient
and corrupt should quit the job and go somewhere else
for other work.
Smoking is of our
own choice. Freedom means we do things that do not
effect the peace, tranquility and health of the others.
At least the
stadium could have a smoking area separated from the
non-smoking spectators. Enforcement officers must be
around to observe and arrest the culprit who flout with
the law.
28/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A
couple of nights ago I watched a soccer game between
Maziya from Maldives and Kelantan. Most Maziya players
looked like malnutrition sportsmen as compared to the
Malaysians. What do you expect from Maldives ?
They
beat Kelantan 6 -1. I did not see any import players. I
don't think they can afford to have one and I am sure
they are not professionals.
They
didn't look so great but they won by a big margin.
Never
underestimate people's ability and other race. |
SARAWAK UNDER
ROBERT ALBERT |
What used to link
politics with sports were Nazi's Hitler and Soviet
Communists. With Olympic in Germany Hitler had hope to
boost himself up. And Communists was to glorify the
ideology; under Communism a nation could excel in
Science and Sports.
To my astonishment
I heard my UMNO fiends said Kedah team is weak because
PAS rules the state.
Najib was ever to
declare how good and great BN government was if Dato'
Chong Wei had brought back the Thomas Cup.
|
When Robert Albert was
Kedah's coach he was medium built, young, and handsome.
Just now when I saw him on the national TV, he looked
very much different from before, like many of us we are
afraid to take another look at us. We tend to put on
more weigh and wrinkles will start to show fade lines.
Albert is now coaching
Sarawak. I believe, if the players follow his
instructions, and politicians stay away from him Sarawak
will be a fearful and respected team. He hated smoke and
stress much on personal health of players.
I used to see him from
my seat how Albert got mad when players made errors in
sending ball. There were several basic things players
should not do when passing. He taught scientific
football.
When he moved away
Kedah went hay wire. Today I saw one or two players with
bad attitudes and do not deserve to be in the team.
From now on I will be
following Sarawak team because I believe much in
Albert's capability to guide the team to be among the
top respected states in Malaysian soccer.
26/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
AGEING AND MEMORY LOST - STREET PROGRAMMING |
I am not a computer
programmer though I found it fun playing around with
codes. My Visual Basic knowledge is plucked from books
and the internet. At 40 my vision was sharp, able to
solve sophisticated algorithm problems especially on MCE/SPM grouping of subjects for the grading. But as
time went on I found I could not recall the functions of
each program line. The main drawback was I wrote a
street program, wild and no line documentation.
Five years ago I
developed one soft ware for my friend. Below are two
Private Sub init()
On Error GoTo kel
'ambil baki tahun sudah
bakitahun = Val(Text7) 'hutbal
abf = bakitahun
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='01' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(1) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakitahun: bf(1) =
bakitahun
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='02' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(2) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(1): bf(2) =
bakih(1)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='03' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(3) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(2): bf(3) =
bakih(2)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='04' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(4) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(3): bf(4) =
bakih(3)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='05' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(5) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(4): bf(5) =
bakih(4)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='06' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(6) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(5): bf(6) =
bakih(5)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='07' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(7) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(6): bf(7) =
bakih(6)
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='08' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(8) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(7): bf(8) =
bakih(7):
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='09' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(9) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(8): bf(9) =
bakih(8):
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='10' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(10) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(9): bf(10) =
bakih(9):
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='11' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(11) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(10): bf(11)
= bakih(10):
Data1.RecordSource = "select sum(jumlah) as
jum,sum(bayar) as bay,jum-bay as bak from servis1 where
mid(tarikh,4,2)='12' and(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" +
UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(ID)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" +
Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "') and mid(tarikh,7,4)='" &
Trim(Text2) & "' and status ='I'"
Data1.Refresh
bakih(12) = Val(DBGrid1.Columns(2)) + bakih(11): bf(12)
= bakih(11):
Label2 = "Selesai Proses Kiraan"
Exit Sub
kel:
End Sub |
Private Sub pikira()
On Error Resume Next
'kiraan sebelum tahun dalam text2
Data4.RecordSource = "select * from kodpelanggan where
ucase(trim(kod)) like '" + Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "'"
Data4.Refresh
'Data2.RecordSource = "select * from servis1 where
(ucase(trim(nama))) like '" + UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or
ucase(trim(ID)) like '" + UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or
ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" + UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "'
and right(tarikh,4) < '" & Text2 & "' and status='I'
order by mid(tarikh,7,4) asc,mid(tarikh,4,2)
asc,left(tarikh,2) "
'Data2.Refresh
Data2.RecordSource = "select * from servis1 where
(UCASE(trim(NAMA)) like '" + UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "' or
ucase(trim(ID)) like '" + Trim(UCase(Text1)) + "' or
ucase(trim(nombor)) like '" + UCase(Trim(Text1)) + "')
and mid(tarikh,7,4)< '" & Trim(Text2) & "' and status
='I' order by mid(tarikh,7,4) asc,mid(tarikh,4,2)
asc,left(tarikh,2) "
Data2.Refresh
If Data2.Recordset.RecordCount = 0 Then GoTo kel
Dim tot, tot1, tah, SP, bil
SP = Space(6)
tot = 0: tot1 = 0: Dim jumhut, jumbay, jumh, JUMB, BEZA
jumh = 0: jumhut = 0: JUMB = 0: BEZA = 0
tah = Right(Data2.Recordset("tarikh"), 4)
Data2.Recordset.MoveFirst
tah = Right(Data2.Recordset("tarikh"), 4)
Do Until Data2.Recordset.EOF
If tah <> Right(Data2.Recordset("tarikh"), 4) Then
BEZA = BEZA + jumh - JUMB
jumh = 0: JUMB = 0
End If
tot = tot + Val(Data2.Recordset("jumlah"))
jumh = jumh + Val(Data2.Recordset("jumlah"))
If Not IsNull(Data2.Recordset("bayar")) Then JUMB = JUMB
+ Val(Data2.Recordset("BAYAR")):
If Not IsNull(Data2.Recordset("bayar")) Then tot1 = tot1
+ Val(Data2.Recordset("bayar"))
tah = Right(Data2.Recordset("tarikh"), 4)
Data2.Recordset.MoveNext
Loop
BEZA = BEZA + jumh - JUMB
Text5 = Format(tot, "######.00")
Text6 = Format(tot1, "######.00")
Text7 = Format(Val(Text5) - Val(Text6), "#####.00")
kel:
End Sub
sub-routines used
to compute monthly and annual balance of a company. Say
you want to see all the transactions of a company with
yours for year 2010, the program lines will compute any
previous balance prior to year 2010. It also shows the
month by month balance.
Today when I looked
back at those codes I found them weird. And I
can't explain the function of each line except the few
direct commands.
The other day when
my friend called me for a little modification it took me
more than four hours to trace the fault.
Now I am almost 67.
I realize my mind is getting more and more rusty. I
don't remember names, where I put my things and to turn
off my pipe water.
Now I know that
even if I am a street programmer, I should document my
programs in detail, explaining what each variable is
for, why the sub-script, and plan the block program
well.
I had wanted to
transmit program writting on finger scanners and RFID
cards to the others so that people could still continue
improving and servicing the software in case of my
demise. I wrote to the state education department
expressing my intent, free of charge. But there was not
even a line of response.
RFID program should
be interesting to learn and how to write information in
those cards. Of course I developed software to do the
job. Again I may not remember the function of each line.
I am now tired,
very tired. I dream to developed software for an iPhone
and Macbook. Nothing happened.
Progress lies in
the attitudes. Those who can't themselves from the
beginning will remain where they are. Those who believe
they can do the impossible will however succeed.
Nevertheless street
programmers do not have place among the professionals,
the master in computer science and engineering.
25/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
LIFTING MY WIFE |
Wheel chair-to car
transfer during the going home has never been a problem.
The same people came to help.
Counting the
lifting work, it is about 8 times a day. Some time 10
times depending on my wife request.
People at the
medical center were wondering how I could do the job. I
admitted that it was a little hard. My body felt the
pain. As to all other chores including managing her
waste product there is nothing to grumble about.
I told my wife that
I am getting older and weaker and that she is getting
heavier, I don't know what's going to happen later.
Relatives and my
kids are telling me to get a maid. It is easier said
than done. I had a maid before, paid 7K to a school
teacher doing the maid business. The maid has been
working at several houses before for a short term. Even
on the first day when the teacher sent the maid to me I
heard she was telling her mother in Medan that she would
be hear only for two years. After a few months the maid
told me that her son was getting married and I let her
went home, paid for all her trip, gave her plenty of
things for the marriage festival. But she never came
back.
Another Indonesian
maid ? Another 7K ? And each month I spent about 1K on
her.
I felt better
without one but only my vanishing strength of lifting my
wife. Some how I leave everything to fate.
I remember the time
when there were too many mice in my house, I wished
there was a cat. On one day by the grace of God one cat
jumped in through my window.
Who knows may be
one day there will be a poor and hungry woman pass this
way and looking for a home.
Miracle can happen.
25/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Lifting my wife is
not a trivial matter. Her great appetite added weigh
till she is now over 70KG. I have to lift her from the
bed onto the wheelchair every morning. After bathing I
have to put her back on the bed to dress her with
pampers, and take her down again.
To transfer her to the car I use a
sliding board, but her body pressure made it very hard
to pull her in. At the medical center where she is
having her dialysis there were several helpers to
transfer her onto the wheel chair.
For the first few months the nurse
seek help for a male staff somewhere to lift her onto
the dialysis chair. Some time later a nurse whispered to
me to bring the helper by myself. That won't be a simple
matter because the time when the seat is available is
unknown. How could I ask anybody to wait when he has
some other work to do. So I decided to do the transfer
job by myself.
The dialysis space is small. Many a
time I had to squeeze in as the nurse was around
preparing the machine. That made the turning extremely
difficult. Until one day I dropped hard on my back while
lifting, knocking a plastic pail and broke it. My wife
fell on the floor as well.
Miraculously I was not injured and I
didn't feel any pain. By the fall I should have a blood
clot on my head.
After help from several persons my
wife was seated on her chair. I left the ward to buy the
pail to replace the broken one.
About four hours
later I went to fetch my wife bringing the new pail with
me. There were three nurses around my wife and me. One
told me not to do the lifting job without them around. I
said nothing because every time I wanted to lift my wife
I saw the nurse that attended my wife would turn away.
In fact a few months before a nurse said to me it was
not their job to lift a patient.
Now I notice there are two nurses
nearby watching me doing the lifting job. One hold the
wheel chair. |
19
YEAR OLD MADE BOMBS ? |
BLOCKING CALL
There
is no simple way for my iPhone to block
incoming call from a certain disliked
individual. I need to jailbreak and download
a software to do the job. I jailbreak once.
I am not going to do it again.
I went
to investigate Samsung. Samsung has a
blocking mode. Samsung Galaxy Note II is a
little bigger than Samsung Galazy III. The
former costs almost 2K and the Galaxy 3 is
priced at RM1.6K.
Migrating from iPhone to Samsung for just a
single person whom I don't like to talk is a
real wastage. To withdraw my saving would
reduced me to a pauper. But emotion always
rule over reason. I was about to go to the
bank had it not been a Sunday.
An
iPhone can block all calls and allows a
certain listed numbers. It would not serve
my purpose. There might be important calls
from people whose phones are not listed.
Should
I buy Samsung Galaxy 3 ? |
PHD PEOPLE
SHOULD NEVER STOP LEARNING
It was
yesterday I heard comments from another
PHD lady about the need to introduce
sciences in pre-school on the IKIM
Radio. She was talking about the
teaching of awareness to the kids and
the importance of sciences in nation
development.
I said
to my wife that the lady was talking
shit.
We
don't teach awareness or the importance
of sciences to the pre-school kids. We
expose the magic of science principles
to them. Science gadgets for inertia,
gravity, static electricity and others.
We let the kids do the experiments and
enjoy the fund. Our intervention is as
little as possible.
Getting a PHD is not the end. PHD in
English is talking about quantum science
? The learning must continue.
21/04/2013 |
|
One was shot dead
and one is under custody. Dzokar and Tamerin were 19 and
26 years old respectively, already knew how to
make bombs. They were Chechen by origin. The broad
reason given for their action was they were Muslims.
Most articles
disclosed on their character but not on how they learnt
to make bombs and where they get the materials from.
That's what the FBI should find out and let the public
know about it. To which terrorist group were they attach
to ? How close were they to Osama Ben Laden ?
There is a saying
'Dead man tells no tale'. When the brother was shot and
killed there is a period in the defense. I can't guess
what the 19 year old brother is going to tell the FBI
about the bomb; where he get them.
I am sure the
American Patriot group will study the case in detail and
will response to the case if they found it false flag,
set up for a certain purpose. Otherwise the group will
issue no comment, only defending their assumption base
on preliminary statements that are conflicting.
Though making a
bomb may not be difficult if you know what to use and
how to do it, the bomb has to be tested. Surely the
explosion would cause a loud bang. If the two brothers
know where to buy the bomb materials surely the other
young Americans would also know where to get them.
In other words
there cannot be only one or two bombs in the hand of
American youths. There have to be a large numbers.
Could we believe it
?
So let us wait and
see more of the coming stories.
20/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
Things are getting
more interesting. The mother said the sons had been
under FBI surveillance for at least three years and been
framed in the bombing case. The initial response of the
patriots was the False Flag. What could have been a
puzzle is why the FBI put the Chechens under
surveillance ? And what is the objective of the False
Flag ?
Remember the
poisoned letters sent to Obama and several congressmen
by the Americans ? The news has stopped. Is it not
worthy of the news to be expanded like Boston bombing ? |
THE
WOUND CAN NEVER BE HEALED |
LOOK BUT DO NOT SEE |
The Malays,
majority of them, depend on their ears rather than
observations. They look but they can't see. They can't
comprehend what they are looking at, no question and no
analysis.
Their experience
in their surrounding, of what they might see, made them
think that the whole nation is like their kampong. Those
who are locked in their offices and work places for
years, only travel by the highways will never focus what
is not within their views.
I took a slow
drive from my home to Sungai Tiang to witness the flag
display, almost all were blue and green. The blues were
everywhere all along the road, big and small. The green
around Pendang area were almost at par despite the blue
dominance.
I saw several
things; good money for the businessmen selling
cloth and dyes. UMNO must have spent millions while PAS
do not have such a huge sum. Where do the money come
from ? I saw a deep and long Malay split and conflict,
which would never be healed by anything. It is a rift
between good and evil. One of them has to be on the dark
side.
And there are
many people who are like me, who do not embrace any
particular color but would readily criticized what is
not right. Corruption, for instant, is not right.
Mismanagement of public funds is not right. We might see
things differently from both blue and green flags.
Ibrahim Ali
found himself being rejected after his loud vocal. By
all logic UMNO should have accepted him as it's
candidate. So is the number two in Wanita UMNO, who got
no place, suspected being kicked by the number one.
Hatred deepened even among the same team.
The good thing
of the Malays is that they are easily cheated and fell
to words of praise. That's how the MCA rides UMNO, and
cheated them high and low.
If people who
supported UMNO knew the real identity of the party they
won't let themselves being used by the party.
Yesterday while
I was passing a man with a phone I heard him saying
"Today the Malays vote for DAP". What I heard was more
than that. He would probably mean the Malays can't stand
the Malay leadership anymore.
How could we
expect the Malays to settle down and mend the wound that
is so deep, so far beyond the abyss and so far
beyond repair.
18/04/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
My student who
is a staunch supporter of UMNO was rage when I said I
would NOT vote for UMNO. Then she passed the smart-phone
to her son to convince me. I told them to mark my words
that her father and mother would be thrown out of their
kampong after BN wins the GE13. I said BN robbed the
Malay land and the Bendang and sold away at expensive
price to developers.
Woman won't want
to stop talking, giving reasons and excuses. "You have
to take all your family members and your in-law and stay
with you or put them in flats. Write whatever I say on
your wall and wait after the election,"I said.
But I knew she
was scared because the area where her parents and
sisters live have been taken away for shops, super
markets and housing projects. I know she will start
thinking hard about it, not about who to vote but about
the future of her parents home.
In Alor Setar
farmlands are diminishing. Foreigners and outsiders
moved to those areas. Roads became jam because of the
increased of cars and people in the state. Houses became
unaffordable to many people except flat dwellings which
are narrow and hard to buy.
I won't call my
student again but will be waiting for her call. This
time she will not talk about politics again. Soon she
will tell me that I have always been right, that her
parents have to find a new place to stay. My estimate
they will get around RM300K, which is far less than a
descent bungalow for four.
Her husband is
very close to UMNO Ministers, including Mukhriz. She
will be telling him my stand. Even with Mukhriz
intervention the father will have to move away. It is
imminent to happen.
She rang me up
to seek some donation for someone who needs about 6K.
She said one UMNO Wakil Rakyat said he could give only
RM200 after the election. I did not mention Mukhriz for
I knew she would get more mad.
People are
people. After they made mistakes and we point out their
folly they would simply say 'APA NAK BUAT'. That's
typical of a Malay. The same person who fought for UMNO
will be cursing the party a few months after that.
There will be
tons of unqualified people coming to their elected
leader asking for help for university entry, jobs and
other assistance.
They simply do
not learn history, look but do not see. The smartest of
their reply was ,"Ambil pi lah tanah tu, harta bukan nak
bawa mati.' ( Take whatever the government want.
Properties could not be brought to the grave) |
WHAT ACTUALLY
HAPPEN IN BOSTON ? |
IS
BOSTON FALSE FLAG ? |
What is actually
happen in Boston in particular and USA in general, where
killings and murdering are rife and of almost an
everyday affair. The first that crossed Obama's mind was
the Muslim terrorist. Didn't he say that the world is
better off without Ben Laden and Saddam and Ghadafi ?
They are all gone, dead. Yet in the heartland of the
United States bombing and killings is taking place.
Economy and politics
in America are not good. Millions are jobless. People of
higher qualification are doing the low level job.
Healthcare issue is not agreeable. And the group that
call themselves patriots are not happy with banks and
Wall Streets and the non white Anglo-Saxon control of
the economy and politics of the great country.
The attempts to make
people forget their problems by creating external threat
of Islam terrorism has almost diminished by the death of
Osama. Now it turns to North Korea, telling the people
of the nuclear threat that will be dropped on
American soil. Some can accept and others are fully
aware of the hidden intention.
American patriots
questioned the 911 no matter what the government was
trying to do; using the Arabs to admit the bombing and
causing death of main 911 witnesses. The controlled
demolition issues were not met with satisfactory
replies.
The authority arrested
the suspect at the wee hours, not the Muslims but the
White Americans, calling them terrorists. FEMA camps
were erected to deal with the possible internal revolt.
Boston could be the
voice of the unhappy Americans who saw through the veils
of the capitalists and the New World Order.
If USA uses it's
strong and powerful military and police to quell the
dissidents it is doing nothing other than killing it's
own populace.
BOSTON - ILLUMINATI NWO FALSE FLAG |
Watch out Lahad Datu.
Learn what is False Flag, 911 and even the recent Boston
bombing. It is almost parallel to the move against guns'
. The idea is to prevent and to crush the Patriots. The
Patriots is pointing against the invisible government,
the NWO, who plan to eliminate those movement against
them.
The right winger is
waiting to see who the American government is trying to
strike.
Watch the Infowar.com.
Understanding False
Flag will open up our eyes, to the understanding of the
strong possibility of Lahat Datu.
In USA it was trying
to turn attention away from economic illness. |
SHOULD A
MALAY RESPECTS A MALAY JUST BECAUSE OF THE SAME STOCK ? |
HAM RADIO AND COMPUTER |
A man with the
right set of mind will not respect criminals, murderers,
robbers, hooligans, crooks and rogue individuals. Being
a Malay does not give him immunity. As a criminal he
must be treat as one regardless of his background or his
status.
We don't know who
is the Malay when we see one. He can be a prowler, a
pimp, an addict, a drug pusher, a con man or a big time
criminal. His talk and dress won't tell us a thing. We
cannot even trust a man with a rob and a 'serban' and a
songkok.
Lately the Malays
are horrible. A Haji wildly calling another Haji and
infidel and idolater, framing and trapping another for
sex scandal, cheating another of their land, selling
magic water to cure diseases, and destroying the Malay
race slowly. They are so very greedy, stupid and
arrogance.
One may know a
little more of the office mate because of the mutual
visit, after more than 5 years of working relationship
and social interactions. Even then there are bad apples
among the workgroups. And the bad ones are not worthy of
friendship. How many became guarantor and losing
thousands of dollars for nothing ? And how many simply
do not pay back their loans ? They finally know who can
and cannot be trusted.
But somehow bad
people have friends and good people have enemies. Drug
dealers and bif time criminals have followers and
supporters. A few get themselves to be politicians, and
continue to plunder national resources for themselves.
Do you think they
think themselves as Malays ? Their kids and wives are
foreigners. They dressed themselves as Europeans at
dinner and wedding festivities.
I always tell my
friends 'You cry when they die. They won't care about
you when you are sick, poor or die.....'
15/04/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof
|
Are we denying
that computer communication is efficient and reliable ?
Even in the event of the local electrical failure the
electronic gadgets can still conserve power for more
than two days.
A pocket size
smart-phone is a great traveling companion. My son does
not have to have a radio license to send free messages
from USA back home. He doesn't have to know RTTY, AMTOR,
and all other digital terms to have visual contacts.
The era of
communication difficulties are gone. Those were the days
when ham radio license was handy if your kids were
studying abroad. I have to dig 3 months old newspapers
in the library at the underground level to read the
stale news on Malaysia.
Today a
miniature gadget does everything for us. It is indeed
amazing when I sent live images from Beijing and
Shanghai back to Malaysia. It was all free.
Most hams own a
computer or a smart phone each. When someone says
internet cost money and ham is totally free, I don't see
the logic anywhere. Communicating or not through the
internet one has to pay the internet fee. Is it not
ironic for hams to communicate with other hams using
computers ?
Without an
intense campaigning and propaganda there is a great
possibility the numbers of hams will slowly be fading.
What will be left is radio as mobile companion. One can
talk while going to office and back, and going for a
long traveling trip.
Some people look
at amateur radio as a source of income generation. They
set up commercial repeaters and collect membership fees,
importing and selling equipments, lobbying for task
privatization ie managing ham radio on behalf of the
government.
Hams must point
out the uniqueness of the hobby which are not found in
any other hobby or technological culture that made the
hams feel proud. |
SEX
AND POLITICS |
LONGEVITY |
Sex as a
political weapon is not a new thing, neither it is
Barisan Nasional's cup of tea. It existed since the
beginning of political espionage, war and early
conquest. The more modern scene that exploded was the
Promo-Keller affair.
Political
learders who travel alone are always trapped in a hotel
or guest room with a woman and pictures or video were
shot. When Sukarno was blackmailed by the Russian with
him and a woman, he welcomed the Russian to show the
picture to the Indonesians.
I talked to
Social Escorts about their work entertaining politicians
local and abroad with sex. They are being employed
either by government or some third party guys to do the
jobs.
Smart
politicians always take their wives along on trips and
prefer to stay in their close friends' home rather than
the hotel rooms, which are ever ready with cameras to
capture them for political gain or money.
Politicians who
stay alone will always get a knock on their door. In
some hotels the women can be so very beautiful. Men tend
to forget themselves when lured by a beauty queen.
Sex Blackmail is
not a rare thing. Some people are keeping sex pictures
of every politician. It is a profession, a way to make a
living for normal people. Usually one political party
has a special unit to do the dirty job.
14/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
I can't imagine an 86+
year old man being dragged to court and being drilled by
lawyers for his dirty mouth. The business of a country
should be left to the younger people. There are many of
them out there, much brighter and abler than 80+ old
men.
True indeed that long
life pose major problems to the younger generations. At
least Mahathir can manage himself up while many others
are seriously ill and sick, giving burden to their
offsprings. The appropriate age to die may be around 70.
When old people die many feel very relief.
The best for 70+
people to do is to near themselves to God. The Muslims
go to mosque, the Christians go to church, the Jews go
to synagogue and the rest go to temples. If they still
have strength they can attend to their grand children,
telling stories of adventures and epics, of the days of
fantasy and magic, and of the old days before there was
electricity and pipe water.
How could I say
Mahathir is normal when he asked the Malays to sell
their land and buy shares, putting police force in other
government departments to spy and arrest people who were
against him, manipulating judiciary and the most recent
to say there will be chaos and riots if Kit Siang win
Gelang Patah ?
The sign of unstable
mind indicates a great fear of being put to jail and
losing all the wealth and money made from the rakyat. He
sees apparitions. Longevity is a hell to the person and
to the nation. Yet Mahathir believes he will never die.
He has the way to fight death with mere batteries.
The longer he lives
the more crazy things we will be hearing from him. He
should go to mosque and prepare for the next world. |
IS
MALAYSIAN HAM RADIO IN TURMOIL ? |
NORTH KOREA
AND USA |
END OF
TIME ? |
USA is ever ready
to attack North Korea. The show of force by both USA and
South Korea met with a furious North Korean response. It
has been a long intention of Israel and USA to paralyze
the Communist nation. The main concern is USA does not
want North Korea to be a nuclear nation or passing the
technology to other Arab countries.
If there is a war,
it will be a costly war. To what extend the Yellow skin
barbarian could inflict damage to South Korea and USA's
fleets is hard to guess. USA may win but the damage
could be huge.
10/04/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
SWL NUMBER 65162 |
WHERE ARE WE
? |
PBS ( Penilaian
Berdasarkan Sekolah) |
|
An
Indonesian air jet, Lion, crashed into the ocean on
13/04/2013 injuring up to 45 people. It happened in
Bali.
Accidence happens.
I wonder how many
people taking cheap flight do take insurance.
If you watch a movie
Flight 2012 you are sure to be scared to death when
taking a flight.
14/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
MCA FIGHT FOR
THE CHINESE. UMNO ? |
IT HAS ALWAYS
BEEN UMNO'S STUPIDITY |
UMNO does not fight
for the Malays because there is nothing to fight for.
What is left is the power to grab from the people
to be divided among the family members and their
friends. 30% economic policy for the Bumi ? The Petron ?
The NFC ? The toll road ?
When the Chinese
has pride in their languages, Mahathir find Malay
language and Jawi stinking smell. He prefers English.
While the Chinese have been working hard to buy land,
Mahathir asked the Malays to sell theirs and invest the
money in shares. Is that what UMNO fight for the Malays
?
13/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Why all the stuff of 'balik China
and balik India' ? Let us assume that the Chinese and
the Indians are stronger and wealthier, smarter than the
Malays in law and businesses. For more than 50 years
what has UMNO done to make the Malays more superior,
wealthier and smarter ? Why only now Mahathir, PERKASA
and the rest of UMNO goons are telling the Malays about
the Chinese and the Indians ? While the 'balik China and
India' is on one side, the Indians and the Chinese is
calling their people to vote BN on another side. WHY ? |
SAVE RM3 A DAY
I used to spend
at least RM3 a day buying The Star, Utusan Malaysia and
The New Straits Time. It has been more than 4 years
since I stopped buying them. The reason is simple. They
contain at least 10% of lies. I also stopped watching TV
for more than 5 years except for soccer matches. From
time to time I would watch American Idol.
Three dollars is
not negligible. I can do many things with it.
Media lies
because they are owned by either politicians or their
friends. The aim was to deceive people so that the same
government can keep control of the country. They lie to
the Malays but they can't do it to the Chinese. The
Chinese wants to see the deeds immediately. The Malays
wait and it never come.
I don't have to
know what the government does from the papers because I
see the government's work and deeds everyday with my own
eyes. There are the good sides of the government and
there are many bad sides as well. The ONE bad can erase
all the goodness because of it's grave and devastating
outcome that totally kill the hope and aspiration.
Whenever I saw
someone reading Berita Harian or Utusan Malaysia, I felt
so very sorry for them no matter what their intents are.
|
UMNO LOSE TWO VOTES |
My son who is a
staunch supporter of UMNO just flew to USA a couple of
minutes ago. He will miss the GE13. By the time he
return to Malaysia everything will be over.
I tried to point
out all the deceptions of UMNO, he just laughed and said
my imagination was unreal. Whatever when one UMNO is
gone UMNO will be losing a vote.
My wife is
another strong supporter of Najib and Rosmah. She would
support Rosmah all the way despite her being very sick.
She is so sick that she would not be able to go to the
polling station. UMNO will be losing two known votes
from my family.
One thing that I
am certain, that I am more smart than any of them. I can
differentiate honesty and dishonesty, recognize the
forms of corruptions, understand UMNO's operative
procedures and all the covert actions. They don't.
In an election
like this when the incumbents are deadly fearful of
revenge a single vote is extremely significant and very
important. Even Mahathir has to go out with the most
powerful arsenal to win votes for UMNO.
I think without
fraud UMNO would not win. A police has two votes. Extra
invisible ballot boxes will appear when the counts are
towards Pakatan.
12/04/2013 -
Abdul Rahman Raof |
CONCEPT -
MAJORITY & MINORITY
Majority
and minority are concept implanted by
philosophers and politicians. It is just
opinions and views. We are made to think
that majority rules and majority is right.
We should know that we cannot depend solely
on majority to get justice. Neither can we
depend on the minority.
Don't we
hear stories of judgment of guilt is made by
the majority ? A criminal has to be taken to
court. We don't seek people's voice or
opinion to judge him as guilty or otherwise.
Else a murderer can buy freedom if he has
enough money to donate to every member of
the public.
The
authenticity or validity of a club or
society does not depend on the size of the
memberships. Similarly the military
strength of a country is not by the body or
weapon counts or population size. And we do
hear that this world is run only by a
handful of people controlling the banks,
media and military.
Do we need
to educate Malaysians on this topic and
issue, splitting hairs and dragging other
sensitive political phenomena ? The HAMs in
this country need to understand this
carefully and try to be rational as much as
possible. The TRUTH of a radio society does
not depend on the memberships.
ASTRA and
MARES were formed by the splinter groups
either on racial basis or disagreements with
individuals. We have to study the history of
the splits and the individual involves
without hiding anything. There is no short
cut and easy way to come to conclusion.
CLIK TO CONT. |
|
WHAT IT MEANS
- HAM RADIO IS DEAD |
When hams no longer
respect the ancient tradition of ham radio that was
passed from generation to generation, ham radio no
longer carries the natural identity. The characteristic
is missing. Like the Holly Books of Al-Quaran, Bible or
Torah we don't pluck phrases out or replace them with a
new ones.
The core of the ham
radio is it's basic characteristics; SWLing, RAE, CW,
jargons and Q-Codes, identification of stations, SOP and
communication through the air wave.
The hams titles and
the call signs are hollow if there is a show of
disregards towards Morse code, SOP or the absent of
station identification. To many CW and Ham Radio are
synonymous. Without the former there is no ham radio,
though the people are happily priding themselves with
the title.
Ethic is another big
question and issue. Is it not important at all ? Is it
ethical to be the champion of the pirates, talking to
them, lending the call sign, setting up a club station
at a non-license ham, making direct money from the hobby
? Does ham radio accept criminals or terrorists ?
The traditional
package, the habits and ethics combine together to
defines ham radio.
In a Christian country
where gay marriage is a norm and 90% of the people are
Atheists, it ceases to be a Christian nation anymore. In
a ham world where CW is discarded, ham radio is dead.
03/04/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
WALK
A BIT |
MEAL PRICE - KFC BURGER DOWN |
I bought Panaflex gel at three
shops at three different prices yesterday. The first
pharmacy charged me RM21. Not far away from it is
another pharmacy which sold me at RM24. I bought it to
compare the box to see whether there is any hidden
difference. The final shop about a mile away sold it at
RM14.00.
There is a stark
difference between RM24 and RM14. Studying carefully
they are of the same exact item. Why so much a different
?
Prices differ from
shop to shop in many things. I already wrote about a
face mask which picks up between RM1.50 to forty cent a
piece.
In case you are not in
a hurry and there is no urgency in buying something just
walk a bit to the nearest shop to find out the price. If
the different is more than a ringgit it worth while to
do a little exercise.
Now I know where to
buy the cheapest pampers. At Giant it is RM23.00 per
pack. At another place it is only RM16.00.
All in all we can lose
almost RM100 for nothing in a day of shopping.
Just a little walk
made us good and we can learn the characteristic of each
shop are different from one another.
30/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
|
It was not an
April Fool. I handed the cashier RM11.00 for a Fish
Burger. She gave me back a ringgit and a few coins. I
told her the burger cost RM10.55. She said the price was
below RM10.00. Why on earth the wealthy KFC became so
generous ?
I used to pay ten ringgit even for
the combo set which includes a wedges and a drink. Then
it went up abruptly to RM10.55. I don't believe KFC
could be that kind for a sudden price dropped. Whatever
I enjoyed my fish burger while watching a game between
Manchester United and Chelsea on the TV hung on the
wall.
Today a meal costs seven ringgit. At Mac D be
ready to spend more than 10 ringgit for a meal. I would
spend fifteen ringgit at the outlet.
The Fast Food Restaurants make tons
of profit. Probably a small portion is donated to a
political party or a certain individuals. If they gave
to the government, the PM will distribute part of it to
the voters.
My cheapest dinner is RM3.20,
containing two package of nasi lemak and a glass of
coffee. The starch is not too good for health as
compared to fish. Fish at Merry Brown is about RM12.
Certainly KFC is cheaper. In the ordinary stall and the
Regent Hotel a plate of Fish & Chip is priced at RM9.
My wife has her own meal; porridge,
chicken and bread. For her I never care how much I
spent. Her favorite is KFC.
02/04/2013 |
VIRTUAL HAM RADIO |
This morning on my
ICOM I heard Nordin, 9M2NM, calling CQ. I called him
back using my iphone running this software. But Nordin
never came back. I heard somebody else with an
Australian accent came back, didn't sound like a ham.
I knew then all
communications using this virtual ham radio go through a
server. It is therefore just like any other ham soft
ware. I decided not to even try it again.
I remember reading a
short story about using a bow and arrow to shoot a bird.
One man suggested to use a gun. The reply was "There is
no glory using the gun...." It is just like going up a
mountain using a helicopter and climbing the steep using
rope and manual energy. People still choose the
silly and the stupid way.
Going through the ham
radio by RAE and Morse is just another adventure for a
glory. Or else scrap both for the easy way. If it is
just for worlwide communication there are enormous soft
ware which allow us to achieve it with the clarity of
audio and video.
Pressing a real button
is like holding a real woman. Clicking an image is just
like touching a woman on a screen.
If you want to try it
go to Hamsphere, download it and try the radio. You may
enjoy the fun. But I don't.\
30/03/2013 |
Virtual radio on a PC
? Anyone has downloaded and pay a fee for operating ham
radio using a PC or the smart phone ? I have just
downloaded it on my iPhone. The free usage is ONE week,
after which if you want to join the group the annual fee
is USD40.
|
Heaven the Afterlife |
MALAY GENIUS ? |
Those who do not
believe in life after death and heaven and hell will not
smell heaven ever. A good Muslim ham who obeys God and
do good to others- men, plant and animals can pray to be
placed amongst the good souls in the indescribable
ecstasy of the glorious abode.
If you are a ham
what sort of life do you want to have in heaven ? A 500
foot tower and a super-duper antenna system ? A shack
made of gold and diamond with a rig without a knob but
operate on verbal command ?
Most of us have
seen fantasy movies showing colorful and beautiful
sparkling landscape and flowers. Even the Arvatar
landscaping is beautiful enough that made us wanting to
stay and enjoy the tranquility.
I would not want to
be a Superman, having a golden home and beautiful wife.
I want the life like I am now, driving a small car,
having a messy shack with the intermittent rig and
antenna, to work CW with the same straight key.
Imagine your
current life and imagine a more luxurious and the
lustrous magical world where everything is automatic,
would you opt to stay foot or move to the fantasy world
of magic ?
Even now I already
missed the old fun of chasing kites, catching fighting
fish, shave ice ( ais kepal ) and climbing trees. If I
have a time machine I want to go back to 1950s.
Actually God has
given us the joy of life in this beautiful world. Heaven
is infinitely better. It lets you feel the type of life
you choose if you want. Surely you would want a 800'
antenna with 20 element beam and 1 mega watt of power,
and a rig that can talk back to you.
In heaven I would
request 1950's life with trees and undergrowth but
without mosquitoes, no sickness and illness.
How many percent of
the world population are Atheists, sinners and simply do
not believe in life after death. Good luck to them.
29/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Nikolai Tesla, the
father of AC current, was made an enemy by Edison. When
I was in school no teacher and no book mentioned the
name Tesla. Only now I know Edison was not an honorable
man. Jealous of Tesla he tried to buried Tesla.
Tesla came from Europe
to try his fortune in the United States. It is only
today the glamour of his name arises.
I have been thinking
who among the Malays are genius before and today. We
have Malay scientists but how eminent are they compared
to the world great inventors. We also have never heard
of any Korean names in our history books. Yet today
Samsung and Hyundai almost rule.
The trace of genius is
currently done by the United States with the use of the
internet. Free soft wares for blog, the facebook and
other instruments are monitoring the mentality and the
ability of the world's population. Smart people from
other nationalities are dangerous and must be constantly
monitored.
But the Malays are far
behind the Koreans, the Chinese and the Japanese.
Mahathir said it again the Malays are stupid but did not
state whether for supporting UMNO or PR. But I see the
Malays as people who cannot think well, instead
believing lies told by their leaders and very
short sighted.
How could we produce
half of Nikolai Tesla then ?
It does not take the
American to assess our brain. You can try to make your
own assessment by reading the face book and hear
statements by fellow politicians.
No genius in Malaysia
can be projected especially if he is in disagreement
with the ruling party. Jealousy and greed pushed them
down the dark abyss.
You follow you
survive. Nobody would entertain a genius even if there
is one but they will entertain you if you prepare to
destroy the members of the opposition. We are rich with
the heart of the Edison, evil and viscious. |
PERKASA CAN HELP THE MALAYS |
The Malays are now aggressive in
supplement business. Each day on
national radio and TV several herbal
products were introduced, some
claiming to cure diabetes and heart
diseases. The most interesting of
all is the 'magic water'. If you
think of purchasing any of the
supplements or the herbal medicines
you need to know about the diseases.
You can read the internet to
investigate more about the sickness.
Diabetes for instant cannot be cured
but the blood sugar level can be
controlled. Consult a doctor
before you proceed with any herbal
or supplement consumption. I read an
article in the website about the
danger of Alfa-Lipid and Gamat
Healing that contains steroid.
Even if the products are imported
from USA, GB or Australia they may
be freak. Look before you leap. |
|
DETERMINATION AND HARD WORK
I like to observe the
relationship between students' exam performance
and their socio-economic background. My case
observations had been from my old school where I
worked for 20 years.
In the most
recent 2012 SPM the best student was a girl who
scored 8As and 1 B. Her father who was a
carpenter had passed away and she is living with
her poor mother. Her sister a village Koran
teacher is the breadwinner.
Comparing her with the children
of my other friend they are far apart. Those
other kids own an iPad even at year one primary
school, a RM5K camera while in Form 3 and follow
tuition classes to boost the learning. Yet the
performance in the public examination was never
excellent.
Socio-economic status can assist
success but it is not the main determinant
factor. The most important is the hard work and
a very strong determination. God helps those who
help themselves.
Lazy people who ask for free
things are parasite to society and a disgrace to
his race. |
Many Malay stalls in Alor Setar
are selling food and beverages at a
reasonable price but not the Mamak
shops. A glass of coffee fetched a
price between RM1 to RM1.50, the
later of which from the Mamak
stalls. Other Malays follow the
Mamak prices. |
|
|
One student of
mine asked me about her son's college education with a
mediocre SPM result. What can I say and do ? What can we
say and do ? She should seek the help of PERKASA.
She represents other thousands
mothers who care much about their children's future. She
said PTPTN is expensive. She has several kids to look
after. To cut the long conversation short I typed '
JANJI DITEPATI'. Indeed she quit the conversation.
I would like to call the Malays to
write to PERKASA on the problems faced by their kids;
housing, jobs and education.
28/03/2013 |
WHAT SPOIL HAM RADIO |
MY COMMON SENSE OF WAVE RADIATION |
THE MIND of a PHD
ULAMA |
HAM RADIO is not a
show of smartness, not a political body, not a hobby to
make money and not a battle field to kill and injure
people. But what is happening is otherwise. I find ham
radio is a character assassination, righting the wrong,
deception and lies, fortune hunting and the members are
using the radio merely for political purposes.
Rogue and frequency
terrorists is one thing. A bad character ham is another.
For all those
reasons Malaysian hams do not unite; there is a MART,
ASTRA and MARES, historically formed either on racial
basis or disagreement among groups.
Once we used to
say ham radio keeps a husband at home. Today hams have a
nightly or weekly meeting. I never attended any of them
so I don't know what transpire out of those gatherings,
what their topics of discussion were. One, which I
guess, could be the injecting of hatred towards the
other hams.
I don't make myself
a habit of reading blogs. The articles may be good or
useless. There might be blogs that are attacking
personalities. Some just want to inform the readers. And
some are expressing their bullshit views ( like mine).
Whatever hamming
today it does not have even 1% fun as the yester years.
May be the old hams are too stupid to enjoy the
old-fashioned hamming culture with the full ham
spirit.
Take a ball and
throw it to a group of kangaroos, what will they do with
the ball ? Give to a group of Jakun what will they do
with it ? But mind you, if you bring a chess to the
native chief of Papua New Guinea he will play the game
and beat you.
27/03/2013 |
At this age the urge
to do research to seek the truth is almost nil. Instead
of a thorough investigation I chose to use my common
sense. This time it is about antenna.
Once a dipole is a
dipole of full length. As people are getting smarter
they want to reduce the length and came up with several
versions of it commonly identified with the person
inventing it, like G5RV.
One way of shortening
the antenna is by coiling a portion of it. Coiling
shortened the width but the physical length remains.
Some hams believe the shortening by coiling is a superb
way to save space.
Now let us take a 33
foot wire and turn it into a coil and transmit RF into
it, will it act as an antenna or as a dummy load ?
Common sense tell us that if dummy load can transmit
then might s well use dummy load than the antenna.
A coiling an antenna
reduces efficiency. A Yagi regains the lost by the use
of other elements, the reflector and a series of
radiators.
Before buying a too
small antenna that claims it is good for 40 meter band,
think about it first. When I worked a field day station
using such mini dipole I had to strain my ears trying to
figure out what the operator was trying to say.
Whatever I write here
does not guarantee the truth. It solely lies on my
conjecture of common sense. But sciences is not guessing
or common sense.
Make a point to
describe your antenna during a communication with a new
station. We hope they do not use strange antenna system
that we have never heard of.
If you enjoy coiling
your antenna to shorten it by all mean do it and enjoy
the fun. |
Someone asked a PHD
Ustaz on IKIM Radio about Islamic country and the rule
of Hudud. The Ustaz glibly explained about moderate and
extreme Islam and went on to explain that some of the
Arab nations moved from moderation to extremism.
A stupid guy like
me see thing differently, far different from the PHD
Ustaz. The question actually addressed two separate
issues; ISLAM and the PEOPLE.
ISLAM itself has no
moderation, extremism or any other similar description.
It is the people who set the level as to his own value.
From the different point of view a penalty to a certain
crime differ, from a light one to a severe one for the
same crime.
And the same man
will give different value to the same crime; death
penalty is considered a savage but murdering innocent
souls are not.
If the Ustaz refuse
to apply Hudud law as a Prime Minister it is his right
not to obey the Hudud but it has nothing to do with the
moderation or extremism in Hudud itself. And the Ustaz
himself does not come under any of the category. He just
do not care about Hudud.
And the Ustaz has
all the right to value Islam in his own view and
perspective, which may be true or false.
What the PHD Ustaz
is implying is Islam is out of date using the rhetoric
of his PHD. Sometime being stupid is better than having
a PHD trying to manipulate Islam for his own political
survival. |
MALAYS SPLIT |
WHAT THE
WINNERS SHOULD THINK |
The stupidity of
the Malays almost reach the peak. They are killing each
other for honor and money. There is lawlessness; each
day the looting of public fund, the corruption,
hooliganism and deception is spreading and getting
worst. One ulama called another ulama, Nik Aziz, the
Father of Satan and now they came up with a Fatwa that
voting PAS is forbidden by God. A group of Malays ran
wild throwing stones and injuring another Malays.
MCA and DAP are enemies but they do
not act as what the Malays are doing now.
The Malays are too far different from
each other today except for some of the similar names
and language. Some minds are still clean and others are
getting filthier and filthier. Murder and attempted
murder, threatening to kill and arrest, and the animal
instinct seem to rule.
Since when the Malays have become
inconsiderate, drug addicts, aggressive and big time
criminals ? Since when the Malays began to go to church
? Since when they became so rude and involved in
hooliganism ?
The brotherhood of a Malay race is a
false dream. More important is the brotherhood of Islam.
A good Muslim can be of any racial stock. Between a bad
Malay and a good Chinese we must reject a bad Malay. My
sentiment is; if there are two good Malays, one is a
Muslim and another a Christian, I would reject a
Christian despite him being a Malay.
Why the Malays are losing their
direction and culture today ?
The fish rot from it's head.
25/03/2013 - Abdul
Rahman Raof |
No winner should think
of making money for themselves and their cronies. If
there are elements of sincerity then there will no
privatization and de-privatization; profitable agencies
are privatized and when losing money given back to
government. Mahathir is the King in this area.
Solving the economic
problem of scarcity in relation to our population and
it's growth by all the races, find the best solution to
share the resources among all races. Let the debate be
broadcast to all and the public can judge who are among
the members are unreasonable. Of course the government
must be prepared for the impasse.
Set a clear rule that
the police can arrest even a Prime Minister who offered
corruption and let the court decide whether it isn't.
All projects must be
open tendered.
Housing projects on
hills and agriculture land must stopped in the
Peninsular Malaysia. We cannot hpe Sabah and Sarawak
will provide us with whatever things we want. Sabah is a
volatile state that can change ownership.
There must be a big
scale war on drug menace. Eliminate all.
Economic and
technological development must be in front aiming at
becoming technological production not merely
consumption. Competency of manpower must be fast
enhanced thru an effective education system.
|
THE
SIMPLE MIND OF A PARENT |
FATWA IS NOT KACANG
PUTEH |
A mother was
very happy when her son fared the 23rd position in a
marathon run recently. "Are you happy with that position
? " I asked. "No 23 in Malaysia you know," she insisted.
To her 23rd
position means her son is above the 20 million other
Malaysians.
Such a simple
mind will always be grateful to God and the political
leaders. Similarly, in the recent SPM result; while
others were celebrating with the straight As, a parent
whose child obtain D,C, and Bs were happy with the
achievement. "That's better than all Ds or Fs."
Many Malay
parents are thankful with what they have. That was the
traditional Malays thinking. The good thing is they
never get greedy. The bad thing is they will never be at
the top and will be left behind.
Parents whose
kids became drug addict would just say, "Modern kids are
like that. It is not only my son, but the whole kampong
boys." They leave everything to fate, fighting
misfortunes with prayers.
Traditional
Malays could not tolerate being challenged by younger
generations. Kids and young people are to respect the
elders and to always show gratitude.
Many parents do
not expect good jobs for their kids. Any job will do as
long as it is a job.
Such simple
thinking Malays are of the advantage to the political
master.
23/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
What is not in the
Quaran and the Hadith is brought and resort to FATWA.
Issuing a Fatwa is something serious and has a long
implication. The mind set must be opened up to the
global view so as not to open to contradictions,
degradation of Islam and regarded as 'kang puteh'.
Many of us do know
about the Fatwa on smoking. And every time I was at the
stadium watching soccer games people on my left, right,
behind and front were puffing out tons of smokes.
Ulama needs to be very
careful so that people will not discard Islam. Too much
talking tend to mix with stories that mind could reject.
Ulama should not allow
themselves to be herd like a cattle to make Fatwa for
purposes other than that of religion.
When I was in
Bloomington Indiana I found that the Friday sermon
conveyed by Imams from countries other than Saudi Arabia
would condemn much of Israel. But the Saudi Imam only
talked about death and topics only pertaining to
religion. That was in the 80's.
When an Ulama said
voting PAS is haram because PAS is a supporter of DAP
the Fatwa is not consistent with UMNO's corroboration
with MCA that promise to stop Islam in Malaysia. It is
not only the Ulama lost respect and made a laughing
stock but also the divinity of the FATWA is compared to
Kacang Puteh.
Why
do people accept corruption ? Because
the leaders accept money and gifts, and corrupt
the citizens with
all sorts of things. Even Ghani Patail's house
renovation was paid by other people. Therefore
there is nothing wrong in giving and taking. |
|
EXPOSING CRIMES ARE CRIMES |
ARE MUSLIMS
GOOD PEOPLE ?
Once we
were made to believe that Muslims are good
and trustworthy. In Malaysia it is
otherwise. Here we see heavy exchanges
between the Muslims . One Muslim going
around calling the other a 'Jew' and a sex
maniac and received a counter accusation of
murdering, corruption and womanizing. Then
another group of Muslims doing a but dance
in public, throwing stones and that resulted
in injury and damage. And we see Muslim
looting public fund to create wealth for the
family. We see the spread of fallacies,
manufacturing evidence and involve in
gangsterism. Are all those the image of
Muslims ?
Even
people without religion and do not believe
in God do not commit crimes, practice
corruption or brought shame to other human
being. They have 'conscience' that guide
them to do the right and good things.
And there
are Muslims who live among the Jewish
community without being harassed, harmed or
insulted both in USA and Israel.
Goodness
does not come from a race either.
The Malays
are being told that the non-Malays and hence
the non-Muslims are bad. I don't easily buy
it as I see the Malays who call themselves
Muslims are even worst than the animals.
They are shameless and proud to be criminals
and never stop deceiving people and lying
thru their teeth.
Yet you
want to vote Rosmah Mansor ? |
|
When God, religion
and conscience are no more in a man, shame, morality and
humanity cease to exist. This is the shape of Malaysian
civilization today. OSA, the Official Secret Act, was
aimed at protecting criminals and criminal acts and
wrongdoings of government servants.
Much has been seen
in the case of Rafizi versus Shahrizat when the whistle
blowers who exposed and told of crimes done were
arrested and charged. Now the persons who taped the
criminal acts of Taib's family are facing similar
retribution.
PI Bala was hard to
arrest and charge. So is Deepak. Then we heard Bala had
an heart attacked. Tell me that nobody meet to discuss
Bala's exposure and how to deal with him. Did Najib say
that he had no time to entertain Bala as Rosmah said
that she had no time to discuss Deepak ?
Bala's death for
exposing crimes was not paid by anybody but God. God
took action on Bala for telling what he had to tell. God
punished Bala for exposing sex relationship.
We are soon to see
the murderer, drug pushers and other criminals suing
those who report and accused them. They will use the
same game as Shahrizat did '....we know we will be found
innocence...' Hence the criminals will sue those accuser
even before their court cases ended.
They made law and
they twisted the law. They behave much worst than the
Satan.
21/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Young
(TruthDig.com)
An Iraq War veteran who
joined the U.S. Army two days
after 9/11 has written
a powerful open letter to
former President George W. Bush
and ex-Vice President Dick
Cheney accusing them of war
crimes, "plunder" and "the
murder of thousands of young
Americans—my fellow
veterans—whose future you
stole."
Tomas Young, who was shot and
paralyzed during an insurgent
attack in Sadr City in 2004,
five days into his first
deployment, penned the letter
from his Kansas City, Mo., home,
where he's under hospice care.
"I write this letter, my last
letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr.
Cheney," Young
wrote in the letter published on
Truthdig.com. "I write not
because I think you grasp the
terrible human and moral
consequences of your lies,
manipulation and thirst for
wealth and power. I write this
letter because, before my own
death, I want to make it clear
that I, and hundreds of
thousands of my fellow veterans,
along with millions of my fellow
citizens, along with hundreds of
millions more in Iraq and the
Middle East, know fully who you
are and what you have done. You
may evade justice but in our
eyes you are each guilty of
egregious war crimes, of plunder
and, finally, of murder,
including the murder of
thousands of young Americans—my
fellow veterans—whose future you
stole."
The 33-year-old, who was the
subject of Phil Donahue's 2007
documentary "Body
of War," continued:
I joined the Army two
days after the 9/11 attacks.
I joined the Army because
our country had been
attacked. I wanted to strike
back at those who had killed
some 3,000 of my fellow
citizens. I did not join the
Army to go to Iraq, a
country that had no part in
the September 2001 attacks
and did not pose a threat to
its neighbors, much less to
the United States. I did not
join the Army to “liberate”
Iraqis or to shut down
mythical
weapons-of-mass-destruction
facilities or to implant
what you cynically called
“democracy” in Baghdad and
the Middle East. I did not
join the Army to rebuild
Iraq, which at the time you
told us could be paid for by
Iraq’s oil revenues.
Young believes he was injured
fighting the wrong war:
I would not be writing
this letter if I had been
wounded fighting in
Afghanistan against those
forces that carried out the
attacks of 9/11. Had I been
wounded there I would still
be miserable because of my
physical deterioration and
imminent death, but I would
at least have the comfort of
knowing that my injuries
were a consequence of my own
decision to defend the
country I love. I would not
have to lie in my bed, my
body filled with
painkillers, my life ebbing
away, and deal with the fact
that hundreds of thousands
of human beings, including
children, including myself,
were sacrificed by you for
little more than the greed
of oil companies, for your
alliance with the oil sheiks
in Saudi Arabia, and your
insane visions of empire.
"When Tomas Young saw
President Bush on television
speaking from the ruins of the
Twin Towers, his life changed,"
his bio on
the "Body of War" website
reads. "As his basic training
began at Ft. Hood, he assumed
that he would be shipped off to
Afghanistan where the terrorist
camps were based, routing out Al
Qaeda and Taliban warriors. But
soon, Bush ordered the invasion
of Iraq."
In an interview with
Truthdig.com, Young—who
suffered an anoxic brain injury
in 2008—said he had been
contemplating "conventional"
suicide, but decided to go on
hospice care, "stop feeding and
fade away."
"This way, instead of
committing the conventional
suicide and I am out of the
picture, people have a way to
stop by or call and say their
goodbyes," Young said. "I felt
this was a fairer way to treat
people than to just go out with
a note."
21/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
The
Malays who are throwing stones and injuring people and
carrying blue flags are willing to die for Shahrizat and
Rosmah. |
How
does cyanide act in the body?
After exposure, cyanide quickly enters the bloodstream.
The body handles small amounts of cyanide differently
than large amounts. In small doses, cyanide in the body
can be changed into thiocyanate, which is less harmful
and is excreted in urine. In the body, cyanide in small
amounts can also combine with another chemical to form
vitamin B12, which helps maintain healthy nerve and red
blood cells. In large doses, the body's ability to
change cyanide into thiocyanate is overwhelmed. Large
doses of cyanide prevent cells from using oxygen and
eventually these cells die. The heart, respiratory
system and central nervous system are most susceptible
to cyanide poisoning.Then it turns the skin green.
WHAT POISON AFFECT THE HEART ?
POISON
It is interesting to know more about
poison; the different types, how they work in the
bodies, and on what part of the organs the affect take
place.
KGB and CIA killed people by touching the poison to the
skin. By now there may be better poisons other than
cyanide. |
WHY
PEOPLE STILL WORK CW ? |
On 20th -
21st Mac 2013 DX band on 40 was exeptionally
good. Tons of stations from Europe were
heard. But as usual CW frequencies are full
of Indonesians on SSB.
The dying
breed ? Who will die first ?
|
Some
people talk to animals. Some to plants.
If you talk a lot to animals and plants
eventually you will come to understand
that they understand you.
It
is indeed true that talking to animals
and plants is better than talking to
people. It would be a waste of time and
breath talking to stubborn and people of
low IQ.
If
you want to talk to human being try
talking to kids. I enjoy talking and
listening to their stories and
explanations. But be prepared to answer
questions without lying. If you don't
know the answer tell them that you don't
know or forget the facts and you will
return for the answers once you get
them.
A
farmer just called a name of his cow and
the animal went to him. Once I called a
horse on the other side of the field she
came to me.
Are
animals better than men ? |
|
There are thousands
still come on Morse codes. I did not notice stark
difference between today and 40 years before except on
40 meter band where the CW portion is full of SSB
stations from Indonesia using high power transmission.
I noticed that
foreigners in Malaysia, Thailand, Kampuchea, Vietnam and
the Philippines are on the same mode. 15 and 20 meter
band seem to be very popular. Despite the mutiny against
it the hams continue to run
CW Clubs and coaching classes. Though CW is not
mandatory hams rush to join the CW academy. Why people
still work CW ?
I can't speak for all. My views are not shared by
everyone. Certainly there are good reasons for hams in
countries where Morse is no more a mandatory to
sacrifice their time and effort to go to Morse class.
I was worried about Malaysians
becoming the silent key in Morse as the old hams are
fading away. Astonishingly the newer hams are making the
country proud. Malaysia will continue to parade
Malaysian flag on CW band.
Probably people still believe that ham
radio and CW is synonymous. Even the new hams may feel
that way. Those without one crawled to be a real ham,
attending classes, sacrificing time and money. And once
passed they come up to furnish their skill.
There are times when I felt lazy to
talk, or having a sore throat and a slight fever, or
have not taken my bath yet when I woke up; then I would
go CW. The best of it was I don't have to put on high
power. My usual power was 10 watts.
Several say that CW is fun. They just
enjoy the mode and getting greater fulfillment.
I believe CW is a
form of control. It reduces rogue people to join the ham
community. Even RAE could serve the same purpose.
But if we use the argument that ham is
a free hobby and rogue people are the business of the
police and 'self' then we have to do away with RAE and
CW exam.
So what do you believe in; theory X, Y or Z ?
How many feel CW is a pride of Ham
Radio ?
20/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
BRUTAL MIND |
Why Some People Are Arrogant ? |
Public examinations
like UPSR, PMR and SPM brought pride and shame to many.
For a son of normal man the achievement of 9As is a
pride and happiness. For the sons of politicians who
can't get even one A is shameful and a disgrace.
It has to come from a
person with brutal mind to scrap all the public
examinations so that the big guns have no need to
accommodate the shame.
The jealousy started when students who
took more than 12 subjects scored straight As. First
they changed the rule of the maximum number of allowable
subjects, followed by the eliminating the public exam.
So they send their kids overseas to
study. Some to the International School and a few others
to private schools that twin with oversea colleges.
If we don't want to
use the phrase 'brutal mind', we can replace it with
'savagery'. With the mind as this they recruited and
trained gangsters and terrorists to attack and
terrorized their opponents.
The whole episode is extremely sad and
tragic, reflecting our retrogress towards the dark ages.
19/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman
Raof |
Most arrogant politicians feel they are invincible,
nobody could touch them and they think they will be
there forever. To them they are the smartest and the
most brilliant. In actuality they are suffering from
their wounded ego. What they may not realize they sow
the seed of deep hatred that will spread and grow day by
day.
In some countries no generation of such evil person is
allowed to live. The sin of one is the sin of all.
In the modern world strength does not solely lies on the
weapons and military. The highest of them all is the
strong and persistent mind, that cast all the fears,
planning for destruction of the enemy and seeking ways
to fight evil. It is from the mind people build
technology for superiority. They can destroy the economy
and spark a revolt.
Arrogant individuals are in safe keeping and ready to be
divulged. Their faces will not be forgotten. They will
be sent into the same box as Idi Amin, Hitler, Napoleon,
Pol-Pot and Stalin.
To many Malaysians
they could not care less about these sickly people.
Asians used to be humble, soft-spoken, greeting each
other with vows, bragging was a taboo and women did not
parading their anger in public. Yet they were known to
be firm and had great political influence.
Thanks to the
internet that exposes faces and videos of arrogant
women.
|
MY
FIRST RIG -
FT 101B |
A TEACHER'S TASK |
I started
hamming with FT-101B. It was a second hand transceiver
bought from another ham at RM800. Several hams were
using the brand. It was a tendency for the local hams to
follow the examples of their fellow members. I came to
know that the standard price for some of the rigs were
RM800.
Tuning procedure
had always been very critical. We have to do the grid
and plate tuning. When antenna tuner came into being the
tuning process was made simpler. We tuned for minimum
SWR and maximum power, skipping the plate and grid
tuning procedure.
The driver
12BY7A feeds the signal to the two final tubes 6JS6C.
Though I have
the problem of drift, I worked thousands of DX stations
both on CW and SSB. I worked a King, congressman,
Hollywood actors, scientists, pilots and many others
pumping out only 50 watts thru my dipole.
The repair was
easy because of the components' size. Capacitor leakage
was always the culprit.
Today a second
hand rig is much more expensive and almost impossible to
repair. I always want to know the owner of the second
rig to ensure there was no mishandling of the rig. You
take a big risk if you buy a rig from a poor owner.
Rather than
buying an old used rig above RM1K, it is better to buy a
low end HF rig just above RM1K.
My Yaesu FT101B
is still in my possession. I need to change some
components before it can go on the air again. But it is
stark naked. It is not for sale nor for a gift. It gave
me so much joy in my many years in ham radio. You just
don't throw your wife just because she is old and
malfunction.
18/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
A
teacher's task is to make his student accomplish a
learning target. The purpose of the test is to find out
whether his mission is successful or not and he had to
look into ways to impart a knowledge to ensure everyone
understand and remember them.
It
is not his task to categorize the students giving by the
test result. In other words the test result is not to
group the students by their ability but to remedy his
teaching methods. By the year end all of his students
should be able to achieve the target.
DO
WE FIND THIS IN SCHOOLS TODAY ?
Schools are now using modules to teach. Each student is
to follow the module step by step until he completes it.
If he does not understand it he cannot go to the next
module. If the teacher is to guide each of the students
individually he will have 45 students to attend to for
personal coaching. Cam he accomplish this task within
the specific period of time ?
Some brilliant teachers were complaining that they were
tied up with the modules that they could not teach
something else outside the modules, which they think the
knowledge is vital for their students.
There are bound to be schools and teachers who will not
follow the instructions but using their own methods. For
instant the instructions of teaching of multiplication
using fingers will be replaced with rote memorization of
tables. Similarly there are schools which will provide
an easy path to good grades.
If
a teacher's task is not to group the students into a
various categories then whose task is it to choose the
students for streaming ?
The
exam or test by a teacher is to investigate the cause of
failure and to remedy it. The test by the Examination
Syndicate is to stream the students into the various
discipline. If schools are required to implement the
task of Examination Board then there there will be
educational discrimination at the school level. The
teachers will not care to make all students master the
curriculum contents. Hence there will be the smart and
the stupid among children. |
Thought
and premonition can deceive us. I had a bad
feeling that PI Bala will die soon. If the
haunch has come true the cause of his death
too may be as what was in my mind.
My
thought could have deceived me as many
others. People continue to talk, and the
stories will be passed from generation to
generation. |
Teaching
our kids to throw stones at others is
never healthy to our society and to us.
Soon enough the same persons will throw
stones at us. We will reap what we sow.
You
don't have to wait 60 years to regret
and curse your former team members. You
were once one of them.
It is
a pity and a tragedy that the Malays can
only learn destruction of others and
themselves. They think they can get away
with their actions. They can't learn
sciences and astronomy and physic and
morality. |
|
MOVIE WONDER |
WHAT
TO BELIEVE ANYMORE
Though I did not believe the world would end in
2012 I expected a great bloodshed in the Middle Eastern
region. The war between Israel and Iran seemed to be
inevitable. Nothing happened.
The
Christians had a bigger belief. The anti-Christ stuffs
were everywhere, from Pope Benedict to Obama and rupture
was to come in the same year. Nothing happened.
Those weren't disappointments. They were better for the
world. And it shows people do come to their senses.
Let
us all hear a lot of good news. Let us stop triggering
our guns and bombs and the deadly missiles.
Actually our main enemy is the deadly drugs that are
killing our society, breaking up homes and families.
We
hope the lies and rumors will stop. I don't even believe
in alien beings and the war and the killings. |
Sci Fi or science
fiction movies are fantastic. The animals and other
creatures looked completely real, the movement of the
hair at the various parts of the animals, ears, and
bodily gestures were just superb. Movies like the Ghost
Rider, Narnia, the Hobbit, Green Lantern and the Journey
to the center of the earth fall under this category to
name a few.
By getting your
physical feature they can produce you live in the movie
while you are not even there acting for a second.
For each movie I
saw I would ask myself how they did it. Superimposing a
still picture can easily be done using a graphic
software like photo shop. But putting animals as if they
are there live and talking and acting is simply
terrific.
I love the Sci Fi
movies for the fantastic realism they present. They made
me wonder of our ability and mental acuteness, what are
we good at, what sort of things are in our mind.
I am sorry to say
that I do not watch any Malay drama for the lack of
scientific features or the substance. It also lacks
thought provoking dialog.
Even Chinese and
Japanese movies could not compete with Hollywood though
the themes and the stories of Asian films seem to
better. Kabul Kid and To Live are simple movies but
enough to depict human sufferings and touched our
hearts. Korean movies may be the most popular among the
Malays.
The only drawback
of these superb movies are the price. The 3D blu ray
would cost between RM99 - RM150 a piece. I can't afford
to spend RM1.5 a month to buy the CDs. My retirement
money is just enough for food and basic utilities. So
the choice is downloading or watch them on the internet.
In movies and
pictures anything can be done.
17/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
PASSING A FAILED STUDENT |
WHAT
MALAY RIGHT ? |
As a teacher you
want the best for your student. You want him to get a
job, get a wife and raise his family and live happily
forever and ever. His fate is in your hand. Would you
fail him and destroy his future ?
Probably 60
percent of the teachers may say they will fail their
students if they deserve to fail. Later when they hear
the students become criminals they might change their
mind.
The 40% who will
help their students to get good grades is big enough to
create social and economic chaos, producing problems in
the work place, mismatching jobs to people and really
good work force are left unused and jobless.
This is what
will happen in the School Based Examination.
I happen to know
teachers who care much of their students future and
always provide them with higher grades, and passed the
failed students.
SBE will
eventually open up to corruption and corrupt practices.
We need to be
fair to our people. Otherwise the education system
creates greater discrimination. Rich and affordable will
send their kids to professional colleges like nursing,
medical and aviations schools, ensuring of the future
employment.
The poor section
of the communities will remain poor. Kids will involve
themselves in illegal and immoral jobs. Crimes and drugs
continue to increase.
We need to
recognize our student's ability to stream them to the
right vocation and training. Professional schools and
colleges must be run by the government not the private
colleges.
We don't
sacrifice qualities.
16/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
Millions of Malays
grew up like anybody else. They do not attend schools or
became dropped out at the early age, went out looking
for jobs without their parent's attention. The parents
were too busy themselves looking for meals for the
family. Somehow these poor kids got hooked to the drugs
and became petty thieves, broke into houses or became
pushers themselves.
Some, when in group,
were discussed jobs; ways to become lorry and bus
drivers, how to run business, where to find employments.
Those in schools from
the affordable families go for tuition. Failing to enter
college the seek employment in fast food restaurants,
supermarkets and enter a small cell-phone businesses.
Many of them dies in
poverty. People donate for the funeral.
What Malay Rights
do they taste ? The authority destroyed the food stalls
they erected if they did not have licenses. The hard
earned money had to be given to the government if
exceeding a certain amount. If they do not pay the quit
rent their homes would be forfeited by the government.
What Malay Right are they talking about ?
I saw hundred of
Malays who slept in town along the five foot ways,
salvaging garbage for salable items, going around the
housing estates looking for scrap irons, newspapers and
things of value. There were stories about robberies by
these people. What Malay Right the politicians
are shouting about ?
I think the right left
to the Malays is the right to lie and deceive, to loot,
to commit crime, to seek kickback, to use public money
for anything they want.
These poor people are
paying all sort of taxes to feed the people who said
that people must be grateful to them. Not enough with
that they control the businesses and the corporations,
monopolizing the mega projects.
The right to be a
Prime Minister ?
Good people are not
determine by a race of ethnic group. A Muslim cannot be
known by the name and the dress. |
WHICH ANTENNA for a field day? |
AM I A CW MAN
?
I am
not a CW man. I don't go CW above 50%.
Before taking the morning shower and dressed
myself, I let the radio called CW for me. At
that time I can do something else. Also when
I felt sleepy and tired I rested on my chair
and let the radio did the same. I didn't
expect my local friend to come back on the
same mode. But if they were to come back on
Morse I could still relax and enjoy myself.
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AVOIDING
WHAT I DISLIKE
I
stay away from TV and do not buy
newspapers just because I don't like
what I see and hear. In that way I stay
more relax, less tension and I believe
it is good for my health.
Once I always monitor the 2 meter band.
As more and more funny things appeared I
do not monitor the band anymore. While
changing memory I did come across a few
words but didn't stay to hear more.
What is bad to me may be good to the
others.
The
congestion in my head is reduced by a
great deal. That's the reason why I did
not know a Deputy Minister with whom I
had been talking for the whole tour
trip.
Knowing Ibrahim Ali and Shahrizat from
the blogs had given me much head ache,
taxing my emotion and sentiment. I can't
avoid Lahad Datu because even my sick
wife is talking about it. She picked up
things at the dialysis center. Each
patient would watch TV attached to their
chair for 4 hours before the procedure
completes.
The
less I know the better for me. |
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Not every ham has a
good hearing. With heavy noise and strong splatter weak
signal would be totally drowned. It is excusable for
flat dwellers not to produce a signal below par but for
a Field Day station or a home with ample space to
transmit a weak signal is something to think about.
Once we used to say
'nothing is like a full size dipole' for the local work.
With a proper feeder line and a reasonable height it
always give a 59. For many years we have been using a
dipole for JOTA and other field day events.
If you are using a
'cin-cai' antenna be prepared to go on CW. When your
audio is not readable you have no choice but to go Morse
to convey your messages. Otherwise the other party would
not be able to copy your name and location until the
end.
So far stations
with Rotary Dipole seemed to be doing extremely well.
When 9M2NZ was using some experimental antenna his
signal was down in the mud. But now with his homebrew
rotary the strength increases by 10 fold. 9M2RB, YB6LD
and YC6CDN are all using Rotary Dipole. Theirs were
superb.
Don't have a
misconception on the commercial antenna. Not all of them
are good no matter what the literature says. I have
never heard some of the exotic name brand, expensive but
useless.
Of course dipole is
not the best. It is cheap, easy to carry and setup and
perform fairly well.
To me a superior
antenna is for superior hams. For many months I had been
monitoring a station from Jakarta using a Log Periodic,
bending my s-Meter both on the long and short path. A
huge antenna like that is not cheap.
For a Field Day a
full size dipole is good enough. 9M2FK, Eshee, always
bring his trap dipole for the occasion working DX and
local. The height of the bamboo mast was always above
30'.
The proponent for
dipole on the local communication was Idris. But towards
his later days he shifted to a Long Wire.
13/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
DEFYING THE
AUTHORITY
I
really salute the Malaysian hams who dare to defy the
authority, transmitting on the band disallowed by the
regulation. And the allowable frequencies are clearly
printed in the tickets.
And
we know that a Malaysian ham must passed CW to go to
class A. Yet there are people who went their way getting
9Ms without a Morse test, using the fallacy in
reciprocal. If we argue the philosophy and rational of
reciprocity we would come to the conclusion that a
Malaysian must pass CW first to be a 9M.
And
the radio societies in Malaysia must be given credit too
for their greatness. |
SERVICING A RADIO STATION |
Dream To Be a DJ
When we
started Amateur Radio we never dream to be a DJ. We
didn't even have an iota of thought Amateur Radio makes
us a DJ. So we never mentioned the phrase "....and those
who are listening..."
When hams
mentioned "...and those who are listening...." it has
the connotation of a radio broadcast. Deep inside they
think they are DJs.
Since to be a
radio DJ is difficult they have the chance to be one
through ham radio.
I don't have
that dream and I won't do broadcasting. |
Servicing a radio
station means the annual checking of the antenna,
coaxial cables, connections for dry join or any possible
decay and the possible worn off of the feeder line due
to weathering. I think it has to be done from time to
time.
Changing all the
cables is expensive. I don't know how many years before
a feeder coaxial cable should be changed. I told myself
to change them every four or five years, which was never
done. This one is already more than 10 years.
This few days I
have the intermittent surge of SWR. I first decide to
check my antenna coupler, to ensure all the internal
connections are good and in perfect condition.
The best thing
about me is that I am very messy. I could not find my
screw drivers. The futile search made me decide to buy
the new sets. I have yet to buy at the moment of
writing.
The soldering iron
is ready. The solder lead is also placed in order. But
nothing is done yet.
My friend 9M2RB,
Rusli, is opening up his old computer. He is one year
younger than me. At 65+ we the old men are picking up m
our hammers and soldering iron again.
12/03/2012 |
WHAT'S WRONG
BEING AN ORDINARY MAN |
SETTLED OR UNSETTLED - HAM BAND |
A simple ordinary
man may not have much money nor a big house but he has
many things the high profile and the big people don't.
Every time he goes to a village stall and enjoying a
superb and delicious food he would ask, "Does our Sultan
and Prime Minister ever taste the food like this ?" He
enjoys the waterfall in the deep jungle, the community
of mosque goers, the daily jogging and most of all he
has a good time preparing himself for the next life. The
simpler the man is the less thinking he is doing because
he doesn't have much problems as those ruling group.
More so he commits less sin.
The beauty of an
ordinary man he has his own time. He is not subjected to
public meeting, attending parliament, hearing briefings
and other designated programs.
When I saw one
Royalty going around the night market bargaining the
price of ikan bilis
I told myself this great person wants to enjoy the life
of an ordinary man. Bargaining is a part of it, and
having fun of holding the various type of ikan kering
and talking to the towkey added up to the spices of
life.
Several Western
politicians resigned for the error made by their
subordinates. I don't mind going back as an ordinary man
if I were a Prime Minister. I would not stay in big
city, far away from people, like living in a dungeon.
Money does not guarantee happiness and emotional
stability.
The only persons
who fear giving up the high posts are those who
committed big sins and serious crimes.
09/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof
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My latest Radio Certificate allows me on
7.00 - 7.10. Yet the Malaysian hams are
heard on 7.140. There are some senior hams
there. As far as I am concerned my
understanding is the frequency allocation is
consistent with what is in the Malaysian Ham
regulation.
Are the Malaysian hams so arrogant to defy
the radio regulation ?
I ever asked the Chinese hams of the reason
for their not going to 7.140 or frequencies
above 7.1. The answer was simple. "It is not
stated in my ticket." Does this reflect the
different form of mentality by ethnicity ?
My presumption is the issue on frequency
allocation is settled and is based on black
and white.
Frequencies above 7.1 is still being
occupied by broadcasting stations.
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BETWEEN CURRENT AND VOLTAGE |
LET THE COURT
DECIDES
The best way to
decide the status of Sabah is to go to the World Court.
Let each side prove and counter disprove the right and
the claim as to the ownership of the island. Losing
Pulau Batu Puteh does not mean we are going to lose
another one
We have good
lawyers, not the kampong or loyar
buruk, which we have seen and heard. Shafiee,
Shahrizat and even our PM are lawyers. And the best is
none other than Rais Yatim who is a truly brilliant
personality.
There is a
pressure in the Philippines to take the case to the
International Court of Justice. Najib said we have
strong proof too. Then there is nothing to worry about.
Let the court decides.
Remember we
don't make decision base on public opinion. It must be
based on concrete data and concrete evidence. If we are
so expert in fabricating data and evidence then surely
we can do the same.
I have been
following arguments on the websites from their fellow
patriots in Malaysia. The Filipinos see the arguments
from the side. Much come from the emotional outbursts
and sentiments.
The other
alternative for Malaysia to win the case is by
corrupting the members of the court. We are good at this
too. We have been paying foreigners to fight for our
palm oil, popularity, disgracing the foes and corrupting
other people.
I am sure we
will somehow win the case.
08/03/2012 |
My radio friend always
complain that the new hams don't even know the different
between current and voltage. The statement not
substantiate by evidence and data is merely a hearsay,
and a hearsay is not valid.
I just wonder how the
concept of electrons flow and potential different is
relevant to operate a radio. Unless we want to be an
electrical or electronic engineer then the knowledge is
important and mandatory.
Nevertheless I feel
the radio enthusiast should go back to building radio
and transmitters using a much larger components so that
it is easy to solder and unsolder, the values of
components are big enough for them to read. The easiest
to contstruct is a single transistor CW transmitter.
Built it and work it.
The modern
sophisticated radio is hard to repair. To a big majority
repairing is almost impossible. The components are too
tiny and unreadable, pasted on a layered board. Sending
back to the company for repair is near to impossible.
Moreover the gadgets are expensive.
Going back to home
brewing means electronic and electrical knowledge is
vital. We need to trace faulty capacitors and resistors,
the voltage drops and the amount of current passing
through a circuit.
But it also mean one
must know CW.
Otherwise just forget
all those current-voltage thing and buy the rig and use
them. It makes life so easy and simple.
07/03/2013 - Abdul Rahman Raof |
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